This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comMarshall spent 25 years covering oil and gas at Raymond James before retiring this week. He joins the guys to explain what’s actually driving prices higher, why diesel matters more than most people realize, and how war, refinery outages, and shrinking reserves have left the global energy market with very little room for error. Also, is Marshall the real

…and Moynihan discusses Harvard’s artist in residence. Also, we’ve been nominated for something! vote for us in for the Signal Awards!-Kmele’s Cross-Country Trail of Tears-Trump Praises the Latinos-Yukon Cornelius and the Bumble-Coming Soon: Jason’s Weird Fetishes-Trump Talks to Time-The Weave We Go-No Fatties, No Trannies, No Weirdos-It’s Worse Because It’s Worse-Saving Western Civilization, One Taxpayer-Funded Ad at a Time-Sen. Eric Schmitt’s Awesome Week-The Indian Question-Roxane Gay, Harvard Medical School Artist in Residence-Midterm Madness: New Hampshire, Michigan, Ohio and L.A.-How Not to Hijack an Israeli PlaneThe Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a viewer-listener publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The Fifth Column is in the running for Best News & Politics show. PLEASE HELP US TAKE HOME THE GOLD (or whatever the statue is made of, assuming there is one).ALSO: Vote for The Moynihan Report for:Best video podcastBest guest (William Shatner)Best episodeVOTE VOTE VOTE (for us)Follow The Fifth ColumnYouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comFinally, a break from politics and a discussion about…love. If you like Sarah, check out her podcast with friend of The Fifth Column Nancy Rommelmann Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast -Sarah is back on the wagon (not really!)-The married man, the younger man, and the New Orleans homicide detective-Women’s tears are a recording device-Kavanaugh, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com-being gay, doing drugs, that’s the Szeps life-Moynihan’s anti-Australian bigotry-the Lupita Nyong’o pronunciation challenge-Why is daddy wearing boobs?-this actor can play any ethnicity-Josh’s dad, the George Costanza of Australia-UN Clip-o-rama-in defense of the UN, sort of-can America afford to piss off all its allies?-Greta Thunberg goes to the Rena…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com-Pakman is a fan of this show. Will he regret saying this?-Kmele’s cult-adjacent upbringing-Pakman’s Argentina upbringing-Macklemore, Robert Kraft and the limits of independent media-Do people actually control their media diet?-Nick Fuentes, Fishback and Twitter not being real life-Pakman puts himself at the tip of the junk food pyramid-Should The Fifth…

And is he gonna get that press secretary job or not?-Jennings the teetotaler-wtf happened to Moynihan’s hair?-Jennings’ working-class Kentucky origin story-back when Kentucky + West Virginia were swing states-Rush Limbaugh + Paul Harvey University-what would Rush make of $9K for stay-at-home moms?-what kind of Republican is Scott Jennings anyway?-why is Trump so unpopular?-tariffs, potash + the new Republican orthodoxy-the Greenland victory (?) lap begins-Scott’s muscular Republicanism meets the universities-Van Jones vs. his own side-Trump vs. CNN and the White House press pool-Scott Jennings, future press secretary?-Trump + Mamdani, together again-Texas gets way too interesting-Georgia gets weird-trying to have the one pundit take nobody else has-do not get in Scott Jennings’ personal space-does Trump have a corruption problem?-Trump crypto + the Kentucky coffee can-whatever happened to Republican “family values”?-Mitch McConnell is alive-has Tucker left the MAGA coalition?Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST.The Fifth Column is a viewer/listener supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Follow The Fifth ColumnYouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comTyler Austin Harper, staff writer for The Atlantic and co-host of the Time To Say Goodbye podcast joins Michael C. Moynihan & Matt Welch to talk about extreme fishing, picking socialsts as your fighters, and his recent pot-stirring essay “Why I quit the tenure track.” •It’s morning in America, or is it Japan?•The Night Fisher•Worse than Al Qaeda•A pro-America leftist•Why Tyler Austin Harper quit the …

-Simplify, simplify, simplify…-Do people like Jim as a boss?-The two things to screen for in prospective employees-The humility of Mike Allen-AI and the newsroom-The way you consume news is about to completely change-Are we at the Napster stage of AI?-The demand for local news didn’t die-DEI without the corporate activism-Axios refuses to take a stand-Moynihan’s Vice postmortem-Jim used to be a hothead. Mostly.-AI might kill us. Why it matters-Kmele vs. the AI doomers-Hugging Face and the runaway AI problem-Stuxnet was the dumb version-Midterm Madness goes off-script-Who should actually be Person of the Year?-Too much Trump porn at the New York Times?-Jim simplifies Trump’s three biggest precedent breaks-Why Trump does it anywayRead Simplify: Do 50 Percent More with 50 Percent Less by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz(Bookshop | Amazon)Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST.Follow The Fifth ColumnYouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

-RIP Andrew Wimsatt, a true friend of the show and beloved member of the Fifth Column community-And in lighter news, it’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11-Trump’s 9/11 story-Why we’re called The Fifth Column-When Matt Welch welcomed us to war-Moynihan moved to New York on September 10, 2001-How much of your memory of the day is actually real?-Mary Beard and other “the US had it coming” takes-Little Eichmanns and the root-causes Olympics-Did we win the War on Terror?-You get $5,000! And you get $5,000!-Midterm Madness and the two Dan Sullivans-Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP speedrun to zeroPrefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST.Follow The Fifth ColumnYouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe