#  @wethefifth The Fifth Column - A Podcast The Fifth Column - A Podcast posts on YouTube about hosted, ice, media, donald trump the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/youtube::UC1u8vBk71yQg-Pa3wSQMk9Q/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -69% - [--] Month [---------] +257% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/youtube::UC1u8vBk71yQg-Pa3wSQMk9Q/posts_active)  - [--] Month [--] -52% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/youtube::UC1u8vBk71yQg-Pa3wSQMk9Q/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +3.40% - [--] Month [------] +36% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/youtube::UC1u8vBk71yQg-Pa3wSQMk9Q/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [finance](/list/finance) [musicians](/list/musicians) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [social networks](/list/social-networks) **Social topic influence** [hosted](/topic/hosted), [ice](/topic/ice), [media](/topic/media) #5272, [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump) #783, [cycle](/topic/cycle), [greenland](/topic/greenland) #17, [politics](/topic/politics), [jeffrey epstein](/topic/jeffrey-epstein), [israel](/topic/israel) #4322, [maga](/topic/maga) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@thefifthcolumn](/creator/undefined) [@podsaveamerica](/creator/undefined) [@lovettorleaveitpodcast](/creator/undefined) [@thedispatchpods](/creator/undefined) [@foxnews](/creator/undefined) [@ragingmoderates](/creator/undefined) [@anakasparian](/creator/undefined) [@jjbirdsong1](/creator/undefined) [@longviewreports](/creator/undefined) [@kevinoleary](/creator/undefined) [@jewishuncensored](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Trump Only Wanted Greenland for Real Estate When youre a hammer everythings a nail. Trumps former NSA John Bolton pulled absolutely zero punches on the latest episode of The Fifth Column out now" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aWyoxX6mj0o) 2026-02-13T16:01Z 21.8K followers, 123.4K engagements "John Bolton's Views on Iraq War Maybe Iraq should have never existed to begin with From this week's episode of The Fifth Column with John Bolton" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EnS53g38LMk) 2026-02-13T22:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Trump Canceled My Protection While Iran Is Trying to Kill Me - John Bolton on The Fifth Column #544 Former Ambassador John Bolton joins the trio to discuss the nuances of a retribution presidency including the personal cancellation of his Secret Service protection on Inauguration Day leaving him to wonder who will get him first: the Presidents legal team or the Iranian hit squads. Bolton offers a blistering critique of current foreign policy from the clown show that is Tulsi Gabbard to the transactional real estate vibes of trying to buy Greenland. He also weighs his odds against an 18-count" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mhRcJ8yvAtY) 2026-02-12T06:21Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Bolton is not fan of Tulsi Gabbard Shes a flake former Trump NSA John Bolton on Tulsi Gabbard. Watch our new episode with John Bolton now" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JShmInXETRk) 2026-02-12T16:50Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Trumps Revenge on John Bolton Trump apparently doesnt care if his former NSA John Bolton lives or dies. From our new episode with John Bolton out now" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pL0HRyjXAt0) 2026-02-12T20:41Z 21.8K followers, 27.9K engagements "Megyn Kelly is All Out of Generosity - THE FIFTH COLUMN #526 After [--] years as an audio-only podcast The Fifth Column pivots to video with a conversation with the one and only super-noncontroversial media personality Megyn Kelly. Amidst several afternoon shots of top-shelf whiskey Megyn talks Botox Charlie Kirk Steve Bannon Donald Trump eye-for-an-eye politics Israel Candace Owens and her very happy career in indie media after the salt mines of cable. While you're waiting for this premiere to start be sure to subscribe to this our brand new YouTube channel and visit us over on our Substack for" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CIhmnwf_Bew) 2025-10-02T06:31Z 21.6K followers, 237.4K engagements "Melania Movie Review We sent Michael Moynihan to watch the Melania movie. Hes still complaining about it. Subscribe (free) to The Fifth Column on Substack: https://www.wethefifth.com Melania Melania Trump Melania doc Melania film Trump Movie review The fifth column Michael Moynihan Brett Ratner Jeff bezos Amazon Melania Melania Trump Melania doc Melania film Trump Movie review The fifth column Michael Moynihan Brett Ratner Jeff bezos Amazon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=F9pwo5ZvpJc) 2026-01-30T22:47Z 21.8K followers, 1.8M engagements "Michael Moynihan's MELANIA Documentary Debrief - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#299) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/triumph-of-the-grift -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. Get our free newsletter & access to exclusive content: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Listen to the audio version of the show: Apple Podcasts -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=skQGIUDO_pA) 2026-02-03T17:52Z 21.8K followers, 167.5K engagements "Dr. Oz private investigator - The Fifth Column Dr. Mehmet Oz is trying to steal Nick Shirley's thunder. His idiot thunder -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1M5_JxD63Bc) 2026-01-30T21:56Z 21.8K followers, 15.9K engagements "Reading Tweets About Bari Weiss and the CBS deal - The Fifth Column Over whiskey The Fifth Column hosts scroll through some of the most nuanced commentary they could find on X about Bari Weiss' new role as EIC of CBS News and the Skydance acquisition of The Free Press. It takes a strange turn. Watch the full episode with much more discussion of BDS (Bari Derangement Syndrome) here: https://youtu.be/m78ZUWtLAdY -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3XdMFDCADuk) 2025-10-20T20:18Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements "Mary Katharine Ham Joins The Fifth Column #528 - President Comacho Delivers Peace Fox News Contributor and host of the "Normally" and "Getting Hammered" podcasts Mary Katharine Ham returns to The Fifth Column. In this episode: * RIP D'Angelo * Misgendering Fox News * Wait Michael was at a dinner * Kmele tries to pronounce Normally * Clearly we don't fucking prepare * The last time I was with you guys we were in a much smaller darker room andI got very drunk * Trump brings the hostages back * then emcees a roast * Somebody tell Bill Kristol * A little bit psycho vs. the UN bitching at the Jews" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=53WrFdeXB-E) 2025-10-15T11:00Z 21.5K followers, 14.6K engagements "More Centrists in US Politics Than Ever Why are moderates simultaneously popular and nowhere to be found Check out the full episode with John Avlon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6oHOn8zfwSI) 2026-02-06T22:28Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Rand Paul on GOP Sellouts Are any principled conservatives left in the federal government Our full interview with Senator Rand Paul is on our Substack" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7DG_qRZ6PRM) 2026-02-11T16:40Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "'Theyre Kidnapping People: Karen Bass on Trumps ICE Raids in LA - The Fifth Column Excerpt from Episode #534 of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xZ8kDJxm-vU&t=46s Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass recounts how the Trump administration moved from historic federal help after the wildfires to a show of force with National Guard deployments and aggressive ICE raids describing street kidnappings sanctuary city limits and the lasting damage of family separation policies. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9tAwr49HyOg) 2025-12-04T20:07Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "CU Next Thursday - The Fifth Column LIVESTREAM - Jan [--] It's The Fifth Column's first ever public livestream LFG -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth livestream" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CBTlUE2AdVY) 2026-01-22T19:16Z 21.8K followers, 11K engagements "FOX News' Liberal Jessica Tarlov on Mamdani Win & MAGA Civil War - The Fifth Column #530 The Fifth is joined by Jessica Tarlov co-host of The Five on @FoxNews and @RagingModerates with Scott Galloway. Among the cons What does it all mean Over performance. Under performance AOCs war What if the people who you want to destroy are the same people who ensure your existence You can afford to live here. Just not *here* How to moderate a trans debate The USDA wants you to stop mutilating kids so America can sell soybeans Oh SNAP and guess what I saw Affordability for Smith College grads The health" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Citxe5zlHM0) 2025-11-06T10:58Z 16.8K followers, 19.6K engagements "They Don't Care About Us - The Fifth Column #530 We are now alone / Hes out of our life The Republican rebels Announcing a Fifth Column live show in LA Subscribers get first crack Prediction: a stadium full of lusty boos for Matt Welch Cuomos nonexistent campaign The Truth and Armpits Party On Zohrans vaunted political instincts If the cops rough you up in Queens its because the Jews told them to do it A brilliant campaign of easy promises The thrill of being in love with a politician again In destroying both parties they become one Karine Jean-Pierre is.not that bright Oh great More dumb" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EaBzkRXuK3w) 2025-10-30T11:50Z 21.5K followers, 10.3K engagements "Un-Effing America With John Avlon - The Fifth Column #543 (Full Episode) John Avlon stops by The Fifth Colum (episode #543) only to learn he's in the Epstein files why the Daily Beast shouldve sold dick pills and why we need to rebuild guardrails on what some call "stolen land" (0:00) Cold open (0:31) Epstein Files (2:05) Election paranoia (8:10) Populists and purists (14:40) Georgia and the FBI (21:05) Media incentives (33:10) Tucker and CPAC (44:25) Identity politics (56:40) Party sorting (1:10:15) Guardrails and civic culture (1:23:30) Wrap-up -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=F5JGQ59GY4Y) 2026-02-04T23:03Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Media Entrepreneur & Legal Analyst Dan Abrams - The Fifth Column #536 Media entrepreneur legal analyst and newly-minted restaurateur Dan Abrams joins us to talk legacy media lawfare and copaganda. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=F6d3dDPHLoU) 2025-12-11T06:24Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements "Enthusiastic Armadas Armenian Bakeries Yes Apology Ad - The Fifth Column #542 Iran and near abroad geopolitics Donroe Doctrine Mehmet Oz plays private investigator and Yes uncanny apology ad. (00:00) Cold Open (05:30) Iran threats and death-toll discourse (13:45) The Donroe Doctrine and near abroad logic (22:30) Saudis Iran Israel (30:40) Were the dead Trump fans (36:20) Noem Lewandowski Homan (48:10) Influencers enforcement and institutional decay (1:01:30) Dr. Oz P.I. (01:11:45) Ye Apology (1:14:50) Mailbag -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GGEvDXqWlHs) 2026-01-29T00:32Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "New York Post's Lydia Moynihan on Wall Street Epstein and media envy - The Fifth Column #533 New York Post's Lydia Moynihan on why she tells kids not to become journalists high-status-low-income reporters covering the ultra-rich the Epstein files and and why obvious frauds keep getting a pass from people in power. In this episode: The Doppelgnger Where do these Moynihans come from The journalism disease You do not want to get a call from the New York Post From schadenfreude to envious cruelty Covering the powerful What is social proof The Epstein obsession Incompetence defeats the deep state" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I7FTaDsxXyc) 2025-11-20T03:12Z 21.2K followers, [----] engagements "Trolls Clips and the New Gatekeepers - The Fifth Column #540 - FULL EPISODE This week the guys bounce from Greenland and raw dog minerals to ICE spectacle politics sanctuary cities Iran discourse and the rise of clips and influencers as the new gatekeepers. Along the way they ask why we never got a real reckoning and what happens when screenshots replace context. (00:00) Raw Dog Minerals + Greenland (00:24) Intro + Movie Blind Spots (05:41) Troll Email + Mamdani/Trump Texting (12:27) The Non-Reckoning (17:03) Renee Goode + ICE Surge Fallout (27:52) South Park ICE Ad (33:49) Target Clip + Know" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JQ5_kZXy06I) 2026-01-15T02:22Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements "Pod Save America's Jon Lovett on Mamdani & the Democratic Party - The Fifth Column Members Only #284 This is a special UNLOCKED Members Only episode (#284) of The Fifth Column. Normally you have to be a paid subscriber over at http://wethefifth.com but this is a special occasion as it's Election Day in NYC and we've got Jon Lovett of @podsaveamerica & @lovettorleaveitpodcast joining us to talk Mamdani and the future of the Democratic Party so please enjoy and subscribe Dont mess with the Zoran The opacity of hope Inspiration is overrated Wait what if none of these proposals actually work The" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LKvTg-Ol8cg) 2025-11-04T12:41Z 21.6K followers, 24.8K engagements "What We Learned About Epstein From His Steve Bannon Interview - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#299) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/triumph-of-the-grift -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. Get our free newsletter & access to exclusive content: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Listen to the audio version of the show: Apple Podcasts -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MPBtLz2O0zI) 2026-02-10T01:56Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Did the US Almost Bomb Colombia In our interview Senator Rand Paul discussed the crucial role he played in brokering talks between Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro. Watch our full conversation with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul out now on Substack" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mk0CWk7JbPo) 2026-02-10T22:56Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "L.A. mayor Karen Bass says L.A. isn't governed well An excerpt from The Fifth Column's in-depth interview with Mayor Karen Bass on the fires ICE Trump/Mamdani Angela Davis/Cuba and a whole lotta disagreement about the relationship between property rights & building new stuff. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ObsyCPvPdLI) 2025-11-25T19:23Z 16.8K followers, [----] engagements "Noam Chomsky Steve Bannon & The Epstein Submarine- The Fifth Column TrueAnon's Brace Belden discusses one of the final texts that Jeffrey Epstein sent to Steven Bannon. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PVKTvvtpNwc) 2025-12-04T14:30Z 19.7K followers, [----] engagements "3 Things Megyn Kelly Dislikes about Trump - The Fifth Column ". that feels a little Soviet." From episode #526 of The Fifth Column. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pxd7hf7Ndk4) 2025-10-31T18:28Z 21.4K followers, 10.2K engagements "Chuck Klosterman on Why Football Works - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#296) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full conversation with Chuck Klosterman here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/football-billy-joel-van-halen-and Get a copy of Chuck's new book "Football" here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/football-chuck-klosterman/6f7b5ee7868210baean=9780593490648&next=t -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q058PEiwnrY) 2026-01-20T17:33Z 21.8K followers, 13.8K engagements "Stop Calling ICE the Gestapo Is it irresponsible to compare ICE to the Gestapo" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QbwbPNxzAOw) 2026-01-27T18:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "AI George Washington LSD Margaritas and Tara Reid - The Fifth Column Members Only #290 (UNLOCKED) Three men and a bottle. It's been a while since it was just Michael Kmele and Matt at the table so we've decided to unlock this Members Only episode. For (literally) hundreds more Members Only episodes become a paying subscriber over at The Fifth Column Substack: https://www.wethefifth.com -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TXeToJDPMuA) 2025-12-09T06:49Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements "Breaking Down Don Lemons Arrest Don Lemons arrest begs the question to what extent should journalists be legally shielded from the crimes they are documenting" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VUITQHqXX50) 2026-02-04T23:01Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "L.A. mayor on the ICE raids" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dNSB6eULWyg) 2025-11-26T17:25Z 21.6K followers, [----] engagements "I got [-----] of Jeffrey Epstein's emails - Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold on The Fifth Column We sat down in L.A. with Bloomberg's senior investigative reporter & co-host of the Disclosure podcast Jason Leopold and talked about how he and his colleagues reported out a tranche of Jeffrey Epstein's emails. Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#287) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-287-hoarding-epsteins -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i1MI2RzSgUo) 2025-12-02T04:03Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements "Former cop reacts to ICE / CBP shooting of Alex Petri in MN - The Fifth Column Former cop and criminal justice professor Peter Moskos answers our questions about the killing of Alex Petri in Minneapolis on Jan [--] [----]. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i81oYWwEigc) 2026-01-25T17:14Z 21.8K followers, 40.2K engagements "Minneapolis TACO Tuesday and the Nazi-Analogy Addiction - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#298) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/taco-tuesday-in-minneapolis-and-the Its been ugly in Minneapolis and the language around it has gotten wild fast. The guys try to sort signal from spin and separate whats known from whats assumed then Moynihan closes with a plea to stop laundering every argument through Nazi analogies. (0:00) TACO time (0:26) Bovino Demoted (2:17) Insurgency talk (5:29) Job survival (9:14) Papers please (12:29) Stop" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jGU1_Susvsc) 2026-01-27T21:42Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "I Ran MSNBC. Tucker Was Brilliant. Now the Conspiracy Economy Runs Trumps America- The Fifth Column Dan Abrams starts with a surprising MSNBC-era admission about Tucker Carlson then walks through what changed why the guardrails at DOJ are thinner than people assume and how the courts could become the last real constraint if an administration starts ignoring orders. He closes with the bleak incentive structure: conspiracies sell debunking does not. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jjbhWNmCmT0) 2026-01-26T22:15Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Did the U.S. Almost Bomb Colombia Sen. Rand Paul on Deescalating the Conflict. Via Text Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky explains how he prevented a military escalation by sending a quick text message to the President. Excerpt from a Members Only "One Hitter" episode of The Fifth Column (#301). Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/publish/posts/detail/187564958referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fpublished -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ki4-9mS8HLk) 2026-02-10T23:01Z 21.8K followers, [---] engagements "It wasn't just sex trafficking - Brace Belden on the Epstein Money Mystery - The Fifth Column Is the Jeffrey Epstein story even weirder than we thoughtor is it actually more "boring" In this clip Brace Belden (True Anon) joins the show to dive into the latest batch of released Epstein emails. While the internet is flooded with wild theories Brace and the host debate the "Striver" vs. "Agent" narratives. Was Epstein just a high-level scam artist desperate to be around important people or was he the center of a massive international money-laundering web involving Norwegian diplomats Russian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kllFk_pKrsA) 2026-02-13T22:28Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Fifth Column #527 w Moynihan Foster and Welch - War Is Over (If Hamas Wants It) A shirt full of toothpaste Whiskey in a jar Your dumb complaining emails A roundtable of cranks and weirdos Happy [---] year anniversary Antifa People. People. It ain't fascism. And it ain't ISIS. Wait Twitter IS real life The long shadow of [----] Remembering Seattle's WASP autonomous zone Ted Cruz's hoop dreams Sammy Hagar vs. the government shutdown Should we tariff Canadian stunt pilots Death to the paper tigers We're cautiously optimistic. When Bari met [--] Charm offensive I bet you don't remember *this*" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=m78ZUWtLAdY) 2025-10-09T14:01Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements "Melania Movie Review Pt. [--] Can we move on from the Melania movie now" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=n1KChM6aU0M) 2026-02-03T20:58Z 21.8K followers, 654.6K engagements "About that Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show (and the TPUSA one) -The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#300) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-bunny -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. Get our free newsletter & access to exclusive content: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Listen to the audio version of the show: Apple Podcasts -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rdD6JuWFGkI) 2026-02-10T17:31Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Ana Kasparian on Israel the Happy Merchant and getting Cenk to Recognize the Armenian Genocide Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#295) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full conversation with @AnaKasparian here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/why-cant-we-be-friends-w-ana-kasparian -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sMb9p2yXV5o) 2026-01-13T17:01Z 21.5K followers, 18.4K engagements "The Collateral Damage of the Epstein File Release The reckless release of [--] million new Epstein documents winds up hurting people who had no relation to Jeffrey Epstein whatsoever" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sSclvBdtHmU) 2026-02-04T20:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Even the Mayor Says L.A. Isnt Well Governed: Karen Bass 1-on-1 with The Fifth Column's Matt Welch Matt Welch visits Getty House for a one-on-one with Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass on the fires ICE Trump/Mamdani Angela Davis/Cuba and a whole lotta disagreement about the relationship between property rights & building new stuff. Not safe at home mayoral edition The guns were decades old The Trump/Mamdani bromance The administrations historic post-fire response Youre walking down the street you happen to look Latino or somebody hears you speak Spanish. A car rushes up in front of you. Masked men" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xZ8kDJxm-vU) 2025-11-25T10:37Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements "The Fifth Column Goes Full Van Hagar This is what happens when Kmele tries to talk about the government shutdown. An excerpt from The Fifth Column #527. Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/m78ZUWtLAdYsi=FwqJ8N3EmgMVUHLG -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wethefifth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Jy-5DPqWgI) 2025-10-14T04:42Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements "Matt Welch on Trump's authoritarianism and fighting the ghosts of [----]. An excerpt from The Fifth Column #527 with Matt Welch Kmele Foster and Michael Moynihan. Also discussed: Gaza peace deal Bari Weiss CBS deal Antifa flag burning The Blue Angels Van Hagar and so much more. Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6O_iE54MfAE) 2025-10-09T21:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""The Megyn Kelly Interview Was Such a Disappointment" - Reading Viewer Mail The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#280) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode at https://www.wethefifth.com Watch the original Megyn Kelly interview being discussed here: https://youtu.be/CIhmnwf_Bewsi=ZCUpuUrS_0ATMcjB -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HwLz-N5Jp9g) 2025-10-11T15:42Z [----] followers, 40.3K engagements "The Tariff That Killed the Luxury Watch Market- The Fifth Column Kevin OLeary breaks down why a 39% tariff on Swiss goods made him stop buying luxury watches -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-3xCDzDrh8U) 2025-12-12T21:15Z 14.4K followers, 478.6K engagements "Tokyo Vice's Jake Adelstein on Cultural Appropriation in Japan -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-AJuvVSMhtM) 2025-10-17T20:09Z 11.2K followers, [----] engagements "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice BEETLEJUICE" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0IlxMJy9uZs) 2025-11-20T22:28Z 12.9K followers, [----] engagements "The Walter Cronkite of This Generation- The Fifth Column The answer is "no" btw -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0QGo5fTCebw) 2026-01-16T01:00Z 16.1K followers, [----] engagements "American Gangster - The Fifth Column "If you're going to be gangsters about it go be gangsters about it" - @TheDispatchPods Kevin D. Williamson on the legal fig leaf over the Venezuela raid. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=12WEUi_Pjz8) 2026-01-07T04:23Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "You Don't Need to Believe Anything That The People Who Are Making AI Are Saying - The Fifth Column Andy Mills of The Last Invention on that the people who make AI believe about AI. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=42qFJ1g4NlY) 2025-12-19T20:25Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "UFC on the White House Lawn Mary Katharine Ham Says Yes Please. - The Fifth Column Mary Katharine Ham joins The Fifth Column to unpack the strange evolution of the conservative movement from free-market ideals to the full spectacle of MAGA. She admits her soft spot for Bojangles professes her love of Kid Rock and explains why a UFC fight on the White House lawn might be irresistible albeit ridiculous. Should Kmele text Terry (President Comacho) Crews Full interview: https://youtu.be/53WrFdeXB-Esi=dCZcsQfSEXKgYB9D -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5dWGH_KeYuo) 2025-10-17T19:50Z 10.7K followers, [---] engagements "Inside the Controlled Chaos of a Cable News Debate Show with CNN's Abby Phillip - The Fifth Column Excerpt from Episode #532 of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/ULKGdIRFgEQsi=SwH3gpd1jr1CB10z Abby Phillip talks about guardrails for debate extremists and what honest political conversation should look like. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: /" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5w526aHwPFA) 2025-11-17T21:11Z 12.8K followers, [---] engagements "Sebastian Junger on Why Bad Times Bring Us Together - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#286) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com Junger argues that hard times increase cohesion while affluence frays it. Why some people miss the worst times of their life and what that says about the importance of the close group. He points to shared risk shoulder-to-shoulder living and community duties as the glue we need to survive. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6CoZnzhS1aQ) 2025-11-18T15:30Z 12.8K followers, [---] engagements "Yes You Can Film the Police- The Fifth Column .and ICE -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth ICE Immigration the fifth column fifth column 5th" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7HehCTmZFas) 2026-01-16T23:14Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Fifth Column's First YouTube Livestream - Sunday Jan [--] @ 4pm EST To get the link sign up at: http://wethefifth.com/subscribe Sunday Jan [--] at 4pm Matt Kmele and Michael will do their monthly "Second Sunday" live but for the first time they're going to be doing it here on YouTube What does that mean Near anonymity for the camera shy Just type your innermost feelings into the chat and if you *really* want an answer we've turned on the SUPER CHAT for this event: if you put your money where your mouth is the guys HAVE to answer your question. What could go wrong -- Hosted by journalists" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7ttSnbb68eM) 2026-01-09T22:41Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements "What did The Fifth Column get wrong in [----] Nothing. Just ask Moynihan -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9VJv8iXzn_c) 2025-12-30T21:39Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "How I pulled off the last public interview with George Harrison - John Fugelsang on The Fifth Column @JJbirdsong1 on how how he ignored his producer's direction to "ask about the Beatles" and got George Harrison to stick around for four hours. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9je9h5VjS_E) 2025-12-26T18:56Z 15K followers, 169.7K engagements "Susie Wiles' big Brain Theory - The Fifth Column The Verge's Tina Nguyen joins The Fifth Column to discuss the Susie Wiles Vanity Fair drama and what it says about Trump's affections. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9y4K8EgjiSE) 2025-12-18T17:03Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "Will the protests in Iran become a full-blown revolution - The Fifth Column Moynihan certainly hopes so -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BRyc_IOymow) 2026-01-15T21:23Z 16.1K followers, [----] engagements "Qatar Warner Brothers and how Trump -Changes the Rules on Everything - The Fifth Column Media entrepreneur & legal analyst Dan Abrams on how the country behind Al Jazeera is making a play for CNN. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CHynYvWRvKs) 2025-12-11T14:30Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "Experience looks like restraint - The Fifth Column This doesn't -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth ICE Immigration the fifth column fifth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CrSpnV2dkmk) 2026-01-17T15:00Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "All hell breaks loose when Jon Lovett (Pod Save America) visits The Fifth Column Jon Lovett of @podsaveamerica & @lovettorleaveitpodcast join The Fifth Column to talk Mamdani and the future of the Democratic Party and all hell breaks loose. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E0oGIoPNkQc) 2025-11-04T15:16Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Trump Derangement Syndrome Meets a Double Homicide - The Fifth Column An excerpt from the Members Only episode #291. After Rob Reiner and his wife were found killed in Los Angeles Trump posted a Truth Social message blaming Trump Derangement Syndrome and then doubled down when asked about it. They also get into the Republican pushback the impulse to turn tragedy into score-settling and how social media has reshaped what politicians will say out loud. Watch the full episode: https://open.substack.com/pub/wethefifth/p/not-even-matt-drudge-can-make-todayr=3hjpd&utm_medium=ios -- Hosted by" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ELeYEJ43vlw) 2025-12-16T21:17Z 14.3K followers, [----] engagements "Football Is Fascism.and its Incredible - Chuck Klosterman on The Fifth Column "Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" author Chuck Klosterman is back with a book on Americas real pastime. Full conversation here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/football-billy-joel-van-halen-and -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: /" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FRagruj5NV8) 2026-01-20T12:00Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements ""The best real estate agent in Miami is Mamdani" - Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary on The Fifth Column Would it surprise you to learn that Kevin O'Leary is not a big fan of NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FmSMGf5mi-Y) 2025-12-10T14:30Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "This new Animal Farm trailer is baffling - The Fifth Column He was a great Gollum but Andy Serkis may not be the best interpreter of Orwell. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gho1dvEsIbc) 2025-12-22T20:39Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements "Conspiracy kooks come in different flavors- The Fifth Column From The Fifth Column Members Only #294 with Kevin Williamson : https://www.wethefifth.com/p/kevin-williamson-is-the-darkness -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HaH5msJdVhk) 2026-01-14T17:34Z 15.9K followers, [----] engagements "The Worst Thing About Being Rich According to Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary - The Fifth Column Kevin O'Leary on how do deal with your family asking you for money. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HdyurF4nsZs) 2025-12-10T16:58Z 13.9K followers, 16.1K engagements "Dan Abrams on Trump and the Courtroom Advantage- The Fifth Column Dan Abrams breaks down the political incentives of high-profile prosecutions including why Trump showed up in a civil case where he did not have to -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I1gjb_zrjKc) 2025-12-13T01:15Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "1776 How about [----] Author Charles C. Mann on the Pueblo Revolt - The Revolutionaries Guest Charles C. Mann explains how the Pueblo Revolt of [----] was organized why it erupted with such speed and violence and what its aftermath suggests about power empire and the shaping of the American West. This is a clip from The Revolutionaries a new Fifth Column miniseries for the Semiquincentennial. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/the-revolutionaries-w-charles-c-mann -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I9IHgHNLgBY) 2026-01-16T17:24Z 21.8K followers, [---] engagements "Putin's Dark Evolution: From NATO Supporter to America's Enemy - Michael McFaul on The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#283) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-283-putin-on-the-fritz Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Stanford professor Michael McFaul joins The Fifth Column for a wide-ranging conversation with Michael Moynihan about his new book Autocrats vs Democrats: China Russia America and the New Global Disorder. They discuss Vladimir Putins ideology and overreach in Ukraine the myth of NATO provocation why" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IDkzez7DfGg) 2025-10-28T15:47Z 11.2K followers, [---] engagements "Being Straight Looks Exhausting - Josh Barro on The Fifth Column An excerpt from episode #539 Josh Barro joins the guys for a late-show detour into heteropessimism: why straight dating feels broken what gay dating looks like by comparison and how incentives shape everything from Grindr logistics to nightlife economics. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IZJ-dHQ4Zs8) 2026-01-16T20:13Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Destroy All RobotsBefore They Destroy Us (w/ Andy Mills) - The Fifth Column Members Only #289 Andy Mills (The Daily Rabbit Hole Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling; now @longviewreport's The Last Invention) joins the show to map the three tribes shaping the AI moment: doomers accelerationists and the scouts trying to prepare institutions for what comes next. We get into why the people closest to the tech sound weirdly sincere about apocalypse and utopia why please regulate us is not a normal industry posture and whether this is a bubble a fire-level invention or just the latest overhyped black box." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K10JObXNoF4) 2025-12-19T17:36Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "Jeffrey Toobin on unforced errors and so much more on episode #529 of The Fifth Column The legendary legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin joins The Fifth to talk presidential pardons the Insurrection Act and O.J. Simpson. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KtC13ePu7JI) 2025-10-23T12:18Z 11.1K followers, [----] engagements "50000 Empty Apartments and an Official January [--] History Page (w/ Josh Barro) - The Fifth Column In episode #539 of The Fifth Column Josh Barro (NYT Central Air Very Serious) joins for a tour through Americas favorite genre: pretending we never said the thing we absolutely said. We get the January [--] memory hole the Mamdani rent-freeze trap and why housing incentives are now fully deranged plus a Venezuela detour powered by oil-brain. Then at the end straight despair meets gay efficiency in the only marketplace discussion that matters. (00:00) Cold Open (02:28) Josh Barro Intro (06:14) January" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LotnF_9J8lU) 2026-01-08T06:57Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements "About that Melania doc trailer. Melania Trump superfans Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch are joined by The Verge's Tina Nguyen to discuss the forthcoming Melania documentary trailer that just dropped. