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 3 hours 10 minutes
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
161 "Unimpeachably Guilty, ILoveFiona, Democratic Debate"
Description:
- Trumpian Slam Poetry ("I Want Nothing!")
- Got a Thing for Fiona Hill
- Blue Pill Confessional
- Burisma Biden
- The Good, The Bad, and The Career Diplomats
- Weird John Bolton Tweets
- The Wrestle Mania Impeachment
- Sacha Baron vs Facebook, Borat as Proto-Hate Speech
- Grading the Democratic Debate
- Spiking the Kaepernick
- About that Patreon
Recorded: November 22nd 2019
Published:...
160 "Pub Hopping, Impeachment Hearings, Roger Stone Goes down"
- Who Shot Ya? (Tupac, Biggie)
- Moynihan Drinks w/ Trump Supporters in Bay Ridge
- Buttigieg
- Impeachment Hearings
- Devin Nunes’ Garbage Clown Schtick
- Roger Stone Goes Down
- What Happened to Rudy Giuliani?
- Stealing Land in Texas, Pardoning War Criminals
- Patreon Launche (https://www.patreon.com/wethefifth)
Recorded: November 15th 2019
Published: November 17th 2019
159 - w/ Bari Weiss "How to Fight Anti-Semitism, Shifting Political Baggage"
Recorded: November 6th 2019
Published: November 9th 2019
GUEST: Bari Weiss
Op-Ed Staff Editor and Writer @ The New York Times
Author, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism" (2019)
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158 - w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams "Unlearning Race"
Recorded: October 20th 2019
Published: October 31st 2019
GUEST: Thomas Chatterton Williams
Author, "Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race" (2019)
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157 - w/ Meghan Daum "The Problem With Everything"
Recorded: October 18th 2019
Published: October 22nd 2019
GUEST: Meghan Daum
Author, "The Problem With Everything" (2019)
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156 - w/ Walt Hickey "China Cancels the NBA, Trump Cancels the Kurds"
Recorded: October 9th 2019
Published: October 10th 2019
GUEST: Walt Hickey,
Senior Editor for Data @ Insider
Founder @ Numlock News newsletter
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155 - "Unforgivable, The Swampiest Swamp, DC Star Wars Bar"
- Picking fights in restaurants
- Botham Jean's brother forgives Amber Guyger for murdering his brother. And that's a problem.
- Forgiveness vs...