Tyler and the F.I.C.

Tyler and the F.I.C.

By Tyler UsterezSociety & Culture
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  • S1E13 - No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

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    On This Episode:

    It's funny how life works sometimes. You try to do someone a favor, lend a hand, or simply do what you think is the right thing, and before you know it, you're left with a fucking mess. And yet somehow, your good intentions turn into a fucking problem, and the people you tried to help out are nowhere to be found. We've all been there. Maybe there's more truth to that old saying than we'd like to admit, that "no good deed goes unpunished". And if you've ever wondered why doing the right thing can sometimes feel like the dumbest decision you ever made, well, you're not alone.


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    59 min
  • S1E12 - Not Everybody Gets to Live Out Their Dream

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    On This Episode:

    It's a fat fucking fact that most people in this cutthroat world will never be able to live out their dreams. You can pour a shit ton of blood, sweat and tears and even still...watch the results of your breaks and body aches amount to absolutely zip. The world does not give a flying fuck of how hard you grinded your ass off...and it also doesn't owe you shit. The only thing this world will give you is a slap of reality and the choice to either survive or die trying. Yes folks, after all, survival is the default for the majority of us; eventually throw in the towel, trade their ambition for security and settle for whatever crumbs they can scrape off the floor just to get by. And honestly, who can blame those folks. Most of us are born in a reality where the odds are stacked against us. The true winners of this world are a fucking few.


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    51 min
  • S1E11 - Charities Can Be Sketchy

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    On This Episode:

    Do you trust today’s charity organizations? I don’t know about you, but I’ve been skeptical of where the money goes. I think the world of modern charity can be surprisingly absurd. Nowadays, when I see or listen on the radio to some commercial about a charity organization, my mind automatically makes me think twice. And digging deeper into how (not all but) most of these charities are running, it’s no fucking wonder. From questionable spending and bloated operations to the shockingly absurd executive salaries, it's fucking absurd...it seems that some of these organizations have really lost their fucking way.


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    50 min
  • S1E10 - A Fruit of One Evil: The Banana Massacre of 1928

    DISCLAIMER: Hey folks, this episode discusses graphic and disturbing historical events. The details are included for informational and educational purposes, and are presented as accurately as possible. Some of these accounts may be difficult to hear, so listener's discretion is advised. And also, DO NOT be either a violent or non-violent law-breaking dipshit.


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    On This Episode:

    How can such a simple fruit carry one of the most bloodiest moments in history? Is such a moment of history actually irregular? Well...unfortunately not. History is rife with bloodshed, most of it is written in blood, sweat, tears...with an occasional piece of flesh and bone here and there. We discuss on this episode that there was a bunch of assholes that went fucking bananas for fucking bananas. If only those fucking moments of unthinkable cruelty can just be anomalies that should never be repeated. But no, it's cyclic as fuck for as long as there are those who are willing to treat their fellow human being like shit. Deep down, we know that this kind of barbarity will never end. Give it a different set of people, different set of politics, different commodity, different nation, different era; it's cyclic as fuck.


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    1 hr 24 min
  • S1E9 - Dating Apps

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    On This Episode:

    Folks, I think dating apps suck! And they use to suck with all the bots and scammers and catfishers lurking around. But now with AI and all the other tech, that shit is probably even worse. And like many folks out there who have been through that shit, most if not all of them would say that it can't beat the old fashion way of making and nurturing a genuine connection. Not much else to say...except dating apps suck even more!


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    1 hr
  • S1E8 - "You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy" (Really!?)

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    On This Episode:

    What a bold ass statement in this day and age...the prices of literally every fucking thing are going up while the wages are as low as the mysterious blue depths of this world (weird side note...but how much of our oceans have we totally explored)...and saying a phrase like that...that takes a lot of guts. Doing a deep dive on this...there were some bits of murkiness that we did our best to clear that shit up. But without any clarified context, yeah...that's not only sounds fucking dystopian as hell, but also ominous.


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    1 hr 9 min
  • S1E7 - Shitty Drivers

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    On This Episode:

    Is it really that hard for human beings to be decent on the road? I guess it is because one accident on the road is as highly statistical as someone being born or kicking the bucket...shit like that has to happen at least once a day. Yeah, with all the billions of car on the road, it only takes one reckless idiot to fuck up everyone's commute. We have good drivers that unfortunately have to share the road with shitty drivers.


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    Resources

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    45 min
  • S1E6 - Do the Wicked Live Longer than the Righteous?

    DISCLAIMER: This whole episode is NOT an excuse to be an asshole. Don't do stupid-ass law-breaking shit. Don't break the law. For fuck's sake, be a good decent person.


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    On This Episode:

    It has been a really tough week filled with heavy losses and it really makes you wonder: why do good people seem to die so young or too soon, while the most cruel people live on like the parasites they are for a long time? Seriously, do the wicked really outlive the righteous?


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    35 min
  • S1E5 - Teachers: A Thankless Job

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    On This Episode:

    It's the most wonderful time of the year...No! I'm not talking about Christmas...not yet. I'm talking about a day for the parents...it's their annual dream come true when they don't have to worry about keeping their kids entertained...the end of their summer vacation and the start of a new school year. As for the teachers...well, it could be the opposite...a total soul-sucking opposite.


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    1 hr 51 min
  • S1E4 - Food Waste is Fucking Atrocious

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    On This Episode:

    Food waste is fucking atrocious. And I don’t mean to sound like a broken record (because that’s the title of this episode), but it really is. It’s deeply fucking strange that two issues can exist simultaneously in our world while being almost completely opposite in nature. On the one hand, we have a food-waste crisis in which millions, if not billions, of food items are recklessly thrown in the dump. On the other hand, we have a global hunger crisis...one that is affecting people who desperately need that very same food. And sure, we have food banks, charities, and donation drives that are trying their best, but those efforts can only go so far. They’re helping people with a problem that, in many cases, shouldn’t exist in the first place. The inspirational spark for this episode came when I remembered seeing some internet post depicting a dumpster overflowing with packages of food. But what really stuck with me was the accompanying message: the food had apparently been doused in bleach. They gave it a chemical baptism, seemingly believing that simply putting the food in a dumpster wasn’t enough to deter people from scavenging or dumpster diving, but going one step further, deliberately using a volatile chemical to make the food completely unusable. It’s a very crude image to behold. Granted, I understand the importance of food safety, and I recognize that there are legitimate reasons why businesses may need to prevent their discarded food from being consumed. But at the same time...there’s something profoundly cold about the image of perfectly edible food being intentionally destroyed when so many people around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. It’s one of those cases where the cruel reality is that food waste and hunger can exist side by side, not because there isn’t enough food, but because the food we have is treated as something so easily disposable. We throw away what others desperately need, and then we pretend that the two problems have nothing to do with each other.


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    Resources

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    1 hr 9 min

About Tyler and the F.I.C.

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Tyler and the F.I.C. (a.k.a. the "Fuckery Industrial Complex") is a show that does not deal with happy endings or silver linings or shallow, bullshit platitudes.

This is a…