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The Fifth Column

The Fifth Column

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch

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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Guest: Glenn Greenwald @ Co-Founder, The Intercept

  • The Move to Substack (https://greenwald.substack.com/)
  • The Marvelousness of the Fifth Column
  • The Job Market
  • The Reply to Critics
  • The Blow by Blow
  • The Culture
  • The Hunter Biden Laptop Situation

Recorded Oct 30th, 2020

Published Nov 19th, 2020



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with David French contributing writer @ The Atlantic and senior editor @ The Dispatch.
James GD Webb
Cleaning Your Room
Playing to the Crowd
The Great CRT Ban Kurfuffl
Reconsidering that Roe decision
The Capacity for Pregnancy
Corroboration, Prosecution, and Restraint
Trump v DeSantis
World Level Experts
Darker Woods Beyond
Anarchapulco


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The Fifth Column - Members Only #199 - Why You Should Never Fly Coach
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02/09/24 • 16 min

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A rebroadcast of Sunday’s live Zoom, available only to subscribers, of course. And this particular live event was only available to Never Fly Coach-tier subscribers. So you know what that means: If you’re not subscribed, maybe it’s time to pony up? And if you’re already a subscriber...remember that there are different tiers and that we can, in fact, quite...

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The Fifth Column - #203 - Old Pee Eyes is Back
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03/06/24 • 11 min

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Birthdays was the worst days, now Coen drinks champagne when he’s thirstay

Stolen packages

9-0...but not really

Disaster for democracy!

We’re worried about Keith Olbermann

Disastrous polls for Ol’ Joe

The RAGE and the pride

As always, Trump is raising money

Keith is crying piss

A bizarro time machine

Some dating advice for (MAGA?) Mary

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I resign!

(“That was a great apartment....”)

I resign!

(“That was the worst job....”)

Mansplaining the war

Too big to process

It’s like 9/11 for Americans, and also not

“You can still smell the death”

The Jericho Wall revelations

“I’m pretty sure most people who were responsible will resign”

Were judicial protests a distraction?

State fails, society rallies

A time for Diaspora choosing

Like moths to crazy

Intelligence scandal, leadership scandal

Hard out here for a two-state solutionista

Did Israel choke off Gazans’ resources?

“My heart is captive in Gaza”

“If we don’t come out of this very secure, it’s the end of Israel”

And yet ... hope!


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The Fifth Column - #430 - The TikTok Jihad w/ Mary Katharine Ham
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11/18/23 • 103 min

Live from Oakland

Sex strikes

Loving OBL

Stop deconstructing stuff

Seeing your friends spinout online...

They’re not sending anyone anywhere

Drunk Kathy Hochul and her bad, drunk ideas

Not drunk Nikki Haley and her bad ideas

Hate speech isn’t a thing in America

Israel and propaganda

MKH on evangelicals, Israel, and the supposed “left behind” vision of Zionism

TikTok you don’t stop

And so much more!


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The Fifth Column - Members Only #201 - The Sounds of Blackness
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02/22/24 • 12 min

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Matt calls in from a murder motel in Southern California that doesn’t really have wifi. He saves a few bucks. Kmele and Moynihan do the heavy lift. Everybody wins. A few topics discussed:

Houthi bodegas

Industrial policy schizophrenia

Will Kmele join the “back to Africa” movement?

Ujamma and Nyerere’s stash

The Fighting Sullivans (and no, the youngest wasn’...

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The Fifth Column - #426 - w/ Matt Duss - Notes from the Other Side
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10/20/23 • 74 min

Hamas and the hospital

Don’t trust and try to verify

Did Israel “create” Hamas?

When there’s no negotiating partner

America’s role in the Middle East

Enter Iran...

Gauging Palestinian public opinion

A massive media failure

One-way root causes

And much more!


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The Fifth Column - Members Only #195 - No Limit Consultants LLC
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01/09/24 • 12 min

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Matt, swallowed by Los Alamos

Jon Ronson’s new pod

A terrible trailer, a pretentious movie

Ringo Seal!!! Trump is “being persecuted”

Head injuries that help

Listen to that podcast, even if it’s terrible

A hot plagiarist

Substack and Nazis

Chomsky and Jeffery

Kmele’s new favorite football player

And so much more!

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w/ John McWhorter and Glenn Loury

No Moynihan, No Welch
- Progress or Pesmissim
- Campus Culture
- Culture Warriors
- Gaslighting + Reactionaries
- DEI Obstacles
- Overstatement and Bravery
- Dignity + Individualism
- Race as Ethnicity
- All in Bounds
- Pride, Honor, Shame
- “Tolstoy is Mine. Dickens is Mine.”
- Everything is permissible to me
Recorded: 6/14/22
Published: 7/24/22


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How many episodes does The Fifth Column have?

The Fifth Column currently has 534 episodes available.

What topics does The Fifth Column cover?

The podcast is about News, Comedy and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on The Fifth Column?

The episode title '#426 - w/ Matt Duss - Notes from the Other Side' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Fifth Column?

The average episode length on The Fifth Column is 87 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Fifth Column released?

Episodes of The Fifth Column are typically released every 6 days.

When was the first episode of The Fifth Column?

The first episode of The Fifth Column was released on Apr 2, 2016.

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