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So you've decided to run down the functions of your society? What's left to get people up in the morning? We are joined by Abi Thorn and Mattie Lubchansky to talk about the political usefulness of transphobia. But first, we talk about how Britain engineered a gas crisis it is unwilling to escape from, and talk about a cool business.
2021-09-26 22:44:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Milo and Nate speak with British Army veteran, leftist organiser, BJJ enthusiast, and all round comrade Joe Glenton (@joejglenton) about Britain's relationship with its Army and the different types of nutters who serve in it.
Joe has a book coming out in November entitled VETERANHOOD: RAGE AND HOPE IN BRITISH EX-MILITARY LIFE that you can pre-order here: 2021-09-25 14:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post
We've found another terrible startup: a billion-dollar-valuation 'plastic recycling' venture that is too dangerous to actually work (but would absolve the oil industry of any need to change its business model). It operates via a concept called shuggling. It also has yet again involved a promised factory in Ohio that will never exist. Prepare to get shuggled.
(Editor's note: this episode has some slightly throwback sounds because Hussein and Milo's mics were, uh, suboptimal. I have done ...
2021-09-22 23:34:30 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Ciaran (@ciarandold) and Nick (@sternburgpapi) from Corner Spaeti (@cornerspaeti) join the gang to discuss the upcoming federal election in Germany, and then we go deep on Europe's most embarrassing party of nerds: "Volt!"
If you w...
2021-09-20 21:14:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe previous file issue has been fixed
This month's $5 Britainology involves Milo forcing Nate to watch an incredibly awkward episode of I'm Alan Partridge and then helping him talk him off the ledge. We also explore how Partridge is not all that exaggerated a version of a British radio DJ, replete with some Richard Madeley and Jeremy Vine all-time classics.
2021-09-19 20:47:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Milo, Nate, and Alice watched the 1995 Kathryn Bigelow film STRANGE DAYS, in which Ray Fiennes is a lovelorn memory-salesman hawking minidiscs that let you experience other people's consciousness. It's a bizarre document from the time in which its made, it's a film with cult status in certain quarters, and it posits the notion that to get over your problems, you need Angela Bassett to kick your ass. Hope you enjoy!
2021-09-15 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, we’ve got a real doozy for you: a bad startup, some Labour kremlinology, and an examination of supply chain shortages in the UK because our government are some of the dumbest people to ever breathe air. Did you know that when your taxes go up to fund privatization and pocket-stuffing, that’s actually communism? You heard it here first.
If you’re in the UK and want to help Afghan refugees and internally displaced people, consider...
2021-09-13 22:45:44 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back. Yes, we did another live show at Vauxhall Comedy Club in London, and we discussed a startup that wants to make a mattress that can do DDOS attacks. We also read a Telegraph article about the decline of the West. It's Riley, Milo, Hussein, Nate, and special guest Phoebe Roy. You'll love it!
2021-09-09 11:33:58 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, we learn the story of the Diapers dot com billionaire who wants to build a utopian city in the desert based on the principles of Georgism. Does this sound like The Line? Well, it’s been compared to it by the same credulous weirdos who love that, too. Also, a startup!
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Bill Corbett (@BillCorbett) of Rifftrax and MST3K joins the gang to discuss a strange film - the documentary made by failed London mayoral candidate and three time piss drinker, Brian Rose. It's all about how Ayahuasca can motivate you to save the world with the perfect conference of youtubers.
2021-09-02 21:20:45 +0000 UTC View PostWe spoke with OnlyFans creator Carta Monir (@CartaMonir) about the platform's decision (and subsequent reversal) regarding explicit content, and the American Evangelical Right's "not so long" march through the institutions of culture. But first, a startup!
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This week, Alice joins Nate and Milo to discuss the British reality TV show 'Grand Designs,' in which insane people decide to sacrifice it all to build the house of their dreams. Does it sometimes go okay? Sure. But most of the time, it's a slow-motion wreck with dyspeptic commentary from what we might describe as architecture Jeremy Clarkson. Enjoy!
2021-08-25 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostOur friend @idahobones joins the gang for a discussion of how tech-inflected insurance companies dream of a heavily surveillance life for all, and also to revisit an old friend of the show, Softbank’s very own Lemonade! Prepare yourself for the revelation.
2021-08-25 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Alice and Riley speak with returning guest, journalist Arron Merat (@a_merat), reflecting on twenty years of cruelty and institutional failure on the part of the British state and its bloody imperial adventure in Afghanistan. We look deeper into the domestic pressures, economic and psychological, that made this all happen, and look at some of the attempts to actively forget what we ha...
