The Fifth Column

By Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt WelchComedy

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The Fifth Column episodes

February 28, 2020 Episode 173 w/ Aaron Maté "Bernie's Campaign Math, From Cuba to Medicare for All"
w/ Aaron Maté (Host @ PushBack, Contributor @ The Nation)

- Throwin Up Gang Signs
- COVID-19
- Cuban History 101
- Giving China Credit
- Billionaires and Unicorns
- Harvey Weinstein

Recorded: February 26th, 2020
Released: February 27th, 2020

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2 hr 30 min
February 19, 2020 Episode 172 "The Swamp, The POTUS, The Press" w/ Swin Suebsaeng, Lachlan Markay
w/ Asawin Suebsaeng and Lachlan Markay (White House Reporters @ The Daily Beast)
Co Authors: ""Sinking in the Swamp" How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington"

Description:

- Moynihan's Vocal Fry and "Actually Good" Accents
- Searching for "Henry Hills" in Trumpworld
- Lachlan's Conservative Apostasy
- Al Gore: Most Boring Interview Subject Ever
- Rats and Snitches
- Daily Beast: A "High-brow Tabloid"
- Woke (Racist?) Bloomberg
- The Muslim Ban
- From Seb Gorka to Hunter Biden
- Reporters vs Opinion Pundits
- Will the Press Scrutinize the Next President as Aggressively?
- The Never Trumpers Who End Up in the White House Anyway
- John Bolton's Next Act
- Swin/Lachlan's "Badgers Story"
- Drama Queens
- Bob Woodward
- Godfather 3, still bad
- Gore Vidal + Timothy McVeigh

Recorded: February 18th, 2020
Released: February 19th, 2020

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1 hr 35 min
February 13, 2020 Episode 171 w/ Jesse Singal "Biden's Ebony Firewall, No BBQ Sauce in American Dirt"
Description:

- Black History Month
- There's no Barbecue Sauce in American Dirt
- Believe Some Death Threats, Leverage Others
- Oscar Obsession (Beautiful Mind Edition)
- Yang Dead Is Dead, Long Live Yang Gang
- Bernie's Ceiling, Biden's Ebony Firewall
- A SHOCKING Presidential Endorsement
- Bloomberg's Stop + Frisk Memory Hole
- ADL: "White Supremacy is On The Rise!"

Recorded: February 12th, 2020
Released: February 13th, 2020

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1 hr 38 min
February 08, 2020 UNLOCKED - Patreon Dispatch #8 🎁
The last time we did this, we said don't get used to it. Well, we meant it. But we're also feeling overly generous. So here is last week's Patreon-only dispatch, featuring Moynihan and Kmele. You're welcome.

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Kmele and Moynihan are back in Williamsburg drinking bad wine and talking shit...while trying to figure out why Welch isn't returning anyone's calls.
Moynihan returns to Iowa and remembers why he hates journalists. Bumbling around the Hawkeye State, he chats with Andrew Yang, hangs with hardcore Trump types and fanatical Bernie bros. And they're all Iowa nice.
Kmele has a black "Big Chill" weekend in Pennsylvania and opens about up his parents--to a gobsmacked Moynihan.

As usual, the lads try to catch up on a bunch of listener mail, provoking discussions about tattoos, Chile, Northern Ireland, Goop, The Central Park Five, and the "Preppy Killer" Robert Chambers.

