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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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  • The Ceasefire That Wasn’t #552 (w/ Abe Greenwald)

    The Ceasefire That Wasn’t #552 (w/ Abe Greenwald)
    Apr 9 2026

    -The wrong Greenwald, but the actual Abe

    -Everyone loves our ad spots

    -Iran’s deranged peace menu

    -Ceasefire, with extra missiles

    -The joint Hormuz tollbooth fantasy

    -What Iran lost, even if nobody can sell it

    -Regime change, but not the fun version

    -Vanceworld (probably) leaks to the Times

    -Trump threatens apocalypse, then shrugs

    -Pakistan, Vance, and easier marks

    -Groypers and other forms of loser energy

    -The anti-Jewish right stops pretending

    -Sovereignty for me, not for thee

    -When the right starts sounding like the left

    -Israel’s image problem, and America’s deeper one

    -RFK Jr. enters the podcast economy

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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • Halfwits, Knuckle Draggers, and Droolers (Members Only #313)

    Halfwits, Knuckle Draggers, and Droolers (Members Only #313)
    Apr 7 2026
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    BEHOLD, the Mailbag (aka male-bagging, aka you-yell-at-us-and-we-tell-you-to-fuck-off)

    -The Easter Bunny claps for the Iran rescue

    -Lie long enough and eventually your conscience taps out

    -about that Rahm moment

    -who remembers Jazz Hands?

    -maybe woke actually is over

    -Bret Weinstein, vindication for the Evergreen psychos

    -Helen Keller and her commie ventriloqu…
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    20 mins
  • Ten Years of The Fifth Column (#551)

    Ten Years of The Fifth Column (#551)
    Apr 2 2026

    The Fifth Column marks ten years with a live, loose, alcohol-assisted celebration featuring Thor Halvorssen, Pete Meijer, Olivia Reingold, Nick Gillespie, and Nancy Rommelmann, with stops along the way for Venezuela, culture war absurdity, Jewish identity, sexual politics, old stories, new grievances, and the usual refusal to keep anything on the rails.

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    2 hrs and 47 mins
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