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Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
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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4.5 stars from 3,009 ratings
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“Seriously, Welch needs to bow out of the podcasting world. Smart guy, good writer, but a terrible speaker. Makes this and Reason Roundtable almost impossible to listen to.
They could tighten up the format and talk more policy. They spend a lot of time pretending Moynahan is funny and pretending...”Read full review »
GatsbyNYC via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/17/24
NPR with more giggling
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“I’ve always given new podcasts a few episodes before cancelling. After 20 minutes of the election one, I gave up. 30 seconds in there was something about the facist winning and it was all downhill from there.
I’ll never understand the appetite for shows like this or Mark Levins on the right....”Read full review »
Marcus517 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/12/24
“The best political discussion show hands down, make sure you sign up thru substack and pay the Pod tax for the bonus episodes.”
dimarray via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/10/24
Recent Episodes
An hour with Semafor founder Ben Smith discussing the sorry state of the media, followed by a Smith-free hour with the lads discussing, among other things, two very different people who nevertheless shared a very deep love of young people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Published 11/23/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com
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Published 11/19/24
Published 11/19/24
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