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comedy show about late stage capitalism fucking our lives up. acct run by @raaleh other cohosts are @HKesvani, @milo_edwards, @inthesedeserts, @AliceAvizandum and friends / line go down!
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10 mins ago
*PREVIEW* Unionise Amazon (The Democrats Hate This!) feat. Ed Ongweso Jr
We're joined by Ed Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) of This Machine Kills Podcast (@machinekillspod) to discuss the Fight for $15, the efforts to unionise Amazon facilities in Bessemer, Alabama, the Biden Administration making publicly pro-union statements while appointing the architects of Proposition 22 to advisory roles, and much more.
If you want to hear the whole thing, you can get it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/48327354
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)
12 mins ago
*UNLOVKED* Britainology 3: Understanding Home Counties Guys
In this unlocked content, Milo and Nate are on another Britainology, this time with Kent guy Hussein, to discuss the Home Counties and how the deeply cursed world of London suburbia has created an identity of Britishness that you've probably encountered, even if you didn't recognise it. Hope you enjoy!
If you want more Britainology, you can find them on the Patreon -- and if you sign up at the $10 tier, you get a second Britainology each month: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
If you like the Britainology theme song, you can get the full thing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J77C9ODFflw
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)
3 days ago
The Line is Bored feat. Matthew Zeitlin
Finance journalist Matthew Zeitlin (@mattzeitlin) joins the gang to discuss the wild and wonderful world of SPACs, which is basically the of company that happens when the Line gets really bored and just wants to feel something. Think of them as loot crates for investors. We also explore the dark underbelly or London’s Scottish restaurant scene, and have a little fun with a startup. If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)
Feb 25, 2021
*PREVIEW* Britainology 10: Princess Diana (RIP)
It's time once again for Britainology, and this week Milo and Nate are joined by Phoebe Roy (who you have have heard on Masters of Our Domain and 10,000 Posts) to discuss British 9/11. Do we mean 7/7? The 2011 riots? No, we mean the death of the Queen of Our Hearts, Princess Diana Spencer, in August 1997. Never has a nation freaked out more, and we provide the key to understanding it all.
Get the whole thing on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47962017
If you like the Britainology theme song, you can get the full thing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J77C9ODFflw
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)
Feb 22, 2021
TF: The College Years feat. Liv Agar
UK state media and its various grotesques have decided that the 'free speech crisis on campus' is more important than our abysmal covid death rate--and pretty much any other story in the media. To discuss this phenomenon, we've brought on friend of the show and 3-time guest, Liv Agar (Liv Agar).
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)
Feb 18, 2021
*PREVIEW* Neoliberal Test Kitchens feat. Shanti Singh
We've got Shanti Singh--housing activist, writer, and former Bernie campaign staffer--on to talk about the state of California -- why is it portrayed as such a far-left state, why is it actually so neoliberal, and what happens when its deranged tech lords decide to run for office?
Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47689449
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)
Feb 15, 2021
England’s Other Public Health Crisis feat. Abigail Thorn
Abigail Thorn (@PhilosophyTube) joins the gang to discuss coming out as a trans woman in Britain, and to explore the psychological, historical, and political roots of transphobia. But first, a startup that is nearly whimsical in its stupidity!
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Feb 11, 2021
*PREVIEW* The Hanseatic Art World feat. Jessica Eaton
This week, a nearly complete cast of Riley, Milo, Nate, and Alice speak with Jessica Eaton, a fine art photographer working in Montreal. Why is it that the art world is basically a billionaire tax dodge? Why do certain hedge funds seem to have so much weight in fine art purchases, even if the works are never shown? What the hell is going on? Learn more by listening to this episode.
You can see Jessica's work via the galleries listed on her website here: https://www.jessicaeaton.com
If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon at the $5 tier here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47389929
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)
Feb 8, 2021
Starmpocalypse Now
We managed to cobble together the entire cast in order to discuss three important things: first, Silicon Valley has reinvented the bus yet again. Next, Labour is simply falling apart, and their solution is: flag and troops. Finally, Toby Young wants to be a lord. Join all five of us as we do psychic damage to one another engaging with this.
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
If you want shirts, you can order them on our new web storefront! Get it here: https://www.trashfuture.co.uk/shop
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)
Feb 3, 2021
*PREVIEW* Britainology 9: UK Rave Culture feat. UKRaveComments
Good lord, the Gen Xers of Britain are a special bunch. And man, do they love to reminisce in the YouTube comments. To discuss this phenomenon, and the culture surrounding it, we brought on TF techno expert Riley--as well as George, the creator of the @UKRaveComments twitter account--to discuss.
If you want to get the whole thing, sign up to Patreon at the $10 tier -- you'll get access to all our bonus content, plus an extra Q&A or Britainology each month: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46883951
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)
Feb 1, 2021
The Feels in England
Britain continues to come crashing into contact with reality as the price of everything is going up, food rots in containers on both sides of the channel, and our entire political media ecosystem is wrapped in a spectacle of multilayered morality dramas about if the right people are feeling suitably guilty. What can we say but: "ahh, the British Isles."
We did an episode about the Gamestop short squeeze, and it features @Quantian1 and @neoliberal_dad, two finance geniuses with a lot to say on the topic. Get it here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46994566
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)
Jan 28, 2021
*PREVIEW* Line Go 170km feat. Seamus Malekafzali
We've brought on friend of the show and multiple returning champion Séamus Malekafzali to discuss Saudi Arabia's deranged new city -- Neom -- and the specific detail that they're going to make a perfectly linear city called The Line. Do you know what its name is in Arabic? It's ذا لاين. Which is literally tha laaeen. Normal country, normal project!
To get the whole episode, sign up on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46751211
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)
Jan 25, 2021
The Labradoodle Fedayeen feat. Patrick Wyman
Our friend Patrick Wyman is back! And this week, after a brief jaunt down start up lane, we discuss the rapid radicalisation of the Anglo-American upper-middle class liberal, as they all seem to have gotten too much news recently. We've talked for ages in the past about your aggro conservative uncle, now it's time for the history, sociology, and economy of your aggro centrist uncle!
Patrick's excellent substack, Perspectives: Past, Present, and Future can be found at Patrickwyman.substack.com, and you can check him out weekly in Discontents (https://discontents.substack.com/) alongside many names you may recognise.
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across…
Jan 21, 2021
*PREVEW* In Case You Thought We'd Forgotten About Britain
This week's bonus features Riley, Milo, Nate, and Alice on the topic of, well, this stupid island. And a frozen treats startup, and the economy as dictated by the line, and much more.
Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46492979
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)
Jan 18, 2021
First As Crisis, Then as Crisis-tunity feat. Joe Weisenthal
What the hell is going on with equity markets? Why is Tesla worth so much despite doing so little? Why has the line divorced itself from reality, and how long has this trend been happening? To answer this question, we brought on Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) of the Odd Lots podcast at Bloomberg to discuss.
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Mi…
Jan 14, 2021
*PREVIEW* Chud Dawn Part 2: When Prophecy Flails feat. Annie Kelly
As a follow-up to our coverage of the recent events in Washington, we decided to speak with Annie Kelly of the QAnonAnonymous podcast (@AnnieKNK). What is the Q overlap with these protesters? What do they do now, seeing as the day of The Storm has come and gone? Find out by listening.
If you want to hear the full episode, get it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46128300
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthes…
Jan 11, 2021
Chud Dawn Part 1: Immortan Joe Manchin feat. the Trillbillies
This week, we've brought on Tom Sexton and Tarence Ray of the Trillbillies Worker's Collective podcast (@thetrillbillies) to discuss the recent events in Washington: the US Senate flipping to the Democrats (and thus empowering Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democratic Senator who never met an opioid company he didn't love), and of course some other stuff that happened involving guys in red hats.
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design hel…
Jan 11, 2021
UNLOCKED: In Search of an Even More Racist Facebook
Unlocking this episode in light of Parler et al being banhammered by the rest of the internet. This episode is all about the history and economics of one of the most strange and resentful subsectors of the tech industry: tech companies started by right wingers and grievances.
Original Copy: Have you heard the story about right-wingers who decide to build their own social media, crowdfunding, or even ridesharing sites? We're talking Parler, Gab, Hatreon, and the like. Why do they all fail? Why are they so poorly assembled? And why does this keep happening? Riley, Milo, and Alice attempt to decipher this riddle for our times.
Jan 7, 2021
*PREVIEW* Intelligence 5.0 feat. Felix Biederman
Have you heard of a book called 'Nudge'? have you heard of 'nudge theory'? Well, we've dug into and -- believe it or not -- it's so deeply stupid that we had to make sure to discuss it on here as part of our Intelligence series with Chapo Trap House's Felix Biederman (@ByYourLogic). Hope you enjoy!
If you want to listen to the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/45904183
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@H…
Jan 4, 2021
Nostalgia in Place of a Working Society feat. Grafton Tanner
The TF cast will be back with a new episode on January 12, but in the meantime please enjoy this interview that Nate conducted with author Grafton Tanner, discussing his new book 'The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech.'
Get Grafton's book here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/circle-snake
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/…
Jan 3, 2021
*PREVIEW* Exiting the Nonce's Castle feat. Devon
Enjoy our holiday roundup featuring Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice -- with special guest (and YouTube Zone star) Devon (@Devon_OnEarth).
Producer's note: because this was recorded super-remotely there are some times when people sound a bit weird. Sorry about that!
To listen to the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/45599288
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (…
Dec 28, 2020
*UNLOCKED* Nut Flix Part 2 (feat. This Machine Kills)
We're off this week, but we've unlocked our Netflix Part 2 episode for you to enjoy. We brought on Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) and Ed Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) from This Machine Kills Podcast to discuss the famously sane and healthy workplace culture of Netflix with Riley, Milo, and Alice. Guess what? It's bad. And it's probably coming to your workplace sooner rather than later.
If you want to listen to Part 1, you can find it here: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/nut-flix-part-1-feat-this-machine-kills/
If you want to listen to Part 3, in which we review Netflix's own SPENCER CONFIDENTIAL, you can access it on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/44591496
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhum…
Dec 24, 2020
*PREVIEW* Britainology 7: The Falklands War
On this festive Britainology we are joined by Alice to discuss the 1982 Falklands War. Why has it permanently lodged in the psyche of the Boomers? Why do people care about these rocks in the middle of the South Atlantic? Why did a British task force commander decide to explode himself in order to dislodge a machine gun position? You will be able to learn all of this and more by listening.
To listen to the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/45402228
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.toma…
Dec 22, 2020
Trashfuture Unwrapped feat. Dan Boeckner
It sure is great we solved music piracy! How did we solve it? Well, by enriching two Swedish men and ensuring that only a handful of artists see any revenue from their music when it’s streamed. We are, of course, discussing Spotify -- and we’ve brought on Dan Boeckner (@DanBoeckner) of the bands Wolf Parade (@WolfParade) and Operators (@Operators_Band) to discuss it.
As mentioned on the show, Operators has a Patreon where you can get access to new music and a fan community -- sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/operators
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.or…
Dec 17, 2020
*PREVIEW* This Is Chumocracy Manifest feat. Henry Dyer
We did a deep dive into the ways in which being a Tory donor means you'll get massive, no-bid contracts for government services -- even if you massively fail at providing them over and over again! To help us understand, we brought on investigative journalist and friend of the show Henry Dyer (@Direthoughts) to discuss.
If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/45118217
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards),…
Dec 14, 2020
BlackRock Fink feat. George Pearkes
We are joined by George Pearkes, macro strategist at Bespoke Invest and all around financial funnyman, to peek under the hood of the world's largest owner of assets: BlackRock. What do you do when you own nearly everything? As we will see in the episode, you try to own more things until you can really do away with that "nearly." Also, we talk about Uber's decision to drop its self driving car division and the thrilling conclusion (?) to Laguna Beach's billionaire battlefront, as bond king Bill Gross's war with his neighbour enters its denouement.
Also, special thanks to Neoliberal Dad on twitter for cooking up some of the core ideas explored herein.
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
Here's a central locat…
Dec 10, 2020
*PREVIEW* This CEO Does Not Exist
We've decided to revisit two of our favorite subjects from the past year: OYO, the hotel app that destroys hotels; and Lex Greensill's one weird trick to collapse the global economy. You will enjoy hearing Riley, Milo, and Alice's takes on this.
If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/44863629
We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate
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Dec 7, 2020
Hail Monitron! feat. David Adler and James Schneider
David Adler and James Schneider of Progressive International go deep into Amazon What *actually* is Amazon? How does it work? What on earth is Amazon Explore? And will we bow down before Monitron and Amazon Panorama? Also, we read an article about Boris Johnson that includes the phrase "hail the dawn!"
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Dec 3, 2020
*PREVIEW* Imprisoned in the Southie of the Real: TF Reviews 'Spenser Confidential'
We talked so much about the Netflix-produced Mark Wahlberg Boston Cop film SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL. What a great punchline! What an absurd concept to declare that 85 million people had watched it. Anyway, we realised that we had to actually view the film in order to complete the cycle, so we brought on Olga Koch to review it with Riley, Milo, and Alice. Hope you enjoy!
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Nov 29, 2020
Seize the Beans of Production feat. Grace Blakeley
This week we want to talk Davos, we want to talk startups with unique raw materials, we want to talk about what all the right-wing conspiracy theories about billionaire overlords get right and get wrong -- and to do that we brought on economist and writer Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley), host of the A World to Win Podcast (@aworldtowinpod), and let’s just say it got weird. This episode features Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice -- hope you enjoy!
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Nov 26, 2020
*PREVIEW* Nut Flix Part 2 (feat. This Machine Kills)
As a continuation of our free episode this week, we brought on Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) and Ed Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) from This Machine Kills Podcast to discuss the famously sane and healthy workplace culture of Netflix with Riley, Milo, and Alice. Guess what? It's bad. And it's probably coming to your workplace sooner rather than later.
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Nov 24, 2020
Nut Flix Part 1 (feat. This Machine Kills)
It has come to our attention that Netflix has twice the market capitalisation of Boeing. How can this be? Well, it’s a byproduct of the 2008 crisis, an endlessly-expanding network fed by zero-interest loans and charter school zealots who believe that 100 million people can and will watch the next Orc Cop movie. We brought on Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) and Ed Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) from This Machine Kills Podcast to discuss it with Riley, Milo, Nate, and Alice.
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Nov 22, 2020
*PREVIEW* Tom Watson's House of Pain feat. Nish Kumar
How to explain this? Tom Watson--yes, THAT Tom Watson--has written a 'taut, political thriller' about what if Labour and the Tories came together to make sure NHS patient data was sold to pharmaceutical companies in an ethical way. It's deeply boring in a manner that reflects its author, but it's also something else: an experience. Riley read the whole book and forced Nish Kumar to listen to it along with Milo, Hussein, and Alice. Hope you enjoy!
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Nov 18, 2020
*PREVIEW* Britainology 6: Carry On Films (Based Anglovibes)
We're at it again. Nate and Milo have reviewed the 1968 film CARRY ON UP THE KHYBER for yet another Britainology, and this one is a real laser-focused look at this absurd island. Why is it so horny? Why is everything a double entendre? Is this really the nation that once ruled the waves? You be the judge -- hope you enjoy!
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Nov 16, 2020
Midden’s Advente
We tried to do a full cast episode but Hussein was busy with a ‘real job’. So we got Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) to discuss a few things. Firstly: Keir Starmer’s desert island discs (yawn), plus a startup that does what you might call a novel riff on the idea of digital nomads. Behold, an episode of nothing but van lore. Van content. You will love it.
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Nov 13, 2020
*PREVIEW* Red Jawn feat. Well There's Your Problem
Quaid... start the podcast and save Mars...
Justin, Liam, and our very own Alice of Well There’s Your Problem Podcast (on Youtube!) are here to discuss Elon Musk's ludicrous plan to put humanity on spaceships with pizza restaurants in them and ship them off to Mars to live in large greenhouses for reasons of... well... Mars. Where else in the solar system are you going to live? Anyway, like most big stupid tech things - it's a fun story to distract you while SpaceX becomes a (sigh) privatiser of public goods through government contracting. Plus ca change.
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Nov 9, 2020
Imam's Basement feat. Derek Davison
Why are the Gulf countries so involved with backing tech startups? How many sovereign wealth funds are there, and why do they seem to always circle back to SoftBank? To answer this question we brought on Derek Davison (@dwdavison), a writer with Discontents News (@DiscontentsNews) and subject matter expert on the Gulf, to discuss it with Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards) and Alice (@AliceAvizandum).
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Nov 8, 2020
*PREVIEW* Balthasar Speedboat 7
It's been a while, but we've brought it back: our non-stop comedy riff series returns with Riley, Milo, and special guests Glenn Moore and Pierre Novellie. Riley posits the argument that 'The History Boys' is the actual true 20th century British artistic work. We also discuss airport novels and whole lot more.
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Nov 1, 2020
Brain Day at the Gym feat. Séamus Malekafzali
Hmm, nothing else is happening in the world right now, we’re sure of it. This Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) brought on friend of the show Séamus Malekafzali (@Seamus_Malek) to discuss the recent election in Bolivia, a terrible therapy start up, and the continued adventures of Bill Gross and his war against his neighbours. You will love it.
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Oct 29, 2020
*PREVIEW* Politically Hamburgled feat. Beep Beep Lettuce
On this week's bonus, Riley did the unthinkable. The unimaginable. He read Matt Forde's terrible book 'Politically Homeless' for us and described it to an all star cast of Riley, Alice, and special guests Bryn and Chris from the Beep Beep Lettuce podcast (@weedpod). You will love it, but not as much as Matt Forde loves Tony Blair.
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Oct 25, 2020
Infernal Theories ft. Grace Lavery
Writer and academic Grace Lavery joins the gang to reminisce about our favourite Quibs - but honestly, how could you even pick one? We also discuss how the Tories are very concerned with protecting working class students by fighting imaginary culture wars against "critical theory" while subjecting them to holiday starvation.
