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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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#511 - Iran on the Brink, NYC on the Brink (w/ Harry...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/06/20

Two episodes in one! First, the lads discuss Iran, the legacy of the Iraq War, and MAGA’s internecine battles over foreign policy. And then Harry Siegel, the great chronicler of New York City politics, stops by to answer that hugely important question: will the financial capital of the world, the city with the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, soon be governed by an anti-capitalist weirdo who thinks that “globalize the intifada” is just another way of saying “give peace a chance”? This is

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62:38

#510 - BONUS EPISODE - The View from Israel (w/ Nadav...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/06/14

Moynihan and Welch talk to Nadav Eyal, senior columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth and one of Israel’s most prominent (and best-sourced) journalists. Typically, we would keep a bonus episode like this one behind the paywall. We were feeling generous today. But never rely on our continued generosity. So subscribe, cheapskate! * Meetings cancelled, meetings kept* How the attack on Iran unfolded* James Bond is a Jew* Taking out the IRGC leadership and partially neutering Iran’s missile capabilities* Was

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78:54

#509 - The Rise of the Knuckleheads (w/ Sen. Rand Paul)

The Fifth Column ·

2025/06/12

Senator Rand Paul joins the lads to lament the big, beautiful bill; the big beautiful Soviet military parade; the Twitter halfwits waging war on him; his party’s descent into populist voodoo economics; whether or not he’s an advocate of “open borders”; and what he makes of Marines on the streets of Los Angeles. After the senator leaves, Foster, Moynihan, and Welch stick around to discuss…all those same issues. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get

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78:02

#508 - The Breakup Episode

The Fifth Column ·

2025/06/06

* A grim anniversary* Elon’s brilliant troll* The big, ugly bill * Bannon tells the truth. But is still a liar* How dare they attack their attacker??* They have cards* Asymmetric and immoral * Changing minds…by human sacrifice* The blackest propaganda* The New York Times v. Palantir* And much, much more This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

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20:45

Members Only #252 - For Our Girls (The Message)

The Fifth Column ·

2025/06/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* ABBA’s Vietnam* Barnen i Nicaragua* Mike Tyson, Ratso, and Cus the Communist* Burning down the house / sort of scolded by a firefighter * The rent is too damn free* Everyone is contemptuous of everyone * Is Trump the Bernie Goetz of Harvard?* Rebutting “higher ed is just fine” revisionism* From YAF to Students for Liberty to Turning Point…* Dating apps, height discrimina…

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68:11

#507 - Trans Pee Wee and Tariffed Dresses

The Fifth Column ·

2025/05/30

* Racist Macca?* Some bad names* In praise of (trans?) Pee Wee* Does Long Duck Dong denounce his past?* Was that a Reaganite video game?* Trade war nonsense: the court says…maybe not* Moynihan’s $700 dress (including a $250 tariff) * Kmele on CNN* The end of Elon* Just like Reagan and Thatcher but not all* No suspects, no DNA, no fingerprints, no leads * MI:7 DEI This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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20:18

Members Only #251 - I Learned It from Watching Nick...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/05/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* We think we *might* have talked about politics in this episode?* Happy anniversary Christian Cooper! * Talking to the dude who made those drug PSAs* The Glug (1981)* 2020: The year that broke America* Burning down the house (almost) * The tax protestor in our midst* Johnny Rotten, Johnny Ramone, the Plastic People, and the politics of punl* Nick of Schumpeterian Gatsby…

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86:26

#506 - Kill the White People

The Fifth Column ·

2025/05/22

* The ritual humiliation white genocide slide show!* That’s not really true. But it doesn’t really matter, does it?* Trolling with refugees* That Mandela picture MM mentioned…* Uncle Paul * “Well do you DENOUNCE that language? Huh? Huh? Did you even say thank you??”* The big, not-so-beautiful bill* The trillion dollar dome* Gaza and the “14,000”* Our Original Sin and Korean Robert* When did he lose it?* That Christie clip is actually six years old. But here it is. This is a public episode. If you'd

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98:02

#505 - A Saudi Summit. A Delaware Freakoff.

The Fifth Column ·

2025/05/15

* Jack London and hobo Oakland* The lovely government of Qatar* Trump in Saudi* A carnival of corruption* Chasing heroes…* The end of the “introventionalists”* But do they *fear* him?* The new Chomskyites * Declining freedom…* Trump’s fat, rich friend who wants price controls* The triumph of gesture politics* Black Leo This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

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73:00

UNLOCKED: David Zweig, on How Media and Public Health...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/05/14

You demanded, we complied. Last month in this space, I interviewed science/technology/Covid journalist David Zweig about his great new book, An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions. It was a bracing conversation, filled with damning media/elite criticism, blue-state horrors, and F-bombs galore.Then a funny thing happened: Dozens of you wonderful paying subscribers said Mr. Welch, tear down this paywall, so we can share this with our normie friends! And so I

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18:30

Members Only #250 - What’s the Frequency, Papist?

