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
#434 - Crazed Conspiracies, Moral Mulligans, and Indecent Ivies (w/ Shadi Hamid)
* The editorial board of the Washington Post
* What what wrong with the cease fire
* On culpability
* Can there *be* a negotiated settlement?
* Is it really “the occupation”?
* That wild 2022 video from Jenin that Moynihan mentioned
* You’re going to be defrocked
* Being handcuffed by “the Nahkba”
* The insane rape conspiracy theories—and why they exist
* Are all these people pro-Hamas?
* Mrs...
#433 - The Body of a (German) American
* We ain’t gonna play Sun City
* RIP Shane
* George Santos: genius
* Gavin v...
Members Only #191 - Can We Be Trusted? (Ummm...)
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* A shooting in the hood
* The Oakland Politburo speaks. The world is appalled.
* The free speech issue vs. the university infection
* Knowing nothing but propaganda
* Gaza Facebook is pretty wild
* Sir Humphrey says: “This is the most insane answer ever”
* What Epstein got right...
Members Only #190 - Tantric Drummers for Freedom
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#430 - The TikTok Jihad w/ Mary Katharine Ham
* Live from Oakland
* Sex strikes
* Loving OBL
* Stop deconstructing stuff
* Seeing your friends spinout online…
* They’re not sending anyone anywhere
* Drunk Kathy Hochul and her bad, drunk ideas
* Not drunk Nikki Haley and her bad ideas
* Hate speech isn’t a thing in America
* Israel and propaganda
* MKH on evangelicals, Israel, and the supposed “left behind” vision of Zionism
* TikTok you don’t stop
* And so...
Members Only #189 - "Thank You for the A-Bomb" (Second Sunday Rebroadcast)
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#429 - The Kevin Hart Resource Curse
* One hell of a night, one brutal morning
* Kevin Hart kills
* Judy Gold and college comedy
* The Washington Post says sorry for being mean to Hamas
* Be brave, get fired?
* There’s been a bunch of recent Islamist attacks in the West, actually
* New York City’s hate crimes leader board
* The pointless Republican debate
* Vivek is the worst (and also was kinda good for three seconds)
* Reaganism without Reagan (and Bannon’s Reagan...
Members Only #188 - Shine on You Crazy 'Anti-Zionist'
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* Voting for New York judges (and do you have a spare apartment?)
* An unsolicited application
* Liz Warren warns about the surge of….
* Is violent anti-Semitism in the U.S...
#428 - Poundtowns and Political Pilgrims
* Happy birthday Kmele
* The girls of the IDF
* The lads take a wrong turn, end up in “Poundtown”
* In fairness, we didn’t know he did a whole segment on this
* So Mike Pence dropped out?
* That’s some good polling for Bobby Jr.
* When innocents die
* Nat Turner’s bloody rebellion
* Human shields and asymmetry
* Kill ‘em all, says Rep...