TRASHFUTURE

Hey you absolute savages. A few of the trash gang gathered around, sans guest, to break through the constant flux of drunkenness/hangover (except ethical boy Hussein), to bandy about some online nonsense. Today we have @raaleh, @milo_edwards, @hkesvani, and @rocknrolga. We talk about Regular Man and Aspiring Hillary Clinton Toilet Peter Daou's propensity for targeted harrassment and extending the ongoing and utterly pointless 2016 primary, the ongoing and utterly pointless university free speech culture wars, the ongoing and utterly pointless American crusade to solve school shootings without removing guns, and a reading from the ongoing and utterly pointless literary career of Tory MP Nick Boles. Follow us on @trashfuturepod tho

Merry Christmas you filthy animals - we were going to release this episode, including its excellent interview with AI journalist and labour activist James Vincent (@jjvincent), after Christmas, but decided to blow our loads early. Riley (@raaleh) Abi (@AbiWilks) Pierre (@pierrenovellie) and Milo (@milo_edwards) are joined by James to talk about Wyatt Koch, the billionaire failson that is the crown jewel the new industrial strategy of America after its tax bill, why Twitter's internal metrics make it such a Nazi friendly platform, and Elon Musk's dumb as fuck plan to replace all public transit with personal underground tunnels. In the second half, we turn over to James to talk about why AI superintelligence is a red herring - and the real problem is (drumroll) CAPITALISM! xoxo Riley

Happy Trashmas from Riley (@raaleh) Milo (@milo_edwards) and Hussein (@HKesvani), joined by HRTBPS (@hrtbps). We listen to traditional carols from from the Jake Paul hymnal, Litmas, we exchange crystal nootropic room spray from Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP, and look into the holiday cheer that is Nigel Farage's life in shambles post-Brexit. Riley ponders the merits of Maoist Third Worldism, Posadism, or good old fashioned Accelerationism to eradicate the decadent West. Like, follow, and subscribe to our dumb asses. Love Riley xoxo

LATE WEEK BONUS EPISODE We talk to Ooabah Butler (@Oobahs) about how he gamed Tripadvisor to get his fake restaurant into the number one spot, and the determined weirdos still trying to get reservations. Then the most funny thing that has ever happened on our show happens. We also go into a dumb product (extra dumb) and Oobah's newest project, building a sex robot "for the many." On this episode we have Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@milo_edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), with Olga Koch (@rocknrolga) sitting in for Abi (@AbiWilks) and Oobah Butler (@Oobahs). Like, follow, and subscribe my loves! And give us a retweet if you think this episode bangs - it really helps! xoxo Riley

It's the spookiest season of all... the Boo-lidays. No guest this week - Riley (@raaleh), Abi (@AbiWilks), Milo (@milo_edwards), and Hussein (@HKesvani) talk about inspirational business dullards, how pictures of cats on the ethereum blockchain cost $100,000 and burn holes in our ozone layer while making like two tech dipshits rich for no reason, John Rentoul's circumscribed vocabulary, silicon valley seeding its dork parties with attractive women, and online journalism's continued descent into hell world. We also talk about getting so mad online, you go super saiyin (in this case, interpreted as grousing about Estonian folklore) Somebody buy us a damn crypto kitty Anyway like follow and subscribe to make us happy

The first episode featuring the fifth robot lion of our dumb internet Voltron! Journalist Abi Wilkinson (@AbiWilks) arrives as a guest and then is hoodwinked into leaving as a full time host because Hussein does the Get Out hypnosis on her. We (Riley, Hussein, Alex, Milo, and Abi) talk about a dumb round up of internet greivances including the killer jaegerbomb of Praljak, Twitter's ongoing difficulty with Nazis, and the weird generational greivances of Independent editor Sean O'Grady, who thinks millenials are famously too rich for our own good. The second half starts with a bizarre product, and then quickly transitions into a more serious discussion of the failures of Universal Credit and of the exterminist policies of right wing governments more generally. Come see us for a live recording at Alex's show at the Star of Kings on January 9th! Love, Riley

