2024 Trashfuture Q&A, Part 1

An underrated way to stay sane in a terrible place to live is cyber bullying your local politicians (I live in Ohio)

Marjorie Zeager

i live in the south west of england and it's basically a constant in any area of the uk that you have to be up and trying to call/get a online appointment before 8am or whatever time your gp's office opens and cus everyone else is also Trying, there's never any appointments avalible. you can't book in advance via the site or anything.

Puchin

Cant believe you neglected any meaningful debate on the matter of pants. TF branded booty shorts, TF embroidered culottes. Come ON people, the ideas write themselves!

Phil

It seems like (from Australia) the NHS is still better than the puppeteered corpse of Obamacare for many people, but like every other underfunded state apparatus the more disadvantaged/marginalised you are the worse you will be served

Brendan Hurley

vital to podcasting success is the dichotomy of the technician - the swede and the performer - the italian

yoghurtmonitoring

TRASH FUTURE DOGE HAT

Patrick Lopez

Riley mentions that it is 'impossible' to get regular GP appointments in SE London. As an American, that's shocking. I know the NHS has been severely underfunded and wait times can be long (although, if you look at average wait times the US and UK are still not that different as it can take months or even years to get care from specialists here too) but not being able to see a GP seems hard to believe. Afterall, the UK life expectancy is almost 5 years longer than the US. I do sometimes have to wait up to several weeks to see my GP during busy times of the year but that's the absolute max and there are usually slots available for appointments with affiliated providers earlier. Of course, in the US this is gate kept by living in a major city and having good insurance. So my question is: is it really that difficult to have regular appointments with providers in the UK? And if so, does anyone know why the UK still has such drastically better health metrics? Is it just lifestyle/diet? Cheers and Merry, err I mean Happy, Christmas

Carl Thomas

Agree that a minimal branding OFO cap would be best, and begging you to find a way to get the windbreakers done

James

I mean, I’ve lived in 4 countries (Uk, two European, one south american) in the last 7 or so years, and I would say life in the UK is the worst of all of them. That’s not to say the others were/are perfect (committed to living in one of them 4 years ago and still based there) but QoL is distinctly worse in the UK — it has the worst elements of all the others and is way more expensive. So I guess I don’t think it’s true to say there’s a tiny number of places that are appreciably better — perhaps true that there’s a tiny number that are miles better, but I think quite a lot that are appreciably better, at least for the moment

James

TF branded Москва sneakers.

Peevish Giraffe

15:30 sunset time in Aberdeen woohoo 🥹 Scotland *can* be good but very much like November said - it's only a marginal difference between here and down south

Ember

TF branded Big Lesbian Sword™

Ember

I will buy TF embroidered velvet loafers.

BarFly

my favorite perfume is koschei the deathless by fantome and all my roommates hate it because it smells so strongly of dirty old man in a cave :)

Keti

Yall need to make TF trash cans with the logo on them and they say “the future is in here”

MCL

I started listening to Trash Future off of a mention in a Lions Led By Donkeys episode in late 2019. First episode I listened to opened with a clogheads song. I love this show. It Keeps the horrors at bay. Looking forward to new weird guys in FY2025

Steve Davis

solemnly removing your finger from the dike

Nemo

Very fair point

Ben Murphy

On the note of fucked up perfumes, Sécrétions Magnifiques is kinda great

fuck

MALAYSIA MENTIONED 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾 i am probably one of like 10 Malaysians who listen to TF

Bryan

Ok hear me out, forget about pants, instead it’s TF booty shorts with the long term nuclear warning messages on them. “What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.” “This is not a place of honor” “The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically”

Ryan

I live in England but I'm from Belfast and it's exactly the same except at least in Belfast you might be able to afford a house some day.

anarchopixie

Part one of a two part q&a - so just the questions then?

-Kris-

I lived in mid Wales for 8 years and it was like living in a shopping centre that's stuck in an infinite closing down sale. The devolved adminstration at least under Drakeford more or less did its best but fuck if it wasn't grim. In fact, have just moved to Northern England (not where I'm from) and the experience is better all round.

Tom Vaughan

Congratulations Hussein!

