Show Notes [August 2025]
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Max and 99 are back at it for another edition of Show Notes! They cover a few trending headlines plus Trump Stablecoin ep. feedback, and have an unnecessarily long conversation about soap. Enjoy!
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:20
Headlines: 00:12:14
Episode Feedback: 00:51:32
Memberships: 01:25:42
Outro: 01:30:12
Headlines
New York Times: Cracker Barrel’s New Modern Logo and Aesthetic Become a Political Rorschach Test
The Guardian: Target CEO steps down as company faces weak sales and customer boycott
The Guardian: CEO-to-worker pay gap surges to 632 to 1 at US’s lowest-paying large firms, study shows
USA Today: Eric Adams adviser accused of bribery after giving reporter cash inside potato chip bag
New York Times: Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle
Resources
The Bulwark: Is Tim Miller closer to endorsing Zohran Mamdani than Hakeem Jeffries is?
Petition: Stop Trump's USD1 Stablecoin
Video, Max for MTN: Trump’s SHADOW CRYPTO Network is WORSE Than You Think
Video: Trump's Crypto Scheme MUST Be Stopped
Episode: Trump is Looting the Treasury.
Congress: S.394 - GENIUS Act of 2025
Congress: H.R.3633 - Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025
Congress: H.R.1919 - Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The show notes calling out listeners one by one. |
| 0:11.0 | Show notes. |
| 0:14.0 | Bluepers and thank yous. |
| 0:15.5 | It's so much fun. |
| 0:23.2 | Hey there on fuckers. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome into show notes. |
| 0:29.0 | It is the doldrums of August, right before back to school. |
| 0:32.1 | Hang in here with 99 in the studio. |
| 0:33.1 | How you doing? |
| 0:35.2 | Do you wish you were going back to school? |
| 0:35.9 | No. |
| 0:38.7 | No, because I'm constantly in school. I've never left school. That's true. Yeah. Do you wish you were going back to school? No. No, because I'm constantly in school. |
| 0:39.6 | I've never left school. |
| 0:40.2 | That's true. |
| 0:40.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.5 | Do you? |
| 0:45.4 | Only because nothing mattered. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah, it does feel like that. I mean, I was very serious. |
| 0:50.2 | I was in a lot of activities and we took things very seriously, but in hindsight, I know nothing matters. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.5 | So if I went back, I could act like nothing mattered. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah. |
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