Unf*cking The Republic

It’s here! It’s finally here! Today we review our predictions for student debt relief and square them with Biden’s proposed plan. There’s a lot to like about the announcement, several unanswered questions and some gaping holes in the plan going forward. Max breaks down the politics, the details and biggest misses of the Biden student debt relief plan and why it’s in danger of being PITOTWIU.

Resources

The Balance: How Much Trump's Tax Cuts Cost the Government

World Population Review: Average Family Income 2022

PBS NewsHour: President Biden announces decision on student debt forgiveness

Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget: New Student Debt Changes Will Cost Half a Trillion Dollars

Penn Wharton Budget Model: The Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Plan: Budgetary Costs and Distributional Impact

Josh Mitchell: The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

UNFTR Episode Resources

Student Debt.

Modern Monetary Theory.

Corporate (Ir)Responsibility (Part I) and (Part II).

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Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed by 99.

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In today’s Show Notes Max and 99 talk for 30 hours…Okay, exaggeration. But they talk for a long while, because there’s a lot of U.S. healthcare feedback to run through, as the Unf*ckers are so smart and dedicated (as usual). All hail Nettie.

Listen to U.S. Healthcare.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

UNFTR Healthcare Update: 00:03:13

Emails: 00:08:13

Facebook Shout Outs: 01:57:12

Twitter Shout Outs: 02:02:30

Instagram Shout Outs: 02:05:05

Substack: 02:06:57

Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 02:10:34

Reviews: 02:14:42

Resources

Nettie's Fund

Ron DeSantis Standing

Maintenance Phase Podcast

     -Weight Watchers

     -Super Size Me

     -Jordan Peterson Part 1 and Part 2

Unf*cker-run Facebook Group

Majority Report with John Abramson

Nathan J. Robinson: The Intellectual We Deserve

An Arm and a Leg Podcast

Elisabeth Rosenthal: An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

UNFTR Artists

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A note for one of our original Unf*ckers. Sending our love, light, and thank yous to Nettie for being the patron saint of this show, and making us all better.

If you're able, please consider donating to Nettie's fund: www.facebook.com/donate/1765854323761747/2174011309435518.

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Today we’re doing some level setting on healthcare in the U.S.—a long requested topic. We navigate this unf*cking based on direct queries from the Unf*ckers, creating a baseline that helps establish a foundation for related features down the road and an understanding of the moving parts and shared language for the challenges we face. Stay tuned, as next week we’re going to delve deep into the Affordable Care Act.

Chapters

Intro: 00:01:28

Chapter One: 00:02:40

Chapter Two: 00:09:31

Chapter Three: 00:18:32

Chapter Four: 00:32:54

Post Show Musings: 00:38:54

Book Love: 00:46:12

Pod Love: 00:48:03

Outro: 01:12:14

Resources

The New York Times: Big Changes Are Coming for Health Care Costs

Health System Tracker: National Health Spending Explorer

GovTrack: H.R. 5376: Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

CMS.gov: NHE Fact Sheet

Milton Friedman: How to Cure Health Care

Medtronic: Annual Report

Abbott Laboratories: Annual Report

Stryker: 2021 Comprehensive Report

HCA Healthcare, Inc: Annual Report

Fierce Healthcare: Kaiser Permanente reports $8.1B net profit in 2021 despite shrinking operating income

UHS: Annual Report

UnitedHealth Group: Annual Report

Humana: 2021 Annual Report

Anthem, Inc: Annual Report

Pfizer: Annual Report

Merck & Co: Annual Report

AbbVie Inc: Annual Report

CNBC: The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks

Book Love

Paul Starr: The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry

Steven Brill: America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

Pod Love

Congressional Dish: CD255: Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs)

Sawbones

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Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by costs and distributed by outcomes.

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In today's Show Notes, Max and 99 shoot the shit and catch up on what the world’s been up to since they took a lil vacation.

Listen to Max Unfiltered.

Listen to A Chat with Tom McGovern.

Listen to UNFTR x Best of the Left.

Listen to The Clinton Years (Parts One, Two, and Three).

