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The Fifth Column
Hosted by Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch · EN
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.
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Members Only #278 -- Goliath’s Curse Author Luke Kemp on Why (and When) Empires Collapse
Sep 2900:16:15Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comOh sure, everyone’s go-to for imperial collapse tends to be Rome, but what broad lessons are there to be gleaned from every single other civilizational implosion, from Mesopotamia to the Mayans to the forgotten pyramid builders along the Mississippi River? Such is the intriguing set-up for Goliaths Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse, the…
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Members Only #277 - Andy Rooney Hangovers, Nazi Beekeepers, and Ex-Canadians
Sep 2700:19:12Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* If you’re a Never Fly Coach subscriber, remember that you get to watch the video version of this episode! * The morning after pill and Roy Campanella’s glove* Why does Moynihan look like late-stage Nick Nolte?* Have a SoCal venue suggestion for a Fifth live show?* Comparatively, Alex Jones isn’t that bad (Ed. note: Spoke too soon! Immediately following this rec…
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#525 - John Spencer Views Explosion
Sep 2501:35:57Tap to summarizeMatt and Michael are joined by John Spencer, Executive Director of the Urban Warfare Institute.•Gary Busey and the B-movie military raid on the Turkish Embassy•Bagging and tagging isn’t as bad as it sounds•20/20 De-Baathification•Post 9/11 Islamophilia•The hockey analogy for war with Hamas•Human shielding & bomb shelter inequities•Gaza vs Berlin 1945•Journalism in Gaza•The IDF’s absent PR operation•Starvation, genocide, and Wikipedia•Amalek•Trump’s 180 on Ukraine•Comedian Dave Smith on military aid•God bless Russian incompetence•Red Dawn had it all wrong•Cancel John’s tickets to Stalingrad•John Spencer, expert? The New York Times is on it.•NFC-level members get a video preview of this episode here!•Speaking of video, we’re launching on YouTube any day now… SUBSCRIBE! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
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Members Only #276 - The Cancelling of an American Talkshow (w/ Greg Lukianoff)
Sep 1900:18:31Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* Pretty sure FIRE president Greg Lukianoff is the perfect guest for this moment…* A requirement of Judaism* FIRE on fire these days* Come on man, it was the FCC!* My husband got Kimmel fired!* The latest campus free speech ranking* FYI, lots of dumb young people are cool with political violence* Is does the university have a psycho incubation problem?* So who should be …
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#524 - BTW, Venezuela is a Dictatorial Commie Narcostate (w/ Thor Halvorssen)
Sep 1801:28:12Tap to summarize* See below for the video version of this episode!* On Candace and Megyn* That source, says Thor, the Venezuelan, is a big booster of the shittiest people on Earth* How they shot my mother (Hugo Chavez edition)* The failure of the Human Rights Industry™* How Venezuela collapsed* It’s not a country. It’s a drug cartel* The hierarchy of South American drug trafficking* The real reason the US struck those “drug boats”* So the 93% cannot defeat the 7%?* Was former congressman Aaron Shock corrupted by Venezuelan commies?* Crooked congressmen. Crooked Kennedys?* A crooked American oil magnate?* On dissident heroism—and American cynicism* The nobility of the human spirit* The useless UN* The million dollar roller bag* How the bad guy$ $pread their influence* And much, much more!As previously mentioned, Never Fly Coach-level subscribers have access to our early video efforts. Wonky angles, swiveling chairs, ugly timecodes, no title sequence…you get the idea. BUT…your feedback has been amazingly positive thus far. If you want to add your two cents (and see our ugly mugs), upgrade and get access to the ever-evolving pilot episodes! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
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#451 - The Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)
Apr 19, 2024Tap to summarizeYou 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 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
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#432 - Worse Than Hitler (A Fifth Column Thanksgiving!)
Nov 23, 2023Tap to summarizeFamily beckons. Booze beckons. So we’re going to forgo the bullet points that we’re pretty sure you don’t read anyway and just say…Happy Thanksgiving, from your friends at the Fifth! And while you shamelessly celebrate genocide, listen along while the lads bemoan the racism of the Black Plague; the deadline to file charges against Kmele; the quote-invention of ChatGPT; the hostage deal in Israel; and the extreme awfulness of Holocaust historians Joe Scarborough, Mike Brzezinski, and Claire McCaskill. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
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#422 - Introducing The Fifth Column Center for Antiracist Research
Sep 22, 2023Tap to summarize* The sartorial excellence of the Pennsylvania Senate delegation* “Pooping on their shoes” * Kilmeade v. Rosendale (that’s his name)* Kendi and the disappearing millions * Want to demonitize one of your enemies? We have an idea!* A threatening letter from Lady Orwell DBE* The ACLUization of everything * Trump on the Meet the Press* Broadcast needs to “lend democracy a hand?”* Biden is just getting worse* Ron slides further…and new New Hampshire numbers * Defeatism and elitism, mixed * The “moral clarity” darling of 2023: Christiane Amanpour This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
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Members Only #158 - Fact to Face with an Anti-Racist Genius
Mar 28, 2023Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* Tupac’s stepfather Mutulu Shakur* The adorable and execrable Dean Reed* The worst article The Atlantic has ever published* Champagne dreams and Fifth Column nightmares* Trump in Waco * Insulin girl!* That guy cutting your hair is definitely Russian* Georgian helicopters* Schultz and Lula and Russia* Stop saying “lived experience”* That hideous school shooting * Whatever happ…
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041 "Unsubstantiated, Unverifiable, and Indisputably Entertaining" - The Fifth Column
Jan 11, 2017Tap to summarizeAfter a day of confirmation hearings and protesters in pink t-shirts, amid growing uncertainty about the future of Obama Care, and just ahead of President Obama's Farewell Address in Chicago; a dossier filled with potentially explosive and definitively explicit allegations about the incoming President-Elect explodes onto the scene. Is it accurate? Where did it come from? Has Trump been compromised? Wait -- did someone say "golden shower"? WOULD YOU PLEASE SHUT UP -- WE'RE STILL TRYING TO READ THE DAMN THING! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
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