A Blair for All Seasons

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 t...

7 Jan 202559min

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 effec...

3 Jan 20257min

This episode was originally published as a Patreon-only bonus episode on October 11, and we've unlocked it to ensure that there's holiday content available!   We are joined by Hesse Deni (@Ze...

31 Des 20241h 6min

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, jac...

24 Des 20241h 8min

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 p...

20 Des 202410min

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 industr...

17 Des 20241h 6min

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,...

14 Des 20249min

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...

10 Des 20241h 8min