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/B...
Jan 22, 2019•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 124
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 20, 2019•55 min•Ep. 123
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.patreo...
Jan 16, 2019•31 min•Ep. 122
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 be...
Jan 15, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 121
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/hum...
Jan 10, 2019•8 min•Ep. 120
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 ...
Jan 08, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 119
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...
Jan 01, 2019•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 118
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 a...
Dec 27, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 117
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...
Dec 20, 2018•8 min•Ep. 116
Business Joker. You thought it was just a dumb meme, but to your hardo connections on LinkedIn, it’s a way of life. On this week’s Trashfuture, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) spoke with Sarah Manavis ( @sarahmanavis ) discuss Tumblr’s ban on porn (and how tech companies fundamentally do not understand their users), a WeWork job description for what sounds like the editor of a cult yearbook, why YouTube’s pro-racism user base hated its yearly rewind video,...
Dec 18, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 115
In a preview of this week's particularly festive bonus, Riley reviews the academic paper 'The End of the Transition Paradigm' by Thomas Carothers. Riley discusses international relations as a discipline, his takes on some core assumptions of the genre, how it's influenced modern politics in the general Atlantic region, and much more. You can read the article in its entirety here: https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/sites/default/files/Carothers-13-1.pdf and then tell Riley why, actually, he's wro...
Dec 14, 2018•8 min•Ep. 114
Does your investment portfolio include cannabis? Do you want leverage on your dank nugs? On this week’s Trashfuture, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) spoke with Jacobin staff writer and now two-time guest Luke Savage ( @LukewSavage ) to discuss why Canada’s new weed legalisation regime is both gentrifying and rarefying cannabis. There are also a lot of really great names in here, like Mark Pupo and Roger Rogers, all sane people who are business leaders to e...
Dec 11, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 113
I'm going to unlock another Riley's Commie Book Club, because I'm going to do another book club episode later today. In this episode of my podcast-within-a-podcast, I'm talking about Chantal Mouffe's " For a Left Populism. Why are we constantly told that the status quo — i.e. neoliberal market economics — is the natural order? What does it mean to be "political," versus "post-political"? And how should the left see itself?...
Dec 07, 2018•51 min•Ep. 112
On this week’s Trashfuture, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo, Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) spoke with writer Alice Caldwell-Kelly ( @AliceAvizandum ) about a banner week in brain-dissolution, which included a viewing of a very popular Unicorn Poopsie Surprise unboxing video -- a toy designed by algorithms and popular with children who want to make their own unboxing videos. Also covered: Uber but for unlicensed ambulances, disingenuous Tory ‘outrage’ about a viral video showing the...
Dec 04, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 111
This week's bonus episode of Trashfuture is actually a pilot of sorts -- it's a comedy show we've assembled featuring an ensemble cast of Milo, Riley, Olga Koch, Pierre Noveille, Alex Kealy, and a few bits from Nate as well. It's a show about how to feel the snow in a sensual way, assigned names for criminals, Dilbert-esque porn banter, Adam Sandler's comedic oeuvre, and Nate discussing a repressed memory about a German magazine he read as a kid that depicted a very silly dog. If you want to hea...
Dec 03, 2018•8 min•Ep. 110
You may have heard about this thing called Brexit. Apparently, it means Brexit. And on this week’s Trashfuture, Riley ( @raaleh ) and Hussein ( @HKesvani ) spoke with Institute for Public Policy Research ( @IPPR ) director Tom Kibasi ( @TomKibasi ) about the real victim of Brexit: political metaphor. Then we talk about the deal itself, Labour's Brexit strategy, and debunk the myth that "Labour could be 20 points ahead under a different leader." We also talk about Yu-Gi-Oh. Yes, we brought on one...
Nov 28, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 109
In this preview of this week's bonus, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Nate discuss Steve Bannon's recent profile in the Guardian, an insane protest letter written by British landlords in opposition to the anti-homelessness nonprofit Shelter, and a terrible startup that wants to despatch fleets of pizza vans that cook your pizza on the go (badly, of course). If you want to hear the whole thing, sign up on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/22938331 Don’t forget that you can commodify your ...
Nov 26, 2018•7 min•Ep. 108
Everyone loves a synergy these days (just ask Bill de Blasio). You can synergize the relationship between your phone and the cops, between public transit and the cops, between your home and the cops, and -- most importantly -- between your personal data and Jeff Bezos’ wealth. On this week’s Trashfuture, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Hussein ( @HKesvani ) spoke with PCMag contributing editor Adam Smith ( @adamndsmith ) about Amazon HQ2's big money shit all over New York and Nort...
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 107
Please enjoy a preview of this week's bonus, in which Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Nate speak with art historian Elise Bell ( @eliseybell ) about her Tabloid Art History ( @TabloidArtHist ) account and why it takes serious effort to stop any creative work from getting commodified (a think we at Trashfuture know too well)... We had a blast recording this and hope that you enjoy it, too. If you want to hear the whole episode, sign up for the Patreon and access it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/2...
