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The Fifth Column

Analysis, Commentary, Sedition. @wethefifth

News & Politics Comedy
Update frequency
every 3 days
Average duration
85 minutes
Episodes
567
Years Active
2016 - 2025
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Members Only #163 - Danny Aiello, Black Hockey, and Ugly MMA

Members Only #163 - Danny Aiello, Black Hockey, and Ugly MMA

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* Moynihan on Maher

* Los Angeles is a weird place

* Kmele in Chicago with Nirvana’s producer

* The mechanics of Hollywood…

00:35:12  |   Tue 02 May 2023
Members Only #162 - Jon Ronson on Neo-Nazi Debutantes, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and

Members Only #162 - Jon Ronson on Neo-Nazi Debutantes, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and "Platforming" Alex Jones

He first came on to talk about a suicide in the porn industry. Then he came back to help us explore the origins of our roiling culture wars. And now Jon Ronson returns for his third one-on-one conver…

01:46:06  |   Sun 30 Apr 2023
#404 - The Fall of the House of Tucker and Traffic w/ Ben Smith

#404 - The Fall of the House of Tucker and Traffic w/ Ben Smith

We’re back with one long episode in two cracking segments. First up, Welch and Moynihan (Ed. note: Kmele is currently peering through a telescope on the South Side of Chicago or something) catch up o…

02:00:28  |   Fri 28 Apr 2023
#403 - FIRE in a Crowded Theater

#403 - FIRE in a Crowded Theater

* Kmele MC’s the FIRE Gala

* Killer Mike blows the roof off the joint

* This is a hangover episode

* A celebration of FIRE, the great Harvey Silverglate, and various other heroes of free speech

* What …

01:53:14  |   Thu 20 Apr 2023
Members Only #161 - Second Sunday (on the Third Sunday)

Members Only #161 - Second Sunday (on the Third Sunday)

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* Kmele, Fruit of Islam

* Via Chicago

* Dominion lawsuit stuff again

* Biden and America’s favorite bearded terrorist Ger…

00:28:29  |   Tue 18 Apr 2023
#402 - The Air Force OG, the Tennessee

#402 - The Air Force OG, the Tennessee "Three," and a French Protest Spree

* The arrest of Jack Teixeira

* The bad showoff

* Not a source, not a Snowden

* How serious is the Teixeira leak?

* Sorry, but the NYT and WaPo did the *correct* thing

* The Tennessee 2 1/2: a plague of

01:31:17  |   Fri 14 Apr 2023
Members Only #160 - Crow's Eagle's Nest

Members Only #160 - Crow's Eagle's Nest

As an Easter and pesach mitzvah to America, we’re gifting this Member Only episode to all y’all…considering that we were on vacation and had no intention of recording it, it’s just Matt and Moyn, and…

01:15:31  |   Mon 10 Apr 2023
#401 - Dying, Lying, and Birding (Live at the Ritz)

#401 - Dying, Lying, and Birding (Live at the Ritz)

Live in front of a crowd of five exhausted crew members, broadcasting from a suite at the Ritz-Carlton in midtown Manhattan (we’ll explain later), it’s another of those *forgive us father, for we are…

01:18:42  |   Thu 06 Apr 2023
Members Only #159 - God Said Be Clean, Sir

Members Only #159 - God Said Be Clean, Sir

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* What was Kmele talking about? You’ll never know….

* Jewish basketball, Max Schmeling, European baseball players with c…

00:20:34  |   Tue 04 Apr 2023
#400 -

#400 - "Trump Indicted (And It Feels So Good)"

* Well, it feels good to various MSNBC hosts, late-night comedians, and resistance types

* We don’t *know* how it feels

* Because no one wants to admit that we *don’t know* very much

* It’s all about ra…

01:34:22  |   Fri 31 Mar 2023
Members Only #158 - Fact to Face with an Anti-Racist Genius

Members Only #158 - Fact to Face with an Anti-Racist Genius

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* Tupac’s stepfather Mutulu Shakur

* The adorable and execrable Dean Reed

* The worst article The Atlantic has ever publi…

00:25:00  |   Tue 28 Mar 2023
#399 - Dumb Debates, Dodgy Dispensaries, Paying Pornstars, Filtered Photons

#399 - Dumb Debates, Dodgy Dispensaries, Paying Pornstars, Filtered Photons

On Monday night, to a packed house of white supremacists and neo-fascists, Kmele debated the awkward proposition “Are we too obsessed with race?” Moynihan and Welch attended. They were amused and ult…

01:54:30  |   Thu 23 Mar 2023
Members Only #157 - The Sex Pope Washes Your Feet

Members Only #157 - The Sex Pope Washes Your Feet

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We’re still not sure if it was Peru or Chile or Gabon, but regardless…Kmele is back from his equatorial conference…but……

00:32:15  |   Mon 20 Mar 2023
#398 w/Allison Schrager -

#398 w/Allison Schrager - "The Horrible, No Good Economy: A Primer”

We do it for you, people. We don’t necessarily want to, but we do. Because you need it. In times of national crisis, the Fifth will forgo all the fun stories so we can tackle the important, necessary

01:45:46  |   Thu 16 Mar 2023
Members Only #156 - Second Sunday Live! (Rebroadcast)

Members Only #156 - Second Sunday Live! (Rebroadcast)

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* Kmele at a Konference? Yup!

* Moynihan spills a wee bit of tea about an old job 😬

* The New Trump U

* Commie spies

* The…

00:37:37  |   Mon 13 Mar 2023
#397 - Just Some Bros Mainsplaining Manganese

#397 - Just Some Bros Mainsplaining Manganese

It’s just like old times! Because the boys are back in town, recording together in an actual studio, andpregaming with listener-provided booze. So…yeah, things were pretty rough going in…Sorry about …

01:27:30  |   Thu 09 Mar 2023
Members Only #155 - Passports, Divorces, & Puerto Ricans

Members Only #155 - Passports, Divorces, & Puerto Ricans

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* Puerto Rican passports

* Nothing works in New York

* Jimmy the Deregulator

* Fistfight Airlines

* Kmele and Andrew Schul…

00:33:51  |   Mon 06 Mar 2023
#396 w/ Chris Stirewalt

#396 w/ Chris Stirewalt "Fired by Fox, Fixing the News, Eating a McRib"

* Stirewalt on calling Arizona for Biden and the Dominion lawsuit

* On getting fired by Fox News

* How journalism collapsed

* Sean Hannity is not a conservative (he’s a Republican)

* The Joe Manchin eff…

01:54:13  |   Wed 01 Mar 2023
Members Only #154 - Konference Kmele, Konservative MJ, and Angela Davis's Debts

Members Only #154 - Konference Kmele, Konservative MJ, and Angela Davis's Debts

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* Konference Kmele

* The most Jewish podcast in America?

* Arguing an overcorrection

* Michael Jackson, social conservativ…

00:36:42  |   Mon 27 Feb 2023
Members Only #153 - Make Way For the Big Boyz

Members Only #153 - Make Way For the Big Boyz

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* Apocalypse apparel

* No country for fat men

* Singal white journalist 

* A left-wing Matt *Walsh* stan 

* Books don’t mak…

00:24:07  |   Mon 20 Feb 2023
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