The Fifth Column

We do it for you, people. We don’t necessarily want to, but we do. Because you need it. In times of national crisis, the Fifth will forgo all the fun stories so we can tackle the important, necessary stories. It’s time to take your medicine, citizens of Fifdom, and allow Allison Schrager, economist and Bloomberg News columnist , to womansplain just what is ailing the American economy and why the b...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Kmele at a Konference? Yup! * Moynihan spills a wee bit of tea about an old job 😬 * The New Trump U * Commie spies * The DeSantis strategy * Matt’s baseball digression (on rule changes and the WBC) * This is a very good series * That Twitter Files circus on Capitol Hill * So this is exactly what we were talking abo...

It’s just like old times! Because the boys are back in town, recording together in an actual studio, andpregaming with listener-provided booze. So…yeah, things were pretty rough going in…Sorry about that. * We try to answer the age old question… * A handful of some, maybe, constitutes a New York Times trend * Let us, as men, explain something to you… * The sexual decline and fall of the podcast br...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Puerto Rican passports * Nothing works in New York * Jimmy the Deregulator * Fistfight Airlines * Kmele and Andrew Schultz at Brown * So what about Chris Rock’s Netflix special? * The travails of a listener’s white wife * In praise of Matt and Trey * A “national divorce” is dorm room, edgelord bullshit * The loss of...

* Stirewalt on calling Arizona for Biden and the Dominion lawsuit * On getting fired by Fox News * How journalism collapsed * Sean Hannity is not a conservative (he’s a Republican) * The Joe Manchin effect * This wouldn’t have happened under Roger Ailes * Overestimating the media’s influence * The inevitable conversation about mis- and disinformation * Would Chris cancel Alex Jones? * Cruz v. Carl...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Konference Kmele * The most Jewish podcast in America? * Arguing an overcorrection * Michael Jackson, social conservative * Kmele sends Angela Davis a SASE * Slavery, King Cotton, and fighting with NHJ * The two books on slavery Moynihan mentioned * Listener question about maybe working for a racist conspiracy theor...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Apocalypse apparel * No country for fat men * Singal white journalist  * A left-wing Matt *Walsh* stan  * Books don’t make a man * Kancel Kmele Pls * On Mistaken Misgendering * Dippin toes, stepping on rakes * A message from Julia (TBC) * Moynihan engineers a Fifth Marriage * The zaps of SSRI withdrawl… * Burning do...

* Moynihan’s hobo disaster * KMW, disinformation queen, stops by for a few, tells us how she broke her kneecap * KMW: The Fifth is staffed by crotchety scare-mongering old dudes ( Ed. - This is disinformation) * So why *is* KMD the disinformation queen? * Wait, what does “disinformation” even mean?? * The movie Contact is pretty libertarian * Killing old people, dead crank doctors, and libertarian...

* How Jamie ended up writing about Armie Hammer * So what *is* the Hammer story anyway? * How the motivated reasoning media ignores inconvenient inconsistencies * Is there a path back from an utterly destroyed reputation? * How Jamie’s book Secret City informed his reporting * Heroes and homophobia * So is it true what they say about James Webb? * The Lavender Scare and Joe McCarthy * Who was wors...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Armie of the damned * Jamie Kirchick’s piece on Armie Hammer * The Robin DiAngelo of Sports * Ethan’s piece on “DEI man” Richard Lapchick * The question that ended Ethan’s interview with Lapchick * The NBA’s Foreskin Ceiling * “In this day and age…” * Maverick Carter isn’t going to hire you * That shocking 1976 PBS...

* The George Wallace travel app * The genius and utter stupidity of WEB Dubois * That disgraceful Dubois obit for Stalin * A copy of the Conservation of Races book * Len Downie’s rotten, horribly written piece about objectivity in news * Jeff Gerth’s really good piece about Trump-Russia coverage * Remember Hamilton 68? Bush 911? Heaven 17? * Hunter’s sexy jobs program * Did anyone notice that Ol’...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * A famous Texas hat * Kmele’s Twitter beef with a former guest * The tragedy in Memphis, the predictable response * Ubiquitous white supremacy * Don’t even read Mark Twain aloud * A listener speculates on Kmele’s “blackness” * Back to Texas: they are just nice people, says Moynihan * Name this listener’s baby * The e...

A sober first segment about war and death is interrupted by our chaotic and fatphobic friend Ben Dreyfuss, who joins the Fifth to discuss his insane Twitter account and why he keeps making people really mad. * We haven’t seen many of these Oscar movies * German Leopards for Ukraine * The arrival of “Jaws star Richard Dreyfuss' actor son Ben, 36, [who was] slammed for saying he'd never have sex 'wi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Santos: Hotter as a lady? * Hunter is a shitty person who makes shitty art * Kmele shuts down a Netflix indoctrination session * Georgia: Stupid people play stupid games and win stupid prizes * A shooting in LA * Another shooting in LA * A tribute to a listener * More on Cormac McCarthy (and Camus and Sartre) * Obje...

