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 Andreessen. Can’t believe all his courtier suck ups turned out to be snakes.
TF LIV...
2025-04-29 13:18:47 +0000 UTC View PostWe 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.
TF LIVE ALERT We’ll be performing at the Big Fat Festival hosted by Big Belly Comedy on ...
2025-04-25 10:43:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Jess O’Thomson from QueerAF joins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to discuss the details of the recent anti-Trans Supreme Court ruling. Also, domes popping up around the...
2025-04-23 09:36:07 +0000 UTC View PostJosh 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 Chinese and American AI’s team up to turn all of humanity into a paste to lubricate a Dyson sphere. Als...
2025-04-19 16:21:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Alex Scaggs of The Hedge (https://theehedge.substack.com) joins us to talk about the economic chaos unleashed on the world by… Fed Chair Paul Volcker between 1979 and 1982. This epis...
2025-04-15 07:50:39 +0000 UTC View Post404 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 knew about Facebook were - in fact - true and on purpose. Including what a horrible place it is to w...
2025-04-11 07:50:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Stephen Graham chose to make this, and also a story about nonconsensual lawn mowing.
2025-04-08 21:44:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, Riley interviews disability activist and Manchester Metropolitan University professor Dr Lucy Burke about upcoming Labour policy changes to enact even more cruelty against the disabled under the guise of ‘combatting benefits culture.’ The c...
2025-04-08 19:26:44 +0000 UTC View PostAutomotive 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 everyone keeps calling me a nazi.” Additionally, the new American century, Starmer’s (non) diplo...
2025-04-04 17:02:33 +0000 UTC View PostFormer 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 personal enforcement fiefdoms, and the likely eventual Democratic leadership response (“we would do ...
2025-04-01 14:01:41 +0000 UTC View PostCartoonist, 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 book heist, the Studio Ghibli-fication of fascist imagery, and OpenAI’s attempt to write literary ...
2025-03-28 17:23:17 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
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 poster-to-policy pipeline around the recent (and not so recent) attacks on the Motability charity - th...
2025-03-25 09:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe'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 probably shouldn't affect so much, like: all the other things that schools are supposed to do? We hope you ...
2025-03-24 13:16:35 +0000 UTC View PostFederal 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 the Global War on Terror, and the relationship between law, violence, and the inherent contradiction...
2025-03-21 11:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostRiley and November read Nevada, the book that kicked off the 2010's trans writing scene. We think about anachronism, performance, and crashout.
2025-03-21 10:34:11 +0000 UTC View PostDearest 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!
This is an exclusive early-bird ticket sale for our Patrons that will go on general sale shortly so ge...
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 look at a terrible new startup. Also, a new Political Son rises… and this one is a soundcloud rap...
2025-03-18 16:50:52 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 convergence of reactionary politics and the profusion of data centres all over the world. Also, Trump says...
2025-03-14 18:49:27 +0000 UTC View PostWe 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 how to make the whole thing work economically. Then, film critic A.S. Hamrah joins Riley and November...
2025-03-11 14:06:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt’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 referential, cosseted elite that they found themselves sprinkling imperial procession routes with rose wa...
2025-03-07 14:39:30 +0000 UTC View PostQAA’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 in turn produce yet wilder political tendencies that will continue metastasising. Also, Starmer’s f...
2025-03-04 11:56:17 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE: 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 patience, as ever..
Gareth Dennis returns to discuss infrastructure, growth, and the new a...
2025-03-01 16:15:04 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's second Britainology, we watched the 2006 Shane Meadows film THIS IS ENGLAND, which neither of us had ever seen. But in Nate's case, his mom had watched it thinking it would be a heartfelt and uplifting coming-of-age film and, uh. That being said, we liked it and would also apprec...
2025-02-28 09:37:44 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a Britainology episode, except it's every member of TF on this one, so in a sense it only makes sense to give the show guest billing. And Milo has created a suite of test questions to determine whether or not we know enough of the actually-relevant details about the UK. Let's just say that t...
2025-02-27 14:23:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Quinn Slobodian joins us to discuss his new book, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right - which traces the syncretic relationship of scientific racism, techno-solutionism, and the quest to destroy the cathedral to Neolibe...
2025-02-25 16:07:13 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s a goons rights bonanza, with Devon subbing in for November to talk about the ongoing wave of gig economy apps for ex-Navy SEALs to turn random people into clouds of pink mist on behalf of crypto influencers who want to look richer than they are… also we check in on Humane, and read a col...
2025-02-21 10:26:59 +0000 UTC View Post
We talk about the Trump plan to bring stability to the Middle East by building hotels and casinos on top of the mass gravesite of an ethnically cleansed Gaza, and how it’s differences from the Biden plan are largely in its aesthetics. Also, the art of the deal in Ukraine, another cushy j...
2025-02-18 14:28:10 +0000 UTC View Post
We go back into the whimsical world of flying cars, and Dubai’s plan to make them largely mandatory by 2026. Also - Riley invents a historical Euro-board game called Shadow Doge, ordinary Americans are given formal permission by the President to get their skin reversed by cartels, and fraud is ...
2025-02-14 09:25:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Nathan Tankus explains exactly what Musk and his little gremlins are doing at the treasury, and how this could have some pretty enormous implications for the national and global economies. Also - the killing of a sacred duck (in Venice), the spending of a sacred $30 (on eggs, by an A.I.), and the...
2025-02-11 09:33:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Jathan Sadowski joins the gang to talk about DOGE and the destruction of mass produced, population scale knowledge in favour of the mythical folkways of Uncle Knowledge. Also - Silicon Valley putting out cash prizes for stochastic terrorism, Starmer gets the PartyGate treatment for his voice (?) ...
2025-02-07 22:33:40 +0000 UTC View Post