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Benghazi: Episode 1 - The Dictator 48:09

6 päivää sitten48:09

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How a prison massacre carried out under Libya’s long-time dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, set the stage for the Benghazi attack. For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this episode visit: bit.ly/fiascopolitics Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the entire season of Fiasco: Benghazi, ad-free, right now. Find Pushkin+ on the Fiasco show page in Apple Podcasts or at Pushkin.fm. Subscribe on Apple: apple.co/pushkin Subscribe on Pushkin: pushkin.fm/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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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.
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Members Only #275 - The Elasticity of Memory & the Weight of History (w/ Russ Roberts) 21:34

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * See below for the video version of this episode! * Russ’s drinks by the pool with Hitchens * How potato chips are made. And what it tells us about economics * Backwards towards “artisanal” * How will a NatCon economy perform? * It ain’t all doom and gloom (surprisingly) * Do academic economists matter? * Russ talks to Milton Friedman * Do long-term economic trends tells us ……

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#523 - On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk 1:40:07

3 päivää sitten1:40:07

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A very bad day for American politics, recorded within an hour of a young father’s death. Political violence, outgroup hatreds, and a side of media malpractice. With a sidebar conversation on 9/11, plus extended outro on the murder in Charlotte and subsequent discussion about race. 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…

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Members Only #274 - Jamaicanon and the Racist Storms 21:06

8 päivää sitten21:06

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both… * Waiting for Bill and Ted * A catalogue of bad prophecies * 7th Day Youtube * Jamicanon * Yakub and the Atlantians * War with Venezuela? * Was Katrina racist * “Heritage Americans” * A listener is mad about…one of our friends * The Zionist silence * I’ll always take your free trips * We are the (piss) pigs * Own your ethnic failures! * G……

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#522 - Video Killed the Podcast Star (ft. Mace, Epstein, Gladwell, Linehan) 1:16:22

10 päivää sitten1:16:22

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* The video age is upon us * Sweet Jane * Crazy Nancy * I’m a survivor, I'm not gon' give up * You have a microphone. Just TELL US. * Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, pedo hunter * A revolt at HHS * The conspiratorial mind * Failing the logic test * Malcolm Gladwell comes clean. Moynihan doesn’t forgive * Taboo busting b/w forbidden topics * A hunch that they were lying… * Europe changed. Everyone pretended not to notice * The UK’s decent into mindless illiberalism * Graham Linehan demands something from the Fifth…we demurred * Reanimating the dead, only to kill them again * And so much more! 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…

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#521 - MAGA Panthers and White FUBU 1:35:35

16 päivää sitten1:35:35

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* A barrel of crackas * We’re buying Hooters * Glamorous hairstyling * Look it up, people * The caudillo and the talk show host * Hega-stan * MAGA Marx: Nationalize everything! * The era of state capitalism is upon us * Burn yer flags * Right-wing ACLU * One more time: the government is bad at things * A history of privatization * Lisa Cook and the Cult Jam * The coming violence? * MAGA Panthers * And so much more… 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…

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On "The Summer of Our Discontent" w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams 40:50

19 päivää sitten40:50

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Kmele connects with Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss his latest book, “ The Summer of Our Discontent” . It’s a wide-ranging conversation that revisits the (or at least Thomas’) optimistic feelings toward the Obama moment in american politics, the backlash of the Trump years, and the ideological hangover of 2020’s “racial reckoning.” They wrestle with……

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#520 - Wear a Tie, Kids Won't Die / White Hippies / Ancient Chinese Custom, Huh? 1:40:10

24 päivää sitten1:40:10

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* Tahoe plague * The Swiss lobby * Hate your kids * They seem like nice kids * If you only wore a tie, kids wouldn’t die * Have some dignity, says the most undignified human alive * The root of “root causes” * Free the guilty * White Hippies * Right-wing cancel culture * Chicago needs this more than DC ] * We kind of disagree about the Smithsonian * This is absurd * Ancient Chinese custom, eh? * It was AI, Matt. She’s still hot. * I love you, Sanna 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…

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Members Only #272 - Bosom Buddies, Nazi Historians, Late Capitalists 22:41

