All riffs, no plot, no prior planning, and a long digression about a dog with a huge dick. It's Balthasar Speedboat yet again, this time featuring Riley, Milo, Olga, and friend of the show Nish Kumar. You will enjoy it! And you will learn a lot about Canadian malls.
2021-07-14 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, it’s Riley, Milo, Alice, and Nate discussing a startup that will make it even easier for you to not own a home, the dreaded ‘football situation’ in England, the UK government’s plans to end all COVID distancing measures, and a dicey sit...
2021-07-12 20:42:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're discussing a few things: weird academy schools in Britain that want to do performative draconian discipline, a startup that is, uh, child-centric, and much more. We are pleased to welcome Devon from Kill James Bond and Da Youtube Zone to give us their perspective as a former teac...
2021-07-09 00:01:26 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, we're discussing Secret Cinema's plan to crowfund investor capital, the fact that Secret Cinema did a performance in Kabul in 2011, a Tory Lord being criticised for corruption (shocker), our pre-election take on Batley & Spen, and much more...
2021-07-05 18:18:32 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we've rounded up our favorite historians and subjected them to yet another absolutely terrible movie--this time it's Ridley Scott's 'Robin Hood,' a nearly 150-minute long film that sucks. Who could not say they loved a long digression into the Magna Carta's origins or a sequence we can...
2021-07-01 00:18:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, we’ve got Jesse Farrar and Mike Hale of the Your Kickstarter Sucks podcast to discuss Kickstarter as a business, the weird and deeply unethical stuff that crowdfunding platforms get away with, and much more. However, we would be remiss if we ...
2021-06-28 20:32:28 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, okay, maybe you've heard the term 'posh' or 'posho' when referring to fancy British people. You're aware that this country has a reputation for its class system. But what does it actually mean? To answer this question, we brought in TF founding cohost and knower of fancy tendencies Charlie ...
2021-06-27 23:21:59 +0000 UTC View PostA lot going on here! We review the recent by-election in Amersham and Chesham, the upcoming election in Batley and Spen (both of which have yielded brain god predictions from Britain's press), review an ode to Zoom by normal shaped head haver and VC elder statesman Marc Andreesen, and speak with ...
2021-06-23 23:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
It was inevitable that we would talk about the recent NY Times article about ‘the end of the millennial lifestyle subsidy,’ as if it was a surprise that endless money was keeping rideshare apps’ prices artificially low in order to bankrupt their com...
2021-06-21 21:10:49 +0000 UTC View PostWe asked you to provide us questions and we've answered a few of them. If your question didn't get answered, don't worry -- we've saved a bunch of them for the next one and will work through the list.
2021-06-18 23:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Milo makes Nate watch the episode of Top Gear from 2006 where they go on a road trip from Miami to New Orleans. It's pure British boomer dad concentrated into its essence, and the viewing achieved the intended effect -- Nate got mad as hell. Hope you enjoy!
2021-06-18 17:14:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe series has finally come to an end. Apparently the populists will ruin anything, to include when a far-left government gets elected (too much populism!) We've finished the Lib Dem wet dream series Years & Years, and we are joined by Devon (of Da Youtube Zone and the Kill James Bond podcast...
2021-06-17 18:52:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
We speak with comedian Josie Long (@josielong) about a recent article in the Atlantic about whether or not Boris Johnson is Britain’s Trump. It’s a terrible article by a guy who knows nothing about Britain, but we wanted to get down to the individual ...
2021-06-14 22:51:33 +0000 UTC View PostFinancial journalist Alex Scaggs returns to talk about why the American treat based economy has strained around the edges. In short - as a result of decades of a sclerotic and implacable elite unable to get beyond their ideological commitments to shareholders, the US and UK are experiencing sky h...
2021-06-09 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week we have a packed studio featuring Riley, Milo, Hussein, Alice, and friend of the show Juliet Jacques (@zinovievletter) to discuss her new book Variations. However, we als...
