The Fifth Column

The Fifth Column

By Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt WelchComedy
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  • #531 - Liberal of Fox News, Unite! (w/ Jessica Tarlov)

    We’re joined by Jessica Tarlov, co-host of The Five on Fox News, and Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway.

    •Among the cons

    •What does it all mean?

    •Over performance. Under performance

    •AOC’s war

    •What if the people who you want to destroy are the same people who ensure your existence?

    •You can afford to live here. Just not *here*

    •How to moderate a trans debate

    •The USDA wants you to stop mutilating kids so America can sell soybeans

    •Oh SNAP and guess what I saw…

    •“Affordability” for Smith College grads

    •The health care costs are too damn high

    •Will populism, left and right, destroy us all?

    •So what’s the Tucker vibe within the Fox building?

    •Can the “Fox liberal” ignore the online hate?

    •Your viewers might have died, but new old ones took their place!

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    1 hr 52 min
  • Members Only #284 - Pod Save The Queen (The Fascist Regime) with Jon Lovett
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    • Don’t mess with the Zoran

    • The opacity of hope

    • Inspiration is overrated

    • Wait, what if none of these proposals actually work…

    • The return of identity politics?

    • Is offline politics “additive, human, humane, and empathetic?”

    • The Dem doom loop

    • The online left vs. Jon Lovett vs. reality

    • Purity tests, left and right

    • The one thing that didn’t shock Hillary Clinton

    • Harvey Milk died so you could be governor

    • The right denounces its loony fringe. Sort of.

    • Has the left done the same?

    • Has Jon’s baggage shifted to the right on anything? Well…

    • Can you be buddies with Barack?

    • Is it bad to have an enormous Nazi tattoo on your chest?

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    Catch Jon Lovett in Washington DC on Nov 7 for Crooked Con – a chance to hear from smart people inside and outside the Crooked universe about how to galvanize a pro-democracy movement.

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    19 min
  • #530 - They Don't Care About Us

    * We are now alone / He’s out of our life

    * The Republican rebels?

    * Announcing a Fifth Column live show in LA! Subscribers get first crack!

    * Prediction: a stadium full of lusty boos for Matt Welch

    * Cuomo’s nonexistent campaign

    * The Truth and Armpits Party

    * On Zohran’s vaunted “political instincts”

    * If the cops rough you up in Queens, it’s because the Jews told them to do it

    * A “brilliant” campaign of easy promises

    * The thrill of being in love with a politician again

    * In destroying both parties, they become one!

    * Karine Jean-Pierre is….not that bright

    * Oh great! More dumb race politics

    * You better you bet (on basketball)

    * A cap on intentional walks

    * Let’s blow up a certain cocaine smuggling group of “athletes”

    * That guy who slapped Andy K...

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    1 hr 48 min
  • Members Only #283 - Putin on the Fritz (w/ Ambassador Michael McFaul)
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    Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Russia, has a new book…

    - The disaster of Russia

    - Trump’s evolving views on Putin (and Nigel’s…and Georgia’s…)

    - When McFaul met Putin…in 1991

    - Was the Maidan uprising an American-sponsored coup?

    - It’s not about NATO

    - From boring technocrat to a nationalist, imperialist ideologue

    - What does Putin believe?

    - Vlad the flat taxer

    - He’s not a Bolshevik

    - A crook, sure. But an ideological crook

    - Does no one care about 200,000 dead Russians?

    - Liberation or surveillance

    - Elite fatigue in Putin’s Russia

    - The documentary Moynihan mentioned

    - Mike McFaul, Soviet bootlegger

    21 min
  • #529 - I Don’t Want You to Go to Jail for That, Jeffrey Toobin!

    •Who subscribes to the New York Post?

    •One Battle After Another Redux

    •Myrna Opsahl and other deep cuts

    •F. Lee Bailey, legal consultant

    •Fawn Hall Gate

    •Double secret Nazis

    •Second Amendment People

    •The one on the right is on the left

    •Rehabilitation of the American radical

    •Omnibombers of the 1970s

    •I beg your pardon

    •An x-ray into Donald Trump’s soul

    •Hunter Biden & presidential power

    •From Whitewater to Russiagate

    •Jeffrey’s mea culpa

    •Trump’s Venezuelan boat strikes vs. Obama’s drone program

    •”I’m not black, I’m O.J.”

