Unf*cking The Republic

In today's Show Notes minisode, we hear a bit more from John Kane of Let's Talk Native, have a lengthy conversation about how to deal with Trump-supporting parents, and read Bobby McD's new inscription for the Statue of Liberty.

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Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Emails: 00:03:33

Facebook Shout Outs: 00:51:16

Twitter Shout Outs: 00:57:46

Instagram Shout Outs: 01:01:02

Substack Shout Outs: 01:01:52

Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 01:03:39

Lady Liberty's New Inscription: 01:05:35 

Outro: 01:07:41

Resources

Steve Keen: Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

Jane Mayer: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Yanis Varoufakis: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion

A Little Bit Culty Podcast: The Breakup: Samantha Freedom on Leaving The Alt-Right

IndoctriNation Podcast: Qanon Casualties w/ Jitarth Jadeja

UNFTR: How to Talk About the Trump Years

UNFTR: Quickie: Invasion, Immigration & Inflation

Flight of The Conchords: She's So Hot Boom

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A run-of-the-mill, one-day news story about a billionaire holding a city hostage over a sports team and a new stadium buried the lede on the dark underbelly of Native American relations with the U.S. government. New York State agreed to finance a significant chunk of the $1.4 billion stadium for the Buffalo Bills, an NFL team owned by a billionaire worth 5.5x that amount. A deal done almost entirely behind closed doors. Beyond the myriad conflicts of interest within the governor’s office is the more insidious story, ignored almost entirely by the media, of where the state “found” the money to pay for it.

Chapters

Prologue: 00:01:36

Chapter One: Billionaire Rules: 00:04:53

Chapter Two: Hidden from View: 00:10:55

Chapter Three: The Tangled Web of F*ckery: 00:16:46 

Post Show Musings: 00:34:26

A Manny Interlude: 00:46:03

Post Show Musings Show Notes?: 00:47:21

Unf*cking Down Under Feedback: 00:48:24

Outro: 01:07:55

Support First Nation’s Causes

There are a number of charitable organizations that support First Nation’s causes (see a few below). However, we're firm believers in local support and making connections with First Nation’s peoples. If possible, endeavor to get in touch with the community center at the nearest tribal territory and inquire as to the best way to provide direct support to maximize impact.

Stand With Standing Rock

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Resources

The New York Times: Buffalo Bills Strike Deal for Taxpayer-Funded $1.4 Billion Stadium

The Guardian: Buffalo Bills will receive $850m from New York taxpayers to build new stadium

U.S. News: Bills' New Stadium Deal Carries $850M Taxpayer Tab, Gov Says

The Atlantic: Sports Stadiums Are a Bad Deal for Cities

Sports Illustrated: Austin Bills? NFL owners are running out of stadium grift ideas

Bloomberg: Terry Pegula - Bloomberg Billionaires Index

Forbes: #32 Buffalo Bills

New York Upstate: Seneca Indian Nation's $100 million-a-year casino payments to state on hold again

Buffalo News: The Editorial Board: Fed up with delays and broken promises, Hochul forces Senecas to pay their debt

Delaware North: Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack

Seneca Gaming Truth: Nation-State Gaming Compact Between The Seneca Nation Of Indians And The State Of New York

CDC Gaming Reports: Churchill Downs announces deal for Peninsula Pacific assets

Market Screener: Delaware North Companies Gaming & Entertainment, Inc. Announces Joint Venture with Churchill Downs Inc.

Pod Love

Let’s Talk Native with John Kane

UNFTR Episode Resources

March 2021 Quickie: Cuomo, Tanden & Manchin.

Culture Cancel.

An interview with Unkechaug Chief Harry Wallace and Native Coffee Trader’s Amy Wallace.

Oh, Canada.

Unf*cking Down Under.

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In today's Show Notes minisode, Max abandons 99 and delirium takes hold as she struggles to do show notes by herself.

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Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Emails: 00:01:13

Facebook Shout Outs: 00:10:48

Twitter Shout Outs: 00:10:59

Instagram Shout Outs: 00:13:53

Substack Shout Outs: 00:16:24

Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 00:38:00

Reviews: 00:41:29

Outro: 00:20:41

Resources

UNFTR Quickie: The World in Numbers

Dr. James E. Hansen Newsletter

TED Radio Hour: James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?

Why Is This Happening? Podcast: Breaking down the future of energy with Jonah Goldman

Michael Parenti: Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Leigh Phillips + Michal Rozworski: The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

Deconstructing American Conservatism Podcast

Shane Warne Documentary

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The time has come to honor our Down Under F*ckers who have been supporting UNFTR since we launched. As we’ve done in prior shows about other countries, we attempt to explain the Australian political system, provide an overview of key issues and draw parallels between our experiences. Basically, a rough translation of Aussie politics for American listeners that only scratches the surface of this incredible nation. There’s an election coming up and several hot button issues facing the Australian people so it’s a good time to level set on what’s up down under. Note to our beloved Down Under F*ckers: This will be hilariously rudimentary to you but hopefully amusing enough to keep your attention. Now, piss off.

