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Why to Care About Politics feat. Aidan 'Taco' Jones

So, this episode was a long time coming. Riley, Milo, and Aidan 'Taco' Jones recorded this during Edinburgh Fringe, but it's been on the back-burner for a while. Now that we're in the beloved dead space between Christmas and the New Year, we saw fit to release it. Regale yourself with a conversation in which Riley explains why you should care about politics.

If you're blessed with holidays from work, hope they're good. And if not, well, neither does our producer.

#WeHaveBeenPubliclyShamed / Trashfuture Q&A

This week's bonus is the first installment of something we've been wanting to do for a while: a Q&A episode. However, before we could get there, we had to read our beloved boy Toby Young's insane holiday column about his 'vertiginous' 'defenestration' from public life.

We did our best to answer your questions with a minimum of Yu Gi Oh references. Well, a relative minimum.

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Riley's Festive Commie Book Club: 'The End of the Transition Paradigm'

For this week's particularly festive bonus, Riley reviews the academic paper 'The End of the Transition Paradigm' by Thomas Carothers. Riley discusses international relations as a discipline, his takes on some core assumptions of the genre, how it's influenced modern politics in the general Atlantic region, and much more.

You can read the article in its entirety here: https://www.journ...

Trashfuture Presents: Balthasar Speedboat

This week's bonus episode of Trashfuture is actually a pilot of sorts -- it's a comedy show we've assembled featuring an ensemble cast of Milo, Riley, Olga Koch (@rocknrolga), Pierre Novellie ( @pierrenovellie), Alex Kealy (@alexkealy 2018-12-03 19:27:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Identity Politics for Landords

On this week's bonus, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Nate discuss Steve Bannon's recent profile in the Guardian, an insane protest letter written by British landlords in opposition to the anti-homelessness nonprofit Shelter, and a terrible startup that wants to despatch fleets of pizza vans that cook your pizza on the go (badly, of course).

Don’t forget that you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/...

Picasso's 'Boss Baby Spice' feat. Elise Bell

On this week's bonus, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Nate speak with art historian Elise Bell (@eliseybell) about her Tabloid Art History ( @TabloidArtHist ) account and why it takes serious effort to stop any creative work from getting commodified (a think we at Trashfuture know too well)...

We had a blast recording this...

Charles and the Bed-Van feat. Ned Donovan

Elon Musk gifted us analytics like Prometheus gifting fire, and as such we've determined that about 40 percent of our audience is American. So, Americans (and others) -- do you want to know about the British royal family? Well, now you can, in detail, as Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Ned Donovan (@Ned_Donovan) discuss the history of Britain's terrible ruling family. This is a good episode to listen to while your...

Trashfuture Live in London, 30th October 2018

This is a recording of our recent live show at the Sekforde in London. Thank you so much to the fans who attended — we were stunned by the response and incredibly grateful for your support. When we get Hussein back from the frozen waste of Upstate New York (early next year), we'll put on another show. Special thanks to Woke George Eaton for clarifying some details about how you get an author picture at a media publication.

Idiocracy Was a Damn Documentary! feat. Adam Rensch

This is of course something of a new content type: on this week's bonus episode, Riley, Milo, Nate, and Olga (@rocknrolga) join Adam Rensch (@nachdermas) — host of the Stop/Rewind podcast — to discuss a film that burrowed itself into the American liberal worldview like a hideous, parasitical worm. That film? Idiocracy,...

Riley's Commie Book Club - For a Left Populism

This week's bonus is Riley's Commie Book Club, reviewing Chantal Mouffe's "For a Left Populism. Why are we constantly told that the status quo — i.e. neoliberal market economics  — is the natural order? Why does the centre hate socialism more than fascism? Why is it a bad thing that socialism might leave the absolute wealthiest on the planet worse off than they are in our current gilded age...

2018 Party Conference Special feat. Simon Childs

We've just completed party conference season, and to wrap up the important events in all of them (or at least the ones we care about), the Trash lads brought on Simon Childs (@simonchilds13), home affairs editor for Vice UK. You'll get to hear all about the Tory party conference (and its app malfunction), the UKIP conference in which Full Sharia was proposed and -- of course -- this year's Labour conferenc...

He Should Chris Less-lie feat. Jack Frayne-Reid

On this week's bonus episode, we're joined by Jack Frayne-Reid (@frayne_jack) from the Reel Politik Podcast to discuss Chris Leslie's recent sad letter to the Guardian. We cover Labour's lack of broad-churchiness and there variety of ways in which the Blairite faction has become politically irrelevant (save for the pages of eve...

EDM: Sonic Gentrification feat. Aloiso Wilmoth

Welcome to this week's bonus episode from Riley. You've been promised this for ages and now you're getting it: a discussion on techno as praxis. But, it's not as lame as that might sound, because Riley speaks with musician and producer Aloiso Wilmoth ( @HE_VALENCIA) about the history of techno, its DIY ethos, its Midwest American roots, and how's it's been repackaged and sold as EDM.

You can find Aloiso's ...

The New "You're-A-Pee-in'" feat. Matt Zarb-Cousin

On this week's bonus episode, Riley, Milo, and Nate sit down with former Jeremy Corbyn spokesman and extremely cool friend of the show Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) to discuss the New European, 'a magazine for the 48 per cent.' As you might not be surprised to discover, it's actually the slightly more genteel version of those people with bitmoji avatars and 13 different hashtags in their name who always, always ...

Riley's Commie Book Club: The Death of Homo Economicus by Peter Fleming

In our first-ever Patreon subscriber bonus, you get to hear Riley's Commie Book Club review of yet another publication. Feel free to leave a comment here if there's a book you want our avid reader (and hairy son) to review in the future.