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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.

www.wethefifth.com

Latest Episodes:

336 w/ Jonathan Adler "Bannon, Rittenhouse, and the Courts" Nov 19, 2021

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w/ Jonathan Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law @ Case Western Reserve University

- Three Stacks

- Kanye ♥️ Drake

- Steve Bannon's Day in Court

- Google That

- Hurry Up, Charge Him!

- Black Panthers, Communist and MAGA Corps (Oh, My)

- Seeing What We Want

- Rittenhouse Rorschach

- (Still More) Media Malpractice

Recorded: November 17th, 2021

Published: November 19th, 2021

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335 "Assata Shakur Elementary School-- Class of 2021" Nov 07, 2021

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Way Too Sexy
Crypto Art
Miss Universe (Can Get It)
Fifth Coin
"A Bad Gal Dat"
Palliative Journalism
Virginia is for Hustlers
The Trouble w/ Complicated
Was Rufo Right? (No)
We're Very Sorry (But We Keepin Your Stuff)
Map Makers + Freak Shows

Recorded: 11/5/21

Published: 11/7/21

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334 w/ Zaid Jilani "Jeff Toobin, Fapping Antifascist; The Terror Parents of Northern Virginia; A Bad Bisexual in a Bad Vest" Oct 28, 2021

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w/ Zaid Jilani, former reporter at The Intercept and current substacker (inquiremore.com)

Kmele, missing in a mudslide?
Zaid, the most left-wing staffer at the Center for American Progress
Cable news is horrible / Jeff Toobin slays white supremacy
School board chaos in Virginia
Creating wee lil' apparatchiks
Why do we care about the stupid VA governor's race?
Words don't mean anything anymore, part 322
We are all India-Pakistan now
The steady hand in DC is trembling
Dumb Republicans still have no economic program
Dear lord, she's wearing a vest!
The collapsing Biden economic agenda
Is Kyrsten Sinema a bad politician? Bad dresser? Bad bisexual?
Matt discovers his white privilege (and he likes it)

Recorded: 10/28/21

Posted: 10/28/21

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333 w/ Ethan Strauss "Locker Room Culture Wars, When Jokes Are Pretty Much Murder" Oct 16, 2021

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w/ Ethan Strauss, (HNIC @ "House of Strauss" / Substack)

Enemy of the Syntax
Ethiopian Royalty
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Leaving the Athletic
Not Just for Sports Fans
Breaking for Black Bodies
NBA Vax Mandates
Obama Decides to Be Black
"Racist" Emails
Moynihan's First Job
Double 0' Sistas
Jokes that Kill (But Not Actually)

Recorded: 10/16/21

Published: 10/14/21

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332 w/ Robby Soave "Tech Panic, Phyrric Stalemate, Bifurcated Holiday" Oct 11, 2021

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w/ Robby Soave, (Senior Editor @ Reason - Author, "Tech Panic")

Oral Surgery
Buying Robby's Book
How Facebook (Isn't) Destroying The World
Incompetent + ill-informed
Please, Think of The Teenagers
A Vintage Moral Panic
Mark Zuckerberg's Body Count
Victims + Victors
Messy Speech
When Google Becomes Microsoft
26 Words (That Created the Internet)
About That FBI Memo
The Darkest Day in American History
The Great Culture War Vortex
Americas' Dumbest Holiday

Recorded: 10/6/21

Published: 10/10/21

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331 w/ Katie Herzog "Once Upon A Time In Williamsburg, Wizard of Ozy" Oct 02, 2021

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w/ Katie Herzog, Host @ "Blocked and Reported"

Stay in Your Hood
So Many Sources
Dog Run Confidential
What Emma Knew
Katie's Nightmare
How Did You Get This Number
Cool Off
Denzel Was Drinking
More Shaft
Very Heavily Redacted
Even More Heavily Redacted
Two Spirits
Wizard of Ozy

Recorded: 9/30/21

Published: 10/2/21

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330 w/ Antonio Garcia Martínez "Would Apple Hire Steve Jobs, Conservatives Hate Big Tech" Sep 24, 2021

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W/ Antonio Garcia Martínez, Propritor @ "The Pull Request"

False Start
Driven to Drink
Cultural Valley ("Crazy Ones Need Not Apply")
Mission Protocols
The Full NYT Software Download
Section 230
The Devil in the Details
A Conservative War on Big Tech
Stormfront / SJW
An Uncertain Future
GOP 🥰 FDR
A Crypto First Economy
We Probably Can't Get Along?
Amazon vs. Google vs. Apple vs. Facebook
Nancy Pelosi: Project Manager?
Pull Request
Le Tech Blog
Rendered Absurd By Time
From Nokia to MSNBC to Google Wave...
"Will it Pass?" - Infrastructure Edition
"Will it Pass?" - George Floyd Edition
False Stop

Recorded: 9/22/21

Published: 9/24/21

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329 "Recall Flops, Covid Recount, Forgetting Afghanistan -- Again" Sep 17, 2021

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- Bacon Egg and Cheese (Late Capitalism Edition)

- The Met Gala -- America's Most Glamours Tax Shelter

- Hetro Negative

- No Sex Cults for Kmele

- Democrat Wins Most Democratic State

- Larry Elder: White Nationalist?

- The Republican Trump Conundrum

- How Long Can Democrats Run Against Donald Trump

- "She was in coach!"

- Covid Hospitlziations, Vaccine Booster Controversy

- Protecting the Vaccinated

- Bob Woodward's New Trump Book

- Gen Mark Milley Called the CCP

- Trump: 'Withdrawl all the troops. Nuke China. Stop the steal!"

- Stop the Steal Part Deux

- As Afghanistan Dispeares from the Headlines

- Me Love You Long Time

Recorded: 9/15/21

Published: 9/16/21

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328 w/ Josh Szeps “Living in the Lockdown Under” Sep 09, 2021

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-- Aussie Impressions of a Missing Moynihan

-- A Gay Dad’s Homophobia

-- Australian Federalism; Who Knew?

-- Libertarianism, Shmibertarianism!

-- Islands Are Weird, Man

-- QR Covid Tracking Is Totally Fine

-- Concentration Camp or Exercise Yard?

-- Anti-Science Quarantines

-- What Tucker Carlson Got Wrong

-- What Tyler Cowen Got Right

-- The CRT/Abortion Parallels

-- He’ll Come Visit Just as Soon as He Can Escape!

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327 "Autumn in Kabul, Askew in Texas" Sep 03, 2021

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- Lead Astray

- Wrong Line

- Blues Traveler

- Sugar in his Tank

- When in Kabul

- Repeal/Replace/Keep the AUMF for another 20 years?

- Matt's Basement is Flooding (No, Really)

- 1/2 Trimester

- The Reverend Dr. James P Eagle Sr

- The Rule of Law

- Playin Coach

- Reading Playboy for the... Ads?

Recorded: 9/1/21

Published: 9/2/21

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