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Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.8 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Max and 99 are back this week to debut an experimental new format for the podcast—that is yet to be named—which mixes Show Notes vibes with a little more structure. The two dive into a mix of on-topic and off-topic headlines before heading into listener feedback and emails. They wrap up the episode with their Top 5 lists focused on formative protest songs, and of course some member shout outs. Enjoy!
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:34
Headlines: 00:13:35
Emails: 00:42:47
"Carve Outs": 01:16:31
Top 5: 01:24:32
Memberships: 01:44:15
Outro: 01:46:00
Resources
The Verge: Discord says ‘vast majority’ of users won’t see its new age verification setup
BIG by Matt Stoller: The Beginning of the End for Big Corporate Medicine
Politico: MAHA and Mike Tyson want you to ‘eat real food’ during the Super Bowl
Super Bowl Ad: Processed Food Kills, Eat Real Food
The Ringer: How Hannibal Lecter Made His Film Debut in ‘Manhunter’
Yahoo News: JD Vance says U.S. Olympic athletes are 'not there to pop off about politics.' Here's what they've said.
Democratic Socialists of America
Top 5s (And Beyond)
Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam
John Lennon: Working Class Hero
Sting: Russians
XTC: Dear God
Simple Minds: Belfast Child
Green Day: American Idiot
Joni Mitchell: Big Yellow Taxi
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
Sly & The Family Stone: Everyday People
Childish Gambino: This Is America
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son
Johnny Paycheck: Take This Job And Shove It
Buffalo Springfield: For What It's Worth
4 Non Blondes: What's Up
Brandi Carlile: The Joke
The Chicks: Travelin' Soldier
The Chicks: Not Ready To Make Nice
Bob Dylan: Masters of War
T-Pain: War Pigs
Gil Scott-Heron: Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Kendrick Lamar: Alright
NWA: Fuck Tha Police
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five: The Message
Public Enemy: Fight The Power
Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come
UNFTR Resources
Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The American Drug Cartel.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. This is Mani Faces, audio editing magician behind unfucking the Republic. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to this episode of, well, it's kind of like show notes, but it's not show notes anymore. |
| 0:13.7 | It's gotten max and it's got 99 and they're talking and but they're also sharing some feedback and some headlines so it's not topical cream |
| 0:25.4 | it's it's well welcome to it and let them tell you all about it take this the right way |
| 0:35.5 | i said to 99 before coming in that I'm more excited to do this podcast than I have been in a very long time. |
| 0:45.1 | And the reason for that is because the podcast has been a drift for quite some time, basically because of how my schedule has been shaping up between our daily life and trying to build the YouTube enterprise and the collaboration with Midas Touch and really building up the website and all of the other things |
| 1:13.1 | that surround the original asset of this whole thing, which is the podcast, which is the beating |
| 1:20.5 | heart and soul of UNFTR. And 99 said to me before the end of the year, she said, we need, we need life, we need energy, |
| 1:31.0 | we have to pump some originality and consistency back into the show. And I couldn't, |
| 1:37.2 | couldn't agree more. We just didn't really, I mean, we had ideas about what that would look like |
| 1:41.3 | and sound like, but the news moves so fast. |
| 1:45.5 | And we've... |
| 1:46.1 | Max took off his glasses. |
| 1:47.5 | We've become... |
| 1:49.0 | On YouTube, we've become the thing that I didn't want to become, which is chasing |
| 1:55.4 | the news cycle. |
| 1:56.5 | And a lot of that is, I think, happenstance because of the relationship with Midas touch. |
| 2:01.4 | But it's also somewhat necessary because we are living through probably the most, we're living |
| 2:09.7 | through a period that people are going to be studying for a very long time. |
| 2:14.6 | Or it never gets. |
| 2:16.1 | Or never. |
| 2:16.8 | Or, yeah. |
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