Episodes
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* If you think itâs expensive now, wait until itâs free
* Unpersuasive persuasion
* How race is like probiotic soda
* Ends and means
* "If one killing is justified, where do you draw the lineâ10,000? A million?"
* Siouxsie and the Nazis / Bill Grundy
* Tinder Trotskyists
* More âmemoirs about trauma and identityâ
* âOh, theyâre taxing us, letâs go murder people.â
* 23andme and ZorâŠ
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* The Daniel Penny verdict
* REinstitutionalization
* When should the state involuntarily commit?
* Remember, she was a very bad candidate
* The great exhale
* Joe and the Squad
* A fake Portuguese guest
* Barro blowback?
* On the Substack revolution
* The repulsive Luigi Mangioni
* The failed Kaczynski
* And much more!
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One topic in the news. One quick podcast on that single topic (rather than just texting each other about how certain media figures are vulgar, stupid, and morally depraved). Welcome to the Fifth Column One Hitter! In our inaugural episode, Matt and Moyn get pissed off about the hideous reaction from certain very online cretins to the awful murder of UniâŠ
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* Little Moynihanâs pediatric cancer fundraiser can be found here! This might be the opposite of an incentive, but a random donor will be chosen for a personalized roast video from Moyn and his daughterâŠ
* The idiot winds (That âOne More Cup of Coffeeâ live performance MM referenced)
* Pete Hegseth replaced by Ronny D?
* Ok, you asked for itâŠwith new information, the lads return to the Hunter pardon
* "Is he really doing something injurious?"
* Preemptive pardons?
* The uselessness of cable ânewsâ
* Addicted to privilege
* Was Trump the great deregulator?
* And whole lot more!
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* The boys had just heard the Biden pardon news. So much they missed about the specificsâŠand this brilliant video had not yet been created.
* Citizens of the Fifdom debate RFK
* The professional Youtube debaters
* Teens and true crime
* JonBenet
* How to interview your dad
* A listener asks: Is Dan Crenshaw the worst?
* Park Slope politics and the crotch Magen David
* The MâŠ
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As a Thanksgiving treat, an unlocked Members Only episode featuring Moynihan in conversation with Dr. Alan Levinovitz, author of Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science and The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat, about RFKâs view of public health, why you are fat, the myth of ânatural,â and why so many people have stopped trusting âthe science.â
We wonât be unlocking any subscriber-only episodes for awhile soâŠsubscribe!
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* Peteâs past
* Friends with a murderer
* Roofie vending machines
* The worst cabinet pick?
* Trans snakes that play golf
* Damn dirty commies
* The three things reds do well
* A store called Store
* That truck is still with Kamala
* Little Baronâs soooooooootcase
* One black womanâs quest
* Biased bookstores
* Axios: Trumpâs liberal cabinet
* ChatGPT is wrong about everything
* Back to Cormac
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An hour with Semafor founder Ben Smith discussing the sorry state of the media, followed by a Smith-free hour with the lads discussing, among other things, two very different people who nevertheless shared a very deep love of young people. ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
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* Kmele: Forever the HNIC
* The Filet-O-Fish is Alaska pollock
* A Swedish horror show
* RFK at HHS
* He forgot to mention this stuffâŠ
* Elonâs principles?
* On Matt Gaetz and John Bolton
* You know, we had a pretty good record on CovidâŠ
* Moulton v. a Salem Witch
* A listenerâs Irish-Catholic family is falling apart
* That fake Netflix fight
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Michael Moynihan sits down with Bard College professor Sean McMeekin to discuss his new book To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, a Fifth-approved history of the global communist movement, from the ur-commie instincts of Plato to the sinister stupidities of Plekhanov. They also contemplate why so many smart people fall for baâŠ
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Weâve promised this one for a very long time. But now that Trump is returning to the White Houseâthe mercantilist maniac who recently said âthe most beautiful word in the dictionary is âtariffâââwe finally followed through. By popular demand, we called upon Scott Lincicome, senior visiting lecturer at Duke University Law School and vice president of general economics and Cato's Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, to answer all of your questions on protectionism, tariffs, and trade.
