The Fifth Column

* Kamala finally submits to an interview

* A Cascade of Disappointment)

* A softball interview

* Flip, flop, flibbedy flop

* Wasted questions

* Just a question of grammar

* Code switch that racist wall

* …

It’s the final night of the convention and in the hours before everything kicks off, the lads convened at the Substack loft to chat with Axios’s Alex Thompson, our old pal and arguably the most plugg…

Moynihan, Welch, and Kmele’s Chicago misadventures continue in this dispatch, recorded just before night three of the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Joined by the incomparable Mike Pesca (host …

Why waste time with discursive show notes when you can just say two very simple words? Steve Kornacki. One of People’s “Sexiest Men Alive” returns to the Fifth (for his fourth appearance??) to breakd…

* An ethereum veep bet (Note: U.S. customers are banned, so no $1,000 on Shapiro bet was made)

* Watching the Olympics

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* Anything happen since we left?

* La Bubblewrap

* The media will do it for you

* Everyone will forget about that NABJ appearance

* Every journalist in that room is Audie Murphy

* Who’s black?

* Not in de…

In April 2023, while producing a documentary series for The John Templeton Foundation (JTF), I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing legendary punk/rock musician and producer audio engineer Steve…

* HOF weekend

* The Talented Ms. Jewhater

* Notes from the RNC

* The black Republicans who don’t care about ideology

* Th…

Moynihan calls in from GOP Ground Zero in Milwaukee. Kmele threatens to dish about Silicon Valley support for Donald Trump. Welch only slurs as much as Reince Preibus. Topics include J.D. Vance’s pol…

A rebroadcast of our increasingly popular Second Sunday edition, during which you, the listener, get to interact with t…

The lads make it through Biden’s presser, watch a bit of state television after, listen to the Mike Tyson’s Punch Out soundtrack, and limbo below the lowest bar in the history of low bars.

* Wizards of Transnistria

* Checking the box

* A festival of freedom?

* More old stuff

* France and the media

* Brain dead…

It’s an Independence Day Miracle (if a few days delinquent). As another US Supreme Court term draws to a close, we tap in with our favorite SCOTUS obsessive, Damon Root (currently Freethink/Big Think…

* Miracles of indigenous science

* Why is Matt talking about Kevin Costner so much?

* Aaron Sorkin solves January 6th

* N…

Oh dear. Yeah, that debate. Obviously. One would have to be a very successful, very delusional Substacker to think otherwise. But the night was about to get much, much worse. Moynihan, Welch, and Fri…

So our podcasting platform just launched an AI feature that scans your recording and automatically generates “show notes.” We gave it it try. These are the results, with a few important corrections.

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Every second Sunday of the month, the lads fire up Zoom and do a (mostly) Q&A show for subscribers only. It’s very fun,…

* Imagine if Bill Cosby was an Islamophobic dog

* Cringefest in the Bronx

* Jamal and AOC

* Sleeve rolled up, stool in ha…

After a very brief hiatus—apologies, but all is explained in the first five minutes of this episode—the lads are back. And there will be a flood of new content in the coming days, to make up for our …

* Getting Drudged

* Getting the spray

* This new color isn’t working

* Olivia amongst the Hamasniks in Union Square

* Tearing up notebooks, airhorns in the ear…stuck in the middle of a protest

* Hey hey …