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lr4lKbrlpVA) 2025-12-18T16:57Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements "Why Journalists Are Really Mad at Olivia Nuzzi- The Fifth Column Excerpt from Episode #533 of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/I7FTaDsxXyc -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NIpY65x0kAI) 2025-11-20T14:50Z 16.6K followers, [----] engagements "The thing about Idiocracy is that everyone loves Idiocracy. Mary Katharine Ham on The Fifth Column" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NL7kbPE7E5I) 2025-10-18T19:53Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements "Drinking On the Job with Tokyo Vice's Jake Adelstein - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#281) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-281-when-youve-eaten Investigative journalist & author Jake Adelstein joins The Fifth Column for a sake-fueled conversation about the yakuza journalistic tradecraft and cryptocurrency heists (the subject of his latest book The Devil Takes Bitcoin). -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NPQHPCHqzS8) 2025-10-17T16:07Z 11.2K followers, [----] engagements "When youre trying to look like a cartoon villain but. -The Fifth Column Such hand wringing over a little cartoon thing -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nj5zXnJWUQQ) 2026-01-13T17:00Z 15.9K followers, [----] engagements "Straight Guys Pay Thousands for What Gay Guys Get Easily - The Fifth Column Straight people.are you okay -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OVcvustZH64) 2026-01-09T21:50Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "Inside the GOP Civil War: Tucker Fuentes and Fox on the Inside- The Fifth Column An excerpt from episode #531 of The Fifth Column: https://youtu.be/Citxe5zlHM0si=ODNJ0GhmGMTPnEuH Jessica Tarlov joins us to examine what many call a GOP civil war: Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes Heritage and Project [----] and how platforming the fringe shapes the coalition. We focus on what actually moved voters this cycle (cost of living not online theatrics) and what it is like to sit in the left seat at Fox amid the pile-on economy. Along the way: Jesse Watters Ben Shapiros compilation dissent inside Heritage" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OdZPvgFSyPM) 2025-11-10T14:56Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements "January 6th Was Really About the Second Amendment - Jeffrey Toobin on The Fifth Column Jeffrey Toobin argues that guns are the defining issue of the right wing today and was the motivation for what happened on January [--] [----]. Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/WoPXii3It2csi=aVMy3-delEk3agJk -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OtDoQT0TosE) 2025-10-24T19:54Z 11.1K followers, [---] engagements "Media entrepreneur Dan Abrams may in fact be "The Worst Person in the World" - The Fifth Column Media entrepreneur & legal analyst Dan Abrams on his role in making MSNBC the Fox News of the left. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PJqm0TJQiT4) 2025-12-11T15:04Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements "Do You Have to be an A**hole to Get Rich - Kevin O'Leary on The Fifth Column Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary on what it takes to ignore the noise and focus on the signal. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rq_N8qCoPPs) 2025-12-11T18:08Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "How NOT to Interview George Harrison - John Fugelsang on Meeting Your Heroes - The Fifth Column -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RtqCgDBW8-w) 2025-12-26T19:00Z 15.1K followers, 30.8K engagements "CNN's Abby Phillip on Jesse Jackson coalition politics and the media- The Fifth Column CNNs Abby Phillip joins The Fifth to talk about her new book A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power. We dig into Jacksons legacy how language around BLM lands now growing up between Trinidad and the U.S. and the craft of hosting real arguments on cable with panels that invite friction and stay honest. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ULKGdIRFgEQ) 2025-11-13T02:16Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements "Mara Corina Machado Won't Leave Venezuela - Excerpt from The Fifth Column with Thor Halvorssen Excerpt from a conversation with Human Rights Foundation founder Thor Halvorssen recorded on September [--] [----] and released as episode #524 of The Fifth Column. The full interview is available in audio wherever you get your podcasts while our "Never Fly Coach" members are able to access the full video at https://www.wethefifth.com -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UXf03GqYgIo) 2025-10-10T17:35Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements "Dont say 'arguably. Thats the whole problem - The Fifth Column Sometimes maturity means abandoning the hubris of your own opinions -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=W8ciSJFybTI) 2026-01-20T21:51Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Former Cop Reacts to Video of Shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis ICE op - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#297) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full conversation with former cop & current John Jay prof Peter Moskos here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/one-hitter-another-ice-shooting-in Get a copy of Peter's book "Back From The Brink" here: https://amzn.to/4sWUTT1 In the hours after ICE shot and killed Alex Pretti we gathered at the studio to sit down with : former police officer current John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor and author of Back From The Brink" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WTtkryJoCd4) 2026-01-25T15:21Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Jeffrey Toobin on Presidential Pardons Venezuelan Boats and O.J. Simpson - The Fifth Column #529 The legendary legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin joins The Fifth to talk presidential pardons the Insurrection Act and Nazi tattoos. Who subscribes to the New York Post One Battle After Another Redux Myrna Opsahl and other deep cuts F. Lee Bailey legal consultant Fawn Hall Gate Double secret Nazis Second Amendment People The one on the right is on the left Rehabilitation of the American radical Omnibombers of the 1970s I beg your pardon An x-ray into Donald Trumps soul Hunter Biden & presidential power" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WoPXii3It2c) 2025-10-23T12:01Z 11K followers, [----] engagements "From Shark Tank to Marty Supreme: Kevin O'Leary Is a Man of His Time - The Fifth Column The Fifth Column's Michael Moynihan sits down with entrepreneur actor and bon vivant Kevin O'Leary to talk about politics money and being an a**hole. This is an UNLOCKED Members Only episode of The Fifth Column. For more exclusive content visit https://www.wethefifth.com -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wv0rlBuiVqo) 2025-12-09T23:51Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "What Megyn Kelly DOESN'T like about Trump - The Fifth Column An excerpt from episode #526 of The Fifth Column: https://youtu.be/CIhmnwf_Bewsi=iyen2VlC1hnbJ_jj Catch The Fifth Column LIVE with Megyn Kelly in Anaheim CA 11/21/25: https://www.hondacenter.com/events/megyn-kelly-live/ See The Fifth Column LIVE in Burbank CA 11/23/25: https://www.flapperscomedy.com/site/shows.phpevent_id=75006 -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yoo1SmkXrAc) 2025-10-31T18:22Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements "Black Irish Ice Queens and Body Snatchers (w/ Tina Nguyen) - The Fifth Column #537 Were joined by Tina Nguyen Senior Reporter at The Verge covering Big Tech vs. Big Government death matches. All I want for Christmas is Wendy Williams-branded booze Someone is a bit cracked out Big tech versus big government (David) Sacks of cash Susie goes wilding The swamp is a viper pit Hate the media. Need the media A non-denial denial of a non-denial denial MAGAs son and heir He has a thrill running up his leg The Bezos bust Trump crashes through the normie barrier Seth Rogan and the Orwell abomination The" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZlWQOhD96sY) 2025-12-18T06:01Z 14.3K followers, [----] engagements "Ana Kasparian on Iran Protests- The Fifth Column How do you talk Iran without turning it into a proxy narrative -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zpr5aRmUkXQ) 2026-01-13T21:00Z 15.9K followers, [----] engagements "Gay Marriage Trans Rights and the Doom Loop of Identity Politics - Pod Save America's Jon Lovett Jon Lovett on what actually moves people why gay rights persuasion worked why the trans debate feels brittle and how party credibility collapsed. He tells the White House wedding story sizes up Biden Newsom and Obama. Lastly there's some talk about the candidate in Maine with that Nazi tattoo. Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/LKvTg-Ol8cgsi=yZ9vsGF5AHN_obp0 -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_bidHJK1eIk) 2025-11-06T00:48Z 12.8K followers, [----] engagements "Megyn Kelly gets fired up about Israel Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_kZgGIBoXAc) 2025-10-03T00:40Z 12.9K followers, 53.5K engagements "Year Is Over (If You Want It) w Michael Moynihan Kmele Foster & Matt Welch - The Fifth Column #538 An end-of-year hang that starts in eggnog hell and ends in political hell. Movie takes media freakouts and assorted year-in-review grievances then a real run at the Epstein-files discourse Marjorie Taylor Greene Thomas Massie MAGA incentives Trumps second-term chaos and what guardrails actually mean when Putins running a coercive dictatorship abroad. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aGpBL3ee0Eg) 2025-12-30T03:45Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Why NYC Democrats Landed on Zohran Mamdani- The Fifth Column Jon Lovett describes how NYC voters landed on Zohran Mamdani for the Democratic nominee and presumed mayor -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=b9CyNPQs_yI) 2025-11-04T20:24Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements "Abby Phillip talks about Jesse Jacksons infamous blood-soaked shirt" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cZTRhA1DOF0) 2025-11-13T17:02Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements "Why do people in Trumpworld talk to Vanity Fair - The Fifth Column Unpacking MAGA's bafflement that Susie Wiles would talk to a reporter from Vanity Fair -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cjL0xyj8tQI) 2025-12-19T20:01Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "Here's what the people who are *making* AI say about what's coming - Andy Mills on The Fifth Column From the Members Only #289 epsiode Andy Mills (from The Last Invention podcast) joins us for a profound conversation that goes far beyond the headlines of ChatGPT and job automation. Watch more: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/destroy-all-robotsbefore-they-destroy -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dgD-FLJvF1U) 2025-12-08T23:05Z 14.3K followers, 84.4K engagements "Sebastian Junger on death life and finding your tribe - The Fifth Column We are joined by journalist author filmmaker and chainsaw-wielder Sebastian Junger. His latest book In My Time of Dying is a touching reflection on death and what might follow. You can always start drinking again Enough to make of these grown men cry Sebastians (most recent) near-death experience Danger in insight out Momento Mori Theres nothing so dangerous as a wounded Apache Dont have an aortic rupture in Truro in July ICU humor Hi dad An existential digression Better than the one with Will Farrel Ideological Duolingo" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dtmjR2z22hE) 2025-12-03T14:01Z 13K followers, [---] engagements "The Politics of One Battle After Another The Fifth Column There will be spoilers as The Fifth Column unpacks Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. This is a free preview of Members Only episode #282. Watch the full episode at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-282-there-will-be-spoilers -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fU9QHq-8-pc) 2025-10-22T16:48Z 11K followers, [----] engagements "Trump crossed a line with his comments on the death of Ron Reiner Matt Welch has one reaction to Trump calling Rob Reiner of This Is Spinal Tap and When Harry Met Sally bad for the country" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gr9D35oz4tI) 2025-12-16T15:37Z 14.3K followers, [----] engagements "Trumps speech in Davos may be his magnum opus - The Fifth Column Florida Man in Davos -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth Donald Trump Davos" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hK1VkVw3Wh8) 2026-01-22T04:46Z 21.8K followers, 16.2K engagements "TrueAnon's Brace Belden on Curtis Yarvin Libertarian escapism and the state of the left Brace Belden joins The Fifth Column to talk Trumps Somali comments and immigration politics the rights weird Nazi aesthetics via Curtis Yarvin and the cathedral libertarian escape fantasies and seasteading his own history with heroin and fentanyl and why all of it points to a very broken political and media ecosystem. They dont make heroin anymore The Taco Bell connection King of the libertarians Kmele almost dies You say Somali I say Somalian lets call the whole thing off The people cut out of the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hcUyrl42t2k) 2025-12-04T15:00Z 14.3K followers, 16.1K engagements "The Case For American Power (and why Mamdani should grab it) - Shadi Hamid on The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#285) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-285-the-case-for-american Its release day for s new book The Case For American Power and were excited to have him back on The Fifth. Paying subscribers get access to the full interview in audio & video (plus literally hundreds more) and help us do what we do so -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hloaJ0KDpo0) 2025-11-11T18:13Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements "Why did Trump pardon Jan [--] participants Jeffrey Toobin weighs in on The Fifth Column Legal analyst & author Jeffrey Toobin on the overlap between political violence and presidential pardons. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i7OOOisa6iw) 2025-10-23T19:02Z 11K followers, [---] engagements "The historical record has finally been corrected and the truth will now be accepted forever. The White House has a fun new Jan [--] page. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jlIB7Fn0KMQ) 2026-01-09T01:40Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements "The Self-Devouring State - The Fifth Column A weary acknowledgment of our new political reality: when conspiracy influencers and culture-war opportunists end up with government jobs maybe the least we can ask is that they turn on each other for our amusement. From The Fifth Column episode They Dont Care About Us a reminder that politics has become reality TVand were the captive audience. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=miQi2VpurQs) 2025-10-30T15:26Z 11.4K followers, [----] engagements "Jessica Tarlov on what it's like being a liberal on Fox News Co-host of The Five on Fox News Jessica Tarlov on what it's like being one of the only liberal voices on the right-leaning news network. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mvHO6CRVIOI) 2025-11-06T14:45Z 16.2K followers, [----] engagements "The Unpopular Truth About Legacy Media with Dan Abrams- The Fifth Column Its not just fact-checking. Dan Abrams explains why bylines sourcing and reporting teams still matter -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oOMBL0hpNKw) 2025-12-12T22:30Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements "Are the libs to blame for the behavior of ICE in their cities - The Fifth Column This one requires thinking -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oznPtTNx5jg) 2026-01-23T16:59Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Epstein documents the government is holding - The Fifth Column Bloomberg Senior Investigative Reporter & "FOIA terrorist" Jason Leopold on Jeffrey Epstein Radar magazine and what the government is holding. From Members Only #287. Full episode only on our Substack: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-287-hoarding-epsteins -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: /" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=q0VHX_QBWUI) 2025-11-28T21:59Z 13K followers, [----] engagements "Kanye West Up Close and Personal: Behind the Scenes of IN WHOSE NAME w Director Nico Ballesteros Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#279) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com -- The Fifth Columns resident Kanye aficionado Kmele Foster sits down with Nico Ballesteros director of In Whose Name a 100% verit documentary that follows Kanye West over the course of six tumultuous years. Just [--] years-old when the project began and shooting on an iPhone Ballesteros spent [--] hours a day recording every aspect of Kanyes life from the explosive to the mundane" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qN2CvC3cw-o) 2025-10-10T15:25Z 10.7K followers, 15.3K engagements "Sweet baby Jesus Are we really arguing about Sodomy with John Fugelsang - The Fifth Column From The Fifth Column Members Only episode #292 Full episode: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/sweet-baby-jesus-are-we-really-arguing -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qNDFfL5f08Q) 2025-12-23T19:19Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "Whos on top of the Mediaite Power List for 2025" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qt2hngnbUxw) 2025-12-30T12:01Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "ICE pulling people out of naturalization ceremonies - The Fifth Column From The Fifth Column - Members Only #290 -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rlLnsNjdxqQ) 2025-12-09T18:18Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements "The Real January [--] Coup Was Not the Riot - The Fifth Column An excerpt from Members Only #294 : On the anniversary of January [--] Kevin D. Williamson of @TheDispatchPods argues that the Capitol riot was a sideshow compared with the real coup attempt: the pressure campaign fake electors and the legal pretext. He explains why incompetent does not mean harmless and what a future institutional stress test could look like if loyalty in law enforcement or political leadership shifts. (0:00) Lazy Coup Setup (0:23) The Riot Was a Sideshow (0:39) Fake Electors Real Plot (1:28) Where Was the Force (3:20)" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=u9C6W0C-uhY) 2026-01-07T05:01Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "Was January [--] really about guns Jeffrey Toobin explains" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uDOig7BiMbU) 2025-10-25T17:05Z 11.1K followers, [---] engagements "Former US Ambassador to Russia says NATO expansion was a myth - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#283) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-283-putin-on-the-fritz Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Stanford professor Michael McFaul joins The Fifth Column for a wide-ranging conversation with Michael Moynihan about his new book Autocrats vs Democrats: China Russia America and the New Global Disorder. They discuss Vladimir Putins ideology and overreach in Ukraine the myth of NATO provocation why authoritarian regimes" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uSwaRdn-d_I) 2025-10-29T11:17Z 11.2K followers, [----] engagements "1491 Author Charles C. Mann compares the Spaniards & the English - The Fifth Column It's [----] and the semiquincentennial is upon us To celebrate we've launched The Revolutionariesa miniseries all about the lesser-known/misunderstood/forgotten events and characters having something to do with the American Revolution. First up [----] author Charles C. Mann Full episode: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/the-revolutionaries-w-charles-c-mann -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uUtv8rMfAio) 2026-01-05T18:15Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Internet Keeps Rebranding Cheating - The Fifth Column Nick Fuentes Definitely gay -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ujyMqVHr9Rc) 2026-01-11T12:31Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements "CNNs Abby Phillip on what sets NewsNight apart from other cable news shows" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=v2qNZj0NevQ) 2025-11-13T15:02Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements "Members Only #283 - Putin on the Fritz (w/ Ambassador Michael McFaul) - The Fifth Column Free preview of a Members Only episode (#283) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-283-putin-on-the-fritz -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vH_ZxnA8Jc0) 2025-10-29T21:48Z 11.4K followers, [---] engagements "Is Zohran Mamdani the Thomas Friedman of Mayors - Jessica Tarlov on The Fifth Column Co-host of The Five on Fox News Jessica Tarlov on Mamdani's ground game. