The Fifth Column

By: 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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  • #471 - Do You Know the Importance of a Skypager?
    Sep 19 2024

    Yet again, AI has done a bang-up of summarizing a Fifth Column episode, which mostly covers the insane economic policies of both idiot candidates and why members of Hezbollah are having their balls blown off.

    But according to the half-sentient supercomputers, the lads discuss how “Melania Trump's new book is a focal point, with humorous commentary on its content and implications.” True enough. And also, there is apparently some conversation about how “evidence is often disregarded in political claims.” Well yes, that’s pretty much every segment on every episode. “The speakers critique the absurdity of political discourse and the influence of social media on public narratives.” Is it odd that the AI episode summary failed to note that Moynihan yet again makes fun of Sam Altman? Only as odd, we suspect, as Snowden not tweeting negative things about Putin…

    And remember, if you want an extra episode every week, want to interact with the boys on the members-only “Second Sunday” episodes, or just want them to answer your pressing (emailed) questions, be sure to subscribe today!



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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • Members Only #225 - The Assassin's Creed
    Sep 16 2024
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

    First: Our remote recording software uses AI to create text “soundbites” from every episode episode. They are best ignored. But this week, it came up with this: "Music is crazy."

    "This is about Indians."

    "I want to be black."

    "You must have a white wife."

    Yes, all of those important issues are discussed. But the conversation is mostly about the latest faile…

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    22 mins
  • #470 - Good Wars, Bad Candidates, and the Department of Straws and Napkins
    Sep 7 2024

    * This tattoo definitely wasn’t a horrible mistake

    * Matt has dementia

    * Pim Tool: tool of the FSB?

    * The $400,000 plagiarist

    * Brain “interference” vs. election “interference”

    * Did Trump acknowledge that he lost in 2020?

    * The childcare word salad

    * Plastic straw journalistic DISGRACE

    * Having principals versus having “a position”

    * Dumb neo-Nazi realizes he’s been cheated

    * More on the rise of junk history

    * An overlooked bit of Tucker’s controversial interview

    * Hitler was very, very, very evil. And the migration crisis came with many negative consequences for Europe. Both of the things can be true, you dopes!



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    1 hr and 36 mins

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They're not idiots, though their shared perspective lessens their worth to me. God's a good dude.

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