The Fifth Column
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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.
Episodes 715
Socialists Go to Washington, Trump Goes to Hell (w/ Michael Powell) #583
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribeYou have one last chance to go to Connecticut and see the guys …
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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribeYou have one last chance to go to Connecticut and see the guys, LIVE, on stage, Thursday, November 12. Not going? Go fuck yourself.
-Guinea Park
-The NBA’s white guy problem
-Philly’s anti-Israel bike protest
-the forever protest
-is Nithya Raman DSA?
-Abdul El-Sayed, a capitalist?
-The new DSA caucus offers 90 seconds of pure blather
-Can the socialists learn …
Jared of Arabia (w/ Matthew Cole) - Members Only #353
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comThe guys are joined by investigative journalist Matthew Cole, author of Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed's …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comThe guys are joined by investigative journalist Matthew Cole, author of Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed's Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East (Bookshop | Amazon)
•Jon Ossoff sounds like he’s pitching Matthew’s new book.
•Discovery is a bitch
•You down with MBZ?
•“This is not journalism. It is fiction being presented as fact.”•Shady business…
The Morning After Midterm Madness (Ep. #582)
Where were you when AMERICA DECIDED? Were you watching our livestream? Were you at the super-exclusive party that, as of this writing, is still raging on? Were you injecting Substack’s election hub straight …
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Where were you when AMERICA DECIDED? Were you watching our livestream? Were you at the super-exclusive party that, as of this writing, is still raging on? Were you injecting Substack’s election hub straight into your veins? If so, you’ll have no need for this audio-only selection of the best conversations from the evening. For the rest of you, enjoy! You’ll hear not only from Matt, Michael, and Kmele, but from Mary Katharine Ham, Marc Caputo, Ben Dreyfuss, Greg Lukianoff, David A. Graham, Josh Barro, Eliana Johnson, Jamie Kirchick, Megan McArdle, Nick Gillespie, and Ruy Teixeira!If these two hours aren’t enough for you, feel free to relive the evening in all its audiovisual glory over on The Fifth Column’s YouTube channel.
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-COME SEE US IN CONNECTICUT. We may never release this special episode, because the things we will talk about will be horrifically controversial. -Which party will win the Senate?-Dirty Dems in Alaska done …
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-COME SEE US IN CONNECTICUT. We may never release this special episode, because the things we will talk about will be horrifically controversial.
-Which party will win the Senate?
-Dirty Dems in Alaska done found another Dan Sullivan
-the TX Senate race…are we sure Texans are that titillated by Talarico?
-Fake polls, election interference, and Bolsonaro in Miami
-Maine and Trump’s last-minute tariff maneuvering
-Trump is an effective campaigner…until he has to campaign on his own record
-Vivek, the great Ohio slime impresario
-the LA mayoral race nobody seems happy about
-WHO DESERVES TO LOSE? WHO DO YA HATE THE MOST? Kmele’s answer may shock you
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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribeA Socialist Walks Into The Fifth Column (w/ Bhaskar Sunkara) #581
-we found someone from the DSA brave enough to come on this show-The Cajun French of Indians-If you’re pro-abundance, why are you a socialist?-DSA and the midterms-Biden’s heart was in the right place, but his …
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-we found someone from the DSA brave enough to come on this show
-The Cajun French of Indians
-If you’re pro-abundance, why are you a socialist?
-DSA and the midterms
-Biden’s heart was in the right place, but his body was...not
-AOC, DAC, and Zohran
-The Left’s remarkable talent for self-sabotage
-Cuba, the embargo, and the pesky issue of free elections
-Socialism and its rather unfortunate historical baggage
-Bhaskar’s three camps of socialism and capitalism
-Worker-owned companies, public banks, and making socialism work in practice
-Hasan Piker, good or bad for the DSA
-Somehow we are talking about Sweden again
-Midterm Madness: California’s billionaire tax
-AI, data centers, and the politics of saying no
-Socialism is gaining popularity. Just don’t run as a socialist.
