(Recorded May 25th, 2018) A conversation w/ Jacob Mchangama, Host of 'Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech" podcast. ( http://www.freespeechhistory.com ) - Pronouncing Mchangama- A Bit of Free Speech History- Cartoon Jihad- Panic and Crisis- Culture and Legislation- Filthy Jokes- 'The Great Awokening'- An Abrupt Ending "Jacob Mchangama is the founder and executive director of Justitia a think tank focusing on human rights and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia’s Global Freedom of Expre...
May 29, 2018•1 hr 22 min
(Recorded May 16th, 2018) - "Are You Black?" - Calling the Cops on Black Kids - Isreal and Palestine: A Primer (Deliberately Calibrated to Infuriate Everyone) - Michael Cohen: Maker of Great Deals - When Everyone Hates (But No One Bothers to Read), Your Work - When Everyone Loves (But No One Bothers to Read), Your Work 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 ww...
May 18, 2018•1 hr 56 min
(Recorded May 3rd, 2018) 18:00+ Host Grab-Assing20:00+ Defending Red-Pill Kanye, Why Slavery is Always YOUR fault36:00+ Morrissey's Politics, Lennon's Domestic Violence40:00+ Coping with Persistent (and almost certainly imaginary) Threats on Your Life45:00+ Phrase Politics, Welch goes off the reservation50:00+ Moynihan's Perpetually Offended53:00+ Stormy Daniels74:00+ Inside the Fox Green Room ALSO: - Trade Talk- The Best Tinted Glasses- The WHCD, Press Freedom Farce, Why Journalism Awards Suck-...
May 04, 2018•1 hr 44 min
(Recorded April 22nd, 2018) A conversation with evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. - On Free Speech, Campus Culture- Identity- Scientific Investigation & Tabboo Topics- The Intellectual Dark Web- Evolution, Culture, Markets, Media, and The Academy In THE SUMMER OF 2017, Bret Weinstein found himself at the center of an ‘equity and inclusion’ maelstrom at Evergreen State College, where he and his wife Heather Heying were both members of the faculty. The resulting scanda...
May 01, 2018•1 hr 46 min
(Recorded: April 24, 2018) Matt's surprisingly strong opinions about Kanye West's endorsement of Candace "Red Pill Black" Owens.Joy Reid wasn't a huge fan of the gays, wrote some questionable things on the subject, and it appears Kmele is ready to forgive her. Rand Paul's latest flip-flop (Fisher is unimpressed).Trump bros-out with French president Macron. ALSO: Extended notes on the Starbucks Controversy, spontaneous reggae outbursts, impromptu seance, and a surprise cameo. "You already know it...
Apr 25, 2018•1 hr 40 min
PROGRAMMING NOTE: Sorry for the unusually tardy release. This conversation was recorded approximately five days ago (prior to the most recent intervention in Syria), but the release was delayed by matters of great significance and urgency (which I won't bother to outline here). All the same, it's still a very fine vintage. (Recorded: April 12, 2018) with: Ben Dreyfuss (Mother Jones) and Kat Timpf (Fox News Channel, National Review) - Facebook Congressional Hearings - The (continuing/looming) War...
Apr 17, 2018•1 hr 42 min
(Recorded: March 27, 2018) A conversation w/ Amy Chua (@amychua), Yale law professor and author of numerous books including: "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother", "The Triple Package", "World on Fire", and her latest book "Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations". “Today, no group in America feels comfortably dominant. Every group feels attacked, pitted against other groups not just for jobs and spoils but for the right to define the nation’s identity. In these conditions, democrac...
Apr 03, 2018•56 min
(Recorded: March 28, 2018) with Tom Slater, Deputy Editor @ Spike'd Tina Nguyen, Politics and Media Reporter @ Vanity Fair Marching for our Lives, Poisoning Spies, Activist Journalist... - Moonshine, Poison (Half a Helping of Each) - Killing Marco Rubio - Teenage Sainted Activist Student Journalist - Making America Great Again + Putting Y'all Back in Chains - Kevin Williamson Moves to The Atlantic (Assorted Persons Freakout) - Garbology - How to Be Pro Brexit w/o Going Full White Nationalist - S...
Mar 30, 2018•1 hr 43 min
Recorded: March 15, 2018 We've got FiveThirtyEight's Jody Avirgan in the studio. Matt is on assignment someplace. This Week: Is there a free speech "crisis" on campus? Moynihan and Jody's considerably different approached to sparking media frenzies. PLUS: Rex, we hardly knew ye (literally). But was he all that stood between us and the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" dominatrix? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with ...
