TRASHFUTURE

This week, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) speak with health justice advocate and writer Tim Faust (@crulge) about his campaigning for single-payer in the US, why anything besides Medicare for All is a scam, and why the creeping privatisation of programmes like Medicare and Medicaid resemble Tony Blair’s ‘reforms’ of the NHS in the early 2000s.

If you liked what Tim had to say, pre-order his book here! https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/health-justice-now/

During this episode, Riley references a Wired article about friend of the show Matt Hancock and his generous benefactor Babylon. You can read that here: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/babylon-health-nhs

*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be performing live at Bristol Transformed on Friday, April 5th at 8 pm. The venue is Hamilton House 3A, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY. https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/ View the Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/

*COMEDY KLAXON*: On April 10 at The Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA), two of the most profoundly funny voices in British comedy (and members of the Balthasar Speedboat cast), Pierre Novellie and Alex Kealy, will perform at Smoke Comedy. The show starts at 8 pm; tickets are £5 and can be purchased here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-featuring-pierre-novellie-and-alex-kealy-tickets-58849486398?aff=erelexpmlt

Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously.

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

Amazing how Titania McGrath, a fictional account that owns Millennials by making dad jokes, is the talk of the London Media. It's almost like the account is run by two middle-aged Tories whose friends all RT them out of a sense of obligation. In a preview of this week's bonus, Riley, Milo, and Nate speak with Novara Media's Dalia Gebrial (@daliagebrial) about the Titania McGrath 'phenomenon,' and why it speaks to the deeply conservative cornerstones of horniness and hurt feelings.

If you want to listen to the full episode, you can access it on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25675130

*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be performing live at Bristol Transformed on Friday, April 5th at 8 pm. The venue is Hamilton House 3A, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY. https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/ View the Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/

*COMEDY KLAXON*: On April 10 at The Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA), two of the most profoundly funny voices in British comedy (and members of the Balthasar Speedboat cast), Pierre Novellie and Alex Kealy, will perform at Smoke Comedy. The show starts at 8 pm; tickets are £5 and can be purchased here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-featuring-pierre-novellie-and-alex-kealy-tickets-58849486398?aff=erelexpmlt

Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously.

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

In a special guest cross-post, Riley and Hussein appeared on the much-recommended Qanon Anonymous podcast to discuss nationally-sourced conspiracies. This features Lucy Valentine of the Boonta Vista podcast as a judge. Listen as the gang discuss David Icke, Direct Energy Weapons, Reptilians, Gangstalking and Hollow Earth.

Support Qanon Anonymous on Patreon here: patreon.com/qanonanonymous

No guest this week, as the boys instead sit down solo to discuss the nihilistic right wing death cult that’s getting whipped into an upward spiraling murderous frenzy by the extremely respectable media. Why do they all rush to distance themselves from the things they encourage their readers to do? Why is it that when we make up a fake Brendan O'Neill article, the real Brendan O'Neill writes it basically verbatim?

Do you want more Commie Book Club? Access this month's episode (an examination of the work of Mark Fisher) by subscribing to the Patreon, and you can get all our other weekly bonus episodes, too: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25530712

*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be performing live at Bristol Transformed on Friday, April 5th at 8 pm. The venue is Hamilton House 3A, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY. https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/ View the Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/

*COMEDY KLAXON*: On March 27 at 8pm, Milo will host another Smoke Comedy at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA). This show costs £5 and will feature all new material from duo Moon, our own beloved Olga Koch (@rocknrolga ), Michael Capozzola, and Patrick Spicer. Buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-featuring-moon-tickets-58000795942

Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously.

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

It's that time again! In an unlocked bonus episode, Riley read a book, drank some wine, and is ready to talk about it to you fine people. This month, we're looking at State of Insecurity by Isabell Lorey, available now on Verso. It's all about precariousness and how neoliberalism has turned us into our own disciplinarians.

Check out the book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1737-state-of-insecurity

Do you want more Commie Book Club? Access this month's episode (an examination of the work of Mark Fisher) by subscribing to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25530712

*LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be performing live at Bristol Transformed on Friday, April 5th at 8 pm. The venue is Hamilton House 3A, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY. https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/ View the Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/

Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously.

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

This week, Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum ) speak with comedian and writer Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian) about the Adam Smith Institute’s newest declaration: the that Wetherspoons app is the pinnacle of human achievement. Did you know that you can order peas to anyone, at any table at any Wetherspoons pub in Britain? Oh wait, publicly-owned buildings? Never mind those, get the damn peas.

