The Fifth Column

By Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt WelchComedy

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The Fifth Column episodes

June 27, 2019 145 - "Dem Debates, Plan B for Iran, History for Nincompoops"
- Moynihan Goes to Court
- Welch gets a Stress Sty
- RIP, Steve Dunleavy
- NBA O-W-N-E-R-S
- Democratic Debate Preview
- No Plan B for Iran
- Concentration Camp Kerfuffle
- San Fran Bans E-cigs (Till They Can Figure Out What the Hell is Going On"

Recorded: 6/25/2019
Published: 6/27/2019

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1 hr 39 min
June 24, 2019 144 - w/ Coleman Hughes "Reparations, Congressional Testimony, Rap Battles"
w/ Coleman Hughes

- Everyone Told Coleman Not To Testify
- Age, Experience, Credentials
- Lethal Weapons, Imaginary Friends
- “Shame Shame”
- Full Puerto Rican
- Moral Alchemy
- Coleman Reads His Mentions
- We, They, Us
- Candace Owens, Lil Pump, And The Decline of Western Civilization

Recorded: 6/21/2019
Published: 6/24/2019

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1 hr 32 min
May 30, 2019 143 - "How to Get Arrested In Brooklyn, We're All Left Wing Hacks Now"
- Kmele’s New Spot in Brooklyn
- Moynihan Gets Arrested
- Fisher is a jealous "lefty hack"
- Dave Rubin is totally NOT in his Feelings
- Assange, Journalistic Freedom
- Trump vs His Advisors
- European Elections
- MLK: Hero, Philanderer (and possibly worse), But Definitely a Hero
- Bill de Blasio Needs to Raise Some Money, Fast

Recorded: 5/28/2019
Published: 5/30/2019

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1 hr 33 min
May 12, 2019 142 - "The Great Deplatforming, Conspiracy Chic, The Mr. Bean Presidency"
- "Alex Jones is not a civil rights leader!"
- Howard Kurtz was once serious
- Trump's attempted outing
- Phony classical liberals
- Free speech at the margins
- Every election is stolen
- Finding Loose Change
- Conspiracy theorists, right and left
- An Infinitely stupid Congress
- Donald Trump as Mr. Bean

Recorded: 5/8/2019
Published: 5/12/2019

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1 hr 52 min
April 25, 2019 141 w/ Eli Lake - "Muller Report, Julian Assange, Deep State Grifters "
w/ Eli Lake (Columnist @ Bloomberg Voice)

- We Like Bari Weiss
- Moynihan is a Drunk, Also a Great Neighbor
- Muller Report
- Grifting, the Grifters, of Grif
- Eli Lake's Hood Pass
- Tom Arnold Was Great in True Lies
- All The Missing Tapes
- Seth Abramson's Beautiful Mind
- Election Interference / Hacking / Exaggerations
- Impeachments + Inquiries
- Assange: Journalist or Naw?
- Naughty Journalist in the Movies
- Dogs = White Supremacy
- That's Why Darkies Were Born

Recorded: 4/24/2019
Published: 4/25/2019

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2 hr 3 min
April 19, 2019 140 w/ Ben Dreyfuss - "Muller Who, Jill Abramson's Privilege , True Hollywood Stories"
w/ Ben Dreyfuss - Editorial Director @ Mother Jones

- Waiting for Godot
- Ben Dreyfuss is, Young Bernie Madoff
- Jill Abramson's 'Write' Privilege
- "Strange Justice" = "Strange Fruit"?
- Political turncoats
- Paleo-Neoconservative
- Private School Kids Buying Drugs
- Daddy issues
- Bret Easton Ellis' bad writing
- Death threats
- Race Realists

Recorded: 4/17/2019
Published: 4/19/2019

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1 hr 53 min
April 12, 2019 139 w/ Andrew Sullivan "Civil Rights, Immigration, Julian Assange, Too Many Popes"
w/ Andrew Sullivan - Writer at Large for New York Magazine,

- Hating New York
- What Would Hitch Say?
- On Being a Reluctant, Problematic Civil Rights Pioneer
- Surviving a Death Sentence
- Immigration Backlash
- Obama Hated Identity Politics?
- Assange Arrested
- Pope Benedict blames the 60s
- Too Many Popes
- The Comfort of Religious Ritual

Recorded: 4/11/2019
Published: 4/12/2019

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1 hr 17 min
April 04, 2019 138 w/ Aaron Maté "Russiagate Victory Lap, Visiting Venezuela, Super Gaye Music"
w/ Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate)

- Our Mathematical Universe
- "Leaving Neverland" Revisionism
- Russiagate: Right, Wrong, Whatever
- Jonathan Chait is “Completely* Correct*”
- When in Venezuela + Nobody Likes Sanctions
- Venezuela: Humanitarian Crisis, Economic Crisis"
- Making Friends + Enemies on Twitter
- "The Realm of Hungry Ghosts" (a book by Aaron's Dad)
- Stop Snitchin (On Your Sources)
- Joe Biden Feminism
- Kmele Talked w/ Thad
- Marvin Gaye: You're the (black) Man

Recorded: 4/3/2019
Published: 4/4/2019

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1 hr 53 min
March 28, 2019 137 "Use Your Collusion I and II, Jussie Smollett Walks"
- Trump: Death by gloating
- Margaret Sullivan: the Captain Beefheart of journalism
- Glenn Greenwald spikes the football with a vengeance
- MSNBC doubles down
- Seth Abramson: Poet laureate, Resistance Hero
- Trump's enemies list and love of authoritarians
- Roger Stone and the D-list of DC conservatism
- Jussie Smollet's privilege
- Some Idiot Wrote This, Jane Mayer edition

Recorded: 3/26/2019
Published: 3/28/2019

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1 hr 32 min
March 24, 2019 136 w/ Tina Nguyen "Islamists v White Nationalists, Segregated Schools, 2020 Hopefuls"
w/ Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)

- Tina's Theranos voice
- Elizabeth Warren Holmes
- Revisiting the Universal Basic Income (Kmele hasn't endorse UBI or Andrew Yang)
- Technophobia, 'McDonald’s employees will murder you'
- The Three-Fifths Column
- Matt does Betomania
- Getting it wrong on Iraq
- The cycles of massacre reaction/coverage
- Islamists v. White nationalists
- Stuyvesant High School and Asian Privilege
- "Fuck off Tiger parents"

Recorded: 3/21/2019
Published: 3/24/2019

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2 hr 3 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…