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

* Moynihan has COVID (Again)* Another NYC Covid Spike* “Dangerous New Levels of Misinformation”* The Kids Are Actually All Right (but they’re mostly not getting vaccinated)* No Apologies for #DeathSantis* Ladies Who “Lead” (and cry about it)* Red Wave, Blue Wall, Purple People Eaters* Moynihan’s “Free Smoke” Preview* Republican Skullduggery* Yes, And, [ Deepest Possible Sigh ]* The “AOC to Nazi” Pipeline* Trust in Media… still virtually non-existent* The Sycophants and Cynics Coalition* YouTube is Kinda for Snuff Films (but don’t mention suicide or possible vaccine side effects)* Censorship is BipartisanPlus: Nat Con Paradise, Matt’s Latest Thing, Finding the Right Photo, Free Ads, and moreRecorded: 10.19.22Published: 10.20.22 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

This one’s for you, Steve. Goodspeed brother. -TFC* Kanye is anti-Semitic Vinnie the Chin* Kmele plugs his mic in* Yakub, the Fauci of Africa  * The Original Lab Leak Theory * Remember Afrocentrism? (And can you, dear listeners, find this 60 Minutes segment?)* Moynihan has Covid and is literally doing this episode from bed* Long Covid is probably real* A heartbreaking email that renders the boys speechless* A football coach being brave and calling bullshit* Stereotypes, discrimination, disparity and choice* On Rachel Maddow’s new smash-hit podcast * Hip-hop songs that praise Yakub* And lots, lots more! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

The lads are all around the same table in New York City! And LA Times journalist Gustavo Arellano calls in at the top of the show to explain why the President is calling on four local politicians in L.A. to resign. * Gustavo explains Spanish racial slurs* Gustavo explains the racism of the LA City Council* This is the logical endpoint for dumb identity politics* We obsess over the race stuff at the expense of the naked corruption* Punching dogs for social justice* Matt is a cop-adjacent apologist* Berlin is bad, but not is bad as it was in 1945* A revolution with no solutions* What the WaPo forgot to tell you * Like almost everyone else in American politics, Hershel Walker believes in nothing* Dear lord does Matt hate Margaret Sullivan’s book* Adjectiving your way out of trouble* The U.N. slaps down the Kremlin * Reporting on Fetterman’s stroke is violence* Also: subscribe to the Substack, you freeloader…. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

We did it live on Twitch. We answered some questions. We talked about Kanye, the USFL and the Black Gestapo. Oh and all that cooing and commotion at the start of the show? Someone made a guest appearance: * Kmele has a gross business idea* Republican candidates are mostly morons* Ye Be Krayzee* Kanye vs. Kevin * Terrible actors who love dictators* A digression on Queen Latifah and why 30 Rock couldn’t be made today* Michelle asks about this terrifying video* Matt votes. Kmele and Moynihan, less so. And no, most people should not be voting* Culture war Russian propaganda * Don’t vote for people that would run* Nadine asks about the (American) Civil War and Ukraine* Roger Waters is lefty Fox News granddad * What about Ben Shapiro?* The Prague origin story * William Shatner’s super depressing article Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

