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The Five: Best Pop Culture of 2021 (Special Report)

$100K+ Robberies Organized on Snapchat, The Social Network...Doesn't Care. Rich Kids Act Like Trailer Park Meth Heads Now, Jimmy Fallon No Longer Knows What Comedy Is. (The Five for 12/17/21)

10,000 Troops Prepare to Invade Ukraine as US Withholds $200M from Ukrainian Allies? 9/11 NOT the biggest world-changing event in 2001? Amazon Management Error Killed 6 in IL? (The Five for 12/14/21)

Netflix Has the Biggest Movie Ever...And It Doesn't Matter? Hispanics Find "Latinx" Offensive, Congress' Gun Christmas Photos, Consumers Hunger for Vinyl Records...Insatiable. (The Five for 12/10/21)

Supply Chain Shortages Hit Cancer Drugs, Heart Medications, AOC Calls Increase in Retail Theft a "Hoax," Student Loan Forgiveness Totally Dead? (The Five for 12/07/21)

(Why I Support) Oregon Masking...Forever? Alec Baldwin "Didn't Pull the Trigger." Jussie Smollet Killed...My Last Chance at TV, Korean TV Shows are the new Beatles/Stones? (The Five for 12/03/21)

Twitter's Real Free Speech Enemy Isn't the New CEO, Supreme Court Decisions Cause Mass Inter-State "Political Migration"? Ex-CIA Officer Cor in World Cup Scandal (The Five for 11/30/21)

Will Smith's New Movie Glorifies Abusive Parenting, Billie Eilish Thinks Wildlife=Disney Movie, The Fed Gives...Nutrition Advice? (The Five for 11/26/21)

Rittenhouse: A Special Report From The Five (11/23/21)

No, There's Not a Rittenhouse Reaction in This One. (The Five for 11/19/21)

Biden vs. Kamala?, Congresswoman "Invents" Story of Sniper Fire, Amazon Warehouse Workers Vote Against Unionization (The Five for 11/16/21)

The Growing Rift Between Antifa and BLM, Why Did Critics Finally Turn on Marvel? Mandatory Condoms for Jr. High Kids in Vermont (The Five for 11/12/21)

"Opioid Attack" Injection at Travis Scott Concert Nearly Killed Security Guard, $4 Gas is Coming, 2.4M in May Starve to Death in Kenya, (The Five for 11/08/21)

Rittenhouse Trial--CNN vs. Judge, Elijah Wood Accidentally Buys Racist Art (Then Does Something Stupid), The Rock Says "No More Guns on Set, Ever." (The Five for 11/05/21)

"Inflation?" Nah, "Skimplation." Taliban Murders Wedding Guests for Playing Music, Labor Union Strikes Growing?! Facebook Uses Spears' Lawyer to Sue Upcoming TV Show (The Five for 11/02/21)

BLM+Maga+NBA?! Marvel "Body Shaming" Because Actor Joined a Gym? Millennials & Gen Z "Running out of Shows to Stream" (The Five For 10/29/21)

A Democracy Falls...and Cocaine Hippos are "People" (Seth Tower Hurd's The Five. - Issue #103)

Christopher Columbus' Legacy Slaughtered by Vikings, ESPN Fires Reporter Trying to Get Pregnant, Alec Baldwin and the TikTok Murder (The Five for 10/22/21)

Rampant Theft Causes Walgreens to Close SF Stores, Chicago to lose 1/3 of Police Force?, Can a Group of Farmers Fix High Meat Prices?, Kidnappers in Haiti Demand $1M (The Five for 10/19/21)

Chappelle: The Backlash to the Backlash is the Story, The FBI Stops...Law Enforcement for a Month, Are Movie Theaters Only for Teens Now? 2001's "Brick Phone" Returns! (The Five for 10/15/21)

Southwest Flights Signal...Less Police?, "Accidential War" in Taiwan," Shipping goes full 18th Century, Navy Engineer Goes Full Traitor (The Five for 10/12/21)

No Charges for Chicago Gang's Machine Gun Slayings, Millennials Ruin...The Mob?! Netflix vs. Netflix, WhatsApp Brings Developing Nations to Their Knees. (The Five for 10/08/21)

