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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Members Only #280 - Megyn Kelly Blowback, Principled Sanity, and Nihilistic Dread
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18:01This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com •One Battle After Another •Kmele’s hot take that will bring ruin to Hollywood •Separating the art from John Cusack •The kinship of Susan Sarandon’s & Mao Zedong •It’s not the dead kid that is most unsettling part of Stand By Me •Amity, as you know, means friendship •No…
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#527 - War is Over (If Hamas Wants It)
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1:41:25* Subscribe to our YouTube channel already! * A shirt full of toothpaste * Whiskey in a jar * Your dumb, complaining emails * A roundtable of cranks and weirdos * Happy 100 year anniversary Antifa! * People. People. It ain’t fascism. And it ain’t ISIS. * Wait, Twitter IS real life!!!!!! * The long shadow of 2020 * Remembering Seattle’s WASP autonom…
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UNLOCKED: Russ Roberts, on the Weight of History & the Elasticity of Memory
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1:39:45By Matt Welch
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#526 - Megyn Kelly is All Out of Generosity
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1:08:58It’s fine if you want to listen to this episode on Apple podcasts or Spotify or Substack. We get it! That’s the way you’ve always done it! But you do realize that after 525 episodes (not including the hundreds of subscriber-only episodes), we’ve finally launched the Fifth Column video podcast, right? And you know that you are required by federal la…
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Members Only #278 -- Goliath’s Curse Author Luke Kemp on Why (and When) Empires Collapse
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16:15This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Oh sure, everyone’s go-to for imperial collapse tends to be Rome, but what broad lessons are there to be gleaned from every single other civilizational implosion, from Mesopotamia to the Mayans to the forgotten pyramid builders along the Mississippi River? Such is the …
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Members Only #277 - Andy Rooney Hangovers, Nazi Beekeepers, and Ex-Canadians
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19:12This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * If you’re a Never Fly Coach subscriber, remember that you get to watch the video version of this episode! * The morning after pill and Roy Campanella’s glove * Why does Moynihan look like late-stage Nick Nolte? * Have a SoCal venue suggestion for a Fifth live show? *…
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#525 - John Spencer Views Explosion
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1:35:57Matt and Michael are joined by John Spencer, Executive Director of the Urban Warfare Institute. •Gary Busey and the B-movie military raid on the Turkish Embassy •Bagging and tagging isn’t as bad as it sounds •20/20 De-Baathification •Post 9/11 Islamophilia •The hockey analogy for war with Hamas •Human shielding & bomb shelter inequities •Gaza vs Be…
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Members Only #276 - The Cancelling of an American Talkshow (w/ Greg Lukianoff)
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18:31This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Pretty sure FIRE president Greg Lukianoff is the perfect guest for this moment… * A requirement of Judaism * FIRE on fire these days * Come on man, it was the FCC! * My husband got Kimmel fired! * The latest campus free speech ranking * FYI, lots of dumb young people…
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#524 - BTW, Venezuela is a Dictatorial Commie Narcostate (w/ Thor Halvorssen)
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1:28:12* See below for the video version of this episode! * On Candace and Megyn * That source, says Thor, the Venezuelan, is a big booster of the shittiest people on Earth * How they shot my mother (Hugo Chavez edition) * The failure of the Human Rights Industry™ * How Venezuela collapsed * It’s not a country. It’s a drug cartel * The hierarchy of South …
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Members Only #275 - The Elasticity of Memory & the Weight of History (w/ Russ Roberts)
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21:34This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * See below for the video version of this episode! * Russ’s drinks by the pool with Hitchens * How potato chips are made. And what it tells us about economics * Backwards towards “artisanal” * How will a NatCon economy perform? * It ain’t all doom and gloom (surprising…
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