UPDATE: The original version of this episode was uploaded out of sync. It has been replaced with a corrected version. We regret the error. But stop complaining. It's free. The bat virus apocalypse continues. The Fifth Column soldiers on, shouting ¡No pasarán! - Kmele is in the woods, Matt is in South Brooklyn, Moynihan is in hiding - All COVID, all the time! - Wait, so does he have it or not? - Kmele questions the consensus - Disaster capitalism becomes disaster socialism - Money is fake. Let's ...
Mar 17, 2020•2 hr 51 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Ross Douthat Columnist @ New York Times - Author of "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Successes" DESCRIPTION: - Decadence, Low and High - The Four Horseman - “Giving Decadence Its Due” - Birth Rates, Populations, Populism - It’s Manifesto Season on the American Right - Ross Still Wants to Ban Porn - TVs Golden Age - The Case for Joe Biden - Don Jr's GOP - A New York Times Conservative See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode...
Mar 14, 2020•2 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Eli Lake ( Columnist @ Bloomberg Opinion) - Typhoid Welch - Biden crushes South Carolina and Super Tuesday - Good 'ol Uncle Joe or Cognitive Decline - "Democratic" Socialism? - MAGA Corps and Bernie Bros Will Excuse Almost Anything Their Candidates Do - Elizabeth Warren Lost -- It's Empirically Not HER Fault - DNC Subterfuge - Biden's Lies About Getting Arrested, Mandela Thanking - Preview of the Biden v Bernie Debate - Schumer SCOTUS Threat - The FISA "Rubber Stamp" - The Horrifying Books on...
Mar 06, 2020•2 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Aaron Maté (Host @ PushBack, Contributor @ The Nation) - Throwin Up Gang Signs - COVID-19 - Cuban History 101 - Giving China Credit - Billionaires and Unicorns - Harvey Weinstein Recorded: February 26th, 2020 Released: February 27th, 2020 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...
Feb 28, 2020•3 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Asawin Suebsaeng and Lachlan Markay (White House Reporters @ The Daily Beast) Co Authors: " "Sinking in the Swamp" How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington" Description: - Moynihan's Vocal Fry and "Actually Good" Accents - Searching for "Henry Hills" in Trumpworld - Lachlan's Conservative Apostasy - Al Gore: Most Boring Interview Subject Ever - Rats and Snitches - Daily Beast: A "High-brow Tabloid" - Woke (Racist?) Bloomberg - The Muslim Ban - From Seb Gorka to Hunter Biden - Repor...
Feb 19, 2020•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Description: - Black History Month - There's no Barbecue Sauce in American Dirt - Believe Some Death Threats, Leverage Others - Oscar Obsession (Beautiful Mind Edition) - Yang Dead Is Dead, Long Live Yang Gang - Bernie's Ceiling, Biden's Ebony Firewall - A SHOCKING Presidential Endorsement - Bloomberg's Stop + Frisk Memory Hole - ADL: "White Supremacy is On The Rise!" Recorded: February 12th, 2020 Released: February 13th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a ...
Feb 13, 2020•2 hr 38 min•Transcript available on Metacast The last time we did this, we said don't get used to it . Well, we meant it. But we're also feeling overly generous. So here is last week's Patreon-only dispatch, featuring Moynihan and Kmele. You're welcome. -------- Kmele and Moynihan are back in Williamsburg drinking bad wine and talking shit...while trying to figure out why Welch isn't returning anyone's calls. Moynihan returns to Iowa and remembers why he hates journalists. Bumbling around the Hawkeye State, he chats with Andrew Yang, hangs...
Feb 08, 2020•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Description: - Kmele's Inner MAGA - State of the Union Theatrics - “Oh, God -- Fire the Media!” - "The Big Lie" (and other nonsense) - Mitt Romney’s Moment - Trump’s Criminal Justice Reform - Iowa Fiasco - Waiting for Bernie to Turn on MSNBC - Preview of Upcoming Patreon Episodes Recorded: February 5th, 2020 Released: February 6th, 2020 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 ...
Feb 06, 2020•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Description: - When the mob came for the Fifth - Hong Kong: Proto Police State - The Democratic Field - Bernie's Got a Shot, The Joe Rogan Bounce - Criminalizing Disinformation - Watching Lou Dobbs - Fearing the Bern - Truthy Skepticism - An Impeachment Drive-By - Eli on the FBI - Some Idiot Wrote This (and this... and this...) Recorded: January 29, 2020 Released: January 30, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this w...