VP Harris co-signs college student's anti-Semitism, Neo-Nazi threatens journalists, Jews and ADL employees, Andrew Yang leaving the Dem Party could signal larger realignment (The Five for 10/05/21)

Are College Enrollment Trends Making Marriage Impossible? NBA Players Push Back on Vaccine Mandates, Gen Z Hip-Hop Kids Bring Back 90's Country? Apple's Work Chat App Woes (The Five for 09/24/21)

How NY's COVID Healthcare Firings May Cause Patient Deaths, No Plan to Rescue the Remaining American Citizens in Afghanistan, R. Kelly (My Former Neighbor) Convicted (The Five for 09/25/21)

NY Times get's really, REALLY Anti-Semitic & lies about it, How 68 Reddit Message Board Members Duped Major Media Outlets Covering Fake News, Tiger King 2 coming to Netflix (The Five for 09/24/21)

USA Today Contradicts Themselves on Haitians being "whipped" at the border, Minting a $1T coin?, Russian assassination in the UK Confirmed (The Five for 09/21/21)

Instagram Doesn't Care the App Causes Teen Depression/Suicide, Brene Brown is a Bot that Requires Calories, A Prominent Leftist Pushes Back on the Hypocricy of The Met Gala. (The Five for 09/17/21)

Andrew Yang to Split the Dem Party?, Update your iPhone NOW (right. now.), California Governor's Wife Attempte to Bribe #MeToo Victims into Silence?, Al Qaeda is 100% Back (The Five for 09/14/21)

Biden's Combativeness Infuriates Mainstream Media, a $400B City from Scratch? What to do with the Robert E. Lee Statue Removal, Emmys...Nominate Shows People Actually Watch?! (The Five for 09/10/21)

Americans Stranded at North Afghanistan Airport, Five Geriatrics Die in Sweltering High Rises in New Orleans, Rolling Stone & the AP Commit Grave Reporting Errors (The Five for 09/06/21)

Female Broadway Star Just Ended #MeToo? How Obama's Library Connects to His Worst Financial Crisis Move, Washington Post is Ignoring Anti-Semitism in the Jeopardy Controversy (The Five for 08/27/21)

Will Buying a Tesla Fund Al Qaeda? The Unlikely Group Supporting Afghani Immigrants, Let's Just Defund the Portland Police (if They're Not Going to Arrest Violent Offenders) (The Five for 08/24/21)

Afghanistan Fell with the Help of...Facebook?, USWNT & The Tendency to (Literally) Kneel Before Toxic Leaders, People with MS Banned from NYC Restaurants? (The Five for 08/20/21)

How Leaving Afghanistan Could Set India up for Chinese Invasion, Last Known American Hostage Abandoned to the Taliban, Former CDC Head "Threatened" Over COVID Research (The Five for 08/17/21)

Mental+Physial Toughness Now Labeled "Toxic," What Will 9/11 Mean to Those Who Weren't Born for It?, The White House Wastes Tax $$ on TikTok, Vince Vaugn's Welcome Return (The Five for 08/13/21)

China Know More About You than Apple, Biden Repeat Nixon's War Crimes?, Street Racing is Killing Civilian Bystanders, Murder of Chicago Cop (And New Mom) Was Easily Avoidable (The Five for 08/10/21)

Harvard Confirms COVID Change Since March '20, Chinese Censorship of American Movies, Johanson vs. Disney Could Kill (Some) Streaming Outletss? Too Late for Basic Cable? (The Five for 08/06/21)

Attacks on the CIA (Are a Huge Deal), California Will Run Out of Bacon, Atlanta Police Appear to Use Attack Dog on Subdued Man, Chicago+Local Corruption Destroy Two IL Cities (The Five for 08/03/21)

Gen Z Don't Realize They're Rooting for Child Rape, Oppressing Women, Blame Biles...or the Nation Who Raised Her?, New Law Prevented WA Police From Pursuing Grand Theft Auto (The Five for 07/30/21)

Did the FBI "Plan" to Kidnap a Governor?, California Gov Recall a Coin Toss, Back-to-School Spending Explodes, Nigerian Government Ignores Mass Murder (The Five for 07/27/21)

