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JDPONorth feat. Liv Agar

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Liv Agar from QAAnonymous joins us to discuss the birth of Canadian nationalism, in that suddenly Albertans are booing the U.S. national anthem. Why? Well, Trump is moving forward with 25% tariffs on Canada, threatening Canada militarily (?), and managing...

Britainology 99: 49 Up, Part 2

For the second January Britainology episode (sorry!) we conclude our assessment of 49 UP (2005), another installment of the long UK Boomer time lapse project, all the while sweating beneath the collar when we consider that 2005 was twenty years ago.

Da Crazy Hawaiian Goes to Riyadh ft. Jacob Silverman

Jacob Silverman joins us to discuss the decades long Saudi operation to buy influence in the West in all its gaudy spectacle. Also - Sam Altman protests that he all that creative work fair and square, Rachel Reeves belts out a three word chant, and Power Slap is a sport of geopolitical significan...

Newly Grinted feat. Ed Zitron

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Ed Zitron returns to discuss how a Chinese hedge fund created an AI model that accomplished much of what OpenAI’s frontier model can do, and Sam Alrman’s best idea is to apply the “kind of gets it right sometimes” energy of LLMs to running you...

Britainology 98: Life On Mars (2006)

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For this month's first Britainology, we're discussing the 2000s TV series Life On Mars, or 'what ...

pump.gov ft. Molly White

Molly White joins Hussein, Riley, and November to talk about the role of Cryptocurrency in the incoming administration, specifically synergising their desire to "trigger the libs" with their desperate need to grift the morlocks who worship them. Also, Cooler Screens' war with Walgreens heats up, ...

Tip Drill ft. Corner Spaeti

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Ciaran and Nick from Corner Spaeti join the gang to discuss the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States, and what that means for the UK, Germany, and more or less all of humanity. Also, Alice Weidel isn’t gay, she’s just married to a w...

Britainology 97: 49 Up (2005), Part 1

Nate and Milo continue an exploration of Michael Apted's Boomer Time Lapse / UP, the series, with the 2005 installment following our cohort of spiritual uncles and aunties. This is part 1 of 2, and we'll continue the deep dive into our beloved cast next month as well.

Very sorry for the lat...

Stuff Is All You Need

The UK Government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan / Please, Please Invest In Us So It Can Be 1999 Again Plan has been launched, and it will give the UK the superpower to know ahead of time where potholes will emerge, before not filling them anyway. Also, Australians total their cars, we i...

Steube Is As Steube Does feat. Mike Isaac

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We talk to NYT tech reporter Mike Isaac about the ongoing Greg Steube-fication of every major tech CEO in the US. Also, Rachel Reeves has depression, DOGE makes some cost cutting recommendations at the DEA, and Peter Thiel learns Greek.

Go Hoke, Go Broke

We check in on old friend Volocopter, a company we assume is going from strength to strength as the official air taxi partner of Neom! Where a later reading indicates that eight year olds are driving trucks. Also, the UK is in economic crisis again, and we don’t even have the fun of a bathrobe ...

I’m Dave Toaster feat. Jason Koebler

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Must we live in a world where everyone decides we want AI-generated friends to make AI-generated stories (which are fake), or AI-enabled kitchen appliances? When you actually dig into this stuff, it turns out everyone knows it sucks and we hate it. Today�...

Years of Lead Poisoning

For our first TF episode of 2025 (recorded in 2025, that is), we're talking about recent events in the United States, plus Elon Musk's decision to weigh in on British politics and its downstream effects: ruining Keir Starmer's toboggan ride, among other things. We very much hope you enjoy.

2024 Trashfuture Q&A, Part 2

The Q&A continues! And we'll have a regular bonus episode out this week as well.

You asked us questions and we answered. Hussein is out on parental leave, but we convened the rest of the cast (Riley, Milo, Nate, and November) to respond as best as possible. However, it went so long that...

Holiday Episode Unlocks

Hi everyone, we've unlocked the Euro '96 Britainology we did with Juliet Jacques earlier this year—it's now available to all paid subscribers. We've also unlocked our episode about A VERY ROYAL SCANDAL featuring Hesse Deni, which is available on our public feed and to all Patreon subscribers a...

