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The Fifth Column - Podcast

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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164

164 "UK Elections, Afghan Papers, Prophylactic Impeachment"

Description: 


- Kmele’s Dog Ate His Own Tail

- Debunking mediums and magicians

- UK elections, the problem with Jeremy Corbyn

- WaPo’s “Afghanistan Papers”

- IG report and the FBI's no-good, very bad beha…

02:08:08  |   Sat 14 Dec 2019
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163 "Kamala Quits, NATO Splinters, Impeachments for All"

Description: 


- [ GRRT, BAOW ]

- Dragonball Z

- Kamala Drops Out, A Narrative Quickly Take Shape

- A De-platforming in South Bend

- 1619 and Historical Skepticism

- Are the Democratic Primaries Racist? (Ca…

02:12:29  |   Sun 08 Dec 2019
162 w/ Errol Morris

162 w/ Errol Morris "Steve Bannon, American Dharmam"

The director of classic documentaries "The Thin Blue Line," "Fog of War," and "Standard Operation Procedure," Errol Morris has long been the doyen of critics...until he made "American Dharma," a film…

01:01:01  |   Sat 30 Nov 2019
161

161 "Unimpeachably Guilty, ILoveFiona, Democratic Debate"

Description:


- Trumpian Slam Poetry ("I Want Nothing!")

- Got a Thing for Fiona Hill

- Blue Pill Confessional

- Burisma Biden

- The Good, The Bad, and The Career Diplomats 

- Weird John Bolton Tweets

- The …

01:54:13  |   Sun 24 Nov 2019
160

160 "Pub Hopping, Impeachment Hearings, Roger Stone Goes down"

- Who Shot Ya? (Tupac, Biggie)

- Moynihan Drinks w/ Trump Supporters in Bay Ridge

- Buttigieg

- Impeachment Hearings

- Devin Nunes’ Garbage Clown Schtick

- Roger Stone Goes Down

- What Happened to Rudy Giu…

01:41:10  |   Mon 18 Nov 2019
159 - w/ Bari Weiss

159 - w/ Bari Weiss "How to Fight Anti-Semitism, Shifting Political Baggage"

Recorded: November 6th 2019

Published: November 9th 2019


GUEST: Bari Weiss

Op-Ed Staff Editor and Writer @ The New York Times

Author, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism" (2019)



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01:49:46  |   Sat 09 Nov 2019
158 - w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams

158 - w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams "Unlearning Race"

Recorded: October 20th 2019

Published: October 31st 2019


GUEST: Thomas Chatterton Williams

Author, "Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race" (2019)



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01:21:50  |   Thu 31 Oct 2019
157 - w/ Meghan Daum

157 - w/ Meghan Daum "The Problem With Everything"

Recorded: October 18th 2019

Published: October 22nd 2019


GUEST: Meghan Daum

Author, "The Problem With Everything" (2019)



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02:15:33  |   Wed 23 Oct 2019
156 - w/ Walt Hickey

156 - w/ Walt Hickey "China Cancels the NBA, Trump Cancels the Kurds"

Recorded: October 9th 2019

Published: October 10th 2019


GUEST: Walt Hickey,

Senior Editor for Data @ Insider

Founder @ Numlock News newsletter



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01:58:15  |   Fri 11 Oct 2019
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155 - "Unforgivable, The Swampiest Swamp, DC Star Wars Bar"

- Picking fights in restaurants

- Botham Jean's brother forgives Amber Guyger for murdering his brother. And that's a problem. 

- Forgiveness vs. MORE HARSH SENTENCING

- Ukraine/Trump 

- Matt lacks the X…

02:02:13  |   Fri 04 Oct 2019
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154 - "Still Teflon Don, Moynihan's Emmy, Vaping Panic"

- Moynihan won an Emmy

- #EmmysSoWhite

- "Some saw..."

- Films Don't Matter

- Xenophobic Immigrants

- Biden, Trump, Ukraine

- Will He Be Impeached ? Maybe…And No

- It's Greta Thunberg's World

- The Vaping M…

01:21:09  |   Fri 27 Sep 2019
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153 - "Moderate Chic, NYT's Kavanaugh Follies, Our Pal Corn Pop"

- The “moderate chic” party

- RIP Emmet O’Lunney’s

- Brett Kavanaugh *Allegation(s)*

- College campuses in the 1980s was all about apartheid

- Moynihan’s Foggy Memory, and Everyone’s

- John Bolton, Out

- O…

02:01:54  |   Thu 19 Sep 2019
152 - w/ Steve Kornacki

152 - w/ Steve Kornacki "Straight News, Political Tribalism, Chappell's Sticks & Stones"

Recorded: September 4th 2019

Published: September 7th 2019


Guest: Steve Kornacki, National Political Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. Author of "The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Po…

01:42:26  |   Sat 07 Sep 2019
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151 - "That 1619 Project, Liturgical Journalism, The Batshit Presidency"

- Ladies Libertarianing

- The Segregation of Everything

- The 1619 Project: “Everything that makes America exceptional is because of slavery”

- NHJ: “We’re the MOST American”

- Trump: “I hereby order…”

- …

01:59:34  |   Mon 26 Aug 2019
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150 - "Churn-alism, The Epstein Suicide (?), Effective Conspiracy Mongering"

Welch, Moynihan, and Kmele are all in the same room for the first time in more than a month -- and it's a glorious reunion.


Recorded: August 16th 2019

Published: August 18th 2019



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01:29:53  |   Sun 18 Aug 2019
149 - w/ Jon Ronson

149 - w/ Jon Ronson "Porn Stars, Psychopaths, Cancel Culture"

In this Special Dispatch, Michael Moynihan sits down with legendary journalist, author, and documentarian -- Jon Ronson. They discuss some of Ronson's most celebrated books, his fabulous new podcasts…

01:04:30  |   Fri 02 Aug 2019
148 - w/ Ben Dreyfuss

148 - w/ Ben Dreyfuss "Mueller Talks, Send Em' Back, Al Franken, A$AP Rocky v. Sweden"

Guest: Ben Dreyfuss (Editorial Director, Mother Jones)


Description:

- Moynihan in Martha's Vineyard

- Mueller sucks on TV

- Trump’s Razor: The dumbest explanation is the most likely

- “Send them back” — i…

01:45:12  |   Sun 28 Jul 2019
147 - w/ Molly Jong-Fast

147 - w/ Molly Jong-Fast "Trump's Social Media Summit, Journalistic Scuttlebutt"

Guest: Molly Jong-Fast is a contributor to The Bulwark and the author of three books. (@MollyJongFast)


Recorded: July 11th 2019



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01:41:46  |   Fri 12 Jul 2019
146 - w/ Patrick Radden Keefe

146 - w/ Patrick Radden Keefe "Northern Ireland's 'Troubles' and a notorious murder mystery"

Guest: Patrick Radden Keefe, staff writer at the New Yorker, author of "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland"


Description:

In this special dispatch, Michael Moynihan talks…

01:14:22  |   Wed 10 Jul 2019
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145 - "Dem Debates, Plan B for Iran, History for Nincompoops"

- Moynihan Goes to Court

- Welch gets a Stress Sty

- RIP, Steve Dunleavy

- NBA O-W-N-E-R-S

- Democratic Debate Preview

- No Plan B for Iran

- Concentration Camp Kerfuffle

- San Fran Bans E-cigs (Till They…

01:38:44  |   Thu 27 Jun 2019
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