For this month's first Britainology, we're learning about Wales--the history, the language, its relationship to the United Kingdom, the strange exploits of the one-man Welsh IRA--and in order to do so, we're joined by James Griffiths, the Hong Kong correspondent for the Toronto Globe and Mail, and also the author of "Speak Not: Empire, Identity, and the Politics of Language."
Check out James's book here! 2023-07-19 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week, friend of the show Juliet Jacques (@zinovievletter) joins Riley, Milo, Nate, and Alice to discuss her brain-destroying foray into ‘sensible disagreement’ politics podcasts in the UK, featuring guys with definitely no baggage such as George Osborne, Alistair Campbell, Rory Stewart, and more. We also discuss a startup that promises a revolution in being even more a...
2023-07-17 23:46:05 +0000 UTC View PostA rare in-studio episode with Riley, Milo, Alice, and friend of the show Sophie from Mars, in which we discuss the anti-LGBTQ backlash that's making corporations decide that actually they were always completely homophobic. We also discuss orb-related news and a deeply strange AI-generated store that's paying for ads on Twitter
Check out Sophie's videos here! https://www.youtube.com/c/sophiefrommars
2023-07-14 00:07:17 +0000 UTC View PostTickets are now on sale!
Join the gang on August 4th at Monkey Barrel Comedy Club in Edinburgh.
Show start 23:20
Tickets:
https://www.trashfuture.co.uk/event-details/trashfuture-live-at-the-edinburgh-fringe
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We’re joined by friend of the show Gareth Dennis to discuss newly unveiled plans to close every ticket counter at every train station in England. Nothing else is going to be improved, of course, but we’ve envisioned some potential cost-cutting efficiencies: turning station guides into large human-sized braille dots, cutting the civil service down to just one guy that everyone gets mad at, and much more.
Check out Rail Natter here! 2023-07-10 23:27:23 +0000 UTC View Post
We found a documentary about Neom and brought on Hesse from Seeking Derangements and Chapo Trap House's Movie Mindset podcast. It's a movie about a lot of architects with expensive eyewear making the world's wildest 3d renderings of buildings that will never, ever be built. Or will they?
2023-07-05 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, we speak with Bureau of Investigative Journalism reporter Emiliano Mellino about how changes to the UK’s migrant visa system for agricultural workers have created unbelievably exploitative conditions—often reported to be worse than in any other developed or developing country—and how the agency charged with enforcing the rules gets less money each year than the Home Office spends on pens and stationery. However, before we get to that,...
2023-07-03 21:44:02 +0000 UTC View PostSoftbank has shifted to offense mode, and Masayoshi Son has declared himself Priest King of humanity. Riley, Alice, and Hussein browse through our old friend's new outlook, and learn about Masayoshi Son's 24 hour ChatGPT invention habit.
2023-06-28 22:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
With interest rates going to 5% in the U.K., Milo, Riley, and Alice wonder how making the money more expensive will solve Spanish droughts leading to reduced olive production (for example). Also, we bid a fond farewell to the newest residents of the challenger deep and read an article about the dangers of the fifteen minute city in the New Statesman for some reason.
2023-06-26 21:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's second Britainology, we're joined by our friend Nick to discuss the 1982-2009 British young adult series Adrian Mole, the Gen X counterpart to the Up series' generational time-lapse sequence. It's yet another encounter with a British cultural product that Nate knows but that Milo doesn't, and after having read the 1982 book THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE, AGED 13 3/4, we've happened upon at least one aspect of its enduring appeal: it reveals how unbelievably dorky all 13-yea...
2023-06-26 21:08:32 +0000 UTC View PostJack the Ripper - if he even existed - killed women in the sex trade. That’s common knowledge, and also wrong. The Five is a book about one of the worlds first serial killers, understood through the perspective of those women who were murdered.
2023-06-25 21:15:23 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's first Britainology, we watched the 2004 UK gangster movie LAYER CAKE, featuring a much younger Daniel Craig, a very Essex'ed-up Sienna Miller, and a very unknown-at-the-time Tom Hardy. And it's a good movie! Which we enjoyed! And had a lot of fun talking about, especially as regards it being a snapshot of peak Blair years Britain.
2023-06-23 14:37:53 +0000 UTC View PostFor the last stop of our Regional Authenticity Tour, we performed live at Slay in Glasgow and completed our review of one of the worst books ever written. We also discuss a dismal-sounding 'what if your doctor was an app' startup, and hear a story about a deranged British aristocrat who brought our her ancestral machete to settle a crypto dispute. We simply had a blast, and we hope you enjoy hearing it.
2023-06-21 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostHello Hello! We will be doing a live show in London on July 26th at Between The Bridges in Waterloo.
Tickets here:
https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/trashfuture-live-in-london/
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We will be doing a live show in London on July 26th at Between The Bridges in Waterloo.
