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The Fifth Column podcast

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The Fifth Column

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  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. [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast)

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. [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast)

 

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#504

Members Only #244 - Second Sunday Coming Down

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) A rebroadcast of our most recent “Second Sunday” episode, during which paying subscribers can hop on a Zoom call, ask us questions, berate us, tell meandering stories, and be generically clever/hilarious/insane. On this episode, we talk to a number of people in Los Angeles about the ongoing conflagrations and the city government’s predictably feckless r… ... Read more

6 hrs Ago

21 MINS

21:57

6 hrs Ago

#503

#485 - The Fire This Time

* Black Bill Kristol * Nobody beats the Rizz * Stealing Greenland * Yet another horrible big city mayor * When you love Castro, you are obviously an incompetent moron * Forget it, Matt. It's Chinatown * More on the 🔥 * Is big city governance killing progressivism? * Your lying eyes * Elon’s Nazis * Mark Zuckerberg and “winning” on free speech * The end of corporate walkout culture * January 6 pardons and pizzagate crazy person gunned down * Hobo stabs thug This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit [www.wethefifth.com/subscribe] (https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2) ... Read more

10 Jan 2025

1 HR 53 MINS

1:53:34

10 Jan 2025

#502

Members Only #243 - Pox Blankets, Political Cartoons, Poor Parenting

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) * Lia the diva * The era of athlete actors * Moynihan correction: It was Bubba Smith in Police Academy. Dick Butkus was in Police *Story*. * I want to make fun of my boss * Awful political cartoons * More on progressive schools * Are you a hypocrite, MM? * Reflections on Jimmy Carter, DPRK fan * The neo-neocons? * The vibe shift and the sense of the heroic (says MAGA Matt) * Matt… ... Read more

06 Jan 2025

17 MINS

17:00

06 Jan 2025

#501

#484 - Pumps, Converts, Fatwas, and Ex-Presidents

* No more Bobby * No resolutions * Pump it up: The bionic podcast host * New Year’s terror in NOLA and Vegas * The military connection that doesn’t matter * The advent of “car ramming” * In celebration of Chaim Sapir * Forgotten terror * When Charlie destroyed our faith in the media class * [Jimmy Carter’s awful op-ed] (https://www.cartercenter.org/news/documents/doc1381.html) * Erasing Islamism * Revisiting Rushdie * Getting scammed by the “truth” people * Broken kneecap policing This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit [www.wethefifth.com/subscribe] (https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2) ... Read more

02 Jan 2025

1 HR 27 MINS

1:27:53

02 Jan 2025

#500

Members Only #242 - The Emo Episode

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) * An episode that takes a break from politics? * Stars, tardigrades, and microscopy * Race in space * Matt and Moyn watch “A Complete Unknown,” come to different conclusions * Phantom and 40mg * AI’s take on this section: “Listener emails prompt discussions on art, personal struggles, and growth during the holidays.” * Books for young men searching…. * Can The Man Who Shot L… ... Read more

30 Dec 2024

17 MINS

17:03

30 Dec 2024

#499

#483 - The Christmas Cromnibus and a Slow Boat to Mauritius

* Pivot to Zoom * Rereading books * The ex-presidents * “It’s 1,547 pages of unreadable garbage. Every year, it’s like Christmas." * Chip the RHINOOOOOO * Elon’s Political Fantasy Camp! * Is Trump losing his power to threaten? * The end of AOC? * Before his own inevitable perp walk, Mayor Adams does a hot assassin perp walk * Insurance companies redux * Kmele is a bad drinker * Don Jr. trades up * Barron is everyone’s boyfriend This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit [www.wethefifth.com/subscribe] (https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2) ... Read more

20 Dec 2024

1 HR 41 MINS

1:41:43

20 Dec 2024

#498

Members Only #241 - Tinder Trotskyists, Siouxsie and the Nazis, When We Were Kings

