2024: Welcome to Another Year in Bizarro America. Max Unfiltered.
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Max shakes off the cobwebs to take stock of where the country is as we head into 2024. In this “Max Unfiltered” take to start the year he examines the tension between the past and present. Has the arc of history bent toward progress? Sure. But it's maddening to know that there is still so much unnecessary suffering in the world when the U.S. has the capacity to solve so much of it both at home and abroad.
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| 0:00.0 | Come listen to the man who knew we finally had enough, so we started up a podcast and called upon his friends. |
| 0:13.4 | No matter where you're from or your unique political bend, here's the story of our perfect |
| 0:18.5 | American nest. Max in 99 with the facts to blow your mind |
| 0:23.8 | The nanny with the wicked sound design |
| 0:26.4 | So grab a seat and pour yourself a glass of writer's tears |
| 0:30.7 | Unfucking the republic is about to begin To begin Fuck you too, Milton Friedman. |
| 0:44.3 | My friend, Jefferson is American saint |
| 0:46.3 | Because he wrote the words all men are created equal |
| 0:49.3 | Words he clearly didn't believe since he allowed his own children to live in slavery |
| 0:53.3 | He was a rich wine snob who was sick of paying taxes to the Brits So yeah, he wrote some money Words he clearly didn't believe since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. |
| 0:56.9 | He was a rich wine snob who was sick of paying taxes to the Brits. |
| 1:01.2 | So, yeah, he wrote some lovely words and aroused the rabble, and they went out and died for those words. |
| 1:04.6 | Well, he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. |
| 1:08.6 | This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community. |
| 1:10.3 | Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America. And in America, you're on your own. |
| 1:15.6 | America's not a country. It's just a business. |
| 1:19.6 | Now fucking pay me. |
| 1:22.6 | UNFTR! Let's take stock of where we are as we careen into 2024. |
| 1:34.2 | The underlying promise of this show from the outset is as the name suggests, to unfuck the republic. |
| 1:41.1 | Three years in, and I can't say things are going all that well. See, there's a tension |
| 1:46.1 | in my mind right now that I'm trying to work out, like two people playing tug-of-war on either |
| 1:50.8 | side of my brain. On the one side, there's the inner historian sitting in a library with elbow |
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