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 #211 - The Ann Landers Edition
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#456 - Hoops, Sneks, and Very Bad Doctors (w/ Aaron Sibarium)
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#455 - Debate Me, Joe
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Members Only #210 - Odds, Bobs, Feminist Bank Tellers, and the Records That Chan...
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#454 - A Conspiracy So Vast (w/ Jacob Siegel)
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Members Only #209 - Rotten (and Racist) in Denmark
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#453 - No Step on Snek
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Members Only #208 - Bananas Foster
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#452 - The Strawberry Statement 2024 / The Eternal Adderall Shortage (w/ C.J. Ci...
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Members Only #207 - Columbia Breakdown: Next Stop Baader Meinhof?
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#451 - The Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)
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#450 - Republican Wine Moms and a Dead Double Murderer
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Members Only #206 - Hitting From the Ladies' Tee
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#449 - The Prince of Tide Pools (w/ Andrew Sullivan)
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Members Only #205 - Almost Lost, Unfortunately Found
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#448 - A Hot Mess (w/ Kat Rosenfield)
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#447 - Sour Lemon and the Blood Libels
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Members Only #204 - Amplification Accusation: The Dumbest Debate Ever?
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#446 - Tik Tok Flip Flop, Porn-Free Texas, Democracy-Free Russia
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#445 - Women Glow, Men Plunder (w/ Josh Szeps)
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#203 - Old Pee Eyes is Back
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#444 - We Sell Sanctuary
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Members Only #202 - The End of Vice
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Members Only #201 - The Sounds of Blackness
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#443 - Take a Load off Fani / RIP Alexei
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Members Only #200 - The Anti-Racist Headset
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#442 - In Defense of Colorblindness (w/ Coleman Hughes)
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Members Only #199 - Why You Should Never Fly Coach
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#441 - Dancing Daggers, Disturbed Dignity & Dozens of Drives to Delaware
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Members Only #198 - Everybody's a Critic (Vol. 144)
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#440 - From Nashua to Haaazzaaa
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Members Only #197 - Grappling Joe, Ending Ron, Inevitable Don
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#439 - Ladies Tees and Democracy Pleas
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Members Only #196 - You Make a Lotta Money
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#438 - Guns & Flip Flops (w/ Tina Nguyen)
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Members Only #195 - No Limit Consultants LLC
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#437 - Gay Divorce
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Members Only #194 - 2023 Was an Inside Job
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Members Only #193 – ‘I Don’t Think Anyone in Israel Right Now Feels Left of Cent...
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#436 - From Gavin to Gotham
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Members Only #192 - Second Sunday Replay (12/10)
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#435 - TFC's Holiday Racism Spectacular!
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#434 - Crazed Conspiracies, Moral Mulligans, and Indecent Ivies (w/ Shadi Hamid)
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#433 - The Body of a (German) American
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Members Only #191 - Can We Be Trusted? (Ummm...)
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#432 - Worse Than Hitler (A Fifth Column Thanksgiving!)
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Members Only #190 - Tantric Drummers for Freedom
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#430 - The TikTok Jihad w/ Mary Katharine Ham
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Members Only #189 - "Thank You for the A-Bomb" (Second Sunday Rebroadcast)
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#429 - The Kevin Hart Resource Curse
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