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Members Only #239 - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Dec 02, 2024

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* The boys had just heard the Biden pardon news. So much they missed about the specifics…and this brilliant video had not yet been created.

* Citizens of the Fifdom debate RFK

* The professional Youtube debaters

* Teens and true crime

* JonBenet

* How to interview your dad

* A listener asks: Is Dan Crenshaw the worst?

* Park Slope politics and the crotch Magen David

* The M…

Members Only #238 - 🎁 UNLOCKED 🎁 - The RFK Problem (w/ Alan Levinovitz) Nov 27, 2024

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As a Thanksgiving treat, an unlocked Members Only episode featuring Moynihan in conversation with Dr. Alan Levinovitz, author of Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Scienceand The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat, about RFK’s view of public health, why you are fat, the myth of “natural,” and why so many people have stopped trusting “the science.”

We won’t be unlocking any subscriber-only episodes for awhile so…subscribe!

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Members Only #237 - Roofies, Commies, and Sissies Nov 25, 2024

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* Pete’s past

* Friends with a murderer

* Roofie vending machines

* The worst cabinet pick?

* Trans snakes that play golf

* Damn dirty commies

* The three things reds do well

* A store called Store

* That truck is still with Kamala

* Little Baron’s soooooooootcase

* One black woman’s quest

* Biased bookstores

* Axios: Trump’s liberal cabinet

* ChatGPT is wrong about everything

* Back to Cormac

#480 - The Media Mess / Gaetz Pulls Out (w/ Ben Smith) Nov 23, 2024

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An hour with Semafor founder Ben Smith discussing the sorry state of the media, followed by a Smith-free hour with the lads discussing, among other things, two very different people who nevertheless shared a very deep love of young people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Members Only #236 - Here Comes the Nanny State! Nov 19, 2024

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* Kmele: Forever the HNIC

* The Filet-O-Fish is Alaska pollock

* A Swedish horror show

* RFK at HHS

* He forgot to mention this stuff…

* Elon’s principles?

* On Matt Gaetz and John Bolton

* You know, we had a pretty good record on Covid…

* Moulton v. a Salem Witch

* A listener’s Irish-Catholic family is falling apart

* That fake Netflix fight

Members Only #235 - To Overthrow the World: A Conversation on Communism with Sean McMeekin Nov 17, 2024

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Michael Moynihan sits down with Bard College professor Sean McMeekin to discuss his new book To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, a Fifth-approved history of the global communist movement, from the ur-commie instincts of Plato to the sinister stupidities of Plekhanov. They also contemplate why so many smart people fall for ba…

#479 - The Case Against Tariffs (w/ Scott Lincicome) Nov 13, 2024

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We’ve promised this one for a very long time. But now that Trump is returning to the White House—the mercantilist maniac who recently said “the most beautiful word in the dictionary is ‘tariff’”—we finally followed through. By popular demand, we called upon Scott Lincicome, senior visiting lecturer at Duke University Law School and vice president of general economics and Cato's Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, to answer all of your questions on protectionism, tariffs, and trade.

Don’t care about such things!? Well, this episode is a double feature! After Scott’s masterclass on free trade, the lads stick around to discuss Trump’s appointments (ummm….this was a day before the Gaetz-Gabbard selections), “neocons,” and the WNBA.

And for you subscribers: we will drop Moynihan’s conversation with Bard College historian Sean McMeekin in the next few days. For you non-subscribers…what are you waiting for??

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Members Only #234 - Come On and Zoom! (Wagnerian Opera Edition) Nov 12, 2024

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Our first post-election Second Sunday Zoom call! If you missed it, shame on you for choosing to spend time with your family or choosing not to pony up. But it’s all here. All three hours of it. Yes, it’s the “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” of election analysis. But to be clear, we also discuss Emperor Hirohito, Kentucky politics, Australians, New York …

Members Only #233 - A Grave New World Nov 08, 2024

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Welch and Moynihan are back in the studio, three days after the end of democracy, counting the days before they get the midnight knock from Trump’s NKVD. So what does one do? Engage in some anticipatory obedience, obviously. But can anything save them? Subscribe to find out!

Note: Matt came across this amazing video only after recording this episode. So …

#478 - The Dream of a Six-Foot-Four, Tobacco-Chewing White Savior Nov 07, 2024

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The Fifth did a bit of processing today with our Trump-supporting friend at her Connecticut studio. Hungover, exhausted, bedraggled, the lads then returned to the scene of last night’s Fifth-Free Press-Reason party and recorded this episode. They enjoyed it. And they suspect you will too.

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