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 Iran Deal Is Bad and Everyone Is Stupid (#562)

    6 hr ago

    The Iran Deal Is Bad and Everyone Is Stupid (#562)

    -Kmele debuts his Sebastian Bach beach jeans -The Iran deal is like the JCPOA, but a lot worse -Lebanon sneaks into a U.S.-Iran deal -Strait of Hormuz, 60-day promises, and negotiating with hostage-takers -Why can’t the hawks ever learn? -Ukraine brings the war home to Russia -Drones, oil refineries, and the new cost of war -Europe wakes up… sort of -Meloni jabs her digits at Trump -Polymarket checks the damage in Israeli politics -as well as NY-13 and the rise of the DSA -Hamilton Heights is Gaza now -Mamdani’s little machine comes for Dan Goldman -Gaza replaces BLM as the Democratic purity test -The long-term problem with Mamdani economics -Gavin Newsom vs. Trump’s DOJ -The New York Times makes the Epstein suicide case -Tucker, Trump, Loomer, and the inevitable reunion -Baseball is gay in June 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 viewer/listener supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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

    1hr 38min
  2. Batya Ungar-Sargon and the Status Revolution (Members Only #328)

    2 days ago

    Batya Ungar-Sargon and the Status Revolution (Members Only #328)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Batya Ungar-Sargon, host of Batya! on NewsNation, returns!!! And with a new book, The Jews and the Left, about antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and why so much of the modern left has made Jews the enemy. -JD Vance, Tucker, and the anti-Israel right -The Iran deal, Rubio’s silence, and Trump’s trial balloon -What Batya got wrong about the war -Could Trump have sold the war better?

    20 min
  3. The Knicks, Oyster Man, and the Infinite Lies (#561)

    12 Jun

    The Knicks, Oyster Man, and the Infinite Lies (#561)

    -The Knicks give New York its greatest night in years and OG makes his MVP case -Valid destruction or peaceful rioting? -A brief detour through America’s dumbest college mascots -Dave Chappelle and Shane Gillis give Moynihan a perfect Comedy Cellar night -Kmele roots for the Spurs, but only to punish Knicks fans -Spike Lee has been on the court long enough -Which celebrity row courtsider gets booed? -Mamdani gets into the affordable soccer jersey business -The World Cup comes to New Jersey by boat -Introducing Midterm Madness -LA’s mayoral race and the Spencer Pratt stolen-election fantasy -California’s governor’s race and the strange usefulness of market signals -The race to watch -Platner’s character problem is not going away -Jodi Kantor explains when MeToo does and does not count -Bill Pulte gets pulled, Jay Clayton gets nominated -A fully fledged disgusting party on a federal level -UFC 250 comes to the White House because this is who we are now -Bullshit, postmodern Trumpism, and the infinite lies The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a listener/viewer-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

    1hr 30min
  4. A Hamster Wheel of Shit w/Ana Navarro (Members Only #327)

    10 Jun

    A Hamster Wheel of Shit w/Ana Navarro (Members Only #327)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Throughout this entire interview, Ana remains furious that our office was stocked with whiskey, but only half a bottle of white wine and absolutely no pizza. -The White House press corps just takes it -Kristen Welker gets the Trump treatment (and would Trump have tried that with Tim Russert?) -Ana Navarro is here, from one of them Mexican countries -Charles…

    19 min
  5. When Political Violence Has the Right Enemies w/ Noah Rothman (Members Only #326)

    5 Jun

    When Political Violence Has the Right Enemies w/ Noah Rothman (Members Only #326)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Noah’s new book is Blood and Progress… not to be confused with “Blood and Soil,” a phrase Moynihan has been muttering to himself around the office. -A book squarely in the TFC wheelhouse -The teens, the twenties, the sixties, the seventies, and now -The forgotten history of left-wing violence -Italian anarchists and “propaganda of the deed” -Is Noah handwavi…

    18 min
  6. Populism for Morons, Journalism for Martyrs (Episode #560)

    3 Jun

    Populism for Morons, Journalism for Martyrs (Episode #560)

    -a dog is on set and Kmele should be wearing a helmet -Bernie Sanders wants to collectivize AI -The boys bask in the warmth of collectivism -Never trust a politician giving something back to “the people” -The centrist Democrat goes missing -It’s still a Nazi tattoo, goddammit -Character is out. Winning is in -Andy the Ogre Ogles has thoughts on the gays and Ted Cruz answers the question and keeps walking -A few more problems for the Oyster Man from Maine -Welch was the victim of a French flag hate crime -Speaking of Nazis, let’s talk about Bari Weiss -Scott Pelley defends democracy from the new guy and privileged peacocking at CBS -Ali Velshi feels weird about America’s birthday -Defending America through the Bob Crane story The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a viewer/listener-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

    1hr 37min
  7. Senator Chris Murphy Wants You to Join a Cult (Members Only #325)

    31 May

    Senator Chris Murphy Wants You to Join a Cult (Members Only #325)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Chris Murphy’s book, Crisis of the Common Good, is out now -Murphy opens his book by dunking on his son’s NHL prospects -Pitching the common good -Trump is not the disease. He’s the symptom -Buy more stuff, feel worse, repeat until democracy collapses -Kids, phones and the algorithmic hell machine -Congress wants to regulate tech. Congress may want to log on first -Can In…

    16 min
  8. A Great Nation in Decline Welcomes Australia’s Finest w/ Josh Szeps (Members Only #324)

    29 May

    A Great Nation in Decline Welcomes Australia’s Finest w/ Josh Szeps (Members Only #324)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Be sure to check out Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps, Australia’s greatest podcaster and interviewer, which apparently counts. -90 minutes of Kmele cleaning his glasses -Josh is on drugs now -RIP Jack Karlson, hero of democracy manifest -we will be referring to limp penis throughout this show -Erect until the end -Kmele doesn’t really know the Beach Boys -Who is the best Australian to ever …

    18 min
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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

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  • Creator
    Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    668
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © The Fifth Column
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