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Oct 25, 2020
UNLOCKED - Goldearm: RIP Quibi 2020-2020 (ft. Beep Beep Lettuce)
Quibi is dead. Long live Quibi. We are unlocking the second of our two part series on Quibi to commemorate the impact Quibs have had on our society, culture, and ourselves. The land and the Quib are one!
ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES: Our friends Chris and Bryn from the podcast Beep Beep Lettuce join us to watch a selection of show on Quibi. Suggested talking points include the Golden Arm, Our Friend the Sex Doll, and other outgrowths of the capitalist Dadaism reified in Quibi. Listen to us all become mentally unwell.
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Oct 22, 2020
*PREVIEW* DabKinsey Consulting LLP (ft. LivPosting)
Twitch streamer LivPosting returns to talk about her experiences in the job market, and how she almost got a job with a Zoomer-only consulting firm making millions of dollars from teaching Raytheon executives how to say "yeet." Also, is a phone box in rural Winchester the new world epicentre of the BLM movement? According to one brain poisoned conservative columnist, it is! Local hi-jinx abound.
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Oct 22, 2020
*PREVIEW* Britainology 5: The Cult of the Legend
In a preview of the most recent Britainology, brought on Riley to discuss a phenomenon as eternally British as bad weather itself: the legend. Who are British legends? What makes them act this way? How do you create a taxonomy of figures to distinguish between the Essex Geezer, the Entrepreneurial Legend, the High Street Hard Man, and Tim Westwood? Well, we gave it our best go.
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Oct 19, 2020
Dave Courtney's Illegal Cinema feat. Olly Thorn
It sure is good that the UK government is giving out funds to help the arts! And it sure is weird that they’re funneling money into Tory donors and their friends from school, to include multi-billion pound interests getting more money than entire cities in the North East! Whoever could have predicted this? To discuss it, we brought on friend of the show, actor, and YouTube star Olly Thorn (@PhilosophyTube) to discuss it with Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum).
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Oct 15, 2020
*PREVIEW* La Femme Nikola feat. Quantian1
We did it again. We found an extremely criminal "tech" company -- this time, a notional Tesla competitor that makes trucks. One catch: they don't work! However, to involve the incredible financial chicanery that went into it, we brought on friend of the show Quantian1 (@quantian1) to discuss it with Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice.
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Oct 12, 2020
Stolen Likes Acknowledgement feat. Cory Doctorow
Blogger, information freedom activist, and sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow joins the gang to discuss the outcome of US anti trust hearings, what's so empty about the idea of "surveillance capitalism, and a start up that was genuinely conceived of by a precocious nine year old.
Also, the UK government rolled out an RPG character maker to get everyone back employed during the pandemic, so this podcast is brought to you by a sports agent, a hotel porter, and three boxers!
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Oct 8, 2020
*PREVIEW* Getting Dilb-pilled (feat. Aisling McCrea)
This week, we're talking Dilbert and Scott Adams. Why? Well, for some reason all five of us liked Dilbert as a kid. Also, it just so happens that friend of the show Aisling McCrea (@ambientGillian) just published an article in Current Affairs about Dilbert's strange appeal. So, let's talk about it. Let's talk about Scott Adams' promise that he can make you no-touch cum. Let's dilb out.
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Oct 8, 2020
*UNLOCKED* Britainology 2: The Noble Football Hooligan
In this unlocked episode of Britainology, Nate and Milo are discussing the 2005 film Green Street Hooligans, in which an American played by Elijah Wood goes to Britain and gets inducted into a football firm, learning a lot about himself along the way. Is it a good movie? No. But does it accurately portray football hooliganism? Also no.
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Oct 5, 2020
Trump Has Covid and Riley Let Us Run the Podcast Without Him
Yes. It happened. We’re laughing. We don’t have any high hopes for a positive impact, but we’re laughing because Trump has covid and it’s not looking good for America’s fattest, oldest, and dumbest president. Also, since Riley was on holiday, he let Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) run this episode themselves. You will probably appreciate Riley’s contributions to the show after hearing this -- but we hope you enjoy!
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Oct 1, 2020
*PREVIEW* On the Sanctity of the Pump feat. Patrick Wyman
This week we bring back historian, podcaster, and certified big guy Patrick Wyman (@Patrick_Wyman) to discuss the terrible 2013 Michael Bay film Pain & Gain. What can we learn about America's descent into fascism from this film? As it turns out, a hell of a lot.
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Sep 30, 2020
Plan Line From Outer Space feat. Alexandra Scaggs
Why is the line detached from the material reality of so many people? Why is the line divorced? Why are there so many zombie companies, and why does it seem like the financial movers and shakers are fine with government stimulus to basically non-functional entities? Well, to answer big important finance questions, we have Barrons journalist Alexandra Scaggs (@alexandrascaggs) to investigate, alongside Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum).
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Sep 28, 2020
*UNLOCKED*A Cheeky Coup with the Lads, Part II (feat. Joe Kassabian)
This week's regular episode got delayed because of scheduling, so in the interim we've unlocked a bonus from our Patreon. This is the follow up to the free Part 1 episode, which is available here: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/a-cheeky-coup-with-the-lads-feat-joe-kassabian/
Why did a steely-eyed SAS veteran Etonian weirdo team up with Margaret Thatcher's son to try and launch a coup in Equatorial Guinea in 2004? Mostly because they were bored. In this episode we discuss the consequences of a dumb plot that was foiled by an errant bird and the Zimbabwean customs office.
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Sep 24, 2020
*PREVIEW* Gross Family Values feat. Tom Walker
Aw crikey! Australian comedian and Twitch streamer Tom Walker (@tomwalkerisgood) joins the gang to learn all about Gross Family Values. Specifically, how if you’re Bill Gross, one of the world’s most famous bond investors, you’ll react to your acrimonious divorce in 2015 by writing a series of stranger and stranger investment outlooks that focus mainly on how much you hate your imbecilic do-nothing son.
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Sep 21, 2020
Illiquid Love
Riley, Milo, Alice, and Nate discuss a German financier who loves financing a lavish lifestyle of yachts, parties, and handstands (?) by selling illiquid bonds. He's a miracle of modern financial markets - a Mozart figure who toured the continent with Helmut Kohl, wowing crowds of onlookers at his ability to be a businessman at the age of 14. Maybe Tom Hulce would play him in a movie? Check it out! We also discuss a start up and some quick news hits.
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Sep 18, 2020
*PREVIEW* Britainology 4: That '70s Episode
We're back again to explain the eccentricities and fault lines of this truly normal island. This week, Milo and Nate discuss the 1970s in Britain, why everything went downhill, why the decade radicalised the Boomers, and why the TV from that era is.... not good. Hope you enjoy!
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Sep 14, 2020
Conversations with Frenemies
Anne Applebaum might have written the worst book ever. Certainly the most aggrieved centrist book ever. And for this week’s free episode, you’ll get to hear our take on it. Join the slightly modified cast of Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) and have your brain gently prodded. Don't worry, it’s all logical!
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Sep 10, 2020
*PREVIEW* Pret Police On My Back
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country run by and for landlords. However, the coronavirus crisis has created a problem: if people congregate en masse in offices and places of business, the disease spreads and people die! However, mitigating this requires people to not be in offices or grim city centre restaurants. So, what is the British commentator class saying about it? Die for Pret. That's right folks, you need to die for Pret.
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Sep 7, 2020
Q Dawn: Wellness Baz Rides Again feat. Annie Kelly
The rare Full Cast Configuration of Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) joins Annie Kelly (@AnnieKNK) of the QAnonAnonymous Podcast to discuss the rise of British Q. Annie attended a Q-themed protest recently and got the real scoop on how British minds are parsing the Q Drop. It doesn’t sound good!
We also have an interview between Riley and Darran McLaughlin (@McDarran) from Momentum on the topic of his organisation’s new push to organise tenants’ unions. If you’re a Momentum member and want to help out, you can sign up here: https://airtable.com/shr60xqjMBszOCgIt
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Sep 3, 2020
*PREVIEW* In Search of (Even More) Racist Facebook
Have you heard the story about right-wingers who decide to build their own social media, crowdfunding, or even ridesharing sites? We're talking Gab, Hatreon, and the like. Why do they all fail? Why are they so poorly assembled? And why does this keep happening? In this preview of the bonus episode for the week, the True Chaos Configuration of Riley, Milo, and Alice attempt to decipher this riddle for our times.
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Sep 3, 2020
UNLOCKED - The Boney Island Whitefish in: The Last Blockbuster On The Left (Feat. Will Menaker)
Riley and Andrew from Boonta Vista have a semi-secret second podcast that is released weekly on both the TF and BV Patreons that you may have heard of: the Boney Island Whitefish, where they discuss Season 5 of the Fox police procedural Bones.
It aired during 2009/2010, which was a singularly weird moment in our collective memory. There are many more episodes of the Boney Island Whitefish on both the TF and Boonta Vista Patreons - but why not try this episode to wet your whistle, with Will Menaker from Chapo Trap House!
Here's the original text from the Patreon post:
Chest passes! Carefully aimed jump shots! Ball control without hot-dogging! That's right, Chapo Trap House's Will Menaker joins Andrew and Riley for an all-showrunner display of podcasting fundamentals.
This week the brave technicians at the Jeffersonian-Medico Institute for Sexual Harassment are forced to investigate the cause of death of a very mysterious and influential historical figure! Deep respect for the boots…
Aug 31, 2020
Starving Refugees to Teach Them a Lesson feat. Vicki Spratt
This week, it’s a star-studded cast of Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice @AliceAvizandum discussing the recent story of asylum seeker Mercy Baguma being found dead from malnutrition in her flat in Glasgow. Why was she starving? Because asylum seekers in the UK aren’t allowed to work and are only allowed £40 a week to live on. This is of course by design -- because Baz logic runs that people won’t seek refuge in the UK if we’re just as cruel as possible to them.
We also have an interview with Riley, Hussein, and I Newspaper’s housing correspondent Vicky Spratt (@Victoria_Spratt) on the topic of the looming eviction crisis, Britain’s housing shortage, and why it doesn’t have to be this way (but has only gotten worse in the last 40 years).
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Aug 28, 2020
*UNLOCKED* Intelligence 4.0 Ft. Felix Biederman
You voted, we listened! Our listener poll of "which of our series' do you want unlocked" returned a result! So... welcome back to the world of intelligence.
Riley, Alice, Milo, and Chapo Trap House's Felix Biederman have once again sat down and cracked open a book of brain literature. This time we read through British brain god Dr. Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist (2010), and it left us all a lot happier as we explored a truly beautiful mind. It's a balm for the soul. Check it out!
Aug 27, 2020
*PREVIEW* Britainology 3: Understanding Home Counties Guys
This week's bonus features Milo and Nate on another Britainology, this time with Kent guy Hussein, to discuss the Home Counties and how the deeply cursed world of London suburbia has created an identity of Britishness that you've probably encountered, even if you didn't recognise it. Hope you enjoy!
If you want the whole episode, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40816290
Our theme song for this series is from the 'Visit to Primrose Hill Extended Version' of the 1993 Blur song 'For Tomorrow,' which Nate picked because it was formative in teaching him various aspects of London geography and it's premium old millennial / young gen xer nostalgia bait. You can listen to it on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3mvdN3a4p4SaOnpUBGWan2?si=B8IQ7g1PSfGqFw_P1dSY9Q
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Aug 24, 2020
I’m Just A Simple High Tech Country Slumlord feat. Alex Branson
This week, we’re back to basics: an all-app episode with Alex Branson (@necrobranson) of the Episode 1 Podcast (@E1podcast) joining Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Olga (@rocknrolga), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum). The MIT Media Lab makes an appearance, and it’s nothing but fun throughout.
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Aug 20, 2020
*PREVIEW* The Duffield-Chiles Complex feat. Juliet Jacques
This week we've got Juliet Jacques (@zinovievletter) on to discuss the most cursed relationship in liberal Britain: awful right-wing lib Labour MP Rosie Duffield and her ex-boyfriend, the inscrutable Guardian columnist Adrian Chiles. It's one for the ages, a star-crossed romance, and since this is Britain you can rest assured that transphobia is involved. Hope you enjoy it!
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Aug 17, 2020
Operation Clippy feat. Edward Ongweso Jr
Oh, the UK has an algorithm that reinforces class hierarchy and suppresses social mobility in the education system? Weird how that happens--surely that's not the point! To discuss this, we’ve brought on tech journalist Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) of the This Machine Kills podcast (@machinekillspod) to discuss it with Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum). We also discuss the UK’s fixation on murdering asylum seekers in the English Channel, as well as a Niall Ferguson article about how TikTok is ‘digital fentanyl.’ You will love it.
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Aug 12, 2020
PREVIEW: The Boney Island Whitefish in Last Blockbuster on the Left (Ft. Will Menaker)
Chest passes! Carefully aimed jump shots! Ball control without hot-dogging! That's right, Chapo Trap House's Will Menaker joins Andrew and Riley for an all-showrunner display of podcasting fundamentals.
This week the brave technicians at the Jeffersonian-Medico Institute for Sexual Harassment are forced to investigate the cause of death of a very mysterious and influential historical figure! Deep respect for the boots of the American empire is sure to follow.
We also spring a gotcha Breakfast Update on Will and plan our future endeavours running a Airbnb Blockbuster so that we can lecture teens about Michael Mann films. Enjoy!
Get the full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/boney-island-in-40372200
Aug 10, 2020
A Cheeky Coup with the Lads (feat. Joe Kassabian)
This week, we’re covering a particularly English psychosis: the upper class failson who decides to foment a coup in a central African country. Okay, maybe this type of failson is uniquely confined to the Thatcher family. That’s right, Maggie’s son Mark tried to take over Equatorial Guinea in 2004 with the help of a dead-eyed SAS madman and a South African mercenary named something like Jeep vander Honk. We brought on Joe Kassabian (@jkass99), host of the Lions Led by Donkeys podcast, to discuss this with Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum).
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Aug 7, 2020
*PREVIEW* Keanu Reeves Predicted 5G Corona
This week, we're in the Super Chaos Configuration: Riley is gone but you have the rest of the cast. Milo, Hussein, Nate, and Alice review the 1995 Robert Longo film JOHNNY MNEMONIC, an adaptation of a William Gibson story that, uh, did not achieve its goals. And yet it's also weirdly accurate in some ways: posting destroys your brain, there's a global pandemic, corporations rule with an iron fist. And yet somehow we haven't yet encountered a cybernetic hacker junkie dolphin. If only.
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We make reference to the Fetischpro video from YouTube, which you can see here -- it is definitely not work safe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbgJck9kUGc
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Aug 3, 2020
Mr. Steube Goes to Washington
This week features the full cast of Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) on the topic of recent tech CEOs testifying in front of the U.S. House of Representatives. As you would expect, the Democrats asked anodyne questions about being slightly nicer capitalists and the Republicans asked why their emails are going to spam. It’s a brilliant foray into the world of Big Guys and QAnon running for Congress. You’ll love.
Riley mentions the Clown Motel thing but I didn’t feel like actually making you listen to it at the end of the episode, so get it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QBJaTtF7XI
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Jul 31, 2020
*PREVIEW* Britainology 2: The Noble Football Hooligan
This week, Nate and Milo are discussing the 2005 film Green Street Hooligans, in which an American played by Elijah Wood goes to Britain and gets inducted into a football firm, learning a lot about himself along the way. Is it a good movie? No. But does it accurately portray football hooliganism? Also no.
If you want the whole episode, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39874968
Our theme song for this series is from the 'Visit to Primrose Hill Extended Version' of the 1993 Blur song 'For Tomorrow,' which Nate picked because it was formative in teaching him various aspects of London geography and it's premium old millennial / young gen xer nostalgia bait. You can listen to it on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3mvdN3a4p4SaOnpUBGWan2?si=B8IQ7g1PSfGqFw_P1dSY9Q
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Jul 27, 2020
Precision Strikes from the Shorty Air Force feat. Quantian1
This week, we've got Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) with special guest Q (@quantian1), an institutional investor and observer of the big cruel injury factory known as Tesla. We talk about how Tesla cooks its books via emissions credits, why Elon Musk is the way he is, and why the Robin Hood app is basically a dumb money index for investors with billions more resources than you have.
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Jul 25, 2020
*PREVIEW* Fancy Art for Fancy Lads feat. Josie Long
This week's bonus involves the elitism of the art world, Josie Long's (@JosieLong) commentary on the way in which the entire world is gatekept by the rich, and the second segment features a guy calling his billionaire friend for advice about the state of the world. The advice, as you might expect, is normal as hell.
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Jul 21, 2020
Le Gavroche de Wyatt Koch
This week, we've got Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) discussing the phenomenon of "dark kitchens," remote cooking sites for restaurants to cater to delivery-only services. Do they have bad conditions and almost zero labour protections? How'd you guess? We also discuss the fate of a Los Angeles jam restaurant called Squirrel, which tried its hand at a self-run dark kitchen that involve inch upon inch of mould. As we learn in this episode, the only thing that made it illegal was that they didn't have a VC-funded startup handling all of the unethical practices for them.
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Jul 20, 2020
*UNLOCKED* Britainology Part 1: A Clump from Dave Courtney
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Britainology, in which Milo makes Nate watch something terminally British and then explains it. This week, we're watching a documentary about self-described celebrity gangster Dave Courtney, a crime doorman who thinks he runs Britain.
