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Britcoin: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come feat. Dan Davies
Former BoE economist and author Dan Davies joins us to talk about Central Bank Digital Currencies, programmable money, and the ongoing quest of central banks to hoard more power. Also, we unlock the details of Starmer’s pledge to make the U.K. the fastest growing economy in the G7 by luck or possibly magic, but witho...
HyperCube feat. Seamus Malekafzali
It's the free one!Terror has a new dimension. Alice, Riley, and returning guest, journalist Seamus Malekafzali (@Seamus_Malek) talk about the Saudi pivot to the third dimension. Also, Labour’s fabulous plans to fix criminal justice “by just using people from the town,” and Matt Hancock’s foray into NFT’s ...
Britainology 56: The British Car Industry feat. Alice Caldwell-Kelly
For this month's second Britainology, we're delving into the history of British cars and their dismal fate at the hands of Thatcherism. We could have had even more Rovers and Austins and Vanden Plases, but instead we wound up with most British cars being rebadged German vehicles. But we did at least get an Atom...
The Prime Minister We Deserved: TF Live feat. Nish Kumar
We've done it again. We've subjected Nish Kumar to a terrible political book. However, rather than being a UK politician's attempt at literary fiction, we've instead delved into Harry Cole and James Heale's ill-timed work 'Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall o...
The Boney Island Whitefish in: Unfunny Games (Feat. Alice Caldwell-Kelly)
After an accidental break and a lost episode 3, Andrew and Riley are back with Episode 4! Alice from Trashfuture and Kill James Bond joins us for gangstalking construction workers, breakfast plans, Guy Ritchie defense and 2010's dismal understanding of viral posts.
Guns, Posts, and Steel feat. Patrick Wyman
It's the free one!Friend of the show Patrick Wyman (@Patrick_Wyman) joins the gang to talk about ancient state formation… and also a strange book written by a venture capitalist about how this entity called The Network (him and his friends) will replace God and the State as the Leviathan of 21st century society. ...
Womenne Doth Be ſhoppinge feat. Dr Eleanor Janega
Friend of the show Dr Eleanor Janega (@GoingMedieval) joins the gang to discuss her new book, The Once and Future Sex, about misogyny through the ages, and how while the justifications change, the outcome is always the same. It is a depressingly relevant conversation to the ongoing campaign of stochastic terrorism carr...
Britainology 55: Seven Up!
For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo watched the first installment of the Up series, the 1964 mini-documentary SEVEN UP! Filmed as a commentary on Britain's class system and unintentionally becoming a time lapse of the Baby Boomers, it's still an absolute gem of British Pathé Voice, and much ...
Palo Alto Uber Alles feat. Malcolm Harris
It's the free one!Malcolm Harris (@bigmeaninternet), author of the forthcoming Palo Alto, joins the gang to talk about the history of capitalism, empire, America, California, Palo Alto, and the one very special University that may not have invented racism, but it sure did perfect it.Get PALO ALTO here: https://www....
Only Britain Fails to Soldier On
There's a rumor circulating that Liz Truss may be making a comeback. Well, she might think so--and she's written an article about it. We review this excellent piece of writing line-by-line, as well as addressing some coin-minting antipathy from a weird Canadian columnist that Riley found. We very much hope you ...
Where The Boys Are feat. Mattie Lubchansky
It's the free one!We brought on friend of the show and extremely good cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky (@lubchansky) to discuss their new book BOYS WEEKEND. They wanted to register a website for the book at boysweekend.com, but it’s been parked on by a group of guys who’ve been having boys’ weekends since 2000. A...
FBI Anime Girlfriend Chatbot feat. Paris Marx
This week, we're speaking with Paris Marx (@parismarx) of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast about recent developments in AI--the grift moving from web 3.0 to artificial intelligence, the idea that anything is good enough so long as it automates people out of a job, and much more. Hope you enjoy!Check out Tech Won&...
AmeriCOIN feat. Joe Weisenthal
It's the free one!This week, we speak with Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) of the Bloomberg dot com Odd Lots podcast about minting the coin. But not just any coin: a strange loophole in a ’90s law designed to let the U.S. Mint produce collectors’ coins basically means that, if they wanted to, the director could o...
Trashfuture LIVE IN LONDON with NISH KUMAR discount for $10 patrons
Join us on 20th Feb for another London live show, this time at Backyard comedy club, where we will be subjecting Nish Kumar to the Liz Truss book.Discount code for $10+ patrons: porkmarkets10
Britainology 54: 'Spare,' by Prince Harry
We had to do it. We had to read the book. We had to access this pure stream of Britainology from the source. And in truth it was a strange experience—not altogether horrible but also at times deeply, deeply stupid. We hope you enjoy this recounting of the time Milo and Nate both read Prince Harry's memoir.
