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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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Members Only #207 - Columbia Breakdown: Next Stop Baader Meinhof?
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com * Swedish breakdown * Columbia breakdown * The continued rise of American extremism * The politics of “genocide” * The politics of propaganda * Chicago expectations * A newborn in the Fifdom * Our Batya episode * Trusting anti-trust? * The NPR excel spreadsheet * …
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#451 - The Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)
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You asked, we delivered. Our pal Batya Ungar-Sargon enters the octagon to (politely!) fight the Globalist Fifth on trade, Trump, robots, unions, automation, and a bunch of other stuff. But we also agree on lots of other things! Hear Batya talk about her wild Israel debate on Zerohedge, how her last book foresaw the NPR madness, and why perverse inc…
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#450 - Republican Wine Moms and a Dead Double Murderer
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* Ozempic Joe * The Juice has expired * Revisiting the “Trial of the Century” * The double murderer who “abandoned his race” * In defense of Marcia Clark * Dementia dads * Matt Lauer emerges * Nutty MTG, drunky Boebert * Arizona abortions * Operation Bubble Wrap * Poor guy in a ski mask shoots at cops * Group condemnations and the “IDW” This is a p…
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Members Only #206 - Hitting From the Ladies' Tee
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com * Kid rapping * Saturday Night Fever is dark, dark movie * Girl dadding * Anti-communist manifestos * On Andrew and Israel * Big bombs in Iraq: not so fast, Andrew! * The normalization of extremism * Don’t be Paul Robeson * What it means to be “anti-war’ * Dehamas…
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#449 - The Prince of Tide Pools (w/ Andrew Sullivan)
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Third time’s even more charming! Andrew “Cheech” Sullivan is back, puffing away and ruminating on Israel, Iraq, conservatives, the trans movement, loud music from bluetooth speakers, the awfulness of Trump (who won’t be a dictator, btw), the resilience of American democracy, the resounding victories of the gay rights movement, and the general borin…
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Members Only #205 - Almost Lost, Unfortunately Found
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com Last month’s “Second Sunday” broadcast was fun, boozy, and…almost lost. We won’t point any fingers—though they might be jabbed in the direction of a certain someone during the recording—but through a Peter Jackson-like audio excavation, it was saved. Was that a go…
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#448 - A Hot Mess (w/ Kat Rosenfield)
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The title says it all. The three lads were together, in the same studio, for the second time in as many months. And it’s possible that the start of this particular episode was, for whatever reason, a bit chaotic. But as we settle in with our friend novelist and journalist Kat Rosenfield, we ultimately managed to discuss a few things like… * Kat’s c…
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#447 - Sour Lemon and the Blood Libels
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* Note to Ben Shapiro: not sure Candace Owens is a big fan of the Jews * A sick little girl needs Bruins v. Rangers tickets. I mean…sort of. She recently had Covid… * When life gives you Lemon, fire him because he’s a terrible interviewer * How not to do an interview * Depression and ketamine * The Jamaican national anthem * The chocolate balls of …
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Members Only #204 - Amplification Accusation: The Dumbest Debate Ever?
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com * Norm the Nosy Neighbor * A terrible coinage * Did Moynihan kick off this idiocy? Probably! * Why did we “amplify” a popular internet documentary that we didn’t like? * We should have disliked the thing we already disliked even more * Getting clicks is always mor…
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#446 - Tik Tok Flip Flop, Porn-Free Texas, Democracy-Free Russia
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* Too much toilet paper * A subway shooting in Brooklyn * BTW, dude isn’t dead * Mike Tyson might kill that YouTube guy with the dumb earrings * On banning Tik Tok * Texans have no porn * Who will win the Russian elections???? * Anti-Italian cable descramblers and freaky phones * Malaysian monitors Russian election from basement apartment in Malays…
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