We'll be releasing more episodes of Britainology on Patreon, so if you want to hear more then check out our bonus content here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
If you want to watch the original documentary, it's available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqARxpCpZU4
Our theme song for this series is from the 'Visit to Primrose Hill Extended Version' of the 1993 Blur song 'For Tomorrow,' which Nate picked because it was formative in teaching him various aspects of London geography and it's premium old millennial / young gen xer nostalgia bait. You can listen to it on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3mvdN3a4p4SaOnpUBGWan2?si=B8IQ7g1PSfGqFw_P1dSY9Q
Jul 16, 2020
*PREVIEW* Rudderless
Flora Gill and Amber Rudd have a mother-daughter podcast. Does it suck? Yes. But it's also awkward and painful in a way that will make you see through time and enter the Hell Dimension. We made Riley, Milo, Alice, and Olga listen to it. You won't believe what happened next!
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Jul 14, 2020
The Grand Old Duke of Leigh
This week is a rare all-hands episode of Trashfuture featuring Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum). On the docket today: the strange Bond-villain aspirations of Wirecard executives, a discussion of what the UK's covid-related economic stimulus has actually meant for regular people, and a delightful jaunt to the working-class property developer heartlands of Greater Manchester.
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Jul 9, 2020
*PREVIEW* Balthasar Speedboat Presents Nurse Sketch (Ft. Caroline Calloway)
Was it a good idea? Probably not. But we've assembled the Balthasar Speedboat cast of Riley, Milo, Olga, and Pierre for a friendly conversation with chaos demon and influencer Caroline Calloway...who Milo knows from school...and you know what? Just listen to the episode to hear him get eviscerated for his acne and an awkward attempt at a kiss. You'll love it! Or you'll hate it.
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Jul 7, 2020
Comin’ in for a Landing
Welcome to another edition of TF’s coverage of humanity’s trajectory following our step off the ledge. We begin to look at what happens when the unstoppable force of capital’s need to grow smashes into the immovable object of hard limits on economic growth in the long term. Riley, Alice, and Milo discuss what the Economist’s calls “The 90% Economy,” and ponder just what world we will emerge into.
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Jul 2, 2020
*PREVIEW* A Startup Riley Picked Specifically To Infuriate Olly Thorn
We're back with now 3-time guest Olly Thorn (@philosophytube) to discuss some recent scandals: the Jenrick building scandal, the scandal of weird British porn mags, and the scandal of a terrible "discussion app" that seems to think it's a debatable point that Paul McCartney is in fact still alive. Hope you enjoy!
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Jun 29, 2020
The Atrocity Exhibition feat. Arron Merat
It’s a new, slightly less chaotic configuration with Riley (@raaleh), Alice (@AliceAvizandum), Hussein (@HKesvani), and special guest Arron Merat (@A_merat). We’re discussing the British arms industry, how Gulf money backs up the Pound, and how distributed manufacturing allows exporters to avoid arms sale bans in the UK while allowing Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries to devastate Yemen. It’s a sad listen, folks!
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Jun 27, 2020
*PREVIEW* Paul Blart: Sandman feat. Connor Southard
Here we are again, doing a second bonus episode for the week because we realise the profound demands for content. This episode features Riley, Milo, Alice, Hussein, and Connor Southard (@ConnorSouthard), writer and host of the Podside Picnic podcast. We discuss the 1976 sci-fi dystopia film LOGAN'S RUN, among other things. Hope you enjoy!
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You can listen to Podside Picnic here: https://www.patreon.com/PodsidePicnic
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Jun 24, 2020
*PREVIEW* The TF Union Presents: The St. Brendan's Day Debate
It's O'Neill versus O'Neill... versus O'Neill versus O'Neill versus O'Neill versus O'Neill. It's a six-way Brendan O'Neill battle moderated by the only man who could possibly moderate a clash of intellectual titans like this: Brendan O'Neill. It may sound like @inthesedeserts, @raaleh, @Hkesvani, @AliceAvizandum, @milo_edwards, @rocknrolga, and our friend Phoebe Roy (@10kpostspod), but we must insist it is all Brendan O'Neill.
They are debating the motion: THB the chattering classes of this once great nation are at it again.
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Jun 22, 2020
Terminal Velocity
Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) deal with new developments in the shadow finance debt bubble arena, including allegations around another "tech company" that seems to have invented a bunch of money for itself. We theorise as to what it all means before having a little more fun with a New Type Of Guy to introduce to the canon, and we wrap it up with a reading that may indeed rival "Shoes" in sheer madness.
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Jun 19, 2020
UNLOCKED: Frankenstein's Balance Sheet
In light of new information coming to light about the company that forms the subject of this episode - both allegations about potential wrongdoing with regard to circular financing, and the fact that they've just been approved as one of the accredited lenders for the Government's Coronavirus Business Interruption Scheme - we decided to unlock it for you.
The original blurb: There's a ticking time bomb in the economy. No, a DIFFERENT ticking time bomb. This week, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice discuss the balance-sheet chicanery of a mysterious Australian plane enthusiast that is slowly but surely imploding every SoftBank investment vehicle. We would normally say it's a laugh riot, but this one... maybe not so much.
Jun 18, 2020
*PREVIEW* The Empire’s New Clothes Part 2: Tiberius’ Sun Ft. Patrick Wyman
We've brought historian Patrick Wyman (@patrick_wyman) back on to discuss more of the Roman Empire collapse similarities with our current moment. We hope you enjoy this, as it's a chance for some deep cut Rome references that we cannot ever pass up.
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Jun 15, 2020
The Life Aquatic with Edward Colston
Why did they throw that statue into the water in Bristol? Why does the state want to find as many ways as possible to make owning the libs its official policy? Why does burning down a police precinct poll better than Joe Biden? This episode features (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) and seeks to answer these questions.
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Jun 11, 2020
*PREVIEW* Part II of the Quibi Saga
Our friends Chris and Bryn from the podcast Beep Beep Lettuce join us to watch a selection of show on Quibi. Suggested talking points include the Golden Arm, Our Friend the Sex Doll, and other outgrowths of the capitalist Dadaism reified in Quibi. Listen to us all become mentally unwell.
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Jun 8, 2020
Now Is The Time Of Monsters. On Quibi
This week, Riley, Milo, Alice, and Hussein do a deep-dive on Quibi. Why is this mini-content platform supposedly worth $2 billion? Who actually stars in 8 to 15 minute videos on Quibi? And why is it all so terrible? Learn all about it by listening!
Here is the article Riley references about interest rates: https://themargins.substack.com/p/zirp-explains-the-world
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Jun 8, 2020
UNLOCKED: Edward Colston We Hardly Knew Ye (LIVE at Bristol Transformed)
UNLOCKING BECAUSE OF CURRENT EVENTS REGARDING EDWARD COLSTON
After protestors pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, we figured we would unlock our episode about Colston and his ongoing influence and prominence in the city.
We recorded this live episode Edward Colston's Recorded live at Hamilton House, Stokes Croft, Bristol on April 5, 2019, it's a show about the things that matter: brain scanning helmets that write musical symphonies, Bristol's slave-trade past, its devotion to one particular slave-trading city father, and the local Illuminati that worship him like a god.
The Colston segment starts at about 47:00 minutes in!
Jun 7, 2020
*PREVIEW* Balthasar Speedboat 5 (ft. Olga Koch and Pierre Novellie)
This week's (belated, sorry!) bonus is a Balthasar Speedboat comedy special featuring Riley, Milo, Olga, and Pierre Novellie. Enjoy a discussion of the wide varieties of being horny online, how Riley spends his Christmas in Britain, and why a famous holiday songwriter also releases nude calendars for elderly women. It's a forensic examination of horniness. Hope you enjoy!
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Jun 2, 2020
A Functioning State? Never Seen One of Those feat. Sanjana Varghese
Look, lots of things have happened that have made the content of this week's episode a bit out of date. This week's episode features Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice catching up on the Cummings scandal, the abomination of a tech house DJ collective made up of bankers, and a bit more. However, we also have an extended interview with freelance journalist Sanjana Varghese (@sanjanamv) on the topic of the socialist Indian state of Kerala and its success with controlling covid-19. We hope you enjoy.
Sanjana's work can all be found here: https://sanjanavarghese.com
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May 29, 2020
*PREVIEW* Smart Bins, Smart City feat. Jathan Sadowski
In the logical follow-up to our previous episode about 'smart cities,' we've brought on author and researcher Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) to discuss what happened with Google's plan for self-adjusting sidewalks and cities with sideways elevators. You'll love it!
If you want to read more from Jathan, check out his book 'TOO SMART: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World' from MIT Press here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/too-smart
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May 26, 2020
The Condition of the Ruling Class in England feat. LivPosting
Twitch streamer LivPosting joins Riley, Milo, Alice, and Olga for a review of the various brain processes that have given us a weird and strange ruling class. We've got everything for you from political failchildren unwilling to stop inflicting their bad ideas on us, members of the royal family suggesting more people should be troops, and some lords and ladies who are very committed to stupid causes. Come check it out!
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May 21, 2020
*PREVIEW* Norf FC (Ultra Section) feat. Robyn Vinter
We talked to Robyn Vinter of the Overtake about Culture War - what actually is it, what purpose does it serve, and why won't it end? The answer is "spite," but how we get there is more interesting. We also read an article by one of our favourite journalists on why his mission to Own The Libs may result in him losing a foot to diabetes, which is kind of like WWII when you think about it.
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May 21, 2020
BONUS: Eldritch Austerity ft. Charlie Stross
This was originally recorded as a bonus episode, but we decided to release it on the free feed because it was a great conversation and we'd love for you to hear about Charlie's new book - Dead Lies Dreaming. Dead Lies Dreaming is the first entry in the sequel to Stross' Laundry Files series, and looks at what happens when Lovecraftian monsters take over the government. Spoiler alert - it's not that different.
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May 18, 2020
Troika? I Hardly Know 'Er! feat. David Adler
This week, we're discussing the Eurozone's very transparent turn towards even more austerity, as evinced by their paltry fiscal response to covid-19 and the fact that basically everyone in charge has tax fraud charges on four continents. The crack Trashfuture team of Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) join special repeat guest David Adler (@davidkradler), general coordinator of the Progressive International (https://progressive.international/). It's a fun romp with a grim prediction and some incredible, *incredible* names.
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May 14, 2020
*PREVIEW* Divine Secrets of the Softbank Sisterhood
There's a ticking time bomb in the economy. No, a DIFFERENT ticking time bomb. This week, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice discuss the balance-sheet chicanery of a mysterious Australian plane enthusiast that is slowly but surely imploding every SoftBank investment vehicle. We would normally say it's a laugh riot, but this one... maybe not so much.
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May 11, 2020
American Magic feat. Christopher Caldwell-Kelly and Pope Lonergan
In the first half, Your Gorgeous Hosts take the time for a little check-in to the core assumptions of TF Season Three. How has the ongoing implosion of global markets due to coronavirus proceeded? How competently are given authorities handling this implosion? How many people are going to be thrown into a volcano for the sake of the Olive Garden? Why is it that when you reach terminal velocity after falling off a building, it feels like you aren't moving?
In the second half, we are joined by social worker/sci-fi writer Christopher Caldwell-Kelly and social worker/comedian Pope Lonergan to discuss the ongoing crisis in social care in the UK that has been exacerbated by the Coronavirus.
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May 7, 2020
*PREVIEW* No Child Left Unemployed feat. Rob Larson
This week we're talking tech monopolies and the ways in which Gates and Bezos used public research to become this century's dumber Carnegie and Vanderbilt. Listen to Riley, Milo, and Alice discuss it with Rob Larson (@IronicProfessor), and rejoice in the knowledge that everything you've ever done with a PC was planned out by dudes in rocking chairs for some reason.
Check out Rob's Book Capitalism vs. Freedom: the Toll Road to Serfdom, out from Zer0 Books. Get it here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalism-freedom
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May 4, 2020
Vibe Biopsy feat. Antonia Jennings
What is the economy going to look like at the end of the pandemic? Why is the UK government working hand-in-hand with private equity to even further concentrate the economy? Why does this app attempt to fire you for bad vibes? This week, the cast of Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) join special guest Antonia Jennings (@tweetingantonia) of Rethinking Economics (@rethinkecon) to answer these burning questions. If you want one of our *fine* new shirts, designed by Matt Lubchansky, then e-mail trashfuturepodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. £15 for patrons, £20 for non-patrons, plus shipping. *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
Apr 30, 2020
*PREVIEW* Intelligence 4.0 (ft. Felix Biederman)
In this week's bonus, Riley, Alice, Milo, and Chapo Trap House's Felix Biederman have once again sat down and cracked open a book of brain literature. This time we read through British brain god Dr. Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist (2010), and it left us all a lot happier as we explored a truly beautiful mind. It's a balm for the soul.
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Apr 27, 2020
Dr Sked's Monster: A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of UKIP (QAnon Anonymous Crossover)
It's another crossover! Our friends Jake, Travis, and Julian from Q-Anon Anonymous called in to talk about the strange history of the Euroskeptic movement, and why they seem to generate so many bizarre local news headlines. It's a story of how when your organisation gets everything it wished for, it implodes in a fit of unforced errors, bizarre recriminations, and accusations that everyone else in the party is the REAL racists.
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Apr 26, 2020
Bonus: How Trotsky Got Sp!ked (TRASH-A-FADA Crossover)
It's TRASH-A-FADA AGAIN.
Riley and Alice teamed up with Jamie, Andy, and Sean to bring you a history of Sp!ked - we answer the question: how did everyone's favourite Koch-funded contrarian take machines grow out of an obscure British Trotskyist sect from the 1970s, and the corollary to that question, why are Trotskyists so weird?
This bonus episode is in addition to all this week's TF episodes, so enjoy!
Check it out, then go subscribe to their feed (this is the apple link, but they can be found wherever you get podcasts), and more importantly... buy Andy's book about the strange history of Posadism, entitled: I Want To Believe.
Apr 23, 2020
*PREVIEW* Boris' Reverse Scrofula feat. Dr Eleanor Janega
Look, you know we couldn't let some simpering right-wing columnists refer to the body of Boris Johnson as coterminous with the state itself and not bring on our sage of all things medieval, Dr Eleanor Janega (@goingmedieval). We talk all about this, all about the societal changes after the Black Plague, and a dumb startup that is basically a less-fun Omegle.
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Apr 20, 2020
Bunker Busting feat. Cory Doctorow
We had sci-fi writer and activist Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) on to discuss recent events, particularly Clearview AI and the horrible panopticon that we’ve tumbled headfirst into. Are laws real? Why do billionaires want to abscond to New Zealand? What happens if the mercenaries guarding your bunker don't want to bring you treats anymore? To find out, listen to this episode featuring (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum). It is a solid hour of only the most rigorous analysis.
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Apr 16, 2020
*PREVIEW* May I Have a Crumb of Vaccine feat. Josie Long
Look, a lot of stupid things have happened in Britain this week, but we're dedicated to giving you content. This week's bonus features us discussing the current state of affairs as applies to the covid-19 pandemic, our prime minister nearly dying of it, and much more. Special thanks to Josie Long for being on this one. Enjoy!
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Apr 15, 2020
Anger Ramadan feat. Eleanor Penny
We were going to talk about the new Matt Hancock app and something about Softbank but then we got distracted. Some things happened involving the Labour party, and we needed to comment -- so we brought on Novara Media's Eleanor Penny (@eleanorkpenny) to discuss it alongside the full cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, Nate, and Alice. Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum). Will you love it? Probably not.
For context on the Emma Dent Coad story mentioned in this episode, we recommend checking out this piece that she authored for Novara.
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Apr 9, 2020
*PREVIEW* Presenting The E-Z Bake Ventilator feat. Wendy Liu
This week's bonus features friend of the show and 3-time guest Wendy Liu (@dellsystem) on the topic of covid-19, her new book 'Abolish Silicon Valley,' why big tech can't save us from this virus, and much more. You will, as they say, love it.
If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35821080
Buy Wendy's book here! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622177/abolish-silicon-valley-by-wendy-liu/
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Apr 6, 2020
A QALY For Your Thoughts feat. Andy and Sean
It's a Trash-a-Fada crossover extravaganza! We had a delightful discussion with Andy and Sean about labour organising at the end of the world, and then we venture back into the mind of Toby Young as he weighs the lives of the British public against a feather and decides if they live or die to appease the great and powerful Economy.
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Apr 2, 2020
*PREVIEW* In Which Aaron Sorkin Accidentally Writes Joe Biden feat. Séamus Malekafzali
We did it again. Joined once more by Séamus Malekafzali (@seamus_malek), we reviewed a terrible Hollywood take on America's imperial reach. Another CIA movie. Another movie about empire, except this time it's about a horny congressman who manages to give Al Qaeda a billion dollars. Yep, it's the 2007 Tom Hanks romp CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, written by Aaron fucking Sorkin. Please enjoy this preview of it.
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Mar 30, 2020
The Empire's New Clothes feat. Patrick Wyman
TF Season Three continues as ancient history Patrick Wyman (@Patrick_Wyman) from the Tides of History podcast joins the gang to discuss what went exactly went wrong with the Roman Empire. Why did it collapse? What can we learn from this experience? Why were Roman death cults way cooler than our death cults?
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Mar 26, 2020
*PREVIEW* An Impromptu review of inAPPropriate Comedy (Balthasar Speedboat IV)
Here is a preview of this week's bonus episode. It's the return of our beloved pure comedy format, recorded back when the world was normal, to help get you through the lockdown blues. Riley and Milo are joined by friends of the show and comedians Glenn Moore and Pierre Novellie. We start with LA Noire and end up talking about perhaps the worst movie ever made by a famous advertising pitchman - the inAPPropriate Movie.
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Mar 23, 2020
Line Go Stop (TF SEASON 3 PREMIERE)
If you had told us three months ago that, in the aftermath of the election result that didn’t go well, we’d soon be witnessing the utter collapse of financialised global capitalism… we might have believed you? But as we all try to parse the absurd world we suddenly live in, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) convene from their respective bunkers to discuss what’s next. The answer? We don’t know. But we do have a soundboard and a fleeting hope that something better might emerge.
