On "The Summer of Our Discontent" w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comKmele 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?
* 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
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
* 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!)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comA 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…
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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