Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition. www.wethefifth.com
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#473 - Something For Everyone to Hate
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* The title is correct: everyone will hate something in this episode! * Moynihan is dying? * GPT as your GP * Choc and Chiclet * $$$ for TV * J.D. says Trump won in 2020 * Jack Smith could have asked Moynihan * You hate him. But not enough. * A goomba union boss is going to choke America out * Rich and “working class” * Create jobs! End EZ-Pass! * …
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Members Only #227 - Killing Nasrallah, Inshallah
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Kmele’s voice is craggy; Moynihan is on the precipice of illness; Hasan Nasrallah has been delivered to a fiery “paradise,” last seen with his hand up own skirt, desperate to locate 70-odd sexually inexperienced coreligionists. Also: * Pat’s “thugocracy” * Hockey fight…
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#472 - The Ruhling Class and Palestine's Parachute Pundit
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* The return of the Boss POC * The veep sits for an “interview” * That’s all she had to do… * Will Michael Cohen be assassinated? * Not if he escapes the country (and his family)! * The return of Tennessee * 10 days in an uncomplicated land * That conflict is just like all things I care about (except it’s nothing like the things I care about) * Dis…
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Members Only #226 - A Nest of Idiot Vipers
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * When you think you’re right about everything * Alternate episode title: Candace Owens Discovers a New Fact Every Day—This Time, She Didn’t Blame the Jews * “The incentive for her is to be more mentally ill, because she seems to be doing quite well by losing her mind …
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#471 - Do You Know the Importance of a Skypager?
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Yet again, AI has done a bang-up of summarizing a Fifth Column episode, which mostly covers the insane economic policies of both idiot candidates and why members of Hezbollah are having their balls blown off. But according to the half-sentient supercomputers, the lads discuss how “Melania Trump's new book is a focal point, with humorous commentary …
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Members Only #225 - The Assassin's Creed
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com First: Our remote recording software uses AI to create text “soundbites” from every episode episode. They are best ignored. But this week, it came up with this: "Music is crazy." "This is about Indians." "I want to be black." "You must have a white wife." Yes, all of t…
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#470 - Good Wars, Bad Candidates, and the Department of Straws and Napkins
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* This tattoo definitely wasn’t a horrible mistake * Matt has dementia * Pim Tool: tool of the FSB? * The $400,000 plagiarist * Brain “interference” vs. election “interference” * Did Trump acknowledge that he lost in 2020? * The childcare word salad * Plastic straw journalistic DISGRACE * Having principals versus having “a position” * Dumb neo-Nazi…
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Members Only #223 - Making Martyrs of Revisionist Rubes
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Illness fakers * Medium fakers * Ok, so let’s warm up with some music stuff * Does any band have a perfect four-album run? * “I’ve read a lot of books on WWII!!” * On the Martyr Made controversy * Baby Irvings * The bad guys are the good guys, and they have no agency…
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#469 - Kamala Speaks! Tim's Grammar! Bash Backlash!
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* Kamala finally submits to an interview * A Cascade of Disappointment) * A softball interview * Flip, flop, flibbedy flop * Wasted questions * Just a question of grammar * Code switch that racist wall * Trump in the cemetery * Trump in the bible * Trump impressions * Noel, Liam, Kmele * Matt and Moynihan reveal a secret, racially segregated text t…
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#468 - And now...the Coronation (w/ Alex Thompson)
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It’s the final night of the convention and in the hours before everything kicks off, the lads convened at the Substack loft to chat with Axios’s Alex Thompson, our old pal and arguably the most plugged in political reporter in America. We could offer some conversation bullet points but…just trust us. This is a really good one. Alex dishes on his re…
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