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) * If you think it’s expensive now, wait until it’s free * Unpersuasive persuasion * How race is like probiotic soda * Ends and means * "If one killing is justified, where do you draw the line—10,000? A million?" * [Siouxsie and the Nazis] (https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3393df78ffcf6b0680f903535cf0cb9803bc90ec/0_228_4080_2444/master/4080.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctb3BpbmlvbnMtYWdlLTIwMTUucG5n&s=b3b9463c9c0efc446feb9d39111cb1de) / [Bill Grundy] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8txdNOYJUwM) * Tinder Trotskyists * More “memoirs about trauma and identity” * ‘Oh, they’re taxing us, let’s go murder people.’ * 23andme and Zor… ... Read more

16 Dec 2024

24 MINS

24:10

16 Dec 2024

#497

#482 - Centrism Kills (w/ Josh Barro)

* The Daniel Penny verdict * REinstitutionalization * When should the state involuntarily commit? * Remember, she was a very bad candidate * The great exhale * Joe and the Squad * A fake Portuguese guest * Barro blowback? * On the Substack revolution * The repulsive Luigi Mangioni * The failed Kaczynski * And much more! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit [www.wethefifth.com/subscribe] (https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2) ... Read more

12 Dec 2024

1 HR 50 MINS

1:50:20

12 Dec 2024

#496

Members Only #240 - One Hitter: Taylor Supports the Death Penalty

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) One topic in the news. One quick podcast on that single topic (rather than just texting each other about how certain media figures are vulgar, stupid, and morally depraved). Welcome to the Fifth Column One Hitter! In our inaugural episode, Matt and Moyn get pissed off about the hideous reaction from [certain very online cretins] (https://images.dailycaller.com/image/width=960,height=411,fit=cover,f=auto/https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-1493577295-scaled-e1733232040466.jpg) to the awful murder of Uni… ... Read more

06 Dec 2024

05 MINS

05:49

06 Dec 2024

#495

#481 - From the Mexico of Heaven

* Little Moynihan’s pediatric cancer fundraiser [can be found here!] (https://secure2.convio.net/mskcc/site/TR;jsessionid=00000000.app20121a?px=4864975&fr_id=4032&pg=personal&NONCE_TOKEN=3579FA8CC2555250299888D6CADB0A13) This might be the opposite of an incentive, but a random donor will be chosen for a personalized roast video from Moyn and his daughter… * The idiot winds (That “One More Cup of Coffee” [live performance] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujgqOgMIwfA) MM referenced) * Pete Hegseth replaced by Ronny D? * Ok, you asked for it…with new information, the lads return to the Hunter pardon * "Is he really doing something injurious?" * Preemptive pardons? * The uselessness of cable “news” * Addicted to privilege * Was Trump the great deregulator? * And whole lot more! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit [www.wethefifth.com/subscribe] (https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2) ... Read more

05 Dec 2024

1 HR 39 MINS

1:39:46

05 Dec 2024

#494

Members Only #239 - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) * The boys had just heard the Biden pardon news. So much they missed about the specifics…and [this brilliant video] (https://x.com/aghamilton29/status/1863612723067584536?s=46) had not yet been created. * Citizens of the Fifdom debate RFK * The professional Youtube debaters * Teens and true crime * JonBenet * How to interview your dad * A listener asks: Is Dan Crenshaw the worst? * Park Slope politics and the crotch Magen David * The M… ... Read more

02 Dec 2024

18 MINS

18:04

02 Dec 2024

#493

Members Only #238 - 🎁 UNLOCKED 🎁 - The RFK Problem (w/ Alan Levinovitz)

As a Thanksgiving treat, an unlocked Members Only episode featuring Moynihan in conversation with Dr. Alan Levinovitz, author of [Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science] (https://amzn.to/3Va39j8) and [The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat] (https://amzn.to/498tILu) , about RFK’s view of public health, why you are fat, the myth of “natural,” and why so many people have stopped trusting “the science.” We won’t be unlocking any subscriber-only episodes for awhile so…subscribe! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit [www.wethefifth.com/subscribe] (https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2) ... Read more

