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The Fifth Column

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
The Fifth Column
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    Football, Billy Joel, Van Halen, and the Fact-Checkable Life (w/ Chuck Klosterman) - Members Only #296

    2026/1/20 | 21 mins.
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    Chuck Klosterman’s new book, Football is out now! (See also The Nineties, and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)
    -The music-doc cinematic universe, featuring Billy Joel and Japanese Jimmy Page
    -Moynihan missed the Morrissey cover-band boat
    -How to actually say Klosterman
    -From pop culture to America’s most popular TV show
    -It had to be football: the one exception …
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    The Revolutionaries (w/ Jack Henneman) - #2

    2026/1/16 | 15 mins.
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    Two hundred and fifty years ago this very day, a gallant-strolling cat named George Washington convened in Cambridge about as high a level Patriot meeting as you could muster: John Adams, two major generals, five brigadier generals, and arguably the most connected man among the Boston rebels, Joseph Warren. There, the commander in chief persuaded his Wa…
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    How Much Benevolence Can You Take? - #540

    2026/1/15 | 1h 47 mins.
    -Good Movies We’ve Never Seen
    -Raw Dog Minerals
    -Moynihan Responds to a Cunty Troll
    -The Reckoning We Didn’t Have
    -Renee Good, a Week Removed
    -These People Have No Constitutional Knowledge
    -The MST3K of ICE Videos
    -The Sanctuary City Devaluation
    -Iranian Violence Spectacle and thoroughly verifying the dead
    -Weaponized DOJ: Now Featuring Powell and a Reporter Raid
    -The Walter Cronkite of This Generation
    -Low-Bar Journalism
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    Why Can't We Be Friends? (w/ Ana Kasparian) - Members Only #295

    2026/1/13 | 21 mins.
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    -Who Remembers the Armenians? (The Fresno ones)
    -The One Good Decision Gavin Newsom has made
    -Who Remembers Amy Cooper? (The Central Park one)
    -When Facts Become Partisan Coded
    -Journalism vs. Activism
    -Matt Welch Is Buffy St. Marie
    -Broken LA Dreams
    -The Actual Way to Pronounce Cenk Uygur
    -ICE’s Shock and Awe Theater is no longer an act
    -The Pendulum on Immigra…
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    The Memory Hole & the Rent Freeze Trap (w/ Josh Barro) - #539

    2026/1/08 | 1h 33 mins.
    We’re joined by Josh Barro, contributing opinion writer at The New York Times and host of the Very Serious and Central Air Substack
    -Feldstein, Leibowitz, Berkowitz, and White Nationalist Moynihan
    -The Nancy Pelosi Riot, 5 years later
    -An ICE shooting in Minneapolis
    -Morally disgusting and electorally advantageous
    -Marco Rubio’s Spine Transplant
    -Memory-Holing Anarchy
    -The Warmth of Collectivism
    -Rent Control Suicide
    -Affordability In Davos
    -The NY John Lindsay Pretty Boy Republican Problem
    -Greenland Extortion
    -Maduro Snatch and Grab
    -Black Elliott Abrams
    -Are straight people okay?
    Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifthdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST.
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About The Fifth Column

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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