-Bhaskar’s most right-wing position
-Moynihan’s unsolicited advice to the DSA
Read The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World by Bhaskar Sunkara, Ben Burgis, and Mike Beggs
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comEd Luce joins the guys to discuss Trump’s corruption, the persistence of populism, and the uncertain future of Western …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comEd Luce joins the guys to discuss Trump’s corruption, the persistence of populism, and the uncertain future of Western democracy.
-DC is beautiful and beige and on the spectrum
-Don Jr.’s corruption and a Watergate every day for 18 months
-Serbia’s student-led anti-corruption movement
-AfD, LFI, Meloni and why Europe isn’t done with populism
-Immigration, ec…
Donald Trump is Gay (Episode #580)
-Fairfield, CT. Nov 12th. Get tickets while you can-We will have an Election Night livestream. Booze, guests, and probable disaster-Our mystery guest didn’t couldn’t make it today. We won’t name names, but …
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-Fairfield, CT. Nov 12th. Get tickets while you can
-We will have an Election Night livestream. Booze, guests, and probable disaster
-Our mystery guest didn’t couldn’t make it today. We won’t name names, but we’ll give you some subtle clues.
-Steve Witkoff discovered Vladimir Putin’s humanitarian side.
-Trump has some thoughts about Zelenskyy. andPutin gets a pass.
-Americans ranked their favorite countries. Where does Russia rank?
-A very stiff competition for the Senate’s biggest idiot and the “Not One Inch” myth
-the dumbest man in the Senate meets the dumbest man in media
-Donald Trump and his love of men
-Midterm Madness
-Vivek vs. Amy Acton, and the attack ad from hell.
-The tone and tenor of American politics is somehow worse than ever
-Alina Habba, Ric Grenell, and the alleged $50 million pardon racket.
-JD Vance answered a question about corruption. Ten thousand weasels applauded.
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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribeThe End of the Special Relationship? (w/ Jacob Siegel) Members Only #351
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comWe are doing a live show in Fairfield, CT on November 12th. You should come. Details below.-Jacob Siegel on raising his kids in …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comWe are doing a live show in Fairfield, CT on November 12th. You should come. Details below.
-Jacob Siegel on raising his kids in Israel
-Who benefits from a fractured US-Israel relationship?
-JD Vance had endorsements to spare, just not for Netanyahu
-Israel prepared for life without America’s special relationship
-An entirely natural detour to France
-French…
Why the Midterms Are Turning Against Trump (w/ Nate Silver) Members Only #350
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comThe guys put America’s most famous political forecaster, Nate Silver, to work… separating real electoral shifts from political …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comThe guys put America’s most famous political forecaster, Nate Silver, to work… separating real electoral shifts from political noise, and confronting the uncomfortable possibility that everyone is just guessing.
-The House leaned Democratic, the Senate was a toss-up…then came Labor Day
-The first thing Nate Silver does every morning
-$4.50 gas, AI data centers, and T…
Can the Democratic Center Hold? (#579)
Yes, we want accolades. Yes, we’re shamelessly asking for your vote:VOTE for The Fifth Column as the Best News & Politics Show Yemisi Egbewole is here and we will figure out how to pronounce her name….next …
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Yes, we want accolades. Yes, we’re shamelessly asking for your vote:
VOTE for The Fifth Column as the Best News & Politics Show
Yemisi Egbewole is here and we will figure out how to pronounce her name….next time
-A Democratic consultant defending Fox News out of the gate
-Was Mike Lindell ever really a crackhead?
-Ladies and gentlemen, the new White House press secretary, Katie Zachariah
-Did we fuck Scott Jennings?
-How does a WH press secretary actually prepare?
-Kimberly Guilfoyle’s $100,000 AmEx problem
-James Talarico’s imaginary stay in an Ohio psych ward
-the art of standing out among 435 members of Congress
-Abdul El-Sayed vs Mike Rogers in Michigan
-Jon Ossoff and the case for normal Democrats
-JD Vance’s interesting definition of socialism
-Midterm Madness on Zachariah, Alaska, and Michigan
-Trump gets it right on data centers. Until he doesn’t.
-Brian Kilmeade stands up for Ukraine against Rachel Compost Duffy
-Come watch us live in Connecticut!
