We brought on twitter finance geniuses Quantian1 and Neoliberal Dad to discuss the Gamestop short squeeze, the Robinhood app, and all the ways in which the line is now officially divorced. Hope you enjoy!
2021-02-01 23:53:39 +0000 UTC View PostGood lord, the Gen Xers of Britain are a special bunch. And man, do they love to reminisce in the YouTube comments. To discuss this phenomenon, and the culture surrounding it, we brought on TF techno expert Riley--as well as George, the creator of the UKRaveComments twitter account--to discuss.
2021-01-31 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostYes, it's a little bit late. It's late because Nate and Milo got exposed to covid right before Christmas and couldn't record while waiting on test results. But we have in fact discussed Jim Davidson's terrible bawdy Cinderella pantomime from 1995, entitled 'Sinderella', and discussed the concept of pantos in general. Hope you enjoy!
2021-01-30 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe've brought on friend of the show and multiple returning champion Séamus Malekafzali to discuss Saudi Arabia's deranged new city -- Neom -- and the specific detail that they're going to make a perfectly linear city called The Line. Do you know what its name is in Arabic? It's ذا لاين. Which is literally tha laaeen. Normal country, normal project!
2021-01-28 00:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's bonus features Riley, Milo, Nate, and Alice on the topic of, well, this stupid island. And a frozen treats startup, and the economy as dictated by the line, and much more. Sorry for the delay on this!
2021-01-21 17:40:57 +0000 UTC View Post
This is it. The last straw. The final bone.
Andrew and Riley are here one last time for the final episode of season 5 of Bones. No other season of the show exists as far as we know. Join us as the writers of Bones basically give up one last time and send Bones to Indonesia, send Booth to Afghanistan and send Angela and Hodgins to fuck in ZZ Top's car. Thank you for joining us on this strange and perplexing journey into mid 2000s post-9/11 network television.
2021-01-20 12:24:37 +0000 UTC View PostAs a follow-up to our coverage of the recent events in Washington, we decided to speak with Annie Kelly of the QAnonAnonymous podcast (@AnnieKNK). What is the Q overlap with these protesters? What do they do now, seeing as the day of The Storm has come and gone? Find out by listening.
2021-01-14 00:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ve put the remaining Honkbal and “What if your robot...?” shirts back up for sale on the store - so if you missed out last time, grab one quick!
Discount code for patrons is tfhog69
2021-01-11 13:05:36 +0000 UTC View PostHave you heard of a book called 'Nudge'? have you heard of 'nudge theory'? Well, we've dug into and -- believe it or not -- it's so deeply stupid that we had to make sure to discuss it on here as part of our Intelligence series with Chapo Trap House's Felix Biederman. Hope you enjoy!
2021-01-07 00:25:40 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy our holiday roundup featuring Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice -- with special guest (and YouTube Zone star) Devon.
Producer's note: because this was recorded super-remotely there are some times when people sound a bit weird. Sorry about that!
2020-12-31 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostOn this festive Britainology we are joined by Alice to discuss the 1982 Falklands War. Why has it permanently lodged in the psyche of the Boomers? Why do people care about these rocks in the middle of the South Atlantic? Why did a British task force commander decide to explode himself in order to dislodge a machine gun position? You will be able to learn all of this and more by listening.
2020-12-24 19:21:34 +0000 UTC View PostWe did a deep dive into the ways in which being a Tory donor means you'll get massive, no-bid contracts for government services -- even if you massively fail at providing them over and over again! To help us understand, we brought on investigative journalist and friend of the show Henry Dyer to discuss.
2020-12-17 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Riley had to move! Andrew has children! Many things caused the delays in this penultimate episode of the Boney Island Whitefish, but trust us: it was so boring as to be undiscussable. So instead, Andrew and Riley have a pleasant conversation looking back on the show and some elements of our own lives.
(This episode of our show isn't sucky, but the episode of Bones sure was!)
2020-12-15 18:45:22 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, we've finally branched out into adding some $10 content (thank you to those of you who have been supporting us at this tier for so long!) Please enjoy our second-ever Q&A, and remember that you can ask questions at any time and we'll add them to the list. This is, of course, a rare episode with the entire cast all present.
2020-12-14 00:12:44 +0000 UTC View PostWe've decided to revisit two of our favorite subjects from the past year: OYO, the hotel app that destroys hotels; and Lex Greensill's one weird trick to collapse the global economy. You will enjoy hearing Riley, Milo, and Alice's takes on this.
2020-12-10 00:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostAs an added bonus this week, please enjoy a pilot episode of a series that we didn't have time to make -- a show featuring Milo, comedian Michael Fry, and special guest Oobah Butler.
