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Recorded Aug 21, 2020
Published Aug 23, 2020
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We do it for you, people. We donât necessarily want to, but we do. Because you need it. In times of national crisis, the Fifth will forgo all the fun stories so we can tackle the important, necessary stories. Itâs time to take your medicine, citizens of Fifdom, and allow Allison Schrager, economist and Bloomberg News columnist, to womansplain just what is ailing the American economy and why the bros and their stupid bro banks are collapsing. According to Schrager, all the people you hate are, in fact, to blame.
And after releasing Allison, Welch and Moynihan stick around to discuss Joeâs gay epiphany, the moron students of Americaâs top university, and why being anti-bothsidesism might be homophobic. Enjoy.
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* Kmele at a Konference? Yup!
* Moynihan spills a wee bit of tea about an old job đŹ
* The New Trump U
* Commie spies
* The DeSantis strategy
* Mattâs baseball digression (on rule changes and the WBC)
* This is a very good series
* That Twitter Files circus on Capitol Hill
* So this is exactly what we were talking about re: purity tests
* Donât identify as anythingâŠ.
* So very muchâŠ
#397 - Just Some Bros Mainsplaining Manganese
Itâs just like old times! Because the boys are back in town, recording together in an actual studio, andpregaming with listener-provided booze. SoâŠyeah, things were pretty rough going inâŠSorry about that.
* We try to answer the age old questionâŠ
* A handful of some, maybe, constitutes a New York Times trend
* Let us, as men, explain something to youâŠ
* The sexual decline and fall of the podcast bro
* âItâs not because youâre a woman. Itâs because Iâm an asshole.â
* Does anyone at Fox believe anything?
* Do these January 6th videos change anything?
* Note: my autocorrect knew how to spell âDolezalâ
* A very brief Covid digression
* And so much more!
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* Puerto Rican passports
* Nothing works in New York
* Jimmy the Deregulator
* Fistfight Airlines
* Kmele and Andrew Schultz at Brown
* So what about Chris Rockâs Netflix special?
* The travails of a listenerâs white wife
* In praise of Matt and Trey
* A ânational divorceâ is dorm room, edgelord bullshit
* The loss of Mayor Pepe
* Number #9 dream
* Stirewalt on calling Arizona for Biden and the Dominion lawsuit
* On getting fired by Fox News
* How journalism collapsed
* Sean Hannity is not a conservative (heâs a Republican)
* The Joe Manchin effect
* This wouldnât have happened under Roger Ailes
* Overestimating the mediaâs influence
* The inevitable conversation about mis- and disinformation
* Would Chris cancel Alex Jones?
* Cruz v. Carlson: the most excruciating interview ever?
* Will Reaganism return??
* Post-game: lab leak lollapalooza
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* Konference Kmele
* The most Jewish podcast in America?
* Arguing an overcorrection
* Michael Jackson, social conservative
* Kmele sends Angela Davis a SASE
* Slavery, King Cotton, and fighting with NHJ
* The two books on slavery Moynihan mentioned
* Listener question about maybe working for a racist conspiracy theorist
* More thoughts on big boy mannequins
* Clip from Ethan SupleâŠ
Members Only #153 - Make Way For the Big Boyz
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* Apocalypse apparel
* No country for fat men
* Singal white journalistÂ
* A left-wing Matt *Walsh* stanÂ
* Books donât make a man
* Kancel Kmele Pls
* On Mistaken Misgendering
* Dippin toes, stepping on rakes
* A message from Julia (TBC)
* Moynihan engineers a Fifth Marriage
* The zaps of SSRI withdrawlâŠ
* Burning down the house - followed by Â
* A listener wonders: were my Italian grandpaâŠ
* Moynihanâs hobo disaster
* KMW, disinformation queen, stops by for a few, tells us how she broke her kneecap
* KMW: The Fifth is staffed by crotchety scare-mongering old dudes (Ed. - This is disinformation)
* So why *is* KMD the disinformation queen?
* Wait, what does âdisinformationâ even mean??
* The movie Contact is pretty libertarian
* Killing old people, dead crank doctors, and libertarian Rachel Welch
* According to hundreds of stupid people, the New York Times is a hate group or something
* Religious TRUTH replaces reasoned debate
* Nothing is real and everything you say is killing people
* Moynihanâs Caribbean pleaâŠâŠâŠ
* And so much more!
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe* How Jamie ended up writing about Armie Hammer
* So what *is* the Hammer story anyway?
* How the motivated reasoning media ignores inconvenient inconsistencies
* Is there a path back from an utterly destroyed reputation?
