All riffs, no theme, pure vibes, first dates with criminals on the run, you name it. We've brought on comedian Alex Haddow to chat with Riley and Milo in this week's bonus. Hope you enjoy!
2022-12-22 17:18:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week’s free episode is all about William Rees Mogg and James Dale Davidson’s book “the sovereign individual,” which describes a wonderful world in which fifty rich men live in armoured citadels and everyone else scrapes a living off the land. Do not become addicted to water, my friends!
If you want to learn more about Quinn Slobodian's work, check out his site here: 2022-12-19 22:54:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Callum Cant from Autonomy and Fairwork joins the gang for Part 2 of AI Week, where we go in depth about what the fair introduction of AI to workplaces might look like. Fairwork is starting the research process to answer this question, and we’re looking at what they intend to achieve and what the answers may be. Here’s a hint: it starts with an “O” and rhymes with an “Blorganised Labour.”
2022-12-15 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
The Verge’s James Vincent joins Alice and Riley (and Hussein shortly thereafter) to discuss language models - specifically ChatGPT, and how it fits into OpenAI and Microsoft’s plans. We ask - what is its “fluent bullshit” good enough to disrupt in a world that increasingly relies on paying people for bullshit jobs?
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In this month's first Britainology, we interview the UK's only good columnist about his new book 'The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less.' The book is available here from Profile Books.
However, rest assured that we talk about the book for about half of this interview, and the other half is a masterclass on process where we learn how Adrian comes up with columns such as 'I recently saw...
2022-12-09 11:24:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we’re speaking with Vicky Spratt (@Victoria_Spratt) of the I Paper about her new book Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain’s Housing Emergency. Why has Britain regressed so badly on housing conditions? Is anyone with any political power aiming to fix this? The answer will probably not surprise you.
Preorder Vicky’s book here: 2022-12-08 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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We review the current state of unreality in British politics, the supposed Musk war on Apple (not going well for Musk), a bit of Australian hooning reverie, and Hussein’s story about a grammar school bully making people drink water from a puddle to prove they’re not gay. It’s all coming together, folks!
2022-12-05 09:27:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're talking to Mike Isaac of the New York Times about Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. And, let's be real, his desire to be loved, his insane right wing tendencies, the slow grinding of the platform into the ground, and the bizarre tech-libertarian freak thought undergirding all of the PayPal Mafia's conception of the world. This is part two of two!
2022-12-01 17:54:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, we're talking to Mike Isaac of the New York Times about Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. And, let's be real, his desire to be loved, his insane right wing tendencies, the slow grinding of the platform into the ground, and the bizarre tech-libertarian freak thought undergirding all of the PayPal Mafia's conception of the world. This is part one of two!
2022-12-01 17:51:45 +0000 UTC View PostThis week’s episode is a recording of our live show at Comedy Republic in Melbourne, Australia on November 17 featuring comedian Naomi Higgins (@nomstrositi). We’ve found a particularly Australian real-estate startup that is making the world better by making it worse. You’ll love it!
For this month's second Britainology, we present a live recording of our show at Comedy Republic in Melbourne, Australia on November 19, 2022. We discuss the crimes that got people sent to Australia, the crimes they committed while there, and the postwar phenomenon of the 'ten pound poms.' Hope you enjoy!
2022-11-27 12:58:54 +0000 UTC View PostThis week’s bonus features the enormously knowledgeable Molly White (@molly0xFFF) explaining the Sam Bankman-Fried polycule, the collapse of crypto hub FTX, and so much more to Riley and Alice. We very much hope you enjoy this.
Check out Molly’s blog Web3 Is Going Just Great here: https://web3isgoinggreat.com
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2022-11-25 12:05:36 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
For this week’s free episode, we present to you: a horse-racing NFT metaverse startup, founded in Australia, that is definitely going places. We recorded this episode with special guest Tom Ballard (@TomCBallard) live at Comedy Republic in Melbourne, Australia. We very much hope you enjoy!
2022-11-21 22:35:06 +0000 UTC View PostPure riffs, no plot: that's the Balthasar Speedboat promise. And for this week's bonus episode, we have comedians Naomi Higgins (@nomstrositi) and Emily Woods on the show. It's a pleasant sojourn into the deeply sexual world of the sport of curling--and much more! hope you enjoy.
2022-11-17 06:35:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Our friends Tom Walker and Demi Lardner are certified Neom-heads. They simply can't get enough of The Line. And as a result, we saved all the best Neom content we could in order to subject them to it at our live show at The Great Club in Marrickville, Sydney, Australia on November 10. We absolutely loved this show and hope you do, too.
*MILO ALERT* Here are links to see Milo’s upcoming standup shows: 2022-11-14 06:57:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we've brought comedian Nish Kumar on for his regular torture treatment: being forced to hear the plot of a British politician's thriller novel. In this case, it's Ian Duncan Smith's 'The Devil's Tune' and it's easily the worst of any of these we've ever done. Hope you enjoy!
