Omnibus (6-13-26).
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.8 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2026
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Max and 99 are here for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on Jared Kushner’s foreign entanglements, the screwworm outbreak threatening the beef supply, a tribute to revolutionary historian Gordon Wood, and a 77-year-old who lost his life savings to a gold coin scam. Then they tackle listener emails on stopping Musk’s grift and Bernie’s proposed AI wealth fund. They rank their Top 5 people who owe them a personal apology. Enjoy!
Chapters
Intro 00:00:20
Headlines: 00:29:13
Emails: 01:11:55
Top 5: 01:32:14
Memberships: 01:42:45
Outro: 01:43:09
Resources
The Hill: Trump officials play Biden blame game as screwworm spreads
Politico: A flesh-eating pest threatens Trump’s beef price hopes
Mother Jones: They Went to Jared
Business Insider: A 77-year-old lost $390,000 of his retirement savings after picking up a scam call. Now he wants to help others.
WSWS: A Tribute to Gordon S. Wood, Historian of the American Revolution
New York Times: Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
Business Insider: Bari Weiss was supposed to ‘restore trust’ in CBS News. It’s eroding, says CNN’s Brian Stelter.
New York Times: Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It.
Book Love
Stephen Kinzer: The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
UNFTR Resources
Episode: F*ck Milton Friedman.
Video: SpaceX IPO: What They’re Not Telling Retail Investors.
Episode: Dear Rebekkkah Mercer.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Omnibus 99. |
| 0:23.3 | How you doing? |
| 0:25.5 | I think I'm okay. |
| 0:27.1 | Yeah? |
| 0:27.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.1 | Tell me. |
| 0:29.1 | I don't know. |
| 0:29.7 | I was just reading the news before picking headlines and I was like, fuck. |
| 0:32.7 | I hate this. |
| 0:34.0 | And not great. |
| 0:34.8 | No. |
| 0:35.6 | How are you? |
| 0:36.6 | I am ready to offer an apology for last week's audio. |
| 0:42.3 | Two things. |
| 0:43.3 | Yes, I had a disastrous head cold along with my poison ivy, which made me a little bitch. |
| 0:50.3 | So we recorded remotely, and I fucked something up in the audio settings. |
| 0:54.6 | And so everybody got an even worse version of omnibus. |
| 0:58.6 | So we did everything that we could to clean it up. |
| 1:01.7 | 99's Herculean efforts included. |
| 1:04.3 | It, you know, it was what it was. |
| 1:06.3 | So apologies for that. |
| 1:07.7 | Hopefully you're hearing everything a little more clearly today. |
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