Show Notes [October 18, 2025.]
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Max and 99 are back this week for Show Notes; they start with a little pop culture music/movie talk, and transition into Unf*cker emails where they cover why the 1% doesn’t care if the economy is gutted, what figures you can trust from the Trump administration, Technocracy in Silicon Valley and a host of other things. Enjoy!
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:20
Emails: 00:27:51
Memberships: 01:24:16
Outro: 01:30:08
Resources
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The Rewatchables: ‘Sneakers’ With Bill Simmons, Kyle Brandt, and Joanna Robinson
Jacob Riis: How The Other Half Lives
Climate Disruption: Lee Zeldin Cancer Gala
New York Times: A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The show notes calling out listeners one by one. |
| 0:10.5 | Show notes, bloopers and thank yous, it's so much fun. |
| 0:24.6 | 99 had a big yawn you You tie-tie? |
| 0:26.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.5 | One of the reasons 99 might be sleepy |
| 0:31.2 | It's because she has been a party animal. |
| 0:34.7 | You celebrated a really interesting milestone. Yeah. you want to give it away i do |
| 0:42.4 | 99 pulled 100 how about that she went to her hundred she went to her hundred she went to her |
| 0:52.7 | hundredth show of her favorite band. |
| 0:57.1 | And I even got the video texted to me of the call out to her. |
| 1:01.0 | But like two seconds later, someone hit their 200 show. |
| 1:04.2 | So I was like... |
| 1:04.9 | Assholes. |
| 1:06.1 | But he deserved it too. |
| 1:08.1 | He's done double the work. |
| 1:09.9 | Is it enough now? No, I saw two nights after my |
| 1:13.1 | hundredth. I'm at 102 now, technically. Is there something wrong with you? I guess that |
| 1:22.4 | that's the only thing that brings me joy if you want to say that's what's wrong with me. |
| 1:27.8 | Can you still escape when you're there? |
| 1:30.4 | Yeah, but sometimes I get lost in thought and then I start thinking about work and I have |
| 1:34.2 | good ideas because I feel creative in like a flow state, but sometimes I don't want to be thinking |
| 1:39.5 | about work. Are you ever not altered when you're at one of these? |
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