The Fifth Column (private feed for bitterone31droid@googlemail.com)

A few weeks before the Hamas pogrom, Moynihan was reading Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by the brilliant Israeli-American journalist and historian Oren Kessler. So he called him to talk through the current conflict, its historical antecedents, and how Hamas’s murder spree has effected his family.* RIP Tomer Shoham* The nightmare scenario* “This is good for Hamas”* The “I don’t support it, but you have to understand…” argument* The “occupation” is Tel Aviv and Haifa* Nowhere to go / hostage trading* On the media coverage* The Arab Revolt of 1936* The beginning of Arab nationalism, Jewish terrorism* Writing while angry* The Jewish Agency Fund Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

(Editor’s note: about 20 seconds of Comrade Lake’s mic is missing at the very beginning of this recording. It fixes itself soon thereafter. Sorry about that)It’s that time of month (…ummmm….time for a rebroadcast of our Second Sunday Zoom call). As you probably already guessed, we managed just one topic of conversation this time around: the unfolding ho… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Former Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer is back to talk about his insane friends and erstwhile colleagues on the Hill * Peter’s surprising (to us) view of Rep. Matt Gaetz* “I try to see the best in people” (Hmmmmm….)* The gordian knot of polarization* Peter makes the case for [blank] as Speaker…….* Oh wait, he’s kinda serious!* What do any of these people actually believe? * “Oh, I mean, there's horseshoe theory and then there's horseshoe theory…”* Does Peter have an announcement to make?? Maybe??* Well, he didn’t exactly deny it* Note: giving people free shit usually works (for a bit)* The HARD LEFT supercut* Former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer was setup and no one really cares* Two progressive activists are murdered and out come the ghouls Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Unrelated non-programming note from Moynihan: “As some of you might recall, and as I mentioned in the intro, last year I beseeched listeners to help my amazing daughter Livia (and her gymnastics team) raise money for pediatric cancer. And last year, you guys came through in such a crazy way that one parent asked me if I was “some sort of cult leader.” I said no. I’m only a cult co-host. So thanks in advance! Oh, and the event is tomorrow!” THE LINK* Back in July, Kmele and Moynihan talked to a room full of students at FIRE’s annual student conference in Philadelphia. Much fun was had by all. And it was recorded. So…here you go.* A generous Greg Lukianoff intro. And some stuff about Kmele and Moynihan and Jonah Lehrer. For the kids.* And then…the kids tell tales of campus woe…* What more description do you need? Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Our old Aussie-Aussie-Aussie-Oi-Oi-Oi pal Josh Szeps, former host of the morning show Wake Up Ya C***s, was in New York this weekend and stopped by the Fifth’s Chinatown headquarters! So we decided to have a few drinks (Ed. note: Josh has lost approximately 600 pounds and is now sober, while Welch and Moynihan are still the same old lazy alcoholics) and argue about how our pal Coleman Hughes was treated by TED…receive a concise primer on the politics of Australia’s “voice” referendum…get an equally concise lesson in Aussie identity politics… promote his terrific podcast “Uncomfortable Conversations”…and recount a recent conversation that was so uncomfortable that it has been permanently disappeared. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Deion’s audacious blackness* Kevin McHale’s audacious whiteness * Serious Hasan’s baby is covered in cocaine* What everyone hates most is a racist, anti-Asian wolf* Cutting the razor wire because…why not?* Immigration in Europe is different* DOWTCHA BOY! The (Irish?) origins of Jamaican Patois* Is Matt the Harvey Weinstein of the Fifth?* Guess what? There was more to t… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* The sartorial excellence of the Pennsylvania Senate delegation* “Pooping on their shoes” * Kilmeade v. Rosendale (that’s his name)* Kendi and the disappearing millions * Want to demonitize one of your enemies? We have an idea!* A threatening letter from Lady Orwell DBE* The ACLUization of everything * Trump on the Meet the Press* Broadcast needs to “lend democracy a hand?”* Biden is just getting worse* Ron slides further…and new New Hampshire numbers * Defeatism and elitism, mixed * The “moral clarity” darling of 2023: Christiane Amanpour Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Bob Geldof is the hero of this story* She isn’t the pantless one* Catholics, Kmele and your “best religious experience”* Nick and the Burn* Jamaican names / Wes Anderson movies * Revisiting Less Than Zero* The Hollywood Party v. Walt Disney* A listener has an Amy Cooper question…* The Kendi Center kind of shuts down* NOI in our imagination* Whitedurans wonder what to do ne… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* 36 year-old grandmother vapes, feels up Democrat * Shanah Tova!* Russell Brand, who Moynihan wrote about in 2014, is accused of rape* They are coming after the truth tellers, maaaaaannnnnn* Revisiting Hunter’s indictment * Breaking: Biden is confused and sleepy * Trump v. Kelly* I’m the president, so it’s legal…* Ron’s compounding troubles, plummeting poll numbers* Preemptive skepticism * Hasan Minaj is an unfunny fraud Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

As Moynihan explains in the intro, this is the Zoom recording from this month’s Second Sunday broadcast. Basically, it’s the difference between a soundboard and audience bootleg. But so it goes. So no bullet points this week—enough time has already been spent on this episode—other than to say that Ben Dreyfuss shows up and we talk about Danny Masterson,… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.