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

* A Spanish Harlem incident * The selective regret of Hank Azaria * Kmele watches Eddington * Ozzy confesses* Bonding with your kids over music* Back to Billy* The genius of Rick * Kmele reveals his race* Is Moynihan the Jerry Springer of TFC?* Spectacle vs. interview* Is Martyr Made a baddie?* Endless late capitalism Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Below the Mendoza Line* Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer * Stallone’s Bergman period* Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so, why?* The hundreds of forgotten anti-Bush books * An especially bad Munich analogy* NATO, NATO, NATO* Purely defensive? Well…* Perhaps it made sense at the time…* The Olympic graveyard* A test for the post-war European left* Won’t somebody just *do something* * In praise of Florent Ahmed Groberg* The politics of DC crime * A city of Haley Barbours* Writing shirtlessly: A fantastically awful AP article on DC * Some notes on Ken Burns Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

A rebroadcast of our latest Second Sunday episode during which the lads discuss Killer Mike, World War III, fascism, Billy Joel, Brits, Americans, the Swiss, stupid people, smart people, and white people. And a bunch of other stuff… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* A $750 late fee* Crazy train* Tariffapalooza 7.0* Making Modi mad* Economic nationalism vs. market capitalism* The Soviet Senator * A pen and phone guy * Should DC be taken over by the feds? Or just left alone to be awful?* Israel and the TikTok war* Tell me how this ends* And about a million other things… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Just let them waffle on for a few minutes before the good stuff…* Poor Europe* The $50 Norwegian pizza?* Functional Denmark, deranged Danish* Moz and the monolingual* The brilliant Child* Moynihan vs. his daughter on Billy Joel* “Forbidden topics are true” isn’t true* How to talk in Eurocode * Bumper sticker TV (and an ode to Chris Elliot)* The greatest meteorologist of al… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Kmele and Matt are back in New York, melting in the record-breaking heat and recording remotely ahead of a live show with Josh Szeps. Moynihan’s MIA somewhere in Europe (again), but there’s still plenty to cover—poison ivy, lost luggage, mic conspiracies, the bureaucratic miracle that made Kmele a fair-weather-communist, and listener emails that spark digressions on fatherhood, film, and musical Mount Rushmores.Also: Hunter Biden’s chemically informed defense of crack, Trump’s infomercial presidency moment, and a surprising tribute to Billy Joel.* Con-CCP-iracy * A Lost Luggage Miracle* Poison Ivy* Sound Check* Baby Photos, Baseball* Vitamin D* “Sinners” and “FRIENDSHIP”* Billy Joel and the Commentary Industrial Complex* Dave Matthews, PartyNextDoor* Trump’s Golf Tour* Campaign Soundtracks (for the Post-Shame Era) Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Moynihan joins from Europe. Robbie Soave (Reason, Rising, Sheetz & Giggles) guests — bravely joining the fellas after stopping by the local precinct so he could report his scooter stolen. Plus; Epstein conspiracies, whether Sydney Sweeney’s jeans are saving America, and debate the merits of dating an AI girlfriend. * Pimponomics* Victimized * Scooter Evangelism * Robbie is a nerd* European Hobos to Hotness Index (HHX)* Epstein: Still Boring, Still Dead* Robbie really is a nerd* Trafficking Stats and the Seagull Defense* Campus Crackdown Expands* Trump, Tariffs, and Inventory Economics* Sydney’s Sweeney Jeans (and Whiteness of the Whale)* Robby Comes Out, Kmele Has NotesRecorded: 8.1.2025 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Moynihan is somewhere in Europe. Eli Lake (The Free Press, Breaking History) fills in. And Kmele sustained a harrowing podcast-related injury that postponed a recording (and nearly cost him a finger).* Meat & Memory* Colbert Gets the Axe* Small Packages* A Yearslong Coup?* Russiagate Replay* Accountability and Missed Opportunities* The Never-Ending Epstein Drama* An (Inevitably) Dysfunctional Government (if you can keep it) Recorded: 7.24.2025 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* An enigma wrapped inside a…wait, what does that word mean?* Wait, what did you call it??? (Take a guess)* Buffalo Bills, the preferred team of all Mossad agents* How to not write a news story* You know, Epstein was pretty close with many MAGA figures* Bannon’s crisis PR business?* Tulsi and the “seditious conspiracy”* Russia redux* Michael McDonald’s Faye Dunaway story* … Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Crazy from the heat* AMA* Who is Jim Walden??* The dumbest civil war * So we have to discuss the Epstein “issue” again, eh?* I think we solved the case…* Leaving breadcrumbs in the archives* Jimmy Carter and the aliens * That’s a lotta airstrikes* The plastic surgery exception* Kurt Russell, American * The next, hottest Nobelist Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.