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Unf*cking The Republic

Omnibus (6-8-26).

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Politics, Government, News

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Max and 99 are back after a week of colds, poison ivy, and Knicks supremacy. They hit headlines on the left’s idea problem, Google’s water pledges and data center backlash, Meta embedding face recognition into its smart glasses app, and Phoebe Bridgers playing MSG. Then they tackle listener emails on Democratic double standards, Israel and the hypocrisy talking point, and keeping Gaza woven into every story. Plus, they rank their Top 5 unhinged things they’d do with billionaire money. Enjoy!

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:05

Headlines: 00:14:28

Emails: 00:36:22

Top 5: 00:53:33

Memberships: 01:03:21

Outro: 01:05:57

Resources

The Verge: AI has a water problem. Google thinks it has a fix

Dissent Magazine: The Left Needs Ideas

TechCrunch: Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy

The Verge: Republicans want the FBI to probe whether foreign adversaries are stoking US data center backlash.

Wired: Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Pitchfork: Phoebe Bridgers to Play Surprise Madison Square Garden Show

UNFTR Resources

Read: The Donroe Doctrine.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey on fuckers, it's Max, here with 99.

0:11.0

This is omnibus.

0:13.6

I am a little head coldy right now, so I apologize for that.

0:19.2

Hopefully, 99 does most of the heavy lifting and talking, because I'm sure it can be annoying to listen to me in my head voice here.

0:26.5

Not only do I have a summer cold, which means I'm just completely reverted to being a five-year-old and I'm like a pissy typical man with a cold.

0:39.2

I have poison ivy.

0:41.8

And it is so gross.

0:43.3

I have it on my arms and I have like one of those little bubbles in between one of my, you

0:47.8

know, two of my fingers.

0:49.9

And I literally feel like I'm seven years old.

0:53.4

And I just want to be back in my bed from when I was little, when my mom would like come in and

1:00.0

check on me every seven minutes to see if I had a fever.

1:03.8

And she would be feeding me Campbell's tomato soup with crunched up ritz crackers.

1:11.1

Now, I don't know what anybody's go-to sick meal is, but that is my go-to sick meal.

1:16.4

That just brings me all of the late 70s, early 80s, crying, sick, and bed vibes.

1:24.0

I also had this very bizarre apple pattern wallpaper. It was all red, white, and blue,

1:30.0

but they were just a bunch of apples. And I can remember being little and sort of fever dreamish

1:35.5

with my tomato soup sort of sitting right on my little bedside table there and just like trying to

1:42.1

see if any of the apples were different in counting the apples

1:45.1

and like dozing off.

1:47.3

And so that's where my head's at right now.

1:49.2

I am I am such a little bitch when I get sick.

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