Almost a year after being run out of Slate for possession of an unpopular opinion, journalist and podcaster Mike Pesca joins the Fifth for his first post-controversy conversation on how it all went down, when banal opinions became "harassment," and what we can expect from the The Gist 2.0. Is Kmele being prioritized for Covid treatment? Because, ya know... Mike Pesca gets pushed out of Slate (for referencing, but not saying , a magic word) Bull Connor's boss, Steve A "harassment-worthy" opinion ...
Jan 20, 2022•2 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kmele at Hereticon Fallibility vs. Fundamentalism A Time to Choose In Your Heart You Know He's Racist Gerrymandering for Good Credibility, Transparency Ignoring Alex Jones Arguing with Alex Jones The One Thing Americans Agree On... ...It's All Going to Shit Alex Jones' America Idiots Wrote This Recorded: Jan 13th, 2022 Published: Jan 14th, 2022 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...
Jan 15, 2022•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast He's brilliant. He has a Pulitzer Prize, And he's totally jacked. New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg, who was at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and could definitely kick your ass, joins the Fifth to reflect on the riot, coup, insurrection, revolution, putsch, mass hate crime...whatever you want to call it. But hang around after the Rosenberg Coup Hour for a freewheeling postgame meditation on legal crime in New York City, upbraiding Moynihan for his bad parenting skills, and the secret gh...
Jan 07, 2022•2 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast A Covid Christmas A Merry Kwanzaa Before you eulogize the dead, I have stupid tweet you should consider Matt sort of emptywheels Harry Reid Planes, Trains, and superspreader events Yes, there are no tests The usual Covid frustrations The Webb Hubbell telescope The Memorial shutdown The non-historians lecture us on history Destroy the idols of Americanism What on Earth is the Flatbush Remonstrance? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like ...
Dec 29, 2021•2 hr 44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Back for his third (we think?) visit, the scourge of crackpots and charlatans, America's greatest ginger, and our favorite congressman...Rep. Peter Meijer! Look, it's not a great time for the Republican Party Unity! Now get the fuck out What Rep, Meijer wrong about January 6th Dear Congress: gimme some truth about January 6th Why Nancy Pelosi wanted impeachment to fail To get out of an anti-democratic moment, we must have even less democracy "You voted to impeach and your career has been weird e...
Dec 17, 2021•2 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jussie Smollett's years-long legal drama careening toward its conclusion. New York City enacts the countries most expansive (and ill-conceived) COVID restrictions. While the Biden Administration sends diplomatic shots at Xi in China and navigates an increasingly tumultuous situation with Putin in Russia. Kmele's New York State of Mind Creep Show Playin' Journalist Diplomatic Games + Human Rights Blaming Everything on NATO (and Biden) Russia Hawks No Justice for Jussie Elite Lives Matter Yoko/Len...
Dec 10, 2021•2 hr 54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joining us for his third appearance on the Fifth, one of the sexiest men on planet Earth, the man with his own cam , the smartest and least partisan person on cable news...Massachusetts's own Steve Kornacki! Thank you North Dakota roughnecks The dust clears in VA and NJ...and Kornacki tells us what it all means Will the Republican Party divorce Trump? Voters, crime, and culture wars Remember when Alan Keyes was MAKING SENSE??? How much power does the progressive caucus *really* have? Massachuset...
Nov 26, 2021•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Jonathan Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law @ Case Western Reserve University - Three Stacks - Kanye ♥️ Drake - Steve Bannon's Day in Court - Google That - Hurry Up, Charge Him! - Black Panthers, Communist and MAGA Corps (Oh, My) - Seeing What We Want - Rittenhouse Rorschach - (Still More) Media Malpractice Recorded: November 17th, 2021 Published: November 19th, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this ...
Nov 19, 2021•2 hr 54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Way Too Sexy Crypto Art Miss Universe (Can Get It) Fifth Coin "A Bad Gal Dat" Palliative Journalism Virginia is for Hustlers The Trouble w/ Complicated Was Rufo Right? (No) We're Very Sorry (But We Keepin Your Stuff) Map Makers + Freak Shows Recorded: 11/5/21 Published: 11/7/21 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 07, 2021•2 hr 44 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Zaid Jilani, former reporter at The Intercept and current substacker (inquiremore.com ) Kmele, missing in a mudslide? Zaid, the most left-wing staffer at the Center for American Progress Cable news is horrible / Jeff Toobin slays white supremacy School board chaos in Virginia Creating wee lil' apparatchiks Why do we care about the stupid VA governor's race? Words don't mean anything anymore, part 322 We are all India-Pakistan now The steady hand in DC is trembling Dumb Republicans still have ...
