A Brief History of Right Now Punk Police It Might Actually Be Legal Black on Black on Black Bending the Knee NYT Civil War Essentialism in Practice Law & Order Passover MLK on Riots Recorded:6/4/2020 Published: 6/6/2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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...
Jun 06, 2020•2 hr 7 min
Kmele facilitates a follow-up conversation on race, racism, and anti-racism -- this time, in the midst of a global pandemic and increasing social unrest. You can find the first installment in this series of conversations here: http://wethefifth.com/episodes/121 GUESTS / Glenn Loury Professor of the social sciences and economics at Brown University Thomas Chatterton Williams Author, "Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race" and "Losing My Cool" John McWhorter Professor of Linguistics, P...
Jun 01, 2020•1 hr 37 min
She wrote a column in the New York Times . She failed to mention her favorite podcast. She mentioned other podcasts. She texted us asking if she could come on the show to apologize. We agreed. Bari Weiss, the genial and gentle bête noire of woke culture, is back...hat in hand, asking for Fifth forgiveness. But she sticks around to discuss lots of other stuff: - We are all Stasi agents now - You're both Karens! - A murder in Minneapolis - Whose more powerful? Jack Dorsey or one of your senators? ...
May 29, 2020•1 hr 59 min
Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) Investor + Entrepreneur, Former CTO @ Coinbase, Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Founding Editor of The Best of Journalism - How Startups Think About Failure + Survival - Pandemics, Panics, and Journalistic Incentives - Forging Societal Truth - Why the US Failed to Take COVID Seriously - Why Journalist Hate The Valley - Believing Half of What You Read - Epistemology Algorithms - A Feature Set for Fixing Journal...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 33 min
w/ Ethan Strauss Writer @ Athletic, Author "The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty" (2020) - Getting Political - NBA vs China - Bad Deals and Bad Economics - The Incomparable Michael Jordan - 'What is Best In Life' - Resuming the NBA Season - Pissing off Kevin Durant Recorded: May 13th 2020 Published: May 17th 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access t...
May 17, 2020•1 hr 31 min
w/ Rep Justin Amash US Congressman (Michigan's 3rd Congressional District) and 2020 Libertarian Presidential Hopeful U.S. Representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district since 2011, and currently serving as the first Libertarian Party member of Congress. Amash diagnoses what's wrong with America's politics, parties, and legislative process. And he makes the case for why he's ideally well suited to fix. Recorded: May 4th 2020 Published: May 6th 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and ...
May 06, 2020•1 hr 7 min
w/ Glenn Greenwald Co-founding Editor @ The Intercept, Host @ "System Update" A once in a century pandemic is producing unique and daunting challenges to civil liberties around the world. What are the necessary compromises? Where are the non-negotiable red lines? And what are those mysterious bright lights people have been seeing in the night sky? (The last one is easy: visitors from another galaxy, here to share their advanced technology with us... for a price). ALSO: - Avoiding a Hot War w/ Re...
May 02, 2020•1 hr 58 min
w/ Jonah Goldberg Editor-in-Chief @The Dispatch, Host @ The Remnant Podcast President Trump has an inspired idea for arresting a global pandemic. It involves ultraviolet rays, disinfectant washes -- and Welch seems convinced that it also has something to do with "butt stuff" -- which, honestly, it wouldn't be the strangest thing you've heard all day. ALSO: - Jonah on Political Homelessness - Define "Prevaricate" - Presidential Ineptitude and Slothfulness, - How Shitty Henchmen Keep America Safe ...
Apr 25, 2020•2 hr 51 min
Kmele Foster, Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) and Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) discuss the cacophony of concern about blackness+ racism in the midst of a once in a century global pandemic. RELATED POSTS: "Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter?" - Coleman Hughes https://quillette.com/2020/04/13/do-covid-19-racial-disparities-matter/ "Don’t Racialize the Pandemic" - Zaid Jilani https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-race-fight-pandemic-dont-get-bogged-down-racial-categorization/ Recorded: Apri...
Apr 21, 2020•1 hr 20 min
- Gender Traitors - Teddy Pendergrass - Trump’s Absolute Authority - Cutting off WHO Funding - What a Pandemic Can Teach You - China and The American Free Press Recorded: April 15th, 2020 Released: April 17th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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...
Apr 17, 2020•2 hr 3 min
"When America catches a cold, black America... " -- well, we should maybe talk about that. - Welch Makes a Baseball Analogy - Moynihan helps Governor Cuomo shame the traitorous scum who refuse to STAY IN DOORS - Amid growing concern about the disproportionate impact COVID-19 may be having on black folks in America -- Kmele has thoughts - When Billionaires Give Money Away (it's never enough -- and it's never good enough -- for Moynihan?) - China is Using Fake Numbers - A Briefing Full of Jim Acos...