TF Live in BERLIN
Very excited to announce that Berlin tickets are now on sale!Join uns 11th Marz auf Berlin fur die live podkast auf english mit den sweghttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-in-berlin-tickets-525728156067
No True Starmer feat. Abi Thorn
Abi Thorn (@PhilosophyTube) joins Riley, Milo, and Alice for a mostly dessert episode today! (Hussein continues to recover from a wasting disease, and will be back soon). In the mean time we’ve got news, startups, more Elon nonsense, and then to top it off we try to elucidate “Starmerism” as a political theory, r...
We Have You Surrounded! State Your Pronouns! feat. Beth Douglas
It's the free one!Activist and campaigner Beth Douglas joins the gang to discuss Scotland’s decision to make transing your gender a more dignified, simple experience, and concomitant decision by the U.K. government to retaliate by launching Trident on its own position.
Britainology 53: Blue Peter
For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo examine a BBC children's show that has been running since the 1950s, despite no one watching it. The show is called Blue Peter, it's extremely boring, it feels like it's been taken out of a different era, and yes, there are allegations of adultery and d...
Trashfuture Avanti West Coast feat. Gareth Dennis
This week’s bonus features writer and rail engineer Gareth Dennis (@GarethDennis), host of the Rail Natter YouTube show, discussing the current state of British trains. The Tories are ideologically opposed to state capacity, sure, that’s table stakes, but did you know that Labour also promise to not fix the unavoid...
Mr Barnabas’ Borstal for Boys
It’s the free one!(the desync error from the previous version has been corrected)For this week's free episode, the gang is back together to discuss recent developments involving Microsoft buying AI software. However, we're more enthralled with a story from a county council in Cheshire and a proposed real esta...
Audio Issues with the Latest Episode
Hey everyone - we heard there were audio issues after 10 minutes with the most recent episode. A fixed version will be up later today! Sorry! Sorry!
The Sotadic Economic Zone feat. Ed Zitron
For this week's bonus, the nearly-full cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice speak with technology publicist and crypto sceptic Ed Zitron about the current state of the cryptocurrency market--of course it's a scam, everyone knows that, but just how much is it on the precipice? The answer will probably not sho...
Merch Drop + Patron Discounts
Hi everyone! We have some leftover stock of Rack Off Australia Tour T-Shirts, as well as posters of the same and sticker packs - all listed for sale on the website now! Discounts for patrons are: £5 off shirts with code tfhog69£2 off posters with code RACKOFFMEPOSTER£1 off sticker packs with code STICKERYDOO This is...
All Emergency Services Suspended; Crime Still Illegal
It’s the free one!The gang says goodbye to Matt Hancock MP, the fabulous app where we all met for the first time. Also, a real use for NFT's finally discovered. Mostly, though, we face up to a grim reality: the society of universal services that defined the postwar period has now fundamentally broken. Predictably...
Tales of the Spite Cube: TF Live in Brisbane feat. Aidan 'Taco' Jones
For this week's bonus, here's the live show we barely remember. It was our first show of the tour in Australia, we were jet lagged to the end of the earth, Milo was out sick with tummy trouble, and we were joined with special guest and friend of the show Aidan 'Taco' Jones to discuss... a spite cube. An...
Savoury Vapes Rising: Community Justice is Served (A Trashfuture New Years)
It’s the free one!Riley, Milo, and Alice ring in the new year by looking at the Economist’s rosy predictions in an alternate universe where Britain magically becomes fine due to the power of positive thinking and sharp dressing. We also look at some developments in Scotland, and Labour’s plan to give every homeow...
Balthasar Speedboat 447: Reddit Fraud Edition feat. Tom Ballard
We're joined by friend of the show and comedian Tom Ballard. No theme, pure riffs, comedians talking, and also Riley divulging a story about trying to buy used streetwear and being robbed by a Redditor. Embarrassing stuff, folks!
We Wish You a Polycrisis feat. Dominik Leusder
It's the free one!Riley, Milo, and Alice festively discuss some Christmas presents granted by the news, including the arrest of the dread pirate Bankman Fried and Elon Musk posting himself into penury. Also, Dom Leusder joins Riley in the second half to talk about the concept of “polycrisis” that appears to now...
Britainology 52: The Big Christmas Dinner
For this month's second Britainology, Nate and Milo discuss the mandatory food selections for British and American Christmas dinner, critique Christmas music and both countries' approach to it, establish that the existence of Black Friday in Russia posits the existence of Russian Thanksgiving (antisemitic), and...
