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 #239 - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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Members Only #238 - 🎁 UNLOCKED 🎁 - The RFK Problem (w/ Alan Levinovitz)
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Members Only #237 - Roofies, Commies, and Sissies
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#480 - The Media Mess / Gaetz Pulls Out (w/ Ben Smith)
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Members Only #236 - Here Comes the Nanny State!
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Members Only #235 - To Overthrow the World: A Conversation on Communism with Sea...
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#479 - The Case Against Tariffs (w/ Scott Lincicome)
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Members Only #234 - Come On and Zoom! (Wagnerian Opera Edition)
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Members Only #233 - A Grave New World
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#478 - The Dream of a Six-Foot-Four, Tobacco-Chewing White Savior
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Members Only #232 - Last Episode Before the Camps :(
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#477 - The Bubble. The Brother. The Boycott.
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Members Only #231 - Eve of Destruction
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#476 - "Tucker's a real douchebag" (w/ Rep. Dan Crenshaw)
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Members Only #230 - Horseface Wham-O
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#475 - How to Survive a Baier Attack
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Members Only #229 - Second Sunday Rebroadcast: Jewlumbus Edition
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#474 - Frankly, She Loves the American People
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Members Only #228 - Some Like It Hot
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#473 - Something For Everyone to Hate
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Members Only #227 - Killing Nasrallah, Inshallah
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#472 - The Ruhling Class and Palestine's Parachute Pundit
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Members Only #226 - A Nest of Idiot Vipers
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#471 - Do You Know the Importance of a Skypager?
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Members Only #225 - The Assassin's Creed
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#470 - Good Wars, Bad Candidates, and the Department of Straws and Napkins
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Members Only #223 - Making Martyrs of Revisionist Rubes
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#469 - Kamala Speaks! Tim's Grammar! Bash Backlash!
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#468 - And now...the Coronation (w/ Alex Thompson)
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#467 - Fear & Loathing in Chi-town (w/ Mike Pesca)
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#466 - The Return of the Sexiest Guest Alive (w/ Steve Kornacki)
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Members Only #220 - The Hottest Country Ever Invaded
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#465 - The Tsarina Has Abdicated. The Audie Murphys of Journalism. The Veep Will...
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Steve Albini on Music, Meaning, and the Cosmos (Special Dispatch)
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Members Only #219 - Pronunciation Racism and the Triumph of Mentally Ill
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#464 - Alive from the RNC!
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Members Only #218 - Second Sunday Rebroadcast (Assassination Edition)
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#463 - Forget It. Joe Biden Has Been Cured Of Being Super Old
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Members Only #217 - ☑ The Flag of the Fifth ☑
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#462 - SCOTUS Interruptus (w/ Damon Root)
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Members Only #216 - Unbearable and Untenable
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Members Only 🔓 UNLOCKED 🔓 #215 - The Hindenburg Debate, The Hindenburg Fifth R...
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#461 - Trump/Biden II, Electric Boogaloo
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Members Only #214 - Sunday *Bloody* Sunday
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Members Only #213 - I Don't Know About Y'all...
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#460 - The Return of Ol' Icy Balls
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#459 - The Horns of Hamas / Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (w/ Olivia Reingold)
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#458 - Free Everyone! Support No One!
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Members Only #212 - Whatever It Is, I’m Against It (Spaceships and Boobies)
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#457 - The Witch Trials of Alvin Bragg, The End of Vice, The Beginning of Reflec...
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