TRASHFUTURE

Why is the line detached from the material reality of so many people? Why is the line divorced? Why are there so many zombie companies, and why does it seem like the financial movers and shakers are fine with government stimulus to basically non-functional entities? Well, to answer big important finance questions, we have Barrons journalist Alexandra Scaggs (@alexandrascaggs) to investigate, alongside Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum). If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/the-bail-project If you want one of our *fine* new shirts, designed by Matt Lubchansky, then e-mail trashfuturepodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. £15 for patrons, £20 for non-patrons, plus shipping.  *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/

So, what was MIT’s Media Lab actually researching with all that Epstein money? And why is it a Venn diagram of all the worst things in America in the last 40 years? Fronted by a neocon who helped the Contras and the Iraq War, headed by a bitchin’ surfer rave enthusiast tech idiot, and full of people inventing cursed SkyMall products. This week, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Hussein (@AliceAvizandum) discuss this and so much more. Part 2 of this series will be coming out this week on Patreon. Sign up for it here and get access to our Discord server: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture If you want to buy one of our recent special-edition phone-cops shirt, shoot us an email at trashfuturepodcast[at]gmail[dot]com and we can post it to you. (£20 for non-patrons, £15 for patrons) Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is available here: https://teespring.com/what-if-phone-cops#pid=659&cid=102968&sid=front

Why is it that British dads all want to go to war? Why is it that, despite having grown up during a period of unparalleled peace and stability, people over 50 want to relive Dunkirk and embrace the Blitz Spirit? Maybe because they’re all deeply bored and lazy people. To discuss this (and much more), we’ve brought on Francis Horton (@ArmyStrang), cohost of What a Hell of a Way to Die (with our own Nate (@inthesedeserts)). Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) also discuss the Amazon being on fire and a terrible, terrible NY Post article about monogamy. You will love it. If you want to listen to more of Francis and Nate, check out What a Hell of a Way to Die here: https://soundcloud.com/hellofawaytodie If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *LIVE SHOW ALERT* Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton this September? That’s right, your favourite podcast lads. Buy a ticket here: http://theworldtransformed.org If you want to buy one of our recent special-edition phone-cops shirt, shoot us an email at trashfuturepodcast[at]gmail[dot]com and we can post it to you. (£20 for non-patrons, £15 for patrons) Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is available here: https://teespring.com/what-if-phone-cops#pid=659&cid=102968&sid=front

Dan Boeckner’s back to discuss the ongoing march of AI through the music industry, and whether or not companies like Suno really do “democratise creativity.” Also, we look at U.K. institutions segregating trans people and going :/ Get the whole episode on 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 November (@postoctobrist)

Ed Campbell has ventured deep into the dark heart of British Bitcoin enthusiasm to bring us dispatches from the front lines of the battle against the state… and also a cryptocurrency themed marmalade that we all agree was slightly too sour. 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 November (@postoctobrist)

Ed returns quickly after his last appearance to address Nvidia’s apropos-of-almost-nothing reassurance to the world “by the way, we’re not Enron.” Also, we read an article about probably one of the worst AI companies going. Get the whole episode on 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 November (@postoctobrist)

Climate Scientist Jess Green returns in the wake of COP30 to discuss exactly why the UN brokered international climate accords are so ineffectual. Also, we talk about some old friends, ongoing developments in private credit, and a plucky new startup aiming to “save the world.” 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 November (@postoctobrist)

One more thing... we get Gregk Foley from the brand new Bloodwork Podcast on to talk about a company that can only be understood as "weaponised geoguessr." Also, Euan Blair's tie up with Louis Mosley (who could have seen that coming!) and a mural of horrors goes up in Kingston. Get it on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/144086966?pr=true

Journalist and professional Wes Streeting Watcher Sasha Baker joins us to discuss all things Streeting, as he seems to be more and more likely to be inflicted on us as the next Prime Minister of the UK. But first, May We Meet You?

