Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson, authors of the forthcoming Justice Warriors, join us for an episode all about British political cartoons, and the one time a telegraph cartoonist got too redpilled and then got fired. Also, we speculate about a Trump perp walk and check in on a million dollar bet made by the world’s postingest VC. Check out JUSTICE WARRIORS here! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Justice-Warriors/Matt-Bors/9781952090226 Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.c...
Mar 30, 2023•10 min•Ep 650•Transcript available on Metacast For this month's second Britainology, Nate and Milo viewed the second installment of the Up series, entitled SEVEN PLUS SEVEN, which aired in 1970. The BBC's control group of children are now fourteen years old and already on the path towards being stock characters, but there are also some odd surprises. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/britainology-58-80617668 Britainology appears twice a month on the Trashfuture premium feed--one episode at the $5 tier, and ...
Mar 30, 2023•11 min•Ep 649•Transcript available on Metacast On this unlocked Britainology from October 2021, we got Joe Kassabian and Francis Horton back to discuss the Midwest--a reverse Britainology, if you will--and we're discussing 24-hour diners, terrible fast food jobs, and the cultural weight of professional wrestling in the Rust Belt / Greater Midwest. Hope you enjoy! Britainology appears twice a month on the Trashfuture Patreon--one episode at the $5 tier, and a second at the $10 tier. However, we eventually unlock the special bonus episodes, fo...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep 648•Transcript available on Metacast Immigration and refugee issues specialist Zoe Gardner ( @zoejardiniere ) joins the gang to discuss Britain’s transformation from “quite a bit like Children of Men” to “just Children of Men literally.” We also talk about British columnist / politico Iraq War reflections, and a startup. 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 *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which ai...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep 647•Transcript available on Metacast Milo and Riley are joined by Alex Kealy to discuss pure riffs. To include: the absolute worst-case scenario for trying to steal antique silverware from a National Trust home. Hope you enjoy! Check out Alex's work here: https://www.alexkealy.com Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80406646 *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *WEB DESIGN ALE...
Mar 24, 2023•10 min•Ep 646•Transcript available on Metacast This week, we're joined by writer and Modern Money Network research director Nathan Tankus ( @NathanTankus ) to discuss the recent events with Silicon Valley Bank. Is the US Government going to insure all deposits? Have we nationalized a bank, but only in service of its creditors? Is this a re-run of 2008, but dumber? We discuss all this, and more, in the following episode. Check out Nathan’s site ‘Notes on the Crises' here: https://www.crisesnotes.com If you want access to our Patreon bonus epi...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep 645•Transcript available on Metacast For this month's first Britainology, it's a slight reversal of the script: we have before us a British cultural institution that Nate knows more about than Milo does. It is in fact the children's weekly comics paper / mischief compendium 'The Beano,' which Nate read avidly in the early 1990s and Milo has only a passing familiarity with. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/posts/80253539 *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website)....
Mar 19, 2023•12 min•Ep 644•Transcript available on Metacast We've reconvened the Book Club and present to you an episode in which Riley and Alice discuss what they've recently read. This inaugural episode of what we might call The Brane Zone (if we don't change our minds) revolves around Alice having read EASTERN APPROACHES, the memoir of Sir Fitzroy Maclean discussing his peripatetic and extremely Type of British Guy diplomatic/military career during the 1930s and 40s. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/alice-and-riley-...
Mar 17, 2023•11 min•Ep 643•Transcript available on Metacast This week, Riley, Hussein, and Alice join Annie and Julian from the QAnon Anonymous podcast to discuss the recent ecumenical freakout protests in Oxford on the topic of ‘15 Minute Cities.’ Annie was there interviewing participants—she managed to find the one person who was just there because of traffic concerns—and witnessed what appears to be a nascent reactionary resistance movement fighting in favor of climate change? Or something like it. Check out Qanon Anonymous here: https://www.qanonanon...
Mar 14, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep 642•Transcript available on Metacast We look at a few trends in technology and pricing that are threatening to make all of our lives worse in the coming years, and also look at a startup (related), and some UK political silliness (not related). We are joined by Bryan Quinby ( @murderxbryan ), returning champion and host of the Guys podcast, to look at a few... Check out Bryan's show Guys here: https://t.co/OrJODjxfXH *NEW SHIRTS ALERT* We have a reprint of the Flying Lada shirt and an all-new design from our friend Phoebe Paradise ...
