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Members Only #183 - UNLOCKED - K&M Live in Philly Oct 04, 2023

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* Unrelated non-programming note from Moynihan: “As some of you might recall, and as I mentioned in the intro, last year I beseeched listeners to help my amazing daughter Livia (and her gymnastics team) raise money for pediatric cancer. And last year, you guys came through in such a crazy way that one parent asked me if I was “some sort of cult leader.” I said no. I’m only a cult co-host. So thanks in advance! Oh, and the event is tomorrow!” THE LINK

* Back in July, Kmele and Moynihan talked to a room full of students at FIRE’s annual student conference in Philadelphia. Much fun was had by all. And it was recorded. So…here you go.

* A generous Greg Lukianoff intro. And some stuff about Kmele and Moynihan and Jonah Lehrer. For the kids.

* And then…the kids tell tales of campus woe…

* What more description do you need?

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#423 w/Josh Szeps - TED, Just Admit It Oct 03, 2023

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Our old Aussie-Aussie-Aussie-Oi-Oi-Oi pal Josh Szeps, former host of the morning show Wake Up Ya C***s, was in New York this weekend and stopped by the Fifth’s Chinatown headquarters! So we decided to have a few drinks (Ed. note: Josh has lost approximately 600 pounds and is now sober, while Welch and Moynihan are still the same old lazy alcoholics) and argue about how our pal Coleman Hughes was treated by TED…receive a concise primer on the politics of Australia’s “voice” referendum…get an equally concise lesson in Aussie identity politics… promote his terrific podcast “Uncomfortable Conversations”…and recount a recent conversation that was so uncomfortable that it has been permanently disappeared.

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Members Only #182 - The Racist Wolf Sep 25, 2023

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* Deion’s audacious blackness

* Kevin McHale’s audacious whiteness

* Serious Hasan’s baby is covered in cocaine

* What everyone hates most is a racist, anti-Asian wolf

* Cutting the razor wire because…why not?

* Immigration in Europe is different

* DOWTCHA BOY! The (Irish?) origins of Jamaican Patois

* Is Matt the Harvey Weinstein of the Fifth?

* Guess what? There was more to t…

#422 - Introducing The Fifth Column Center for Antiracist Research Sep 22, 2023

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* The sartorial excellence of the Pennsylvania Senate delegation

* “Pooping on their shoes”

* Kilmeade v. Rosendale (that’s his name)

* Kendi and the disappearing millions

* Want to demonitize one of your enemies? We have an idea!

* A threatening letter from Lady Orwell DBE

* The ACLUization of everything

* Trump on the Meet the Press

* Broadcast needs to “lend democracy a hand?”

* Biden is just getting worse

* Ron slides further…and new New Hampshire numbers

* Defeatism and elitism, mixed

* The “moral clarity” darling of 2023: Christiane Amanpour

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Members Only #181 - From Bob Geldof to Jesus (of Nazareth) to Walt Disney Sep 20, 2023

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* Bob Geldof is the hero of this story

* She isn’t the pantless one

* Catholics, Kmele and your “best religious experience”

* Nick and the Burn

* Jamaican names / Wes Anderson movies

* Revisiting Less Than Zero

* The Hollywood Party v. Walt Disney

* A listener has an Amy Cooper question…

* The Kendi Center kind of shuts down

* NOI in our imagination

* Whitedurans wonder what to do ne…

#421 - Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Sep 17, 2023

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* 36 year-old grandmother vapes, feels up Democrat

* Shanah Tova!

* Russell Brand, who Moynihan wrote about in 2014, is accused of rape

* They are coming after the truth tellers, maaaaaannnnnn

* Revisiting Hunter’s indictment

* Breaking: Biden is confused and sleepy

* Trump v. Kelly

* I’m the president, so it’s legal…

* Ron’s compounding troubles, plummeting poll numbers

* Preemptive skepticism

* Hasan Minaj is an unfunny fraud

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Members Only #180 - The Fifth on Zoom! With Ben Dreyfuss! It's a Rebroadcast! Sep 14, 2023

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As Moynihan explains in the intro, this is the Zoom recording from this month’s Second Sunday broadcast. Basically, it’s the difference between a soundboard and audience bootleg. But so it goes. So no bullet points this week—enough time has already been spent on this episode—other than to say that Ben Dreyfuss shows up and we talk about Danny Masterson,…

#420 - Texas Ends New York! Protesters End Climate Change! DOJ Prosecutors End Proud Boys! Sep 08, 2023

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* Every city is a nightmare

* Airbnb banned—but hotel rooms are now free!

* Pedro glues his feet to the floor, Moynihan discovers climate change

* It’s the end of New York as we know it (and Mayor Adams feels not so fine)

* None of this is sustainable, btw

* “BIPOC” residents in Chicago are angry

* Nikki rising, Vivek shrinking

* Enrique Tarrio, black white supremacist, gets more time than Mr. American Taliban

* The DOJ understands why an activist guy murdered a non-activist guy

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Members Only #179 – The Late Richard Riordan and the Never-Launched L.A. Examiner Sep 05, 2023

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#419 - In Defense of Capitalism...and Sweden's Covid Response (w/ Johan Norberg) Sep 02, 2023

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Let’s abandon the usual bullet points and instead provide a few relevant links. The lads sit down with Swedish writer and historian Johan Norberg to discuss his forthcoming book The Capitalist Manifesto; his report on Sweden’s Covid response; his almost-a-book The Mirage of Swedish Socialism: The Economic History of a Welfare State; and that time, twenty years ago, when he first came across Moynihan wandering around Stockholm, clutching a book about filthy commies.

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