* How Jamieâs book Secret City informed his reporting
* Heroes and homophobia
* So is it true what they say about James Webb?
* The Lavender Scare and Joe McCarthy
* Who was worse, JFK or RFK?
* Would anyone care about Larry Craig in 2023?
* Why was Moynihan at a political event in Florida?
* SMDH at the FUBAR SOTU
* A bit about those Twitter hearingsâŠ
* And so much more!
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* Armie of the damned
* Jamie Kirchickâs piece on Armie Hammer
* The Robin DiAngelo of Sports
* Ethanâs piece on âDEI manâ Richard Lapchick
* The question that ended Ethanâs interview with Lapchick
* The NBAâs Foreskin Ceiling
* âIn this day and ageâŠâ
* Maverick Carter isnât going to hire you
* That shocking 1976 PBS documentary about racism in Queens
* Kids donât like sports anyâŠ
* The George Wallace travel app
* The genius and utter stupidity of WEB Dubois
* That disgraceful Dubois obit for Stalin
* A copy of the Conservation of Races book
* Len Downieâs rotten, horribly written piece about objectivity in news
* Jeff Gerthâs really good piece about Trump-Russia coverage
* Remember Hamilton 68? Bush 911? Heaven 17?
* Hunterâs sexy jobs program
* Did anyone notice that Olâ Joe said that weird lie again?
* Racist tax robots
* Whatâs good for me isnât good for thee, silly poor person
* Welcome to WhiteFolksIsBad.com
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* A famous Texas hat
* Kmeleâs Twitter beef with a former guest
* The tragedy in Memphis, the predictable response
* Ubiquitous white supremacy
* Donât even read Mark Twain aloud
* A listener speculates on Kmeleâs âblacknessâ
* Back to Texas: they are just nice people, says Moynihan
* Name this listenerâs baby
* The etymology of âKmeleâ
* Nicola Sturgeon splutters when asked about âŠ
A sober first segment about war and death is interrupted by our chaotic and fatphobic friend Ben Dreyfuss, who joins the Fifth to discuss his insane Twitter account and why he keeps making people really mad.
* We havenât seen many of these Oscar movies
* German Leopards for Ukraine
* The arrival of âJaws star Richard Dreyfuss' actor son Ben, 36, [who was] slammed for saying he'd never have sex 'with a fat personââ
* That Daily Mail article / We read Ben some of the comments
* Wait, why did Ben get fired from Mother Jones again?
* Will there ever be a deal-breaking sex scandal again?
* Peter Falk, gay icon?
* An important conversation about Rocky
* Trump can come back to Facebook
* The government is suing Google
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* Santos: Hotter as a lady?
* Hunter is a shitty person who makes shitty art
* Kmele shuts down a Netflix indoctrination session
* Georgia: Stupid people play stupid games and win stupid prizes
* A shooting in LA
* Another shooting in LA
* A tribute to a listener
* More on Cormac McCarthy (and Camus and Sartre)
* Objecting to Douglas Murray
* On the weirdness of the Phantom of thâŠ
#391 'Debt Drama, DEI, and Deceased Rock* Legends*'
* Release The List
* Crosby, Not So Great
* A Few Nights In Chicago
* Squashing Racism ($5 Million at a Time)
* Reparations and the US Constitution
* A Seat at the Table
* Hereditary Culpability and Entitlement
* Manhattan Beach
* Daily Wire vs. Mug Club
* Drew Carey đ€ CDC
* âWe ainât gonna talk bout dem papers (so yâall can quit asking)â
* Debt Limit Holdâem
* The Anti-Woke Caucus
* Floridaâs âObjectiveâ Nonsense
* What Students Deserve
* âIf We Lose, You Loseâ
Recorded: 1/19/23
Published: 1/20/23
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe* The Corvette Papers
* âSo my friend gets arrested for murder in South SudanâŠâ
* No sex please, heâs British
* The times, they have aâ changed
* From Belfast to Pyongyang
* If I Did It: Eichmann versus the neo-Nazis
* Russophilia, left and right
* America: a net exporter of bad ideas
* Is there a war on the West?
* Douglasâs new podcast, Uncancelled History
* In defense of Lincoln and Churchill
* Regrets, Iâve had justâŠone
* Disqualifying Kant and Hume
* That idiotic USA Today piece cited by Matt
* And so much more!
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe* Former Rep. Justin Amash was on the floor during the leadership fight??
* Brian Lamb question: What does the speaker actually do?
* And what do the Gang of Twenty actually want?