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vehaOyBrwGE) 2025-11-07T16:10Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Trump Would Do Anything For Greenland (But He Won't Do That) - The Fifth Column #541 (Full Episode) Recorded hot on the heels of Trumps Jan [--] speech in Davos we're dropping this week's episode early. Enjoy (0:00) Cold Open (1:11) Davos + Greenland/Iceland (2:16) Excessive strength and force (15:05) The Danes WW2 resistance (20:02) Belgian Congo lament (22:44) stupidity epidemic (25:06) Who the f*** is we (29:14) Impeachment (37:43) Shame doesnt work (47:00) Macrons sunglasses (49:55) Carney: rupture not transition (59:38) Soleimani in Iceland + beta powers (1:01:21) China is a**h*le" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=x4Dxj2cWurs) 2026-01-22T00:49Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Why [-----] NYC Apartments Sit Empty - The Fifth Column The rent is so damn high yet there are so many vacant apartments what's going on here -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xQisORzFmaY) 2026-01-10T13:02Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements "Megyn Kelly on Candace Owens Tucker Carlson and her influence over the Republican Party Megyn Kelly joined The Fifth Column podcast and got into it with the boys about her defense of Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson as well Charlie Kirk conspiracies and her presumed influence over the MAGA movement. Watch the full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=CIhmnwf_Bew -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=x_-SfBv7wOc) 2025-10-03T17:51Z 14.8K followers, 236.3K engagements "Why Mamdani's not afraid of grabbing power - Shadi Hamid on The Fifth Column The Washington Post's Shadi Hamid joins The Fifth Column to talk about his new book The Case For American Power. Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#285) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-285-the-case-for-american -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xh6ifk7NrsQ) 2025-11-12T18:27Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements "John Bolton's Views on Iraq War Maybe Iraq should have never existed to begin with From this week's episode of The Fifth Column with John Bolton" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EnS53g38LMk) 2026-02-13T22:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "It wasn't just sex trafficking - Brace Belden on the Epstein Money Mystery - The Fifth Column Is the Jeffrey Epstein story even weirder than we thoughtor is it actually more "boring" In this clip Brace Belden (True Anon) joins the show to dive into the latest batch of released Epstein emails. While the internet is flooded with wild theories Brace and the host debate the "Striver" vs. "Agent" narratives. Was Epstein just a high-level scam artist desperate to be around important people or was he the center of a massive international money-laundering web involving Norwegian diplomats Russian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kllFk_pKrsA) 2026-02-13T22:28Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Matt Welch's The Revolutionaries The wildest stories of the American Revolution are the ones nobody bothered to tell you. It wasnt just noble speeches it was frostbite misfires egos and disasters. Join The Fifth Columns Matt Welch to unpack American History in all its ugly glory in the new miniseries The Revolutionaries where he speaks with historians podcasters and other oddballs to tell us some crazy misunderstood and lesser-known stories about our awesome if not exactly crystal-pure revolutionary past. The idea is not only to learn new (and fun) history but also pick away a bit at the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xwlxnpWCdkU) 2026-02-13T19:53Z 21.8K followers, [---] engagements "Trump Only Wanted Greenland for Real Estate When youre a hammer everythings a nail. Trumps former NSA John Bolton pulled absolutely zero punches on the latest episode of The Fifth Column out now" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aWyoxX6mj0o) 2026-02-13T16:01Z 21.8K followers, 123.4K engagements "Trumps Revenge on John Bolton Trump apparently doesnt care if his former NSA John Bolton lives or dies. From our new episode with John Bolton out now" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pL0HRyjXAt0) 2026-02-12T20:41Z 21.8K followers, 27.9K engagements "Trump Canceled My Protection While Iran Is Trying to Kill Me - John Bolton on The Fifth Column #544 Former Ambassador John Bolton joins the trio to discuss the nuances of a retribution presidency including the personal cancellation of his Secret Service protection on Inauguration Day leaving him to wonder who will get him first: the Presidents legal team or the Iranian hit squads. Bolton offers a blistering critique of current foreign policy from the clown show that is Tulsi Gabbard to the transactional real estate vibes of trying to buy Greenland. He also weighs his odds against an 18-count" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mhRcJ8yvAtY) 2026-02-12T06:21Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Bolton is not fan of Tulsi Gabbard Shes a flake former Trump NSA John Bolton on Tulsi Gabbard. Watch our new episode with John Bolton now" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JShmInXETRk) 2026-02-12T16:50Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Rand Paul on GOP Sellouts Are any principled conservatives left in the federal government Our full interview with Senator Rand Paul is on our Substack" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7DG_qRZ6PRM) 2026-02-11T16:40Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Did the U.S. Almost Bomb Colombia Sen. Rand Paul on Deescalating the Conflict. Via Text Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky explains how he prevented a military escalation by sending a quick text message to the President. Excerpt from a Members Only "One Hitter" episode of The Fifth Column (#301). Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/publish/posts/detail/187564958referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fpublished -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ki4-9mS8HLk) 2026-02-10T23:01Z 21.8K followers, [---] engagements "Did the US Almost Bomb Colombia In our interview Senator Rand Paul discussed the crucial role he played in brokering talks between Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro. Watch our full conversation with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul out now on Substack" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mk0CWk7JbPo) 2026-02-10T22:56Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "About that Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show (and the TPUSA one) -The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#300) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-bunny -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. Get our free newsletter & access to exclusive content: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Listen to the audio version of the show: Apple Podcasts -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rdD6JuWFGkI) 2026-02-10T17:31Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "What We Learned About Epstein From His Steve Bannon Interview - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#299) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/triumph-of-the-grift -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. Get our free newsletter & access to exclusive content: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Listen to the audio version of the show: Apple Podcasts -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MPBtLz2O0zI) 2026-02-10T01:56Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Kevin OLeary Lived The Bachelors Dream @kevinoleary lived every bachelor's dream only to go back to his wife and family forever" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0DmBsPJf2EM) 2026-02-07T16:35Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "More Centrists in US Politics Than Ever Why are moderates simultaneously popular and nowhere to be found Check out the full episode with John Avlon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6oHOn8zfwSI) 2026-02-06T22:28Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Calling Out The Extremes on Your Own Side When the base is the only audience that matters any heretics must be punished immediately" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dM8YX2rvk1E) 2026-02-06T16:53Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Media Bias Should Not Be Avoided Media bias is the spice of life" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I-KVbN6aMh8) 2026-02-05T21:33Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories Some people need a conspiracy theory just to get out of bed in the morning" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ELR26G7AQ6Q) 2026-02-05T17:26Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Un-Effing America With John Avlon - The Fifth Column #543 (Full Episode) John Avlon stops by The Fifth Colum (episode #543) only to learn he's in the Epstein files why the Daily Beast shouldve sold dick pills and why we need to rebuild guardrails on what some call "stolen land" (0:00) Cold open (0:31) Epstein Files (2:05) Election paranoia (8:10) Populists and purists (14:40) Georgia and the FBI (21:05) Media incentives (33:10) Tucker and CPAC (44:25) Identity politics (56:40) Party sorting (1:10:15) Guardrails and civic culture (1:23:30) Wrap-up -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=F5JGQ59GY4Y) 2026-02-04T23:03Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Breaking Down Don Lemons Arrest Don Lemons arrest begs the question to what extent should journalists be legally shielded from the crimes they are documenting" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VUITQHqXX50) 2026-02-04T23:01Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Collateral Damage of the Epstein File Release The reckless release of [--] million new Epstein documents winds up hurting people who had no relation to Jeffrey Epstein whatsoever" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sSclvBdtHmU) 2026-02-04T20:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Melania Movie Review Pt. [--] Can we move on from the Melania movie now" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=n1KChM6aU0M) 2026-02-03T20:58Z 21.8K followers, 654.6K engagements "Michael Moynihan's MELANIA Documentary Debrief - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#299) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/triumph-of-the-grift -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. Get our free newsletter & access to exclusive content: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Listen to the audio version of the show: Apple Podcasts -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=skQGIUDO_pA) 2026-02-03T17:52Z 21.8K followers, 167.5K engagements "The Epstein Files Are Untrue BS The latest Epstein files double as a Rorschach test of the readers sanity" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zqI1oaifuOY) 2026-02-03T15:04Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "When Blaming Everything on the West Goes Wrong From The Fifth Column podcast" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VZb7lI1Ln1s) 2026-02-02T20:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Melania Movie Review We sent Michael Moynihan to watch the Melania movie. Hes still complaining about it. Subscribe (free) to The Fifth Column on Substack: https://www.wethefifth.com Melania Melania Trump Melania doc Melania film Trump Movie review The fifth column Michael Moynihan Brett Ratner Jeff bezos Amazon Melania Melania Trump Melania doc Melania film Trump Movie review The fifth column Michael Moynihan Brett Ratner Jeff bezos Amazon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=F9pwo5ZvpJc) 2026-01-30T22:47Z 21.8K followers, 1.8M engagements "Dr. Oz private investigator - The Fifth Column Dr. Mehmet Oz is trying to steal Nick Shirley's thunder. His idiot thunder -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1M5_JxD63Bc) 2026-01-30T21:56Z 21.8K followers, 15.9K engagements "Trump Needs New Friends Maybe all Trump needs is a new friend group. From the new episode of The Fifth Column out now" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=971mwpeogPk) 2026-01-29T20:53Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Enthusiastic Armadas Armenian Bakeries Yes Apology Ad - The Fifth Column #542 Iran and near abroad geopolitics Donroe Doctrine Mehmet Oz plays private investigator and Yes uncanny apology ad. (00:00) Cold Open (05:30) Iran threats and death-toll discourse (13:45) The Donroe Doctrine and near abroad logic (22:30) Saudis Iran Israel (30:40) Were the dead Trump fans (36:20) Noem Lewandowski Homan (48:10) Influencers enforcement and institutional decay (1:01:30) Dr. Oz P.I. (01:11:45) Ye Apology (1:14:50) Mailbag -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GGEvDXqWlHs) 2026-01-29T00:32Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Childhood Trauma in an NFL Locker Room The trauma is real" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1C6SAGLBZqI) 2026-01-29T16:59Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Unravelling a Journalism Scandal Michael Moynihan uncovered a journalism scandal back in [----] after noticing some suspicious Bob Dylan quotes in a book he was reading" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yWErDP4qkM0) 2026-01-28T15:40Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Minneapolis TACO Tuesday and the Nazi-Analogy Addiction - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#298) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/taco-tuesday-in-minneapolis-and-the Its been ugly in Minneapolis and the language around it has gotten wild fast. The guys try to sort signal from spin and separate whats known from whats assumed then Moynihan closes with a plea to stop laundering every argument through Nazi analogies. (0:00) TACO time (0:26) Bovino Demoted (2:17) Insurgency talk (5:29) Job survival (9:14) Papers please (12:29) Stop" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jGU1_Susvsc) 2026-01-27T21:42Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Stop Calling ICE the Gestapo Is it irresponsible to compare ICE to the Gestapo" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QbwbPNxzAOw) 2026-01-27T18:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Why do ICE officers wear masks From our interview with former cop and criminal justice professor Peter Moskos" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XBepvgN00hA) 2026-01-26T22:43Z 21.8K followers, 11K engagements "I Ran MSNBC. Tucker Was Brilliant. Now the Conspiracy Economy Runs Trumps America- The Fifth Column Dan Abrams starts with a surprising MSNBC-era admission about Tucker Carlson then walks through what changed why the guardrails at DOJ are thinner than people assume and how the courts could become the last real constraint if an administration starts ignoring orders. He closes with the bleak incentive structure: conspiracies sell debunking does not. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jjbhWNmCmT0) 2026-01-26T22:15Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Why havent there been more rockstar cancellations Marilyn Manson is cancel cultures Teflon Don" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FDNzwygwkfQ) 2026-01-26T20:12Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Former cop reacts to ICE / CBP shooting of Alex Petri in MN - The Fifth Column Former cop and criminal justice professor Peter Moskos answers our questions about the killing of Alex Petri in Minneapolis on Jan [--] [----]. