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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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047

047 "Trump's Not State of the Union, Patriots & Anecdotes, The End of Ideology" - The Fifth Column

"Presidential." "His Best Speech Yet." "Hey, What Happened To His Entirely-Too-Long Red Tie!?" ---- It's an all new Donald Trump. He's calm, composed, occasionally optimistic and his standard complem…
01:49:13  |   Thu 02 Mar 2017
046

046 "Flynn Gets Fired, Incompetent Totalitarians, He Totally Called It" - The Fifth Column

The cascade of failures, missteps, scandal and controversy otherwise known as the Trump Administration has stammered into its fourth week of governance*. Michael Flynn -- Former National Security Adv…
01:35:54  |   Thu 16 Feb 2017
045 w/ Damon Root

045 w/ Damon Root "When Everything's a Crisis and Everyone's a Nazi..." - The Fifth Column

POTUS is at war with the courts, with the press, and on account of it's leaking like a sieve, he's kinda at war with his own administration. Reason's resident legal aficionado Damon Root stop by to e…
01:50:37  |   Sat 11 Feb 2017
044 w/ Kevin Williamson

044 w/ Kevin Williamson "Fear, Loathing and that Muslim Ban" OR "Dangerous Ideas -- Courteously Discussed" - The Fifth Column

Is it a Muslim Ban? Should America just 'bar the damn door'? Is it racism? Or is it perhaps just more 'what-about-ism'? What is the connection between Trump's Immigration policy and the location of h…

01:20:45  |   Wed 01 Feb 2017
043

043 "Trump Stallone: POTUS, True Believer, First of His Name" - The Fifth Column

A week under our belts and we're still reeling...

A deluge of executive activity, constitutional controversies, 'emoluments'(?!), lawsuits, like -- a lot of lawsuits, sex tapes (well, not yet, but you…

01:39:08  |   Fri 27 Jan 2017
042 w/ Thad Russell

042 w/ Thad Russell "John Lewis: Moral Authoritarian for Hire, CNN vs Trump, Freed Manning" - The Fifth Column

The waning hours of President Obama's tenure, on the eve of Trump-Mageddon, and the hits just keep on coming.

The President-Elect finds himself embroiled in a nasty fight with an almost universally re…

01:41:41  |   Thu 19 Jan 2017
041

041 "Unsubstantiated, Unverifiable, and Indisputably Entertaining" - The Fifth Column

After a day of confirmation hearings and protesters in pink t-shirts, amid growing uncertainty about the future of Obama Care, and just ahead of President Obama's Farewell Address in Chicago; a dossi…
01:29:53  |   Wed 11 Jan 2017
040

040 "Johnny Walker -- Neat, #BLMKidnapping, and y'all still talkin bout Russia?" - The Fifth Column

Welch has been eying the guitar in the corner all night, some thoughtful listeners sent the fellas a huge bottle of Johnny Walker Black, and appears they've been reading newly released intelligence b…
01:24:04  |   Sat 07 Jan 2017
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039 "Tragedy in Berlin, About That New Cold-ish War, Obama's Failures and Successes" - The Fifth Column

In the final dispatch of 2016, THE COLUMNISTS examine the recent terror attacks in Berlin -- parsing predictable responses, likely fallout, and beyond.

And as the Obama Presidency draws to a close, an…

01:42:22  |   Fri 30 Dec 2016
038

038 "Russian Hackers, Escalation and Those Damn Emails" - The Fifth Column

Definitive accusations from the US intelligence community. Promises of reprisals from President Obama. A last ditch effort to sway Electoral College voters and prevent Donald Trump from moving into t…

01:03:36  |   Tue 20 Dec 2016
037 w/ Kennedy

037 w/ Kennedy "Trump's All Conflicted, Russia's All Scary, POTUS is Black" - The Fifth Column

In the final days of the Obama administration, many ‘journalos’ (pronounced: jurn-ah-lows) are producing fond remembrances of the outgoing administration while closely scrutinizing every (frequently …
01:23:20  |   Thu 15 Dec 2016
036