-What exactly is Third Way?
-Yemisi’s heresies on crime and climate
-Immigration and the Jamaican-Nigerian experience
-Kmele and the Blacks of Connecticut
-Where is the Democratic Party headed, and how much does the DSA matter?
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com“There are no ordinary lives and everyone has a story” -Sam Roberts’ father takes him to see the Rosenbergs’ funeral-Fifty years …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com“There are no ordinary lives and everyone has a story”
-Sam Roberts’ father takes him to see the Rosenbergs’ funeral
-Fifty years in journalism and an unexpected career writing obituaries
-Anna Nicole Smith and the brutality of British obituaries
-Charlie Rangel’s complicated legacy
-Who deserves a New York Times obituary?
-Writing Rudy Giuliani’s obituary b…
Europe Is Melting, Meritocracy Is Racist, and Everyone Gets Dignity (Episode #578)
Did we mention we’re nominated…did you vote yet? If not, what in the actual fuck is your problem? -all the bad words are here-come to Fairfield on November 12th! …
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Did we mention we’re nominated…did you vote yet? If not, what in the actual fuck is your problem?
-all the bad words are here
-come to Fairfield on November 12th! (https://quickcenter.fairfield.edu/2026-27-season-calendar/lectures/the-fifth-column-podcast.html)
-Trump in Nebraska….always a good sign for Republicans
-Anal sex, picnics, breakfast in bed, lobster
-Europe is melting! (still)
-who will replace Macron?
-France’s immigration problem
-Sweden discovers gun crime
-America, the assimilation machine
-meritocracy is fucking fantastic
-questions are bad when ethnicities are in front of them
-Vivek, the big guy and the worst swing in baseball
-Midterm Madness where candidate quality counts
-if you had to arrest one person at the New York Times…
-MAGA-curious CBS boss and The Daily Beast
-Theo Von discovers socialism
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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribeOne Hitter: Why Oil Prices Could Get Much Worse (w/ Marshall Adkins) Members Only #348
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comMarshall spent 25 years covering oil and gas at Raymond James before retiring this week. He joins the guys to explain what’s …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comMarshall spent 25 years covering oil and gas at Raymond James before retiring this week. He joins the guys to explain what’s actually driving prices higher, why diesel matters more than most people realize, and how war, refinery outages, and shrinking reserves have left the global energy market with very little room for error.
Also, is Marshall the real
The Weave Within the Weave (#577)
…and Moynihan discusses Harvard’s artist in residence. Also, we’ve been nominated for something! vote for us in for the Signal Awards!-Kmele’s Cross-Country Trail of Tears-Trump Praises the Latinos-Yukon …
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…and Moynihan discusses Harvard’s artist in residence. Also, we’ve been nominated for something! vote for us in for the Signal Awards!
-Kmele’s Cross-Country Trail of Tears
-Trump Praises the Latinos
-Yukon Cornelius and the Bumble
-Coming Soon: Jason’s Weird Fetishes
-Trump Talks to Time
-The Weave We Go
-No Fatties, No Trannies, No Weirdos
-It’s Worse Because It’s Worse
-Saving Western Civilization, One Taxpayer-Funded Ad at a Time
-Sen. Eric Schmitt’s Awesome Week
-The Indian Question
-Roxane Gay, Harvard Medical School Artist in Residence
-Midterm Madness: New Hampshire, Michigan, Ohio and L.A.
-How Not to Hijack an Israeli Plane
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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribeSarah Hepola and the Life You Didn’t Choose (Members Only #347)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comFinally, a break from politics and a discussion about…love. If you like Sarah, check out her podcast with friend of The Fifth …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comFinally, a break from politics and a discussion about…love. If you like Sarah, check out her podcast with friend of The Fifth Column Nancy Rommelmann Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast
-Sarah is back on the wagon (not really!)