Oct 28, 2021•2 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Ethan Strauss, (HNIC @ "House of Strauss" / Substack) Enemy of the Syntax Ethiopian Royalty Breaking the Fourth Wall Leaving the Athletic Not Just for Sports Fans Breaking for Black Bodies NBA Vax Mandates Obama Decides to Be Black "Racist" Emails Moynihan's First Job Double 0' Sistas Jokes that Kill (But Not Actually) Recorded: 10/16/21 Published: 10/14/21 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...
Oct 16, 2021•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Robby Soave, (Senior Editor @ Reason - Author, "Tech Panic") Oral Surgery Buying Robby's Book How Facebook (Isn't) Destroying The World Incompetent + ill-informed Please, Think of The Teenagers A Vintage Moral Panic Mark Zuckerberg's Body Count Victims + Victors Messy Speech When Google Becomes Microsoft 26 Words (That Created the Internet) About That FBI Memo The Darkest Day in American History The Great Culture War Vortex Americas' Dumbest Holiday Recorded: 10/6/21 Published: 10/10/21 See a...
Oct 11, 2021•2 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Katie Herzog, Host @ "Blocked and Reported" Stay in Your Hood So Many Sources Dog Run Confidential What Emma Knew Katie's Nightmare How Did You Get This Number Cool Off Denzel Was Drinking More Shaft Very Heavily Redacted Even More Heavily Redacted Two Spirits Wizard of Ozy Recorded: 9/30/21 Published: 10/2/21 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.weth...
Oct 02, 2021•2 hr 58 min•Transcript available on Metacast W/ Antonio Garcia Martínez, Propritor @ "The Pull Request" False Start Driven to Drink Cultural Valley ("Crazy Ones Need Not Apply") Mission Protocols The Full NYT Software Download Section 230 The Devil in the Details A Conservative War on Big Tech Stormfront / SJW An Uncertain Future GOP 🥰 FDR A Crypto First Economy We Probably Can't Get Along? Amazon vs. Google vs. Apple vs. Facebook Nancy Pelosi: Project Manager? Pull Request Le Tech Blog Rendered Absurd By Time From Nokia to MSNBC to Googl...
Sep 24, 2021•2 hr 52 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Bacon Egg and Cheese (Late Capitalism Edition) - The Met Gala -- America's Most Glamours Tax Shelter - Hetro Negative - No Sex Cults for Kmele - Democrat Wins Most Democratic State - Larry Elder: White Nationalist? - The Republican Trump Conundrum - How Long Can Democrats Run Against Donald Trump - "She was in coach!" - Covid Hospitlziations, Vaccine Booster Controversy - Protecting the Vaccinated - Bob Woodward's New Trump Book - Gen Mark Milley Called the CCP - Trump: 'Withdrawl all the troo...
Sep 17, 2021•2 hr 38 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- Aussie Impressions of a Missing Moynihan -- A Gay Dad’s Homophobia -- Australian Federalism; Who Knew? -- Libertarianism, Shmibertarianism! -- Islands Are Weird, Man -- QR Covid Tracking Is Totally Fine -- Concentration Camp or Exercise Yard? -- Anti-Science Quarantines -- What Tucker Carlson Got Wrong -- What Tyler Cowen Got Right -- The CRT/Abortion Parallels -- He’ll Come Visit Just as Soon as He Can Escape! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episod...
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Lead Astray - Wrong Line - Blues Traveler - Sugar in his Tank - When in Kabul - Repeal/Replace/Keep the AUMF for another 20 years? - Matt's Basement is Flooding (No, Really) - 1/2 Trimester - The Reverend Dr. James P Eagle Sr - The Rule of Law - Playin Coach - Reading Playboy for the... Ads? Recorded: 9/1/21 Published: 9/2/21 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,...
Sep 03, 2021•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast W/ Eli Lake, Opinion Columnist @ Bloomberg - New Dad - Moynihan's Big Night Out - Things to Remember (or Naw) - Meet Gutter (He Kidnaps Kids) - Whose on Top - The Most Inevitable Thing in the World - Hard Limits - Public Sentiments - Vietnam Syndrome - Hip Hop Conservatives - Afghan Clean Up - The Afghanistan Variant Recorded: 8/23/21 Published: 8/25/21 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...
Aug 25, 2021•2 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast W/ David French - Various Notes on the Amy Cooper Interview - The Enablers - Earnest Disagreement - The Two Illiberal Wings of Twitter - False Dichotomies, All The Way Down - Negative Partisanship and the Politics of Animosity - When ‘Your’ Base Turns on You - The Home Teams Defect - Structural, Systemic, Real, Imagined - Revising the CRT Bans - The Empty Promise of CRT Published: 8/10/21 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discus...
