The Fifth Column (private feed for erik.christian.wiest@gmail.com)

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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

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#523 - On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

Sep 11th, 2025 2:18 AM

A very bad day for American politics, recorded within an hour of a young father’s death. Political violence, outgroup hatreds, and a side of media malpractice. With a sidebar conversation on 9/11, plus extended outro on the murder in Charlotte and subsequent discussion about race. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Members Only #274 - Jamaicanon and the Racist Storms

Sep 6th, 2025 11:02 AM

* You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both…* Waiting for Bill and Ted* A catalogue of bad prophecies* 7th Day Youtube* Jamicanon* Yakub and the Atlantians* War with Venezuela?* Was Katrina racist* “Heritage Americans”* A listener is mad about…one of our friends* The Zionist silence* I’ll always take your free trips* We are the (piss) pigs* Own your ethnic failures!* G… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

#522 - Video Killed the Podcast Star (ft. Mace, Epstein, Gladwell, Linehan)

Sep 4th, 2025 11:15 AM

* The video age is upon us * Sweet Jane* Crazy Nancy* I’m a survivor, I'm not gon' give up* You have a microphone. Just TELL US.* Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, pedo hunter* A revolt at HHS* The conspiratorial mind* Failing the logic test* Malcolm Gladwell comes clean. Moynihan doesn’t forgive* Taboo busting b/w forbidden topics* A hunch that they were lying…* Europe changed. Everyone pretended not to notice* The UK’s decent into mindless illiberalism * Graham Linehan demands something from the Fifth…we demurred* Reanimating the dead, only to kill them again* And so much more! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

#521 - MAGA Panthers and White FUBU

Aug 28th, 2025 10:00 PM

* A barrel of crackas* We’re buying Hooters* Glamorous hairstyling* Look it up, people * The caudillo and the talk show host* Hega-stan* MAGA Marx: Nationalize everything!* The era of state capitalism is upon us* Burn yer flags * Right-wing ACLU * One more time: the government is bad at things * A history of privatization * Lisa Cook and the Cult Jam * The coming violence?* MAGA Panthers * And so much more… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

On "The Summer of Our Discontent" w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams

Aug 26th, 2025 1:18 AM

Kmele connects with Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss his latest book, “The Summer of Our Discontent”. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that revisits the (or at least Thomas’) optimistic feelings toward the Obama moment in american politics, the backlash of the Trump years, and the ideological hangover of 2020’s “racial reckoning.” They wrestle with… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

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