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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:

#203 - Old Pee Eyes is Back Mar 06, 2024

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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

#444 - We Sell Sanctuary Mar 02, 2024

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* The worst Scouse accent ever

* Blackfishing

* Trump and Tish

* Lawyers and lawfare

* A lunatic DEI artifact from…that company

* Congress’s Venceremos Brigade

* The immigrant song

* The lads disagree…

* With burning concern

* Fetterman, Mitch, Biden, Tucker again

* Matt Remke getting worked

* And so much more!

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Members Only #202 - The End of Vice Feb 26, 2024

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* Back to New York

* Subways and free markets

* Milei pisses on mercantilism, MAGA types don’t notice

* The Foxconn con

* The rise and fall of Vice

* No one talks about the content…they should

* Funny, QAnon all the time doesn’t make money

* Shane Gillis om SNL

* Nora Dunn and Dice

* The people will always decide

* A very specific digression on Kansas City. Sorry.

* Revisiting that …

Members Only #201 - The Sounds of Blackness Feb 22, 2024

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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’…

#443 - Take a Load off Fani / RIP Alexei Feb 16, 2024

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* The Fani Willis train wreck

* Daddy and the sacks of cash

* $9,999

* Russian McDonalds is so good that Tucker doesn’t care about freedom of the press

* The political pilgrim

* The murder of Alexei Navalny

* A wave of whataboutism

* Are your 19 year old daughters about to be drafted to fight in Gaza?

* Time to retreat from the world?

* OpenAI videos are sort of terrifying

* Free Rachel Dolezal Kwame Nkrumah

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Members Only #200 - The Anti-Racist Headset Feb 14, 2024

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Kmele gets an Apple Vision Thing because of he course he does. And he wears it the whole episode because of course he does. It’s a racist product, btw. And Bobby Jr’s Super Bowl ad was good. And Matt likes Usher, it seems. And certain conservatives like visiting and praising dirtbag dictatorships. And in case you hadn’t noticed, Joe Biden thinks it’s 19…

#442 - In Defense of Colorblindness (w/ Coleman Hughes) Feb 11, 2024

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We’re back with two episodes smashed into one! So if you have a spare two hours… First up, our friend Coleman Hughes returns for a one-on-one conversation with Kmele about his brand-new book The End of Race Politics, which you should buy immediately. Also: Coleman was on Bill Maher’s show on Friday, most of which is available on YouTube.

After an hour with Coleman, the full team is back for a few very uncomfortable conversations about a few very uncomfortable topics. Just listen and you’ll understand…

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Members Only #199 - Why You Should Never Fly Coach Feb 09, 2024

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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-tiersubscribers. 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…