The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
364 "Rejecting Boris, Reeducating Macy, Ridiculous Gavin"
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364 "Rejecting Boris, Reeducating Macy, Ridiculous Gavin"

  • Matt breaks an eardrum

  • Boris breaks British politics (Ed note: Boris renounced his American citizenship in 2017. We sort of regret the error)

  • Would Putin free LeBron?

  • Remember Macy Gray? Well, whoever she is, she’s very sorry

  • Tim Hardaway, self-proclaimed homophobe

  • The end of interventionism

  • Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is shot

  • Andrew Schultz goes the way of Louis CK

  • 2022 Freedom Bowl: California v. Florida

  • Gavin Newsom: Slightly Better than Beto

  • Covid and culture wars: What will matter in 2024


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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.