Joining us for his third appearance on the Fifth, one of the sexiest men on planet Earth, the man with his own cam, the smartest and least partisan person on cable news...Massachusetts's own Steve Kornacki!  
Thank you North Dakota roughnecksThe dust clears in VA and NJ...and Kornacki tells us what it all meansWill the Republican Party divorce Trump?Voters, crime, and culture warsRemember when Alan Keyes was MAKING SENSE???How much power does the progressive caucus *really* have?Massachusetts Steve is obsessed with Mike DukakisBiden, polling, and the Afghanistan debaclePartisanship and the history of cable news We know little, but Waukesha already proves so muchQuiet Steve Kornacki....is one of the good onesAnd so, so, so much more!
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337 w/ Steve Kornacki "Virginia is for Republicans, Dukakis's Carcasses, Waukesha Restraint"

Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition. 

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A two-for-one offering from The Fifth: first, the lads discuss the ongoing student stupidities, free speech and protest, Kmele at TED, and how your views are probably pretty normal (ed. note: considering the full-court coverage of the Columbia intifada, it’s sort of surprising that no one is referencing this terrible 1970 film, written by Ad-Roc’s dad). And then, some bonus content with Reason’s C.J. Ciaramella, who joins to discuss the government war on Adderall, his own ADHD diagnosis, and why it took him two months to get his prescription filled. 

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#452 - The Strawberry Statement 2024 / The Eternal Adderall Shortage (w/ C.J. Ciaramella)

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* Swedish breakdown  * Columbia breakdown * The continued rise of American extremism * The politics of “genocide” * The politics of propaganda  * Chicago expectations * A newborn in the Fifdom  * Our Batya episode * Trusting anti-trust? * The NPR excel spreadsheet  * Books on McCarthy  * Three best presidents? * The Watergate conspiracy is at least fun to believe 

Members Only #207 - Columbia Breakdown: Next Stop Baader Meinhof?

You asked, we delivered. Our pal Batya Ungar-Sargon enters the octagon to (politely!) fight the Globalist Fifth on trade, Trump, robots, unions, automation, and a bunch of other stuff. But we also agree on lots of other things! Hear Batya talk about her wild Israel debate on Zerohedge, how her last book foresaw the NPR madness, and why perverse incentives have created a boring media echo chamber.  Thanks for listening! Love, Oskar and Raoul 

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#451 - The Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)

* Ozempic Joe * The Juice has expired  * Revisiting the “Trial of the Century” * The double murderer who “abandoned his race” * In defense of Marcia Clark * Dementia dads * Matt Lauer emerges  * Nutty MTG, drunky Boebert * Arizona abortions * Operation Bubble Wrap * Poor guy in a ski mask shoots at cops * Group condemnations and the “IDW”  

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#450 - Republican Wine Moms and a Dead Double Murderer

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* Kid rapping  * Saturday Night Fever is dark, dark movie  * Girl dadding * Anti-communist manifestos * On Andrew and Israel  * Big bombs in Iraq: not so fast, Andrew! * The normalization of extremism  * Don’t be Paul Robeson  * What it means to be “anti-war’ * Dehamasification * A bachelor party in NY  * And much more!

337 w/ Steve Kornacki "Virginia is for Republicans, Dukakis's Carcasses, Waukesha Restraint"

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