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a podcast about business success and making yourself smarter with the continued psychic trauma of capitalism by @raaleh, @HKesvani, @milo_edwards, @inthesedeserts and @postoctobrist
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Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
Riley and November speak with journalist Hettie O’Brien about her book The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself. It’s not necessarily the most uplifting topic, but it’s very illuminating. And don’t worry: we also talk about “MPs should be allowed to be drunk on the job,” and much more.
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*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
*NATE ALERT* Lions Led By Donkeys will be performing live in London on 29th May and you can get tickets here! Nate's band Second Homes is about to release their debut album, and you can stream / preview / preorder it on Bandcamp here!
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)
Saturday Apr 25, 2026
Saturday Apr 25, 2026
It's the food one, in which we discuss the weird fixations of the Make America Healthy Again death cult and their particular emphasis on "real food," however that might be defined today. And we also have to talk about the strangely heavy jeans that RFK Jr is always wearing. It's a whole lot all at once.
Get the whole episode on Patreon here!
MAYOR ALERT Get tickets to the three performance dates for No God No Mayors in London on 25-26 April! The link is here!
MILO ALERT Check out Milo's tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
NATE ALERT Lions Led By Donkeys will be performing live in London on 29th May and you can get tickets here! Nate's band Second Homes is about to release their debut album, and you can stream / preview / preorder it on Bandcamp here!
Tuesday Apr 21, 2026
Tuesday Apr 21, 2026
Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here!
MAYOR ALERT Get tickets to the three performance dates for No God No Mayors in London on 25-26 April! The link is here!
MILO ALERT Check out Milo's tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
NATE ALERT Lions Led By Donkeys will be performing live in London on 29th May and you can get tickets here! Nate's band Second Homes is about to release their debut album, and you can stream / preview / preorder it on Bandcamp here!
Friday Apr 17, 2026
Friday Apr 17, 2026
Riley, Hussein, and November speak with friends of the show Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff about their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. We discuss the political ethos of Musk and his peers, and the origins of his "everything is computer" philosophy. However, we also had to take a detour into the story of the "AI-built startup that's worth a billion dollars," because... well, it's just a thing that lies a bunch. Again.
You can buy Quinn and Ben's book here!
Get the whole episode on Patreon here!
MAYOR ALERT Get tickets to the three performance dates for No God No Mayors in London on 25-26 April! The link is here!
MILO ALERT Check out Milo's tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
NATE ALERT Lions Led By Donkeys will be performing live in London on 29th May and you can get tickets here! Nate's band Second Homes is about to release their debut album, and you can stream / preview / preorder it on Bandcamp here!
Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
There's been a recent profile of Sam Altman that gives a lot of chances for analysis, mostly due to the fact that the man loves lying more than anything any one of us could ever love in this world. We also talk about Starmer's Spanish encounters and how every minor problem Hussein experiences sounds like something Keir Starmer could also be experiencing in his daily life.
Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here!
MAYOR ALERT Get tickets to the three performance dates for No God No Mayors in London on 25-26 April! The link is here!
MILO ALERT Check out Milo's tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
NATE ALERT Lions Led By Donkeys will be performing live in London on 29th May and you can get tickets here! Nate's band Second Homes is about to release their debut album, and you can stream / preview / preorder it on Bandcamp here!
Friday Apr 10, 2026
Friday Apr 10, 2026
Luke returns to discuss Mark KKKarney’s failure to reform the Canadian state in the face of a global crisis for middle powers, and the emergence of a new leader on the left with a few ideas about grocery stores that may just work, if they can get past a certain Food Professor, that is.
Get the whole episode on Patreon here!
MAYOR ALERT Get tickets to the three performance dates for No God No Mayors in London on 25-26 April! The link is here!
MILO ALERT Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
NATE ALERT Lions Led By Donkeys will be performing live in London on 29th May and you can get tickets here! Nate's band Second Homes is about to release their debut album, and you can stream / preview / preorder it on Bandcamp here!
Tuesday Apr 07, 2026
Tuesday Apr 07, 2026
We're unlocking a bonus episode this week due to every possible scheduling conflict happening at the same time!
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 Premier League? What’s going on in Utah Mammoth player Sean Durzi’s brain? And more importantly, can we bet on it?
Check out Batting Around here!
MAYOR ALERT Get tickets to the three performance dates for No God No Mayors in London on 25-26 April! The link is here!
MILO ALERT Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
NATE ALERT Lions Led By Donkeys will be performing live in London on 29th May and you can get tickets here! Nate's band Second Homes is about to release their debut album, and you can stream / preview / preorder it on Bandcamp here!
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)
Friday Apr 03, 2026
Friday Apr 03, 2026
Friend of the show Ed Zitron returns to discuss some of the recent developments in AI "profitability," or rather the fact that, while the economy doesn't hinge on AI in any meaningful way, the capital markets....have gotten themselves into a position where they do. And it's their own fault!
Get more analysis from Ed here!
Get the whole episode on Patreon here!
NATE ALERT Nate's band Second Homes is about to release their debut album, and you can stream / preview / preorder it on Bandcamp here!
MILO ALERT Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)
Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
Friend of the show and returning guest Séamus Malekafzali joins us to discuss Events in West Asia, specifically as regards Israel’s ground invasion of southern Lebanon, and Trump’s seeming gestures towards escalating a war with Iran that is already going very badly.
Get more of Séamus’ writing here!
Get the whole episode on Patreon here!
Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here!
TF Merch is still available here!
*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)
Friday Mar 27, 2026
Friday Mar 27, 2026
In this week's bonus episode, friend of the show Brian Merchant joins Riley, Hussein, and Nate to discuss an ed-tech security firm selling digital hall passes for anti-vaping counterinsurgency. We also discuss Brian's writing about ways in which AI is supplanting professional roles in... education, but also in NCAA athletics training? With predictable results.
Check out Blood in the Machine here!
If you want to hear more, you can get the whole episode on Patreon here!
TF Merch is still available here!
*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)