TRASHFUTURE

*PREVIEW* Lord Item feat. Gareth Dennis

21 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Gareth joins us to discuss new developments in UK transit, specifically outside of London, that look... promising? And not terrible? But we also have ...

*UNLOCKED* Scaffold to Heaven

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Riley has been driven insane by a… company hinging on a single Australian man that appears to be bamboozling the British State with complex financia...

Dire Straits feat. Josef Burton

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Josef joins us again to discuss the ongoing disaster in the Persian Gulf, and the crumbling not only of the facade of imperial legitimacy but imperial...

*PREVIEW* Scaffold to Heaven

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Riley has been driven insane by a… company hinging on a single Australian man that appears to be bamboozling the British State with complex fin...

Into the Bariverse feat. Josh Boerman

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

  Josh is back to talk about his specialist subject - media consolidation by the Ellisons! But we also look at a possible upcoming energy...

*PREVIEW* SpAI vs. SpAI feat. This Machine Kills

07 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ed and Jathan from This Machine Kills are back to talk about the false choice between the good guy A.I. and the bad guy AI that - at the end of the da...

Escape from Mental Palm Jumeirah feat. Matthew Petti

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

      What if we put new, unwoke Switzerland on a major geopolitical fault line? We look at the world the day aft...

*PREVIEW* Collateral Dilbert feat. Ed Zitron

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We're joined by recurring guest and friend of the show Ed Zitron to discuss Stargate, the Citrini AI report, and an article about someone's quest to m...

Look Binward, Angel

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

An upcoming by-election in Gorton and Denton has the British political class confronting, and failing to learn from, the fact that at some point someo...

*UNLOCKED* Ingest Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We've unlocked this bonus episode! We've had a perfect storm of illness among the entire cast and it became impossible to record this week, but we'll ...

Panopticon :3 feat. Cory Doctorow

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Cory’s back and in studio! We talk about the financial and legal shenanigans plaguing Elon Musk’s latest wheeze, reconfirm data centres in space a...

histroy sent from my iphone feat. Paolo Gerbaudo

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss the new Epstein revelations that show that jeevacation also had a day job as a kind of nefarious Forrest Gump, facilitating or gleefully ob...

The Bolsonaro Method feat. Greg Foley

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We’re joined by Blood Work’s Greg Foley to discuss the ongoing wave of state violence in the United States, and think about what makes this time d...

*PREVIEW* No Child WEF'd Behind feat. Dan Boeckner

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Boeckner joins for more CanCon as Mark Carney continues his journey from central banker to Maoist Third Worldist “death to amerikkka” insurgen...

Michelin-Starred BLEMTRO

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A rare assemblage of November, Hussein, and Nate discuss the happenings of the day: Europeans deploying forces to Greenland to stave off Trump actuall...

Full-Spectrum Puppet Warfare feat. Séamus Malekafzali

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I guess it’s another slow news day, so TF invited Seamus Malekafzali back on to discuss his favourite old French films. Wait, I am being handed a bu...

*PREVIEW* What a Pickle! feat. Abi Thorn

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Abi! And we’re talking about the current state of trans healthcare in the U.K. Also, we discuss the quantum leap the global fascist internati...

Black Bag Diplomacy ft. Jana Silverman

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Professor of International Relations at UFABC Brazil and DSA International Co-Chair Dr. Jana Silverman joins us to discuss, based on history, what we ...

*UNLOCKED* 5000 Columbos feat. Gregk Foley

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We've unlocked a bonus episode from earlier in the year to publish this week, and we hope your holidays are great. One more thing... we get Gregk Fole...

Do Not Think This At Home

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We round out the year by looking at a conspiracy at the BBC (?), some A.I. usage statistics, and then look at another of Britain’s great national sh...

*PREVIEW* Don’t Call It A Clubhouse ft. Gareth Dennis

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gareth is back! We’re talking (supersonic) planes, (cancelled) trains, and the most exciting new business opportunity arriving at the desks of the 5...

