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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Supreme Court, Inferior Congress w/ Sarah Isgur (Members Only #314)
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The Ceasefire That Wasn’t #552 (w/ Abe Greenwald)
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Halfwits, Knuckle Draggers, and Droolers (Members Only #313)
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Ten Years of The Fifth Column (#551)
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Cuba, Race, and the American Category Problem w/Ted Henken (Members Only #312)
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The Limits of Sound and Fury w/ Rahm Emanuel (Members Only #311)
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Is Apple Still Apple? #550 (w/ David Pogue)
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The Hungarian Road to Havana (Members Only #310)
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There’s Always a New Monster to Destroy (w/ Noam Dworman) #549
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Cuba in the Dark (Members Only #309)
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Gov. Chris Christie Tells on Everyone #548
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A Brief Defense of the Vampires w/ Lloyd Blankfein (Members Only #308)
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Many Worlds, Bad Science, and the Strangeness of Being w/Sean Carroll (Members O...
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Iran and the Fog of Regime Change (w/Hooman Majd) - #547
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Iran and the Dee Snider Doctrine (Members Only #306)
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One Hitter: War With Iran and Jewish Space Lasers w/ Nadav Eyal (Members Only #3...
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The Revolutionaries (w/ Ken Layne) -- #5
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State of the Union Post-Mortem with Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) - #546
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Locker Room Talk and the Pizzagate Reunion Tour (Members Only #304)
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A Big, Beautiful SCOTUS Decision (with Damon Root) MO #303
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Ambiguity in the Age of Outrage (w/ Jon Meacham) - #545
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Voodoo Socialism and the $3 Million Rainy Day Fund w/ William Neuman (Members On...
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The Revolutionaries (w/ Robert Sullivan) - #4
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The Great American Mustache Ride (w/ John Bolton) - #544
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One Hitter- Senator Rand Paul is Lonely (Members Only #301)
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Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Bunny? (Members Only #300)
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Let's Rally Together and Unfuck America (w/ John Avlon) - #543
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Triumph of the Grift (Members Only #299)
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The Revolutionaries (w/ Bill Schulz) - #3
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Enthusiastic Armadas, Armenian Bakeries, Ye’s Apology Ad - #542
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TACO Tuesday in Minneapolis and the Fall of the Short King Cop (Members Only #29...
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One Hitter: Another ICE Shooting In Minneapolis with Peter Moskos (Members Only...
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Trump Would Do Anything For Greenland (But He Won't Do That) - #541
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Football, Billy Joel, Van Halen, and the Fact-Checkable Life (w/ Chuck Klosterma...
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The Revolutionaries (w/ Jack Henneman) - #2
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How Much Benevolence Can You Take? - #540
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Why Can't We Be Friends? (w/ Ana Kasparian) - Members Only #295
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The Memory Hole & the Rent Freeze Trap (w/ Josh Barro) - #539
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Kevin Williamson Is The Darkness - Members Only #294
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One Hitter: Maduro Snatch 'n Grab with Thor Halvorssen (Members Only #293)
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The Revolutionaries (w/ Charles C. Mann) - #1
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Year Is Over (If You Want It) - #538
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Sweet Baby Jesus! Are We Really Arguing About Sodomy with John Fugelsang? - Memb...
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Black Irish, Ice Queens, and Body Snatchers (w/ Tina Nguyen) - #537
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Not Even Matt Drudge Can Make Today Better - On Rob Reiner, Bondi Beach, and DJT...
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Nobody Likes a Gossip Cop (w/ Dan Abrams) - #536
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Members Only #291 - Leader of the Asshole Nation (w/ Kevin O'Leary)
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UNLOCKED Members Only #290 - AI George Washington, LSD Margaritas, and Tara Reid
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#535 - America's Top Breshnevist (w Brace Belden)
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UNLOCKED: Atheist in a Foxhole, w/ the Great Sebastian Junger
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