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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.
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This 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 are cool with political violence* Is does the university have a psycho incubation problem?* So who should be …
* 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 American drug trafficking* The real reason the US struck those “drug boats”* So the 93% cannot defeat the 7%?* Was former congressman Aaron Shock corrupted by Venezuelan commies?* Crooked congressmen. Crooked Kennedys?* A crooked American oil magnate?* On dissident heroism—and American cynicism* The nobility of the human spirit* The useless UN* The million dollar roller bag* How the bad guy$ $pread their influence* And much, much more!As previously mentioned, Never Fly Coach-level subscribers have access to our early video efforts. Wonky angles, swiveling chairs, ugly timecodes, no title sequence…you get the idea. BUT…your feedback has been amazingly positive thus far. If you want to add your two cents (and see our ugly mugs), upgrade and get access to the ever-evolving pilot episodes! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
This 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 (surprisingly) * Do academic economists matter?* Russ talks to Milton Friedman* Do long-term economic trends tells us …
3A very bad day for American politics, recorded within an hour of a young father’s death. Political violence, outgroup hatreds, and a side of media malpractice. With a sidebar conversation on 9/11, plus extended outro on the murder in Charlotte and subsequent discussion about race. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both…* Waiting for Bill and Ted* A catalogue of bad prophecies* 7th Day Youtube* Jamicanon* Yakub and the Atlantians* War with Venezuela?* Was Katrina racist* “Heritage Americans”* A listener is mad about…one of our friends* The Zionist silence* I’ll always take your free trips* We are the (piss) pigs* Own your ethnic failures!* G…
* The video age is upon us * Sweet Jane* Crazy Nancy* I’m a survivor, I'm not gon' give up* You have a microphone. Just TELL US.* Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, pedo hunter* A revolt at HHS* The conspiratorial mind* Failing the logic test* Malcolm Gladwell comes clean. Moynihan doesn’t forgive* Taboo busting b/w forbidden topics* A hunch that they were lying…* Europe changed. Everyone pretended not to notice* The UK’s decent into mindless illiberalism * Graham Linehan demands something from the Fifth…we demurred* Reanimating the dead, only to kill them again* And so much more! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
* A barrel of crackas* We’re buying Hooters* Glamorous hairstyling* Look it up, people * The caudillo and the talk show host* Hega-stan* MAGA Marx: Nationalize everything!* The era of state capitalism is upon us* Burn yer flags * Right-wing ACLU * One more time: the government is bad at things * A history of privatization * Lisa Cook and the Cult Jam * The coming violence?* MAGA Panthers * And so much more… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comKmele connects with Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss his latest book, “The Summer of Our Discontent”. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that revisits the (or at least Thomas’) optimistic feelings toward the Obama moment in american politics, the backlash of the Trump years, and the ideological hangover of 2020’s “racial reckoning.” They wrestle with…
* Tahoe plague* The Swiss lobby * Hate your kids* They seem like nice kids * If you only wore a tie, kids wouldn’t die* Have some dignity, says the most undignified human alive* The root of “root causes”* Free the guilty* White Hippies* Right-wing cancel culture* Chicago needs this more than DC ]* We kind of disagree about the Smithsonian* This is absurd* Ancient Chinese custom, eh?* It was AI, Matt. She’s still hot. * I love you, Sanna This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* A Spanish Harlem incident * The selective regret of Hank Azaria * Kmele watches Eddington * Ozzy confesses* Bonding with your kids over music* Back to Billy* The genius of Rick * Kmele reveals his race* Is Moynihan the Jerry Springer of TFC?* Spectacle vs. interview* Is Martyr Made a baddie?* Endless late capitalism
* Below the Mendoza Line* Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer * Stallone’s Bergman period* Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so, why?* The hundreds of forgotten anti-Bush books * An especially bad Munich analogy* NATO, NATO, NATO* Purely defensive? Well…* Perhaps it made sense at the time…* The Olympic graveyard* A test for the post-war European left* Won’t somebody just *do something* * In praise of Florent Ahmed Groberg* The politics of DC crime * A city of Haley Barbours* Writing shirtlessly: A fantastically awful AP article on DC * Some notes on Ken Burns This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comA rebroadcast of our latest Second Sunday episode during which the lads discuss Killer Mike, World War III, fascism, Billy Joel, Brits, Americans, the Swiss, stupid people, smart people, and white people. And a bunch of other stuff…
