The Fifth Column
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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 art...
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Robert D. Kaplan on a World Getting Darker (Members Only #320)
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His next book, China Whisperers (out in November)...
Masquerade of Morons (Episode #556)
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Premeditated Fingering w/ Anthony Scaramucci (Members Only #319)
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We’re joined by Anthony Scaramucci, founder of Sk...
David French on the Supreme Court, Race, and the Miracle That Confirmed His Faith #555
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Crimes of Boredom (Members Only #318)
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After the failed shooting at the White House Corr...
Tucker, Totenkopf, and the Fascist Question w/ Michelle Goldberg #554
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Live From Village Underground: The 10th Anniversary Show w/Ryan Long (Members Only #317)
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Comedian Ryan Long stops by to join the guys at t...
Audience of One w/ Brian Kilmeade (Members Only #316)
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The border, the bombs, and can you guess how many...
Nothing is Impossible w/ Mark Harmon (Members Only #315)
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He has spent a lifetime around fame, a heroic fat...
A Blockade of the Blockade #553
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Supreme Court, Inferior Congress w/ Sarah Isgur (Members Only #314)
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Sarah Isgur, Executive Editor of SCOTUSblog, has...
The Ceasefire That Wasn’t #552 (w/ Abe Greenwald)
-The wrong Greenwald, but the actual Abe
-Everyone loves our ad spots
-Iran’s deranged peace menu
-Ceasefire, with extra missiles
Halfwits, Knuckle Draggers, and Droolers (Members Only #313)
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BEHOLD, the Mailbag (aka male-bagging, aka you-ye...
Ten Years of The Fifth Column (#551)
The Fifth Column marks ten years with a live, loose, alcohol-assisted celebration featuring Thor Halvorssen, Pete Meijer, Olivia Reingold, Nick Gilles...
Cuba, Race, and the American Category Problem w/Ted Henken (Members Only #312)
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Oh, and Wednesday marks the 10th anniversary of t...
The Limits of Sound and Fury w/ Rahm Emanuel (Members Only #311)
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* Maybe I wasn’t exactly a prince
* Why nob...
Is Apple Still Apple? #550 (w/ David Pogue)
Kmele loves Apple products…maybe a little too much. But what a perfect guest to talk all things related to this monster company and how it’s shaped Am...
The Hungarian Road to Havana (Members Only #310)
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-Celine Dion, slightly less stiff
-Every he...
There’s Always a New Monster to Destroy (w/ Noam Dworman) -#549
-Joe Kent’s weird texts and the “Israel did Iraq” brainworm
-The Jews are so fucking clever
-Iraq 2003, back from the dead yet again
...
Cuba in the Dark (Members Only #309)
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-Gov. Chris Christie debrief
-Kmele nearly...
Gov. Chris Christie Tells on Everyone #548
-Gov. Chris Christie says Kmele has no excuse
-Getting drunk with Colbert
-No drugs, ever
-RFK Jr.’s drug use
-The only things...
A Brief Defense of the Vampires w/ Lloyd Blankfein (Members Only #308)
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He also weighs in on populism, inequality, privat...
Many Worlds, Bad Science, and the Strangeness of Being w/Sean Carroll (Members Only #307)
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From the multiverse to time travel to bad studies...
Iran and the Fog of Regime Change (w/Hooman Majd) - #547
Hooman Majd comes from a family that reads like a parable about modern Iran: a grandfather who was an ayatollah, an uncle who worked for the Shah, and...
Iran and the Dee Snider Doctrine (Members Only #306)
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-Matt takes off his glasses, Kmele panics
-...
One Hitter: War With Iran and Jewish Space Lasers w/ Nadav Eyal (Members Only #305)
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Journalist Nadav Eyal joins Welch and Moyniahn to...
The Revolutionaries (w/ Ken Layne) -- #5
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I first met Ken Layne sometime in 1991, back when...
State of the Union Post-Mortem with Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) - #546
-Matt Welch’s Caribbean identity crisis at Da Pig Beach
-The State of the Union aka a two-hour hostage note
-A greatest hits, lowest light...
Locker Room Talk and the Pizzagate Reunion Tour (Members Only #304)
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Kash chugs it back with the toothless champions
A Big, Beautiful SCOTUS Decision (with Damon Root) MO #303
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* Damon Root’s book Overruled: The Long Wa...
Ambiguity in the Age of Outrage (w/ Jon Meacham) - #545
-The dork Star Wars cantina of famous biographers
-Jefferson’s hypocrisy and the impossibility of paragon standards
-Lincoln was not an ab...
Voodoo Socialism and the $3 Million Rainy Day Fund w/ William Neuman (Members Only #302)
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-Please say hello to our new Sunset Park neighbor...
The Revolutionaries (w/ Robert Sullivan) - #4
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For Christmas 2024, I was gifted Robert Su...
The Great American Mustache Ride (w/ John Bolton) - #544
-John Bolton, Olympic Curling Hawk
-Arguing with the 60s Since 1970
-I’m kind of a Libertarian (Minus the Defense Part)
-Iraq was ac...
One Hitter- Senator Rand Paul is Lonely (Members Only #301)
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-The Invertebrate Caucus
-The New Tax Party...
Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Bunny? (Members Only #300)
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A deeply serious and important conversation over...
Let's Rally Together and Unfuck America (w/ John Avlon) - #543
John Avlon stops by only to learn he’s also in the Epstein files, why the Daily Beast should’ve sold dick pills, and why we need to rebuild guardrails...
Triumph of the Grift (Members Only #299)
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• Moynihan and Welch are in the Epstein files
The Revolutionaries (w/ Bill Schulz) - #3
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What if you’re just … born wrong? (No, I don’t me...
Enthusiastic Armadas, Armenian Bakeries, Ye’s Apology Ad - #542
-The NYC Rolling Hobo Express
-An Enthusiastic Armada Full of Speed and Violence
-Iranian Death Toll Discourse and Roger Waters Still Suck...