Guest: Steve Kornacki, National Political Corespondent @NBC News / MSNBC <ul><li>Making TV News During a Pandemic</li><li>Doing Your Own Makeup</li><li>Last Man in Midtown</li><li>We're All You Tubers Now</li><li>It'll Be a Blow-Out, Or It'll Be Close</li><li>Polls You Can Trust</li><li>Black Voters, Impeachment, Collusion</li><li>State of the Parties</li><li>State of the Union</li><li>State of the Media</li><li>Paper or Plastic</li></ul> Recorded Sept 11, 2020Published Sept 13, 2020

204 w/ Steve Kornacki "What's Up With These Polls?"

Guest: Nancy Romemelmann, journalist and author of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bridge-True-Story-Motherhood-Murder/dp/1542048419/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1595989593&amp;sr=8-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder</a> Moynihan is back from Kenosha, and Nancy Rommelmann returns for an update on the goings-ons in Portland. <ul><li>On the ground in Kenosha</li><li>On the ground in Portland</li><li>Media Malpractice, Self Deception </li><li>DC, Rochester, What's Next</li><li>Biden v Trump</li><li>*Worse Than Useless Facts*</li><li>Details That Matter</li><li>Going Full MAGA</li></ul> Recorded Sept 5, 2020Published Sept 6, 2020

203 w/ Nancy Rommelmann "From Portland to Kenosha to Rochester"

w / Tina Nguyen (White House Reporter @ Politico) <ul><li>Watching the RNC</li><li>Trump's on Twitch</li><li>Nasty Emojis</li><li>The Fire Next Time (Kenosha Edition)</li><li>"What's the big deal? Your insurance will pay for it?"</li><li>Total Failure of Political Leadership</li><li>Matt Welch: Snowflake?</li><li>Marines in Portland?&nbsp;</li><li>Libertarian Enough?</li><li>Leaping to Conclusions, Outright Lying</li><li>Independent Investigations</li><li>Jacob Blake: Things We Don't Know</li><li>Kyle Rittenhouse: Things We Don't Know</li></ul> Recorded Aug 31, 2020Published Sept 1, 2020

202 w / Tina Nguyen "Trump on Twitch, Jacob Blake, Kyle Rittenhouse"

w / Coleman Hughes 🤫 Recorded Aug 21, 2020Published Aug 23, 2020

201 w / Coleman Hughes "DNC COVID CON, QAnon Don,  Canceling Kmele"

We can't believe it. Neither can you. It's our 200th episode!! (Well, not including the thirty-plus, subscriber-only Patreon episodes, which are looser, bawdier, and even more problematic...<a href="https://www.patreon.com/wethefifth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">so stop freeloading and subscribe</a>!). In celebration of this momentous anniversary, we called up our old friend Andrew Sullivan, fresh from his separation with New York magazine and joining from his Provincetown whirlpool, to discuss: - Daddys, bears, and pervs...oh my!- Andrew has a conversation with some younger gays- A generation without tragedy- BTW: No one actually says LGBTQ+- And you're not suppose to like being oppressed- Why did Andrew leave New York magazine and what is the "mysterious miasma"?&nbsp;- Sully starts his own thing, quickly realizes he was underpaid- The drunk brilliance of old-school British journalism- FWIW, Andrew didn't write The Bell Curve- The anti-Sullivan fatwa issued by a former employer- Michael Kinsley's two rules of writing&nbsp;- The future of magazines, the future of media&nbsp;- Why you should read, listen to, and befriend people with bad ideas- Kmele, Kamala, and the prostitutes- Andrew convinces us to...change Recorded Aug 13, 2020Published Aug 14, 2020

200 w / Andrew Sullivan "Uncancellable Andrew and the Great Media Miasma"

<ul><li>Drugs You Should Try</li><li>Heroine, A Black Drug?</li><li>Black People Are All The Same</li><li>Voter Fraud, by Mail</li><li>Selecting A VP</li><li>Cognitive Tests (Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV)</li><li>Scare Tactics</li><li>Suburban Lifestyle Dreams</li><li>The State of New York</li><li>FBG Duck</li><li>New George Floyd Video</li><li>The Trouble With China</li><li>Facebook vs TikTok</li><li>Blazing Saddles</li></ul> Recorded Aug 6, 2020Published Aug 9, 2020

