TRASHFUTURE

Author Yara Rodrigues Fowler joins Riley and Alice to talk about her book, There Are More Things. There Are More Things is a love story, a history, and an exploration of the radical possibilities of f...

14 Jun 20239min

We spend a while looking over the economic dimensions of - whatever you want to call it - Starmerism, Bidenism, Levelling Up - a version of neoliberalism that realised, very suddenly and entirely too ...

12 Jun 20231h 22min

We continued our Regional Authenticity Tour and stopped in the famous city of Manchester, where we recoiled in horror at a startup Riley found that claimed it was--and I'm saying this verbatim--'gamif...

8 Jun 20239min

Hussein, Alice, and Riley talk about a new startup that aims to replace us all with chatbots based on Socrates, Steve Jobs, and Jordan Peterson reading the news, then we discuss the wild world of AI s...

5 Jun 20231h 7min

The entire cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, Nate, and Alice continued our Regional Authenticity Tour with a stop in Leeds, where we discussed a startup offering what appears to be a hypothetical alternat...

1 Jun 20239min

This week, Tom Walker (@tomwalkerisgood) joins Riley, Milo, and Alice to discuss some recent NEOM-related news—particularly, some comments from NEOM-affiliated architects at the Venice Biennale. But w...

29 Mai 20231h 13min

For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo get expert advice from The Athletic's Joey D'Urso, a lifelong football fan and a source of extremely funny anecdotes about the nutters and eccentrics...

24 Mai 20239min

For this week’s free episode, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice discuss the perennial US debt default threat, the recent Congressional hearings about regulating AI (No Steubes were involved, sadly), and...

23 Mai 20231h 20min