The gang delves into the realm of a movie being entirely funded by NFTs and filmed in the only place less real than NFTs (Neom.) Then, Riley speaks with Dominik Leusder from the Eurotrash podcast and LSE Ideas about how exactly energy got so wildly expensive. Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66599741 *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomalle...
May 19, 2022•11 min•Ep 530•Transcript available on Metacast The gang discusses the inevitable crypto crash, tether, and the charlatans who sold ordinary people down the river. We also review Britain’s strategy for dealing with its many overlapping crises including mental health. Then, we speak to journalist Heidi Swart ( @heidi_swart) , whose work for the MIT technology review is all about how the surveillance industry is slowly rebuilding apartheid in South Africa. Read Heidi's article here: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049996/south-afri...
May 16, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep 529•Transcript available on Metacast We speak with Brett Scott about the "cashless economy," and how - under the guise of convenience - another public utility (the money system denominated by cash) is being privatised into what are essentially digital casino chips controlled by banks and payment acquirers. Preorder Cloudmoney here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1118048/cloudmoney/9781847925879.html Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66354189...
May 15, 2022•13 min•Ep 528•Transcript available on Metacast Josh Boerman from The Worst of All Possible Worlds joins the entire gang to discuss the Christian Dominionist designs on American society through the lens of the "school choice" campaign led by, among others, West Michigan's very own Betsy DeVos. We look at parallels between similar movements here, and how they link to other demands made by the same people. The Worst of All Possible Worlds ( @TWOAPW ) is a weekly podcast of case studies in the pop culture of a dying empire. Co-hosts Josh ( @bosh...
May 09, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep 527•Transcript available on Metacast It's another joyful discussion of the withering of the state, although we also talk about a startup electric bus company and rejoice in the tales of the Tory MP who 'accidentally' viewed porn in the chamber of the House of Commons. We very much hope you enjoy it. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66012816 *MILO ALERT* Milo has shows coming up in Brighton. Learn more here! https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show ...
May 05, 2022•10 min•Ep 526•Transcript available on Metacast This week, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice join special guest Dan Boeckner ( @DanBoeckner ) of Wolf Parade, Operators, Arcade Fire, and the Bottlemen ( @BottlemenPod ) podcast to discuss a terrifying app-based labour market violation from Canada, some interesting UK political developments, and another–yes, another–British centrist political movement full of veterans of all the other failed ones. If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Disco...
May 02, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep 525•Transcript available on Metacast Last week, we had a 2018-throwback lineup of the TF cast for a live show in London featuring Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Nate. We've got it all: Ed Balls returning to politics, a succession of blockchain-related nonsense startups, and a tremendous column by a Telegraph writer who's furious at the concept of work from home because it makes people 'mediocre.' We think you will enjoy this. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65685751 *MILO ALERT* Milo has shows coming...
Apr 28, 2022•10 min•Ep 524•Transcript available on Metacast This week, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice discuss even more police-related ideas from UK politicians, a terrible startup from Australia, and the recent news that Netflix’s share price has collapsed due to–big if true–the fact that they don’t make any money. Hope you enjoy! If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *MILO ALERT* Milo has shows coming up in London and Brighton. L...
Apr 25, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep 523•Transcript available on Metacast We welcome back friend of the show Wendy Liu ( @dellsystem ) to discuss what you might call a sociology of bizarre startup-centric ads all over San Francisco, but we also found a way to automate Keir Starmer via a text-generating AI, and... it's perhaps *too* accurate. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65397212 *MILO ALERT* Milo has shows coming up in London and Brighton. Learn more here! https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a fr...
Apr 21, 2022•9 min•Ep 522•Transcript available on Metacast This week, we’re back with friend of the show and comic artist Mattie Lubchansky ( @lubchansky ) to discuss recent developments in New York related to the surveillance state being onerous and also non-functional in any advertised way (but still extremely harmful). We also talk about the antipolitics of the Rwanda deportation camps plan. It’s a whole lot to take in! Check out Mattie’s Patreon here, where you can get access to all of their art: https://www.patreon.com/Lubchansky If you want access...
Apr 18, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep 521•Transcript available on Metacast For this month's first Britainology, we're joined in studio by Juliet Jacques ( @zinovievletter ) to discuss the '90s phenomenon of Mr Blobby, the rotund pink robot who took Britain by storm, stayed relevant for 30 years, spawned a hit single, a number of failed theme parks, and the sheer bafflement of anyone not from this strange island. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65149455 *SEE TRASHFUTURE LIVE ON 4/20* We're doing a make-up live show on 20 April in Lon...
