The Fifth Column Podcast
| The Fifth Column Podcast | |
|---|---|
| File:The Fifth Column Podcast Logo.jpg | |
| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | Kmele Foster, Matt Welch, Michael C. Moynihan |
| Genre | News & Politics |
| Format | MP3 |
| Language | English |
| Updates | Weekly |
| Length | 50-120 mins |
| Publication | |
| Original release | Apr 1, 2016 – present |
| Website | wethefifth |
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The Fifth Column Podcast is an American politics, news and humor podcast founded in April 2016. The show is hosted by Kmele Foster, with co-hosts Michael C. Moynihan, Matt Welch and produced by contributor Anthony L. Fisher and Daniel Bier. The podcast is described as, in each episode, an “...almost weekly thoughtful commentary on the news, those who make it and occasionally ourselves”[1]. The show is closely associated with independent-leaning, libertarian and anarcho-capitalist ideology as presented by the show hosts and guests, but is not explicitly so.
Background and Format
The Fifth Column Podcast' first aired on iTunes April 2, 2016.[2] The show markets itself as “Analysis. Commentary. Sedition” on Instagram[3] and as “@MattWelch @mcmoynihan @Kmele pick apart the news, interrogate their guests and question just about everything #someidiotwrotethis” on Twitter[4]. The introduction to the podcast typically describes itself as: “…your almost weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it and occasionally ourselves…”. Credit for the show’s creation has been attributed to the encouragement of Kennedy (Lisa Kennedy Montgomery) and her husband Dave Lee, who are associates of the hosts. The name of the podcast has been attributed to a suggestion by Katherine Mangu-Ward as revealed in Episode 13 (3:05 mark)[5]. The original music that opens and closes the podcast includes a soundbite of F.D.R.’s speech given 1940/05/27 warning prejudices exploited by Fifth Columnists.
Reception
Reason.com regularly promotes The Fifth Column in its Hit & Run segments[6]. Other promotions come by way of wearelibertarians.com[7], rampantdiscourse.com[8], postlibertarian.com[9] and freedombunker.com[10].
References
- ↑ "116 w/ Harry Siegel "Soros' Paid Protest Mobs, Team Woke vs Team Resentment"". wethefifth.com.
- ↑ "The Fifth Column Podcast - iTunes".
- ↑ "The Fifth Column Podcast - Instagram".
- ↑ "wethefifth - Twitter".
- ↑ ""Islamic [REDACTED] and OJ Simpson"". June 21, 2016.
- ↑ Welch, Matt (April 1, 2016). "Whose Foreign Policy Is Really Dumb; the Elephant Man Theory of Beauty Pageants, and 'Some Idiot Wrote This'—Introducing The Fifth Column Podcast". www.reason.com.
- ↑ Spangle, Chris (July 4, 2016). "My Top 10 Libertarian Podcasts". wearelibertarians.com.
- ↑ Essen, Paul (November 23, 2016). "Things I Like: Podcasts". rampantdiscourse.com.
- ↑ "Trump Junior and Russia". postlibertarian.com. July 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Should we even care about Trump scandals and Russia? Michael Moynihan and Thad Russell duke it on on The Fifth Column". freedombunker.com. May 19, 2017.
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