*PREVIEW* The Day The Bridge Died feat. Patrick Wyman

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick Wyman, host of the new Past Lives podcast, joins us to talk about the one ancient civilisational collapse we haven’t talked about in depth: ...

*PREVIEW* Enter the Sixth Form Chambers feat. Mattie Lubchansky

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the episode about the major media consolidation of 2025 - Paramount and Netflix are competing to feed on the corpse of Warner Bros… what’re...

Gossip Girl

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We talk at length about Nigel Farage’s callow youth and flirtation with far right racial politics that has, for some reason, put the commentariat in...

*PREVIEW* Dr. Ostrich feat. Dan Boeckner

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Boeckner’s back to discuss the ongoing march of AI through the music industry, and whether or not companies like Suno really do “democratise c...

Too Uncool for Unschool ft. Ed Campbell

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ed Campbell has ventured deep into the dark heart of British Bitcoin enthusiasm to bring us dispatches from the front lines of the battle against the ...

*PREVIEW* It’s An En En En En Ron feat. Ed Zitron

29 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ed returns quickly after his last appearance to address Nvidia’s apropos-of-almost-nothing reassurance to the world “by the way, we’re not Enron...

The Dishonourable Shadow Lord feat. Dr Jess Green

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Climate Scientist Jess Green returns in the wake of COP30 to discuss exactly why the UN brokered international climate accords are so ineffectual. Als...

PREVIEW: 5000 Columbos ft. Gregk Foley

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One more thing... we get Gregk Foley from the brand new Bloodwork Podcast on to talk about a company that can only be understood as "weaponised geogue...

Wes World ft. Sasha Baker

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist and professional Wes Streeting Watcher Sasha Baker joins us to discuss all things Streeting, as he seems to be more and more likely to be i...

PREVIEW: I Feel Like Margin Call ft. Ed Zitron

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

FULL EPISODE ON https://www.patreon.com/posts/i-feel-like-call-143560320 Ed Zitron returns to discuss all things AI bubble - specifically OpenAI's unc...

Building an Agentic Temple feat. Dr Eleanor Janega

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr J joins us to discuss Peter Thiel's cooked eschatology, as well as the supremely attainable goals with which Elon Musk stands to make himself a tri...

*PREVIEW* I’d Like To Generate The World A Coke feat. Ben Clarkson and Matt Bors

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matt and Ben of Justice Warriors fame return to the pod to discuss the mish mash of gambling, advertising, and fascist aesthetics spreading around the...

Bill Ackman Exclusion Zone feat. Rob Smith

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The FT’s Rob Smith joins us to talk about the $4.5tn private credit bubble brewing in global financial markets… or to put it in perspective, to an...

*PREVIEW* Baby Billy’s Bible Hackers ft. Josh Boerman

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Josh joins Hussein and Riley to talk about new developments in the realm of faith based AI, Grokipedia, and a ghoulish display outside Hussein’s loc...

The Parasocial Bookie feat. Emiliano Mellino

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emiliano Mellino joins us in the middle of a riff about how we should be able to kinetically engage swans with lethal force to talk about how the empl...

PREVIEW: The Derek Zoolander Economic Institute For Kids Who Can't Maintain Currency Value Good ft. Ezequiel Bistoletti

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A few old friends stop by - Palmer Luckey, Shaun Maguire, and Eight Sleep... then we take a deep dive into the mind of the Irreverent Troop MP who lov...

The Day After The Day After Tomorrow ft. Séamus Malekafzali

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Séamus - now host of the Turbulence podcast about the post-American imperial age - joins us to talk about the ceasefire in Gaza that wasn't, as well ...

*PREVIEW* Ingest Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Riley, Nova, and Hussein chug some down some heavy metals, talk about rare earths, ChatGPT’s OTHER other detour into porn (before curing cancer), an...

Lock, Stock, and One Infinite Wheel of Suffering feat. Adam Becker

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Astrophysicist Adam Becker joins us in this pre-recorded episode to talk about the ongoing billionaire space race and the material limits of the ideol...

