TRASHFUTURE

You've all heard the various encomiums about Roger fucking Scruton, the absurdly racist idiot philosopher who was terrified of the female orgasm and was somehow welcomed in every echelon of the British state for decades. Well, we've brought on an academic philosopher and friend of the show Nathan Oseroff-Spicer (@nathanoseroff) to break down Scruton's work in detail. And guess what? It's... interesting.

If you want to hear the full thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34355664

*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ 

*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour 

*BRISTOL LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see us perform at Bristol Transformed 2020 -- we’ll be performing on the night of Friday, March 6 (with more details to come later). Get tickets here: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/#date=2020-03-06&event_id=58254

*LONDON LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be playing at Vauxhall Comedy on Wednesday, March 11 at 7.30 pm! Tickets are £12, and you can get them here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-tickets-91817874735

We read a terrible article about a tech startup in Cincinnati, Ohio that wants to combine Evangelical Christianity with app culture. We assembled the full cast of Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum to discuss it. Folks, it will raise your blood pressure.

The article appeared in WIRED and can be found here: https://www.wired.com/story/midwest-christian-entrepreneurs-startup-life/

Also if you want to read about Nate’s former swim coach getting arrested for church larceny, you can start here: http://scaq.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-huge-disappointment-us-secret.html

If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture

*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ 

*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour 

*BRISTOL LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see us perform at Bristol Transformed 2020 -- we’ll be performing on the night of Friday, March 6 (with more details to come later). Get tickets here: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/#date=2020-03-06&event_id=58254

*LONDON LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be playing at Vauxhall Comedy on Wednesday, March 11 at 7.30 pm! Tickets are £12, and you can get them here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-tickets-91817874735

This week's bonus features a skeleton crew of Riley, Alice, and Hussein on a few topics that deeply moved us. Well, one at least: it sounds like SoftBank's Vision Fund is going to get a lot less weird, which means less content for us. But we can still reflect on the good times!

If you want to hear the full episode, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34173374

*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ 

*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour 

*BRISTOL LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see us perform at Bristol Transformed 2020 -- we’ll be performing on the night of Friday, March 6 (with more details to come later). Get tickets here: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/#date=2020-03-06&event_id=58254

*LONDON LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be playing at Vauxhall Comedy on Wednesday, March 11 at 7.30 pm! Tickets are £12, and you can get them here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-tickets-91817874735

This week, we’ve stepped away a bit from the usual slate of brain-destroying British politics and have instead decided to review the joint BBC/Netflix special Dracula. It’s bad, but it’s bad in such particularly eyeball-crossing ways that we needed expert advice. So, this episode features Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice @AliceAvizandum in conversation with Leslie Lee (@leslieleeiii) of the Struggle Session podcast. We all watched this terrible series so you don’t have to.

If you want more from Leslie, check out Struggle Session -- and sign up for their bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/strugglesession

If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture

 *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ 

*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour 

*BRISTOL LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see us perform at Bristol Transformed 2020 -- we’ll be performing on the night of Friday, March 6 (with more details to come later). Get tickets here: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/#date=2020-03-06&event_id=58254

*LONDON LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be playing at Vauxhall Comedy on Wednesday, March 11 at 7.30 pm! Tickets are £12, and you can get them here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-tickets-91817874735

Did you hear about the app that wants to 3D model your face to make sure you're a girl? It's called Giggle and we do not approve of it. In this preview of this week's bonus episode, Riley, Hussein, Alice, and artist Matt Lubchansky (@lubchansky) also discuss Mayor Pete, the US democratic primary, and much more. We thought about calling this episode 'ISIS for Girls' but Alice got to choose the title after she completely evaporated Riley's brain by reading test copy from Pete Buttigieg's website. Don't worry -- we recorded it all.

