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The Fifth Column

The Fifth Column

By: Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch
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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
  • Robert D. Kaplan on a World Getting Darker (Members Only #320)

    Robert D. Kaplan on a World Getting Darker (Members Only #320)
    May 12 2026
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    His next book, China Whisperers (out in November), looks at the diplomats, journalists, scholars, and China hands who shaped America’s understanding, and misunderstanding, of its chief geopolitical rival. But we pretty much cover the entire globe in this conversation.

    -The experts had it coming

    -Federalists, anti-federalists, and America’s oldest argument

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    20 mins
  • Masquerade of Morons (Episode #556)

    Masquerade of Morons (Episode #556)
    May 7 2026
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    -Kmele gets glasses

    -The return of Soho legs

    -Matt’s movie-theater race science

    -Trump sends a letter to Congress saying the war is over, Iran says, “wtf?”

    -Little Marco, Fog of War correspondent

    -A very leaky White House

    -Strange new respect for the anti-war MAGA set

    -Little Marco puts the best face on Iran

    -Welch discovers gas prices

    -The affordability caucus …
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Premeditated Fingering w/ Anthony Scaramucci (Members Only #319)

    Premeditated Fingering w/ Anthony Scaramucci (Members Only #319)
    May 5 2026
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    We’re joined by Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, former White House Communications Director, and one of the more memorable casualties of Trump 1.0

    -The Mooch reads the stars

    -The truth is out there, allegedly

    -954,000 seconds in the White House

    -The Ryan Lizza thing, briefly

    -the reason God made Steve Bannon look like this

    -Why Bannon scared …
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    20 mins
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