Evidence the Left Hates NPR Now, STL Murderer Walks When Attorney Forgets to Show Up to Court, OnlyFans Mom Happy to Provide Free Porn to Her Sons Jr. High Classmates (The Five for 07/23/21)

Nut Allergies Kill More Minors than COVID Each Year, Politico's Brazenly Bad Reporting Goes Unchecked, Modern Men Running out of Sperm (The Five for 07/20/21)

Fauci is Fact Checking... Your Text Messages? Internet Access a Major Economic Factor for Rural America,BLM is Anti Cuban Protest, 13-Year-Old Dies in NYC's Ignored Gang War (The Five for 07/16/21)

Living off Insects in North Korea, Biden Denies Haiti's Request for Troops, Should Facebook Be Scared of the New Federal Trade Commission Chair?(The Five for 07/13/21)

LeBron James' Orchestrates "Mental Health Crisis" to Promote Documentary, How TikTok (and COVID) Brought Pop Punk Back, CNBC is PRO Inflation?! (The Five for 07/09/21)

No Five Today (But a quick list)

Millennials Think Dating Someone from Real Life is...Creepy?! Olympic Swimming Goes Full Racist, Antifa Successfully Breaks Up One of the World's Biggest Bands (The Five for 07/02/21)

Biden Bombs Iraq and Syria, Supreme Court to Decriminalize Marijuana?, Unarmed Teen Shot By Police in Arkansas (And Ignored), Major Verdict Against Vaping (The Five for 06/29/21)

Media Silent on Anti-Hispanic Racism at Cali Basketball Tourney, Olympian Want to Win Gold/Burn the Flag Because...Trump?! COVID Increases Plastic Surgery (The Five for 06/25/21)

Afghanistan Minorities Form "Private Armies" to Defend Against the Taliban after the U.S. Troop Withdrawl,NYC's Homelessness/Tourism Tension, Former MLB Owner Defeats Facebook? (The Five for 06/22/21)

Juneteenth "Pushback"--The Social Media Backlash to the New Federal Holiday, Americans Bursting Their Own Bias Bubbles, Major Shift in "Paying" for Audio, (The Five for 06/18/21)

Housing Crisis...Or Millennials Don't Want to be Homeowners?, US & EU vs. China (in Space), Teen Arsonists Leave 13,000 Homeless in Greece (The Five for 06/18/21)

COVID May Have Achieved Bin Laden's Goal, MCU Inspired by Real Life Heist, CMT Gun Control Message Backfires, Florida Abuses Prisoners (The Five for 06/11/21)

FBI Demands to Know Identities Who Read USA Today Article, Child Kidnapping Terrorist Blows Himself up in Standoff with ISIS, More Taxes=More Poverty in Developing Nations (The Five for 06/07/21)

Gay Journalist Brutally Beaten during Pride Month, Millennials May Be Permanently Poor, Netflix Cancels Their #1 Spring Show For This? Twitter to Charge (Some) Users Monthly (The Five for 06/04/21)

How the Media Sparked the Burning of Black Wall Street, Child Suicide Attempts Skyrocket, LA Spends More on Tent Cities Than the Cost of Apartments (The Five for 06/01/21)

Friends: The Reunion (Audio--The Five Sunday Stories)

Chrissy Tiegen "Bullied" For Encouraging the Suicide of a Teen?, Facebook More Socially Responsible? Amazon Save or Kill Theaters? Elite Prof Claims Uni's "Right Wing" (The Five for 05/28/21)

U.S. Navy "Rusting Out," Falling Behind China, Russian Hackers Disable Electric Vehicles? The State of "Greater Idaho," The Farming Controversy Hits (Very) Close to Home (The Five for 05/25/21)

What are "Geriatric Millennials?," Hollywood Hates Asians? (Except The Rock), The Return of Oregon Trail, NBA Star "Not Focused on Basketball," (The Five for 05/21 /21)

"Kenosha Effect"=Riots Impact Voting, AL Cop Murders Guy So He Doesn't Commit Suicide, Restaurants/Bars DID NOT Spread COVID, End of Daylight Savings Time Forever? (The Five for 05/18/21)

