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Author: Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch

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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 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.

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Did we mention we’re nominated…did you vote yet? If not, what in the actual fuck is your problem? -all the bad words are here-come to Fairfield on November 12th! (https://quickcenter.fairfield.edu/2026-27-season-calendar/lectures/the-fifth-column-podcast.html)-Trump in Nebraska….always a good sign for Republicans-Anal sex, picnics, breakfast in bed, lobster-Europe is melting! (still)-who will replace Macron?-France’s immigration problem-Sweden discovers gun crime-America, the assimilation machine-meritocracy is fucking fantastic-questions are bad when ethnicities are in front of them-Vivek, the big guy and the worst swing in baseball-Midterm Madness where candidate quality counts-if you had to arrest one person at the New York Times…-MAGA-curious CBS boss and The Daily Beast-Theo Von discovers socialismJOIN US: https://quickcenter.fairfield.edu/2026-27-season-calendar/lectures/the-fifth-column-podcast.htmlThe Fifth Column is in the running for Best News & Politics show. PLEASE HELP US TAKE HOME THE GOLD (or whatever the statue is made of, assuming there is one).Follow The Fifth ColumnYouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comMarshall spent 25 years covering oil and gas at Raymond James before retiring this week. He joins the guys to explain what’s actually driving prices higher, why diesel matters more than most people realize, and how war, refinery outages, and shrinking reserves have left the global energy market with very little room for error. Also, is Marshall the real
…and Moynihan discusses Harvard’s artist in residence. Also, we’ve been nominated for something! vote for us in for the Signal Awards!-Kmele’s Cross-Country Trail of Tears-Trump Praises the Latinos-Yukon Cornelius and the Bumble-Coming Soon: Jason’s Weird Fetishes-Trump Talks to Time-The Weave We Go-No Fatties, No Trannies, No Weirdos-It’s Worse Because It’s Worse-Saving Western Civilization, One Taxpayer-Funded Ad at a Time-Sen. Eric Schmitt’s Awesome Week-The Indian Question-Roxane Gay, Harvard Medical School Artist in Residence-Midterm Madness: New Hampshire, Michigan, Ohio and L.A.-How Not to Hijack an Israeli PlaneThe Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a viewer-listener publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The Fifth Column is in the running for Best News & Politics show. PLEASE HELP US TAKE HOME THE GOLD (or whatever the statue is made of, assuming there is one).ALSO: Vote for The Moynihan Report for:Best video podcastBest guest (William Shatner)Best episodeVOTE VOTE VOTE (for us)Follow The Fifth ColumnYouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comFinally, a break from politics and a discussion about…love. If you like Sarah, check out her podcast with friend of The Fifth Column Nancy Rommelmann Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast -Sarah is back on the wagon (not really!)-The married man, the younger man, and the New Orleans homicide detective-Women’s tears are a recording device-Kavanaugh, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com-being gay, doing drugs, that’s the Szeps life-Moynihan’s anti-Australian bigotry-the Lupita Nyong’o pronunciation challenge-Why is daddy wearing boobs?-this actor can play any ethnicity-Josh’s dad, the George Costanza of Australia-UN Clip-o-rama-in defense of the UN, sort of-can America afford to piss off all its allies?-Greta Thunberg goes to the Rena…
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