Tickets here:
https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/trashfuture-live-in-london/
£5 discount for $10+ hogs with code DISCOUNTSLOP
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Journalist and friend of the show Becca Wilks (@WilksBecca) joins the gang to discuss how the Welsh government’s plans on rent control have evolved (spoiler: they’ve been useless because the Welsh government loves a landlord), but first we have an update on the numerous political obituaries being written in the U.K. and a systematic review of Matt Hancock’s TikTok.
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Jathan and Ed from This Machine Kills join the gang to discuss the long, terrible essay by Marc Andreesen about why AI will save the world. Part of his argument is that Marx was wrong because Elon Musk SELLS cars rather than hoarding them for himself. It's... well, it's something?
2023-06-15 11:38:34 +0000 UTC View PostWe spend a while looking over the economic dimensions of - whatever you want to call it - Starmerism, Bidenism, Levelling Up - a version of neoliberalism that realised, very suddenly and entirely too late, that it does actually matter quite a bit if your economy produces certain things. What kind of world does this look like? Let’s explore the contours of Productivism/Permanent Wartime Neoliberalism together, and what it looks like when dedicated Neoliberals try to do something different (e...
2023-06-12 18:23:12 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Yara Rodrigues Fowler joins Riley and Alice to talk about her book, There Are More Things. There Are More Things is a love story, a history, and an exploration of the radical possibilities of fiction. What does good, radical fiction look like? Find out here!
Check out There Are More Things here!
2023-06-12 13:15:58 +0000 UTC View PostWe continued our Regional Authenticity Tour and stopped in the famous city of Manchester, where we recoiled in horror at a startup Riley found that claimed it was--and I'm saying this verbatim--'gamifying good humaning.' We then proceeded to recoil in embarrassment at the next chapter of Mister Book Eater's latest tome. Hope you enjoy!
2023-06-07 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Hussein, Alice, and Riley talk about a new startup that aims to replace us all with chatbots based on Socrates, Steve Jobs, and Jordan Peterson reading the news, then we discuss the wild world of AI scare-vertising and its impact on the world's most gullible government: the United Kingdom.
2023-06-05 20:18:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe entire cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, Nate, and Alice continued our Regional Authenticity Tour with a stop in Leeds, where we discussed a startup offering what appears to be a hypothetical alternative to the labour theory of value...with loyalty points. We also discussed the second part of a new book by Britain's most storied bibliophage.
2023-05-31 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's second Britainology, we examine the third instalment of the Up series, in which our protagonists are 21 years old and living in mid-1970s Britain. It's the era that everyone wants to tell us was the worst thing ever, and yet... there are glimpses of the way life was lived here that elicit what can only be called Hauntology. Hope you enjoy!
2023-05-30 19:07:54 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, Tom Walker (@tomwalkerisgood) joins Riley, Milo, and Alice to discuss some recent NEOM-related news—particularly, some comments from NEOM-affiliated architects at the Venice Biennale. But we’re also talking about a recent story in the FT where all financial journalists got scooped by a random news site in Antigua…owned by a pizza-enthusiast editor who is also ...
2023-05-29 22:12:26 +0000 UTC View PostRiley read a book called “War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900,” which is all about English free trading self delusions and the origins of the present in strange quirks and corners of the past, and how neoliberal historians are frequently a little Marxist (sort of) without realizing it.
2023-05-29 09:26:08 +0000 UTC View Post
We've got Australian comedian Dan Muggleton on for an hour of pure riffs, no theme, but very Australian. And also Canadian, in the sense of Riley explaining bags of milk but only being able to compare their sizes to specific Italian deli sausages. We hope you like this.
2023-05-24 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo get expert advice from The Athletic's Joey D'Urso, a lifelong football fan and a source of extremely funny anecdotes about the nutters and eccentrics of the English Premier League. We learn about Gazza, Georgie Best, Vinnie Jones, and many more. Hope you enjoy!
Check out Joey's work here! https://theathletic.com/author/joey-durso/
2023-05-24 10:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
For this week’s free episode, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice discuss the perennial US debt default threat, the recent Congressional hearings about regulating AI (No Steubes were involved, sadly), and the whale botherers at the National Conservative Conference being huge, alienating freaks that the British establishment demands you take seriously. Hope you enjoy!
2023-05-23 16:53:49 +0000 UTC View Post
For stop one of the Trashfuture Regional Authenticity Tour 2023, we had a live show at the Glee Club in Birmingham on May 14. We talk about a startup with a very confused ad voice in relation to its supposed value proposition, as well as a segment of a new, stupid, and probably edible book by Britain's most famous bibliophage.
We still have tickets available for our show in Glasgow on May 21! Get them here: 2023-05-18 19:45:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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Amardeep Singh Dhillon from the South London Bartenders Network joins the gang to talk about precarity, automation, and what’s next in hospitality, and how bartenders in London have been organising to fight back. Are you working in hospitality in London, and do you feel like you need a union? Get in touch with Amardeep!
Check out SLBN's website here: htt...
2023-05-16 10:48:34 +0000 UTC View Post