Guest: Ben Dreyfuss (Editorial Director, Mother Jones) Description: - Moynihan in Martha's Vineyard - Mueller sucks on TV - Trump’s Razor: The dumbest explanation is the most likely - “Send them back” — is it racist? - Jane Mayer's Al Franken defense - Shitty Media Men - Deletes Jokes - A$AP Rocky 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...
Jul 28, 2019•2 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Guest: Molly Jong-Fast is a contributor to The Bulwark and the author of three books. ( @MollyJongFast ) Recorded: July 11th 2019 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...
Jul 12, 2019•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Guest: Patrick Radden Keefe, staff writer at the New Yorker, author of "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" Description: In this special dispatch, Michael Moynihan talks with Patrick Radden Keefe about the 1972 murder of Jean McConville, a mother of 10 in Belfast, at the hands of the IRA. Her disappearance remained a mystery for decades, but in his new book, Keefe names the names of the alleged perpetrators, and talks about the greater political implications of th...
Jul 10, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Moynihan Goes to Court - Welch gets a Stress Sty - RIP, Steve Dunleavy - NBA O-W-N-E-R-S - Democratic Debate Preview - No Plan B for Iran - Concentration Camp Kerfuffle - San Fran Bans E-cigs (Till They Can Figure Out What the Hell is Going On" Recorded: 6/25/2019 Published: 6/27/2019 www.wethefifth.com 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.c...
Jun 27, 2019•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Coleman Hughes - Everyone Told Coleman Not To Testify - Age, Experience, Credentials - Lethal Weapons, Imaginary Friends - “Shame Shame” - Full Puerto Rican - Moral Alchemy - Coleman Reads His Mentions - We, They, Us - Candace Owens, Lil Pump, And The Decline of Western Civilization Recorded: 6/21/2019 Published: 6/24/2019 www.wethefifth.com 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...
Jun 24, 2019•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Kmele’s New Spot in Brooklyn - Moynihan Gets Arrested - Fisher is a jealous "lefty hack" - Dave Rubin is totally NOT in his Feelings - Assange, Journalistic Freedom - Trump vs His Advisors - European Elections - MLK: Hero, Philanderer (and possibly worse), But Definitely a Hero - Bill de Blasio Needs to Raise Some Money, Fast Recorded: 5/28/2019 Published: 5/30/2019 www.wethefifth.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss ...
May 30, 2019•2 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast - "Alex Jones is not a civil rights leader!" - Howard Kurtz was once serious - Trump's attempted outing - Phony classical liberals - Free speech at the margins - Every election is stolen - Finding Loose Change - Conspiracy theorists, right and left - An Infinitely stupid Congress - Donald Trump as Mr. Bean Recorded: 5/8/2019 Published: 5/12/2019 www.wethefifth.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscri...
May 12, 2019•2 hr 51 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Eli Lake (Columnist @ Bloomberg Voice) - We Like Bari Weiss - Moynihan is a Drunk, Also a Great Neighbor - Muller Report - Grifting, the Grifters, of Grif - Eli Lake's Hood Pass - Tom Arnold Was Great in True Lies - All The Missing Tapes - Seth Abramson's Beautiful Mind - Election Interference / Hacking / Exaggerations - Impeachments + Inquiries - Assange: Journalist or Naw? - Naughty Journalist in the Movies - Dogs = White Supremacy - That's Why Darkies Were Born Recorded: 4/24/2019 Publishe...
Apr 25, 2019•2 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Ben Dreyfuss - Editorial Director @ Mother Jones - Waiting for Godot - Ben Dreyfuss is, Young Bernie Madoff - Jill Abramson's 'Write' Privilege - "Strange Justice" = "Strange Fruit"? - Political turncoats - Paleo-Neoconservative - Private School Kids Buying Drugs - Daddy issues - Bret Easton Ellis' bad writing - Death threats - Race Realists Recorded: 4/17/2019 Published: 4/19/2019 www.wethefifth.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d...
Apr 19, 2019•2 hr 52 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Andrew Sullivan - Writer at Large for New York Magazine, - Hating New York - What Would Hitch Say? - On Being a Reluctant, Problematic Civil Rights Pioneer - Surviving a Death Sentence - Immigration Backlash - Obama Hated Identity Politics? - Assange Arrested - Pope Benedict blames the 60s - Too Many Popes - The Comfort of Religious Ritual Recorded: 4/11/2019 Published: 4/12/2019 www.wethefifth.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d l...
Apr 12, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) - Our Mathematical Universe - "Leaving Neverland" Revisionism - Russiagate: Right, Wrong, Whatever - Jonathan Chait is “Completely* Correct*” - When in Venezuela + Nobody Likes Sanctions - Venezuela: Humanitarian Crisis, Economic Crisis" - Making Friends + Enemies on Twitter - "The Realm of Hungry Ghosts" (a book by Aaron's Dad) - Stop Snitchin (On Your Sources) - Joe Biden Feminism - Kmele Talked w/ Thad - Marvin Gaye: You're the (black) Man Recorded: 4/3/2019 Publis...
