We’re having a blast in the Caliphate of Tower Hamlets. Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ) and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) met with Hasan Piker ( @hasanthehun ) from the Young Turks and discussed the important things in life: gaming, posting, and why Trashfuture villain Elon Musk may actually be the platonic ideal of a life lived online. We also held a quick conversation with Trevor Strunk ( @Hegelbon ) to discuss his recent article about Fortnite, how it relates to sc...
Oct 11, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 94
Well, here it is. You've been promised this for ages and now you're getting it: a discussion on techno as praxis. But, it's not as lame as that might sound, because Riley speaks with musician and producer Aloiso Wilmoth ( @HE_VALENCIA ) about the history of techno, its DIY ethos, its Midwest American roots, and how's it's been repackaged and sold as EDM. You can find Aloiso's music on SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.com/he_valencian This episode originally appeared as a bonus for our Patreon...
Oct 08, 2018•1 hr•Ep. 93
On this week's bonus episode preview, we're joined by Jack Frayne-Reid ( @frayne_jack) from the Reel Politik Podcast to discuss Our Meltiest MP's recent sad letter to the Guardian. We cover Labour's lack of broad-churchiness and there variety of ways in which the Blairite faction has become politically irrelevant (save for the pages of every stupid newspaper in Britain). If you want to hear the full epsiode, sign up on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/21916656 Don’t forget that yo...
Oct 07, 2018•4 min•Ep. 92
It’s been a big seven days for Trashfuture: we moved in to our new basement office in East London for starters, and this week Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) sat down with Alex Kapranos @alkapranos ) and Bob Hardy ( @B0bHardy ) from Franz Ferdinand (a band you might have heard of) to discuss streaming’s effect on artists, why they believe in the welfare state, the dangerous effects of austerity on creative arts, and -- of course -- some discussion of our f...
Oct 02, 2018•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 90
Please enjoy a short preview of this week's bonus episode from Riley. You've been promised this for ages and now you're getting it: a discussion on techno as praxis. But, it's not as lame as that might sound, because Riley speaks with musician and producer Aloiso Wilmoth ( @HE_VALENCIA ) about the history of techno, its DIY ethos, its Midwest American roots, and how's it's been repackaged and sold as EDM. You can find Aloiso's music on SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.com/he_valencian If you ...
Oct 02, 2018•5 min•Ep. 91
As you may have recently heard, we've launched a Patreon and will release new content each week for our subscribers. Last week, we sat down with former Jeremy Corbyn spokesman and friend of the show Matt Zarb-Cousin ( @mattzarb ). Once you subscribe, you'll have access to the full interview, and much more (far too much, we promise). The Patreon is available here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture And you can link directly to this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-youre-pee-in-215...
Sep 25, 2018•6 min•Ep. 89
It’s a session for the old heads this week, as Riley ( @raaleh ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Hussein ( @HKesvani ) rejoin original host Charlie Palmer ( @cfppalmer ) to discuss mandatory wearable tech, terrible libertarians, and the strange concept of conservative lunatic John Stossel being the author of American school children’s curriculum. Also, remember that your favourite idiot sons have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview Don’t forg...
Sep 24, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 88
We can’t get enough of IPPR reports (and insane conservative meltdowns in response to them) and this week, Riley ( @raaleh ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Hussein ( @HKesvani ) join IPPR researcher Matthew Lawrence ( @DantonsHead ) to discuss his recent report entitled ‘The Digital Commonwealth: From private enclosure to collective benefit,’ which you can read here . Also, remember that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfut...
Sep 17, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 87
It wouldn’t be Britain if our elected leaders weren’t discussing new ways to cut the state even further, and this week, Riley ( @raaleh ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) join New Statesman political editor George Eaton ( @georgeeaton ) to examine the principles behind austerity. Learn about faith-based supply-side economics, Sajid Javid’s annual reading of ‘Atlas Shrugged,’ and the recently released IPPR report that’s got everyone talking. It also just so happens that w...
Sep 11, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 86
It’s a busy start to September, and now that we’ve all renewed our dhimmi permits, we can enter the no-go zone of Whitechapel to record and episode. This week, Riley ( @raaleh ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) joined journalist and writer Oscar Rickett ( @oscarrickettnow) to discuss his work reporting on ayahuasca entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and, more importantly, on the demise of predatory UK usury magnates Wonga. Hussein ( @HKesvani ) dialed in from exotic Vancouv...
