The Fifth Column

(Recorded: April 24, 2018) Matt's surprisingly strong opinions about Kanye West's endorsement of Candace "Red Pill Black" Owens. Joy Reid wasn't a huge fan of the gays, wrote some questionable things on the subject, and it appears Kmele is ready to forgive her. Rand Paul's latest flip-flop (Fisher is unimpressed).Trump bros-out with French president Macron. ALSO: Extended notes on the Starbucks Co...

PROGRAMMING NOTE: Sorry for the unusually tardy release. This conversation was recorded approximately five days ago (prior to the most recent intervention in Syria), but the release was delayed by matters of great significance and urgency (which I won't bother to outline here). All the same, it's still a very fine vintage. (Recorded: April 12, 2018) with: Ben Dreyfuss (Mother Jones) and Kat Timpf...

(Recorded: March 27, 2018) A conversation w/ Amy Chua (@amychua), Yale law professor and author of numerous books including: "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother", "The Triple Package", "World on Fire", and her latest book "Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations". “Today, no group in America feels comfortably dominant. Every group feels attacked, pitted against other groups not just...

(Recorded: March 28, 2018) with Tom Slater, Deputy Editor @ Spike'd Tina Nguyen, Politics and Media Reporter @ Vanity Fair Marching for our Lives, Poisoning Spies, Activist Journalist... - Moonshine, Poison (Half a Helping of Each) - Killing Marco Rubio - Teenage Sainted Activist Student Journalist - Making America Great Again + Putting Y'all Back in Chains - Kevin Williamson Moves to The Atlantic...

Recorded: March 15, 2018 We've got FiveThirtyEight's Jody Avirgan in the studio. Matt is on assignment someplace. This Week: Is there a free speech "crisis" on campus? Moynihan and Jody's considerably different approached to sparking media frenzies. PLUS: Rex, we hardly knew ye (literally). But was he all that stood between us and the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" dominatrix? See acast.com/privac...

Recorded: March 9, 2018. Welch, Moynihan, Fisher and Foster are in attendance. An increasingly unlikely Presidential visit to North Korea. A seemingly permeable steel and aluminum tariff. A growing interest in POTUS's indiscretions w/ a Porn StarAnd Sam Nunberg's media PsyOp (and/or) breakdown Pertinent Notes: - "A Strange new respect..."- "A tribute vice pays to virtue..."- "The Q got that D..."...

Recorded: March 1, 2018. Oscar Talk: Best and Worst, Most Overrated and Ryan Gosling Stick Talk: AR-15s, Scool Shootings, The National Rifle Association, and Due Process. featuring ANDY LEVYSenior Producer of the “S.E. Cup Unfiltered” on HLN SONNY BUNCHExecutive Editor @ The Washington Free BeaconCo-Host @ The Weekly SubStandard Podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Th...

(Recorded: February 13th 2018) "Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well o...

+ Indispensable Commentary On That [treasonous/heroic/meh] Nunes Memo+ Context, Collusion and Russian Conspiracies+ A Foreign Policy Primer+ Briefest of notes on Trump's first State of the Union (Recorded February 1st 2018) Note: This dispatch was recorded the day before the MEMO was released, honestly -- you won't be able to tell the difference. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out infor...

w/ Bari Weiss (@bariweiss), Staff editor and writer @ New York Times Opinion (Former Wall Street Journal, Tablet Magazine) An expansive, high-quality dispatch that was unfortunately marred by technical mishaps. It's not actually Fishers fault (quite the contrary in fact). xpan Things improve considerably as the release goes on. - Government Shutdowns- Amnesty Don's Great Big Amnesty Bonanza- Skipp...

Moynihan is back, Matt was an illegal immigrant, and Kmele was *front* row for Lebron vs. Steph. Plus: DACA. FISA. Shit. #MeToo. Recorded: January 15, 2018 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

Recorded: January 5, 2018 - Kmele’s Axioms of Child Rearing- Long on Fury, Short on Fire- Red Flags, Fake News on Facebook- Trump's Tax Cut, Regulation Busting - Heather Mac Donald vs. Everybody See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

Recorded: December 21, 2017. Michael Moynihan (Vice News) in conversation with the incomparable Tina Brown. On the business and practice of journalism, the marvelous island of Manhattan, the authentic bullshit of Donald Trump, and #metoo. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...

