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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 disclosed. We look into the Mind of Musk, and speculate about his grand plans for the future of hum...
2022-10-10 21:59:51 +0000 UTC View PostGary 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 way through to mortgages, pensions, and rents? Do you want to understand the core of Labour's weak re...
2022-10-05 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin come on to discuss their new book “Chokepoint Capitalism,” which details how large companies have identified critical bottlenecks in the creative Labour process to suck the value and life out of them like vampires, and...
2022-10-03 22:06:19 +0000 UTC View PostNow unlocked to the $5 tier!
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 moment) to VPN in and watch the first episode of the new Channel 4 reality TV show 'Make Me Prime Mi...
2022-09-30 15:13:59 +0000 UTC View PostOn 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 discuss large corporations having NFT characters on their board as 'chief metaverse officer.' Tech com...
2022-09-29 11:14:57 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
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 have been thrown into chaos recently. Not naming names, but let's say United K. Or no, that's too s...
2022-09-26 19:41:39 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 pessimists about it! Your eyes aren't lying to you!
Check out Crypto Critics Corner here: 2022-09-21 22:04:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Join us for a special live TF in London on October 18th!
2022-09-21 17:12:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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
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 observations. It was... an experience.
2022-09-20 23:10:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice join special guest and friend of the show Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) of the This Machine Kills podcast (2022-09-19 21:42:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Francisco's intensely authoritarian libertarian VC guys. However, before we can talk about that, we have t...
2022-09-14 23:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Riley, Hussein, and Alice ring in the reboot of the Carolingian Era in true TF style.
2022-09-12 16:39:34 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 one thing: the cops.
2022-09-07 22:51:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
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 speed limit, Tesla owners in Norway threatening a hunger strike, the collapse of Klarna’s shaky fundam...
2022-09-05 20:45:24 +0000 UTC View Post(Link fixed! Sorry about that!)
Part 2 of our series on the deranged libertarian intentional community of Prospera, land of legal pick-n-mix that employs a man named Machiavelli Davis.
Read Ian’s article here! 2022-08-30 00:08:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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 have tried to create a land where anyone can open a business with any law, from any jurisdiction, any...
2022-08-30 00:08:18 +0000 UTC View PostHere 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 mind and an insane Wattpad-style fanfic about Princess Diana published in... the Telegraph? Hope yo...
2022-08-27 14:14:38 +0000 UTC View PostHello 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 the UK at the moment. We'll be recording our Fringe live show tonight and I'll have that out on the ...
2022-08-26 11:23:03 +0000 UTC View PostNow unlocked to the $5 tier!
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--or expected to--break into song. What is the deal with Sweet Caroline? What is the deal with Irish fo...
2022-08-24 14:51:36 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
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 Tesla’s $15k DLC for your car, and a lot of riffs about homophobic truck owner memes in the United Sta...
2022-08-23 21:27:48 +0000 UTC View PostFor 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 indignities and landlords. We hope you enjoy!
2022-08-19 19:42:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt'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... except for a special boy's special project in Beckton. We also read an article that claims blockc...
2022-08-17 23:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week it’s Milo, Hussein, Nate, and Alice, joined by special guest Mattie Lubchansky (@lubchansky), and we’re discussing the UK’s energy pricing woes. Which are solely related to privatisation. Which everyone can see...
2022-08-15 20:18:06 +0000 UTC View PostPure 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. We've got it all. You will enjoy this.
2022-08-10 23:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
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 if we made an AI chatbot but it had feelings? And we made it do spreadsheet-factory jobs? This is one...
2022-08-08 19:09:34 +0000 UTC View PostWe 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 up and down Britain. We end with a another kooky startup that has some very funny n...
2022-08-03 23:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello TF fans--just a heads up that we've added a second night in Melbourne and that tickets are on sale here: https://tccinc.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/75729
Also, if you'd be ...
2022-08-02 14:57:33 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
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 the recent furore with drag queen story hours and how American fascists and British transphobes have...
2022-08-01 20:06:35 +0000 UTC View PostDear 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 publicize it.
However, since we're going to be in the area, we wanted to gauge interest in a Britai...
2022-07-30 22:11:58 +0000 UTC View Post