KMB24

I like Nate's dad content. Parenting very small children can be isolating so it's nice to laugh about the universal experience of coming into your kids room to find them sleeping peacefully amidst a scene from the exorcist.

KMB24

My favorite part is at the end where he gets the pass.

Crispined Glover Potato Snacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jPamF73d-E

Crispined Glover Potato Snacks

If you're having a bad time you can simply stop listening, you don't need to volunteer pissy personal attacks.

John O'Brian

On living in England and not going insane, Elenor Janega mentioned 3 socialist dance parties on We're Not So Different (Beauty and the Beat, All Our Friends, and Lucky Cloud Sound System). I can't make them on account of being trapped in Eric Adam's New York, but they sounded fun and this seems like the place to cross-pollinate that information.

Ijon Tichy

dutch seppuku is when you take your finger out of the dike

Karl Childers

HelloInternet got some fancy bespoke podcast shoes made because they thought it was funny and they were god damn right.

James Taylor

maybe if you were a woman whose country is forcing women and girls to carry pregnancies to term, any discussion about how there's absolutely no support for new parents--not just at home but in other 'developed' nations--would become more interesting to you

MI

That can’t be real

beau_d

MESO BALL GAME SHIRT YESSSSSSS (pls 🙏🏽 consider a unisex tank top?)

Shivvy

Fergus Fahey

Nate back with the 'UK is the worst possible place to live in the world' schtick again Like, I get it, I love Nate and shit sucks here for loads of people for tons of reasons, and I'm also really sorry about Nate and Cynthia's awful healthcare experience. But we're not dealing with some sui generis kind of fucked here, we are dealing with a national articulation of a doomed global economic system and I feel like we might need a bit of perspective. There's a tiny number of places you could emigrate to that would be appreciably better - OK maybe Switzerland, the Nordics, but tell me with a straight face that everything is cooking just fine there. (Also the idea that the US is a better option than the UK - lmfao). Personally I've always had a hankering to move to the Netherlands but the shit my Dutch friends tell me about, fuck me, it is not a million miles off the stupidity and venality we have here. Trash futures have no country friends

Tom Vaughan

If you're in Scotland, the equivalent to ACORN is Living Rent, worthwhile checking them out and dare I say getting involved.

Frojo Swaggins

November sampling a random weird indie house scent in real time is lost content

MI

I would genuinely buy a TF smoking jacket.

Louie Stowell

Dutch seppuku is clearly drowning yourself in a canal.

UltraCoil

Are you telling me the US military literally has the fash cape from Helldivers 2?

Oliver Cant

As a denizen of Northern Ireland I can categorically say living in a devolved region is NOT the solution - we are living in Children of Men but if it were happening in a post soviet state in the mid 90s. Fun times!

Ben Murphy

Cargo shorts. Now.

Luke

Amazing episode, love this podcast. Now I thought of one question I would have asked if I ever got my arse in gear. That would be: What would you do if Spotify were to offer you a 1 million a year deal for exclusivity on the podcast? And have they already been in touch? I know this is totally late and won't get answered but anyway, it's something I have always wondered about as the way you host and keep the podcast going is inspiring and I fucking hate Spotify. Nate enjoy Geneva and let me know if you need any Swiss help.

William Bell

I half expected Nate to tell me to flip the tape over to side B.

Cygnus Vailand

Not a nice episode to eat cold pizza to!

Jack

if anyone is listening and is curious about the puke perfume from Strangers Perfumerie I highly recommend their non puke offerings, they do some of the best Southeast Asian inspired stuff available like salted green mango, pandan, and one with a lovely and wearable banana note! sorry my fragrance autism gene got epigenetically activated when i heard that bit lol

Hannah Blumenfeld

Nate talks too much

David

Shout out to the gang for spending their year in the podcast mines, casting the various pods, and then passing along the savings to us, the consumer. Also special mention to November, because it was her presence on WTYP was how I ended up here. I hope we eventually get a BIG cross over of the full Nate Bethea Cinematic Universe (The Betheaverse, if you will).