*AUSTRALIA ALERT* We’re currently in Australia, and there are tickets available for the show in Canberra: 2022-11-10 01:14:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week, Riley, Milo, and Alice join Dr Jess Green (@greenprofgreen) to discuss the concept of carbon offsets and how they’re not the foolproof solution to climate change that every huge polluter who definitely wants to keep polluting seems to think they are! Or maybe they’re just pretending to think that!
*AUSTRALIA ALERT* We’re currently in Aust...
2022-11-07 06:45:52 +0000 UTC View PostFor this month's first Britainology, Milo explains the heartwarming autumn tradition of burning effigies of Catholics. Well, sorta. It's our Guy Fawkes Night explainer episode, among many other tangents. Hope you enjoy!
*AUSTRALIA ALERT* We are going to tour Australia in November, and there are tickets available for shows in Sydney: https://musicboozec...
2022-11-04 19:27:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Riley and Andrew are back for episode 2 of season 5 of Criminal Minds in season 2 of the The Boney Island Whitefish!
Sean Patrick Flanery is here and he's having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. He's on what turns out to be a very sympathetic rampage and only the FBI's finest squad of speculative profilers can wait for him to kill some more people and then conveniently show up where they were anyway!
2022-11-03 08:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostMattie Lubchansky joins the gang to explore the future of art and AI. There was once a time when you could make a decent living as an illustrator, but a number of people have decided to get rid of that by using Computers. Hope you were okay with all the art that’s been made so far, because that’s all you’re getting!
*AUSTRALIA ALERT* We are going to tour Australia in November, and there are tickets available for shows in Sydney: 2022-11-03 00:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Srsly Wrong boys join Riley, Alice, and Hussein for a watch and review of Coinbase: A Founder’s Story - a movie where the ending title cards about crypto eating shit were definitely not hastily added moments before release.
Watch the first episode of PAPA AND BOY on Youtube here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcilVLtY7zk
*AUSTRALIA ALERT* 2022-10-31 21:55:28 +0000 UTC View Post
The gang (comprised of Riley, Milo, Nate, and Alice) looks back at the japes and jives of the final death throes of the U.K.’s ongoing political crisis, because surely this new guy will sort it out. Then, we look at a computer programme that’s facilitating a capital strike among US landlords.
Here's the propublica piece we referenced in the episode: https://www.propublica.org...
2022-10-26 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostFor this month's second Britainology... well, we tried. We booked a guest and we got it cleared to record on location in a chippy! And then the guest had an emergency and the chippy wasn't really suitable to record in. So we ate fish and chips and then discussed the meal, plus the history of the dish, plus our experiences in chippies and takeaways in general. And then we happened upon the idea of Mr. Waluigi's Fish and Chips where they have a pro-ISIS patriotic mural. And then Milo learned a ...
2022-10-26 20:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The Boney Island Boys are back! Boonta Vista's Andrew and Trashfuture's Riley have returned for season 2 of The Boney Island Whitefish, the only podcast to specialise in watching season 5 of America's most unhinged crime procedurals!
Get ready for the return of Breakfast Update, Wild Speculation and more!
We're very pleased to be back with season 5 of a whole new show, and we ...
2022-10-26 09:59:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, Riley, Milo, and Alice speak with Mathew Lawrence (@dantonshead) of Common Wealth about the state of...things in Britain, the momentum outside of party politics, the opportunities of the situation, and the prospect of even more stupid austerity. Hope you enjoy!
*AUSTRALIA ALERT* We are going to tour Australia in November, and there are tickets ava...
2022-10-24 20:52:34 +0000 UTC View PostWe managed to get the entire cast of TF together on one stage for a discussion of a very strange anti-woke conservative banking app in the US. And a special tribute to the dog that killed Bin Laden. Hope you enjoy!
2022-10-20 16:27:41 +0000 UTC View PostFor this month's first Britianology, we bring on our TF cohost Alice to discuss one of British history's strangest men. That's right, we're discussing Lawrence of Arabia, T.E. Lawrence himself, or any of the multiple aliases with which he enlisted in the British military in order to get big strapping guys to beat him up. We enjoyed recording this and hope it's a fun listen.
2022-10-17 18:28:25 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Is it a good sign for an economy when you're getting recommended installment-plan purchases for cheap takeaway foods? Is it any wonder that Nick Clegg may have gotten wrapped up in a scandal involving putting OnlyFans creators on a kind of no-fly list? Is it going to come as a shock that Britain's conservative columnists think electrical blackouts will teach spoiled young people a lesson? All this and more, this week.
*LONDON LIVE SHOW A...
2022-10-17 15:46:54 +0000 UTC View PostAnna Nicolau and Kaye Wiggins from the FT join the gang to discuss the rise and sort of fall of music as a securitised asset, and all the weirdness and guys you’d expect with that.
2022-10-14 19:33:49 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's bonus will be out on Friday, but in the meantime please enjoy this special bonus segment that Riley recorded!
Riley sits down with the proprietors of radical cultural publication and media collective Techno Materialism to talk about - you guessed it - techno’s role in gentrifying European cities.
Check out their article here! https://technomateri...
2022-10-12 19:00:29 +0000 UTC View Post