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...
Mar 05, 2021•11 min•Ep. 363
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...
Mar 04, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 364
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.c...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 362
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 so...
Feb 26, 2021•11 min•Ep. 361
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 slum...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 360
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 ...
Feb 19, 2021•11 min•Ep. 359
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...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 358
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 t...
Feb 12, 2021•10 min•Ep. 357
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...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 356
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/46883...
Feb 03, 2021•11 min•Ep. 355
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 th...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 354
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 def...
Jan 29, 2021•11 min•Ep. 353
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 , ...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 352
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 ...
Jan 22, 2021•11 min•Ep. 351
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...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 350
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 su...
Jan 15, 2021•10 min•Ep. 349
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:/...
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 348
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 ar...
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 347
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 evic...
Jan 08, 2021•10 min•Ep. 346
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 Rente...
Jan 05, 2021•58 min•Ep. 345
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...
Jan 03, 2021•11 min•Ep. 344
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...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 343
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 ...
Dec 25, 2020•11 min•Ep. 342
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:...
Dec 23, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 341
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...
Dec 18, 2020•11 min•Ep. 340
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 ...
Dec 15, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 339
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: http...
Dec 11, 2020•10 min•Ep. 338
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!" 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...
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 337
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! If you want the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/44591496 We support the London Renters Union, wh...
Dec 04, 2020•11 min•Ep. 336
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! If you want access to our Patreon bonus episode...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 335
