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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#531 - Liberal of Fox News, Unite! (w/ Jessica Tarlov)
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We’re joined by Jessica Tarlov, co-host of The Five on Fox News, and Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway. •Among the cons •What does it all mean? •Over performance. Under performance •AOC’s war •What if the people who you want to destroy are the same people who ensure your existence? •You can afford to live here. Just not *here* •How to moderate a…
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Members Only #284 - Pod Save The Queen (The Fascist Regime) with Jon Lovett
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com • Don’t mess with the Zoran • The opacity of hope • Inspiration is overrated • Wait, what if none of these proposals actually work… • The return of identity politics? • Is offline politics “additive, human, humane, and empathetic?” • The Dem doom loop • The online left…
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* We are now alone / He’s out of our life * The Republican rebels? * Announcing a Fifth Column live show in LA! Subscribers get first crack! * Prediction: a stadium full of lusty boos for Matt Welch * Cuomo’s nonexistent campaign * The Truth and Armpits Party * On Zohran’s vaunted “political instincts” * If the cops rough you up in Queens, it’s bec…
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Members Only #283 - Putin on the Fritz (w/ Ambassador Michael McFaul)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Russia, has a new book… - The disaster of Russia - Trump’s evolving views on Putin (and Nigel’s…and Georgia’s…) - When McFaul met Putin…in 1991 - Was the Maidan uprising an American-sponsored coup? - It’s not about NATO - From bo…
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#529 - I Don’t Want You to Go to Jail for That, Jeffrey Toobin!
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•Who subscribes to the New York Post? •One Battle After Another Redux •Myrna Opsahl and other deep cuts •F. Lee Bailey, legal consultant •Fawn Hall Gate •Double secret Nazis •Second Amendment People •The one on the right is on the left •Rehabilitation of the American radical •Omnibombers of the 1970s •I beg your pardon •An x-ray into Donald Trump’s…
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Members Only #282 – There Will Be Spoilers (One Battle After Another, Cartoon Politics, and Car Chases)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Rooting against the dancing Irish poor Does One Battle After Another “whitewash left-wing violence?” LOTS OF SPOILERS, FYI In praise of Bullitt-esque car chases… The Lockjaw cartoon The genius of Jim Downey Matt is hemophobic Right-wing SNL Could you reverse the politi…
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Members Only #281 - When You've Eaten the Poison, You Might as Well Lick the Plate (w/ Jake Adelstein)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Check out Jake Adelstein’s new book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin •A Japanese literacy test •Chvalry is not dead •They don’t teach you how to drink in J school •The Ansel Elgortification of Jake Adelstein •The Yakuza throw a killer Halloween party •Lions, and Tigers and Joe…
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#528: President Comacho Delivers Peace, w/ Mary Katharine Ham
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* Misgendering Fox News * Wait, Michael was at a dinner? * Kmele tries to pronounce Normally * “Clearly we don’t fucking prepare” * “The last time I was with you guys, we were in a much smaller, darker room and I got very drunk” * Trump brings the hostages back … * … then emcees a roast * Somebody tell Bill Kristol! * A little bit psycho vs. the UN…
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Members Only #280 - Megyn Kelly Blowback, Principled Sanity, and Nihilistic Dread
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com •One Battle After Another •Kmele’s hot take that will bring ruin to Hollywood •Separating the art from John Cusack •The kinship of Susan Sarandon & Mao Zedong •It’s not the dead kid that is most unsettling part of Stand By Me •Amity, as you know, means friendship •No d…
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#527 - War is Over (If Hamas Wants It)
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* Subscribe to our YouTube channel already! * A shirt full of toothpaste * Whiskey in a jar * Your dumb, complaining emails * A roundtable of cranks and weirdos * Happy 100 year anniversary Antifa! * People. People. It ain’t fascism. And it ain’t ISIS. * Wait, Twitter IS real life!!!!!! * The long shadow of 2020 * Remembering Seattle’s WASP autonom…
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