Donât care about such things!? Well, this episode is a double feature! After Scottâs masterclass on free trade, the lads stick around to discuss Trumpâs appointments (ummmâŠ.this was a day before the Gaetz-Gabbard selections), âneocons,â and the WNBA.
And for you subscribers: we will drop Moynihanâs conversation with Bard College historian Sean McMeekin in the next few days. For you non-subscribersâŠwhat are you waiting for??
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Our first post-election Second Sunday Zoom call! If you missed it, shame on you for choosing to spend time with your family or choosing not to pony up. But itâs all here. All three hours of it. Yes, itâs the âDie Meistersinger von NĂŒrnbergâ of election analysis. But to be clear, we also discuss Emperor Hirohito, Kentucky politics, Australians, New York âŠ
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Welch and Moynihan are back in the studio, three days after the end of democracy, counting the days before they get the midnight knock from Trumpâs NKVD. So what does one do? Engage in some anticipatory obedience, obviously. But can anything save them? Subscribe to find out!
Note: Matt came across this amazing video only after recording this episode. So âŠ
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The Fifth did a bit of processing today with our Trump-supporting friend at her Connecticut studio. Hungover, exhausted, bedraggled, the lads then returned to the scene of last nightâs Fifth-Free Press-Reason party and recorded this episode. They enjoyed it. And they suspect you will too.
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* Kmele on his appearance in Thomas Chatterton Williams new Atlantic piece
* The end of America!
* If you donât vote like me, you should be ashamed of yourself!
* Weâre not âheterodoxâ
* On never talking policy
* Authoritarianism in America
* Boyz in the Hood redux
* A whole lot of final election thoughts
* A listener from Utah teaches us about TBCK syndrome
* Kemi Badenoch on uneqâŠ
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* A Thomas Jefferson freak off
* The tree of libertyâŠ
* âElection integrityâ
* Whatâs happening with those Pennsylvania ballots?
* Editorial page endorsements are worthless
* Why wonât you resign, lady?
* A slaughter at MSG
* These people have lost their minds
* And Bezos is correct: they donât trust you
* The end of the NYT sports page actually said something importantâŠ
* The bubble
* An absurd boycott
* What would a Kamala victory mean for Israel?
* Finally a good Downfall memeâŠ
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* To promote his Substack conversation with Moynihan (live today at 5pm ET only on the Substack app!), Josh Szeps calls in from the car and talks Aussie stuff for 20 minutes.
* Banning that lady from your country (âDoes anything ride on this?")
* Baghdad Bob on Australia
* The Times and the truth
* People who disappear
* They are making me talk about this fascism shit
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* How to be a Navy Seal
* Losing an eye in Afghanistan
* Dan canât find his glasses / âI canât see shitâ
* Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan
* A case study in intelligence failure and confirmation bias
* On leaving the Taliban in power
* Has Trump been good on foreign policy?
* The Republican Party post-Trump
* Tucker "is best friends with Hunter Biden!â
* Why are you even in Congress?
* On the mechanics of Congress
* Maybe a hundred normal congressmen
* What has Dan accomplished for Texas?
* Is populism winning?
* On banning TikTok
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* Dave in the Hall
* Dead in the garden
* All the dictators
* His kampf
* McDonalds troofer
* Can Trump be funny?
* People donât care about what we care about
* A friend attacks
* BHO was a great candidate
* Wham-O, Sandusky, and the kids Freak Off
* On âNeighborhood Bullyâ
* Never say âgrandeâ
* What plagiarism counts
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* Old wine, old bottles
* Bret Baier v. Kamala
* He finally asked Mattâs question. Or was it Kmeleâs question?
* On not answering questions
* The wisdom of Bill Clinton
* Back to the politics of the 90s
* We always come back to it: late night is awful
* Weed reparations
* We always come back to it: fascism
* Please come back, archive.org
* Shutting down CBS?
* Why the media being stupid is actually really important
* Ted v Colin
* Micklewaithe v. Trump
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