* Lia the diva

* The era of athlete actors

* Moynihan correction: It was Bubba Smith in Police Academy. Dick Butkus was in Police *Story*.

* I want to make fun of my boss

* Awful political cartoons

* More on progressive schools

* Are you a hypocrite, MM?

* Reflections on Jimmy Carter, DPRK fan

* The neo-neocons?

* The vibe shift and the sense of the heroic (says MAGA Matt)

* Matt…

* No more Bobby

* No resolutions

* Pump it up: The bionic podcast host

* New Year’s terror in NOLA and Vegas

* The military connection that doesn’t matter

* The advent of “car ramming”

* In celebration of Chaim Sapir

* Forgotten terror

* When Charlie destroyed our faith in the media class

* Jimmy Carter’s awful op-ed

* Erasing Islamism

* Revisiting Rushdie

* Getting scammed by the “truth” people

* Broken kneecap policing

* An episode that takes a break from politics?

* Stars, tardigrades, and microscopy

* Race in space

* Matt and Moyn watch “A Complete Unknown,” come to different conclusions

* Phantom and 40mg

* AI’s take on this section: “Listener emails prompt discussions on art, personal struggles, and growth during the holidays.”

* Books for young men searching….

* Can The Man Who Shot L…

* Pivot to Zoom

* Rereading books

* The ex-presidents

* “It’s 1,547 pages of unreadable garbage. Every year, it’s like Christmas."

* Chip the RHINOOOOOO

* Elon’s Political Fantasy Camp!

* Is Trump losing his power to threaten?

* The end of AOC?

* Before his own inevitable perp walk, Mayor Adams does a hot assassin perp walk

* Insurance companies redux

* Kmele is a bad drinker

* Don Jr. trades up

* Barron is everyone’s boyfriend

* If you think it’s expensive now, wait until it’s free

* Unpersuasive persuasion

* How race is like probiotic soda

* Ends and means

* "If one killing is justified, where do you draw the line—10,000? A million?"

* Siouxsie and the Nazis / Bill Grundy

* Tinder Trotskyists

* More “memoirs about trauma and identity”

* ‘Oh, they’re taxing us, let’s go murder people.’

* 23andme and Zor…

* The Daniel Penny verdict

* REinstitutionalization

* When should the state involuntarily commit?

* Remember, she was a very bad candidate

* The great exhale

* Joe and the Squad

* A fake Portuguese guest

* Barro blowback?

* On the Substack revolution

* The repulsive Luigi Mangioni

* The failed Kaczynski

* And much more!

One topic in the news. One quick podcast on that single topic (rather than just texting each other about how certain media figures are vulgar, stupid, and morally depraved). Welcome to the Fifth Column One Hitter! In our inaugural episode, Matt and Moyn get pissed off about the hideous reaction from certain very online cretins to the awful murder of Uni…

* Little Moynihan’s pediatric cancer fundraiser can be found here! This might be the opposite of an incentive, but a random donor will be chosen for a personalized roast video from Moyn and his daughter…

* The idiot winds (That “One More Cup of Coffee” live performance MM referenced)

* Pete Hegseth replaced by Ronny D?

* Ok, you asked for it…with new information, the lads return to the Hunter pardon

* "Is he really doing something injurious?"

* Preemptive pardons?

* The uselessness of cable “news”

* Addicted to privilege

* Was Trump the great deregulator?

* And whole lot more!

* The boys had just heard the Biden pardon news. So much they missed about the specifics…and this brilliant video had not yet been created.

* Citizens of the Fifdom debate RFK

* The professional Youtube debaters

* Teens and true crime

* JonBenet

* How to interview your dad

* A listener asks: Is Dan Crenshaw the worst?

* Park Slope politics and the crotch Magen David

* The M…

As a Thanksgiving treat, an unlocked Members Only episode featuring Moynihan in conversation with Dr. Alan Levinovitz, author of Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science and The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat, about RFK’s view of public health, why you are fat, the myth of “natural,” and why so many people have stopped trusting “the science.”

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