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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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19:12

Members Only #277 - Andy Rooney Hangovers, Nazi...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/09/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* If you’re a Never Fly Coach subscriber, remember that you get to watch the video version of this episode! * The morning after pill and Roy Campanella’s glove* Why does Moynihan look like late-stage Nick Nolte?* Have a SoCal venue suggestion for a Fifth live show?* Comparatively, Alex Jones isn’t that bad (Ed. note: Spoke too soon! Immediately following this rec…

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95:57

#525 - John Spencer Views Explosion

The Fifth Column ·

2025/09/25

Matt and Michael are joined by John Spencer, Executive Director of the Urban Warfare Institute.•Gary Busey and the B-movie military raid on the Turkish Embassy•Bagging and tagging isn’t as bad as it sounds•20/20 De-Baathification•Post 9/11 Islamophilia•The hockey analogy for war with Hamas•Human shielding & bomb shelter inequities•Gaza vs Berlin 1945•Journalism in Gaza•The IDF’s absent PR operation•Starvation, genocide, and Wikipedia•Amalek•Trump’s 180 on Ukraine•Comedian Dave Smith on military

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19:06

Members Only #276 - The Cancelling of an American...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/09/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* Pretty sure FIRE president Greg Lukianoff is the perfect guest for this moment…* A requirement of Judaism* FIRE on fire these days* Come on man, it was the FCC!* My husband got Kimmel fired!* The latest campus free speech ranking* FYI, lots of dumb young people are cool with political violence* Is does the university have a psycho incubation problem?* So who should be …

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88:12

#524 - BTW, Venezuela is a Dictatorial Commie...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/09/18

* See below for the video version of this episode!* On Candace and Megyn* That source, says Thor, the Venezuelan, is a big booster of the shittiest people on Earth* How they shot my mother (Hugo Chavez edition)* The failure of the Human Rights Industry™* How Venezuela collapsed* It’s not a country. It’s a drug cartel* The hierarchy of South American drug trafficking* The real reason the US struck those “drug boats”* So the 93% cannot defeat the 7%?* Was former congressman Aaron Shock corrupted by

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21:34

Members Only #275 - The Elasticity of Memory & the...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/09/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* See below for the video version of this episode!* Russ’s drinks by the pool with Hitchens * How potato chips are made. And what it tells us about economics* Backwards towards “artisanal” * How will a NatCon economy perform?* It ain’t all doom and gloom (surprisingly) * Do academic economists matter?* Russ talks to Milton Friedman* Do long-term economic trends tells us …

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#523 - On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

The Fifth Column ·

2025/09/11

A very bad day for American politics, recorded within an hour of a young father’s death. Political violence, outgroup hatreds, and a side of media malpractice. With a sidebar conversation on 9/11, plus extended outro on the murder in Charlotte and subsequent discussion about race. 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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21:06

Members Only #274 - Jamaicanon and the Racist Storms

The Fifth Column ·

2025/09/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both…* Waiting for Bill and Ted* A catalogue of bad prophecies* 7th Day Youtube* Jamicanon* Yakub and the Atlantians* War with Venezuela?* Was Katrina racist* “Heritage Americans”* A listener is mad about…one of our friends* The Zionist silence* I’ll always take your free trips* We are the (piss) pigs* Own your ethnic failures!* G…

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76:22

#522 - Video Killed the Podcast Star (ft. Mace,...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/09/04

* The video age is upon us * Sweet Jane* Crazy Nancy* I’m a survivor, I'm not gon' give up* You have a microphone. Just TELL US.* Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, pedo hunter* A revolt at HHS* The conspiratorial mind* Failing the logic test* Malcolm Gladwell comes clean. Moynihan doesn’t forgive* Taboo busting b/w forbidden topics* A hunch that they were lying…* Europe changed. Everyone pretended not to notice* The UK’s decent into mindless illiberalism * Graham Linehan demands something from the

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95:35

#521 - MAGA Panthers and White FUBU

The Fifth Column ·

2025/08/28

* A barrel of crackas* We’re buying Hooters* Glamorous hairstyling* Look it up, people * The caudillo and the talk show host* Hega-stan* MAGA Marx: Nationalize everything!* The era of state capitalism is upon us* Burn yer flags * Right-wing ACLU * One more time: the government is bad at things * A history of privatization * Lisa Cook and the Cult Jam * The coming violence?* MAGA Panthers * And so much more… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access

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40:50

On "The Summer of Our Discontent" w/ Thomas...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/08/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comKmele connects with Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss his latest book, “The Summer of Our Discontent”. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that revisits the (or at least Thomas’) optimistic feelings toward the Obama moment in american politics, the backlash of the Trump years, and the ideological hangover of 2020’s “racial reckoning.” They wrestle with…

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#520 - Wear a Tie, Kids Won't Die / White Hippies /...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/08/21