Apr 15, 2022•14 min•Ep 520•Transcript available on Metacast Ken Klippenstein joins the gang to discuss the special Amazon app that doesn’t let you say “bathroom” or “Union” or “prison” that the company later claimed was some kind of April fools joke (?). But first, we look at the new energy “strategy” and a collective translatlantic failure to address the crises of our day. Also Riley saw another car. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65135753 *SEE TRASHFUTURE LIVE ON 4/20* We're doing a make-up live show on 20 April in...
Apr 15, 2022•11 min•Ep 519•Transcript available on Metacast If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *SEE TRASHFUTURE LIVE ON 4/20* We're doing a make-up live show on 20 April in London now that we've recovered from covid (this time). Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-podcast-tickets-303412654417 *MILO ALERT* Milo has shows coming up in London and Brighton. Learn more here! https://miloedwards.co.uk/live...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep 518•Transcript available on Metacast This week, we've learned about a startup that can only be described as an Airbnb goon squad. We've also learned about the Chancellor of the Exchequer declaring that the UK is going to mint an NFT. But it's also a stablecoin? And it doesn't appear to be a jpg of the Queen smoking weed. Get the whole episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64819798 *SEE TRASHFUTURE LIVE ON 4/20* We're doing a make-up live show on 20 April in London now that we've recovered from covid (this time). Get tickets h...
Apr 07, 2022•12 min•Ep 517•Transcript available on Metacast This week, we’re speaking with Molly White ( @molly0xFFF ) of Web 3 Is Going Great ( @web3isgreat) about a recent NYT article that simply cannot stop trying to sell crypto, all the while claiming to scrutinise crypto. Hope you enjoy! If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *SEE TRASHFUTURE LIVE ON 4/20* We're doing a make-up live show on 20 April in London now that we've reco...
Apr 04, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep 516•Transcript available on Metacast Patrick Wyman ( @Patrick_Wyman ), host of the wonderful Tides of History, returns to the podcast to talk about the development of the state and warfare over the last six hundred years. We also discuss yet another landlord-centric startup (sure seems to be a lot of them these days!) Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64542700 *SEE TRASHFUTURE LIVE ON 4/20* We're doing a make-up live show on 20 April in London now that we've recovered from covid (this time). Get t...
Apr 01, 2022•11 min•Ep 515•Transcript available on Metacast A startup that makes the… strangest case for the metaverse we’ve yet heard. The British political establishment proposing a response to a crisis that won’t approach any of its causes or effects. A columnist proposes a negotiated settlement between Britain and reality that turns on gratitude to the royals. It’s TF! Support the Sheffield JustEat riders on strike! Their fund is here and really, really needs your donations: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/sheffield-justeat-riders-are-going-on-...
Mar 28, 2022•57 min•Ep 514•Transcript available on Metacast For this month's second Britainology, Milo and Nate are joined by Alice Caldwell-Kelly to discuss Britain's 1956 invasion of Egypt, how Britain got spectacularly owned, and the eternal weak point of the British military throughout the entire operation: cupboards. Hope you enjoy! Get the full episode (and 2 Britainologies a month!) on the $10 tier here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64262706 Also, check out Midwestology 2, which we've unlocked to the $5 tier: https://www.patreon.com/posts/5789768...
Mar 25, 2022•11 min•Ep 513•Transcript available on Metacast We changed up Britainology a bit. Now it's the good-natured Midwestern oafs in the driver's seat, and we--Nate, Joe Kassabian, and Francis Horton--explain to Milo the name of the region itself, why ICP had such appeal to our generation, and why literally everyone has a driving-while-intoxicated story involving being thrown out of someone's house. Hope you enjoy! Get more Britainology on our Patreon--you get one a month on the $5 tier and two a month on the $10 tier: https://www.patreon.com/trash...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Ep 512•Transcript available on Metacast Riley is joined by Birkbeck's Dr. Kojo Koram to discuss how Britain's colonial legal legacies - in the form of offshore, overseas, non-dom, etc. - make us the perfect place for the global rich to hide their ill gotten gains. Also, in the studio, Milo, Hussein, and Alice discuss another rent-instead-of-own startup, but with a creative twist. Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64190502 Buy Dr Koram's book here! https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Kojo-Koram/Uncommon-Wea...
