The Fifth Column

By Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt WelchComedy

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The Fifth Column episodes

December 18, 2019 165 w/Conor Friedersdorf “Mayhem in Jersey City, Foreign Affairs, Gesture Politics”
GUEST: Conor Friedersdorf
Staff Writer @ The Atlantic

DESCRIPTION:

- Patreon-only Preview
- Chapo Trap vs Conor
- An Underreported Attack in Jersey City
- Afghanistan Mea Culpa
- Something About Impeachment
- Reauthorize Every War, Every Year
- Biden, Dove of the Obama Administration
- Complicated Brexit voters
- Gesture politics
- The Paternalism of Blooombergism
- The Pronoun Talk
- Civility, Without Obsessing Over Identity

Recorded: December 17, 2019
Published: December 18, 2019

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2 hr 23 min
December 14, 2019 164 "UK Elections, Afghan Papers, Prophylactic Impeachment"
Description:

- Kmele’s Dog Ate His Own Tail
- Debunking mediums and magicians
- UK elections, the problem with Jeremy Corbyn
- WaPo’s “Afghanistan Papers”
- IG report and the FBI's no-good, very bad behavior
- Mispronouncing Nunes
- Acela Wars
- Greta Thunberg: Person of the Year
- The case against Welches Case Against Impeachment

Recorded: December 12, 2019
Published: December 14, 2019

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2 hr 9 min
December 08, 2019 163 "Kamala Quits, NATO Splinters, Impeachments for All"
Description:

- [ GRRT, BAOW ]
- Dragonball Z
- Kamala Drops Out, A Narrative Quickly Take Shape
- A De-platforming in South Bend
- 1619 and Historical Skepticism
- Are the Democratic Primaries Racist? (Can We Call It Seeding or Naw?)
- A Farewell to NATO? And the WTO? And the EU too?
- "Impeachment", The Board Game
- "The Irishman", A Review

Recorded: December 6, 2019
Published: December 8, 2019

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2 hr 13 min
November 30, 2019 162 w/ Errol Morris "Steve Bannon, American Dharmam"
The director of classic documentaries "The Thin Blue Line," "Fog of War," and "Standard Operation Procedure," Errol Morris has long been the doyen of critics...until he made "American Dharma," a film exploring the worldview and influence of former Breitbart boss and Trump campaign chief executive Steve Bannon. Predictably, Morris was accused of "platforming" Bannon and, for the first time in his career, America's most famous documentarian couldn't find a distributor for his film. On the day "American Dharma" opened in New York, Morris sat down with Michael Moynihan to discuss the controversy, whether or not Bannon is a "fascist," and why he thinks his most controversial movie is also his best.

Recorded: November 1, 2019

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1 hr 2 min
November 24, 2019 161 "Unimpeachably Guilty, ILoveFiona, Democratic Debate"
Description:

- Trumpian Slam Poetry ("I Want Nothing!")
- Got a Thing for Fiona Hill
- Blue Pill Confessional
- Burisma Biden
- The Good, The Bad, and The Career Diplomats
- Weird John Bolton Tweets
- The Wrestle Mania Impeachment
- Sacha Baron vs Facebook, Borat as Proto-Hate Speech
- Grading the Democratic Debate
- Spiking the Kaepernick
- About that Patreon

Recorded: November 22nd 2019
Published: November 24th 2019

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1 hr 55 min
November 18, 2019 160 "Pub Hopping, Impeachment Hearings, Roger Stone Goes down"
- Who Shot Ya? (Tupac, Biggie)
- Moynihan Drinks w/ Trump Supporters in Bay Ridge
- Buttigieg
- Impeachment Hearings
- Devin Nunes’ Garbage Clown Schtick
- Roger Stone Goes Down
- What Happened to Rudy Giuliani?
- Stealing Land in Texas, Pardoning War Criminals
- Patreon Launche (https://www.patreon.com/wethefifth)

Recorded: November 15th 2019
Published: November 17th 2019

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1 hr 42 min
November 09, 2019 159 - w/ Bari Weiss "How to Fight Anti-Semitism, Shifting Political Baggage"
Recorded: November 6th 2019
Published: November 9th 2019

GUEST: Bari Weiss
Op-Ed Staff Editor and Writer @ The New York Times
Author, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism" (2019)

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1 hr 50 min
October 31, 2019 158 - w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams "Unlearning Race"
Recorded: October 20th 2019
Published: October 31st 2019

GUEST: Thomas Chatterton Williams
Author, "Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race" (2019)

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1 hr 22 min
October 23, 2019 157 - w/ Meghan Daum "The Problem With Everything"
Recorded: October 18th 2019
Published: October 22nd 2019

GUEST: Meghan Daum
Author, "The Problem With Everything" (2019)

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2 hr 16 min
October 11, 2019 156 - w/ Walt Hickey "China Cancels the NBA, Trump Cancels the Kurds"
Recorded: October 9th 2019
Published: October 10th 2019

GUEST: Walt Hickey,
Senior Editor for Data @ Insider
Founder @ Numlock News newsletter

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1 hr 59 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…