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The Fifth Column / Podcast Matt Welch (Reason) Michael Moynihan (Vice) and Kmele Foster (Freethink) pick apart the news, interr Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.

Brand 🆕 Fifth Column Podcast!Episode  #504 - N-Bombs and Real BombsNotes from a live eventFifdom representsSpotify expos...
11/05/2025

Brand 🆕 Fifth Column Podcast!

Episode #504 - N-Bombs and Real Bombs

Notes from a live event

Fifdom represents

Spotify exposes!

RIP Swampy

India, Pakistan, and the American retreat

Ending power, hard and soft

Marjorie Taylor Chomsky

Israeli endgame

Portnoy’s NYT complaint

Piers Springer and the forbidden word

Don’t give money to m**h head N***s who yell at babies

UPDATE: The initial version of this episode was missing two audio clips, both of them featuring exceptionally stupid people saying exceptionally stupid things.

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.Members Only  #259 - Tariffed into Chastity
11/05/2025

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.

Members Only #259 - Tariffed into Chastity

Tickets for tomorrow’s Moynihan-moderated debate at the Village Underground can be purchased here! And subscribe to the Moynihan Report YouTube channel!

Brand 🆕 Fifth Column Podcast!Episode  #503 - Mea Minima CulpaThey’re all back. And they recorded a very fun, very long o...
11/05/2025

Brand 🆕 Fifth Column Podcast!

Episode #503 - Mea Minima Culpa

They’re all back. And they recorded a very fun, very long one…during the day…to minimize drunken regrets. So many topics are covered—the Koch brother, the last episode, bad interviewers, bad manners, the strange new media, the strange new Ukraine strategy, exit Walz, etc—that we might as well dispense with the usual bullet points and just get right into it…Enjoy!

They’re all back.

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.Members Only  #258 - We Don't Talk About Fight Club (Mostly)
11/05/2025

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.

Members Only #258 - We Don't Talk About Fight Club (Mostly)

Moynihan couldn’t make it (we don’t know where he is, but if you see a shirtless man yelling at a parking meter in lower Manhattan, please let us know).

Brand 🆕 Fifth Column Podcast!Episode  #502 - The Second Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)Errr….This one gets prett...
25/04/2025

Brand 🆕 Fifth Column Podcast!

Episode #502 - The Second Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)

Errr….This one gets pretty heated. But we’re all still friends! We think. And Moynihan is now sober and his blood sugar is back to normal, so there’s that too. Either way, hats off to Batya for braving another episode with three people who disagree with her on pretty much everything. We talk Tariffs, Trump, lawfare, Ukraine, and everything in between.

Errr….This one gets pretty heated.

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.Members Only  #257 -  I'll Ruin Everything You Are
23/04/2025

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.

Members Only #257 - I'll Ruin Everything You Are

The Hungarian dentist and the pr******te theory

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.Members Only  #256 -- How Media and Public Health Failed Our Kids (w/ Dav...
22/04/2025

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.

Members Only #256 -- How Media and Public Health Failed Our Kids (w/ David Zweig)

“They were lying to my fu***ng face, and they knew it”

Brand 🆕 Fifth Column Podcast!Episode  #501 - Due Process in Scare Quotes (w/ Jesse Singal) Moynihan is out with a “tooth...
22/04/2025

Brand 🆕 Fifth Column Podcast!

Episode #501 - Due Process in Scare Quotes (w/ Jesse Singal)

Moynihan is out with a “tooth thing” (which sounds lame, but is allegedly a “painful,” “very serious” dental emergency that definitely doesn't involve a tall, attractive blonde woman). Fortunately, our pal Jesse Singal (Blocked and Reported, Singal-Minded) is along for the ride, and outlines the plans for his heroic crusade to save THE REPUBLIC by beefing with JD Vance on X. We dive into Trump 2.0’s extra-constitutional improvisations, fail to steer clear of trade policy, and search desperately for a silver lining in our late-capitalist, national-populist, increasingly surrealist Idiocracy. Also in the mix: a little Elon drama, libertarian coping strategies, various flavors of executive branch lawlessness, and a surprising outbreak of informed optimism about the future.

Flooding the Zone with Incompetence and Malfeasance

Brand 🆕 Fifth Column Podcast!Episode  #500 - The Triumph of the IdiotsIs this episode 500?? Well, not really. Likely a b...
22/04/2025

Brand 🆕 Fifth Column Podcast!

Episode #500 - The Triumph of the Idiots

Is this episode 500?? Well, not really. Likely a bit higher. There have been some numbering convention mixups over the years and we’ve also recorded almost 300 paywalled episodes (yes, you should subscribe now, ya skinflints). But let’s just pretend it’s 500 and say…happy 500th episode, Fifth Column!

Waymo through skid row

The dumb right

Dead cats bounce

They took brown doublewides from us

Nixon, but in the open

Where are the Dems?

Besides magic

The DEI trade off?

The sweet meteor of death episode

Is this episode 500??

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.Members Only  #255 - Val Kilmer Didn't Die for This
22/04/2025

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.

Members Only #255 - Val Kilmer Didn't Die for This

Val, Tombstone, Top Secret

Brand 🆕 Fifth Column Podcast!Episode  #499 - One of the Dumbest Decisions in American Political History? (w/ Scott Linci...
22/04/2025

Brand 🆕 Fifth Column Podcast!

Episode #499 - One of the Dumbest Decisions in American Political History? (w/ Scott Lincicome)

We bring back the great economist Scott Lincicome to separate MAGA myths from inconvenient facts on trade, trade imbalances, ChatGPT math, and getting “ripped off” by our (former?) allies.

We bring back the great economist Scott Lincicome to separate MAGA myths from inconvenient facts on trade, trade imbalances, ChatGPT math, and getting “ripped off” by our (former?) allies.

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.Members Only  #254 - These Days of the Condor
22/04/2025

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.

Members Only #254 - These Days of the Condor

Tomorrow on The Moynihan Report: Actor and former fat guy Ethan Suplee (American History X, Wolf of Wall Street, Mall Rats, Remember the Titans).

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