The Fifth Column

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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:

307 w/ Peter Meijer - "Investigating The Capitol Riot, The Truth About UFOs, Future of the GOP" May 21, 2021

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w/ Congressman Peter Meijer (R-MI)

Crypto Bloodbath
UFOs -- or are they UAPs
The Jan 6th Commission (Part I)
Lori Lightfoot Won't Talk To White Journalists
Homeless in San Francisco
The White Man's Burden
A Call from Peter
About That Vote
The Revolt of the Public
The Feels
The Truth is Out There

Recorded May 19, 2021

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306 w/ Gustavo Arellano - "Ask a Mexican, Trump's a Mexican, and the Republican Crackup" May 13, 2021

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The lads (minus Kmele, recently felled by his second Pfizer shot) welcome Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano, host of the new LAT podcast "The Times" and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. Note that after an hour of Gustavo's trademark Southern California/Mexican smack talk--in which he defends Taco Bell, ruminates on "LatinX," explains "Tio Tacos" and "Chicanosauruses," and describes American ethnic tensions that don't involve white people (!)--Moynihan and Welch return to discuss the on-going disasters in Israel, the economy, and the Republican Party.

Sure, everything is awful. But as always, The Fifth Column is here to point out just how awful and reassure you that it absolutely won't get better in the near future.

Recorded May 12, 2021

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305 - "Systemic and Unspecific, AbasedCamp, The Socialist Network, " May 07, 2021

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- The Fifth Column live in Miami! Is this the post-COVID Gilluming you’ve been waiting for?

- Matt is Drudged: equity v. equality

- Racism becomes more systemic, less specific

- Basecamp asks employees to leave politics at the door…or head for the door

- Are a bunch of smart libertarian legal scholars wrong or super wrong?

- The Socialist Network: the GOP wants to compel Facebook to be nice to DJT

- The GOP wants to compel Liz Cheney to stop being mean to DJT

- Matt and Kmele yell at each other about Hillary Clinton and DJT

- And so very much more....

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304 w/ Paul Rossi - "Verdicts, Reckonings, High School Indoctrination" Apr 24, 2021

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w/ Paul Rossi (Math Teacher and Writer)

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/i-refuse-to-stand-by-while-my-students

A verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, is an undeniable milestone for the entire country with wide-ranging implications for American media, politics, and culture. Had things gone differently, America would likely have seen another outbreak of "mostly peaceful protest" -- seasons with healthy smatterings of outright political violence.

And in K-12 classrooms across the country, another phase of America's 'racial justice' cultural war continues to play out. Paul Rossi joins our distinguished triumvirate to share details of the still-unfolding drama he incited by voicing opposition to one elite Manhattan private school's critical race theory-inspired antiracism programming.

Plus:

Adam Toledo
Ma'Khia Bryant
"Kindly Inquisitors"
Why one Miami Venue REFUSED to host @wethefifth live recording (Hint: "It's cause somebody got' that transphobia." SMH)

Recorded: 4.21.2021

Published: 4.23.2021

"Just cuz I'm a freak, don't mean that we could hit the sheets" - Gregory Jacobs

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303 w/ Alex Nowrasteh - "The Time We Fixed Policing and Immigration" Apr 16, 2021

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"What you think all the guns is for?" - Christopher Wallace

w/ Alex Nowrasteh (Director of Immigration Studies @ The Cato Institute)

A supersized dispatch, because fully resolving the various problems in America's immigration and criminal justice system -- takes a little time. Especially when you're forced to contend w/ WHITE SUPREMACY [Insert Ghost Emoji]. It's kinda like a podcast-mixtape.

A - SIDE

The Curious State of US Immigration
Reality, Theater, Textbook Political + Bureaucratic Failure
The Welfare State vs Open Borders
The (Great?) Replacement
AOC's Plan
Kamala's Rope-A-Dope

B - SIDE

DMX, Shawn Kemp, Bob Marley
Humble Beginnings
The Defense Rests
Where the Hell is Brooklyn Center
The Word You're Looking For is "Discharge"
Live Tweeting
We're Going to South Beach

Recorded: 4.14.2021

Published: 4.17.2021

1 Bitcoin = $61,041.60

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302 - "Making Arrangements, Ghost Guns, Pullin' Out" Apr 09, 2021

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Hunter "Squirtle" Biden
Matt "Making Arrangements" Gaetz
Adventures in the Havana Hilton?
When Everything is Sex Trafficking? (Not Exactly)
A New Era of Bipartisanship
Win Ben Stein's Heart
The American Metaphor Council
Who's D riving the Democratic Party
China and Bitcoin
Self Correcting Journalism
Tweets Bad. Accessory to the murder of a Judge -- we have to be understanding
Kmele Loves Guns
Universal Basic Income for Mom's of Color
Structural Racism Tamagotchi
Harrison Bergeron General Hospital

Recorded April 8th, 2021

Published April 9th, 2021

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301 - "Five Years of Impending Doom, Chauvin on Trial, Blowin Money Fast" Apr 03, 2021

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(In No Particular Order)

Live From New York
DRINK
AOC AMA
CDC Press Conference
Mask Etiquette
DRINK
Derek Chauvin on Trial (Week 1)
Eight Fingers Left
Tar Babies
A Thing Greater Than Yourself
Voter Suppression 2.0
DRINK
Corporate Welfare
Five Pinocchios
Ending Ken Burns
The Cowardly Doormen

Recorded April 1st, 2021

Published April 3rd, 2021

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300 - "A Do Over Episode (Mostly Uncut)" Mar 27, 2021

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Summary

Kmele Loses an Entire Dispatch
Moynihan's Most Racist Voice
Important Homework
What We Might Have Talked About
Mass Shootings
Hate Crime Hysterics and Lies
Ending the War in Afghanistan
Nationa Building
Whale Watching + 400 Years of Suffering
Leaving Sesame Street

Recorded March 25th, 2021

Published March 26th, 2021

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229 w/ Jeffrey Sachs - "How to be a Dictator, Anti-Woke Hypocrisy" Mar 22, 2021

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Guest: Jeffery Sachs, Lecturer in Politics @ Acadia University

Snyder Cut
Sympathy for Dictators
Useful Pretense of Justice
How Did Sachs Get It So Wrong
State of the New Culture War
Free Speech Hypocrisy
The Left Is Worse, Right?
Power Imbalance
Coastal Myopia
What if We're Wrong (Again*)

Recorded March 18th, 2021

Published March 22th, 2021

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228 w/ Katie Herzog - "1.9 Trillion Reasons to Block and Report You" Mar 12, 2021

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Guest: Katie Herzog, HOST @ "Blocked & Reported"

Keeping Secrets
Coming 2 America
Transphobia is Bad
A Most Prescient Cancelation
Say THE WORD, Katie
They'll Never Give You A Reson
The Tax Code is Racist
Plato's Utopia
Rescue Package in Name Only
Tucker Carlson, Mean Person
Tinker Taylor, Toy Soldier
Virtual Ball Busting
Pretending Things Ain't Complicated
The Shape of A Joke
The Many Trials of George Floyd
RIP DC

Recorded March 10th, 2021

Published March 12th, 2021

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