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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 Knicks, Oyster Man, and the Infinite Lies (#561)

    The Knicks, Oyster Man, and the Infinite Lies (#561)
    Jun 12 2026

    -The Knicks give New York its greatest night in years and OG makes his MVP case

    -Valid destruction or peaceful rioting?

    -A brief detour through America’s dumbest college mascots

    -Dave Chappelle and Shane Gillis give Moynihan a perfect Comedy Cellar night

    -Kmele roots for the Spurs, but only to punish Knicks fans

    -Spike Lee has been on the court long enough

    -Which celebrity row courtsider gets booed?

    -Mamdani gets into the affordable soccer jersey business

    -The World Cup comes to New Jersey by boat

    -Introducing Midterm Madness

    -LA’s mayoral race and the Spencer Pratt stolen-election fantasy

    -California’s governor’s race and the strange usefulness of market signals

    -The race to watch

    -Platner’s character problem is not going away

    -Jodi Kantor explains when MeToo does and does not count

    -Bill Pulte gets pulled, Jay Clayton gets nominated

    -A fully fledged disgusting party on a federal level

    -UFC 250 comes to the White House because this is who we are now

    -Bullshit, postmodern Trumpism, and the infinite lies

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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • A Hamster Wheel of Shit w/Ana Navarro (Members Only #327)

    A Hamster Wheel of Shit w/Ana Navarro (Members Only #327)
    Jun 10 2026
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    Throughout this entire interview, Ana remains furious that our office was stocked with whiskey, but only half a bottle of white wine and absolutely no pizza.

    -The White House press corps just takes it

    -Kristen Welker gets the Trump treatment (and would Trump have tried that with Tim Russert?)

    -Ana Navarro is here, from one of them Mexican countries

    -Charles…
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    19 mins
  • When Political Violence Has the Right Enemies w/ Noah Rothman (Members Only #326)

    When Political Violence Has the Right Enemies w/ Noah Rothman (Members Only #326)
    Jun 5 2026
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    Noah’s new book is Blood and Progress… not to be confused with “Blood and Soil,” a phrase Moynihan has been muttering to himself around the office.

    -A book squarely in the TFC wheelhouse

    -The teens, the twenties, the sixties, the seventies, and now

    -The forgotten history of left-wing violence

    -Italian anarchists and “propaganda of the deed”

    -Is Noah handwavi…
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    18 mins
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