2021-06-07 23:39:20 +0000 UTC View Post(The issue with Devon's audio has been fixed)
This week, we're discussing Years & Years again. We simply couldn't cram two episodes into this round because there was so much going on--we want to get rid of our arms and legs, or replace our eyes with the light spectrum s...
2021-06-02 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostWe have a number of shirts back on sale on our store - a reminder that the patron discount code is tfhog69
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It's the free one!
Comedian Tom Walker joins the gang to discuss how blockchain has finally disrupted dating! Then, we look at the demons pouring cryptocurrency poison into the ears of regulators in the US and U.K., a SoftBank insurance unicorn’s underwriting technology t...
2021-05-31 21:08:58 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Milo, Riley, and Alice explore the recent interventions of Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson into UK political discourse about 'what needs to happen in order for Labour to win.' We also make the mistake of thinking this is the free one, until the very end of the episode where we realize i...
2021-05-27 12:24:34 +0000 UTC View PostNow unlocked to the $5 tier!
We greatly appreciated the suggestion from twitter user @underscoreJoeyB about an episode centered on dogging--the British phenomenon of meeting in the woods for anonymo...
2021-05-25 17:53:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the free episode for the week
This week, it’s the super chaos configuration of Milo, Hussein, and Nate discussing a recent story in the Times about how a local, locked Facebook group influenced an election in Greater Manchester by basically posting nonstop about h...
2021-05-24 21:47:14 +0000 UTC View PostWe did it again. No theme, just riffs, with lots of Riley's fanciest desires explained and ruthlessly dunked on. Please enjoy this Balthasar Speedboat featuring friends of the show Pierre Novellie and Alex Kealy.
2021-05-19 23:01:17 +0000 UTC View Post*It's the free one!!!*
This week we're joined by Aron Keller (@aronkeller) of the anti-occupation advocacy group Na'amod to discuss the recent events in Gaza and the communications strategies (particular...
2021-05-17 23:11:28 +0000 UTC View PostDuring World War II and the early Cold War there were a group of English intelligence operatives who spied for the Soviet Union. All of them basically walked around with huge neon signs attached to them that said 'I am a spy for the Soviet Union,' but due to the diamond-hard class solidarity of B...
2021-05-13 14:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostHello TF patrons, we just wanted to put out a call for Q&A questions -- our voicemail numbers are 01273 033306 in the UK and (317) 624-2691 in the US, or feel free to send a message to the Patreon inbox. Thank you!
2021-05-11 15:55:11 +0000 UTC View PostLabour MP Jon Cruddas has written the best approximation of what can be considered “Starmerism’s offer to British workers.” While some elements - eg a job guarantee - are better than nothing (but even then, run their own risk of rebuilding a modern workhouse depending on the shape of the po...
2021-05-10 19:32:38 +0000 UTC View Post(This is 'The Free One', posted early for our beloved patrons)
Ed and Jathan from This Machine Kills (@machinekillspod) are back to discuss another titan of the tech industry. Amazon's annual leader...
2021-05-10 16:58:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhat if Black Mirror did This Is Us? What if your kid wanted to upload themselves to their dang phone? What if a Lib Dem wrote one of the worst TV dramas to ever exist? All of this, and more, in the TF review of Years and Years (episodes 1 and 2). We hope it doesn't count as a spoiler alert to sa...
2021-05-05 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostMay 6th will mark regional local elections in the UK, to include the London mayoral election. Considering that 4 of the 5 of us are based in London, this does in fact affect us. However, all polling indicates that Sadiq Khan will win again on a platform of More Cops and handing all decisions to p...
2021-05-03 21:58:32 +0000 UTC View PostThis was supposed to be a hard-hitting episode with an interview about Russia and leftism in Russian politics, but we had a classic TF season 1 moment when the recording failed. So, here's what we were able to salvage from the episode, with a great review of the recent UK op-ed about feeding your...
2021-04-29 14:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post