* Tahoe plague* The Swiss lobby * Hate your kids* They seem like nice kids * If you only wore a tie, kids wouldn’t die* Have some dignity, says the most undignified human alive* The root of “root causes”* Free the guilty* White Hippies* Right-wing cancel culture* Chicago needs this more than DC ]* We kind of disagree about the Smithsonian* This is absurd* Ancient Chinese custom, eh?* It was AI, Matt. She’s still hot. * I love you, Sanna This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with

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22:41

Members Only #272 - Bosom Buddies, Nazi Historians,...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/08/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* A Spanish Harlem incident * The selective regret of Hank Azaria * Kmele watches Eddington * Ozzy confesses* Bonding with your kids over music* Back to Billy* The genius of Rick * Kmele reveals his race* Is Moynihan the Jerry Springer of TFC?* Spectacle vs. interview* Is Martyr Made a baddie?* Endless late capitalism

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107:50

#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts

The Fifth Column ·

2025/08/14

* Below the Mendoza Line* Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer * Stallone’s Bergman period* Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so, why?* The hundreds of forgotten anti-Bush books * An especially bad Munich analogy* NATO, NATO, NATO* Purely defensive? Well…* Perhaps it made sense at the time…* The Olympic graveyard* A test for the post-war European left* Won’t somebody just *do something* * In praise of Florent Ahmed Groberg* The politics of DC crime * A city of Haley Barbours* Writing shirtlessly: A

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19:41

Members Only #271 - America the Antidote (Second...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/08/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comA rebroadcast of our latest Second Sunday episode during which the lads discuss Killer Mike, World War III, fascism, Billy Joel, Brits, Americans, the Swiss, stupid people, smart people, and white people. And a bunch of other stuff…

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88:56

#518 - Angry Indians, the Socialist Right, TikTok's...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/08/08

* A $750 late fee* Crazy train* Tariffapalooza 7.0* Making Modi mad* Economic nationalism vs. market capitalism* The Soviet Senator * A pen and phone guy * Should DC be taken over by the feds? Or just left alone to be awful?* Israel and the TikTok war* Tell me how this ends* And about a million other things… 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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22:36

Members Only #270 - Norwegian Pizzas, Italian...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/08/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* Just let them waffle on for a few minutes before the good stuff…* Poor Europe* The $50 Norwegian pizza?* Functional Denmark, deranged Danish* Moz and the monolingual* The brilliant Child* Moynihan vs. his daughter on Billy Joel* “Forbidden topics are true” isn’t true* How to talk in Eurocode * Bumper sticker TV (and an ode to Chris Elliot)* The greatest meteorologist of al…

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88:02

#517 - "Pimp-o-nomics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/08/02

Moynihan joins from Europe. Robbie Soave (Reason, Rising, Sheetz & Giggles) guests — bravely joining the fellas after stopping by the local precinct so he could report his scooter stolen. Plus; Epstein conspiracies, whether Sydney Sweeney’s jeans are saving America, and debate the merits of dating an AI girlfriend. * Pimponomics* Victimized * Scooter Evangelism * Robbie is a nerd* European Hobos to Hotness Index (HHX)* Epstein: Still Boring, Still Dead* Robbie really is a nerd* Trafficking Stats

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#516 "Treasons, Tiny Packages, and the End of Late...

The Fifth Column ·

2025/07/25

Moynihan is somewhere in Europe. Eli Lake (The Free Press, Breaking History) fills in. And Kmele sustained a harrowing podcast-related injury that postponed a recording (and nearly cost him a finger).* Meat & Memory* Colbert Gets the Axe* Small Packages* A Yearslong Coup?* Russiagate Replay* Accountability and Missed Opportunities* The Never-Ending Epstein Drama* An (Inevitably) Dysfunctional Government (if you can keep it) Recorded: 7.24.2025 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this

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19:08

Members Only #268 - Every Pump is Patriotic

The Fifth Column ·

2025/07/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* An enigma wrapped inside a…wait, what does that word mean?* Wait, what did you call it??? (Take a guess)* Buffalo Bills, the preferred team of all Mossad agents* How to not write a news story* You know, Epstein was pretty close with many MAGA figures* Bannon’s crisis PR business?* Tulsi and the “seditious conspiracy”* Russia redux* Michael McDonald’s Faye Dunaway story* …

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91:16

#515 - Big Trouble in Little MAGA

The Fifth Column ·

2025/07/17

* Crazy from the heat* AMA* Who is Jim Walden??* The dumbest civil war * So we have to discuss the Epstein “issue” again, eh?* I think we solved the case…* Leaving breadcrumbs in the archives* Jimmy Carter and the aliens * That’s a lotta airstrikes* The plastic surgery exception* Kurt Russell, American * The next, hottest Nobelist 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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