On The Record (09-08-26).
This week we dissected JD Vance's child care rule change: A Heritage Foundation tradwife policy dressed up as family values, funded by gutti...
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Unf*cking The Republic
Unf*cking The Republic (UNFTR) is a series of audio essays on the grand American experiment lovingly curated and presented by a quasi-anonymous political writer. Each essay reflects on a sin...
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20 of 451 episodesLabor Daze: Trump’s Resident Idiot Says the Economy is a Gift.
Trump administration official Kevin Hassett declared the latest jobs report as a "present to the American people" for Labor Day. Really, Kev...
Omnibus (09-05-26).
Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on the White House's Venezuelan oil deal and the money launderer at its...
Merchants of Death: The Men Who Killed Healthcare in America.
The United States doesn't have a comprehensive healthcare "system." It has a patchwork of coverage options that come with heavy price tags a...
Did Ronald Reagan Destroy the American Dream?
Ronald Reagan. Champion of neoliberalism. To some, the man who lifted the spirits of a nation and restored a sense of pride and optimism aft...
On The Record (09-01-26).
This week we tore apart The Heritage Foundation's spin on the Venezuela oil deal—the "world's gas station" line slogan, the math on wh...
Omnibus (08-29-26).
Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on John Roberts' 40-year project to kill the Voting Rights Act and Spir...
On The Record (08-25-26).
This week we staged an intervention for Scott Bessent—the failed hedge fund manager who lost 90% of his assets during the greatest bul...
Don’t Tax the Rich. Cut Them Off.
Billionaires are easy to hate. And there are several efforts underway to get them to pay their "fair share." In this episode, Max argues tha...
Omnibus (08-22-26).
Max and 99 are back for another Omnibus. They hit headlines on Tether, the $200 billion crypto company nobody can see inside, and a food saf...
On The Record (08-18-26).
This week we named what's actually happening to the American economy—Corporate Colonialism, the full realization of the Powell Memo's...
Omnibus (08-11-26).
Max and 99 are back in action, (though IRL, Max is still on vacay!). They hit headlines on MAHA's fault lines, Flock cameras tracking cars,...
The Great Unwind.
The AI trade might have found its canary in the coal mine. Leopold Aschenbrenner—a 25-year-old former OpenAI researcher built Situatio...
Slow Moving Disasters: Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence and The Democratic Party.
This is one of those, get it off the chest episodes. A straightforward conversation about three slow moving disasters that threaten our way...
On The Record (08-04-26).
This week we went deep on debt—all $72 trillion of it—and made the case that the bond market is the real economy, that the Fed h...
Omnibus (08-03-26).
Max and 99 are back again! They dive into headlines on school choice draining public education, a for-profit hospital disaster, young adults...
On The Record (07-28-26).
This week we dug into the Maduro kidnapping as the entry point for something much bigger—the Cold War racism and corporate vengeance t...
Trump and the Black Jelly Bean Theory: CLOs Echo the MBS Fiasco from the GFC.
The New York Fed released a troubling report detailing the risk of Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) exposure in the insurance industry....
Omnibus (07-23-26).
Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on the Trump administration restricting visas for foreign journalists,...
Shitty: The Quest to Make Everything Terrible.
Everything is getting worse, but the country hasn't collapsed. This is all by design. Donald Trump is a useful idiot for the people behind t...