011 w/ Anthony Fisher “Penultimate Primary, Shut Up Racist and Remembering Ali” - The Fifth Column

The great Coleman Hughes sent a pained email. Like many Americans angry about various stupid and sinister government Covid policies, he was now feeling the gravitational pull of a warbly-voiced political outsider from a family of consummate political insiders. He was, of course, starting to fall for Mr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. To be clear, this wasn’t a full-throated endorsement of Kennedy but, Coleman averred, an understanding where his ever-expanding legion of supporters were coming from. And after all, Kennedy was making some good points, no? With Matt Welch having left to join the Wagner Group, Moynihan and Kmele sent a flurry of furious messages and extended an invitation. Dear Coleman: be this week’s guest co-host! Because if we acted now, perhaps we could at least slow any potential descent into...no, no, no. We couldn’t sit idly by as another friend joined the Kult of Kennedy. We invited…he accepted. It was time for an intervention… This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe

24 Kesä 20231h 41min

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.comAnother live Zoom for our handsome, brilliant, and generous subscribers (hence all the weird asides responding to a fast-moving live chat). A few topics covered:* Kmele on Juneteenth * Rush and nerds and whites and wizards * RFK and Rogan and debate* Being brave and calling….* RIP Cormac McCarthy * James Randi “platforming” Uri Geller * Vivek’s Russia stuff* Yalta and …

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Fresh from his campaign stop in front of a Miami courthouse, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy stops by the Fifth’s Chinatown studio to very politely argue with Welch and Moynihan about a whole bunch of stuff. Including:* The donor class* What kind of conservative is Vivek?* Populism and free trade* A peace plan for China and Ukraine* The Trump indictment* Would Vivek take a position in a Trump * Vivek leaves, the lads have a tipple* Not many randos this time* Matt and Moyn on the Trump indictment * Wait, did Moynihan just say…free Assange?? (He did!)* More 2024 nonsense* Chris Christie is serving his purpose * Moynihan tries to decode an ever more complex flag This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe

14 Kesä 20231h 37min

Matt, Moynihan, and Kmele assemble in Chinatown to mull over another Trump indictment. No need for bullet points for this one because beside the predictable digressions into muscle-bound gay birders and homophobic Blue Jays, it’s a lotta Donald. So without further ado…And don’t forget: for the price of one very large coffee, you can help feed the children. Specifically our children. Who are very sad. And very malnourished. And very disappointed in your cheapskatery. For shame. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe

10 Kesä 20231h 45min

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.comDespite being in a car in the city of Dnipro, journalist Tim Mak joins Michael Moynihan to talk about leaving NPR, moving to Kiev, and starting The Counteroffensive, his new Substack dedicated to reporting the Ukraine War. A few of the topics covered:* Tim arrived in Kiev the night the war started* Going back to Ukraine—and going independent* Why so many on t…

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* Ground control to Tucker C. * Episode one of the Bonkers Conspiracy Files* Also, we know what happened to that dam in Ukraine* But back to the white supremacist aliens…* Did the California senate pass on of the dumbest bills of all time? * Root causes and robbing Walgreens* Moynihan loves rooftop Koreans, thinks baby Matt should have been shot in his adorable littl…

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* Kmele is moving to a place where everything is free * ChatGPT is a fabulist * Moynihan’s new Orwell piece * Wikipedia v. AI chatbots* The assassination of (our) Kennedy* Random gossip columnist: Jamie Foxx was murdered by Pfizer * A better America: when Rick James met Linda Blair* BTW: Tupac Shakur was very dumb. And very violent.* Keeping people with dumb politics out of the various halls of fame…* Pride warz….* Root causes and Bud Light and Target and….* Inconsistent baseball atheism * But you like these old skool book bans* The debt ceiling deal* Biden meets a sandbag* Kamala wages war on…racist home appraisers * Congrats, you ridiculous failures! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe

2 Kesä 20232h 2min

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* Stan Jonathan vs. Pierce Bouchard* The Lia Thomas of Pickleball* Owning a house sucks* “Lia has these books”* Kmele loves Thoreau* Matt hates Thoreau* Feinstein and elder abuse * “…to function”* On gas stoves and gesture science* C.S. knows someone with dumb ideas* Robert Murdoch controls your brain * Legislating curricula * Huey Newton and Eric Clapton

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