-The married man, the younger man, and the New Orleans homicide detective
-Women’s tears are a recording device
-Kavanaugh, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves
…
The UN, Wokeness, and Other Failed Institutions (Members Only #346)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com-being gay, doing drugs, that’s the Szeps life-Moynihan’s anti-Australian bigotry-the Lupita Nyong’o pronunciation challenge-Why …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com-being gay, doing drugs, that’s the Szeps life
-Moynihan’s anti-Australian bigotry
-the Lupita Nyong’o pronunciation challenge
-Why is daddy wearing boobs?
-this actor can play any ethnicity
-Josh’s dad, the George Costanza of Australia
-UN Clip-o-rama
-in defense of the UN, sort of
-can America afford to piss off all its allies?
-Greta Thunberg goes to the Rena…
The Algorithm Is the Editor-in-Chief (w/ David Pakman) Members Only #345
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com-Pakman is a fan of this show. Will he regret saying this?-Kmele’s cult-adjacent upbringing-Pakman’s Argentina …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com-Pakman is a fan of this show. Will he regret saying this?
-Kmele’s cult-adjacent upbringing
-Pakman’s Argentina upbringing
-Macklemore, Robert Kraft and the limits of independent media
-Do people actually control their media diet?
-Nick Fuentes, Fishback and Twitter not being real life
-Pakman puts himself at the tip of the junk food pyramid
-Should The Fifth…
The Loyal Republican w/ Scott Jennings (#576)
And is he gonna get that press secretary job or not?-Jennings the teetotaler-wtf happened to Moynihan’s hair?-Jennings’ working-class Kentucky origin story-back when Kentucky + West Virginia were swing …
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And is he gonna get that press secretary job or not?
-Jennings the teetotaler
-wtf happened to Moynihan’s hair?
-Jennings’ working-class Kentucky origin story
-back when Kentucky + West Virginia were swing states
-Rush Limbaugh + Paul Harvey University
-what would Rush make of $9K for stay-at-home moms?
-what kind of Republican is Scott Jennings anyway?
-why is Trump so unpopular?
-tariffs, potash + the new Republican orthodoxy
-the Greenland victory (?) lap begins
-Scott’s muscular Republicanism meets the universities
-Van Jones vs. his own side
-Trump vs. CNN and the White House press pool
-Scott Jennings, future press secretary?
-Trump + Mamdani, together again
-Texas gets way too interesting
-Georgia gets weird
-trying to have the one pundit take nobody else has
-do not get in Scott Jennings’ personal space
-does Trump have a corruption problem?
-Trump crypto + the Kentucky coffee can
-whatever happened to Republican “family values”?
-Mitch McConnell is alive
-has Tucker left the MAGA coalition?
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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribeAcademically Unserious With Authoritarian Bureaucratic Aspirations (w/ Tyler Austin Harper) Members Only #344
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comTyler Austin Harper, staff writer for The Atlantic and co-host of the Time To Say Goodbye podcast joins Michael C. Moynihan & Matt …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comTyler Austin Harper, staff writer for The Atlantic and co-host of the Time To Say Goodbye podcast joins Michael C. Moynihan & Matt Welch to talk about extreme fishing, picking socialsts as your fighters, and his recent pot-stirring essay “Why I quit the tenure track.”
•It’s morning in America, or is it Japan?
•The Night Fisher
•Worse than Al Qaeda•A pro-America leftist
•Why Tyler Austin Harper quit the …
AI Might Kill Us. Here’s Why It Matters: w/ Jim VandeHei (#575)
-Simplify, simplify, simplify…-Do people like Jim as a boss?-The two things to screen for in prospective employees-The humility of Mike Allen-AI and the newsroom-The way you consume news is about to completely …
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-Simplify, simplify, simplify…
-Do people like Jim as a boss?
-The two things to screen for in prospective employees
-The humility of Mike Allen
-AI and the newsroom
-The way you consume news is about to completely change
-Are we at the Napster stage of AI?
-The demand for local news didn’t die
-DEI without the corporate activism
-Axios refuses to take a stand
-Moynihan’s Vice postmortem
-Jim used to be a hothead. Mostly.
-AI might kill us. Why it matters
-Kmele vs. the AI doomers
-Hugging Face and the runaway AI problem
-Stuxnet was the dumb version
-Midterm Madness goes off-script
-Who should actually be Person of the Year?