You can access Mark Watson’s Comedy Marathon here -- listen to it all: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Mark-Watsons-Comedy-Marathon-Audiobook/B07P1BJTZR?qid=1551347792&sr=1-7&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_7&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=J6Z81A174WT7M4TTCYAQ&

Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview — and if you do, you’ll gain access to our Discord server, where you can talk about soup with us all day.

*COMEDY KLAXON*: On March 27 at 8pm, Milo will host another Smoke Comedy at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA). This show costs £5 and will feature all new material from duo Moon, our own beloved Olga Koch (@rocknrolga ), Michael Capozzola, and Patrick Spicer. Buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-featuring-moon-tickets-58000795942

Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously.

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

This is a promo of this week's Patreon bonus episode.

We're back in the saddle for yet another edition of Balthasar Speedboat. This episode features Riley, Milo, Nate, Alex Kealy (@alexkealy), Olga Koch (@rocknrolga), and Pierre Novellie (@pierrenovellie) -- and covers the usual spectrum of topics (but mostly Michael Jackson). Did you know Riley apparently sheds hair as a defensive mechanism? Did you know that Richard Nixon was convinced that gays brought down the Roman Empire? All this can be yours, and more.  

If you want to listen to the whole thing, you can get it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25350411

Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously.

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

We live in a blessed time, a truly wise era of human history in which Kylie Jenner’s cosmetics front company is somehow valued at $1 billion USD. Now, this is not a good thing, and special guest James Meadway (@meadwaj) -- an economist, writer, and former adviser to John McDonnell MP -- explains why this is just one symptom of the morass in which we find ourselves, and why recovering an oppositional style of politics is more important than ever.

This episode features all of the Trash lads -- Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Nate (@inthesedeserts), and including James this makes for 5 dudes in one room. As Hussein explains during the episode, this is a crucial limit.

Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview — and if you do, you’ll gain access to our Discord server, where you can talk about soup with us all day.

*COMEDY KLAXON*: On March 13 at 8pm, Milo will host another Smoke Comedy at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA). This show costs £5 and will feature all new material from Tania Edwards, Chloe Petts, Dimitri Bakanov, and Raph Wakefield. Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-with-tania-edwards-tickets-56285827425

Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously.

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

Friends, we at the Trashfuture podcast do not in any way want our jokes to become real. We don’t want Elon Musk to control the internet with a submarine like the Sons of Liberty in Metal Gear Solid 2. We don’t want Matt Hancock to parkour his way into our phones with a mandatory app. But we always knew in our hearts that the essence of conservatism is “why can’t I say the n-word.” And that latter item happened this week, as certified normal person and author Lionel Shriver wrote exactly that in the Spectator. As is to be expected, Nate (@inthesedeserts), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Olga (@rocknrolga ), and Alex Kealy @alexkealy perform a deep dive on Lionel’s own words. Shocker: they’re insane!

Riley is not on this episode. He was busy skiing and handed the keys to the purple Trashfuture Lamborghini to the rest of us. You Won’t Believe What Happened Next.

Please bear in mind that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview — and if you do, you’ll gain access to our Discord server, where you can talk about soup with us all day.

*COMEDY KLAXON*: On March 13 at 8pm, Milo will host another Smoke Comedy at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA). This show costs £5 and will feature all new material from Tania Edwards, Chloe Petts, Dimitri Bakanov, and Raph Wakefield. Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-with-tania-edwards-tickets-56285827425

Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously.

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

Riley and Milo sit down with Will Stronge, director of Autonomy and one of the principal authors of the four day work week report (linked here) that’s been generating so much interest lately. Sing it loud and sing it proud: work sucks!

This episode originally appeared on our bonus content feed. You can sign up for $5 a month on Patreon and get an episode like this each week: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture (this also will grant you access to our Discord server).

Here's a link to the Autonomy report that Will references in the episode: http://autonomy.work/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Shorter-working-week-final.pdf

*COMEDY KLAXON*: On March 13 at 8pm, Milo will host another Smoke Comedy at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA). This show costs £5 and will feature all new material from Tania Edwards, Chloe Petts, Dimitri Bakanov, and Raph Wakefield. Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-with-tania-edwards-tickets-56285827425 

Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously.

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