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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UNLOCKED - Members Only #289 - Destroy All Robots…Before They Destroy US (w/ And...
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Members Only #288 (LIVE in Los Angeles) - American Canyon Revisited
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Members Only #287 - Hoarding Epstein’s Emails, Band T-Shirts, and Air Jordans (w...
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#534 - Even the Mayor Says L.A. Isn’t Well Governed (w/ Karen Bass)
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#533 - Moynihan vs. Moynihan (w/ Lydia Moynihan)
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Members Only #286 - Atheist in a Foxhole (w/ Sebastian Junger)
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#532 - Trinnies, Joy Bells, and Race Pride (w/ Abby Phillip)
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Members Only #285 - The Case For American Power (w/ Shadi Hamid)
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#531 - Liberal of Fox News, Unite! (w/ Jessica Tarlov)
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Members Only #284 - Pod Save The Queen (The Fascist Regime) with Jon Lovett
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#530 - They Don't Care About Us
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Members Only #283 - Putin on the Fritz (w/ Ambassador Michael McFaul)
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#529 - I Don’t Want You to Go to Jail for That, Jeffrey Toobin!
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Members Only #282 – There Will Be Spoilers (One Battle After Another, Cartoon Po...
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Members Only #281 - When You've Eaten the Poison, You Might as Well Lick the Pla...
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#528: President Comacho Delivers Peace, w/ Mary Katharine Ham
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Members Only #280 - Megyn Kelly Blowback, Principled Sanity, and Nihilistic Drea...
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#527 - War is Over (If Hamas Wants It)
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UNLOCKED: Russ Roberts, on the Weight of History & the Elasticity of Memory
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#526 - Megyn Kelly is All Out of Generosity
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Members Only #278 -- Goliath’s Curse Author Luke Kemp on Why (and When) Empires...
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Members Only #277 - Andy Rooney Hangovers, Nazi Beekeepers, and Ex-Canadians
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#525 - John Spencer Views Explosion
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Members Only #276 - The Cancelling of an American Talkshow (w/ Greg Lukianoff)
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#524 - BTW, Venezuela is a Dictatorial Commie Narcostate (w/ Thor Halvorssen)
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Members Only #275 - The Elasticity of Memory & the Weight of History (w/ Russ Ro...
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#523 - On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
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Members Only #274 - Jamaicanon and the Racist Storms
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#522 - Video Killed the Podcast Star (ft. Mace, Epstein, Gladwell, Linehan)
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#521 - MAGA Panthers and White FUBU
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On "The Summer of Our Discontent" w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams
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#520 - Wear a Tie, Kids Won't Die / White Hippies / Ancient Chinese Custom, Huh?
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Members Only #272 - Bosom Buddies, Nazi Historians, Late Capitalists
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#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts
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Members Only #271 - America the Antidote (Second Sunday Rebroadcast!)
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#518 - Angry Indians, the Socialist Right, TikTok's Propaganda War
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Members Only #270 - Norwegian Pizzas, Italian Meterologists, Fake Dissidents
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#517 - "Pimp-o-nomics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Male Gaze"...
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#516 - "Treasons, Tiny Packages, and the End of Late Night" w/ Eli Lake
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Members Only #268 - Every Pump is Patriotic
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#515 - Big Trouble in Little MAGA
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#514 - Big Boats! Big Patriotism! Big Pedophile Rings??
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Members Only #267 - Everything's Our Fault: The U.S. and the Iranian Coup (w/ Ab...
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#513 - Birthright Jamaican Babies and Russian Trashmen (w/ Damon Root)
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#512 - Escape from New York
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Members Only #264 - Domino's, Hand Jobs, and WWIII
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#511 - Iran on the Brink, NYC on the Brink (w/ Harry Siegel)
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#510 - BONUS EPISODE - The View from Israel (w/ Nadav Eyal)
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#509 - The Rise of the Knuckleheads (w/ Sen. Rand Paul)
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#508 - The Breakup Episode
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