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Metro UK is doing a feature on how the future will be (good? bad?), and in our search to answer that question, we've brought on their deputy editor Alex Hudson ( @alexhuds ) to discuss it. In the future, your boss will watch your irises constantly to see if you're looking at GettingYourDickSucked.com instead of doing your job. It's not looking rosy! If you want to hear the full version of this epi...

It’s a bit of a smart episode (a dangerous idea). Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) speak with economist and returning guest James Meadway ( @meadwaj ) about the logic of socialist government in Britain versus the logic of Blairite neoliberalism. Did you know there’s a Cornish fishing village trying to crowdfund getting a GP? Did you know that Phillip Hammond...

America desperately wants to go to war with Iran, so much that it's willing to engineer some extremely fake circumstances under which it can claim to be the victim of aggression. Why is that? Well, according to Bret Stephens, it's because they hate Ben Franklin, or something. To discuss this, we bring on Sina Rahmani ( @UrOrientalist ), host of the The East is a Podcast , and ask him why the US ca...

Listen up, you hogs: for those of you who missed the live show in London on May 30, please enjoy this recording. Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) are joined by special guest and TF original Charlie Palmer ( @cfppalmer ) for a night of apps for loan sharks, philanthropy for space villains, and a game of pong played against an electrified...

Damn, it sure looks like Australia had its UK Labour in 2015 moment this past week, in which the centre-left party favoured to win has instead snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Why did the Coalition win? Why does Bill Shorten want to get rid of the weekend? Why does every Australian deserve a go? In this episode, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Nate ( @int...

Did you know that, despite renting space in basically every building in the world, WeWork incinerates money and cannot ever turn a profit? Did you know that there's an IoT-connected chastity belt that locks your dick to your phone? So much and more is here for you to discover -- and in the preview of this week's bonus episode, you'll hear from the full gang of Riley, Milo, Hussein, Nate, and Alice...

It seems like we have limited choices for the future of humanity. On one hand, we could stop the endless, destructive growth cycle that will ruin our climate, but that might affect shareholders’ portfolios. We could also build hellish capitalism in space, according to Jeff Bezos. This week, Riley, Milo, Alice, and Olga met with IPPR Associate Fellow Laurie Laybourn-Langton to discuss our options....

This week, we speak to jazz saxophonist and MC Soweto Kinch ( @sowetokinch) about big tech's attempts to steal creative idea-generation concepts and apply them to high-stress startup culture. We also talk about certified genius Roger Scruton, and Milo brings back his south-of-south-of-Louisiana accent. You will enjoy this. If you like this episode, you can access it and dozens like it by subscribi...

It’s that time again: Riley sat down with a book, and now you have to hear him talk about it for an hour or so. This month, Riley read K-Punk, out now on Repeater Books . K-Punk collects the previously unpublished writing of British left cultural, political, and social critic Mark Fisher, who explored realism and imagination, future and memory, and the freedom to imagine better worlds. If you like...

Everyone knows YouTube: the place where you can watch Peppa Pig get beheaded, watch crocodiles turn into chickens, learn about why earth is flat, and so much more. However, YouTube as a cultural phenomenon has created an entire new generation of public figures — a bunch of damn celebrities — and in a preview of this week's bonus, Hussein, Milo, and Nate speak with author Chris Stokel-Walker ( @sto...

Well, the Conservatives are at it again. Whether it’s Matt Hancock or Liz Truss or Rory Stewart, they’re out being dumb and unaware. But don’t worry, friends -- your reassembled gang of all original lads, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) are here to tell you why the Instagram Tories are bad and untrustworthy. This week, we’re joined in...

Britain has a serious need for Agony Aunts. Whether it’s a mundane or bizarre problem, people are out there asking for advice on issues such as: racist party guests, children who hate them, how to divide their expansive estates, border stones, and other completely bananas issues. This week, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Olga ( @rocknrolga ), spoke with musician GFOTY ( @gfoty ) about...

Why is it that there are so many billion-dollar startups that ultimately don’t do anything? Under normal circumstances, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Hussein ( @HKesvani ) would just make a joke about Yu-Gi-Oh dragon dick in order to describe it. However, this week we were lucky enough to get expert insight from Grace Blakeley ( @graceblakeley ), the New Statesman’s economics comm...