I am usually among the most allergic to broad, immutable-characteristic-based analyses along the lines of “The Crisis of Men and Boys.” Some of this is the usual self-loathing—Screw guys, especially if they’re 54-year-old baseball fanatics from California!, etc. But also, probably due to the extended influence of the man formerly known as Casanova Brown, I have seen too often the fact-bending, anti-individualist and too often punitive ideological temptations of sorting humans into various pens and making grand statements about the resulting statistics.However! When tasked during a recent media appearance to have comments on The Trouble With Males, I stumbled across a stunning (to me) chart at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showing that the employment rate for dudes between 2001 and 2021 was down in every age bracket younger than 55, and up in every cohort after 55. Dramatic numbers, too—16-19-year-old males went from 50% to 36%; 20-24s from 82% to 73%, and so on. If we’re getting to the point where half of men have never worked before the age of 25, that’s a profoundly different America than some of us old farts grew up in.So when I received a publicist email saying that the Bradley Prize-winning American Enterprise Institute economist Nicholas Eberstadt had just come out with a brand new post-pandemic edition of his groundbreaking 2016 study Men Without Work, I leaped at the chance to talk to him about this subject that I cared not at all about just one month ago. Hoo-ray for the on-the-job learning!Eberstadt, as you will soon hear, has a more interesting pedigree than your average math professor, with a wife who writes about the sexual revolution and identity politics, a sister who was in Warhol’s Factory, one grandfather who was Ogden Nash, and another who co-founded the CIA. And don’t worry, we also talk a bit about commies.-- The myth of “full employment”-- NILFs-- “There is absolutely nothing good that comes out of this trend”-- “Uncannily, weirdly, eerily regular”-- “There's no country in the rich world that has had such a steep radical and continuing drop as the U.S.A.”-- The Lost Decade, and the New Misery-- Wealth without growth-- The populist reaction-- “They don’t do civil society”-- Immigrants get the job done-- California vs. Texas on immigrant welfare-- Schmancy Bobbleman vs. the feminists-- The ex-felon factor-- They’re all on disability-- We just did a national UBI experiment-- Get a job, teens!-- Does this also explain woke/cancel stuff?-- We weren’t gonna let that Warhol connection slide-- Nor the CIA grandpa-- Charles Murray, Tim Carney, J.D. Vance-- North Korea’s role in Russia’s failing war Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Escape from New York * Not a libertarian podcast, btw* Blaming Ukraine* Racist name pronunciation* Nut and Casanova Brown* A joke thief with a failing tv show quits. The media laments* Shaq Fu* Ruining your wife’s birthday party because you’re not an ally* Free-floating racist intent* That Hakeem "The Dream" Olajuwon song Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Only Fans is for Justice* Internet Experts* Not Even Not Fascism* Right Wing Extremists Everywhere* Blame The EU* What You’re Really Afraid Of* The Beyonce of Journalism* Call of the Wild* Lil Baby Offends* Democratic Illiberalism * Not That Big Lie* Don’t Call It a “Ban” (Even If It’s A Ban)* They Were Watching BaseballRecorded: 9.28.22Published: 9.29.22 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Moynihan’s daughter, the mighty Livia, is doing her yearly fundraiser for pediatric cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. The highest bidder gets a personalized insult video from both father and daughter! Link here.* A flood in East Egg* Kmele sees The Woman King* Kmele discusses The Woman King* Furious Styles in Africa* Matt goes to the Anti-Capitalist Museum of New York* Dear god, that Glorilla and Cardi B song is awful* The husband’s in Canada…time to have an affair with The Fifth* That totally insane New York Times Valerie Solanas obit* What media should you pay for?* Kmele and Adam Davidson* The Ken Norton Grill * Anti-racist plane travel Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Toddler Pestilence* Death Defying Drives* Naked Pool Slide (are you “The Big Guy”* Russia, Ukraine, A wildly outdated PBX systems* Trump’s Devolving Legal Situationship* This Isn’t Political; Trust Me 🤞🏼* Russia Hacked the Women’s March?* Buses, Planes, and “Kidnapping” Stunts* Maybe Build that Wall Now?Recorded: 9.22.22Published: 9.23.22 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Ever since I devoured his brilliant book Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up, I’ve read everything under Bob Colacello’s byline—from his years writing about society types for Vanity Fair to his smart and gossipy biography of the Reagans, Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House--1911 to 1980. From his days as Andy Warhol’s right-hand man and editor of Interview magazine, Colacello has been an art world and society fixture (just…do a Google image search), somehow inhabiting both the role of active participant and skeptical chronicler. At the beginning of the summer, after a few dinners during which I peppered him with annoying questions about Warhol and the Factory, I demanded that Bob invite me to his Hamptons house and submit to a recorded interrogation. He obliged. This is the result. - From Bensonhurst to the Factory- Andy gets receipts - Valerie Solanas wanted to “cut up men” - "I Shot Andy Warhol" was a disgrace- “We were bodyguards as well as salesmen”- Liberals and the Iranian embassy - Why Bob didn't like Netflix's "Andy Warhol's Diaries"- "Through a queer lens, darkly" / Confusing nonchalance with denial - Andy Warhol didn't believe in causes- "Mystery lends itself to fame"- A Republican in the Factory- King Charles Loved Joan Rivers- Andy loved Big Macs - In Moscow with Paul Morrissey and Bridget Berlin- The day Andy died Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.