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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Episodes
  • #504 - N-Bombs and Real Bombs

    #504 - N-Bombs and Real Bombs
    May 8 2025

    * 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



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    1 hr and 56 mins
  • Members Only #259 - Tariffed into Chastity

    Members Only #259 - Tariffed into Chastity
    May 6 2025
    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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    18 mins
  • #503 - Mea Minima Culpa

    #503 - Mea Minima Culpa
    May 3 2025

    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!



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    2 hrs and 11 mins

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