Chapters

Aussie Disclaimer: 00:00:05

Intro: 00:01:15

Chapter One: 00:05:48

Chapter Two: 00:10:13

Chapter Three: 00:16:09

Chapter Four: 00:21:20

Chapter Five: 00:35:08

Post Show Musings: 00:46:23

Outro: 00:59:50

Resources

Australian Government Style Manual: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

CIA: The World Factbook

Parliament of Australia: Hon Anthony Albanese MP

Parliament of Australia: Hon Scott Morrison MP

The Parliamentary Education Office: Prime Minister

Australia.com: Guide To Christmas Island

Australia.com: Guide To Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Australia.com: Guide To Norfolk Island

Hydrocarbons Technology: Gorgon LNG Project

The Guardian: Australian leader Tony Abbott ousted by Malcolm Turnbull after party vote

Law Council of Australia: Indigenous Legal Issues

Centre For 21st Century Humanities: Colonial Frontier Massacres, Australia, 1788 to 1930

Common Ground: Massacres

The Guardian: The Killing Times

SBS News: Great Barrier Reef avoids UNESCO 'in danger' listing after Australian lobbying effort

The Guardian: PM personally approved $443m fund for tiny Barrier Reef foundation

The Guardian: ‘A mockery’: Great Barrier Reef Foundation raises just $21m of $357m target

The Sydney Morning Herald: Barnaby Joyce suggests God is the solution to climate change in Christmas video

ABC News: Barnaby Joyce says he sent 'an awful lot' of special drought envoy reports to PM

The Guardian: ‘Orwellian’: Coalition accused of planning to open green bank to fossil fuel investments

Book Love

Dominic Kelly: Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia

L.F. Crisp: The Parliamentary Government of the Commonwealth of Australia

Pod Love

Weekly Planet Podcast

The Guardian Podcasts

The Australian Podcasts

Progressive Podcast

The JUICE Media Podcast

UNFTR Episode Resources

F*ck Milton Friedman.

Manufacturing Dissent.

Oh, Canada.

Procedural F*ckery.

Capitasociafascilibdemarxism.

Playing Chicken with China.

Libertarians Are Exhausting Part 1.

Libertarians Are Exhausting Part 2.

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In today's Show Notes minisode, we shit on Clinton, discuss the disparity of letting some immigrants into the country and unveil a dark secret from Max's past.

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Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Previous Episode Update: 00:02:48

UNFTR Coffee Chat: 00:08:30

Emails: 00:11:51

Facebook Shout Outs: 00:27:50

Twitter Shout Outs: 00:31:13

Instagram Shout Outs: 00:36:16

Substack Shout Outs: 00:36:28

Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 00:38:00

Reviews: 00:41:29

Outro: 00:42:12

Resources

UNFTR: An interview with Unkechaug Chief Harry Wallace and Native Coffee Trader’s Amy Wallace.

Bobby McD on Instagram and Facebook

Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Politico: The New Identity Politics of Eric Adams

How Did This Get Made Podcast: Jack Frost

Jonathan M. Katz: Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

American Scandal: The Clinton-Lewinsky Affair

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As Ukrainians flee the war in their home country, some have found their way to the U.S. southern border where they are immediately escorted into the country. Because they're seeking refuge from a dangerous conflict and seeking asylum in the land of the free. And they're getting in. Quickly. Through Mexico. Meanwhile... you can probably guess where this is headed. Anyhoo, today's episode looks at immigration policy in the United States and fingers (ew) the real bad guy in our story that crafted today's anti-immigrant narrative and passed three meaningful pieces of legislation that made it a crime to be a non-native born American.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:13

Chapter One: 00:05:52

Chapter Two: 00:11:11

Chapter Three: 00:16:43

Chapter Four: 00:23:25

Chapter Five: 00:29:20

Post Show Musings: 00:34:18

Outro: 00:46:28

Resources

BBC News: How many Ukrainians have fled their homes and where have they gone?

The Intercept: As Immigration Plummeted, Conservatives Falsely Accused Biden of Fueling a Crisis

OECD Statistics: Net Migration

National Immigration Law Center: Overview of Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs

Marketplace: Undocumented immigrants quietly pay billions into Social Security and receive no benefits

Congress.gov: H.R.3355 - Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994

Legal Information Institute: Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act

The Atlantic: Bill Clinton Owes My Father an Apology

Pew Research Center: Most Cuban American voters identify as Republican in 2020

Pew Research Center: The Hispanic Vote in Presidential Elections,
1980-2012

International Policy Digest: U.S. Agriculture is in Crisis

The New York Times: Fleeing War in Ukraine, They’re Met With Employers Offering Paychecks

Schoolhouse Rock: The Great American Melting Pot

Book Love

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

UNFTR Episode Resources

The American Propaganda Machine.

