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. Let's Rally Together and U****k America (w/ John Avlon) - #543

    2D AGO

    Let's Rally Together and U****k 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

    1h 36m
  2. Triumph of the Grift (Members Only #299)

    4D AGO

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

    JAN 30

    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

  4. JAN 29

    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 -F**k 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

    1h 27m

  5. JAN 27

    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 -F**k 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

  6. JAN 24

    One Hitter: Another ICE Shooting In Minneapolis with Peter Moskos (Members Only #297)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com One topic in the news. One quick podcast on that single topic (rather than just texting each other about how certain media figures are vulgar, stupid, and morally depraved). Welcome back to the Fifth Column One Hitter! In the hours after ICE shot and killed Alex Pretti, we gathered at the studio to sit down with Peter Moskos: former police officer, current John Jay…

    17 min

  7. JAN 22

    Trump Would Do Anything For Greenland (But He Won't Do That) - #541

    •Don Does Davos•I Would Do Anything for Greenland (But I Won’t Do That)•Even MAGA Thought the Norway Text Was Fake News•The Danes’ Historical Resistance to Fascism•A Lament for the Belgian Congo•Cutting a Greenland Cake, and the Epidemic of Stupidity•Who the Fuck Is “We”?•Congress Could Do Something That Isn’t Impeachment•Shame Doesn’t Work•Past the Point of Passivity•Punching a Transtifa Baby•Macron and Those Beautiful Sunglasses•Carney Invokes Václav Havel: Rupture, Not Transition•Middle Powers, Beta Powers•Soleimani in Iceland•China Is Asshole•The Man Is F*****g Old and Loves His Prizes•Breaking: Strange Victory, Strange Defeat•Letter Bag: Minneapolis•Get Out of the Fucking Churches•The Abbott & Costello Theory of Government Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifthdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 8PM 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 48m

  8. JAN 20

    Football, Billy Joel, Van Halen, and the Fact-Checkable Life (w/ Chuck Klosterman) - Members Only #296

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Chuck Klosterman’s new book, Football is out now! (See also The Nineties, and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs) -The music-doc cinematic universe, featuring Billy Joel and Japanese Jimmy Page -Moynihan missed the Morrissey cover-band boat -How to actually say Klosterman -From pop culture to America’s most popular TV show -It had to be football: the one exception …

    21 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
    618
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © The Fifth Column
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