2024 Trashfuture Q&A, Part 1

You asked us questions and we answered. Hussein is out on parental leave, but we convened the rest of the cast (Riley, Milo, Nate, and November) to respond as best as possible. However, it went so long that we decided to make it into two episodes. Part 2 will be out next week. Thanks so much for ...

In Search of Door-Kicker Santa: TF Watches RED ONE

Our last free episode of 2024 involves Riley, Milo, and November watching the Rock in a terrible Christmas film entitled RED ONE. It’s a film in which Christmas is saved by the surveillance state, jacked Santa trains in the gym to do room-clearing and be an operator, and so much more. This is o...

Peter Village Green Preservation Society

For this week’s bonus, we’re talking about the Starmer / McSweeney government getting outflanked on the left by frothing reactionaries because of their steadfast devotion to water companies being in private hands, and bad. We’re also talking about an amazing recent article about the mad boy...

Collateralized Wing Obligations feat. Josh Boerman

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We’ve brought on friend of the show Josh Boerman from The Worst of All Possible Worlds to discuss recent drone/UFO “sightings” in the US, the AI filmmaking industry (which sucks), the AI games industry (even worse), and recent revelations that a cer...

The Ophthalmologist's Dilemma feat. Séamus Malekafzali

Middle East correspondent Séamus Malekafzali returns to discuss Syria - a retrospective on Ba’athism, Assad, and for the first time after decades of moral panic about Islam… moderate jihadism is back, baby! Also - Ehud Barak’s camera company, and finally cutting the budget of the DfE.

A Tepid Bath of Startup Juice

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Starmer, in a bout of what some people are calling “Extreme Popularity,” is relaunching his government after only a few months, despite winning basically a historic majority. He’s turning to the tried and tested policies, the old favourites - runnin...

Britainology 96: The X-Factor feat. Sam Lake

For this month's first Britainology we've brought on comedian Sam Lake to discuss the impossibly influential UK cultural phenomenon of THE X-FACTOR.

Sam Lake is an Edinburgh-based comedian from Cornwall. He has recently had a critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Esmeralda’ and ...

Trashfuture Q&A Question Form

Hello everyone, we're going to put together a Q&A episode and require... your questions. The attached link is a Google form that will output the questions in a format that's easy for us to sort through. It doesn't require an email or any kind of login garbage. Please enjoy!

The Last Trudeau-mino to Fall feat. Luke Savage

Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) joins the gang to talk all things Canada, and the drubbing the feckless Justin “Northern Gavin” Trudeau is anticipating from the one and only “Maple DeSantis,” Pierre Poilievre. Plus, we pay...

He Steubs to Conquer feat. Brian Merchant

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We bring ill tidings… a man with the physiognomy of Humpty Dumpty, except with billions of dollars and a grudge against Wokeness, has brought news of innocent venture capitalists being de-banked for the mere crime of committing securities fraud! That’...

Popes/Lagoon/Robot Guy Shirts in Stock

Hello to all our beloved Patrons: we've got Avignon Popes, Banished to the Lagoon, and What If Your Robot Was Just A Guy shirts in stock in all sizes in our store (we ordered some extras when having the pre-orders printed).

Remember the discount codes too! TFHOG69 for £5 off individual sh...

All That Geelongs Round the Gyre

This week, it's Riley, Milo, and November discussing the eternal phenomenon of the infinity tax-break Jeremy Clarkson-type farmer, the "farmer protests," and the fact that no one seems willing to understand that, as far as British politics is concerned, half-measure liberal concessions to right-w...

Britainology 95: Britpop (feat. Oscar Rickett and Alex Niven)

For this month's second Britainology, we've convened journalist Oscar Rickett and sociologist Alex Niven (author of NEW MODEL ISLAND and THE NORTH WILL RISE AGAIN) to discuss a short period in British musical history that everyone keeps talking about. We very much hope you enjoy!

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Operation Save Big Red Dog: TF Live in London feat. Devon

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We performed live at Between the Bridges in London on Sunday, 24th November 2024. Storm Bert was raging. November’s train got canceled due to it being wet. The wind itself took issue with our venue. But we convened before a crowd, joined by ultimate fri...

Britainology 94: Threads (1984) feat. Jamie Allerton

For this month's first Britainology, we've decided to watch a sunny, optimistic film from 1984 called THREADS. You may have heard of it—it's a slice-of-life kitchen sink drama set in Sheffield, except a nuclear war breaks out between the US and the Soviet Union, resulting in a total and complet...