

The Fifth Column
Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
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. www.wethefifth.com
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Feb 27, 2023 • 37min
Members Only #154 - Konference Kmele, Konservative MJ, and Angela Davis's Debts
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* Konference Kmele* The most Jewish podcast in America?* Arguing an overcorrection* Michael Jackson, social conservative* Kmele sends Angela Davis a SASE* Slavery, King Cotton, and fighting with NHJ* The two books on slavery Moynihan mentioned* Listener question about maybe working for a racist conspiracy theorist* More thoughts on big boy mannequins* Clip from Ethan Suple…

Feb 20, 2023 • 24min
Members Only #153 - Make Way For the Big Boyz
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* Apocalypse apparel* No country for fat men* Singal white journalist * A left-wing Matt *Walsh* stan * Books don’t make a man* Kancel Kmele Pls* On Mistaken Misgendering* Dippin toes, stepping on rakes* A message from Julia (TBC)* Moynihan engineers a Fifth Marriage* The zaps of SSRI withdrawl…* Burning down the house - followed by * A listener wonders: were my Italian grandpa…

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Feb 16, 2023 • 1h 29min
#395 w/ Katherine Mangu-Ward "Nothing Is True and Debate is Murder"
* Moynihan’s hobo disaster* KMW, disinformation queen, stops by for a few, tells us how she broke her kneecap* KMW: The Fifth is staffed by crotchety scare-mongering old dudes (Ed. - This is disinformation)* So why *is* KMD the disinformation queen?* Wait, what does “disinformation” even mean??* The movie Contact is pretty libertarian * Killing old people, dead crank doctors, and libertarian Rachel Welch* According to hundreds of stupid people, the New York Times is a hate group or something* Religious TRUTH replaces reasoned debate * Nothing is real and everything you say is killing people* Moynihan’s Caribbean plea………* And so much more! 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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Feb 9, 2023 • 1h 57min
#394 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Hammer Time, Larry Craig 2024, TLDR SOTU"
* How Jamie ended up writing about Armie Hammer* So what *is* the Hammer story anyway?* How the motivated reasoning media ignores inconvenient inconsistencies* Is there a path back from an utterly destroyed reputation?* How Jamie’s book Secret City informed his reporting* Heroes and homophobia* So is it true what they say about James Webb?* The Lavender Scare and Joe McCarthy* Who was worse, JFK or RFK?* Would anyone care about Larry Craig in 2023?* Why was Moynihan at a political event in Florida? * SMDH at the FUBAR SOTU* A bit about those Twitter hearings…* And so much more! 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

Feb 6, 2023 • 33min
Members Only #151 w/ Ethan Strauss - DEI Man and the Foreskin Ceiling
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* Armie of the damned* Jamie Kirchick’s piece on Armie Hammer* The Robin DiAngelo of Sports* Ethan’s piece on “DEI man” Richard Lapchick* The question that ended Ethan’s interview with Lapchick* The NBA’s Foreskin Ceiling * “In this day and age…”* Maverick Carter isn’t going to hire you* That shocking 1976 PBS documentary about racism in Queens * Kids don’t like sports any…

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Feb 2, 2023 • 1h 52min
#393 "Black Stalin, Objectivity Is Racist, & Tax Robots Are Super Racist Too"
* The George Wallace travel app* The genius and utter stupidity of WEB Dubois* That disgraceful Dubois obit for Stalin* A copy of the Conservation of Races book* Len Downie’s rotten, horribly written piece about objectivity in news* Jeff Gerth’s really good piece about Trump-Russia coverage* Remember Hamilton 68? Bush 911? Heaven 17?* Hunter’s sexy jobs program* Did anyone notice that Ol’ Joe said that weird lie again?* Racist tax robots* What’s good for me isn’t good for thee, silly poor person* Welcome to WhiteFolksIsBad.com 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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Jan 31, 2023 • 46min
Members Only #150 - Memphis Madness, Ubiquitous White Supremacy, and Rope-A-Dope with Mr. Burns
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* A famous Texas hat* Kmele’s Twitter beef with a former guest* The tragedy in Memphis, the predictable response* Ubiquitous white supremacy* Don’t even read Mark Twain aloud* A listener speculates on Kmele’s “blackness”* Back to Texas: they are just nice people, says Moynihan* Name this listener’s baby* The etymology of “Kmele”* Nicola Sturgeon splutters when asked about …

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Jan 26, 2023 • 2h 4min
#392 "Tanks for Victory, Oscars So Boring, and Ben Dreyfuss Is Here to Offend You"
A sober first segment about war and death is interrupted by our chaotic and fatphobic friend Ben Dreyfuss, who joins the Fifth to discuss his insane Twitter account and why he keeps making people really mad. * We haven’t seen many of these Oscar movies* German Leopards for Ukraine* The arrival of “Jaws star Richard Dreyfuss' actor son Ben, 36, [who was] slammed for saying he'd never have sex 'with a fat person’”* That Daily Mail article / We read Ben some of the comments* Wait, why did Ben get fired from Mother Jones again?* Will there ever be a deal-breaking sex scandal again?* Peter Falk, gay icon?* An important conversation about Rocky* Trump can come back to Facebook* The government is suing Google 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

Jan 24, 2023 • 34min
Members Only #149 - Georgia on Our Minds
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* Santos: Hotter as a lady?* Hunter is a shitty person who makes shitty art* Kmele shuts down a Netflix indoctrination session* Georgia: Stupid people play stupid games and win stupid prizes * A shooting in LA * Another shooting in LA* A tribute to a listener* More on Cormac McCarthy (and Camus and Sartre)* Objecting to Douglas Murray* On the weirdness of the Phantom of th…

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Jan 20, 2023 • 2h 17min
#391 "Debt Drama, DEI, and Deceased Rock* Legends*"
* Release The List* Crosby, Not So Great* A Few Nights In Chicago* Squashing Racism ($5 Million at a Time)* Reparations and the US Constitution * A Seat at the Table* Hereditary Culpability and Entitlement* Manhattan Beach* Daily Wire vs. Mug Club* Drew Carey 🖤 CDC* “We ain’t gonna talk bout dem papers (so y’all can quit asking)”* Debt Limit Hold’em* The Anti-Woke Caucus* Florida’s “Objective” Nonsense* What Students Deserve* “If We Lose, You Lose”Recorded: 1/19/23Published: 1/20/23 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


