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 8 hours 37 minutes
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...
154 - "Still Teflon Don, Moynihan's Emmy, Vaping Panic"
- Moynihan won an Emmy
- #EmmysSoWhite
- "Some saw..."
- Films Don't Matter
- Xenophobic Immigrants
- Biden, Trump, Ukraine
- Will He Be Impeached ? Maybe…And No
- It's Greta Thunberg's World
- The Vaping Muslim Ban
- Rashida Tlaib's Science of Smoking
- Tweet Dumpster Diving
- “Cancel Culture is A Myth”
Recorded: September 26, 2019
Published: September 27th 2019
153 - "Moderate Chic, NYT's Kavanaugh Follies, Our Pal Corn Pop"
- The “moderate chic” party
- RIP Emmet O’Lunney’s
- Brett Kavanaugh *Allegation(s)*
- College campuses in the 1980s was all about apartheid
- Moynihan’s Foggy Memory, and Everyone’s
- John Bolton, Out
- Obama’s Apology Tour and Trump’s Chomsky Impression
- Kmele’s Worried about Iranian escalation
- Joe BIden’s "Corn Pop" Story: Fact Check=True
- George Packer’s Atlantic Piece on Schools
- Cancelling the SNL guy
- Mark...
152 - w/ Steve Kornacki "Straight News, Political Tribalism, Chappell's Sticks & Stones"
Recorded: September 4th 2019
Published: September 7th 2019
Guest: Steve Kornacki, National Political Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC...
151 - "That 1619 Project, Liturgical Journalism, The Batshit Presidency"
- Ladies Libertarianing
- The Segregation of Everything
- The 1619 Project: “Everything that makes America exceptional is because of slavery”
- NHJ: “We’re the MOST American”
- Trump: “I hereby order…”
- Dual Loyalty (and cascading stupidity)
- David Koch, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter
- Park Slope Socialists
Recorded: August 23rd 2019
Published: August 26th 2019
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150 - "Churn-alism, The Epstein Suicide (?), Effective Conspiracy Mongering"
Welch, Moynihan, and Kmele are all in the same room for the first time in more than a month -- and it's a glorious reunion.
Recorded: August 16th 2019
Published: August 18th 2019
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