-Too much Trump porn at the New York Times?
-Jim simplifies Trump’s three biggest precedent breaks
-Why Trump does it anyway
Read Simplify: Do 50 Percent More with 50 Percent Less by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz
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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribeThe Things We Thought After 9/11 (#574)
-RIP Andrew Wimsatt, a true friend of the show and beloved member of the Fifth Column community-And in lighter news, it’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11-Trump’s 9/11 story-Why we’re called The Fifth Column-When …
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-RIP Andrew Wimsatt, a true friend of the show and beloved member of the Fifth Column community
-And in lighter news, it’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11
-Trump’s 9/11 story
-Why we’re called The Fifth Column
-When Matt Welch welcomed us to war
-Moynihan moved to New York on September 10, 2001
-How much of your memory of the day is actually real?
-Mary Beard and other “the US had it coming” takes
-Little Eichmanns and the root-causes Olympics
-Did we win the War on Terror?
-You get $5,000! And you get $5,000!
-Midterm Madness and the two Dan Sullivans
-Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP speedrun to zero
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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribeThe Department Formerly Known as Justice (w/ Devlin Barrett) MO 343
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comAs well as Epstein, and the conspiracy theories that refuse to die-the most famous person from Troy, NY?-shut your whore mouth …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comAs well as Epstein, and the conspiracy theories that refuse to die
-the most famous person from Troy, NY?
-shut your whore mouth, Producer Jason
-we actually do have a serious guest today
-a radical re-purposing of the Justice Department
-James Comey and the seashells
-lowercase justice
-Tom Homan and the $50,000 CAVA bag
-Abscam and the lost art of government …
Conspiracy Theories Never Die (w/ James B. Meigs) #573
Jim is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Wall Street Journal columnist-The tractor beam of sexuality-James B. Meigs is here-Tucker Carlson is just asking questions. He’s less interested in the …
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Jim is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Wall Street Journal columnist
-The tractor beam of sexuality
-James B. Meigs is here
-Tucker Carlson is just asking questions. He’s less interested in the answers
-It’s 9/11 season. Call in the OG debunker
-Jet fuel didn’t have to melt steel
-Death threats for… Popular Mechanics
-Tucker finds Israel in the JFK files
-Revisiting Loose Change, 20 years later
-Conspiracy theories thrive in the ruins of journalism
-Data centers or, hear us out, server farms
-The mailbag interrogates Mr. Science Man
-Hugging Face and the AI agents chatting amongst themselves
-Midterm Madness goes to Texas
-Talarico vs. Paxton, somehow a toss-up
-Flock cameras solve crimes. They also know where you’ve been
-Nature, Jason Arday, and the death of fact-checking
-UFOs are real. The aliens remain elusive
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comLook who decided to come back for this episode! (for the visually impaired, it’s the one and only Kmele Foster)-A Caribbean …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comLook who decided to come back for this episode! (for the visually impaired, it’s the one and only Kmele Foster)
-A Caribbean anti-colonial fantasy
-A gay Lady Chatterley’s Lover… and hockey
-Oh, Milo
-Because it’s funny. It’s a joke
-Milo, the Tates, and the “it was all a bit” defense
-ICE, deportations, and discovering empathy the hard way
-He gave as good as…
Canada Calls Trump’s Bluff (#572)
Holy shit, The Moynihan Report has RETURNED.Watch the episode, subscribe on YouTube, and sign up for Moynihan’s Substack while you’re at it.Now, back to the Fifth: -why you have to watch this podcast-Sanna …
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Holy shit, The Moynihan Report has RETURNED.
Watch the episode, subscribe on YouTube, and sign up for Moynihan’s Substack while you’re at it.
