The Body Politic Does Not Sweat feat. Olly Thorn
This week's bonus episode features Riley, Milo, Alice, and special guest Olly Thorn (@PhilosophyTube). We're talking the r...
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This Episode Brought To You By The Letter B feat. Soweto Kinch
And on the pedestal, these words appear: 'bung a bob for Big Ben to bong for Brexit.' This accursed phrase has melted our brains, and you get to hear it happen in real time on this episode. It's a ...
2020-01-16 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostI Am the Very Model of the Modern Persian General
It's the chaos configuration of Riley, Milo, and Alice on this week's bonus episode (Nate and Hussein were busy being boring lames). We're talking about the assassination of Qassem Soleimani and th...
2020-01-09 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostDARPA for Dummies feat. Theo Pengelly
It’s our first episode of 2020 and we’ve got a real treat for all of you subscribers. We’ve brought on Theo Pengelly (@AynRand...
2020-01-02 00:14:39 +0000 UTC View PostMy British Values are Tea/Racism feat. Devon
This week, we’re reviewing a startup called WhiteHat, digesting a terrible Giles Coren wankfest about Oxford admissions, and—most importantly—speaking to friend of the show and biology teache...
2019-12-27 01:20:18 +0000 UTC View PostTakfir and Loathing: TF Reviews 'Body of Lies' (2008)
Look, maybe we just needed a break. Maybe there's nothing particularly good to talk about politically in this moment of elected dictatorship. However, we can talk about trash culture and the cult o...
2019-12-20 16:28:12 +0000 UTC View PostCommission Impossible feat. David Alder
This week, we speak to David Adler of DiEM25 about what Remain and Revolt would actually mean -- and why the EU's labyrinthine politics is intentionally boring. We also discuss some great pre-elect...
2019-12-05 00:02:03 +0000 UTC View PostManifesto Madness Pt 2: Tory Accelerationists feat John Duncan
This week's bonus episode features us discussing the Tory manifesto with John Duncan (@Johntheduncan) on the topic of neoli...
2019-11-28 01:46:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe Aristocrats! feat. Loki Nash
[Sorry for the late release!] This week, Riley, Milo, Alice, and Nate speak with famed detective Loki Nash (@lokinash06) about...
2019-11-21 22:42:06 +0000 UTC View PostThermostats in Cock Cages feat. India Block
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 landlor...
2019-11-14 00:02:03 +0000 UTC View PostNow You're Cooking with Vibes feat. Nathalie Olah
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 ...
2019-11-07 00:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostUniversal Bowtie Income feat. James Meadway
This week's 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 kn...
2019-10-31 06:01:52 +0000 UTC View PostRiley's Commie Book Club: 'Designing Freedom'
It's that time again! Riley's Commie Book Club is back a brief hiatus. This month, we're discussing Stafford Beer's lecture series "Designing Freedom." Beer, one of the principal architects of Cybe...
2019-10-26 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostBrexit Disco: A Cardiac Event
This week’s episode 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 tok...
2019-10-23 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostIntelligence 3.0 feat. Felix Biederman
This week, 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 (2019-10-16 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Most Divorced Book Ever: Boris Rising (feat. Aidan 'Taco' Jones)
Our review of Boris Johnson's terrible novel 72 VIRGINS continues — this time featuring Riley, Milo, Alice, and returning guest Aidan 'Taco' Jones. The story continues to get worse, because the c...
2019-10-09 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostSLAGFUTURE feat. Ben McLeay
This week's bonus features Riley, Milo, and Alice speaking with Ben McLeay (@thomas_violence) of the Boonta Vista podcast. We discuss a horrible startup called Stockwell (you'll love this one) and ...
2019-10-02 23:14:43 +0000 UTC View PostMIT Media Lab After Dark (Part 2)
That's right, folks! It's the promised second episode in which we discuss the highlights of IT Media Lab's cursed SkyMall.
2019-09-25 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostDance Dance Permanent Revolution feat. Justin Roczniak
This week, Riley, Nate, and Alice speak with Justin Roczniak (@donoteat1), the creator of 2019-09-18 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
AC Grayling Smash feat. Will Davies
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 Cent...
2019-09-11 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJFK Uncle Junior
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 ...
2019-09-04 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostI Am Not A Bollard feat. Kieran Yates
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 (2019-08-28 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Job Opening for Motivated Self Starter with 2 yrs Experience + Germanic Brain Pan feat. Soweto Kinch
We took Trashfuture on the road, opening up the start of of the Birmingham Transformed festival. The cast was Riley, Hussein, Nate, and returning guest Soweto Kinch. We talked about a high-tech eug...
2019-08-21 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostYoung Men’s Fancy: TF Live from the Edinburgh Fringe 10.8.19
We did it. We drove from London to Edinburgh with all our equipment in tow, climbed a fucking medieval staircase in a downpour, got soaked to the damn bones, and then played a (sold out!!!!) show a...
2019-08-14 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostTrashfuture Presents: Balthasar Speedboat 6
It's a special episode featuring only the loveliest of accents. This week's bonus features Milo with guests Aidan 'Taco' Jones, Dan Muggleton, and Pope Lonergan. It's a bunch of comedians telling s...
2019-08-07 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostA Fulfilment Driven Life feat. Juliet Jacques
You wanted to hear more Quillette close-reads, so here it is. We discuss the most bootlicking of all pro-Amazon pieces to ever appear, plus a bizarre 2006 op-ed about shoes from Rafael Behr. Our sp...
2019-07-31 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostRiley's Commie Book Club - Blindsight
It's Commie Book Club's new home! This month, Riley changes gears a little bit from the theoretical to discuss one of his favourite works of Science Fiction, Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's a hard-...
2019-07-31 22:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostHorseplay feat. Nathan Ma
Did you know that Riley's hometown newspaper is run by horse people? Did you know that there's a Code Pink-style group that stalks people who work at the Seattle Zoo's elephant enclosure? Did you k...
2019-07-24 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostTrashfuture Presents: Balthasar Speedboat 5
Riley's cousin lives in London and got the absolute worst tinder-date breakup message. It was so bad, so painfully long-form and weird, that we had to convene a session of Balthasar Speedboat to di...
2019-07-17 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe ID Card of Dorian Gray
Tony Blair, what a guy! Am I right, folks? He can't stop whining about how we need fewer houses and more apps. He can't stop pointing a finger at the Labour party and saying that it was better when...
2019-07-10 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post