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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 Revolutionaries (w/ Bill Schulz) - #3

    The Revolutionaries (w/ Bill Schulz) - #3
    Jan 30 2026
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    What if you’re just … born wrong? (No, I don’t mean the darling little girl to the right.)

    You may know Bill Schulz through his years toiling as Greg Gutfeld’s “repulsive sidekick” on ye olde Fox News late-nite WTF show Red Eye (on which all of your co-hosts, and several of our guests, got some valuable reps back in the day). You may know Bill through hi…
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    12 mins
  • Enthusiastic Armadas, Armenian Bakeries, Ye’s Apology Ad - #542

    Enthusiastic Armadas, Armenian Bakeries, Ye’s Apology Ad - #542
    Jan 29 2026

    -The NYC Rolling Hobo Express

    -An Enthusiastic Armada Full of Speed and Violence

    -Iranian Death Toll Discourse and Roger Waters Still Sucks

    -The Donroe Doctrine and the Near Abroad Dodge

    -Everyone’s Favorite Powder Keg

    -A Norwegian, A Rat Bag, and a Lunatic

    -A disgusting thing to say

    -Noem’s Bellebolent Hypotheticals

    -Stephen Miller’s Basement Lotions and the Little Rogaine Carpet

    -Fingerers, Reach-Arounds, and Reaganite as a Slur

    -Anne Cool-ter

    -Fuck You Jonathan

    -Mehmet Oz, P.I.

    -Ye’s apology ad and the uncanny valley of writing

    -One from the Mailbag

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • TACO Tuesday in Minneapolis and the Fall of the Short King Cop

    TACO Tuesday in Minneapolis and the Fall of the Short King Cop
    Jan 27 2026
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    -A huge TACO Tuesday

    -Survival of the Spineless

    -Low-level insurgency infrastructure

    -Astroturf panic and the suspicious run to Walgreens

    -The problem with punching Nazis

    -Walz and Trump finally talk

    -Fuck you, Ted

    -The Great American Slur Revival

    -Short king Bovino and the self-inflicted smoke bomb

    -Democracy Dies in Payroll

    -World’s Biggest Russophobe Longs for…
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    16 mins
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