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
Notable Guests
Episodes (694)
091 w/ Andy Levy "Black Panthers, Richard Spencer's Advocate, Ban All the Porn”
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090 "About That Nunes Memo, Red Pills and Foreign Policy"
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089 w/ Bari Weiss "And Mueller Gets Fired at the End"
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088 "Deepest Shithole Imaginable"
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087 "Fire & Fury, Prosecuting James Risen"
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086 w/ Tina Brown "The Vanity Fair Diaries and Authentic Bullshit" (Special Disp...
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085 w/ Jeffrey Blehar "Roy Moore Takes An L, The End of the Internet"
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084 w/ John McWhorter “Linguistics, Race, Antiracism” (Special Dispatch)
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083 w/ Ben Dreyfuss “Matt Lauer, Sex Panics, Dissecting Project Veritas”
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082 w/ Ajit Pai “Net Neutrality, C***holsters, N*p Sl*ps”
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081.5 w/ Rob Mariani "Milo's (Very Brief) Daily Caller Engagement"
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081 “MAGAversary Shellacking, Dreams & Nightmares, Mr. Trump's Asian Junket"
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080 w/ Josh Zepps “Mueller's Inquest, Silicon Hearings, Proportionate Fear"
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079 “'Allegation & Admission, Baseless or Otherwise” w/ Bill Schulz and Nancy Ro...
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078 “'McCain and Bush Sneak Diss Trump, Gold Stars for Niger”
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077 “Bob Corker, Rex Tillerson, This Worst of All Possible Worlds”
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076 “Gun Rights, Filthy Speech, Cordon Sanitaire”
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075 w/ Katherine Mangu-Ward "Limp Tax Plans, Taking a Knee, Russia Takes Baltimo...
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074 "A Clear and Present Dotard: The UN, The Kremlin, Facebook and St. Louis"
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073 w/ David Weigel "Bernie Shapes the Party, Hillary Wrote a Book, A Little Pro...
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072 "Media Panics, Title IX, DACA, The Passion of Bagger Vance"
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071 w/ Ron Bailey "The Politics of Disaster, Better Late Than Never"
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070 w/ Jacob Siegel "What Didn't Happen in Boston, Something about Afghanistan"
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069 w/ Deray Mckesson "Unite the Right, with White ISIS"
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068 "Criminal Justice, Naughty Texts, Fire & Fury, Diversity Manifesto" (w/ Radl...
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067 w/ Alyona Minkovski “Get Me THE MOOCH, The Story of Lyndon Jumbo Johnson"
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066 “Seriously - Eventually We Get to Health Care, Immigration, Forensics et al”
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065 w/ Eli Lake “Donald Jr Loves It, Moynihan's Great Big Movie Premier”
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064 "It's Blackmail, Presser in Poland, Jay Z: Feminism"
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063 "Bleeding Badly, Why Journalists Screw Up, and Please -- No Cameras"
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062 "Notes on Philando Castile, Otto Warmbier, and Evergreen"
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061 "Tragedy in Alexandria, Interrogating Alex Jones, Maligning Jeff Sessions"
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060 "Corbyn Surprises, Comey Testifies, Maher Apologizes, and Kmele Will Not Shu...
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SD2 w/ Timothy Snyder “On Tyranny, Bloodlands, Trump and Hayek”
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059 “Pulling Out, Back Channeling, Graffitied Epithets”
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058 “Mayhem in Manchester, Deals with Devils, and Collusion Most Foul” - The Fif...
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057 w/ Thad Russell “ComeyGate Metastasis, Completely Settling This NATO Busines...
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056 “James Comey Gets Sh**canned, Julian Assange is Still at Large” - The Fifth...
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055 w/ Jamie Kirchick “Obamacare: Repealed & Reloaded, Europe May Be A Goner” -...
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054 “100 Days of Pretty Awful, Media Bubbled, Passion of the Nerds” - The Fifth...
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053 w/ Michael Weiss “The MOAB Doctrine: Technically, Bombing Stuff is A Strateg...
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052 w/ Eli Lake “Kinda Bombing the Sh*t Out of 'Em Right Now, Something About Su...
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051 w/ Rep Thomas Massie “Trump Care Postmortem, Protesting Putin, Two Painful Y...
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050 "Health Care Pileup, Burn All The Paintings, Donna Brazile's Kinda Sorry" -...
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049 "Is GCHQ Wiretapping the Hell Outta That Thang?, Maddow's ManBearPig Exclusi...
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048 "Ok, We Need to Talk About Russia, Worse Than Iraq, Non-troversies" - The Fi...
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XXX w/ Dr Henry Louis Gates, Dr George Yancy “Race, History, and Identity” - The...
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047 "Trump's Not State of the Union, Patriots & Anecdotes, The End of Ideology"...
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046 "Flynn Gets Fired, Incompetent Totalitarians, He Totally Called It" - The Fi...
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045 w/ Damon Root "When Everything's a Crisis and Everyone's a Nazi..." - The Fi...
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