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Elon Musk is (maybe?) buying Twitter again, but more importantly, the conversations between him and a number of his doofus friends and associates have been disclosed. We look into the Mind of Musk, and speculate about his grand plans for the future of humanity via posting. We end on a charming article about McKinsey and the tobacco industry.

If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord s...

Gary’s Mod Economics ft. GarysEconomics

Gary from Gary's Economics joins the gang to take a deep dive on the politics and economics of the budgetary disaster. Do you wonder about the mechanism by which these insane decisions make their way through to mortgages, pensions, and rents? Do you want to understand the core of Labour's weak response? Then look no further!

Check out Gary's Economics on Twitter here: https://www.youtube.com/c/GarysEconomics 2022-10-05 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Amazon Billing Amazon for Amazon feat. Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin

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Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin come on to discuss their new book “Chokepoint Capitalism,” which details how large companies have identified critical bottlenecks in the creative Labour process to suck the value and life out of them like vampires, and what can and has been done about it. Also, a startup! U.K. economic implosion to be discussed in this week’s bonus.

Buy Rebecca and Cory's book here! 2022-10-03 22:06:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Britainology 46: Make Me Prime Minister

Now unlocked to the $5 tier!

For this month's second Britainology, Milo forces Nate (currently in Indiana taking care of his family, free from the United Kingdom for a brief moment) to VPN in and watch the first episode of the new Channel 4 reality TV show 'Make Me Prime Minister,' in which a brilliantly selected curation of idiots fight for the approval of noted war criminal Alistair Campbell and high-profile political Islamphobia victim Sayeeda Warsi. Brain liquefacti...

Moron Risk Premium

On this week's bonus episode of TF, Riley is joined by Milo, Hussein, and Nate, all of whom are captive in the United Kingdom at the moment as a nation fully crashes its car into a wall. We also discuss large corporations having NFT characters on their board as 'chief metaverse officer.' Tech companies were ahead of the curve when it comes to setting money on fire.

*MILO ALERT* Here are links to see Milo’s upcoming standup shows: 2022-09-29 11:14:57 +0000 UTC View Post

The Bronze Age Collapse 2 ft. Patrick Wyman

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Patrick Wyman joins the gang to discuss social collapse and legitimacy throughout history, as we try to apply some of the lessons to certain societies that have been thrown into chaos recently. Not naming names, but let's say United K. Or no, that's too specific - how about U. Kingdom.

*MILO ALERT* Here are links to see Milo’s upcoming standup shows: ...

The Golden Age of Scams feat. Cas Piancey

This week, Riley and Alice are joined by Cas Piancey of the Crypto Critics Corner podcast to discuss Tether, stablecoins, and the enormous scam quotient of the crypto sector. It's okay to be pessimists about it! Your eyes aren't lying to you!

Check out Crypto Critics Corner here: https://cryptocriticscorner.com

London Live Show 18 October

Join us for a special live TF in London on October 18th!

London Live Show 18th October (Discount code)

We will be doing a live show in London on 18 October and tickets are £15 but special $10+ hogs have an exclusive discount code to get £5 off!

The code is: patreonofferSB

Britainology 45: The Queue

Call it an act of reportage. Call it 'we simply couldn't refuse the opportunity.' We went down to the queue for Queen Elizabeth II's lying in state and interviewed people. We also recorded our observations. It was... an experience.

Fill Your Love Gap feat. Jathan Sadowski

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This week, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice join special guest and friend of the show Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) of the This Machine Kills podcast (@machinekillspod) to discuss microfinance. Despite the Nobel Prizes involved, it turns out it’s just app-connected loan sharking in many ways. We al...

The Dawning of the Sealord feat. Shanti Singh

This week, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice join special guest Shanti Singh for her second-ever appearance on TF, to discuss recent recall campaigns and dark money activism funded through San Francisco's intensely authoritarian libertarian VC guys. However, before we can talk about that, we have to talk about a startup that wants to build sea pods, presumably so that you can pay rent to a sealord.

(Reverently) Gone Girl

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Riley, Hussein, and Alice ring in the reboot of the Carolingian Era in true TF style.

DrabFuture: TF Watches 'Brazil' (1985)

This week, it's Hussein, Nate, and Alice discussing the 1985 Terry Gilliam movie BRAZIL, why we feel obligated to watch it, why we think it really dislikes women, and why it somehow managed to nail one thing: the cops.

3 Easy Payments on a Car Battery to Throw in the Ocean

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This week, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice discuss the end of the Tory leadership campaign, its recent news item on the topic of abolishing the UK’s speed limit, Tesla owners in Norway threatening a hunger strike, the collapse of Klarna’s shaky fundamentals, an examination of why there are a hundred failing electric scooter companies, and much more.

If you’re looking for a UK strike fund to donate to, here’s one we’ve supported: 2022-09-05 20:45:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Tropical Blockchain Night, Part 2 of 2 feat. Ian MacDougall

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Part 2 of our series on the deranged libertarian intentional community of Prospera, land of legal pick-n-mix that employs a man named Machiavelli Davis.