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Mar 19, 2020
*PREVIEW* A Spectre Haunting Bishop Auckland (TF Live in Bristol 6.3.20 feat. Angie Speaks)
Please enjoy this preview of this week's bonus, a live episode of Trashfuture recorded on March 6 the 2020 Bristol Transformed festival. You’ll hear Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) join special guest Angie Speaks (@speaksangie) to discuss an app that retroactively places products in existing films -- who hasn’t wanted to get ads for Casper Mattresses when watching 1970s noir films -- and a long story about a man who wants to remake Bishop Auckland in his own, uh, slightly vampiric image.
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Mar 16, 2020
You Have Nothing to Fear, Humans (Live 11.3.20 in London feat. Mollie Goodfellow)
Please enjoy this live episode of Trashfuture, recorded on March 11 at Vauxhall Comedy in London. The almost-full cast of Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) join special guest (and 3-time returning champion) Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) to discuss a human-replacing app that seems intent on making Daleks, the looming coronavirus pandemic, and an elite concierge service for billionaires that is more than slightly ripe for conspiracies.
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Mar 12, 2020
*PREVIEW* The Story of Oh No feat. Andrew Law
In this preview of the weekly bonus, Riley's found some deeply, deeply horny British political writing, and in an attempt to shatter the psychic resolve of our friends down under, he's brought on Andrew Law (@illybocean) of the Boonta Vista podcast. This is also the 10th official TF episode as it features founding cohosts Charlie Palmer and Olga Koch Olga (@rocknrolga). Hope you enjoy!
If you want to hear the whole thing, get the episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34794174
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
Mar 9, 2020
*UNLOCKED* World of Moggcraft feat. Nish Kumar
In this unlocked bonus episode, we're talking Jacob Rees-Mogg's history: his book 'The Victorians' might be the single worst collection of words that Riley's ever subjected himself to (so far), and we've brought on friend of the show Nish Kumar (@mrnishkumar) to discuss it. You might even call it a 'Horrible History,' but that would be anti-British drivel!
We've also just released part 2 of this review with Nish, which you can get on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34742880
*LONDON LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be playing at Vauxhall Comedy on Wednesday, March 11 at 7.30 pm! Tickets are £12, and you can get them here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-tickets-91817874735
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
Mar 5, 2020
*PREVIEW* I'm The King And I Want My French Fries feat. Ciaran Dold
This week, we're talking about the recent Irish elections. We could do the usual thing and make it up as we go along, but we'd rather speak to an expert -- so we brought on Ciaran Dold (@CiaranDold) of the Corner Späti podcast to break it down for us.
If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34591666
Check out Corner Späti here: https://cornerspaeti.simplecast.com/
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
*BRISTOL LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see us perform at Bristol Transformed 2020 -- we’ll be performing on the night of Friday, March 6 (with more details to come later). Get tickets here: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/#date=2020-03-06&event_id=58254
*LONDON LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be playing at Va…
Mar 2, 2020
There’s (No) Power in a (Free Speech) Union feat. Angie Speaks
This week we’re talking Free Speech Union and the strange assortment of bitter British Gen-Xers who are convinced that they’re being oppressed because people don’t think they’re funny anymore. YouTube superstar and Low Society podcast host Angie Speaks (@SpeaksAngie) joins the cast of Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum to rejoice in removing Toby Young’s right to free speech. Also: Angie will be joining us onstage for our Bristol Transformed show, so please come out and see the gang in action!
Follow Angie on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUtloyZ_Iu4BJekIqPLc_fQ
And listen to the Low Society podcast here: https://soundcloud.com/low-society
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*LONDON LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be playing at Vauxhall Comedy on Wednesday, March 11 at 7.30 pm! Tickets are £12, and you can get them her…
Feb 27, 2020
*PREVIEW* Scrutes in the Road feat. Nathan Oseroff-Spicer
You've all heard the various encomiums about Roger fucking Scruton, the absurdly racist idiot philosopher who was terrified of the female orgasm and was somehow welcomed in every echelon of the British state for decades. Well, we've brought on an academic philosopher and friend of the show Nathan Oseroff-Spicer (@nathanoseroff) to break down Scruton's work in detail. And guess what? It's... interesting.
If you want to hear the full thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34355664
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
*BRISTOL LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see us perform at Bristol Transformed 2020 -- we’ll be performing on the night of Friday, March 6 (with more details to come later). Get tickets here: https://www.headfirstbristo…
Feb 24, 2020
Onward Christian Startups!
We read a terrible article about a tech startup in Cincinnati, Ohio that wants to combine Evangelical Christianity with app culture. We assembled the full cast of Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum to discuss it. Folks, it will raise your blood pressure.
The article appeared in WIRED and can be found here: https://www.wired.com/story/midwest-christian-entrepreneurs-startup-life/
Also if you want to read about Nate’s former swim coach getting arrested for church larceny, you can start here: http://scaq.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-huge-disappointment-us-secret.html
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*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up…
Feb 20, 2020
*PREVIEW* A Heartfelt Goodbye to the Three Dollar Store
This week's bonus features a skeleton crew of Riley, Alice, and Hussein on a few topics that deeply moved us. Well, one at least: it sounds like SoftBank's Vision Fund is going to get a lot less weird, which means less content for us. But we can still reflect on the good times!
If you want to hear the full episode, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34173374
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
*BRISTOL LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see us perform at Bristol Transformed 2020 -- we’ll be performing on the night of Friday, March 6 (with more details to come later). Get tickets here: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/#date=2020-03-06&event_id=58254
*LONDON LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be playing at Vauxhall Comedy on Wednesday, March 11…
Feb 17, 2020
Exiting the Mind-Palace feat. Leslie Lee
This week, we’ve stepped away a bit from the usual slate of brain-destroying British politics and have instead decided to review the joint BBC/Netflix special Dracula. It’s bad, but it’s bad in such particularly eyeball-crossing ways that we needed expert advice. So, this episode features Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice @AliceAvizandum in conversation with Leslie Lee (@leslieleeiii) of the Struggle Session podcast. We all watched this terrible series so you don’t have to.
If you want more from Leslie, check out Struggle Session -- and sign up for their bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/strugglesession
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on to…
Feb 13, 2020
*PREVIEW* The Fable of the Pete and the Horses feat. Matt Lubchansky
Did you hear about the app that wants to 3D model your face to make sure you're a girl? It's called Giggle and we do not approve of it. In this preview of this week's bonus episode, Riley, Hussein, Alice, and artist Matt Lubchansky (@lubchansky) also discuss Mayor Pete, the US democratic primary, and much more. We thought about calling this episode 'ISIS for Girls' but Alice got to choose the title after she completely evaporated Riley's brain by reading test copy from Pete Buttigieg's website. Don't worry -- we recorded it all.
If you want to hear the whole episode, get it here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33979461
If you want to support Matt's cartooning, sign up at The Nib and receive the incredible content that they produce! Get that here: https://membership.thenib.com
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
*COME SEE MILO*If you want to…
Feb 10, 2020
Move Fast and Break Democracy feat. Vincent Bevins
What happens when the DNC is an ouroboros of grifting fail-children? What happens when you try to improve voting with an app, and the app can’t stop crashing? In this week’s episode, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum join journalist Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) to discuss the Iowa Democratic Caucus disaster, or how to not make people trust an election result. Vincent has covered elections in 15 countries and has some thoughts on why American exceptionalism makes America terrible at the basic concept of representative democracy.
Vincent has a book coming out called “The Jakarta Method” that covers the persecution and mass killing of leftists during the Cold War. You can pre-order it here, and you definitely should: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vincent-bevins/the-jakarta-method/9781541742406/?lens=publicaffairs
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Feb 6, 2020
*PREVIEW* Thuggee Life: TF Reviews Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Book (feat. Nish Kumar)
This week, we're talking Jacob Rees-Mogg's history: his book 'The Victorians' might be the single worst collection of words that Riley's ever subjected himself to (so far), and we've brought on friend of the show Nish Kumar (@mrnishkumar) to discuss it. You might even call it a 'Horrible History,' but that would be anti-British drivel!
If you want to get the whole thing, access it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33767395
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
Feb 3, 2020
Project Milo
We’re back in the saddle for another episode of delightful modern existence. The full cast of Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum discuss a $100m-valued emoji service, the sudden disappearance of pro-EU groups post-Brexit, a Rafael Behr classic column from 2009, and an extended riff about the weird Xbox tween boy simulator called--and we are not joking--'Project Milo.'
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be hosting a live show debate on the topic of Elon Musk's status as 21st century Willy Wonka. It's 6th Feb 7.30pm at…
Jan 31, 2020
*PREVIEW* A Tale of Two Peteys feat. Katie Halper
In a preview of this week's bonus, Katie Halper (@kthalps) of The Katie Halper show and Rolling Stone's Useful Idiots Podcast joins Milo, Riley, and Alice to discuss a terrible start up, and then give us a "Who's Who" of the also-ran's who are fighting it out to lose to our boy Bernie Sanders in the United States.
If you want to get the whole thing, access it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33561909
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be hosting a live show debate on the topic of Elon Musk's status as 21st century Willy Wonka. It's 6th Feb 7.30pm at Hen & Chickens Theatre (109 St Paul’s Road, London N1 2NA) -- tickets are £12.25 and you can get them here: https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/trashfuture-…
Jan 27, 2020
Loudo Vapegaskush feat. Michael Fry
There’s a general election coming up in Ireland, and rather than just having us attempt our worst Irish accents, we’ve brought on comedy writer Michael Fry (@bigdirtyfry) to discuss it with Riley (@raaleh), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum. However, we have to discuss a haunted water cooler app and an op-ed about market-based solutions for our incipient societal meltdown. You will enjoy this, we promise. Do not ask us to explain the title.
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be hosting a live show debate on the topic of Elon Musk's status as 21st century Willy Wonka. It's 6…
Jan 23, 2020
*PREVIEW* The Wolf of Occupy Wall Street feat. Olly Thorn
This preview of the week's bonus episode features Riley, Milo, Alice, and special guest Olly Thorn (@PhilosophyTube). We're talking the royal family, Davos, epistemological lacunae, and so much more. Remember AdBusters? Remember Occupy? So much of it makes an appearance in this delightful bonus content.
If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33364069
*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/
*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be hosting a live show debate on the topic of Elon Musk's status as 21st century Willy Wonka. It's 6th Feb 7.30pm at Hen & Chickens Theatre (109 St Paul’s Road, London N1 2NA) -- tickets are £12.25 and you can get them here: https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/trashfuture-live-the-come…
Jan 20, 2020
Blue Dawn: The Rise of Wellness Thatcher feat. Tristan Cross
If you live in a city (or use the internet at all), you've seen ads for supposedly high-quality mattresses like Casper or Eve. They don't make mattresses—they just market them—and they're losing money hand over fist. In this week's episode, Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), Alice (@AliceAvizandum) and special guest Tristan Cross (@tristandross) discuss this extremely durable business model — and a close-read review of some of the bonkers new Tory MPs. You will love it.
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*COME SEE MILO* If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
Jan 16, 2020
*PREVIEW* This Preview Brought To You By The Letter B feat. Soweto Kinch
And on the pedestal, these words appear: 'bung a bob for Big Ben to bong for Brexit.' This accursed phrase has melted our brains, and you get to hear it happen in real time on a preview of this week's episode. It's a mass gathering of Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), Alice (@AliceAvizandum) Olga (@rocknrolga), and special guest Soweto Kinch (@sowetokinch)... and things get weird. We hope you'll love this episode as much as we hate being alive after reading the material that went in to it.
If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33185915
Check out Soweto's most recent album, 'The Black Peril', here: https://www.musicglue.com/soweto-kinch/products/the-black-peril
Check out Olga's tour here: https://www.rocknrolga.com
Also please check out Milo's tour dates, to include Saturday, 18 January in London: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
Jan 13, 2020
At the Zagros Mountains of Madness feat. Séamus Malekafzali
This week, we’re talking Iran escalation and Donald Trump’s genius strategy of galvanizing a nation, but there’s a little more nuance than normal. So, Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum join special guest Séamus Malekafzali (@Seamus_Malek), who’s a writer and analyst working in Beirut. This one will stimulate the logic center of your brain more than a thousand Ben Shapiro podcasts. Hope you enjoy!
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*COME SEE MILO* If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
Jan 9, 2020
*PREVIEW* YAMFUTURE
It's the chaos configuration of Riley, Milo, and Alice on the preview of this week's bonus episode (Nate and Hussein were busy being boring lames). We're talking about the assassination of Qassem Soleimani and the tragic hilariousness of America's constant self-sabotage when it tries to do imperialism. We also talk about yams in Vancouver for some reason. Guess what: it's not good, folks!
Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/32985582
*COME SEE MILO* If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
Jan 6, 2020
The Immortal Science of Marxist Leninist Cakes-and-Aleism feat. Kimberly McIntosh
Since the election result, you’ve heard all sorts of cries for Labour to get more racist. To discuss her recent article about why this is a terrible idea, writer and researcher Kimberly McIntosh (@mcintosh_kim) joins Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum. What are ‘Labour heartlands’? Why is class in Britain apparently tied to what you or your parents were doing in the 1970s? And why does London not count as working-class (unless you’re a whippet in a flat cap)?
You can read Kimberly’s recent article here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/17/traditional-working-class-labour-minorities-heartlands-white-voters
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*COME SEE MILO* If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
Jan 2, 2020
*PREVIEW* We All Live in Dominic Cummings' Blog Now
Please enjoy a preview of our first episode of 2020, as we’ve got a real treat for all of the Patreon subscribers. We’ve brought on Theo Pengelly (@AynRandy) of Boonta Vista (@boontavista) to discuss Andrew Lillico’s demented plan to terraform Mars. That is not a typo. Hope you enjoy!
If you want to listen to the whole thing, get it here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/32792138
*COME SEE MILO* If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
Dec 30, 2019
*UNLOCKED* Intelligence 3.0 feat. Felix Biederman
Back in October, we did a deep dive into the work of the king of the airport books: Malcolm Gladwell. Riley, Milo, and Alice join Felix Biederman (@ByYourLogic) of Chapo Trap House (@chapotraphouse) to discuss the horror and the banality of the truest of thinkers. This was previously only available to our Patreon subscribers, but we figured everyone needed a pick-me-up given the state of Britain at the end of 2019.
If you want access to other Patreon bonus episodes (and our powerful Discord server) sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31753429
*COME SEE MILO* If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
Dec 29, 2019
PREVIEW: Ocean’s Apprenticeship feat. Devon
In a preview of this week's bonus, we’re reviewing a startup called WhiteHat, digesting a terrible Giles Coren wankfest about Oxford admissions, and—most importantly—speaking to friend of the show and biology teacher Devon (@Devon_OnEarth) about the state-mandated ‘British Values’ education. Spoiler alert: it’s inchoate and weird!
If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/32642200
*COME SEE MILO* If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
Dec 23, 2019
MIT Media Lab After Dark Part 3: We Just Make Boxes here feat. Sarah Taber
You’re well accustomed to us just sort of riffing as we go along, but this week we speak with crop scientist Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) on the topic of the MIT Media Lab and their supposedly brilliant ‘food computer.’ Sarah joins Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Alice @AliceAvizandum as we discuss in even more detail why tech lords’ conception of the world’s problems are just, well, weirdly off the mark!
If you want to hear part 1 of our MIT Media Lab series, get it here: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/mit-media-lab-after-dark-part-1/
Part 2 of the series is available on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/30213119
*COME SEE MILO* If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31753429
Dec 20, 2019
PREVIEW: Confedera-CIA of Dunces
Look, maybe we just needed a break. Maybe there's nothing particularly good to talk about politically in this moment of elected dictatorship. However, in this preview of the week's bonus, we talk about trash culture and the cult of super-smart drones, and as such we've reviewed the 2008 Ridley Scott film 'Body of Lies,' which is bad. Why does Leo DiCaprio dress like a podcaster? Why are there basically zero Arab actors in major roles in this film? Why is Russell Crowe such a weird Foghorn Leghorn ass guy? Listen to hear our takes on this, and much more.
If you want to hear the full episode, get it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/32498458
Dec 18, 2019
We’re Not Owned! We’re Not Owned!
So, we got owned. Labour got wiped out in the election, and now begins a sombre and introspective season 2 of Trashfuture in which we discuss where to go from here. Please listen to the solemn voices of Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts) and Alice @AliceAvizandum as we commiserate and try to laugh as much as humanly possible. Thank you all so much to those of you who helped campaign and fight it out.
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Dec 11, 2019
Matt 117: TF 2019 General Election
Content warning: at around 1:10:00, Nate discusses a traumatic experience he had in combat years ago, which doesn’t make for particularly light listening. We just want to make sure you’re not caught unawares if you’d rather avoid hearing it.
It’s election day! Please, please, please go vote Labour and help us end this nightmare! Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts) and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) discuss the upcoming vote, some stupid articles, and a vision of things being better.
*IF YOU CAN HELP GET OUT THE VOTE, PLEASE DO!* This site lets you enter your post code and identifies which marginal seats need your help the most: https://mypollingday.com
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Dec 10, 2019
*PREVIEW* Commission Impossible feat. David Adler
In a preview of this week's bonus episode, we speak to David Adler of DiEM25 about what Remain and Revolt would actually mean -- and why the EU's labyrinthine politics is intentionally boring. We also discuss some great pre-election post-mortem columns, a thing that makes sense. You'll love it!
Get the full thing here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/32100406
*Do some canvassing* Momentum (@peoplesmomentum) has a great resource that lets you sign up to canvassing events in marginal seats close to you. Access it here: https://www.mycampaignmap.com
*Help get out the vote on polling day* This site lets you enter your post code and identifies which marginal seats need your help the most: https://mypollingday.com
The only way we can win is by meeting voters face-to-face, so let's make it happen.
