The Fifth Column

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch

Analysis, Commentary, Sedition. @wethefifth

  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Members Only #246 - Premature Denazification
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    * Moynihan in Poland (Katya stole his mic)

    * Ronalda Reagana

    * Know a Nowa Huta

    * Onward to Auschwitz

    * Maybe don’t speak to the far-right German party?

    * Axis of anti-Woke

    * Unimpressed with nation-states

    * The Best Black History Month Report, EVER

    * Lia vs. MLK Part II

    * Rufo’s Sore "Winning"

    * Activism vs. Truth

    * Our “Blind spot”

    * Yellow/Blue Dress Explained

    * YOUR Outrage (Not Mine)

    * Ove


    27 January 2025, 10:53 pm
  • 1 hour 56 minutes
    #487 - A Symphony of Horror

    * The Zombies reunion

    * Edibles and expressionism

    * A ghost on the knee

    * Who needs a desk when democracy’s dead?

    * Outage equality

    * Don’t ever integrate?

    * Segregation redux

    * Why Steve hates Elon

    * Those terrible oligarchs

    * Who needs the Constitution when we have executive orders?

    * The Jan 6 pardons: a disagreement

    * The art of the overcharge

    * Ross Ulbricht goes home



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    23 January 2025, 9:32 pm
  • 19 minutes 15 seconds
    Members Only #245 - Everything Old Is New Again
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    * The sycophants are back!

    * Are we suckers for paying?

    * Gauleiter Musk

    * Day one executive orders

    * The newest, greatest Amazon Prime perk

    * New national bird: Jim Eagle

    * Pardon me?

    * Guess what? Leonard Peltier is not a good guy!

    * That Outside magazine article

    * Inauguration babes

    * Kmele’s letter to his daughter’s school

    * Not our oligarchs!

    * Ari Shaffir vs. Howie Mandel

    * Governme


    21 January 2025, 5:53 pm
  • 1 hour 50 minutes
    #486 - A Deal with the Devil, MelaniaCoin, Danny has AIDS

    * Melanie: the eternal First Lady

    * A bad deal but
the only deal

    * The same situation, over and over

    * Joey B’s final babble

    * Ike, Elon, and the unacceptable “oligarchy”

    * The Ralph Lifshitz Award for Cultural Betrayal

    * F**k You, Surgeon General, says Matt Welch

    * The shittiest NYT story in recent memory

    * A shitty celebration of murder on Jimmy Kimmel

    * Pete H on the Hill

    * Women in combat is not a weird debate

    * RIP David Lynch

    * RIP Bob Uecker



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    17 January 2025, 4:09 am
  • 21 minutes 57 seconds
    Members Only #244 - Second Sunday Coming Down
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    A rebroadcast of our most recent “Second Sunday” episode, during which paying subscribers can hop on a Zoom call, ask us questions, berate us, tell meandering stories, and be generically clever/hilarious/insane. On this episode, we talk to a number of people in Los Angeles about the ongoing conflagrations and the city government’s predictably feckless r


    16 January 2025, 1:23 am
  • 1 hour 53 minutes
    #485 - The Fire This Time

    * Black Bill Kristol

    * Nobody beats the Rizz

    * Stealing Greenland

    * Yet another horrible big city mayor

    * When you love Castro, you are obviously an incompetent moron

    * Forget it, Matt. It's Chinatown

    * More on the đŸ”„

    * Is big city governance killing progressivism?

    * Your lying eyes

    * Elon’s Nazis

    * Mark Zuckerberg and “winning” on free speech

    * The end of corporate walkout culture

    * January 6 pardons and pizzagate crazy person gunned down

    * Hobo stabs thug



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    10 January 2025, 7:29 pm
  • 17 minutes
    Members Only #243 - Pox Blankets, Political Cartoons, Poor Parenting
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    * Lia the diva

    * The era of athlete actors

    * Moynihan correction: It was Bubba Smith in Police Academy. Dick Butkus was in Police *Story*.

    * I want to make fun of my boss

    * Awful political cartoons

    * More on progressive schools

    * Are you a hypocrite, MM?

    * Reflections on Jimmy Carter, DPRK fan

    * The neo-neocons?

    * The vibe shift and the sense of the heroic (says MAGA Matt)

    * Matt


    6 January 2025, 4:18 pm
  • 1 hour 27 minutes
    #484 - Pumps, Converts, Fatwas, and Ex-Presidents

    * No more Bobby

    * No resolutions

    * Pump it up: The bionic podcast host

    * New Year’s terror in NOLA and Vegas

    * The military connection that doesn’t matter

    * The advent of “car ramming”

    * In celebration of Chaim Sapir

    * Forgotten terror

    * When Charlie destroyed our faith in the media class

    * Jimmy Carter’s awful op-ed

    * Erasing Islamism

    * Revisiting Rushdie

    * Getting scammed by the “truth” people

    * Broken kneecap policing



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    2 January 2025, 8:34 pm
  • 17 minutes 3 seconds
    Members Only #242 - The Emo Episode
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    * An episode that takes a break from politics?

    * Stars, tardigrades, and microscopy

    * Race in space

    * Matt and Moyn watch “A Complete Unknown,” come to different conclusions

    * Phantom and 40mg

    * AI’s take on this section: “Listener emails prompt discussions on art, personal struggles, and growth during the holidays.”

    * Books for young men searching
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    * Can The Man Who Shot L


    30 December 2024, 3:45 am
  • 1 hour 41 minutes
    #483 - The Christmas Cromnibus and a Slow Boat to Mauritius

    * Pivot to Zoom

    * Rereading books

    * The ex-presidents

    * “It’s 1,547 pages of unreadable garbage. Every year, it’s like Christmas."

    * Chip the RHINOOOOOO

    * Elon’s Political Fantasy Camp!

    * Is Trump losing his power to threaten?

    * The end of AOC?

    * Before his own inevitable perp walk, Mayor Adams does a hot assassin perp walk

    * Insurance companies redux

    * Kmele is a bad drinker

    * Don Jr. trades up

    * Barron is everyone’s boyfriend



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    20 December 2024, 5:18 pm
  • 24 minutes 10 seconds
    Members Only #241 - Tinder Trotskyists, Siouxsie and the Nazis, When We Were Kings
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    * If you think it’s expensive now, wait until it’s free

    * Unpersuasive persuasion

    * How race is like probiotic soda

    * Ends and means

    * "If one killing is justified, where do you draw the line—10,000? A million?"

    * Siouxsie and the Nazis / Bill Grundy

    * Tinder Trotskyists

    * More “memoirs about trauma and identity”

    * ‘Oh, they’re taxing us, let’s go murder people.’

    * 23andme and Zor


    16 December 2024, 5:56 pm
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