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Tyler and the F.I.C.
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 show that digs straight into the grim, unvarnished realities of life, with no filter, no sugarcoating, and absolutely zero corporate spin. While the rest of the media landscape is busy wrapping every messy story in a neat little bow, slapping superficial fixes on deep-seated problems, and forcing a plastic smile, we…
Episodes
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S1E12 - Not Everybody Gets to Live Out Their Dream
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/tylerandthefic On This Episode: It's a fat fucking fact that most people in this cutthroat world will…
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S1E11 - Charities Can Be Sketchy
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/tylerandthefic On This Episode: Do you trust today’s charity organizations? I don’t know about you…
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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…
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S1E9 - Dating Apps
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/tylerandthefic On This Episode: Folks, I think dating apps suck! And they use to suck with all the…
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S1E8 - "You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy" (Really!?)
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/tylerandthefic On This Episode: What a bold ass statement in this day and age...the prices of…
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S1E7 - Shitty Drivers
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/tylerandthefic On This Episode: Is it really that hard for human beings to be decent on the road? I…
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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…
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S1E5 - Teachers: A Thankless Job
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/tylerandthefic On This Episode: It's the most wonderful time of the year...No! I'm not talking about…
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S1E4 - Food Waste is Fucking Atrocious
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/tylerandthefic On This Episode: Food waste is fucking atrocious. And I don’t mean to sound like a…
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S1E3 - The Cruel Business of Misery
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/tylerandthefic On This Episode: We covered this topic on the previous incarnation of our show, but we…
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S1E2 - Let the Birth Rates Hit the Floor
DISCLAIMER / WARNING: A portion of this episode discusses real cases involving child abuse, neglect, and failures within the child welfare system. This content…
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S1E1 - Far Zenith: Godhood of the Elite Class
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/tylerandthefic On This Episode: What a way to start our show's brand new season with a bit of…
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Season 1 Trailer
Commitment to a new season with some kind of feelings of renewal...check. Explicit button turned on...check. Connect with us: Substack…
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Episode 75 - Adult Summers Hit Differently
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: Do you remember when you could just head outside in July and not…
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Episode 74 - The Nostalgia of Summer
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: Remember when the screen door would slam shut in June and just stay…
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Episode 73 - Student Debt: The Interest of an Interest
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: Previously, we talked about what our graduates are going to inherit…
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Episode 72 - A Graduate's Dystopian Inheritance
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: The world being handed down to the class of 2026 looks less like a…
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Episode 71 - Tribalism in Sports Culture
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: Modern sports culture has morphed into a strange, high-stakes…
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Episode 70 - The Decline of a Good Education
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: The American school system looks like a high-speed train where…
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Episode 69 - Does Science Require Sacrifice?
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders DISCLAIMER: This episode will cover the history of medical exploitation…
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Episode 68 - Money Can Buy Happiness?
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: We’ve all heard people say that money can't buy happiness, which is…
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Episode 67 - The Addiction of Today's Youth
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: At first, handing a child a phone or tablet seemed harmless, a…
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Episode 66 - The Absurdity of Modern Transportation
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: We’ve spent a lifetime telling ourselves that modern travel is this…
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Episode 65 - Corporate Catfishing
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: You land the “dream job,” only to realize within weeks that the…
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Episode 64 - Is Body Positivity Dead?
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: For a long time, it felt like we’d finally reached a shaky and…
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Episode 63 - Free Will is a Myth?
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: Humanity has spent every single generation obsessing over this…
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Episode 62 - Subscriptions Suck
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: There was a time when buying something actually meant it belonged…
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Episode 61 - The Modern Olympics is Weird
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: Every few years, we get to witness a localized suspension of…
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Episode 60 - That Somber Finale of That 90s Sitcom "Dinosaurs"
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: You look at a 90s sitcom like Dinosaurs and for most of its run…
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Episode 59 - Even the Most Prestigious Institutions Can Graduate (or Certify) Idiots
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: Frustration has a way of burning through your last nerve until all…
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Episode 58 - The "Learn to Code" Era
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: For years, "Learn to Code" was pitched as the ultimate…
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Episode 57 - Roger Boisjoly & The Cassandra Complex of Sea and Space
Proudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimreminders On This Episode: History is often presented through a sanitized, rose-colored lens…
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Episode 56 - Is Ignorance Really Bliss
On This Episode: Is it always better to know the truth, or are there times when not knowing is actually the healthier choice? The phrase “ignorance is bliss”…
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Episode 55 - No Alternative Realities
On This Episode: Looking back at our last two episodes, we discussed the ideas of an alternate reality, with one point of view being the mad maker and the…
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Episode 54 - Cypher's Desire of A Comfortable Illusion (Part 2)
On This Episode: Previously on Episode 53, we peered into the world of Naruto, where we analyzed a character with a god-complex and a tragic background. We…
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Episode 53 - Madara Uchiha's Dream of Perfect Peace (Part 1)
On This Episode: It's time to dive once again in the millennial age of cartoons, and this time, we dive into the world of Naruto. In that world, few figures…
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Episode 52 - Codified Decency: Laws to Protect Compassion?
DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer, I don't offer legal advice. Anything that is said on this podcast is not legal advice. If I talk about the law, I do so strictly…
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Episode 51 - New Year's Resolutions
On This Episode: Every New Year, there comes a moment for most folks out there that feels like a "honeymoon phase" of a "new start" on life, we…
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Episode 50 - Looking Back at 2025
On This Special Episode: We're just looking back at this year, how it all started and looking at the most notable Grim Reminders of Life that were quite a…
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Episode 49 - The Boots Theory
On This Episode: The true cost of a product is rarely found on the price tag alone. In the world of Captain Sam Vimes, a character created by Terry Pratchett…
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Episode 48 - The Obstacle of Obsolescence: Too Good of A Product
On This Episode: Ever wondered why the things we buy, from our phones to our lightbulbs, always seem to break down right when we least expect it? Not because…
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Episode 47 - Is Fast Food Still Worth It?
On This Episode: In today's world, there’s something odd about fast food. Sometimes, you might feel that allure that seems to appear at the worst or best…
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Episode 46 - The Inversion of Productivity
On This Episode: We've always believed that innovation was suppose to make our lives easier. Every round of new tech and ideas was suppose to free us from the…
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Episode 45 - Tipping Culture is Internationally Despised (Part 2)
DISCLAIMER: I wasn’t sure if this disclaimer was necessary for this episode, so I’ll just leave this here just in case. I am not a lawyer. There is no legal…
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Episode 44 - Tipping Culture Sucks (Part 1)
DISCLAIMER: I wasn’t sure if this disclaimer was necessary for this episode, so I’ll just leave this here just in case. I am not a lawyer. There is no legal…
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Episode 43 - The Last Quarter Rush
On This Episode: Black Friday and Cyber Monday have really changed over the years. This used to be a one-day shopping frenzy, but then it turned into a two-day…
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Episode 42 - Gilded Insurance
On This Episode: Corporate bailouts and golden parachutes have become the ultimate symbols of a deeply flawed economic system, one where failure is not only…
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Episode 41 - All Escapes from Reality Must Come to an End
On This Episode: Escapism can take on many forms, but they all serve the same purpose: they all give us a break from the daily grind. Whether it's sinking into…
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Episode 40 - A Deep Fried Edition of Our Ethos
On This Episode: There are some places out there that want you to feel good about what you eat. However, the one that will serve as our odd centerpiece of this…
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Episode 39 - A Crisis-Reactive Species
On This Episode: Murphy’s Law says that anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and even though we usually say that as a joke, there's still something honest…
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Episode 38 - A Dulled Tradition of Halloween
On This Episode: There was a time when Halloween transformed our ordinary neighborhoods into these enchanted realms that stoked the emotions of kids and…
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Episode 37 - The Transience of Our Elder Relatives
On This Special Episode: There's usually a sneak-preview-ish description that I usually make for the episode's frontpage. But I'll skip that for this episode…
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Episode 36 - Is the Rest of Outer Space Ready for Us?
On This Episode: People have always been restless and curious, always looking for what’s beyond the horizon. That same urge now drives our fascination with…
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Episode 35 - The Lobotomy
DISCLAIMER: The title of this episode itself warrants that this episode includes some details that may be uncomfortable or graphic for sensitive listeners. We…
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Episode 34 - The Trashiest Place in the Universe
On This Episode: Earth is the only place we know that is capable of sustaining life or at least in accordance to the biology that we're all familiar with. And…
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Episode 33 - Body Dysmorphia
On This Episode: Body dysmorphia is tied to the natural desire of people wanting to change or improve how they look, but sometimes, that desire can go too far…
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Episode 32 - The Lottery: Just Another Gambler's Dilemma
DISCLAIMER: This episode and all sources listed in the "Resources" section do NOT promote gambling. All content and resources are provided for…
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Episode 31 - Why is Everything Smart Now?
On This Episode: Innovation used to be straightforward because that was when we were focused on solving problems that actually do mattered. The refrigerator…
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Episode 30 - Loneliness (Epidemic?)
On This Episode: Loneliness doesn't look like an epidemic like what we would typically imagine. There are no alarms going off, no people in hazmat suits…