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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 28 days 2 hours 52 minutes
180 w/ Bari Weiss: "We're All Sinologist Now"
- Gender Traitors
- Teddy Pendergrass
- Trump’s Absolute Authority
- Cutting off WHO Funding
- What a Pandemic Can Teach You
- China and The American Free Press
Recorded: April 15th, 2020
Episode 179: "A Most Racist Pandemic, Failure to Test"
"When America catches a cold, black America... " -- well, we should maybe talk about that...
Episode 178: "The Great American Shut In, Authoritarianism and Liberty Fetishism"
With more than 80% of Americans under some form of movement restrictions, civil liberties are in retreat, authoritarians are gaining ground, and Kmele is feeling positively messianic.
PLUS "The Fifth Column's Pandemic Shopping Guide: How to beat the system, score hard to find paper products, and avoid deadly CHINESE pathogens"
- Keep Buggering On
Recorded: March 31st, 2020
Released: April 2ndth, 2020
Episode 177: "More COVIDAPALOOZA, We're Inside the Plane, Matt Lovingly Fingers His Axe"
- The lads are losing it in quarantine
- New York is "authentic" again / full of crackhead zombies
- Being entrepreneurial in a time of crisis
- So what's happening in COVID world
- And what does Kmele think *now*?
- Is this all capitalism's fault?
- More studies, more confusion
- The shitty media is even shittier than ever
- Hating on De Blasio
- Manufacturing scientific consent
- It's MH370...
Episode 176: "My Corona; Pat Foster, Armed and in the Wilderness; and Delicious Miami Floor Drugs"
UPDATE: The original version of this episode was uploaded out of sync. It has been replaced with a corrected version. We regret the error. But stop complaining. It's free.
The bat virus apocalypse continues...
Episode 175 w/ Ross Douthat "Apocolypse via Decadence, Coronavirus, or Porn"
w/ Ross Douthat Columnist @ New York Times - Author of "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Successes"
DESCRIPTION:
- Decadence, Low and High
- The Four Horseman
- “Giving Decadence Its Due”
- Birth Rates, Populations, Populism
- It’s Manifesto Season on the American Right
- Ross Still Wants to Ban Porn
- TVs Golden Age
- The Case for Joe Biden
- Don Jr's GOP
- A New York...
Episode 174 w/ Eli Lake "Biden Surges, Chris Matthews, The FBI Scandal"
w/ Eli Lake ( Columnist @ Bloomberg Opinion)
- Typhoid Welch
- Biden crushes South Carolina and Super Tuesday
- Good 'ol Uncle Joe or Cognitive Decline
- "Democratic" Socialism?
- MAGA Corps and...
Episode 173 w/ Aaron Maté "Bernie's Campaign Math, From Cuba to Medicare for All"
w/ Aaron Maté (Host @ PushBack, Contributor @ The Nation)
- Throwin Up Gang Signs
- COVID-19
- Cuban History 101
- Giving China Credit
- Billionaires and Unicorns
- Harvey Weinstein
Recorded: February 26th, 2020
Released: February 27th, 2020
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Episode 172 "The Swamp, The POTUS, The Press" w/ Swin Suebsaeng, Lachlan Markay
w/ Asawin Suebsaeng and Lachlan Markay (White House Reporters @ The Daily Beast)
Co Authors: ""Sinking in the Swamp" How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington"
Description:
- Moynihan's Vocal Fry and "Actually Good" Accents
- Searching for "Henry Hills" in Trumpworld
- Lachlan's Conservative Apostasy
- Al Gore: Most Boring Interview Subject Ever
- Rats and Snitches
- Daily Beast: A "High-brow...