The Five 8 (The Five 8)

ORIGINALLY AIRED: June 30, 2023 After a one-week hiatus, Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear return LIVE on Friday night! Our guest is Ukraine expert Victor Rud, past chair of the Ukrainian American Bar Association, who writes and lectures on the subject. His work can be read at The Hill and CEPA, as well as on PREVAIL. Topics: Leonard Leo's captured Court, the war in Ukraine, and the Rehnquist Concurrence. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv0x3tWDGT8 http://www.thefive8.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original air date: October 27, 2023. Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear, LIVE, on Friday evening! John Fowler, an Australian former diplomat, is the co-founder of International Intrigue. Sign up here: https://www.internationalintrigue.io/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Origina air date: November 3, 2023. Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear, LIVE, on Friday night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ORIGINALLY AIRED ON AUGUST 18, 2023 After two weeks away, Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear return, LIVE, on Friday night! Dr. Jennifer Mercieca is an historian of American political rhetoric. She is Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University. She is a Contributing Editor for Zócalo Public Square and a Contributor for Resolute Square. She is the author of FOUNDING FICTIONS and DEMAGOGUE FOR PRESIDENT. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0BRnRwe7yDZXIaF-QZfvhA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosted by Greg Olear & Stephanie Koff. Friday nights, LIVE, on YouTube. Visit thefive8.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ORIGINALLY AIRED ON SEPT 1, 2023 Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear LIVE on Friday night! Topics: Alabama, Labor Day, covid response, Kushner, Proud Boys. Nina Burleigh is a a journalist, best-selling author, documentary producer, and publisher of a substack on politics called American Freakshow. She was born and educated in the Midwest, has been based in Washington, D.C., New York, and Paris and Italy, traveled and reported extensively in the Middle East. Her journalism has been published widely including in the New York Times, New Yorker, Airmail, New York Magazine. She's written seven books, which were reviewed, excerpted or covered in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Nation, New York Magazine, BBC, ABC, MSNBC, and other media outlets. An adjunct professor at NYU's Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute, Google Scholar says her work has been cited in hundreds of scholarly articles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aired October 6, 2023 Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear LIVE on Friday night! Jim Campbell is the author of MADOFF TALKS and the host of the nationally syndicated radio show Business Talk with Jim Campbell. He is known for his hard-hitting interviews of leading figures from the worlds of business, politics, and sports. Known for “firsts,” Campbell snagged the first extensive interview with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer after his resignation, the first interview with former Tyco CEO Denis Kozlowski after his release from prison, and the first broadcast interview with former stock analyst Roomy Kahn, a government informant in one of the biggest insider trading busts in American history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aired on September 29. Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear LIVE on Friday night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aired Friday, September 23, 2023. Pete Strzok is the author of COMPROMISED: COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND THE THREAT OF DONALD J TRUMP, the co-host of the podcast “Cleanup on Aisle 45,” and the former deputy assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division. Show Notes Ep 64 😁 The Five 8 membership link https://www.youtube.com/@thefive-8/membership Link for donating to the Writers Guild to help “support artists, writers and actors, currently on strike.” https://www.wga.org/news-events/news/press/wga-raises-solidarity-assistance-funds Today’s Prevail column https://gregolear.substack.com/p/guardians-and-sages-with-ronlyn-domingue This week’s Prevail podcast w Ronlyn Domingue https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prevail-with-greg-olear/id1553506699?i=1000628803791 Twitter for Peter Strzok https://twitter.com/petestrzok Peter Strzok’s podcast, Clean Up on Aisle 45 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cleanup-on-aisle-45-with-ag-pete-strzok/id1549502623 Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump by Peter Strzok (Book) https://a.co/d/3VjSCPp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ORIGINAL AIR DATE: July 7, 2023. The entertainment attorney Ethan Bearman joins Greg Olear & Stephanie Koff. Topics include the tunnels under Mar-a-Lago, Bidenomics, climate change, and the best Twitter replacement. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpqskRohsYc&t=2015s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephanie Koff & Greg Olear LIVE on Friday night! Candidly Tiff is a political commentator, O.G. KHive, and TikTok and Twitter All-Star. www.thefive8.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With no guest this week, Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear tackle the unlearned lessons of the French Revolution, the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike, and more! Plus: Cruzac. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ORIGINALLY AIRED SEPT. 8, 2023 Stephanie Koff & Greg Olear, LIVE, on Friday night! Cliff Schecter runs a 1MM+ email list, Blue Amp Action, raising millions for Democrats/liberal causes. He's a consultant, commentator & writer who wrote ads to elect Joe Biden President and done publicity for orgs run by former VP Al Gore, former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg & more. Cliff wrote a bestselling book, "The Real McCain," and has penned columns for the NY Times, New Republic, Daily Beast + more. Cliff regularly appears on The Stephanie Miller & Bob Cesca Shows, and has been on The Today Show, MSNBC, CNN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Broadcasting live from the same location for the first time on "The Five 8," Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear wrap up the third season and the 58th episode of the show. Allison Gill is the co-host of "Mueller, She Wrote," "The Daily Beans," "Jack," and "Cleanup on Aisle 45." Topics: Sam Alito in the WSJ again; RFK tweets out Nazi numbers; superseding indictments for Trump; Mitch McConnell's shameful legacy; and a farewell to Sinead O'Connor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original air date: October 20, 2023 Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear LIVE on Friday night! Our guest is Tony Michaels, host of The Tony Michaels Podcast.    / @tonymichaelspodcast   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ORIGINALLY AIRED SEPT 15, 2023 Stephanie Koff & Greg Olear LIVE: your Friday night hang. Arthur Snell served in the British Foreign Office from 1998 - 2014 in Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan, among other places. He is the author of "How Britain Broke the World." His latest podcast is called "Behind the Lines with Arthur Snell." https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0BRnRwe7yDZXIaF-QZfvhA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear, LIVE, Friday night! We break down the Trump indictment with our guests: the law professor, "Booked Up" podcaster, and "Big Dirty Money" author Jen Taub; and war correspondent, journalist, novelist, and performance artist Zarina Zabrisky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ORIGINALLY AIRED AUGUST 25, 2023 Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear LIVE on Friday night! Tom Kemp is the best-selling author of CONTAINING BIG TEACH. He is a Silicon Valley–based author, entrepreneur, investor, and policy advisor. Tom was the founder and CEO of Centrify (renamed Delinea in 2022), a leading cybersecurity cloud provider that amassed over two thousand enterprise customers, including over 60 percent of the Fortune 50. For his leadership, Tom was named by Ernst & Young as Finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California. Tom is also an active Silicon Valley angel investor, with seed investments in over a dozen tech start-ups. In addition, Tom has served as a technology policy advisor for political campaigns and advocacy groups, including leading the campaign marketing efforts in 2020 to pass California Proposition 24—the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)—and co-authoring bills such as the California Delete Act of 2023. Tom writes extensively on technology policy on his blog and has been interviewed as an expert in cybersecurity and privacy by The Guardian, Politico, Washington Post, CNBC, Fox News, and others. Tom holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and in history from the University of Michigan. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0BRnRwe7yDZXIaF-QZfvhA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ORIGINAL AIR DATE: June 2, 2023. Inverting the format, Stephanie and Greg cover eight topics for five minutes each, including Pride, Chris Christie, Ken Paxton, and the series finales of "Succession" and "Ted Lasso." Plus: a surprise (even to them!) visit from Rosanna Arquette. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/live/zjQdmUsfh9c http://www.thefive8.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices