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...
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...
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...
(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...
(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...
- 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...
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...
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...
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 other s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Recorded on Thursday September 14, 2017 Guest: David Weigel, political reporter for The Washington Post and author of the prog-rock history "The Show That Never Ends." Matt's recovering from surgery, Moynihan's upright & sober, and Kmele's getting domesticated. Also: -Bernie Sanders is pushing a new health care plan (and he's got a dirty little anti-immigration secret). -Trump's immigration reversal, and his infatuation with those generals. -The best thing about Hillary's new book. See acast.com...
Recorded 9/8/2017 Moynihan’s back from Russia and has the drinking stories to prove it. Normally reasonable journalos lose their goddamn minds over Betsy DeVos’ intention to bring back due process on college campuses. Matt Welch on DACA: “Call it amnesty, and do it anyway” (WaPo) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/08/yes-daca-is-amnesty-lets-just-call-it-that-and-then-lets-make-it-happen/?utm_term=.d7cee531cf3a Kmele takes Anthony Fisher to task for calling President T...
Recorded 8/31/2017 Guest: Ronald Bailey, science correspondent for Reason magazine and Reason.com . Natural Disasters, political photo-ops, and formulaic media coverage. The worst thing about Mitt Romney, the fecklessness of Barack Obama, and the dark innovations of Bill Clinton. SFTW. 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...
Recorded 8/24/2017 This episode: non-existent Nazis, overblown Antifa, and Portuguese vagina-walls. Jacob Siegel was in Boston and Afghanistan, and now he is in Moynihan's chair. He helps the guys figure out what the hell happened in Boston (and why it's not the same as Charlottesville). PLUS: Is there a "libertarian-to-alt-right pipeline"? Should we take "Internet fascists" seriously? Would going "soft on white supremacists" actually help Trump? AND... sunk costs in Afghanistan, fights on Plane...
The guys take a deep dive into Donald Trump's policy on infrastructure and Nazis. Matt is back, Moynihan is off drugs and high on life, and Kmele once started a Bible study group. BONUS: Kmele interviews BLM activist Deray Mckesson, and the conversation gets *dangerous*. 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...
Recorded: 8/9/2017 With Us This Week: Radley Balko - Washington Post Columnist, Author "Rise of the Warrior Cop","Dr Death and The Country Dentist" (Coming - Feb 2018) Thaddeus Russell - Host of the Unregistered podcast, Author "A Renegade History of the United States" (Much Topics. Extra Innings) - Criminal Justice Reform (Obama's Legacy, Trump's Trajectory, Opioids, Ferguson 3yrs On) - Foreign Policy Miasma (Venezuela, North Korea, Manafort's Home Searched by FBI) - A Diversity Memo, Super Ang...
[“And We Back." -Chance the Rapper] - Moynihan is MIA - Welch is trapped in a room with no AC, 75 dead flies, and a busted shoulder -- and loving every minute of it. - Moscow is beautiful in the summer (if you believe a former RT propagandist) - Kmele... well, yeah - And the brilliant, talented Alyona Minkovski is IN THE BUILDING (@AlyonaMink) PLUS: - The brief but magical tenure of THE MOOCH. - The conspicuous absence of President Steve Bannon. - Net neutrality and banning VPN apps in Russia an...
A dense, tangent-filled, and edifying new dispatch (fueled by cash-filled envelopes, adderall, and a bottle of Bushmills -- thanks, Drew.) Trump tells-all to the Failing New York Times: "I should have never hired Sessions!"Welch talks John McCainTrumpCare spontaneously combusted (surprising no one)Next on the “Trump Legislative Agenda of Failure”: screwing up legal immigration, too!Forensic "Science" is so terrifyingLA 92 ("Certified Fresh!) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informat...
Recorded: July 12th, 2017 Play-by-Play: · Eli Lake Is a Superlative, Award-Winning Hebrew · Fab Five Freddy Is a Foreign Policy Genius · “I’m a White Male…” · Lies, Damn Lies, and IT’S TREASON! · Lacrosse Team Away Games · Eli Slow Claps · World in Disarray: Mosul/Afghanistan Edition Eli Lake, columnist @ Bloomberg View, swings by. 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 episo...
A Helpful Guide to This Weeks Dispatch: · No Mic for Anthony Fisher · Kmele read 22 books this weekend (including Letters to a Young Contrarian, The Shadow of the Panther) · Moynihan talks about Hitchens · Something about the Black Panthers, Lew Rockwell, Marvin Gaye and Berry Gordy · Russian tourist abuses child · Moynihan outs an octogenarian former Nazi at a barbecue (sort of) (We're at about the 20 min mark here.) ALSO: · #CNNBlackmail scandal (False Start) · President Trump in Poland (Did Y...
Recorded: June 29th, 2017 A journalistic-misdeed results in the firing of three prominent CNN staffers and a new front in the conflict between Trump and THE MEDIA. Why lots of the things you read/hear in the news are likely to be incorrect. Press briefings may be completely useless, but then again they may not. And of course, the very real dangers of plastic surgery -- and the entirely legitimate reasons why POTUS may need to tell you “no” when all you want to do is hang out with him. PLUS: The ...
Recorded: June 21, 2017 The Philando Castile case has reached a controversial conclusion. In July 2016, Castile was shot to death during a traffic stop by Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez. Yanez's acquittal has touched off a new wave of outrage. Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old American student detained in North Korea since last January, was finally allowed to return home last week… in a coma. He would die a few days later. And Moynihan recounts his recent visit to Evergreen State College. ...
With high profile congressional inquests into shadowy conspiracies, media panics, and boring White House events turning into embarrassing fodder for late night comedians — the stage was set for an almost banal week in Washington DC — but a brazen attack on Republican congressmen in Alexandria, Virginia, changed all that. While most members of Congress quickly rallied around their colleagues, plenty of citizens and a good number of media types were soon leveraging the tragedy to support their own...
Episode 060 Recorded June 10th 2017 Corbyn Surprises his labour party rival (and just about everyone else). Comey testifies before Congress, Trump is quite about it until he isn’t. And Bill Maher said ‘Nigga’, or was it ‘Nigger’. Shout out to Dan Spragens for the delicious and effective bottle of "State of Jefferson" rum 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 ...
