The Fifth Column

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch

Analysis, Commentary, Sedition. @wethefifth

  • 21 minutes 59 seconds
    Members Only #209 - Rotten (and Racist) in Denmark
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    * Shogun erasure

    * Revolutionary accents

    * A debate on Israel and a subsequent anti-Moynihan calumny

    * Alas, anti-Semitism is common in certain parts of the world

    * Pointing this out seems pretty obvious

    * The WAV file

    * My melanated baby

    * Teaching kids versus raising kids

    * Indoctrinating someone else’s kids into your way of thinking is some serious cult shit

    * Torturing …

    6 May 2024, 2:56 pm
  • 1 hour 19 minutes
    #453 - No Step on Snek

    * Children of the revolution

    * No journalists allowed!

    * The Italian Gadsden flag

    * Oh no, Matt Welch…no, no, no

    * In defense of …Al Sharpton?

    * Dead soul singers

    * The great Baby Huey

    * Forgiving student debt is insane

    * College is dumb but it makes economic sense…for now

    * The New York Times and NPR

    * Jihad rehab

    * Twitter welcomes another sexless fascist



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    3 May 2024, 8:12 pm
  • 17 minutes 40 seconds
    Members Only #208 - Bananas Foster
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    * The Banana genocide

    * Professor, professor…let’s stick to the facts

    * A conspiracy documentary full of cranks and losers

    * 60 journalism professors find a story they cannot countenance

    * Listeners on ADHD and Adderall

    * RFK in CA

    * Nodding along with Lemon

    * How to talk to an Auschwitz survivor

    * The trickiness of memory

    * Two sets of rules

    * Peaceful protesters get a call fr…

    30 April 2024, 3:32 pm
  • 1 hour 39 minutes
    #452 - The Strawberry Statement 2024 / The Eternal Adderall Shortage (w/ C.J. Ciaramella)

    A two-for-one offering from The Fifth: first, the lads discuss the ongoing student stupidities, free speech and protest, Kmele at TED, and how your views are probably pretty normal (ed. note: considering the full-court coverage of the Columbia intifada, it’s sort of surprising that no one is referencing this terrible 1970 film, written by Ad-Roc’s dad). And then, some bonus content with Reason’s C.J. Ciaramella, who joins to discuss the government war on Adderall, his own ADHD diagnosis, and why it took him two months to get his prescription filled.



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    25 April 2024, 7:47 pm
  • 20 minutes 23 seconds
    Members Only #207 - Columbia Breakdown: Next Stop Baader Meinhof?
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    * Swedish breakdown

    * Columbia breakdown

    * The continued rise of American extremism

    * The politics of “genocide”

    * The politics of propaganda

    * Chicago expectations

    * A newborn in the Fifdom

    * Our Batya episode

    * Trusting anti-trust?

    * The NPR excel spreadsheet

    * Books on McCarthy

    * Three best presidents?

    * The Watergate conspiracy is at least fun to believe

    22 April 2024, 6:17 pm
  • 1 hour 33 minutes
    #451 - The Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)

    You asked, we delivered. Our pal Batya Ungar-Sargon enters the octagon to (politely!) fight the Globalist Fifth on trade, Trump, robots, unions, automation, and a bunch of other stuff. But we also agree on lots of other things! Hear Batya talk about her wild Israel debate on Zerohedge, how her last book foresaw the NPR madness, and why perverse incentives have created a boring media echo chamber.

    Thanks for listening! Love, Oskar and Raoul



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    19 April 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 1 hour 54 minutes
    #450 - Republican Wine Moms and a Dead Double Murderer

    * Ozempic Joe

    * The Juice has expired

    * Revisiting the “Trial of the Century”

    * The double murderer who “abandoned his race”

    * In defense of Marcia Clark

    * Dementia dads

    * Matt Lauer emerges

    * Nutty MTG, drunky Boebert

    * Arizona abortions

    * Operation Bubble Wrap

    * Poor guy in a ski mask shoots at cops

    * Group condemnations and the “IDW”



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    13 April 2024, 1:36 am
  • 25 minutes 10 seconds
    Members Only #206 - Hitting From the Ladies' Tee
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    * Kid rapping

    * Saturday Night Fever is dark, dark movie

    * Girl dadding

    * Anti-communist manifestos

    * On Andrew and Israel

    * Big bombs in Iraq: not so fast, Andrew!

    * The normalization of extremism

    * Don’t be Paul Robeson

    * What it means to be “anti-war’

    * Dehamasification

    * A bachelor party in NY

    * And much more!

    8 April 2024, 9:22 pm
  • 1 hour 45 minutes
    #449 - The Prince of Tide Pools (w/ Andrew Sullivan)

    Third time’s even more charming! Andrew “Cheech” Sullivan is back, puffing away and ruminating on Israel, Iraq, conservatives, the trans movement, loud music from bluetooth speakers, the awfulness of Trump (who won’t be a dictator, btw), the resilience of American democracy, the resounding victories of the gay rights movement, and the general boringness of identity.



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    4 April 2024, 5:14 pm
  • 24 minutes 17 seconds
    Members Only #205 - Almost Lost, Unfortunately Found
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    Last month’s “Second Sunday” broadcast was fun, boozy, and…almost lost. We won’t point any fingers—though they might be jabbed in the direction of a certain someone during the recording—but through a Peter Jackson-like audio excavation, it was saved. Was that a good thing? Errr…who knows. And so, with a few nips and tucks, here she is! And we’ll be back…

    2 April 2024, 8:34 pm
  • 1 hour 41 minutes
    #448 - A Hot Mess (w/ Kat Rosenfield)

    The title says it all. The three lads were together, in the same studio, for the second time in as many months. And it’s possible that the start of this particular episode was, for whatever reason, a bit chaotic. But as we settle in with our friend novelist and journalist Kat Rosenfield, we ultimately managed to discuss a few things like…

    * Kat’s cancellation story

    * Her great New York mag piece from 2017

    * Wait, what is sex trafficking?

    * Did Kat steal a sled from a kid? Or is that kid a filthy liar?

    * Revisiting Christine Blasey Ford

    * Firing or cancelling?

    * The sacking of Rona Romney McDaniel…Romney

    * The Trump bible

    * Kat is meh on Cormac McCarthy

    * And much, much more



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    29 March 2024, 12:50 am
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