*PREVIEW* Norwood Team Six ft. Eleanor Penny

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eleanor Penny rejoins us to talk about the government and media class’s ongoing cynicism in suppressing and criminalising any expression of Palestin...

Socialism with Ponzi Characteristics ft. Grace Mausser and Álvaro López

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's the free one! Riley speaks with DSA members Grace and Alvaro about the long years and efforts the organisation put in to secure Zohran Mamdani th...

*PREVIEW* National Boulder Association ft. Jeremy Kaplowitz and Alex Ptak

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy and Alex from the Quorators join us to talk about the oncoming AI slop deluge, the epidemic of boulder violence against glass bridges, and then...

You Have Selected You, Meaning Me ft. Archie Woodrow

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Archie has been following the ups and downs of Your Party, and gives us the inside story on where it all went wrong organisationally. Then, we read an...

*PREVIEW* The Deloitte Jihad Float

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Move over Deloitte Pride Float - there’s a new brand of liberalism in town! Ahmed al-Sharaa, erstwhile leader of HTS, now promoting Syria as a globa...

Let’s Delve Off The Bridge Together feat. Brian Merchant

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Merchant, of Blood in the Machine, joins us to talk about his new series, AI Took My Job. It includes stories from not just artists and translat...

*PREVIEW* Witless for the Prosecution

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The world’s most regular man takes the stand in his own defence and proceeds to… utterly waste the court’s time arguing about pronouns. Also, we...

Dewey, Prosecutem, and Howe feat. Paul Heron

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A wasting disease has struck TF! The survivors, Riley and Hussein, are joined by Mattie Lubchansky who is bravely subbing in for the fallen, to discus...

*PREVIEW* Burger Skelter ft. Juniper Sternbach

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We booked this recording with June from Kill the Computer and Ill Conceived to talk about something else, and were then overtaken by events like three...

Battle of the Bosh ft. Screen Rot

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jake and Jacob from Screen Rot join us to talk about the two men who post videos of themselves saying “bosh,” and why everyone in Britain (and els...

*PREVIEW* Son of Sam Altman ft. Ed Zitron

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

  Ed Zitron returns to talk about the AI bubble, market concentration, and popular backlash. We also look ahead at what would happen when...

The Vibe Wrought Soul

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We talk about a pair of startups that aim to replace the entirety of human interiority using a pair of glasses and a smartphone. Also, we discuss the ...

*PREVIEW* The Century of American Playsets feat. Nathan Tankus

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump’s touching the money! Nathan Tankus, the Fed whisperer, returns to talk about the political economy of dying empire, specifically as it relate...

ShrinerCo Construction LLC feat. Mattie Lubchansky

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mattie from No Gods No Mayors subs in for Nova, and we talk about what it’s like when politicians lead from the left versus right… and we discuss ...

*PREVIEW* Love Minnection ft. Victoria Scott

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Auto journalist Victoria Scott joins us to discuss a question that’s been on Riley’s mind for a while… why is the American auto industry “like...

UnfAir KKKanada feat. Luke Savage

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Savage drops by to talk to Riley and Nova about the KKKanadian Government’s efforts to stymie industrial action by Air KKKanada flight attendan...

PREVIEW: The Devon Report 2: Fight For Your Right to YourParty ft. Devon

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Riley's away this week, so Nova is in charge of the bonus and welcomes Kill James Bond's very own Devon to the show to discuss - among other t...

Nan Eleven

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s all true - the nans were planning up to forty Nine-Elevens. We talk about the wave of (largely) pensioner arrests this weekend and what it mean...

*PREVIEW* Woke Reform Rides Again

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Due to illness and absence we have convened an unusual cast configuration of Riley, Hussein, and Nate, in which we discuss recent allegations that the...

CSI: Bedford

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We do a full rundown of the reactions to the online safety bill across the political spectrum, belatedly discuss the Epstein revelations, and learn ab...

