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  • Nobody Likes a Gossip Cop (w/ Dan Abrams) - #536

    Nobody Likes a Gossip Cop (w/ Dan Abrams) - #536
    2025/12/11

    Dan Abrams is the CEO and Founder of Abrams Media Chief Legal Analyst for ABC News, host of On Patrol: Live on Reelz, host of SiriusXM radio’s “The Dan Abrams Show,” host and executive producer of “Court Cam” on A&E Network.

    He is also the author of numerous New York Times bestselling books about forgotten trials in history and is also the founder of Mediaite.

    * In defense of legacy media. Sort of.

    * Hating journalists while feeding journalists

    * From “terror TV” to ❤️Qatar❤️

    * Just Jared

    * The King of Korruption

    * The legacy of lawfare

    * Alvin Bragg: Trump’s best friend

    * Prosecuting Hitler, Chavez, and Trump

    * The Inspectors General Massacre

    * Kash’s lady jacket

    * Post-Kavanaugh radicalization

    * Rogan optimism

    * Did Dan help destroy American civility??

    * Is Alan Keyes making sense?

    * From gossip cops to actual cops...

    * Does Dan produce “cop-aganda”??

    * No, but Dan likes cops

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  • Members Only #291 - Leader of the Asshole Nation (w/ Kevin O'Leary)

    Members Only #291 - Leader of the Asshole Nation (w/ Kevin O'Leary)
    2025/12/10
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

    Michael Moynihan sits down with entrepreneur, actor, and bon vivant Kevin O’Leary to talk about politics, money, and being an asshole.

    * The economics of...hockey? (He’s Canadian. It makes sense)

    * Mr Wonderful vs. Idiot King

    * Pierre misses the open net

    * Swiss watches and Swiss gold

    * Sell the damn chips to China!

    * The importance of the Hill staffer

    * Kevin just made thi…
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  • UNLOCKED Members Only #290 - AI George Washington, LSD Margaritas, and Tara Reid

    UNLOCKED Members Only #290 - AI George Washington, LSD Margaritas, and Tara Reid
    2025/12/09

    It’s been a bit since it was just Michael, Kmele, and Matt at the table so we’ve decided to unlock this Members Only episode and invite everyone in. For (literally) hundreds more Members Only episodes, become a paying subscriber.

    •Heliocentric anime

    •50 Cent, documentarian

    •Boycott Black Murder

    •Glenn Beck is doing it for the kids

    •John Stossel walks into a bodega

    •And now, a few words from the father of our country

    •American Revolution hot takes

    •That New York Times border crisis story

    •Kamala Harris was not the border czar

    •NIMBY

    •When Kmele gets homeless

    •Rosemont Illinois will not forget Tara Reid

    •LSD margaritas

    •The Pentagon press corps

    •Exploding boats

    •Geographically constrained neoconservatism

    •Matthew Yglesias is right

    •Previewing Moynihan’s 1-on-1 with Kevin O’Leary

    •Holding out hope

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    1 時間 19 分
  • #535 - America's Top Breshnevist (w Brace Belden)

    #535 - America's Top Breshnevist (w Brace Belden)
    2025/12/04

    We’re joined by Brace Belden, co-host of the TrueAnon podcast.

    •They don’t make heroin anymore

    •The Taco Bell connection

    •King of the libertarians

    •Kmele almost dies

    •You say Somali, I say Somalian, let’s call the whole thing off

    •The people cut out of the Minnesota Somali fraud story

    •Does Ben Shapiro think we’re white?

    •A Maoist small businessman

    •Certain liberties

    •Curtis Yarvin discovers YouTube

    •Yarvin = Slavoj Žižek of the right?

    •Libertarian Escape (the Piña Colada Song)

    •The cathedral

    •Brace, Citarella, and the new intellectual left

    •Mamdani “is fully a Democrat”

    •Nationalize Mr. Fruit

    •Body count

    •War is a force that gives us meaning

    •Call of Duty: Median Soldier

    •Brace is on the DHS shit list

    •Kmele spent more time at Occupy than Brace did

    •In China, the trains run on time

    •The DSA clappers

    •Don’t let’s start on Venezuela

    •Wistful for Colin Powell

    •Where are the drugs!?

