The Fifth Column

By: Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch
  • Summary

  • Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.

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Episodes
  • #485 - The Fire This Time
    Jan 10 2025

    * Black Bill Kristol

    * Nobody beats the Rizz

    * Stealing Greenland

    * Yet another horrible big city mayor

    * When you love Castro, you are obviously an incompetent moron

    * Forget it, Matt. It's Chinatown

    * More on the 🔥

    * Is big city governance killing progressivism?

    * Your lying eyes

    * Elon’s Nazis

    * Mark Zuckerberg and “winning” on free speech

    * The end of corporate walkout culture

    * January 6 pardons and pizzagate crazy person gunned down

    * Hobo stabs thug



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    1 hr and 54 mins
  • Members Only #243 - Pox Blankets, Political Cartoons, Poor Parenting
    Jan 6 2025
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    * Lia the diva

    * The era of athlete actors

    * Moynihan correction: It was Bubba Smith in Police Academy. Dick Butkus was in Police *Story*.

    * I want to make fun of my boss

    * Awful political cartoons

    * More on progressive schools

    * Are you a hypocrite, MM?

    * Reflections on Jimmy Carter, DPRK fan

    * The neo-neocons?

    * The vibe shift and the sense of the heroic (says MAGA Matt)

    * Matt…

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    17 mins
  • #484 - Pumps, Converts, Fatwas, and Ex-Presidents
    Jan 2 2025

    * No more Bobby

    * No resolutions

    * Pump it up: The bionic podcast host

    * New Year’s terror in NOLA and Vegas

    * The military connection that doesn’t matter

    * The advent of “car ramming”

    * In celebration of Chaim Sapir

    * Forgotten terror

    * When Charlie destroyed our faith in the media class

    * Jimmy Carter’s awful op-ed

    * Erasing Islamism

    * Revisiting Rushdie

    * Getting scammed by the “truth” people

    * Broken kneecap policing



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    1 hr and 28 mins

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