Nov 19, 2018•6 min•Ep. 106
Did a bad thing happen? Well, here are 50 British columnists to tell you why you’re an intolerant liberal elitist for calling it bad. In that spirit, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Hussein ( @HKesvani ) spoke with comedian and Arts Emergency founder Josie Long @JosieLong ) in a whirlwind session that covered Brendan O’Neill’s pedantic defence of the Grenfell effigy burners and the recent appointment of classic inverted book pedant Roger Scruton to a high-profile Tory quango. This...
Nov 13, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 105
Elon Musk gifted us analytics like Prometheus gifting fire, and as such we've determined that about 40 percent of our audience is American. So, Americans (and others) -- do you want to know about the British royal family? Well, now you can, in detail, as Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Ned Donovan ( @Ned_Donovan) discuss the history of Britain's terrible ruling family. This is a good episode to listen to while your valet is relocating your bed to your friend...
Nov 11, 2018•7 min•Ep. 104
It’s election season in America, which means terrible racist memes shared by people you hate. In that spirit, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) spoke with Ryan Broderick ( @broderick ), Buzzfeed’s Deputy Editor of Global News, about his recent article on how American tech companies radicalised the world. We talk about his experience reporting on the Brazilian elections, why Jair Bolsonaro wants to kill bandits, and how the future looks...
Nov 06, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 103
This is a preview of the recording of our recent live show at the Sekforde in London. Thank you so much to the fans who attended — we were stunned by the response and incredibly grateful for your support. When we get Hussein back from the frozen waste of Upstate New York (early next year), we'll put on another show. Special thanks to Woke George Eaton for clarifying some details about how you get an author picture at a media publication. If you want to listen to the full episode, sign up on the ...
Nov 05, 2018•6 min•Ep. 102
You asked! We listened! We procrastinated actually doing it for a while! We've unlocked Riley's Commie Book Club from September, The Death of Homo Economicus by Peter Fleming, for your listening pleasure. Check it out on Pluto Press here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399409/the-death-of-homo-economicus/ In the mean time, sign up to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture Commodify your dissent with a shirt from Lil Comrade: https://www.lilcomrade.com/category/merch xoxo Riley...
Nov 02, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 101
We’ve pivoted back from pivoting to video (it was a brief sojourn), and on this week’s Trashfuture, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) spoke with Guardian tech reporter and TF veteran Alex Hern ( @alexhern ) about… the tech industry. Well, we actually speak about a number of things, to include Philip Hammond’s belief that blockchain will fix the Northern Ireland border crisis for Brexit, angry Conservative men yelling at children in hospital, Facebook’s pivot...
Oct 30, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 99
This is of course something of a new content type: on the preview of this week's bonus episode, Riley, Milo, Nate, and Olga ( @rocknrolga) join Adam Rensch ( @nachdermas) — host of the Stop/Rewind podcast — to discuss a film that burrowed itself into the American liberal worldview like a hideous, parasitical worm. That film? Idiocracy, the 2006 Mike Judge comedy that frankly sucks, but more on an ethical level than you might expect. Have you ever wanted to do Death of the Author on a shitty movi...
Oct 29, 2018•6 min•Ep. 100
It’s that time of year again: the leaves are changing colour and there’s a new centrist ‘solution’ (or, rather, investment vehicle) to the problems of both the news and politics. On this week’s Trashfuture podcast, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) spoke with @michaeljswalker from @novaramedia about the ‘slow-news’ platform Tortoise and Chuka Umunna’s new centre-right think-tank gig. You can catch Michael’s show TyskySour (and a number...
Oct 22, 2018•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 98
Please enjoy a preview of this week's bonus: Riley's Commie Book Club, reviewing Chantal Mouffe's " For a Left Populism. Why are we constantly told that the status quo — i.e. neoliberal market economics — is the natural order? Why does the centre hate socialism more than fascism? Why is it a bad thing that socialism might leave the absolute wealthiest on the planet worse off than they are in our current gilded age? And why do they want to live in orbiting space stations? Listen to this episode t...
Oct 21, 2018•6 min•Ep. 97
On this week’s Trashfuture podcast, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ) spoke with Kimberley McIntosh ( @mcintosh_kim ), policy officer at the Runnymede Trust, and Patrick Monahan ( @pattymo ), comedian and cohost of What a Time to Be Alive, about some topics close to our hearts: the insane writings of the next Tory candidate for London Mayor, Shaun Bailey. We also touch on our favourite topics: the absurd products of our current bad gilded age. Kimberley wrote a gre...
Oct 17, 2018•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 96
We've just completed party conference season, and to wrap up the important events in all of them (or at least the ones we care about), the Trash lads brought on Simon Childs ( @simonchilds13) , home affairs editor for Vice UK. In this preview of a bonus episode availalbe on our Patreon, you'll get to hear all about the Tory party conference (and its app malfunction), the UKIP conference in which Full Sharia was proposed and -- of course -- this year's Labour conference. If you're a Patreon subsc...
Oct 16, 2018•5 min•Ep. 95
