The Fifth Column

- Picking fights in restaurants

- Botham Jean's brother forgives Amber Guyger for murdering his brother. And that's a problem. 

- Forgiveness vs. MORE HARSH SENTENCING

- Ukraine/Trump 

- Matt lacks the Xi-spot to laugh 

- Trump’s Afghanistan policy is a photo of ladies in pants 

- Base familial corruption

- Swampier than the swamp

- We've been had (if we're Obama or Trump supporters)

- Obama’s Jonas Brothers drone joke

- Trump’s DC hotel is the Star Wars bar

- Never Trumpers should be Never Government people

- Frank Luntz’s curtains open and play “Hail to the Chief”

- Impeachment check-in

- If Bannon hates the elites, why is he the primary source for Michael Wolff’s book

- Andrew Yang Hates Porn

- Christopher Hitchens' opinions from beyond the grave

- Don't write "Orange Man Bad"

- The Fifth Column LIVE, again?

Recorded: October 3, 2019

Published: October 4, 2019

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- Moynihan won an Emmy

- #EmmysSoWhite

- "Some saw..."

- Films Don't Matter

- Xenophobic Immigrants

- Biden, Trump, Ukraine

- Will He Be Impeached ? Maybe…And No

- It's Greta Thunberg's World

- The Vaping Muslim Ban

- Rashida Tlaib's Science of Smoking

- Tweet Dumpster Diving

- “Cancel Culture is A Myth”

Recorded: September 26, 2019

Published: September 27th 2019

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- The “moderate chic” party

- RIP Emmet O’Lunney’s

- Brett Kavanaugh *Allegation(s)*

- College campuses in the 1980s was all about apartheid

- Moynihan’s Foggy Memory, and Everyone’s

- John Bolton, Out

- Obama’s Apology Tour and Trump’s Chomsky Impression

- Kmele’s Worried about Iranian escalation 

- Joe BIden’s "Corn Pop" Story: Fact Check=True

- George Packer’s Atlantic Piece on Schools

- Cancelling the SNL guy 

- Mark Sanford

- Business Insider's GOP debate

- Some Idiot Wrote This

Recorded: September 16th 2019

Published: September 19th 2019

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Recorded: September 4th 2019

Published: September 7th 2019

Guest: Steve Kornacki, National Political Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. Author of "The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism"

- RIP, Vice News Tonight on HBO

- Everybody kinda likes Joe Walsh

- The "Straight Man" on MSNBC

- New Jersey politics is so much more fun than national politics

- Kamala Harris channels robot John Edwards

- Negotiating with the Taliban

- Casualty counts matter

- It’s a better and worse media moment

- An alternate history where Mario Cuomo decides to run

- Pulling a string on Kornacki and he just goes

- Bill Weld’s novels

- Lonelier than the ideological middle is the temper-mental middle

- The guardrails have been annihilated

- Admitting to liking Chappelle’s show

- US military “protecting elections”

- The T Zone

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- Ladies Libertarianing

- The Segregation of Everything

- The 1619 Project: “Everything that makes America exceptional is because of slavery”

- NHJ: “We’re the MOST American”

- Trump: “I hereby order…”

- Dual Loyalty (and cascading stupidity)

- David Koch, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter

- Park Slope Socialists

Recorded: August 23rd 2019

Published: August 26th 2019

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Welch, Moynihan, and Kmele are all in the same room for the first time in more than a month -- and it's a glorious reunion.

Recorded: August 16th 2019

Published: August 18th 2019

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In this Special Dispatch, Michael Moynihan sits down with legendary journalist, author, and documentarian -- Jon Ronson. They discuss some of Ronson's most celebrated books, his fabulous new podcasts exploring the porn industry ("The Butterfly Effect", "The Last Days of August"), and his penchant for pissing off Alex Jones.

Jon Ronson's Books Include:

• "Them" (2001)
• "The Men Who Stare at Goats" (2004)
• "The Psychopath Test" (2011)
• "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" (2015)

Recorded: July 26th 2019

Published: August 2nd 2019

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Guest: Ben Dreyfuss (Editorial Director, Mother Jones)

Description:

- Moynihan in Martha's Vineyard

- Mueller sucks on TV

- Trump’s Razor: The dumbest explanation is the most likely

- “Send them back” — is it racist?

- Jane Mayer's Al Franken defense

- Shitty Media Men

- Deletes Jokes

- A$AP Rocky

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Guest: Molly Jong-Fast is a contributor to The Bulwark and the author of three books. (@MollyJongFast)

Recorded: July 11th 2019

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Guest: Patrick Radden Keefe, staff writer at the New Yorker, author of "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland"

Description:

In this special dispatch, Michael Moynihan talks with Patrick Radden Keefe about the 1972 murder of Jean McConville, a mother of 10 in Belfast, at the hands of the IRA. Her disappearance remained a mystery for decades, but in his new book, Keefe names the names of the alleged perpetrators, and talks about the greater political implications of the Catholic-Protestant violence that continues to plague Northern Ireland to this day. Also, Moynihan reveals the moment when he realized Gerry Adams isn't the folk hero that many Americans believed he was.

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