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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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#458 - Free Everyone! Support No One!
* Some unpopular opinions
* Raise your hand if you’ve ever lied to the government
* Fetterman and Real Time
* Are you *addicted* to Marijuana???
* Who are the victims here?
* Excessive sentencing is bad, even for bad people
* Victims: Alex Jones? Hunter Biden? DJT???
* Biden is totally fine and thinking otherwise is the end of democracy
* Joe Scarborough is the worst
* Let’s all pretend that everything is normal, ok?
* Scarborough casually defames two journalists
* Washington Post loses a trillion dollars, hires more whites
* The WNBA reality show
* I knew James Baldwin. Baldwin was a friend of mine. And you, Ibram, are no James Baldwin
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Members Only #212 - Whatever It Is, I’m Against It (Spaceships and Boobies)
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* No matter what it is or who commenced it…
* MAGA Hawaii
* Inflatable gallows
* The eye of the horrible Stormy
* It’s a bird! It’s a Qassam! No…it’s the Blonde Zionist!
* Dronez: The Hunt for El Chigon
* Listener email: Working class kid makes good. Will his kids go soft?
* Your kids want to be rich
* Back in my day…..
* Bad IRA comparisons from supposedly smart people
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#457 - The Witch Trials of Alvin Bragg, The End of Vice, The Beginning of Reflector (w/ Matt Boll & Andy Mills)
A double-album worth of great content this week. Start off with Moynihan talking to Matt and Kmele about his Free Press piece charting the collapse of Vice and him forthcoming piece charting the collapse of the Black Panther Party. Then the lads chat about the weirdness of the New York Trump trial, Israel in Rafah, and lots more. And stick around for Kmele’s conversation with the Lennon-McCartney, the Lieber and Stoller of podcasts, Matt Boll and Andy Mills, the duo who brought you The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, among other modern audio classics. They’re back with a new series called Reflector, a “show about the strange experience of being human.” We don’t know *exactly* what that means, but we absolutely guarantee that it will be a work of unparalleled brilliance. Check out episode one here.
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Members Only #211 - The Ann Landers Edition
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* The LP snoozer
* Remembering that lady who said that gross thing about kids
* You will never play in the NBA, baby
* Zone of Interest redux, briefly
* The Ann Landers portion begins
* Should I stop being an academic and become a cop who lurks on dating apps?
* The anti-Semitic date
* I can’t be brave and call bullshit. So what do I do?
* Well, it all depends
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#456 - Hoops, Sneks, and Very Bad Doctors (w/ Aaron Sibarium)
* The most serious race controversy of 2024: that lady basketball player
* “I mean, I've been a huge fan of Blackpink for years and I've never heard a single one of their songs.:
* Snek and the Supreme Court
* Everyone's wife is Ginny Thoma
* The defense rests
* Local news and crappy journalists
* In defense of…Marilyn Mosby?
* Israel and the ICC
* Enter Sibarium: the UCLA Medical School controversy
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#455 - Debate Me, Joe
* At a party
* At Fenway
* Losers (which is apparently already a show)
* Jake, Dana, Donald, and Joe
* Cui bono?
* How Joe wins
* How Donald wins
* The NY trial continues…
* Mitt Romney would pardon DT
* “Attacked our legal system”
* The new Noem
* Post-Donald, where does the party go?
* How goes it in Ukraine?
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