The Fifth Column

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 articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition. wethefifth.substack.com

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#412 - An RFK Intervention (w/ Coleman Hughes)

#412 - An RFK Intervention (w/ Coleman Hughes)

The great Coleman Hughes sent a pained email. Like many Americans angry about various stupid and sinister government Covid policies, he was now feeling the gravitational pull of a warbly-voiced politi...

24 Jun 20231h 41min

Members Only #171 - Bobby, Cormac, and Geddy

Members Only #171 - Bobby, Cormac, and Geddy

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.comAnother live Zoom for our handsome, brilliant, and generous subscribers (hence all the weird asides responding to a...

19 Jun 202322min

#411 - A Conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy

#411 - A Conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy

Fresh from his campaign stop in front of a Miami courthouse, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy stops by the Fifth’s Chinatown studio to very politely argue with Welch and Moynihan about a whole b...

14 Jun 20231h 37min

#410 - The Tightening Noose

#410 - The Tightening Noose

Matt, Moynihan, and Kmele assemble in Chinatown to mull over another Trump indictment. No need for bullet points for this one because beside the predictable digressions into muscle-bound gay birders a...

10 Jun 20231h 45min

Members Only #170 - Ukraine Calling (w/ Tim Mak)

Members Only #170 - Ukraine Calling (w/ Tim Mak)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.comDespite being in a car in the city of Dnipro, journalist Tim Mak joins Michael Moynihan to talk about leaving NPR, ...

9 Jun 202324min

Members Only #169 - Loving the Alien, Shooting Matt in His Little Legs

Members Only #169 - Loving the Alien, Shooting Matt in His Little Legs

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* Ground control to Tucker C. * Episode one of the Bonkers Conspiracy Files* Also, we know what happened to that da...

7 Jun 202329min

#409 - Pride Wars, Dumb Tupac, and POC Jim

#409 - Pride Wars, Dumb Tupac, and POC Jim

* Kmele is moving to a place where everything is free * ChatGPT is a fabulist * Moynihan’s new Orwell piece * Wikipedia v. AI chatbots* The assassination of (our) Kennedy* Random gossip columnist: Jam...

2 Jun 20232h 2min

Members Only #168 - Trans Pickleball, Debating Thoreau, and Eric Clapton v. Huey Newton

Members Only #168 - Trans Pickleball, Debating Thoreau, and Eric Clapton v. Huey Newton

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* Stan Jonathan vs. Pierce Bouchard* The Lia Thomas of Pickleball* Owning a house sucks* “Lia has these books”* Kme...

30 Mai 202331min

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