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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Episodes (694)
365 w/ David French "People with Capacities, Roe Reconsidered, Malignant Forces"
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364 "Rejecting Boris, Reeducating Macy, Ridiculous Gavin"
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363 w/ Damon Root "Guns, Abortion, The End of All Things"
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362 "Trump's Deranged, Bed Stuy Replacement Theory"
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361 w/ Ilya Shapiro "Free Speech, Free San Francisco, Free Weigel"
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360 "Defamation, Pride, and Very Special Needs"
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359 - A Massacre in Texas, An Incident in the Bronx, A Helicopter to Newark
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358 - Live at the Comedy Cellar w/ Michael Rapaport and Colin Quinn
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357 - w/ Lara Bazelon “This Podcast is Violence”
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356 - UNLOCKED - Things Fell Apart: A Conversation with Jon Ronson
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355 "Ministry of Truth, Competence Inflation"
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354 w/ Sarah Hepola "Barack's Misinformation Warfare Unit b/w Teenage Blackout "
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353 "Destroying Democracy, One Tweet At A Time"
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352 "Buzz Lightyear's Gay Conversion Adventure Camp"
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351 "The Problem with Jon Stewart, Will Smith, OJ Simpson, Sex Parties, and Madi...
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350 "Destroying Ukraine, Supreme Confirmation Theater, From Slava to Slavery"
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349 "Moynihan Taps In From Ukraine"
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348 w/ Matt Taibbi "Richard Perle in New Jersey, Putin in Hell, Ukraine in Crisi...
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347 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Ukraine Crisis, The Enemy of My Enemy, National Conservat...
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346 w/ Jeffrey Sachs - "Total Recall, Escape from San Fransisco, Bans for Days"
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345 w/ Mary Katharine Ham "The Moronic Inferno b/w Hammer of the Gods"
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344 w/Jacob Mchangama "Speech, Sheep, and a Crying Room"
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UNLOCKED 🎁Patreon Special Dispatch #104 - Everyone is Dumb 🎁
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343 w/ Mike Pesca (ex-Slate, The Gist podcast) "Inexplicable Offense, Boring Exi...
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342 "Positively Apocalyptic, Momentarily Conspiratorial, Just Keep Doing the Thi...
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341 w/ Matt Rosenberg (NYT) "A Coup'niversary, Domestic Lefty Neocons, Kidz n' R...
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340 "Merry Kovid Kwanzaa, Madden the Death Merchant, the Flatbush Remonstrance"
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339 w/Rep. Peter Meijer - "The RINOvirus, Insurrection Deflection, DeSantis Clau...
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338 "Jussie's Truth, Putin's NATO, China's Games"
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337 w/ Steve Kornacki "Virginia is for Republicans, Dukakis's Carcasses, Waukesh...
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336 w/ Jonathan Adler "Bannon, Rittenhouse, and the Courts"
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335 "Assata Shakur Elementary School-- Class of 2021"
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334 w/ Zaid Jilani "Jeff Toobin, Fapping Antifascist; The Terror Parents of Nort...
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333 w/ Ethan Strauss "Locker Room Culture Wars, When Jokes Are Pretty Much Murde...
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332 w/ Robby Soave "Tech Panic, Phyrric Stalemate, Bifurcated Holiday"
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331 w/ Katie Herzog "Once Upon A Time In Williamsburg, Wizard of Ozy"
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330 w/ Antonio Garcia Martínez "Would Apple Hire Steve Jobs, Conservatives Hate...
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329 "Recall Flops, Covid Recount, Forgetting Afghanistan -- Again"
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328 w/ Josh Szeps “Living in the Lockdown Under”
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327 "Autumn in Kabul, Askew in Texas"
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326 w/ Eli Lake "Afghan Withdrawal, Pandemic Surrender, Daddy Issues"
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325 w/ David French "Systemic Racism, Earnest Disagreement, About Those CRT Bans...
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324 "Simmon's Flu Game, Why Amy Cooper Matters, Bet on the House?"
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323 w/ Jonathan Rauch "Saving Truth, CRT Martyrs, Equal But Separate"
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322 w/ Chris Rufo "Banning Critical Race Theory, Robin DiAngelo's Retread, Bill...
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321 - "Back to the Ramble, How to Gauge the Age of Outrage, Racist Car Crashes"
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320 w/ Harry Siegel - "Bonfire of Insanity, The Unmaking of a Mayor, CRT IRL"
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310 - "Two Live Shows and a Key West Hangover"
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309 w/ Jane Coaston "The Argument, The Reckoning, and Unfinished Business"
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308 - "A Year of Reckoning, Return to the Ramble, Objectivity (or Something)"
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