    •The Grifters

    •The neoneocons

    •Thumbing the scale

    •Jeffrey Epstein, quintessential striver

    •The Chomsky connection

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    1 時間 51 分
  • UNLOCKED: Atheist in a Foxhole, w/ the Great Sebastian Junger

    UNLOCKED: Atheist in a Foxhole, w/ the Great Sebastian Junger
    2025/12/03
    Periodically around these parts the audience demand for unpaywalling certain subscribers-only episodes becomes too clamorous to ignore. So it was with Members Only #286, our gripping conversation with celebrated author Sebastian Junger about his harrowing new book, In My Time of Dying.“Please consider making this a non-members only episode,” wrote beloved subscriber James G. “Ditto,” seconded Daniel Cavelli. “I wanna send this to many people.” Similar beseechings from random_academic, Jake O’Finkelstein, [Dr.] Jeff Singer, Lara Merkel Ross, and Oren, who added: “I have a friend who barely survived a massive heart attack last month. And I can think of many others who will be inspired by this incredible conversation.”To our longtime paying customers: We hear you! Please share the episode widely, either as a one-off or a come-on!To our many brand new paying subscribers, brought here by a generous gift, welcome to this weird & wonderful community, and please enjoy full run of the Comments and Chat. And to those seeing/hearing us for the first time, or just flying in the very back of the plane, here is the type of content that can come with a paid subscription. As our dear old D.C. pal Maura Flynn put it, “You make my support increasingly worthwhile and I encourage everyone who can to contribute on the highest possible level. Great stuff, rock on!”You know what to do.•You can always start drinking again•Enough to make ⅔ of these grown men cry•Sebastian’s (most recent) near-death experience•Danger in, insight out•Momento Mori•There’s nothing so dangerous as a wounded Apache•Don’t have an aortic rupture in Truro in July•ICU humor•Hi dad•An existential digression•Better than the one with Will Farrel•Ideological Duolingo•Hot tip from an immigration officer•Old-time antisemitism•Bestselling author sleeps with chainsaw•Sarajevo & the Spanish Civil War•Men’s Journal and the good old days of war reporting•The folly of Afghanistan and nation-building on the cheap•Some things are sacred•Investigating near death experiences•Don’t test Santa Claus•Etymology of a curse•Atheists, physicists, and consciousness•God of the gaps•Yes, we are literally talking about quantum physics•The science of myth•The reason for the need the idea of heaven•Restrepo•Why we all need a tribe•Things were better when they were bad•If you’re not sufficiently terrified, you’re not getting it.•A tribute to dangerous jobs•Making meaning in a meaningless universe•A Bostonian goodbyeYouTube link:Follow The Fifth ColumnYouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
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  • Members Only #289 - Destroy All Robots…Before They Destroy US (w/ Andy Mills)

    Members Only #289 - Destroy All Robots…Before They Destroy US (w/ Andy Mills)
    2025/12/02
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    Andy Mills joins to discuss his new Longview podcast, The Last Invention

    The last invention is…a new species

    Humanity’s coming “hinge moment”

    Doomers v. Accelerationists v. Scouts

    We are the ants

    When Elon warned Obama

    A digital God in a silicon box

    Have AI’s creators created something they don’t understand?

    Bubbles

    Was DOGE a backdoor to replacing government with AI?

    We’re all go…
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    22 分
  • Members Only #288 (LIVE in Los Angeles) - American Canyon Revisited

    Members Only #288 (LIVE in Los Angeles) - American Canyon Revisited
    2025/11/29
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    You asked for it, you got it! A session with just Matt, Michael, and Kmele… plus 200 of their closest friends. It’s The Fifth Column recorded LIVE in Burbank (just like Fleetwood Mac) on Sunday, November 23, 2025. Want early access to the next live show (and full access to this episode)? It’s easy: become a paid subscriber!

    •The Klonopin Diaries

    •Cover Ma…
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    19 分
  • Members Only #287 - Hoarding Epstein’s Emails, Band T-Shirts, and Air Jordans (w Jason Leopold)

    Members Only #287 - Hoarding Epstein’s Emails, Band T-Shirts, and Air Jordans (w Jason Leopold)
    2025/11/27
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

    Check out Jason Leopold’s FOIA Files newsletter, and the new Disclosure podcast•Steve Albini never had to deal with California fires

    •Like a baby monitor, but for records

    •This is a Fugazi t-shirt

    •The trouble with true Norwegian black metal

    •All hail Metal Mike

    •Jason Leopold, FOIA terrorist

    •There’s always work at the post office

    •CIA man

    •New York financier …
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    20 分