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

w/ Aaron Maté (Host @ PushBack, Contributor @ The Nation)- Throwin Up Gang Signs- COVID-19- Cuban History 101- Giving China Credit- Billionaires and Unicorns- Harvey WeinsteinRecorded: February 26th, 2020Released: February 27th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

w/ Asawin Suebsaeng and Lachlan Markay (White House Reporters @ The Daily Beast)Co Authors: ""Sinking in the Swamp" How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington"Description:- Moynihan's Vocal Fry and "Actually Good" Accents- Searching for "Henry Hills" in Trumpworld- Lachlan's Conservative Apostasy- Al Gore: Most Boring Interview Subject Ever- Rats and Snitches- Daily Beast: A "High-brow Tabloid"- Woke (Racist?) Bloomberg- The Muslim Ban- From Seb Gorka to Hunter Biden- Reporters vs Opinion Pundits- Will the Press Scrutinize the Next President as Aggressively?- The Never Trumpers Who End Up in the White House Anyway- John Bolton's Next Act- Swin/Lachlan's "Badgers Story"- Drama Queens- Bob Woodward- Godfather 3, still bad- Gore Vidal + Timothy McVeighRecorded: February 18th, 2020Released: February 19th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Moynihan and Foster are back in Brooklyn for a two-plus hour Sunday night bull session, covering countless fascinating issues of minor importance. So what exactly did the lads talk about? That Kmele is the black Epstein? Or is he black John Lennon? That Gabourey Sidibe's name isn't Precious and those ads about her are fake? Something about the genius and importance of amateur archivists and translators--an example of a good internet subculture. Did you know that if you blew things up in the 60s, you qualify to work as a college professor?  Kmele and Racecraft at Columbia. Here comes the fear again! Why can't anyone talk about anything anymore? How the debate within the bubble ended. Are bubble people allowed to agree with Bloomberg? Is 2020 the year of the bad faith argument? Is Lambda school a scam? Can we please end rich people "diversity"? Privilege is complicated. Moynihan almost recorded a solo dispatch. Facebook sucks. Kmele loves Westerns and should probably watch "High Noon." More thoughts on how one should interview guests. Three of you nerds spotted the error in Vollman's novel! And lots more!Plus emails from Adam in Norway, Jack the newbie, Mariano in Argentina, Jamie the Brit, Michael, Drew the Dutch nobleman, Wes the Texan, another Michael, and Anthony.Exit music: Someone should sample this song.Recorded February 16, 2020 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Description:- Black History Month- There's no Barbecue Sauce in American Dirt- Believe Some Death Threats, Leverage Others- Oscar Obsession (Beautiful Mind Edition)- Yang Dead Is Dead, Long Live Yang Gang- Bernie's Ceiling, Biden's Ebony Firewall- A SHOCKING Presidential Endorsement- Bloomberg's Stop + Frisk Memory Hole- ADL: "White Supremacy is On The Rise!"Recorded: February 12th, 2020Released: February 13th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

We're going back to Brooklyn...The gang's all here for another leisurely Sunday afternoon bull session in Williamsburg. Moynihan feels like he's going to puke, but drinks the wimpy white wine Welch brought and tries to make a coherent point about social segregation...or something. Foster has an Oscars spreadsheet and lots of theories about Hollywood. Matt really doesn't like The New York Times and has a spiffy new nickname (Baby Welch Trash Doll). Exit questions: Is the Fifth soft on Sanders? Is it possible to cancel Snoop or Dre? Are there enough female film directors? What is Kmele's "awards funnel"? What does he think about Mayor Pete? Which comedian makes him sad? And...must all art serve the people? Recorded February 9, 2020  Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

The last time we did this, we said don't get used to it. Well, we meant it. But we're also feeling overly generous. So here is last week's Patreon-only dispatch, featuring Moynihan and Kmele. You're welcome.--------Kmele and Moynihan are back in Williamsburg drinking bad wine and talking shit...while trying to figure out why Welch isn't returning anyone's calls. Moynihan returns to Iowa and remembers why he hates journalists. Bumbling around the Hawkeye State, he chats with Andrew Yang, hangs with hardcore Trump types and fanatical Bernie bros. And they're all Iowa nice. Kmele has a black "Big Chill" weekend in Pennsylvania and opens about up his parents--to a gobsmacked Moynihan. As usual, the lads try to catch up on a bunch of listener mail, provoking discussions about tattoos, Chile, Northern Ireland, Goop, The Central Park Five, and the "Preppy Killer" Robert Chambers. And twenty years after it debuted, Kmele finally watches Curb Your Enthusiasm.Outro music: RIP Andy Gill.Recorded February 4, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Description:- Kmele's Inner MAGA- State of the Union Theatrics- “Oh, God -- Fire the Media!”- "The Big Lie" (and other nonsense)- Mitt Romney’s Moment- Trump’s Criminal Justice Reform- Iowa Fiasco- Waiting for Bernie to Turn on MSNBC- Preview of Upcoming Patreon EpisodesRecorded: February 5th, 2020Released: February 6th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Kmele and Moynihan are back in Williamsburg drinking bad wine and talking shit...while trying to figure out why Welch isn't returning anyone's calls. Moynihan returns to Iowa and remembers why he hates journalists. Bumbling around the Hawkeye State, he chats with Andrew Yang, hangs with hardcore Trump types and fanatical Bernie bros. And they're all Iowa nice. Kmele has a black "Big Chill" weekend in Pennsylvania and opens about up his parents--to a gobsmacked Moynihan. As usual, the lads try to catch up on a bunch of listener mail, provoking discussions about tattoos, Chile, Northern Ireland, Goop, The Central Park Five, and the "Preppy Killer" Robert Chambers. And twenty years after it debuted, Kmele finally watches Curb Your Enthusiasm.Outro music: RIP Andy Gill. Recorded February 4, 2020 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Description:- When the mob came for the Fifth- Hong Kong: Proto Police State- The Democratic Field- Bernie's Got a Shot, The Joe Rogan Bounce- Criminalizing Disinformation- Watching Lou Dobbs- Fearing the Bern- Truthy Skepticism- An Impeachment Drive-By- Eli on the FBI- Some Idiot Wrote This (and this... and this...)Recorded: January 29, 2020Released: January 30, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Kmele is likely in a Chinese prison, so the lads soldier on in Brooklyn. But after the last non-Patreon episode, with Buzzfeed’s Miriam Elder (Ed. - they really needed Kmele, didn’t they?), Moynihan and Welch came under withering attack from loyal-but-principled listeners who judged them to be jelly-spined in the face of actually existing wokeness. Do their critics have a point?? Perhaps! Plus: none of those words mean what you think they mean! Hey academics, no one cares about the Young Lords! Hey cultural historians, you've gotten the politics of punk rock all wrong! Holy shit, is Henry Rollins stumping for the TSA? Oh my god, the guy from that British detective show Lewis decided to wage war on the current idiocy! What book should you read next? We have answers! And as usual, some reader mail. Recorded January 19, 2020 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.