TRASHFUTURE

67:43

Graham the Storm feat. Annie Kelly

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2026/05/20

We’ve invited friend of the show and journalist Annie Kelly to discuss the recent far-right march in London, the online AI slop aspect of it, and the offshoring of fascist outrage content on Facebook to…entrepreneurs in the Global South?Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here! RILEY ALERT Check out No Gods, No Mayors here! HUSSEIN ALERT Check out 10k Posts here! MILO ALERT Check out Milo's tour dates here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows NATE ALERT Lions Led By

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10:37

*PREVIEW* White Skin, White Masks feat. Nish Kumar

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2026/05/15

We’ve brought on our friend and long-suffering literary correspondent Nish Kumar to discuss Matthew Goodwin’s new book that he wrote using AI while cribbing a stupid meme from the Joe Rogan Experience: “suicidal empathy.” The hits are all there, but Goodwin can’t bring himself to go full Camp of the Saints, and instead just pads his word count with the help of computer and winds up writing white grievance Fanon instead.Our friends at Trade Unions Fighting the Far Right are organising a demo against

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57:32

Large Labubu Models feat. Adam Becker

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2026/05/12

We speak with astrophysicist and journalist Adam Becker about a new development: what if you could outsource even more aspects of your childcare, namely children’s play, to an LLM-connected device? What if your stuffed rabbit espoused Dengism? What if you wound up with an ancap Labubu? All this and more, on this week’s episode.Check out Dreaming Against the Machine here! Our friends at Trade Unions Fighting the Far Right are organising a demo against Tommy Robinson on 16th May in London! You can

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10:14

*PREVIEW* The Turing Chaser Test

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2026/05/08

In advance of the local elections, we got to witness a new phenomenon in British politics: Corbyning Without Corbyn. We also discuss Richard Dawkins deciding that Claude is real and female and also doesn't exist as soon as he stops thinking about her. Where have we heard this before?Get the whole episode on Patreon here! RILEY ALERT Check out No Gods, No Mayors here! HUSSEIN ALERT Check out 10k Posts here! MILO ALERT Check out Milo's tour dates here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows NATE

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62:39

A Milton Keynes of the Mud feat. Gareth Dennis

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2026/05/06

We welcome Gareth back to the show to discuss something he recently discovered: a planned private city of a million people? in Cambridgeshire? Supposedly called Forest City One, and built entirely out of wood? Obviously this is never going to get built, but there are some... tendencies represented here. We also talk about recent profiles of Reform voters and the garbage UK media environment that has brought us to this point.Check out Rail Natter here! Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing

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10:34

*PREVIEW* Fair Working Apathy feat. Emiliano Mellino

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2026/05/01

Emiliano Mellino from TBIJ joins us to discuss the upcoming (and some might say shortcoming) Fair Working Agency, and we ask the perennial question: will it stop bosses from ripping you off? But first, we look at an article praising an innovative business owner for giving himself the early stages of AI psychosis.Check out Emiliano's work here! Get the whole episode on Patreon here! *MILO ALERT * Check out Milo’s tour dates

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58:44

The House that Garfield Built feat. Hettie O’Brien

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2026/04/28

Riley and November speak with journalist Hettie O’Brien about her book The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself. It’s not necessarily the most uplifting topic, but it’s very illuminating. And don’t worry: we also talk about “MPs should be allowed to be drunk on the job,” and much more.Check out Hettie’s work here! Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows *NATE

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10:06

*PREVIEW* The Fermentation Barge feat. Mattie...

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2026/04/24

It's the food one, in which we discuss the weird fixations of the Make America Healthy Again death cult and their particular emphasis on "real food," however that might be defined today. And we also have to talk about the strangely heavy jeans that RFK Jr is always wearing. It's a whole lot all at once.Get the whole episode on Patreon here! TF Merch is still available here! MAYOR ALERT Get tickets to the three performance dates for No God No Mayors in London on 25-26 April! The link

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68:43

Exiting the Warwick Cathedral

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2026/04/21

UK newspapers are desperate to convince you that the future of politics in the country is a weird 19-year-old Reform council leader in Warwick. It doesn't matter that Warwick doesn't have a cathedral (it's just a big church! it's not the same thing!) and none of the upstart right-wing politicians want to address the actual quality of life issues. The issue is, as always, wokeness. Also, we talk about recent (bad; transphobic) developments at Stonewall and the weird freak wizard lady who always

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10:10

*PREVIEW* I’m Horseish On Humanity feat. Quinn...

