The Fifth Column
Analysis, Commentary, Sedition. @wethefifth
Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
Show overview
The Fifth Column has been publishing since 2016, and across the 10 years since has built a catalogue of 671 episodes. That works out to roughly 900 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run over ninety minutes — most land between 45 min and 1h 49m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. Roughly 21% of episodes carry an explicit flag from the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News & Politics show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 68 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 103 episodes published. Published by Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch.
From the publisher
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