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

A Brief History of Right NowPunk PoliceIt Might Actually Be LegalBlack on Black on BlackBending the KneeNYT Civil WarEssentialism in PracticeLaw & OrderPassoverMLK on RiotsRecorded:6/4/2020Published: 6/6/2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Last week, with 15 minutes notice, the lads decided that a Patreon-only recording would be swapped out for a subscriber-only all-swim Zoom. Despite the lack of warning, 400 of you showed up. It was fun. It was drunk. It was a bit sloppy. But as promised--if a little late, due to the...ummm...increasing civil unrest--we've managed a two-plus hour edit of a three-plus hour booze fest, one that mostly covered the beginnings of the Floyd/BLM protests. The Fifth's initial thoughts are still very much relevant--and their disparate assessments of how we got here and what's to come haven't moved much in the last handful of days. So on top of a new regular episode, we present this wonderfully weird Zoom call bootleg. Enjoy. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Kmele facilitates a follow-up conversation on race, racism, and anti-racism -- this time, in the midst of a global pandemic and increasing social unrest. You can find the first installment in this series of conversations here: http://wethefifth.com/episodes/121GUESTS /Glenn LouryProfessor of the social sciences and economics at Brown UniversityThomas Chatterton WilliamsAuthor, "Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race" and "Losing My Cool" John McWhorterProfessor of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Music at ColumbiaColeman HughesFellow at The Manhattan InstituteContributing Editor at City JournalRecorded:5/22/2020 Published: 6/1/2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

She wrote a column in the New York Times. She failed to mention her favorite podcast. She mentioned other podcasts. She texted us asking if she could come on the show to apologize. We agreed. Bari Weiss, the genial and gentle bête noire of woke culture, is back...hat in hand, asking for Fifth forgiveness. But she sticks around to discuss lots of other stuff:- We are all Stasi agents now- You're both Karens!- A murder in Minneapolis- Whose more powerful? Jack Dorsey or one of your senators?- Should corporations be fact-checking politicians?- Matt explains Section 230- Moynihan rants about journalists being annoying- A guest appearance from Nellie Bowles- A really bad piece about white people and spices- Kmele squeezes in some China/Hong Kong talk- And some good news from Spencer!Recorded: May 27, 2020Published: May 28, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Kmele likes (but should limit his consumption of) whiskey sours. And he's still in Virginia, with his ridiculous telescope. Moynihan is trying to escape, desperate to be another NYC Covid refugee, but he remains...with his ridiculous life. Matt's car is green. And boxy. And he's staying put. He stopped caring 20 years ago.On the docket this week:- Oh my god! Brother Bob! Boozing with White House Press Secretary Kayleigh Mcenany- The Lonesome Death of Mike Flynn (He emptied Turkey's ashtrays on a whole other level)- Clarence, the Fifth Beatle- A preview of the forthcoming blackstar* episode - Kmele on covid, some other Corona digressions and what do you me by demographics?? - Reader mail from listeners: where do you get your Covid news?- Retired models make major mistakes- Overestimating damage is fine! Or maybe it isn't!- The Vietcong never called Kmele [a bad word that he can say but we won't] - Reader mail: I'm a nice person. So how do I talk about race? - The LP is having a Zoom party- When are we having another Zoom party?- Is Covid swag in our future?- More on the hate crime Matt calls a car- Don't forget about Hong Kong- M from Stockholm asks about the really crappy coup attempt in Venezuela- More parenting advice! - So what was your 5am moment where you said, "oh my lord, I gotta get out of here!"  Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) Investor + Entrepreneur, Former CTO @ Coinbase, Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64)Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Founding Editor of The Best of Journalism- How Startups Think About Failure + Survival - Pandemics, Panics, and Journalistic Incentives- Forging Societal Truth - Why the US Failed to Take COVID Seriously- Why Journalist Hate The Valley- Believing Half of What You Read- Epistemology Algorithms - A Feature Set for Fixing Journalism - Looser ArgumentsRecorded: May 14th 2020Published: May 25th 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

After a break, the deluge. Kmele is very busy. But a lot of new content coming, starting with Matt and Moynihan spending two hours talking about the following:- An idiot wrote something about cars- What is wrong with Matt's taste?- It's a good suicide car- A rant about that dumb Gothamist piece  - Matt has a Red Hook car adventure. Moynihan buys 13 bottles of wine.- Yes Virginia, car culture is awesome- Covid paranoia is here to stay- New York is the narc capital of America- A rant about NYC's response to Covid- "Reader Mail"- Ryan from Detroit makes fun of Matt- "I don't know who he is, but Dave Grohl is a really nice guy" - Moynihan's ex- Tim stops by Matt's house with booze- Dave from Brooklyn writes to the NBA - Steven is disappointed that we aren't him- Your political interests are not evidence of bias- A wee bit on Michael Flynn- Maurice on the "insane loser" LP presidential candidates- Moynihan thinks out loud about why the LP can't break through- You have to be build credibility to lose credibility- FYI: Lee Harvey Oswald was guilty- Nathan asks about Ronan Farrow (and Ben J. too!)- And screw it, let's talk Woody Allen. And Matt Lauer- Plus: an amazing special edition of the Fifth coming soon...Recorded May 19, 2020  Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

w/ Ethan Strauss Writer @ Athletic, Author "The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty" (2020)- Getting Political- NBA vs China- Bad Deals and Bad Economics- The Incomparable Michael Jordan- 'What is Best In Life'- Resuming the NBA Season- Pissing off Kevin DurantRecorded: May 13th 2020Published: May 17th 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

After last week's two Patreon subscriber-only Zoom calls, the lads are back with a Sunday afternoon recording. Some of the weird, awkward, important things discussed:- That hair is really something else- Getting around NYC on filth bucket trains and in new cars- We've given up- So be honest: is anyone still terrified of this thing?- The requisite Covid talk- The necessary Song of the South talk- RIP Little Richard and Florian Schneider- "Reader" mail- Update on the Black Spiro Agnew- A shooting in Georgia- Caleb from Texas asks about state-sponsored propaganda- Something silly got a Pulitzer. Kmele?- You don't need to write crappy history to "start a conversation" - Lies that his teacher told him (Sacco was guilty, Vanzetti only slightly less so)- The poison of narrative history - Kmele recants- Matt doesn't believe in experts- A birthday gift to a Honduran in Berlin- A listener asks: should I become an opinion columnist?Recorded May 10, 2020 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

w/ Rep Justin Amash US Congressman (Michigan's 3rd Congressional District) and 2020 Libertarian Presidential HopefulU.S. Representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district since 2011, and currently serving as the first Libertarian Party member of Congress. Amash diagnoses what's wrong with America's politics, parties, and legislative process. And he makes the case for why he's ideally well suited to fix.Recorded: May 4th 2020Published: May 6th 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.