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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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21:47

Destroy All Robots…Before They Destroy US (w/ Andy...

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2025/12/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comAndy Mills joins to discuss his new Longview podcast, The Last InventionThe last invention is…a new speciesHumanity’s coming “hinge moment”Doomers v. Accelerationists v. ScoutsWe are the antsWhen Elon warned ObamaA digital God in a silicon boxHave AI’s creators created something they don’t understand?BubblesWas DOGE a backdoor to replacing government with AI?We’re all go…

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18:47

Members Only #288 (LIVE in Los Angeles) - American...

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2025/11/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comYou asked for it, you got it! A session with just Matt, Michael, and Kmele… plus 200 of their closest friends. It’s The Fifth Column recorded LIVE in Burbank (just like Fleetwood Mac) on Sunday, November 23, 2025. Want early access to the next live show (and full access to this episode)? It’s easy: become a paid subscriber!•The Klonopin Diaries•Cover Ma…

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20:16

Members Only #287 - Hoarding Epstein’s Emails, Band...

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2025/11/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comCheck out Jason Leopold’s FOIA Files newsletter, and the new Disclosure podcast•Steve Albini never had to deal with California fires•Like a baby monitor, but for records•This is a Fugazi t-shirt•The trouble with true Norwegian black metal•All hail Metal Mike•Jason Leopold, FOIA terrorist•There’s always work at the post office•CIA man•New York financier …

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66:40

#534 - Even the Mayor Says L.A. Isn’t Well Governed...

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2025/11/25

• Not safe at home, mayoral edition• “The guns were decades old”• The Trump/Mamdani bromance• The administration’s historic post-fire response• “You’re walking down the street, you happen to look Latino, or somebody hears you speak Spanish. A car rushes up in front of you. Masked men jump out with rifles and throw you in the car”• What does “sanctuary city” actually mean?• Like, no really, what does it mean?• “You know, that’s a good question”• “There’s a number of people who have literally

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68:22

#533 - Moynihan vs. Moynihan (w/ Lydia Moynihan)

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2025/11/20

* The Doppelgänger* Where do these Moynihans come from?* The journalism disease* You do not want to get a call from the New York Post* From schadenfreude to envious cruelty* Covering the powerful* What is “social proof?”* The Epstein obsession* Incompetence defeats the deep state* Epstein and language inflation* Representing the Trump voter* MTG’s difficulty with economics* Everyone’s difficulty with economics* Let’s get a Juul and watch Beetlejuice* She’s young. He’s not. But they both hate the

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21:59

Members Only #286 - Atheist in a Foxhole (w/...

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2025/11/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comWe are joined by journalist, author, filmmaker, and chainsaw-wielder Sebastian Junger. His latest book In My Time of Dying is a touching reflection on death… and what might follow. Paid subscribers get access to this and hundreds of other Members Only episodes.•You can always start drinking again•Enough to make ⅔ of these grown men cry•Sebastian’s (most…

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104:55

#532 - Trinnies, Joy Bells, and Race Pride (w/ Abby...

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2025/11/13

* The dog hasn’t barked* He knew about the girls. But we *knew* that* So what, if anything, do these emails prove?* Conspiracies, anomalies, pornography* That’s a bad, no good, awful Times headline* Enter Abby Phillip* The battle of the Caribbean* We couldn’t afford to fail* A distinct lack of psychopaths and Holocaust deniers* I care too much….* Abby’s Jesse Jackson book* Abby: Sorry Kmele, racism is real and structural* TV, before the echo chamber?* When dehumanization turns into pride* A French,

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24:57

Members Only #285 - The Case For American Power (w/...

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2025/11/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comIt’s release day for Shadi Hamid’s new book, The Case For American Power, and we’re excited to have him back on The Fifth. Paying subscribers get access to the full interview in audio & video (plus literally hundreds more), and help us do what we do, so… In this episode: * Shadi makes the “case for American power”* A love letter to America, “despite all its faults”* Mor…

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#531 - Liberal of Fox News, Unite! (w/ Jessica Tarlov)

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2025/11/06

We’re joined by Jessica Tarlov, co-host of The Five on Fox News, and Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway. •Among the cons •What does it all mean? •Over performance. Under performance •AOC’s war •What if the people who you want to destroy are the same people who ensure your existence? •You can afford to live here. Just not *here* •How to moderate a trans debate •The USDA wants you to stop mutilating kids so America can sell soybeans •Oh SNAP and guess what I saw… •“Affordability” for Smith College

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18:32

Members Only #284 - Pod Save The Queen (The Fascist...

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2025/11/04

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com• Don’t mess with the Zoran• The opacity of hope• Inspiration is overrated• Wait, what if none of these proposals actually work…• The return of identity politics?• Is offline politics “additive, human, humane, and empathetic?”• The Dem doom loop• The online left vs. Jon Lovett vs. reality• Purity tests, left and right• The one thing that didn’t shock Hillary Clinton• Harvey Milk died so you could be governor• The right

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107:54

#530 - They Don't Care About Us

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2025/10/30

* We are now alone / He’s out of our life* The Republican rebels?* Announcing a Fifth Column live show in LA! Subscribers get first crack!* Prediction: a stadium full of lusty boos for Matt Welch* Cuomo’s nonexistent campaign* The Truth and Armpits Party* On Zohran’s vaunted “political instincts”* If the cops rough you up in Queens, it’s because the Jews told them to do it* A “brilliant” campaign of easy promises* The thrill of being in love with a politician again* In destroying both parties, they

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20:16

Members Only #283 - Putin on the Fritz (w/ Ambassador...

