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. www.wethefifth.com

  1. The Great American Mustache Ride (w/ John Bolton) - #544

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    The Great American Mustache Ride (w/ John Bolton) - #544

    -John Bolton, Olympic Curling Hawk -Arguing with the 60s Since 1970 -I’m kind of a Libertarian (Minus the Defense Part) -Iraq was actually kind of perfect -Federalist Papers as Foreign Aid (or maybe porn would suffice) -The Arab Spring Brain-Break -Afghanistan is Not Exactly a Nation -Regime Change, Case-by-Case -The Forward Defense of New Jersey -Ukraine and the Gray Zone Trap -The Nuclear Press Release -Tucker Carlson wants you to be scared of this man -Trump’s Real Estate Foreign Policy -The Face of the Regime in Venezuela -The President’s Retribution…. and how worried should the Ambassador be right now? -Who Will Take Him Down First? -Tulsi Gabbard’s Intelligence Clown Show Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST. The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Follow The Fifth Column YouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

    1 h 21 min
  2. One Hitter- Senator Rand Paul is Lonely (Members Only #301)

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    One Hitter- Senator Rand Paul is Lonely (Members Only #301)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com -The Invertebrate Caucus -The New Tax Party -Ruby Ridge and Waco Redux -The Last Man Standing -The Crypto Appearance Problem -Government as a Mob Vig -The Fairness Trap -The Colombia Save, or how Rand prevented a military escalation by sending a quick text message to the President. -Epstein Transparency Collateral -Is Trump still “the best president of his lifet…

    14 min
  3. Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Bunny? (Members Only #300)

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    Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Bunny? (Members Only #300)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com A deeply serious and important conversation over some listener-provided Scotch about the Super Bowl halftime show(s), the death of ad copywriting, dunking in the WNBA, pond skating, and the other Moynihan Report. •Oh good, Kmele started drinking early •About that game… •The horrible stereotypes in that halftime show •He bangs •The Canadian caravan •Malfunctio…

    27 min
  4. Let's Rally Together and Unfuck America (w/ John Avlon) - #543

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    Let's Rally Together and Unfuck America (w/ John Avlon) - #543

    John Avlon stops by only to learn he’s also in the Epstein files, why the Daily Beast should’ve sold dick pills, and why we need to rebuild guardrails on what some call “stolen land” * Where John is surprised to learn he’s in the Epstein files and suddenly remembers he has plans not to be here * The Ceaușescu of Long Beach * Moynihan actually voted for this guy! * Georgia, the FBI, and the Trump 2.0 purity test industrial complex * Asking for a friend who keeps wondering, “are US elections legit?” * This is not a libertarian podcast * The original sin is hyperpolarization * Tucker at CPAC, the heretic hunters, and the sound of the crowd turning * Give the left/right base what it wants and watch your incentives rot * We should have sold dick pills at The Daily Beast and funded a small country * The hell with the guardrails, we want our conspiracies god dammit! * Oral culture wins, written culture loses, and the Washington Post dims the lights * How can we do this podcast “on stolen land?” * What happened to Rudy Giuliani? * The Traveling Wilburys of Government * Asymmetric polarization and why the crazies are not equally distributed Get John’s latest book, Lincoln and the Fight For Peace (Bookshop | Amazon) Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST. The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Follow The Fifth Column YouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

    1 h 36 min
  5. Triumph of the Grift (Members Only #299)

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    Triumph of the Grift (Members Only #299)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com • Moynihan and Welch are in the Epstein files • A very indiscriminate and humiliating dump • Bannon & Epstein • Black boxes over kids, and the express train to Satanic Panic • Embarrassment is no reason • Moynihan’s Melania Review • Billie Jean is not my brother, but Jimmy Carter is my mother • That’s an awfully small ring to kiss for such a wealthy man • Move …

    27 min
  6. The Revolutionaries (w/ Bill Schulz) - #3

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    The Revolutionaries (w/ Bill Schulz) - #3

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com What if you’re just … born wrong? (No, I don’t mean the darling little girl to the right.) You may know Bill Schulz through his years toiling as Greg Gutfeld’s “repulsive sidekick” on ye olde Fox News late-nite WTF show Red Eye (on which all of your co-hosts, and several of our guests, got some valuable reps back in the day). You may know Bill through hi…

    12 min

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    Enthusiastic Armadas, Armenian Bakeries, Ye’s Apology Ad - #542

    -The NYC Rolling Hobo Express -An Enthusiastic Armada Full of Speed and Violence -Iranian Death Toll Discourse and Roger Waters Still Sucks -The Donroe Doctrine and the Near Abroad Dodge -Everyone’s Favorite Powder Keg -A Norwegian, A Rat Bag, and a Lunatic -A disgusting thing to say -Noem’s Bellebolent Hypotheticals -Stephen Miller’s Basement Lotions and the Little Rogaine Carpet -Fingerers, Reach-Arounds, and Reaganite as a Slur -Anne Cool-ter -Fuck You Jonathan -Mehmet Oz, P.I. -Ye’s apology ad and the uncanny valley of writing -One from the Mailbag Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifthdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST. The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Follow The Fifth Column YouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

    1 h 27 min

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    TACO Tuesday in Minneapolis and the Fall of the Short King Cop (Members Only #298)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com -A huge TACO Tuesday -Survival of the Spineless -Low-level insurgency infrastructure -Astroturf panic and the suspicious run to Walgreens -The problem with punching Nazis -Walz and Trump finally talk -Fuck you, Ted -The Great American Slur Revival -Short king Bovino and the self-inflicted smoke bomb -Democracy Dies in Payroll -World’s Biggest Russophobe Longs for…

    16 min
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Descrizione

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

Informazioni

  • Creatore
    Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
  • Anni di attività
    2016 - 2026
  • Puntate
    621
  • Classificazione
    Contenuti espliciti
  • Copyright
    © The Fifth Column
  • Sito web del podcast
    The Fifth Column

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