The Fifth Column

* Getting Drudged

* Getting the spray

* This new color isn’t working

* Olivia amongst the Hamasniks in Union Square

* Tearing up notebooks, airhorns in the ear…stuck in the middle of a protest

* Hey hey ho ho shitty chants have got to go

* Did any journalists reach out?

* What if this was a Trump rally?

* Legally blonde

* You’ll be in a Trump camp

* “Racial conspiracy theories”

* I mean, you gotta understand where they’re coming from…

* Some unpopular opinions

* Raise your hand if you’ve ever lied to the government

* Fetterman and Real Time

* Are you *addicted* to Marijuana???

* Who are the victims here?

* Excessive sentencing is bad, even for bad people

* Victims: Alex Jones? Hunter Biden? DJT???

* Biden is totally fine and thinking otherwise is the end of democracy

* Joe Scarborough is the worst

* Let’s all pretend that everything is normal, ok?

* Scarborough casually defames two journalists

* Washington Post loses a trillion dollars, hires more whites

* The WNBA reality show

* I knew James Baldwin. Baldwin was a friend of mine. And you, Ibram, are no James Baldwin

* No matter what it is or who commenced it…

* MAGA Hawaii

* Inflatable gallows

* The eye of the horrible Stormy

* It’s a bird! It’s a Qassam! No…it’s the Blonde Zionist!

* Dronez: The Hunt for El Chigon

* Listener email: Working class kid makes good. Will his kids go soft?

* Your kids want to be rich

* Back in my day…..

* Bad IRA comparisons from supposedly smart people

* Jerry Sein…

A double-album worth of great content this week. Start off with Moynihan talking to Matt and Kmele about his Free Press piece charting the collapse of Vice and him forthcoming piece charting the collapse of the Black Panther Party. Then the lads chat about the weirdness of the New York Trump trial, Israel in Rafah, and lots more. And stick around for Kmele’s conversation with the Lennon-McCartney, the Lieber and Stoller of podcasts, Matt Boll and Andy Mills, the duo who brought you The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, among other modern audio classics. They’re back with a new series called Reflector, a “show about the strange experience of being human.” We don’t know *exactly* what that means, but we absolutely guarantee that it will be a work of unparalleled brilliance. Check out episode one here.

* The LP snoozer

* Remembering that lady who said that gross thing about kids

* You will never play in the NBA, baby

* Zone of Interest redux, briefly

* The Ann Landers portion begins

* Should I stop being an academic and become a cop who lurks on dating apps?

* The anti-Semitic date

* I can’t be brave and call bullshit. So what do I do?

* Well, it all depends

* How to talk about…

* The most serious race controversy of 2024: that lady basketball player

* “I mean, I've been a huge fan of Blackpink for years and I've never heard a single one of their songs.:

* Snek and the Supreme Court

* Everyone's wife is Ginny Thoma

* The defense rests

* Local news and crappy journalists

* In defense of…Marilyn Mosby?

* Israel and the ICC

* Enter Sibarium: the UCLA Medical School controversy

* At a party

* At Fenway

* Losers (which is apparently already a show)

* Jake, Dana, Donald, and Joe

* Cui bono?

* How Joe wins

* How Donald wins

* The NY trial continues…

* Mitt Romney would pardon DT

* “Attacked our legal system”

* The new Noem

* Post-Donald, where does the party go?

* How goes it in Ukraine?

* Italian bootlegs

* Warm Fanta

* Drinking on your European vacation

* The Comfort of Strangers

* Pre-internet travel

* Jake Siegel: a moderate dissent…and Fifth reaction

* Probability and the feminist bank teller

* What happens when people call you bad names in public

* 9 times out of 10, they were rapping

* Awful media critics

* What would CH do?

* Steve Albini

* “And the songs that…

So many of you have written us demanding the return of Jacob Siegel that when word got to us that he was back in New York, we hunted him down and demanded that he submit to a *third* appearance on The Fifth. We discovered that Comrade Siegel, a gravelly voiced veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq and senior writer at Tablet, is hard at work on a book, an expansion of his already expansive essay “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century.” So we sat back in our chairs, asked a few questions, and basically handed the mic to Jake for an extended peroration on the Disinformation Industrial Complex, Trump’s foreign policy, why we should end American aid to Israel, and whether or not his unified theory of censorship counts as a “conspiracy theory.”

We assume this one will provoke lots of listener mail. So agree or disagree, send it over and perhaps we’ll do a special “Responding to Jake” episode over at Substack.

* Shogun erasure

* Revolutionary accents

* A debate on Israel and a subsequent anti-Moynihan calumny

* Alas, anti-Semitism is common in certain parts of the world

* Pointing this out seems pretty obvious

* The WAV file

* My melanated baby

* Teaching kids versus raising kids

* Indoctrinating someone else’s kids into your way of thinking is some serious cult shit

* Torturing …