The Fifth Column

Moynihan and Welch talk to Nadav Eyal, senior columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth and one of Israel’s most prominent (and best-sourced) journalists. Typically, we would keep a bonus episode like this one …

Senator Rand Paul joins the lads to lament the big, beautiful bill; the big beautiful Soviet military parade; the Twitter halfwits waging war on him; his party’s descent into populist voodoo economic…

* A grim anniversary

* Elon’s brilliant troll

* The big, ugly bill

* Bannon tells the truth. But is still a liar

* How dare they attack their attacker??

* They have cards

* Asymmetric and immoral

* Changi…

* ABBA’s Vietnam

* Barnen i Nicaragua

* Mike Tyson, Ratso, and Cus the Communist

* Burning down the house / sort of scolde…

* Racist Macca?

* Some bad names

* In praise of (trans?) Pee Wee

* Does Long Duck Dong denounce his past?

* Was that a Reaganite video game?

* Trade war nonsense: the court says…maybe not

* Moynihan’s $700…

* We think we *might* have talked about politics in this episode?

* Happy anniversary Christian Cooper!

* Talking to the…

* The ritual humiliation white genocide slide show!

* That’s not really true. But it doesn’t really matter, does it?

* Trolling with refugees

* That Mandela picture MM mentioned…

* Uncle Paul

* “Well do …

* Jack London and hobo Oakland

* The lovely government of Qatar

* Trump in Saudi

* A carnival of corruption

* Chasing heroes…

* The end of the “introventionalists”

* But do they *fear* him?

* The new Chomsk…

You demanded, we complied. Last month in this space, I interviewed science/technology/Covid journalist David Zweig about his great new book, An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and …

* The Bill Bixby of East Egg

* Figure it out, people

* Solitude: City vs. Country (not a reference to the Jonathan Richm…

UPDATE: The initial version of this episode was missing two audio clips, both of them featuring exceptionally stupid people saying exceptionally stupid things. To be honest, you were be better off no…

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They’re all back. And they recorded a very fun, very long one…during the day…to minimize drunken regrets. So many topics are covered—the Koch brother, the last episode, bad interviewers, bad manners,…

Moynihan couldn’t make it (we don’t know where he is, but if you see a shirtless man yelling at a parking meter in lowe…

Errr….This one gets pretty heated. But we’re all still friends! We think. And Moynihan is now sober and his blood sugar is back to normal, so there’s that too. Either way, hats off to Batya for bravi…

* The Hungarian dentist and the prostitute theory

* Your TV wife sees Hitler all the time, no?

* Facilitate…

* Dinners wit…

On May 11, 2020, as I was navigating personal collapse (“it’s been a really shitty two months,” I said on an interestin…

Moynihan is out with a “tooth thing” (which sounds lame, but is allegedly a “painful,” “very serious” dental emergency that definitely doesn't involve a tall, attractive blonde woman). Fortunately, o…

Is this episode 500?? Well, not really. Likely a bit higher. There have been some numbering convention mixups over the years and we’ve also recorded almost 300 paywalled episodes (yes, you should sub…

* Val, Tombstone, Top Secret

* Top Gun takes it to 11

* One the best Hollywood memoirs

* RIP Capucine

* African-American M…