2020-12-07 17:45:51 +0000 UTC View PostWe talked so much about the Netflix-produced Mark Wahlberg Boston Cop film SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL. What a great punchline! What an absurd concept to declare that 85 million people had watched it. Anyway, we realised that we had to actually view the film in order to complete the cycle, so we brought on Olga Koch to review it with Riley, Milo, and Alice. Hope you enjoy!
2020-12-03 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs a continuation of our free episode this week, we brought on Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) and Ed Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) from This Machine Kills Podcast to discuss the famously sane and healthy workplace culture of Netflix with Riley, Milo, and Alice. Guess...
2020-11-26 12:38:17 +0000 UTC View PostHow to explain this? Tom Watson--yes, THAT Tom Watson--has written a 'taut, political thriller' about what if Labour and the Tories came together to make sure NHS patient data was sold to pharmaceutical companies in an ethical way. It's deeply boring in a manner that reflects its author, but it's also something else: an experience. Riley read the whole book and forced Nish Kumar to listen to it along with Milo, Hussein, and Alice. Hope you enjoy!
2020-11-23 00:20:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe new TF merch store is live at:
www.trashfuture.co.uk/shop
The discount codes to get your patron discounts are:
Individual shirts: tfhog69
Shirt bundles: tfhog420
We're at it again. Nate and Milo have reviewed the 1968 film CARRY ON UP THE KHYBER for yet another Britainology, and this one is a real laser-focused look at this absurd island. Why is it so horny? Why is everything a double entendre? Is this really the nation that once ruled the waves? You be the judge -- hope you enjoy!
2020-11-19 00:12:32 +0000 UTC View PostQuaid... start the podcast and save Mars...
Justin, Liam, and our very own Alice of Well There’s Your Problem Podcast (on Youtube!) are here to discuss Elon Musk's ludicrous plan to put humanity on spaceships with pizza restaurants in them and ship them off to Mars to live in large greenhouses for reasons of... well... Mar...
2020-11-12 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a spooky, scary Halloween special that Riley and Andrew accidentally recorded pretty close to Halloween! Bones and the gang from the Jeffersonian Medico Institute for Sexual Harassment investigate the mysterious death of a real witch, where they briefly consider whether actual magic may play a part? Plus, a safety feature on the 2009 Toyota Prius leads to an unexpected jailhouse romance in The B Plot.
2020-11-10 12:36:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a while, but we've brought it back: our non-stop comedy riff series returns with Riley, Milo, and special guests Glenn Moore and Pierre Novellie. Riley posits the argument that 'The History Boys' is the actual true 20th century British artistic work. We also discuss airport novels and whole lot more. Sorry for the delay!
2020-11-07 02:16:57 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to investigate the death of God! Also, there's a Breakfast Update bookended with Dinner Updates. And after all that, we find out that Agent Booth truly loves "rock and roll". But how will the team from the Jeffersonian-Medico Institute for Sexual Harassment solve this mystery with only 42 minutes to spare?
2020-10-31 11:58:39 +0000 UTC View PostRiley did the unthinkable. The unimaginable. He read Matt Forde's terrible book 'Politically Homeless' for us and described it to an all star cast of Riley, Alice, and special guests Bryn and Chris from the Beep Beep Lettuce podcast (@weedpod). You will love it, but not as much as Matt Forde loves Tony Blair.
2020-10-29 01:08:49 +0000 UTC View PostTwitch streamer LivPosting returns to talk about her experiences in the job market, and how she almost got a job with a Zoomer-only consulting firm making millions of dollars from teaching Raytheon executives how to say "yeet." Also, is a phone box in rural Winchester the new world epicentre of the BLM movement? According to one brain poisoned conservative columnist, it is! Local hi-jinx abound.
2020-10-21 23:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe brought on Riley to discuss a phenomenon as eternally British as bad weather itself: the legend. Who are British legends? What makes them act this way? How do you create a taxonomy of figures to distinguish between the Essex Geezer, the Entrepreneurial Legend, the High Street Hard Man, and Tim Westwood? Well, we gave it our best go.
2020-10-17 12:07:20 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for a Breakfast and Dinner update, followed by Condom Chat, the death of the buffet restaurant, embarrassing memories and - eventually - an underwater episode of Bones.
2020-10-16 08:50:48 +0000 UTC View PostWe did it again. We found an extremely criminal "tech" company -- this time, a notional Tesla competitor that makes trucks. One catch: they don't work! However, to involve the incredible financial chicanery that went into it, we brought on friend of the show Quantian1 (@quantian1) to discuss it with Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice.
2020-10-14 23:47:49 +0000 UTC View Post