Listen to UNFTR X News Beat.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Emails: 00:18:00

Facebook Shout Outs: 01:25:54

Twitter Shout Outs: 01:28:03

Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 01:35:30

Reviews: 01:46:52

Outro: 01:48:58

Resources

UNFTR Merch Store

Uncertain Hour Podcast: Season One

Unf*ckers Facebook Group

Ike McCorkle (Colorado)

Mother Country Radicals Podcast

Chesa Boudin on News Beat

Tom McGovern: Someone Ate My Corn 

Behind The Bastards: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About

UNFTR on Youtube

The Captain’s Band (Hold Fast)

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Countless Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people go missing or are murdered across Canada and the United States in an ongoing genocide receiving inadequate attention from media, governments, and law enforcement. Who’s taking and killing them, and why isn’t more being done? News Beat podcast—Manny’s other love—speaks with Native women on both sides of the border who break down the causes and perpetrators of these atrocities and seek justice for the many mothers, daughters, sisters, aunties, and nieces, missing or slain. South Carolina (by way of New York) hip-hop sorceress LiKWUiD performs original verse to illuminate their mission, and the crisis.

Access the accompanying episode here.

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This episode is a re-release of sorts. Due to the amount of positive feedback we received on our Clinton Years series, we decided to put the series together into one seamless episode to make it easier to share.

Access the essays for Parts One, Two, and Three.

Chapters

Special Intro: 00:00:06

Prologue: 00:02:53

Chapter One: 00:07:36

Chapter Two: 00:32:26

Chapter Three: 00:40:31

Chapter Four: 00:52:42

Chapter Five: 01:16:21

Chapter Six: 01:26:39

Chapter Seven: 01:34:38

Chapter Eight: 01:43:36

Chapter Nine: 01:55:13

Chapter Ten: 02:01:03

Access the resources for Parts One, Two, and Three.

Book Love

Lily Geismer: Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality

Nathan J. Robinson: Superpredator: Bill Clinton’s Use and Abuse of Black America

Bernard Harcourt: The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order

Binyamin Appelbaum: The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

Matt Taibbi: Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History

Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States

Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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If not for Best of the Left, we are not. The person who put UNFTR on the map has graciously allowed us to drop his very special 1,500th anniversary show on our feed. The episode is titled “America, A Beginner’s Guide” and it’s an earful. A masterpiece written, crafted and produced by our friend and mentor Jay Tomlinson, one of the pioneers of political podcasting.

Access the transcript here.

Resources

Episode page

The Jingles - Media Manipulation Tactic Explainer Songs

Sally McConnell-Ginet: Words Matter

Lulu Miller: Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Best of the Left on social: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

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The man behind the curtain. The fifth Beatle. The ace up our sleeve. Max interviews UNFTR’s ultimate secret weapon, Tom McGovern. Tom is the genius behind the show’s myriad theme songs, signature parodies like Oh, Canada and Independent Platform Man and the musical touches sprinkled throughout our episodes. We convinced Tom to come out of the recording booth long enough for us to praise him. Then he saw his shadow and went back into the booth. Max and Tom have a wide ranging discussion about musical influences, acting and where the fuck all the baby pigeons are.

Tom McGovern online

Tom on Instagram

Tom on TikTok

Tom on YouTube

Wolves of Glendale

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We bid Unf*ckers adieu for a couple of weeks with some quick ruminations about from whence we came and where we’re headed. In this brief reflection, Max and crew address the cacophony of issues swirling about in our heads as we head toward the midterms. There are countless battles to be fought and won in service of the planet. But for now, Max puts down the brushes and canvas and saves the hat for another day.

Resources

The Knowledge Project Ep. #83: Brian Koppelman: What Really Matters

Julia Cameron: The Artist's Way

UNFTR Episode Resources

When We Leave: Afghanistan Tomorrow and Forever.

Building the Climate Industrial Complex: Strange Bedfellows, Wildfires and Heat Waves.

Playing Chicken with China: How Propaganda Rationalizes Conflict.

Fox in the Outhouse: Invasion, Immigration & Inflation.

New York’s Casual White Supremacy: Losing the Plot on Hochul & Buffalo Bills.

Elon Gated: Billionaires and Their Toys.

The End of Roe v. Wade: Extinguishing the Penumbra.

Where is the Religious Left? Dissecting the American Theocracy.

The School Shooting Script: Our Immunocompromised Body Politic.

Obsession Over Recession Depression: Feeding the Economic HypeBeast.

Amazon (Part 1): The Unfulfillment Company.

The Clinton Years (Part One): Don't stop thinking about tomorrow.

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