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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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  • Europe Is Melting, Meritocracy Is Racist, and Everyone Gets Dignity
    Oct 7 2026

    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 socialism

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • One Hitter: Why Oil Prices Could Get Much Worse (w/ Marshall Adkins) Members Only #348
    Oct 3 2026
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    Marshall 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

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    44 mins
  • The Weave Within the Weave
    Oct 2 2026

    …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 Plane

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    1 hr and 31 mins
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