We start by looking at Canada’s destiny as the last holdout of Deloitte Pride Float liberalism, and then Neom’s ongoing woes as executives supported by McKinsey start frantically figuring out how to make the whole thing work economically. Then, film critic A.S. Hamrah joins Riley and November to talk about AI in the film industry, and the studio executives’ bizarre desire to algorithmically raise the dead. Buy A.S. Hamrah’s book The Earth Dies Streaming here! Get access to more Trashfuture episo...
Mar 11, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep 876•Transcript available on Metacast It’s time for another examination of historical parallels with lessons for our own time - today Patrick Wyman joins the gang to discuss the late Byzantine empire… a state with such a self referential, cosseted elite that they found themselves sprinkling imperial procession routes with rose water while their entire society crumbled from the outside in. Also, getting caught red handed in the metaverse, the Shawinigan Cocktail, and butter is churned into guns. Get the whole episode on Patreon here!...
Mar 07, 2025•10 min•Ep 875•Transcript available on Metacast QAA’s Julian Feeld joins us to discuss how Q-Anon has metastasised into mainstream political thought in the global North, and will usher in a whole new era of traumas and catastrophes that will in turn produce yet wilder political tendencies that will continue metastasising. Also, Starmer’s forensic diplomacy lasts all of 45 minutes, the dissociative border patrol, and Miguel Arruda stands firm. Get access to more Trashfuture episodes each week on our Patreon! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s UK To...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep 874•Transcript available on Metacast NOTE: There's a slight issue with some echoes in this recording. We're trying to get it all fixed and will update if we can, but we don't want to delay the episode! Thank you for your patience, as ever.. Gareth Dennis returns to discuss infrastructure, growth, and the new airport runways that are about to festoon this island with promises of imaginary growth. But first, we present to you one of the Guys Of All Time. Get Gareth's book here! And check out Rail Natter here! The entire episode is av...
Mar 01, 2025•10 min•Ep 873•Transcript available on Metacast It's a Britainology episode, except it's every member of TF on this one, so in a sense it only makes sense to give the show guest billing. And Milo has created a suite of test questions to determine whether or not we know enough of the actually-relevant details about the UK. Let's just say that the final scores... are something of a surprise to us. Get the full episode on our Patreon here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s UK Tour here: https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley ( @...
Feb 27, 2025•10 min•Ep 872•Transcript available on Metacast Quinn Slobodian joins us to discuss his new book, Hayek’s Bastards (subtitle subtitle) - which traces the syncretic relationship of scientific racism, techno-solutionism, and the quest to destroy the cathedral to Neoliberalism’s crisis of mission in the 1990s. Check out HAYEK’S BASTARDS here! Get access to more Trashfuture episodes each week on our Patreon! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s UK Tour here: https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ),...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep 871•Transcript available on Metacast It’s a goons rights bonanza, with Devon subbing in for November to talk about the ongoing wave of gig economy apps for ex-Navy SEALs to turn random people into clouds of pink mist on behalf of crypto influencers who want to look richer than they are… also we check in on Humane, and read a column by Rafael Behr. In the second half, Economist Nina Eichacker joins Riley half to talk tariffs (specifically) and how Wall Street’s “Masters of the Universe” traded their pre-eminent positions in capital ...
Feb 21, 2025•10 min•Ep 870•Transcript available on Metacast We talk about the Trump plan to bring stability to the Middle East by building hotels and casinos on top of the mass gravesite of an ethnically cleansed Gaza, and how it’s differences from the Biden plan are largely in its aesthetics. Also, the art of the deal in Ukraine, another cushy job in venture capital for an unqualified natsec goon (democrat), and what do you call a group of three or more people on the Labour Right… a WhatsApp scandal! Check out Seamus’s writing here! Get access to more T...
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep 869•Transcript available on Metacast We go back into the whimsical world of flying cars, and Dubai’s plan to make them largely mandatory by 2026. Also - Riley invents a historical Euro-board game called Shadow Doge, ordinary Americans are given formal permission by the President to get their skin reversed by cartels, and fraud is legal again the world over. Get the full episode on Patreon! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s UK Tour here: https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hus...
Feb 14, 2025•10 min•Ep 868•Transcript available on Metacast Nathan Tankus explains exactly what Musk and his little gremlins are doing at the treasury, and how this could have some pretty enormous implications for the national and global economies. Also - the killing of a sacred duck (in Venice), the spending of a sacred $30 (on eggs, by an A.I.), and the theft of a sacred suitcase (this is the last Miguel Arruda for a while, we promise…). The outro music is Gamou-me a Mala no Aeroporto ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LwXfKN5Q90 )...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep 867•Transcript available on Metacast Jathan Sadowski joins the gang to talk about DOGE and the destruction of mass produced, population scale knowledge in favour of the mythical folkways of Uncle Knowledge. Also - Silicon Valley putting out cash prizes for stochastic terrorism, Starmer gets the PartyGate treatment for his voice (?) coach (???), and our favourite Portuguese politician Miguel Arruda ACTUALLY makes the government more efficient. Get the whole episode on Patreon! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s UK Tour here: https://milo...