Apr 08, 2020•1 hr 59 min
With more than 80% of Americans under some form of movement restrictions, civil liberties are in retreat, authoritarians are gaining ground, and Kmele is feeling positively messianic. PLUS "The Fifth Column's Pandemic Shopping Guide: How to beat the system, score hard to find paper products, and avoid deadly CHINESE pathogens" - Keep Buggering On Recorded: March 31st, 2020 Released: April 2ndth, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd li...
Apr 02, 2020•2 hr 26 min
- The lads are losing it in quarantine - New York is "authentic" again / full of crackhead zombies - Being entrepreneurial in a time of crisis - So what's happening in COVID world - And what does Kmele think *now*? - Is this all capitalism's fault? - More studies, more confusion - The shitty media is even shittier than ever - Hating on De Blasio - Manufacturing scientific consent - It's MH370. And we're inside the plane - A wee bit of mail from a wee Scot Trot - Is there anything to talk about *...
Mar 27, 2020•2 hr 3 min
The quarantine continues...the Fifth Columnists have thoughts... - Kmele is the Kurtz/Lauren Hill of Virginia - Some listener mail - We have the results! (Calm down Todd) - Updates on the COVID - Is it all going to fall apart? Probably - Are we are at war? Not really - Some more listener mail - Some audiobooks to listen to while quarantined - Some more sports to watch while no sports is happening - Kmele really needs to bring it back to COVID - An Italian friend drunk texts, loses her mind - Mor...
Mar 21, 2020•1 hr 56 min
UPDATE: The original version of this episode was uploaded out of sync. It has been replaced with a corrected version. We regret the error. But stop complaining. It's free. The bat virus apocalypse continues. The Fifth Column soldiers on, shouting ¡No pasarán! - Kmele is in the woods, Matt is in South Brooklyn, Moynihan is in hiding - All COVID, all the time! - Wait, so does he have it or not? - Kmele questions the consensus - Disaster capitalism becomes disaster socialism - Money is fake. Let's ...
Mar 17, 2020•1 hr 51 min
w/ Ross Douthat Columnist @ New York Times - Author of "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Successes" DESCRIPTION: - Decadence, Low and High - The Four Horseman - “Giving Decadence Its Due” - Birth Rates, Populations, Populism - It’s Manifesto Season on the American Right - Ross Still Wants to Ban Porn - TVs Golden Age - The Case for Joe Biden - Don Jr's GOP - A New York Times Conservative See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode...
Mar 14, 2020•1 hr 34 min
w/ Eli Lake ( Columnist @ Bloomberg Opinion) - Typhoid Welch - Biden crushes South Carolina and Super Tuesday - Good 'ol Uncle Joe or Cognitive Decline - "Democratic" Socialism? - MAGA Corps and Bernie Bros Will Excuse Almost Anything Their Candidates Do - Elizabeth Warren Lost -- It's Empirically Not HER Fault - DNC Subterfuge - Biden's Lies About Getting Arrested, Mandela Thanking - Preview of the Biden v Bernie Debate - Schumer SCOTUS Threat - The FISA "Rubber Stamp" - The Horrifying Books on...
Mar 06, 2020•2 hr 22 min
w/ Aaron Maté (Host @ PushBack, Contributor @ The Nation) - Throwin Up Gang Signs - COVID-19 - Cuban History 101 - Giving China Credit - Billionaires and Unicorns - Harvey Weinstein Recorded: February 26th, 2020 Released: February 27th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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...
Feb 28, 2020•2 hr 30 min
w/ Asawin Suebsaeng and Lachlan Markay (White House Reporters @ The Daily Beast) Co Authors: " "Sinking in the Swamp" How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington" Description: - Moynihan's Vocal Fry and "Actually Good" Accents - Searching for "Henry Hills" in Trumpworld - Lachlan's Conservative Apostasy - Al Gore: Most Boring Interview Subject Ever - Rats and Snitches - Daily Beast: A "High-brow Tabloid" - Woke (Racist?) Bloomberg - The Muslim Ban - From Seb Gorka to Hunter Biden - Repor...
Feb 19, 2020•1 hr 35 min
Description: - Black History Month - There's no Barbecue Sauce in American Dirt - Believe Some Death Threats, Leverage Others - Oscar Obsession (Beautiful Mind Edition) - Yang Dead Is Dead, Long Live Yang Gang - Bernie's Ceiling, Biden's Ebony Firewall - A SHOCKING Presidential Endorsement - Bloomberg's Stop + Frisk Memory Hole - ADL: "White Supremacy is On The Rise!" Recorded: February 12th, 2020 Released: February 13th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a ...
Feb 13, 2020•1 hr 38 min
The last time we did this, we said don't get used to it . Well, we meant it. But we're also feeling overly generous. So here is last week's Patreon-only dispatch, featuring Moynihan and Kmele. You're welcome. -------- Kmele and Moynihan are back in Williamsburg drinking bad wine and talking shit...while trying to figure out why Welch isn't returning anyone's calls. Moynihan returns to Iowa and remembers why he hates journalists. Bumbling around the Hawkeye State, he chats with Andrew Yang, hangs...
