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Unf*cking The Republic

To Be Named UNFTR Show (2-28-26).

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Politics, Government, News

4.8758 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

It’s the last episode of To Be Determined (next time the show gets an actual name)! Max and 99 run through headlines on Bill Gates’s Epstein apology and the humanitarian crisis in Cuba. The listener emails include an econ 101 starter pack, a great idea for a “remember this” segment, and more. They rank their Top 5 TV show finales, sound the alarm on private credit, and give takes on the Democratic Party’s obsession with empty centrist candidates over actual policy. Enjoy!

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:31

Housekeeping: 00:03:38

Headlines: 00:04:47

Emails: 00:17:57

Top 5: 00:38:37

Beyond the Bullshit: 00:56:39

Memberships 01:11:27

Outro: 01:11:46

Resources

Wall Street Journal: Bill Gates Apologizes to Foundation Staff Over Epstein Ties

WSWS: Cuban worker describes hellish conditions, appeals to US workers to force an end to embargo

Rolling Stone Magazine: Bob Weir’s Beautiful Second Act

New York Times: The Anguish of a Tourette’s Outburst

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

Econoclasts (Yanis Varoufakis + Wolfgang Munchau)

Gary’s Economics

Professor Steve Keen

Justin Wolfers

Instagram: @showtoolsai

The Atlantic: ‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’

Unf*cker Recommendations

Moose on the Loose

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the story of a political pundit who looked at the world around him and just said, fuck it.

0:07.6

Topical cream, a pod listener's dream, unfucking the news and current events, topical cream.

0:20.2

The show notes, calling out listeners one by one, show notes.

0:31.2

Welcome to the final episode of To Be Determined.

0:34.4

The next time you hear this, we will actually have a show name but we're happy

0:38.5

to be here with you 99 who are you i'm in a screen yeah we're doing this remote because

0:47.0

still snow still plow still weird roads all that but i think this will be the last one for a little while, I think, without jinxing anything.

0:57.5

Yeah.

0:58.6

I don't know.

0:59.6

I might have heard some other things.

1:01.8

Really?

1:03.2

Yeah.

1:04.0

I don't think the snow is gone yet.

1:06.1

Very disappointing.

1:07.0

A couple housekeeping items before we get into our regular scheduled format here. The

1:12.5

newsletter was delayed this week for two reasons. One is, I think, a pretty good environmental

1:18.9

reason. And the second is a PSA. So the first reason is that we did get hit with the blizzard

1:24.8

and the studio was socked in. Once again, we had to wait for it to get plowed out.

1:28.9

The studio is not in my home.

1:31.3

It is a remote location and just couldn't get in to get our proverbial poop in a group and get us plowed out, get us rocking and rolling there.

1:42.2

And just spent a lot of time kind of hunkered down

1:44.9

in the house. The second one is I had a colonoscopy, and I'm really excited to talk about it

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