Sep 06, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 85
In a continuation of last week’s episode, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) join guests Andrew Law ( @IllyBocean ) and Lucy Valentine ( @LucyXIV ) from Boonta Vista Socialist Club ( @BoontaVista ) for a roundup of terrible right-wing columnists in the land of our terrible Commonwealth forebears. We absolutely, positively saved the best (worst) for last. You should definitely follow Boonta Vista — we had a great time putting this episode together and appreciate ...
Sep 03, 2018•59 min•Ep. 84
For this week’s episode, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) join guests Andrew Law ( @IllyBocean ) and Lucy Valentine ( @LucyXIV ) from the extremely good Australian podcast Boonta Vista Socialist Club ( @BoontaVista ) for a discussion of a topic close to all of our hearts: the worst right-wing columnists in the Anglosphere, their greatest hits, their origin stories, and why ‘white man’ is the worst slur in the English language. This discussion ran a bit long, a...
Aug 30, 2018•50 min•Ep. 83
For this week’s episode, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) discuss the absurdly high valuation of tech companies, the idea that tech impacts our lives as capital-subsidised precarity, and the fact that 40 percent of the US economy is effectively a shell game. Later, Riley and Milo speak with Molly Smith (@pastachips), co-author of Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights , about how the UK’s approach to criminalising sex work and persecuting sex...
Aug 22, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 82
Fringe is ongoing and in this episode Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) meet with comedian Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones ( @AJ_Taco ) and discuss tech platforms’ recent decisions to ban insane right-wing conspiracy mongers. Is this a good thing? You decide. They also discuss the extremely well adjusted recent articles from Boris Johnson, Rod Liddle, and Brendan O’Neill. You can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/ . You can also purchase u...
Aug 15, 2018•47 min•Ep. 81
In this first episode of Trashfuture’s second year, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), speak to DSA Los Angeles activist Josh Androsky ( @ShutUpAndrosky ) about public banking, liberalism’s inability to provide answers in a rapidly worsening world, Tommy Robinson's total madness, and right-wing freakouts online. And on that note, this podcast is effectively a piece of evidence in Hussein’s upcoming soup malfeasance trial. You can commodify your dissent with a t...
Aug 08, 2018•56 min•Ep. 80
On this special 1-year anniversary of the Trashfuture podcast, Riley ( @raaleh ), Olga ( @rocknrolga ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and comedian Gareth Reynolds ( @reynoldsgareth ) -- host of the podcast ‘the Dollop’ -- about the infamous Juicero, and what its high-tech concept (and spectacularly low-tech demise) says about the capital class of Silicon Valley. The terrible Juicero advertisement that appears in the cold open is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1oHp-VvhDE You can commo...
Jul 25, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 79
It’s another month, the moon has turned, a butterfly rustles its wings in the Amazon, and it’s time for yet another episode of Riley’s Commie Book Club! This month we’re reading 'Violent Borders' by Reece Jones, published by Verso Books. We talk about the roots of borders in exploitation, and the important role they play in allowing capital to externalise its own contradictions. Riley gets frequently distracted and remembers stories from his personal life. Ably produced as ever by Nate. Check it...
Jul 19, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 78
This week, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and speak with leftist tech writer (and tech industry veteran) Wendy Liu ( @dellsystem ) about Silicon Valley’s labour force, what it means to unionise tech workers, and how she escaped the thrall of tech-libertarianism. During the interview, Wendy mentions an article by Alex Press ( @alexnpress ) about organising the tech sector. You can read it here: https://nplusonemag.com/issue-31/politics/code-red/ You can commodif...
Jul 16, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 77
Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and special guest Fraser Watt ( @fraserwat ) speak with Canadian journalist and writer Luke Savage ( @LukewSavage ) about Ontario’s recently-elected Premier Doug Ford, the right-wing politician that Canadian liberals can only compare to Trump because they’ve forgotten about his moron brother Rob. Additionally, the team takes turns dunking on Theresa May’s Chequers summit and Elon Musk’s dumb toy submarine. In this recording, Luke ...
Jul 12, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 76
Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and recently returned Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) speak with migrant advocate Zoe Gardner ( @ZoeJardiniere ) about refugees, migrants, right-wing opposition to all forms of immigration, endless liberal equivocation on the topic, and whether or not Riley is an economic migrant (he is). This episode was recorded prior to England’s advancing in the World Cup, though by the time we have a moment to even address the fact that it’s coming home, the joke will alread...
