Best TRASHFUTURE Podcasts (2025)

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Anti-Beeb feat. Tom Mills and Dan Hind 59:20

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1d ago59:20

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Tom Mills and Dan Hind talk to us about their work on what a functioning BBC might look like, and how that’s less about finding the exact right political balance (any day now, surely!) and more about ownership structure and material factors. In the first half, we are once again overtaken by events, as this seems to be another “week where decades ha…

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PREVIEW Like and Subscribe on Pray Dot Com feat. Josh Boerman 10:24

6d ago10:24

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We’ve brought on serious friend of the show Josh Boerman to discuss the use of AI material made by and for evangelical Christians in the United States, and this leads to the discovery of Pray dot com, Gloo dot AI, and so much more. Check out the Worst of All Possible Worlds here! And check out Ill Conceived here! Get the whole episode on Patreon he…

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First Buddy Down feat. Jacob Silverman 1:04:49

9d ago1:04:49

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Jacob Silverman returns to the pod to talk about the breakdown in relationship between Musk and Trump, and the tensions that have always simmered at the heart of the Silicon Valley / MAGA alliance… but how it will likely remain in place after the extremely replaceable Elon pissed everyone off so much he was asked to leave. Also, Jacob went to the B…

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PREVIEW The Banana Ball Shuffle feat. Lauren Walker 10:14

13d ago10:14

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Lauren from Batting Around joins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to talk sports - what’s Banana Ball? What’re the odds of Neom SC winning the Saudi Premier League? What’s going on in Utah Mammoth player Sean Durzi’s brain? And more importantly, can we bet on it? Check out Batting Around here! Get the whole episode on Patreon here! TF LIVE ALERT We’ll be p…

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Wrench! A Musical ft. Séamus Malekafzali 52:59

16d ago52:59

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Seamus joins us to talk about the sudden (apparent) about face of some western leaders on Israel, who suddenly just now realised that a genocide may be occurring on their watch, and why the right time to take this stand was years ago. Also, we discuss a tech leader who wants to productise thinking, the ongoing adventures of Gregor Steube, and a new…

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PREVIEW Exeunt Sad Boer feat. Benjamin Fogel 10:18

20d ago10:18

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Historian and journalist Ben Fogel joins the gang to talk about South Africa, and how it came to be a totem for the modern right. Also, we look at Elon’s continued decline and fall (despite the “success” of his project), and Robert Jenrick’s new career as an influencer. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates…

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PREVIEW Britainology 105: Gatwick Gangsters (2017) 10:40

23d ago10:40

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The oft-requested episode is finally here, in which we watch what can only be described as a piece of outsider art: a zero-budget, zero-effort British gangster film made sometime between 2011 and 2017 by a woman named Sally Clack, who performs under the name Rapper Shampagne™. Dave Courtney is in this but you'd barely know it. This film caused Nate…

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Deus Schmaltz feat. Eleanor Janega 1:03:15

23d ago1:03:15

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Eleanor Janega stops by to talk about her new project on the history of The Crusades with American Prestige, and how these largely failed military campaigns against basically everyone East of the Italian peninsula transformed into the iconography of Islamophobia at home. But first, we look at more flailing from the Labour Government, a plan to sent…

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PREVIEW Joe Pantone ft. Mike Isaac 9:39

27d ago9:39

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Tech reporter Mike Isaac rejoins us to talk about the antitrust trials against Meta and Alphabet currently winding their way through the US justice system… but we enjoy a pretty significant detour into the world of the paint mafia. Also discussed is a startup “reinventing banking” to help ordinary people invest in high risk private capital projects…

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Patriots in Control of the Cancer Gun feat. Tim Faust 58:42

29d ago58:42

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For this week’s free one, we’ve got returning guest Tim Faust on to talk about Make America Healthy Again (citations needed), Diamond Joe having cancer, the intensely evil cross-partisan urge to institute Medicaid work requirements in the US, plus a visit to the developing paradise of Neom. It’s all here for the taking, folks. Get more TF episodes …

