The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
205 “If You're Reading This, It's Too Late”
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NOTE: This dispatch was beleaguered by technical and logistical challenges. The audio actually turned out pretty good (all things considered), but the entire thing was very nearly scrapped. Those challenges contributed to a delayed-release — and because the world has gone quite mad —the news cycle is evolving rapidly. 


All the same, still lots of very relevant (even prophetic) stuff in this dispatch, but it was recorded before the Breonna Taylor Grand Jury announcement that inspired a night of protests, riots, and violence. 


  • Home Improvement

  • Latinx, Things You Must Know About The Cuban

  • Trust the Process

  • Debate Preview

  • RBG

  • Hypocrisy and Norm Evisceration

  • Who to Blame

  • A Loss of Faith, A Looming Election Hellscape

  • About that TikTok Deal

  • We Choose Violence

  • 1619 Lies, Bullshit, Stealth Edits, Motivated Reasoning

  • If The Schools Already Suck, Can 1619 Make Them Worse (or better)

  • National Patriotism Curriculum

  • All My Critics Are Racist, Which Is Terribly Convenient for Me


Recorded Sept 20, 2020

Published Sept 24, 2020



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The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
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.