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 Menak...
Sep 03, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 304
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 t...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 303
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 28, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 302
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 son...
Aug 27, 2020•11 min•Ep. 301
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. 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 t...
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 300
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! If you want to hear the whole episode, get it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40645675 Here's a central locatio...
Aug 20, 2020•11 min•Ep. 299
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 En...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 298
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 Up...
Aug 12, 2020•2 min•Ep. 297
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 ...
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 296
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. To get the ...
Aug 07, 2020•10 min•Ep. 295
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 C...
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 294
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 Bl...
Jul 31, 2020•11 min•Ep. 293
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. If you want access to our Patreon bonus episo...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 292
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. If you want to hear the whole thing, it's on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39648385 Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held und...
Jul 25, 2020•11 min•Ep. 291
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 epi...
Jul 21, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 290
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 her...
Jul 20, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 289
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! If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39363354 Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https...
Jul 16, 2020•10 min•Ep. 288
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. If you want access to our Patreon ...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 287
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. If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/balthasar-69-39122729 Here's...
Jul 09, 2020•11 min•Ep. 286
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. If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://...
Jul 07, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 285
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! If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/38858333 Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held unde...
Jul 02, 2020•12 min•Ep. 284
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! If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord s...
Jun 29, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 283
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! If you want to access the whole episode, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/38672094 You can listen to Podside Picnic here: https://www.pa...
Jun 28, 2020•10 min•Ep. 282
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...
Jun 24, 2020•8 min•Ep. 281
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. Here's a central location...
Jun 22, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 280
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 d...
Jun 19, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 279
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. If you want to get the whole thing, access it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/38346281 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 f...
Jun 18, 2020•10 min•Ep. 278
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. If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfu...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 277
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. If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/38094208 If you want one of our *fine* new shirts, designed by Matt Lubchansky, then e-mail trashfuturepodcast [at] gmail [do...
Jun 11, 2020•10 min•Ep. 276
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 If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture We als...
Jun 08, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 275
