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
Hosts & Guests
America will die
Feb 17
These guys keep getting paid. We’ve done it!
Shut Michael Moynihan’s mouth
2d ago
He talks way too much and has a very partisan agenda. You never learn anything from him or his propaganda.
I’ve had enough
Feb 26
It would be a decent show without Moynihan. He rambles and mumbles with run on sentences so much you lose track of what the guy’s point is. Learn to be concise and use periods!
Makes me laugh out loud
12/16/2024
Funny, smart guys making each other laugh while talking politics. What’s not to love?
It’s getting worse
Jan 31
I can’t see why people pay for this content. They appear to have little or no preparation. Sure, it is funny at times, and I do like Kmele is a deep thinker, but there is very little quality in most episodes despite the length of one hour or more. Michael and Matt represent the old view on too many subjects and unfortunately are out of touch with anyone who is not an NYC, big city, materialist type.
Love Show, but Health Care
12/16/2024
Amazing show! I love the insight and think I’m indeed a libertarian! I had to cringe however when you suggested insurance companies should have a bigger hand in health care. Yes doctors make money, but those in contract with insurance companies have no say in what they charge for services and if a patient’s insurance won’t pay, the doctor cannot provide the service for cash. State services barely pay for the lights and staff. I could go on. I just suggest more digging on this one. It’s practically impossible to privately own a practice now, because insurance companies have so much control.
The Gold Standard of Balanced Political Discussion
11/10/2024
The best political discussion show hands down, make sure you sign up thru substack and pay the Pod tax for the bonus episodes.
Huffing its own farts
12/03/2024
Self satisfied, smug and supercilious hosts and guests are constantly condescending and fast aspersions on others who are actually doing something productive. I guess you have to live in Manhattan or their definition of the right neighborhoods of Brooklyn to appreciate this self serving smarm.
Um
11/17/2024
Seriously, Welch needs to bow out of the podcasting world. Smart guy, good writer, but a terrible speaker. Makes this and Reason Roundtable almost impossible to listen to. They could tighten up the format and talk more policy. They spend a lot of time pretending Moynahan is funny and pretending Foster wants to be on the show. Time to rethink gentlemen. We'll need you over the next four years, so get your show in order.
NPR with more giggling
11/12/2024
I’ve always given new podcasts a few episodes before cancelling. After 20 minutes of the election one, I gave up. 30 seconds in there was something about the facist winning and it was all downhill from there. I’ll never understand the appetite for shows like this or Mark Levins on the right. Smug jerks with simple minded biased views.
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- CreatorKmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
- Years Active2016 - 2025
- Episodes525
- RatingExplicit
- Copyright© The Fifth Column
- Show Website
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