The Fifth Column

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
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The Fifth Column

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. #485 - The Fire This Time

    HÁ 4 DIAS

    #485 - The Fire This Time

    * Black Bill Kristol * Nobody beats the Rizz * Stealing Greenland * Yet another horrible big city mayor * When you love Castro, you are obviously an incompetent moron * Forget it, Matt. It's Chinatown * More on the 🔥 * Is big city governance killing progressivism? * Your lying eyes * Elon’s Nazis * Mark Zuckerberg and “winning” on free speech * The end of corporate walkout culture * January 6 pardons and pizzagate crazy person gunned down * Hobo stabs thug 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

    1h54min
  2. Members Only #243 - Pox Blankets, Political Cartoons, Poor Parenting

    6 DE JAN.

    Members Only #243 - Pox Blankets, Political Cartoons, Poor Parenting

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Lia the diva * The era of athlete actors * Moynihan correction: It was Bubba Smith in Police Academy. Dick Butkus was in Police *Story*. * I want to make fun of my boss * Awful political cartoons * More on progressive schools * Are you a hypocrite, MM? * Reflections on Jimmy Carter, DPRK fan * The neo-neocons? * The vibe shift and the sense of the heroic (says MAGA Matt) * Matt…

    17min
  3. #484 - Pumps, Converts, Fatwas, and Ex-Presidents

    2 DE JAN.

    #484 - Pumps, Converts, Fatwas, and Ex-Presidents

    * No more Bobby * No resolutions * Pump it up: The bionic podcast host * New Year’s terror in NOLA and Vegas * The military connection that doesn’t matter * The advent of “car ramming” * In celebration of Chaim Sapir * Forgotten terror * When Charlie destroyed our faith in the media class * Jimmy Carter’s awful op-ed * Erasing Islamism * Revisiting Rushdie * Getting scammed by the “truth” people * Broken kneecap policing 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

    1h28min
  4. Members Only #242 - The Emo Episode

    30/12/2024

    Members Only #242 - The Emo Episode

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * An episode that takes a break from politics? * Stars, tardigrades, and microscopy * Race in space * Matt and Moyn watch “A Complete Unknown,” come to different conclusions * Phantom and 40mg * AI’s take on this section: “Listener emails prompt discussions on art, personal struggles, and growth during the holidays.” * Books for young men searching…. * Can The Man Who Shot L…

    17min
  5. #483 - The Christmas Cromnibus and a Slow Boat to Mauritius

    20/12/2024

    #483 - The Christmas Cromnibus and a Slow Boat to Mauritius

    * Pivot to Zoom * Rereading books * The ex-presidents * “It’s 1,547 pages of unreadable garbage. Every year, it’s like Christmas." * Chip the RHINOOOOOO * Elon’s Political Fantasy Camp! * Is Trump losing his power to threaten? * The end of AOC? * Before his own inevitable perp walk, Mayor Adams does a hot assassin perp walk * Insurance companies redux * Kmele is a bad drinker * Don Jr. trades up * Barron is everyone’s boyfriend 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

    1h42min
  6. Members Only #241 - Tinder Trotskyists, Siouxsie and the Nazis, When We Were Kings

    16/12/2024

    Members Only #241 - Tinder Trotskyists, Siouxsie and the Nazis, When We Were Kings

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * If you think it’s expensive now, wait until it’s free * Unpersuasive persuasion * How race is like probiotic soda * Ends and means * "If one killing is justified, where do you draw the line—10,000? A million?" * Siouxsie and the Nazis / Bill Grundy * Tinder Trotskyists * More “memoirs about trauma and identity” * ‘Oh, they’re taxing us, let’s go murder people.’ * 23andme and Zor…

    24min
  7. #482 - Centrism Kills (w/ Josh Barro)

    12/12/2024

    #482 - Centrism Kills (w/ Josh Barro)

    * The Daniel Penny verdict * REinstitutionalization * When should the state involuntarily commit? * Remember, she was a very bad candidate * The great exhale * Joe and the Squad * A fake Portuguese guest * Barro blowback? * On the Substack revolution * The repulsive Luigi Mangioni * The failed Kaczynski * And much more! 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

    1h50min
  8. Members Only #240 - One Hitter: Taylor Supports the Death Penalty

    06/12/2024

    Members Only #240 - One Hitter: Taylor Supports the Death Penalty

    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 to the Fifth Column One Hitter! In our inaugural episode, Matt and Moyn get pissed off about the hideous reaction from certain very online cretins to the awful murder of Uni…

    6min
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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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  • Criado por
    Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
  • Anos de atividade
    2010 - 2025
  • Episódios
    503
  • Classificação
    Explícito
  • Copyright
    © The Fifth Column
  • Site do podcast
    The Fifth Column

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