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TRASHFUTURE
by TRASHFUTURE
comedy show about late stage capitalism fucking our lives up. acct run by @raaleh other cohosts are @HKesvani, @milo_edwards, @inthesedeserts, @postoctobrist and friends / line go down!
Episodes
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Moneyball feat. Musa Okwonga
Musa joins us to discuss the recent controversies with Abu Dhabi, Man City, and why decades of underinvestment in the U.K. left us vulnerable to becoming the playthings of monarchies… also football. But first, we read an article about a perennial favourite subject: people incriminating themselves...
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*PREVIEW* Blank Street Bourgeoisie
Check out the full episode on Patreon here! Hussein tried to conduct some shoe leather journalism at the beating heart of the Holborn & St Pancras constituency: this one Blank Street Coffee franchise by the station that always has an enormous queue. Sadly he didn’t learn anything, and instead…
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The Emperor’s New Episteme feat. Jay
We have an opportunity to speak with Jay, a union organizer in the UK hospitality industry, about the ways in which that sector is particularly hostile to labour organizing and, unsurprisingly, owned by ghouls all the way up and down. But before that, Nate, Hussein, and November discuss Trump’s...
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*PREVIEW* Lovely Boys feat. Greg Foley
Get the entire episode on Patreon here! We’ve got Blood Work’s Greg Foley on to discuss the… happenings, involving another permutation of a guy named Thomas, and some guys in masks, and the British criminal justice system, and also another recent happening in a farm field in Gloucestershire, and...
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The Last Days of Group Home Rome feat. Hesse Deni
Riley and Hussein are joined by Hesse Deni (substituting for Nova who will be returning on Friday) to look at the unravelling of “A.I. safety” as a largely posting based discipline. Let’s all update our priors together and gesture at the crux of the issue. Also, Riley brought the most Ohio item...
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*PREVIEW* Equality Under Garfield Law feat. Sapheen Meran
Get the complete episode on Patreon here! It doesn’t come as a surprise that lawyers are using AI tech in legal practice, but British legal authorities and firms have gotten a bit wild: buying pallets of NVIDA GPUs to build their own data centres, submitting briefs with AI hallucinations of fake...
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The Piddington Omakase feat. Nathan Akehurst
Editor’s note: this is something of an unusual episode, sorry! It’s just Nate and Hussein, but we’ve brought on journalist Nathan Akehurst, the author of the forthcoming book Along the Watchtower: Dispatches from Europe’s War on Migration. However, we have to talk about the Piddington referendum,...
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*PREVIEW* I Can’t Believe It’s Not Verhoeven feat. Tom Walker
We dragooned friend of the show Tom Walker to discuss the recent Will Gluck film ONE NIGHT ONLY, which can be described as an intended meditation on life in a fascist society that somehow instead just lectures the audience about how it’s better to wait for marriage. Abstinent Times at Ridgemont...
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Slow Midas feat. Charles Star
We temporarily pivot to America because we have the opportunity to speak with Charles Star, a friend of the show and a law understander, who can give us insight into just how much the U.S. Supreme Court has retooled itself to enable total right-wing capture. However, we also have a chance to…
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*PREVIEW* What Would a Normal Person Do feat. Cory Doctorow and Mattie Lubchansky
We believe in the marketplace of ideas. That’s why we’ve made it so that Cory Doctorow responds point by point to an article written personally to him by a16z about why his Enshittification thesis is wrong. Then, in the back half, we talk about AI and LLMs as real technologies rather than…
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Going Out Like Scott Benton
We get into a land of contrasts today - the far right grows in street power as Reform is suddenly exposed for the grifters and charlatans they have always been. Also, two very serious policy men have a conversation about party funding with one million hidden cameras. Get more TF episodes each…
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*PREVIEW* The Ortolan Connection
For this week's bonus episode, Riley, Hussein, Nate, and November convene to discuss a number of topics: abject Burnhamism for one, a luxury block of flats in London making its very unsympathetic tenants live in what can only be called Scolding WeWork for another, and the story of a failed...