Jan 30, 2020•2 hr 50 min•Transcript available on Metacast GUEST: Miriam Elder, senior political reporter for BuzzFeed News and former Russia correspondent for The Guardian. ( @MiriamElder ) DESCRIPTION: Our fake bios Miriam's seven years in Moscow Get Shorty, Alex Jones, and the D-list bullshit artists Matt’s Russophobia isn’t as bad as MSNBC’s Political theater provides cover to Putin’s authoritarianism Moynihan and Elder throw down over Bernie's alleged sexism. Plus: Is believing Warren or Sanders a #MeToo lesson? Who is the nihilist candidate? Banni...
Jan 18, 2020•2 hr 54 min•Transcript available on Metacast GUEST: Noah Rothman Associate Editor@ Commentary -- Contributor @ MSNBC/NBC News Author: “Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America” (Jan 2019) DESCRIPTION: - Why the Washington Bullets became the Wizard - Bomb Iran? - Will Americans ever support another Middle East War again? - International commerce —> global middle class —> less war - Trump thinks China should police the Strait of Hormuz - What if we did NOTHING? - Brian Stelter praises Tucker Carlson - John Bolton might testif...
Jan 08, 2020•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast DESCRIPTION: - Neighborhood Watch - Moynihan’s Anti-Brit Streak - Bernie’s Fundraising Clout - Ron Paul’s Newsletters and Everlasting Ice Cream - Buttigieg Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs - Iran’s Quds Force commander Soleiman Killed in Iraq - Media Malpractice on Vaping - Chuck Todd's Fake News special - About That Memo Recorded: January 2, 2020 Published: January 3, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with oth...
Jan 03, 2020•2 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Kwanza -- We've UNLOCKED a Patreon Only dispatch just for you (and everyone else)! Enjoy it, but don't get used to it. The Williamsburg Tapes (Dispatch #4) "Losing Our Religion" DESCRIPTION It's a pre-Christmas miracle! The Fifth Columnists are back at the stammtisch (stupid table) in Williamsburg for a long-ass special dispatch, mostly discussing things distant from the news cycle. Kmele watches "Mandingo" and, to the shock of both Welch and Moynihan, is slack-jawed by how racist it is. T...
Dec 25, 2019•2 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast GUEST: Conor Friedersdorf Staff Writer @ The Atlantic DESCRIPTION: - Patreon-only Preview - Chapo Trap vs Conor - An Underreported Attack in Jersey City - Afghanistan Mea Culpa - Something About Impeachment - Reauthorize Every War, Every Year - Biden, Dove of the Obama Administration - Complicated Brexit voters - Gesture politics - The Paternalism of Blooombergism - The Pronoun Talk - Civility, Without Obsessing Over Identity Recorded: December 17, 2019 Published: December 18, 2019 See acast.com...
Dec 18, 2019•2 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Description: - Kmele’s Dog Ate His Own Tail - Debunking mediums and magicians - UK elections, the problem with Jeremy Corbyn - WaPo’s “Afghanistan Papers” - IG report and the FBI's no-good, very bad behavior - Mispronouncing Nunes - Acela Wars - Greta Thunberg: Person of the Year - The case against Welches Case Against Impeachment Recorded: December 12, 2019 Published: December 14, 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss ...
Dec 14, 2019•2 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Description: - [ GRRT, BAOW ] - Dragonball Z - Kamala Drops Out, A Narrative Quickly Take Shape - A De-platforming in South Bend - 1619 and Historical Skepticism - Are the Democratic Primaries Racist? (Can We Call It Seeding or Naw?) - A Farewell to NATO? And the WTO? And the EU too? - "Impeachment", The Board Game - "The Irishman", A Review Recorded: December 6, 2019 Published: December 8, 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to...
Dec 08, 2019•2 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The director of classic documentaries "The Thin Blue Line," "Fog of War," and "Standard Operation Procedure," Errol Morris has long been the doyen of critics...until he made "American Dharma," a film exploring the worldview and influence of former Breitbart boss and Trump campaign chief executive Steve Bannon. Predictably, Morris was accused of "platforming" Bannon and, for the first time in his career, America's most famous documentarian couldn't find a distributor for his film. On the day "Ame...
Nov 30, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Description: - Trumpian Slam Poetry ("I Want Nothing!") - Got a Thing for Fiona Hill - Blue Pill Confessional - Burisma Biden - The Good, The Bad, and The Career Diplomats - Weird John Bolton Tweets - The Wrestle Mania Impeachment - Sacha Baron vs Facebook, Borat as Proto-Hate Speech - Grading the Democratic Debate - Spiking the Kaepernick - About that Patreon Recorded: November 22nd 2019 Published: November 24th 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public ep...
