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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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Members Only #207 - Columbia Breakdown: Next Stop Baader Meinhof?
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* Swedish breakdown
* Columbia breakdown
* The continued rise of American extremism
* The politics of “genocide”
* The politics of propaganda
* Chicago expectations
* A newborn in the Fifdom
* Our Batya episode
* Trusting anti-trust?
* The NPR excel spreadsheet
* Books on McCarthy
* Three best presidents?
* The Watergate conspiracy is at least fun to believe -
#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…
Ressenyes del públic
Bad accents
Needs more bad accents from MM.
Insightful and predictive
I began listening to The Fifth Column a few weeks ago. I started with episode 1 and have now made my way through the first 62 episodes. Having lived through the events discussed within each episode it is both fascinating and compelling to contrast and compare the comments, predictions and insights with the retrospective knowledge of the events as they have actually unfolded. One of the best podcasts I have listened to. Thank you.
Juvenile laughter and banter
Possibly a good source of information but ridiculing the pronunciation of Preben Aavitslan’s name is juvenile and irritating, and comparing John Fetterman to Biden, McConnell and Feinstein is unfair and shows a lack of understanding. Fetterman’s speech processing capabilities have been compromised by a stroke, not his mind - mocking him is a low blow. Probably will be unsubscribing.