Read Ian’s article here! https://restofworld.org/2021/honduran-islanders-push-back-libertarian-startup/

Tropical Blockchain Night, Part 1 of 2 feat. Ian MacDougall

We bring on journalist Ian MacDougall to discuss the libertarian intentional-community of Prospera, a failing city-state in the Bay Islands of Honduras, where Thiel- and Andreessen-funded weirdos have tried to create a land where anyone can open a business with any law, from any jurisdiction, anywhere, adjudicated by some guys in Arizona. We’re not making this up.

Read Ian’s article here! 2022-08-30 00:08:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Queen of Our Ooze: TF Live at Edinburgh Fringe 2022

Here is this week's slightly delayed bonus--it's a recording of our live show at Edinburgh Fringe recorded at TheSpace @45 late in the evening on August 26, 2022. We discuss a wearable tech for the mind and an insane Wattpad-style fanfic about Princess Diana published in... the Telegraph? Hope you enjoy!

This Week's Bonus Out Saturday

Hello loyal TF patrons,

Apologies for the delay on this week's bonus. We've had some difficulty with arranging stuff because Milo and I are in Edinburgh and everyone else is scattered across the UK at the moment. We'll be recording our Fringe live show tonight and I'll have that out on the feed Saturday 27th August. In the meantime, I'm going to unlock some $10 tier Britainology episodes to the $5 tier. Sorry again!

Yours as ever,

Nate

Britainology 44: Pub Songs feat. Elijah Fynmore

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For this month's second Britainology, we speak with Aberdeen-based musician Elijah Fynmore about the moments in UK life when you're allowed to--or expected to--break into song. What is the deal with Sweet Caroline? What is the deal with Irish folk ballads about utterly obliterating British Army Land Rovers? All this and more, in this episode.

Hello, Neumann

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This week, we’re discussing the new Adam Neumann (of WeWork shame) and Marc Andreessen housing startup (details are light). We also talk a bit about Tesla’s $15k DLC for your car, and a lot of riffs about homophobic truck owner memes in the United States. Hope you enjoy!

*AUSTRALIA ALERT* Canberra tickets are now on sale! 2022-08-23 21:27:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Britainology 43: Edinburgh Festival Fringe feat. Alex Kealy

For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo are joined by friend of the show and reference for the true heads Alex Kealy to discuss what it's like being a performer at the festival of indignities and landlords. We hope you enjoy!

Water 2

It's the alternate chaos configuration of Hussein, Nate, and Alice discussing the UK's current drought, its privatised water infrastructure, the fact that no new capacity has been added since 1989... except for a special boy's special project in Beckton. We also read an article that claims blockchain can solve the world's water issues. We will always suffer for content.

Doctors’ Advice: Drink 14 Gallons of Water Right Now (feat. Mattie Lubchansky)

This week it’s Milo, Hussein, Nate, and Alice, joined by special guest Mattie Lubchansky (@lubchansky), and we’re discussing the UK’s energy pricing woes. Which are solely related to privatisation. Which everyone can see coming and nobody is going to do anything about. We also discuss an app-connected water bottle that sometimes tells you to drink enough water to kill you if its sensors are off.

There’s a spe...

Balthasar Speedboat: Upside Down Edition feat. Tom Walker

Pure riffs. Nothing but riffs. No preparation, no reading, no knowledge. We've got Tom Walker in the studio to talk about Kingston-upon-Thames and the idea of reshooting Psycho as a Carry On film. We've got it all. You will enjoy this.

Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Digital Souls

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There may be disruptions in the free-money-forever ecosystem of the tech industry, but that hasn’t stopped new ideas springing forth. For example: what if we made an AI chatbot but it had feelings? And we made it do spreadsheet-factory jobs? This is one of the propositions from a new startup we’ve uncovered called–and this is not a joke–Digital Souls.

*MILO ALERT* Here are links to see Milo’s upcoming standup shows: 2022-08-08 19:09:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Jan Marsalek Alive in Russia!

We revisit some old friends, such as Wirecard's Jan Marsalek and THG's Matt Moulding, and then continue to look at the implications of the increasingly large and powerful strike wave reverberating up and down Britain. We end with a another kooky startup that has some very funny numbers attached.

Second Melbourne Show (17/11) is On Sale

Hello TF fans--just a heads up that we've added a second night in Melbourne and that tickets are on sale here: https://tccinc.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/75729

Also, if you'd be interested in attending a live Britainology in Auckland, NZ, please register to get NZ show announcements here: 2022-08-02 14:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Coal Mine Canary Story Hour

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This week, we're talking the Metaverse, we're talking FB's valuation plummeting because iOS lets you improve your digital privacy by 1%, and we're talking the recent furore with drag queen story hours and how American fascists and British transphobes have been coalescing and continue to do so.

*AUSTRALIA ALERT* We are going to tour Australia in November, and there are tickets available for shows in Melbourne 2022-08-01 20:06:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Potential Auckland, NZ Britainology Live Show

Dear TF Patrons,

First, a quick heads-up: we're going to add a second night in Melbourne since the first show is already sold out. We'll announce the ticket link on here first before we publicize it.

However, since we're going to be in the area, we wanted to gauge interest in a Britainology live show in Auckland. Nate and Milo are the only cast members who'll have enough time to extend the trip, and if we're going to do this, we have to move relatively quickly to arrange it. So, i...