The Fifth Column
Butiran Saluran
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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600 episod
Nobody Likes a Gossip Cop (w/ Dan Abrams) - #536
Dan Abrams is the CEO and Founder of Abrams Media Chief Legal Analyst for ABC News, host of On Patrol: Live on Reelz, host of SiriusXM radio’s “The Da...
Members Only #291 - Leader of the Asshole Nation (w/ Kevin O'Leary)
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Michael Moynihan sits down with entrepreneur, act...
UNLOCKED Members Only #290 - AI George Washington, LSD Margaritas, and Tara Reid
It’s been a bit since it was just Michael, Kmele, and Matt at the table so we’ve decided to unlock this Members Only episode and invite everyone in. F...
#535 - America's Top Brezhnevite (w Brace Belden)
We’re joined by Brace Belden, co-host of the TrueAnon podcast.
•They don’t make heroin anymore
•The Taco Bell connection
•King of t...
UNLOCKED: Atheist in a Foxhole, w/ the Great Sebastian Junger
Periodically around these parts the audience demand for unpaywalling certain subscribers-only episodes becomes too clamorous to ignore. So it was with...
Destroy All Robots…Before They Destroy US (w/ Andy Mills)
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Andy Mills joins to discuss his new Longview podc...
Members Only #288 (LIVE in Los Angeles) - American Canyon Revisited
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You asked for it, you got it! A session with just...
Members Only #287 - Hoarding Epstein’s Emails, Band T-Shirts, and Air Jordans (w Jason Leopold)
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Check out Jason Leopold’s FOIA Files newsletter,...
#534 - Even the Mayor Says L.A. Isn’t Well Governed (w/ Karen Bass)
• Not safe at home, mayoral edition
• “The guns were decades old”
• The Trump/Mamdani bromance
• The administration’s historic post-...
#533 - Moynihan vs. Moynihan (w/ Lydia Moynihan)
* The Doppelgänger
* Where do these Moynihans come from?
* The journalism disease
* You do not want to get a call from the New York...
Members Only #286 - Atheist in a Foxhole (w/ Sebastian Junger)
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We are joined by journalist, author, filmmaker, a...
#532 - Trinnies, Joy Bells, and Race Pride (w/ Abby Phillip)
* The dog hasn’t barked
* He knew about the girls. But we *knew* that
* So what, if anything, do these emails prove?
* Conspiracies,...
Members Only #285 - The Case For American Power (w/ Shadi Hamid)
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It’s release day for Shadi Hamid’s new book, The...
#531 - Liberal of Fox News, Unite! (w/ Jessica Tarlov)
We’re joined by Jessica Tarlov, co-host of The Five on Fox News, and Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway.
•Among the cons
•What does it...
Members Only #284 - Pod Save The Queen (The Fascist Regime) with Jon Lovett
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• Don’t mess with the Zoran
• The opacity o...
#530 - They Don't Care About Us
* We are now alone / He’s out of our life
* The Republican rebels?
* Announcing a Fifth Column live show in LA! Subscribers get first crac...
Members Only #283 - Putin on the Fritz (w/ Ambassador Michael McFaul)
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Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Russia,...
#529 - I Don’t Want You to Go to Jail for That, Jeffrey Toobin!
•Who subscribes to the New York Post?
•One Battle After Another Redux
•Myrna Opsahl and other deep cuts
•F. Lee Bailey, legal consul...
Members Only #282 – There Will Be Spoilers (One Battle After Another, Cartoon Politics, and Car Chases)
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Rooting against the dancing Irish poor
Does...
Members Only #281 - When You've Eaten the Poison, You Might as Well Lick the Plate (w/ Jake Adelstein)
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Check out Jake Adelstein’s new book, The Devil Ta...
#528: President Comacho Delivers Peace, w/ Mary Katharine Ham
* Misgendering Fox News
* Wait, Michael was at a dinner?
* Kmele tries to pronounce Normally
* “Clearly we don’t fucking prepare”
Members Only #280 - Megyn Kelly Blowback, Principled Sanity, and Nihilistic Dread
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•One Battle After Another
•Kmele’s hot take...
#527 - War is Over (If Hamas Wants It)
* Subscribe to our YouTube channel already!
* A shirt full of toothpaste
* Whiskey in a jar
* Your dumb, complaining emails
*...
UNLOCKED: Russ Roberts, on the Weight of History & the Elasticity of Memory
Last month, after years of you people begging us, we finally had on the great Russ Roberts—author, educator, and proprietor of the phantasmagorically...
Members Only #279 - Behind the Scenes With Kanye West Documentarian Nico Ballesteros
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The Fifth Column’s resident Kanye aficionado Kmel...
#526 - Megyn Kelly is All Out of Generosity
It’s fine if you want to listen to this episode on Apple podcasts or Spotify or Substack. We get it! That’s the way you’ve always done it! But you do...
Members Only #278 -- Goliath’s Curse Author Luke Kemp on Why (and When) Empires Collapse
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Oh sure, everyone’s go-to for imperial collapse t...
Members Only #277 - Andy Rooney Hangovers, Nazi Beekeepers, and Ex-Canadians
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* If you’re a Never Fly Coach subscriber, remembe...
#525 - John Spencer Views Explosion
Matt and Michael are joined by John Spencer, Executive Director of the Urban Warfare Institute.
•Gary Busey and the B-movie military raid on the...
Members Only #276 - The Cancelling of an American Talkshow (w/ Greg Lukianoff)
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* Pretty sure FIRE president Greg Lukianoff is th...
#524 - BTW, Venezuela is a Dictatorial Commie Narcostate (w/ Thor Halvorssen)
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* On Candace and Megyn
* That source, says Thor, the Venezuelan, is a big booster of th...
Members Only #275 - The Elasticity of Memory & the Weight of History (w/ Russ Roberts)
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#523 - On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
A very bad day for American politics, recorded within an hour of a young father’s death. Political violence, outgroup hatreds, and a side of media mal...
Members Only #274 - Jamaicanon and the Racist Storms
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* You take the good, you take the bad, you take t...
#522 - Video Killed the Podcast Star (ft. Mace, Epstein, Gladwell, Linehan)
* The video age is upon us
* Sweet Jane
* Crazy Nancy
* I’m a survivor, I'm not gon' give up
* You have a microphone. Just TE...
#521 - MAGA Panthers and White FUBU
* A barrel of crackas
* We’re buying Hooters
* Glamorous hairstyling
* Look it up, people
* The caudillo and the talk show ho...
On "The Summer of Our Discontent" w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams
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Kmele connects with Thomas Chatterton Williams to...
#520 - Wear a Tie, Kids Won't Die / White Hippies / Ancient Chinese Custom, Huh?
* Tahoe plague
* The Swiss lobby
* Hate your kids
* They seem like nice kids
* If you only wore a tie, kids wouldn’t die
Members Only #272 - Bosom Buddies, Nazi Historians, Late Capitalists
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* A Spanish Harlem incident
* The selectiv...
#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts
* Below the Mendoza Line
* Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer
* Stallone’s Bergman period
* Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so,...