The Fifth Column

Written by: Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch
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  • 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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  • #494 - State of Delusion

    #494 - State of Delusion
    Mar 5 2025

    * A very long SOTU

    * Al Green meets Buju Banton, Tripadvisor objects

    * The most beautiful, terrifying word in the English language

    * The “deficit” you shouldn’t care about

    * The forgotten Foxconn boondoggle

    * The hopeless Democrats

    * Maybe look at, say, Dean Phillips and ignore the Squad

    * Asian finger cuffs

    * Two cheers for parliamentary democracy

    * Poor lil’ Marco

    * Who killed Gene Hackman’s dog?



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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Members Only #250 - Twitter Is Now Real Life

    Members Only #250 - Twitter Is Now Real Life
    Mar 3 2025
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

    There’s some discussion of parenting. A tiny bit about the Oscars. And a bunch about the triumph of conspiracy culture. But this is mostly a subscriber-only episode about the Zelensky debacle and the ongoing U.S. foreign policy realignment. So why bother with bullet points?’
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    19 mins
  • #493 - Fifth Extra: John Bolton on Trump 2.0

    #493 - Fifth Extra: John Bolton on Trump 2.0
    Mar 2 2025

    * Trump’s maturity

    * Trump’s deal making

    * Trump and NATO

    * Trump vs. Europe

    * Trump and Taiwan

    * A price on Bolton’s head

    * Is he a neocon?



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    39 mins

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