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The Fifth Column

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
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    Masquerade of Morons (Episode #556)

    07/05/2026 | 1h 24 mins.
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    -Kmele gets glasses
    -The return of Soho legs
    -Matt’s movie-theater race science
    -Trump sends a letter to Congress saying the war is over, Iran says, “wtf?”
    -Little Marco, Fog of War correspondent
    -A very leaky White House
    -Strange new respect for the anti-war MAGA set
    -Little Marco puts the best face on Iran
    -Welch discovers gas prices
    -The affordability caucus …
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    Premeditated Fingering w/ Anthony Scaramucci (Members Only #319)

    05/05/2026 | 19 mins.
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

    We’re joined by Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, former White House Communications Director, and one of the more memorable casualties of Trump 1.0
    -The Mooch reads the stars
    -The truth is out there, allegedly
    -954,000 seconds in the White House
    -The Ryan Lizza thing, briefly
    -the reason God made Steve Bannon look like this
    -Why Bannon scared …
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    David French on the Supreme Court, Race, and the Miracle That Confirmed His Faith #555

    30/04/2026 | 1h 51 mins.
    This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

    …and how raising a black daughter changed the way he sees America.
    -David French returns to the Fifth Column
    -SCOTUS drops of a few ruling
    -Free speech wins 9-0 (First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Davenport)
    -The Voting Rights Act gets another trim (Louisiana v. Callais)
    -Racial gerrymanders vs. political gerrymanders
    -Smart racists, dumb racists, and …
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    Crimes of Boredom (Members Only #318)

    28/04/2026 | 19 mins.
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

    After the failed shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the boys sift through bad manifestos, assassination discourse, microlooting, conspiracy politics, and the strange moral permissions of America’s bored radicals.
    -Matt’s 15-year Werner Herzog hangover workshop
    -judging the newest failed killer manifesto
    -America’s stupidest assassination d…
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    Tucker, Totenkopf, and the Fascist Question w/ Michelle Goldberg #554

    23/04/2026 | 1h 24 mins.
    This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

    -have we met before, or did we just share a zip code?
    -Iran is a disaster from basically every possible angle
    -you don’t go to war with this president
    -maybe just crawl back to a worse JCPOA and call it historic
    -Venezuela “worked,” which is exactly why it made the next disaster easier
    -take the oil, burn the soft power, call it realism
    -Europe gets lectured,…

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About The Fifth Column

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. www.wethefifth.com
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