The Fifth Column

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">www.wethefifth.com</a><br/><br/><p>-Matt takes off his glasses, Kmele panics</p><p>-Moynihan is furious we started a war during his aggressive vomiting window</p><p>-The Great Unwrapping of Liberated Iranian Women as the most convincing reason for war</p><p>-Marco Rubio sells the rationale in Möbius-strip logic</p><p>-the Dee Snider Doctrine</p><p>-The Death of the War Powers Resolution</p><p>-Is Rep. Anna Paulina Luna serious r…</p>

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">www.wethefifth.com</a><br/><br/><p>Journalist <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/30011567-nadav-eyal">Nadav Eyal</a> joins Welch and Moyniahn to game out the Iran strikes, why Gaza’s endgame is still murky, and why the “no boots on the ground” promise matters more than most hot takes admit. </p><p>-Zen and the Art of Strategic Surprise</p><p>-Everyone who’s anyone in the region knew this was going to happen.</p><p>-Why the US was convinced this was a good idea</p><p>-Death to America…</p>

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">www.wethefifth.com</a><br/><br/><p>I first met Ken Layne sometime in 1991, back when Vanilla Ice ruled the pop charts, the Soviet Union was still a thing, and Canadians still had a reasonable expectation of winning the Stanley Cup.</p><p>We have been collaborating and experimenting ever since -- a little newspapering <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-179-the-late-richard">here</a>, some music <a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/4bcWLQA">there</a>, various <a target="_blank" href="https://www.desertoracle.com/episode-212-the-typing-life-w-guest-matt-welch/">dot-com shenanigans</a>, all of it in a spirit of …</p>

<p>-Matt Welch’s Caribbean identity crisis at Da Pig Beach</p><p>-The State of the Union aka a two-hour hostage note</p><p>-A greatest hits, lowest lights compilation for President Camacho</p><p>-The futility of “speeching” your way through a math-defying approval rating</p><p>-You can’t talk your way through a 38% approval rating</p><p>-Let the hockey boys drink</p><p>-Dan Crenshaw is allowed to be mad</p><p>-The RNC’s new guard of real fucking bozos and sycophantic dick-tots</p><p>-JD Vance as anti-corruption czar and populist beard for the crypto-regime</p><p>-Tariffs and The Gilded Age corruption engine, now with “ballroom fund” exclusions</p><p>-Drug prices are down 600%,….so do you owe me money?</p><p>-Moynihan screaming drug questions at his glitching phone</p><p>-Marxist Republicans and the gobbledygook of corporate housing bans</p><p>-Maybe let’s just abolish the State of the Union</p><p>-Dispatches from the Purple State: An interview with Senator Elissa Slotkin</p><p>-Stop kicking allies in the teeth to play grab-ass with dictators</p><p>-Walking out on Lindsey Graham’s Danish disdain</p><p>-AI thinks Moynihan is a neo-folk neo-Nazi</p><p>-Four years of war and Ukraine gets a one-sentence hand wave</p><p>-Anthropic vs. Hegseth: Code is speech until the Pentagon wants a frictionless kill-switch</p><p>-We tried collectivism once. Everyone starved. The end.</p><p>-Gemini identifies the mystery caller as Friedrich Nietzsche, chimney sweep</p><p>-About that BBC BAFTA N-Word Drama….</p><p>-“You’re acting like Israel” is the ultimate Park Slope breakup trump card</p><p><strong>Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? This episode </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/TMdv4AblDQY"><strong>premieres over on our YouTube channel </strong></a><strong>NOW.</strong></p><p><p>The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p><strong>Follow The Fifth Column</strong></p><p>YouTube: <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/9e5f160b-065d-42ce-92a4-edf21df804ae?j=eyJ1IjoiZTQzMWYifQ.dc-8vtNe6mnVPNyWzBj8PVjHOlHrTw5oo2hNegjrHnA">@wethefifth</a>Instagram: <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/49442cc1-448b-481d-a04c-a58e62415aa9?j=eyJ1IjoiZTQzMWYifQ.dc-8vtNe6mnVPNyWzBj8PVjHOlHrTw5oo2hNegjrHnA">@we.the.fifth</a>X: <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/e5c13b74-b540-4b93-a1ed-2ba2670462c1?j=eyJ1IjoiZTQzMWYifQ.dc-8vtNe6mnVPNyWzBj8PVjHOlHrTw5oo2hNegjrHnA">@wethefifth</a>TikTok: <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/971da500-8db0-4269-9aaf-7d7459adf93a?j=eyJ1IjoiZTQzMWYifQ.dc-8vtNe6mnVPNyWzBj8PVjHOlHrTw5oo2hNegjrHnA">@wethefifth</a>Facebook: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/@thefifthcolumn">@thefifthcolumn</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.wethefifth.com/subscribe</a>

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">www.wethefifth.com</a><br/><br/><p>Kash chugs it back with the toothless champions</p><p>Trump and his locker room talk with the boys</p><p>State of the Union and the Six Year Itch</p><p>A uniquely conspiratorial moment in an already conspiratorial nation</p><p>PizzaGate nostalgia hour</p><p>Fact checking dies in public</p><p>A laundry list of made up shit that’s not even close to being true</p><p>Baby-eating melodrama meets Beetlejuic…</p>