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The Fifth Column

Analysis, Commentary, Sedition. @wethefifth

Comedy News & Politics
Update frequency
every 3 days
Average duration
85 minutes
Episodes
567
Years Active
2016 - 2025
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Members Only #274 - Jamaicanon and the Racist Storms

Members Only #274 - Jamaicanon and the Racist Storms

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* You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both…

* Waiting for Bill and Ted

* A catalogue of bad prophecies

* 7t…

00:21:06  |   Sat 06 Sep 2025
#522 - Video Killed the Podcast Star (ft. Mace, Epstein, Gladwell, Linehan)

#522 - Video Killed the Podcast Star (ft. Mace, Epstein, Gladwell, Linehan)

* The video age is upon us

* Sweet Jane

* Crazy Nancy

* I’m a survivor, I'm not gon' give up

* You have a microphone. Just TELL US.

* Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, pedo hunter

* A revolt at HHS

* The co…

01:16:22  |   Thu 04 Sep 2025
#521 - MAGA Panthers and White FUBU

#521 - MAGA Panthers and White FUBU

* A barrel of crackas

* We’re buying Hooters

* Glamorous hairstyling

* Look it up, people

* The caudillo and the talk show host

* Hega-stan

* MAGA Marx: Nationalize everything!

* The era of state capitalis…

01:35:35  |   Thu 28 Aug 2025
On

On "The Summer of Our Discontent" w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams

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Kmele connects with Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss his latest book, “The Summer of Our Discontent”. It’s a wide-…

00:40:50  |   Tue 26 Aug 2025
#520 - Wear a Tie, Kids Won't Die / White Hippies / Ancient Chinese Custom, Huh?

#520 - Wear a Tie, Kids Won't Die / White Hippies / Ancient Chinese Custom, Huh?

* Tahoe plague

* The Swiss lobby

* Hate your kids

* They seem like nice kids

* If you only wore a tie, kids wouldn’t die

* Have some dignity, says the most undignified human alive

* The root of “root cau…

01:40:10  |   Thu 21 Aug 2025
Members Only #272 - Bosom Buddies, Nazi Historians, Late Capitalists

Members Only #272 - Bosom Buddies, Nazi Historians, Late Capitalists

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* A Spanish Harlem incident

* The selective regret of Hank Azaria

* Kmele watches Eddington

* Ozzy confesses

* Bonding w…

00:22:41  |   Tue 19 Aug 2025
#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts

#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts

* Below the Mendoza Line

* Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer

* Stallone’s Bergman period

* Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so, why?

* The hundreds of forgotten anti-Bush books

* An especially bad Mu…

01:47:50  |   Thu 14 Aug 2025
Members Only #271 - America the Antidote (Second Sunday Rebroadcast!)

Members Only #271 - America the Antidote (Second Sunday Rebroadcast!)

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A rebroadcast of our latest Second Sunday episode during which the lads discuss Killer Mike, World War III, fascism, Bi…

00:19:41  |   Wed 13 Aug 2025
#518 - Angry Indians, the Socialist Right, TikTok's Propaganda War

#518 - Angry Indians, the Socialist Right, TikTok's Propaganda War

* A $750 late fee

* Crazy train

* Tariffapalooza 7.0

* Making Modi mad

* Economic nationalism vs. market capitalism

* The Soviet Senator

* A pen and phone guy

* Should DC be taken over by the feds? Or jus…

01:28:56  |   Fri 08 Aug 2025
Members Only #270 - Norwegian Pizzas, Italian Meterologists, Fake Dissidents

Members Only #270 - Norwegian Pizzas, Italian Meterologists, Fake Dissidents

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* Just let them waffle on for a few minutes before the good stuff…

* Poor Europe

* The $50 Norwegian pizza?

* Functional D…

00:22:36  |   Thu 07 Aug 2025
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#517 - "Pimp-o-nomics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Male Gaze" w/ Robbie Soave

Moynihan joins from Europe. Robbie Soave (Reason, Rising, Sheetz & Giggles) guests — bravely joining the fellas after stopping by the local precinct so he could report his scooter stolen. Plus; Epst…

01:28:02  |   Sat 02 Aug 2025
#516 -

#516 - "Treasons, Tiny Packages, and the End of Late Night" w/ Eli Lake

Moynihan is somewhere in Europe. Eli Lake (The Free Press, Breaking History) fills in. And Kmele sustained a harrowing podcast-related injury that postponed a recording (and nearly cost him a finger)…

01:26:30  |   Fri 25 Jul 2025
Members Only #268 - Every Pump is Patriotic

Members Only #268 - Every Pump is Patriotic

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* An enigma wrapped inside a…wait, what does that word mean?

* Wait, what did you call it??? (Take a guess)

* Buffalo Bil…

00:19:08  |   Mon 21 Jul 2025
#515 - Big Trouble in Little MAGA

#515 - Big Trouble in Little MAGA

* Crazy from the heat

* AMA

* Who is Jim Walden??

* The dumbest civil war

* So we have to discuss the Epstein “issue” again, eh?

* I think we solved the case…

* Leaving breadcrumbs in the archives

* Jimmy …

01:31:16  |   Thu 17 Jul 2025
#514 - Big Boats! Big Patriotism! Big Pedophile Rings??

#514 - Big Boats! Big Patriotism! Big Pedophile Rings??

* Matt discovers Mass

* Because Matt is cruisin’

* Boats and hoes

* An ultra exclusive event! The Fifth…on the high seas??

* The Epstein hoax

* Very dumb people holding empty Trapper Keepers

* Fake numbe…

01:42:48  |   Thu 10 Jul 2025
Members Only #267 - Everything's Our Fault: The U.S. and the Iranian Coup (w/ Abbas Milani)

Members Only #267 - Everything's Our Fault: The U.S. and the Iranian Coup (w/ Abbas Milani)

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A few weeks ago, we mentioned that newly minted Iran expert Joy Reid went on CNN and provided her damning verdict on Am…

00:15:57  |   Thu 10 Jul 2025
#513 - Birthright Jamaican Babies and Russian Trashmen (w/ Damon Root)

#513 - Birthright Jamaican Babies and Russian Trashmen (w/ Damon Root)

As the Supreme Court wraps up its term, the boys again summon Damon Root, author of Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court, to break down the various rulings (for those of us w…

01:49:10  |   Mon 30 Jun 2025
#512 - Escape from New York

#512 - Escape from New York

* Fleeeeeeeee

* Don’t mess with the Zohran

* Andrew Cuomo, Shah of NYC

* Eric Adams to the rescue? (Oof)

* Post-colonial Disney movies

* Scarcity Democrats

* Pull the fire alarm on this drunk idiot

* T…

01:26:39  |   Fri 27 Jun 2025
Members Only #264 - Domino's, Hand Jobs, and WWIII

Members Only #264 - Domino's, Hand Jobs, and WWIII

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No listener mail this time. We’ll double up on the next Members Only. Just an hour-long conversation about Iran…

(Moynih…

00:25:20  |   Sun 22 Jun 2025
#511 - Iran on the Brink, NYC on the Brink (w/ Harry Siegel)

#511 - Iran on the Brink, NYC on the Brink (w/ Harry Siegel)

Two episodes in one! First, the lads discuss Iran, the legacy of the Iraq War, and MAGA’s internecine battles over foreign policy. And then Harry Siegel, the great chronicler of New York City politic…

01:34:39  |   Fri 20 Jun 2025
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