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i81oYWwEigc) 2026-01-25T17:14Z 21.8K followers, 40.2K engagements "Former Cop Reacts to Video of Shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis ICE op - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#297) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full conversation with former cop & current John Jay prof Peter Moskos here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/one-hitter-another-ice-shooting-in Get a copy of Peter's book "Back From The Brink" here: https://amzn.to/4sWUTT1 In the hours after ICE shot and killed Alex Pretti we gathered at the studio to sit down with : former police officer current John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor and author of Back From The Brink" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WTtkryJoCd4) 2026-01-25T15:21Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Are the libs to blame for the behavior of ICE in their cities - The Fifth Column This one requires thinking -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oznPtTNx5jg) 2026-01-23T16:59Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Greenland Cake Stupid Politics - The Fifth Column Bikini models and football hooligans rejoice -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth the fifth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=r6VsFW_8dZs) 2026-01-22T23:59Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "CU Next Thursday - The Fifth Column LIVESTREAM - Jan [--] It's The Fifth Column's first ever public livestream LFG -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth livestream" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CBTlUE2AdVY) 2026-01-22T19:16Z 21.8K followers, 11K engagements "Putin may want Trump to get Greenland more than anyone - The Fifth Column He just wants the ice -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth Greenland" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=v_dicgbsbAs) 2026-01-22T12:01Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Trumps speech in Davos may be his magnum opus - The Fifth Column Florida Man in Davos -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth Donald Trump Davos" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hK1VkVw3Wh8) 2026-01-22T04:46Z 21.8K followers, 16.2K engagements "Trump Would Do Anything For Greenland (But He Won't Do That) - The Fifth Column #541 (Full Episode) Recorded hot on the heels of Trumps Jan [--] speech in Davos we're dropping this week's episode early. Enjoy (0:00) Cold Open (1:11) Davos + Greenland/Iceland (2:16) Excessive strength and force (15:05) The Danes WW2 resistance (20:02) Belgian Congo lament (22:44) stupidity epidemic (25:06) Who the f*** is we (29:14) Impeachment (37:43) Shame doesnt work (47:00) Macrons sunglasses (49:55) Carney: rupture not transition (59:38) Soleimani in Iceland + beta powers (1:01:21) China is a**h*le" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=x4Dxj2cWurs) 2026-01-22T00:49Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Dont say 'arguably. Thats the whole problem - The Fifth Column Sometimes maturity means abandoning the hubris of your own opinions -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=W8ciSJFybTI) 2026-01-20T21:51Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Chuck Klosterman on Why Football Works - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#296) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full conversation with Chuck Klosterman here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/football-billy-joel-van-halen-and Get a copy of Chuck's new book "Football" here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/football-chuck-klosterman/6f7b5ee7868210baean=9780593490648&next=t -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q058PEiwnrY) 2026-01-20T17:33Z 21.8K followers, 13.8K engagements "Football Is Fascism.and its Incredible - Chuck Klosterman on The Fifth Column "Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" author Chuck Klosterman is back with a book on Americas real pastime. Full conversation here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/football-billy-joel-van-halen-and -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: /" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FRagruj5NV8) 2026-01-20T12:00Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Experience looks like restraint - The Fifth Column This doesn't -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth ICE Immigration the fifth column fifth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CrSpnV2dkmk) 2026-01-17T15:00Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Yes You Can Film the Police- The Fifth Column .and ICE -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth ICE Immigration the fifth column fifth column 5th" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7HehCTmZFas) 2026-01-16T23:14Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "Being Straight Looks Exhausting - Josh Barro on The Fifth Column An excerpt from episode #539 Josh Barro joins the guys for a late-show detour into heteropessimism: why straight dating feels broken what gay dating looks like by comparison and how incentives shape everything from Grindr logistics to nightlife economics. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IZJ-dHQ4Zs8) 2026-01-16T20:13Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "1776 How about [----] Author Charles C. Mann on the Pueblo Revolt - The Revolutionaries Guest Charles C. Mann explains how the Pueblo Revolt of [----] was organized why it erupted with such speed and violence and what its aftermath suggests about power empire and the shaping of the American West. This is a clip from The Revolutionaries a new Fifth Column miniseries for the Semiquincentennial. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/the-revolutionaries-w-charles-c-mann -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I9IHgHNLgBY) 2026-01-16T17:24Z 21.8K followers, [---] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@wethefifth The Fifth Column - A Podcast
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"Trump Only Wanted Greenland for Real Estate When youre a hammer everythings a nail. Trumps former NSA John Bolton pulled absolutely zero punches on the latest episode of The Fifth Column out now"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T16:01Z 21.8K followers, 123.4K engagements
"John Bolton's Views on Iraq War Maybe Iraq should have never existed to begin with From this week's episode of The Fifth Column with John Bolton"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T22:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump Canceled My Protection While Iran Is Trying to Kill Me - John Bolton on The Fifth Column #544 Former Ambassador John Bolton joins the trio to discuss the nuances of a retribution presidency including the personal cancellation of his Secret Service protection on Inauguration Day leaving him to wonder who will get him first: the Presidents legal team or the Iranian hit squads. Bolton offers a blistering critique of current foreign policy from the clown show that is Tulsi Gabbard to the transactional real estate vibes of trying to buy Greenland. He also weighs his odds against an 18-count"
YouTube Link 2026-02-12T06:21Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Bolton is not fan of Tulsi Gabbard Shes a flake former Trump NSA John Bolton on Tulsi Gabbard. Watch our new episode with John Bolton now"
YouTube Link 2026-02-12T16:50Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Trumps Revenge on John Bolton Trump apparently doesnt care if his former NSA John Bolton lives or dies. From our new episode with John Bolton out now"
YouTube Link 2026-02-12T20:41Z 21.8K followers, 27.9K engagements
"Megyn Kelly is All Out of Generosity - THE FIFTH COLUMN #526 After [--] years as an audio-only podcast The Fifth Column pivots to video with a conversation with the one and only super-noncontroversial media personality Megyn Kelly. Amidst several afternoon shots of top-shelf whiskey Megyn talks Botox Charlie Kirk Steve Bannon Donald Trump eye-for-an-eye politics Israel Candace Owens and her very happy career in indie media after the salt mines of cable. While you're waiting for this premiere to start be sure to subscribe to this our brand new YouTube channel and visit us over on our Substack for"
YouTube Link 2025-10-02T06:31Z 21.6K followers, 237.4K engagements
"Melania Movie Review We sent Michael Moynihan to watch the Melania movie. Hes still complaining about it. Subscribe (free) to The Fifth Column on Substack: https://www.wethefifth.com Melania Melania Trump Melania doc Melania film Trump Movie review The fifth column Michael Moynihan Brett Ratner Jeff bezos Amazon Melania Melania Trump Melania doc Melania film Trump Movie review The fifth column Michael Moynihan Brett Ratner Jeff bezos Amazon"
YouTube Link 2026-01-30T22:47Z 21.8K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Michael Moynihan's MELANIA Documentary Debrief - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#299) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/triumph-of-the-grift -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. Get our free newsletter & access to exclusive content: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Listen to the audio version of the show: Apple Podcasts -"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T17:52Z 21.8K followers, 167.5K engagements
"Dr. Oz private investigator - The Fifth Column Dr. Mehmet Oz is trying to steal Nick Shirley's thunder. His idiot thunder -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video"
YouTube Link 2026-01-30T21:56Z 21.8K followers, 15.9K engagements
"Reading Tweets About Bari Weiss and the CBS deal - The Fifth Column Over whiskey The Fifth Column hosts scroll through some of the most nuanced commentary they could find on X about Bari Weiss' new role as EIC of CBS News and the Skydance acquisition of The Free Press. It takes a strange turn. Watch the full episode with much more discussion of BDS (Bari Derangement Syndrome) here: https://youtu.be/m78ZUWtLAdY -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally"
YouTube Link 2025-10-20T20:18Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Mary Katharine Ham Joins The Fifth Column #528 - President Comacho Delivers Peace Fox News Contributor and host of the "Normally" and "Getting Hammered" podcasts Mary Katharine Ham returns to The Fifth Column. In this episode: * RIP D'Angelo * Misgendering Fox News * Wait Michael was at a dinner * Kmele tries to pronounce Normally * Clearly we don't fucking prepare * The last time I was with you guys we were in a much smaller darker room andI got very drunk * Trump brings the hostages back * then emcees a roast * Somebody tell Bill Kristol * A little bit psycho vs. the UN bitching at the Jews"
YouTube Link 2025-10-15T11:00Z 21.5K followers, 14.6K engagements
"More Centrists in US Politics Than Ever Why are moderates simultaneously popular and nowhere to be found Check out the full episode with John Avlon"
YouTube Link 2026-02-06T22:28Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Rand Paul on GOP Sellouts Are any principled conservatives left in the federal government Our full interview with Senator Rand Paul is on our Substack"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T16:40Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"'Theyre Kidnapping People: Karen Bass on Trumps ICE Raids in LA - The Fifth Column Excerpt from Episode #534 of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xZ8kDJxm-vU&t=46s Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass recounts how the Trump administration moved from historic federal help after the wildfires to a show of force with National Guard deployments and aggressive ICE raids describing street kidnappings sanctuary city limits and the lasting damage of family separation policies. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column"
YouTube Link 2025-12-04T20:07Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"CU Next Thursday - The Fifth Column LIVESTREAM - Jan [--] It's The Fifth Column's first ever public livestream LFG -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth livestream"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T19:16Z 21.8K followers, 11K engagements
"FOX News' Liberal Jessica Tarlov on Mamdani Win & MAGA Civil War - The Fifth Column #530 The Fifth is joined by Jessica Tarlov co-host of The Five on @FoxNews and @RagingModerates with Scott Galloway. Among the cons What does it all mean Over performance. Under performance AOCs war What if the people who you want to destroy are the same people who ensure your existence You can afford to live here. Just not here How to moderate a trans debate The USDA wants you to stop mutilating kids so America can sell soybeans Oh SNAP and guess what I saw Affordability for Smith College grads The health"
YouTube Link 2025-11-06T10:58Z 16.8K followers, 19.6K engagements
"They Don't Care About Us - The Fifth Column #530 We are now alone / Hes out of our life The Republican rebels Announcing a Fifth Column live show in LA Subscribers get first crack Prediction: a stadium full of lusty boos for Matt Welch Cuomos nonexistent campaign The Truth and Armpits Party On Zohrans vaunted political instincts If the cops rough you up in Queens its because the Jews told them to do it A brilliant campaign of easy promises The thrill of being in love with a politician again In destroying both parties they become one Karine Jean-Pierre is.not that bright Oh great More dumb"
YouTube Link 2025-10-30T11:50Z 21.5K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Un-Effing America With John Avlon - The Fifth Column #543 (Full Episode) John Avlon stops by The Fifth Colum (episode #543) only to learn he's in the Epstein files why the Daily Beast shouldve sold dick pills and why we need to rebuild guardrails on what some call "stolen land" (0:00) Cold open (0:31) Epstein Files (2:05) Election paranoia (8:10) Populists and purists (14:40) Georgia and the FBI (21:05) Media incentives (33:10) Tucker and CPAC (44:25) Identity politics (56:40) Party sorting (1:10:15) Guardrails and civic culture (1:23:30) Wrap-up -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T23:03Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Media Entrepreneur & Legal Analyst Dan Abrams - The Fifth Column #536 Media entrepreneur legal analyst and newly-minted restaurateur Dan Abrams joins us to talk legacy media lawfare and copaganda. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster"
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T06:24Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Enthusiastic Armadas Armenian Bakeries Yes Apology Ad - The Fifth Column #542 Iran and near abroad geopolitics Donroe Doctrine Mehmet Oz plays private investigator and Yes uncanny apology ad. (00:00) Cold Open (05:30) Iran threats and death-toll discourse (13:45) The Donroe Doctrine and near abroad logic (22:30) Saudis Iran Israel (30:40) Were the dead Trump fans (36:20) Noem Lewandowski Homan (48:10) Influencers enforcement and institutional decay (1:01:30) Dr. Oz P.I. (01:11:45) Ye Apology (1:14:50) Mailbag -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T00:32Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"New York Post's Lydia Moynihan on Wall Street Epstein and media envy - The Fifth Column #533 New York Post's Lydia Moynihan on why she tells kids not to become journalists high-status-low-income reporters covering the ultra-rich the Epstein files and and why obvious frauds keep getting a pass from people in power. In this episode: The Doppelgnger Where do these Moynihans come from The journalism disease You do not want to get a call from the New York Post From schadenfreude to envious cruelty Covering the powerful What is social proof The Epstein obsession Incompetence defeats the deep state"
YouTube Link 2025-11-20T03:12Z 21.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Trolls Clips and the New Gatekeepers - The Fifth Column #540 - FULL EPISODE This week the guys bounce from Greenland and raw dog minerals to ICE spectacle politics sanctuary cities Iran discourse and the rise of clips and influencers as the new gatekeepers. Along the way they ask why we never got a real reckoning and what happens when screenshots replace context. (00:00) Raw Dog Minerals + Greenland (00:24) Intro + Movie Blind Spots (05:41) Troll Email + Mamdani/Trump Texting (12:27) The Non-Reckoning (17:03) Renee Goode + ICE Surge Fallout (27:52) South Park ICE Ad (33:49) Target Clip + Know"
YouTube Link 2026-01-15T02:22Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Pod Save America's Jon Lovett on Mamdani & the Democratic Party - The Fifth Column Members Only #284 This is a special UNLOCKED Members Only episode (#284) of The Fifth Column. Normally you have to be a paid subscriber over at http://wethefifth.com but this is a special occasion as it's Election Day in NYC and we've got Jon Lovett of @podsaveamerica & @lovettorleaveitpodcast joining us to talk Mamdani and the future of the Democratic Party so please enjoy and subscribe Dont mess with the Zoran The opacity of hope Inspiration is overrated Wait what if none of these proposals actually work The"
YouTube Link 2025-11-04T12:41Z 21.6K followers, 24.8K engagements
"What We Learned About Epstein From His Steve Bannon Interview - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#299) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/triumph-of-the-grift -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. Get our free newsletter & access to exclusive content: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Listen to the audio version of the show: Apple Podcasts -"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T01:56Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Did the US Almost Bomb Colombia In our interview Senator Rand Paul discussed the crucial role he played in brokering talks between Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro. Watch our full conversation with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul out now on Substack"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T22:56Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"L.A. mayor Karen Bass says L.A. isn't governed well An excerpt from The Fifth Column's in-depth interview with Mayor Karen Bass on the fires ICE Trump/Mamdani Angela Davis/Cuba and a whole lotta disagreement about the relationship between property rights & building new stuff. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth"
YouTube Link 2025-11-25T19:23Z 16.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Noam Chomsky Steve Bannon & The Epstein Submarine- The Fifth Column TrueAnon's Brace Belden discusses one of the final texts that Jeffrey Epstein sent to Steven Bannon. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan"
YouTube Link 2025-12-04T14:30Z 19.7K followers, [----] engagements
"3 Things Megyn Kelly Dislikes about Trump - The Fifth Column ". that feels a little Soviet." From episode #526 of The Fifth Column. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report"
YouTube Link 2025-10-31T18:28Z 21.4K followers, 10.2K engagements
"Chuck Klosterman on Why Football Works - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#296) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full conversation with Chuck Klosterman here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/football-billy-joel-van-halen-and Get a copy of Chuck's new book "Football" here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/football-chuck-klosterman/6f7b5ee7868210baean=9780593490648&next=t -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack:"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T17:33Z 21.8K followers, 13.8K engagements
"Stop Calling ICE the Gestapo Is it irresponsible to compare ICE to the Gestapo"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T18:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"AI George Washington LSD Margaritas and Tara Reid - The Fifth Column Members Only #290 (UNLOCKED) Three men and a bottle. It's been a while since it was just Michael Kmele and Matt at the table so we've decided to unlock this Members Only episode. For (literally) hundreds more Members Only episodes become a paying subscriber over at The Fifth Column Substack: https://www.wethefifth.com -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack:"