Dec 9, 2019
Sustainability Serfdom: TF Live 3.12.2019 feat Rob Delaney
Please enjoy this live recording of Trasfuture live in London on December 3, 2019! It features Riley, Milo, Nate, returning champion Dr Eleanor Janega, and special guest Rob Delaney.
If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31753429
*Do some canvassing* Momentum (@peoplesmomentum) has a great resource that lets you sign up to canvassing events in marginal seats close to you. Access it here: https://www.mycampaignmap.com
The only way we can win is by meeting voters face-to-face, so let's make it happen.
Dec 2, 2019
Warhammer £80k feat. Josie Long
It keeps getting dumber as we get closer and closer to election day! Boris Johnson threatened to pull Channel 4’s licence because they embarrassed him, the Lib Dems are plunging in the polls, and a recent terror attack on London Bridge in turn resulted in Boris going cartoon movie fash. This week, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice @AliceAvizandum join special guest Josie Long (@JosieLong) for a roundup of all the very normal goings-on.
*Do some canvassing* Momentum (@peoplesmomentum) has a great resource that lets you sign up to canvassing events in marginal seats close to you. Access it here: https://www.mycampaignmap.com
The only way we can win is by meeting voters face-to-face, so let's make it happen.
*LIVE SHOW TONIGHT* Come see us live on December 3 at Vauxhall Comedy with special guest Rob Delaney! The address is: 6 South Lambeth Place, London, SW8 1SP, and the show starts at 7 pm. Tickets are available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-pr…
Dec 2, 2019
*PREVIEW* Manifesto Madness Pt 2: Tory Accelerationists feat John Duncan
This week's bonus episode features us discussing the Tory manifesto with John Duncan (@Johntheduncan) on the topic of neoliberalism, the neoliberal weaponisation of rights, and the absurd Tory manifesto. Hope you enjoy!
If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31908076
John's YouTube channel is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g2Ku4i7l6A&feature=youtu.be
*Do some canvassing* Momentum (@peoplesmomentum) has a great resource that lets you sign up to canvassing events in marginal seats close to you. Access it here: https://www.mycampaignmap.com
The only way we can win is by meeting voters face-to-face, so let's make it happen.
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see us live on December 3 at Vauxhall Comedy with special guest Rob Delaney! The address is: 6 South Lambeth Place, London, SW8 1SP, and the show starts at 8:30 pm, doors at 7:00 PM. Tickets are available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-pre-election-ch…
Nov 25, 2019
Manifesto Madness Pt 1: Jo Swinson's Ideology Wallet feat. Mollie Goodfellow
Welcome to Part 1 of TF Presents: Manifesto Madness. This week, we're looking at the absolutely realistic promises the Lib Dems are making, should they come into office.
We're joined in studio by special guest and returning friend of the show Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) on the topic of the Lib Dems' manifesto. Mollie joins Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) to discuss Jo Swinson's plan to build an exciting liberal world with the power of markets and STEM education, so she can nuke it.
Join us for our bonus episode about the Tory manifesto on Thursday!
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN THE UK! You can do this here — it’s fast! https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote - the deadline is 11:59 pm, so [Question Time voice] get on with it!
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Nov 21, 2019
*PREVIEW* The Aristocrats! feat. Loki Nash
In a preview of this week's bonus, Riley, Milo, Alice, and Nate speak with famed detective Loki Nash (@lokinash06) about his experience being the go-to consultant on BBC radio for what is and is not shitposting. We also discuss a Lib Dem PPC who got sacked for being racist in the early 2010s, the recent Prince Andrew interview, and much more. Hope you enjoy!
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Nov 18, 2019
Boris Gear Solid Part 3: Syncretic Apotheosis ft. Nish Kumar
Comedian Nish Kumar joins the gang to read from Boris Johnson's strange 2004 taut action comedy racist sex novel 72 Virgins for the third and final time. It is genuinely unbelievable that this guy is Prime Minister, not just because of all the outrageous things he says or implies about everyone who isn't an Eton educated white guy, but also because he's just so... incompetent as a communicator. Mostly it reveals more about him, his contempt for you and me, and his extreme internalised guilt about voting for the Iraq War.
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Nov 18, 2019
*UNLOCKED* Boris Gear Solid 1 & 2: Tactical Racism Action
It’s Parts 1 and 2 of our journey through Boris Johnson's terrible novel, 72 Virgins. Or as we're calling it, Boris Gear Solid: Tactical Racism Action.
In Part 1, which we recorded live at Cambridge, we are introduced to our characters of the Boris Johnson Extended Universe. Meet such characters as Definitely Not Boris Johnson, Horny African Parking Attendant, Unnecessary Shoehorned In Classics Reference, and Woman.
Bad writing often reveals more about the author than they intend, and this is precisely what we explored a few months later in Part 2 with our friend from Australia, Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones. In his writing, and with what he thinks is funny, what does Boris accidentally reveal about the way he believes the world works? What does he think of ordinary people? How is he so horny for all of his characters, and yet so deeply sexless?
If you can vote in Britain and you do not want the man that wrote this book to be your Prime Minister, then you must do the following things:
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Nov 14, 2019
*PREVIEW* Thermostats in Cock Cages feat. India Block
This week's bonus features three-peat guest India Block (@indiablock) on the topic of Bolivian coups, Tory housing pledges that got zero new houses built, and beyond-parody op-eds defending landlords. We love it and so will you.
Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31547969
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BERLIN LISTENERS: Milo is bringing his award-winning Fringe show 'Pindos' to Cafe Nr10 in Mitte THIS SATURDAY and has not sold enough tickets - so why not come down, check it out and catch a trashboi in the flesh? Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/milos-edwards-pindos-tickets-78549332167?aff=ebdssbeac
Nov 11, 2019
The Sweet Science ft Olly Thorn
The team sits down with Olly Thorn, AKA Philosophy Tube, to talk about scientism... which is the ideology by which the world's most pareto optimised stupid/confident jackasses blithely claim to understand the entire world by just using a calculator and making some shit up. It's at the root of phrenology, both classic and modern, the tedious gender politics of the anti-trans lobby, and Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Enjoy!
Also... there's an election on!
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Nov 7, 2019
*PREVIEW* Now You're Cooking with Vibes feat. Nathalie Olah
You wake up. You turn on your computer to do Fiverr jobs until breakfast. You go to your job. Your contract is secure for another two weeks. You buy lunch for a tenner because you can't go on. You come home, exhausted. It's time for your next job. And you have to pay seven kinds of bills. You've become a burned out husk of a person. But now there's an exciting new venture capital backed startup called Pattern that wants to change all that with luxury cookware somehow. Riley, Milo, Alice, and special guest Nathalie Olah go deep on this strange new theory of change, and why maybe more start ups aren't the answer?
Listen to the full thing on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31367228
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Nov 4, 2019
Only the Lib Dems Can Win in Workington
So, it’s finally happening: we’re having another General Election. On December 12, the UK will vote yet again, and we have an opportunity to elect a socialist Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn. However, as the full TF crew of Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum discuss on this episode, we have to counter wave upon wave of disingenuous nonsense from dumb British media and useless centrist parties like the Lib Dems.
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Oct 31, 2019
*PREVIEW* Alice Caldwell-Kelly Plays Escalator Simulator (20 hrs)
Check out this bonus episode preview, where Alice realises her dream of becoming a game designer.
The full bonus features author and economist James Meadway on his fourth TF appearance, and we're talking about the right-wing thing tanks that make British public life so unbearable. Did you know that everything is fine because people today have 100 percent more wifi access than the Royals did 300 years ago? Learn about this, and more, by listening. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/universal-bowtie-31183956?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare
Oct 28, 2019
I Identify as a Tech Company ft. Bryan Quinby
It's that time again! Bryan Quinby from Street Fight calls in to talk with Riley, Hussein, and Alice about America's favourite real estate company that called itself a tech company and so is psychotically overvalued because it's involved in the giant pyramid scheme that is the SoftBank Vision Fund... and it isn't WeWork. We also talk about a lot of other shit.
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Oct 24, 2019
*PREVIEW* Brexit Disco: A Cardiac Event
This week’s bonus episode preview features the full cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, Nate, and Alice on the topic of three distinctly horrible things: a startup that promises to create its own Chuck E. Cheese tokens instead of paying its workers; Amazon killing people in its fulfillment centres and deciding that actually, this is fine; and the truly most yer da thing in existence, a ‘satirical’ Brexit disco album that’s truly on the outer limits of bad. You’ll love it!
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Oct 20, 2019
Jagmeet Me in Temecula feat. Luke Savage
We’re putting this episode out early because it’s the day of the Canadian federal elections and we want to encourage all our Canadian listeners to go vote for the NDP. Here's a link to where your nearest polling station is located: https://www.elections.ca/scripts/vis/FindED?L=e&PAGEID=20
To discuss the Canadian elections, the US Presidential primary, and some terrible journalism, we have the full cast of Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) joined with Canadian journalist, podcaster, and friend of the show Luke Savage (@LukewSavage). It’s one for the ages, folks.
Luke is also the host of the Michael and Us podcast, which you can access here: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus
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Oct 17, 2019
*PREVIEW* Intelligence 3.0 feat. Felix Biederman
In a preview of this week's bonus episode, we've done a deep dive into the work of the king of the airport books: Malcolm Gladwell. Riley, Milo, and Alice join Felix Biederman (@ByYourLogic) of Chapo Trap House (@chapotraphouse) to discuss the horror and the banality of the truest of thinkers. Hope you enjoy!
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Oct 14, 2019
No Platforming the Platforms feat. Nick Srnicek
What is platform capitalism? And why is it that Amazon seems to be transitioning from online bookstore to perpetually-expanding defense contractor? This week’s episode features Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) in discussion with author and academic Nick Srnicek (@n_srnck). Nick’s previous books include “Platform Capitalism” and “Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World without Work.” He joins us to discuss a particularly non-HIPAA compliant app and his own work into the (monopolistic, bad) platforms that dominate our economy today.
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Oct 10, 2019
What Boris Johnson Thinks Of You feat. Aidan 'Taco' Jones
In this preview of this week's bonus episode, our review of Boris Johnson's terrible novel 72 VIRGINS continues — this time featuring Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Alice (@AliceAvizandum) and returning guest Aidan 'Taco' Jones (@AJ_Taco). The story continues to get worse, because the current Prime Minister of the UK wrote racist fanfic for bitter British dads. Brace yourself for the horror!
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Oct 7, 2019
Young Justin's Fancy feat. Rob Rousseau
Canada may be America’s slightly saner neighbour, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t completely bananas in its own right (or, as they say in Quebec, bananes). This week, @robrousseau of the @49thparahell podcast joins Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) to discuss Canadian party politics, the emergence of a new far-right party, why liberal media still wants to platform extremists, and why Justin Trudeau can’t seem to stop donning blackface.
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*COMEDY KLAXON* On October 9, come see Smoke Comedy, Milo's new-material night at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA) in London! This next one features TF favourite Olga Koch as well as Radu Isac. The show starts at 8.00 pm and entry is £5 -- get tickets here: https://www.e…
Oct 3, 2019
Kafka’s Union Jack feat Ben McLeay
Here's a preview of this week's bonus, which features Riley, Milo, and Alice speaking with Ben McLeay (@thomas_violence) of the Boonta Vista (@boontavista) podcast. We discuss a horrible startup called Stockwell (you'll love this one) and a Spectator article with the most profound Brexit manager-calling energy. We almost entitled this episode ACCENTFUTURE because, as you can imagine, it got weird.
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*COMEDY KLAXON* On October 9, come see Smoke Comedy, Milo's new-material night at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA) in London! This next one features TF favourite Olga Koch as well as Radu Isac. The show starts at 8.00 pm and entry is £5 -- get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-featuring-radu-isac-and-olga-koch-tickets-74708544267
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Sep 30, 2019
Brexit Won’t Let Me See the Kids feat. Tom Kibasi
Last time we had @IPPR’s Tom Kibasi (@TomKibasi) on the show, he correctly predicted a bunch of things regarding the politics behind Brexit. We needed to consult the oracle once more, and as such we reached out to Tom to come back on and reassure us about the future. Well, sort of. This week, hear Tom discuss the stat we’re in with Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts).
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*COMEDY KLAXON* On October 9, come see Smoke Comedy, Milo's new-material night at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA) in London! This next one features TF favourite Olga Koch as well as Radu Isac. The show starts at 8.00 pm and entry is £5 -- get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-featuring-radu-isac-and-olga-koch-tickets-74708544267
If you want to bu…
Sep 26, 2019
The MIT Media Lab Automates the Democratic Party
That's right, folks! It's a preview the promised second episode in which we discuss the highlights of IT Media Lab's cursed SkyMall. You'll get to hear Riley, Milo, Nate, and Alice take on the true hell world of the Epstein-funded MIT Media Lab creations.
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Sep 23, 2019
MIT Media Lab After Dark (Part 1)
So, what was MIT’s Media Lab actually researching with all that Epstein money? And why is it a Venn diagram of all the worst things in America in the last 40 years? Fronted by a neocon who helped the Contras and the Iraq War, headed by a bitchin’ surfer rave enthusiast tech idiot, and full of people inventing cursed SkyMall products. This week, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Hussein (@AliceAvizandum) discuss this and so much more.
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Sep 22, 2019
TWT Brighton Show Update
Hello friends: just an update to inform you that our venue has changed for our live show at The World Transformed in Brighton. We'll now be on at 1.00 pm on Monday, 23rd September at the Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AF.
You can find further information on the show + ticketing here on the TWT website: https://theworldtransformed.org/festival/2019/programme/trashfuture-live-podcast
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Sep 20, 2019
*PREVIEW* Richard Florida Man feat. Justin Roczniak
In this week's bonus episode on Patreon, Riley, Nate, and Alice speak with Justin Roczniak (@donoteat1), the creator of the YouTube channel DoNotEat and an all-round fan of socialism and urban planning. We talk about a Google-designed hell-district that a lot of morons want to build in Toronto, plus a Telegraph Tory impression of what shopping will look like in 2030. You'll love it. You'll love every second.
To hear the whole thing, access our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/30066633
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton this September? That’s right, your favourite podcast lads. We’ll be on at 1.00 pm on Monday, 23rd September. Buy a ticket here: http://theworldtransformed.org
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Sep 16, 2019
In John McDonnell’s Navy feat. Grace Blakeley
Finance-driven growth: It’s not good, folks! This week, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Hussein (@HKesvani) join special guest Grace Blakely (@graceblakeley) to discuss the financialisation of the past 40 years and the post-2008 reckoning that we’re cursed to live through — which is the topic of Grace’s new book ‘Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation.’ We also discuss an amazing hit piece in the British tabloids that wants you to believe the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has a private navy at his cabin in Norfolk.
You can buy Grace’s book from the publisher here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/stolen-how-to-save-the-world-from-financialisation/ — and if you buy it from Repeater Books you get a free e-book version as well.
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Sep 12, 2019
*PREVIEW* AC Grayling Smash feat. Will Davies
We speak with Will Davies, reader in Economics at Goldsmith's University and author of the book Nervous States. We discuss mental health and capitalism, why everyone's crazy, and the Cool Kids Centrist Philosopher AC Grayling getting pissed on twitter and going beast on his stationary bike.
If you want to hear the whole episode, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/29894934
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton this September? That’s right, your favourite podcast lads. We’ll be on at 1.00 pm on Monday, 23rd September. Buy a ticket here: http://theworldtransformed.org
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Sep 9, 2019
Absolute Boy in Da Corner feat. Joana Ramiro
Something of a sleepy week in British politics, a time in which nothing happened of any real significance. This episode features (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) discussing these banal developments with London-based journalist (and host of Red Hacks podcast) Joana Ramiro (@joanaramirouk). Parliament didn’t get prorogued, the government didn’t suffer landmark defeats, and Low Tax Chloe didn’t make some of the worst memes in human history. We also also talk about the weird incel logic behind Apple's Siri. It’s a great, normal time to be a resident of this island, folks!
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Sep 5, 2019
*PREVIEW* JFK Uncle Junior
We all have Epstein Brain, or at least Riley, Milo, and Alice do. But first, this episode covers our reflections on London and which bits of it suck, a review of the Duke of Westminster's app that lets council tenants decide how they want to get kicked out, then finally we realise everyone's favourite prince couldn't possibly be involved in Epstein shit! He said so!
If you want to hear the full thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/29713997
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton this September? That’s right, your favourite podcast lads. Buy a ticket here: http://theworldtransformed.org
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Sep 5, 2019
Riley's Commie Book Club: Steal as Much as You Can by Nathalie Olah
This month's CBC features Riley in conversation with Nathalie Olah, the author of 'Steal as Much as You Can: How to win the culture wars in an age of austerity' forthcoming from Repeater Books. It's a work that tackles the supposed “golden age” of the New Labour era and the subsequent lost decade of austerity, exploring the myths and realities of life for young people working in the arts, media and culture industries today. Get the book from the publisher here (available on October 12): https://repeaterbooks.com/product/steal-as-much-as-you-can-how-to-win-the-culture-wars-in-an-age-of-austerity/ Bear in mind that there are many, many more CBC episodes on Patreon, which you can sign up to here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton this September? That’s right, your favourite podcast lads. Buy a ticket here: http://theworldtransformed.org
If you want to buy one of our recent special-edition pho…
Sep 2, 2019
What If Your House Was the Cops?
It’s a truly classic TF lineup this week with Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) discussing Dominic Cummings supposed genius, but mostly recoiling in horror at an app that’s going to record everything that goes on inside your house, scan your face for fear, and grass you out to the cops. It’s not good!
