TRASHFUTURE

This is a promo of this week's Patreon bonus episode. We're back in the saddle for yet another edition of Balthasar Speedboat. This episode features Riley, Milo, Nate, Alex Kealy ( @alexkealy ), Olga Koch ( @rocknrolga ), and Pierre Novellie ( @pierrenovellie ) -- and covers the usual spectrum of topics (but mostly Michael Jackson). Did you know Riley apparently sheds hair as a defensive mechanism...

We live in a blessed time, a truly wise era of human history in which Kylie Jenner’s cosmetics front company is somehow valued at $1 billion USD. Now, this is not a good thing, and special guest James Meadway ( @meadwaj ) -- an economist, writer, and former adviser to John McDonnell MP -- explains why this is just one symptom of the morass in which we find ourselves, and why recovering an oppositi...

Friends, we at the Trashfuture podcast do not in any way want our jokes to become real. We don’t want Elon Musk to control the internet with a submarine like the Sons of Liberty in Metal Gear Solid 2. We don’t want Matt Hancock to parkour his way into our phones with a mandatory app. But we always knew in our hearts that the essence of conservatism is “why can’t I say the n-word.” And that latter...

Riley and Milo sit down with Will Stronge, director of Autonomy and one of the principal authors of the four day work week report (linked here) that’s been generating so much interest lately. Sing it loud and sing it proud: work sucks! This episode originally appeared on our bonus content feed. You can sign up for $5 a month on Patreon and get an episode like this each week:  https://www.patreon.c...

A new party formed, except they’re not a party, and they don’t have policies, and their logo makes them look like a store where you can buy a  £10 cup of juice. That’s right, we’re talking The Independent Group on this week’s episode. Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) spoke with comedy writer Mollie Goodfellow ( @hansmollman ) about the...

In a preview of this week's bonus episode, Riley and Milo sit down with Will Stronge, director of Autonomy and one of the principal authors of the four day work week report (linked here) that’s been generating so much interest lately. Sing it loud and sing it proud: work sucks! You can access the full episode here:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/work-sucks-we-24815906 If you want to learn more abo...

We love Britain and British things. We’re a podcast suffused with the Blitz Spirit, the Dunkirk Spirit, the Dying of Black Lung Spirit, and in honour of that, we decided to take on the big issues of modern Britain, such as the following: some rich people tried to sue the Tate Modern because they didn’t want to buy curtains. This week, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani...

We did it. We streamed our podcast live. Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) managed to successfully host a live video podcast while speaking with Hasan Piker ( @hasanthehun ) on Twitch. We discussed the abortive (to put it mildly) launch of Turning Point UK. Just who are the weirdos that fund it and support it? Why are they all part of weird Oxford racism socie...

Riley's Commie Book Club is a bit different. This time, Riley speaks with scholar and author Peter Fleming — you might recognize the name from a previous episode discussing his book 'The Death of Homo Economicus' — and this time they cover the subject of Peter's new book, 'The Worst Is Yet to Come: A Post-Capitalist Survival Guide.' Peter Fleming is a professor at the University of London and the...

Another week is upon us, and that means another Silicon Valley company has reinvented loan sharking. Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Olga ( @rocknrolga ) reached out to someone with extensive knowledge in how payday lenders screw over the poor: Bryan Quinby ( @MurderBryan ), host of Street Fight Radio in Columbus, OH. They discuss a loan-sharking payday lender for your rent, and the...

It was admittedly a shock to all of us that any of you liked our previous Balthasar Speedboat show. However, you did, and as such we've decided to revisit it with a new episode. You can hear Riley ( @raaleh ),  Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Olga ( @rocknrolga ), Alex Kealy ( @alexkealy ), and Charlie Palmer ( @cfppalmer ) for a near hour of riffs. Did you know the British had a song in World War II dedi...

It was a usual Friday afternoon in the Caliphate of Tower Hamlets. Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), Nate ( @inthesedeserts ), and Olga ( @rocknrolga ) were minding their own business when a man walked in with a baby. That man was Rob Delaney ( @robdelaney ), comedian and star of ‘Catastrophe’ on Channel 4. We discussed a terrible service that aims to provide feudal...

In a preview of this week's bonus episode, we're taking you to a brain expansion dimension that you've never visited before. Riley, Hussein, Milo, and Alice join special guest George Eaton ( @georgeeaton ), deputy editor at the New Statesman for a discussion of the HBO / Channel 4 feature film 'Brexit' starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings. Sure, it's bad, but is that really so surpris...

The inmates are in control of the asylum today. Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ) are joined by Joel Golby ( @joelgolby ) to discuss his new book, ‘Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant: Modern Life as Interpreted By Someone Who Is Reasonably Bad at Living It.’ However, we also discuss London real estate, Caroline Calloway’s Instragram reign of terror...

Riley's commie book club unlocked for you this weekend! Listen to Riley talk about his experiences with International Relations as an academic discipline via a paper by Thomas Carothers, The End of the Transition Paradigm.

This is part 2 of a 2-part extended recording in which your diligent hosts review a year that was bad. Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ), join Vice UK home affairs editor Simon Childs ( @simonchilds13 ) to discuss 2018, the year our brains got so irradiated by dumbness that we began appreciating Joker memes in earnest. Please bear in min...

We’re leaving negativity behind in 2019. Instead, we’re getting up early each morning to jog 10 miles while playing influencer audiobooks at 2x speed. However, a lot happened in 2018, and we at least need to discuss it. This week, in part 1 of a 2-part episode, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ), join Vice UK home affairs editor Simon Chi...

Real heads will appreciate this one: we've assembled the full Trashfuture roster, featuring Riley, Milo, Charlie Palmer, Hussein, and Nate, and we're discussing a great (read: bad) startup that wants to give your employees helpful nudges. We also talk Netflix's acquiescing to Saudi censorship, a terrible column that tries to defend UK rail fare hikes, and so much more. If you want to listen to the...

What if you could never be fired from your job -- even if you crossed every possible line, to include threatening to sexually assault and then immolate your neighbour’s child during a row over drum practice? What if you were also insanely racist? In your published columns? Well then, you’d be Giles Coren, Britain’s worst food writer. This week, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Nate ( @in...

Happy new year, you voles, you vulgar abbey mice. The clock might just be striking midnight, but that’s no excuse for you to not ditch your family and the people who love you in order to listen to this week’s Trashfuture. In this episode, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Alice Caldwell-Kelly ( @AliceAvizandum ) join special guest Felix Biederman ( @ByYourLogic ) of Chapo Trap House to di...

It’s a strange situation when we actually like something on this show - and therefore decided to have a relatively serious conversation about it. On this week’s Trashfuture, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) spoke with Wendy Liu ( @dellsystem ) and Trevor Beaulieu ( @RickyRawls ) of the Champagne Sharks podcast about Boots Riley’s film ‘Sorry to Bother You.’ As...

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. In this preview, you can get a taste of what it's like when we have free reign to respond to our curiouscat. We did our best to an...

Business Joker. You thought it was just a dumb meme, but to your hardo connections on LinkedIn, it’s a way of life. On this week’s Trashfuture, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) spoke with Sarah Manavis ( @sarahmanavis ) discuss Tumblr’s ban on porn (and how tech companies fundamentally do not understand their users), a WeWork job description for what sounds l...

In a preview of 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...

Does your investment portfolio include cannabis? Do you want leverage on your dank nugs? On this week’s Trashfuture, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) spoke with Jacobin staff writer and now two-time guest Luke Savage ( @LukewSavage ) to discuss why Canada’s new weed legalisation regime is both gentrifying and rarefying cannabis. There are also a lot of really...