Mar 25, 2022•11 min•Ep 511•Transcript available on Metacast This week, we’re talking about a mental-health startup that’s even worse than the man made horrors you thought were beyond your comprehension, some particularly spicy UK legal news, and a simple request for people to be honest about what they actually want, politically. Hope you enjoy! Support the Sheffield JustEat riders on strike! Their fund is here and really, really needs your donations: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/sheffield-justeat-riders-are-going-on-strike-pay-rise-not-pay-cut I...
Mar 21, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep 510•Transcript available on Metacast For the first Britainology of March, Nate and Milo watch a *terrible* British sitcom from the 1970s that has, somehow, endured. That's right, we've been Frank Spencerpilled--we've watched Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, and we're still shaken from the 'what if Britain was in the Eastern Bloc' vision that it portrayed. Get the whole thing on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64048657 *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web de...
Mar 20, 2022•10 min•Ep 509•Transcript available on Metacast We bring back friend of the show Quantian1 to discuss sanctions against Russia, how the global financial system can shut out a large economy (and how economic integration doesn't necessarily mean less chance of conflict), how the conflict will affect food prices, and our theory that, instead of sanctions, we should just do a Reverse Salisbury on Putin. Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63933466 *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the design...
Mar 18, 2022•11 min•Ep 508•Transcript available on Metacast It’s the True Chaos Configuration of Milo, Hussein, and Alice, and we’re discussing the Festival of Brexit–a bizarre idea that seems to be at least competently executed, much to our surprise. However, it includes a techno festival called Tour de Moon with an intensely 2000s website that has to be seen to be believed. We also talk about sanctioning Abramovich, and much more. Support the Sheffield JustEat riders on strike! Their fund is here and really, really needs your donations: https://actionn...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr•Ep 507•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Riley Quinn (DPhil International Relations), Dr. Milo Edwards (PhD Russian Language), and Maj. Alice Caldwell-Kelly (OSINT specialist) introduce another “garden of forking paths” version of ourselves. We also discuss the bipartisan consensus that spiking energy prices (which have been spiking long before the war) are good and worth the Blitz spirit. Also, another article and Lebedev/Johnson hanging out pretending to be homeless to raise awareness. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https...
Mar 11, 2022•11 min•Ep 506•Transcript available on Metacast Riley, Alice, and Milo look at the ongoing descent of the UK pundit class into embodying the global death drive, and take a look at a story of a certain kind of British Guy achieving apotheosis (spending £218 of Bolton Council's money meant for excluded children at the Spar in Praia du Luz in Portugal). In between, Riley talks to academic Thea Riofrancos about why "onshoring" mining is all the rage now that the world's security and energy orders have both been thrown into disarray. The interview...
Mar 08, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep 505•Transcript available on Metacast Riley, Milo, Abi, Alice, and Devon read a little book called The End Of The World Is Flat, a satire about the struggles of the “TERGs” against the “Flat Earth Movement.” Or, more accurately, Riley is the only person in the world to read a book again. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63338182 *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/...
Mar 04, 2022•11 min•Ep 504•Transcript available on Metacast This week, friend of the show Abigail Thorn ( @PhilosophyTube ) joins us to discuss the EHRC’s turn towards belligerent transphobia. One might go so far as to say that they’ve violated Riley’s Law, but there’s an American dimension: British transphobia is beginning to appear in American legal statutes, cited approvingly. Seems bad! We also discuss an app to buy your way into government? And some admittedly out-of-date reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine (we recorded this on the day it s...
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep 503•Transcript available on Metacast This week, Nate and Milo address the important issue: why is there a culture of getting on it and getting completely blasted out of your mind? What is a big night out? What is the sesh? What is the deal with those guys in the picture? To help our investigation, we brought on nightlife expert and journalist Tom Usher ( @Tom_Usher_ ) to discuss. If you want to hear more Britainology, sign up on the Patreon at the $5 tier for one a month and $10 for two a month here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfu...
Feb 27, 2022•2 hr 39 min•Ep 502•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Milo takes Nate on the most inscrutable journey yet: a vision of British 1980s/90s sitcoms that are too cockney to be parsed without a translator. Yes, it's the 'Heroes and Villains' episode of Only Fools and Horses, perhaps the most British thing Nate has had to encounter yet, and the one that did the most to break his spirit. Hope you enjoy! If you want to hear more Britainology, sign up on the Patreon at the $5 tier for one a month and $10 for two a month here: https://www.pa...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep 501•Transcript available on Metacast 