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Bribecoin feat. Zeke Faux
Bloomberg’s Zeke Faux joins us to discuss stablecoins - specifically Tether and World Liberty / USD1 - which function now as the parallel financial ecosystem for dealing with states captured by right wing cliques. But first, we brainstorm a post politics career for Keir and check in on the state…
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*PREVIEW* RIP Grokipedia (2025-2026) feat. Molly White
Get the whole episode on Patreon here! Molly is back again, this time to talk about the right's war on Wikipedia—we show how Grokipedia was actually born of grievances fomented in two reports baselessly alleging liberal bias at Wikipedia, and died because Elon got distracted. Also, we uncover a...
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Mirror, Mirror feat. Libby Watson and Charlotte McDonnell
Libby and Charlotte from What’s All This Then join us for an all dessert episode featuring a new entry in the Kirk fund, an interesting new fraud defence, and some answers to burning questions about Britain. Also a shirt Riley saw returning from a friend’s stag do. Check out What's All This Then...
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*PREVIEW* What I Learned In 'How To Rule The World' Class
Phoebe Gates went to How To Rule The World class at Stanford, where apparently she learned to admit to potentially criminal activity in Slack. Repeatedly. Also, the network school moves countries, a FarmVille with perma-death, and Mark Zuckerberg has a go at manifesto writing. Get the full…
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Leveson 20000
We talk about the death of Jason Arday and the culpability of our rotten-to-the-core media industry in bringing it about… and also a truly infuriating article about how a 17th century academic might not fit in at a modern “Pronouns University.” RILEY ALERT Check out No Gods, No Mayors here!…
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*PREVIEW* The Railluminati feat. Gareth Dennis
First of all: mea maxima culpa for having trusted the hated professional news media about a certain fictive elf's grave. We're endeavouring to do better. And in that spirit we've brought on Gareth Dennis, host of Railnatter on YouTube and the Trainsatlantic podcast. Somehow, Gareth has the…
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Silencing Bronze Age Voices feat. Donald Campell
Riley speaks to Foxglove’s Donald Campbell about the campaign to prevent Palantir from working with the NHS, but before we get to that, we have to talk about… fictive elven graves. And real Bronze Age burial sites. And a man in Texas who’s willing to move heaven and earth in order to view anime....
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*PREVIEW* Chadismo Skynet feat. Ben Fogel and Mattie Lubchansky
We've brought on friend of the show and writer Ben Fogel to talk about the hard-right turn in Latin America, and the list of freaks is a mighty one: the gradient scale of Bolsonaro failsons, the Peruvian dictator's daughter, the fast food restaurant family crime syndicate, and many more. November...
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The Grafter’s Baccalaureate feat. Devon
Prayers up for our beloved Nova who remains unwell, but Devon is in the hot seat today filling in as we discuss how you can’t trust maps anymore, a report on the state of reports, and the future of education in a certain grafting market trader’s utopia. But first, we look at the outstanding white...
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*PREVIEW* All My Rings Schismatic feat. Mattie Lubchansky and Josh Boerman
Too much is happening at once. We've got repurposed Realdolls being pitched as AI robot teachers....or tutors, since supposedly the difference is crucial. We've got an eight-figure settlement in the case of eBay gangstalking bloggers and doing Jared Leto Joker pranks on them. We've got a wearable...
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Tank! feat. Victoria Scott
Once again, it seems like tariffs are going to slice the North American auto industry into ribbons while it simultaneously tries to make buying some of the only good cars in the world illegal. Victoria Scott from Tran Girlismo takes us through the decline of the American auto industry (for non...
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*PREVIEW* Invasion of the Corgi Snatchers feat. Wendy Liu
Friend of the show and Silicon Valley anthropologist joins us to discuss the cultural weirdness that has taken over Silicon Valley - what do you do to get noticed when your only route out of the permanent underclass is to make the same product everyone else is making? Go Crazy! Also, we look at…
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Money Touchers feat. Nathan Tankus
Jensen Huang sold his leather jacket for charity… and we look at exactly what that charity is and does. Then in the second half, Nathan Tankus is back to discuss the ongoing plot to create an imperial presidency by Touching the Money like never before. TF listeners can enjoy a discounted...