27 Nov 2024

55 MINS

55:43

27 Nov 2024

#492

Members Only #237 - Roofies, Commies, and Sissies

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) * Pete’s past * Friends with a murderer * Roofie vending machines * The worst cabinet pick? * Trans snakes that play golf * Damn dirty commies  * The three things reds do well * A store called Store  * That truck is still with Kamala  * Little Baron’s soooooooootcase * One black woman’s quest * Biased bookstores * Axios: [Trump’s liberal cabinet ] (https://www.axios.com/2024/11/23/trump-liberal-cabinet-rfk-tulsi-gabbard-bessent) * ChatGPT is wrong about everything * Back to Cormac ... Read more

25 Nov 2024

24 MINS

24:46

25 Nov 2024

#491

#480 - The Media Mess / Gaetz Pulls Out (w/ Ben Smith)

An hour with [Semafor] (https://www.semafor.com/) founder Ben Smith discussing the sorry state of the media, followed by a Smith-free hour with the lads discussing, among other things, two very different people who nevertheless shared a very deep love of young people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit [www.wethefifth.com/subscribe] (https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2) ... Read more

23 Nov 2024

1 HR 52 MINS

1:52:34

23 Nov 2024

#490

Members Only #236 - Here Comes the Nanny State!

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) * Kmele: Forever the HNIC * The Filet-O-Fish is Alaska pollock * A Swedish [horror show] (https://www.mcdonalds.com/se/sv-se/product/chili-bearnaise.html) * RFK at HHS * He forgot to [mention this stuff…] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Maggiore) * Elon’s principles? * On Matt Gaetz and John Bolton * You know, we had a pretty good record on Covid… * Moulton v. a Salem Witch * A listener’s Irish-Catholic family is falling apart * That fake Netflix fight ... Read more

19 Nov 2024

17 MINS

17:06

19 Nov 2024

#489

Members Only #235 - To Overthrow the World: A Conversation on Communism with Sean McMeekin

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) Michael Moynihan sits down with Bard College professor Sean McMeekin to discuss his new book [To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism] (https://amzn.to/40Sxo1I) , a Fifth-approved history of the global communist movement, from the ur-commie instincts of Plato to the sinister stupidities of Plekhanov. They also contemplate why so many smart people fall for ba… ... Read more

17 Nov 2024

19 MINS

19:30

17 Nov 2024

#488

#479 - The Case Against Tariffs (w/ Scott Lincicome)

We’ve promised this one for a very long time. But now that Trump is returning to the White House—the mercantilist maniac who recently said “the most beautiful word in the dictionary is ‘tariff’”—we finally followed through. By popular demand, we called upon Scott Lincicome, senior visiting lecturer at Duke University Law School and vice president of general economics and Cato's Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, to answer all of your questions on protectionism, tariffs, and trade. Don’t care about such things!? Well, this episode is a double feature! After Scott’s masterclass on free trade, the lads stick around to discuss Trump’s appointments (ummm….this was a day before the Gaetz-Gabbard selections), “neocons,” and the WNBA. And for you subscribers: we will drop Moynihan’s conversation with Bard College historian Sean McMeekin in the next few days. For you non-subscribers…what are you waiting for?? This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit [www.wethefifth.com/subscribe] (https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2) ... Read more

13 Nov 2024

1 HR 59 MINS

1:59:03

13 Nov 2024

#487

Members Only #234 - Come On and Zoom! (Wagnerian Opera Edition)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) Our first post-election Second Sunday Zoom call! If you missed it, shame on you for choosing to spend time with your family or choosing not to pony up. But it’s all here. All three hours of it. Yes, it’s the “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” of election analysis. But to be clear, we also discuss Emperor Hirohito, Kentucky politics, Australians, New York … ... Read more

