The Fifth Column

New York Daily News columnist Harry Siegel joins TFC for the first hour to talk all things New York (with a focus on halfwit mayoral candidates jockeying to replace a halfwit mayor). But if you don't care about kvetching, NYCentric coastal elites, the back half of the show is, as usual, about how coastal elites are dumb, joyless, and boring. Something for everyone.

- New York is back? Harry is back to tell us it never went away

- Harry would rather be an effete, elitist jerk wearing his mask too long, thank you very much

- The New York City mayoral race tells us nothing about America

- The weirdness of Eric Adams

- Check the crime, y'all

- "Desegregating" NYC schools

Harry Siegel Postgame

- The increasingly annoying CRT debate

- Defining truth in an era of lies

- Pointless: the Joe and Vlad summit

- More cyber war hawkishness from Moynihan (obviously)

- The lessons we never learn from 9/11

- The dangers of political violence--and of opposing (certain) political violence

- You're wrong about Jeff Bezos's taxes

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Florida is open for business, so The Fifth Column flung its masks into the garbage and headed to the Sunshine State for back-to-back live shows in Miami (coming soon to Patreon!) and a poolside recording in Key West (hence that hollow sound). Nursing hangovers and gasping in the heat, the lads stumble through the following pressing (and pointless) topics:

- Those Miami shows were pretty fun, eh?

- Wait, why exactly are we in Florida?

- Kmele thinks Creepy Joe wasn't being creepy

- The global minimum tax is dumb

- Ransomware everywhere

- This not wearing masks things is pretty great, innit?

- COVID addicts, COVID miscellany

- Kmele on the Fauci emails: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

- The end of Tiananmen

- State violence works

- And so very much more...

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w/ Jane Coaston @ (Host, "The Argument" @ The New York Times)

• Take Four
• From Vox to NYT's "Rising Libertarian Star" 
• Coming Out
• John Brown
• The Black Community
• Appraisal of America's Racial Reckoning
• The New Culture War
• Anti-Racist Classrooms and Workplaces
• Slightly Off Mic
• Whole Foods Edge Lord
• Panics, Counter-Panics, Counter-Counter-Panics

Recorded: 5.28.2021

Published: 6.2.2021

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• Radical Honesty
• A Year of (Racial) Reckoning
• Losing the Thread
• George Floyd
• Amy Cooper, Christian Cooper... and the other dog walkers?
• Covering Lab Leaks and UFOs
• The Death of Truth
• The Myth of Objectivity
• Journalism for the Real World
• Boston Basketball (and racial slurs)
• Trump Grand jury

Recorded May 26, 2021

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w/ Congressman Peter Meijer (R-MI)

• Crypto Bloodbath
• UFOs -- or are they UAPs
• The Jan 6th Commission (Part I)
• Lori Lightfoot Won't Talk To White Journalists
• Homeless in San Francisco
• The White Man's Burden
• A Call from Peter
• About That Vote
• The Revolt of the Public
• The Feels
• The Truth is Out There

Recorded May 19, 2021

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The lads (minus Kmele, recently felled by his second Pfizer shot) welcome Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano, host of the new LAT podcast "The Times" and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. Note that after an hour of Gustavo's trademark Southern California/Mexican smack talk--in which he defends Taco Bell, ruminates on "LatinX," explains "Tio Tacos" and "Chicanosauruses," and describes American ethnic tensions that don't involve white people (!)--Moynihan and Welch return to discuss the on-going disasters in Israel, the economy, and the Republican Party.

Sure, everything is awful. But as always, The Fifth Column is here to point out just how awful and reassure you that it absolutely won't get better in the near future.

Recorded May 12, 2021

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- The Fifth Column live in Miami! Is this the post-COVID Gilluming you’ve been waiting for?

- Matt is Drudged: equity v. equality

- Racism becomes more systemic, less specific 

- Basecamp asks employees to leave politics at the door…or head for the door

- Are a bunch of smart libertarian legal scholars wrong or super wrong?

- The Socialist Network: the GOP wants to compel Facebook to be nice to DJT

- The GOP wants to compel Liz Cheney to stop being mean to DJT

- Matt and Kmele yell at each other about Hillary Clinton and DJT

- And so very much more....

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w/ Paul Rossi (Math Teacher and Writer)

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/i-refuse-to-stand-by-while-my-students

A verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, is an undeniable milestone for the entire country with wide-ranging implications for American media, politics, and culture. Had things gone differently, America would likely have seen another outbreak of "mostly peaceful protest" -- seasons with healthy smatterings of outright political violence.

And in K-12 classrooms across the country, another phase of America's 'racial justice' cultural war continues to play out. Paul Rossi joins our distinguished triumvirate to share details of the still-unfolding drama he incited by voicing opposition to one elite Manhattan private school's critical race theory-inspired antiracism programming.

Plus:

• Adam Toledo
• Ma'Khia Bryant
• "Kindly Inquisitors"
• Why one Miami Venue REFUSED to host @wethefifth live recording (Hint: "It's cause somebody got' that transphobia." SMH)

Recorded: 4.21.2021

Published: 4.23.2021

"Just cuz I'm a freak, don't mean that we could hit the sheets" - Gregory Jacobs

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"What you think all the guns is for?" - Christopher Wallace

w/ Alex Nowrasteh (Director of Immigration Studies @ The Cato Institute)

A supersized dispatch, because fully resolving the various problems in America's immigration and criminal justice system -- takes a little time. Especially when you're forced to contend w/ WHITE SUPREMACY [Insert Ghost Emoji]. It's kinda like a podcast-mixtape.

A - SIDE

• The Curious State of US Immigration
• Reality, Theater, Textbook Political + Bureaucratic Failure 
• The Welfare State vs Open Borders 
• The (Great?) Replacement
• AOC's Plan
• Kamala's Rope-A-Dope

B - SIDE

• DMX, Shawn Kemp, Bob Marley
• Humble Beginnings
• The Defense Rests
• Where the Hell is Brooklyn Center
• The Word You're Looking For is "Discharge"
• Live Tweeting
• We're Going to South Beach

Recorded: 4.14.2021

Published: 4.17.2021

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• Hunter "Squirtle" Biden
• Matt "Making Arrangements" Gaetz
• Adventures in the Havana Hilton?
• When Everything is Sex Trafficking? (Not Exactly)
• A New Era of Bipartisanship
• Win Ben Stein's Heart
• The American Metaphor Council
• Who's D riving the Democratic Party
• China and Bitcoin
• Self Correcting Journalism
• Tweets Bad. Accessory to the murder of a Judge -- we have to be understanding
• Kmele Loves Guns
• Universal Basic Income for Mom's of Color
• Structural Racism Tamagotchi
• Harrison Bergeron General Hospital

Recorded April 8th, 2021

Published April 9th, 2021

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