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Elon Musk is (maybe?) buying Twitter again, but more importantly, the conversations between him and a number of his doofus friends and associates have been...

Gary’s Mod Economics ft. GarysEconomics

Gary from Gary's Economics joins the gang to take a deep dive on the politics and economics of the budgetary disaster. Do you wonder about the mechanism by which these insane decisions make their w...

Amazon Billing Amazon for Amazon feat. Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin

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Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin come on to discuss their new book “Chokepoint Capitalism,” which details how large companies have identified critical ...

Britainology 46: Make Me Prime Minister

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For this month's second Britainology, Milo forces Nate (currently in Indiana taking care of his family, free from the United Kingdom for a brief ...

Moron Risk Premium

On this week's bonus episode of TF, Riley is joined by Milo, Hussein, and Nate, all of whom are captive in the United Kingdom at the moment as a nation fully crashes its car into a wall. We also di...

The Bronze Age Collapse 2 ft. Patrick Wyman

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Patrick Wyman joins the gang to discuss social collapse and legitimacy throughout history, as we try to apply some of the lessons to certain societies that...

The Golden Age of Scams feat. Cas Piancey

This week, Riley and Alice are joined by Cas Piancey of the Crypto Critics Corner podcast to discuss Tether, stablecoins, and the enormous scam quotient of the crypto sector. It's okay to be pessim...

London Live Show 18 October

Join us for a special live TF in London on October 18th!

London Live Show 18th October (Discount code)

We will be doing a live show in London on 18 October and tickets are £15 but special $10+ hogs have an exclusive discount code to get £5 off!

The code is: patreonofferSB

Britainology 45: The Queue

Call it an act of reportage. Call it 'we simply couldn't refuse the opportunity.' We went down to the queue for Queen Elizabeth II's lying in state and interviewed people. We also recorded our obse...

Fill Your Love Gap feat. Jathan Sadowski

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This week, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice join special guest and friend of the show Jathan Sadowski (2022-09-19 21:42:13 +0000 UTC View Post

The Dawning of the Sealord feat. Shanti Singh

This week, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice join special guest Shanti Singh for her second-ever appearance on TF, to discuss recent recall campaigns and dark money activism funded through San Franci...

(Reverently) Gone Girl

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Riley, Hussein, and Alice ring in the reboot of the Carolingian Era in true TF style.

DrabFuture: TF Watches 'Brazil' (1985)

This week, it's Hussein, Nate, and Alice discussing the 1985 Terry Gilliam movie BRAZIL, why we feel obligated to watch it, why we think it really dislikes women, and why it somehow managed to nail...

3 Easy Payments on a Car Battery to Throw in the Ocean

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This week, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice discuss the end of the Tory leadership campaign, its recent news item on the topic of abolishing the UK’s spee...

Tropical Blockchain Night, Part 2 of 2 feat. Ian MacDougall

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Part 2 of our series on the deranged libertarian intentional community of Prospera, land of legal pick-n-mix that employs a man named Machiave...

Tropical Blockchain Night, Part 1 of 2 feat. Ian MacDougall

We bring on journalist Ian MacDougall to discuss the libertarian intentional-community of Prospera, a failing city-state in the Bay Islands of Honduras, where Thiel- and Andreessen-funded weirdos h...

Queen of Our Ooze: TF Live at Edinburgh Fringe 2022

Here is this week's slightly delayed bonus--it's a recording of our live show at Edinburgh Fringe recorded at TheSpace @45 late in the evening on August 26, 2022. We discuss a wearable tech for the...

This Week's Bonus Out Saturday

Hello loyal TF patrons,

Apologies for the delay on this week's bonus. We've had some difficulty with arranging stuff because Milo and I are in Edinburgh and everyone else is scattered across ...

Britainology 44: Pub Songs feat. Elijah Fynmore

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For this month's second Britainology, we speak with Aberdeen-based musician Elijah Fynmore about the moments in UK life when you're allowed to--o...

Hello, Neumann

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This week, we’re discussing the new Adam Neumann (of WeWork shame) and Marc Andreessen housing startup (details are light). We also talk a bit about Tesl...

Britainology 43: Edinburgh Festival Fringe feat. Alex Kealy

For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo are joined by friend of the show and reference for the true heads Alex Kealy to discuss what it's like being a performer at the festival of indign...

Water 2

It's the alternate chaos configuration of Hussein, Nate, and Alice discussing the UK's current drought, its privatised water infrastructure, the fact that no new capacity has been added since 1989....

Doctors’ Advice: Drink 14 Gallons of Water Right Now (feat. Mattie Lubchansky)

This week it’s Milo, Hussein, Nate, and Alice, joined by special guest Mattie Lubchansky (@lubchansky), and we’re discussi...

Balthasar Speedboat: Upside Down Edition feat. Tom Walker

Pure riffs. Nothing but riffs. No preparation, no reading, no knowledge. We've got Tom Walker in the studio to talk about Kingston-upon-Thames and the idea of reshooting Psycho as a Carry On film. ...

Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Digital Souls

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There may be disruptions in the free-money-forever ecosystem of the tech industry, but that hasn’t stopped new ideas springing forth. For example: what i...

Jan Marsalek Alive in Russia!

We revisit some old friends, such as Wirecard's Jan Marsalek and THG's Matt Moulding, and then continue to look at the implications of the increasingly large and powerful strike wave reverberating ...

Second Melbourne Show (17/11) is On Sale

Hello TF fans--just a heads up that we've added a second night in Melbourne and that tickets are on sale here: 2022-08-02 14:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Coal Mine Canary Story Hour

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This week, we're talking the Metaverse, we're talking FB's valuation plummeting because iOS lets you improve your digital privacy by 1%, and we're talking ...

Potential Auckland, NZ Britainology Live Show

Dear TF Patrons,

First, a quick heads-up: we're going to add a second night in Melbourne since the first show is already sold out. We'll announce the ticket link on here first before we publi...