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 #188 - Shine on You Crazy 'Anti-Zionist'
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#428 - Poundtowns and Political Pilgrims
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Members Only #187 - A Break from the Grimness w/ Danny Polishchuk
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#427 - Is Cancel Culture Cancellable? (w/ Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott)
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Members Only #186 - From the Haganah to Häagen-Dazs
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#426 - w/ Matt Duss - Notes from the Other Side
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Members Only #185 - Radicalized by Radicals
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#425 - The Nightmare Scenario (w/ Oren Kessler)
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Members Only #184 - Zoom Rebroadcast - On the Pogrom in Israel
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#424 - w/ Rep. Peter Meijer - McCarthy and His Enemies
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Members Only #183 - UNLOCKED - K&M Live in Philly
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#423 w/Josh Szeps - TED, Just Admit It
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Members Only #182 - The Racist Wolf
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#422 - Introducing The Fifth Column Center for Antiracist Research
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Members Only #181 - From Bob Geldof to Jesus (of Nazareth) to Walt Disney
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#421 - Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
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Members Only #180 - The Fifth on Zoom! With Ben Dreyfuss! It's a Rebroadcast!
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#420 - Texas Ends New York! Protesters End Climate Change! DOJ Prosecutors End P...
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Members Only #179 – The Late Richard Riordan and the Never-Launched L.A. Examine...
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#419 - In Defense of Capitalism...and Sweden's Covid Response (w/ Johan Norberg)
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Members Only #178 - The Blob
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#418 - The State of Debate (w/ Mike Pesca)
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Members Only #177 - Bang , Bang, Bing, Bong, Dong, Dong (Second Sunday Live Rebr...
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#417 - Free Speech in Philly, Volume 1 (Live w/Lara Bazelon and Greg Lukianoff)
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Members Only #176 - A Fantastic Podcast Recorded in Hegemonic English
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Members Only #175 - The Six Million Dollar Racist and a Second-Hand Banana
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#416 - A Sloppy Summer Pod, Recovered
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Members Only #174 - Coast to Coast, Until You Say Stop
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Members Only #173 - VICE Disgrace, Racist Boston, Racist Viruses
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#415 - The Pod of Laughter and Forgetting and Tracy Chapman and Crack and The Th...
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#414 - Clarifications, Curried Goats, Cocaine Capers
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Members Only #172 - We're Literally Shaking / RFK Redux
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#413 - So Many Idiots (w/ Damon Root)
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#412 - An RFK Intervention (w/ Coleman Hughes)
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Members Only #171 - Bobby, Cormac, and Geddy
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#411 - A Conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
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#410 - The Tightening Noose
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Members Only #170 - Ukraine Calling (w/ Tim Mak)
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Members Only #169 - Loving the Alien, Shooting Matt in His Little Legs
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#409 - Pride Wars, Dumb Tupac, and POC Jim
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Members Only #168 - Trans Pickleball, Debating Thoreau, and Eric Clapton v. Huey...
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#408 - It's For Nobody (w/ Ethan Strauss)
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Members Only #165 - In Memoriam
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#407 - The Cruelty, the Conspiracist, and the Report (w/ Eli Lake)
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#406 - Killing Kaitlin Kollins
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Members Only #164 - Smooth Criminal
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#405 - "Death Train, White Fight, The Unfunniest Man in America"
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Members Only #163 - Danny Aiello, Black Hockey, and Ugly MMA
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Members Only #162 - Jon Ronson on Neo-Nazi Debutantes, the Oklahoma City Bombing...
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#404 - The Fall of the House of Tucker and Traffic w/ Ben Smith
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