We are simply gathering information here: if we come to Canadian cities, would you come? Remember - this is something we are considering doing instead of an American live show, so if you are in America and want to see us without coming to Europe or Australia, this is probably your best chance for a while.
This is also not a guarantee we will do it, we are just trying to figure out if it can work.
With that in mind - please can you respond to this poll: where in Canada wou...
2025-07-07 18:34:03 +0000 UTC
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Wendy Liu joins the gang to discuss some gumshoe reporting she did at a network state type event. Also, we look at a plan to turn the entire UK into prison, and review a very unusual visit to the vet.
2025-07-04 09:45:07 +0000 UTC
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On this week's free episode, the crew of Riley, Hussein, Nate, and November discuss killer robots, spooky stories about the Antichrist, an abortive coup in South Sudan, and more!
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2025-07-01 09:57:56 +0000 UTC
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For June's second Britainology we are joined by Rail Natter's Gareth Dennis to discuss the infamous Beeching Report, the downsizing of British passenger rail in the 1960s, what the report actually said and did, and Richard Beeching's uncomfortably Germany-in-the-1930s mustache.
Check out Rail Natter here!
2025-06-30 21:15:23 +0000 UTC
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For the latest Britainology, Milo and Riley discuss the 2000s reality TV show How Clean Is Your House? and the Blairite era of British television in which everything is as passive-aggressive mean as possible, courtesy of the voiceovers etc.
2025-06-30 19:37:04 +0000 UTC
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For this week's bonus episode, we're joined by friend of the show Gareth Dennis to discuss the upcoming 'infrastructure reforms' that could obviously make a huge difference, if done intelligently, but... don't seem to be shaping up that way. Which comes as an enormous surprise to all of us.
2025-06-27 11:05:38 +0000 UTC
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Becca joins the gang to discuss her recent investigation into the use of prison as a “place of safety” for mental health crises. Also, we discuss the brewing war, Farage in Wales, and the takeover of Wales’ premier news site and its conversion to an AI slop factory by gumshoe reporter and assumed identity, Harry Jazz.
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2025-06-24 08:59:23 +0000 UTC
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Riley and November are back, and we're cracking the books. This month (and it will be monthly again from now until further notice), we read Antonio Scurati's journalistic story about the birth fascism in Italy. It's about Mussolini, the ineffectual opposition he faced, and the triumph of "anti politics."
2025-06-23 13:43:17 +0000 UTC
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DSA organiser and friend of the show Noah returns to talk about resisting ICE in Los Angeles, and the consequences of that ongoing mobilisation of fascist paramilitaries. But first, we talk about a new “frontier city” that’s asking: just how much will an unstable, irradiated landfill accelerate AI development?
T-SHIRT ALERT! We now have ‘Say Goodbye to His Uncle’ shirts available for preorder, as well as a reissue of the TF ‘What If Your Phone Was t...
2025-06-20 12:36:26 +0000 UTC
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Tom Mills and Dan Hind talk to us about their work on what a functioning BBC might look like, and how that’s less about finding the exact right political balance (any day now, surely!) and more about ownership structure and material factors. In the first half, we are once again overtaken by events, as this seems to be another “week where decades happen” in global politics.
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2025-06-17 09:24:46 +0000 UTC
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We’ve brought on serious friend of the show Josh Boerman to discuss the use of AI material made by and for evangelical Christians in the United States, and this leads to the discovery of Pray dot com, Gloo dot AI, and so much more.
Check out the Worst of All Possible Worlds here!
And check out Ill Conceived here!
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2025-06-13 08:39:56 +0000 UTC
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Jacob Silverman returns to the pod to talk about the breakdown in relationship between Musk and Trump, and the tensions that have always simmered at the heart of the Silicon Valley / MAGA alliance… but how it will likely remain in place after the extremely replaceable Elon pissed everyone off so much he was asked to leave. Also, Jacob went to the Bitcoin conference and found it to be a shimmering sea of weirdness.
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2025-06-10 09:59:26 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone...we are taking pre-sales on the SAY GOODBYE TO HIS UNCLE shirt designed by our good friend Mattie Lubchansky, as well as a reissue of WHAT IF YOUR PHONE WAS THE COPS, a TF throwback from 2018 designed by Natalya Lobanova, and this time printed on the nicer shirts we've been using recently. These are on sale here: https://trashfuture.co.uk/collections/all
Remember that as patrons you get a ...
2025-06-06 15:10:06 +0000 UTC
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Lauren from Batting Around joins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to talk sports - what’s Banana Ball? What’re the odds of Neom SC winning the Saudi Premier League? What’s going on in Utah Mammoth player Sean Durzi’s brain? And more importantly, can we bet on it?
Check out Batting Around here!
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2025-06-06 08:46:10 +0000 UTC
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For the second Britainology of May we are joined by Ed Campbell of Joe.co.uk to discuss the career of Nigel Farage, MP, gadfly, MEP, annoying guy, insanely annoying guy, British id whisperer, and generally bad person. He's everywhere! He's always getting exactly what he wants and being miserable! It was about time we discussed him.
2025-06-03 09:49:38 +0000 UTC
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Seamus joins us to talk about the sudden (apparent) about face of some western leaders on Israel, who suddenly just now realised that a genocide may be occurring on their watch, and why the right time to take this stand was years ago. Also, we discuss a tech leader who wants to productise thinking, the ongoing adventures of Gregor Steube, and a new and innovative way hackers are stealing bitcoin.
