The Fifth Column

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Members Only #244 - Second Sunday Coming Down Jan 16, 2025

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A rebroadcast of our most recent “Second Sunday” episode, during which paying subscribers can hop on a Zoom call, ask us questions, berate us, tell meandering stories, and be generically clever/hilarious/insane. On this episode, we talk to a number of people in Los Angeles about the ongoing conflagrations and the city government’s predictably feckless r…

#485 - The Fire This Time Jan 10, 2025

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* Black Bill Kristol

* Nobody beats the Rizz

* Stealing Greenland

* Yet another horrible big city mayor

* When you love Castro, you are obviously an incompetent moron

* Forget it, Matt. It's Chinatown

* More on the 🔥

* Is big city governance killing progressivism?

* Your lying eyes

* Elon’s Nazis

* Mark Zuckerberg and “winning” on free speech

* The end of corporate walkout culture

* January 6 pardons and pizzagate crazy person gunned down

* Hobo stabs thug

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Members Only #243 - Pox Blankets, Political Cartoons, Poor Parenting Jan 06, 2025

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* Lia the diva

* The era of athlete actors

* Moynihan correction: It was Bubba Smith in Police Academy. Dick Butkus was in Police *Story*.

* I want to make fun of my boss

* Awful political cartoons

* More on progressive schools

* Are you a hypocrite, MM?

* Reflections on Jimmy Carter, DPRK fan

* The neo-neocons?

* The vibe shift and the sense of the heroic (says MAGA Matt)

* Matt…

#484 - Pumps, Converts, Fatwas, and Ex-Presidents Jan 02, 2025

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* No more Bobby

* No resolutions

* Pump it up: The bionic podcast host

* New Year’s terror in NOLA and Vegas

* The military connection that doesn’t matter

* The advent of “car ramming”

* In celebration of Chaim Sapir

* Forgotten terror

* When Charlie destroyed our faith in the media class

* Jimmy Carter’s awful op-ed

* Erasing Islamism

* Revisiting Rushdie

* Getting scammed by the “truth” people

* Broken kneecap policing

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Members Only #242 - The Emo Episode Dec 30, 2024

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* An episode that takes a break from politics?

* Stars, tardigrades, and microscopy

* Race in space

* Matt and Moyn watch “A Complete Unknown,” come to different conclusions

* Phantom and 40mg

* AI’s take on this section: “Listener emails prompt discussions on art, personal struggles, and growth during the holidays.”

* Books for young men searching….

* Can The Man Who Shot L…

#483 - The Christmas Cromnibus and a Slow Boat to Mauritius Dec 20, 2024

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* Pivot to Zoom

* Rereading books

* The ex-presidents

* “It’s 1,547 pages of unreadable garbage. Every year, it’s like Christmas."

* Chip the RHINOOOOOO

* Elon’s Political Fantasy Camp!

* Is Trump losing his power to threaten?

* The end of AOC?

* Before his own inevitable perp walk, Mayor Adams does a hot assassin perp walk

* Insurance companies redux

* Kmele is a bad drinker

* Don Jr. trades up

* Barron is everyone’s boyfriend

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Members Only #241 - Tinder Trotskyists, Siouxsie and the Nazis, When We Were Kings Dec 16, 2024

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* If you think it’s expensive now, wait until it’s free

* Unpersuasive persuasion

* How race is like probiotic soda

* Ends and means

* "If one killing is justified, where do you draw the line—10,000? A million?"

* Siouxsie and the Nazis / Bill Grundy

* Tinder Trotskyists

* More “memoirs about trauma and identity”

* ‘Oh, they’re taxing us, let’s go murder people.’

* 23andme and Zor…

#482 - Centrism Kills (w/ Josh Barro) Dec 12, 2024

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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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Members Only #240 - One Hitter: Taylor Supports the Death Penalty Dec 06, 2024

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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 Uni…

#481 - From the Mexico of Heaven Dec 05, 2024

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* Little Moynihan’s 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 daughter…

* The idiot winds (That “One More Cup of Coffee” live performance MM referenced)

* Pete Hegseth replaced by Ronny D?

* Ok, you asked for it…with new information, the lads return to the Hunter pardon

* "Is he really doing something injurious?"

* Preemptive pardons?

* The uselessness of cable “news”

* Addicted to privilege

* Was Trump the great deregulator?

* And whole lot more!

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