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. www.wethefifth.com
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#516 "Treasons, Tiny Packages, and the End of Late Night" w/ Eli Lake
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Moynihan is somewhere in Europe. Eli Lake (The Free Press, Breaking History) fills in. And Kmele sustained a harrowing podcast-related injury that postponed a recording (and nearly cost him a finger). * Meat & Memory * Colbert Gets the Axe * Small Packages * A Yearslong Coup? * Russiagate Replay * Accountability and Missed Opportunities * The Never…
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Members Only #268 - Every Pump is Patriotic
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * An enigma wrapped inside a…wait, what does that word mean? * Wait, what did you call it??? (Take a guess) * Buffalo Bills, the preferred team of all Mossad agents * How to not write a news story * You know, Epstein was pretty close with many MAGA figures * Bannon’s c…
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* Crazy from the heat * AMA * Who is Jim Walden?? * The dumbest civil war * So we have to discuss the Epstein “issue” again, eh? * I think we solved the case… * Leaving breadcrumbs in the archives * Jimmy Carter and the aliens * That’s a lotta airstrikes * The plastic surgery exception * Kurt Russell, American * The next, hottest Nobelist This is a…
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#514 - Big Boats! Big Patriotism! Big Pedophile Rings??
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* Matt discovers Mass * Because Matt is cruisin’ * Boats and hoes * An ultra exclusive event! The Fifth…on the high seas?? * The Epstein hoax * Very dumb people holding empty Trapper Keepers * Fake numbers transform into facts! * Does anyone know how this stuff works? * The client list ███████ █████ * Why do people want this stuff to be true? * A f…
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Members Only #267 - Everything's Our Fault: The U.S. and the Iranian Coup (w/ Abbas Milani)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com A few weeks ago, we mentioned that newly minted Iran expert Joy Reid went on CNN and provided her damning verdict on America’s relationship with Iran: acktchully, she gravely intoned, the United States brought the ire of the Iranian dictatorship upon itself by engineer…
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#513 - Birthright Jamaican Babies and Russian Trashmen (w/ Damon Root)
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As the Supreme Court wraps up its term, the boys again summon Damon Root, author of Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court, to break down the various rulings (for those of us who don’t pay attention but still want to convince Scott Bakula to time travel and deport baby Kmele). Post-Damon, another hour…during which Matt tells …
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* Fleeeeeeeee * Don’t mess with the Zohran * Andrew Cuomo, Shah of NYC * Eric Adams to the rescue? (Oof) * Post-colonial Disney movies * Scarcity Democrats * Pull the fire alarm on this drunk idiot * This means nothing for national Democratic politics * And isn’t about Israel * Were the bunkers busted? * Hot Ukrainians save lives * NATO not so bad …
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Members Only #264 - Domino's, Hand Jobs, and WWIII
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com No listener mail this time. We’ll double up on the next Members Only. Just an hour-long conversation about Iran… (Moynihan note upon relisten: Qasem Soleimani was the commander of the Quds Force within the IRGC, not the IRGC itself)…
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#511 - Iran on the Brink, NYC on the Brink (w/ Harry Siegel)
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Two episodes in one! First, the lads discuss Iran, the legacy of the Iraq War, and MAGA’s internecine battles over foreign policy. And then Harry Siegel, the great chronicler of New York City politics, stops by to answer that hugely important question: will the financial capital of the world, the city with the largest Jewish population outside of I…
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#510 - BONUS EPISODE - The View from Israel (w/ Nadav Eyal)
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Moynihan and Welch talk to Nadav Eyal, senior columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth and one of Israel’s most prominent (and best-sourced) journalists. Typically, we would keep a bonus episode like this one behind the paywall. We were feeling generous today. But never rely on our continued generosity. So subscribe, cheapskate! * Meetings cancelled, meeting…
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