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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:

141 w/ Eli Lake - "Muller Report, Julian Assange, Deep State Grifters " Apr 25, 2019

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w/ Eli Lake (Columnist @ Bloomberg Voice)

- We Like Bari Weiss

- Moynihan is a Drunk, Also a Great Neighbor

- Muller Report

- Grifting, the Grifters, of Grif

- Eli Lake's Hood Pass

- Tom Arnold Was Great in True Lies

- All The Missing Tapes

- Seth Abramson's Beautiful Mind

- Election Interference / Hacking / Exaggerations

- Impeachments + Inquiries

- Assange: Journalist or Naw?

- Naughty Journalist in the Movies

- Dogs = White Supremacy

- That's Why Darkies Were Born

Recorded: 4/24/2019

Published: 4/25/2019

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140 w/ Ben Dreyfuss - "Muller Who, Jill Abramson's Privilege , True Hollywood Stories" Apr 19, 2019

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w/ Ben Dreyfuss - Editorial Director @ Mother Jones

- Waiting for Godot

- Ben Dreyfuss is, Young Bernie Madoff

- Jill Abramson's 'Write' Privilege

- "Strange Justice" = "Strange Fruit"?

- Political turncoats

- Paleo-Neoconservative

- Private School Kids Buying Drugs

- Daddy issues

- Bret Easton Ellis' bad writing

- Death threats

- Race Realists

Recorded: 4/17/2019

Published: 4/19/2019

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139 w/ Andrew Sullivan "Civil Rights, Immigration, Julian Assange, Too Many Popes" Apr 12, 2019

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w/ Andrew Sullivan - Writer at Large for New York Magazine,

- Hating New York

- What Would Hitch Say?

- On Being a Reluctant, Problematic Civil Rights Pioneer

- Surviving a Death Sentence

- Immigration Backlash

- Obama Hated Identity Politics?

- Assange Arrested

- Pope Benedict blames the 60s

- Too Many Popes

- The Comfort of Religious Ritual

Recorded: 4/11/2019

Published: 4/12/2019

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138 w/ Aaron Maté "Russiagate Victory Lap, Visiting Venezuela, Super Gaye Music" Apr 04, 2019

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w/ Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate)

- Our Mathematical Universe

- "Leaving Neverland" Revisionism

- Russiagate: Right, Wrong, Whatever

- Jonathan Chait is “Completely* Correct*”

- When in Venezuela + Nobody Likes Sanctions

- Venezuela: Humanitarian Crisis, Economic Crisis"

- Making Friends + Enemies on Twitter

- "The Realm of Hungry Ghosts" (a book by Aaron's Dad)

- Stop Snitchin (On Your Sources)

- Joe Biden Feminism

- Kmele Talked w/ Thad

- Marvin Gaye: You're the (black) Man

Recorded: 4/3/2019

Published: 4/4/2019

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137 "Use Your Collusion I and II, Jussie Smollett Walks" Mar 28, 2019

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- Trump: Death by gloating

- Margaret Sullivan: the Captain Beefheart of journalism

- Glenn Greenwald spikes the football with a vengeance

- MSNBC doubles down

- Seth Abramson: Poet laureate, Resistance Hero

- Trump's enemies list and love of authoritarians

- Roger Stone and the D-list of DC conservatism

- Jussie Smollet's privilege

- Some Idiot Wrote This, Jane Mayer edition

Recorded: 3/26/2019

Published: 3/28/2019

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136 w/ Tina Nguyen "Islamists v White Nationalists, Segregated Schools, 2020 Hopefuls" Mar 24, 2019

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w/ Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)

- Tina's Theranos voice

- Elizabeth Warren Holmes

- Revisiting the Universal Basic Income (Kmele hasn't endorse UBI or Andrew Yang)

- Technophobia, 'McDonald’s employees will murder you'

- The Three-Fifths Column

- Matt does Betomania

- Getting it wrong on Iraq

- The cycles of massacre reaction/coverage

- Islamists v. White nationalists

- Stuyvesant High School and Asian Privilege

- "Fuck off Tiger parents"

Recorded: 3/21/2019

Published: 3/24/2019

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135 "Privileged College Parents, Platform Revoked" Mar 18, 2019

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DESCRIPTION:

- Kmele's in 'Frisco', Moynihan's hungover, Matt got lit up on Twitter

- Desperate wealthy college parents headed to prison?

- The injustice of legacy admissions

- Elite colleges are overrated

- Biden v. Beto

- Venezuela's blackout and the three initials who shall not be named

- Platforming vs de-platforming

- Tucker Carlson's shock-jock period

- National Review swinging (and missing) at Trump

- If you’re going to “Cancel,” cancel everything

- Matt's Pat Caddell tribute/roast thing

Recorded: 3/12/2019

Published: 3/18/2019

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134 w/ Andrew Yang “The Universal Basic Income (and a few other things besides)" Mar 11, 2019

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A discussion w/ entrepreneur and 2020 Democratic Presidential hopeful, Andrew Yang. We explore The Freedom Dividend, Yang's proposal to pay $1,000 per month to every American over the age of 18.

Recorded: 3/6/2019

Published: 3/11/2019

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133 “Canceling Neverland (and everything else), They're All Socialist Now" Mar 07, 2019

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- Smooth Criminals, "Leaving Neverland" Skepticism

- Canceling Michael Jackson, R Kelly, and The Entire 1970s

- All Hate Matters

- Dual Loyalties

- Bernie Sanders Marched for Civil Rights, He's Still "Too White"

- Democratic Socialism**

- Revisiting Moynihan v. Weisbrot

- Some Idiot Wrote This

- Salman Rushdie

Recorded: 3/5/2019

Published: 3/7/2019

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132 w/ Mark Weisbrot “Venezuela: Failed State or Coup D'etat?" Mar 04, 2019

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w/ Mark Weisbrot

Co-Director @ Center for Economic and Policy Research

Author, "Failed: What the 'experts' got wrong about the global economy"

- Visiting w/ Hugo Chavez + Sean Penn

- Is "dictatorship" a hate word?

- Venezuela's elections

- Political prisoners

- State violence or police violence

- Coming coup?

- Embargoes, sanctions, and the collapse of the economy

- Who's to blame for hunger?

- The opposition

- What's a good faith negotiation entry point?

Recorded: 3/1/2019

Published: 3/3/2019

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