If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton this September? That’s right, your favourite podcast lads. Buy a ticket here: http://theworldtransformed.org
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Aug 29, 2019
*PREVIEW* I Am Not A Bollard feat. Kieran Yates
It's another lovely week in the British summer of, uh, impending fascism? On this week’s bonus, Riley, Hussein, and Alice are in discussion with writer and journalist Kieran Yates (@kieran_yates) on the topic of terrible internships, terrible models of home ownership, and much more. Did you know that Hussein has Trashfuture on his CV? Maybe everyone should put it on their CV, even the listeners. You’ll love it, folks!
If you want to hear the whole episode, get it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/29517903
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton this September? That’s right, your favourite podcast lads. Buy a ticket here -- the show is 1.00-2.30 pm on Monday, 23 September: http://theworldtransformed.org
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Aug 26, 2019
Dad War feat. Francis Horton
Why is it that British dads all want to go to war? Why is it that, despite having grown up during a period of unparalleled peace and stability, people over 50 want to relive Dunkirk and embrace the Blitz Spirit? Maybe because they’re all deeply bored and lazy people. To discuss this (and much more), we’ve brought on Francis Horton (@ArmyStrang), cohost of What a Hell of a Way to Die (with our own Nate (@inthesedeserts)). Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) also discuss the Amazon being on fire and a terrible, terrible NY Post article about monogamy. You will love it.
If you want to listen to more of Francis and Nate, check out What a Hell of a Way to Die here: https://soundcloud.com/hellofawaytodie
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Aug 22, 2019
*PREVIEW* Job Opening for Motivated Self Starter with 2 yrs Experience + Germanic Brain Pan feat. Soweto Kinch
We took Trashfuture on the road, opening up the start of of the Birmingham Transformed festival. The cast was Riley, Hussein, Nate, and returning guest Soweto Kinch (@sowetokinch). We talked about a high-tech eugenics platform and a news site that might as well be the QAnon Onion. You'll love it as much as we did, friends.
If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/job-opening-for-29313417
*COME SEE MILO* If you're in Edinburgh for the Fringe, come see our boy perform his show: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/pindos
*LIVE SHOW ALERT*Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton this September? That’s right, your favourite podcast lads. Buy a ticket here: http://theworldtransformed.org
Aug 19, 2019
Live. Laugh. Love. There Is No God.
What a whirlwind week it’s been. For starters, Jeremy Corbyn gave the Lib Dems and CUK/TIGs an offer they would normally not be able to refuse, but instead refused because (as we knew all along) they hate mild social democracy more than they hate Brexit, despite being the “Stop Brexit Jeremy” parties. We discuss this, as well as WeWork’s recent initial public offering. Riley (@raaleh) dug up their S-1 filing and talks it over with Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum). We live in a great economy, and as such this episode is extremely positive.
If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*COME SEE MILO* If you're in Edinburgh for the Fringe, come see our boy perform his show: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/pindos
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transfor…
Aug 18, 2019
*PREVIEW* Young Men’s Fancy: TF Live from the Edinburgh Fringe 10.8.19
We did it. We drove from London to Edinburgh with all our equipment in tow, climbed a fucking medieval staircase in a downpour, got soaked to the damn bones, and then played a (sold out!!!!) show at the Edinburgh Fringe. We only had a 50 minute time slot, so this was a short one. Thank you so much to all the fans who came out in the garbage weather to see it.
This show was a blast and we think you'll really enjoy it! Get the full thing here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/29164609
*COME SEE MILO* If you're in Edinburgh for the Fringe, come see our boy perform his show -- it's at 2 pm every day until 26 August: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/pindos
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton this September? That’s right, your favourite podcast lads. Buy a ticket here: http://theworldtransformed.org
If you want to buy one of our recent special-edition phone-cops shirt, shoot us an email at trashfuturepodcast[at]gmail[dot]…
Aug 14, 2019
*PREVIEW* Trashfuture Presents: Balthasar Speedboat 6
It's a special episode featuring only the loveliest of accents. This week's bonus features Milo with guests Aidan 'Taco' Jones, Dan Muggleton, and Pope Lonergan. It's a bunch of comedians telling some damn jokes -- about Australia, about fancy words, about rugby -- and so much more. Hope you enjoy!
If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/28990329
*COME SEE MILO* If you're in Edinburgh for the Fringe, come see our boy perform his (highly acclaimed!!) show: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/pindos
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton this September? That’s right, your favourite podcast lads. Buy a ticket here: http://theworldtransformed.org
If you want to buy one of our recent special-edition phone-cops shirt, shoot us an email at trashfuturepodcast[at]gmail[dot]com and we can post it to you. (£20 for non-patrons, £15 for patrons)
Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps…
Aug 12, 2019
Topping History from Below feat. Dr Eleanor Janega
A broad swath of modern reactionary and xenopobic sentiment tries to employ fake medieval history to create a fantasy version of Europe. Whether it’s Middle Earth or some bullshit about Agincourt, the British right can’t stop making stuff up. So, to dispel this, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum ) spoke with academic Dr Eleanor Janega (@goingmedieval) about actual medieval history. And guess what, folks? We used it as an excuse to make jokes.
Read Dr Janega’s blog here, you swine! https://going-medieval.com
If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*COME SEE MILO* If you're in Edinburgh for the Fringe, come see our boy perform his show: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/pindos
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton…
Aug 5, 2019
History 2.0 feat. Annie Kelly
Why call it history when you can call it ‘progress studies’? This week, Riley (@raaleh), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum join writer and PhD student Annie Kelly to discuss Steven Pinker-ized airport books, tech positivity, and Annie’s research into women members of the alt-right. You’ll love it.
Annie’s New York Times article that gets referenced in the piece is available here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/opinion/sunday/tradwives-women-alt-right.html
If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *COME SEE MILO* If you're in Edinburgh for the Fringe, come see our boy perform his show: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/pindos
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come…
Aug 2, 2019
*PREVIEW* A Fulfilment Driven Life feat. Juliet Jacques
You wanted to hear more Quillette close-reads, so here it is. We discuss the most bootlicking of all pro-Amazon pieces to ever appear, plus a bizarre 2006 op-ed about shoes from Rafael Behr. Our special guest Juliet Jacques (@zinovievletter) helps us break down just how brain-melt it all is. You'll love it, folks—you'll absolutely love it.
If you want to hear the whole episode, get it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/28767126
*COME SEE MILO*If you're in Edinburgh for the Fringe, come see our boy perform his show: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/pindos
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come down to Brum for a night of delightful soup jokes. Get tickets here! https://ti.to/birmingham-transformed/birmingham-transformed-2019
*OTHER LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see Trashfuture live at the Edinburgh Fringe! We’ll perform on August 10th at 21.30.…
Jul 29, 2019
FCK GVT FCK BORIS feat. Eleanor Penny
We’ve all written something that was maybe a little over the top, though mercifully none of us has written for Quilette. This week, Riley (@raaleh), Olga (@rocknrolga ), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Alice @AliceAvizandum join Novara Media’s Eleanor Penny (@eleanorkpenny) to discuss brain impresario Toby Young’s recent paen to Boris Johnson’s skull shape and neck thickness. It’s weird! It’s abnormal! It’s the state of things in British politics!
If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come down to Brum for a night of delightful soup jokes. Get tickets here! https://ti.to/birmingham-transformed/birmingham-transformed-2019
*OTHER LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see…
Jul 25, 2019
*PREVIEW* Horseplay feat. Nathan Ma
Did you know that Riley's hometown newspaper is run by horse people? Did you know that there's a Code Pink-style group that stalks people who work at the Seattle Zoo's elephant enclosure? Did you know that Fiverr wants to drive down your wages but also want to make you feel empowered? Did you know that the Telegraph has found a way to get mad about black people in Bond films? Yes. It's all true. Enjoy this bonus episode with freelance writer and editor Nathan Ma (@nthnashma), and rejoice in the smartness of this world.
If you want to hear the full thing, get it on Patreon at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/horseplay-feat-28596004
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come down to Brum for a night of delightful soup jokes. Get tickets here! https://ti.to/birmingham-transformed/birmingham-transformed-2019
*OTHER LIVE SHOW ALERT…
Jul 22, 2019
Pinker 2: The Pinker-files
Okay, some housekeeping: this might be the episode where you can hear our brains breaking. Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum discuss Elon Musk’s strange fixation on preventing SkyNet, new revelations that place Steven Pinker in Jeffrey Epstein’s plane on multiple occasions, and a Guardian article in which Alastair Campbell devotes an entire column to someone who was nice to him in the comments section. Seriously. Amid all this majestic content, Milo goes on a Trump-voice rampage and we basically lose our minds. And then the power goes out. You will probably love this, but you might wind up hating us!
If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks…
Jul 18, 2019
*PREVIEW* Trashfuture Presents: Balthasar Speedboat 5
Riley's cousin lives in London and got the absolute worst tinder-date breakup message. It was so bad, so painfully long-form and weird, that we had to convene a session of Balthasar Speedboat to discuss it. So, we brought on Riley, Milo, Olga, Alex Kealy, and Rajiv Karia (@RajivAKaria). Hope you enjoy it! If not, we're breaking up with you (in over 1000 words).
Get the full episode here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/28450760
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come down to Brum for a night of delightful soup jokes. Get tickets here! https://ti.to/birmingham-transformed/birmingham-transformed-2019
*OTHER LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see Trashfuture live at the Edinburgh Fringe! We’ll perform on August 10th at 21.30. The venue is Venue 277, PQA Venues @Riddle's Court, Edinburgh EH1 2PG. Tickets are £11.50 and there are a ton of discounts available.…
Jul 15, 2019
Water Wars in Shagaluf
Our beautiful son Riley is still in New York, a city famous for being ‘alright’ if you ‘like’ ‘saxophones.’ In the interim, Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice are here to hold down the fort. We’ve uncovered a startup that wants to scan your licence place and use it to order McDonalds. We’ve read an op-ed encouraging the securitisation of water scarcity. We’ve blanched upon contact with a James Dellingpole op-ed about his daughter’s ‘virginal beauty’ (not making this up) as she goes on holiday to Magaluf. There’s also a discussion of a very ribald binder. Enjoy!
If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlan…
Jul 11, 2019
*PREVIEW* The ID Card of Dorian Gray
Tony Blair, what a guy! Am I right, folks? He can't stop whining about how we need fewer houses and more apps. He can't stop pointing a finger at the Labour party and saying that it was better when we were pro-privatisation and pro-bombing. And now, of course, his institute has a great plan -- a policy paper full of nothing but management consultant speak -- with one sole defined policy goal: national ID cards. Yes, he still wants them. Enjoy this dang podcast! In this preview we discuss Tony's plan to run the UK like Spotify. You can get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/id-card-of-gray-28250136
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come down to Brum for a night of delightful soup jokes. Get tickets here! https://ti.to/birmingham-transformed/birmingham-transformed-2019
*OTHER LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see Trashfuture live at the E…
Jul 9, 2019
*PREVIEW* The Most Divorced Book Ever: TF Live in Cambridge 15.6.19
We did it. We played another show outside of London—this time at Wolfson College in Cambridge—and we made sure to prep only the best. Did you know Boris Johnson wrote a horny, frustrated novel about terrorism called '72 Virgins'? Well, we read the damn book so you didn't have to. Enjoy!
If you want to listen to the whole thing, sign up on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/28163493
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come down to Brum for a night of delightful soup jokes. Get tickets here! https://ti.to/birmingham-transformed/birmingham-transformed-2019
*OTHER LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see Trashfuture live at the Edinburgh Fringe! We’ll perform on August 10th at 21.30. The venue is Venue 277, PQA Venues @Riddle's Court, Edinburgh EH1 2PG. Tickets are £11.50 and there are a ton of discounts available. Get them here: https://tickets.edfringe.co…
Jul 8, 2019
Luxury 9/11-Proof Towers feat. India Block
You’ve heard the expression that while the cat’s away, the mice will play? In this case, while the cat’s away, the mice got in the studio and recorded their own podcast. Yes, friends, Riley was away on holiday and so was Nate, leaving only Milo (@Milo_Edwards) and Hussein (@HKesvani) to host an episode entirely of their own making, with special guest and [Canadian voice] returning podcast champion India Block (@indiablock). This episode discusses Trump’s stupid parade, white British idiots’ weird soliloquies about slavery, and a Jenga-block skyscraper where everything is WeWork. You love it! We all love it.
If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come do…
Jul 4, 2019
UNLOCKED Riley's Commie Book Club: Imagined Communities
Well - we did it. We hit $2500 a month of funding, so as promised a special 4th of July edition of Riley's Commie Book Club on graduate politics seminar standby - Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities.
The “nation” is a concept much beloved of reactionaries and dismissed by Marxists as mere ideology. But it has serious psychological power nevertheless. Anderson’s book asks what is a “nation,” where did it come from, and how has the concept been used and misused over time? Riley then applies Anderson’s rubric to understanding the increasingly psychotic trajectory of the Conservative movement in the developed world.
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see Trashfuture live at the Edinburgh Fringe! We’ll perform on August 10th at 21.30. The venue is Venue 277, PQA Venues @Riddle's Court, Edinburgh EH1 2PG. Tickets are £11.50 and there are a ton of discounts available. Get them here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/trashfuture-live-at-the-fringe
If you want to buy one of our r…
Jul 1, 2019
An E-Mail Client for the Profoundly Stupid ft Tom Usher
What if an app made you pay $30 a month for some email hotkeys? What if Britain stopped burning coal only to build 30 gigawatts of gas-burning power? What if Justine Greening wasn't a reliable source on anything, but certainly not social mobility? Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum ) join special guest and feature writer Tom Usher (@tom_usher_) to discuss these possibilities. You know you love it, folks!
If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come down to Brum for a night of delightful soup jokes. Get tickets here! https://ti.to/birmingham-transformed/birmingham-transformed-2019
*OTHER LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come…
Jun 27, 2019
Riley's Commie Book Club - Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History
As of next month, all episodes of Commie Book Club will be published on on our Patreon feed... BUT without any paywall in front of them at all. So they'll be free each month with no delay.
If you nonetheless want to support us anyway and get next month's book club early, check out www.patreon.com/trashfuture/
Another instalment of Riley's Commie Book Club delivered to you, our delightful and beloved patrons. This month, Riley decided to take it in a bit of a different direction, and talk about an under-discussed field of study, Marxism and the Philosophy of Science. How should we think about knowledge, what is knowable, and how these questions are related to history and power? To get to these questions, he reads from Helena Sheehan's Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History.
The focus of the book is on charting Marxist approaches to the philosophy of science from Engels to the mid 20th century, and while this is interesting, Riley focuses more on the underlying conc…
Jun 24, 2019
Let The Games Begin feat. Ash Sarkar
Every outbreak has its patient zero. New York's Typhoid outbreak had Typhoid Mary. Springfeield's Infectious Diptheria problem had Jebediah Springfield. Britain's most tedious faux-progressive centrists have the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Novara Media's Ash Sarkar joins the lads to discuss a skydiving monarch, fifty dancing industrialists, and a salute to the Windrush Generation that actually involved dozens of British citizens at risk of deportation because of the race. It is the future-past Chuka Umunna surely dreams of for all of Britain and eventually the world.
If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*WATCH THIS SPACE* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come down to Brum for a night of delightful soup j…
Jun 20, 2019
*PREVIEW* Getting your Nation Serviced feat. Zoe Gardner
The UK can't get enough of border forces. We want to fund them in our own country and in other countries, even when those countries want visa-free regional travel. We love making everyone a cop, and we're joined this week by Zoe Gardner (@ZoeJardiniere) from Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (@JCWI_UK) to discuss this.
However, we also have a terrible startup to review, and a great (by which we mean insane) article about why National Service would be a good thing. It's bad, folks!
If you want to hear the full episode, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/27751034
*WATCH THIS SPACE* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come down to Brum for a night of delightful soup jokes.
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see Trashfuture live at the Edinburgh Fringe! We’ll perform on August 10th at 21.30. The venue is Venue 277, PQA Venues @Riddle's Court, Edinb…
Jun 19, 2019
*UNLOCKED* Islamic Republic of Seinfeld feat. Sina Rahmani
America desperately wants to go to war with Iran, so much that it's willing to engineer some extremely fake circumstances under which it can claim to be the victim of aggression. Why is that? Well, according to Bret Stephens, it's because they hate Ben Franklin, or something. To discuss this, we bring on Sina Rahmani, host of the The East is a Podcast, and ask him why the US can't seem to stop broadcasting its war horniness.
This originally appeared last month on our Patreon -- and there are practically a year's worth of bonus episodes available. Sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*WATCH THIS SPACE* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come down to Brum for a night of delightful soup jokes. *LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see Trashfuture live at the Edinburgh Fringe! We’ll perform on August 10th at 21.30. The venue is Venue 277, PQA Venues @Riddle's Court, Edinburgh…
Jun 19, 2019
*Preview* Jonathan Pie Charts feat. Aisling McCrea
This week, we're talking Logic Guys with Aisling McCrea (@ambientGillian), the author of a great Outline piece about debate and a canny observer of terrible Mind-Boomers online. Why is Andrew Doyle so angry and unfunny? Why does Stephen Crowder always ambush college students with his dumb garbage? All this and more is yours.
If you want to hear the full version of this episode, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jonathan-pie-27574234
*WATCH THIS SPACE* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come down to Brum for a night of delightful soup jokes.
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see Trashfuture live at the Edinburgh Fringe! We’ll perform on August 10th at 21.30. The venue is Venue 277, PQA Venues @Riddle's Court, Edinburgh EH1 2PG. Tickets are £11.50 and there are a ton of discounts available. Get them here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/trashfuture-live-a…
Jun 17, 2019
Requiem for a Matt
We’re posting through tears on this one. Our precious boy -- our sweet, beautiful lad himself -- is no longer a candidate for the Tory leadership contest. That’s right, Matt Hancock has stepped down after only four days. It was a truly heart-rending experience for Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum ). How can we live in a future where the human labrador retriever Matt Hancock isn’t making us appreciate the power of business? How can we live without a PM who does parkour? This isn’t fair.
