#486 - A Deal with the Devil, MelaniaCoin, Danny has AIDS

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My guest today has been keeping us up to date with the current state of hiring for marketers on a quarterly basis, which has taken us on quite a roller coaster ride. Today we’re going to look at how marketing and communication execs are responding to the latest developments in the world while still needing to get their work done. To take a look at the latest here, I’d like to welcome back to the show Sue Keith, Corporate Vice President at Landrum Talent Solutions. About Sue Keith Sue Keith is Corporate Vice President at Landrum Talent Solutions. With deep expertise in navigating complex labor markets, Sue has a front-row seat to the evolving dynamics of marketing roles, hiring trends, and the broader implications of AI and economic uncertainty. RESOURCES Landrum Talent Solutions: https://www.landrumtalentsolutions.com https://www.landrumtalentsolutions.com This episode is brought to you by Landrum Talent Solutions, a national recruiting firm specializing in marketing and HR positions. https://www.landrumtalentsolutions.com Catch the future of e-commerce at eTail Boston, August 11-14, 2025. Register now: https://bit.ly/etailboston and use code PARTNER20 for 20% off for retailers and brands Online Scrum Master Summit is happening June 17-19. This 3-day virtual event is open for registration. Visit www.osms25.com and get a 25% discount off Premium All-Access Passes with the code osms25agilebrand Don't Miss MAICON 2025, October 14-16 in Cleveland - the event bringing together the brights minds and leading voices in AI. Use Code AGILE150 for $150 off registration. Go here to register: https://bit.ly/agile150 Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkihlstrom Don't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more: https://www.theagilebrand.show Check out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.com The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company…

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* Melanie: the eternal First Lady

* A bad deal but…the only deal

* The same situation, over and over

* Joey B’s final babble

* Ike, Elon, and the unacceptable “oligarchy”

* The Ralph Lifshitz Award for Cultural Betrayal

* F**k You, Surgeon General, says Matt Welch

* The shittiest NYT story in recent memory

* A shitty celebration of murder on Jimmy Kimmel

* Pete H on the Hill

* Women in combat is not a weird debate

* RIP David Lynch

* RIP Bob Uecker

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#486 - A Deal with the Devil, MelaniaCoin, Danny has AIDS

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* Melanie: the eternal First Lady

* A bad deal but…the only deal

* The same situation, over and over

* Joey B’s final babble

* Ike, Elon, and the unacceptable “oligarchy”

* The Ralph Lifshitz Award for Cultural Betrayal

* F**k You, Surgeon General, says Matt Welch

* The shittiest NYT story in recent memory

* A shitty celebration of murder on Jimmy Kimmel

* Pete H on the Hill

* Women in combat is not a weird debate

* RIP David Lynch

* RIP Bob Uecker

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * ABBA’s Vietnam * Barnen i Nicaragua * Mike Tyson, Ratso, and Cus the Communist * Burning down the house / sort of scolded by a firefighter * The rent is too damn free * Everyone is contemptuous of everyone * Is Trump the Bernie Goetz of Harvard? * Rebutting “higher ed is just fine” revisionism * From YAF to Students for Liberty to Turning Point… * Dating apps, height discrimina……

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#507 - Trans Pee Wee and Tariffed Dresses 1:08:11

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* Racist Macca? * Some bad names * In praise of (trans?) Pee Wee * Does Long Duck Dong denounce his past? * Was that a Reaganite video game? * Trade war nonsense: the court says…maybe not * Moynihan’s $700 dress (including a $250 tariff) * Kmele on CNN * The end of Elon * Just like Reagan and Thatcher but not all * No suspects, no DNA, no fingerprints, no leads * MI:7 DEI This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe…

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * We think we *might* have talked about politics in this episode? * Happy anniversary Christian Cooper! * Talking to the dude who made those drug PSAs * The Glug (1981) * 2020: The year that broke America * Burning down the house (almost) * The tax protestor in our midst * Johnny Rotten, Johnny Ramone, the Plastic People, and the politics of punl * Nick of Schumpeterian Gatsby……

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#506 - Kill the White People 1:26:26

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* The ritual humiliation white genocide slide show! * That’s not really true. But it doesn’t really matter, does it? * Trolling with refugees * That Mandela picture MM mentioned… * Uncle Paul * “Well do you DENOUNCE that language? Huh? Huh? Did you even say thank you??” * The big, not-so-beautiful bill * The trillion dollar dome * Gaza and the “14,000” * Our Original Sin and Korean Robert * When did he lose it? * That Christie clip is actually six years old. But here it is . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe…

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#505 - A Saudi Summit. A Delaware Freakoff. 1:38:02

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* Jack London and hobo Oakland * The lovely government of Qatar * Trump in Saudi * A carnival of corruption * Chasing heroes… * The end of the “introventionalists” * But do they *fear* him? * The new Chomskyites * Declining freedom… * Trump’s fat, rich friend who wants price controls * The triumph of gesture politics * Black Leo This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe…