12 Nov 2024

18 MINS

18:16

12 Nov 2024

#486

Members Only #233 - A Grave New World

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) Welch and Moynihan are back in the studio, three days after the end of democracy, counting the days before they get the midnight knock from Trump’s NKVD. So what does one do? Engage in some [anticipatory obedience] (https://www.cjr.org/analysis/anticipatory-obedience-bassin-potter-scheppele-orban-trump-hungary-media-punish.php) , obviously. But can anything save them? Subscribe to find out! Note: Matt came across [this amazing video] (https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/1854868412029120731) only after recording this episode. So … ... Read more

08 Nov 2024

33 MINS

33:29

08 Nov 2024

#485

#478 - The Dream of a Six-Foot-Four, Tobacco-Chewing White Savior

The Fifth did a bit of processing today with [our Trump-supporting friend] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7U3ncXo2b0) at her Connecticut studio. Hungover, exhausted, bedraggled, the lads then returned to the scene of last night’s Fifth-Free Press-Reason party and recorded this episode. They enjoyed it. And they suspect you will too. . This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit [www.wethefifth.com/subscribe] (https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2) ... Read more

07 Nov 2024

1 HR 27 MINS

1:27:14

07 Nov 2024

#484

Members Only #232 - Last Episode Before the Camps :(

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) * Kmele on his appearance in Thomas Chatterton Williams [new Atlantic piece] (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/interviews-coleman-hughes-kmele-foster/680495/) * The end of America! * If you don’t vote like me, you should be ashamed of yourself! * We’re not “heterodox” * On never talking policy * Authoritarianism in America * Boyz in the Hood redux * A whole lot of final election thoughts * A listener from Utah teaches us about [TBCK syndrome] (https://www.epilepsy.com/causes/genetic/tbck-related#:~:text=TBCK%2Drelated%20ID%20syndrome%20is,the%20children%20also%20have%20seizures.) * Kemi Badenoch [on uneq…] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps4irNsmzdU) ... Read more

04 Nov 2024

25 MINS

25:34

04 Nov 2024

#483

#477 - The Bubble. The Brother. The Boycott.

* A Thomas Jefferson freak off * The tree of liberty… * “Election integrity” * What’s happening with those Pennsylvania ballots? * Editorial page endorsements are worthless * Why won’t you resign, lady? * A slaughter at MSG * These people have lost their minds * And Bezos is correct: they don’t trust you * The end of the NYT sports page actually said something important… * The bubble * [An absurd boycott] (https://www.timesofisrael.com/sally-rooney-among-1000-authors-urging-boycott-of-israeli-cultural-institutions/) * What would a Kamala victory mean for Israel? * [Finally a good Downfall meme…] (https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1851089367210569851) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit [www.wethefifth.com/subscribe] (https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2) ... Read more

30 Oct 2024

1 HR 28 MINS

1:28:36

30 Oct 2024

#482

Members Only #231 - Eve of Destruction

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit [www.wethefifth.com] (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) * To promote his Substack conversation with Moynihan ( [live today at 5pm ET only on the Substack app] (https://substack.com/dialogues) !), Josh Szeps calls in from the car and talks Aussie stuff for 20 minutes. * Banning that lady from your country (“Does anything ride on this?") * Baghdad Bob on Australia * The Times and the truth * People who disappear * They are making me talk about this fascism shit * … ... Read more

28 Oct 2024

30 MINS

30:28

28 Oct 2024

#481

#476 - "Tucker's a real douchebag" (w/ Rep. Dan Crenshaw)

* How to be a Navy Seal * Losing an eye in Afghanistan * Dan can’t find his glasses / “I can’t see shit” * Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan * A case study in intelligence failure and confirmation bias * On leaving the Taliban in power * Has Trump been good on foreign policy? * The Republican Party post-Trump * Tucker "is best friends with Hunter Biden!” * Why are you even in Congress? * On the mechanics of Congress * Maybe a hundred normal congressmen * What has Dan accomplished for Texas? * Is populism winning? * On banning TikTok This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit [www.wethefifth.com/subscribe] (https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2) ... Read more

24 Oct 2024

1 HR 16 MINS

1:16:06

24 Oct 2024