The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
#415 - The Pod of Laughter and Forgetting and Tracy Chapman and Crack and The Three Stooges
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#415 - The Pod of Laughter and Forgetting and Tracy Chapman and Crack and The Three Stooges

  • This is a very summer episode. Soz.

  • Moynihan, impanelled

  • Implicit bias and your cup of coffee

  • Chipotle paranoia

  • We interrupt this program for a detailed Welch interregnum of the death of Milan Kundera

  • Tracy Chapman is “honored” by Luke Combs’s cover. The Washington Post is alarmed

  • Elvis was a hero to most, but he never…

  • You didn’t write that song. The “community” did

  • De La Soul is not Steely Dan

  • Airbrushing music and film history will save the universe

  • Actually Tintin in Congo is pretty bad….

  • A dumb congressman says something dumb. Ho hum.

  • A suggestion for a new Sokal hoax

  • Cocaine, crack, and a question never asked of Biden the Younger

  • Why Matt once bought $100 worth of crack

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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.