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2026/04/17

Riley, Hussein, and November speak with friends of the show Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff about their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. We discuss the political ethos of Musk and his peers, and the origins of his "everything is computer" philosophy. However, we also had to take a detour into the story of the "AI-built startup that's worth a billion dollars," because... well, it's just a thing that lies a bunch. Again. You can buy Quinn and Ben's book here! Get the whole episode on

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80:25

Jumper Too Thick

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2026/04/14

There's been a recent profile of Sam Altman that gives a lot of chances for analysis, mostly due to the fact that the man loves lying more than anything any one of us could ever love in this world. We also talk about Starmer's Spanish encounters and how every minor problem Hussein experiences sounds like something Keir Starmer could also be experiencing in his daily life. Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here! TF Merch is still available here! MAYOR

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9:58

*PREVIEW* Dr. Dinner’s Lament feat. Luke Savage

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2026/04/10

Luke returns to discuss Mark KKKarney’s failure to reform the Canadian state in the face of a global crisis for middle powers, and the emergence of a new leader on the left with a few ideas about grocery stores that may just work, if they can get past a certain Food Professor, that is.Get the whole episode on Patreon here! MAYOR ALERT Get tickets to the three performance dates for No God No Mayors in London on 25-26 April! The link is here! MILO ALERT Check out Milo’s tour dates

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63:13

*UNLOCKED* The Banana Ball Shuffle feat. Lauren Walker

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2026/04/07

We're unlocking a bonus episode this week due to every possible scheduling conflict happening at the same time!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! MAYOR ALERT Get tickets to the three performance dates for No God No Mayors in London on 25-26 April! The

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9:33

*PREVIEW* Backwash Economics feat. Ed Zitron

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2026/04/03

Friend of the show Ed Zitron returns to discuss some of the recent developments in AI "profitability," or rather the fact that, while the economy doesn't hinge on AI in any meaningful way, the capital markets....have gotten themselves into a position where they do. And it's their own fault!Get more analysis from Ed here! Get the whole episode on Patreon here! NATE ALERT Nate's band Second Homes is about to release their debut album, and you can stream / preview / preorder it on Bandcamp here! MILO

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67:41

I Identify As the Straits of Hormuz Being Open feat....

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2026/03/31

Friend of the show and returning guest Séamus Malekafzali joins us to discuss Events in West Asia, specifically as regards Israel’s ground invasion of southern Lebanon, and Trump’s seeming gestures towards escalating a war with Iran that is already going very badly.Get more of Séamus’ writing here! Get the whole episode on Patreon here! Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here! TF Merch is still available here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates

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11:05

*PREVIEW* Play-Doh's Symposium feat. Brian Merchant

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2026/03/27

In this week's bonus episode, friend of the show Brian Merchant joins Riley, Hussein, and Nate to discuss an ed-tech security firm selling digital hall passes for anti-vaping counterinsurgency. We also discuss Brian's writing about ways in which AI is supplanting professional roles in... education, but also in NCAA athletics training? With predictable results.Check out Blood in the Machine here! Have you lost your job due to AI? Check out AI Commons, who raise money to help people in your

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59:28

The Tetsuo Economy feat. Wendy Liu

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2026/03/25

We get our SF billboard specialist and recovered startup person Wendy Liu in to talk about the newest scandal rocking Silicon Valley: a company that can only be described as Theranos for Compliance.Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here! TF Merch is still available here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and

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10:08

*PREVIEW* Lord Item feat. Gareth Dennis

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2026/03/21

Gareth joins us to discuss new developments in UK transit, specifically outside of London, that look... promising? And not terrible? But we also have to check in with other old friends: the ones who're still scamming, the ones who've been pardoned by Trump and now plan to reinvent the airplane bathroom, and the ones who've been made earls in Scotland for some reason.If you want to hear more from Gareth, check out Rail Natter here! Get the whole episode on Patreon here! TF Merch is still available

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87:35

*UNLOCKED* Scaffold to Heaven

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2026/03/17

Riley has been driven insane by a… company hinging on a single Australian man that appears to be bamboozling the British State with complex financial chicanery, and now you all have to hear the story of how NScale started out as a landlord for bitcoin miners and became the government’s best hope for a “Sovereign AI” but that has only a scaffolding yard to its name. Except it also doesn’t own the scaffolding yard either. If you want to hear more bonus episodes like this one, consider signing up on

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65:19

Dire Straits feat. Josef Burton

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2026/03/17

Josef joins us again to discuss the ongoing disaster in the Persian Gulf, and the crumbling not only of the facade of imperial legitimacy but imperial omnipotence. Also, we look at a startup that could only be called a “moonshot.” Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here! TF Merch is still available here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate

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