And twenty years after it debuted, Kmele finally watches Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Outro music: RIP Andy Gill.
Recorded February 4, 2020

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1 hr 43 min
February 06, 2020 Episode 170: "Trump’s Best Week Ever, Iowa Pile Up"
Description:

- Kmele's Inner MAGA
- State of the Union Theatrics
- “Oh, God -- Fire the Media!”
- "The Big Lie" (and other nonsense)
- Mitt Romney’s Moment
- Trump’s Criminal Justice Reform
- Iowa Fiasco
- Waiting for Bernie to Turn on MSNBC
- Preview of Upcoming Patreon Episodes

Recorded: February 5th, 2020
Released: February 6th, 2020

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1 hr 50 min
January 30, 2020 Episode 169: "I'm so sorry this is happening to YOU"
Description:

- When the mob came for the Fifth
- Hong Kong: Proto Police State
- The Democratic Field
- Bernie's Got a Shot, The Joe Rogan Bounce
- Criminalizing Disinformation
- Watching Lou Dobbs
- Fearing the Bern
- Truthy Skepticism
- An Impeachment Drive-By
- Eli on the FBI
- Some Idiot Wrote This (and this... and this...)

Recorded: January 29, 2020
Released: January 30, 2020

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1 hr 50 min
January 18, 2020 Episode 168 w/ Miriam Elder: "Does Anything Matter Anymore?"
GUEST:
Miriam Elder, senior political reporter for BuzzFeed News and former Russia correspondent for The Guardian. (@MiriamElder)

DESCRIPTION:

Our fake bios

Miriam's seven years in Moscow

Get Shorty, Alex Jones, and the D-list bullshit artists

Matt’s Russophobia isn’t as bad as MSNBC’s

Political theater provides cover to Putin’s authoritarianism

Moynihan and Elder throw down over Bernie's alleged sexism. Plus: Is believing Warren or Sanders a #MeToo lesson?

Who is the nihilist candidate?

Banning lies on Facebook

Can a bully be funny?

The “Independents” couple forever

Recorded: January 16, 2020
Released: January 18, 2020

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1 hr 55 min
January 08, 2020 Episode 167 w/ Noah Rothman “ The Case for F*ckin Iran Right Up”
GUEST: Noah Rothman
Associate Editor@ Commentary -- Contributor @ MSNBC/NBC News
Author: “Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America” (Jan 2019)

DESCRIPTION:

- Why the Washington Bullets became the Wizard
- Bomb Iran?
- Will Americans ever support another Middle East War again?
- International commerce —> global middle class —> less war
- Trump thinks China should police the Strait of Hormuz
- What if we did NOTHING?
- Brian Stelter praises Tucker Carlson
- John Bolton might testify
- Moynihan shows up late
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Facebooks deep fake 'Problem'
- Thanks for the swags, and the booze

Recorded: January 7, 2019
Published: January 8, 2019

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1 hr 37 min
January 03, 2020 Episode 166: “Buttigieg Loves Drugs, Soleimani Canceled, Media Malpractice”
DESCRIPTION:

- Neighborhood Watch
- Moynihan’s Anti-Brit Streak
- Bernie’s Fundraising Clout
- Ron Paul’s Newsletters and Everlasting Ice Cream
- Buttigieg Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs
- Iran’s Quds Force commander Soleiman Killed in Iraq
- Media Malpractice on Vaping
- Chuck Todd's Fake News special
- About That Memo

Recorded: January 2, 2020
Published: January 3, 2020

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2 hr 2 min
December 25, 2019 UNLOCKED - Patreon Dispatch #4 🎁
Happy Kwanza -- We've UNLOCKED a Patreon Only dispatch just for you (and everyone else)! Enjoy it, but don't get used to it.

The Williamsburg Tapes (Dispatch #4)
"Losing Our Religion"

DESCRIPTION
It's a pre-Christmas miracle! The Fifth Columnists are back at the stammtisch (stupid table) in Williamsburg for a long-ass special dispatch, mostly discussing things distant from the news cycle. Kmele watches "Mandingo" and, to the shock of both Welch and Moynihan, is slack-jawed by how racist it is. The lads answer some reader mail and discuss Michael Collins, the Pete Best of Apollo 11; offer some meandering thoughts on Catholicism and Seventh Day Adventism; ruminate on tragedy and loss; blather about the Richard Jewell movie nontroversy; recommend books about Israel; and provide two-plus hours of assorted other nonsense.

Recorded: 12/??/2019
Published: 12/25/2019

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2 hr 15 min

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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…