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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. www.wethefifth.com
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Every Monday, the libertarian editors of the magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets”—Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman—discuss and debate the week’s biggest stories and what fresh hell awaits us all.
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Founded in 1968, Reason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Our podcast offerings include: The Reason Roundtable Every Monday, the libertarian editors of the magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets”—Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman—discuss and debate the week’s biggest stories and what fresh hell awaits us all. The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie Want to know what comes next in politics, cultu ...
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Free minds. Free markets. Big stories. That’s the Reason Rundown. End the week with concise, thought-provoking stories from the journalists at Reason, the magazine of logic, not legends; coherence, not contradictions. Hosted by Features Editor Peter Suderman, each week he talks to a single Reason journalist about a single big story.
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Amash Files is a podcast looking to: 1. Expose people to the real Justin Amash. 2. Help people keep up to date with what's going on in the campaign. 3. Provide insights into the campaign strategy. 4. Look at analysis of the campaign from experts. 5. Be a place for people to send their friends, family, and coworkers to learn more about Justin Amash and the Libertarian Party.
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This podcast is dedicated to helping homeowners pay off their home faster using a Home Equity Line of Credit and to pay way less mortgage interest than with the traditional 15 and 30 year mortgages they are sold. Sound too good to be true? Maybe. All we ask is you listen in as your podcast host Matt Workman talks with HELOC expert Michael Lush on the different aspects of how this strategy works and why the banks don’t want you to know about it. Each episode will share more details about usin ...
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Yuval Levin: What is Trump's "Mandate"?
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AEI's Yuval Levin discusses Trump's mandate (or lack thereof), building coalitions, and how the classic divide between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine remains relevant.SubscribeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reasonJustAskingQuestions/featuredApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-asking-questions/id1719355507Spotify: https://open.spotif…
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Amanda Knox: 'I Have Felt Utterly Exploited' by True Crime
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Today's guest is Amanda Knox, an activist, writer, and host of the podcast Labyrinths. In 2007, while studying abroad in Italy, Knox was accused of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in what the lead prosecutor claimed was a bizarre sex game gone wrong. Despite mishandled DNA, a coerced confession, and a lack of credible evidence, Knox was c…
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Members Only #236 - Here Comes the Nanny State!
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Kmele: Forever the HNIC * The Filet-O-Fish is Alaska pollock * A Swedish horror show * RFK at HHS * He forgot to mention this stuff… * Elon’s principles? * On Matt Gaetz and John Bolton * You know, we had a pretty good record on Covid… * Moulton v. a Salem Witch * A …
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How Elon Musk and DOGE Can Deliver on Smaller Government
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman assess the current shape of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks and policy priorities. 00:27—New Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) 14:48—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz nominated for Tr…
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How Elon Musk and DOGE Can Deliver on Smaller Government
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman assess the current shape of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks and policy priorities.00:27 - New Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)14:48 - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz nominated for …
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Members Only #235 - To Overthrow the World: A Conversation on Communism with Sean McMeekin
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Michael Moynihan sits down with Bard College professor Sean McMeekin to discuss his new book To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, a Fifth-approved history of the global communist movement, from the ur-commie instincts of Plato to the siniste…
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Lee Fang: Will Democrats Ever Recover From 2024?
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Independent journalist Lee Fang discusses why the Democrats lost so badly and whether or not the party has the ability to course correct anytime soon.SubscribeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reasonJustAskingQuestions/featuredApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-asking-questions/id1719355507Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5SpyS…
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#479 - The Case Against Tariffs (w/ Scott Lincicome)
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We’ve promised this one for a very long time. But now that Trump is returning to the White House—the mercantilist maniac who recently said “the most beautiful word in the dictionary is ‘tariff’”—we finally followed through. By popular demand, we called upon Scott Lincicome, senior visiting lecturer at Duke University Law School and vice president o…
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Members Only #234 - Come On and Zoom! (Wagnerian Opera Edition)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Our first post-election Second Sunday Zoom call! If you missed it, shame on you for choosing to spend time with your family or choosing not to pony up. But it’s all here. All three hours of it. Yes, it’s the “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” of election analysis. But to…
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Hyrum and Verlan Lewis: Stop Buying the 'Left v. Right' Myth
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In the wake of massive victories by Donald Trump and Republicans, here's a question worth asking: What does today's GOP really stand for? Longstanding support for free trade and overseas wars seems to have been replaced with tariffs and non-interventionism.Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis are the authors of The Myth of Left and Right. They argue that t…
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman react to last week's presidential election and forecast what might come next. 01:55—"Big picture" election reaction 27:02—"Little picture" election reaction 38:27—Weekly listener question 48:58—Trump's ideas on anti-censorship 52:59—Th…
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman react to last week's presidential election and forecast what might come next.01:55—"Big picture" election reaction27:02—"Little picture" election reaction38:27—Weekly listener question48:58—Trump's ideas on anti-censorship52:59—This we…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Welch and Moynihan are back in the studio, three days after the end of democracy, counting the days before they get the midnight knock from Trump’s NKVD. So what does one do? Engage in some anticipatory obedience, obviously. But can anything save them? Subscribe to fin…
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#478 - The Dream of a Six-Foot-Four, Tobacco-Chewing White Savior
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The Fifth did a bit of processing today with our Trump-supporting friend at her Connecticut studio. Hungover, exhausted, bedraggled, the lads then returned to the scene of last night’s Fifth-Free Press-Reason party and recorded this episode. They enjoyed it. And they suspect you will too. . This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this wi…
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Patrick Ruffini: Why Did Trump Win?
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Why did Donald Trump win?Trump is back. Back again. He's secured the Electoral College majority needed to become America's 47th president and looks on track for a popular vote majority—the first Republican to pull that off in more than 20 years. A New York Times breakdown shows that across just about every type of county—urban, suburban, older popu…
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#101 - Breaking Financial Myths with Garrett Gunderson: Protecting Wealth & Building Legacy!
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Free Video: How You Can Pay Your Mortgage Off In 5 Years or Less On Your Current Income: 👇🏼https://bit.ly/4fM8wxUIn this episode, Michael sits down with Garrett Gunderson, a financial expert reshaping how people think about wealth and legacy. Garrett shares insights on what the Rockefellers did to protect their wealth, how banks leverage life insur…
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Live On Election Eve With The Reason Roundtable!
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Will Election 2024 result in an orderly transfer of power—or will the results unleash controversy and chaos that threatens the foundations of our democracy? Before America goes to the polls on November 5, you're invited to join the four hosts of The Reason Roundtable—Reason Magazine's own Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Ma…
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