

The Fifth Column (private feed for bitterone31droid@googlemail.com)
Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
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 and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition. www.wethefifth.com
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Feb 10, 2021 • 0sec
Special Dispatch #56 - Everyone's a White Supremacist!
- Stuck in the snow (while hunting for booze)- A digression on Werner Herzog- We're all white supremacists now! (Fact check: we aren't)- We said we weren't going to talk about the NYT. But guess what...- Kmele was right about that TikTok reporter- Moynihan can't get a vaccine because New York City sucks- Someone writes Matt an angry email. Matt angrily responds- A digression on Angela Davis (and why you should make all of your crimes political)- Playing to the crowd, for fun and profit- Dann ist Moyn Helden / Nur diesen Tag- And so much more... Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Feb 6, 2021 • 2h 4min
224 - "MTG v AOC, Merit is so Racist, Determined Incuriosity"
Pump and DumpMatt Bought CrackReal Compton City GsReally Only One Bad WordThe Public InterestIrrelevant ContextMTG vs. AOC: Most Insane? Best Actress?"I Can Only Be a Non-White Person"Why The Culture War MattersMerit: The Racism of Fairness RacistCovid Cumo, And the Incurious MediaRecorded Feb 3rd, 2021Published Feb 5th, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Feb 4, 2021 • 1h 29min
223 w/ Van Lathan - "Productive Disagreements and Common Ground"
Guest: Van Lathan @ "Higher Learning" (Co-Host), Previously @ TMZKmele and Van connect for a wide-ranging conversation about racism, reconciliation, and finding common ground. It's yet another exercise in constructive disagreement. In fact, it's the back half of a three-hour discussion that managed to feature vanishingly few points of agreement -- and zero personal insults.Oculus QuestTHOUGHT Warriors Uncle Tom: A Most Dangerous ManIf Everyone Listened to Kmele...Listing + ReconciliationRepresentationRacecraftStrangefruitMLK and the FBIJuneteenthCandace Owens BrotherRecorded Jan 27th, 2021Published Feb 3rd, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Feb 1, 2021 • 0sec
Special Dispatch #55 - Hebraic Lasers and Awful Cuomo
Two seditionists in Chinatown, one in Tiberius. A rollocking Sunday night, Patreon-only dispatch during which the following subjects are discussed, debated, denounced, and deflected:- Well ackchyually...- Professor Foster's office hours- Missing dad, saving mom- How to cover that crazy congresslady with the three names who believes in Jewish space lasers- You all hate democracy- Don't make jokes about the 85-year-old obstetrician- Or the Rohingya- Dear god, Andrew Cuomo is awful- McWhorter vs. Kendi (punching babies)- And so much more! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Jan 30, 2021 • 2h 7min
222 - "Moynihan Squeezes the Short, Cynics and Skeptics"
Make a Mint w/ MoynihanWho's Behind the SqueezeOn the War PathStrange BedfellowsPopularity ContestsEven LibertariansEquity and Private PrisonsComing AttractionsRecorded Jan 28th, 2020Published Jan 29th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Jan 25, 2021 • 1h 22min
221 - UNLOCKED Patreon Episode - Kmele's Victory Lap (Dem Haters)
It is upon us: that very rare occasion when we unlock a Patreon episode for the masses. 🎁🎁🎁If you are clever and don't want to miss future locked episodes, subscribe here.---------Rather than our typical bullet-pointed show notes, we'll keep this one short and sweet. Because try as they might to pull the conversation away from Kmele's bravura performance on Real Time with Bill Maher, the lads just couldn't manage it. Although they do respond to a listener email about the Pet Shop Boys...and Kmele does says the word kerfluffle.That is all. Enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Jan 25, 2021 • 0sec
Special Dispatch #54 - Victory Lap (Dem Haters)
Rather than our typical bullet-pointed show notes, we'll keep this one short and sweet. Because try as they might to pull the conversation away from Kmele's bravura performance on Real Time with Bill Maher, the lads just couldn't manage it. Although they do respond to a listener email about the Pet Shop Boys...and Kmele does says the word kerfluffle.That is all. Enjoy. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Jan 22, 2021 • 2h 7min
220 - The Dawning of Yet Another Terrible Era
Is Melania the greatest first lady since Florence Harding?Does MC Hammer hate Kmele?Let the sycophancy begin!QanonsenseUnderstanding the Trump voterWe're all weird and wrongThe new Republican Party is awful. So is the new Democratic Party.The dumb 1776 project: "It's like Stephen Miller pooped on a legal pad"Hating big techHow not to combat bad speed See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Jan 18, 2021 • 0sec
Special Dispatch #53 - Mea Maxima Culpa Edition
Kmele is MIA, though the rumor is that he's joined the Atherton branch of the Oath Keepers, so stay tuned. Matt's in Brooklyn. Moynihan is in a Phoenix hotel with a Chechen internet connection. And they still managed to blabber for two hours (ed.- actually, it was 1:45..there's 14 mins of silence at the end for some reason). So put your headphones on, crack open a Zima, and listen to the lads try to find a kernel of corn in a mountain of shit. - The invasion of 50 capitols by 14 people- There's no crying in Al Qaeda- Moynihan gets some criticism. He mulls it over. He issues a partial retraction- Aaron says thank you. We say "you're welcome" (along with some mean stuff)- A Fifth Column answering machine?- A Fifth Column island retreat?- What happened to the listener with the house in Costa Rica?- Michael's merch: TFC gets an amazing gift- Swiss bottle service- Tanks, MRAPS, and APCs...oh my- Ugh, your tweets are awful, performative, and pointless- Stop using the ISIS app, you terrorist!- Stop whacking the moles!- Marshaling “emotional evidence” Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Jan 15, 2021 • 1h 46min
219 - w/ Anna Khachiyan "Double Impeachments, All the Balenciaga You Can Carry"
Guest: Anna Khachiyan @ "Red Scare" (Co-Host)Kinda CanceledHolding the MicOutrage BonerDirtbagsTight Sweaters, Tighter ShirtsMo' ImpeachmentsThe MAGA RiotsCulpabilityCultural Amnesia, Sweetest TaboosCanceling TrumpCanceling the Rest of Yall?Recorded Jan 13t, 2020Published Jan 14th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.