2025-06-03 09:24:12 +0000 UTC
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Historian and journalist Ben Fogel joins the gang to talk about South Africa, and how it came to be a totem for the modern right. Also, we look at Elon’s continued decline and fall (despite the “success” of his project), and Robert Jenrick’s new career as an influencer.
MILO ALERT Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
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The oft-requested episode is finally here, in which we watch what can only be described as a piece of outsider art: a zero-budget, zero-effort British gangster film made sometime between 2011 and 2017 by a woman named Sally Clack, who performs under the name Rapper Shampagne™. Dave Courtney is in this but you'd barely know it. This film caused Nate to have an existential crisis. We do not recommend viewing the film itself.
2025-05-27 08:59:22 +0000 UTC
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Eleanor Janega stops by to talk about her new project on the history of The Crusades with American Prestige, and how these largely failed military campaigns against basically everyone East of the Italian peninsula transformed into the iconography of Islamophobia at home. But first, we look at more flailing from the Labour Government, a plan to sentence criminals to bins, and reflect on Scott Adams’ ass.
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2025-05-27 08:47:02 +0000 UTC
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Tech reporter Mike Isaac rejoins us to talk about the antitrust trials against Meta and Alphabet currently winding their way through the US justice system… but we enjoy a pretty significant detour into the world of the paint mafia. Also discussed is a startup “reinventing banking” to help ordinary people invest in high risk private capital projects with their pension funds, the great burrito bust out, and xAI’s wild turn as a white genocide guy.
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2025-05-23 09:42:06 +0000 UTC
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For this week’s free one, we’ve got returning guest Tim Faust on to talk about Make America Healthy Again (citations needed), Diamond Joe having cancer, the intensely evil cross-partisan urge to institute Medicaid work requirements in the US, plus a visit to the developing paradise of Neom. It’s all here for the taking, folks.
2025-05-20 18:17:18 +0000 UTC
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Note: there is a part at the beginning of the episode that will sound like we left in an editing mistake, but we assure you……….it’s intentional.
It’s Riley, Milo, Hussein, and November, checking in with Jan Marsalek (to an extent), hearing about an orb that can tell if you’re a chatbot or not, and reviewing Janice Turner’s absolutely bananas article about ‘the lanyard class.’ Apparently we did too much corporate CYA training and now the only recourse is to do fu...
2025-05-15 10:43:27 +0000 UTC
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Dearest Hogs,
The $10+ patrons have now all but sold out the discounted pre-sale meaning that regular tickets can now go on sale for the live show in Edinburgh on 31st July at Monkey Barrel.
Details here:
https://wegottickets.com/event/659754
We'd love to see you there!
Cheers,
The TF Crew
2025-05-13 18:04:06 +0000 UTC
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A strange reversal of circumstances in which Nate and Milo watch a piece of British entertainment that Nate actually has more familiarity with than Milo. But we also discuss the degree to which this show has so irrevocably altered the conception of World War I in the British consciousness that historians now have to do anti-Blackadder deprogramming. Hope you enjoy!
2025-05-13 14:42:38 +0000 UTC
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Dan Boeckner’s in town, so he joins us to talk about the ongoing trade chaos, the new plan by the Charter Cities Institute to make a sparkling tech enabled immigration detention centre / San Francisco competitor on a very controversial Navy Base, and finally we look at the just-released immigration white paper, where Sir Keir Starmer KC Human Rights Lawyer and Saviour of Sensible Politics comes juuuuust close enough to quoting Enoch Powell to raise ...
2025-05-13 14:36:39 +0000 UTC
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Dearest premium hogs,
We will once again be doing a live show at the Edinburgh Fringe on 31st July at 23:20 at Monkey Barrel - there are just 24 tickets available at this link for YOU, the $10 patrons, and you can get them for £15 with code 'Hogmanay'
Happy hunting:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-at-the-edi...
2025-05-09 18:31:31 +0000 UTC
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Notes on the Crises’ Nathan Tankus returns to talk to Riley about 100 days of DOGE, and the catastrophic risks those broccoli haired little rascals pose the entire global financial system, in addition to the moral depravity of the whole enterprise. In the first half, Riley, Milo, and Hussein discuss yet more in the “AI will replace the human soul” file, and call a winner in the interim Starmer-Trump 2025 capitulation contest… but finals are still all to play for!
MIL...
2025-05-09 16:17:57 +0000 UTC
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We review the recent spate of local elections that has everybody deciding retroactively that the Labour Party was always full of dangerous liars who could not be trusted to govern the country - if only someone had figured this out sooner. To start, though, we also look at the spate of religious and spiritual experiences people are attributing to AI, and Riley updates his favourite little bit of OSINT.
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2025-05-06 12:21:08 +0000 UTC
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Luke Savage rejoins the gang to talk all about what Mark Carney’s government will actually bring Canada - the short answer is “more of the same shit that didn’t work the last four times it was tried.” Will this stop us making revolutionary jokes about Carney? Only time will tell, signs point to no. Also - we look at the rise of Hardman Labour, and read a truly horrifying exposé on Meta’s rules governing use of their chatbots.
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2025-05-02 14:10:13 +0000 UTC
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For this Britainology down under, Milo and Nate are joined by Joel Duscher and Jackson Baly from Sanspants Radio to discuss the odd breed of Australian billionaire and their fixations. Mostly on coal, holes in the ground, and so on.
2025-05-01 15:21:40 +0000 UTC
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