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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* Fleeeeeeeee * Don’t mess with the Zohran * Andrew Cuomo, Shah of NYC * Eric Adams to the rescue? (Oof) * Post-colonial Disney movies * Scarcity Democrats * Pull the fire alarm on this drunk idiot * This means nothing for national Democratic politics * And isn’t about Israel * Were the bunkers busted? * Hot Ukrainians save lives * NATO not so bad …
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Members Only #264 - Domino's, Hand Jobs, and WWIII
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com No listener mail this time. We’ll double up on the next Members Only. Just an hour-long conversation about Iran… (Moynihan note upon relisten: Qasem Soleimani was the commander of the Quds Force within the IRGC, not the IRGC itself)…
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#511 - Iran on the Brink, NYC on the Brink (w/ Harry Siegel)
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Two episodes in one! First, the lads discuss Iran, the legacy of the Iraq War, and MAGA’s internecine battles over foreign policy. And then Harry Siegel, the great chronicler of New York City politics, stops by to answer that hugely important question: will the financial capital of the world, the city with the largest Jewish population outside of I…
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#510 - BONUS EPISODE - The View from Israel (w/ Nadav Eyal)
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Moynihan and Welch talk to Nadav Eyal, senior columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth and one of Israel’s most prominent (and best-sourced) journalists. Typically, we would keep a bonus episode like this one behind the paywall. We were feeling generous today. But never rely on our continued generosity. So subscribe, cheapskate! * Meetings cancelled, meeting…
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#509 - The Rise of the Knuckleheads (w/ Sen. Rand Paul)
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Senator Rand Paul joins the lads to lament the big, beautiful bill; the big beautiful Soviet military parade; the Twitter halfwits waging war on him; his party’s descent into populist voodoo economics; whether or not he’s an advocate of “open borders”; and what he makes of Marines on the streets of Los Angeles. After the senator leaves, Foster, Moy…
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* A grim anniversary * Elon’s brilliant troll * The big, ugly bill * Bannon tells the truth. But is still a liar * How dare they attack their attacker?? * They have cards * Asymmetric and immoral * Changing minds…by human sacrifice * The blackest propaganda * The New York Times v. Palantir * And much, much more This is a public episode. If you'd li…
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Members Only #252 - For Our Girls (The Message)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * ABBA’s Vietnam * Barnen i Nicaragua * Mike Tyson, Ratso, and Cus the Communist * Burning down the house / sort of scolded by a firefighter * The rent is too damn free * Everyone is contemptuous of everyone * Is Trump the Bernie Goetz of Harvard? * Rebutting “higher e…
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#507 - Trans Pee Wee and Tariffed Dresses
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* Racist Macca? * Some bad names * In praise of (trans?) Pee Wee * Does Long Duck Dong denounce his past? * Was that a Reaganite video game? * Trade war nonsense: the court says…maybe not * Moynihan’s $700 dress (including a $250 tariff) * Kmele on CNN * The end of Elon * Just like Reagan and Thatcher but not all * No suspects, no DNA, no fingerpri…
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Members Only #251 - I Learned It from Watching Nick Gillespie
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * We think we *might* have talked about politics in this episode? * Happy anniversary Christian Cooper! * Talking to the dude who made those drug PSAs * The Glug (1981) * 2020: The year that broke America * Burning down the house (almost) * The tax protestor in our mid…
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* The ritual humiliation white genocide slide show! * That’s not really true. But it doesn’t really matter, does it? * Trolling with refugees * That Mandela picture MM mentioned… * Uncle Paul * “Well do you DENOUNCE that language? Huh? Huh? Did you even say thank you??” * The big, not-so-beautiful bill * The trillion dollar dome * Gaza and the “14,…
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