460 episodes
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
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Members Only #219 - Pronunciation Racism and the Triumph of Mentally Ill
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* HOF weekend
* The Talented Ms. Jewhater
* Notes from the RNC
* The black Republicans who don’t care about ideology
* The 33 person BBQ in North Milwaukee
* Losing their religion
* The Great Resignation
* “She’s not Joe Biden on foreign policy, buy who is…”
* Why they hate us
* There’s no Kamala bump
* More Project 2025 nonsense
* The rise of the mentally ill pundit
* To win, Dems… -
#437 - Alive from the RNC!
Moynihan calls in from GOP Ground Zero in Milwaukee. Kmele threatens to dish about Silicon Valley support for Donald Trump. Welch only slurs as much as Reince Preibus. Topics include J.D. Vance’s political philosophy, Joe Biden’s deteriorating public appearances, and—as ever—Kmele’s mangled naughty bits. Who the hell knows when the Adderall shortage will kick in, but we’re squeezing the last drops out of Moynihan’s productivity before the vape-seizures finally do him in. Let’s gooooo!!!!
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Members Only #218 - Second Sunday Rebroadcast (Assassination Edition)
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A rebroadcast of our increasingly popular Second Sunday edition, during which you, the listener, get to interact with the Fifth, berate them, flatter them, hit on them, and endlessly praise their wisdom and prescience. And thanks to all of you who showed up this week…so many, in fact, that we were forced to pay Zoom to increase the number of attendees. … -
#436 - Forget It. Joe Biden Has Been Cured Of Being Super Old
The lads make it through Biden’s presser, watch a bit of state television after, listen to the Mike Tyson’s Punch Out soundtrack, and limbo below the lowest bar in the history of low bars.
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Members Only #217 - ☑ The Flag of the Fifth ☑
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* Wizards of Transnistria
* Checking the box
* A festival of freedom?
* More old stuff
* France and the media
* Brain dead v. Hitler
* It didn’t end in 2008, but it proved a lot
* What a dictator is… and isn’t
* An accent free pass
* The best video ever: F**k you bloody -
#462 - SCOTUS Interruptus (w/ Damon Root)
It’s an Independence Day Miracle (if a few days delinquent). As another US Supreme Court term draws to a close, we tap in with our favorite SCOTUS obsessive, Damon Root (currently Freethink/Big Think, previous Reason, and author of books you really should buy).
We discuss Presidential absolute immunity, Chevron deference, the pitiful state of SCOTUS journalism, and the obviously-super-serious effort in the US Congress to impeach/pack/scorn the highest court in the land on account of its *various crimes against democracy* (or something like that).ALSO: Frederick Douglass's on Independence Day… and Juneteenth?!
“With flowing ROBES, grace, bald, striking.”
- (Caddyshack - 1980)
* Supreme Court and Presidential Powers
* Chevron Deference, Executive Authority, and Legislative Inaction
* Checks. Balances.
* Judicial Perspectives on Recent Cases
* Social Media and the First Amendment
* Supreme Court's Conservative Majority
* Frederick Douglass and American Ideals
* Channeling Frederick Douglass (for Juneteenth)
Recorded: June 3rd 2024Published: June 7th 2024
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Customer Reviews
Sanity and Common Sense
Title says it all. Well done guys!
News content thinner than a bulimic
I’d call it a circle jerk, but Kmele always seems to hog all the lotion to himself. In fact, I encourage him to continue giving TEDx talks in front of his mirror (a la Narcissus) at home and leave it to M&M to give their more historically-informed analyses of current events. If you took a 90 minute show, removed all the laugh track filler, and boiled it down to true news editorial content, you’d produce a fantastic and engaging 20-30 minute show. Can’t wait until AI can do just that for me. To those in the reviews complaining about Michael filibustering though… at least he’s the clever one.
Used to be good
It’s turned into too much Michael over talking and rambled mumbling over everyone. Kmele and Matt do not stand a chance in his overtalk and all about Michael attitude. What use to great discussions is now paywalls and rambling. If podcast is your business find a new career!