Max and 99 kick things off revisiting old predictions and check how they're holding up. They hit the headlines: billionaires breaking records, geopolitical conflict threatening economic stability, and monopoly concerns in the music industry. Listener emails cover politics, financial industry backdoors, and navigating complicity. They rank their Top 5 historical figures to reclaim, do some movie talk, and member shoutouts round it out. Enjoy!

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:18

Housekeeping: 00:00:34

Headlines: 00:21:13

Emails: 00:48:54

Top 5: 01:00:23

Beyond the Bullshit: 01:19:35

Outro: 01:43:27

Resources

Acquired: Epic Systems (MyChart)

Bloomberg: Europe Rushes to Contain Price Fallout From War in Middle East

Foreign Policy: The Iran War Is Jeopardizing the Entire Global Economy

Forbes: World’s Billionaires List

The Cut: ‘My Friends Live in a Bubble. Should I Dump Them?’

NPR: Live Nation and Justice Department reach settlement in antitrust case

Reuters: Judge tells Live Nation, state AGs to negotiate potential deal

Straight White American Jesus Podcast

John Fugelsang: Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists

Margin Call

Inside Job

Forbes: AI Minted More Than 50 New Billionaires In 2025

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

Kanopy

UNFTR Resources

The End of the American Experiment.

The Clinton Series.

Phone A Friend: Zohran Mamdani.

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