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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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  • #516 "Treasons, Tiny Packages, and the End of Late Night" w/ Eli Lake

    #516 "Treasons, Tiny Packages, and the End of Late Night" w/ Eli Lake
    Jul 25 2025

    Moynihan is somewhere in Europe. Eli Lake (The Free Press, Breaking History) fills in. And Kmele sustained a harrowing podcast-related injury that postponed a recording (and nearly cost him a finger).

    * Meat & Memory

    * Colbert Gets the Axe

    * Small Packages

    * A Yearslong Coup?

    * Russiagate Replay

    * Accountability and Missed Opportunities

    * The Never-Ending Epstein Drama

    * An (Inevitably) Dysfunctional Government (if you can keep it)

    Recorded: 7.24.2025



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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Members Only #268 - Every Pump is Patriotic

    Members Only #268 - Every Pump is Patriotic
    Jul 21 2025
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    * An enigma wrapped inside a…wait, what does that word mean?

    * Wait, what did you call it??? (Take a guess)

    * Buffalo Bills, the preferred team of all Mossad agents

    * How to not write a news story

    * You know, Epstein was pretty close with many MAGA figures

    * Bannon’s crisis PR business?

    * Tulsi and the “seditious conspiracy”

    * Russia redux

    * Michael McDonald’s Faye Dunaway story

    * …
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    19 mins
  • #515 - Big Trouble in Little MAGA

    #515 - Big Trouble in Little MAGA
    Jul 17 2025

    * Crazy from the heat

    * AMA

    * Who is Jim Walden??

    * The dumbest civil war

    * So we have to discuss the Epstein “issue” again, eh?

    * I think we solved the case…

    * Leaving breadcrumbs in the archives

    * Jimmy Carter and the aliens

    * That’s a lotta airstrikes

    * The plastic surgery exception

    * Kurt Russell, American

    * The next, hottest Nobelist



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    1 hr and 31 mins
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