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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 30 min•Ep 347•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 31 min•Ep 341•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast As a continuation of our free episode this week, 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 get the whole thing, access it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/44331592 We support the London Renters Union, w...
Nov 27, 2020•10 min•Ep 334•Transcript available on Metacast It has come to our attention that Netflix has twice the market capitalisation of Boeing. How can this be? Well, it’s a byproduct of the 2008 crisis, an endlessly-expanding network fed by zero-interest loans and charter school zealots who believe that 100 million people can and will watch the next Orc Cop movie. We brought on Jathan Sadowski ( @jathansadowski ) and Ed Ongweso Jr ( @bigblackjacobin ) from This Machine Kills Podcast to discuss it with Riley, Milo, Nate, and Alice. If you want acces...
Nov 24, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Ep 333•Transcript available on Metacast How to explain this? Tom Watson--yes, THAT Tom Watson--has written a 'taut, political thriller' about what if Labour and the Tories came together to make sure NHS patient data was sold to pharmaceutical companies in an ethical way. It's deeply boring in a manner that reflects its author, but it's also something else: an experience. Riley read the whole book and forced Nish Kumar to listen to it along with Milo, Hussein, and Alice. Hope you enjoy! If you want to hear the whole episode, get it on ...
Nov 23, 2020•11 min•Ep 332•Transcript available on Metacast We're at it again. Nate and Milo have reviewed the 1968 film CARRY ON UP THE KHYBER for yet another Britainology, and this one is a real laser-focused look at this absurd island. Why is it so horny? Why is everything a double entendre? Is this really the nation that once ruled the waves? You be the judge -- hope you enjoy! To hear the whole episode, get it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/44058005 We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid e...
Nov 19, 2020•11 min•Ep 331•Transcript available on Metacast We tried to do a full cast episode but Hussein was busy with a ‘real job’. So we got Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Nate ( @inthesedeserts ), and Alice ( @AliceAvizandum ) to discuss a few things. Firstly: Keir Starmer’s desert island discs (yawn), plus a startup that does what you might call a novel riff on the idea of digital nomads. Behold, an episode of nothing but van lore. Van content. You will love it. If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord serve...
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep 330•Transcript available on Metacast Quaid... start the podcast and save Mars... Justin, Liam, and our very own Alice of Well There’s Your Problem Podcast (on Youtube !) are here to discuss Elon Musk's ludicrous plan to put humanity on spaceships with pizza restaurants in them and ship them off to Mars to live in large greenhouses for reasons of... well... Mars. Where else in the solar system are you going to live? Anyway, like most big stupid tech things - it's a fun story to distract you while SpaceX becomes a (sigh) privatiser o...
Nov 13, 2020•11 min•Ep 329•Transcript available on Metacast Why are the Gulf countries so involved with backing tech startups? How many sovereign wealth funds are there, and why do they seem to always circle back to SoftBank? To answer this question we brought on Derek Davison ( @dwdavison ), a writer with Discontents News ( @DiscontentsNews ) and subject matter expert on the Gulf, to discuss it with Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) and Alice ( @AliceAvizandum ). If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign ...
Nov 10, 2020•2 hr 41 min•Ep 328•Transcript available on Metacast It's been a while, but we've brought it back: our non-stop comedy riff series returns with Riley, Milo, and special guests Glenn Moore and Pierre Novellie. Riley posits the argument that 'The History Boys' is the actual true 20th century British artistic work. We also discuss airport novels and whole lot more. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43625428 We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want...
Nov 08, 2020•11 min•Ep 327•Transcript available on Metacast Hmm, nothing else is happening in the world right now, we’re sure of it. This Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Alice ( @AliceAvizandum ) brought on friend of the show Séamus Malekafzali ( @Seamus_Malek ) to discuss the recent election in Bolivia, a terrible therapy start up, and the continued adventures of Bill Gross and his war against his neighbours. You will love it. If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here...
Nov 02, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep 326•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's bonus, Riley did the unthinkable. The unimaginable. He read Matt Forde's terrible book 'Politically Homeless' for us and described it to an all star cast of Riley, Alice, and special guests Bryn and Chris from the Beep Beep Lettuce podcast ( @weedpod ). You will love it, but not as much as Matt Forde loves Tony Blair. Get the full thing on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43271255 We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid e...
Oct 29, 2020•10 min•Ep 325•Transcript available on Metacast Writer and academic Grace Lavery joins the gang to reminisce about our favourite Quibs - but honestly, how could you even pick one? We also discuss how the Tories are very concerned with protecting working class students by fighting imaginary culture wars against "critical theory" while subjecting them to holiday starvation. 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 he...
Oct 25, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Ep 323•Transcript available on Metacast Quibi is dead. Long live Quibi. We are unlocking the second of our two part series on Quibi to commemorate the impact Quibs have had on our society, culture, and ourselves. The land and the Quib are one! ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES: 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 men...
Oct 25, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep 324•Transcript available on Metacast Twitch streamer LivPosting returns to talk about her experiences in the job market, and how she almost got a job with a Zoomer-only consulting firm making millions of dollars from teaching Raytheon executives how to say "yeet." Also, is a phone box in rural Winchester the new world epicentre of the BLM movement? According to one brain poisoned conservative columnist, it is! Local hi-jinx abound. If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42974665 W...
Oct 22, 2020•10 min•Ep 322•Transcript available on Metacast In a preview of the most recent Britainology, brought on Riley to discuss a phenomenon as eternally British as bad weather itself: the legend. Who are British legends? What makes them act this way? How do you create a taxonomy of figures to distinguish between the Essex Geezer, the Entrepreneurial Legend, the High Street Hard Man, and Tim Westwood? Well, we gave it our best go. If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42848878 We support the Lond...
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