Free Speech, Chilled to Perfection [TEASER]
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel…like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? That’s understandable because battles over free speech and the First Amendment are raging right now, whether on the internet, on TV, in the workplace, or in the streets. But baby, you’re a firework. And the Trump administration can’t take that from you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. This is Leon from Prologue Projects. |
| 0:07.5 | On this subscriber-only episode of 5 to 4, Peter, Riannon, and Michael are talking about the latest |
| 0:14.6 | battles over free speech in the Trump era. Following the murder of Charlie Kirk, the Trump |
| 0:20.0 | administration has seized the moment to target speech they don't approve of. |
| 0:24.2 | The vice president has urged the public to report anyone celebrating Kirk's death. |
| 0:28.4 | So when you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out in hell, call their employer. |
| 0:33.6 | Late night hosts have been threatened. |
| 0:35.4 | Colbert has no talent. Fallon has no talent. Kimmel has no talent. They're next. They're going to be going. I hear they're going to be going. |
| 0:42.0 | And the administration has labeled Antifa, not a real organization, as a terrorist group. |
| 0:47.3 | This is the first time in American history that there is an all-of-government effort to dismantle left-wing terrorism, to dismantle Antifa, |
| 0:56.5 | to dismantle the organizations that have been carrying out these acts of political violence and terrorism. |
| 1:01.2 | The Supreme Court says that speech is supposed to be broadly protected. |
| 1:05.4 | But as you'll hear, that only goes so far in practice. |
| 1:09.7 | This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court and the Trump administration suck. |
| 1:19.6 | Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have shut down our civil liberties like Congress shutting down the government. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm Peter. |
| 1:28.7 | I'm here with Riannon. |
| 1:30.2 | Hey, quick and simple. |
| 1:31.5 | Very easy. |
| 1:32.1 | Absolutely. |
| 1:32.8 | A to B analogy. |
| 1:34.6 | And Michael. |
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