Feb 07, 2025•10 min•Ep 866•Transcript available on Metacast Liv Agar from QAAnonymous joins us to discuss the birth of Canadian nationalism, in that suddenly Albertans are booing the U.S. national anthem. Why? Well, Trump is moving forward with 25% tariffs on Canada, threatening Canada militarily (?), and managing to get extremely dumb-guy Canadian conservatives to disavow the US with the same vigor as they supported Bernard the Roughneck. Get access to more Trashfuture episodes each week on our Patreon! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s UK Tour here: https:...
Feb 04, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep 865•Transcript available on Metacast Jacob Silverman joins us to discuss the decades long Saudi operation to buy influence in the West in all its gaudy spectacle. Also - Sam Altman protests that he all that creative work fair and square, Rachel Reeves belts out a three word chant, and Power Slap is a sport of geopolitical significance. Get the whole episode on the Trashfuture Patreon! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s UK Tour here: https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ...
Jan 31, 2025•10 min•Ep 864•Transcript available on Metacast Ed Zitron returns to discuss how a Chinese hedge fund created an AI model that accomplished much of what OpenAI’s frontier model can do, and Sam Alrman’s best idea is to apply the “kind of gets it right sometimes” energy of LLMs to running your life. Also, grand theft luggage is rife in Lisbon airport, Masayoshi Son makes a bad investment, and Rupert Grint’s new app “Grinted” makes a splash. Check out Where’s Your Ed At here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Get access to more Trashfuture episodes e...
Jan 28, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep 863•Transcript available on Metacast Molly White joins Hussein, Riley, and November to talk about the role of Cryptocurrency in the incoming administration, specifically synergising their desire to "trigger the libs" with their desperate need to grift the morlocks who worship them. Also, Cooler Screens' war with Walgreens heats up, a stand up comedy scene develops on the moon, and yes - any hand gesture Elon makes is by definition a Nazi one. Check out the full episode here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/120688440?pr=true...
Jan 24, 2025•10 min•Ep 862•Transcript available on Metacast Ciaran and Nick from Corner Spaeti join the gang to discuss the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States, and what that means for the UK, Germany, and more or less all of humanity. Also, Alice Weidel isn’t gay, she’s just married to a woman; Cypriot Mister Beast enters a combat zone; and Peter Mandelson wishes upon a Monkey’s Paw. Get access to more Trashfuture episodes each week on our Patreon! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s UK Tour here: https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trash...
Jan 21, 2025•56 min•Ep 861•Transcript available on Metacast The UK Government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan / Please, Please Invest In Us So It Can Be 1999 Again Plan has been launched, and it will give the UK the superpower to know ahead of time where potholes will emerge, before not filling them anyway. Also, Australians total their cars, we invent a new legal concept called “Magician’s Privilege,” and the world historical cruelty and ineptitude of the Biden administration is laid bare as a ceasefire deal finally emerges in Gaza. Get the whole episode...
Jan 17, 2025•10 min•Ep 860•Transcript available on Metacast We talk to NYT tech reporter Mike Isaac about the ongoing Greg Steube-fication of every major tech CEO in the US. Also, Rachel Reeves has depression, DOGE makes some cost cutting recommendations at the DEA, and Peter Thiel learns Greek. Get access to more Trashfuture episodes each week on our Patreon! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s UK Tour here: https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), Nate ( @inthesedeserts ), and Nov...
Jan 14, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep 859•Transcript available on Metacast We check in on old friend Volocopter, a company we assume is going from strength to strength as the official air taxi partner of Neom! Where a later reading indicates that eight year olds are driving trucks. Also, the UK is in economic crisis again, and we don’t even have the fun of a bathrobe soiling-prime minister. Get the whole episode on Patreon! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s UK Tour here: https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussei...
Jan 11, 2025•10 min•Ep 858•Transcript available on Metacast Must we live in a world where everyone decides we want AI-generated friends to make AI-generated stories (which are fake), or AI-enabled kitchen appliances? When you actually dig into this stuff, it turns out everyone knows it sucks and we hate it. Today’s guest is friend of the show Jason Koebler of 404 Media, who has done the legwork to examine just how stupid it is. Plus, we talk about Elon Musk’s new fixation on the UK, and that strangely sexual, AI-generated video of anthropomorphic animal ...
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr•Ep 857•Transcript available on Metacast For our first TF episode of 2025 (recorded in 2025, that is), we're talking about recent events in the United States, plus Elon Musk's decision to weigh in on British politics and its downstream effects: ruining Keir Starmer's toboggan ride, among other things. We very much hope you enjoy. Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/119250867 *POPES/LAGOON SHIRTS STILL AVAILABLE!* We've got some extras of our recent shirts that can be purchased online and will ship immedi...
