The Fifth Column

By: Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch
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  • 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.

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Episodes
  • #483 - The Christmas Cromnibus and a Slow Boat to Mauritius

    #483 - The Christmas Cromnibus and a Slow Boat to Mauritius
    Dec 20 2024

    * Pivot to Zoom

    * Rereading books

    * The ex-presidents

    * “It’s 1,547 pages of unreadable garbage. Every year, it’s like Christmas."

    * Chip the RHINOOOOOO

    * Elon’s Political Fantasy Camp!

    * Is Trump losing his power to threaten?

    * The end of AOC?

    * Before his own inevitable perp walk, Mayor Adams does a hot assassin perp walk

    * Insurance companies redux

    * Kmele is a bad drinker

    * Don Jr. trades up

    * Barron is everyone’s boyfriend



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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • Members Only #241 - Tinder Trotskyists, Siouxsie and the Nazis, When We Were Kings

    Members Only #241 - Tinder Trotskyists, Siouxsie and the Nazis, When We Were Kings
    Dec 16 2024
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    * If you think it’s expensive now, wait until it’s free

    * Unpersuasive persuasion

    * How race is like probiotic soda

    * Ends and means

    * "If one killing is justified, where do you draw the line—10,000? A million?"

    * Siouxsie and the Nazis / Bill Grundy

    * Tinder Trotskyists

    * More “memoirs about trauma and identity”

    * ‘Oh, they’re taxing us, let’s go murder people.’

    * 23andme and Zor…
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    24 mins
  • #482 - Centrism Kills (w/ Josh Barro)

    #482 - Centrism Kills (w/ Josh Barro)
    Dec 12 2024

    * The Daniel Penny verdict

    * REinstitutionalization

    * When should the state involuntarily commit?

    * Remember, she was a very bad candidate

    * The great exhale

    * Joe and the Squad

    * A fake Portuguese guest

    * Barro blowback?

    * On the Substack revolution

    * The repulsive Luigi Mangioni

    * The failed Kaczynski

    * And much more!



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    1 hr and 50 mins

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