The Fifth Column ·

2025/05/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* The Bill Bixby of East Egg* Figure it out, people * Solitude: City vs. Country (not a reference to the Jonathan Richman song, btw)* Allemansrätten and who makes the most money in your postal code* Jawohl CHEF!* Banning internships will help the poor* “Worse than Watergate” and the Ballad of G. Gordon Liddy* How does one start restoring a car * The brilliance of our mod…

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115:49

#504 - N-Bombs and Real Bombs

The Fifth Column ·

2025/05/08

* Notes from a live event (going live later today) * Fifdom represents* Spotify exposes!* RIP Swampy* India, Pakistan, and the American retreat* Ending power, hard and soft* Marjorie Taylor Chomsky * Israeli endgame* Portnoy’s NYT complaint* Piers Springer and the forbidden word* Don’t give money to meth head Nazis who yell at babies This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

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Members Only #259 - Tariffed into Chastity

The Fifth Column ·

2025/05/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* Tickets for tomorrow’s Moynihan-moderated debate at the Village Underground can be purchased here! And subscribe to the Moynihan Report YouTube channel!* Winnipeg land acknowledgements* Prison competition* Tariffs for erotic French movies* Traitorous Hollywood not paying enough to make movies* A listener wants to talk about Steph Curry * Rare books* Lying on the fact…

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130:56

#503 - Mea Minima Culpa

The Fifth Column ·

2025/05/03

They’re all back. And they recorded a very fun, very long one…during the day…to minimize drunken regrets. So many topics are covered—the Koch brother, the last episode, bad interviewers, bad manners, the strange new media, the strange new Ukraine strategy, exit Walz, etc—that we might as well dispense with the usual bullet points and just get right into it…Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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18:23

Members Only #258 - We Don't Talk About Fight Club...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/05/01

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comMoynihan couldn’t make it (we don’t know where he is, but if you see a shirtless man yelling at a parking meter in lower Manhattan, please let us know). In his absence, Kmele and Welch cover a wide swath: alien oceans and scientific hype cycles, the collapse of local journalism, the rise of YouTube basketball nerds, and why Luka Dončić is the people’s MVP. They also wade into darker waters—federal crackdowns on campus

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125:14

#502 - The Second Battle of Batya (w/ Batya...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/04/24

Errr….This one gets pretty heated. But we’re all still friends! We think. And Moynihan is now sober and his blood sugar is back to normal, so there’s that too. Either way, hats off to Batya for braving another episode with three people who disagree with her on pretty much everything. We talk Tariffs, Trump, lawfare, Ukraine, and everything in between. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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21:10

Members Only #257 - I'll Ruin Everything You Are

The Fifth Column ·

2025/04/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* The Hungarian dentist and the prostitute theory* Your TV wife sees Hitler all the time, no?* Facilitate…* Dinners with politicians * A digression on Big Star (FYI: "Holocaust”)* Elder scams* Apple Watches and proof of life* Back to Rogan and Murray* A trip to Libya for a copy of the Green Book* #9 Fifth Dream * Doing an impression of a smart person / Paul believes* A theory …

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18:48

Members Only #256 -- How Media and Public Health...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/04/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comOn May 11, 2020, as I was navigating personal collapse (“it’s been a really shitty two months,” I said on an interesting-to-listen-to-now Special Dispatch #20), my two daughters were wrestling unhappily with Zoom school, and all three of us lads were in the process of buying Covid cars, I came across a Wired article that landed like a Cher-style open-ha…

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#501 - Due Process in Scare Quotes (w/ Jesse Singal)

The Fifth Column ·

2025/04/18

Moynihan is out with a “tooth thing” (which sounds lame, but is allegedly a “painful,” “very serious” dental emergency that definitely doesn't involve a tall, attractive blonde woman). Fortunately, our pal Jesse Singal (Blocked and Reported, Singal-Minded) is along for the ride, and outlines the plans for his heroic crusade to save THE REPUBLIC by beefing with JD Vance on X. We dive into Trump 2.0’s extra-constitutional improvisations, fail to steer clear of trade policy, and search desperately for

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102:32

#500 - The Triumph of the Idiots

The Fifth Column ·

2025/04/10

Is this episode 500?? Well, not really. Likely a bit higher. There have been some numbering convention mixups over the years and we’ve also recorded almost 300 paywalled episodes (yes, you should subscribe now, ya skinflints). But let’s just pretend it’s 500 and say…happy 500th episode, Fifth Column! * Waymo through skid row* The dumb right* Dead cats bounce* They took brown doublewides from us* Nixon, but in the open * Where are the Dems?* Besides magic* The DEI trade off?* The sweet meteor of

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