YouTube Link 2025-12-09T06:49Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Breaking Down Don Lemons Arrest Don Lemons arrest begs the question to what extent should journalists be legally shielded from the crimes they are documenting"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T23:01Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"L.A. mayor on the ICE raids"
YouTube Link 2025-11-26T17:25Z 21.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I got [-----] of Jeffrey Epstein's emails - Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold on The Fifth Column We sat down in L.A. with Bloomberg's senior investigative reporter & co-host of the Disclosure podcast Jason Leopold and talked about how he and his colleagues reported out a tranche of Jeffrey Epstein's emails. Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#287) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-287-hoarding-epsteins -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the"
YouTube Link 2025-12-02T04:03Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Former cop reacts to ICE / CBP shooting of Alex Petri in MN - The Fifth Column Former cop and criminal justice professor Peter Moskos answers our questions about the killing of Alex Petri in Minneapolis on Jan [--] [----]. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th"
YouTube Link 2026-01-25T17:14Z 21.8K followers, 40.2K engagements
"Minneapolis TACO Tuesday and the Nazi-Analogy Addiction - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#298) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/taco-tuesday-in-minneapolis-and-the Its been ugly in Minneapolis and the language around it has gotten wild fast. The guys try to sort signal from spin and separate whats known from whats assumed then Moynihan closes with a plea to stop laundering every argument through Nazi analogies. (0:00) TACO time (0:26) Bovino Demoted (2:17) Insurgency talk (5:29) Job survival (9:14) Papers please (12:29) Stop"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T21:42Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"I Ran MSNBC. Tucker Was Brilliant. Now the Conspiracy Economy Runs Trumps America- The Fifth Column Dan Abrams starts with a surprising MSNBC-era admission about Tucker Carlson then walks through what changed why the guardrails at DOJ are thinner than people assume and how the courts could become the last real constraint if an administration starts ignoring orders. He closes with the bleak incentive structure: conspiracies sell debunking does not. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T22:15Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Did the U.S. Almost Bomb Colombia Sen. Rand Paul on Deescalating the Conflict. Via Text Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky explains how he prevented a military escalation by sending a quick text message to the President. Excerpt from a Members Only "One Hitter" episode of The Fifth Column (#301). Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/publish/posts/detail/187564958referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fpublished -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T23:01Z 21.8K followers, [---] engagements
"It wasn't just sex trafficking - Brace Belden on the Epstein Money Mystery - The Fifth Column Is the Jeffrey Epstein story even weirder than we thoughtor is it actually more "boring" In this clip Brace Belden (True Anon) joins the show to dive into the latest batch of released Epstein emails. While the internet is flooded with wild theories Brace and the host debate the "Striver" vs. "Agent" narratives. Was Epstein just a high-level scam artist desperate to be around important people or was he the center of a massive international money-laundering web involving Norwegian diplomats Russian"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T22:28Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Fifth Column #527 w Moynihan Foster and Welch - War Is Over (If Hamas Wants It) A shirt full of toothpaste Whiskey in a jar Your dumb complaining emails A roundtable of cranks and weirdos Happy [---] year anniversary Antifa People. People. It ain't fascism. And it ain't ISIS. Wait Twitter IS real life The long shadow of [----] Remembering Seattle's WASP autonomous zone Ted Cruz's hoop dreams Sammy Hagar vs. the government shutdown Should we tariff Canadian stunt pilots Death to the paper tigers We're cautiously optimistic. When Bari met [--] Charm offensive I bet you don't remember this"
YouTube Link 2025-10-09T14:01Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Melania Movie Review Pt. [--] Can we move on from the Melania movie now"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T20:58Z 21.8K followers, 654.6K engagements
"About that Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show (and the TPUSA one) -The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#300) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-bunny -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. Get our free newsletter & access to exclusive content: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Listen to the audio version of the show: Apple Podcasts -"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T17:31Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Ana Kasparian on Israel the Happy Merchant and getting Cenk to Recognize the Armenian Genocide Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#295) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full conversation with @AnaKasparian here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/why-cant-we-be-friends-w-ana-kasparian -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T17:01Z 21.5K followers, 18.4K engagements
"The Collateral Damage of the Epstein File Release The reckless release of [--] million new Epstein documents winds up hurting people who had no relation to Jeffrey Epstein whatsoever"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T20:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Even the Mayor Says L.A. Isnt Well Governed: Karen Bass 1-on-1 with The Fifth Column's Matt Welch Matt Welch visits Getty House for a one-on-one with Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass on the fires ICE Trump/Mamdani Angela Davis/Cuba and a whole lotta disagreement about the relationship between property rights & building new stuff. Not safe at home mayoral edition The guns were decades old The Trump/Mamdani bromance The administrations historic post-fire response Youre walking down the street you happen to look Latino or somebody hears you speak Spanish. A car rushes up in front of you. Masked men"
YouTube Link 2025-11-25T10:37Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The Fifth Column Goes Full Van Hagar This is what happens when Kmele tries to talk about the government shutdown. An excerpt from The Fifth Column #527. Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/m78ZUWtLAdYsi=FwqJ8N3EmgMVUHLG -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wethefifth"
YouTube Link 2025-10-14T04:42Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Matt Welch on Trump's authoritarianism and fighting the ghosts of [----]. An excerpt from The Fifth Column #527 with Matt Welch Kmele Foster and Michael Moynihan. Also discussed: Gaza peace deal Bari Weiss CBS deal Antifa flag burning The Blue Angels Van Hagar and so much more. Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth"
YouTube Link 2025-10-09T21:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""The Megyn Kelly Interview Was Such a Disappointment" - Reading Viewer Mail The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#280) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode at https://www.wethefifth.com Watch the original Megyn Kelly interview being discussed here: https://youtu.be/CIhmnwf_Bewsi=ZCUpuUrS_0ATMcjB -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram:"
YouTube Link 2025-10-11T15:42Z [----] followers, 40.3K engagements
"The Tariff That Killed the Luxury Watch Market- The Fifth Column Kevin OLeary breaks down why a 39% tariff on Swiss goods made him stop buying luxury watches -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-12T21:15Z 14.4K followers, 478.6K engagements
"Tokyo Vice's Jake Adelstein on Cultural Appropriation in Japan -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-10-17T20:09Z 11.2K followers, [----] engagements
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YouTube Link 2025-11-20T22:28Z 12.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The Walter Cronkite of This Generation- The Fifth Column The answer is "no" btw -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2026-01-16T01:00Z 16.1K followers, [----] engagements
"American Gangster - The Fifth Column "If you're going to be gangsters about it go be gangsters about it" - @TheDispatchPods Kevin D. Williamson on the legal fig leaf over the Venezuela raid. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2026-01-07T04:23Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"You Don't Need to Believe Anything That The People Who Are Making AI Are Saying - The Fifth Column Andy Mills of The Last Invention on that the people who make AI believe about AI. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-19T20:25Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"UFC on the White House Lawn Mary Katharine Ham Says Yes Please. - The Fifth Column Mary Katharine Ham joins The Fifth Column to unpack the strange evolution of the conservative movement from free-market ideals to the full spectacle of MAGA. She admits her soft spot for Bojangles professes her love of Kid Rock and explains why a UFC fight on the White House lawn might be irresistible albeit ridiculous. Should Kmele text Terry (President Comacho) Crews Full interview: https://youtu.be/53WrFdeXB-Esi=dCZcsQfSEXKgYB9D -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth"
YouTube Link 2025-10-17T19:50Z 10.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Inside the Controlled Chaos of a Cable News Debate Show with CNN's Abby Phillip - The Fifth Column Excerpt from Episode #532 of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/ULKGdIRFgEQsi=SwH3gpd1jr1CB10z Abby Phillip talks about guardrails for debate extremists and what honest political conversation should look like. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: /"
YouTube Link 2025-11-17T21:11Z 12.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Sebastian Junger on Why Bad Times Bring Us Together - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#286) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com Junger argues that hard times increase cohesion while affluence frays it. Why some people miss the worst times of their life and what that says about the importance of the close group. He points to shared risk shoulder-to-shoulder living and community duties as the glue we need to survive. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical"
YouTube Link 2025-11-18T15:30Z 12.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Yes You Can Film the Police- The Fifth Column .and ICE -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth ICE Immigration the fifth column fifth column 5th"
YouTube Link 2026-01-16T23:14Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Fifth Column's First YouTube Livestream - Sunday Jan [--] @ 4pm EST To get the link sign up at: http://wethefifth.com/subscribe Sunday Jan [--] at 4pm Matt Kmele and Michael will do their monthly "Second Sunday" live but for the first time they're going to be doing it here on YouTube What does that mean Near anonymity for the camera shy Just type your innermost feelings into the chat and if you really want an answer we've turned on the SUPER CHAT for this event: if you put your money where your mouth is the guys HAVE to answer your question. What could go wrong -- Hosted by journalists"
YouTube Link 2026-01-09T22:41Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"What did The Fifth Column get wrong in [----] Nothing. Just ask Moynihan -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-30T21:39Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"How I pulled off the last public interview with George Harrison - John Fugelsang on The Fifth Column @JJbirdsong1 on how how he ignored his producer's direction to "ask about the Beatles" and got George Harrison to stick around for four hours. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-26T18:56Z 15K followers, 169.7K engagements
"Susie Wiles' big Brain Theory - The Fifth Column The Verge's Tina Nguyen joins The Fifth Column to discuss the Susie Wiles Vanity Fair drama and what it says about Trump's affections. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-18T17:03Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Will the protests in Iran become a full-blown revolution - The Fifth Column Moynihan certainly hopes so -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2026-01-15T21:23Z 16.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Qatar Warner Brothers and how Trump -Changes the Rules on Everything - The Fifth Column Media entrepreneur & legal analyst Dan Abrams on how the country behind Al Jazeera is making a play for CNN. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T14:30Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Experience looks like restraint - The Fifth Column This doesn't -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth ICE Immigration the fifth column fifth"
YouTube Link 2026-01-17T15:00Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"All hell breaks loose when Jon Lovett (Pod Save America) visits The Fifth Column Jon Lovett of @podsaveamerica & @lovettorleaveitpodcast join The Fifth Column to talk Mamdani and the future of the Democratic Party and all hell breaks loose. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-11-04T15:16Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump Derangement Syndrome Meets a Double Homicide - The Fifth Column An excerpt from the Members Only episode #291. After Rob Reiner and his wife were found killed in Los Angeles Trump posted a Truth Social message blaming Trump Derangement Syndrome and then doubled down when asked about it. They also get into the Republican pushback the impulse to turn tragedy into score-settling and how social media has reshaped what politicians will say out loud. Watch the full episode: https://open.substack.com/pub/wethefifth/p/not-even-matt-drudge-can-make-todayr=3hjpd&utm_medium=ios -- Hosted by"
YouTube Link 2025-12-16T21:17Z 14.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Football Is Fascism.and its Incredible - Chuck Klosterman on The Fifth Column "Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" author Chuck Klosterman is back with a book on Americas real pastime. Full conversation here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/football-billy-joel-van-halen-and -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: /"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T12:00Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
""The best real estate agent in Miami is Mamdani" - Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary on The Fifth Column Would it surprise you to learn that Kevin O'Leary is not a big fan of NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-10T14:30Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This new Animal Farm trailer is baffling - The Fifth Column He was a great Gollum but Andy Serkis may not be the best interpreter of Orwell. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-22T20:39Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Conspiracy kooks come in different flavors- The Fifth Column From The Fifth Column Members Only #294 with Kevin Williamson : https://www.wethefifth.com/p/kevin-williamson-is-the-darkness -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2026-01-14T17:34Z 15.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The Worst Thing About Being Rich According to Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary - The Fifth Column Kevin O'Leary on how do deal with your family asking you for money. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-10T16:58Z 13.9K followers, 16.1K engagements
"Dan Abrams on Trump and the Courtroom Advantage- The Fifth Column Dan Abrams breaks down the political incentives of high-profile prosecutions including why Trump showed up in a civil case where he did not have to -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-13T01:15Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"1776 How about [----] Author Charles C. Mann on the Pueblo Revolt - The Revolutionaries Guest Charles C. Mann explains how the Pueblo Revolt of [----] was organized why it erupted with such speed and violence and what its aftermath suggests about power empire and the shaping of the American West. This is a clip from The Revolutionaries a new Fifth Column miniseries for the Semiquincentennial. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/the-revolutionaries-w-charles-c-mann -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly"
YouTube Link 2026-01-16T17:24Z 21.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Putin's Dark Evolution: From NATO Supporter to America's Enemy - Michael McFaul on The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#283) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-283-putin-on-the-fritz Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Stanford professor Michael McFaul joins The Fifth Column for a wide-ranging conversation with Michael Moynihan about his new book Autocrats vs Democrats: China Russia America and the New Global Disorder. They discuss Vladimir Putins ideology and overreach in Ukraine the myth of NATO provocation why"
YouTube Link 2025-10-28T15:47Z 11.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Being Straight Looks Exhausting - Josh Barro on The Fifth Column An excerpt from episode #539 Josh Barro joins the guys for a late-show detour into heteropessimism: why straight dating feels broken what gay dating looks like by comparison and how incentives shape everything from Grindr logistics to nightlife economics. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X:"
YouTube Link 2026-01-16T20:13Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Destroy All RobotsBefore They Destroy Us (w/ Andy Mills) - The Fifth Column Members Only #289 Andy Mills (The Daily Rabbit Hole Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling; now @longviewreport's The Last Invention) joins the show to map the three tribes shaping the AI moment: doomers accelerationists and the scouts trying to prepare institutions for what comes next. We get into why the people closest to the tech sound weirdly sincere about apocalypse and utopia why please regulate us is not a normal industry posture and whether this is a bubble a fire-level invention or just the latest overhyped black box."
