This might be one of the most inscrutably British things we've ever covered, and the fact is: Milo doesn't even know that much about it. So, to aid with understanding, we got Politics Home editor a...
2021-12-10 15:35:27 +0000 UTC View PostHello TF patrons, we just wanted to put out a call for Q&A questions. Our voicemail numbers are 01273 033306 in the UK and ‪(317) 624-2691‬ in the US, or feel free to send a message to the ...
2021-12-09 13:47:26 +0000 UTC View PostAmelia Horgan, author of Lost in Work and striking member of the UK’s higher education Union (UCU) talks about the decade of strikes in the sector, and why the demands are connected to a top leve...
2021-12-09 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Dan returns for another look at Spotify - in the last year have they paid artists more, or have they channeled excess profits into an investment in AI defe...
2021-12-06 16:21:32 +0000 UTC View PostWe spoke with The Athletic’s investigations writer Joey D’Urso (@josephmdurso) about the frenzied tie up between high ri...
2021-12-02 00:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, we're joined by Becca Wilks (@WilksBecca) of The National Wales to discus...
2021-11-30 12:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostNow unlocked to the $5 tier!
Look, this is something of a loose episode because Milo was on tour while we recorded it. However, in an effort to satisfy our urge to explain Br...
2021-11-28 21:29:42 +0000 UTC View PostRiley has decided to subject Nish Kumar to yet another piece of writing from the inner sanctum of the British media-politico citadel. It’s Robert Peston’s thriller, The Whistleblower!
2021-11-25 00:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Riley, Milo, and Alice are joined by our friend Séamus Malekafzali (@seamus_malek...
2021-11-22 18:58:15 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Nate and Milo discuss the phenomenon of remembrance poppies and the ways in which they've become a symptom of Britain's deeply unwell state. Solemn icons of the human cost of war? Hell n...
2021-11-18 15:45:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s a chilled episode where Riley, Milo, and Alice talk about a fun startup, and then review a few bits of new information about old friends, as well as a truly cursed idiot banker that couldnâ€...
2021-11-18 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
We speak to Phil Jones, author of Work Without the Worker, about microwork and how AI is fake, and most of it is just tiny tasks done by workers in the glo...
2021-11-15 18:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostRob and Dave of the Praxiscast join the gang to discuss a U.K. success story in making beer, but more importantly, in making extremely annoying publicity stunts. Also, we return to the New York Tim...
2021-11-11 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys it's merch time yet again!
This time we have (all prices patrons/non-patrons):
Johannes Vonk Binman Tour 1986 T-Shirts (£25/20)
Warrior's Heart Strategic Consulting Cr...
we did it again, sorry. we dug up another long-lost single from the vault.
Credits:
Milo: lead vocals, electric guitar, drums
Nate: keyboards, synth sequencing, bass guitar, backing ...
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This week, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice discuss The Hut Group--an attempt to make British Amazon with direct sales of health goods, financed with SoftBa...
2021-11-08 16:20:41 +0000 UTC View PostFacebook and Google haven't done anything new of note since 2007. It's just market capture and worse and worse services. However, Facebook is now Meta or something, and in this bonus episode Riley,...
2021-11-04 08:24:30 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
The gang talks to academic Maria Norris about Prevent, the government’s star counter terrorism policy now getting fast tracked through a softball review....
2021-11-01 19:44:33 +0000 UTC View PostThis is it. The end of the series. Some of the worst, twee-est, most Lib Dem writing you'll ever encounter. We watched it to the end, and we brought on Street Fight Radio's Bryan Quinby (who recomm...
2021-10-27 23:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostNow unlocked to the $5 tier!
We've got Joe and Francis back to discuss the Midwest--a reverse Britainology, if you will--and we're discussing 24-hour diners, terrible fast fo...
2021-10-26 19:36:28 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, we have friend of the show, musician, and Bottlemen podcast cohost Dan Boeckner (2021-10-25 19:46:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The gang talks all things rail with with railway engineer and the host of Rail Natter, Gareth Dennis. We go back into the history of how Britain's railways "got like that," and how government plans...
2021-10-20 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
We had journalist Daniel Trilling on the podcast to discuss his research into The Home Office - how it became such a strange, cruel, dysfunctional departme...
2021-10-18 23:10:48 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Nate and Milo discuss the North-South divide of England with help from two friends of the show--and FT reporters--Rob Smith (2021-10-17 21:23:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Elon Musk has greenwashed an oil refinery! We speak with fintwit blogger ESGHound about just how this was possible. We also looked into the ongoing issues surrounding Tether. But first, we look at ...
2021-10-13 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Mark Zuckerberg is building the future of the internet, and the future of everything, and it’s basically a much more exploitative version of Habbo Hotel....
2021-10-11 21:16:33 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral months ago, Alice Caldwell-Kelly awoke from a literal fever dream covered in a sheen of sweat, with one name on her lips: JOHN TALIBAN. A man whose name is just, coincidentally, Taliban. A ...
2021-10-11 14:26:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis week Riley, Milo, and Alice address a new startup that will--and we are not joking--allow your boss to hire call centre workers to ping you with smartphone notifications when you suffer a pers...
2021-10-06 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, Riley, Milo, and Alice speak with Paris Marx (@parismarx) of the Tech Wonâ...
2021-10-04 18:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostYet again, Riley read a piece of literature nobody else would touch, in order to inflict it on his friends. We read Starmer's Vichy France pamphlet "The Road Ahead" about how he's bounced back and ...
2021-09-29 23:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post