199 "Nothing to See Here, An Emergency Every Minute"

Guest: Nancy Rommelmann, journalist and author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bridge-True-Story-Motherhood-Murder/dp/1542048419/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1595989593&amp;sr=8-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder</a> Nancy Rommelmann, friend of the Fifth and former resident of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2PveIcm5K0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Portland, Amerikkka</a>, returns from the ramparts of the revolution with news, anecdotes, and a glimpse at our glorious future. <a href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1ASUM_enUS889US889&amp;sxsrf=ALeKk02a92DuJKpZLxMu2NBIhv7EeT5CMw:1596040904216&amp;q=Alis+volat+propriis&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLUz9U3sCxOMk17xGjCLfDyxz1hKe1Ja05eY1Tl4grOyC93zSvJLKkUEudig7J4pbi5ELp4FrEKO-ZkFiuU5eckligUFOUXFGVmFgMAUSm1hFoAAAA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alis volat propriis</a>. So we asked our very own Lady John Reed just what the hell is happening in the insurrectionist precincts of the Pacific Northwest... <ul><li>Nancy doesn't recognize parts of Portland</li><li>What everyone is getting wrong about the protests/riots/federal intervention</li><li>Wait, where is the Portland PD?</li><li>Shares in a homemade body armor business are trading higher today...</li><li>Why you're not hearing that amazing, hilarious, enlightening conversation we had about the secret app</li><li>(It's because the SD card ran out of space and no one noticed...)</li><li>We return after our tech screw up--much, much drunker--to talk history vs. journalism</li><li>No one arguing about colonial history knows anything about colonial history</li><li>It sort of falls apart around this point...</li><li>And by the way: stop telling us what we should care about</li></ul>

198 w/ Nancy Rommelmann "There's a Riot Goin' On"

Glenn Greenwald,Co-Founder @ The InterceptAuthor, "No Place to Hide" Thomas Chatterton WilliamsContributing Writer @ New York Times MagAuthor, "Self Portrait in Black and White" After a little internet drama related to the Harper's Open Letter, Kmele got together w/ Thomas and Glenn to discuss. <ul><li>Why we needed "A Letter on Justice and Debate"</li><li>Why Glenn isn't a Signatory</li><li>What is Cancel Culture</li><li>Do we really need to talk about this RIGHT NOW</li><li>Evangelism or Excommunication</li><li>Hypocrisy and Healthier Conversations</li></ul> Recorded July 24, 2020Published July 27, 2020

197 w/ Glenn Greenwald, Thomas Chatterton Williams "Hypocrisy, Controversy, Cancellations"

We haven't unlocked a Patreon episode since way back in February. But we (Moynihan) were feeling generous, so here's a paywalled bonus episode from July 13, liberated for all of you cheapskates. You're welcome. If you want a new subscriber-only episode every week (plus slurring live Zoom calls, lost episodes, mail bag episodes, a community of like-minded psychos, etc), subscribe <a href="https://www.patreon.com/wethefifth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>! -------------- For only the second time since the Bat Flu, the lads are back in the same room...and back at the Stupid Table™ in Williamsburg. The energy! The booze! The crosstalk! Kmele singing! Yay! It's an hour and half bull session covering the most important debates in America. Zum beispiel:&nbsp; - Moynihan's new CNBC show "Stock Monstah Dood!"- Getting psyched about--and possibly auditioning for--a show Kmele loves but has never seen- Kmele is Mr. 2X. Moynihan is Mr. Angry Irishman Driver- Understanding the core of the anti-racist project- Matt's formative moment as an 18-year-old journalist- The privileged people who hate really privileged people- Yes, the lads talk about the endless LETTER WARS- Kmele rants about a Jo Jorgensen tweet- What does it mean to be anti-racist?- If they win, we will all will end up living in a joyless world- Back to Bay Ridge (and coming upon a pro-NYPD protest)

UNLOCKED - Patreon Dispatch #29 🎁 - The Williamsburg Tapes - This Podcast is Lava

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