Nov 24, 2019•2 hr 54 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Who Shot Ya? (Tupac, Biggie) - Moynihan Drinks w/ Trump Supporters in Bay Ridge - Buttigieg - Impeachment Hearings - Devin Nunes’ Garbage Clown Schtick - Roger Stone Goes Down - What Happened to Rudy Giuliani? - Stealing Land in Texas, Pardoning War Criminals - Patreon Launche ( https://www.patreon.com/wethefifth ) Recorded: November 15th 2019 Published: November 17th 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with ot...
Nov 18, 2019•2 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded: November 6th 2019 Published: November 9th 2019 GUEST: Bari Weiss Op-Ed Staff Editor and Writer @ The New York Times Author, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism" (2019) 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...
Nov 09, 2019•2 hr 50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded: October 20th 2019 Published: October 31st 2019 GUEST: Thomas Chatterton Williams Author, "Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race" (2019) 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...
Oct 31, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded: October 18th 2019 Published: October 22nd 2019 GUEST: Meghan Daum Author, "The Problem With Everything" (2019) 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...
Oct 23, 2019•2 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded: October 9th 2019 Published: October 10th 2019 GUEST: Walt Hickey, Senior Editor for Data @ Insider Founder @ Numlock News newsletter 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...
Oct 11, 2019•2 hr 58 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Picking fights in restaurants - Botham Jean's brother forgives Amber Guyger for murdering his brother. And that's a problem. - Forgiveness vs. MORE HARSH SENTENCING - Ukraine/Trump - Matt lacks the Xi-spot to laugh - Trump’s Afghanistan policy is a photo of ladies in pants - Base familial corruption - Swampier than the swamp - We've been had (if we're Obama or Trump supporters) - Obama’s Jonas Brothers drone joke - Trump’s DC hotel is the Star Wars bar - Never Trumpers should be Never Governme...
Oct 04, 2019•2 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Moynihan won an Emmy - #EmmysSoWhite - "Some saw..." - Films Don't Matter - Xenophobic Immigrants - Biden, Trump, Ukraine - Will He Be Impeached ? Maybe…And No - It's Greta Thunberg's World - The Vaping Muslim Ban - Rashida Tlaib's Science of Smoking - Tweet Dumpster Diving - “Cancel Culture is A Myth” Recorded: September 26, 2019 Published: September 27th 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscrib...
Sep 27, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast - The “moderate chic” party - RIP Emmet O’Lunney’s - Brett Kavanaugh *Allegation(s)* - College campuses in the 1980s was all about apartheid - Moynihan’s Foggy Memory, and Everyone’s - John Bolton, Out - Obama’s Apology Tour and Trump’s Chomsky Impression - Kmele’s Worried about Iranian escalation - Joe BIden’s "Corn Pop" Story: Fact Check=True - George Packer’s Atlantic Piece on Schools - Cancelling the SNL guy - Mark Sanford - Business Insider's GOP debate - Some Idiot Wrote This Recorded: Sep...
Sep 19, 2019•2 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded: September 4th 2019 Published: September 7th 2019 Guest: Steve Kornacki, National Political Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. Author of "The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism" - RIP, Vice News Tonight on HBO - Everybody kinda likes Joe Walsh - The "Straight Man" on MSNBC - New Jersey politics is so much more fun than national politics - Kamala Harris channels robot John Edwards - Negotiating with the Taliban - Casualty counts matter - It’s a better and...
Sep 07, 2019•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Ladies Libertarianing - The Segregation of Everything - The 1619 Project: “Everything that makes America exceptional is because of slavery” - NHJ: “We’re the MOST American” - Trump: “I hereby order…” - Dual Loyalty (and cascading stupidity) - David Koch, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter - Park Slope Socialists Recorded: August 23rd 2019 Published: August 26th 2019 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 o...
Aug 26, 2019•2 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Welch, Moynihan, and Kmele are all in the same room for the first time in more than a month -- and it's a glorious reunion. Recorded: August 16th 2019 Published: August 18th 2019 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...
Aug 18, 2019•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this Special Dispatch, Michael Moynihan sits down with legendary journalist, author, and documentarian -- Jon Ronson. They discuss some of Ronson's most celebrated books, his fabulous new podcasts exploring the porn industry ("The Butterfly Effect", "The Last Days of August"), and his penchant for pissing off Alex Jones. Jon Ronson's Books Include: "Them" (2001) "The Men Who Stare at Goats" (2004) "The Psychopath Test" (2011) "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" (2015) Recorded: July 26th 2019 Pu...
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