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*PREVIEW* Un Three-in Andalou feat. Mattie Lubchansky and Hesse Deni
We needed to up the chaos a bit so we watched the terrible 2021 film LOCKED DOWN with our good friends Mattie Lubchansky (of the No Gods No Mayors podcast) and Hesse Deni (of the Seeking Derangements and Trouble in River City podcasts)! The film is not good but who doesn’t love hearing friends...
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Who Will Be the Bill Gates of Perception? feat. Kojo Karam
Kojo Koram, author of "The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs," joins us to discuss what comes next after the War On Drugs and how capital intends to colonise this new frontier… and why Brewdog is involved (again!) Before that though, we discuss Farage’s latest victim stunt…
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*PREVIEW* Faux High Level feat. Jason Koebler
Jason Koebler from 404 joins us to take us through how he turned his blog into a $100,000,000 a month money machine using fake dashboards, rented private jets, and a community of people who are desperate to defraud one another. We go into the murky world of “it’s scams all the way down” course…
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Goosed in the Shell (A Better Offline / Trashfuture Collaboration)
Ed Zitron and the TF Crew are on both your feeds this week to discuss the Softbank slide deck breakdown you’ve all been waiting for. It’s nothing other than the goose, and whether or not the goose was valued, and what kind of factory does a goose use to make golden eggs. Softbank Presentation…
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*PREVIEW* Astronaut 9/11 feat. Failure to Launch
Quinn from the Failure to Launch (FTL) podcast joins us to discuss exactly how space travel became an adjunct to a racist chatbot. Also, we discuss the high water mark of chudness and what exactly Peter Murrell bought with all his SNP money. Check out Failure to Launch here! Get the whole episode...
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Golf Cooperation Council feat. Séamus Malekafzali
We’ve got some serious issues: Iran is too real of a country to ignore, and Saudi Arabia is becoming a real country in that it suddenly can’t find $300m to fund the LIV Golf tournament in Louisiana. Because something happened regarding the thing that it uses to make all its money from? We also…
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*PREVIEW* A Knightscope’s Tale feat. Josh Boerman
Josh joins us to talk about Peter Thiel’s bargain bohemian grove, an AI avatar company with a macabre and deeply stupid twist, and then we revisit old friend Knightscope Security to explore what can only be described as “police robot foot fetish fan fiction.” Check out the Worst of All Possible...
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(700) Days of Starmer
I can’t believe he’s gone… he had so many relaunches left in him. We reflect on the premiership of Keir Starmer and ponder what awaits this country under Burnham, before reading the poem that proves AI generated art is just as worthwhile as anything done by a human. Get more TF episodes each week...
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*PREVIEW* Masked Meme Men feat. Lara Whyte
We brought on Northern Irish journalist Lara Whyte to discuss recent events in Belfast, and the extent to which Musk-centric American far right internet garbage is becoming unavoidable. We also discuss recent updates to the anti-Starmer's-car twink arsonists! Check out Lara's work here! Get the...
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No Bedtime for the Far Right feat. Daniel Trilling
Britain inches closer to legislating a national bedtime for rowdy teens and there’s another ministerial resignation over an inability to make it 1942 again by science or magic. In the second half, Daniel Trilling joins us to discuss his new book If We Tolerate This, an exploration of how the...
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*PREVIEW* Sam Bankman Unfreed feat. David Z. Morris
We invited friend of the show David Z. Morris, author of “Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia,” to discuss his book and some recent developments in even dumber AI. But the truth is, most of this episode is about a tactical chud bespoke suit company...
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Just Give Me Your Money Meow feat. Gregk Foley
Gregk from Blood Work joins us to discuss the recent wave of street violence in England and the three way fight for the soul of the English chud. But first, we look at a magic economy box, replete with 2001-vintage Super Troopers jokes in its corporate PR, that we are CERTAIN will make no…
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*PREVIEW* Bridging Loan to Nowhere feat. Rob Smith
The FT’s Rob Smith joins Riley and Nova to talk all about the explosion of an industry that can only be described as “private equity funded payday loans for plutocrats” and all the unique characters therein. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! RILEY ALERT Check out No Gods, No Mayors here!...