F*ck Milton Friedman.

The Washington Consensus.

Libertarians Are Exhausting Part 1.

Libertarians Are Exhausting Part 2.

Fox in the Outhouse: Invasion, Immigration & Inflation.

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In today's Show Notes minisode, Max revisits Thomas Piketty's theory of universal inheritance, we continue talks of NATO + Russia, and 99 yells about Phish some more. 

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Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Previous Episode Thoughts: 00:01:36

Emails: 00:08:03

Facebook Shout Outs: 00:30:59

Twitter Shout Outs: 00:32:45

Instagram Shout Outs: 00:35:59

Coffees and Members: 00:40:15

Housekeeping: 00:45:31

Outro: 00:47:00

Resources

Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021

Knudsen's UNFTR Facebook Group

Dark Money

Kill Switch

The New Jim Crow

Color of Money

The Family

UNFTR Union Episode

Macro N Cheese

UNFTR Subreddit

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed the global political calculus almost overnight. While catastrophic and horrific in nature, this shift has provided unforeseen opportunities that were unthinkable just a few months ago. The question is how best to mobilize in this darkness to affect positive change moving forward. We examine the work of Thomas Piketty and Erica Chenoweth to help wrap our minds around what’s possible, no matter how audacious.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:07

Chapter One: 00:03:13

Chapter Two: 00:13:32

Chapter Three: 00:20:21

Closing Thoughts: 00:28:13

Post-Show Musings: 00:31:30

Outro: 00:46:17

Resources

IRS: The Estate Tax: Ninety Years and Counting

IPCC: Climate Change 2022

Al Jazeera: Could energy independence from Russia spur a shift to renewables?

New York Times: Can Germany Break Up With Russian Gas?

Jacobin: Nationalize All the Oil Companies

Adam Tooze: China under pressure

Book Love

Thomas Piketty: Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021

UNFTR Episode Resources

White on White Crime in Eastern Europe.

Peak Oil.

A (Mostly) Vegan World.

Playing Chicken with China.

Building the Climate Industrial Complex.

Modern Monetary Theory.

The Beatification of Ronald Reagan.

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In today's Show Notes minisode, Max reads a cutting room floor draft, we share some Unf*cker feedback, and discuss Russia and Ukraine a bit further. 

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Chapters

Intro: 00:00:21

Cutting Room Floor: 00:00:55

Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 00:07:38

Facebook Shout Outs: 00:24:52

Twitter Shout Outs: 00:26:27

Instagram Shout Outs: 00:31:44

Emails: 00:38:48

Reviews: 00:57:00

Housekeeping: 00:57:55

Outro: 00:59:41

Resources

American Scandal: LA Steals Its Water

The Intercept: Toxic Nostalgia, From Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys

Unf*cker Recommendations 

Macro n Cheese Podcast

The Dig Podcast

Sway: Why Facebook Whistle-Blower Frances Haugen Thinks She’ll Outlast Mark Zuckerberg

Claire Evans: Broad Band

Bobby McD on Instagram and Facebook

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A psychopath in Russia just committed a war crime by invading Ukraine. Now he’s a mass murderer as well. Today’s episode examines whether the United States has standing in this fight, the role of NATO since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the bullshit narrative surrounding rising oil and gas prices that literally no one is getting right. We also destroy some current popular right wing talking points about Biden, fossil fuel and energy independence. And Max shares one of his favorite stories about onions and explains how it might be the key to saving us all. (Just go with it.)

Chapters

Intro 00:00:51

Chapter One 00:05:42

Chapter Two: 00:15:38

Chapter Three: 00:22:26

Chapter Four: 00:28:53

Chapter Five: 00:38:50

Post-Show Musings: 00:44:16

Resources + Book Love: 00:45:06

Pod Love: 00:47:25

Outro: 00:48:15

Resources

The Intercept

Ken Klippenstein 

Jeremy Scahill

Murtaza Hussain

Naomi Klein

Chris Hedges

Adam Tooze

Matt Taibbi

Al Jazeera

The New Yorker: Getting Real: George F. Kennen’s Cold War

Brookings: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO: How, When, Why, and What Next?

Al Jazeera: Nord Stream 2: Why Russia’s pipeline to Europe divides the West

Al Jazeera: Russia makes US an offer on last major arms control treaty

Chartbook #93: Russia's $720m per day gas windfall - the lopsided economic war

Macrotrends: Crude Oil Prices - 70 Year Historical Chart

The Intercept: Toxic Nostalgia, From Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys

Watson Institute: Human Cost Of Post-9/11 Wars

Vietnam Embassy: Cruel fact: How many Vietnamese people died in the Vietnam war?

Council on Foreign Relations: Global Conflict Tracker

Book Love

George F. Kennan: American Diplomacy

Emily Lambert: The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World's Biggest Markets

Pod Love

Best of the Left: #1474 Invasion of Ukraine: Some Context

UNFTR Episode Resources

Peak Oil.

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