To Be Named UNFTR Show (2-21-26).
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.8 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Max and 99 kick off another episode of their still-unnamed weekly show, diving into everything from grocery inflation and RFK’s bizarre workout videos to the future of progressive organizing through the Working Families Party and DSA. They workshop show name suggestions from listeners, tackle emails on how to influence the Democratic Party, and debate their Top Five movie villains.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:15
Housekeeping: 00:02:30
Headlines: 00:16:14
Emails: 00:36:35
Top 5: 01:03:59
Beyond the Bullshit: 01:20:33
Memberships: 01:22:53
Outro: 01:23:26
Resources
Vengaboys: Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!
In These Times: Read This If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way
Business Insider: I followed an RFK-approved, $15-a-day diet
Philosophy for the People w/Ben Burgis: Losing Lucy
The Block: Polymarket investor Vitalik Buterin says prediction markets need to stop catering to 'dumb opinions'
Bruce Springsteen: Streets Of Minneapolis
Democratic Socialists of America
UNFTR Resources
Chester A. Arthur and Julia Sand: Strange Bedfellows.
Video: On The Record (Cuba Libre | AOC Stumbles Abroad | Racist Caught at Senate Hearing)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Here's a fake theme song for the show that still doesn't have a name. |
| 0:06.7 | And I'm no time of govern. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm many faces. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome into this yet to be named program. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm your host, Max. |
| 0:22.1 | She's your host, 99. |
| 0:24.4 | Behind the glasses, manny faces. |
| 0:26.1 | Many faces. |
| 0:28.2 | Together, we are the crew that makes up unfucking the Republic. |
| 0:32.2 | And yes, this show is yet to be named. |
| 0:34.0 | But we're going to talk about that. |
| 0:35.6 | Hey, 99, how the fuck are you? |
| 0:39.1 | I'm sweepie. Yeah, 99, how the fuck are you? I'm sweepie. |
| 0:45.9 | Yeah, 99 slept through her alarm. I did. I still don't know how. There's like a whole conspiracy. It's not even a conspiracy where a bunch of people's iPhones, their alarms just |
| 0:51.2 | stopped going off and it was like a thing. But that hasn't happened to me. |
| 0:54.9 | So I don't think it just happened overnight unless Apple is punishing me because I won't update my phone to the new iOS because it's bad. |
| 1:02.1 | So maybe they're like, we need to infiltrate her phone. Could be that. So this could be sabotage. This could be the deep state. |
| 1:09.0 | Could be. Preventing me from coming to make this podcast. |
| 1:11.6 | My daughter got the hatch lamp. |
| 1:14.8 | I've wanted one of those. |
| 1:15.8 | She absolutely swears by it. She absolutely loves it. |
| 1:19.4 | She has to get a pretty early. And she's in a windowless spot in the apartment that |
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