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Chat, Is this Real?

We ring in the Carnation Revolution (more on that later), discuss the moral panic du jour in the U.K., and then cross stateside to discuss the group chat leaks of our close personal friend Mark And...

Keir Starmer Just Needs To Apologise

We return to U.K. shores to look at the state of national party politics in advance of local elections, and think of who would win in a capitulating contest between Starmer and Trump.

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Diaper Nation feat. Jess O’Thomson

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Jess O’Thomson from QueerAF joins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to ...

Vote with Your Boat feat. Josh Boerman

Josh from The Worst Of All Possible Worlds joins Nova, Riley, and HK to discuss the newest, hottest document in Effective Altruism / AI Safetyism, “AI 2027,” which posits a world in which Chine...

She’s Turned The Bonds Against Me feat. Alexandra Scaggs

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Alex Scaggs of The Hedge (https://theehedge.substack.com) joins us to talk about the...

Disparagement Clause ft. Jason Koebler

404 Media’s Jason Koebler joins us to discuss the hot new book Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, where a senior Facebook executive confirms, very gratifyingly, that all the worst things we ...

Britainology 102: Adolescence, Episode 1

Nate and Milo watch the first installment of Netflix's 4-part series ADOLESCENCE and discuss how it captures modern Britain, how things have changed since we were kids in the before times, why Step...

The Guys Trying to Poison Me Have a Point feat. Dr Lucy Burke

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This week, Riley interviews disability activist and Manchester Metropolitan University professor Dr Lucy Burke about upcoming Labour policy changes to enac...

I Bought A Cyber Truck And All I Got Was This Brown T-Shirt (feat. Victoria Scott)

Automotive journalist Victoria Scott joins us to talk about Tesla’s ailing fortunes, and the new cottage industry appearing in the media of articles to the effect of “I bought the Nazi car and ...

Dragnet feat. Josef Burton

Former US diplomat Josef Burton joins November and Riley to discuss the denunciations, deportations, and imprisonment of immigrants in the United States. Also, the degeneration of the state into pe...

My Year of Rest and Relaxation 2: Back in Bed (feat. Mattie Lubchansky)

Cartoonist, author, and mayor enthusiast Mattie Lubchanksy rejoins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to talk about the continuing war on the creative industries being waged by AI - including Meta’s great ...

It Ain’t Half Austere

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Riley, Nova, and HK discuss the Labour Party’s planned campaign of social murder against the disabled in the UK - including a deep dive on the ongoing po...

Midwestology 4: High School Football Brain Damage Machine

We've reconvened Nate, Milo, Joe, and Francis to discuss the beloved American Midwest, and the phenomenon of high school sports being a dominant motivator for all sorts of decisions that it probabl...

Autopen Island feat. Carey Shockey

Federal labour lawyer Carey Shockey joins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to talk about the rapid deterioration of the rule of law in the United States, its roots in Reagan and the bipartisan support for ...

Left on Read - Nevada

Riley and November read Nevada, the book that kicked off the 2010's trans writing scene. We think about anachronism, performance, and crashout.

Trashfuture Live in London - Sat 21st June

Dearest Hogs,

This is a quick announcement to say that we're going to be doing yet another live show as part of the Big Fat Festival at Big Belly Comedy Club on Saturday June 21st!

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I Hear You Move Carpets

Riley, Nova, and Hussein talk about the trials and tribulations of trying to give every job in the world to a computer, as “Agentforce” fails to materialise, discuss Jan Marsalek (finally), and...

Pump It! ft. Ed Ongweso Jr

This Machine Kills’ Ed Ongweso Jr returns to the pod to talk about his series of essays talking about what he calls The Silicon Valley Consensus - an ongoing chapter in our interest in the conver...

Crisis of Infinite Farleys feat. A.S. Hamrah

We start by looking at Canada’s destiny as the last holdout of Deloitte Pride Float liberalism, and then Neom’s ongoing woes as executives supported by McKinsey start frantically figuring out h...

Mega Dukes feat. Patrick Wyman

It’s time for another examination of historical parallels with lessons for our own time - today Patrick Wyman joins the gang to discuss the late Byzantine empire… a state with such a self refer...

It’s a Pilled, Pilled, Pilled, Pilled World feat. Julian Feeld

QAA’s Julian Feeld joins us to discuss how Q-Anon has metastasised into mainstream political thought in the global North, and will usher in a whole new era of traumas and catastrophes that will i...

The Honourables feat. Gareth Dennis

NOTE: There's a slight issue with some echoes in this recording. We're trying to get it all fixed and will update if we can, but we don't want to delay the episode! Thank you for your patie...