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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Members Only #281 - When You've Eaten the Poison, You Might as Well Lick the Plate (w/ Jake Adelstein)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Check out Jake Adelstein’s new book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin •A Japanese literacy test •Chvalry is not dead •They don’t teach you how to drink in J school •The Ansel Elgortification of Jake Adelstein •The Yakuza throw a killer Halloween pa
* Misgendering Fox News * Wait, Michael was at a dinner? * Kmele tries to pronounce Normally * “Clearly we don’t fucking prepare” * “The last time I was with you guys, we were in a much smaller, darker room and I got very drunk” * Trump brings the hostages back … * … then emcees a roast * Somebody tell Bill Kristol! *
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com •One Battle After Another •Kmele’s hot take that will bring ruin to Hollywood •Separating the art from John Cusack •The kinship of Susan Sarandon & Mao Zedong •It’s not the dead kid that is most unsettling part of Stand By Me •Amity, as yo
* Subscribe to our YouTube channel already! * A shirt full of toothpaste * Whiskey in a jar * Your dumb, complaining emails * A roundtable of cranks and weirdos * Happy 100 year anniversary Antifa! * People. People. It ain’t fascism. And it ain’t ISIS. * Wait, Twitter IS real life!!!!!! * The long shadow of 2020 * Reme
Last month, after years of you people begging us, we finally had on the great Russ Roberts—author, educator, and proprietor of the phantasmagorically influential podcast EconTalk. The extremely wide-ranging conversation, whose pre-Pivot-to-Video video is available to Never Fly Coach subscribers, one of the most could y
Members Only #279 - Behind the Scenes With Kanye West Documentarian Nico Ballesteros
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com The Fifth Column’s resident Kanye aficionado Kmele Foster sits down with Nico Ballesteros, director of In Whose Name?, a 100% verité documentary that follows Kanye West over the course of six tumultuous years. Just 18 years-old when the pr