Jul 09, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 75
Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) hosted documentary filmmaker Nelufar Hedayat ( @nelufar ) to discuss superfoods, Silicon Valley’s attempts at engineering future meals, Nelufar’s recent series ‘Food Exposed’, and the life and times of a food legend known as David Avocado Wolfe. We also get a Russia update from Milo, and a stern lecture on Charles Dickens. You can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/ , and if you had any doubts ...
Jul 03, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 74
In a special edition of Trashfuture recorded in early May, Riley ( @raaleh ) and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) hung out in Moscow with Russian comedian Yevgeniy Chebatkov and discussed the Russian comedy scene, why you can’t make jokes about Putin on TV, Tsarist-nostalgia restaurants, and Milo’s controversial opinion that maybe Stalinism was a bit much. Hussein ( @HKesvani ) was unable to make the trip to Russia as he ‘works’ a ‘job.’ You can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcom...
Jun 29, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 73
This week, Trashfuture discusses some of our favourite topics: Elon Musk’s non-working cars, by-elections in Lewisham, and MAGA-supporting tech villains trying to augment Trump’s ICE atrocities with new gadgets -- because what is more American than victimising immigrants whilst never leaving your gaming chair? This was recorded about ten days ago, which you can mark by all of our completely inaccurate football predictions. Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ) and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) kept ...
Jun 25, 2018•59 min•Ep. 72
Trashfuture decided to take on the concept of Juche this week. Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Olga ( @rocknrolga ) host VICE and BBC journalist Jake Warren ( @TheJakeWarren ), who gives his take on Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un’s recent get-together in Singapore, why it offended so many American liberals to see the American flag next to the North Korean one, and what North Korea is like on the inside (to include its only legal gambling spot). Hussein ( @HKesvani ) was out on deadl...
Jun 18, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 71
This week, a slightly-not-quite classic Trashfuture crew of Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) got together in the Caliphate of Tower Hamlets to speak with Felix Biederman ( @ByYourLogic ) about how America and Britian see and use one another. In addition to exploring the political purpose horror stories of Britain serve for America, we also talk culture, Brexit, and of course horny intellectual conservatives. Also a lot about Love Island. The FSB detained Mil...
Jun 12, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 70
This week, the original TF crew of Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) speaks to the Guardian's Jonathan Shainin ( @jonathanshainin ) on the topic of Niall Ferguson's Bond villain antics, the Evening Standard's recent sale of itself to the app lords, and a robust debate on whether or not free speech is an absolute and abstract thing. Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) smuggled himself into the Sharia no-go zone of Tower Hamlets to guest on this episode, after which 'Viley'...
Jun 07, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 69
This week, Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Milo (@milo_edwards) are back in the studio in the Caliphate of Tower Hamlets recapping centrist and extremist idiots' absolute dumbest takes on the Irish referendum results. They cover Christian ISIS, Classical Athenian democracy, and a lot of busting jokes. The gang also discusses Tommy Robinson’s recent legal issues, what sort of business literature is worth reading, and -- as always -- the ontology of soup and sauce. We live in neoliberali...
Jun 04, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 68
It's that time again. Riley (@raaleh) grabbed a book, grabbed a mic, and opened up People of the Abyss, a 1903 book by American travel writer Jack London, about his experiences living in East London in that time. His observations on poverty, housing, inequality, capitalism, and imperialism are basically all analagous today. Enjoy! Also follow us on @trashfuturepod.
Jun 01, 2018•55 min•Ep. 67
This week, Riley (@raaleh) and Milo (@milo_edwards) host journalist and music enthusiast Dan Hancox (@danhancox) to discuss his new book ‘Inner City Pressure: the Story of Grime.’ After a loving review of Elon Musk’s one-for-the-history-books Meltdown May, the team converses on the history (and rebirth) of grime, pirate radio, gentrification, ASBOs, Form 696, Matt Hancock, and the classic Tory oscillation between criminalising youth culture and profiting massively from it. Hussein (@HKesvani) co...
May 29, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 66
This is a slightly more condensed episode in which the TF crew discusses an idiotic Sunday Times piece about 'hipster fascists,' but more importantly it's an episode centred on the campaign in Ireland to repeal the 8th Amendment. Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Hussein (@HKesvani) speak with journalist Sirin Kale (@thedalstonyears) about Irish abortion laws, the impending referendum, and whether or not the uniforms of the royal wedding were inspired by Steven Seagal. If you're in Irel...
May 24, 2018•43 min•Ep. 65
