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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:

217 - "You Gon Learn, Hawley's Gamble" Dec 31, 2020

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- Kmele 2020

- AllyShip

- Secret Shows

- The Internet Never Forgets

- Trap Lord

- Burning the Witch (and maybe that annoying lady from down the street too)

- Puritanism Without The Fun

- Schadenfreude

- Inconveniencing the Steal

- Eviscerating Democracy (w/ Hyperbole)

- Stop Laughing -- It's Not Funny

- Thank You

Recorded Dec 30th, 2020

Published Dec 31st, 2020

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216 - w/ Greg Lukianoff "From Campus to Caliphate" Dec 26, 2020

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Guest: Greg Lukianoff @ Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (President). Co-Author, "The Coddling of the American Mind"

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Recorded Dec 23rd, 2020

Published Dec 25th, 2020

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215 - "New in Town, Vax Populi" Dec 19, 2020

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New Views
Demographic Considerations
What Seems to Be The Problem Officer?
The Honorable Minister
Vaccine Rollout
Careful Reporting
Post Trump News Cycle
The Flagrancy
Predicting Apocalypse

Recorded Dec 17th, 2020

Published Dec 19th, 2020

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214 - w/Ben Dreyfuss "Another Dreyfuss Affair" Dec 12, 2020

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Look, you asked for it. Fifth fan favorite (ed - we really don't understand you people) and Mother Jones editorial director Ben Dreyfuss (né Gould) is back. And the results are wonderfully shambolic. But seriously: make sure the kids are in bed before press play....

Ben is "on leave" from Mother Jones
Why Ben's editor blocked him on Twitter (and you should too)
No ice in Hawaii, no avocados in Wisconsin
The worst movie Ben's dad ever made (Or was it the best?)
Why everyone in DC hates Facebook
Why people read dumb articles on Facebook
Ben starts a Substack. Obviously.
What Ben learned about Donald Trump in the suicide ward
Manipulating people on the internet
And so much more...

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213 - "Da Mystery Of Defunding the Police (while Stopin' the Steal)" Dec 04, 2020

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"The Toad style is immensely strong, and immune to nearly any weapon. When it's properly used, it's almost invincible." - Five Deadly Venoms

Way Out Of Line
The Incredible Asshole Machine
Related Controversy
A Stolen*** Election
Obama 💘 Cops
Welcome to Murderapolis
A Civil War, A Tent Revival
Han Obviously Shot First (Probably Doesn't Matter)
Bothsidesing: Maybe Not a Bad Idea
Revivalist vs Redistributionist
American Pie

Recorded Dec 3nd, 2020

Published Dec 4th, 2020

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212 - "A Thanksgiving Miracle" Nov 26, 2020

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An issue with the mics. An inspired fix. A nearly aborted dispatch manages to slide into your feed just in time for the stranges Thanksgiving in decades.

A Rolling Start
When Moynihan Met Oprah
Coup d'é HAHAHAHAHA
"I Told You"
Salvaging the Culture
Crisis of Authority
Covid Masks
Murder Rates
Generational Divides
Calling it Quits
It's A Job, Ain't It?

Recorded Nov 24th, 2020

Published Nov 26th, 2020

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211 - w/ Glenn Greenwald "Leaving The Intercept, Crying Like a Baby" Nov 19, 2020

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Guest: Glenn Greenwald @ Co-Founder, The Intercept

The Move to Substack (https://greenwald.substack.com/)
The Marvelousness of the Fifth Column
The Job Market
The Reply to Critics
The Blow by Blow
The Culture
The Hunter Biden Laptop Situation

Recorded Oct 30th, 2020

Published Nov 19th, 2020

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210 - w/ Jason Stanley "What the Fascist, Covid Season, Race Critical" Nov 15, 2020

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Guest: Jason Stanley @ Author, "How Fascism Works", Professor of Philosophy @ Yale.

The Answer
Extremely Online, Prospective Hypocrisy
Cancel Culture
No Tellin
Trump's Blacketst Swan
But He's a Fascist
Critical Race Back and Forth
Pretty Good (for a Black Guy)
Covid

Recorded Nov 12th, 2020

Published Nov 14th, 2020

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209 - "And The Winner Is..." Nov 05, 2020

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What Election?
The Perils of Watching Cable News
What You Talkin Bout Welch
The Got'Damn Polls
Anticipated Unrest
Black Woman Stabbed, By Black Lives Matters Supporters?
What Happens to the Media
What Happens to Republicans
What Happens to Democrats
Stereotypes are Fine Now
You People Aren't Supposed to Vote That Way
Woke-spiracy
Fighting Them on The Beach

Recorded Nov 4th, 2020

Published Nov 5th, 2020

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208 - "Techno Fascism, Jerking Jeff, and the Mendacious Media" Oct 24, 2020

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Bannon's back. The New York Post isn't.
Don’t talk about Hunter!
Are we living in a Techno Fascist Reich?
Regulate, regulate, regulate
The unforeseen consequences of deplatforming?
Qanon inflation
To the gulag, go!
Russia, Russia, Russia
Which New York Times editor does Matt call "a loathsome toad"?
FYI: Political journalists cannot cover “politically driven events”
Debate, debate, debate
Coherent on Corona!
But also full of shit!
And Corona reporting is still awful
Mad Matt on a Mendacious Media
Are people still wiping down their groceries?
WHATS UP TWITTER WORLD, IT’S THE JUICE
Jeff Toobin, American Hero / OJ, not guilty
Maybe an election-night Zoom thing?

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