* Rep. Amash: Kevin McCarthy âisnât that brightâ and âwill do whatever it takes to maintain powerâ
* Why the system is broken and how it got that way
* Congress is becoming more European
* Reminder: Amash created (and named) the Freedom Caucus
* Are you really putting yourself forward to be speaker?
* The whole system is broken. And all the other speaker options are reflections of this brokenness
* The NYT and âultraconservativesâ
* The Ukraine objection exception
* A qualified defense of the execrable Skip Bayless
* Idiots deciding who gets to speak
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* Subway Protocol
* Lying, Liar
* Flooding the Zone
* Modest Proposal
* The Real Corn Pop
* Domestic DisturbanceÂ
* Buffalo Electronics
* Trump Tapes
* Moynihan is cold
* Welch isnât paying attention
* Kmele coins a good one (for the third time)
* Dank Meme Party
* After Trump
* Read This. Read That.
Recorded: 12/29/22Published: 12/30/22
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* Sweet Baby Jesus
* Ted Cruz đ€âs Striper
* Dress for the Job You Want
* Defensive Capabilities + Fiscal Profligacy
* The Worst Possible Scenario
* Criminalish Betrayal
* Worse than Watergate?
* Presidential Travel Rewards
* The Stanford Grammer Experiment
* Demanding or Entitled BIPOCs
Recorded: 12.21.22Published: 12.22.22
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* Irish Israeli
* France vs Morocco
* That Marriage Act
* Biden Told The Truth That Time
* What Republicans Wonât Do, But Ought to
* Theyâre Actievly Trying to Kill us
* Leaving Twitter (Because Iâm Oblivious, For the Children)
* Doxxing*** Elonâs Plane?
* MTG (Would have won!)
* Jan 6th Prosecutions
* Maced
Recorded 12.14.22Published: 12.15.22
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Recorded on Sunday afternoon, this now-vintage episode was consider lost forever, after a certain Fifth Columnist discovered that he still doesnât understand how computers, cameras, and microphones work. WellâŠ.lost until we (i.e. Moynihan) found a weird backup copy of the episode on the Twitch servers! SoâŠa few days late, of variable quality, and now available for download:
* Back to the âTwitter files,â reluctantly
* Everyone loves Joe McCarthy
* Yet another James/Jim Baker
* The pointlessness of trying to control speech
* The Times pickets
* The Times returns, writes an absurd article about Cuba
* A Michael Jackson hagiography on Broadway
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* Yes, we have to talk about Kanye West Ye Kardashian again
* Verdict: The man is not well. And is an anti-Semite
* Kmele is sad. Matt is not.
* Wild guess: Ye is unfamiliar with Theodor Herzl
* Note: some people with bad views used to have not so bad views
* Remember âslavery was a choice?â That was pretty dumb
* Is Kanye making people 'âunsafeâ?
* Matt Taibbi releases internal Twitter comms on the Biden laptop
* Journalists: this is the wrong type of journalism
* These numbers seem pretty fake
* Too many people are interested in politics
* Hakeem âthe Dreamâ Jeffries
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with/ Ethan Straus of House of Strauss (on Substack)
* Does the NBA Have an Antisemitism Problem?
* They control the media, our podcast, and the NBA!?
* Wait, who isnât Jewish?
* âStep 1, Step 2, Step 3, Hitlerâ
* Baseball + The John Birch Society
* Stolen (Jewish) Valor
* âMore than an Athleteâ / Lebron âgettinâ that Jewish moneyâ James
* Divide & Sponsor
* Was (Is) Twitter Pushing Hysteria
* But is it antisemitism? (Does it even matter)
* Identitarianism, Judaism, and antisemitism (real and imagined)
* How to Talk about âJewish Supremacyâ
* The Truth about Black Hebrew Israelites
* Threat Inflation (and What if theyâre right)
* THE NHL(GBTQIA2S+)
* Why the NBA đ€ Crypto
* The World Cup
* Why Canât You All Be As Brave as Ben Collins!?
* An Actual Hero
Recorded 11.22.22Published 11.23.22
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribeRejecting twelve hours with the commoners in coach, Kmele remains stateside while Moynihan and Welch make goyish aliyah in Israel. Wandering from the Egyptian border in the South all the way up to Trump Heights in the North, the lads are introduced to one of Israelâs most famous journalists and big thinkers, Nadav Eyal, author of Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization. Eyal graciously joined the Fifth at a recording studio in Tel Aviv for a very deep, very nerdy chat about whether or not the world is collapsing and if the midterms are a harbinger of a changing culture, desperate to move beyond the national populist moment.