FULL EPISODE ON https://www.patreon.com/posts/i-feel-like-call-143560320 Ed Zitron returns to discuss all things AI bubble - specifically OpenAI's uncertain balance sheet, the potential government backstop of data centre construction, and the very real and material constraints (such as gas turbine production) on building god via Nvidia Blackwell chips. Also we get sidetracked and stunlocked by the new tranche of Epstein revelations at the very outset. Ed's writing can be found here: https://www.wheresyoured.at

Dr J joins us to discuss Peter Thiel's cooked eschatology, as well as the supremely attainable goals with which Elon Musk stands to make himself a trillionaire. It's all plausible and it's all real, and we of course have nothing but positive things to say about it! 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 November (@postoctobrist)

Matt and Ben of Justice Warriors fame return to the pod to discuss the mish mash of gambling, advertising, and fascist aesthetics spreading around the world through AI. Then, we think the Swan Song of Neom is finally upon us. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! TF Merch is still available here! We can ship to the US now! *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 November (@postoctobrist)

The FT’s Rob Smith joins us to talk about the $4.5tn private credit bubble brewing in global financial markets… or to put it in perspective, to answer the question of how a regional Ohio auto parts distributor joined forces with Utah’s Swaggest Mormons to ring alarm bells at the IMF. 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 November (@postoctobrist)

Josh joins Hussein and Riley to talk about new developments in the realm of faith based AI, Grokipedia, and a ghoulish display outside Hussein’s local estate agent. Get the whole episode on 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 November (@postoctobrist)

Emiliano Mellino joins us in the middle of a riff about how we should be able to kinetically engage swans with lethal force to talk about how the employment tribunal system in the U.K. is fundamentally broken. Before that, we review the death of Neom and a16z’s newest innovation in the field of American Dynamism: more addictive gambling! Check out Emiliano's work 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 here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

A few old friends stop by - Palmer Luckey, Shaun Maguire, and Eight Sleep... then we take a deep dive into the mind of the Irreverent Troop MP who loves Flags and is Serious About Flags and The Boats, Mike Tapp. Then in the second half, Riley is joined by Ezequiel Bistoletti - professor at the University of Buenos Aires and host of the YouTube series Demolishing Political Myths to talk about the Libertarian Bailout King, Javier Millei. Yes it's a long title but Nova said it and I thought it was funny. Get it on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/derek-zoolander-142031509 Ezequiel's Spanish Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@demoliendomitosdelapolitica Ezequiel's New English Language Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@demolishingpoliticalmyths

Séamus - now host of the Turbulence podcast about the post-American imperial age - joins us to talk about the ceasefire in Gaza that wasn't, as well as the whole-of-government effort to rehabilitate football hooliganism. Also, we look at a fun new way to get carbon dioxide into your body. Check out Séamus's new show - https://turbulencepod.substack.com.

Riley, Nova, and Hussein chug some down some heavy metals, talk about rare earths, ChatGPT’s OTHER other detour into porn (before curing cancer), and the slow death of neoliberalism. Then, Wired does some crucial journalism: talking to Cybertruck owners who all need to find polite ways of saying they have a “getting yelled at” fetish. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! TF Merch is still available here! (We can't ship to the US right now but we're working on it!) 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 November (@postoctobrist)

Astrophysicist Adam Becker joins us in this pre-recorded episode to talk about the ongoing billionaire space race and the material limits of the ideology of infinite growth that underpins it. Also, we send a pitch out into the universe to Guy Ritchie for a great new character.   Check out MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER here!   Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here!   TF Merch is still available here! (We can't ship to the US right now but we're working on it!)   *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 November (@postoctobrist)

Eleanor Penny rejoins us to talk about the government and media class’s ongoing cynicism in suppressing and criminalising any expression of Palestinian solidarity. We also read an article that - let’s say - got everyone in something of a Tilly. Get the whole episode on Patreon 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 November (@postoctobrist)