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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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#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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Members Only #209 - Rotten (and Racist) in Denmark
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com * Shogun erasure * Revolutionary accents * A debate on Israel and a subsequent anti-Moynihan calumny * Alas, anti-Semitism is common in certain parts of the world * Pointing this out seems pretty obvious * The WAV file * My melanated baby * Teaching kids versus ra…
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* Children of the revolution * No journalists allowed! * The Italian Gadsden flag * Oh no, Matt Welch…no, no, no * In defense of …Al Sharpton? * Dead soul singers * The great Baby Huey * Forgiving student debt is insane * College is dumb but it makes economic sense…for now * The New York Times and NPR * Jihad rehab * Twitter welcomes another sexles…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com * The Banana genocide * Professor, professor…let’s stick to the facts * A conspiracy documentary full of cranks and losers * 60 journalism professors find a story they cannot countenance * Listeners on ADHD and Adderall * RFK in CA * Nodding along with Lemon * How…
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#452 - The Strawberry Statement 2024 / The Eternal Adderall Shortage (w/ C.J. Ciaramella)
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A two-for-one offering from The Fifth: first, the lads discuss the ongoing student stupidities, free speech and protest, Kmele at TED, and how your views are probably pretty normal (ed. note: considering the full-court coverage of the Columbia intifada, it’s sort of surprising that no one is referencing this terrible 1970 film, written by Ad-Roc’s …
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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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