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The Fifth Column

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch

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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103:49

#430 - The TikTok Jihad w/ Mary Katharine Ham

The Fifth Column ·

2023/11/18

* 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! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or

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27:32

Members Only #189 - "Thank You for the A-Bomb"...

The Fifth Column ·

2023/11/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* “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)* Why not get a…

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73:54

#429 - The Kevin Hart Resource Curse

The Fifth Column ·

2023/11/12

* 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

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30:15

Members Only #188 - Shine on You Crazy 'Anti-Zionist'

The Fifth Column ·

2023/11/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* Voting for New York judges (and do you have a spare apartment?)* An unsolicited application* Liz Warren warns about the surge of….* Is violent anti-Semitism in the U.S. a real threat?* Explain the progressive-Islamist alliance please…* He has become comfortably dumb* No, it’s not really fishy* Defining war, war crimes, and civilians * The government’s stupid war on (pr…

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109:05

#428 - Poundtowns and Political Pilgrims

The Fifth Column ·

2023/11/02

* Happy birthday Kmele* The girls of the IDF * The lads take a wrong turn, end up in “Poundtown”* In fairness, we didn’t know he did a whole segment on this * So Mike Pence dropped out?* That’s some good polling for Bobby Jr. * When innocents die* Nat Turner’s bloody rebellion * Human shields and asymmetry* Kill ‘em all, says Rep. Brian Mast* Political pilgrims for Hamas* Sorry but nothing after 1917, Matt* And much, much more! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other

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25:46

Members Only #187 - A Break from the Grimness w/...

The Fifth Column ·

2023/10/31

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.comAlong with fellow comedian Ryan Long, Danny Polishchuk is one half of the very funny Boyscast podcast (a favorite of Fifth Column listeners, we are reliably told). Again alongside Ryan Long, Danny is the woke guy in the “When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything” video.” And there’s lots of great solo stuff over at his YouTube channel. Danny s…

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90:43

#427 - Is Cancel Culture Cancellable? (w/ Greg...

The Fifth Column ·

2023/10/27

* On The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution.* The youngest Fif’ and Maher guest.* My how times have changed since 9/11.* The numbers are very, very bad. Bad numbers!* The sudden (and probably temporary) rediscovery of campus neutrality.* Yes, some post-Oct. 7 campus ruckus has been Cancel Culture.* And so, so depressing.* The (surprising!) view from Gen Z.* Millennials are the worst.* Schlott vs. Haidt.* Shut up, bigot.* The

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29:18

Members Only #186 - From the Haganah to Häagen-Dazs

The Fifth Column ·

2023/10/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* An idiot…He wrote this* Condolences to a friend * What is a war crime?* History wars and war crimes* The worst congresswoman went to the worst law school * In defense of Harvard. Sort of. * Defending Panthers and the exhilaration of murderous anti-Semitism* Why no air raid shelters?* Meir Kahane Krunch* Objecting to a guest. We disagree* Karine Jean-Pierre will answer what…

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#426 - w/ Matt Duss - Notes from the Other Side

The Fifth Column ·

2023/10/20

* Hamas and the hospital* Don’t trust and try to verify* Did Israel “create” Hamas?* When there’s no negotiating partner* America’s role in the Middle East* Enter Iran…* Gauging Palestinian public opinion* A massive media failure* One-way root causes* 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 wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe

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33:40

Members Only #185 - Radicalized by Radicals

The Fifth Column ·

2023/10/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* Where are you Ben and/or Jerry?* The radicalization of KF* What it means to be “anti-war”* The radicalization of the universities* Other fronts in the war * Israel, its neighbors, and its assassination program (Note: It was not Shamir who was PM during Operation Opera. It was Begin. Moynihan regrets the error)* Importing anti-Semitism to Europe* No, you can’t go to H…

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58:41

#425 - The Nightmare Scenario (w/ Oren Kessler)

The Fifth Column ·

2023/10/13

A few weeks before the Hamas pogrom, Moynihan was reading Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by the brilliant Israeli-American journalist and historian Oren Kessler. So he called him to talk through the current conflict, its historical antecedents, and how Hamas’s murder spree has effected his family.* RIP Tomer Shoham* The nightmare scenario* “This is good for Hamas”* The “I don’t support it, but you have to understand…” argument* The “occupation” is Tel Aviv

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23:08

Members Only #184 - Zoom Rebroadcast - On the Pogrom...