Jack (@coplandresident) and Laura (@thisgeordielass) from Reel Politik (@reelpolitcast) "tighten their control" over the TRASHFUTURE airwaves, having an EXTREMELY late night and not-very-lucid call with Riley (@raaleh) and Milo (@milo_edwards). We talk about the cryptocurrency boom and the company described as "uber for buses using blockchain to disrupt tipping" (lol), have general Russia banter, and then cities ritually humiliating themselves for Amazon to come rim their house prices. We also have some very timely Mark Thatcher takes. Like and follow and subscribe! Love, Riley xoxo

MINISODE ALERT! The era of bad audio is over, but I've managed to salvage one other clip we did a while ago on net neutrality to tide you over until we release a new full episode (in this, the new good audio era) tomorrow. Alex Kealy (@alexkealy) sat down with Riley (@Raaleh), Milo (@milo_edwards), and Hussein (@HKesvani) to talk net neutrality, and the convo is so dang scintillating, Nikki (@NikkiS4) - mental health advocate and relationship advice columnist - jumped in with takes out the grill. Full chaos episode with Reel Politik arriving tomorrow! Like, subscribe, follow, and all that fun stuff xoxo Riley

AUDIO WARNING. Riley (@Raaleh) fucked up royal and the entire episode recorded on the native laptop mic, rather than the very good mixer... so this is a rough, ready, TRASHFUTURE LO FI EDITION for your listening (dis)pleasure. I promise it'll be fixed up next week, as I'll have fired myself as producer. The boys (including @Milo_Edwards and @HKesvani) are joined by guest host Olga Koch (@rocknrolga) to speak with journalist and Wales expert Elena Cresci (@elenacresci) about dumb internet shit - including Zoella's expensive advent calendar, a fan-submitted dumb app, and work out how we'll finally save our dang down payments. Hussein talks at length about Sausage Roll Jesus. Like, subscribe, follow, do whatever you're supposed to with stuff you like! And sorry again about the audio! Love Riley xoxo

It's a TRASHFUTURE/Reel Politik mash up bonus weekend episode, as Jack Frayne-Reid (@coplandresident) calls up Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani) on Skype to chat bollocks about music, discuss the implications of James Bridle's great Medium post on Youtube Kids weirdness, and intelligence analyst Eric Garland's disturbing new revelations about Russia in the context of the recent wave of crime and corruption in elite circles. An incredibly hung over Milo Edwards (@milo_edwards) hops on the call later on and stays as long as he can hold his head upright. Reel Politik (@reel_politcast) is a great podcast we all listen to regularly here on the TRASHFUTURE, and if you're not listening then you're a goofy. While you're at it, follow us on twitter (@trashfuturepod). We recorded this episode entirely on Skype, and something is a little tinny with Riley's audio (soz!) James Bridle's post is here, and worth a read if you haven't already: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2

Milo (@milo_edwards) and Riley (@raaleh), with Alex Kealy (@alexkealy) subbing in for Hussein (@HKesvani) and Charlie (@cfppalmer)... talk to Maya Kosoff (@mekosoff), tech features writer for Vanity Fair! She was sent a wifi coffee cup called Ember that comes with a charging coaster you're not allowed to get wet... So it was immediately clear to everyone she had to come on. We also talk Tiffany "Everyday Objects," Facebook's interest in our nudes, and Twitter's interest in Nazis. Like, subscribe, share!