If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*WATCH THIS SPACE* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come down to Brum for a night of delightful soup jokes.
*LIVE SHOW ALERT*…
Jun 13, 2019
Dispatches from Hong Kong feat. Brian Hioe
We've been monitoring the situation in Hong Kong from our extremely high-tech Amstrad eMailer, but given how fast things are developing, we decided to add some additional (serious) content this week. So, please enjoy this interview between Nate (@inthesedeserts) and Brian Hioe (@brianhioe), the editor of New Bloom Magazine.
Brian is currently reporting from Hong Kong and gave insight into the reasons behind the protest, the results of the attempted general strike, and what to expect in the coming days. If you want to read more from Brian, check out New Bloom (https://newbloommag.net/) as well as on twitter at @newbloommag.
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* On June 15, we’ll perform at Wolfson College Bar (Wolfson College, Cambridge CB3 9BB) in Cambridge. The show starts at 8:30 pm, so be there and be ready to hear about Gundams. Tickets are £8 for students and £10 for general admission: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-in-cambridge-15062019/
*COMEDY KLAXON*: Com…
Jun 12, 2019
*Preview* Dark Epcot feat. Alex Hudson
Metro UK is doing a feature on how the future will be (good? bad?), and in our search to answer that question, we've brought on their deputy editor Alex Hudson ( @alexhuds ) to discuss it. In the future, your boss will watch your irises constantly to see if you're looking at GettingYourDickSucked.com instead of doing your job. It's not looking rosy!
If you want to hear the full version of this episode, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/27413777
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* On June 15, we’ll perform at Wolfson College Bar (Wolfson College, Cambridge CB3 9BB) in Cambridge. The show starts at 8:30 pm, so be there and be ready to hear about Gundams. Tickets are £8 for students and £10 for general admission: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-in-cambridge-15062019/
*COMEDY KLAXON*: Come to Milo’s regular comedy night on June 13 at The Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA), This show also starts at 8 pm and features Milo himself and Be…
Jun 10, 2019
Against Calculator Santa feat. James Meadway
It’s a bit of a smart episode (a dangerous idea). Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) speak with economist and returning guest James Meadway (@meadwaj) about the logic of socialist government in Britain versus the logic of Blairite neoliberalism. Did you know there’s a Cornish fishing village trying to crowdfund getting a GP? Did you know that Phillip Hammond denies that people in Britain live in poverty? We discuss all of this and more.
If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* On June 15, we’ll perform at Wolfson College Bar (Wolfson College, Cambridge CB3 9BB) in Cambridge. The show starts at 8:30 pm, so be there and be ready to hear about Gundams. Tickets are £8 for students and £10 for general admission: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-…
Jun 4, 2019
*Preview* Islamic Republic of Seinfeld feat. Sina Rahmani
America desperately wants to go to war with Iran, so much that it's willing to engineer some extremely fake circumstances under which it can claim to be the victim of aggression. Why is that? Well, according to Bret Stephens, it's because they hate Ben Franklin, or something. To discuss this, we bring on Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist), host of the The East is a Podcast, and ask him why the US can't seem to stop broadcasting its war horniness.
If you want to hear the whole episode, subscribe to the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/27222557
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* On June 15, we’ll perform at Wolfson College Bar (Wolfson College, Cambridge CB3 9BB) in Cambridge. The show starts at 8:30 pm, so be there and be ready to hear about Gundams. Tickets are £8 for students and £10 for general admission: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-in-cambridge-15062019/
*COMEDY KLAXON*: Come to Milo’s regular comedy night on June 5 at The Sekforde (34 Sekforde St…
Jun 3, 2019
Ready Worker One
Listen up, you hogs: for those of you who missed the live show in London on May 30, please enjoy this recording. Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) are joined by special guest and TF original Charlie Palmer (@cfppalmer) for a night of apps for loan sharks, philanthropy for space villains, and a game of pong played against an electrified shelf. You’ll love it!
If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* On June 15, we’ll perform at Wolfson College Bar (Wolfson College, Cambridge CB3 9BB) in Cambridge. The show starts at 8:30 pm, so be there and be ready to hear about Gundams. Tickets are £8 for students and £10 for general admission: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-in-cambridge-15062019/
*COMEDY KLAXON*: Come to Milo’s re…
May 27, 2019
Give These Mugs a Thong-Slap feat. Andrew Law
Damn, it sure looks like Australia had its UK Labour in 2015 moment this past week, in which the centre-left party favoured to win has instead snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Why did the Coalition win? Why does Bill Shorten want to get rid of the weekend? Why does every Australian deserve a go? In this episode, Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts) asked Australia expert Andrew Law (@IllyBocean) of the Boonta Vista podcast to explain it to us. We also discuss Theresa May’s resignation and much, much more.
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*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing once again at the Star of Kings in Kings Cross (…
May 26, 2019
*Preview* Professor X’s School for Former Gifted Children
Did you know that, despite renting space in basically every building in the world, WeWork incinerates money and cannot ever turn a profit? Did you know that there's an IoT-connected chastity belt that locks your dick to your phone? So much and more is here for you to discover -- and in the preview of this week's bonus episode, you'll hear from the full gang of Riley, Milo, Hussein, Nate, and Alice.
If you like this episode, get the full thing on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/27081435
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing once again at the Star of Kings in Kings Cross (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) on Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 pm. Get your tickets here and return to the podcasting basement! https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-30052019/
*ADDITIONAL LIVE SHOW ALERT* On June 15, we’ll perform at Wolfson College Bar (Wolfson College, Cambridge CB3 9BB) in Cambridge. The show starts at 8:30 pm, so be there and be ready to hear abo…
May 22, 2019
Bossed in Space feat. Laurie Laybourn-Langton
It seems like we have limited choices for the future of humanity. On one hand, we could stop the endless, destructive growth cycle that will ruin our climate, but that might affect shareholders’ portfolios. We could also build hellish capitalism in space, according to Jeff Bezos. This week, Riley, Milo, Alice, and Olga met with IPPR Associate Fellow Laurie Laybourn-Langton to discuss our options. Turns out, capital doesn’t want us to choose the good one!
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*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing once again at the Star of Kings in Kings Cross (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) on Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 pm. Get your tickets here and return to the podcasting basement! https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-30052019/
*ADDITIONAL LIVE SHOW ALERT* On June…
May 20, 2019
*Unlocked* Genghis Khan: Business Tycoon feat. Soweto Kinch
This week, we speak to jazz saxophonist and MC Soweto Kinch (@sowetokinch) about big tech's attempts to steal creative idea-generation concepts and apply them to high-stress startup culture. We also talk about certified genius Roger Scruton, and Milo brings back his south-of-south-of-Louisiana accent. You will enjoy this.
If you like this episode, you can access it and dozens like it by subscribing to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing once again at the Star of Kings in Kings Cross (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) on Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 pm. Get your tickets here and return to the podcasting basement! It's £10 to see the show. https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-30052019/
*ADDITIONAL LIVE SHOW ALERT* On June 15, we’ll perform at Wolfson College Bar (Wolfson College, Cambridge CB3 9BB) in Cambridge. The show starts at 8:30 pm, so be there and be ready to hear about Gundams. Tickets ar…
May 15, 2019
*Unlocked* Riley's Commie Book Club: Mark Fisher
It’s that time again: Riley sat down with a book, and now you have to hear him talk about it for an hour or so. This month, Riley read K-Punk, out now on Repeater Books. K-Punk collects the previously unpublished writing of British left cultural, political, and social critic Mark Fisher, who explored realism and imagination, future and memory, and the freedom to imagine better worlds.
If you like this episode, you can access it and dozens like it by subscribing to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing once again at the Star of Kings in Kings Cross (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) on Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 pm. Get your tickets here and return to the podcasting basement! https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-30052019/
*ADDITIONAL LIVE SHOW ALERT* On June 15, we’ll perform at Wolfson College Bar (Wolfson College, Cambridge CB3 9BB) in Cambridge. The show starts at 8:30 pm, so be there and be…
May 15, 2019
*Preview* President Jake Paul's Heated Moments feat. Chris Stokel-Walker
Everyone knows YouTube: the place where you can watch Peppa Pig get beheaded, watch crocodiles turn into chickens, learn about why earth is flat, and so much more. However, YouTube as a cultural phenomenon has created an entire new generation of public figures — a bunch of damn celebrities — and in a preview of this week's bonus, Hussein, Milo, and Nate speak with author Chris Stokel-Walker (@stokel) about his new book "YouTubers: How YouTube shook up TV and created a new generation of stars."
Access the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/26713525
You can buy the book here: https://www.canburypress.com/store/p28/-YouTubers-book-by-Chris-Stokel-Walker.html
Also, this episode features a preview of a crossover feature on Nate's podcast What a Hell of a Way to Die: Riley and Nate discuss Warhammer 40k and why it has such cachet among weird internet reactionaries. Get it on SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.com/hellofawaytodie/demon-guitar-solo-trumpism-fe…
May 13, 2019
Robot Chores feat. James Vincent
Well, the Conservatives are at it again. Whether it’s Matt Hancock or Liz Truss or Rory Stewart, they’re out being dumb and unaware. But don’t worry, friends -- your reassembled gang of all original lads, Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) are here to tell you why the Instagram Tories are bad and untrustworthy.
This week, we’re joined in studio by James Vincent (@jjvincent), senior reporter for the Verge, on the topic of hellish developments in automation. Imagine if Capital could make robots driven by drone operators in countries without a minimum wage? And imagine those robots were meant to act like butlers? You can read about it in James’s article here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18538020/home-robot-butler-telepresence-ugo-mira-robotics
Additionally, we reference an Astra Taylor article from Logic Magazine, which you can read here: https://logicmag.io/05-the-automation-charade/
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May 6, 2019
TFOTY Gives Back
Britain has a serious need for Agony Aunts. Whether it’s a mundane or bizarre problem, people are out there asking for advice on issues such as: racist party guests, children who hate them, how to divide their expansive estates, border stones, and other completely bananas issues. This week, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Olga (@rocknrolga ), spoke with musician GFOTY (@gfoty) about to help these wayward souls, these Jacobs Rees-Mogg, these Rods Liddle. Surprise, surprise -- the solution often involves Katie Price.
The closing music is a cover of Blink-182's 'All the Small Things' by GFOTY, and you can get it on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwV8FdzOOLM&feature=youtu.be
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Apr 29, 2019
Capitalism Is Sucking Itself Off feat. Grace Blakeley
Why is it that there are so many billion-dollar startups that ultimately don’t do anything? Under normal circumstances, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Hussein (@HKesvani) would just make a joke about Yu-Gi-Oh dragon dick in order to describe it. However, this week we were lucky enough to get expert insight from Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley), the New Statesman’s economics commentator. So, learn all about the inherent contradictions in the value-extraction approaches of this newer and dumber capitalism—explained of course through the usual genre of joke (we never, ever, ever change our format).
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*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing once again at the Star of Kings in Kings Cross (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) on Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 pm. Get your tickets…
Apr 26, 2019
*Preview* No Safe Spaces in Airport Security feat. Karen Geier
In this week's bonus episode, Riley, Milo, and Hussein speak with writer Karen Geier (@karengeier) about Butt-mentum—the sudden ubiquity of Pete Buttigieg—as well as other topics to include the Extinction Rebellion protests and an *insane* denunciation of Heathrow Airport by a man writing for Conservative Woman. It's good, folks.
If you want to access the full episode, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/26364575
Please vote for us at this year's British Podcast Awards, and make us the toast of the dumbest possible award show on the planet: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing once again at the Star of Kings in Kings Cross (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) on Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are £10—get them here and return to the podcasting basement! https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-30052019/
*COMEDY KLAXON*: Come to Milo’s regular comedy night on May 8 at The Sekf…
Apr 23, 2019
A Blair for All Seasons
Every now and again, Tony Blair pops up to tell us that we’re doing too much social justice and that maybe Tommy Robinson has a point. This week, the gang of Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) discuss a report from the Tony Blair Institute for Social Change about—and this is not hyperbole—why populism is apparently immigrants’ fault? It’s bad, of course, but chances are good that no one will read it except for irony podcasters.
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If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing once again at the Star of Kings in Kings Cross (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) on Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 pm. Get your tickets here and return to the podcasting basement! https:…
Apr 22, 2019
*Preview* Summoning Cthulhu in Silicon Valley feat. Soweto Kinch
In a preview of this week's bonus episode, we speak to jazz saxophonist and MC Soweto Kinch (@sowetokinch) about big tech's attempts to steal creative idea-generation concepts and apply them to high-stress startup culture. We also talk about certified genius Roger Scruton, and Milo brings back his south-of-south-of-Louisiana accent. You will enjoy this.
If you want to hear the full episode, access it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/26177792
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing once again at the Star of Kings in Kings Cross (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) on Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 pm. Get your tickets here and return to the podcasting basement! https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-30052019/
*COMEDY KLAXON*: Come to Milo’s regular comedy night on April 24 at The Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA), This show also starts at 8 pm and features Mickey Overman among many others, to include TF’s own Charlie Palmer. ht…
Apr 15, 2019
The Great Brexit Escape...Room feat. Tom Kibasi
We’re long overdue for something smart about Brexit on this show, or something smart in general. To that effect, this week, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) speak with Brexit seer and director of IPPR, Tom Kibasi (@TomKibasi). You may remember Tom from our infamous November ‘Yu-Gi-Oh Dragon Dick” episode in which he correctly predicted the entire sequence of events leading up to now re: Brexit. Well, Tom has more predictions, so this one will be a treat.
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Apr 11, 2019
*Preview* TF Live at Bristol Transformed feat. Jack Frayne-Reid and Dalia Gebrial
This is it, folks. The first live recording with our mobile space station, the first outside-London show, and the first leftist UK politics supergroup podcast featuring Dalia Gebrial (@daliagebrial )of Novara Media and Jack Frayne-Reid (@gapesology ) of Reel Politik Podcast. Recorded live at Hamilton House, Stokes Croft, Bristol on April 5, 2019, it's a show about the things that matter: brain scanning helmets that write musical symphonies, Bristol's slave-trade past, its devotion to one particular slave-trading city father, and the local Illuminati that worship him like a god.
If you want to hear the whole thing, you can access it on our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tf-live-at-feat-26018245
*COMEDY KLAXON* On Thursday, April 18 at The Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA), TF's own Milo Edwards will preview his Edinburgh show The show starts at 8 pm; tickets are £5 and can be purchased here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-presents-milo-edwards-pi…
Apr 8, 2019
BULBFUTURE ft. India Block
Riley, Milo, and Nate talk housing, living, and building with Dezeen's own India Block (@indiablock). We start with a start up, then go through Help to Buy and the enormous ponzi schemes the Tory government keeps setting up to provide us with basic human needs (instead of, you know, just providing for the needs), and conclude talking about the only kind of thing left we can build, which is some stupid ass tulip that nobody asked for but I guess we're getting anyway because a billionaire wanted it?
If you live in the UK, register to vote in the upcoming May 2 local elections using this link: https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
*COMEDY KLAXON*: On April 10 at The Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA), two of the most profoundly funny voices in British comedy (and members of the Balthasar Speedboat cast), Pierre Novellie and Alex Kealy, will perform at Smoke Comedy. The show starts at 8 pm; tickets are £5 and can be purchased here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-fe…
Apr 1, 2019
Same S***, Different Organ Farm feat. Tim Faust
This week, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) speak with health justice advocate and writer Tim Faust (@crulge) about his campaigning for single-payer in the US, why anything besides Medicare for All is a scam, and why the creeping privatisation of programmes like Medicare and Medicaid resemble Tony Blair’s ‘reforms’ of the NHS in the early 2000s.
If you liked what Tim had to say, pre-order his book here! https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/health-justice-now/
During this episode, Riley references a Wired article about friend of the show Matt Hancock and his generous benefactor Babylon. You can read that here: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/babylon-health-nhs
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be performing live at Bristol Transformed on Friday, April 5th at 8 pm. The venue is Hamilton House 3A, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY. https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/ View the Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/…
Mar 30, 2019
*Preview* Titania McGrath Tells You You're Smart [ASMR] feat. Dalia Gebrial
Amazing how Titania McGrath, a fictional account that owns Millennials by making dad jokes, is the talk of the London Media. It's almost like the account is run by two middle-aged Tories whose friends all RT them out of a sense of obligation. In a preview of this week's bonus, Riley, Milo, and Nate speak with Novara Media's Dalia Gebrial (@daliagebrial) about the Titania McGrath 'phenomenon,' and why it speaks to the deeply conservative cornerstones of horniness and hurt feelings.
If you want to listen to the full episode, you can access it on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25675130
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be performing live at Bristol Transformed on Friday, April 5th at 8 pm. The venue is Hamilton House 3A, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY. https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/ View the Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/
*COMEDY KLAXON*: On April 10 at The Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA), two of the m…
Mar 30, 2019
*Special Guest* QAnon Anonymous Presents: Conspiracy Feud feat. TF and Boonta Vista
In a special guest cross-post, Riley and Hussein appeared on the much-recommended Qanon Anonymous podcast to discuss nationally-sourced conspiracies. This features Lucy Valentine of the Boonta Vista podcast as a judge. Listen as the gang discuss David Icke, Direct Energy Weapons, Reptilians, Gangstalking and Hollow Earth.
Support Qanon Anonymous on Patreon here: patreon.com/qanonanonymous
Mar 25, 2019
It's The Void, Folks
No guest this week, as the boys instead sit down solo to discuss the nihilistic right wing death cult that’s getting whipped into an upward spiraling murderous frenzy by the extremely respectable media. Why do they all rush to distance themselves from the things they encourage their readers to do? Why is it that when we make up a fake Brendan O'Neill article, the real Brendan O'Neill writes it basically verbatim?
