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The Fifth Column

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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  • #526 - Megyn Kelly is All Out of Generosity

    #526 - Megyn Kelly is All Out of Generosity
    Oct 2 2025

    It’s fine if you want to listen to this episode on Apple podcasts or Spotify or Substack. We get it! That’s the way you’ve always done it! But you do realize that after 525 episodes (not including the hundreds of subscriber-only episodes), we’ve finally launched the Fifth Column video podcast, right? And you know that you are required by federal law to subscribe to the new Fifth Column YouTube channel? Ok...thanks...and now...Megyn Kelly...

    * Botox and Scotch

    * When Megyn went “temporarily insane”

    * To be frivolous and Oprah-like

    * You’re my inspiration, Ben

    * From traffic cop to a truncheon-wielding cop

    * Escalation is bad. “Yes, but one must fight fire with fire.”

    * Principle vs. vengeance

    * Does Andy McCarthy have Trump Derangement Syndrome?

    * Megyn “speaks fluent MAGA”

    * More MAGA than libertarian or NRO…

    * We need to talk about Candace

    * “Tucker is in a different camp”

    * Wait, Moynihan has some opinions about the awfulness of Candace

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Members Only #278 -- Goliath’s Curse Author Luke Kemp on Why (and When) Empires Collapse

    Members Only #278 -- Goliath’s Curse Author Luke Kemp on Why (and When) Empires Collapse
    Sep 29 2025
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    Oh sure, everyone’s go-to for imperial collapse tends to be Rome, but what broad lessons are there to be gleaned from every single other civilizational implosion, from Mesopotamia to the Mayans to the forgotten pyramid builders along the Mississippi River? Such is the intriguing set-up for Goliaths Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse, the…
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    16 mins
  • Members Only #277 - Andy Rooney Hangovers, Nazi Beekeepers, and Ex-Canadians

    Members Only #277 - Andy Rooney Hangovers, Nazi Beekeepers, and Ex-Canadians
    Sep 27 2025
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    * 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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    19 mins
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