Mar 16, 2018•1 hr 42 min
Recorded: March 9, 2018. Welch, Moynihan, Fisher and Foster are in attendance. An increasingly unlikely Presidential visit to North Korea.A seemingly permeable steel and aluminum tariff.A growing interest in POTUS's indiscretions w/ a Porn StarAnd Sam Nunberg's media PsyOp (and/or) breakdown Pertinent Notes: - "A Strange new respect..."- "A tribute vice pays to virtue..."- "The Q got that D..." (and at Moynihan's insistence) BTC: 1262cXpJkHECVSiLU5iktcqbCW5oz8tJei ETH: 0xD4BB6B1784541A27FE046AA1...
Mar 10, 2018•1 hr 42 min
Recorded: March 1, 2018. Oscar Talk: Best and Worst, Most Overrated and Ryan Gosling Stick Talk: AR-15s, Scool Shootings, The National Rifle Association, and Due Process. featuring ANDY LEVYSenior Producer of the “S.E. Cup Unfiltered” on HLN SONNY BUNCHExecutive Editor @ The Washington Free BeaconCo-Host @ The Weekly SubStandard Podcast 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 ...
Mar 02, 2018•1 hr 33 min
(Recorded: February 13th 2018) "Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite." - Hitch - The Great (XXL) Black Panther D...
Feb 16, 2018•1 hr 30 min
+ Indispensable Commentary On That [treasonous/heroic/meh] Nunes Memo+ Context, Collusion and Russian Conspiracies+ A Foreign Policy Primer+ Briefest of notes on Trump's first State of the Union (Recorded February 1st 2018) Note: This dispatch was recorded the day before the MEMO was released, honestly -- you won't be able to tell the difference. 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...
Feb 03, 2018•1 hr 49 min
w/ Bari Weiss (@bariweiss), Staff editor and writer @ New York Times Opinion (Former Wall Street Journal, Tablet Magazine) An expansive, high-quality dispatch that was unfortunately marred by technical mishaps. It's not actually Fishers fault (quite the contrary in fact). xpan Things improve considerably as the release goes on. - Government Shutdowns- Amnesty Don's Great Big Amnesty Bonanza- Skipping out on the Wall Street Journal, Making Trouble at the New York Times- #MeToo- Trump Wanted to Fi...
Jan 27, 2018•1 hr 49 min
Moynihan is back, Matt was an illegal immigrant, and Kmele was *front* row for Lebron vs. Steph. Plus: DACA. FISA. Shit. #MeToo. Recorded: January 15, 2018 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...
Jan 16, 2018•1 hr 27 min
Recorded: January 5, 2018 - Kmele’s Axioms of Child Rearing- Long on Fury, Short on Fire- Red Flags, Fake News on Facebook- Trump's Tax Cut, Regulation Busting - Heather Mac Donald vs. Everybody 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...
Jan 07, 2018•1 hr 38 min
Recorded: December 21, 2017. Michael Moynihan (Vice News) in conversation with the incomparable Tina Brown. On the business and practice of journalism, the marvelous island of Manhattan, the authentic bullshit of Donald Trump, and #metoo. 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...
Dec 22, 2017•1 hr 3 min
(Recorded on Thursday December 14th 2017) with/ Jeffrey Blehar (@EsotericCD) of Decision Desk HQ and The Political Beats podcast. We talk the recent Alabama Senate election and the FCC's controversial decision to rescind Obama-era net neutrality rules. 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...
Dec 16, 2017•1 hr 51 min
(Recorded, November 2017) An expansive exchange with renowned social commentator and linguist, John McWhorter. McWhorter is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He's the author of twenty books including "Words on the Move" (2017), "Talk Back, Talking Black" (2017), and "Losing the Race" (2000). Also Referenced:“Antiracism: Our Flawed New Religion” (2015 - The Daily Beast)“How to Listen to Donald Trump Every Day for Years” (2017 - The New York Times)"Tragicall...
Dec 08, 2017•1 hr 37 min
- Matt Lauer - Seducing Kevin Spacey - James O’keefe - Fake Headlines, Faker Stats - Dumbest News Day Ever - Britain First, Murder Allegations - Trashing Bob Woodward - Some Idiot.... ABORTED 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...
