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Show Notes [January 12, 2026.]

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The Rob Reiner Conversation We Deserved.

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Show Notes [December 13, 2025.]

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The Revenge Porn Presidency: Trump, Commodus, and the Unraveling of Empire.

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The Music Has Stopped: The Political Response We Need to This Financial Crisis.

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Show Notes [November 15, 2025.]

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The Plumbing of the Financial Markets Is Leaking: Understanding the U.S. Liquidity Crisis.

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Stephen Miran Is Going To Be Fed Chair: The Gospel According to Miran.

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Phone A Friend: Keith D. (You Can’t Afford To Ignore Crypto.)

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The Controlled Demolition of the U.S. Economy: Shadow Banks, Dollar Debasement and Basis Trades.

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Show Notes [October 18, 2025.]

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Barack Obama: The Greatest Republican President of My Lifetime.

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Bailing on Farmers to Bail Out Argentina: Two to Tango.

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Show Notes [October 4, 2025.]

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Running Out of Time: The Political and Economic Realization of Project 2025.

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The End of the American Experiment: Nice, for Some, While It Lasted.

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The Murder of Charlie Kirk: There Are Monsters Under the Bed.

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Left Turns: Gerrymandering and Dark Money.

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Show Notes [September 6, 2025]

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The Fed, Tariffs & Big Beautiful “Sequel.” The 3 Punch Combination to Knockout the American People.

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The Toxic Nature of Hustle Culture: The Mythology of the American Worker.

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Show Notes [August 2025]

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Trump is Looting the Treasury: Time Is Running Out To Prevent Trump From Becoming the World’s Shadow Central Bank.

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Trump and the Fed: Why Trump is Determined to Fire Jerome Powell.

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Trump vs. Lula: Trump’s Arrogance Toward Brazil and the LAC Is a Threat to Us All.

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Income Inequality in the U.S.: Why You’re Struggling.

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Show Notes.

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Our Eroding Empire: Max Unfiltered. It’s Now or Never.

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Immigration Smokescreen: Masking Trump’s War on the Poor.

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The SALT Deduction: How “Tax Relief for Homeowners” Became Another Giveaway to the Rich.

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BONUS: 2025 Manny + 99 Takeover.

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Zohran Mamdani Has Already Won: Leading the Race and Leading the Way.

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Trump Accounts: A Drop in the Leaky Bucket.

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Show Notes.

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Protests in LA: Posse Comitatus is Long Over.

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The Job Report Is a Lie: The Labor Market Is Falling Apart.

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Pulling Apart the GOP Budget: Red States and Deficits.

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Credit Risk: The Looming U.S. Credit Crisis.

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President Pete Buttigieg: Not What We Need.

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Stock Buybacks Surge: Another Red Flag for the U.S. Economy.

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OPEC, Oh Sh*t! Crude Oil Tanks as OPEC+ Floods the Market.

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The End of Capitalism: A Journey Into the Unknown.

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Show Notes [Mixed Bag.]

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Bitcoin & Crude Oil: How Speculators Feast on America’s Carcass.

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Iceberg. Dead Ahead: Tariff Chaos, Shadow Repo and Liquidity Crisis.

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#5NN: This is How We Win. The 5 Non-Negotiables of the Left.

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Show Notes [A Special Visit]

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The U.S. Dollar and 10 Year Treasury: Why Economists Are Freaking the F*ck Out.

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Phone A Friend: Zohran Mamdani. Meet the Democratic Socialist Candidate Making Waves in NYC’s Mayoral Race.

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Trump is Singlehandedly Manifesting Stagflation.

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Show Notes [Climate Action.]

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Climate Action: Non-Negotiable #5.

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Trump Unhinged and Third Parties.

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Election Integrity: Getting Money Out of Politics. Non-Negotiable #4.

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Show Notes [Misc.]

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It Ends With Him: Trump Is the End of Neoliberalism.

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Medicare For All: Non-Negotiable #3.

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Extraordinary Cruelty, Ordinary Policy: Immigration and Deportation Under Trump 2.0.

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Day One: Max Unfiltered.

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Building a Civilian Labor Corps: Bracing for the AI Job Apocalypse. Non-Negotiable #2.

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Housing First: Non-Negotiable #1.

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The Online Left is Falling Apart: And That’s Okay.

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Show Notes Part Two: [Neoliberalism Borrowed From Lenin.]

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The U.S. Economy: Have we reached a boiling point?

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“Russputin” and the Tsar: Russell Vought’s Plan To Destroy America.

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Show Notes: [Neoliberalism Borrowed From Lenin.]

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Neoliberalism Borrowed From Lenin, Why Can’t We?

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2024 Election: Eulogy and Clarity. What is to be done?

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Max & 99 Unfiltered: Final Thoughts Before the 2024 Election.

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The Energy Independence Myth.

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Un-Cooperative: Why Worker Co-Ops Don’t Work in America.

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Unf*cking Flashback: The American Propaganda Machine.

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Election Denials: Asheville, Israel & Inequality.

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Show Notes [Meaningless Rage and Outrage on the Debate Stage.]

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The Great Man-Made River Project: How the U.S. and EU Killed the 8th Wonder of the World.

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Meaningless Rage and Outrage on the Debate Stage: A Recap of the Presidential Debate.

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Eric Schmidt the Bed in Stanford Interview. How Oligarchs Speak (When They Think No One Is Listening).

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Show Notes [Et tu, Krugman?]

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Et tu, Krugman? New York Times columnist’s horrible take.

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Show Notes [Harris v. Trump.]

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Harris v. Trump. Progressives in the Wind.

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Unf*cking Flashback: What’s the deal with Peter Thiel? Sociopathic billionaire man-child wants to eat the world.

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Phone A Friend: Shane Burley and Ben Lorber, authors of Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism.

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A Progressive Take on the Harris Coronation.

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Phone A Friend: Lee Camp. Comedian, author, commentator and activist.

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A Contested Convention: Building the Progressive Bench (Project 500).

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DNR The DNC: Propping up the Cadaver-in-Chief.

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Show Notes [The United States Postal Service + Europe Slides to the Right + Pharmacy Benefit Managers.]

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Phone A Friend: Yanis Varoufakis.

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The United States Postal Service: How it can truly deliver.

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Europe Slides to the Right: Unpacking the EU Parliamentary elections.

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Show Notes [Pause. Reset. Where do we go from here?]

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Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The American Drug Cartel.

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Unf*cking Flashback: UNFTR on LGBTQ. Behind the Acronyms.

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Pause. Reset. Where do we go from here? Max Unfiltered.

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On Protest and Anti-Semitism: Listening through propaganda.

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Show Notes [Over The Borderline: Part Three. + Phone A Friend: Jeff Main.]

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Phone A Friend: Jeff Main, Executive Director of Point of Pride.

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Over the Borderline: Part Three. The Economics of Migration.

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Show Notes [Phone A Friend: Tad DeLay.]