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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Members Only #252 - For Our Girls (The Message)
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#507 - Trans Pee Wee and Tariffed Dresses
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Members Only #251 - I Learned It from Watching Nick Gillespie
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#506 - Kill the White People
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#505 - A Saudi Summit. A Delaware Freakoff.
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UNLOCKED: David Zweig, on How Media and Public Health Failed Our Kids
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Members Only #250 - What’s the Frequency, Papist?
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#504 - N-Bombs and Real Bombs
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Members Only #259 - Tariffed into Chastity
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#503 - Mea Minima Culpa
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Members Only #258 - We Don't Talk About Fight Club (Mostly)
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#502 - The Second Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)
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Members Only #257 - I'll Ruin Everything You Are
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Members Only #256 -- How Media and Public Health Failed Our Kids (w/ David Zweig...
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#501 - Due Process in Scare Quotes (w/ Jesse Singal)
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#500 - The Triumph of the Idiots
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Members Only #255 - Val Kilmer Didn't Die for This
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#499 - One of the Dumbest Decisions in American Political History? (w/ Scott Lin...
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Members Only #254 - These Days of the Condor
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#498 - The Signal and the Boys
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#496 - Ich bin ein Disappointed Konspiracy Theorist
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Members Only #253 - One-Armed Lithuanians and Mute Latvian Cats
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Members Only #252 - On a Sunday, On the Lash (w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams)
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#495 - Cranks, Conspiracies, Campuses, and Ceasefires
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Members Only #251 – We Got Five Years of Covid Fury
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#494 - State of Delusion
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Members Only #250 - Twitter Is Now Real Life
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#493 - Fifth Extra: John Bolton on Trump 2.0
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#492 - How Deep Is Your State
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Members Only #249 - Killing Us Softly
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#491 - The Last Globalist
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Members Only #248 - Marvin, Mugshots, and Migrants
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#490 - Among the Bullshitters
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#489 - Neocon Don and Sandals Gaza
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Members Only #247 - The Dumbest War Begins
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#488 - By Order of the MAGAstate
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Members Only #246 - Premature Denazification
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#487 - A Symphony of Horror
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Members Only #245 - Everything Old Is New Again
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#486 - A Deal with the Devil, MelaniaCoin, Danny has AIDS
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Members Only #244 - Second Sunday Coming Down
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#485 - The Fire This Time
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Members Only #243 - Pox Blankets, Political Cartoons, Poor Parenting
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#484 - Pumps, Converts, Fatwas, and Ex-Presidents
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Members Only #242 - The Emo Episode
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#483 - The Christmas Cromnibus and a Slow Boat to Mauritius
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Members Only #241 - Tinder Trotskyists, Siouxsie and the Nazis, When We Were Kin...
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#482 - Centrism Kills (w/ Josh Barro)
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Members Only #240 - One Hitter: Taylor Supports the Death Penalty
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#481 - From the Mexico of Heaven
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