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So you've decided to run down the functions of your society? What's left to get people up in the morning? We are joined by Abi Thorn and Mattie Lubchansky to talk about the political usefulness of transphobia. But first, we talk about how Bri...
2021-09-26 22:44:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Milo and Nate speak with British Army veteran, leftist organiser, BJJ enthusiast, and all round comrade Joe Glenton (@joejglenton) about Britain's relationship with its Army and the different types of nutters who s...
2021-09-25 14:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostWe've found another terrible startup: a billion-dollar-valuation 'plastic recycling' venture that is too dangerous to actually work (but would absolve the oil industry of any need to change its business model). It operates via a concept called shuggling. It also has yet again involved a promised ...
2021-09-22 23:34:30 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Ciaran (@ciarandold) and Nick (@sternburgpapi) from Corner Spaeti ( 2021-09-20 21:14:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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This month's $5 Britainology involves Milo forcing Nate to watch an incredibly awkward episode of I'm Alan Partridge and then helping him talk him off the ledge. We also explore how Partridge is not all that exaggerated a version of a ...
2021-09-19 20:47:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Milo, Nate, and Alice watched the 1995 Kathryn Bigelow film STRANGE DAYS, in which Ray Fiennes is a lovelorn memory-salesman hawking minidiscs that let you experience other people's consciousness. It's a bizarre document from the time in which its made, it's a film with cult status in ...
2021-09-15 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, we’ve got a real doozy for you: a bad startup, some Labour kremlinology, and an examination of supply chain shortages in the UK because our government are some of the dumbest people to ever breathe air. Did you know that when your taxes go up...
2021-09-13 22:45:44 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back. Yes, we did another live show at Vauxhall Comedy Club in London, and we discussed a startup that wants to make a mattress that can do DDOS attacks. We also read a Telegraph article about the decline of the West. It's Riley, Milo, Hussein, Nate, and special guest Phoebe Roy. You'll lov...
2021-09-09 11:33:58 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, we learn the story of the Diapers dot com billionaire who wants to build a utopian city in the desert based on the principles of Georgism. Does this sound like The Line? Well, it’s been compared to it by the same credulous weirdos who love th...
2021-09-06 15:20:11 +0000 UTC View PostBill Corbett (@BillCorbett) of Rifftrax and MST3K joins the gang to discuss a strange film - the documentary made by failed London mayoral candidate and three time piss drinker, Brian Rose. It's all about how Ayahuasca can mo...
2021-09-02 21:20:45 +0000 UTC View PostWe spoke with OnlyFans creator Carta Monir (@CartaMonir) about the platform's decision (and subsequent reversal) regarding explicit content, and the American Evangelical Right's "not so long" march through the institutions of ...
2021-08-31 16:33:03 +0000 UTC View PostNow unlocked to the $5 tier!
This week, Alice joins Nate and Milo to discuss the British reality TV show 'Grand Designs,' in which insane people decide to sacrifice it all to build the house of their dreams. Does it sometimes go okay? Sure. But most of the time, it's a slow...
2021-08-25 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostOur friend @idahobones joins the gang for a discussion of how tech-inflected insurance companies dream of a heavily surveillance life for all, and also to revisit an old friend of the show, Softbank’s very own Lemonade! Prepare yourself for the revelation.
2021-08-25 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Alice and Riley speak with returning guest, journalist Arron Merat (@a_merat), reflecting on twenty years of cruelty and institutional failure on the part of the British state and its blo...
2021-08-23 14:35:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we explore the phenomenon of 2000s Indie Rock (and the endless succession of bands that seemed to go nowhere) with two long-suffering veterans of the scene: Fred Macpherson (of the bands Spector, Les Incompétents, and and Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man) and music journalist Oscar Rickett. It's a lo...
2021-08-20 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time for episode 5 of the series we're un-affectionately calling Lib Dem Children of Men. That's right, it's Russell T Davies' populism dystopia 'Years & Years,' and we've brought on Devon from Da Youtube Zone and the Kill James Bond podcast to discuss.
2021-08-18 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, Nate, Milo, Alice, and Hussein speak with journalist Alex Yablon (@alexyablon) about 2021-08-16 21:45:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we've brought on Noah Suarez-Sikes (@noahpasaran) from the DSA Los Angeles-Hollywood Labor group. We discuss unionisation drives in Hollywood, why capital concentration is making films worse, the conditions for non...
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We're back doing live shows baby! Our first one post apocalypse will be at Vauxhall Comedy Club on Wednesday 1st September.
Tickets via the link
Std: £15
$5 Patrons: £10 (discount code: rawhogginit)
$10+ Patrons: £5 (discount code in separate post)
Doors: 19:30
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This week, Riley, Milo, Alice, and Hussein join special guest Alex Press (@alexnpress) of Jacobin magazine and the Primer podcast (2021-08-09 21:44:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We brought on Dan Boeckner, musician from the bands Wolf Parade and Operators, podcaster with Riley from the show Bottlemen, to discuss a 1977 spy thriller called 'Cumbernauld HIT' set in Cumbernauld, Scotland. Except it was funded by the local council to promote Cumbernauld, using the film as a ...
2021-08-04 23:30:28 +0000 UTC View PostA great happening has come to London. A marker of power has arisen. Fell deeds awake as we enter the era of the Mound.
Also, James Meadway (@meadwaj) returns to discuss the fading of the neoliberal paradigm and it’s repla...
2021-08-02 16:54:42 +0000 UTC View PostThis is perhaps something of a combination of Britainology and a regular TF episode in which we've brought on Matt Edwards, Milo's (much) older brother, who worked as a foreign exchange trader in London brokerages in the 1990s. We learn about the geezer-rific work environment of a bunch of guys y...
2021-07-29 15:38:36 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're speaking with Dwight Rhinosoros (@rhinosoros) of the Eat the Rich podcast (@eattherichpod) about the Bezos/Branson 'space race,' all th...
2021-07-28 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe chatted to two riders with the German grocery delivery app Gorillas all about their unionisation drive, and their boss’s strange obsession with fire magic. Also, Maureen Dowd is a tech writer now and she’s been buffaloed by Silicon Valley’s resident “dad CEO” Dara Khosrowshahi.
We sat down with Jason Prado from the Drivers Cooperative in New York City to talk about how rideshare drivers are taking matters into their own hands in the fight against Uber, and have created a competing worker owned platform. But first, we have a ludicrous startup and a few fun news items to ...
2021-07-21 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
From the 1987 South Africa-only EP 'Braai or Die'
2021-07-20 11:57:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Riley, Milo, and Alice join special guest Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) of Tribune Magazine to discuss Barratt Homes: what is the deal with new-build housing in the UK? Why is it of such uniformly bad quality? ...
2021-07-19 23:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostDid you know that the City of London, the small mini-enclave that dates back to Roman times, is a separate state entity that predates the United Kingdom by hundreds of years? And that its special status makes it basically immune to disclosure rules and financial oversight? Well, sort of. Riley st...
2021-07-16 19:42:10 +0000 UTC View Post