The Fifth Column
Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
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. www.wethefifth.com
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Episodes (694)
307 w/ Peter Meijer - "Investigating The Capitol Riot, The Truth About UFOs, Fut...
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306 w/ Gustavo Arellano - "Ask a Mexican, Trump's a Mexican, and the Republican...
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305 - "Systemic and Unspecific, AbasedCamp, The Socialist Network, "
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304 w/ Paul Rossi - "Verdicts, Reckonings, High School Indoctrination"
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303 w/ Alex Nowrasteh - "The Time We Fixed Policing and Immigration"
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302 - "Making Arrangements, Ghost Guns, Pullin' Out"
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301 - "Five Years of Impending Doom, Chauvin on Trial, Blowin Money Fast"
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300 - "A Do Over Episode (Mostly Uncut)"
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229 w/ Jeffrey Sachs - "How to be a Dictator, Anti-Woke Hypocrisy"
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228 w/ Katie Herzog - "1.9 Trillion Reasons to Block and Report You"
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227 w/ Ben Smith - "Sign O’ The Times, Memo to Kendi"
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226 w/ Matt Taibbi - "Why Journalism Got Substack'd"
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225 w/ Martin Gurri - "The Revolt of the Public"
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224 - "MTG v AOC, Merit is so Racist, Determined Incuriosity"
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223 w/ Van Lathan - "Productive Disagreements and Common Ground"
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222 - "Moynihan Squeezes the Short, Cynics and Skeptics"
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221 - UNLOCKED Patreon Episode - Kmele's Victory Lap (Dem Haters)
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220 - The Dawning of Yet Another Terrible Era
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219 - w/ Anna Khachiyan "Double Impeachments, All the Balenciaga You Can Carry"
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218 - "A Slovenly Rebellion (Pass The Tequila)"
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217 - "You Gon Learn, Hawley's Gamble"
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216 - w/ Greg Lukianoff "From Campus to Caliphate"
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215 - "New in Town, Vax Populi"
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214 - w/Ben Dreyfuss "Another Dreyfuss Affair"
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213 - "Da Mystery Of Defunding the Police (while Stopin' the Steal)"
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212 - "A Thanksgiving Miracle"
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211 - w/ Glenn Greenwald "Leaving The Intercept, Crying Like a Baby"
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210 - w/ Jason Stanley "What the Fascist, Covid Season, Race Critical"
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209 - "And The Winner Is..."
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208 - "Techno Fascism, Jerking Jeff, and the Mendacious Media"
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207 "Hunter's Laptop, Ordinary Corruption, Darkest Night"
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206 w/ Damon Root "Packed Courts, Peaceful Transfers of Power"
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205 “If You're Reading This, It's Too Late”
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204 w/ Steve Kornacki "What's Up With These Polls?"
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203 w/ Nancy Rommelmann "From Portland to Kenosha to Rochester"
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202 w / Tina Nguyen "Trump on Twitch, Jacob Blake, Kyle Rittenhouse"
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201 w / Coleman Hughes "DNC COVID CON, QAnon Don, Canceling Kmele"
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200 w / Andrew Sullivan "Uncancellable Andrew and the Great Media Miasma"
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199 "Nothing to See Here, An Emergency Every Minute"
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198 w/ Nancy Rommelmann "There's a Riot Goin' On"
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197 w/ Glenn Greenwald, Thomas Chatterton Williams "Hypocrisy, Controversy, Canc...
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UNLOCKED - Patreon Dispatch #29 🎁 - The Williamsburg Tapes - This Podcast is La...
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196 w/ Josh Szeps "Covid, Cancellation, and Melanated Peoples"
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195 w/ Yascha Mounk "Woke Fragility"
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194 w/ Wesley Lowery "Moral Clarity, Objectivity, and ALL THE SMOKE"
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193 w/ Jacob Siegel "Why We Need the NYT, The New Truth"
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192 w/ Jane Coaston "One Night In Tulsa, A Fool Proof Plan"
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191 w/ David French "American Racism, SCOUTS Stuff, Qualified Immunity"
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190 w/ Olivia Nuzzi " Insiders Guide to 2020, Defunding the Fuzz"
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189 "A Pandemic, A Civil War, A Great Awokining "
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