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Unf*cking The Republic

Omnibus (4-25-26).

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Politics, Government, News

4.8758 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Max and 99 are back! They hit headlines on constitutional war powers, Tucker Carlson turning on Trump, digital life preservation, and Anthropic’s dangerous AI model, then tackle listener emails on identity politics, economic anxiety + more. They rank their Top 5 dead dinner party guests and close with some movie-themed Beyond the Bullshit.

Intro: 00:00:09

Headlines: 00:12:51

Emails: 00:45:49

Top 5: 01:09:29

Beyond the Bullshit: 01:27:01

Memberships: 01:44:02

Outro: 01:44:40

Resources

Leo Lionni: Frederick

Counter Punch: The Constitutional Origins of the War in Iran

Mother Jones: The Real Reason Tucker Carlson Is Turning on Trump

The New Yorker: When your digital life vanishes

The Verge: Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands

Steve Jobs

Business Insider: Anthropic’s Mythos AI tool could spark ‘systemic financial market disruption,’ a trade group warns

Current Affairs: Steven Pinker Doesn’t Know Anything About Marxism

#FreeBenandJerrys

Analyze Phish

Variety: Ramy Youssef Trolls MAGA Backlash to His ‘Sesame Street’ Episode Where Elmo Spoke Arabic: ‘Elmo Saying Habibi Has Set Them Off’

History: Big Bird Nearly Rode on the Disastrous Challenger Mission

Far Out: The photograph that inspired the twins in ‘The Shining’

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey and fuckers, welcome to another edition of Omnibus, bus, busy.

0:15.9

I don't know which one it is.

0:17.2

We all have a busy.

0:18.4

Yeah, it's just the way of the world.

0:21.3

It is a lovely rainy Wednesday here in New York.

0:25.3

Hells the weather by you.

0:27.3

So this is the final week of our spring fun friend and Hellraiser.

0:32.7

And I'm pretty sure Max had me do the intro so he didn't have to say it because he stumbles.

0:38.0

But that's okay.

0:45.1

We love him anyway. So this is our bi-annual drive where we get memberships because memberships support our show and keep it going. And we are a little under our goal, as I alluded to last week,

0:51.2

but we still have time to make it up. So please become a member. We have monthly and

0:57.1

yearly options. And if you become a yearly member before April 30th, you will get a free

1:03.0

UNFTR hat. It will be a lovely hat. It will be designed by me. I don't know what color yet,

1:08.2

but it will be fun. And yeah, if you can't become a member, you can make a donation.

1:14.4

If you can't make a donation, you can buy our coffee.

1:17.9

If you can't buy our coffee, you could buy a book from our bookshop.

1:20.6

If you can't buy anything, you could subscribe to the YouTube channel,

1:24.9

follow us on social, share our videos, sign up for our email, Forward it to a friend and say, hey, you should like this. You will like this. Put a gun to their head.

1:35.4

I mean, you know, metaphorically.

1:39.2

Sure. Right. Whatever, however you interpret it. No, just metaphorically. Okay. I mean, don't we support the Second Amendment? It's the lifeblood. It is the only part of the Constitution that actually matters. Sure. But we don't want to encourage violence. You're right. Gun violence isn't funny. It's a serious problem. Ha ha. It's not funny. Anyway.

2:01.4

Right.

2:02.2

Supporter stuff.

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