TRASHFUTURE

This week's bonus features three-peat guest India Block (@indiablock) on the topic of Bolivian coups, Tory housing pledges that got zero new houses built, and beyond-parody op-eds defending landlords. We love it and so will you. Get the full episode on Patreon here:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/31547969 ELECTION STUFF: *Register to vote* You can do this here — it’s fast! https://www.gov.uk/regis...

The team sits down with Olly Thorn, AKA Philosophy Tube, to talk about scientism... which is the ideology by which the world's most pareto optimised stupid/confident jackasses blithely claim to understand the entire world by just using a calculator and making some shit up. It's at the root of phrenology, both classic and modern, the tedious gender politics of the anti-trans lobby, and Neil DeGrass...

You wake up. You turn on your computer to do Fiverr jobs until breakfast. You go to your job. Your contract is secure for another two weeks. You buy lunch for a tenner because you can't go on. You come home, exhausted. It's time for your next job. And you have to pay seven kinds of bills. You've become a burned out husk of a person. But now there's an exciting new venture capital backed startup ca...

So, it’s finally happening: we’re having another General Election. On December 12, the UK will vote yet again, and we have an opportunity to elect a socialist Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn. However, as the full TF crew of Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Nate ( @inthesedeserts ), and Alice @AliceAvizandum discuss on this episode, we have to counter wave up...

Check out this bonus episode preview, where Alice realises her dream of becoming a game designer.  The full bonus features author and economist James Meadway on his fourth TF appearance, and we're talking about the right-wing thing tanks that make British public life so unbearable. Did you know that everything is fine because people today have 100 percent more wifi access than the Royals did 300 y...

It's that time again! Bryan Quinby from Street Fight calls in to talk with Riley, Hussein, and Alice about America's favourite real estate company that called itself a tech company and so is psychotically overvalued because it's involved in the giant pyramid scheme that is the SoftBank Vision Fund... and it isn't WeWork. We also talk about a lot of other shit. Check out Street Fight here!  https:/...

This week’s bonus episode preview features the full cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, Nate, and Alice on the topic of three distinctly horrible things: a startup that promises to create its own Chuck E. Cheese tokens instead of paying its workers; Amazon killing people in its fulfillment centres and deciding that actually, this is fine; and the truly most yer da thing in existence, a ‘satirical’ Brexi...

We’re putting this episode out early because it’s the day of the Canadian federal elections and we want to encourage all our Canadian listeners to go vote for the NDP. Here's a link to where your nearest polling station is located:  https://www.elections.ca/scripts/vis/FindED?L=e&PAGEID=20 To discuss the Canadian elections, the US Presidential primary, and some terrible journalism, we have the ful...

In a preview of this week's bonus episode, we've done a deep dive into the work of the king of the airport books: Malcolm Gladwell. Riley, Milo, and Alice join Felix Biederman ( @ByYourLogic ) of Chapo Trap House ( @chapotraphouse ) to discuss the horror and the banality of the truest of thinkers. Hope you enjoy! If you want to hear the whole thing, sign up on Patreon and get it here: https://www....

What is platform capitalism? And why is it that Amazon seems to be transitioning from online bookstore to perpetually-expanding defense contractor? This week’s episode features Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Alice ( @AliceAvizandum ) in discussion with author and academic Nick Srnicek ( @n_srnck ). Nick’s previous books include “Platform Capitalism” and “Inventing the Future: Postc...

In this preview of this week's bonus episode, our review of Boris Johnson's terrible novel 72 VIRGINS continues — this time featuring Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Alice ( @AliceAvizandum) and returning guest Aidan 'Taco' Jones ( @AJ_Taco ). The story continues to get worse, because the current Prime Minister of the UK wrote racist fanfic for bitter British dads. Brace yourself for th...

Canada may be America’s slightly saner neighbour, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t completely bananas in its own right (or, as they say in Quebec, bananes). This week, @robrousseau of the @49thparahell podcast joins Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) to discuss Canadian party politics, the emergence of a new far-right party, why liberal med...

Here's a preview of this week's bonus, which features Riley, Milo, and Alice speaking with Ben McLeay ( @thomas_violence ) of the Boonta Vista ( @boontavista ) podcast. We discuss a horrible startup called Stockwell (you'll love this one) and a Spectator article with the most profound Brexit manager-calling energy. We almost entitled this episode ACCENTFUTURE because, as you can imagine, it got we...

