The Fifth Column

Auteur(s): Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch
  • Résumé

  • 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
    The Fifth Column
    Voir plus Voir moins
Épisodes
  • #502 - The Second Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)
    Apr 24 2025

    Errr….This one gets pretty heated. But we’re all still friends! We think. And Moynihan is now sober and his blood sugar is back to normal, so there’s that too. Either way, hats off to Batya for braving another episode with three people who disagree with her on pretty much everything. We talk Tariffs, Trump, lawfare, Ukraine, and everything in between.



    This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
    Voir plus Voir moins
    2 h et 5 min
  • Members Only #257 - I'll Ruin Everything You Are
    Apr 23 2025
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

    * The Hungarian dentist and the prostitute theory

    * Your TV wife sees Hitler all the time, no?

    * Facilitate…

    * Dinners with politicians

    * A digression on Big Star (FYI: "Holocaust”)

    * Elder scams

    * Apple Watches and proof of life

    * Back to Rogan and Murray

    * A trip to Libya for a copy of the Green Book

    * #9 Fifth Dream

    * Doing an impression of a smart person / Paul believes

    * A theory …

    Voir plus Voir moins
    21 min
  • Members Only #256 -- How Media and Public Health Failed Our Kids (w/ David Zweig)
    Apr 21 2025
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

    On May 11, 2020, as I was navigating personal collapse (“it’s been a really shitty two months,” I said on an interesting-to-listen-to-now Special Dispatch #20), my two daughters were wrestling unhappily with Zoom school, and all three of us lads were in the process of buying Covid cars, I came across a Wired article that landed like a Cher-style open-ha…

    Voir plus Voir moins
    19 min

Ce que les auditeurs disent de The Fifth Column

Moyenne des évaluations de clients

Évaluations – Cliquez sur les onglets pour changer la source des évaluations.