Feb 08, 2020•1 hr 42 min
Description: - Kmele's Inner MAGA - State of the Union Theatrics - “Oh, God -- Fire the Media!” - "The Big Lie" (and other nonsense) - Mitt Romney’s Moment - Trump’s Criminal Justice Reform - Iowa Fiasco - Waiting for Bernie to Turn on MSNBC - Preview of Upcoming Patreon Episodes Recorded: February 5th, 2020 Released: February 6th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus ...
Feb 06, 2020•1 hr 49 min
Description: - When the mob came for the Fifth - Hong Kong: Proto Police State - The Democratic Field - Bernie's Got a Shot, The Joe Rogan Bounce - Criminalizing Disinformation - Watching Lou Dobbs - Fearing the Bern - Truthy Skepticism - An Impeachment Drive-By - Eli on the FBI - Some Idiot Wrote This (and this... and this...) Recorded: January 29, 2020 Released: January 30, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this w...
Jan 30, 2020•1 hr 50 min
GUEST: Miriam Elder, senior political reporter for BuzzFeed News and former Russia correspondent for The Guardian. ( @MiriamElder ) DESCRIPTION: Our fake bios Miriam's seven years in Moscow Get Shorty, Alex Jones, and the D-list bullshit artists Matt’s Russophobia isn’t as bad as MSNBC’s Political theater provides cover to Putin’s authoritarianism Moynihan and Elder throw down over Bernie's alleged sexism. Plus: Is believing Warren or Sanders a #MeToo lesson? Who is the nihilist candidate? Banni...
Jan 18, 2020•1 hr 54 min
GUEST: Noah Rothman Associate Editor@ Commentary -- Contributor @ MSNBC/NBC News Author: “Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America” (Jan 2019) DESCRIPTION: - Why the Washington Bullets became the Wizard - Bomb Iran? - Will Americans ever support another Middle East War again? - International commerce —> global middle class —> less war - Trump thinks China should police the Strait of Hormuz - What if we did NOTHING? - Brian Stelter praises Tucker Carlson - John Bolton might testif...
Jan 08, 2020•1 hr 37 min
DESCRIPTION: - Neighborhood Watch - Moynihan’s Anti-Brit Streak - Bernie’s Fundraising Clout - Ron Paul’s Newsletters and Everlasting Ice Cream - Buttigieg Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs - Iran’s Quds Force commander Soleiman Killed in Iraq - Media Malpractice on Vaping - Chuck Todd's Fake News special - About That Memo Recorded: January 2, 2020 Published: January 3, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with oth...
Jan 03, 2020•2 hr 2 min
Happy Kwanza -- We've UNLOCKED a Patreon Only dispatch just for you (and everyone else)! Enjoy it, but don't get used to it. The Williamsburg Tapes (Dispatch #4) "Losing Our Religion" DESCRIPTION It's a pre-Christmas miracle! The Fifth Columnists are back at the stammtisch (stupid table) in Williamsburg for a long-ass special dispatch, mostly discussing things distant from the news cycle. Kmele watches "Mandingo" and, to the shock of both Welch and Moynihan, is slack-jawed by how racist it is. T...
Dec 25, 2019•2 hr 15 min
GUEST: Conor Friedersdorf Staff Writer @ The Atlantic DESCRIPTION: - Patreon-only Preview - Chapo Trap vs Conor - An Underreported Attack in Jersey City - Afghanistan Mea Culpa - Something About Impeachment - Reauthorize Every War, Every Year - Biden, Dove of the Obama Administration - Complicated Brexit voters - Gesture politics - The Paternalism of Blooombergism - The Pronoun Talk - Civility, Without Obsessing Over Identity Recorded: December 17, 2019 Published: December 18, 2019 See acast.com...
Dec 18, 2019•2 hr 22 min
Description: - Kmele’s Dog Ate His Own Tail - Debunking mediums and magicians - UK elections, the problem with Jeremy Corbyn - WaPo’s “Afghanistan Papers” - IG report and the FBI's no-good, very bad behavior - Mispronouncing Nunes - Acela Wars - Greta Thunberg: Person of the Year - The case against Welches Case Against Impeachment Recorded: December 12, 2019 Published: December 14, 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss ...
Dec 14, 2019•2 hr 8 min
Description: - [ GRRT, BAOW ] - Dragonball Z - Kamala Drops Out, A Narrative Quickly Take Shape - A De-platforming in South Bend - 1619 and Historical Skepticism - Are the Democratic Primaries Racist? (Can We Call It Seeding or Naw?) - A Farewell to NATO? And the WTO? And the EU too? - "Impeachment", The Board Game - "The Irishman", A Review Recorded: December 6, 2019 Published: December 8, 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...
Dec 08, 2019•2 hr 12 min