Mar 10, 2023•10 min•Ep 641•Transcript available on Metacast We take an in depth look at a an article by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher about how AI is going to re-catholicise the entire world, and turn Patagonia vest nerds into a class of priests. We also turn to a stupid little startup before we get into the weighty stuff. 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 *NEW SHIRTS ALERT* We have a reprint of the Flyi...
Mar 07, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Ep 640•Transcript available on Metacast Former BoE economist and author Dan Davies joins us to talk about Central Bank Digital Currencies, programmable money, and the ongoing quest of central banks to hoard more power. Also, we unlock the details of Starmer’s pledge to make the U.K. the fastest growing economy in the G7 by luck or possibly magic, but without significant investment in state capacity building. Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/britcoin-bad-has-79419689 *BERLIN LIVE SHOW ALERT* We're als...
Mar 03, 2023•12 min•Ep 639•Transcript available on Metacast Terror has a new dimension. Alice, Riley, and returning guest, journalist Seamus Malekafzali ( @Seamus_Malek ) talk about the Saudi pivot to the third dimension. Also, Labour’s fabulous plans to fix criminal justice “by just using people from the town,” and Matt Hancock’s foray into NFT’s only about one year too late. Check out Seamus' Substack about Middle East politics: http://malekafzali.substack.com And also check out his Substack about obscure films: http://burntnitrate.substack.com If you ...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast We've done it again. We've subjected Nish Kumar to a terrible political book. However, rather than being a UK politician's attempt at literary fiction, we've instead delved into Harry Cole and James Heale's ill-timed work 'Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss.' And we experienced it with about 300 of you, at Backyard Comedy in London on February 20, 2023. Hope you enjoy! Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/prime-min...
Feb 24, 2023•10 min•Ep 637•Transcript available on Metacast Friend of the show Patrick Wyman ( @Patrick_Wyman ) joins the gang to talk about ancient state formation… and also a strange book written by a venture capitalist about how this entity called The Network (him and his friends) will replace God and the State as the Leviathan of 21st century society. It’s both History and Hegel with a head injury, folks! Check out Tides of History here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tides-of-history/id1257202425 And check out Patrick’s book THE VERGE here: h...
Feb 21, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep 636•Transcript available on Metacast Friend of the show Dr Eleanor Janega ( @GoingMedieval ) joins the gang to discuss her new book, The Once and Future Sex, about misogyny through the ages, and how while the justifications change, the outcome is always the same. It is a depressingly relevant conversation to the ongoing campaign of stochastic terrorism carried out against transgender people and immigrants by the great and the good of the country. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/womenne-doth-be-7...
Feb 17, 2023•10 min•Ep 635•Transcript available on Metacast For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo watched the first installment of the Up series, the 1964 mini-documentary SEVEN UP! Filmed as a commentary on Britain's class system and unintentionally becoming a time lapse of the Baby Boomers, it's still an absolute gem of British Pathé Voice, and much more. We hope you enjoy. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/78677818 *LONDON LIVE SHOW ALERT* See Trashfuture live in London on February 20 featuring special g...
Feb 15, 2023•14 min•Ep 634•Transcript available on Metacast Malcolm Harris ( @bigmeaninternet ), author of the forthcoming Palo Alto, joins the gang to talk about the history of capitalism, empire, America, California, Palo Alto, and the one very special University that may not have invented racism, but it sure did perfect it. Get PALO ALTO here: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/malcolm-harris/palo-alto/9780316592031/ If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://ww...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep 633•Transcript available on Metacast There's a rumour circulating that Liz Truss may be making a comeback. Well, she might think so--and she's written an article about it. We review this excellent piece of writing line-by-line, as well as addressing some coin-minting antipathy from a weird Canadian columnist that Riley found. We very much hope you enjoy. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/only-britain-to-78411021 *LONDON LIVE SHOW ALERT* See Trashfuture live in London on February 20 featuring speci...
Feb 10, 2023•7 min•Ep 632•Transcript available on Metacast We brought on friend of the show and extremely good cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky ( @Lubchansky ) to discuss their new book BOYS WEEKEND. They wanted to register a website for the book at boysweekend.com , but it’s been parked on by a group of guys who’ve been having boys’ weekends since 2000. And posting about it on a very web 1.0 site. So, cleary we had to talk about it, as well as more AI-related news, and much more. Check out the actual site for BOYS WEEKEND here, and preorder a copy: www.boy...