As we wind down, Eyal gives his verdict on the Energizer bunny of Israeli politics, incoming Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, and the worrying rise of his racist nutbag coalition partner Itamar Ben-Gvir. After Eyal frees himself from the Fifthâs clutches, Welch and Moynihan stick for a few extra minutes to talk about Jewish girls with guns and why Dave Chapelle thinks they might control Hollywood.
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No Red Wave. No Blue Wave. No Fascist Takeover. No Democracy Dying in Darkness. The 2022 midterm elections came; theyâll take almost a month to sort out (including a runoff in Georgia) â but things are generally about as bad (and good) as they were before the election.
Moynihan returns from the field, where he was covering the race in Florida.
Welch and his family are momentarily clear of any exigent health emergencies.
And Kmele taps in from Austin, Texas.
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe* The Libertarian Moment?
* To Start A War
* Weapons of Mass Delusion
* Pelosi Attack
* Definitely Not Bothsidesing
* Voting For Anyone Else Is a Vote Against Democracy
* The Gravity of Things
* Reddit profiling
* A Few Parting Thoughts
Recorded: 11.2.22
Published: 11.3.22
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* A Victory for Equity
* Surveying the Midterms
* Fettermanâs Debate Disaster
* The Mystery of the AIDS Quilt
* The People vs Jim Eagle
* Eminent, Indefatigable Election Fraud
* Yarvin - The Mastermind
* Black Lives Redux
* I Miss The Old Kanye
* âWhatabout!?â MSNBC Montage
* Antisemitic Calypsos
* Antisemitic Hip hop
* Crosby, Stills and Ugh
* T Boz Lives
* From Ken Burns to Colorblind
* African Apologia
Recorded 10/26/22
Published 10/28/22
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* Moynihan has COVID (Again)
* Another NYC Covid Spike
* âDangerous New Levels of Misinformationâ
* The Kids Are Actually All Right (but theyâre mostly not getting vaccinated)
* No Apologies for #DeathSantis
* Ladies Who âLeadâ (and cry about it)
* Red Wave, Blue Wall, Purple People Eaters
* Moynihanâs âFree Smokeâ Preview
* Republican Skullduggery
* Yes, And, [ Deepest Possible Sigh ]
* The âAOC to Naziâ Pipeline
* Trust in Media⊠still virtually non-existent
* The Sycophants and Cynics Coalition
* YouTube is Kinda for Snuff Films (but donât mention suicide or possible vaccine side effects)
* Censorship is BipartisanPlus: Nat Con Paradise, Mattâs Latest Thing, Finding the Right Photo, Free Ads, and more
Recorded: 10.19.22Published: 10.20.22
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The lads are all around the same table in New York City! And LA Times journalist Gustavo Arellano calls in at the top of the show to explain why the President is calling on four local politicians in L.A. to resign.
* Gustavo explains Spanish racial slurs
* Gustavo explains the racism of the LA City Council
* This is the logical endpoint for dumb identity politics
* We obsess over the race stuff at the expense of the naked corruption
* Punching dogs for social justice
* Matt is a cop-adjacent apologist
* Berlin is bad, but not is bad as it was in 1945
* A revolution with no solutions
* What the WaPo forgot to tell you
* Like almost everyone else in American politics, Hershel Walker believes in nothing
* Dear lord does Matt hate Margaret Sullivanâs book
* Adjectiving your way out of trouble
* The U.N. slaps down the Kremlin
* Reporting on Fettermanâs stroke is violence
* Also: subscribe to the Substack, you freeloaderâŠ.
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe376 âAll the (Unemployed) Young Dudesâ
I am usually among the most allergic to broad, immutable-characteristic-based analyses along the lines of âThe Crisis of Men and Boys.â Some of this is the usual self-loathingâScrew guys, especially if theyâre 54-year-old baseball fanatics from California!, etc. But also, probably due to the extended influence of the man formerly known as Casanova Brown, I have seen too often the fact-bending, anti-individualist and too often punitive ideological temptations of sorting humans into various pens and making grand statements about the resulting statistics.
However! When tasked during a recent media appearance to have comments on The Trouble With Males, I stumbled across a stunning (to me) chart at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showing that the employment rate for dudes between 2001 and 2021 was down in every age bracket younger than 55, and up in every cohort after 55. Dramatic numbers, tooâ16-19-year-old males went from 50% to 36%; 20-24s from 82% to 73%, and so on. If weâre getting to the point where half of men have never worked before the age of 25, thatâs a profoundly different America than some of us old farts grew up in.
