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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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  • Members Only #252 - For Our Girls (The Message)

    Members Only #252 - For Our Girls (The Message)
    Jun 3 2025
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    * ABBA’s Vietnam

    * Barnen i Nicaragua

    * Mike Tyson, Ratso, and Cus the Communist

    * Burning down the house / sort of scolded by a firefighter

    * The rent is too damn free

    * Everyone is contemptuous of everyone

    * Is Trump the Bernie Goetz of Harvard?

    * Rebutting “higher ed is just fine” revisionism

    * From YAF to Students for Liberty to Turning Point…

    * Dating apps, height discrimina…
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    21 mins
  • #507 - Trans Pee Wee and Tariffed Dresses

    #507 - Trans Pee Wee and Tariffed Dresses
    May 30 2025

    * Racist Macca?

    * Some bad names

    * In praise of (trans?) Pee Wee

    * Does Long Duck Dong denounce his past?

    * Was that a Reaganite video game?

    * Trade war nonsense: the court says…maybe not

    * Moynihan’s $700 dress (including a $250 tariff)

    * Kmele on CNN

    * The end of Elon

    * Just like Reagan and Thatcher but not all

    * No suspects, no DNA, no fingerprints, no leads

    * MI:7 DEI



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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Members Only #251 - I Learned It from Watching Nick Gillespie

    Members Only #251 - I Learned It from Watching Nick Gillespie
    May 28 2025
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    * We think we *might* have talked about politics in this episode?

    * Happy anniversary Christian Cooper!

    * Talking to the dude who made those drug PSAs

    * The Glug (1981)

    * 2020: The year that broke America

    * Burning down the house (almost)

    * The tax protestor in our midst

    * Johnny Rotten, Johnny Ramone, the Plastic People, and the politics of punl

    * Nick of Schumpeterian Gatsby…
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    20 mins
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