#517 - "Pimp-o-nomics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Male Gaze" w/ Robbie Soave
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 NotesRecorded: 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
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
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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#515 - Big Trouble in Little MAGA
* Crazy from the heat* AMA* Who is Jim Walden??* The dumbest civil war * So we have to discuss the Epstein “issue” again, eh?* I think we solved the case…* Leaving breadcrumbs in the archives* Jimmy Carter and the aliens * That’s a lotta airstrikes* The plastic surgery exception* Kurt Russell, American * The next, hottest Nobelist 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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#514 - Big Boats! Big Patriotism! Big Pedophile Rings??
* Matt discovers Mass* Because Matt is cruisin’ * Boats and hoes* An ultra exclusive event! The Fifth…on the high seas??* The Epstein hoax * Very dumb people holding empty Trapper Keepers* Fake numbers transform into facts!* Does anyone know how this stuff works?* The client list ███████ █████ * Why do people want this stuff to be true?* A few notes on the forthcoming film Eddington* The BLM victory failure* The forever revolt against the elites* Two overlooked terror attacks in Texas* Put them on ICE 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
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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