Ryan

In my experience a lot of American Teabooity is a synthesis of Disney aggressively branding their Princess vertical and the UK having one of the only extant Royal Families that speak English. Americans hate learning languages but love marrying into upward social mobility.

Crispined Glover Potato Snacks

isn't a lot of it based in need to ID with "not those guys"? kinda like how canadians ID as "not americans"?

etienne

Wild even after a restart its still weird download goes just fine though

Elek Tolman

Am i being pranked? why is the audio slowed? My playback speed is set to normal...

Elek Tolman

Re: American teaboos, some of it goes right back to loyalists, people who left or were expelled from America for not supporting the revolution.

OvO Hoot

I think my favorite Heritage Minute is the one where Pierce Brosnan plays a Englishman pretending to be a first Nations man named Grey Owl.

Crispined Glover Potato Snacks

If you need pants suggestions, Obvious Fraud Office booty shorts would go hard.

Matt St. Jean

I jumped at 'mold', and then choked on my mater paneer with rice. I'm fine now but damn late stage capitalism is hazardous.

Alistair SM J

I'm up for the deluxe set , with a tactical flashlight with engraved TF logo and the Nonce Detector 9000 (Actually just a powerbank , rebranded).

Josep C.

strongly agree with Milo, touching grass is a great tactic. for now

etienne

Where do I place my pre-order for the Obvious Fraud Dept cap and/or windbreaker

Jason Kramer

the underrated part about the Jaguar rebrand is that Jaguar the automaker has been just totally adrift and a complete non-factor for at least two decades, so as much as I don't vibe with their flat ass non serif new logotype, it's hard to get really mad about it *UNTIL* you see this totally heineous AI edit of their diverse model cast thing they did that someone tweaked to have a jaguar cat attack everyone and that has the worst people on earth cry laugh emojying it in the most like I intend this to be hate speech possible manner

etienne

The brave Dutch kamikaze bikers, riding past the tulip fields directly towards the attacking fleet, wearing their trademark facepaint as they make the ultimate sacrifice to save their homeland from a renewed Spanish conquest Edit: Damn I didn't see your edit until after I posted, we came up with 'Kamikaze bikers' independently, incredible how TF gives all its listeners similar brain wrinkles

marilyn

I was expecting them riding bikes into the sea. But maybe that's Dutch Lemmings. Edit: Dutch Kamikazes, if they put on blackface, a bandana, and scream something really dutch.

Josep C.

Given what questions got answered in part 1, I'm not optimistic that you'll be discussing Britain's Basilisk in part 2, but I remain hopeful.

t.

I Saw the TF Glow

Uriah Wilson

I suppose 'centrists being easily persuaded to care about meaningless bullshit' is hardly a new phenomenon - remember when Starmer felt it was appropriate to weigh in on the made up 'woke Roald Dahl censorship' story? - but it is concerning how Musk owning Twitter has essentially streamlined the pipeline to the point where memelord1488 can rage about some corporate social responsibility crap, then clueless lib journalist decides it matters because it's on X dot com the everything app, and then Barry P. Wooferendum reads the story or an associated column, gets Bad Woke Vibes from whatever it is that the story is about, thinks "maybe the Polite Fascists have a point about this one", and becomes *marginally* more DeSantis-esque in his worldview every time.

marilyn

This is precisely the quality content I pay for.

Matt Hope

The only thing I remember about the Jaguar thing is Marina Hyde moaning about it, which seemed like a rather revealing moment - these liberal columnists are so social-media-brained that they have ended up obsessing about the same deeply deranged non-issues as Ian Miles Cheong. Almost like whenever they comment on politics they're just responding to stimuli that they find annoying or scary rather than presenting a vision for a better society. Anyway the only real answer is REJECT CAR EMBRACE TRAIN

marilyn

This was great, you lot are the best ! Hope huseiyn doing great

Pigeon Queen ?

Pfft, imagine pinning your transition hopes on drawing the attention of a random mad scientist when you could just go around deliberately pissing off witches.

Jack Fennell

Dutch Seppuku is actually when you deliberately destroy the dikes and allow yourself to be subsumed into Poseidon's depths

marilyn

Huge

Max