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2025/10/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Russia, has a new book…- The disaster of Russia- Trump’s evolving views on Putin (and Nigel’s…and Georgia’s…)- When McFaul met Putin…in 1991- Was the Maidan uprising an American-sponsored coup?- It’s not about NATO- From boring technocrat to a nationalist, imperialist ideologue- What does Putin believe?- Vlad the flat taxer - He’s not a Bolshevik- A crook, sure. But an ideological

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81:27

#529 - I Don’t Want You to Go to Jail for That,...

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2025/10/23

•Who subscribes to the New York Post?•One Battle After Another Redux•Myrna Opsahl and other deep cuts•F. Lee Bailey, legal consultant•Fawn Hall Gate•Double secret Nazis•Second Amendment People•The one on the right is on the left•Rehabilitation of the American radical•Omnibombers of the 1970s•I beg your pardon•An x-ray into Donald Trump’s soul•Hunter Biden & presidential power•From Whitewater to Russiagate•Jeffrey’s mea culpa•Trump’s Venezuelan boat strikes vs. Obama’s drone program•”I’m not black,

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11:53

Members Only #282 – There Will Be Spoilers (One...

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2025/10/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comRooting against the dancing Irish poorDoes One Battle After Another “whitewash left-wing violence?”LOTS OF SPOILERS, FYIIn praise of Bullitt-esque car chases…The Lockjaw cartoonThe genius of Jim DowneyMatt is hemophobicRight-wing SNLCould you reverse the politics of OBAA?Leo’s character is basically an old-school DSA guyCan there be a subtle conservative film?The best 9/11 film was a film about a French guy in a

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21:43

Members Only #281 - When You've Eaten the Poison, You...

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2025/10/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comCheck out Jake Adelstein’s new book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin•A Japanese literacy test•Chvalry is not dead•They don’t teach you how to drink in J school•The Ansel Elgortification of Jake Adelstein•The Yakuza throw a killer Halloween party•Lions, and Tigers and Joe Gallo•The Yakuza’s pension plan•What’s with the penis enlargement ads?•For relaxing times, make it Suntor…

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#528: President Comacho Delivers Peace, w/ Mary...

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2025/10/15

* Misgendering Fox News* Wait, Michael was at a dinner?* Kmele tries to pronounce Normally* “Clearly we don’t fucking prepare”* “The last time I was with you guys, we were in a much smaller, darker room and I got very drunk”* Trump brings the hostages back …* … then emcees a roast* Somebody tell Bill Kristol!* A little bit psycho vs. the UN bitching at the Jews* 9/11 is a joke?* Little Marco’s big moment* Kash Patel’s shirt-coin* Trump = 1998 Democrat?* Never go full Bulworth* Debate prep for

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Members Only #280 - Megyn Kelly Blowback, Principled...

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2025/10/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com•One Battle After Another•Kmele’s hot take that will bring ruin to Hollywood•Separating the art from John Cusack•The kinship of Susan Sarandon & Mao Zedong•It’s not the dead kid that is most unsettling part of Stand By Me•Amity, as you know, means friendship•No dick at the Old Vic•The humbling of Russell Brand•Confidence is a preference for the habitual…

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101:25

#527 - War is Over (If Hamas Wants It)

The Fifth Column ·

2025/10/09

* Subscribe to our YouTube channel already!* A shirt full of toothpaste* Whiskey in a jar* Your dumb, complaining emails* A roundtable of cranks and weirdos* Happy 100 year anniversary Antifa!* People. People. It ain’t fascism. And it ain’t ISIS.* Wait, Twitter IS real life!!!!!!* The long shadow of 2020* Remembering Seattle’s WASP autonomous zone* Ted Cruz’s hoop dreams* Sammy Hagar vs. the government shutdown* Should we tariff Canadian stunt pilots?* Death to the paper tigers!* We’re cautiously

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99:45

UNLOCKED: Russ Roberts, on the Weight of History &...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/10/07

Last month, after years of you people begging us, we finally had on the great Russ Roberts—author, educator, and proprietor of the phantasmagorically influential podcast EconTalk. The extremely wide-ranging conversation, whose pre-Pivot-to-Video video is available to Never Fly Coach subscribers, one of the most could you please unpaywall this so I can share it? episodes in recent memory, and so here we are.You SAID you wanted to share this. So share this! Pretty please?* Russ’s drinks by the pool

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Members Only #279 - Behind the Scenes With Kanye West...

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2025/10/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comThe Fifth Column’s resident Kanye aficionado Kmele Foster sits down with Nico Ballesteros, director of In Whose Name?, a 100% verité documentary that follows Kanye West over the course of six tumultuous years. Just 18 years-old when the project began, and shooting on an iPhone, Ballesteros spent 15 hours a day recording every aspect of Kanye’s life from…

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