Apr 04, 2019•2 hr 53 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Trump: Death by gloating - Margaret Sullivan: the Captain Beefheart of journalism - Glenn Greenwald spikes the football with a vengeance - MSNBC doubles down - Seth Abramson: Poet laureate, Resistance Hero - Trump's enemies list and love of authoritarians - Roger Stone and the D-list of DC conservatism - Jussie Smollet's privilege - Some Idiot Wrote This, Jane Mayer edition Recorded: 3/26/2019 Published: 3/28/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public epis...
Mar 28, 2019•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair) - Tina's Theranos voice - Elizabeth Warren Holmes - Revisiting the Universal Basic Income (Kmele hasn't endorse UBI or Andrew Yang) - Technophobia, 'McDonald’s employees will murder you' - The Three-Fifths Column - Matt does Betomania - Getting it wrong on Iraq - The cycles of massacre reaction/coverage - Islamists v. White nationalists - Stuyvesant High School and Asian Privilege - "Fuck off Tiger parents" Recorded: 3/21/2019 Published: 3/24/2019 See acast.com/priva...
Mar 24, 2019•2 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast DESCRIPTION: - Kmele's in 'Frisco', Moynihan's hungover, Matt got lit up on Twitter - Desperate wealthy college parents headed to prison? - The injustice of legacy admissions - Elite colleges are overrated - Biden v. Beto - Venezuela's blackout and the three initials who shall not be named - Platforming vs de-platforming - Tucker Carlson's shock-jock period - National Review swinging (and missing) at Trump - If you’re going to “Cancel,” cancel everything - Matt's Pat Caddell tribute/roast thing ...
Mar 18, 2019•2 hr 55 min•Transcript available on Metacast A discussion w/ entrepreneur and 2020 Democratic Presidential hopeful, Andrew Yang. We explore The Freedom Dividend, Yang's proposal to pay $1,000 per month to every American over the age of 18. Recorded: 3/6/2019 Published: 3/11/2019 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...
Mar 11, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Smooth Criminals, "Leaving Neverland" Skepticism - Canceling Michael Jackson, R Kelly, and The Entire 1970s - All Hate Matters - Dual Loyalties - Bernie Sanders Marched for Civil Rights, He's Still "Too White" - Democratic Socialism** - Revisiting Moynihan v. Weisbrot - Some Idiot Wrote This - Salman Rushdie Recorded: 3/5/2019 Published: 3/7/2019 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 acce...
Mar 07, 2019•2 hr 44 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Mark Weisbrot Co-Director @ Center for Economic and Policy Research Author, "Failed: What the 'experts' got wrong about the global economy" - Visiting w/ Hugo Chavez + Sean Penn - Is "dictatorship" a hate word? - Venezuela's elections - Political prisoners - State violence or police violence - Coming coup? - Embargoes, sanctions, and the collapse of the economy - Who's to blame for hunger? - The opposition - What's a good faith negotiation entry point? Recorded: 3/1/2019 Published: 3/3/2019 S...
Mar 04, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Jussie Smollett, Indicted (Kmele Totally Called That Shit) - But Then Again, The Whole Gang Totally Called That Shit Too - Coast Guard Neo-Nazi would-be terrorist arrested - Kmele and Liz Plank on "Reliable Sources" - Unreliable hate crime statistics - Social Justice Judo - CNN Hires Sarah Isgur Flores - Bill Moyers, Problematic Icon - Bernie Sanders, Front-runner - Some Idiot Wrote This - Download "Headspace" Today Recorded: PM 2/20/2019 Published: 2/21/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy ...
Feb 21, 2019•2 hr 58 min•Transcript available on Metacast (Plagiarism, Green Room Encounters, and All The Receipts) - We Need to Talk About Jill Abramson - Too Important to be a Plagiarist? - Rep Omar: You Might Be An Antisemitism, But Maybe Not - Blackface: The Highest Form of Flattery? - Klobuchar, FTW - Team AOC's Green New Deal Fiasco ALSO: - Moynihan Steps Out of Line - The Huxtable Compound - Indentured Servitude - 22 Savage - The Red Shoe Diaries - Emergency Podcasting Recorded: PM 2/11/2019 Published: 2/13/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy...
