The Moynihan Report delivers smart, revealing, surprisingly personal, and occasionally unhinged interviews with the people you thought you knew.
Award-winning journalist Michael Moynihan (VICE, The Fifth Column) sits down every week for an unpredictable and confessional conversation with an eclectic cast of culture-shapers, artists, argumentative sense-makers, and political figures.
Originally launched in 2025, the show now has a new home in the heart of SoHo… and a new studio to match, inspired by Moynihan’s retro taste for De Stijl modernism and Cold War-era Eastern European chic.
For the relaunch, Moynihan traveled to Los Angeles to sit down with actor (and soon-to-be heavy-metal artist) William Shatner. The first topic: death.
At 95, Shatner is terrified of death, furious about aging, and insatiably and inexhaustibly curious. The conversation ranges from religion and his Jewish upbringing to reckless thrill-seeking, the inscrutability of heavy-metal lyrics, and one of the more pressing questions of the AI age: Is ChatGPT jealous of William Shatner?
And that’s just the beginning.
In the second episode, Moynihan asks KISS’s Gene Simmons whether he thinks he was a good father, while trying to decipher whether his self-described “King of the Assholes” facade really just hides a good Jewish boy that wanted to take care of his mom.
In upcoming episodes, Michael learns who gave Wayne’s World director Penelope Spheeris a dildo for her birthday (and why she couldn’t use it); gets a drink with novelist Jay McInerney at Tribeca’s legendary Odeon; and presses longtime Village Voice culture critic Michael Musto on an almost heretical proposition: Is gentrification…good, actually?
Previous guests on the show include Ari Aster, Joshua Citarella, Brace Belden, and Sam Harris.
A new episode of The Moynihan Report drops every Thursday.