Jan 03, 2025•8 min•Ep 856•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was originally published as a Patreon-only bonus episode on October 11, and we've unlocked it to ensure that there's holiday content available! We are joined by Hesse Deni ( @ZeroSuitCamus) of the Seeking Derangements and Movie Mindset podcasts to discuss A VERY ROYAL SCANDAL, another installment of British TV movies dramatizing the Prince Andrew Newsnight interview…but this time with an inexplicable voice. No, literally, what is going on with the way they’ve depicted Emily Maitlis’...
Dec 31, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep 855•Transcript available on Metacast Our last free episode of 2024 involves Riley, Milo, and November watching the Rock in a terrible Christmas film entitled RED ONE. It’s a film in which Christmas is saved by the surveillance state, jacked Santa trains in the gym to do room-clearing and be an operator, and so much more. This is our present to you: we have suffered. Get access to more Trashfuture episodes each week on our Patreon! *POPES/LAGOON SHIRTS STILL AVAILABLE!* We've got some extras of our recent shirts that can be purchase...
Dec 24, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep 854•Transcript available on Metacast For this week’s bonus, we’re talking about the Starmer / McSweeney government getting outflanked on the left by frothing reactionaries because of their steadfast devotion to water companies being in private hands, and bad. We’re also talking about an amazing recent article about the mad boy king septuagenarian pub magnate who loves closing his pubs permanently as punishment for the slightest infraction. He’s real, and he’s (obviously) British. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.p...
Dec 20, 2024•10 min•Ep 853•Transcript available on Metacast We’ve brought on friend of the show Josh Boerman from The Worst of All Possible Worlds to discuss recent drone/UFO “sightings” in the US, the AI filmmaking industry (which sucks), the AI games industry (even worse), and recent revelations that a certain Royal has been getting in trouble yet again—but not for the reasons you’d think! Check out the Worst of All Possible Worlds here ! Get access to more Trashfuture episodes each week on our Patreon! *POPES/LAGOON SHIRTS STILL AVAILABLE!* We've got ...
Dec 17, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep 852•Transcript available on Metacast Middle East correspondent Séamus Malekafzali returns to discuss Syria - a retrospective on Ba’athism, Assad, and for the first time after decades of moral panic about Islam… moderate jihadism is back, baby! Also - Ehud Barak’s camera company, and finally cutting the budget of the DfE. Check out Séamus' work here! https://www.seamus-malekafzali.com/ Get the whole episode on Patreon here! *POPES/LAGOON SHIRTS STILL AVAILABLE!* We've got some extras of our recent shirts that can be purchased online...
Dec 14, 2024•10 min•Ep 851•Transcript available on Metacast Starmer, in a bout of what some people are calling “Extreme Popularity,” is relaunching his government after only a few months, despite winning basically a historic majority. He’s turning to the tried and tested policies, the old favourites - running government like a business, cutting the budget, and of course… a cop in every house. Also, we look at two Thiel Companies (Sauron and Orchid), and an exercise in public speaking gone wrong courtesy of our friends at 404 media. Get access to more Tra...
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep 850•Transcript available on Metacast For this month's first Britainology we've brought on comedian Sam Lake to discuss the impossibly influential UK cultural phenomenon of THE X-FACTOR. Sam Lake is an Edinburgh-based comedian from Cornwall. He has recently had a critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Esmeralda’ and hosts a weekly podcast called “I’ve Had a Rosé, Let's Talk About Feelings" which you can check out here! Get the full episode on Patreon here! POPES/LAGOON SHIRTS STILL AVAILABLE! We've got some extras of our recent...
Dec 09, 2024•10 min•Ep 849•Transcript available on Metacast Luke Savage ( @LukewSavage ) joins the gang to talk all things Canada, and the drubbing the feckless Justin “Northern Gavin” Trudeau is anticipating from the one and only “Maple DeSantis,” Pierre Poilievre. Plus, we pay our solemn respects to (former) UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, the newest victim of America’s gun violence epidemic. Check out the book Luke co-authored here ! Check out Michael and Us here! And get the whole episode on Patreon here ! MILO ALERT Check out Milo’s UK Tour here: h...
Dec 06, 2024•10 min•Ep 848•Transcript available on Metacast We bring ill tidings… a man with the physiognomy of Humpty Dumpty, except with billions of dollars and a grudge against Wokeness, has brought news of innocent venture capitalists being de-banked for the mere crime of committing securities fraud! That’s right, Marc Andreessen is finally free to say the word even louder than before, and he joins fellow Web 1.0 robber barons in coalescing around Trump part 2. To discuss this, we’re joined by friend of the show Brian Merchant ( @bcmerchant ), who ha...
Dec 03, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep 847•Transcript available on Metacast 
