The Fifth Column

Our first post-election Second Sunday Zoom call! If you missed it, shame on you for choosing to spend time with your fa…

Welch and Moynihan are back in the studio, three days after the end of democracy, counting the days before they get the…

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 night’s Fifth-Free Pre…

* Kmele on his appearance in Thomas Chatterton Williams new Atlantic piece

* The end of America!

* If you don’t vote like…

* A Thomas Jefferson freak off

* The tree of liberty…

* “Election integrity”

* What’s happening with those Pennsylvania ballots?

* Editorial page endorsements are worthless

* Why won’t you resign, lady?

*…

* To promote his Substack conversation with Moynihan (live today at 5pm ET only on the Substack app!), Josh Szeps calls…

* How to be a Navy Seal

* Losing an eye in Afghanistan

* Dan can’t find his glasses / “I can’t see shit”

* Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan

* A case study in intelligence failure and confirmation bias

* …

* Dave in the Hall

* Dead in the garden

* All the dictators

* His kampf

* McDonalds troofer

* Can Trump be funny?

* Peopl…

* Old wine, old bottles

* Bret Baier v. Kamala

* He finally asked Matt’s question. Or was it Kmele’s question?

* On not answering questions

* The wisdom of Bill Clinton

* Back to the politics of the 90s…

A rebroadcast

* Military propaganda for the kidz!

* Jewish Columbus

* A new history of communism

* The brainworm burrows i…

* Yes, Michael J. Fox actually actually has Parkinson’s

* The MAGA hat incident

* We got a journalist around here…he’s asking a lot of questions

* Choppin’ it up with 60

* Young morons embrace violence

*…

* A very brief baseball convo. Relax.

* Kid (and adult) anxiety

* Don’t kill on snek

* The science of Trump’s brain?

* The …

* The title is correct: everyone will hate something in this episode!

* Moynihan is dying?

* GPT as your GP

* Choc and Chiclet

* $$$ for TV

* J.D. says Trump won in 2020

* Jack Smith could have asked Moyn…

Kmele’s voice is craggy; Moynihan is on the precipice of illness; Hasan Nasrallah has been delivered to a fiery “paradi…

* The return of the Boss POC

* The veep sits for an “interview”

* That’s all she had to do…

* Will Michael Cohen be assassinated?

* Not if he escapes the country (and his family)!

* The return of Tenness…

* When you think you’re right about everything

* Alternate episode title: Candace Owens Discovers a New Fact Every Day—…

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* This tattoo definitely wasn’t a horrible mistake

* Matt has dementia

* Pim Tool: tool of the FSB?

* The $400,000 plagiarist

* Brain “interference” vs. election “interference”

* Did Trump acknowledge th…

* Illness fakers

* Medium fakers

* Ok, so let’s warm up with some music stuff

* Does any band have a perfect four-album r…