TRASHFUTURE

Libby and Charlotte from What’s All This Then join us for an all dessert episode featuring a new entry in the Kirk fund, an interesting new fraud defence, and some answers to burning questions about B...

Phoebe Gates went to How To Rule The World class at Stanford, where apparently she learned to admit to potentially criminal activity in Slack. Repeatedly. Also, the network school moves countries, a F...

We talk about the death of Jason Arday and the culpability of our rotten-to-the-core media industry in bringing it about… and also a truly infuriating article about how a 17th century academic might n...

First of all: mea maxima culpa for having trusted the hated professional news media about a certain fictive elf's grave. We're endeavouring to do better. And in that spirit we've brought on Gareth Den...

Riley speaks to Foxglove’s Donald Campbell about the campaign to prevent Palantir from working with the NHS, but before we get to that, we have to talk about… fictive elven graves. And real Bronze Age...

We've brought on friend of the show and writer Ben Fogel to talk about the hard-right turn in Latin America, and the list of freaks is a mighty one: the gradient scale of Bolsonaro failsons, the Peruv...

Prayers up for our beloved Nova who remains unwell, but Devon is in the hot seat today filling in as we discuss how you can’t trust maps anymore, a report on the state of reports, and the future of ed...

Too much is happening at once. We've got repurposed Realdolls being pitched as AI robot teachers....or tutors, since supposedly the difference is crucial. We've got an eight-figure settlement in the c...

Once again, it seems like tariffs are going to slice the North American auto industry into ribbons while it simultaneously tries to make buying some of the only good cars in the world illegal. Victori...

Friend of the show and Silicon Valley anthropologist joins us to discuss the cultural weirdness that has taken over Silicon Valley - what do you do to get noticed when your only route out of the perma...

Jensen Huang sold his leather jacket for charity… and we look at exactly what that charity is and does. Then in the second half, Nathan Tankus is back to discuss the ongoing plot to create an imperial...

We needed to up the chaos a bit so we watched the terrible 2021 film LOCKED DOWN with our good friends Mattie Lubchansky (of the No Gods No Mayors podcast) and Hesse Deni (of the Seeking Derangements ...

Kojo Koram, author of "The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs," joins us to discuss what comes next after the War On Drugs and how capital intends to colonise this new frontier… a...

Jason Koebler from 404 joins us to take us through how he turned his blog into a $100,000,000 a month money machine using fake dashboards, rented private jets, and a community of people who are desper...

Ed Zitron and the TF Crew are on both your feeds this week to discuss the Softbank slide deck breakdown you’ve all been waiting for. It’s nothing other than the goose, and whether or not the goose was...

Quinn from the Failure to Launch (FTL) podcast joins us to discuss exactly how space travel became an adjunct to a racist chatbot. Also, we discuss the high water mark of chudness and what exactly Pet...

We’ve got some serious issues: Iran is too real of a country to ignore, and Saudi Arabia is becoming a real country in that it suddenly can’t find $300m to fund the LIV Golf tournament in Louisiana. B...

Josh joins us to talk about Peter Thiel’s bargain bohemian grove, an AI avatar company with a macabre and deeply stupid twist, and then we revisit old friend Knightscope Security to explore what can o...

I can’t believe he’s gone… he had so many relaunches left in him. We reflect on the premiership of Keir Starmer and ponder what awaits this country under Burnham, before reading the poem that proves A...

We brought on Northern Irish journalist Lara Whyte to discuss recent events in Belfast, and the extent to which Musk-centric American far right internet garbage is becoming unavoidable. We also discus...