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

Just the two of us, we can make it without Matt...who is in Long Beach. Or something. Kmele gets off the plane from Austin, calls Moynihan, they hit record, and magic happens. Or something. Because Moynihan doesn't live in Silicon Valley, his internet goes out half way through...but after a random conversation about Megan Thee Stallion and a rebooted router, the magic continues...- Austin Power- Does Kmele want to California your Texas??- California has California’ed your California- Beto needs a job- Because he’s born to be in it- Kmele is on Zillow (which is losing a ton of money)- FinTok is so good, sarcastically (the Twitter account MM mentions is here)- Wait, Kmele’s mom is buying crypto? (TOOO DA MOON!)- They got those time machines to alter the papers- Some thoughts on Kyle Rittenhouse and the media- Rittenhouse’s case after this case- All the things the media keeps fucking up- It's not a "grift" if you believe it- MM’s INTERNET GOES OUT- Meghan the Stallion...and back to our regularly scheduled program- Kryin’ Kyle- A trend towards political prosecutions?- What do we make of Buzzfeed and the Steele dossier now?- Can the media be trusted? No. No they can't Can it be salvaged? No. No it can't.- And much more! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

An impromptu Sunday afternoon chin wag. Two of the three seditionists are here. Can you guess which ones? No emails prepared. No overarching theme. No direction home. Big Star, Pavement, and Congressman Steve Watching the marathon / the *opposite* of premium content Some very limited edition merch (from the Miami collection) is coming An email comes in while recording. We read a bit too much, then try to answer... Dima, who is not Swiss, has a question about time management LatinXXXXXXXX emojis The phrenology phase of the culture wars Accusing people of “bothsidesism” is almost always dumb: a detailed discussion Should this listener leave California? (Probably) Housing, Houston, and an "affordable" WTC  A Flint native (Flintonian?) chimes in... / is Tampa actually awesome? / Is Dayton dead? And then an Ulsterman chimes in, but he isn't a Patreon subscriber so he'll never hear this  "Fuck a pope!" And so much more! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Way Too SexyCrypto ArtMiss Universe (Can Get It)Fifth Coin"A Bad Gal Dat"Palliative JournalismVirginia is for HustlersThe Trouble w/ ComplicatedWas Rufo Right? (No)We're Very Sorry (But We Keepin Your Stuff) Map Makers + Freak ShowsRecorded: 11/5/21Published: 11/7/21 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

- Kids Dress as Cops ("Think of what we can do")- Livia Moynihan thanks you- Getting drunk in Flint- Kaepernick’s monumentally stupid tv show- Oh lord. Kendi’s doing one too- "Professor Crunk" is a racist-  More CNN nonsense- Let's Go (to Raqqa) Brandon!- A two-year old question about Adam Curtis (a link to The Loving Trap)- Is CRT fake news? Nahh…- Happy Birthday Kmele…now here’s Brian’s brutal email- Should Noah leave central California?- New Hampshire, the Slovakia of Massachusetts- A remedy for Chesa Boudin’s unbearable shittiness Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

