Our podcast daddy Michael C. Moynihan is back from the dead for a long (and long awaited) discussion on conspiracy theories, antisemitism, dumb people, and why you shouldn’t end every conversation with a Jew with: BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PEDOPHILES??

Anyway, it’s not too late to update your 2026 resolutions, and our guest’s advice is to maybe this year, dislike yourself a little bit more. Not in a self-harm way of course, but a bit of self-hatred never hurt any writer, let’s put it that way.

Also:

* The Talmud is very oxen heavy

* Maybe the Somali daycare thing isn’t that bad, or maybe we are just afraid they’ll come after Yeshiva’s next.

* Christopher Hitchins didn’t hate religious people.

Oh great, we made it 23 mins before talking about Mandy Patinkin

* An argument about sexual assault.

* Would you go back in time and punch Mandy Patinkin?

* Holcoaust books for everyone.

* Why should Moynihan’s Goyishe daughter care about antisemitism?

* Antisemitism explains dumb people.

* Why does Europe suck?

* The Intellectual broken windows theory.

* But what about the peaophiles???

* Knowledge is something ((they)) aren’t telling you.

* The book I refered to is Kindly Inquisitors by the dear Jonathan Rauch, buy it immediately and also listen to our episode with him.

* Wait, Zionists killed Kennedy now?

* Antisemitism is just math.

* People should really learn to to hate themselves more.

All of the love to The Fifth Column community!! We love you, Michael loves you, we all love each other. None of us would be doing this without you. <3

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Hi everyone,

Last night we were supposed to interview Michael C. Moynihan, but unfortunately he tragically passed away. At least that’s what we think, we don’t know where he is. Godspeed Michael, we’ll miss you and carry your legacy.

Anyway, his disappearance is your gain, if you’re a paying subdcriber! We jumped on Substack to chat about our holiday, answer your questions,…

All photos and videos to accompany this episode are on our substack! Askajew.substack.com

In this episode we cover the events of last week, from the horrific murders in Sydney, to Ben Shapiro at TPUSA, to - of course - Mandy Patinkin.

In case you missed it, Ben Shapiro took to the stage last week at Turning Points USA’s AmericaFest, and in front of 30,000 people, for 30 glorious minutes, tore into all the haters. And yes, he named names.

I was wondering in the episode what the reaction was in the room to Ben’s speech, or rather - how many of these kids are actually buying into the Candace/Tucker nonsense? This week I got my answer, when Blake Neff, Charlie Kirk’s producer, posted the results of a straw poll of the attendees (most were under 30 years old btw).

Well, well, well. Would you look at that. Almost 87%, wait, let me spell that out - EIGHTY SEVEN PERCENT, view Israel as either a top ally or one ally of many. Only 13.3% don’t view Israel as an ally at all. This is not to say the online poison spewed by many of these straight-up antisemitic f*******s isn’t real. But perhaps, after all, the kids are alright. You see, the problem with all these people as I explain is that they went full retard, aka full antisemite. They could have gotten away with it if they just harped on about the manufactured famine or the USS Liberty, maybe even the dancing Israelis conspiracy theory would have gone over smoothly with people who enjoy alternative facts and dance recitals. But they went full batshit, mossad-tried-to-kill-me, Israel-made-me-pay-for-sex-with-girls, Brigitte-Macron-is-a-man, Jewish-bees-are-trying-to-kill-me, crazy. And they are losing. Take some free advice from a PR person - stick to the acceptable antisemitism of lying about Israel and parroting Hamas talking points. It’s worked for the left.

Ok, enough about politics. In this episode we also cover:

* Our response to Sydney - don’t cancel any events. Show up stronger. Here is the Weest Village Chabad event on the first night of Hanukah. It was packed, joyful, and freezing. That’s how we roll.

* How low or high is the bar to be a good Jews? Chaya Leah thinks you need to celebrate a holiday that isn’t in the top 5 and not wear wool and linen together, Yael thinks you just need to listen to this podcast (and would and Instagram story or two kill you?)

* A wonderful Shabbat Dinner in Long Beach ful of listeners and love.

* You can’t scream people into being on your side.

* A beautiful sermon to an empty room:

* Hanukkah movie recommendation!

UPDATE: I watched this movie. It is not good. Watch the Alicia Silverstone one instead.

Never a bad time to remind you that all your favorite Christmas songs were written by Jews. How do we know? A few years ago we had a Rabbi on who talked to us about the Jewish roots of many Christmas songs. It’s a story of immigration, love and hope. You should definitely listen, and yes - there’s a Spotify playlist.