If you want to hear the whole episode, get it here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33979461

If you want to support Matt's cartooning, sign up at The Nib and receive the incredible content that they produce! Get that here: https://membership.thenib.com

*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ 

*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour 

*BRISTOL LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see us perform at Bristol Transformed 2020 -- we’ll be performing on the night of Friday, March 6 (with more details to come later). Get tickets here: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/#date=2020-03-06&event_id=58254

*LONDON LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be playing at Vauxhall Comedy on Wednesday, March 11 at 7.30 pm! Tickets are £12, and you can get them here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-tickets-91817874735

What happens when the DNC is an ouroboros of grifting fail-children? What happens when you try to improve voting with an app, and the app can’t stop crashing? In this week’s episode, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum join journalist Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) to discuss the Iowa Democratic Caucus disaster, or how to not make people trust an election result. Vincent has covered elections in 15 countries and has some thoughts on why American exceptionalism makes America terrible at the basic concept of representative democracy.

Vincent has a book coming out called “The Jakarta Method” that covers the persecution and mass killing of leftists during the Cold War. You can pre-order it here, and you definitely should: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vincent-bevins/the-jakarta-method/9781541742406/?lens=publicaffairs

If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture

*FUNDRAISING ALERT* In this episode, Riley mentions a fundraiser for a migrant assistance organisation in the US called Al Otro Lado. That fundraiser is complete, but if you have money to spare they can use the surplus for other cases of children escaping literal slavery. Donate here, if you can: https://www.gofundme.com/f/unaccompanied-minor-seeks-asylum?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+header

*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ 

*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour 

*BRISTOL LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see us perform at Bristol Transformed 2020 -- we’ll be performing on the night of Friday, March 6 (with more details to come later). Get tickets here: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/#date=2020-03-06&event_id=58254

*LONDON LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be playing at Vauxhall Comedy on Wednesday, March 11 at 7.30 pm! Tickets are £12, and you can get them here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-tickets-91817874735

This week, we're talking Jacob Rees-Mogg's history: his book 'The Victorians' might be the single worst collection of words that Riley's ever subjected himself to (so far), and we've brought on friend of the show Nish Kumar (@mrnishkumar) to discuss it. You might even call it a 'Horrible History,' but that would be anti-British drivel!

If you want to get the whole thing, access it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33767395

*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ 

*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour 

We’re back in the saddle for another episode of delightful modern existence. The full cast of Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum discuss a $100m-valued emoji service, the sudden disappearance of pro-EU groups post-Brexit, a Rafael Behr classic column from 2009, and an extended riff about the weird Xbox tween boy simulator called--and we are not joking--'Project Milo.'

If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture

*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ 

*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour 

*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be hosting a live show debate on the topic of Elon Musk's status as 21st century Willy Wonka. It's 6th Feb 7.30pm at Hen & Chickens Theatre (109 St Paul’s Road, London N1 2NA) -- tickets are £12.25 and you can get them here:   https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/trashfuture-live-the-comedy-debate/

In a preview of this week's bonus, Katie Halper (@kthalps) of The Katie Halper show and Rolling Stone's Useful Idiots Podcast joins Milo, Riley, and Alice to discuss a terrible start up, and then give us a "Who's Who" of the also-ran's who are fighting it out to lose to our boy Bernie Sanders in the United States.

If you want to get the whole thing, access it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33561909

*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ 

*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour 

*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be hosting a live show debate on the topic of Elon Musk's status as 21st century Willy Wonka. It's 6th Feb 7.30pm at Hen & Chickens Theatre (109 St Paul’s Road, London N1 2NA) -- tickets are £12.25 and you can get them here:   https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/trashfuture-live-the-comedy-debate/ 

There’s a general election coming up in Ireland, and rather than just having us attempt our worst Irish accents, we’ve brought on comedy writer Michael Fry (@bigdirtyfry) to discuss it with Riley (@raaleh), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum. However, we have to discuss a haunted water cooler app and an op-ed about market-based solutions for our incipient societal meltdown. You will enjoy this, we promise. Do not ask us to explain the title.

If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture

*WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS.com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ 

*COME SEE MILO*If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour 

*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be hosting a live show debate on the topic of Elon Musk's status as 21st century Willy Wonka. It's 6th Feb 7.30pm at Hen & Chickens Theatre (109 St Paul’s Road, London N1 2NA) -- tickets are £12.25 and you can get them here:   https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/trashfuture-live-the-comedy-debate/