So when I received a publicist email saying that the Bradley Prize-winning American Enterprise Institute economist Nicholas Eberstadt had just come out with a brand new post-pandemic edition of his groundbreaking 2016 study Men Without Work, I leaped at the chance to talk to him about this subject that I cared not at all about just one month ago. Hoo-ray for the on-the-job learning!
Eberstadt, as you will soon hear, has a more interesting pedigree than your average math professor, with a wife who writes about the sexual revolution and identity politics, a sister who was in Warholâs Factory, one grandfather who was Ogden Nash, and another who co-founded the CIA. And donât worry, we also talk a bit about commies.
-- The myth of âfull employmentâ
-- NILFs
-- âThere is absolutely nothing good that comes out of this trendâ
-- âUncannily, weirdly, eerily regularâ
-- âThere's no country in the rich world that has had such a steep radical and continuing drop as the U.S.A.â
-- The Lost Decade, and the New Misery
-- Wealth without growth
-- The populist reaction
-- âThey donât do civil societyâ
-- Immigrants get the job done
-- California vs. Texas on immigrant welfare
-- Schmancy Bobbleman vs. the feminists
-- The ex-felon factor
-- Theyâre all on disability
-- We just did a national UBI experiment
-- Get a job, teens!
-- Does this also explain woke/cancel stuff?
-- We werenât gonna let that Warhol connection slide
-- Nor the CIA grandpa
-- Charles Murray, Tim Carney, J.D. Vance
-- North Koreaâs role in Russiaâs failing war
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* Only Fans is for Justice
* Internet Experts
* Not Even Not Fascism
* Right Wing Extremists Everywhere
* Blame The EU
* What Youâre Really Afraid Of
* The Beyonce of Journalism
* Call of the Wild
* Lil Baby Offends
* Democratic Illiberalism
* Not That Big Lie
* Donât Call It a âBanâ (Even If Itâs A Ban)
* They Were Watching Baseball
Recorded: 9.28.22Published: 9.29.22
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* Toddler Pestilence
* Death Defying Drives
* Naked Pool Slide (are you âThe Big Guyâ
* Russia, Ukraine, A wildly outdated PBX systems
* Trumpâs Devolving Legal Situationship
* This Isnât Political; Trust Me đ€đŒ
* Russia Hacked the Womenâs March?
* Buses, Planes, and âKidnappingâ Stunts
* Maybe Build that Wall Now?
Recorded: 9.22.22Published: 9.23.22
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribeFeaturing:Thomas Chatterton Williams - Contributing Writer @ The Atlantic, Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow Hannah Arendt Center @ Bard College Adam Davidson - Co-Founder @ Planet Money, Contributing Writer @ The New Yorker*** âIt amazes me that any straight, white dudes don't see the privilege we have. It's not subtle.â - Adam Davidson - via Twitter (8/20/22)Not a long tweet. And in the grand scheme of things, hardly an unusual opinion to encounter. Ordinarily, I fire off a reply âmaybe thereâs some pithy back and forth, but things more or less end up about where they beganâ until the next (pointless?) social media drama.But maybe we agree to talk instead? Probe a bit further. Perhaps even learn a few things in the process?
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So I broke into the Palace with a sponge and a rusty spanner
With the Right Honorable Matt Welch ensconced in a posh Beverly Hills hotel, prepping to shock and sicken America with yet another appearance on Real Time, Kmele and Moynihan got on the horn to discuss the death of corgi-loving colonialist Queen Elizabeth II, moronic âanti-colonialistâ Twitter, Bannonâs perp strut, Moynihanâs unwitting mentor, phantom racist volleyball fans, and an unarmed man shot in the back who wasnât unarmed or shot in the back.
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribeAgainst a blood-red backdrop, President Biden gives an urgent campaign speech, warning that America is becoming semi-Nazi Germany, Donald Trump is partial Hitler, and our almost democracy is on the precipice of kinda revolution. The lads watch the speech and say lots of really smart things. But before they discuss the end of America, Kmele forces a conversation about Michael Jacksonâs Thriller. He has a theory. Moynihan and Welch areâŠskeptical.
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* Zuck Talks w/ Rogan
* Student Loan Forgiveness
* Who Cares if Itâs Democratic
* WashPo: âItâs Regressive!â
* The Redbox Test
* Student Debt is immoral
* Moynihan in an elevator w/ Harry Styles
* Oh, my god, they fired Brian (You bastards!)
* The Jim Jones of Journalism
* NBC âNewsâ
* The Many Papers of Donald Trump
* That NPR Voice
* Ben Shapiro Goes to a Conference (Hilarity Ensues)
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