The Fifth Column ·

2023/10/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com(Editor’s note: about 20 seconds of Comrade Lake’s mic is missing at the very beginning of this recording. It fixes itself soon thereafter. Sorry about that)It’s that time of month (…ummmm….time for a rebroadcast of our Second Sunday Zoom call). As you probably already guessed, we managed just one topic of conversation this time around: the unfolding ho…

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106:34

#424 - w/ Rep. Peter Meijer - McCarthy and His Enemies

The Fifth Column ·

2023/10/06

* Former Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer is back to talk about his insane friends and erstwhile colleagues on the Hill * Peter’s surprising (to us) view of Rep. Matt Gaetz* “I try to see the best in people” (Hmmmmm….)* The gordian knot of polarization* Peter makes the case for [blank] as Speaker…….* Oh wait, he’s kinda serious!* What do any of these people actually believe? * “Oh, I mean, there's horseshoe theory and then there's horseshoe theory…”* Does Peter have an announcement to make?? Maybe??*

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58:49

Members Only #183 - UNLOCKED - K&M Live in Philly

The Fifth Column ·

2023/10/04

* Unrelated non-programming note from Moynihan: “As some of you might recall, and as I mentioned in the intro, last year I beseeched listeners to help my amazing daughter Livia (and her gymnastics team) raise money for pediatric cancer. And last year, you guys came through in such a crazy way that one parent asked me if I was “some sort of cult leader.” I said no. I’m only a cult co-host. So thanks in advance! Oh, and the event is tomorrow!” THE LINK* Back in July, Kmele and Moynihan talked to a

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103:34

#423 w/Josh Szeps - TED, Just Admit It

The Fifth Column ·

2023/10/03

Our old Aussie-Aussie-Aussie-Oi-Oi-Oi pal Josh Szeps, former host of the morning show Wake Up Ya C***s, was in New York this weekend and stopped by the Fifth’s Chinatown headquarters! So we decided to have a few drinks (Ed. note: Josh has lost approximately 600 pounds and is now sober, while Welch and Moynihan are still the same old lazy alcoholics) and argue about how our pal Coleman Hughes was treated by TED…receive a concise primer on the politics of Australia’s “voice” referendum…get an equally

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23:30

Members Only #182 - The Racist Wolf

The Fifth Column ·

2023/09/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* Deion’s audacious blackness* Kevin McHale’s audacious whiteness * Serious Hasan’s baby is covered in cocaine* What everyone hates most is a racist, anti-Asian wolf* Cutting the razor wire because…why not?* Immigration in Europe is different* DOWTCHA BOY! The (Irish?) origins of Jamaican Patois* Is Matt the Harvey Weinstein of the Fifth?* Guess what? There was more to t…

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107:04

#422 - Introducing The Fifth Column Center for...

The Fifth Column ·

2023/09/22

* The sartorial excellence of the Pennsylvania Senate delegation* “Pooping on their shoes” * Kilmeade v. Rosendale (that’s his name)* Kendi and the disappearing millions * Want to demonitize one of your enemies? We have an idea!* A threatening letter from Lady Orwell DBE* The ACLUization of everything * Trump on the Meet the Press* Broadcast needs to “lend democracy a hand?”* Biden is just getting worse* Ron slides further…and new New Hampshire numbers * Defeatism and elitism, mixed * The “moral

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Members Only #181 - From Bob Geldof to Jesus (of...

The Fifth Column ·

2023/09/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* Bob Geldof is the hero of this story* She isn’t the pantless one* Catholics, Kmele and your “best religious experience”* Nick and the Burn* Jamaican names / Wes Anderson movies * Revisiting Less Than Zero* The Hollywood Party v. Walt Disney* A listener has an Amy Cooper question…* The Kendi Center kind of shuts down* NOI in our imagination* Whitedurans wonder what to do ne…

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98:18

#421 - Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

The Fifth Column ·

2023/09/17

* 36 year-old grandmother vapes, feels up Democrat * Shanah Tova!* Russell Brand, who Moynihan wrote about in 2014, is accused of rape* They are coming after the truth tellers, maaaaaannnnnn* Revisiting Hunter’s indictment * Breaking: Biden is confused and sleepy * Trump v. Kelly* I’m the president, so it’s legal…* Ron’s compounding troubles, plummeting poll numbers* Preemptive skepticism * Hasan Minaj is an unfunny fraud This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other

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23:43

Members Only #180 - The Fifth on Zoom! With Ben...

The Fifth Column ·

2023/09/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.comAs Moynihan explains in the intro, this is the Zoom recording from this month’s Second Sunday broadcast. Basically, it’s the difference between a soundboard and audience bootleg. But so it goes. So no bullet points this week—enough time has already been spent on this episode—other than to say that Ben Dreyfuss shows up and we talk about Danny Masterson,…

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