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From The Desk of Peter Mandelson feat. Gareth Fearn
We look at some correspondence from the Prince of Darkness and a company offering a great way to make your garden shed worth $160k. Then, Riley speaks with Gareth Fearn about the ongoing unfolding energy crisis, and how the British state has spent the last twenty years solving the problem they…
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*PREVIEW* Space-ically feat. Cory Doctorow
We’ve invited friend of the show Cory Doctorow back to discuss the matryoshka doll of Elon Musk’s corporate money-losing endeavours. We also had a chance to discuss that short story in Granta. You know, the one. Check out Cory’s work (and upcoming books!) here! Get the whole episode on Patreon...
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Plumber Occupied Government feat. Abigail Thorn
Our good friend Abi joins us to discuss the new EHRC guidance and the plan to spend billions of dollars on bathrooms. But first… we look to the skies. The truth is out there. In Doncaster. Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here! RILEY ALERT Check out No Gods, No Mayors...
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*PREVIEW* The One Million Mayors of Manchesterism feat. Dan Davies
Dan Davies, friend of the show and author of The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind, joins us to discuss Burnhamism. Or maybe Manchesterism? It’s got to be an ism. It’s got to be the perfect mixture of disapproving of the problem and...
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Graham the Storm feat. Annie Kelly
We’ve invited friend of the show and journalist Annie Kelly to discuss the recent far-right march in London, the online AI slop aspect of it, and the offshoring of fascist outrage content on Facebook to…entrepreneurs in the Global South? Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our…
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*PREVIEW* White Skin, White Masks feat. Nish Kumar
We’ve brought on our friend and long-suffering literary correspondent Nish Kumar to discuss Matthew Goodwin’s new book that he wrote using AI while cribbing a stupid meme from the Joe Rogan Experience: “suicidal empathy.” The hits are all there, but Goodwin can’t bring himself to go full Camp of...
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Large Labubu Models feat. Adam Becker
We speak with astrophysicist and journalist Adam Becker about a new development: what if you could outsource even more aspects of your childcare, namely children’s play, to an LLM-connected device? What if your stuffed rabbit espoused Dengism? What if you wound up with an ancap Labubu? All this…
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*PREVIEW* The Turing Chaser Test
In advance of the local elections, we got to witness a new phenomenon in British politics: Corbyning Without Corbyn. We also discuss Richard Dawkins deciding that Claude is real and female and also doesn't exist as soon as he stops thinking about her. Where have we heard this before? Get the…
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A Milton Keynes of the Mud feat. Gareth Dennis
We welcome Gareth back to the show to discuss something he recently discovered: a planned private city of a million people? in Cambridgeshire? Supposedly called Forest City One, and built entirely out of wood? Obviously this is never going to get built, but there are some... tendencies…
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*PREVIEW* Fair Working Apathy feat. Emiliano Mellino
Emiliano Mellino from TBIJ joins us to discuss the upcoming (and some might say shortcoming) Fair Working Agency, and we ask the perennial question: will it stop bosses from ripping you off? But first, we look at an article praising an innovative business owner for giving himself the early stages...
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The House that Garfield Built feat. Hettie O’Brien
Riley and November speak with journalist Hettie O’Brien about her book The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself. It’s not necessarily the most uplifting topic, but it’s very illuminating. And don’t worry: we also talk about “MPs should be allowed to be drunk on the…
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*PREVIEW* The Fermentation Barge feat. Mattie Lubchansky and Jaya Saxena
It's the food one, in which we discuss the weird fixations of the Make America Healthy Again death cult and their particular emphasis on "real food," however that might be defined today. And we also have to talk about the strangely heavy jeans that RFK Jr is always wearing. It's a whole lot all…
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comedy show about late stage capitalism fucking our lives up. acct run by @raaleh other cohosts are @HKesvani, @milo_edwards, @inthesedeserts, @postoctobrist and friends / line go down!
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