The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
#460 - The Return of Ol' Icy Balls
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#460 - The Return of Ol' Icy Balls

After a very brief hiatus—apologies, but all is explained in the first five minutes of this episode—the lads are back. And there will be a flood of new content in the coming days, to make up for our testicular tardiness (also explained in the first five minutes of this episode). Also note: this episode was plagued by technical difficulties, but we hope, through the magic of editing, that you won’t notice.

  • The procedure

  • The politicization of late night continues apace

  • This is our territory

  • Alt weeklies that weren’t alt

  • Trump’s long “All In” interview

  • Could the debate move voters?

  • Don’t pretend to be working class

  • Louisiana and the Ten Commandments

  • Actually, covet your neighbors wife

  • Tell us about your culture: “Diet Coke and Starbucks and Dunkin’s”

  • Who did MM see at dinner?

  • Happy Juneteenth?

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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.