Welcome to Five or Flop, a podcast for the best (and worst) historical fiction has to offer! Each week, we'll be reading and reviewing a different historical fiction book on a scale from flop to five. Make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok @fiveorflop_pod for all the latest updates! Have a book you want us to read? Send us a recommendation: https://forms.gle/1JroxLkK157zpa9N8 Read along with us on StoryGraph! Join the Five or Flop: Season One Reading Challenge and track you ...
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Five Or Flop Podcasts
Howie Kurtz picks five stories from the most important, to the most entertaining, to the buzziest. And, he will sound off on what they tell us about the media culture: Are they fair, fascinating or a flop?
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Imperfect Paradise is an award-winning weekly narrative podcast showcasing California stories with universal significance, hosted by Antonia Cereijido. Each deeply reported story is driven by characters who illuminate aspects of American identity and underscore California's reputation as a home for dreamers and schemers, its heartbreaking inequality, its varied and diverse communities, its unique combination of dense cities and wild places. New episodes premiere Wednesdays, with broadcasts o ...
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Reviewing The Handmaiden: Our Final Flop Film
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For the last bonus episode before season five begins, we're watching The Handmaiden, the Korean adaptation of Fingersmith! Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five. Leave us a review and give us a follow on Twitter…
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Jimmy Kimmel Back on Air After a Pressure Campaign Led by Celebrities and Customers
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Howie Kurtz on celebrity pressure getting Jimmy Kimmel back on air, Trump linking Tylenol to autism without scientific evidence and the White House denying border czar Tom Homan took 50k bribe. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Trump Orders Investigations of His Enemies, Pronounces Them Guilty
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Howie Kurtz on Trump pushing DOJ to prosecute his political enemies, Charlie Kirk's wife asking forgiveness for husband's killer and Sec. Hegseth imposing new restrictions on the media. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Comics Rally Behind Jimmy Kimmel, Conservative Influencers Stoked Outrage Leading to ABC Cancellation
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Howie Kurtz on the continuing reaction to the ABC firing Jimmy Kimmel, Trump planning to fire US attorney for failing to charge Letitia James and CDC Advisory Board votes against vaccines for children. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a…
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Why California's protest law is flawed and the consequences to protesters
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After the George Floyd protests of 2020, California took steps to reign in violent policing of protests by passing laws restricting how law enforcement uses less-lethal weapons, like tasers and rubber bullets. But high profile protests in 2024 and 2025 – including this summer’s protests against the ICE raids in Los Angeles – have revealed major fla…
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ABC Axes Jimmy Kimmel for Comments on Charlie Kirk's Killer
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Howie Kurtz on ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel's late night show 'indefinitely", Marjorie Taylor Greene calling for red states to secede and Joe Biden whining about his lack of speaking appearance invitations. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.c…
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Sickness: Wide Range of Professionals Fired for Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Murder
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Howie Kurtz on Pam Bondi promising to punish anti-Charlie Kirk rhetoric, FBI Director Kash Patel getting grilled over Ghislaine Maxwell interview and the Georgia Supreme Court declining to hear Fani Willis appeal. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc…
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Trump Sues New York Times for Campaign Coverage He Calls a Smear
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Howie Kurtz on President Trump filing a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, Trump not reacting to violent attacks on Democrats the same way and the passing of Robert Redford. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Trump Exclusively Blames the Left As America Still Reels from the Charlie Kirk Killing
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Howie Kurtz on Trump vowing to punish the 'radical left' for Charlie Kirk murder, the firing of people who posted hateful comments on the assassination and Nadine Menendez being sentenced to 4 & 1/2 years in prison. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcas…
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Suspect in Charlie Kirk Murder in Custody After Family Turns Him in
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Howie Kurtz on the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk now in custody, the shooter's family turning him in and the scourge of other violent attacks across the country. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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The Finger-Pointing Over the Horrifying Assassination of Charlie Kirk
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Howie Kurtz on the monstrous assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the ongoing political blame game over the murder and political leaders from both sides sharing their condolences. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoic…
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Handwriting War: Trump Insists Epstein Birthday Message is Not His Signature, Tries to Declare Story 'Dead'
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Howie Kurtz on Trump insisting the Epstein birthday drawing and message was not his writing, Trump and Vance getting heckled while out to dinner in D.C. and Polish forces shooting down Russian drones that entered their airspace. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices.…
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The Huntington Beach library at the center of America’s culture wars
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Censorship efforts at libraries nationwide have increased steadily over the last several years. In the 2023 - 24 school year, more than 10,000 book bans were counted in the country’s public schools. These efforts have become a cornerstone of a larger national debate over cultural influences and parents' rights to restrict those influences. LAist Or…
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Trump Still Denies Birthday Message to Epstein Despite Series of Texts Over Sketch of a Naked Woman
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Howie Kurtz on Trump birthday message and drawing to Epstein handed over to Congress, Murdoch family succession ending as Lachlan secures control and Howard Stern pranking listeners he was leaving radio. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/ad…
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Watching The Color Purple: No Flops Here!
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We're back to movies, watching the musical version of The Color Purple! Somehow, Whoopi Goldberg is still here? Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five. Leave us a review and give us a follow on Twitter, Instagram…
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How JP Morgan Paid and Enabled Jeffrey Epstein Well After His Sex-Crime Conviction
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Howie Kurtz on how JP Morgan enabled and profited from Jeffrey Epstein, Philly Karen takes home run ball away from kid and how there is more to the Pentagon rebrand than first expected. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Both Parties Slam RFK for His Hostility to Vaccines As a Danger to Children
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Howie Kurtz on RFK Jr. getting grilled by both parties over his anti-vaccine stance, DOJ launching criminal mortgage fraud probe into Fed Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and the Trump Administration getting heat for striking drug boat off the coast of Venezuela. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn m…
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Trump Offers Jobs to Clear the Field for Andrew Cuomo to Stop Socialist Zohran Mamdani
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Howie Kurtz on Trump getting involved in the NYC mayoral race with job offerings, judge ruling Trump administration can't withhold funding from Harvard and Epstein victims rallying in D.C. after sexual assaults now being called a 'hoax'. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad ch…
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Trump Very Much Alive at Presser, Pushes Back on Ugly Health Rumors
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Howie Kurtz on President Trump pushing back on claims his health is in decline, China pushing new global order alongside Russia and Trump family bitcoin begins trading on Nasdaq. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Last month, former Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristen Crowley filed a legal claim against Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, alleging defamation, retaliation and negligence in the wake of Bass’ firing of her. It’s the latest chapter in a feud that erupted during the historic wildfires in January. In light of these new developments, we bring you our original…
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