PREVIEW: Double Tap High School: TF Live at the Fringe

02 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You remember what FDR said: a car in every garage, a chicken in every pot, and approximately forty drones equipped with less lethal armaments in every...

G for Goondetta ft. Josh Boerman

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's episode one of JoshWeek, as Josh from the Worst of All Possible Worlds joins us to talk about the Online Safety Act coming into force, th...

*PREVIEW* Let’s Race Riot Again Like We Did Last Summer

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We talk about Elon’s terrible diner… but mostly another Summer of incipient race riots, and what are the current left responses? Finally, we end o...

We Can Hallucinate It For You Wholesale ft. Gareth Fearn

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when you step in the intellectual quicksand of the entire internet? The gang talks about two recent further examples of people getting co...

*PREVIEW* The Governor in the Iron Mask feat. Mattie Lubchansky

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this week's bonus, we're joined by writer, cartoonist, host of No Gods No Mayors, and friend of the show Mattie Lubchansky to discuss the goings o...

Golden Orbs and Scarlett Letters feat. Jack Parker

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve got trans sex worker and writer Jack Parker on to discuss the strike at the Scarlett Letters bookshop, which you can support here! Also, the f...

*PREVIEW* In-App Waterbed Purchases: TF Live at Big Fat Festival, 21st June 2025

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We performed live—all five of us!—at the Big Fat Festival in London on 21st June. This is a recording of that performance. We very much hope you e...

Good to Drive, Good to Wexit feat. Liv Agar

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Liv Agar from QAA joins the gang to talk about Wexit - the hare brained scheme to create a promised land for drunk drivers all around the world in Alb...

*PREVIEW* 500,000 Cool Latinos feat. Wendy Liu

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wendy Liu joins the gang to discuss some gumshoe reporting she did at a network state type event. Also, we look at a plan to turn the entire UK into p...

Drone 9/11

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On this week's free episode, the crew of Riley, Hussein, Nate, and November discuss killer robots, spooky stories about the Antichrist, an abortive co...

*PREVIEW* Dry Canal Station feat. Gareth Dennis

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this week's bonus episode, we're joined by friend of the show Gareth Dennis to discuss the upcoming 'infrastructure reforms' that could obviously ...

Harry Jazz feat. Rebecca Wilks

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Becca joins the gang to discuss her recent investigation into the use of prison as a “place of safety” for mental health crises. Also, we discuss ...

*PREVIEW* Frontier Psychiatrist feat. Noah Suarez-Sykes

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

DSA organiser and friend of the show Noah returns to talk about resisting ICE in Los Angeles, and the consequences of that ongoing mobilisation of fas...

Anti-Beeb feat. Tom Mills and Dan Hind

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Mills and Dan Hind talk to us about their work on what a functioning BBC might look like, and how that’s less about finding the exact right poli...

*PREVIEW* Like and Subscribe on Pray Dot Com feat. Josh Boerman

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve brought on serious friend of the show Josh Boerman to discuss the use of AI material made by and for evangelical Christians in the United Stat...

First Buddy Down feat. Jacob Silverman

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jacob Silverman returns to the pod to talk about the breakdown in relationship between Musk and Trump, and the tensions that have always simmered at t...

*PREVIEW* The Banana Ball Shuffle feat. Lauren Walker

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lauren from Batting Around joins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to talk sports - what’s Banana Ball? What’re the odds of Neom SC winning the Saudi Pr...

Wrench! A Musical ft. Séamus Malekafzali

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Seamus joins us to talk about the sudden (apparent) about face of some western leaders on Israel, who suddenly just now realised that a genocide may b...

*PREVIEW* Exeunt Sad Boer feat. Benjamin Fogel

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Historian and journalist Ben Fogel joins the gang to talk about South Africa, and how it came to be a totem for the modern right. Also, we look at Elo...

*PREVIEW* Britainology 105: Gatwick Gangsters (2017)

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The oft-requested episode is finally here, in which we watch what can only be described as a piece of outsider art: a zero-budget, zero-effort British...

