
The Fifth Column
Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
www.wethefifth.com


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11/19/20 • 74 min
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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07/16/22 • 144 min
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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Members Only #199 - Why You Should Never Fly Coach
The Fifth Column
02/09/24 • 16 min
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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#203 - Old Pee Eyes is Back
The Fifth Column
03/06/24 • 11 min
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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Members Only #193 – ‘I Don’t Think Anyone in Israel Right Now Feels Left of Center’ (w/ Asaf Zamir)
The Fifth Column
12/24/23 • 67 min
(“That was a great apartment....”)
(“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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#430 - The TikTok Jihad w/ Mary Katharine Ham
The Fifth Column
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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Members Only #201 - The Sounds of Blackness
The Fifth Column
02/22/24 • 12 min
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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#426 - w/ Matt Duss - Notes from the Other Side
The Fifth Column
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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Members Only #195 - No Limit Consultants LLC
The Fifth Column
01/09/24 • 12 min
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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07/24/22 • 46 min
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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FAQ
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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