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

w/ Jonathan Rauch @ Author of "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth." Senior fellow @BrookingsInst. Contributing writer @TheAtlantic. - I Heart Lizzo- Where Things When Wrong- Flooding the Zone- Breaking Journalism- The Humanitarian Threat and Moral Clarity- Cancel Culture, Information Warfare, Social Coercion- Truth + Checking - Greatest Leap Forward - Ibram Orwell- Bans, Martyrs, Inevitable Failure- Separate, Equal. Same Great Taste.Recorded: 7.6.2021Published: 7.9.2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

- MG and Triumphs and Yankees paintings - Klan Kurrikulum?- Ka-melle in the Times- People angry about Ka-melle in the Times- Will someone actually engage with the argument?- Tactics vs. principles- Some emails and comments about Rufo- Rufo reaction? Running 60-20-20...- How to respond to junk history- Elliot's a bit annoyed- Honest activism vs. honesty about activism- Why interviews go the way they do - Having the good sense to always agree with Kmele- And Matt's way is the better way- A Wahlberg digression- In defense of July 4th- Cori Bush: the most loathsomely person in Congress?- A letter from Berlin- Spoonerism- You dummy: a final missive from Kmele Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

"Well, it's my show. So, it's how I wanna do it." - Joy-Ann Reid "I can do what I wanna do." - Bobby Brown"Whateva! Whateva! I do what I want!" - Eric Cartmanw/ Chris Rufo @ Senior Fellow, The Manhattan Institute -- Contributing Editor, City Journal- When Rufo Met Reid- The Art of Culture War- Activist Journalist- Critical Race Theory: Boardroom, College Campus, Neighborhood Preschool- Bans, Censorship, Pedagogy, Choice- Machiavellian Realism, Pyrrhic Victories- Classical Liberal Caution, Libertarian Naïveté- The "Last" Word- Creed Wars and Culture Wars- Welch Reviews Robin DiAngelo's "Nice Racism"- "Doing The Work"- Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable- Pro Criminal Justice Reforms + Pro Putting People Under the Jail- Broken PromisesRecorded: 6.30.2021Published: 7.2.2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Diana Ross is boss, Phil Jackson is a racistStop complaining, it's your faultSilence equals...what now?Matt on lip peeling in TurkshittystanHappy (early) birthday Sofia Dude. You're just mentally ill and like K-Pop (aka Korean Dolezal)Apologies to Axl. It was the Skid Row guy with the gross t-shirtD'Angelo and DeBarge (one of whom was married to Janet Jackson)A boring Olympic hopeful does a boring, meaningless protestAcknowledging history while ignoring progress RIP Steve HorowitzKmele on (decent) old school booksWith a reading from Frances FitzGerald's "America Revised"Postscript on the repugnant Cynthia Mckinney Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Kmele reveals his big secret!What on Earth is a "coupon Karen"?When Shaun Was KingWhen Kmele was king of Juneteenth Measuring the outrage economyMeasuring the wages of junk historyRacist car crashes"When the people fail, the concept fails"The end of Afghanistan (the war / the country) There's a perpetual riot goin' onAnother CRT digressionRIP to an entertaining, insane, narcissistic, possible murderer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

As Kmele plugs away on his special project, Welch and Moynihan leave him be and catch up on some very important issues like...- Some solo project updates- A TFC Father's Day- Agatha Christie's racist book title and Patricia Highsmith's general anti-Semitism- Jack on Thoreau's musty cheese- A brief digression on Josef Goebbels and "hate speech"- There are no good bachelor parties- A note from Dominic- Boodlemania hasn't bitten the dust- On Tsars, Ludendorff, and the inevitability of revolution- Danny Ortega arrests everyone. Will the Sandalistas finally apologize? Plus: Red racism!- The "pro-science" crowd become anti-vaxxers- Can anyone admit that they were wrong?- Jacob gets through basic training. What did he miss?- And lotzzzz more... Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

New York Daily News columnist Harry Siegel joins TFC for the first hour to talk all things New York (with a focus on halfwit mayoral candidates jockeying to replace a halfwit mayor). But if you don't care about kvetching, NYCentric coastal elites, the back half of the show is, as usual, about how coastal elites are dumb, joyless, and boring. Something for everyone. - New York is back? Harry is back to tell us it never went away- Harry would rather be an effete, elitist jerk wearing his mask too long, thank you very much- The New York City mayoral race tells us nothing about America- The weirdness of Eric Adams- Check the crime, y'all- "Desegregating" NYC schoolsHarry Siegel Postgame- The increasingly annoying CRT debate- Defining truth in an era of lies- Pointless: the Joe and Vlad summit- More cyber war hawkishness from Moynihan (obviously) - The lessons we never learn from 9/11- The dangers of political violence--and of opposing (certain) political violence- You're wrong about Jeff Bezos's taxes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

After warming up Miami with the legendary Dave Barry, the lads return to the stage alongside the legendary Nick Gillespie. The crowd is drunk. Matt's got a pimp roll. Moynihan is still hungover. Kmele wants to invade China. Nick gives a perfect précis of the John Travolta movie "Perfect." And at some point--and we still can't figure out why--former Red Eye co-host Bill Schultz ambles on stage and yells at people for asking rambling questions. And the rest is funny, weird, insane, and occasionally coherent. Enjoy. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

It's the early show.  They shake off the brutal hangovers. They get into the groove. And to quote MC5, right now...right now...it's time to...kick out the jams, mother[*****************].  Alongside best-selling author, legendary columnist, and all-around great guy Dave Barry, the Fifth declares the pandemic over and does its first live show since that virus probably escaped from that lab that might have been in China. No need for the usual bullet points, but expect to hear Kmele showing the audience his newly detailed old sneakers, for some reason. Just picture it. Moynihan feels sick, but soldiers on (because someone gives him $100). Matt probably talks about Eastern Europe. And members of the Fifdom hop on stage to ask questions, ramble, celebrate, and occasionally take their shirts off. Just don't picture it. (Editor's note: Indeed. It was a man. And be thankful that this is audio-only)Stay tuned for Volume II--the late show--where the audience drowns itself in bottles of cheap wine and Nick Gillespie, the Philip Michael Thomas of Reason magazine, turns in a Tony-worthy performance. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Florida is open for business, so The Fifth Column flung its masks into the garbage and headed to the Sunshine State for back-to-back live shows in Miami (coming soon to Patreon!) and a poolside recording in Key West (hence that hollow sound). Nursing hangovers and gasping in the heat, the lads stumble through the following pressing (and pointless) topics:- Those Miami shows were pretty fun, eh? - Wait, why exactly are we in Florida?- Kmele thinks Creepy Joe wasn't being creepy- The global minimum tax is dumb- Ransomware everywhere - This not wearing masks things is pretty great, innit?- COVID addicts, COVID miscellany- Kmele on the Fauci emails: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯- The end of Tiananmen- State violence works- And so very much more... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.