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The Fifth Column

The Fifth Column

By: Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch
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 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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  • #512 - Escape from New York

    #512 - Escape from New York
    Jun 27 2025

    * Fleeeeeeeee

    * Don’t mess with the Zohran

    * Andrew Cuomo, Shah of NYC

    * Eric Adams to the rescue? (Oof)

    * Post-colonial Disney movies

    * Scarcity Democrats

    * Pull the fire alarm on this drunk idiot

    * This means nothing for national Democratic politics

    * And isn’t about Israel

    * Were the bunkers busted?

    * Hot Ukrainians save lives

    * NATO not so bad after all

    * Joy Reid, smug master of Wikipedia

    * OKC saluted



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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Members Only #264 - Domino's, Hand Jobs, and WWIII

    Members Only #264 - Domino's, Hand Jobs, and WWIII
    Jun 22 2025
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    No listener mail this time. We’ll double up on the next Members Only. Just an hour-long conversation about Iran…

    (Moynihan note upon relisten: Qasem Soleimani was the commander of the Quds Force within the IRGC, not the IRGC itself)
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    25 mins
  • #511 - Iran on the Brink, NYC on the Brink (w/ Harry Siegel)

    #511 - Iran on the Brink, NYC on the Brink (w/ Harry Siegel)
    Jun 20 2025

    Two episodes in one! First, the lads discuss Iran, the legacy of the Iraq War, and MAGA’s internecine battles over foreign policy. And then Harry Siegel, the great chronicler of New York City politics, stops by to answer that hugely important question: will the financial capital of the world, the city with the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, soon be governed by an anti-capitalist weirdo who thinks that “globalize the intifada” is just another way of saying “give peace a chance”?



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    1 hr and 35 mins
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