Members Only #175 - The Six Million Dollar Racist and a Second-Hand Banana
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* Richard Hananananananania is very sorry* He has changed. From last week.* Handjobs against racism* Lizzo, bananas, petards* “Everything I do is consequential, baby”* Chasing Fonzie the racist (Ed note: We can neither confirm nor deny this story)* The thing that is true but one cannot say…* Italy is a great but they’ll charge you a toll to cross the room* Irish and Ital…
7 Aug 202327min
#416 - A Sloppy Summer Pod, Recovered
So this one is probably four days old now? But because of the shitty software we use—and the fact that our…ummm….editor is currently on vacation in Italy—it took some serious archeology to salvage the recording. But it sounds fine, it’s a good episode, and Moynihan isn’t at all annoyed about having to upload this from a beach in Forte dei Marmi. The lengths we will go to make you people smarter and happier…So no description. Just listen to the damn thing. 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
1 Aug 20231h 48min
Members Only #174 - Coast to Coast, Until You Say Stop
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* Matt hasn’t seen Oppenheimer * Brittany Murphy is dead, probably from myocarditis. Kmele is surprised * Found that anti-Qaddafi t-shirt* That stupid interview on Democracy Now* NHJ is America’s greatest historian* Was Moynihan crying? (Moynihan responds: This is fake news)* “But ackshually……..”* Low key good and not great* Richard (not Robert) Frank’s brilliant book* The…
26 Juli 202325min
Members Only #173 - VICE Disgrace, Racist Boston, Racist Viruses
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* Kmele and the Dead* Lia hates God* RFK and the race virus* A guilty verdict* The Dersh and jury nullification * The often referenced video of Dersh v. the Fink* A listener retracts his “dickish email”* An email about Boston and music* Is Boston a “racist” city?* Forgetting about bussing * The Irish vs. the WASPs* Moynihan unloads on idiot Vice executives
18 Juli 202329min
#415 - The Pod of Laughter and Forgetting and Tracy Chapman and Crack and The Three Stooges
* This is a very summer episode. Soz. * Moynihan, impanelled* Implicit bias and your cup of coffee* Chipotle paranoia * We interrupt this program for a detailed Welch interregnum of the death of Milan Kundera* Tracy Chapman is “honored” by Luke Combs’s cover. The Washington Post is alarmed* Elvis was a hero to most, but he never…* You didn’t write that song. The “community” did* De La Soul is not Steely Dan* Airbrushing music and film history will save the universe* Actually Tintin in Congo is pretty bad….* A dumb congressman says something dumb. Ho hum. * A suggestion for a new Sokal hoax* Cocaine, crack, and a question never asked of Biden the Younger* Why Matt once bought $100 worth of crack 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 Juli 20231h 57min
#414 - Clarifications, Curried Goats, Cocaine Capers
* Taking back a “clarification”* Underhoused. Overhoused. Differently housed.* Mayor Adams yells at a Holocaust surviving slave master* Drinking coffee with pictures of dead cops* Who lost the cocaine?* Kamala speechwriter video* The worst person in America is…* That interesting piece about Kevin Kruze’s not interesting book* The Fifth Column agrees: the 4th is pretty great…* Immigration in Europe vs. immigration in the US* Harvard and affirmative action 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
9 Juli 20231h 47min
Members Only #172 - We're Literally Shaking / RFK Redux
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wethefifth.substack.com* A sick podcast* Revisiting Coleman and RFK* Listeners yelling at Moynihan* Some nice stuff about Moynihan* A clarification from Moynihan* (All of this is re: RFK) * BTW, Sirhan Sirhan was really anti-Semitic* The conspiratorial mind* Are Birchers libertarians on meth?* Taking photos of yourself smoking crack* Matt tells a story about…something* Etc, etc, etc
4 Juli 202323min
#413 - So Many Idiots (w/ Damon Root)
Our old pal Damon Root, author of Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court, stops by to explain why the world is ending and racism won and all new websites will be homophobic and paying your debts is fascism or something. So yeah, the lads discuss the court, affirmative action, student loans and how to eat your gay website cake. Enjoy. 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 Juli 20232h 9min
