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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 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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Latest Episodes:

Members Only #232 - Last Episode Before the Camps :( Nov 04, 2024

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* Kmele on his appearance in Thomas Chatterton Williams new Atlantic piece

* 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

* Kemi Badenoch on uneq…

#477 - The Bubble. The Brother. The Boycott. Oct 30, 2024

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* 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

* What would a Kamala victory mean for Israel?

* Finally a good Downfall meme…

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Members Only #231 - Eve of Destruction Oct 28, 2024

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* To promote his Substack conversation with Moynihan (live today at 5pm ET only on the Substack app!), 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

* …

#476 - "Tucker's a real douchebag" (w/ Rep. Dan Crenshaw) Oct 24, 2024

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* 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

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Members Only #230 - Horseface Wham-O Oct 22, 2024

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* Dave in the Hall

* Dead in the garden

* All the dictators

* His kampf

* McDonalds troofer

* Can Trump be funny?

* People don’t care about what we care about

* A friend attacks

* BHO was a great candidate

* Wham-O, Sandusky, and the kids Freak Off

* On “Neighborhood Bully”

* Never say “grande”

* What plagiarism counts

#475 - How to Survive a Baier Attack Oct 17, 2024

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* Old wine, old bottles

* Bret Baier v. Kamala

* He finally asked Matt’s question. Or was it Kmele’s question?

* On not answering questions

* The wisdom of Bill Clinton

* Back to the politics of the 90s

* We always come back to it: late night is awful

* Weed reparations

* We always come back to it: fascism

* Please come back, archive.org

* Shutting down CBS?

* Why the media being stupid is actually really important

* Ted v Colin

* Micklewaithe v. Trump

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Members Only #229 - Second Sunday Rebroadcast: Jewlumbus Edition Oct 15, 2024

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A rebroadcast

* Military propaganda for the kidz!

* Jewish Columbus

* A new history of communism

* The brainworm burrows in again

* The Italian

* Obama’s code switch

* There are meaningful differences between *these men*

* Polling problems

* The brothers Menendez

* Sarah, live from Folsom

* Chomsky’s Cuba book

* Are there still meaningful policy differences between the two major partie…

#474 - Frankly, She Loves the American People Oct 10, 2024

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* Yes, Michael J. Fox actually actually has Parkinson’s

* The MAGA hat incident

* We got a journalist around here…he’s asking a lot of questions

* Choppin’ it up with 60

* Young morons embrace violence

* German American Bund at MSG 2.0!

* Bob “Silent Coup” Woodward

* Look, he was actually unfairly treated

* Schultz interviews Trump

* It was Jeff Gerth, actually

* A tale of two natural disasters

* The natural disaster of a Kamala interview

* Running out the clock: “Frankly, I love the American people”

* Debate home run derby

* Moynihan’s Utne Reader piece for 2008. Welch on Katrina

* New media that we love. Or at least *like*

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Members Only #228 - Some Like It Hot Oct 08, 2024

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* A very brief baseball convo. Relax.

* Kid (and adult) anxiety

* Don’t kill on snek

* The science of Trump’s brain?

* The worst of all the excuses

* Oliver’s dad and the JJ Rule

* The Big Dance on OpenLibrary, btw

* Fatherhood songs

* Phones, kids, rabbit holes

* Pete Rose was the best…and the worst

* On Kris Kristofferson

* On Megyn and Moynihan

#473 - Something For Everyone to Hate Oct 04, 2024

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* The title is correct: everyone will hate something in this episode!

* Moynihan is dying?

* GPT as your GP

* Choc and Chiclet

* $$$ for TV

* J.D. says Trump won in 2020

* Jack Smith could have asked Moynihan

* You hate him. But not enough.

* A goomba union boss is going to choke America out

* Rich and “working class”

* Create jobs! End EZ-Pass!

* Remembering the execrable Harry Bridges

* Why is the government still mailing free Covid tests?

* (MM fact-checks himself)

* Lebanon and beyond

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