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 Youngest Guy in the Worst Room in America w/ Rep. Maxwell Frost (episode #558)

    17 HR AGO

    The Youngest Guy in the Worst Room in America w/ Rep. Maxwell Frost (episode #558)

    We talk about broken housing markets, broken healthcare, broken Congress, Trump’s corruption, a broken Cuba, Epstein, UAPs, and the tragedy of being a drummer with no place to practice. -Making music is for rich kids now -From jazz drummer to Hillary field organizer -Sandy Hook, March for Our Lives, and the road into politics -Florida’s felon disenfranchisement fight -Guns, swamps, Confederate flags, and talking to people who don’t like you -Florida’s politics are red… its ballot issues are a lot messier. -Gaining political power is easy. Keeping it is the hard part. -The case for going big, whether Congress likes it or not -Housing abundance, rent hikes, and the great pet-fee wars -Donald Trump’s extremely lucrative career in public service -Biden’s DOJ, Brazil’s crackdown, and the problem with accountability theater -Political violence, Trump’s rhetoric, and blaming the victim -UAPs, Epstein files, and the bipartisan hunt for weird stuff -Cuba, war powers, and why Frost doesn’t want another Venezuela-style adventure Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM 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

    1hr 3min
  2. When Everyone Stops Pretending w/ Steven Pinker (Episode #557)

    6 DAYS AGO

    When Everyone Stops Pretending w/ Steven Pinker (Episode #557)

    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 - Steven Pinker on why “common knowledge” is much stranger than it sounds -The social machinery behind weddings, money, and power -How a norm starts to die once someone breaks it and gets rewarded -Trump as the great destroyer of polite restraints -The institutions that lost the authority to enforce trust -How new taboos appear without anyone admitting who created them -T…

    1hr 45min
  3. Robert D. Kaplan on a World Getting Darker (Members Only #320)

    12 MAY

    Robert D. Kaplan on a World Getting Darker (Members Only #320)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com His next book, China Whisperers (out in November), looks at the diplomats, journalists, scholars, and China hands who shaped America’s understanding, and misunderstanding, of its chief geopolitical rival. But we pretty much cover the entire globe in this conversation. -The experts had it coming -Federalists, anti-federalists, and America’s oldest argument …

    20 min
  4. Masquerade of Morons (Episode #556)

    7 MAY

    Masquerade of Morons (Episode #556)

    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 -Kmele gets glasses -The return of Soho legs -Matt’s movie-theater race science -Trump sends a letter to Congress saying the war is over, Iran says, “wtf?” -Little Marco, Fog of War correspondent -A very leaky White House -Strange new respect for the anti-war MAGA set -Little Marco puts the best face on Iran -Welch discovers gas prices -The affordability caucus …

    1hr 24min
  5. Premeditated Fingering w/ Anthony Scaramucci (Members Only #319)

    5 MAY

    Premeditated Fingering w/ Anthony Scaramucci (Members Only #319)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com We’re joined by Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, former White House Communications Director, and one of the more memorable casualties of Trump 1.0 -The Mooch reads the stars -The truth is out there, allegedly -954,000 seconds in the White House -The Ryan Lizza thing, briefly -the reason God made Steve Bannon look like this -Why Bannon scared …

    20 min
  6. David French on the Supreme Court, Race, and the Miracle That Confirmed His Faith #555

    30 APR

    David French on the Supreme Court, Race, and the Miracle That Confirmed His Faith #555

    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 …and how raising a black daughter changed the way he sees America. -David French returns to the Fifth Column -SCOTUS drops of a few ruling -Free speech wins 9-0 (First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Davenport) -The Voting Rights Act gets another trim (Louisiana v. Callais) -Racial gerrymanders vs. political gerrymanders -Smart racists, dumb racists, and …

    1hr 52min
  7. Crimes of Boredom (Members Only #318)

    28 APR

    Crimes of Boredom (Members Only #318)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com After the failed shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the boys sift through bad manifestos, assassination discourse, microlooting, conspiracy politics, and the strange moral permissions of America’s bored radicals. -Matt’s 15-year Werner Herzog hangover workshop -judging the newest failed killer manifesto -America’s stupidest assassination d…

    20 min
  8. Tucker, Totenkopf, and the Fascist Question w/ Michelle Goldberg #554

    23 APR

    Tucker, Totenkopf, and the Fascist Question w/ Michelle Goldberg #554

    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 -have we met before, or did we just share a zip code? -Iran is a disaster from basically every possible angle -you don’t go to war with this president -maybe just crawl back to a worse JCPOA and call it historic -Venezuela “worked,” which is exactly why it made the next disaster easier -take the oil, burn the soft power, call it realism -Europe gets lectured,…

    1hr 25min
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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
    656
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © The Fifth Column
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