w/ Zaid Jilani, former reporter at The Intercept and current substacker (inquiremore.com)Kmele, missing in a mudslide?Zaid, the most left-wing staffer at the Center for American ProgressCable news is horrible / Jeff Toobin slays white supremacySchool board chaos in VirginiaCreating wee lil' apparatchiksWhy do we care about the stupid VA governor's race?Words don't mean anything anymore, part 322We are all India-Pakistan nowThe steady hand in DC is trembling Dumb Republicans still have no economic programDear lord, she's wearing a vest!The collapsing Biden economic agendaIs Kyrsten Sinema a bad politician? Bad dresser? Bad bisexual?Matt discovers his white privilege (and he likes it) Recorded: 10/28/21Posted: 10/28/21 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Kmele is apparently debating anarcho-capitalism with a hobo in Austin, so Moynihan and Welch—both fighting general exhaustion and an inexplicable, Carter-like malaise—decide to soldier on, gamely sifting through the Fifth’s ever-expanding mail bag. But what starts off as a rather calm and polite dispatch ends…with a spirited discussion of civil war, Michael Malice vs. David French, and an astonishingly shitty person in New Jersey. Some lowlights: When a French person tries to learn about baseball When your daughter’s a narc DEI is bringing people together! But anyway, rest in peace… Don’t mention Kafka or Orwell Be like Howard, people Bad books win big awards Academic books on Cuba always suck The root cause of East German neo-Nazism and the Hungarian porn industry Revealed: Matt was the lil’ Fred Phelps of 1970s Long Beach Three minutes on Chile, ten seconds on Bolshies, and thirty seconds on the Bolshies and Israel Before Covid, we used to be drunker Where do we come down on David French, Michael Malice, and the “national divorce” Fan fiction and rewriting Joe Biden’s speeches The intellectual trap of the ‘intellectual elites who hate us” It’s not why they hate us. It’s why we hate them. Paul from Princeton is an unfunny dick Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

In the latest installment of The Historians, Michael Moynihan does a deep dive with Sean McMeekin, the Francis Flournoy Professor of European History and Culture at Bard College, and author of the terrific (and controversial) new book Stalin's War: A New History of World War II. McMeekin is also the author of The Russian Revolution: A New History, July 1914: Countdown to War, and History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks.Some of the topics discussed by Moynihan and McMeekin:- Willi Münzenberg, the William Randolph Hearst of communism- The great Sovietologist Richard Pipes- Why another WWII book?- How FDR saved the Soviet Union with Lend Lease- Moynihan on the repulsive Oliver Stone (Stone responds, followed by Moynihan laughing at his idiotic response)- Misunderstanding Stalin- The influence of Soviet sympathizers in media and government
- Another mention of the film Mission to Moscow- Should FDR have shunned Stalin?- Riding on Harley-Davidsons and killing Polish partisans- Soviet foreign policy aims after Barbarossa- How western sympathizers processed the Nazi-Soviet pact- On writing big books- Did McMeekin get Bard College banned from Russia? And much more... Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

w/ Ethan Strauss, (HNIC @ "House of Strauss" / Substack)Enemy of the SyntaxEthiopian RoyaltyBreaking the Fourth WallLeaving the AthleticNot Just for Sports FansBreaking for Black BodiesNBA Vax MandatesObama Decides to Be Black"Racist" EmailsMoynihan's First JobDouble 0' SistasJokes that Kill (But Not Actually)Recorded: 10/16/21Published: 10/14/21 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

- We were designed to be deleted. It didn't work out that way.- Tessa's Honduran mystery / Did John McAfee fake his own death?- A very happy update on the stranded Afghan orchestra- Canadian Lars defends land acknowledgments - Justin Trudeau's password tweet- Matt investigates the origins of Central Park (obviously eminent domain is involved) - The lie about what kids are taught in public schools- Matt's daughter's inner conflict- Double O representation- Patrick has some thoughts on Chappelle. We do too. - Netflix holds line against the modern PMRC- Changing lyrics for these special times- The other, better Soave- Moynihan's dentist: book critic and ketamine merchant- Maxwell should realize he's smart. And we're pulling for his mom, who has very good taste- Justin: Atomkraft, Ja Bitte!- Knoxville Adam, in isolation- We need your help: making a greatest hits episode for the poor folks, pulled only from Patreon episodes Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

w/ Robby Soave, (Senior Editor @ Reason - Author, "Tech Panic")Oral SurgeryBuying Robby's BookHow Facebook (Isn't) Destroying The WorldIncompetent + ill-informedPlease, Think of The Teenagers A Vintage Moral PanicMark Zuckerberg's Body Count Victims + VictorsMessy SpeechWhen Google Becomes Microsoft26 Words (That Created the Internet) About That FBI MemoThe Darkest Day in American HistoryThe Great Culture War VortexAmericas' Dumbest HolidayRecorded: 10/6/21Published: 10/10/21 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.