The Fifth Column

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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Episodes
  • #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
  • #492 - How Deep Is Your State

    #492 - How Deep Is Your State
    Feb 28 2025

    * The traffickers of the Fifth Column

    * The genius of Bill Belichick

    * Those Boston boys aren’t so terrible after all

    * Nick v. Stewart

    * Democracy died in the light!

    * The WaPo freakout

    * The press pool freakout

    * No one believes in anything, part 387

    * The “Epstein files” will contain nothing of interest

    * A “Roman” salute that no one noticed

    * MSNBC is apparently racist

    * A live event in NYC!



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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • Members Only #249 - Killing Us Softly

    Members Only #249 - Killing Us Softly
    Feb 25 2025
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    * RIP Roberta

    * What’s the “woke right?” No idea.

    * MAGA Brooklyn

    * Reform Party 2000!

    * Nadia didn’t pay, so…

    * But does it vindicate the collusion narrative?

    * Eli Lake’s “Framed and Guilty”

    * The Great Negotiator

    * The rise of AfD…and the end of Europe?

    * Kmele and Kanye (“He’s a NAZI, Kmele, a NAZI…”)

    * Moynihan’s memory

    * Drinking with Team Uterus
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    21 mins

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