Experts Come Out Hard Against "Children's Instagram" In Defense of Teen TV (Really), How Apple Firing a High Profile Employee Makes Pop Culture Worse, Returning "Pandemic Pets" (The Five for 05/14/21)

Russian Hackers Drive up Gas Prices? Communists in Colorado Hate...Anne Frank?! The Texas Tiger Problem, Baltimore's Crime Crisis Destroys the Local Economy (The Five for 05/11/21)

BLM=Hipsters of This Decade? This Celeb Actually...Understands Foreign Policy? The Sports COVID Launched. Late Night TV Died, You Didn't Notice (The Five for 05/07/21)

Trump Returns to Facebook Due (in part) to Florida Law? The Last Jew in Afghanistan, Major Human Rights Violations in Ethiopia, "Club Drug" Cures Alcoholism? (The Five for 05/04/21)

Leaving San Francisco for...Topeka?! SNL Cast Member Thinks Being Rich(er than her) is Wrong, Defying the CDC by Double Masking Post-Vax, End of Political Bickering at Work? (The Five for 04/30/21)

The Post Office is Spying On Your Social Media, Biden Acknowledges WWI Genocide, Deceptive Reporting from...Nickalodean?!, Michigan Mandates Masks for Toddlers (The Five for 04/27/21)

COVID Forces Millennials to Grow Up? Iraq Vets Sign Off on "Brutal" Battle of Fallujah Recreation, "Signing Day" for Students Entering the Trades (The Five for 04/23/21)

Pig's Blood Attack on Chauvin Trial Witness , 70% of Amazon Employees Vote No on Union, Outdoor COVID Masks Not Necessary, McDonald's Pays $50 to Interview (The Five for 04/20/21)

Obama Canceled. Meygn Kelly vs. Jordan Peterson on Women in the Workdplace. Female MMA Fighter Refuses to Back Down to Communism. [Special Culture Report] (The Five for 04/16/21)

ISIS is Back "With a Vengeance," NY Times Dying Because...Email?!, Americans Don't Support $15 Minimum Wage, Permanent Brain Damage from a Peanut Allergy (The Five for 04/13/21)

Biden to Expand SCOTUS? The Best (And Worst) Chauvin Case Arguments, 19K Unaccompanied Minors at the Border, 1/2 of "High Viral Load" COVID Cases Have No Symptoms, Soviet LOTR (The Five for 04/09/21)

George Floyd/Derek Chauvin Case Swings?, 40 Children Dead in Myanmar at the Hands of the Military, Voter ID Law Corporate Fails, Jordan B. Peterson a Captain America Villain? (The Five for 04/06/21)

Oakland's $500 Monthly Checks to (Some) Poor People, Will COVID "Mask Addiction" Linger, The Brutal Human Toll of the 2022 World Cup (The Five for 03/25/21)

Chicago Burb Pays Reparations, Iran Plots to Attack DC, AI Enabled F-16's? Why a Vegan Tiktoker Being Banned is a Big Deal (03/23/21)

Atlanta Shooting: Religion or Race?, The Long Term Effects of Ohio's Devastating Loss of a Ford Plant, Media Blackout at the Border, Vacations Banned Post COVID? (The Five for 03/19/21)

Air Force Says We Lose in War w/ China, Biden's Tax Plan vs. Islamic Wisdom Circa 1300, Immigrant Child Detention Centers at 732% Capacity, Feinstein Attempts to Ban 200+ Guns (The Five for 03/16/21)

1-2% of the $2.9T Stimulus Goes to Vaccines, ISIS=Varsity Cancel Culture?, The George Floyd Trial's Biggest Problem, No Arrests For Burning a Portland Courthouse (The Five for 03/12/21)

Stimulus Package Actually Transfers $$ to the Rich? George Floyd's Killer Might Walk, Should NASA Still Exist? Broke San Francisco Gets Bailed Out?(The Five for 03/09/21)

Bill Gates "Cancels" Immigrant Princeton Math Prof? Baltimore Student with a 0.13 GPA Top 50%, AZ Education Dept. Says You're Making Your 3 Month Old Racist (The Five for 03/05/21)

