The Fifth Column - Analysis, Commentary, Sedition

(Recorded May 3rd, 2018) 18:00+ Host Grab-Assing 20:00+ Defending Red-Pill Kanye, Why Slavery is Always YOUR fault 36:00+ Morrissey's Politics, Lennon's Domestic Violence 40:00+ Coping with Persistent (and almost certainly imaginary) Threats on Your Life 45:00+ Phrase Politics, Welch goes off the reservation 50:00+ Moynihan's Perpetually Offended 53:00+ Stormy Daniels 74:00+ Inside the Fox Green Room   ALSO:    - Trade Talk - The Best Tinted Glasses - The WHCD, Press Freedom Farce, Why Journalism Awards Suck - Welch Goes on a Sinclare Media Rant  

(Recorded April 22nd, 2018) A conversation with evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. - On Free Speech, Campus Culture- Identity- Scientific Investigation & Tabboo Topics- The Intellectual Dark Web- Evolution, Culture, Markets, Media, and The Academy    In THE SUMMER OF 2017, Bret Weinstein found himself at the center of an ‘equity and inclusion’ maelstrom at Evergreen State College, where he and his wife Heather Heying were both members of the faculty. The resulting scandal would result in the couple parting ways with the school, but not before attracting the attention of national media. Bret and Heather are currently unaffiliated academics in exile who frequently write and speak about their experience at evergreen, the state of American campuses and a host of increasingly controversial issues related to their principal field of study.The pair dropped by the studio to chop it up with Matt Welch and Kmele Foster.

(Recorded: April 24, 2018)   Matt's surprisingly strong opinions about Kanye West's endorsement of Candace "Red Pill Black" Owens. Joy Reid wasn't a huge fan of the gays, wrote some questionable things on the subject, and it appears Kmele is ready to forgive her.  Rand Paul's latest flip-flop (Fisher is unimpressed). Trump bros-out with French president Macron.   ALSO: Extended notes on the Starbucks Controversy, spontaneous reggae outbursts, impromptu seance, and a surprise cameo.   "You already know it's THE FIFTH, baby!" - A Very Wise Man

PROGRAMMING NOTE: Sorry for the unusually tardy release. This conversation was recorded approximately five days ago (prior to the most recent intervention in Syria), but the release was delayed by matters of great significance and urgency (which I won't bother to outline here). All the same, it's still a very fine vintage. (Recorded: April 12, 2018)   with: Ben Dreyfuss (Mother Jones) and Kat Timpf (Fox News Channel, National Review) - Facebook Congressional Hearings - The (continuing/looming) War in Syria - Trump May Fire (Muller, Rosenstein, and Anyone Else with the Temerity to “Attack America”) - The Kevin Williamson Affair (Abortion, The Atlantic, and Capital Punishment -- Oh My) - Race & IQ  

(Recorded: March 27, 2018) A conversation w/ Amy Chua (@amychua), Yale law professor and author of numerous books including: "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother", "The Triple Package", "World on Fire", and her latest book "Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations". “Today, no group in America feels comfortably dominant. Every group feels attacked, pitted against other groups not just for jobs and spoils but for the right to define the nation’s identity. In these conditions, democracy devolves into zero-sum group competition — pure political tribalism.” - Amy Chua, 'Political Tribes'   - Identity, Ethnicity, and Culture- Super-groups, Market Dominate Minorities- Tribes of America and the State of Her Politics- The Immutability of Tribalism and the Limits of Democracy

(Recorded: March 28, 2018)  with Tom Slater, Deputy Editor @ Spike'd Tina Nguyen, Politics and Media Reporter @ Vanity Fair   Marching for our Lives, Poisoning Spies, Activist Journalist...   - Moonshine, Poison (Half a Helping of Each) - Killing Marco Rubio - Teenage Sainted Activist Student Journalist - Making America Great Again + Putting Y'all Back in Chains - Kevin Williamson Moves to The Atlantic (Assorted Persons Freakout) - Garbology - How to Be Pro Brexit w/o Going Full White Nationalist - Slightly Russia Linked - Never Having to Say You're Fired

Recorded: March 15, 2018 We've got FiveThirtyEight's Jody Avirgan in the studio. Matt is on assignment someplace. This Week: Is there a free speech "crisis" on campus? Moynihan and Jody's considerably different approached to sparking media frenzies. PLUS: Rex, we hardly knew ye (literally). But was he all that stood between us and the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" dominatrix?

Recorded: March 9, 2018. Welch, Moynihan, Fisher and Foster are in attendance. An increasingly unlikely Presidential visit to North Korea.A seemingly permeable steel and aluminum tariff.A growing interest in POTUS's indiscretions w/ a Porn StarAnd Sam Nunberg's media PsyOp (and/or) breakdown Pertinent Notes: - "A Strange new respect..."- "A tribute vice pays to virtue..."- "The Q got that D..."   (and at Moynihan's insistence) BTC: 1262cXpJkHECVSiLU5iktcqbCW5oz8tJei ETH: 0xD4BB6B1784541A27FE046AA1963329a9672c3f04  

Recorded: March 1, 2018. Oscar Talk: Best and Worst, Most Overrated and Ryan Gosling Stick Talk: AR-15s, Scool Shootings, The National Rifle Association, and Due Process. featuring ANDY LEVYSenior Producer of the “S.E. Cup Unfiltered” on HLN SONNY BUNCHExecutive Editor @ The Washington Free BeaconCo-Host @ The Weekly SubStandard Podcast

(Recorded: February 13th 2018) "Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite." - Hitch   - The Great (XXL) Black Panther Debate - Richard Spencer & DeRay Mckesson: CODEFENDANTS 

+ Indispensable Commentary On That [treasonous/heroic/meh] Nunes Memo+ Context, Collusion and Russian Conspiracies+ A Foreign Policy Primer+ Briefest of notes on Trump's first State of the Union (Recorded February 1st 2018) Note: This dispatch was recorded the day before the MEMO was released, honestly -- you won't be able to tell the difference.

w/ Bari Weiss (@bariweiss), Staff editor and writer @ New York Times Opinion (Former Wall Street Journal, Tablet Magazine) An expansive, high-quality dispatch that was unfortunately marred by technical mishaps. It's not actually Fishers fault (quite the contrary in fact). xpan Things improve considerably as the release goes on. - Government Shutdowns- Amnesty Don's Great Big Amnesty Bonanza- Skipping out on the Wall Street Journal, Making Trouble at the New York Times- #MeToo- Trump Wanted to Fire Mueller- Collusion, Obstruction or YAHTZEE! Recorded: January 25th, 2018

Moynihan is back, Matt was an illegal immigrant, and Kmele was *front* row for Lebron vs. Steph. Plus: DACA. FISA. Shit. #MeToo. Recorded: January 15, 2018

Recorded: January 5, 2018 - Kmele’s Axioms of Child Rearing- Long on Fury, Short on Fire- Red Flags, Fake News on Facebook- Trump's Tax Cut, Regulation Busting - Heather Mac Donald vs. Everybody 

Recorded: December 21, 2017. Michael Moynihan (Vice News) in conversation with the incomparable Tina Brown. On the business and practice of journalism, the marvelous island of Manhattan, the authentic bullshit of Donald Trump, and #metoo.