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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. wethefifth.substack.com
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The most interesting conversations in American life now happen in private. This show is bringing them out of the closet. Stories no one else is telling and conversations with the most fascinating people in the country, every week from former New York Times and Wall Street Journal journalist Bari Weiss.
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#459 - The Horns of Hamas / Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (w/ Olivia Reingold)
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* Getting Drudged * Getting the spray * This new color isn’t working * Olivia amongst the Hamasniks in Union Square * Tearing up notebooks, airhorns in the ear…stuck in the middle of a protest * Hey hey ho ho shitty chants have got to go * Did any journalists reach out? * What if this was a Trump rally? * Legally blonde * You’ll be in a Trump camp …
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“I Was Wrong About Anti Semitism”: Sheryl Sandberg on Waking Up
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Last Saturday, stunning news broke out of Israel: four hostages had been rescued by the Israel Defense Forces in a daring daylight operation in central Gaza. Noa Argamani, 26; Almog Meir Jan, 22; Andrey Kozlov, 27; and Shlomi Ziv, 41, were liberated after 245 days in captivity. The first name, Noa Argamani, was one that many people recognized immed…
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The Former Russian Official Calling for a Coup Against Putin
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When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it was the largest military attack on a European country since World War II. Reliable casualty figures are hard to come by, but U.S. intelligence officials estimated last year that as many as 500,000 Russians and Ukrainians had been killed in the conflict, with an estimated 15–30 million refugees. Congr…
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BONUS: Is the Trump Verdict a Witch Trial? Or Justice?
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On May 30, former president Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with hush money payments to adult actress Stormy Daniels. His sentencing has been scheduled for July 11, four days before the Republican National Convention. He faces a possible sentence of four years for each count. If you wer…
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#458 - Free Everyone! Support No One!
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* Some unpopular opinions * Raise your hand if you’ve ever lied to the government * Fetterman and Real Time * Are you *addicted* to Marijuana??? * Who are the victims here? * Excessive sentencing is bad, even for bad people * Victims: Alex Jones? Hunter Biden? DJT??? * Biden is totally fine and thinking otherwise is the end of democracy * Joe Scarb…
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Argentina's President Javier Milei Loves Being the Skunk at the Garden Party
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At the start of the twentieth century, Argentina was one of the wealthiest countries in the world. The capital, Buenos Aires, was known as “the Paris of South America.” A lot can happen in a hundred years. Argentina today is in grave crisis. It has defaulted on its sovereign debt three times since 2001, and a few months ago it faced an annualized i…
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Subversion of the West
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the author of several books—including the 2006 autobiography Infidel—as well as a fellow at the Hoover Institution She runs a foundation focused on human rights and, yes, she has a Substack. But Ayaan comes from a very different world from most of the people who inhabit our think tanks and ivory towers. Unlike those of us in the …
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Members Only #212 - Whatever It Is, I’m Against It (Spaceships and Boobies)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com * No matter what it is or who commenced it… * MAGA Hawaii * Inflatable gallows * The eye of the horrible Stormy * It’s a bird! It’s a Qassam! No…it’s the Blonde Zionist! * Dronez: The Hunt for El Chigon * Listener email: Working class kid makes good. Will his kids…
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#457 - The Witch Trials of Alvin Bragg, The End of Vice, The Beginning of Reflector (w/ Matt Boll & Andy Mills)
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A double-album worth of great content this week. Start off with Moynihan talking to Matt and Kmele about his Free Press piece charting the collapse of Vice and him forthcoming piece charting the collapse of the Black Panther Party. Then the lads chat about the weirdness of the New York Trump trial, Israel in Rafah, and lots more. And stick around f…
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How ‘Vice’ Went from a $6 Billion Media Empire to Bankruptcy
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Fifteen years ago, Vice was the envy of the media industry. While other outlets were shrinking, the edgy multimedia organization with a knack for virality was growing. At its peak, Vice had a reported value of $6 billion. At one point, Disney offered to buy the company for $3.4 billion. The CEO said no. Something even bigger was on the horizon. Exc…
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Jerry Seinfeld on the Rules of Comedy—and Life
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The first episode of Seinfeld aired in 1989. Thirty-five years later, the show remains at the apex of American culture. People speak in Seinfeld-isms, they flirt on dating apps over Seinfeld, they rewatch old episodes of Seinfeld when they’re feeling down. And, in the case of the Weiss family, Lou still watches it every night from 11 pm to 12 am on…
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Members Only #211 - The Ann Landers Edition
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com * The LP snoozer * Remembering that lady who said that gross thing about kids * You will never play in the NBA, baby * Zone of Interest redux, briefly * The Ann Landers portion begins * Should I stop being an academic and become a cop who lurks on dating apps? * T…
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Is Israel's War Just? Eli Lake and Michael Moynihan v Briahna Joy Gray and Jake Klein
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A few weeks ago, there was an awesome event in Brooklyn in partnership with UnHerd called Dissident Dialogues. It was exactly what it sounds like: debates and discussions on the most pressing questions facing our society today. Questions like: Have we reached peak woke? Can universities be saved? Can liberalism be saved? Is government censorship ju…
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#456 - Hoops, Sneks, and Very Bad Doctors (w/ Aaron Sibarium)
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* The most serious race controversy of 2024: that lady basketball player * “I mean, I've been a huge fan of Blackpink for years and I've never heard a single one of their songs.: * Snek and the Supreme Court * Everyone's wife is Ginny Thoma * The defense rests * Local news and crappy journalists * In defense of…Marilyn Mosby? * Israel and the ICC *…
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* At a party * At Fenway * Losers (which is apparently already a show) * Jake, Dana, Donald, and Joe * Cui bono? * How Joe wins * How Donald wins * The NY trial continues… * Mitt Romney would pardon DT * “Attacked our legal system” * The new Noem * Post-Donald, where does the party go? * How goes it in Ukraine? This is a public episode. If you’d li…
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Members Only #210 - Odds, Bobs, Feminist Bank Tellers, and the Records That Changed Us
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com * Italian bootlegs * Warm Fanta * Drinking on your European vacation * The Comfort of Strangers * Pre-internet travel * Jake Siegel: a moderate dissent…and Fifth reaction * Probability and the feminist bank teller * What happens when people call you bad names in p…
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Nellie Bowles Knows Why So Many Progressives Lost Their Minds—She Almost Did, Too
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Nellie Bowles wasn’t always the TGIF queen you know and love at The Free Press. In fact, Nellie was, for a very long time, deeply embedded in the progressive left. Before Bari and Nellie met—and fell in love, blah blah blah—in 2019, Nellie was nothing short of a media darling. She had the right ideas, she wrote the right stories, and NYT readers at…
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#454 - A Conspiracy So Vast (w/ Jacob Siegel)
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So many of you have written us demanding the return of Jacob Siegel that when word got to us that he was back in New York, we hunted him down and demanded that he submit to a *third* appearance on The Fifth. We discovered that Comrade Siegel, a gravelly voiced veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq and senior writer at Tablet, is hard at work on a book, a…
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