Now, back to the Fifth:
-why you have to watch this podcast
-Sanna Marin…for the policy
-Finding Kmele Foster
-Welch returns from Montreal to report that the French lost
-life in the time of Trade War
-NPR finally solves reparations
-tariffs, hockey sticks, and remedial economics
-JD Vance is still not funny
-Polymarket bets on Canada
-Tucker discovers Christian Russia
-Clip Roulette returns
-Tim Curry, Richard E. Grant, Producer Jason’s inexplicable defense of Hudson Hawk
-Bret Weinstein solves the Charlie Kirk assassination
-Ana Kasparian keeps making new friends
-Mamdani, Muhammad and the death of secularism
-a bit more Clip-O-Rama
-Tuck and the Short King discover 107 million illegal immigrants
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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribeBad Writing, Good Journalism, and AI (w/ Ben Smith) MO #341
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comHow does Semafor make money and what is the best magazine in the world? Well…why don’t you smash that subscribe button and/or whip …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comHow does Semafor make money and what is the best magazine in the world? Well…why don’t you smash that subscribe button and/or whip out that credit card if you want the real insider information from media’s best?
-Karen Attiah and the Charlie Kirk quote that wasn’t real
-Firing people for tweets + the last good account on Twitter
-Why is Semafor worth so mu…
Seize the Means of Conservatism (w/ Stephanie Slade) MO #340
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comStephanie Slade’s new book, Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right, is available for pre-order now!-J.D …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comStephanie Slade’s new book, Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right, is available for pre-order now!
-J.D. Vance seizes the means of production
-Let’s define “conservative” in case you forgot
-So what the hell is Fusionism?
-From free markets to owning the libs
-Cultural resentment > economic anxiety
-Is there a reset after Trump?
-Whe…
Clip Roulette w/ Dictators, Demons and Democracy (Episode #571)
-Greetings…oh, fuck-Welch has a bone to pick with Ben Dreyfuss-Clip Roulette-Tucker and the Demon Bomb-Jason Arday, martyr?-The Jonah Lehrer comparison-The Samantha Power mic disaster-Fuck you Joaquin-John …
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-Greetings…oh, fuck
-Welch has a bone to pick with Ben Dreyfuss
-Clip Roulette
-Tucker and the Demon Bomb
-Jason Arday, martyr?
-The Jonah Lehrer comparison
-The Samantha Power mic disaster
-Fuck you Joaquin
-John Mearsheimer, Stephen F. Cohen and the Russian apologists
-Ukraine didn’t go away
-Trump, Kim Jong-un and the South Korea war games
-Midterm Madness / Polymarket, wha happen?
-Median Strategies and the fake poll
-Adam Bonica, Marc Elias and scamming the elderly
-Is Cuba a dictatorship? Apparently a difficult question
-The Padilla Affair / Slobo Googling
-Theft as a “biological need”
-Chocolate City
-Stay tuned for más Moynihan Report
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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribeTerry Moran and the Network News Autopsy (Members Only #339)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comWe’re joined by former ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran, who now publishes Real Patriotism with Terry Moran on …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comWe’re joined by former ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran, who now publishes Real Patriotism with Terry Moran on Substack and hosts a podcast of the same name on YouTube.
-Terry reads that tweet
-Fired, suspended, non-renewed…whatever
-Any regrets?
-Network news is dying and everyone’s jumping ship
-The 9/11 flag-pin controversy
-Hire more people who voted for Trump
-Why not …
The Politics of Pretending (Episode #570)
-Kmele is out of Adderall-Did anybody actually watch this Tucker and Hunter interview?-“Montrosity” and other difficult words-The adventures of Proximity Hong-The curious case of Jason Arday-Is there any chance …
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-Kmele is out of Adderall
-Did anybody actually watch this Tucker and Hunter interview?
-“Montrosity” and other difficult words
-The adventures of Proximity Hong
-The curious case of Jason Arday
-Is there any chance Jesse Singal is racist?
-AOC discovers Woke 1.0 was crazy
-Shane Gillis and the conspiracy of enforcing things nobody believed
-Thank you, Thom Tillis. Also, fuck you.
-Funding the other side’s whackos
-Mamdani declares war on Amazon
-A general rent strike. Over one cockroach.
-David Remnick meets the DSA
-Kmele gets swarmed by the Hasan bots
-So, how great was Mao?
-Midterm Madness and the 2028 Democratic sweepstakes
-Clip Roulette
-Kmele tries to explain himself. It does not help.
-Can America get at least a busted Boris Johnson?
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