Former BoE economist and author Dan Davies joins us to talk about Central Bank Digital Currencies, programmable money, and the ongoing quest of central banks to hoard more power. Also, we unlock the details of Starmer’s pledge to make the U.K. the fastest growing economy in the G7 by luck or po...
2023-03-02 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Terror has a new dimension. Alice, Riley, and returning guest, journalist Seamus Malekafzali (@Seamus_Malek) talk about the Saudi pivot to the third dimension. Also, Labour’s fabul...
2023-02-27 21:20:49 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's second Britainology, we're delving into the history of British cars and their dismal fate at the hands of Thatcherism. We could have had even more Rovers and Austins and Vanden Plases, but instead we wound up with most British cars being rebadged German vehicles. But we did at le...
2023-02-24 15:25:41 +0000 UTC View PostWe've done it again. We've subjected Nish Kumar to a terrible political book. However, rather than being a UK politician's attempt at literary fiction, we've instead delved into Harry Cole and James Heale's ill-timed work 'Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of...
2023-02-23 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostAfter an accidental break and a lost episode 3, Andrew and Riley are back with Episode 4! Alice from Trashfuture and Kill James Bond joins us for gangstalking construction workers, breakfast plans, Guy Ritchie defense and 2010's dismal understanding of viral posts.
2023-02-22 09:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Friend of the show Patrick Wyman (@Patrick_Wyman) joins the gang to talk about ancient state formation… and also a strange book written by a venture capitalist about how this enti...
2023-02-20 22:59:32 +0000 UTC View PostFriend of the show Dr Eleanor Janega (@GoingMedieval) joins the gang to discuss her new book, The Once and Future Sex, about misogyny through the ages, and how while the justifications change, the outcome is always the same...
2023-02-16 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo watched the first installment of the Up series, the 1964 mini-documentary SEVEN UP! Filmed as a commentary on Britain's class system and unintentionally becoming a time lapse of the Baby Boomers, it's still an absolute gem of British Pathé Voice...
2023-02-14 13:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Malcolm Harris (@bigmeaninternet), author of the forthcoming Palo Alto, joins the gang to talk about the history of capitalism, empire, America, California, Palo Alto, and the one...
2023-02-12 22:05:14 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a rumor circulating that Liz Truss may be making a comeback. Well, she might think so--and she's written an article about it. We review this excellent piece of writing line-by-line, as well as addressing some coin-minting antipathy from a weird Canadian columnist that Riley found. We very...
2023-02-09 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
We brought on friend of the show and extremely good cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky (@lubchansky) to discuss their new book BOYS WEEKEND. They wanted to register a website for the book at boyswe...
2023-02-06 14:44:28 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're speaking with Paris Marx (@parismarx) of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast about recent developments in AI--the grift moving from web 3.0 to artificial intelligence, the idea that anything is good enough so long a...
2023-02-02 19:01:58 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, we speak with Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) of the Bloomberg dot com Odd Lots podcast about minting the coin. But not just any coin: a strange loophole in a ’90s law desi...
2023-01-30 19:43:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Join us on 20th Feb for another London live show, this time at Backyard comedy club, where we will be subjecting Nish Kumar to the Liz Truss book.
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We had to do it. We had to read the book. We had to access this pure stream of Britainology from the source. And in truth it was a strange experience—not altogether horrible but also at times deeply, deeply stupid. We hope you enjoy this recounting of the time Milo and Nate both read Prince Har...
2023-01-27 14:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostVery excited to announce that Berlin tickets are now on sale!
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Abi Thorn (@PhilosophyTube) joins Riley, Milo, and Alice for a mostly dessert episode today! (Hussein continues to recover from a wasting disease, and will be back soon). In the mean time we’ve got news, startups, more E...
2023-01-26 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Activist and campaigner Beth Douglas joins the gang to discuss Scotland’s decision to make transing your gender a more dignified, simple experience, and concomitant decision by the U.K. government to retaliate by launching Trident on its own position. 2023-01-21 22:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo examine a BBC children's show that has been running since the 1950s, despite no one watching it. The show is called Blue Peter, it's extremely boring, it feels like it's been taken out of a different era, and yes, there are allegations of adulter...
2023-01-19 19:23:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis week’s bonus features writer and rail engineer Gareth Dennis (@GarethDennis), host of the Rail Natter YouTube show, discussing the current state of British trains. The Tories are ideologically opposed to state capacit...
2023-01-19 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s the free one!
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For this week's free episode, the gang is back together to discuss recent developments involving Microsoft buying AI software. However, we're more enthralled with a s...
2023-01-17 13:00:34 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone - we heard there were audio issues after 10 minutes with the most recent episode. A fixed version will be up later today! Sorry! Sorry!
2023-01-17 09:07:37 +0000 UTC View PostFor this week's bonus, the nearly-full cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice speak with technology publicist and crypto sceptic Ed Zitron about the current state of the cryptocurrency market--of course it's a scam, everyone knows that, but just how much is it on the precipice? The answer will p...
2023-01-12 04:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
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2023-01-09 17:39:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s the free one!
The gang says goodbye to Matt Hancock MP, the fabulous app where we all met for the first time. Also, a real use for NFT's finally discovered. Mostly, though, we face up to a grim reality: the society of universal services that defined the po...
2023-01-08 19:42:41 +0000 UTC View PostFor this week's bonus, here's the live show we barely remember. It was our first show of the tour in Australia, we were jet lagged to the end of the earth, Milo was out sick with tummy trouble, and we were joined with special guest and friend of the show Aidan 'Taco' Jones to discuss... a spite c...
2023-01-05 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s the free one!
Riley, Milo, and Alice ring in the new year by looking at the Economist’s rosy predictions in an alternate universe where Britain magically becomes fine due to the power of positive thinking and sharp dressing. We also look at some developm...
2023-01-02 22:18:33 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by friend of the show and comedian Tom Ballard. No theme, pure riffs, comedians talking, and also Riley divulging a story about trying to buy used streetwear and being robbed by a Redditor. Embarrassing stuff, folks!
2022-12-29 23:05:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Riley, Milo, and Alice festively discuss some Christmas presents granted by the news, including the arrest of the dread pirate Bankman Fried and Elon Musk posting himself into penury. Also, Dom Leusder joins Riley in the second half to talk about the conc...
2022-12-28 22:23:22 +0000 UTC View PostFor this month's second Britainology, Nate and Milo discuss the mandatory food selections for British and American Christmas dinner, critique Christmas music and both countries' approach to it, establish that the existence of Black Friday in Russia posits the existence of Russian Thanksgiving (an...
2022-12-23 19:56:46 +0000 UTC View Post