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. 46M AGO

    Year Is Over (If You Want It) - #538

    -Eggnog: What’s Actually in This Shit? -Massachusetts Pidgin -Kmele’s Kwanzaa Plans -“What We Got Wrong” (Nothing) -Eddington vs. Sinners -Spending Hundreds of Dollars to Get Drunk at Zootopia 2 -Pearl Harbor: Live at Budokan -Moynihan Stroke Watch -The Ryan Lizza Self-Emasculating Saga… Continued -Mediaite’s Biggest Losers List -Batya! Recap (Now in Animation!) -Was Moynihan Wrong About the Epstein Files? -Far-Right Post-Pinochet Pragmatist -Why Aren’t We Drinking Whiskey? -Donald Takes It to 11 -The 2020 Madness Hangover -Halle Berry vs. Gavin Newsom (Real, or Kmele Fanfiction?) -Nixon Recaps All in the Family -Thomas Massie, Thinking Man’s MTG -Trump’s Most Surprising Second-Term Win -Putin Does Coercive Dictatorship Really Well -Happy New Year, You Degenerates 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-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

    1h 26m
  2. Sweet Baby Jesus! Are We Really Arguing About Sodomy with John Fugelsang? - Members Only #292

    DEC 23

    Sweet Baby Jesus! Are We Really Arguing About Sodomy with John Fugelsang? - Members Only #292

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Twas the episode before Christmas, and all through the show, The hosts were debating how the political winds blow. Matt Welch was present, the whole crew was there, With Moynihan and Kmele, live on the air. The guest was John Fugelsang, with a name meaning “Birdsong,” Who’d been banished to Cali to write for so long. With a book about “Hate” and the “Flock-Fleecing Fr…

    18 min

  3. DEC 18

    Black Irish, Ice Queens, and Body Snatchers (w/ Tina Nguyen) - #537

    We’re joined by Tina Nguyen, Senior Reporter at The Verge, covering “Big Tech vs. Big Government death matches.” ⁃ All I want for Christmas is Wendy Williams-branded booze ⁃ Someone is a bit cracked out… ⁃ Big tech versus big government ⁃ (David) Sacks of cash ⁃ Susie goes wilding ⁃ The swamp is a viper pit ⁃ Hate the media. Need the media ⁃ A non-denial denial of a non-denial denial ⁃ MAGA’s son and heir ⁃ He has a thrill running up his leg ⁃ The Bezos bust ⁃ Trump crashes through the normie barrier ⁃ Seth Rogan and the Orwell abomination ⁃ The body snatchers are back! ⁃ That said….this will be the greatest documentary since Hoop Dreams Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifthdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST. 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

    1h 29m
  4. Not Even Matt Drudge Can Make Today Better - On Rob Reiner, Bondi Beach, and DJT (Members Only #291)

    DEC 16

    Not Even Matt Drudge Can Make Today Better - On Rob Reiner, Bondi Beach, and DJT (Members Only #291)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * RIP Rob Reiner * Sorry about the horrific murders but…Go Bills!? * It was a great American who created Spinal Tap * Reaction from conservative pundits vs. conservative politicians * Trump’s derangement syndrome * And he doubles down… * The Islamist attack in Australia * Assimilation and integration: Europe vs. America * We’re just better at it * They’re going to speak English and…

    19 min

  5. DEC 11

    Nobody Likes a Gossip Cop (w/ Dan Abrams) - #536

    Dan Abrams is the CEO and Founder of Abrams Media Chief Legal Analyst for ABC News, host of On Patrol: Live on Reelz, host of SiriusXM radio’s “The Dan Abrams Show,” host and executive producer of “Court Cam” on A&E Network. He is also the author of numerous New York Times bestselling books about forgotten trials in history and is also the founder of Mediaite. * In defense of legacy media. Sort of. * Hating journalists while feeding journalists * From “terror TV” to ❤️Qatar❤️ * Just Jared * The King of Korruption * The legacy of lawfare * Alvin Bragg: Trump’s best friend * Prosecuting Hitler, Chavez, and Trump * The Inspectors General Massacre * Kash’s lady jacket * Post-Kavanaugh radicalization * Rogan optimism * Did Dan help destroy American civility?? * Is Alan Keyes making sense? * From gossip cops to actual cops... * Does Dan produce “cop-aganda”?? * No, but Dan likes cops Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifthdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 10am EST. The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my 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

    1h 39m

  6. DEC 10

    Members Only #291 - Leader of the A*****e Nation (w/ Kevin O'Leary)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Michael Moynihan sits down with entrepreneur, actor, and bon vivant Kevin O’Leary to talk about politics, money, and being an asshole. * The economics of...hockey? (He’s Canadian. It makes sense) * Mr Wonderful vs. Idiot King * Pierre misses the open net * Swiss watches and Swiss gold * Sell the damn chips to China! * The importance of the Hill staffer * Kevin just made thi…

    28 min

  7. DEC 9

    UNLOCKED Members Only #290 - AI George Washington, LSD Margaritas, and Tara Reid

    It’s been a bit since it was just Michael, Kmele, and Matt at the table so we’ve decided to unlock this Members Only episode and invite everyone in. For (literally) hundreds more Members Only episodes, become a paying subscriber. •Heliocentric anime •50 Cent, documentarian •Boycott Black Murder •Glenn Beck is doing it for the kids •John Stossel walks into a bodega •And now, a few words from the father of our country •American Revolution hot takes •That New York Times border crisis story •Kamala Harris was not the border czar •NIMBY •When Kmele gets homeless •Rosemont Illinois will not forget Tara Reid •LSD margaritas •The Pentagon press corps •Exploding boats •Geographically constrained neoconservatism •Matthew Yglesias is right •Previewing Moynihan’s 1-on-1 with Kevin O’Leary •Holding out hope Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifthdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 10am EST. This episode is unlocked, but paying subscribers get them ALL. 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

    1h 19m

  8. DEC 4

    #535 - America's Top Breshnevist (w Brace Belden)

    We’re joined by Brace Belden, co-host of the TrueAnon podcast. •They don’t make heroin anymore •The Taco Bell connection •King of the libertarians •Kmele almost dies •You say Somali, I say Somalian, let’s call the whole thing off •The people cut out of the Minnesota Somali fraud story •Does Ben Shapiro think we’re white? •A Maoist small businessman •Certain liberties •Curtis Yarvin discovers YouTube •Yarvin = Slavoj Žižek of the right? •Libertarian Escape (the Piña Colada Song) •The cathedral •Brace, Citarella, and the new intellectual left •Mamdani “is fully a Democrat” •Nationalize Mr. Fruit •Body count •War is a force that gives us meaning •Call of Duty: Median Soldier •Brace is on the DHS shit list •Kmele spent more time at Occupy than Brace did •In China, the trains run on time •The DSA clappers •Don’t let’s start on Venezuela •Wistful for Colin Powell •Where are the drugs!? •The Grifters •The neoneocons •Thumbing the scale •Jeffrey Epstein, quintessential striver •The Chomsky connection Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifthdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 10am EST. Thanks for reading The Fifth Column (A Podcast)! This post is public so feel free to share it. 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

    1h 51m
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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 - 2025
  • Episodes
    603
  • Rating
    Explicit
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