Feb 13, 2019•2 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Brendan O'Neill (Editor in Chief, "Spiked") - Jussie Smollett - Stories For Every Narrative - Ralph Northam - Fancy Dress Parties - The Weird Man’s Burden - Anti Semitism, Hate Speech - Stormy or STORMZY - Yellow Vests Revolution Recorded: PM 2/2/2019 Published: 2/4/2019 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 04, 2019•2 hr 59 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Jerry Brown - BuzzFeed's Bombshell? - Jason Leopold, Oliver Darcy - The Temple of Journalism - Anonymous Sourcing - Punching Catholic Kids - Stolen Valor, Callin' Bullshit ALSO: - Jill Abramson (Part 2) - "GUILTY" - By M.C. Moynihan - On Venezuela Recorded: 1/22/2019 PM Published: 1/24/2019 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 24, 2019•2 hr 46 min•Transcript available on Metacast "They're like a train -- a train that's always runnin' right on time." - Anonymous w/ Brian Stelter (Chief Media Corespondent, CNN) (Host, "Reliable Sources") - Moynihan Meets Ann Coulter (Again) - A Boy and His Blog - Authoritarian Storm Clouds - The Temple of Journalism - Is CNN in Resistance Mode? - Grading Trump on a Curve - Excommunicating Steve King ALSO: - Media Literacy - "Page One", and The Business of News - Kasich to CNN, Rep. Omar's Really Bad Day - NPR + MAGA - Russia-gate, and The ...
Jan 18, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast "Smarter, harder, about the same length as usual." - Anonymous - The Border Fence Shutdown - Reasons to Dislike AOC - Tea Party Retrospective - Ellen Met Kevin - Jazmine Barnes, Shaun King, and Overconcen - Destroying The Weatherman - Race Price, New York City Public Schools, and Historical Fictions - Human Rights + Angela Davis Recorded: PM 1/9/2019 Published: 1/11/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other ...
Jan 11, 2019•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Ben Smith (Editor in Chief @ BuzzFeed News) - BuzzFeed's Day in Court - About That Dossier - Insider Political Journalism vs Crisis Political Journalism - Sports Metaphors, Panglossian History - Newsroom Diversity - Indisputably Racist ALSO: - Syria, Afghanistan, and Impulse Control - The Best Laid Plans - Another Shutdown - GoFundMe Governance - Trust Issues Recorded: PM 12/22/2018 Published: 12/23/2018 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If y...
Dec 22, 2018•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Yascha Mounk (Author, "The People vs Democracy") (Host, "The Good Fight") - Liberal Democracy (and Liberal Democratic Values)- Democratic Deficits, Excesses, and Limits- Authoritarian Populism (on the Left and Right) - Political Norms- Domesticating Nationalism- Injustice and Identity- Inequality and Globalization- Free Speech AND- Cohen Gets Sentenced- Kmele Crashes an *Unusual* PTA Meeting- Fukuyama was wrong, but none of you assholes read “the end of history” - Matt Says "Yemen" on MSNBC- ...
Dec 15, 2018•2 hr 38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our first live recording; taped at the legendary Comedy Cellar in New York City. With Guests: Michael Barbaro, "The Daily" (The New York Times)Jody Avirgan, "30 for 30" and "The Five-Thirty-Eight Politics Podcast" (Five-Thirty-Eight, ESPN) "On Speech Controversies and The State of Journalism After Two Years of Trump." Recorded: 12/4/2018 (@ The Comedy Cellar in New York City)Published: 12/6/2018 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to...
Dec 06, 2018•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Kevin Roose (Columnist, The New York Times) - *Black* Intellectuals- Live @ The Comedy Cellar- All the Presidents Rogues- Nature, Severity, and Consequence- Facebook's Peril- Google's Dragonfly- China's Citizenship Scores Recorded: PM 11/29/2018Published: 11/30/2018 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...
Nov 30, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kmele facilitates a wide-ranging conversation on race, racism, and anti-racism. With: Glenn Loury - Professor of the social sciences and economics at Brown University - Host, The Glenn Show @ bloggingheads.tv Thomas Chatterton Williams- Author, "Losing My Cool"- Contributing writer @ New York Times Magazine. - National Fellow at New America, where he’s completing a new book project about ‘being the black father of white-looking children in Paris’. John McWhorter - Professor of Linguistics, Philo...
Nov 22, 2018•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Phallic Humor- "We'll Do It Live" (In NYC, Next Month)- The Midterms (For People Who Kind of Hate Midterms)- The "Fuck You" Vote- Beto, Gillum, Abrams- Voter Fraud/Disenfranchisement- Trump vs. Acosta Part 5: 'Why can't they both lose?'- Trump: 'That's A Racist Question!'- Sessions, Out. Mueller, Next?- Cocaine Mitch Warns the Dems- Dog Whistles, Guilt by Association, David Duke- What Indiana Really Means- SIWT (Ezra Klein, Vox)- Surprisingly Serious Journalism Talk Recorded: PM 11/7/2018Publi...
Nov 09, 2018•2 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Noah Rothman (Associate Editor, Commentary -- Contributor, MSNBC/NBC News) Author of the forthcoming book: “Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America” (Jan 2019) - Plausible Deniability- Perspectives on Pipe Bombs and Synagogue Attacks- Speculation, Motive- Violence in a most Peaceful Era - The, Lou Dobbs- Persuading Donald Trump- The Populist Moment- Brazil- Egalitarian Jihadi Recorded: PM 10/29/2018Published: 10/31/2018 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thi...
Nov 01, 2018•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