The garbagemen Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@milo_edwards), and Hussein (@HKesvani) are joined by leftist journalist and author Hannah Jewell (@HCJewell), whose new book 100 Nasty Women of History came out last week! We talk with her about labour organising and feminism in the digital age AND in history (both!), and also a bunch of other dumb internet nonsense. DUMB INTERNET NONSENSE includes, but is not limited to, the Bin Laden files, the Antifa attack that wasn't (or at the time of recording, was not to be), liberal morons sanctimoniously reinventing philosophy, and the antinatalism of the British royal family, and whatever else I can't remember. Like and subscribe fools! (PS: we've had to cancel the show next week due to scheduling issues - but stay tuned in January!) Link to Hannah's book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Nasty-Women-History-completely/dp/1473671256/ref=sr_1_1/259-8804536-2881939?ie=UTF8&qid=1509983333&sr=8-1&keywords=100+nasty+women+of+history

Another half sode this week pals... but this time, it's due to technical issues. My computer ate the second half. This was an episode we - Riley (@raaleh) and Milo (@milo_edwards) recorded with comedian Phil Wang (@PhilNWang) last month, and we bullshit for a while about a few dumb inventions and other fun nonsense! We recorded this episode last month, just before Hussein (@HKesvani) joined up full, so expect to see more of him in the coming weeks as we start recording afresh. Like, follow, and subscribe... and come to our dang live show in London on November 14th! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-podcast-live-with-pierre-novellie-hussein-kesvani-and-more-tickets-39214571840

Half ‘sode this week with your boys – Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@milo_edwards), and Hussein (@HKesvani), sit down with Ryan Broderick (@Broderick), deputy global head of news at Buzzfeed and host of the Internet Explorer podcast to get a run down his experience hosting a Russian futurism conference (spoiler alert it sucks and nothing works). Short ‘sode this week because Ryan had to run in the middle because the GODDAMN NEWS never sleeps. We were gonna do a smart episode I swear. We just got way too stupid. In other news we’re having our very first LIVE SHOW in London at the Betsey Trotwood on November 14th with… Riley, Hussein, and Ryan Broderick (from this very show!), joined by friends of the show Pierre Novellie, Alex Kealy, and Olga Koch. We’ll be doing a mix of stand up and “show,” and at £7, you can’t afford NOT to go. Ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-podcast-live-with-pierre-novellie-hussein-kesvani-and-more-tickets-39214571840 Like, follow, subscribe, and all that shit.

Riley (@raaleh) Milo (@milo_edwards) and Charlie (@cfppalmer) - we promise the triumphant return of Hussein (@HKesvani) next week - talk with writer and journalist and Novara senior editor, Eleanor Penny (@eleanorkpenny) about... *klaxons* sex robots! We focus especially on the Ibsen that is sex robot dialogue, the philosophical issues with robotizing women, and reading through/owning the milquetoast apology by the company that made that rape-able alliterative robot (Frigid Farrah... remember that? Fuck). Milo also tells us about a bizarre show he heard on LBC where a racist shouts about how much he hates the film Ghost.

Riley (@raaleh) Milo (@milo_edwards) and, guest host Pierre (@pierrenovellie) conclude our marathon recording session with Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb), talking about Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs), the digital slot machines gracing every betting shop in this geohell of ours... and how they're being beaten. We also talk about a brilliant new kitchen gadget with one moving part and zero moving brains. Like, share, and follow to OWN CAPITALISM Love, kisses, and revolution, Riley PS: I miss my old sweat pants so much

No Hussein (@HKesvani) or Charlie (@cfppalmer) this week; instead Riley (@Raaleh) and Milo (@Milo_Edwards) are joined by Pierre Novellie (@pierrenovellie)... and Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb), an actual smart person (!) who shows for the second half of Part I, and all of Part II - which is out tomorrow. We talk about Perkbox - a company we may have started beefing with on twitter (we see you Perkbox) for giving bosses seeking employee engagement an alternative to "just pay them more, idiot," and Hampton Creek, a $1.1bn technology platform that exclusively makes weird mayonnaise. Like, follow, and subscribe my late capitalist subjects!