Do you want more Commie Book Club? Access this month's episode (an examination of the work of Mark Fisher) by subscribing to the Patreon, and you can get all our other weekly bonus episodes, too: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25530712
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be performing live at Bristol Transformed on Friday, April 5th at 8 pm. The venue is Hamilton House 3A, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY. https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/ View the Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/
*COMEDY KLAXON*: On March 27 at 8pm, Milo will h…
Mar 24, 2019
*Unlocked* Riley's Commie Book Club - 'State of Insecurity'
It's that time again! In an unlocked bonus episode, Riley read a book, drank some wine, and is ready to talk about it to you fine people. This month, we're looking at State of Insecurity by Isabell Lorey, available now on Verso. It's all about precariousness and how neoliberalism has turned us into our own disciplinarians.
Check out the book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1737-state-of-insecurity
Do you want more Commie Book Club? Access this month's episode (an examination of the work of Mark Fisher) by subscribing to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25530712
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be performing live at Bristol Transformed on Friday, April 5th at 8 pm. The venue is Hamilton House 3A, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY. https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/ View the Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/
Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s manda…
Mar 18, 2019
The Wetherspoons App Is The Highest Stage of Capitalism ft. Mark Watson
This week, Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum ) speak with comedian and writer Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian) about the Adam Smith Institute’s newest declaration: the that Wetherspoons app is the pinnacle of human achievement. Did you know that you can order peas to anyone, at any table at any Wetherspoons pub in Britain? Oh wait, publicly-owned buildings? Never mind those, get the damn peas.
You can access Mark Watson’s Comedy Marathon here -- listen to it all: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Mark-Watsons-Comedy-Marathon-Audiobook/B07P1BJTZR?qid=1551347792&sr=1-7&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_7&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=J6Z81A174WT7M4TTCYAQ&
Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview — and if you do, you’ll gain access to our Discord server, where you can talk about soup with us a…
Mar 14, 2019
*Preview* Trashfuture Presents: Balthasar Speedboat 3
This is a promo of this week's Patreon bonus episode.
We're back in the saddle for yet another edition of Balthasar Speedboat. This episode features Riley, Milo, Nate, Alex Kealy (@alexkealy), Olga Koch (@rocknrolga), and Pierre Novellie (@pierrenovellie) -- and covers the usual spectrum of topics (but mostly Michael Jackson). Did you know Riley apparently sheds hair as a defensive mechanism? Did you know that Richard Nixon was convinced that gays brought down the Roman Empire? All this can be yours, and more.
If you want to listen to the whole thing, you can get it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25350411
Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously.
Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is available here: https://teespring.com/what-if-phone-cops#pid=659&cid=102968&sid=front
Mar 11, 2019
Billion$ feat. James Meadway
We live in a blessed time, a truly wise era of human history in which Kylie Jenner’s cosmetics front company is somehow valued at $1 billion USD. Now, this is not a good thing, and special guest James Meadway (@meadwaj) -- an economist, writer, and former adviser to John McDonnell MP -- explains why this is just one symptom of the morass in which we find ourselves, and why recovering an oppositional style of politics is more important than ever.
This episode features all of the Trash lads -- Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Nate (@inthesedeserts), and including James this makes for 5 dudes in one room. As Hussein explains during the episode, this is a crucial limit.
Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview — and if you do, you’ll gain access to our Discord server, where you can talk about soup with us all day.
*COMEDY KLAXON*: On March 13 at 8p…
Mar 4, 2019
“It Just Means ‘Ignorant Person’” feat. Alex Kealy
Friends, we at the Trashfuture podcast do not in any way want our jokes to become real. We don’t want Elon Musk to control the internet with a submarine like the Sons of Liberty in Metal Gear Solid 2. We don’t want Matt Hancock to parkour his way into our phones with a mandatory app. But we always knew in our hearts that the essence of conservatism is “why can’t I say the n-word.” And that latter item happened this week, as certified normal person and author Lionel Shriver wrote exactly that in the Spectator. As is to be expected, Nate (@inthesedeserts), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Olga (@rocknrolga ), and Alex Kealy @alexkealy perform a deep dive on Lionel’s own words. Shocker: they’re insane!
Riley is not on this episode. He was busy skiing and handed the keys to the purple Trashfuture Lamborghini to the rest of us. You Won’t Believe What Happened Next.
Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.…
Mar 4, 2019
*Unlocked* Work Sucks (We Know) feat. Will Stronge
Riley and Milo sit down with Will Stronge, director of Autonomy and one of the principal authors of the four day work week report (linked here) that’s been generating so much interest lately. Sing it loud and sing it proud: work sucks!
This episode originally appeared on our bonus content feed. You can sign up for $5 a month on Patreon and get an episode like this each week: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture (this also will grant you access to our Discord server).
Here's a link to the Autonomy report that Will references in the episode: http://autonomy.work/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Shorter-working-week-final.pdf
*COMEDY KLAXON*: On March 13 at 8pm, Milo will host another Smoke Comedy at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA). This show costs £5 and will feature all new material from Tania Edwards, Chloe Petts, Dimitri Bakanov, and Raph Wakefield. Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-with-tania-edwards-tickets-56285827425
Also: you can comm…
Feb 25, 2019
The Labour Splittacular feat. Mollie Goodfellow
A new party formed, except they’re not a party, and they don’t have policies, and their logo makes them look like a store where you can buy a £10 cup of juice. That’s right, we’re talking The Independent Group on this week’s episode. Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) spoke with comedy writer Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) about the Labour splitters and their delightful approach to ideology versus facts.
Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview — and if you do, you’ll gain access to our Discord server, where you can talk about soup with us all day.
*COMEDY KLAXON* On 27th February at 8 pm, Elf Lyons and a number of other comics will perform at Smoke Comedy at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA). Tickets are £5, and you can get them here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-with-elf-lyons-tic…
Feb 21, 2019
*Preview* Work Sucks (We Know) feat. Will Stronge
In a preview of this week's bonus episode, Riley and Milo sit down with Will Stronge, director of Autonomy and one of the principal authors of the four day work week report (linked here) that’s been generating so much interest lately. Sing it loud and sing it proud: work sucks!
You can access the full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/work-sucks-we-24815906
If you want to learn more about Autonomy, visit their site here: http://autonomy.work/
*COMEDY KLAXON* On 27th February at 8 pm, Elf Lyons and a number of other comics will perform at Smoke Comedy at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA). Tickets are £5, and you can get them here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-with-elf-lyons-tickets-55825778406
Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously.
Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is…
Feb 19, 2019
Nostalgia Avengers: Infinity WW2 feat. Owen Hatherley
We love Britain and British things. We’re a podcast suffused with the Blitz Spirit, the Dunkirk Spirit, the Dying of Black Lung Spirit, and in honour of that, we decided to take on the big issues of modern Britain, such as the following: some rich people tried to sue the Tate Modern because they didn’t want to buy curtains. This week, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) spoke with Tribune Magazine culture editor Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) about the Tate Modern viewing platform, architecture in London, Winston f**king Churchill, and much more.
Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview — and if you do, you’ll gain access to our Discord server, where you can talk about soup with us all day.
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We have an upcoming live show in London on February 21st at the Star of Kings (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1…
Feb 12, 2019
Failure to Launch feat. Hasan Piker
We did it. We streamed our podcast live. Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) managed to successfully host a live video podcast while speaking with Hasan Piker (@hasanthehun) on Twitch. We discussed the abortive (to put it mildly) launch of Turning Point UK. Just who are the weirdos that fund it and support it? Why are they all part of weird Oxford racism societies? And why is Candace Owens praising Hitler?
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*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We have an upcoming live show -- with comedian Josie Long -- in London on February 21st at the Star of Kings (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) starting at 7.30 pm. You can buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-ft-josie-long-tickets-54546538164
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Feb 8, 2019
UNLOCKED Riley's Commie Book Club: The Blurst Is Yet to Come
Riley's Commie Book Club is a bit different. This time, Riley speaks with scholar and author Peter Fleming — you might recognize the name from a previous episode discussing his book 'The Death of Homo Economicus' — and this time they cover the subject of Peter's new book, 'The Worst Is Yet to Come: A Post-Capitalist Survival Guide.' Peter Fleming is a professor at the University of London and the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of several books, including The Mythology of Work (2015) and The Death of Homo Economicus (2017). His writing has appeared in the Guardian and Financial Times. Peter stayed up late in Australia in order to have a lively discussion with your delightful host, and we're greatly appreciative of him. You should buy Peter's book, and you can do so here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-worst-is-yet-to-come-a-post-capitalist-survival-guide/
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We have an upcoming live show -- with comedian Josie Long -- in London on February…
Feb 4, 2019
Somewheres, Anywheres, Sex Nerds feat. Bryan Quinby
Another week is upon us, and that means another Silicon Valley company has reinvented loan sharking. Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Olga (@rocknrolga ) reached out to someone with extensive knowledge in how payday lenders screw over the poor: Bryan Quinby (@MurderBryan), host of Street Fight Radio in Columbus, OH.
They discuss a loan-sharking payday lender for your rent, and the liberal fixation on books like J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” and its British equivalent, David Goodheart’s “The Road to Somewhere.” These books are bad, don’t worry, but they’re also deeply invested in the idea of valourising reactionary tendencies as natural and good things. Which is why we gave them the Trashfuture treatment. The article Riley references by Tom Whyman is here: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/yp7m5v/how-theresa-may-understands-people-as-somewheres-and-anywheres.
A friend of the show was in a car accident in the US and needs funds for surgery. He has an amazing…
Feb 4, 2019
*Preview* Trashfuture Presents: Balthasar Speedboat 2
It was admittedly a shock to all of us that any of you liked our previous Balthasar Speedboat show. However, you did, and as such we've decided to revisit it with a new episode. You can hear Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Olga (@rocknrolga ), Alex Kealy (@alexkealy), and Charlie Palmer (@cfppalmer) for a near hour of riffs. Did you know the British had a song in World War II dedicated to Hitler's balls? Did you know that's actually body shaming? All this and more, on Balthasar Speedboat 2.
Access the full episode by subscribing to the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/trashfuture-2-24310486
Jan 28, 2019
Privatise the NHS, My A$$ (I Won’t Privatise the NHS) feat. Rob Delaney
It was a usual Friday afternoon in the Caliphate of Tower Hamlets. Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Olga (@rocknrolga ) were minding their own business when a man walked in with a baby. That man was Rob Delaney (@robdelaney), comedian and star of ‘Catastrophe’ on Channel 4. We discussed a terrible service that aims to provide feudalism in education, NHS privatisation plans, and why all of Matt Hancock’s acolytes can’t seem to stop taking jobs at health app companies.
This is the first of what will surely be a number of business baby podcasts. All future guests take note: bring babies.
A friend of the show was in a car accident in the US and needs funds for surgery. He has an amazing Patreon that you should sign up for: https://www.patreon.com/EminemObama
Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We ha…
Jan 24, 2019
*Preview* Into the Brexit Mind Palace feat. George Eaton
In a preview of this week's bonus episode, we're taking you to a brain expansion dimension that you've never visited before. Riley, Hussein, Milo, and Alice join special guest George Eaton (@georgeeaton), deputy editor at the New Statesman for a discussion of the HBO / Channel 4 feature film 'Brexit' starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings.
Sure, it's bad, but is that really so surprising? We delve into it with the keen insights that you've come to expect from us.
Want to listen to the whole episode? Become a Patreon subscriber and access it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/into-brexit-mind-24152724
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We have an upcoming live show -- with comedian Josie Long -- in London on February 21st at the Star of Kings (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) starting at 7.30 pm. You can buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-ft-josie-long-tickets-54546538164
*COMEDY KLAXON* On 13th February at 8 pm, Josie Long and a number of other co…
Jan 21, 2019
The Original Big Fella feat. Joel Golby
The inmates are in control of the asylum today. Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani) are joined by Joel Golby (@joelgolby) to discuss his new book, ‘Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant: Modern Life as Interpreted By Someone Who Is Reasonably Bad at Living It.’ However, we also discuss London real estate, Caroline Calloway’s Instragram reign of terror, eel and pie houses, and Bam Margera's big uncle Vito.
*BUY JOEL’S BOOK* https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brilliant-Modern-Interpreted-Someone-Reasonably/dp/0008265402?tag=smarturl-gb-21
Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We have an upcoming live show -- with comedian Josie Long -- in London on February 21st at the Star of Kings (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) starting at 7.30 pm. You can buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-ft-josi…
Jan 20, 2019
UNLOCKED Riley's Commie Book Club: The End of the Transition Paradigm
Riley's commie book club unlocked for you this weekend! Listen to Riley talk about his experiences with International Relations as an academic discipline via a paper by Thomas Carothers, The End of the Transition Paradigm.
Jan 15, 2019
2018: A Year of Brain Expansion Part 2 of 2 (feat. Simon Childs)
This is part 2 of a 2-part extended recording in which your diligent hosts review a year that was bad. Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts), join Vice UK home affairs editor Simon Childs (@simonchilds13) to discuss 2018, the year our brains got so irradiated by dumbness that we began appreciating Joker memes in earnest.
Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We have an upcoming live show -- with comedian Josie Long -- in London on February 21st at the Star of Kings (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) starting at 7.30 pm. You can buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-ft-josie-long-tickets-54546538164
*COMEDY KLAXON* The previous Smoke event has sold out, but on January 31st at 8 pm, Milo will perform his own show at Smoke Comedy at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0H…
Jan 14, 2019
2018: A Year of Brain Expansion Part 1 of 2 (feat. Simon Childs)
We’re leaving negativity behind in 2019. Instead, we’re getting up early each morning to jog 10 miles while playing influencer audiobooks at 2x speed. However, a lot happened in 2018, and we at least need to discuss it. This week, in part 1 of a 2-part episode, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts), join Vice UK home affairs editor Simon Childs (@simonchilds13) to discuss 2018, the year our brains got so irradiated by dumbness that we began appreciating Joker memes in earnest.
Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We have an upcoming live show -- with comedian Josie Long -- in London on February 21st at the Star of Kings (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) starting at 7.30 pm. You can buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-ft-josie-long-tickets-54546538164
*COMEDY KLAXON* Th…
Jan 10, 2019
*Preview* Humu Among Us feat. Trashfuture Classic Lineup
Real heads will appreciate this one: we've assembled the full Trashfuture roster, featuring Riley, Milo, Charlie Palmer, Hussein, and Nate, and we're discussing a great (read: bad) startup that wants to give your employees helpful nudges. We also talk Netflix's acquiescing to Saudi censorship, a terrible column that tries to defend UK rail fare hikes, and so much more.
If you want to listen to the full thing, subscribe to the Patreon and access the episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/humu-among-us-tf-23873674
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We have an upcoming live show — with comedian Josie Long — in London on February 21st at the Star of Kings (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) starting at 7.30 pm. You can buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-ft-josie-long-tickets-54546538164
*COMEDY KLAXON* The previous Smoke event has sold out, but on January 31st at 8 pm, Milo will perform his own show at Smoke Comedy at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London…
Jan 7, 2019
Children of the Coren feat. Jonathan Nunn
What if you could never be fired from your job -- even if you crossed every possible line, to include threatening to sexually assault and then immolate your neighbour’s child during a row over drum practice? What if you were also insanely racist? In your published columns? Well then, you’d be Giles Coren, Britain’s worst food writer. This week, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Olga (@rocknrolga ) join Eater London writer Jonathan Nunn (@demarionunn) to discuss Giles’s reign of terror in the British food writing scene.
We also discuss transport secretary Chris Grayling’s scheme to fund a ferry company with no boats -- and, crucially, an article from Ed Husain on ‘Britain regaining its confidence’ that seems to be written by artificial intelligence.
Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview
*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We have an upcoming live sho…
Dec 31, 2018
Intelligence 2.0 feat. Felix Biederman
Happy new year, you voles, you vulgar abbey mice. The clock might just be striking midnight, but that’s no excuse for you to not ditch your family and the people who love you in order to listen to this week’s Trashfuture. In this episode, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Alice Caldwell-Kelly (@AliceAvizandum) join special guest Felix Biederman (@ByYourLogic) of Chapo Trap House to discuss Steven Pinker’s exceptional work of analysis, “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.”
Okay, breaking kayfabe here -- this is the dumbest book on the planet. The idea that this even got published is proof of the sheer brain death involved among Harvard thought leaders. You will enjoy the takes, but you have to go into it with the following fact in hand: we didn’t make any of this up. These are real quotes.
Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview…
Dec 26, 2018
Radical Horse Parts feat. Trevor Beaulieu and Wendy Liu
It’s a strange situation when we actually like something on this show - and therefore decided to have a relatively serious conversation about it.
On this week’s Trashfuture, Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) spoke with Wendy Liu (@dellsystem) and Trevor Beaulieu (@RickyRawls ) of the Champagne Sharks podcast about Boots Riley’s film ‘Sorry to Bother You.’ As you can possibly imagine, we really enjoyed this film and had a lot to say about it, specifically about how it’s an unabashedly socialist movie that’s also funny.
Spoiler alert: yes, this podcast contains spoilers.
If you want to hear more from Trevor, you can access episodes of Champagne Sharks here: https://soundcloud.com/champagnesharks
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Dec 20, 2018
*Preview* #WeHaveBeenPubliclyShamed / Trashfuture Q&A
This week's bonus is the first installment of something we've been wanting to do for a while: a Q&A episode. However, before we could get there, we had to read our beloved boy Toby Young's insane holiday column about his 'vertiginous' 'defenestration' from public life. In this preview, you can get a taste of what it's like when we have free reign to respond to our curiouscat.
We did our best to answer your questions with a minimum of Yu Gi Oh references. Well, a relative minimum. If you want to hear the whole episode, sign up on the Patreon at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/wehavebeenpublic-23436301
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