In this week's bonus episode, Riley, Milo, and Hussein speak with writer Karen Geier ( @karengeier ) about Butt-mentum—the sudden ubiquity of Pete Buttigieg—as well as other topics to include the Extinction Rebellion protests and an *insane* denunciation of Heathrow Airport by a man writing for Conservative Woman. It's good, folks. If you want to access the full episode, get it on Patreon here:  h...

Every now and again, Tony Blair pops up to tell us that we’re doing too much social justice and that maybe Tommy Robinson has a point. This week, the gang of Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Nate ( @inthesedeserts ), and Alice ( @AliceAvizandum)  discuss a report from the Tony Blair Institute for Social Change about—and this is not hyperbole—why populism is apparently immigrants’ fault?...

In a preview of this week's bonus episode, we speak to jazz saxophonist and MC Soweto Kinch ( @sowetokinch) about big tech's attempts to steal creative idea-generation concepts and apply them to high-stress startup culture. We also talk about certified genius Roger Scruton, and Milo brings back his south-of-south-of-Louisiana accent. You will enjoy this. If you want to hear the full episode, acces...

We’re long overdue for something smart about Brexit on this show, or something smart in general. To that effect, this week, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) speak with Brexit seer and director of IPPR, Tom Kibasi ( @TomKibasi ). You may remember Tom from our infamous November ‘Yu-Gi-Oh Dragon Dick” episode in which he correctly predicte...

This is it, folks. The first live recording with our mobile space station, the first outside-London show, and the first leftist UK politics supergroup podcast featuring Dalia Gebrial ( @daliagebrial )of Novara Media and Jack Frayne-Reid ( @gapesology ) of Reel Politik Podcast. Recorded live at Hamilton House, Stokes Croft, Bristol on April 5, 2019, it's a show about the things that matter: brain s...

Riley, Milo, and Nate talk housing, living, and building with Dezeen's own India Block (@indiablock). We start with a start up, then go through Help to Buy and the enormous ponzi schemes the Tory government keeps setting up to provide us with basic human needs (instead of, you know, just providing for the needs), and conclude talking about the only kind of thing left we can build, which is some st...

This week, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) speak with health justice advocate and writer Tim Faust (@crulge) about his campaigning for single-payer in the US, why anything besides Medicare for All is a scam, and why the creeping privatisation of programmes like Medicare and Medicaid resemble Tony Blair’s ‘reforms’ of the NHS in the early 2000s. If you liked...

Amazing how Titania McGrath, a fictional account that owns Millennials by making dad jokes, is the talk of the London Media. It's almost like the account is run by two middle-aged Tories whose friends all RT them out of a sense of obligation. In a preview of this week's bonus, Riley, Milo, and Nate speak with Novara Media's Dalia Gebrial ( @daliagebrial ) about the Titania McGrath 'phenomenon,' an...

In a special guest cross-post, Riley and Hussein appeared on the much-recommended Qanon Anonymous podcast to discuss nationally-sourced conspiracies. This features Lucy Valentine of the Boonta Vista podcast as a judge. Listen as the gang discuss David Icke, Direct Energy Weapons, Reptilians, Gangstalking and Hollow Earth. Support Qanon Anonymous on Patreon here:  patreon.com/qanonanonymous  

No guest this week, as the boys instead sit down solo to discuss the nihilistic right wing death cult that’s getting whipped into an upward spiraling murderous frenzy by the extremely respectable media. Why do they all rush to distance themselves from the things they encourage their readers to do? Why is it that when we make up a fake Brendan O'Neill article, the real Brendan O'Neill writes it bas...

It's that time again! In an unlocked bonus episode, Riley read a book, drank some wine, and is ready to talk about it to you fine people. This month, we're looking at State of Insecurity by Isabell Lorey, available now on Verso. It's all about precariousness and how neoliberalism has turned us into our own disciplinarians. Check out the book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1737-state-of-ins...

This week, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Nate ( @inthesedeserts ), and Alice ( @AliceAvizandum ) speak with comedian and writer Mark Watson ( @watsoncomedian ) about the Adam Smith Institute’s newest declaration: the that Wetherspoons app is the pinnacle of human achievement. Did you know that you can order peas to anyone, at any table at any Wetherspoons pub in...