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The Fifth Column

By: Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch
  • Summary

  • 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
  • Members Only #208 - Bananas Foster
    Apr 30 2024
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    * The Banana genocide

    * Professor, professor…let’s stick to the facts

    * A conspiracy documentary full of cranks and losers

    * 60 journalism professors find a story they cannot countenance

    * Listeners on ADHD and Adderall

    * RFK in CA

    * Nodding along with Lemon

    * How to talk to an Auschwitz survivor

    * The trickiness of memory

    * Two sets of rules

    * Peaceful protesters get a call fr…

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    18 mins
  • #452 - The Strawberry Statement 2024 / The Eternal Adderall Shortage (w/ C.J. Ciaramella)
    Apr 25 2024

    A two-for-one offering from The Fifth: first, the lads discuss the ongoing student stupidities, free speech and protest, Kmele at TED, and how your views are probably pretty normal (ed. note: considering the full-court coverage of the Columbia intifada, it’s sort of surprising that no one is referencing this terrible 1970 film, written by Ad-Roc’s dad). And then, some bonus content with Reason’s C.J. Ciaramella, who joins to discuss the government war on Adderall, his own ADHD diagnosis, and why it took him two months to get his prescription filled.



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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Members Only #207 - Columbia Breakdown: Next Stop Baader Meinhof?
    Apr 22 2024
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    * Swedish breakdown

    * Columbia breakdown

    * The continued rise of American extremism

    * The politics of “genocide”

    * The politics of propaganda

    * Chicago expectations

    * A newborn in the Fifdom

    * Our Batya episode

    * Trusting anti-trust?

    * The NPR excel spreadsheet

    * Books on McCarthy

    * Three best presidents?

    * The Watergate conspiracy is at least fun to believe

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    20 mins

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