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UNLOCKED: David Zweig, on How Media and Public Health Failed Our Kids 1:13:00

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You demanded, we complied. Last month in this space, I interviewed science/technology/Covid journalist David Zweig about his great new book, An Abundance of Caution : American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions . It was a bracing conversation, filled with damning media/elite criticism, blue-state horrors, and F-bombs galore. Then a funny thing happened: Dozens of you wonderful paying subscribers said Mr. Welch, tear down this paywall, so we can share this with our normie friends! And so I have. A good time to mash the subscribe button! Now it’s your turn, o demanding listeners (and even non-demanding freeloaders) – let’s hook some new normies into your favorite podcast, and maybe persuade some of you fence-sitters about the primo content you’ve been missing out on. As Pope Bob from Chicago has taught us, the more people subscribe , the more special treats for everybody. Amen. Without further ado, the original text for the episode. *** On May 11, 2020, as I was navigating personal collapse (“it’s been a really shitty two months,” I said on an interesting-to-listen-to-now Special Dispatch #20 ), my two daughters were wrestling unhappily with Zoom school, and all three of us lads were in the process of buying Covid cars, I came across a Wired article that landed like a Cher-style open-handed slap across the face: “ The Case for Reopening Schools : Lots of other countries have decided that it's time to take this step. Why is the US holding back?” The piece, by David Zweig , was very contrary to the U.S. news coverage at the time, chock full o’ studies and data points and hyperlinks, and opened like this: Schools are reopening in countries around the world in response to a substantial body of evidence that children are largely unaffected by Covid-19 and minimally contagious when they get infected. Experts and policymakers abroad also acknowledge that school closures perpetuate a long list of known harms to children. Yet, oddly, the US is following a divergent path. Along with other real-world evidence trickling in from around the globe, Zweig’s essay (plus a June 24 follow-up ), was part of my four-month journey from close-the-schools alarmist to open-the-schools monster , the latter condition from which I would spend more of my journalistic energy over the ensuing few years than I care to remember . Zweig, also a New York City parent of two schoolkids at the outbreak of Covid, is determined never to forget. His book An Abundance of Caution : American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions , is more than mere rage-calorie score-settling, however. At heart, he tells me in this occasionally fiery conversation, it’s about how we make decisions under crisis, and how our country operates under duress. What he both discovers and explicates, in fascinating detours through Evidence-Based Medicine and the philosophy of science, is that two institutions in particular let us down: Public health elites, and the media. “This is an extraordinarily compelling story about evidence being ignored and dismissed,” he says. “They ignored empirical evidence that was right in front of their fucking face.” Trust me, you’ll want to get to the last 15 minutes here, where Zweig describes how this process transformed his politics. It was “this revelatory moment,” he says: “Oh my God, I was a complete arrogant asshole.” Few others are spared. Some links: * Excerpt in The Atlantic , “ The Disaster of School Closures Should Have Been Foreseen ” * Excerpt in The Free Press , “ How Covid Lies Destroyed Kids’ Lives ” * Zweig’s Substack, Silent Lunch * NPR, “ What Parents Can Learn From Child Care Centers That Stayed Open During Lockdowns ,” June 24, 2020 * The New York Times , “ How 132 Epidemiologists Are Deciding When to Send Their Children to School ,” June 12, 2020 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe…

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Members Only #250 - What’s the Frequency, Papist? 18:30

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#504 - N-Bombs and Real Bombs 1:55:42

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Members Only #259 - Tariffed into Chastity 17:48

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#503 - Mea Minima Culpa 2:10:56

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They’re all back. And they recorded a very fun, very long one…during the day…to minimize drunken regrets. So many topics are covered—the Koch brother, the last episode, bad interviewers, bad manners, the strange new media, the strange new Ukraine strategy, exit Walz, etc—that we might as well dispense with the usual bullet points and just get right into it…Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe…

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Members Only #258 - We Don't Talk About Fight Club (Mostly) 18:23

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#502 - The Second Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon) 2:05:14

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Errr….This one gets pretty heated. But we’re all still friends! We think. And Moynihan is now sober and his blood sugar is back to normal, so there’s that too. Either way, hats off to Batya for braving another episode with three people who disagree with her on pretty much everything. We talk Tariffs, Trump, lawfare, Ukraine, and everything in between. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe…

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Members Only #256 -- How Media and Public Health Failed Our Kids (w/ David Zweig) 18:48

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com On May 11, 2020, as I was navigating personal collapse (“it’s been a really shitty two months,” I said on an interesting-to-listen-to-now Special Dispatch #20 ), my two daughters were wrestling unhappily with Zoom school, and all three of us lads were in the process of buying Covid cars, I came across a Wired article that landed like a Cher-style open-ha……

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