Feb 07, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep 631•Transcript available on Metacast This week, we're speaking with Paris Marx ( @parismarx ) of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast about recent developments in AI--the grift moving from web 3.0 to artificial intelligence, the idea that anything is good enough so long as it automates people out of a job, and much more. Hope you enjoy! Check out Tech Won't Save Us here: https://techwontsave.us Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/78137106 *LONDON LIVE SHOW ALERT* See Trashfuture live in London on February...
Feb 03, 2023•11 min•Ep 630•Transcript available on Metacast This week, we speak with Joe Weisenthal ( @TheStalwart ) of the Bloomberg dot com Odd Lots podcast about minting the coin. But not just any coin: a strange loophole in a ’90s law designed to let the U.S. Mint produce collectors’ coins basically means that, if they wanted to, the director could order the Mint to issue a platinum coin of any denomination. Two dollars. Ten million dollars. One trillion dollars. But will the Democrats use this to completely undercut Republican debt ceiling brinkmans...
Jan 31, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep 629•Transcript available on Metacast Abi Thorn ( @PhilosophyTube ) joins Riley, Milo, and Alice for a mostly dessert episode today! (Hussein continues to recover from a wasting disease, and will be back soon). In the mean time we’ve got news, startups, more Elon nonsense, and then to top it off we try to elucidate “Starmerism” as a political theory, rather than just a media management strategy. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/no-true-starmer-77741569 *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of t...
Jan 27, 2023•11 min•Ep 628•Transcript available on Metacast Activist and campaigner Beth Douglas joins the gang to discuss Scotland’s decision to make transing your gender a more dignified, simple experience, and concomitant decision by the U.K. government to retaliate by launching Trident on its own position. 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 *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our webs...
Jan 24, 2023•2 hr 31 min•Ep 627•Transcript available on Metacast For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo examine a BBC children's show that has been running since the 1950s, despite no one watching it. The show is called Blue Peter, it's extremely boring, it feels like it's been taken out of a different era, and yes, there are allegations of adultery and drug use (it's Britain after all!) Hope you enjoy. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/britainology-53-77468393 *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show...
Jan 20, 2023•12 min•Ep 626•Transcript available on Metacast This week’s bonus features writer and rail engineer Gareth Dennis ( @GarethDennis ), host of the Rail Natter YouTube show, discussing the current state of British trains. The Tories are ideologically opposed to state capacity, sure, that’s table stakes, but did you know that Labour also promise to not fix the unavoidable problems with the UK’s rail network? Shocking, we realise. Also, we discuss a mental health startup. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/trashfu...
Jan 20, 2023•11 min•Ep 625•Transcript available on Metacast For this week's free episode, the gang is back together to discuss recent developments involving Microsoft buying AI software. However, we're more enthralled with a story from a county council in Cheshire and a proposed real estate deal involving an Australian gentleman named Lex Greensill. 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 *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen i...
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep 624•Transcript available on Metacast For this week's bonus, the nearly-full cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice speak with technology publicist and crypto sceptic Ed Zitron about the current state of the cryptocurrency market--of course it's a scam, everyone knows that, but just how much is it on the precipice? The answer will probably not shock you, but might unsettle you regardless. Hope you enjoy! Check out Ed's newsletter on Substack here: https://ez.substack.com Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com...
Jan 13, 2023•12 min•Ep 623•Transcript available on Metacast The gang says goodbye to Matt Hancock MP, the fabulous app where we all met for the first time. Also, a real use for NFT's finally discovered. Mostly, though, we face up to a grim reality: the society of universal services that defined the postwar period has now fundamentally broken. Predictably, the worst people in the country are all scratching their heads and asking how it happened. If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server,...
Jan 10, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep 622•Transcript available on Metacast For this week's bonus, here's the live show we barely remember. It was our first show of the tour in Australia, we were jet lagged to the end of the earth, Milo was out sick with tummy trouble, and we were joined with special guest and friend of the show Aidan 'Taco' Jones to discuss... a spite cube. And a niche kind of Australian vehicle theft where you tell everyone exactly what you're about to do. This show took place at Good Chat in Brisbane on November 7, 2022. Get the whole episode on Patr...
Jan 06, 2023•10 min•Ep 621•Transcript available on Metacast 
