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The Fifth Column
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 art...
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Members Only #280 - Megyn Kelly Blowback, Principled Sanity, and Nihilistic Dread
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•One Battle After Another
•Kmele’s hot take...
#527 - War is Over (If Hamas Wants It)
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* A shirt full of toothpaste
* Whiskey in a jar
* Your dumb, complaining emails
*...
UNLOCKED: Russ Roberts, on the Weight of History & the Elasticity of Memory
Last month, after years of you people begging us, we finally had on the great Russ Roberts—author, educator, and proprietor of the phantasmagorically...
Members Only #279 - Behind the Scenes With Kanye West Documentarian Nico Ballesteros
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The Fifth Column’s resident Kanye aficionado Kmel...
#526 - Megyn Kelly is All Out of Generosity
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...
Members Only #278 -- Goliath’s Curse Author Luke Kemp on Why (and When) Empires Collapse
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Oh sure, everyone’s go-to for imperial collapse t...
Members Only #277 - Andy Rooney Hangovers, Nazi Beekeepers, and Ex-Canadians
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* If you’re a Never Fly Coach subscriber, remembe...
#525 - John Spencer Views Explosion
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...
Members Only #276 - The Cancelling of an American Talkshow (w/ Greg Lukianoff)
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* Pretty sure FIRE president Greg Lukianoff is th...
#524 - BTW, Venezuela is a Dictatorial Commie Narcostate (w/ Thor Halvorssen)
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* On Candace and Megyn
* That source, says Thor, the Venezuelan, is a big booster of th...
Members Only #275 - The Elasticity of Memory & the Weight of History (w/ Russ Roberts)
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#523 - On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
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 mal...
Members Only #274 - Jamaicanon and the Racist Storms
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* You take the good, you take the bad, you take t...
#522 - Video Killed the Podcast Star (ft. Mace, Epstein, Gladwell, Linehan)
* 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 TE...
#521 - MAGA Panthers and White FUBU
* A barrel of crackas
* We’re buying Hooters
* Glamorous hairstyling
* Look it up, people
* The caudillo and the talk show ho...
On "The Summer of Our Discontent" w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams
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Kmele connects with Thomas Chatterton Williams to...
#520 - Wear a Tie, Kids Won't Die / White Hippies / Ancient Chinese Custom, Huh?
* Tahoe plague
* The Swiss lobby
* Hate your kids
* They seem like nice kids
* If you only wore a tie, kids wouldn’t die
Members Only #272 - Bosom Buddies, Nazi Historians, Late Capitalists
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* A Spanish Harlem incident
* The selectiv...
#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts
* Below the Mendoza Line
* Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer
* Stallone’s Bergman period
* Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so,...
Members Only #271 - America the Antidote (Second Sunday Rebroadcast!)
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A rebroadcast of our latest Second Sunday episode...
#518 - Angry Indians, the Socialist Right, TikTok's Propaganda War
* A $750 late fee
* Crazy train
* Tariffapalooza 7.0
* Making Modi mad
* Economic nationalism vs. market capitalism
* Th...
Members Only #270 - Norwegian Pizzas, Italian Meterologists, Fake Dissidents
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* Just let them waffle on for a few minutes befor...
#517 - "Pimp-o-nomics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Male Gaze" w/ Robbie Soave
Moynihan joins from Europe. Robbie Soave (Reason, Rising, Sheetz & Giggles) guests — bravely joining the fellas after stopping by the local precinct...
#516 - "Treasons, Tiny Packages, and the End of Late Night" w/ Eli Lake
Moynihan is somewhere in Europe. Eli Lake (The Free Press, Breaking History) fills in. And Kmele sustained a harrowing podcast-related injury that pos...
Members Only #268 - Every Pump is Patriotic
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* An enigma wrapped inside a…wait, what does that...
#515 - Big Trouble in Little MAGA
* Crazy from the heat
* AMA
* Who is Jim Walden??
* The dumbest civil war
* So we have to discuss the Epstein “issue” again,...
#514 - Big Boats! Big Patriotism! Big Pedophile Rings??
* Matt discovers Mass
* Because Matt is cruisin’
* Boats and hoes
* An ultra exclusive event! The Fifth…on the high seas??
*...
Members Only #267 - Everything's Our Fault: The U.S. and the Iranian Coup (w/ Abbas Milani)
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A few weeks ago, we mentioned that newly minted I...
#513 - Birthright Jamaican Babies and Russian Trashmen (w/ Damon Root)
As the Supreme Court wraps up its term, the boys again summon Damon Root, author of Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court, to...
#512 - Escape from New York
* Fleeeeeeeee
* Don’t mess with the Zohran
* Andrew Cuomo, Shah of NYC
* Eric Adams to the rescue? (Oof)
* Post-colonial Dis...
Members Only #264 - Domino's, Hand Jobs, and WWIII
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No listener mail this time. We’ll double up on th...
#511 - Iran on the Brink, NYC on the Brink (w/ Harry Siegel)
Two episodes in one! First, the lads discuss Iran, the legacy of the Iraq War, and MAGA’s internecine battles over foreign policy. And then Harry Sieg...
#510 - BONUS EPISODE - The View from Israel (w/ Nadav Eyal)
Moynihan and Welch talk to Nadav Eyal, senior columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth and one of Israel’s most prominent (and best-sourced) journalists. Typica...
#509 - The Rise of the Knuckleheads (w/ Sen. Rand Paul)
Senator Rand Paul joins the lads to lament the big, beautiful bill; the big beautiful Soviet military parade; the Twitter halfwits waging war on him;...
#508 - The Breakup Episode
* A grim anniversary
* Elon’s brilliant troll
* The big, ugly bill
* Bannon tells the truth. But is still a liar
* How dare t...
Members Only #252 - For Our Girls (The Message)
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* ABBA’s Vietnam
* Barnen i Nicaragua
...
#507 - Trans Pee Wee and Tariffed Dresses
* Racist Macca?
* Some bad names
* In praise of (trans?) Pee Wee
* Does Long Duck Dong denounce his past?
* Was that a Reagani...
Members Only #251 - I Learned It from Watching Nick Gillespie
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* We think we *might* have talked about politics...
#506 - Kill the White People
* The ritual humiliation white genocide slide show!
* That’s not really true. But it doesn’t really matter, does it?
* Trolling with refug...
#505 - A Saudi Summit. A Delaware Freakoff.
* Jack London and hobo Oakland
* The lovely government of Qatar
* Trump in Saudi
* A carnival of corruption
* Chasing heroes…<...