The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
#405 - "Death Train, White Fight, The Unfunniest Man in America"
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#405 - "Death Train, White Fight, The Unfunniest Man in America"

  • A homicide at Broadway-Lafayette

  • Crazy strangers on a train

  • The dumb racialization of a tragic death

  • The “delightful” and violent Michael Jackson impersonator

  • Amazon’s Afrika Bambaataa impersonator goes to Cuba

  • On Tucker’s identitarian texts

  • Fox News’s leak war

  • The Daily Show’s 81% rating collapse

  • So many shitty late night talk shows

  • You won’t notice the writer’s strike

  • Hating the Correspondent’s Dinner is as boring as the Correspondent’s Dinner itself

  • Gas stoves and Australian vapes

  • Adderall nightmare updates

  • Send pics

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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.