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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 art...
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Cuba in the Dark (Members Only #309)
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-Gov. Chris Christie debrief
-Kmele nearly...
Gov. Chris Christie Tells on Everyone #548
-Gov. Chris Christie says Kmele has no excuse
-Getting drunk with Colbert
-No drugs, ever
-RFK Jr.’s drug use
-The only things...
A Brief Defense of the Vampires w/ Lloyd Blankfein (Members Only #308)
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He also weighs in on populism, inequality, privat...
Many Worlds, Bad Science, and the Strangeness of Being w/Sean Carroll (Members Only #307)
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From the multiverse to time travel to bad studies...
Iran and the Fog of Regime Change (w/Hooman Majd) - #547
Hooman Majd comes from a family that reads like a parable about modern Iran: a grandfather who was an ayatollah, an uncle who worked for the Shah, and...
Iran and the Dee Snider Doctrine (Members Only #306)
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-Matt takes off his glasses, Kmele panics
-...
One Hitter: War With Iran and Jewish Space Lasers w/ Nadav Eyal (Members Only #305)
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Journalist Nadav Eyal joins Welch and Moyniahn to...
The Revolutionaries (w/ Ken Layne) -- #5
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I first met Ken Layne sometime in 1991, back when...
State of the Union Post-Mortem with Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) - #546
-Matt Welch’s Caribbean identity crisis at Da Pig Beach
-The State of the Union aka a two-hour hostage note
-A greatest hits, lowest light...
Locker Room Talk and the Pizzagate Reunion Tour (Members Only #304)
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Kash chugs it back with the toothless champions
A Big, Beautiful SCOTUS Decision (with Damon Root) MO #303
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* Damon Root’s book Overruled: The Long Wa...
Ambiguity in the Age of Outrage (w/ Jon Meacham) - #545
-The dork Star Wars cantina of famous biographers
-Jefferson’s hypocrisy and the impossibility of paragon standards
-Lincoln was not an ab...
Voodoo Socialism and the $3 Million Rainy Day Fund w/ William Neuman (Members Only #302)
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-Please say hello to our new Sunset Park neighbor...
The Revolutionaries (w/ Robert Sullivan) - #4
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For Christmas 2024, I was gifted Robert Su...
The Great American Mustache Ride (w/ John Bolton) - #544
-John Bolton, Olympic Curling Hawk
-Arguing with the 60s Since 1970
-I’m kind of a Libertarian (Minus the Defense Part)
-Iraq was ac...
One Hitter- Senator Rand Paul is Lonely (Members Only #301)
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-The Invertebrate Caucus
-The New Tax Party...
Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Bunny? (Members Only #300)
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A deeply serious and important conversation over...
Let's Rally Together and Unfuck America (w/ John Avlon) - #543
John Avlon stops by only to learn he’s also in the Epstein files, why the Daily Beast should’ve sold dick pills, and why we need to rebuild guardrails...
Triumph of the Grift (Members Only #299)
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• Moynihan and Welch are in the Epstein files
The Revolutionaries (w/ Bill Schulz) - #3
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What if you’re just … born wrong? (No, I don’t me...
Enthusiastic Armadas, Armenian Bakeries, Ye’s Apology Ad - #542
-The NYC Rolling Hobo Express
-An Enthusiastic Armada Full of Speed and Violence
-Iranian Death Toll Discourse and Roger Waters Still Suck...
TACO Tuesday in Minneapolis and the Fall of the Short King Cop
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-A huge TACO Tuesday
-Survival of the Spine...
One Hitter: Another ICE Shooting In Minneapolis with Peter Moskos (Members Only #297)
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One topic in the news. One quick podcast on that...
Trump Would Do Anything For Greenland (But He Won't Do That) - #541
•Don Does Davos•I Would Do Anything for Greenland (But I Won’t Do That)•Even MAGA Thought the Norway Text Was Fake News•The Danes’ Historical Resistan...
Football, Billy Joel, Van Halen, and the Fact-Checkable Life (w/ Chuck Klosterman) - Members Only #296
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Chuck Klosterman’s new book, Football is out now!...
The Revolutionaries (w/ Jack Henneman) - #2
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Two hundred and fifty years ago this very day, a...
How Much Benevolence Can You Take? - #540
-Good Movies We’ve Never Seen
-Raw Dog Minerals
-Moynihan Responds to a Cunty Troll
-The Reckoning We Didn’t Have
-Renee Good,...
Why Can't We Be Friends? (w/ Ana Kasparian)
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-Who Remembers the Armenians? (The Fresno ones)
The Memory Hole & the Rent Freeze Trap (w/ Josh Barro) - #539
We’re joined by Josh Barro, contributing opinion writer at The New York Times and host of the Very Serious and Central Air Substack
-Feldstein,...
Kevin Williamson Is The Darkness - Members Only #294
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•Belated Christmas gifts from Matt
•Who’s g...
One Hitter: Maduro Snatch 'n Grab with Thor Halvorssen (Members Only #293)
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One topic in the news. One quick podcast on that...
The Revolutionaries (w/ Charles C. Mann) - #1
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Introducing The Revolutionaries, a new Fifth Colu...
Year Is Over (If You Want It) - #538
-Eggnog: What’s Actually in This Shit?
-Massachusetts Pidgin
-Kmele’s Kwanzaa Plans
-“What We Got Wrong” (Nothing)
-Eddington...
Sweet Baby Jesus! Are We Really Arguing About Sodomy with John Fugelsang? - Members Only #292
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Twas the episode before Christmas, and all throug...
Black Irish, Ice Queens, and Body Snatchers (w/ Tina Nguyen) - #536
We’re joined by Tina Nguyen, Senior Reporter at The Verge, covering “Big Tech vs. Big Government death matches.”
⁃ All I want for Christmas is...
Not Even Matt Drudge Can Make Today Better - On Rob Reiner, Bondi Beach, and DJT (Members Only #291)
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* RIP Rob Reiner
* Sorry about the horrific...
Nobody Likes a Gossip Cop (w/ Dan Abrams) - #536
Dan Abrams is the CEO and Founder of Abrams Media Chief Legal Analyst for ABC News, host of On Patrol: Live on Reelz, host of SiriusXM radio’s “The Da...
Members Only #291 - Leader of the Asshole Nation (w/ Kevin O'Leary)
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Michael Moynihan sits down with entrepreneur, act...
UNLOCKED Members Only #290 - AI George Washington, LSD Margaritas, and Tara Reid
It’s been a bit since it was just Michael, Kmele, and Matt at the table so we’ve decided to unlock this Members Only episode and invite everyone in. F...
#535 - America's Top Brezhnevite (w Brace Belden)
We’re joined by Brace Belden, co-host of the TrueAnon podcast.
•They don’t make heroin anymore
•The Taco Bell connection
•King of t...