The Fifth Column
Hosted by Kmele and Moynihan · Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
4.6from 1,305 ratings
- 722
- Episodes
- 300
- Transcribed
- 1,305
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About The Fifth Column
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition. www.wethefifth.com (https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
- Category
- comedy
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 2 Apr 2016
- Latest episode
- 4 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
300 of 722 episodes have a transcript.
4 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Morning After Midterm Madness
31 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
One Hitter: Midterm Madness Pregame
30 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Socialist Walks Into The Fifth Column (w/ Bhaskar Sunkara) #581
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The Morning After Midterm Madness
Published 4 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's just Trump. There is no Republican Party. There is no Trumpism beyond Trump. And everyone has been seeking this for 10 years. And there is nothing. There is just Donald Trump, the sucking vacuum that is going to pull everything in his orbit into its increasingly hungry ma until it is all destroyed. […]
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- Mary Katharine Ham
- Marc Caputo
- Ben Dreyfuss
- Greg Lukianoff
- David A Graham
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 165 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 1,140 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 97
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Who hosts The Fifth Column?
Kmele and Moynihan host the show. Published by Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does The Fifth Column take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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