Dan Boeckner’s back to discuss the ongoing march of AI through the music industry, and whether or not companies like Suno really do “democratise creativity.” Also, we look at U.K. institutions segregating trans people and going :/
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2025-12-05 10:16:16 +0000 UTC
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Andrew, Riley, and Devon are joined by The Worst of all Possible Worlds and Ill Conceived's Josh Boerman for an episode that features a Milf Cruise, boasts a BPM of 0.8, and promises to grapple - briefly- with the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade.
You can find josh wherever podcasts can be found. start a podcast and wait. He'll show up!
2025-12-04 10:51:38 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Ed Campbell has ventured deep into the dark heart of British Bitcoin enthusiasm to bring us dispatches from the front lines of the battle against the state… and also a cryptocurrency themed marmalade that we all agree was slightly too sour.
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2025-12-02 14:55:07 +0000 UTC
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We still have TF shirts in stock ("What If Your Phone Was the Cops?" / "Say Goodbye to His Uncle" / "Avignon Popes" / "Banished to Lagoon") and we can now finally ship to the US again. Obviously there is the annoyance of tariff duties but that will at least be sorted in advance. And also remember that, as Patreon subscribers, you can get £5 off any single shirt with code TFHOG69, or £10 off the bundle price with code TFHOG420.
2025-11-29 13:18:52 +0000 UTC View PostEd returns quickly after his last appearance to address Nvidia’s apropos-of-almost-nothing reassurance to the world “by the way, we’re not Enron.” Also, we read an article about probably one of the worst AI companies going.
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2025-11-29 13:13:38 +0000 UTC
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Climate Scientist Jess Green returns in the wake of COP30 to discuss exactly why the UN brokered international climate accords are so ineffectual. Also, we talk about some old friends, ongoing developments in private credit, and a plucky new startup aiming to “save the world.”
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2025-11-25 11:48:18 +0000 UTC View PostOne more thing... we get Gregk Foley from the brand new Bloodwork Podcast on to talk about a company that can only be understood as "weaponised geoguessr." Also, Euan Blair's tie up with Louis Mosley (who could have seen that coming!) and a mural of horrors goes up in Kingston.
2025-11-21 14:54:21 +0000 UTC View PostAndrew, Riley, and Devon investigate episode 5 of Bones season 6. Can the staff of the Jeffersonian solve a murder with no Body? Does Bones understand the breakdancing subculture? Will they be normal about Arastoo? But first: Y'all mind if a bronze boy speaks a little Shakespeare?
2025-11-20 13:10:43 +0000 UTC View PostJournalist and professional Wes Streeting Watcher Sasha Baker joins us to discuss all things Streeting, as he seems to be more and more likely to be inflicted on us as the next Prime Minister of the UK. But first, May We Meet You?
2025-11-18 16:19:04 +0000 UTC View PostAndrew, Riley and Devon bring you an episode inspired by Bill Nye the Science Guy, Dog the Bounty Hunter, and tearing a bird in half recreationally.
Also, please extend a warm welcome to DEVON as the third Whitefish!
2025-11-14 12:44:50 +0000 UTC View PostEd Zitron returns to discuss all things AI bubble - specifically OpenAI's uncertain balance sheet, the potential government backstop of data centre construction, and the very real and material constraints (such as gas turbine production) on building god via Nvidia Blackwell chips. Also we get sidetracked and stunlocked by the new tranche of Epstein revelations at the very outset.
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2025-11-14 09:48:12 +0000 UTC View PostDr J joins us to discuss Peter Thiel's cooked eschatology, as well as the supremely attainable goals with which Elon Musk stands to make himself a trillionaire. It's all plausible and it's all real, and we of course have nothing but positive things to say about it!
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Glasgow sectarianism - is there really a religious divide in Glasgow or is it more about which team you support? Milo is joined by Glaswegian comedian and Celtic fan Marc Jennings and Glaswegian journalist and Rangers fan Ed Campbell, to see if any of them can make sense of this rivalry for Australian comedian Michael Shafar.
Mike:
https://www.instagram.com/michaelshafar/?hl=en
Marc:
Andrew, Riley and Devon bring you: Breakfast Updates, the latest in Bones slashfic, the Bones writers predicting Tim Robinson dialogue and the anthropological delights to be found in 2010 New Jersey.
2025-11-09 09:55:43 +0000 UTC View PostMatt and Ben of Justice Warriors fame return to the pod to discuss the mish mash of gambling, advertising, and fascist aesthetics spreading around the world through AI. Then, we think the Swan Song of Neom is finally upon us.
