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The Fifth Column

Sessions Problems, Real Medical Costs, LA 92 and O.J.'s Juice: The New Fifth Column

Watch Michael Moynihan get his junk checked, and listen to Kmele Foster wax poetical about his family's immigration.

Matt Welch | 7.20.2017 4:44 PM

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Last week on HBO's Vice News, former Reasoner and current Vice person Michael C. Moynihan, one-third of the weekly podcast (and Sirius XM radio show) The Fifth Column, let a series of doctors probe his sensitive areas while he attempted to ask them questions about costs, paperwork, and distortions in the medical market. The results are amusing and interesting, and you can watch them here:

We talk about that experience, in the context of Obamacare repeal's latest failures, on this week's episode of the podcast. Other topics include Vegas trips of yore, involving a singer named "Cheese."

* O.J. Simpson and his penis.

* Jeff Sessions and his many problems.

* Reflections on John McCain.

* An immigration report card six months in to Donald Trump's presidency.

* Advancements in and structural impediments to forensic science, and reforms thereof.

* The acclaimed new doc, LA 92.

Listen right here:

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  1. Citizen X - #6   9 years ago

    I NEEDS TA CHECK YA JUNKHOLE

  2. Crusty Juggler :)   9 years ago

    Other topics include Vegas trips of yore, involving a singer named "Cheese."

    Mr. Welch jumped into the confessional, and it was...you know...what happens people jump into confessionals.

  3. lopomifi   9 years ago

    my stepmum recently bought an awesome gold Hyundai Elantra Touring Hatchback by working parttime off of a pc online ||| EARN MONEY JOB -

  4. Hugh Akston   9 years ago

    I enjoyed watching Moynihan pay men to fondle his junk.

    1. Jerry on the sea   9 years ago

      Only $100, but no happy ending?

      1. Hugh Akston   9 years ago

        Vice's health plan doesn't cover happys out of network.

  5. XM   9 years ago

    Universal health care - where doctors are encouraged not to specialize and go into general practice because the government pays them so much!

  6. GILMORE?   9 years ago

    I need a rating on the Drunk-Level of this podcast. Scale of 1-to-Harrison Ford @ The Golden Globes

    1. Crusty Juggler :)   9 years ago

      1, although I got the sense that Welch was stoned.

      1. GILMORE?   9 years ago

        I got the sense that Welch was stoned.

        you mean 'extra'-stoned? i assume Welch is always at least a little baked. I don't think you can end up editing a libertarian magazine unless you're been 'kinda high' for a decade or so.

        1. Crusty Juggler :)   9 years ago

          He jumped on the nostalgia train to the before times, so, he did whatever takes him there.

          However, I did enjoy the LA riot stuff from all of them.

  7. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    What do you suppose the mood was like in the recording booth when they all realized the Sirius deal meant they'd actually have to do this thing every week?

    1. GILMORE?   9 years ago

      contemplation of the long-term liver-damage?

  8. Think It Through   9 years ago

    Are you kidding me it's against the rules to masturbate in prison in your own cell? I would think it would be ENCOURAGED. Very very strange.

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