(Recorded on Thursday December 14th 2017) with/ Jeffrey Blehar (@EsotericCD) of Decision Desk HQ and The Political Beats podcast. We talk the recent Alabama Senate election and the FCC's controversial decision to rescind Obama-era net neutrality rules. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get ac...

(Recorded, November 2017) An expansive exchange with renowned social commentator and linguist, John McWhorter. McWhorter is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He's the author of twenty books including "Words on the Move" (2017), "Talk Back, Talking Black" (2017), and "Losing the Race" (2000). Also Referenced:“Antiracism: Our Flawed New Religion” (2015 - The D...

- Matt Lauer - Seducing Kevin Spacey - James O’keefe - Fake Headlines, Faker Stats - Dumbest News Day Ever - Britain First, Murder Allegations - Trashing Bob Woodward - Some Idiot.... ABORTED See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai drops in to explain why he's returning the Internet to the dark ages of... 2015. PLUS: - Draymond vs. Mark Cuban - The AOL-Time Warner instant messaging juggernaut - Janet Jackson's wardrobe and Stephen Colbert's c***holster And why won't the FCC just let Slim Shady be? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discu...

Recorded: Thursday, November 8, 2017. We chat with Rob Mariani, former opinion editor for the Daily Caller, about Milo's first (and last) weekly column -- and how to handle radioactive things without getting burned. Plus: questioning Moynihan's sexuality;a very gay historical debate;the intellectual dead end of "just trolling" politics. (Columnist Interruptus) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and...

Recorded on Thursday, November 8th, 2017 Trump takes a long 'grueling' trip to the Far East, maybe tempers the crazy and manages to get cooked in the elections stateside. PLUS:- Aubrey and Kojo- The Meek Mill Guide to Criminal Justice Reform- 10 Lbs of Gelatin- Moynihan Got it For *Cheap* CORRECTION: "Dreams & Nightmares" was definitely a studio album and not a mixtape. See acast.com/privacy for p...

Recorded on Thursday, Novemer 2nd, 2017 With Special Guests: Josh Zepps - Host, #WeThePeople LIVE (@WTP_Live, @joshzepps) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

Recorded on Thursday, October 26th, 2017 Moynihan and Kmele are on Assignment -- Welch takes the reins. With Special Guests: Nancy Rommelmann - Journalist, Author of "To The Bridge" Bill Schulz - Host of Compound Media's "Mornin'!!!! w/ Bill Schulz" See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acces...

Recorded on Thursday, October 19th, 2017 "The opposite of a way with words" - How Chad Saved Moynihan’s Life (and Why We're Huge in Canada)- Former President Bush and John McCain Have Strong Words for Trump - Totalitarianism, Populism and Economic Uncertainty- US Troops in Africa, Calling Up Gold Star Parents- The Opposite of a Way With Words- When 'Everything' is 'Some of the Things'- Morbid Prem...

Recorded on Thursday, October 12th, 2017 The Harvey Weinstein Controversy1) What To Do With “Shitty Media Men?2) Why won't Hillary and Barack say anything? Tillerson, Corker and World War III1) The Worst of All Possible Worlds2) Death by Non-Proliferation Trumps Assault on the Media1) "When the President says it in public..."2) How We Got Lucky With Trump PLUS:Google, Twitter, and a Tangible Threa...

Recorded on Thursday, October 5th, 20171) First Amendment Controversies 2) Meditations on the Las Vegas and the Second Amendment 3) An Homage to Catalonia (particularly on the subject of secession, with additional remarks on Kurdistan) PLUS: Kmele Heads to ComicCon, Bumps into TNCMoynihan vs Melba See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

Guest: Katherine Mangu-Ward, Editor-in-Chief @ Reason Recorded: Wednesday, September 27th, 2017. Another wide-ranging, intellectually-stimulating, and very well-lubricated dispatch. We begin with an almost respectable (but undeniably illuminating) discussion of Donald Trump's "Revolutionary Tax Framework" -- (his words). Proceeding from there to the re-re-re-failure of Republican maneuvering to "R...