26 päivää sitten22:41

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * A Spanish Harlem incident * The selective regret of Hank Azaria * Kmele watches Eddington * Ozzy confesses * Bonding with your kids over music * Back to Billy * The genius of Rick * Kmele reveals his race * Is Moynihan the Jerry Springer of TFC? * Spectacle vs. interview * Is Martyr Made a baddie? * Endless late capitalism…

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#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts 1:47:50

4 weeks sitten1:47:50

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* Below the Mendoza Line * Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer * Stallone’s Bergman period * Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so, why? * The hundreds of forgotten anti-Bush books * An especially bad Munich analogy * NATO, NATO, NATO * Purely defensive? Well… * Perhaps it made sense at the time… * The Olympic graveyard * A test for the post-war European left * Won’t somebody just *do something* * In praise of Florent Ahmed Groberg * The politics of DC crime * A city of Haley Barbours * Writing shirtlessly: A fantastically awful AP article on DC * Some notes on Ken Burns 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…

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Members Only #271 - America the Antidote (Second Sunday Rebroadcast!) 19:41

4 weeks sitten19:41

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com A rebroadcast of our latest Second Sunday episode during which the lads discuss Killer Mike, World War III, fascism, Billy Joel, Brits, Americans, the Swiss, stupid people, smart people, and white people. And a bunch of other stuff……

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#518 - Angry Indians, the Socialist Right, TikTok's Propaganda War 1:28:56

5 weeks sitten1:28:56

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* A $750 late fee * Crazy train * Tariffapalooza 7.0 * Making Modi mad * Economic nationalism vs. market capitalism * The Soviet Senator * A pen and phone guy * Should DC be taken over by the feds? Or just left alone to be awful? * Israel and the TikTok war * Tell me how this ends * And about a million other things… 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…

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Members Only #270 - Norwegian Pizzas, Italian Meterologists, Fake Dissidents 22:36

5 weeks sitten22:36

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Just let them waffle on for a few minutes before the good stuff… * Poor Europe * The $50 Norwegian pizza? * Functional Denmark, deranged Danish * Moz and the monolingual * The brilliant Child * Moynihan vs. his daughter on Billy Joel * “Forbidden topics are true” isn’t true * How to talk in Eurocode * Bumper sticker TV (and an ode to Chris Elliot) * The greatest meteorologist of al……

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#517 - "Pimp-o-nomics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Male Gaze" w/ Robbie Soave 1:28:02

6 weeks sitten1:28:02

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Moynihan joins from Europe. Robbie Soave (Reason, Rising, Sheetz & Giggles) guests — bravely joining the fellas after stopping by the local precinct so he could report his scooter stolen. Plus; Epstein conspiracies, whether Sydney Sweeney’s jeans are saving America, and debate the merits of dating an AI girlfriend. * Pimponomics * Victimized * Scooter Evangelism * Robbie is a nerd * European Hobos to Hotness Index (HHX) * Epstein: Still Boring, Still Dead * Robbie really is a nerd * Trafficking Stats and the Seagull Defense * Campus Crackdown Expands * Trump, Tariffs, and Inventory Economics * Sydney’s Sweeney Jeans (and Whiteness of the Whale) * Robby Comes Out, Kmele Has Notes Recorded: 8.1.2025 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…

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#516 - "Treasons, Tiny Packages, and the End of Late Night" w/ Eli Lake 1:26:30

7 weeks sitten1:26:30

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Moynihan is somewhere in Europe. Eli Lake ( The Free Press , Breaking History ) fills in. And Kmele sustained a harrowing podcast-related injury that postponed a recording (and nearly cost him a finger). * Meat & Memory * Colbert Gets the Axe * Small Packages * A Yearslong Coup? * Russiagate Replay * Accountability and Missed Opportunities * The Never-Ending Epstein Drama * An (Inevitably) Dysfunctional Government (if you can keep it) Recorded: 7.24.2025 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…

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Members Only #268 - Every Pump is Patriotic 19:08

8 weeks sitten19:08

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * An enigma wrapped inside a…wait, what does that word mean? * Wait, what did you call it??? (Take a guess) * Buffalo Bills, the preferred team of all Mossad agents * How to not write a news story * You know, Epstein was pretty close with many MAGA figures * Bannon’s crisis PR business? * Tulsi and the “seditious conspiracy” * Russia redux * Michael McDonald’s Faye Dunaway story * ……

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