356 - UNLOCKED - Things Fell Apart: A Conversation with Jon Ronson

<em>We&#8217;re unlocking this subscriber-only podcast, recorded back in January, just to give you freeloaders a taste of what lurks behind the paywall. It&#8217;s not only those amazing bonus episodes, wherein the morons from The Fifth Column yammering and stammering through the most important issues facing civilization. But occasionally one-on-one interviews with some of the most interesting people on Earth. Like this one with the great Jon Ronson, host of the new podcast </em><a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/things-fell-apart-by-jon-ronson/id1592984136">Things Fell Apart</a>. <em>So head </em><a target="_blank" href="https://wethefifth.substack.com/"><em>over to Substack</em></a><em> and subscribe.</em><br/>By popular demand, we present to you, dear patrons, the triumphant return of journalist, podcaster, Welshman, filmmaker, and nicest guy in the business, Mr. Jon Ronson.<br/>Ronson, whose classic works include <em>The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Psychopath Test </em>and <em>So You've Been Publicly Shamed, </em>stopped by the Fifth's Chinatown studio to for a fascinating, revealing one-on-one chat about his phenomenal new podcast series <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m0011cpr"><em>Things Fell Apart</em></a><em>, </em>losing friendships because of the culture war (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/did-father-ted-creator-graham-linehan-become-hated-man-internet/">ahem</a>), the first internet cancellation, satanic panics, and the interview that made him almost believe in god...and Moynihan almost (<em>almost</em>) cry. <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you&#8217;d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe</a>