The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
#403 - FIRE in a Crowded Theater
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#403 - FIRE in a Crowded Theater

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  • Kmele MC’s the FIRE Gala

  • Killer Mike blows the roof off the joint

  • This is a hangover episode

  • A celebration of FIRE, the great Harvey Silverglate, and various other heroes of free speech

  • What cable news network has created this climate of hate….in Japan

  • If only we could prevent shitty speech, we would be on a forward march to utopia. Right?

  • The temptation, on both the right and left, to not “do the work”

  • The EU will control ChatGPT and all will be great

  • The forever instinct to “disappear” bad ideas

  • That very expensive Fox-Dominion settlement

  • The never-ending madness in Chicago

  • Root causes: A Pantone chart and a CPA

Discussion about this podcast

The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
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.