Dec 02, 2017•1 hr 38 min
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai drops in to explain why he's returning the Internet to the dark ages of... 2015. PLUS: - Draymond vs. Mark Cuban - The AOL-Time Warner instant messaging juggernaut - Janet Jackson's wardrobe and Stephen Colbert's c***holster And why won't the FCC just let Slim Shady be? 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...
Nov 21, 2017•51 min
Recorded: Thursday, November 8, 2017. We chat with Rob Mariani, former opinion editor for the Daily Caller, about Milo's first (and last) weekly column -- and how to handle radioactive things without getting burned. Plus: questioning Moynihan's sexuality;a very gay historical debate;the intellectual dead end of "just trolling" politics. (Columnist Interruptus) 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...
Nov 15, 2017•46 min
Recorded on Thursday, November 8th, 2017 Trump takes a long 'grueling' trip to the Far East, maybe tempers the crazy and manages to get cooked in the elections stateside. PLUS:- Aubrey and Kojo- The Meek Mill Guide to Criminal Justice Reform- 10 Lbs of Gelatin- Moynihan Got it For *Cheap* CORRECTION: "Dreams & Nightmares" was definitely a studio album and not a mixtape. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with oth...
Nov 11, 2017•58 min
Recorded on Thursday, Novemer 2nd, 2017 With Special Guests: Josh Zepps - Host, #WeThePeople LIVE (@WTP_Live, @joshzepps) 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...
Nov 04, 2017•1 hr 51 min
Recorded on Thursday, October 26th, 2017 Moynihan and Kmele are on Assignment -- Welch takes the reins. With Special Guests: Nancy Rommelmann - Journalist, Author of "To The Bridge" Bill Schulz - Host of Compound Media's "Mornin'!!!! w/ Bill Schulz" 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...
Oct 28, 2017•1 hr 2 min
Recorded on Thursday, October 19th, 2017 "The opposite of a way with words" - How Chad Saved Moynihan’s Life (and Why We're Huge in Canada)- Former President Bush and John McCain Have Strong Words for Trump - Totalitarianism, Populism and Economic Uncertainty- US Troops in Africa, Calling Up Gold Star Parents- The Opposite of a Way With Words- When 'Everything' is 'Some of the Things'- Morbid Premonitions, A Non-Fatal Stroke- When Louis (Farrakhan) Met Richard (Spencer) See acast.com/privacy for...
Oct 21, 2017•1 hr 12 min
Recorded on Thursday, October 12th, 2017 The Harvey Weinstein Controversy1) What To Do With “Shitty Media Men?2) Why won't Hillary and Barack say anything? Tillerson, Corker and World War III1) The Worst of All Possible Worlds2) Death by Non-Proliferation Trumps Assault on the Media1) "When the President says it in public..."2) How We Got Lucky With Trump PLUS:Google, Twitter, and a Tangible ThreatMatt's Mom Bought Him a Mug.Kmele Says Completely Unacceptable Things (almost every dispatch) See a...
Oct 14, 2017•1 hr 43 min
Recorded on Thursday, October 5th, 20171) First Amendment Controversies 2) Meditations on the Las Vegas and the Second Amendment 3) An Homage to Catalonia (particularly on the subject of secession, with additional remarks on Kurdistan) PLUS: Kmele Heads to ComicCon, Bumps into TNCMoynihan vs Melba 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/subsc...
Oct 07, 2017•1 hr 42 min
Guest: Katherine Mangu-Ward, Editor-in-Chief @ Reason Recorded: Wednesday, September 27th, 2017. Another wide-ranging, intellectually-stimulating, and very well-lubricated dispatch. We begin with an almost respectable (but undeniably illuminating) discussion of Donald Trump's "Revolutionary Tax Framework" -- (his words). Proceeding from there to the re-re-re-failure of Republican maneuvering to "Repeal and Replace" Obamacare. Then we really pour on the gas: From "Taking a Knee" to "Title IV"Bann...
Sep 29, 2017•1 hr 44 min
Recorded on Thursday, September 21, 2017 President Trump's remarks at the UN parley were (hilarious? /meh? /dangerous? ) and unmistakably confused. We crack open cans of Portland's finest sangria while discussing this and other matters of profound consequence. Cargo shorts are irredeemably awful, but should a UN human rights commission formally designate them Nazi paraphernalia? Is Mark Zuckerberg's plan to save democracy credible? How hot would your step-granddaughter have to be before you woul...
Sep 23, 2017•1 hr 39 min
