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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. www.wethefifth.com
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#443 - Good Wars, Bad Candidates, and the Department of Straws and Napkins
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* This tattoo definitely wasn’t a horrible mistake * Matt has dementia * Pim Tool: tool of the FSB? * The $400,000 plagiarist * Brain “interference” vs. election “interference” * Did Trump acknowledge that he lost in 2020? * The childcare word salad * Plastic straw journalistic DISGRACE * Having principals versus having “a position” * Dumb neo-Nazi…
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#470 - Good Wars, Bad Candidates, and the Department of Straws and Napkins
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* This tattoo definitely wasn’t a horrible mistake * Matt has dementia * Pim Tool: tool of the FSB? * The $400,000 plagiarist * Brain “interference” vs. election “interference” * Did Trump acknowledge that he lost in 2020? * The childcare word salad * Plastic straw journalistic DISGRACE * Having principals versus having “a position” * Dumb neo-Nazi…
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Members Only #223 - Making Martyrs of Revisionist Rubes
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Illness fakers * Medium fakers * Ok, so let’s warm up with some music stuff * Does any band have a perfect four-album run? * “I’ve read a lot of books on WWII!!” * On the Martyr Made controversy * Baby Irvings * The bad guys are the good guys, and they have no agency…
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#469 - Kamala Speaks! Tim's Grammar! Bash Backlash!
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* Kamala finally submits to an interview * A Cascade of Disappointment) * A softball interview * Flip, flop, flibbedy flop * Wasted questions * Just a question of grammar * Code switch that racist wall * Trump in the cemetery * Trump in the bible * Trump impressions * Noel, Liam, Kmele * Matt and Moynihan reveal a secret, racially segregated text t…
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#442 - Kamala Speaks! Tim's Grammar! Bash Backlash!
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* Kamala finally submits to an interview * A Cascade of Disappointment) * A softball interview * Flip, flop, flibbedy flop * Wasted questions * Just a question of grammar * Code switch that racist wall * Trump in the cemetery * Trump in the bible * Trump impressions * Noel, Liam, Kmele * Matt and Moynihan reveal a secret, racially segregated text t…
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#468 - And now...the Coronation (w/ Alex Thompson)
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It’s the final night of the convention and in the hours before everything kicks off, the lads convened at the Substack loft to chat with Axios’s Alex Thompson, our old pal and arguably the most plugged in political reporter in America. We could offer some conversation bullet points but…just trust us. This is a really good one. Alex dishes on his re…
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#441 - And now...the Coronation (w/ Alex Thompson)
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It’s the final night of the convention and in the hours before everything kicks off, the lads convened at the Substack loft to chat with Axios’s Alex Thompson, our old pal and arguably the most plugged in political reporter in America. We could offer some conversation bullet points but…just trust us. This is a really good one. Alex dishes on his re…
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#467 - Fear & Loathing in Chi-town (w/ Mike Pesca)
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Moynihan, Welch, and Kmele’s Chicago misadventures continue in this dispatch, recorded just before night three of the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Joined by the incomparable Mike Pesca (host of The Gist), your favorite podcast triumvirate dissects the week’s events so far, their implications for the 2024 presidential race, and the future of…
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#440 - Fear & Loathing in Chi-town (w/ Mike Pesca)
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Moynihan, Welch, and Kmele’s Chicago misadventures continue in this dispatch, recorded just before night three of the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Joined by the incomparable Mike Pesca (host of The Gist), your favorite podcast triumvirate dissects the week’s events so far, their implications for the 2024 presidential race, and the future of…
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#466 - The Return of the Sexiest Guest Alive (w/ Steve Kornacki)
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Why waste time with discursive show notes when you can just say two very simple words? Steve Kornacki. One of People’s “Sexiest Men Alive” returns to the Fifth (for his fourth appearance??) to breakdown the latest polls, prognosticate on what happens to the Republican Party if Trump loses, and subtly reveal that he might be a degenerate blackjack p…
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#439 - The Return of the Sexiest Guest Alive (w/ Steve Kornacki)
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Why waste time with discursive show notes when you can just say two very simple words? Steve Kornacki. One of People’s “Sexiest Men Alive” returns to the Fifth (for his fourth appearance??) to breakdown the latest polls, prognosticate on what happens to the Republican Party if Trump loses, and subtly reveal that he might be a degenerate blackjack p…
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Members Only #220 - The Hottest Country Ever Invaded
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * An ethereum veep bet (Note: U.S. customers are banned, so no $1,000 on Shapiro bet was made) * Watching the Olympics * Supporting Ukrainian athletes for non-political reasons * Lil’ Moyn is still in it to win it * An old, prescient email… * “What did I do?” - Gerald …
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#465 - The Tsarina Has Abdicated. The Audie Murphys of Journalism. The Veep Will Make Toasters
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* Anything happen since we left? * La Bubblewrap * The media will do it for you * Everyone will forget about that NABJ appearance * Every journalist in that room is Audie Murphy * Who’s black? * Not in defense of Thomas Eagleton (soz) * The polls changed so let’s attack Nate Silver for noticing * Every one in politics is “weird” * The child will ne…
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#438 - The Tsarina Has Abdicated. The Audie Murphys of Journalism. The Veep Will Make Toasters
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* Anything happen since we left? * La Bubblewrap * The media will do it for you * Everyone will forget about that NABJ appearance * Every journalist in that room is Audie Murphy * Who’s black? * Not in defense of Thomas Eagleton (soz) * The polls changed so let’s attack Nate Silver for noticing * Every one in politics is “weird” * The child will ne…
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Steve Albini on Music, Meaning, and the Cosmos (Special Dispatch)
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In April 2023, while producing a documentary series for The John Templeton Foundation (JTF), I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing legendary punk/rock musician and producer audio engineer Steve Albini. Portions of that interview appear in the sixth installment of the doc series (which is phenomenal, and you should watch every episode immediat…
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Members Only #219 - Pronunciation Racism and the Triumph of Mentally Ill
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * HOF weekend * The Talented Ms. Jewhater * Notes from the RNC * The black Republicans who don’t care about ideology * The 33 person BBQ in North Milwaukee * Losing their religion * The Great Resignation * “She’s not Joe Biden on foreign policy, buy who is…” * Why they…
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