* A $750 late fee* Crazy train* Tariffapalooza 7.0* Making Modi mad* Economic nationalism vs. market capitalism* The Soviet Senator * A pen and phone guy * Should DC be taken over by the feds? Or just left alone to be awful?* Israel and the TikTok war* Tell me how this ends* And about a million other things… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com* Just let them waffle on for a few minutes before the good stuff…* Poor Europe* The $50 Norwegian pizza?* Functional Denmark, deranged Danish* Moz and the monolingual* The brilliant Child* Moynihan vs. his daughter on Billy Joel* “Forbidden topics are true” isn’t true* How to talk in Eurocode * Bumper sticker TV (and an ode to Chris Elliot)* The greatest meteorologist of al…
Moynihan joins from Europe. Robbie Soave (Reason, Rising, Sheetz & Giggles) guests — bravely joining the fellas after stopping by the local precinct so he could report his scooter stolen. Plus; Epstein conspiracies, whether Sydney Sweeney’s jeans are saving America, and debate the merits of dating an AI girlfriend. * Pimponomics* Victimized * Scooter Evangelism * Robbie is a nerd* European Hobos to Hotness Index (HHX)* Epstein: Still Boring, Still Dead* Robbie really is a nerd* Trafficking Stats and the Seagull Defense* Campus Crackdown Expands* Trump, Tariffs, and Inventory Economics* Sydney’s Sweeney Jeans (and Whiteness of the Whale)* Robby Comes Out, Kmele Has NotesRecorded: 8.1.2025 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
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-Ending Epstein Drama* An (Inevitably) Dysfunctional Government (if you can keep it) Recorded: 7.24.2025 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
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 crisis PR business?* Tulsi and the “seditious conspiracy”* Russia redux* Michael McDonald’s Faye Dunaway story* …
* 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 public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
* 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 few notes on the forthcoming film Eddington* The BLM victory failure* The forever revolt against the elites* Two overlooked terror attacks in Texas* Put them on ICE This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comA 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 engineering the 1953 coup against the “democratically elected” Iranian leader Mohammed Mossade…
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I'm sorry I guess I accidentally tuned into pod save america. lol. who is that beloviating Lefty that dominates the entire conversation with fabulist performative discourse
Fawn Hall was Oliver North's secretary. How could any of you mess that up? Jessica Hahn? Ugh. Get your 80s women straight.
sullivan shows what a ___ he truly is. There are more intelligent and worthy people to talk to, simply walk outside and choose anyone. The reprobate compares Oct 7th to a "1-2 day raid"....
vivek seem fake to me. like he was made in a lab.
this one of the best episodes so far. good crictism of trump
moynihan is the epitome of Beltway Libertarian
Russia has a more legitimate argument for invading Ukraine than the US had in invading Vietnam, Iraq and a host of other countries.
Talk about living in a bubble...geez
What a bunch of BS..geez
Matt said NOTHING. Love your pod, but keep Keannu off please. Anecdotal nonsense and total waste of time. You guys are great, don't lean on rotating pod stars.
Wow, Matt was on a tear.
fun, smart convo.
guessing a compilation of whistling past the grave yard while oozing superiority for people who are actually fighting the things they say they hate.
In the words of an Australian friend, "fuck this cunt"
at 1:01:50 french goes into an example for something an institution does and then uses something a corporation does with no explanation
Hmm just here to remind you that people have been murdered in France because they published or showed these caricatures. And the Danish paper had received bomb threats if I remember well. I understand why people would not take the risk of showing them
I am a baptist preachers daughter. I was raised conservative, Republican, and then Christian, in that order. I was raised with racism and sexism. I have so many memories of sitting in the back yard with my dad listening to Rush Limbaugh. That is my background. I have legitimately seen my family do outright racist and sexist things. I joke that I am a recovering conservative. But I started that “recovery” because I now have teenage daughters and I absolutely can not raise them how I was raised. Again, I was raised to be racist. When I was raped I didn’t report it, because my family raised me to believe if a woman is raped it is her fault. I’m not saying all of this for sympathy. I have a point. Bare with me. My point is, is I’m searching. I’m searching for new information. I voted all democratic this election for the first time. I only did it because I knew the other side wasn’t what I wanted, but I still know that didn’t fit me either. Then I saw you in Bill Mahr and felt like I finall
Top 20! Kmele's Maher appearance seems to be really drawing some new ears.
rand paul commentary was great!