The Fifth Column

By: 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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Episodes
  • #488 - By Order of the MAGAstate

    #488 - By Order of the MAGAstate
    Feb 1 2025

    * First class mud hobbit

    * At the 80th in Poland

    * An executive flurry

    * The interrogation of RFK

    * In defense of pharma

    * The interrogation of Kash Patel

    * Give us Greenland, Part 32

    * Overreach on DEI?

    * Frozen budgets

    * Getting the win

    * Is *this* the art of the deal?

    * Why were the JFK/RFK/MLK files held back?

    * And what will we find therein…

    * The most annoying Kennedy

    * Trusting Deepseek

    * Has the press learned its lesson?



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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Members Only #246 - Premature Denazification

    Members Only #246 - Premature Denazification
    Jan 27 2025
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    * Moynihan in Poland (Katya stole his mic)

    * Ronalda Reagana

    * Know a Nowa Huta

    * Onward to Auschwitz

    * Maybe don’t speak to the far-right German party?

    * Axis of anti-Woke

    * Unimpressed with nation-states

    * The Best Black History Month Report, EVER

    * Lia vs. MLK Part II

    * Rufo’s Sore "Winning"

    * Activism vs. Truth

    * Our “Blind spot”

    * Yellow/Blue Dress Explained

    * YOUR Outrage (Not Mine)

    * Ove…
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • #487 - A Symphony of Horror

    #487 - A Symphony of Horror
    Jan 23 2025

    * The Zombies reunion

    * Edibles and expressionism

    * A ghost on the knee

    * Who needs a desk when democracy’s dead?

    * Outage equality

    * Don’t ever integrate?

    * Segregation redux

    * Why Steve hates Elon

    * Those terrible oligarchs

    * Who needs the Constitution when we have executive orders?

    * The Jan 6 pardons: a disagreement

    * The art of the overcharge

    * Ross Ulbricht goes home



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    1 hr and 56 mins

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Yup

They're not idiots, though their shared perspective lessens their worth to me. God's a good dude.

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