* Release The List * Crosby, Not So Great * A Few Nights In Chicago * Squashing Racism ($5 Million at a Time) * Reparations and the US Constitution * A Seat at the Table * Hereditary Culpability and Entitlement * Manhattan Beach * Daily Wire vs. Mug Club * Drew Carey 🖤 CDC * “We ain’t gonna talk bout dem papers (so y’all can quit asking)” * Debt Limit Hold’em * The Anti-Woke Caucus * Florida’s “O...

* The Corvette Papers * “So my friend gets arrested for murder in South Sudan…” * No sex please, he’s British * The times, they have a’ changed * From Belfast to Pyongyang * If I Did It: Eichmann versus the neo-Nazis * Russophilia, left and right * America: a net exporter of bad ideas * Is there a war on the West? * Douglas’s new podcast, Uncancelled History * In defense of Lincoln and Churchill *...

* Former Rep. Justin Amash was on the floor during the leadership fight?? * Brian Lamb question: What does the speaker actually do? * And what do the Gang of Twenty actually want? * Rep. Amash: Kevin McCarthy “isn’t that bright” and “will do whatever it takes to maintain power” * Why the system is broken and how it got that way * Congress is becoming more European * Reminder: Amash created (and na...

  * Subway Protocol * Lying, Liar * Flooding the Zone * Modest Proposal * The Real Corn Pop * Domestic Disturbance  * Buffalo Electronics * Trump Tapes * Moynihan is cold * Welch isn’t paying attention * Kmele coins a good one (for the third time) * Dank Meme Party * After Trump * Read This. Read That. Recorded: 12/29/22Published: 12/30/22 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this wi...

* Sweet Baby Jesus * Ted Cruz 🖤’s Striper * Dress for the Job You Want * Defensive Capabilities + Fiscal Profligacy * The Worst Possible Scenario * Criminalish Betrayal * Worse than Watergate? * Presidential Travel Rewards * The Stanford Grammer Experiment * Demanding or Entitled BIPOCs Recorded: 12.21.22Published: 12.22.22 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscr...

* Irish Israeli * France vs Morocco * That Marriage Act * Biden Told The Truth That Time * What Republicans Won’t Do, But Ought to * They’re Actievly Trying to Kill us * Leaving Twitter (Because I’m Oblivious, For the Children) * Doxxing*** Elon’s Plane? * MTG (Would have won!) * Jan 6th Prosecutions * Maced Recorded 12.14.22Published: 12.15.22 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss th...

Recorded on Sunday afternoon, this now-vintage episode was consider lost forever, after a certain Fifth Columnist discovered that he still doesn’t understand how computers, cameras, and microphones work. Well….lost until we (i.e. Moynihan) found a weird backup copy of the episode on the Twitch servers! So…a few days late, of variable quality, and now available for download: * Back to the “Twitter...

* Yes, we have to talk about Kanye West Ye Kardashian again * Verdict: The man is not well. And is an anti-Semite * Kmele is sad. Matt is not. * Wild guess: Ye is unfamiliar with Theodor Herzl * Note: some people with bad views used to have not so bad views * Remember “slavery was a choice?” That was pretty dumb * Is Kanye making people '“unsafe”? * Matt Taibbi releases internal Twitter comms on t...

with/ Ethan Straus of House of Strauss (on Substack) * Does the NBA Have an Antisemitism Problem? * They control the media, our podcast, and the NBA!? * Wait, who isn’t Jewish? * “Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, Hitler” * Baseball + The John Birch Society * Stolen (Jewish) Valor * “More than an Athlete” / Lebron “gettin’ that Jewish money” James * Divide & Sponsor * Was (Is) Twitter Pushing Hysteria * But...

Rejecting twelve hours with the commoners in coach, Kmele remains stateside while Moynihan and Welch make goyish aliyah in Israel. Wandering from the Egyptian border in the South all the way up to Trump Heights in the North, the lads are introduced to one of Israel’s most famous journalists and big thinkers, Nadav Eyal, author of Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization . Eyal gracious...

No Red Wave. No Blue Wave. No Fascist Takeover. No Democracy Dying in Darkness. The 2022 midterm elections came; they’ll take almost a month to sort out (including a runoff in Georgia) — but things are generally about as bad (and good) as they were before the election. Moynihan returns from the field, where he was covering the race in Florida. Welch and his family are momentarily clear of any exig...