Aug 10, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coco Shoots Her Shot Gangs All Here New York is Back** Real Winners Don't Bother Trying Carrying MJ Off The Floor Just Quit Masks + Superstition Save the Babies Surprise 🎁 The Stories We Refuse to Tell Ourselves If It Happened Recorded: 7.27.2021 Published: 7.29.2021 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 29, 2021•2 hr 48 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Jonathan Rauch @ Author of "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth." Senior fellow @BrookingsInst . Contributing writer @TheAtlantic . - I Heart Lizzo - Where Things When Wrong - Flooding the Zone - Breaking Journalism - The Humanitarian Threat and Moral Clarity - Cancel Culture, Information Warfare, Social Coercion - Truth + Checking - Greatest Leap Forward - Ibram Orwell - Bans, Martyrs, Inevitable Failure - Separate, Equal. Same Great Taste. Recorded: 7.6.2021 Published: 7.9.202...
Jul 09, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast "Well, it's my show. So, it's how I wanna do it." - Joy-Ann Reid "I can do what I wanna do." - Bobby Brown " Whateva! Whateva! I do what I want! " - Eric Cartman w/ Chris Rufo @ Senior Fellow, The Manhattan Institute -- Contributing Editor, City Journal - When Rufo Met Reid - The Art of Culture War - Activist Journalist - Critical Race Theory: Boardroom, College Campus, Neighborhood Preschool - Bans, Censorship, Pedagogy, Choice - Machiavellian Realism, Pyrrhic Victories - Classical Liberal Caut...
Jul 02, 2021•2 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kmele reveals his big secret! What on Earth is a "coupon Karen"? When Shaun Was King When Kmele was king of Juneteenth Measuring the outrage economy Measuring the wages of junk history Racist car crashes "When the people fail, the concept fails" The end of Afghanistan (the war / the country) There's a perpetual riot goin' on Another CRT digression RIP to an entertaining, insane, narcissistic, possible murderer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. I...
Jun 24, 2021•2 hr 48 min•Transcript available on Metacast New York Daily News columnist Harry Siegel joins TFC for the first hour to talk all things New York (with a focus on halfwit mayoral candidates jockeying to replace a halfwit mayor). But if you don't care about kvetching, NYCentric coastal elites, the back half of the show is, as usual, about how coastal elites are dumb, joyless, and boring. Something for everyone. - New York is back? Harry is back to tell us it never went away - Harry would rather be an effete, elitist jerk wearing his mask too...
Jun 19, 2021•2 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Florida is open for business, so The Fifth Column flung its masks into the garbage and headed to the Sunshine State for back-to-back live shows in Miami (coming soon to Patreon!) and a poolside recording in Key West (hence that hollow sound). Nursing hangovers and gasping in the heat, the lads stumble through the following pressing (and pointless) topics: - Those Miami shows were pretty fun, eh? - Wait, why exactly are we in Florida? - Kmele thinks Creepy Joe wasn't being creepy - The global min...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Jane Coaston @ (Host, "The Argument" @ The New York Times) Take Four From Vox to NYT's "Rising Libertarian Star" Coming Out John Brown The Black Community Appraisal of America's Racial Reckoning The New Culture War Anti-Racist Classrooms and Workplaces Slightly Off Mic Whole Foods Edge Lord Panics, Counter-Panics, Counter-Counter-Panics Recorded: 5.28.2021 Published: 6.2.2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this wit...
Jun 02, 2021•2 hr 44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Radical Honesty A Year of (Racial) Reckoning Losing the Thread George Floyd Amy Cooper, Christian Cooper... and the other dog walkers? Covering Lab Leaks and UFOs The Death of Truth The Myth of Objectivity Journalism for the Real World Boston Basketball (and racial slurs) Trump Grand jury Recorded May 26, 2021 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.wethefi...
May 30, 2021•2 hr 58 min•Transcript available on Metacast w/ Congressman Peter Meijer (R-MI) Crypto Bloodbath UFOs -- or are they UAPs The Jan 6th Commission (Part I) Lori Lightfoot Won't Talk To White Journalists Homeless in San Francisco The White Man's Burden A Call from Peter About That Vote The Revolt of the Public The Feels The Truth is Out There Recorded May 19, 2021 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....
May 21, 2021•2 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast The lads (minus Kmele, recently felled by his second Pfizer shot) welcome Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano, host of the new LAT podcast "The Times" and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. Note that after an hour of Gustavo's trademark Southern California/Mexican smack talk--in which he defends Taco Bell, ruminates on "LatinX," explains "Tio Tacos" and "Chicanosauruses," and describes American ethnic tensions that don't involve white people (!)--Moynihan and Welch ...
May 13, 2021•2 hr 48 min•Transcript available on Metacast - The Fifth Column live in Miami! Is this the post-COVID Gilluming you’ve been waiting for? - Matt is Drudged: equity v. equality - Racism becomes more systemic, less specific - Basecamp asks employees to leave politics at the door…or head for the door - Are a bunch of smart libertarian legal scholars wrong or super wrong? - The Socialist Network: the GOP wants to compel Facebook to be nice to DJT - The GOP wants to compel Liz Cheney to stop being mean to DJT - Matt and Kmele yell at each other ...
May 07, 2021•2 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
