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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. www.wethefifth.com
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#520 - Wear a Tie, Kids Won't Die / White Hippies / Ancient Chinese Custom, Huh?
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* Tahoe plague * The Swiss lobby * Hate your kids * They seem like nice kids * If you only wore a tie, kids wouldn’t die * Have some dignity, says the most undignified human alive * The root of “root causes” * Free the guilty * White Hippies * Right-wing cancel culture * Chicago needs this more than DC ] * We kind of disagree about the Smithsonian …
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Members Only #272 - Bosom Buddies, Nazi Historians, Late Capitalists
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * A Spanish Harlem incident * The selective regret of Hank Azaria * Kmele watches Eddington * Ozzy confesses * Bonding with your kids over music * Back to Billy * The genius of Rick * Kmele reveals his race * Is Moynihan the Jerry Springer of TFC? * Spectacle vs. inter…
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#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts
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* Below the Mendoza Line * Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer * Stallone’s Bergman period * Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so, why? * The hundreds of forgotten anti-Bush books * An especially bad Munich analogy * NATO, NATO, NATO * Purely defensive? Well… * Perhaps it made sense at the time… * The Olympic graveyard * A test for the post-war Eur…
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Members Only #271 - America the Antidote (Second Sunday Rebroadcast!)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com A rebroadcast of our latest Second Sunday episode during which the lads discuss Killer Mike, World War III, fascism, Billy Joel, Brits, Americans, the Swiss, stupid people, smart people, and white people. And a bunch of other stuff……
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#518 - Angry Indians, the Socialist Right, TikTok's Propaganda War
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* A $750 late fee * Crazy train * Tariffapalooza 7.0 * Making Modi mad * Economic nationalism vs. market capitalism * The Soviet Senator * A pen and phone guy * Should DC be taken over by the feds? Or just left alone to be awful? * Israel and the TikTok war * Tell me how this ends * And about a million other things… This is a public episode. If you…
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Members Only #270 - Norwegian Pizzas, Italian Meterologists, Fake Dissidents
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Just let them waffle on for a few minutes before the good stuff… * Poor Europe * The $50 Norwegian pizza? * Functional Denmark, deranged Danish * Moz and the monolingual * The brilliant Child * Moynihan vs. his daughter on Billy Joel * “Forbidden topics are true” isn…
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#517 - "Pimp-o-nomics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Male Gaze" w/ Robbie Soave
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Moynihan joins from Europe. Robbie Soave (Reason, Rising, Sheetz & Giggles) guests — bravely joining the fellas after stopping by the local precinct so he could report his scooter stolen. Plus; Epstein conspiracies, whether Sydney Sweeney’s jeans are saving America, and debate the merits of dating an AI girlfriend. * Pimponomics * Victimized * Scoo…
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#516 - "Treasons, Tiny Packages, and the End of Late Night" w/ Eli Lake
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Moynihan is somewhere in Europe. Eli Lake (The Free Press, Breaking History) fills in. And Kmele sustained a harrowing podcast-related injury that postponed a recording (and nearly cost him a finger). * Meat & Memory * Colbert Gets the Axe * Small Packages * A Yearslong Coup? * Russiagate Replay * Accountability and Missed Opportunities * The Never…
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Members Only #268 - Every Pump is Patriotic
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * An enigma wrapped inside a…wait, what does that word mean? * Wait, what did you call it??? (Take a guess) * Buffalo Bills, the preferred team of all Mossad agents * How to not write a news story * You know, Epstein was pretty close with many MAGA figures * Bannon’s c…
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* Crazy from the heat * AMA * Who is Jim Walden?? * The dumbest civil war * So we have to discuss the Epstein “issue” again, eh? * I think we solved the case… * Leaving breadcrumbs in the archives * Jimmy Carter and the aliens * That’s a lotta airstrikes * The plastic surgery exception * Kurt Russell, American * The next, hottest Nobelist This is a…
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