Last time we had @IPPR ’s Tom Kibasi ( @TomKibasi ) on the show, he correctly predicted a bunch of things regarding the politics behind Brexit. We needed to consult the oracle once more, and as such we reached out to Tom to come back on and reassure us about the future. Well, sort of. This week, hear Tom discuss the stat we’re in with Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani...

That's right, folks! It's a preview the promised second episode in which we discuss the highlights of IT Media Lab's cursed SkyMall. You'll get to hear Riley, Milo, Nate, and Alice take on the true hell world of the Epstein-funded MIT Media Lab creations. If you'd like to hear the whole thing, get the episode on Patreon here:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/30213119 If you want to buy one of our re...

So, what was MIT’s Media Lab actually researching with all that Epstein money? And why is it a Venn diagram of all the worst things in America in the last 40 years? Fronted by a neocon who helped the Contras and the Iraq War, headed by a bitchin’ surfer rave enthusiast tech idiot, and full of people inventing cursed SkyMall products. This week, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Nate ( @in...

Hello friends: just an update to inform you that our venue has changed for our live show at The World Transformed in Brighton. We'll now be on at 1.00 pm on Monday, 23rd September at the Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AF. You can find further information on the show + ticketing here on the TWT website:  https://theworldtransformed.org/festival/2019/programme/trashfuture-live-pod...

In this week's bonus episode on Patreon, Riley, Nate, and Alice speak with Justin Roczniak ( @donoteat1 ), the creator of the YouTube channel DoNotEat and an all-round fan of socialism and urban planning. We talk about a Google-designed hell-district that a lot of morons want to build in Toronto, plus a Telegraph Tory impression of what shopping will look like in 2030. You'll love it. You'll love...

Finance-driven growth: It’s not good, folks! This week, Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Nate ( @inthesedeserts ), and Hussein ( @HKesvani ) join special guest Grace Blakely ( @graceblakeley ) to discuss the financialisation of the past 40 years and the post-2008 reckoning that we’re cursed to live through — which is the topic of Grace’s new book ‘Stolen: How to Save the World from Finan...

We speak with Will Davies, reader in Economics at Goldsmith's University and author of the book Nervous States. We discuss mental health and capitalism, why everyone's crazy, and the Cool Kids Centrist Philosopher AC Grayling getting pissed on twitter and going beast on his stationary bike. If you want to hear the whole episode, get it on Patreon here:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/29894934 *LIVE...

Something of a sleepy week in British politics, a time in which nothing happened of any real significance. This episode features ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Nate ( @inthesedeserts ), and Alice ( @AliceAvizandum ) discussing these banal developments with London-based journalist (and host of Red Hacks podcast) Joana Ramiro ( @joanaramirouk ). Parliament didn’t get prorogued, the government...

We all have Epstein Brain, or at least Riley, Milo, and Alice do. But first, this episode covers our reflections on London and which bits of it suck, a review of the Duke of Westminster's app that lets council tenants decide how they want to get kicked out, then finally we realise everyone's favourite prince couldn't possibly be involved in Epstein shit! He said so! If you want to hear the full th...

This month's CBC features Riley in conversation with Nathalie Olah, the author of 'Steal as Much as You Can: How to win the culture wars in an age of austerity' forthcoming from Repeater Books. It's a work that tackles the supposed “golden age” of the New Labour era and the subsequent lost decade of austerity, exploring the myths and realities of life for young people working in the arts, media an...

It’s a truly classic TF lineup this week with Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Alice ( @AliceAvizandum ) discussing Dominic Cummings supposed genius, but mostly recoiling in horror at an app that’s going to record everything that goes on inside your house, scan your face for fear, and grass you out to the cops. It’s not good! If you like this show, sign up to t...

It's another lovely week in the British summer of, uh, impending fascism? On this week’s bonus, Riley, Hussein, and Alice are in discussion with writer and journalist Kieran Yates ( @kieran_yates ) on the topic of terrible internships, terrible models of home ownership, and much more. Did you know that Hussein has Trashfuture on his CV? Maybe everyone should put it on their CV, even the listeners....