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The Fifth Column

De : 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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  • Adam Carolla Has Nowhere Else to Go (Members Only #332)

    Adam Carolla Has Nowhere Else to Go (Members Only #332)
    Jul 1 2026
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    Also: a serious discussion of the cinematic category known as “movies where they clearly came up with the title first.”

    -The N-word trap at the Hudson Yards gym

    -Joe Jackson dressed for the evil dad part

    -Phil Spector and the Wall of Sound defense

    -Richard Simmons slaps a cage fighter

    -How to respond to an asshole

    -Con Air, Face/Off, and insane ’90s movies

    -Pr…
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    15 min
  • One-Hitter: Sarah Isgur Explains the Supreme Court’s Big Finish (Members Only #331)

    One-Hitter: Sarah Isgur Explains the Supreme Court’s Big Finish (Members Only #331)
    Jun 30 2026
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    We are lucky to be joined once again by Executive Editor of SCOTUSblog, Sarah Isgur, and on a day when the Supreme Court gave everyone a lot to argue about.

    -Trump loses, birth tourism maybe does not

    -Anchor babies and America’s soccer future

    -The 14th Amendment gets weird

    -A color-blind Constitution, except when it isn’t

    -Immigration is the culture war now

    -Executive p…
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    7 min
  • The Cadres and the Cabal (#563)

    The Cadres and the Cabal (#563)
    Jun 26 2026

    -Welch enters his Charles Nelson Reilly era

    -Laura Branigan, Happy Mondays, and songs you didn’t know were covers

    -Puerto Rico’s revenge

    -The cadres are closing in

    -Reihan Salam and Larry Flynt

    -DAC hits the media circuit and refuses to answer the easiest question in politics

    -Aber Kawas explains 9/11, in a Miss South Carolina sort of way

    -Vaporware word clouds masquerading as policy

    -No borders, no prisons, no TSA PreCheck… no joke

    -Nationalizing airlines, abolishing comfort, and calling it justice

    -Mamdani’s machine, the DSA bench, and the Democratic Party’s growing nervous breakdown

    -Polymarket vs. the polls

    -The internet is not a socialist invention, no matter how hard socialists try

    -Senate Republicans discover Trump skepticism several years too late

    -The SAVE Act tantrum and the incredible courage of people who already lost

    -Tucker, Trump, Iran, inflation, and the limits of MAGA obedience

    -Peter Thiel’s terrifying secret network of people talking at conferences

    -Moynihan goes to Dialog and accidentally joins the Illuminati

    -Kmele reports back from the alleged cabal

    -Bohemian Grove was cooler because at least you had to break in

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