The garbagemen (@raaleh, @milo_edwards, @cfppalmer) sit down with Hussein Kesvani (@HKesvani) to talk about Bullshit Jobs - people taking abuse on Twitter for Virgin Rail while Rome burns. We also talk about a compurerised denim jacket you have to charge before you wear, and try to parse an article about a new kind of search engine without a search functionality. Like, share, subscribe, and send us nice letters if you can find our address.

Riley (@raaleh) Milo (@milo_edwards) and Olga (@rocknrolga) sit down for what is probably the least coherent episode we've ever recorded. We talk about the Bodega, which is a stupid start up that invented a vending machine in order to spread poverty around the world, and about the Inspiration Trust's newest kid jail in Great Yarmouth, which requires you to shit in a bucket while making full eye contact with a teacher. Because of respect. STREET respect.

Aidan (@AJ_Taco) joins (@raaleh) Riley and Milo (@milo_edwards) to chat real estate in London, the world's Worst Thing. Aidan has a show and a blog called The Abersham Flat (http://theabershamflat.blogspot.co.uk/), detailing his experience living on the fringes of London housing, with an insane con man pretending to be his landlord. It's absolutely fucking wild. It's one of the last Edinburgh episodes before we start recording again.

Holy wow it's another Edinburgh episode. This week we sit down with returning guest Alex Kealy to discuss... The SMALT. Perhaps the dumbest product yet for the biggest non problem yet. And then, after the break we read choice selections from a book called Little Wins: The Huge Power of Thinking Like A Toddler, by Paul Lindley, the founder of Ella's Kitchen. Like all the best business books, it reminds us the secret to entrepreneurial success is to be so wealthy and well connected before you even try that you're basically guaranteed to succeed even if you constantly trip up over your own dick. Paul, please come on the show.

So there was just too much dumb stuff going on, and we HAD to do a bonus ep with the boyos. In reverse order: Steven Seagal did a horrible thing with a horrible man we needed to explore. NEEDED to explore. Like I was gonna get pancreatitis if we didn't explore it. Doctor Madsen Pirie of the Adam Smith Institute is also totally not an alien, and wants to teach the Tories how to reach millennial voters... by giving... tax cuts to the rich. And legalising "cannabis spliffs." We learn how to do mindset through brain breaking hostage negotiation tactics.

Riley (@raaleh) and Milo (@Milo_Edwards) sit down for another Edinburgh episode with Emily Robinson (@see_em_play) and Olga Koch (@rocknrolga) to talk about probably the stupidest invention yet and then hear a couple stories of socialist organising in the UK from Emily, who's an actual person who does things. Olga is not #online so we catch her up on some stuff that's been happening in the last year. We also found a book on the Dangers of Communist Kurdistan and decide to read a selection. Alt-Right Dick Van Dyk makes an appearance. Fair warning, 50% of us watched The Emoji Movie / recorded The Emoji Movie episode earlier that day, so we REALLY lose the plot toward the end and degenrate into madness. I think we forget English at some points.

EDINBURGH EPISODE NUMBER TWO No Charlie (@cfppalmer) this week, so Riley (@raaleh) and Milo (@milo_edwards) kidnapped our friends Alex Kealy (@alexkealy) and Lulu Popplewell (@lulu_popplewell) and rolled into the Edinburgh cinema at 11 AM one fine August morning and literally BROKE OUR CEREBELLUMS watching this gossamer web of dreams unfold into the body horror phantasmagoria that is... THE EMOJI MOVIE. The Emoji Movie is basically the tape from the ring, but the ghost girl comes out of the screen immediately and instead of killing you, she just lobotomises you. I've bought three timeshares since making this recording. Fuck you all for making me do this in theory. You can check out Alex's show, the Art of the Keal, in Edinburgh at Just the Tonic at the caves, every day at 4:20 (nice). Lulu's show, Chumbags, every day at 5:45 in Southsider. You could probably sell them both reverse mortgages now.

