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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UNLOCKED: Atheist in a Foxhole, w/ the Great Sebastian Junger
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1:53:26Periodically around these parts the audience demand for unpaywalling certain subscribers-only episodes becomes too clamorous to ignore. So it was with Members Only #286, our gripping conversation with celebrated author Sebastian Junger about his harrowing new book, In My Time of Dying. “Please consider making this a non-members only episode,” wrote…
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Destroy All Robots…Before They Destroy US (w/ Andy Mills)
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21:47This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Andy Mills joins to discuss his new Longview podcast, The Last Invention The last invention is…a new species Humanity’s coming “hinge moment” Doomers v. Accelerationists v. Scouts We are the ants When Elon warned Obama A digital God in a silicon box Have AI’s creators …
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Members Only #288 (LIVE in Los Angeles) - American Canyon Revisited
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18:47This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com You asked for it, you got it! A session with just Matt, Michael, and Kmele… plus 200 of their closest friends. It’s The Fifth Column recorded LIVE in Burbank (just like Fleetwood Mac) on Sunday, November 23, 2025. Want early access to the next live show (and full acces…
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Members Only #287 - Hoarding Epstein’s Emails, Band T-Shirts, and Air Jordans (w Jason Leopold)
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20:16This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Check out Jason Leopold’s FOIA Files newsletter, and the new Disclosure podcast•Steve Albini never had to deal with California fires •Like a baby monitor, but for records •This is a Fugazi t-shirt •The trouble with true Norwegian black metal •All hail Metal Mike •Jason…
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#534 - Even the Mayor Says L.A. Isn’t Well Governed (w/ Karen Bass)
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1:06:40• Not safe at home, mayoral edition • “The guns were decades old” • The Trump/Mamdani bromance • The administration’s historic post-fire response • “You’re walking down the street, you happen to look Latino, or somebody hears you speak Spanish. A car rushes up in front of you. Masked men jump out with rifles and throw you in the car” • What does “s…
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#533 - Moynihan vs. Moynihan (w/ Lydia Moynihan)
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1:08:22* The Doppelgänger * Where do these Moynihans come from? * The journalism disease * You do not want to get a call from the New York Post * From schadenfreude to envious cruelty * Covering the powerful * What is “social proof?” * The Epstein obsession * Incompetence defeats the deep state * Epstein and language inflation * Representing the Trump vot…
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Members Only #286 - Atheist in a Foxhole (w/ Sebastian Junger)
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21:59This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com We are joined by journalist, author, filmmaker, and chainsaw-wielder Sebastian Junger. His latest book In My Time of Dying is a touching reflection on death… and what might follow. Paid subscribers get access to this and hundreds of other Members Only episodes. •You ca…
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#532 - Trinnies, Joy Bells, and Race Pride (w/ Abby Phillip)
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1:44:55* The dog hasn’t barked * He knew about the girls. But we *knew* that * So what, if anything, do these emails prove? * Conspiracies, anomalies, pornography * That’s a bad, no good, awful Times headline * Enter Abby Phillip * The battle of the Caribbean * We couldn’t afford to fail * A distinct lack of psychopaths and Holocaust deniers * I care too …
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Members Only #285 - The Case For American Power (w/ Shadi Hamid)
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24:57This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com It’s release day for Shadi Hamid’s new book, The Case For American Power, and we’re excited to have him back on The Fifth. Paying subscribers get access to the full interview in audio & video (plus literally hundreds more), and help us do what we do, so… In this episod…
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#531 - Liberal of Fox News, Unite! (w/ Jessica Tarlov)
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1:51:02We’re joined by Jessica Tarlov, co-host of The Five on Fox News, and Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway. •Among the cons •What does it all mean? •Over performance. Under performance •AOC’s war •What if the people who you want to destroy are the same people who ensure your existence? •You can afford to live here. Just not *here* •How to moderate a…
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Members Only #284 - Pod Save The Queen (The Fascist Regime) with Jon Lovett
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18:32This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com • Don’t mess with the Zoran • The opacity of hope • Inspiration is overrated • Wait, what if none of these proposals actually work… • The return of identity politics? • Is offline politics “additive, human, humane, and empathetic?” • The Dem doom loop • The online left…
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