4.6 • 16K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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*SPECIAL CROSSPOST EPISODE*
Rep. Crenshaw joined Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch for their weekly podcast series The Fifth Column. Really fun conversation covering a lot of ground. Topics include:
· How to be a Navy SEAL
· Losing an eye in Afghanistan
· Dan can’t find his glasses / “I can’t see shit”
· Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan
· A case study in intelligence failure and confirmation bias
· On leaving the Taliban in power
· Has Trump been good on foreign policy?
· The Republican Party post-Trump
· Tucker "is best friends with Hunter Biden!”
· Why are you even in Congress?
· On the mechanics of Congress
· Maybe a hundred normal congressmen
· What has Dan accomplished for Texas?
· Is populism winning?
· On banning TikTok
Michael Moynihan is a former contributor for Daily Beast and Vice on HBO. Follow him on X at @mcmoynihan.
Matt Welch is the Editor at Large of Reason. Follow him on X at @MattWelch.
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0:00.0 | We know our new methods of attack. |
0:04.0 | The Trojan Horse. |
0:08.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, comrades, compagneroseros welcome to another phenomenal edition of the fifth |
0:15.9 | com podcast you are hearing the dulcid tones of Michael Moynihan because Camille |
0:21.1 | Foster I don't know he's a conference is that what it is now a lot of travel it's a conference slashboard |
0:27.6 | slashboard meeting yeah yeah I when someone is that dodgy with their travel, |
0:33.0 | you know something weird. |
0:34.3 | It's absolute. |
0:35.3 | I don't know what it is at this point. |
0:38.7 | More and more people are saying. |
0:39.9 | Yeah, that's the voice, the squeak of Matt Welch. |
0:44.8 | How you doing, Matt? |
0:46.5 | Okay. |
0:47.5 | I sound better than your shitty voice. |
0:49.5 | I know, that's just genetic though, |
0:51.2 | so thanks for hating on me. |
0:53.1 | In the room today with us. |
0:55.1 | And as I say every time, you want to have some surprise, |
0:58.8 | but it's in the fucking description. |
1:00.8 | You never can surprise anyone. |
1:05.0 | Congressman from Texas, Dan Crenshaw. |
1:08.0 | Hey, thanks for being here, Dan. |
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