The Syria Bombing Unpacked, Only Ugly Gov. Buildings Allowed, the $6M "Art" Video, The First Town Started by a Freed Slave (The Five for 03/02/21)

Trump's Biggest Miss, I Comment on the Bachelor?!, The Cultural Danger of Disney "Redeeming their Villains," What it Means to "Gamestop" the iTunes Charts, (The Five for 02/26/21)

Biden's First Children's Immigration Detention Center, Free Heroin Pipes at Seattle Homeless Shelter, Disney Eerily Silent on Child Porn Conviction, Cancel Culture in 1991 (The Five for 02/23/21)

Rush Limbaugh's Worst Comments, The "Pearl Harbor of Hacking, The Loneliness of Major Cities, Jezebel Gives Takes Click-Bait Journalism to a New Low, "Disney's "Joker"?! (The Five for 02/19/21)

Playing MarioKart While the Economy Shrinks, Wind Power Fails Texans, Bill Gates Demands You Eat "Vegan Steak," Philadelphia Forces 5th Graders to Celebrate Communism (The Five for 02/17/21)

Can Biden Push Through Gun Bans? AOC's Crew Targets WV/AZ Dems, Cuomo's Emmy Nomination Backfir, Abe Lincoln on Star Trek/ MTV, a "Pet Civil War Chicken at Cracker Barrel?!" (The Five For 02/15/21)

The first 2024 Republican POTUS Candidate? Lockdowns & Child Suicide, GM's Move to Electric to Kill MI/OH?, A Shotgun for Gen-Z (The Five for 02/12/21)

A Hacker Nearly Poisons a Florida City's Water, MSNBC Calls for Droning Americans, This Could Fix Twitter?!, Tom Brady vs. 1887 Athlete

Oregon Decriminalizes All Drugs, China's "Proposal to Prevent the Feminization of Male Athletes," Audio is the Next Big Thing in Social Media, Pop Culture Friday! (The Five for 02/05/21)

Greta Thunberg is a Criminal in India, San Francisco Sues it's Own Schools, #AlexandriaOcasioSmollett, Stop using airbnb ASAP (The Five for 02/04/21)

The Coup in Myanmar, Florida Hits Back at Big Tech, Can CNN Survive Without Trump?, State Dept. Spokeswoman says Police Bigger Threat Than ISIS, Russians (The Five for 02/02/21)

Biden's Presidency Will Be Easily Erased, Gamestop...Explained?, NY Committed Nursing Home Genocide, Wal-Mart Signals the Era of In-Person Retail is Over? (The Five for 01/28/21)

Is Putin's Grip on Russia Slipping?, NYT Censors Left-Leaning Journalist (It's Wrong), Vegas Re-opens Schools Due to Suicides, 33 Children Rescued in SoCal (The Five for 01/25/21)

Antifa Prevents Police from Helping Car Accident Victims & Loots the First Starbucks, Lockdown=900K Deaths, Kidnapped Chinese Billionaire?, Israel Cures (Some Blindness), (The Five for 01/21/21)

Twitter Supports Dictators & the Taliban While Censoring, Retired Chicago Firefighter NOT a Rioter or in DC, Threatened Anyway, South Korea & Danger of Continual Impeachment (The Five for 1/13/21)

Facebook Censors it's Own Critics, Yale Prof Persecutes Journalist, France & Germany Denounce American Censorship, The 70's Reporter Who Broke Journalism (The Five for 1/12/21)

Impeachment Happens Tomorrow, Mozilla Firefox Goes "Beyond Deplatforming", Capital Police Can't Handle Guns, Amazon Censors the Internet, Putin's Russian Enemy Warns America (The Five for 1/10/21)

Bin Laden Just Won. (The Five Special Report).

What Biden's Cabinet Pick Signals, Kamala Rips off Playboy, Kenosha Riots 2.0?, Beef the GREENEST of Foods? (The Five for 01/06/20)

Iran Hearts Nukes, SCOTUS vs. Cheerleader vs. Snapchat?!, Portland Mayor Finally Pushes Back on "White Antifa," UK Protects Wikileaks Founder, Congress to Carrry Guns? (The Five for 01/04/21)