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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#403 - FIRE in a Crowded Theater
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Members Only #161 - Second Sunday (on the Third Sunday)
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#402 - The Air Force OG, the Tennessee "Three," and a French Protest Spree
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Members Only #160 - Crow's Eagle's Nest
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#401 - Dying, Lying, and Birding (Live at the Ritz)
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Members Only #159 - God Said Be Clean, Sir
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#400 - "Trump Indicted (And It Feels So Good)"
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Members Only #158 - Fact to Face with an Anti-Racist Genius
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#399 - Dumb Debates, Dodgy Dispensaries, Paying Pornstars, Filtered Photons
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Members Only #157 - The Sex Pope Washes Your Feet
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#398 w/Allison Schrager - "The Horrible, No Good Economy: A Primer”
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Members Only #156 - Second Sunday Live! (Rebroadcast)
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#397 - Just Some Bros Mainsplaining Manganese
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Members Only #155 - Passports, Divorces, & Puerto Ricans
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#396 w/ Chris Stirewalt "Fired by Fox, Fixing the News, Eating a McRib"
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Members Only #154 - Konference Kmele, Konservative MJ, and Angela Davis's Debts
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Members Only #153 - Make Way For the Big Boyz
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#395 w/ Katherine Mangu-Ward "Nothing Is True and Debate is Murder"
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#394 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Hammer Time, Larry Craig 2024, TLDR SOTU"
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Members Only #151 w/ Ethan Strauss - DEI Man and the Foreskin Ceiling
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#393 "Black Stalin, Objectivity Is Racist, & Tax Robots Are Super Racist Too"
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Members Only #150 - Memphis Madness, Ubiquitous White Supremacy, and Rope-A-Dope...
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#392 "Tanks for Victory, Oscars So Boring, and Ben Dreyfuss Is Here to Offend Yo...
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Members Only #149 - Georgia on Our Minds
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#391 "Debt Drama, DEI, and Deceased Rock* Legends*"
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#390 "Stupid People, Stupid Ideas, and Stupid Solutions" w/ Douglas Murray
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#389 "We Need to Talk About Kevin (w/ former Rep. Justin Amash)
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#388 "Occasionally Honest, Unseasonably Reasonable"
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#387 "Criminally Inclined, Grammatically Policed"
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#386 ""
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#385 "Elon, NHJ, and MJ"
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#384 "The Collapse of Pablo, Anti-Zionist Gimp"
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383 w/ Ethan Strauss "The Realest Jews, God's Favorite, Ben Collins Has... Quest...
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382 w/ Nadav Eyal "Revolt and Resurrection: Tel Aviv Edition"
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381 "The Most Important Midterm Elections Ever"
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380 w/ Robert Draper "Democracy is on the Ballot (Cause They Crazy)"
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379 "Midterm Closing Arguments, Killing Kanye" w/ Coleman Hughes and Nick Gilles...
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378 "Nazis and Sycophants and Cynics (Oh My)"
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377 "Racist LA, Racist Brooklyn, Deplorable America"
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376 “All the (Unemployed) Young Dudes”
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375 "You Don't Know What Fascism Is"
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374 "Walls Closing In (Again?)"
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373 "Notes on White Privilege" w/ Adam Davidson and Thomas Chatterton Williams
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372 "The Queen is Dead"
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371 "Triumph of the Shrill, Kmele's Thrill, America is Still Ill"
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370 "Going Commando, Occasionally Reliable Sources"
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369 w/ Lara Bazelon and Hamish McKenzie (Live in collapsing San Francisco!)
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368 w/ Eli Lake "Mar-a-lago Momentos and Nuclear Codes"
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367 w/ Rep Peter Meijer "The Almost Exit Interview"
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366 w/ John McWhorter and Glenn Loury "Racial Identity, Abolition and Reckonings...
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