2021-08-23 14:35:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we explore the phenomenon of 2000s Indie Rock (and the endless succession of bands that seemed to go nowhere) with two long-suffering veterans of the scene: Fred Macpherson (of the bands Spector, Les Incompétents, and and Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man) and music journalist Oscar Rickett. It's a lot of bad memories but it wouldn't be Britainology if we didn't dredge them up!
2021-08-20 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time for episode 5 of the series we're un-affectionately calling Lib Dem Children of Men. That's right, it's Russell T Davies' populism dystopia 'Years & Years,' and we've brought on Devon from Da Youtube Zone and the Kill James Bond podcast to discuss.
2021-08-18 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, Nate, Milo, Alice, and Hussein speak with journalist Alex Yablon (@alexyablon) about a US program in 2020 where the Federal Reserve leant money to municipalities--and the possibility of cutting out market-based austerity, if we want it. We also check in on Lordsto...
2021-08-16 21:45:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we've brought on Noah Suarez-Sikes (@noahpasaran) from the DSA Los Angeles-Hollywood Labor group. We discuss unionisation drives in Hollywood, why capital concentration is making films worse, the conditions for non-star workers in the US film industry, and an app that's going to redefine your biological age. It is a good time!
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We're back doing live shows baby! Our first one post apocalypse will be at Vauxhall Comedy Club on Wednesday 1st September.
Tickets via the link
Std: £15
$5 Patrons: £10 (discount code: rawhogginit)
$10+ Patrons: £5 (discount code in separate post)
Doors: 19:30
Show: 20:00
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This week, Riley, Milo, Alice, and Hussein join special guest Alex Press (@alexnpress) of Jacobin magazine and the Primer podcast (@primerpod) about the Stratford Orb, another union-busting app, and the news that the Amazon union election has to do a re-run (and the Teamsters are getting involved!). You will enjo...
2021-08-09 21:44:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We brought on Dan Boeckner, musician from the bands Wolf Parade and Operators, podcaster with Riley from the show Bottlemen, to discuss a 1977 spy thriller called 'Cumbernauld HIT' set in Cumbernauld, Scotland. Except it was funded by the local council to promote Cumbernauld, using the film as a promo for the New Town and all its drab concrete labyrinth glory. Here is the spirit of Labourism, a new model community where society is building a new man who, crucially, does not jack off.
Wa...
2021-08-04 23:30:28 +0000 UTC View PostA great happening has come to London. A marker of power has arisen. Fell deeds awake as we enter the era of the Mound.
Also, James Meadway (@meadwaj) returns to discuss the fading of the neoliberal paradigm and it’s replacement with something different and worse.
2021-08-02 16:54:42 +0000 UTC View PostThis is perhaps something of a combination of Britainology and a regular TF episode in which we've brought on Matt Edwards, Milo's (much) older brother, who worked as a foreign exchange trader in London brokerages in the 1990s. We learn about the geezer-rific work environment of a bunch of guys yelling into a phone about numbers, some of the antics they got up to, what's changed since, and--perhaps on a more serious note--Matt's personal experience with what happened in Greece post-2008, a co...
2021-07-29 15:38:36 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're speaking with Dwight Rhinosoros (@rhinosoros) of the Eat the Rich podcast (@eattherichpod) about the Bezos/Branson 'space race,' all the fawning coverage surrounding it, and an app that wants to give you helpful reminders at work. You will enjoy this.
2021-07-28 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe chatted to two riders with the German grocery delivery app Gorillas all about their unionisation drive, and their boss’s strange obsession with fire magic. Also, Maureen Dowd is a tech writer now and she’s been buffaloed by Silicon Valley’s resident “dad CEO” Dara Khosrowshahi.
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We sat down with Jason Prado from the Drivers Cooperative in New York City to talk about how rideshare drivers are taking matters into their own hands in the fight against Uber, and have created a competing worker owned platform. But first, we have a ludicrous startup and a few fun news items to cover (including yet another supposedly "driverless" car, where it turned out to be just a guy in there).
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From the 1987 South Africa-only EP 'Braai or Die'
2021-07-20 11:57:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Riley, Milo, and Alice join special guest Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) of Tribune Magazine to discuss Barratt Homes: what is the deal with new-build housing in the UK? Why is it of such uniformly bad quality? And why has this become pretty much the only real new construction of homes in this country? Also in this episode: another re-discovered song from Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads.
Owen’s new c...
2021-07-19 23:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostDid you know that the City of London, the small mini-enclave that dates back to Roman times, is a separate state entity that predates the United Kingdom by hundreds of years? And that its special status makes it basically immune to disclosure rules and financial oversight? Well, sort of. Riley steps in to explain The Land of the Weird Bollards and much more.
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