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The Fifth Column 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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#451 - The Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)
You asked, we delivered. Our pal Batya Ungar-Sargon enters the octagon to (politely!) fight the Globalist Fifth on trade, Trump, robots, unions, automation, and a bunch of other stuff. But we also agree on lots of other things! Hear Batya talk about her wild Israel debate on Zerohedge, how her last book foresaw the NPR madness, and why perverse incentives have created a boring media echo chamber.
Thanks for listening! Love, Oskar and Raoul
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#450 - Republican Wine Moms and a Dead Double Murderer
* Ozempic Joe
* The Juice has expired
* Revisiting the “Trial of the Century”
* The double murderer who “abandoned his race”
* In defense of Marcia Clark
* Dementia dads
* Matt Lauer emerges
* Nutty MTG, drunky Boebert
* Arizona abortions
* Operation Bubble Wrap
* Poor guy in a ski mask shoots at cops
* Group condemnations and the “IDW”
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Members Only #206 - Hitting From the Ladies' Tee
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* Kid rapping
* Saturday Night Fever is dark, dark movie
* Girl dadding
* Anti-communist manifestos
* On Andrew and Israel
* Big bombs in Iraq: not so fast, Andrew!
* The normalization of extremism
* Don’t be Paul Robeson
* What it means to be “anti-war’
* Dehamasification
* A bachelor party in NY
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#449 - The Prince of Tide Pools (w/ Andrew Sullivan)
Third time’s even more charming! Andrew “Cheech” Sullivan is back, puffing away and ruminating on Israel, Iraq, conservatives, the trans movement, loud music from bluetooth speakers, the awfulness of Trump (who won’t be a dictator, btw), the resilience of American democracy, the resounding victories of the gay rights movement, and the general boringness of identity.
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Members Only #205 - Almost Lost, Unfortunately Found
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Last month’s “Second Sunday” broadcast was fun, boozy, and…almost lost. We won’t point any fingers—though they might be jabbed in the direction of a certain someone during the recording—but through a Peter Jackson-like audio excavation, it was saved. Was that a good thing? Errr…who knows. And so, with a few nips and tucks, here she is! And we’ll be back… -
#448 - A Hot Mess (w/ Kat Rosenfield)
The title says it all. The three lads were together, in the same studio, for the second time in as many months. And it’s possible that the start of this particular episode was, for whatever reason, a bit chaotic. But as we settle in with our friend novelist and journalist Kat Rosenfield, we ultimately managed to discuss a few things like…
* Kat’s cancellation story
* Her great New York mag piece from 2017
* Wait, what is sex trafficking?
* Did Kat steal a sled from a kid? Or is that kid a filthy liar?
* Revisiting Christine Blasey Ford
* Firing or cancelling?
* The sacking of Rona Romney McDaniel…Romney
* The Trump bible
* Kat is meh on Cormac McCarthy
* And much, much more
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Customer Reviews
A Do Over Episode
Gentlemen,
Terrific episode, some of the woke colour stuff is so reminiscent of the days of the Black Shirts.
Keep up the great work.
Mark Wills
Could be good but can’t stand hosts
The hosts are just really insufferable. I checked out this show because I thought some of the stuff from the Free Press was pretty good.
There’s really interesting content which gets sullied by so much banter about random stupid unrelated nonsense. Sometimes they all talk over each other and you can’t even understand what they’re saying.
The hosts come across as really arrogant and seem to just enjoy the sound of their own voice.
There’s a kind of empathy and intellectual humility which is present with Megan Phelps-Roper and Bari Weiss for example, and that’s why appreciate much of their content. That isn’t present here.
Josh Szeps
Please don’t get this guy on - doesn’t represent Australia well. Try working in a hospital before making uneducated statements re lockdowns….