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    1 hr 22 min
  • Members Only #282 – There Will Be Spoilers (One Battle After Another, Cartoon Politics, and Car Chases)
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    Rooting against the dancing Irish poor

    Does One Battle After Another “whitewash left-wing violence?”

    LOTS OF SPOILERS, FYI

    In praise of Bullitt-esque car chases…

    The Lockjaw cartoon

    The genius of Jim Downey

    Matt is hemophobic

    Right-wing SNL

    Could you reverse the politics of OBAA?

    Leo’s character is basically an old-school DSA guy

    Can there be a subtle conservative film?

    The best 9/11 film was a film about a French guy in a leotard

    The post-9/11 liberal flirtation with neoconservatism

    John Malkovich v. Robert Fisk

    The lone pro-Vietnam War movie

    Remembering the conservative crackup

    The ideological slingshot

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    12 min
  • Members Only #281 - When You've Eaten the Poison, You Might as Well Lick the Plate (w/ Jake Adelstein)
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    Check out Jake Adelstein’s new book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin

    •A Japanese literacy test

    •Chvalry is not dead

    •They don’t teach you how to drink in J school

    •The Ansel Elgortification of Jake Adelstein

    •The Yakuza throw a killer Halloween party

    •Lions, and Tigers and Joe Gallo

    •The Yakuza’s pension plan

    •What’s with the penis enlargement ads?

    •For relaxing times, make it Suntor…

    22 min
  • #528: President Comacho Delivers Peace, w/ Mary Katharine Ham

    * Misgendering Fox News

    * Wait, Michael was at a dinner?

    * Kmele tries to pronounce Normally

    * “Clearly we don’t fucking prepare”

    * “The last time I was with you guys, we were in a much smaller, darker room and I got very drunk”

    * Trump brings the hostages back …

    * … then emcees a roast

    * Somebody tell Bill Kristol!

    * A little bit psycho vs. the UN bitching at the Jews

    * 9/11 is a joke?

    * Little Marco’s big moment

    * Kash Patel’s shirt-coin

    * Trump = 1998 Democrat?

    * Never go full Bulworth

    * Debate prep for menstrual insults

    * MKH’s trashy tastes

    * The White House Octagon

    * Texting Comacho

    * 2025 Democrats: still woke!

    * Kushner props

    * D’Angelo, RIP

    * Yeah, that was a blowjob

    * Being on Melania’s list

    * Who succeeds Trump?



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    1 hr 15 min
  • Members Only #280 - Megyn Kelly Blowback, Principled Sanity, and Nihilistic Dread
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    •One Battle After Another

    •Kmele’s hot take that will bring ruin to Hollywood

    •Separating the art from John Cusack

    •The kinship of Susan Sarandon & Mao Zedong

    •It’s not the dead kid that is most unsettling part of Stand By Me

    •Amity, as you know, means friendship

    •No dick at the Old Vic

    •The humbling of Russell Brand

    •Confidence is a preference for the habitual…

    19 min
  • #527 - War is Over (If Hamas Wants It)

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    * A shirt full of toothpaste

    * Whiskey in a jar

    * Your dumb, complaining emails

    * A roundtable of cranks and weirdos

    * Happy 100 year anniversary Antifa!

    * People. People. It ain’t fascism. And it ain’t ISIS.

    * Wait, Twitter IS real life!!!!!!

    * The long shadow of 2020

    * Remembering Seattle’s WASP autonomous zone

    * Ted Cruz’s hoop dreams

    * Sammy Hagar vs. the government shutdown

    * Should we tariff Canadian stunt pilots?

    * Death to the paper tigers!

    * We’re cautiously optimistic...

    * When Bari met 60

    * Charm, offensive

    * I bet you don’t remember *this* shitty Vice deal

    * You CANNOT talk to TNC that way

    * Journo shock! Moron social media hyperventilates about unacceptable lesbian!

    * Norman Finkelstein does a yiddish racism

    * Sorry about these A*** C*** song titles

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    1 hr 42 min

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