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
https://wethefifth.substack.com/podcast
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 28 days 52 minutes
Episode 170: "Trump’s Best Week Ever, Iowa Pile Up"
Description:
- Kmele's Inner MAGA
- State of the Union Theatrics
- “Oh, God -- Fire the Media!”
- "The Big Lie" (and other nonsense)
- Mitt Romney’s Moment
- Trump’s Criminal Justice Reform
- Iowa Fiasco
- Waiting for Bernie to Turn on MSNBC
- Preview of Upcoming Patreon Episodes
Recorded: February 5th, 2020
Released: February 6th, 2020
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Episode 169: "I'm so sorry this is happening to YOU"
Description:
- When the mob came for the Fifth
- Hong Kong: Proto Police State
- The Democratic Field
- Bernie's Got a Shot, The Joe Rogan Bounce
- Criminalizing Disinformation
- Watching Lou Dobbs
- Fearing the Bern
- Truthy Skepticism
- An Impeachment Drive-By
- Eli on the FBI
- Some Idiot Wrote This (and this... and this.....
Episode 168 w/ Miriam Elder: "Does Anything Matter Anymore?"
GUEST:
Miriam Elder, senior political reporter for BuzzFeed News and former Russia correspondent for The Guardian. (@MiriamElder)
DESCRIPTION:
Our fake bios
Miriam's seven years in Moscow
Get Shorty, Alex Jones, and the D-list bullshit artists
Matt’s Russophobia isn’t as bad as MSNBC’s
Political theater provides cover to Putin’s authoritarianism
Moynihan and Elder throw down over Bernie's alleged sexism...
Episode 167 w/ Noah Rothman “ The Case for F*ckin Iran Right Up”
GUEST: Noah Rothman
Associate Editor@ Commentary -- Contributor @ MSNBC/NBC News
Author: “Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America” (Jan 2019)
DESCRIPTION:
- Why the Washington Bullets became the Wizard
- Bomb Iran?
- Will Americans ever support another Middle East War again?
- International commerce —> global middle class —> less war
- Trump thinks China should police the Strait of Hormuz
- What if we did...
Episode 166: “Buttigieg Loves Drugs, Soleimani Canceled, Media Malpractice”
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165 w/Conor Friedersdorf “Mayhem in Jersey City, Foreign Affairs, Gesture Politics”
Mayhem Near and Abroad
164 "UK Elections, Afghan Papers, Prophylactic Impeachment"
Description:
- Kmele’s Dog Ate His Own Tail
- Debunking mediums and magicians
- UK elections, the problem with Jeremy Corbyn
- WaPo’s “Afghanistan Papers”
- IG report and the FBI's no-good, very bad behavior
- Mispronouncing Nunes
- Acela Wars
- Greta Thunberg: Person of the Year
- The case against Welches Case Against Impeachment
Recorded: December 12, 2019
Published: December 14, 2019
163 "Kamala Quits, NATO Splinters, Impeachments for All"
Description:
- [ GRRT, BAOW ]
- Dragonball Z
- Kamala Drops Out, A Narrative Quickly Take Shape
- A De-platforming in South Bend
- 1619 and Historical Skepticism
- Are the Democratic Primaries Racist? (Can We Call It Seeding or Naw?)
- A Farewell to NATO? And the WTO? And the EU too?
- "Impeachment", The Board Game
- "The Irishman", A Review
Recorded: December 6, 2019
Published: December 8, 2019