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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:

101 “Israel vs Palestine, IDW Skepticism, The Very Best Writer Alive” May 18, 2018

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(Recorded May 16th, 2018)

- "Are You Black?"

- Calling the Cops on Black Kids

- Isreal and Palestine: A Primer (Deliberately Calibrated to Infuriate Everyone)

- Michael Cohen: Maker of Great Deals

- When Everyone Hates (But No One Bothers to Read), Your Work

- When Everyone Loves (But No One Bothers to Read), Your Work

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100 “In Defense of Red-Pill Kanye West, Trump Subpoena, Press Freedom Day” May 04, 2018

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(Recorded May 3rd, 2018)

18:00+ Host Grab-Assing20:00+ Defending Red-Pill Kanye, Why Slavery is Always YOUR fault36:00+ Morrissey's Politics, Lennon's Domestic Violence40:00+ Coping with Persistent (and almost certainly imaginary) Threats on Your Life45:00+ Phrase Politics, Welch goes off the reservation50:00+ Moynihan's Perpetually Offended53:00+ Stormy Daniels74:00+ Inside the Fox Green Room ALSO: - Trade Talk- The Best Tinted Glasses- The WHCD, Press Freedom Farce, Why Journalism Awards Suck- Welch Goes on a Sinclare Media Rant

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099 “A Conversation w/ Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying” May 01, 2018

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(Recorded April 22nd, 2018)

A conversation with evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying.

- On Free Speech, Campus Culture- Identity- Scientific Investigation & Tabboo Topics- The Intellectual Dark Web- Evolution, Culture, Markets, Media, and The Academy

In THE SUMMER OF 2017, Bret Weinstein found himself at the center of an ‘equity and inclusion’ maelstrom at Evergreen State College, where he and his wife Heather Heying were both members of the faculty. The resulting scandal would result in the couple parting ways with the school, but not before attracting the attention of national media. Bret and Heather are currently unaffiliated academics in exile who frequently write and speak about their experience at evergreen, the state of American campuses and a host of increasingly controversial issues related to their principal field of study.The pair dropped by the studio to chop it up with Matt Welch and Kmele Foster.

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098 “Joy Reid's LGBT Issues, Kanye's Red Pill, Two Black Guys Walk Into a Starbucks” Apr 25, 2018

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(Recorded: April 24, 2018)

Matt's surprisingly strong opinions about Kanye West's endorsement of Candace "Red Pill Black" Owens.Joy Reid wasn't a huge fan of the gays, wrote some questionable things on the subject, and it appears Kmele is ready to forgive her. Rand Paul's latest flip-flop (Fisher is unimpressed).Trump bros-out with French president Macron. ALSO: Extended notes on the Starbucks Controversy, spontaneous reggae outbursts, impromptu seance, and a surprise cameo. "You already know it's THE FIFTH, baby!" - A Very Wise Man

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097 “Facebook Hearings, Gas Attacks, Abortion & Murder, Race & IQ” w/ Kat Timpf and Ben Dreyfuss Apr 17, 2018

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PROGRAMMING NOTE: Sorry for the unusually tardy release. This conversation was recorded approximately five days ago (prior to the most recent intervention in Syria), but the release was delayed by matters of great significance and urgency (which I won't bother to outline here). All the same, it's still a very fine vintage.

(Recorded: April 12, 2018)

with: Ben Dreyfuss (Mother Jones) and Kat Timpf (Fox News Channel, National Review)

- Facebook Congressional Hearings

- The (continuing/looming) War in Syria

- Trump May Fire (Muller, Rosenstein, and Anyone Else with the Temerity to “Attack America”)

- The Kevin Williamson Affair (Abortion, The Atlantic, and Capital Punishment -- Oh My)

- Race & IQ

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096 w/ Amy Chua "Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations" (Special Dispatch) Apr 03, 2018

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(Recorded: March 27, 2018)

A conversation w/ Amy Chua (@amychua), Yale law professor and author of numerous books including: "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother", "The Triple Package", "World on Fire", and her latest book "Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations".

“Today, no group in America feels comfortably dominant. Every group feels attacked, pitted against other groups not just for jobs and spoils but for the right to define the nation’s identity. In these conditions, democracy devolves into zero-sum group competition — pure political tribalism.” - Amy Chua, 'Political Tribes'

- Identity, Ethnicity, and Culture- Super-groups, Market Dominate Minorities- Tribes of America and the State of Her Politics- The Immutability of Tribalism and the Limits of Democracy

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095 "March for Our Lives, How to Journalist, So Moonshined" w/ Tom Slater and Tina Nguyen Mar 30, 2018

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(Recorded: March 28, 2018)

with

Tom Slater, Deputy Editor @ Spike'd

Tina Nguyen, Politics and Media Reporter @ Vanity Fair

Marching for our Lives, Poisoning Spies, Activist Journalist...

- Moonshine, Poison (Half a Helping of Each)

- Killing Marco Rubio

- Teenage Sainted Activist Student Journalist

- Making America Great Again + Putting Y'all Back in Chains

- Kevin Williamson Moves to The Atlantic (Assorted Persons Freakout)

- Garbology

- How to Be Pro Brexit w/o Going Full White Nationalist

- Slightly Russia Linked

- Never Having to Say You're Fired

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094 w/ Jody Avirgan "Enhanced Interrogation, Free Speech, Twitter Mobs" Mar 16, 2018

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Recorded: March 15, 2018

We've got FiveThirtyEight's Jody Avirgan in the studio. Matt is on assignment someplace.

This Week:

Is there a free speech "crisis" on campus?

Moynihan and Jody's considerably different approached to sparking media frenzies.

PLUS: Rex, we hardly knew ye (literally). But was he all that stood between us and the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" dominatrix?

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093 "Flirting w/ North Korea, Back Channeling w/ Stormy Daniels" Mar 10, 2018

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Recorded: March 9, 2018.

Welch, Moynihan, Fisher and Foster are in attendance.

An increasingly unlikely Presidential visit to North Korea.A seemingly permeable steel and aluminum tariff.A growing interest in POTUS's indiscretions w/ a Porn StarAnd Sam Nunberg's media PsyOp (and/or) breakdown

Pertinent Notes:

- "A Strange new respect..."- "A tribute vice pays to virtue..."- "The Q got that D..."

(and at Moynihan's insistence)

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092 "Hopeless Gun Debates, Bulletproof Oscar Predictions" w/ Sonny Bunch and Andy Levy Mar 02, 2018

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Recorded: March 1, 2018.

Oscar Talk: Best and Worst, Most Overrated and Ryan Gosling

Stick Talk: AR-15s, Scool Shootings, The National Rifle Association, and Due Process.

featuring

ANDY LEVYSenior Producer of the “S.E. Cup Unfiltered” on HLN

SONNY BUNCHExecutive Editor @ The Washington Free BeaconCo-Host @ The Weekly SubStandard Podcast

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