YouTube Link 2025-12-19T17:36Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Jeffrey Toobin on unforced errors and so much more on episode #529 of The Fifth Column The legendary legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin joins The Fifth to talk presidential pardons the Insurrection Act and O.J. Simpson. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-10-23T12:18Z 11.1K followers, [----] engagements
"50000 Empty Apartments and an Official January [--] History Page (w/ Josh Barro) - The Fifth Column In episode #539 of The Fifth Column Josh Barro (NYT Central Air Very Serious) joins for a tour through Americas favorite genre: pretending we never said the thing we absolutely said. We get the January [--] memory hole the Mamdani rent-freeze trap and why housing incentives are now fully deranged plus a Venezuela detour powered by oil-brain. Then at the end straight despair meets gay efficiency in the only marketplace discussion that matters. (00:00) Cold Open (02:28) Josh Barro Intro (06:14) January"
YouTube Link 2026-01-08T06:57Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"About that Melania doc trailer. Melania Trump superfans Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch are joined by The Verge's Tina Nguyen to discuss the forthcoming Melania documentary trailer that just dropped. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-18T16:57Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Why Journalists Are Really Mad at Olivia Nuzzi- The Fifth Column Excerpt from Episode #533 of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/I7FTaDsxXyc -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-11-20T14:50Z 16.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The thing about Idiocracy is that everyone loves Idiocracy. Mary Katharine Ham on The Fifth Column"
YouTube Link 2025-10-18T19:53Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Drinking On the Job with Tokyo Vice's Jake Adelstein - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#281) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-281-when-youve-eaten Investigative journalist & author Jake Adelstein joins The Fifth Column for a sake-fueled conversation about the yakuza journalistic tradecraft and cryptocurrency heists (the subject of his latest book The Devil Takes Bitcoin). -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle"
YouTube Link 2025-10-17T16:07Z 11.2K followers, [----] engagements
"When youre trying to look like a cartoon villain but. -The Fifth Column Such hand wringing over a little cartoon thing -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T17:00Z 15.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Straight Guys Pay Thousands for What Gay Guys Get Easily - The Fifth Column Straight people.are you okay -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2026-01-09T21:50Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Inside the GOP Civil War: Tucker Fuentes and Fox on the Inside- The Fifth Column An excerpt from episode #531 of The Fifth Column: https://youtu.be/Citxe5zlHM0si=ODNJ0GhmGMTPnEuH Jessica Tarlov joins us to examine what many call a GOP civil war: Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes Heritage and Project [----] and how platforming the fringe shapes the coalition. We focus on what actually moved voters this cycle (cost of living not online theatrics) and what it is like to sit in the left seat at Fox amid the pile-on economy. Along the way: Jesse Watters Ben Shapiros compilation dissent inside Heritage"
YouTube Link 2025-11-10T14:56Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements
"January 6th Was Really About the Second Amendment - Jeffrey Toobin on The Fifth Column Jeffrey Toobin argues that guns are the defining issue of the right wing today and was the motivation for what happened on January [--] [----]. Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/WoPXii3It2csi=aVMy3-delEk3agJk -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth"
YouTube Link 2025-10-24T19:54Z 11.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Media entrepreneur Dan Abrams may in fact be "The Worst Person in the World" - The Fifth Column Media entrepreneur & legal analyst Dan Abrams on his role in making MSNBC the Fox News of the left. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T15:04Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Do You Have to be an A**hole to Get Rich - Kevin O'Leary on The Fifth Column Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary on what it takes to ignore the noise and focus on the signal. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T18:08Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"How NOT to Interview George Harrison - John Fugelsang on Meeting Your Heroes - The Fifth Column -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-26T19:00Z 15.1K followers, 30.8K engagements
"CNN's Abby Phillip on Jesse Jackson coalition politics and the media- The Fifth Column CNNs Abby Phillip joins The Fifth to talk about her new book A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power. We dig into Jacksons legacy how language around BLM lands now growing up between Trinidad and the U.S. and the craft of hosting real arguments on cable with panels that invite friction and stay honest. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and"
YouTube Link 2025-11-13T02:16Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Mara Corina Machado Won't Leave Venezuela - Excerpt from The Fifth Column with Thor Halvorssen Excerpt from a conversation with Human Rights Foundation founder Thor Halvorssen recorded on September [--] [----] and released as episode #524 of The Fifth Column. The full interview is available in audio wherever you get your podcasts while our "Never Fly Coach" members are able to access the full video at https://www.wethefifth.com -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and"
YouTube Link 2025-10-10T17:35Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Dont say 'arguably. Thats the whole problem - The Fifth Column Sometimes maturity means abandoning the hubris of your own opinions -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T21:51Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Former Cop Reacts to Video of Shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis ICE op - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#297) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full conversation with former cop & current John Jay prof Peter Moskos here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/one-hitter-another-ice-shooting-in Get a copy of Peter's book "Back From The Brink" here: https://amzn.to/4sWUTT1 In the hours after ICE shot and killed Alex Pretti we gathered at the studio to sit down with : former police officer current John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor and author of Back From The Brink"
YouTube Link 2026-01-25T15:21Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Jeffrey Toobin on Presidential Pardons Venezuelan Boats and O.J. Simpson - The Fifth Column #529 The legendary legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin joins The Fifth to talk presidential pardons the Insurrection Act and Nazi tattoos. Who subscribes to the New York Post One Battle After Another Redux Myrna Opsahl and other deep cuts F. Lee Bailey legal consultant Fawn Hall Gate Double secret Nazis Second Amendment People The one on the right is on the left Rehabilitation of the American radical Omnibombers of the 1970s I beg your pardon An x-ray into Donald Trumps soul Hunter Biden & presidential power"
YouTube Link 2025-10-23T12:01Z 11K followers, [----] engagements
"From Shark Tank to Marty Supreme: Kevin O'Leary Is a Man of His Time - The Fifth Column The Fifth Column's Michael Moynihan sits down with entrepreneur actor and bon vivant Kevin O'Leary to talk about politics money and being an a**hole. This is an UNLOCKED Members Only episode of The Fifth Column. For more exclusive content visit https://www.wethefifth.com -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack:"
YouTube Link 2025-12-09T23:51Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"What Megyn Kelly DOESN'T like about Trump - The Fifth Column An excerpt from episode #526 of The Fifth Column: https://youtu.be/CIhmnwf_Bewsi=iyen2VlC1hnbJ_jj Catch The Fifth Column LIVE with Megyn Kelly in Anaheim CA 11/21/25: https://www.hondacenter.com/events/megyn-kelly-live/ See The Fifth Column LIVE in Burbank CA 11/23/25: https://www.flapperscomedy.com/site/shows.phpevent_id=75006 -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW"
YouTube Link 2025-10-31T18:22Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Black Irish Ice Queens and Body Snatchers (w/ Tina Nguyen) - The Fifth Column #537 Were joined by Tina Nguyen Senior Reporter at The Verge covering Big Tech vs. Big Government death matches. All I want for Christmas is Wendy Williams-branded booze Someone is a bit cracked out Big tech versus big government (David) Sacks of cash Susie goes wilding The swamp is a viper pit Hate the media. Need the media A non-denial denial of a non-denial denial MAGAs son and heir He has a thrill running up his leg The Bezos bust Trump crashes through the normie barrier Seth Rogan and the Orwell abomination The"
YouTube Link 2025-12-18T06:01Z 14.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Ana Kasparian on Iran Protests- The Fifth Column How do you talk Iran without turning it into a proxy narrative -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T21:00Z 15.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Gay Marriage Trans Rights and the Doom Loop of Identity Politics - Pod Save America's Jon Lovett Jon Lovett on what actually moves people why gay rights persuasion worked why the trans debate feels brittle and how party credibility collapsed. He tells the White House wedding story sizes up Biden Newsom and Obama. Lastly there's some talk about the candidate in Maine with that Nazi tattoo. Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/LKvTg-Ol8cgsi=yZ9vsGF5AHN_obp0 -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news"
YouTube Link 2025-11-06T00:48Z 12.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Megyn Kelly gets fired up about Israel Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens"
YouTube Link 2025-10-03T00:40Z 12.9K followers, 53.5K engagements
"Year Is Over (If You Want It) w Michael Moynihan Kmele Foster & Matt Welch - The Fifth Column #538 An end-of-year hang that starts in eggnog hell and ends in political hell. Movie takes media freakouts and assorted year-in-review grievances then a real run at the Epstein-files discourse Marjorie Taylor Greene Thomas Massie MAGA incentives Trumps second-term chaos and what guardrails actually mean when Putins running a coercive dictatorship abroad. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the"
YouTube Link 2025-12-30T03:45Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Why NYC Democrats Landed on Zohran Mamdani- The Fifth Column Jon Lovett describes how NYC voters landed on Zohran Mamdani for the Democratic nominee and presumed mayor -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-11-04T20:24Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Abby Phillip talks about Jesse Jacksons infamous blood-soaked shirt"
YouTube Link 2025-11-13T17:02Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Why do people in Trumpworld talk to Vanity Fair - The Fifth Column Unpacking MAGA's bafflement that Susie Wiles would talk to a reporter from Vanity Fair -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-19T20:01Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Here's what the people who are making AI say about what's coming - Andy Mills on The Fifth Column From the Members Only #289 epsiode Andy Mills (from The Last Invention podcast) joins us for a profound conversation that goes far beyond the headlines of ChatGPT and job automation. Watch more: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/destroy-all-robotsbefore-they-destroy -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack:"
YouTube Link 2025-12-08T23:05Z 14.3K followers, 84.4K engagements
"Sebastian Junger on death life and finding your tribe - The Fifth Column We are joined by journalist author filmmaker and chainsaw-wielder Sebastian Junger. His latest book In My Time of Dying is a touching reflection on death and what might follow. You can always start drinking again Enough to make of these grown men cry Sebastians (most recent) near-death experience Danger in insight out Momento Mori Theres nothing so dangerous as a wounded Apache Dont have an aortic rupture in Truro in July ICU humor Hi dad An existential digression Better than the one with Will Farrel Ideological Duolingo"
YouTube Link 2025-12-03T14:01Z 13K followers, [---] engagements
"The Politics of One Battle After Another The Fifth Column There will be spoilers as The Fifth Column unpacks Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. This is a free preview of Members Only episode #282. Watch the full episode at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-282-there-will-be-spoilers -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X:"
YouTube Link 2025-10-22T16:48Z 11K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump crossed a line with his comments on the death of Ron Reiner Matt Welch has one reaction to Trump calling Rob Reiner of This Is Spinal Tap and When Harry Met Sally bad for the country"
YouTube Link 2025-12-16T15:37Z 14.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Trumps speech in Davos may be his magnum opus - The Fifth Column Florida Man in Davos -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth Donald Trump Davos"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T04:46Z 21.8K followers, 16.2K engagements
"TrueAnon's Brace Belden on Curtis Yarvin Libertarian escapism and the state of the left Brace Belden joins The Fifth Column to talk Trumps Somali comments and immigration politics the rights weird Nazi aesthetics via Curtis Yarvin and the cathedral libertarian escape fantasies and seasteading his own history with heroin and fentanyl and why all of it points to a very broken political and media ecosystem. They dont make heroin anymore The Taco Bell connection King of the libertarians Kmele almost dies You say Somali I say Somalian lets call the whole thing off The people cut out of the"
YouTube Link 2025-12-04T15:00Z 14.3K followers, 16.1K engagements
"The Case For American Power (and why Mamdani should grab it) - Shadi Hamid on The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#285) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-285-the-case-for-american Its release day for s new book The Case For American Power and were excited to have him back on The Fifth. Paying subscribers get access to the full interview in audio & video (plus literally hundreds more) and help us do what we do so -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly"
YouTube Link 2025-11-11T18:13Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Why did Trump pardon Jan [--] participants Jeffrey Toobin weighs in on The Fifth Column Legal analyst & author Jeffrey Toobin on the overlap between political violence and presidential pardons. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-10-23T19:02Z 11K followers, [---] engagements
"The historical record has finally been corrected and the truth will now be accepted forever. The White House has a fun new Jan [--] page. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2026-01-09T01:40Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements
"The Self-Devouring State - The Fifth Column A weary acknowledgment of our new political reality: when conspiracy influencers and culture-war opportunists end up with government jobs maybe the least we can ask is that they turn on each other for our amusement. From The Fifth Column episode They Dont Care About Us a reminder that politics has become reality TVand were the captive audience. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW"
YouTube Link 2025-10-30T15:26Z 11.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Jessica Tarlov on what it's like being a liberal on Fox News Co-host of The Five on Fox News Jessica Tarlov on what it's like being one of the only liberal voices on the right-leaning news network. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-11-06T14:45Z 16.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The Unpopular Truth About Legacy Media with Dan Abrams- The Fifth Column Its not just fact-checking. Dan Abrams explains why bylines sourcing and reporting teams still matter -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-12T22:30Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Are the libs to blame for the behavior of ICE in their cities - The Fifth Column This one requires thinking -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth"
YouTube Link 2026-01-23T16:59Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Epstein documents the government is holding - The Fifth Column Bloomberg Senior Investigative Reporter & "FOIA terrorist" Jason Leopold on Jeffrey Epstein Radar magazine and what the government is holding. From Members Only #287. Full episode only on our Substack: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-287-hoarding-epsteins -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: /"
YouTube Link 2025-11-28T21:59Z 13K followers, [----] engagements
"Kanye West Up Close and Personal: Behind the Scenes of IN WHOSE NAME w Director Nico Ballesteros Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#279) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com -- The Fifth Columns resident Kanye aficionado Kmele Foster sits down with Nico Ballesteros director of In Whose Name a 100% verit documentary that follows Kanye West over the course of six tumultuous years. Just [--] years-old when the project began and shooting on an iPhone Ballesteros spent [--] hours a day recording every aspect of Kanyes life from the explosive to the mundane"
YouTube Link 2025-10-10T15:25Z 10.7K followers, 15.3K engagements
"Sweet baby Jesus Are we really arguing about Sodomy with John Fugelsang - The Fifth Column From The Fifth Column Members Only episode #292 Full episode: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/sweet-baby-jesus-are-we-really-arguing -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-23T19:19Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Whos on top of the Mediaite Power List for 2025"
YouTube Link 2025-12-30T12:01Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"ICE pulling people out of naturalization ceremonies - The Fifth Column From The Fifth Column - Members Only #290 -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-09T18:18Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The Real January [--] Coup Was Not the Riot - The Fifth Column An excerpt from Members Only #294 : On the anniversary of January [--] Kevin D. Williamson of @TheDispatchPods argues that the Capitol riot was a sideshow compared with the real coup attempt: the pressure campaign fake electors and the legal pretext. He explains why incompetent does not mean harmless and what a future institutional stress test could look like if loyalty in law enforcement or political leadership shifts. (0:00) Lazy Coup Setup (0:23) The Riot Was a Sideshow (0:39) Fake Electors Real Plot (1:28) Where Was the Force (3:20)"
YouTube Link 2026-01-07T05:01Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Was January [--] really about guns Jeffrey Toobin explains"
YouTube Link 2025-10-25T17:05Z 11.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Former US Ambassador to Russia says NATO expansion was a myth - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#283) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-283-putin-on-the-fritz Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Stanford professor Michael McFaul joins The Fifth Column for a wide-ranging conversation with Michael Moynihan about his new book Autocrats vs Democrats: China Russia America and the New Global Disorder. They discuss Vladimir Putins ideology and overreach in Ukraine the myth of NATO provocation why authoritarian regimes"
YouTube Link 2025-10-29T11:17Z 11.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1491 Author Charles C. Mann compares the Spaniards & the English - The Fifth Column It's [----] and the semiquincentennial is upon us To celebrate we've launched The Revolutionariesa miniseries all about the lesser-known/misunderstood/forgotten events and characters having something to do with the American Revolution. First up [----] author Charles C. Mann Full episode: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/the-revolutionaries-w-charles-c-mann -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it"
YouTube Link 2026-01-05T18:15Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Internet Keeps Rebranding Cheating - The Fifth Column Nick Fuentes Definitely gay -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2026-01-11T12:31Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
"CNNs Abby Phillip on what sets NewsNight apart from other cable news shows"