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PREVIEW Boorish Chums 10:15

1M ago10:15

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Note: there is a part at the beginning of the episode that will sound like we left in an editing mistake, but we assure you……….it’s intentional. It’s Riley, Milo, Hussein, and November, checking in with Jan Marsalek (to an extent), hearing about an orb that can tell if you’re a chatbot or not, and reviewing Janice Turner’s absolutely bananas articl…

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The Upzone of Interest feat. Dan Boeckner 1:11:48

1M ago1:11:48

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Dan Boeckner’s in town, so he joins us to talk about the ongoing trade chaos, the new plan by the Charter Cities Institute to make a sparkling tech enabled immigration detention centre / San Francisco competitor on a very controversial Navy Base, and finally we look at the just-released immigration white paper, where Sir Keir Starmer KC Human Right…

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PREVIEW 100 Days of Bro-litude ft. Nathan Tankus 10:04

1M ago10:04

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Notes on the Crises’ Nathan Tankus returns to talk to Riley about 100 days of DOGE, and the catastrophic risks those broccoli haired little rascals pose the entire global financial system, in addition to the moral depravity of the whole enterprise. In the first half, Riley, Milo, and Hussein discuss yet more in the “AI will replace the human soul” …

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Lincolnshire DOGE 59:15

1M ago59:15

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We review the recent spate of local elections that has everybody deciding retroactively that the Labour Party was always full of dangerous liars who could not be trusted to govern the country - if only someone had figured this out sooner. To start, though, we also look at the spate of religious and spiritual experiences people are attributing to AI…

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PREVIEW Carnation Revolution feat. Luke Savage 10:03

2M ago10:03

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Luke Savage rejoins the gang to talk all about what Mark Carney’s government will actually bring Canada - the short answer is “more of the same shit that didn’t work the last four times it was tried.” Will this stop us making revolutionary jokes about Carney? Only time will tell, signs point to no. Also - we look at the rise of Hardman Labour, and …

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Chat, Is this Real? 1:07:36

2M ago1:07:36

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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. Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here! *MILO ALERT*…

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PREVIEW Keir Starmer Just Needs To Apologise 10:27

2M ago10:27

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We 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. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here: https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *TF LIVE ALERT* We’ll be performing at the …

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Diaper Nation feat. Jess O’Thomson 1:20:06

2M ago1:20:06

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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 world of gold and steel, and an AI “entrapment as a service” company. Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here! *TF LIVE ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Big Fat…

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PREVIEW Vote with Your Boat feat. Josh Boerman 11:03

2M ago11:03

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Josh 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. Also, the Supreme Court Judgment (in brief - more on that next …

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She’s Turned The Bonds Against Me feat. Alexandra Scaggs 1:08:21

2M ago1:08:21

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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 episode tries to make sense of the ongoing American trade war with much of the rest of the world - going into the history of the American grand treat bargain, how the chara…

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PREVIEW Disparagement Clause ft. Jason Koebler 10:22

2M ago10:22

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404 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 work, and what sociopathic freaks Zuckerberg and Sandber…

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The Guys Trying to Poison Me Have a Point feat. Dr Lucy Burke 1:18:56

2M ago1:18:56

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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 combined gang of Riley, Hussein, and November also discuss the non-America news, particularly regard…

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PREVIEW I Bought A Cyber Truck And All I Got Was This Brown T-Shirt (feat. Victoria Scott) 10:16

3M ago10:16

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Automotive 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) diplomacy, and showing the entire country a video. Get the full ep…

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Dragnet feat. Josef Burton 1:02:11

3M ago1:02:11

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Former 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 the black bagging much better”). Get access to more Tra…

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PREVIEW My Year of Rest and Relaxation 2: Back in Bed (feat. Mattie Lubchansky) 9:59

3M ago9:59

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Cartoonist, 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 fiction. Pre-order Mattie's book SIMPLICITY here! Get the…