The Fifth Column

A few weeks before the Hamas pogrom, Moynihan was reading Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by the brilliant Israeli-American journalist and historian Oren Ke…

(Editor’s note: about 20 seconds of Comrade Lake’s mic is missing at the very beginning of this recording. It fixes its…

* Former Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer is back to talk about his insane friends and erstwhile colleagues on the Hill

* Peter’s surprising (to us) view of Rep. Matt Gaetz

* “I try to see the best in peopl…

* Unrelated non-programming note from Moynihan: “As some of you might recall, and as I mentioned in the intro, last year I beseeched listeners to help my amazing daughter Livia (and her gymnastics te…

Our old Aussie-Aussie-Aussie-Oi-Oi-Oi pal Josh Szeps, former host of the morning show Wake Up Ya C***s, was in New York this weekend and stopped by the Fifth’s Chinatown headquarters! So we decided t…

* Deion’s audacious blackness

* Kevin McHale’s audacious whiteness

* Serious Hasan’s baby is covered in cocaine

* What ev…

* The sartorial excellence of the Pennsylvania Senate delegation

* “Pooping on their shoes”

* Kilmeade v. Rosendale (that’s his name)

* Kendi and the disappearing millions

* Want to demonitize one of y…

* Bob Geldof is the hero of this story

* She isn’t the pantless one

* Catholics, Kmele and your “best religious experienc…

* 36 year-old grandmother vapes, feels up Democrat

* Shanah Tova!

* Russell Brand, who Moynihan wrote about in 2014, is accused of rape

* They are coming after the truth tellers, maaaaaannnnnn

* Revisit…

As Moynihan explains in the intro, this is the Zoom recording from this month’s Second Sunday broadcast. Basically, it’…

* Every city is a nightmare

* Airbnb banned—but hotel rooms are now free!

* Pedro glues his feet to the floor, Moynihan discovers climate change

* It’s the end of New York as we know it (and Mayor Adams…

Let’s abandon the usual bullet points and instead provide a few relevant links. The lads sit down with Swedish writer and historian Johan Norberg to discuss his forthcoming book The Capitalist Manife…

* Elvis Costello’s dad is the best dancer

* Orthodox Shyne

* Jamaicans vs….ummm…non-island people

* Close enough

* The race…

* Best mugshots of all time (Winner: 70s Larry King)

* Who won the dumb debate

* No, the agenda is a hoax

* Nikki…pretty, pretty, pretty good, actually

* “Let’s not look backwards”

* One of the most deran…

* San Francisco again

* Song of the South again

* TikTok NPC insanity

* Colombian Snow White, for the first time

* How Obam…

* A Moynihan intro on theft and “Jew face”

* Lara Bazelon on rap lyrics as evidence, January 6th prosecutions, RICO, prosecutorial insecurity and overreach

* Artists, characters, and belief

* A Title I…

* RIP Robbie Robertson

* Yeah, so 30 minutes of music talk about The Band, The Doors being bad, listeners getting mad at…

* Richard Hananananananania is very sorry

* He has changed. From last week.

* Handjobs against racism

* Lizzo, bananas, pe…

So this one is probably four days old now? But because of the shitty software we use—and the fact that our…ummm….editor is currently on vacation in Italy—it took some serious archeology to salvage th…