Archive - The Fifth Column (A Podcast)

July 2025 Second Sunday Zoom Coordinates

Noon ET, for paying customers.

16 hrs ago •

Firehose #152: What We Did on Our Summer Vacations

Also: Second Sunday penciled in for noon ET

Jul 13 •

Mailbucket #15: The Accidental Journalist

Also: Just because you know a thing better, doesn’t mean I don’t know it at all

Jul 11 •

#514 - Big Boats! Big Patriotism! Big Pedophile Rings??

Matt discovers Mass

Jul 10

Members Only #267 - Everything's Our Fault: The U.S. and the Iranian Coup (w/ Abbas Milani)

A few weeks ago, we mentioned that newly minted Iran expert Joy Reid went on CNN and provided her damning verdict on America’s relationship with Iran…

Jul 10

June 2025

#513 - Birthright Jamaican Babies and Russian Trashmen (w/ Damon Root)

As the Supreme Court wraps up its term, the boys again summon Damon Root, author of Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S.

Jun 30

Firehose #151: Oddfellows Local

Also: Reckoning with the racial.

Jun 28 •

#512 - Escape from New York

Jun 27

Who Do You Trust in a Post-Journalism World?

Your answers, tabulated

Jun 25 •

Members Only #264 - Domino's, Hand Jobs, and WWIII

No listener mail this time.

Jun 22

Firehose #150: Dancin’ in the Rain

And: Iran, Iran so far away

Jun 21 •

#511 - Iran on the Brink, NYC on the Brink (w/ Harry Siegel)

Two episodes in one!

Jun 20

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