It's the first Edinburgh episode! Pierre Novellie (@pierrenovellie) joins 2/3 of the garbagemen, Riley (@raaleh) and Milo (@milo_edwards) to talk about the past, which we hear is the new future, as time is a flat circle. We talk nostalgia, erotic illuminated manuscripts, and a problematic confederate monument to haemherroids. We also talk about some technological things, including dumb inventions and some more sinister inventions. If you're in Edinburgh, and by some miracle tickets are still available, buy them early and often to Pierre Novellie, 9:45 PM every night at the Pleasance.

MINI-SODE ALERT! FULL 'SODE NEXT WEEK! The Garbagemen Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@milo_edwards), and Charlie (a digital hermit) sat down to discuss a lot of the funniest and best takes on the Hellscape of Late Stage Capitalism (tm), but the internet crapped out after a short period of time. I suspect a fiendish plot to make me stop posting. But we nonetheless managed to salvage a fun little snippet of our meeting of the minds - it may sound like we're doing racist caricatures of Italian American accents, but those are our real "no foolin" voices. Eyyyyyy my real name-a-duccio is Broshoot Fugghedabowdit. Like and subscribe on facebook, follow us on twitter @trashfuturepodcast, and other than that, grind yourself to dust under the boot heel of the Business Industry until we're back with in full effect next week.

The garbagemen are back and boy do we have a mass noun for ourselves. Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@milo_edwards), and Charlie (who doesn't want to be disturbed #online) talk about more wifi connected bullshit, a butt plug that protects you from avalanches, the conspiracy in your IoT enabled smart home to have you killed, outsourcing caring for a dying relative, a celebration of microchipping day, and excitedly queuing up to get on Admiral Steven Seagal's boat. We also demonstrate a special kind of "super brain yoga" that may help solve the healthcare crisis in the states or just give you sweaty palms. more like sweater PALMERS. lol. Yet another of our "fabulous" remote episodes because Riley's in Canada because his dumb family wants to be all together or whatever. But fear not because he never. stopped. posting.

James done dropped the psuedonym and is just going by his Real Christian Name, Riley, from now on (still @raaleh on twitter). Send me nudes rendered entirely in roses to show your gratitude. Milo (@milo_edwards) and Riley (TRIUMPHANTLY HIS OWN NAME) are joined by Dmitri Bakanov (@dimitribakanov) to talk about a kitchen gadget so expensive you won't be able to afford food, sandwiches that get more expensive at lunchtime because... efficiency I guess... and a hip new restaurant that is Definitely Not Going To Give You E. Coli For Sure. Thanks, late stage capitalism. But like, also follow us on twitter.

James (twitter @raaleh) and Milo (ig @milo_edwards) are back, joined by Ahir Shah (@AhirShah) in James' girlfriends front room to talk about probably the dumbest invention yet, having sex with c3P0, KFC hype, and the brief but storied reggae career of Stephen Seagal. Ahir has a Very Fun And Good show in Edinburgh all August that we forgot to talk about because by the end of the show I had sweated through all my clothes. It's called Control, and it's at the Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire at 2 PM. Go see it, fools. This episode was recorded on July 19th. (Note the original version had misaligned audio - updated and fixed)

James (twitter @raaleh) Milo (insta @milo_edwards), and Charlie (twitter @cfppalmer), talk about the wave of megalomania among billionaires, introduce some new characters, and make a serious number of digressions that nearly pre empt us from doing much of our stated mission. This one was remotely recorded in mid July because I was in Berlin for basically no reason. We talk dumb hygiene equipment, neofeudalism, and other fun things.

Comedians James (twitter @raaleh), Milo (insta @milo_edwards), and Charlie (#online on twitter @cfppalmer) assert that they are, collectively, so two thousand and eight, whereas capitalism is so two thousand and late (stage). That joke was very laboured. We recorded this episode in early July so like it wont be current. Modernity sucks so we're gonna make fun of it. We talk about some dumb shit we saw recently, like: CEO's sleeping "rough," a surprising tea maker, and our amazon prime day traditions.