TRASHFUTURE

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*UNLOCKED* The Banana Ball Shuffle feat. Lauren Walker Apr 07, 2026

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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)

*PREVIEW* Backwash Economics feat. Ed Zitron Apr 03, 2026

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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)

I Identify As the Straits of Hormuz Being Open feat. Séamus Malekafzali Mar 31, 2026

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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!

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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)

*PREVIEW* Play-Doh's Symposium feat. Brian Merchant Mar 27, 2026

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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!

Have you lost your job due to AI? Check out AI Commons, who raise money to help people in your situation, and also allow you to share your story (anonymously) if you want to.

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)

The Tetsuo Economy feat. Wendy Liu Mar 25, 2026

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We get our SF billboard specialist and recovered startup person Wendy Liu in to talk about the newest scandal rocking Silicon Valley: a company that can only be described as Theranos for Compliance.

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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)

*PREVIEW* Lord Item feat. Gareth Dennis Mar 21, 2026

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Gareth joins us to discuss new developments in UK transit, specifically outside of London, that look... promising? And not terrible? But we also have to check in with other old friends: the ones who're still scamming, the ones who've been pardoned by Trump and now plan to reinvent the airplane bathroom, and the ones who've been made earls in Scotland for some reason.
If you want to hear more from Gareth, check out Rail Natter here!

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)

*UNLOCKED* Scaffold to Heaven Mar 17, 2026

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Riley has been driven insane by a… company hinging on a single Australian man that appears to be bamboozling the British State with complex financial chicanery, and now you all have to hear the story of how NScale started out as a landlord for bitcoin miners and became the government’s best hope for a “Sovereign AI” but that has only a scaffolding yard to its name. Except it also doesn’t own the scaffolding yard either.

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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)

Dire Straits feat. Josef Burton Mar 17, 2026

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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 omnipotence. Also, we look at a startup that could only be called a “moonshot.”

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)

*PREVIEW* Scaffold to Heaven Mar 13, 2026

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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)

Into the Bariverse feat. Josh Boerman Mar 10, 2026

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Josh is back to talk about his specialist subject - media consolidation by the Ellisons! But we also look at a possible upcoming energy price crunch (at time of recording anyway) and assess how prepared Britain is. All this following a trip down memory lane in Dartford.

Check out the Worst of All Possible Worlds 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)