2025-11-07 15:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe FT’s Rob Smith joins us to talk about the $4.5tn private credit bubble brewing in global financial markets… or to put it in perspective, to answer the question of how a regional Ohio auto parts distributor joined forces with Utah’s Swaggest Mormons to ring alarm bells at the IMF.
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2025-11-04 14:06:19 +0000 UTC View PostRiley and Andrew are joined by Devon to cover an episode where everyone's been very personally affected by Afghanistan, we're vacuuming nostrils, and the interns are the horniest they've ever been.
2025-11-01 06:34:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Josh joins Hussein and Riley to talk about new developments in the realm of faith based AI, Grokipedia, and a ghoulish display outside Hussein’s local estate agent.
2025-10-31 18:57:25 +0000 UTC View PostEmiliano Mellino joins us in the middle of a riff about how we should be able to kinetically engage swans with lethal force to talk about how the employment tribunal system in the U.K. is fundamentally broken. Before that, we review the death of Neom and a16z’s newest innovation in the field of American Dynamism: more addictive gambling!
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2025-10-28 13:34:06 +0000 UTC View PostA few old friends stop by - Palmer Luckey, Shaun Maguire, and Eight Sleep... then we take a deep dive into the mind of the Irreverent Troop MP who loves Flags and is Serious About Flags and The Boats, Mike Tapp.
Then in the second half, Riley is joined by Ezequiel Bistoletti - professor at the University of Buenos Aires and host of the YouTube series Demolishing Political Myths to talk about the Libertarian Bailout King, Javier Millei.
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2025-10-25 14:20:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey! This patron-exclusive Boonta Vista/Trashfuture collaboration is the first episode of an extremely specific podcast in which Andrew and Riley recap episodes of season 6 of the American crime procedural comedy-drama Bones.
In this episode we explain the origins of Bones, why season 6 of Bones is worth examination, and the season premiere which includes Middle Eastern combat, tiny skeletons, pregnancies, fedoras, illegal North Korean fabrics and more.
2025-10-23 10:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostSéamus - now host of the Turbulence podcast about the post-American imperial age - joins us to talk about the ceasefire in Gaza that wasn't, as well as the whole-of-government effort to rehabilitate football hooliganism. Also, we look at a fun new way to get carbon dioxide into your body.
Check out Séamus's new show - https://turbulencepod.substack.com.
2025-10-21 23:08:55 +0000 UTC View PostRiley, Nova, and Hussein chug some down some heavy metals, talk about rare earths, ChatGPT’s OTHER other detour into porn (before curing cancer), and the slow death of neoliberalism. Then, Wired does some crucial journalism: talking to Cybertruck owners who all need to find polite ways of saying they have a “getting yelled at” fetish.
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2025-10-17 16:19:31 +0000 UTC View Post
In 2001, a British army major, his wife, and a mysterious Welshman cheated on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire… or did they? Milo is joined by scams and Chris Tarrant expert Oobah Butler, and Australian correspondent Michael Shafar to investigate.
Oobah’s new film How I Made £1 Million In 90 Days is available on Channel 4.
Astrophysicist Adam Becker joins us in this pre-recorded episode to talk about the ongoing billionaire space race and the material limits of the ideology of infinite growth that underpins it. Also, we send a pitch out into the universe to Guy Ritchie for a great new character.
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2025-10-14 09:38:05 +0000 UTC View PostEleanor Penny rejoins us to talk about the government and media class’s ongoing cynicism in suppressing and criminalising any expression of Palestinian solidarity. We also read an article that - let’s say - got everyone in something of a Tilly.
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Riley speaks with DSA members Grace and Alvaro about the long years and efforts the organisation put in to secure Zohran Mamdani the democratic nomination for NY mayor… apparently it’s more than just TikToks! But first, we revisit an old, old friend and look at a shiny new piece of hardware.
Jeremy and Alex from the Quorators join us to talk about the oncoming AI slop deluge, the epidemic of boulder violence against glass bridges, and then we deal with some U.K. themed quoras.
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Milo is joined by political correspondent Ed Campbell (PoliticsJOE) and Australian comedian Aidan Jones for a deep dive into a juggernaut of modern Britain - the Prince of Darkness himself, New Labour spin doctor and free-holiday-enthusiast, Peter Mandelson.
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Archie has been following the ups and downs of Your Party, and gives us the inside story on where it all went wrong organisationally. Then, we read another article about AI intruding into people’s lives and making them horribly uncanny.
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