YouTube Link 2025-11-13T15:02Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Members Only #283 - Putin on the Fritz (w/ Ambassador Michael McFaul) - The Fifth Column Free preview of a Members Only episode (#283) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-283-putin-on-the-fritz -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-10-29T21:48Z 11.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Is Zohran Mamdani the Thomas Friedman of Mayors - Jessica Tarlov on The Fifth Column Co-host of The Five on Fox News Jessica Tarlov on Mamdani's ground game. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2025-11-07T16:10Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump Would Do Anything For Greenland (But He Won't Do That) - The Fifth Column #541 (Full Episode) Recorded hot on the heels of Trumps Jan [--] speech in Davos we're dropping this week's episode early. Enjoy (0:00) Cold Open (1:11) Davos + Greenland/Iceland (2:16) Excessive strength and force (15:05) The Danes WW2 resistance (20:02) Belgian Congo lament (22:44) stupidity epidemic (25:06) Who the f*** is we (29:14) Impeachment (37:43) Shame doesnt work (47:00) Macrons sunglasses (49:55) Carney: rupture not transition (59:38) Soleimani in Iceland + beta powers (1:01:21) China is a*hle"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T00:49Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Why [-----] NYC Apartments Sit Empty - The Fifth Column The rent is so damn high yet there are so many vacant apartments what's going on here -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn"
YouTube Link 2026-01-10T13:02Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Megyn Kelly on Candace Owens Tucker Carlson and her influence over the Republican Party Megyn Kelly joined The Fifth Column podcast and got into it with the boys about her defense of Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson as well Charlie Kirk conspiracies and her presumed influence over the MAGA movement. Watch the full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=CIhmnwf_Bew -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack:"
YouTube Link 2025-10-03T17:51Z 14.8K followers, 236.3K engagements
"Why Mamdani's not afraid of grabbing power - Shadi Hamid on The Fifth Column The Washington Post's Shadi Hamid joins The Fifth Column to talk about his new book The Case For American Power. Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#285) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full interview at https://www.wethefifth.com/p/members-only-285-the-case-for-american -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/"
YouTube Link 2025-11-12T18:27Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements
"John Bolton's Views on Iraq War Maybe Iraq should have never existed to begin with From this week's episode of The Fifth Column with John Bolton"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T22:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"It wasn't just sex trafficking - Brace Belden on the Epstein Money Mystery - The Fifth Column Is the Jeffrey Epstein story even weirder than we thoughtor is it actually more "boring" In this clip Brace Belden (True Anon) joins the show to dive into the latest batch of released Epstein emails. While the internet is flooded with wild theories Brace and the host debate the "Striver" vs. "Agent" narratives. Was Epstein just a high-level scam artist desperate to be around important people or was he the center of a massive international money-laundering web involving Norwegian diplomats Russian"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T22:28Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Matt Welch's The Revolutionaries The wildest stories of the American Revolution are the ones nobody bothered to tell you. It wasnt just noble speeches it was frostbite misfires egos and disasters. Join The Fifth Columns Matt Welch to unpack American History in all its ugly glory in the new miniseries The Revolutionaries where he speaks with historians podcasters and other oddballs to tell us some crazy misunderstood and lesser-known stories about our awesome if not exactly crystal-pure revolutionary past. The idea is not only to learn new (and fun) history but also pick away a bit at the"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T19:53Z 21.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Trump Only Wanted Greenland for Real Estate When youre a hammer everythings a nail. Trumps former NSA John Bolton pulled absolutely zero punches on the latest episode of The Fifth Column out now"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T16:01Z 21.8K followers, 123.4K engagements
"Trumps Revenge on John Bolton Trump apparently doesnt care if his former NSA John Bolton lives or dies. From our new episode with John Bolton out now"
YouTube Link 2026-02-12T20:41Z 21.8K followers, 27.9K engagements
"Trump Canceled My Protection While Iran Is Trying to Kill Me - John Bolton on The Fifth Column #544 Former Ambassador John Bolton joins the trio to discuss the nuances of a retribution presidency including the personal cancellation of his Secret Service protection on Inauguration Day leaving him to wonder who will get him first: the Presidents legal team or the Iranian hit squads. Bolton offers a blistering critique of current foreign policy from the clown show that is Tulsi Gabbard to the transactional real estate vibes of trying to buy Greenland. He also weighs his odds against an 18-count"
YouTube Link 2026-02-12T06:21Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Bolton is not fan of Tulsi Gabbard Shes a flake former Trump NSA John Bolton on Tulsi Gabbard. Watch our new episode with John Bolton now"
YouTube Link 2026-02-12T16:50Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Rand Paul on GOP Sellouts Are any principled conservatives left in the federal government Our full interview with Senator Rand Paul is on our Substack"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T16:40Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Did the U.S. Almost Bomb Colombia Sen. Rand Paul on Deescalating the Conflict. Via Text Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky explains how he prevented a military escalation by sending a quick text message to the President. Excerpt from a Members Only "One Hitter" episode of The Fifth Column (#301). Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/publish/posts/detail/187564958referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fpublished -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T23:01Z 21.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Did the US Almost Bomb Colombia In our interview Senator Rand Paul discussed the crucial role he played in brokering talks between Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro. Watch our full conversation with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul out now on Substack"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T22:56Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"About that Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show (and the TPUSA one) -The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#300) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-bunny -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. Get our free newsletter & access to exclusive content: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Listen to the audio version of the show: Apple Podcasts -"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T17:31Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"What We Learned About Epstein From His Steve Bannon Interview - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#299) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/triumph-of-the-grift -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. Get our free newsletter & access to exclusive content: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Listen to the audio version of the show: Apple Podcasts -"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T01:56Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Kevin OLeary Lived The Bachelors Dream @kevinoleary lived every bachelor's dream only to go back to his wife and family forever"
YouTube Link 2026-02-07T16:35Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"More Centrists in US Politics Than Ever Why are moderates simultaneously popular and nowhere to be found Check out the full episode with John Avlon"
YouTube Link 2026-02-06T22:28Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Calling Out The Extremes on Your Own Side When the base is the only audience that matters any heretics must be punished immediately"
YouTube Link 2026-02-06T16:53Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Media Bias Should Not Be Avoided Media bias is the spice of life"
YouTube Link 2026-02-05T21:33Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories Some people need a conspiracy theory just to get out of bed in the morning"
YouTube Link 2026-02-05T17:26Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Un-Effing America With John Avlon - The Fifth Column #543 (Full Episode) John Avlon stops by The Fifth Colum (episode #543) only to learn he's in the Epstein files why the Daily Beast shouldve sold dick pills and why we need to rebuild guardrails on what some call "stolen land" (0:00) Cold open (0:31) Epstein Files (2:05) Election paranoia (8:10) Populists and purists (14:40) Georgia and the FBI (21:05) Media incentives (33:10) Tucker and CPAC (44:25) Identity politics (56:40) Party sorting (1:10:15) Guardrails and civic culture (1:23:30) Wrap-up -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T23:03Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Breaking Down Don Lemons Arrest Don Lemons arrest begs the question to what extent should journalists be legally shielded from the crimes they are documenting"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T23:01Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Collateral Damage of the Epstein File Release The reckless release of [--] million new Epstein documents winds up hurting people who had no relation to Jeffrey Epstein whatsoever"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T20:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Melania Movie Review Pt. [--] Can we move on from the Melania movie now"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T20:58Z 21.8K followers, 654.6K engagements
"Michael Moynihan's MELANIA Documentary Debrief - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#299) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/triumph-of-the-grift -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. Get our free newsletter & access to exclusive content: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Listen to the audio version of the show: Apple Podcasts -"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T17:52Z 21.8K followers, 167.5K engagements
"The Epstein Files Are Untrue BS The latest Epstein files double as a Rorschach test of the readers sanity"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T15:04Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"When Blaming Everything on the West Goes Wrong From The Fifth Column podcast"
YouTube Link 2026-02-02T20:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Melania Movie Review We sent Michael Moynihan to watch the Melania movie. Hes still complaining about it. Subscribe (free) to The Fifth Column on Substack: https://www.wethefifth.com Melania Melania Trump Melania doc Melania film Trump Movie review The fifth column Michael Moynihan Brett Ratner Jeff bezos Amazon Melania Melania Trump Melania doc Melania film Trump Movie review The fifth column Michael Moynihan Brett Ratner Jeff bezos Amazon"
YouTube Link 2026-01-30T22:47Z 21.8K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Dr. Oz private investigator - The Fifth Column Dr. Mehmet Oz is trying to steal Nick Shirley's thunder. His idiot thunder -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video"
YouTube Link 2026-01-30T21:56Z 21.8K followers, 15.9K engagements
"Trump Needs New Friends Maybe all Trump needs is a new friend group. From the new episode of The Fifth Column out now"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T20:53Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Enthusiastic Armadas Armenian Bakeries Yes Apology Ad - The Fifth Column #542 Iran and near abroad geopolitics Donroe Doctrine Mehmet Oz plays private investigator and Yes uncanny apology ad. (00:00) Cold Open (05:30) Iran threats and death-toll discourse (13:45) The Donroe Doctrine and near abroad logic (22:30) Saudis Iran Israel (30:40) Were the dead Trump fans (36:20) Noem Lewandowski Homan (48:10) Influencers enforcement and institutional decay (1:01:30) Dr. Oz P.I. (01:11:45) Ye Apology (1:14:50) Mailbag -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T00:32Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Childhood Trauma in an NFL Locker Room The trauma is real"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T16:59Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Unravelling a Journalism Scandal Michael Moynihan uncovered a journalism scandal back in [----] after noticing some suspicious Bob Dylan quotes in a book he was reading"
YouTube Link 2026-01-28T15:40Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Minneapolis TACO Tuesday and the Nazi-Analogy Addiction - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#298) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/taco-tuesday-in-minneapolis-and-the Its been ugly in Minneapolis and the language around it has gotten wild fast. The guys try to sort signal from spin and separate whats known from whats assumed then Moynihan closes with a plea to stop laundering every argument through Nazi analogies. (0:00) TACO time (0:26) Bovino Demoted (2:17) Insurgency talk (5:29) Job survival (9:14) Papers please (12:29) Stop"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T21:42Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Stop Calling ICE the Gestapo Is it irresponsible to compare ICE to the Gestapo"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T18:52Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Why do ICE officers wear masks From our interview with former cop and criminal justice professor Peter Moskos"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T22:43Z 21.8K followers, 11K engagements
"I Ran MSNBC. Tucker Was Brilliant. Now the Conspiracy Economy Runs Trumps America- The Fifth Column Dan Abrams starts with a surprising MSNBC-era admission about Tucker Carlson then walks through what changed why the guardrails at DOJ are thinner than people assume and how the courts could become the last real constraint if an administration starts ignoring orders. He closes with the bleak incentive structure: conspiracies sell debunking does not. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T22:15Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Why havent there been more rockstar cancellations Marilyn Manson is cancel cultures Teflon Don"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T20:12Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Former cop reacts to ICE / CBP shooting of Alex Petri in MN - The Fifth Column Former cop and criminal justice professor Peter Moskos answers our questions about the killing of Alex Petri in Minneapolis on Jan [--] [----]. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th"
YouTube Link 2026-01-25T17:14Z 21.8K followers, 40.2K engagements
"Former Cop Reacts to Video of Shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis ICE op - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#297) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full conversation with former cop & current John Jay prof Peter Moskos here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/one-hitter-another-ice-shooting-in Get a copy of Peter's book "Back From The Brink" here: https://amzn.to/4sWUTT1 In the hours after ICE shot and killed Alex Pretti we gathered at the studio to sit down with : former police officer current John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor and author of Back From The Brink"
YouTube Link 2026-01-25T15:21Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Are the libs to blame for the behavior of ICE in their cities - The Fifth Column This one requires thinking -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth"
YouTube Link 2026-01-23T16:59Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Greenland Cake Stupid Politics - The Fifth Column Bikini models and football hooligans rejoice -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth the fifth"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T23:59Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"CU Next Thursday - The Fifth Column LIVESTREAM - Jan [--] It's The Fifth Column's first ever public livestream LFG -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth livestream"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T19:16Z 21.8K followers, 11K engagements
"Putin may want Trump to get Greenland more than anyone - The Fifth Column He just wants the ice -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth Greenland"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T12:01Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Trumps speech in Davos may be his magnum opus - The Fifth Column Florida Man in Davos -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth Donald Trump Davos"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T04:46Z 21.8K followers, 16.2K engagements
"Trump Would Do Anything For Greenland (But He Won't Do That) - The Fifth Column #541 (Full Episode) Recorded hot on the heels of Trumps Jan [--] speech in Davos we're dropping this week's episode early. Enjoy (0:00) Cold Open (1:11) Davos + Greenland/Iceland (2:16) Excessive strength and force (15:05) The Danes WW2 resistance (20:02) Belgian Congo lament (22:44) stupidity epidemic (25:06) Who the f*** is we (29:14) Impeachment (37:43) Shame doesnt work (47:00) Macrons sunglasses (49:55) Carney: rupture not transition (59:38) Soleimani in Iceland + beta powers (1:01:21) China is a*hle"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T00:49Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Dont say 'arguably. Thats the whole problem - The Fifth Column Sometimes maturity means abandoning the hubris of your own opinions -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T21:51Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Chuck Klosterman on Why Football Works - The Fifth Column Excerpt from a Members Only episode (#296) of The Fifth Column. Watch the full conversation with Chuck Klosterman here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/football-billy-joel-van-halen-and Get a copy of Chuck's new book "Football" here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/football-chuck-klosterman/6f7b5ee7868210baean=9780593490648&next=t -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack:"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T17:33Z 21.8K followers, 13.8K engagements
"Football Is Fascism.and its Incredible - Chuck Klosterman on The Fifth Column "Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" author Chuck Klosterman is back with a book on Americas real pastime. Full conversation here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/football-billy-joel-van-halen-and -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: /"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T12:00Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Experience looks like restraint - The Fifth Column This doesn't -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth ICE Immigration the fifth column fifth"
YouTube Link 2026-01-17T15:00Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Yes You Can Film the Police- The Fifth Column .and ICE -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X: https://x.com/wethefifth TikTok: / wethefifth Facebook: / @thefifthcolumn the fifth column fifth column 5th column Kmele Foster Matt Welch Michael Moynihan Reason Tangle News The Moynihan Report Video Podcast The Fifth ICE Immigration the fifth column fifth column 5th"
YouTube Link 2026-01-16T23:14Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Being Straight Looks Exhausting - Josh Barro on The Fifth Column An excerpt from episode #539 Josh Barro joins the guys for a late-show detour into heteropessimism: why straight dating feels broken what gay dating looks like by comparison and how incentives shape everything from Grindr logistics to nightlife economics. -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle the people who make it and occasionally themselves. FOLLOW Substack: https://wethefifth.substack.com/ Instagram: / we.the.fifth X:"
YouTube Link 2026-01-16T20:13Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"1776 How about [----] Author Charles C. Mann on the Pueblo Revolt - The Revolutionaries Guest Charles C. Mann explains how the Pueblo Revolt of [----] was organized why it erupted with such speed and violence and what its aftermath suggests about power empire and the shaping of the American West. This is a clip from The Revolutionaries a new Fifth Column miniseries for the Semiquincentennial. Watch the full episode here: https://www.wethefifth.com/p/the-revolutionaries-w-charles-c-mann -- Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch The Fifth Column provides a weekly"
YouTube Link 2026-01-16T17:24Z 21.8K followers, [---] engagements
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