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>* RIP Rob Reiner</p><p>* Sorry about the horrific murders but…Go Bills!?</p><p>* It was a great American who created Spinal Tap</p><p>* Reaction from conservative pundits vs. conservative politicians</p><p>* Trump’s derangement syndrome</p><p>* And he doubles down…</p><p>* The Islamist attack in Australia</p><p>* Assimilation and integration: Europe vs. America</p><p>* We’re just better at it</p><p>* They’re going to speak English and…</p>

<p>Dan Abrams is the CEO and Founder of Abrams Media Chief Legal Analyst for ABC News, host of <em>On Patrol: Live</em> on Reelz, host of SiriusXM radio’s “The Dan Abrams Show,” host and executive producer of “Court Cam” on A&E Network.</p><p>He is also the author of numerous New York Times bestselling books about forgotten trials in history and is also the founder of Mediaite.</p><p>* In defense of legacy media. Sort of.</p><p>* Hating journalists while feeding journalists</p><p>* From “terror TV” to ❤️Qatar❤️</p><p>* Just Jared</p><p>* The King of Korruption</p><p>* The legacy of lawfare</p><p>* Alvin Bragg: Trump’s best friend</p><p>* Prosecuting Hitler, Chavez, and Trump</p><p>* The Inspectors General Massacre</p><p>* Kash’s lady jacket</p><p>* Post-Kavanaugh radicalization</p><p>* Rogan optimism</p><p>* Did Dan help destroy American civility??</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307714/">Is Alan Keyes making sense?</a></p><p>* From gossip cops to actual cops...</p><p>* Does Dan produce “cop-aganda”??</p><p>* No, but Dan likes cops</p><p><strong>Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifthdom? This episode </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/F6d3dDPHLoU"><strong>premieres over on our YouTube channel</strong></a><strong> at 10am EST.</strong></p><p><p>The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my 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://substack.com/redirect/09c07840-5930-4c66-aa76-064acebd229a?j=eyJ1IjoiZTQzMWYifQ.dc-8vtNe6mnVPNyWzBj8PVjHOlHrTw5oo2hNegjrHnA">@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>Michael Moynihan sits down with entrepreneur, actor, and bon vivant Kevin O’Leary to talk about politics, money, and being an asshole.</p><p>* The economics of...hockey? (He’s Canadian. It makes sense)</p><p>* Mr Wonderful vs. Idiot King</p><p>* Pierre misses the open net</p><p>* Swiss watches and Swiss gold</p><p>* Sell the damn chips to China!</p><p>* The importance of the Hill staffer</p><p>* Kevin just made thi…</p>

<p>It’s been a bit since it was just Michael, Kmele, and Matt at the table so we’ve decided to unlock this Members Only episode and invite everyone in. For (literally) hundreds more Members Only episodes, become a paying subscriber.</p><p>•Heliocentric anime</p><p>•50 Cent, documentarian</p><p>•Boycott Black Murder</p><p>•Glenn Beck is doing it for the kids</p><p>•John Stossel walks into a bodega</p><p>•And now, a few words from the father of our country</p><p>•American Revolution hot takes</p><p>•<a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/us/politics/biden-immigration-trump.html">That New York Times border crisis story</a></p><p>•Kamala Harris was not the border czar</p><p>•NIMBY</p><p>•When Kmele gets homeless</p><p>•Rosemont Illinois will not forget Tara Reid</p><p>•LSD margaritas</p><p>•The Pentagon press corps</p><p>•Exploding boats</p><p>•Geographically constrained neoconservatism</p><p>•Matthew Yglesias is right</p><p>•Previewing Moynihan’s 1-on-1 with Kevin O’Leary</p><p>•Holding out hope</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifthdom? This episode </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/TXeToJDPMuA"><strong>premieres over on our YouTube channel</strong></a><strong> at 10am EST.</strong></p><p><p>This episode is unlocked, but paying subscribers get them ALL.</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://substack.com/redirect/09c07840-5930-4c66-aa76-064acebd229a?j=eyJ1IjoiZTQzMWYifQ.dc-8vtNe6mnVPNyWzBj8PVjHOlHrTw5oo2hNegjrHnA">@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>

<p><strong>We’re joined by Brace Belden, co-host of the </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://trueanon.com"><strong>TrueAnon</strong></a><strong> podcast.</strong> </p><p>•They don’t make heroin anymore</p><p>•The Taco Bell connection</p><p>•King of the libertarians</p><p>•Kmele almost dies</p><p>•You say Somali, I say Somalian, let’s call the whole thing off</p><p>•The people cut out of the Minnesota Somali fraud story</p><p>•Does Ben Shapiro think we’re white?</p><p>•A Maoist small businessman</p><p>•Certain liberties</p><p>•Curtis Yarvin discovers YouTube</p><p>•Yarvin = Slavoj Žižek of the right? </p><p>•Libertarian Escape (the Piña Colada Song)</p><p>•The cathedral</p><p>•Brace, Citarella, and the new intellectual left</p><p>•Mamdani “is fully a Democrat”</p><p>•Nationalize Mr. Fruit</p><p>•Body count</p><p>•War is a force that gives us meaning</p><p>•Call of Duty: Median Soldier</p><p>•Brace is on the DHS shit list</p><p>•Kmele spent more time at Occupy than Brace did</p><p>•In China, the trains run on time</p><p>•The DSA clappers</p><p>•Don’t let’s start on Venezuela</p><p>•Wistful for Colin Powell</p><p>•Where are the drugs!?</p><p>•The Grifters</p><p>•The neoneocons</p><p>•Thumbing the scale</p><p>•Jeffrey Epstein, quintessential striver</p><p>•The Chomsky connection</p><p><strong>Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifthdom? This episode </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcUyrl42t2k"><strong>premieres over on our YouTube channel</strong></a><strong> at 10am EST.</strong></p><p><p>Thanks for reading The Fifth Column (A Podcast)! This post is public so feel free to share it.</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://substack.com/redirect/09c07840-5930-4c66-aa76-064acebd229a?j=eyJ1IjoiZTQzMWYifQ.dc-8vtNe6mnVPNyWzBj8PVjHOlHrTw5oo2hNegjrHnA">@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>