Deus Schmaltz feat. Eleanor Janega

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eleanor Janega stops by to talk about her new project on the history of The Crusades with American Prestige, and how these largely failed military cam...

*PREVIEW* Joe Pantone ft. Mike Isaac

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tech reporter Mike Isaac rejoins us to talk about the antitrust trials against Meta and Alphabet currently winding their way through the US justice sy...

Patriots in Control of the Cancer Gun feat. Tim Faust

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this week’s free one, we’ve got returning guest Tim Faust on to talk about Make America Healthy Again (citations needed), Diamond Joe having c...

*PREVIEW* Boorish Chums

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Note: there is a part at the beginning of the episode that will sound like we left in an editing mistake, but we assure you……….it’s intentiona...

The Upzone of Interest feat. Dan Boeckner

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Boeckner’s in town, so he joins us to talk about the ongoing trade chaos, the new plan by the Charter Cities Institute to make a sparkling tech ...

*PREVIEW* 100 Days of Bro-litude ft. Nathan Tankus

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Notes on the Crises’ Nathan Tankus returns to talk to Riley about 100 days of DOGE, and the catastrophic risks those broccoli haired little rascals ...

Lincolnshire DOGE

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We review the recent spate of local elections that has everybody deciding retroactively that the Labour Party was always full of dangerous liars who c...

*PREVIEW* Carnation Revolution feat. Luke Savage

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Savage rejoins the gang to talk all about what Mark Carney’s government will actually bring Canada - the short answer is “more of the same sh...

Chat, Is this Real?

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We ring in the Carnation Revolution (more on that later), discuss the moral panic du jour in the U.K., and then cross stateside to discuss the group c...

*PREVIEW* Keir Starmer Just Needs To Apologise

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We return to U.K. shores to look at the state of national party politics in advance of local elections, and think of who would win in a capitulating c...

Diaper Nation feat. Jess O’Thomson

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jess O’Thomson from QueerAF joins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to discuss the details of the recent anti-Trans Supreme Court ruling. Also, domes popping...

*PREVIEW* Vote with Your Boat feat. Josh Boerman

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Josh from The Worst Of All Possible Worlds joins Nova, Riley, and HK to discuss the newest, hottest document in Effective Altruism /AI Safetyism, “A...

She’s Turned The Bonds Against Me feat. Alexandra Scaggs

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Scaggs of The Hedge (https://theehedge.substack.com) joins us to talk about the economic chaos unleashed on the world by… Fed Chair Paul Volcke...

*PREVIEW* Disparagement Clause ft. Jason Koebler

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

404 Media’s Jason Koebler joins us to discuss the hot new book Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, where a senior Facebook executive confirms, v...

The Guys Trying to Poison Me Have a Point feat. Dr Lucy Burke

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Riley interviews disability activist and Manchester Metropolitan University professor Dr Lucy Burke about upcoming Labour policy changes to...

*PREVIEW* I Bought A Cyber Truck And All I Got Was This Brown T-Shirt (feat. Victoria Scott)

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Automotive journalist Victoria Scott joins us to talk about Tesla’s ailing fortunes, and the new cottage industry appearing in the media of articl...

Dragnet feat. Josef Burton

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Former US diplomat Josef Burton joins November and Riley to discuss the denunciations, deportations, and imprisonment of immigrants in the United Stat...

*PREVIEW* My Year of Rest and Relaxation 2: Back in Bed (feat. Mattie Lubchansky)

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cartoonist, author, and mayor enthusiast Mattie Lubchanksy rejoins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to talk about the continuing war on the creative industrie...

It Ain’t Half Austere

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Riley, Nova, and HK discuss the Labour Party’s planned campaign of social murder against the disabled in the UK - including a deep dive on the ongoi...

*PREVIEW* Autopen Island feat. Carey Shockey

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

  Federal labour lawyer Carey Shockey joins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to talk about the rapid deterioration of the rule of law in the United State...