Britainology 70: British Punk Music Feat. Tom O'Mahony
Tom O'Mahony (@gotitatguineys) joins Milo and Nate to talk about the history of UK Punk and why some of them ended up advertising Country Life butter...
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Thurrock Confidental ft. Gareth Davies
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism's very own Gareth Davies joins the gang to talk about a smooth businessman who decided to create generational wealth by transferring the entire budget for soc...
2023-09-25 19:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostCalifornia For-Never ft. Shanti Singh
What happens when Venture Capitalists - a bunch of guys whose entire job is throwing money into companies they don't understand and expect to fail try and build a new city from scratch? What happen...
2023-09-21 10:25:09 +0000 UTC View PostBritainology 69: 35 Up
Milo and Nate check back in with Michael Apted’s test subjects, now 35 - and one of them has gotten very interested in Bulgaria…
2023-09-20 16:40:24 +0000 UTC View PostI-D-C-A-R-D Find Out What It Means To Me
Riley, Alice, and Hussein look at the growth of no-fun Britain, "Spotify for Food," and an interview with Tony Blair in the FT where he applies for the job of Starmer's vizier. What does he want St...
2023-09-19 08:52:59 +0000 UTC View PostLeft on Read: The Iliac Crest
Riley and Alice have opened another of Cristina Rivera Garza's novellas for a deep dive into the world of experimental fiction, borders, and - above all - the striated world of GENDER in a book tha...
2023-09-14 09:12:23 +0000 UTC View PostI Hate This Steampunk Dystopia
Riley, Alice, and Hussein review some of the developments in the wide world of British pet ownership and a return to Victorian levels of dog-maulings to accompany the return of Victorian diseases, ...
2023-09-13 21:52:40 +0000 UTC View PostRAAC City ft. Well There's Your Problem
You've heard the expression "safe as houses"? Well, let me introduce you to a new expression: "safe as schools, hospitals, Universities, many large stores, the Ministry of Defence, and also houses,...
2023-09-11 12:42:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe Queen's Own Regiment of Captchaliers
King Salman visited Neom so we take back everything bad we said about it. Also, we check in on our old friend Cooler Screens (they're going amazing, we assume). Then, a company whose "data engine" ...
2023-09-07 11:01:30 +0000 UTC View PostJohannes Vonk and the Clogheads - Hot Tory
It's the recently rediscovered 1990 single from Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads entitled 'Hot Tory' — the song that brought the band back to financial solvency after a soup-related crisis.
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2023-09-04 23:54:04 +0000 UTC View PostCaptain Gatso and the Hypertension Cowboy
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We discuss some UK-centric news this week, with a brief return to an American startup we’ve previously covered that—in the hopes of destroying school b...
2023-09-04 23:39:10 +0000 UTC View PostChatGPT Presents: Garum on Toast
For this week's bonus, it's an alternate configuration of Milo, Nate, and Alice discussing a startup to make every famous person into a PS3 polygon caricature to be licensed, news that Britain's ri...
2023-08-31 01:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostLeft On Read: Waiting for the Barbarians
For this month's first Left on Read, Riley and Alice discuss the 1980 J.M. Coetzee novel "Waiting for the Barbarians," which may or may not be relevant to a) the free one this week and b) our curre...
2023-08-29 01:23:06 +0000 UTC View PostShooting and Cry-Laughing feat. Josef Burton
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This week, the gang speaks with author and former U.S. Department of State consular officer Josef Burton about the tendency for liberal institutions to fin...
2023-08-29 01:19:37 +0000 UTC View PostNo Healthcare, Only Wellness feat. Tamara K. Nopper and Eve Zelickson
For this week’s bonus, we spoke with Tamara K. Nopper and Eve Zelickson from the Data and Society Research Institute. They’re the authors of “Wellness Capitalism: Employee Health, the Benefit...
2023-08-23 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostAll Aboard the Atrocity Barge
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For this week’s free one, we’re discussing a startup that will serve you ads in order for you to crash your car, revisiting some old scam-based friends...
2023-08-22 20:53:21 +0000 UTC View PostBritainology 68: 28 Up, Part 2 (1984)
Nate and Milo continue an exploration of the UP series, this time with the second half of 1984's 28 UP. Is it hauntology to imagine a time when you could get a council house and support a family on...
2023-08-18 15:36:48 +0000 UTC View PostDrone Striking the Table of Success feat. Mattie Lubchansky
For this week's bonus, our friend Mattie Lubchansky joins us to discuss NYC mayor Eric Adams, a man who claims to have invented the concept of slowly boiling a frog--a man who cannot stop lying abo...
2023-08-17 00:20:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Scab-Gig Economy feat. Alex N. Press
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For this week’s free episode, the cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice speak with (now three-time!) guest Alex N. Press, the labour correspondent for ...
2023-08-14 19:19:44 +0000 UTC View PostBritainology 67: British Tabloids feat. Alan White
For this month's first Britainology, we speak with journalist Alan White (@aljwhite) of Politics Home about the strange and sord...
2023-08-10 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostBalthasar Speedboat: Milk 2
It's nothing but riffs. And Riley explaining Canadian bag milk again, this time to comedians Tom Ballard and Luka Muller. There's also a long digression about the Australian soap opera Neighbours, ...
2023-08-09 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostWet Tyrant Contest feat. Patrick Wyman
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For this week’s free one, we’re joined by Patrick Wyman (@Patrick_Wyman) of t...
2023-08-08 00:27:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe Great Leap Orbward feat. Molly White
For this week's bonus, the assembled gang of Riley, Hussein, Nate, and Alice speak with Molly White (@Molly0xFFF) about WorldC...
2023-08-03 13:55:21 +0000 UTC View PostFerret Team Six: TF Live in London 26/7/23
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We had a live show at Between the Bridges near Southbank Centre on a very rainy night, and we discussed a school bathroom realtime tracking app, a horrendo...
2023-07-31 23:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostLeft on Read: Security Studies and The Copenhagen School
It's International Relations time here at Left on Read HQ! Riley compiled a study of how "security" has been conceptualised in different ways of thinking about International Relations from Thucydid...
2023-07-30 12:31:43 +0000 UTC View PostGandalf, Take Me to Number 10
We went to the Spitting Image musical in the West End. It was worse than we'd ever imagined. It's the closest we've ever come to re-enacting the scary parts of Event Horizon. It's the least funny t...
2023-07-27 22:55:38 +0000 UTC View PostHeaven's Gate Café Team feat. Brigham Young Money
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Riley and Alice speak with Jordan and Greg from the Brigham Young Money podcast (@BYMPod...
2023-07-24 23:04:35 +0000 UTC View PostLeft on Read: The Taiga Syndrome
A second piece of experimental Latin American fiction has struck the podcast (within a podcast), as Alice and Riley grapple with Cristina Rivera Garza's 2012 novella, The Taiga Syndrome. It combine...
2023-07-24 15:05:12 +0000 UTC View PostBritainology 66: 28 Up-Part 1 (1984)
For this month's second Britainology, we've watched the next installment of the UP series, or rather the first one-hour segment of the 1984 film 28 UP, featuring about half of the cast so far. To i...
2023-07-23 15:46:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dunder Mifflin Of It All feat. Well There's Your Problem
On this week's bonus, we're joined by the entire cast of Well There's Your Problem to discuss some odd trends: residential office refits that are unliveable, the world's biggest cruise ship that he...
2023-07-20 00:00:57 +0000 UTC View Post