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The Fifth Column Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
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4.7 • 72 Ratings
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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 #209 - Rotten (and Racist) in Denmark
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* Shogun erasure
* Revolutionary accents
* A debate on Israel and a subsequent anti-Moynihan calumny
* Alas, anti-Semitism is common in certain parts of the world
* Pointing this out seems pretty obvious
* The WAV file
* My melanated baby
* Teaching kids versus raising kids
* Indoctrinating someone else’s kids into your way of thinking is some serious cult shit
* Torturing … -
#453 - No Step on Snek
* Children of the revolution
* No journalists allowed!
* The Italian Gadsden flag
* Oh no, Matt Welch…no, no, no
* In defense of …Al Sharpton?
* Dead soul singers
* The great Baby Huey
* Forgiving student debt is insane
* College is dumb but it makes economic sense…for now
* The New York Times and NPR
* Jihad rehab
* Twitter welcomes another sexless fascist
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Members Only #208 - Bananas Foster
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* The Banana genocide
* Professor, professor…let’s stick to the facts
* A conspiracy documentary full of cranks and losers
* 60 journalism professors find a story they cannot countenance
* Listeners on ADHD and Adderall
* RFK in CA
* Nodding along with Lemon
* How to talk to an Auschwitz survivor
* The trickiness of memory
* Two sets of rules
* Peaceful protesters get a call fr… -
#452 - The Strawberry Statement 2024 / The Eternal Adderall Shortage (w/ C.J. Ciaramella)
A two-for-one offering from The Fifth: first, the lads discuss the ongoing student stupidities, free speech and protest, Kmele at TED, and how your views are probably pretty normal (ed. note: considering the full-court coverage of the Columbia intifada, it’s sort of surprising that no one is referencing this terrible 1970 film, written by Ad-Roc’s dad). And then, some bonus content with Reason’s C.J. Ciaramella, who joins to discuss the government war on Adderall, his own ADHD diagnosis, and why it took him two months to get his prescription filled.
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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?
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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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Customer Reviews
Awesome
Great podcast. real antidote to much of the intellectual laziness and craziness that is going on these days
Great stuff
Great podcast! Thanks for hours of good humour, and level headed analysis
Also, Kmele should write more
Lots of guests and several hosts
Usually all men talking over one another. The episodes with fewer people in the room are better so don’t be put off if today’s episode is a cacophony of voices all vying for your attention - next week may be different.