036 "Fake News All The Way Down? The New Fred Phelps?" w/ Jimmy Failla, Jacob Siegel - The Fifth Column

If a white nationalists speaks to a meager audience on a Texas campus, can any American avoid hearing about it? When Tomi tangles with Trevor on The Daily Show, does anyone really win? The answer to …

01:37:12  |   Fri 09 Dec 2016
035 w/ Glenn Garvin “Pissing on Fidel Castro's Grave, Jill Stein's Recount, and Trump's Tweets

035 w/ Glenn Garvin “Pissing on Fidel Castro's Grave, Jill Stein's Recount, and Trump's Tweets" - The Fifth Column

“Fidel Castro dead, y’all!” Revolutionary, Dictator, Monster and... Human Rights Champion!? No seriously, some idiot wrote that, and worse besides. The Columnists offer an unvarnished appraisal of th…

01:29:52  |   Thu 01 Dec 2016
034 “White Nationalism: The Musical, Bogus News, Yeezus

034 “White Nationalism: The Musical, Bogus News, Yeezus" - The Fifth Column

A Hamilltonian dressing down for the Vice President Elect? A White Nationalist Confrence in the Nations Capital? Sure -- it's almost Thanksgiving, but before digging into the Turkey, stuffing and cra…
01:21:14  |   Tue 22 Nov 2016
033 w/ Kat Timpf “The Passion of Steve Bannon, Ditching the Press Pool, Lebron's Posse

033 w/ Kat Timpf “The Passion of Steve Bannon, Ditching the Press Pool, Lebron's Posse" - The Fifth Column

What do you do after a media apperance in Midtown Manhattan. If you answered, "Eat Ground Beef with Friends" -- you've probably been drinking with Kat Timpf and Matt Welch.

Trump Ditches the Press P…

01:20:18  |   Fri 18 Nov 2016
032 w/ Andrew Schulz “President Trump: Worst Tuesday Ever?

032 w/ Andrew Schulz “President Trump: Worst Tuesday Ever?" - The Fifth Column

The election is finally over, and Donald Trump is President Elect of the United States... "What the hell happend!?" This weighty audio dispatch may help sort out a few things. Moyhinan, Welch and Fos…

01:41:40  |   Fri 11 Nov 2016
031

031 "Weld Says What?, Trump Not At Fault For KKK Support, and Kmele Calls In From Easter Island" - The Fifth Column

This week, Hollywood Mike Moynihan deigns to rejoin the Troika of Truth in our last podcast before Election 2016 is dumped on our heads like a sack of dead rats. Kmele heroically calls in from “Easte…
01:01:23  |   Thu 03 Nov 2016
030 w/ Andrew Schulz “Lead Paint, Black Jeopardy, and Netflix & Mass Incarceration

030 w/ Andrew Schulz “Lead Paint, Black Jeopardy, and Netflix & Mass Incarceration" - The Fifth Column

This week, comedian Andrew Schulz (http://theandrewschulz.com, The Brilliant Idiots Podcast) stops by, Moynihan is a no show, and things get out of hand quickly (The 'explicit content' warning is the…
01:35:44  |   Wed 26 Oct 2016
029 “Pre Debate Jitters, And There's Just Something About Mosul” - The Fifth Column

029 “Pre Debate Jitters, And There's Just Something About Mosul” - The Fifth Column

We selected some stories, organized them in a thoughtful way -- and even developed a few punchy segways. But we didn't do much with any of that... On the eve of the final presidential debate, the dam…
01:15:41  |   Wed 19 Oct 2016
028 “Billy Bush: The Real Victim Here, Avoiding World War III

028 “Billy Bush: The Real Victim Here, Avoiding World War III" - The Fifth Column

Moynihan watches the presidential debate with his old pal Glenn Beck. Donald Trump doesn't understand how handshakes work at all. Hillary Clinton should probably give up on email at this point. And t…
01:24:09  |   Thu 13 Oct 2016
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