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The Fifth Column

Written 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 #207 - Columbia Breakdown: Next Stop Baader Meinhof?

    Members Only #207 - Columbia Breakdown: Next Stop Baader Meinhof?
    Apr 22 2024
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    * Swedish breakdown

    * Columbia breakdown

    * The continued rise of American extremism

    * The politics of “genocide”

    * The politics of propaganda

    * Chicago expectations

    * A newborn in the Fifdom

    * Our Batya episode

    * Trusting anti-trust?

    * The NPR excel spreadsheet

    * Books on McCarthy

    * Three best presidents?

    * The Watergate conspiracy is at least fun to believe

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    20 mins
  • #451 - The Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)

    #451 - The Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)
    Apr 19 2024

    You asked, we delivered. Our pal Batya Ungar-Sargon enters the octagon to (politely!) fight the Globalist Fifth on trade, Trump, robots, unions, automation, and a bunch of other stuff. But we also agree on lots of other things! Hear Batya talk about her wild Israel debate on Zerohedge, how her last book foresaw the NPR madness, and why perverse incentives have created a boring media echo chamber.

    Thanks for listening! Love, Oskar and Raoul



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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • #450 - Republican Wine Moms and a Dead Double Murderer

    #450 - Republican Wine Moms and a Dead Double Murderer
    Apr 13 2024

    * Ozempic Joe

    * The Juice has expired

    * Revisiting the “Trial of the Century”

    * The double murderer who “abandoned his race”

    * In defense of Marcia Clark

    * Dementia dads

    * Matt Lauer emerges

    * Nutty MTG, drunky Boebert

    * Arizona abortions

    * Operation Bubble Wrap

    * Poor guy in a ski mask shoots at cops

    * Group condemnations and the “IDW”



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    1 hr and 54 mins
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