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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.
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Members Only #191 - Can We Be Trusted? (Ummm...)
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* A shooting in the hood
* The Oakland Politburo speaks. The world is appalled.
* The free speech issue vs. the university infection
* Knowing nothing but propaganda
* Gaza Facebook is pretty wild
* Sir Humphrey says: “This is the most insane answer ever”
* What Epstein got right. And you gotta bring Bill Clinton
* A weird story about Hillary’s shushing
* UFO nonsense
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#432 - Worse Than Hitler (A Fifth Column Thanksgiving!)
Family beckons. Booze beckons. So we’re going to forgo the bullet points that we’re pretty sure you don’t read anyway and just say…Happy Thanksgiving, from your friends at the Fifth! And while you shamelessly celebrate genocide, listen along while the lads bemoan the racism of the Black Plague; the deadline to file charges against Kmele; the quote-invention of ChatGPT; the hostage deal in Israel; and the extreme awfulness of Holocaust historians Joe Scarborough, Mike Brzezinski, and Claire McCaskill.
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Members Only #190 - Tantric Drummers for Freedom
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* Javier Milei, tantric drummer
* The hideousness of modern Peronism
* A brief digression on Aerosmith
* So how did we all meet?
* Start fighting, Moynihan
* Another digression on Sam Altman’s awfulness (two examples now available at Moynihan’s Instagram)
* When Israel decided against killing the entire leadership of Hamas
* Well, they tried anyway
* Fiction that changed our lives
* I don’t want to read about who I am and where I came from
* Another Fifth drinking game
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#430 - The TikTok Jihad w/ Mary Katharine Ham
* Live from Oakland
* Sex strikes
* Loving OBL
* Stop deconstructing stuff
* Seeing your friends spinout online…
* They’re not sending anyone anywhere
* Drunk Kathy Hochul and her bad, drunk ideas
* Not drunk Nikki Haley and her bad ideas
* Hate speech isn’t a thing in America
* Israel and propaganda
* MKH on evangelicals, Israel, and the supposed “left behind” vision of Zionism
* TikTok you don’t stop
* And so much more!
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Members Only #189 - "Thank You for the A-Bomb" (Second Sunday Rebroadcast)
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* “She’s reasonable in person” (🤔)
* In praise of…Estonia
* Are any expressly political comedians funny?
* Meetings interrupted by death
* Listener question: On the 1619 Project
* Indonesian guys loves America, nuclear weapons
* Family friends with Carlos the Jackal
* Israel asks: “Kmele, what should we do?”
* Stars and Bucks (Correction: Bethlehem not Ramallah)
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#429 - The Kevin Hart Resource Curse
* One hell of a night, one brutal morning
* Kevin Hart kills
* Judy Gold and college comedy
* The Washington Post says sorry for being mean to Hamas
* Be brave, get fired?
* There’s been a bunch of recent Islamist attacks in the West, actually
* New York City’s hate crimes leader board
* The pointless Republican debate
* Vivek is the worst (and also was kinda good for three seconds)
* Reaganism without Reagan (and Bannon’s Reagan film)
* Only in New York, kids
* Trust the kids, kids
* Teaching about vs. proselytizing for…
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Customer Reviews
Burp swallower
If MM would swallow half as many words as he swallows burps( and this is true) as he would say. Then this would be a much better podcast.
Getting a bit, meh
It’s the same talking point, over and over and over and over again. I mostly agree with them about that issue, but hearing about it for 90 minutes is a bit too depressing to be entertaining. The shows where they read all the creepy messages that their fans email them are pretty funny though.
Insufferable blowhards
The President and JPierre were quoting the FBI Re the danger of white supremacist violence in US. You know that.
Your constant self congratulatory belligerence & arrogance along with ur regurgitated half truths simply disqualify your blathering assertions & do the very thing that you decry on the left
~it would all just be boring but in these dangerous days it is incredibly irresponsible