The Fifth Column

The Fifth Column

By Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt WelchComedy
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The Fifth Column episodes

  • Members Only #190 - Tantric Drummers for Freedom
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    * Javier Milei, tantric drummer

    * The hideousness of modern Peronism

    * A brief digression on Aerosmith

    * So how did we all meet?

    * Start fighting, Moynihan

    * Another digression on Sam Altman’s awfulness (two examples now available at Moynihan’s Instagram)

    * When Israel decided against killing the entire leadership of Hamas

    * Well, they tried anyway

    * Fiction that changed our lives

    * I don’t want to read about who I am and where I came from

    * Another Fifth drinking game

    * And so very much more….

    31 min
  • #430 - The TikTok Jihad w/ Mary Katharine Ham

    * Live from Oakland

    * Sex strikes

    * Loving OBL

    * Stop deconstructing stuff

    * Seeing your friends spinout online…

    * They’re not sending anyone anywhere

    * Drunk Kathy Hochul and her bad, drunk ideas

    * Not drunk Nikki Haley and her bad ideas

    * Hate speech isn’t a thing in America

    * Israel and propaganda

    * MKH on evangelicals, Israel, and the supposed “left behind” vision of Zionism

    * TikTok you don’t stop

    * And so much more!



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    1 hr 44 min
  • Members Only #189 - "Thank You for the A-Bomb" (Second Sunday Rebroadcast)
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    * “She’s reasonable in person” (🤔)

    * In praise of…Estonia

    * Are any expressly political comedians funny?

    * Meetings interrupted by death

    * Listener question: On the 1619 Project

    * Indonesian guys loves America, nuclear weapons

    * Family friends with Carlos the Jackal

    * Israel asks: “Kmele, what should we do?”

    * Stars and Bucks (Correction: Bethlehem not Ramallah)

    * Why not get a…

    28 min
  • #429 - The Kevin Hart Resource Curse

    * One hell of a night, one brutal morning

    * Kevin Hart kills

    * Judy Gold and college comedy

    * The Washington Post says sorry for being mean to Hamas

    * Be brave, get fired?

    * There’s been a bunch of recent Islamist attacks in the West, actually

    * New York City’s hate crimes leader board

    * The pointless Republican debate

    * Vivek is the worst (and also was kinda good for three seconds)

    * Reaganism without Reagan (and Bannon’s Reagan film)

    * Only in New York, kids

    * Trust the kids, kids

    * Teaching about vs. proselytizing for…



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    1 hr 14 min
  • Members Only #188 - Shine on You Crazy 'Anti-Zionist'
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    * Voting for New York judges (and do you have a spare apartment?)

    * An unsolicited application

    * Liz Warren warns about the surge of….

    * Is violent anti-Semitism in the U.S. a real threat?

    * Explain the progressive-Islamist alliance please…

    * He has become comfortably dumb

    * No, it’s not really fishy

    * Defining war, war crimes, and civilians

    * The government’s stupid war on (pr…

    31 min
  • #428 - Poundtowns and Political Pilgrims

    * Happy birthday Kmele

    * The girls of the IDF

    * The lads take a wrong turn, end up in “Poundtown”

    * In fairness, we didn’t know he did a whole segment on this

    * So Mike Pence dropped out?

    * That’s some good polling for Bobby Jr.

    * When innocents die

    * Nat Turner’s bloody rebellion

    * Human shields and asymmetry

    * Kill ‘em all, says Rep. Brian Mast

    * Political pilgrims for Hamas

    * Sorry but nothing after 1917, Matt

    * And much, much more!



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    1 hr 50 min
  • Members Only #187 - A Break from the Grimness w/ Danny Polishchuk
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    Along with fellow comedian Ryan Long, Danny Polishchuk is one half of the very funny Boyscast podcast (a favorite of Fifth Column listeners, we are reliably told). Again alongside Ryan Long, Danny is the woke guy in the “When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything” video.” And there’s lots of great solo stuff over at his YouTube channel.

    Danny s…

    26 min
  • #427 - Is Cancel Culture Cancellable? (w/ Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott)

    * On The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution.

    * The youngest Fif’ and Maher guest.

    * My how times have changed since 9/11.

    * The numbers are very, very bad. Bad numbers!

    * The sudden (and probably temporary) rediscovery of campus neutrality.

    * Yes, some post-Oct. 7 campus ruckus has been Cancel Culture.

    * And so, so depressing.

    * The (surprising!) view from Gen Z.

    * Millennials are the worst.

    * Schlott vs. Haidt.

    * Shut up, bigot.

    * The Left does it more (on campus, anyway).

    * We’re past peak-Woke, right? Right?



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    1 hr 31 min
  • Members Only #186 - From the Haganah to Häagen-Dazs
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    * An idiot…He wrote this

    * Condolences to a friend

    * What is a war crime?

    * History wars and war crimes

    * The worst congresswoman went to the worst law school

    * In defense of Harvard. Sort of.

    * Defending Panthers and the exhilaration of murderous anti-Semitism

    * Why no air raid shelters?

    * Meir Kahane Krunch

    * Objecting to a guest. We disagree

    * Karine Jean-Pierre will answer what…

    30 min
  • #426 - w/ Matt Duss - Notes from the Other Side

    * Hamas and the hospital

    * Don’t trust and try to verify

    * Did Israel “create” Hamas?

    * When there’s no negotiating partner

    * America’s role in the Middle East

    * Enter Iran…

    * Gauging Palestinian public opinion

    * A massive media failure

    * One-way root causes

    * And much more!



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    1 hr 15 min

About 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…

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