The future, read back as evidence.
TRASHFUTURE treats official stories as suspicious until proven otherwise. The panel ricochets from Alberta separatism to AI finance, school surveillance, the metaverse, and compliance software, turning each shiny claim into something smaller, stranger, and more revealing.
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TRASHFUTURE is a rapid-fire political comedy show about the absurd machinery of late capitalist life. It treats tech hype, investor confidence, state power, media framing, and institutional language as things that should be read closely and mocked immediately. The show rarely tiptoes into a subject. It grabs the most ridiculous detail first. From there, the panel turns jokes into analysis by making official claims sound as strange as they are. Alberta separatism becomes a story about nationalist grievance, referendum mechanics, U.S. attention, and treaty conflict. AI financing becomes less a miracle story than a pile of losses, repayment pressure, rate limits, and journalistic credulity. School technology becomes a security operation against teenagers vaping in bathrooms. The metaverse becomes a graveyard of glossy forecasts, headset meetings, and numbers that once sounded inevitable because they were large. Compliance software gets treated as another attempt to turn dull necessary work into a world-conquering pitch deck. The show’s method is cumulative. Someone reads a premise, someone else pushes it into a grotesque analogy, and the room keeps going until the sales language collapses. It can be silly for long stretches. It can also turn abruptly grave when the topic moves into war, protest, surveillance, or political violence. Guests appear in the sampled episodes, usually giving the panel another route into a shared obsession with broken systems and false futures. TRASHFUTURE is not a beginner’s guide to current affairs. It assumes listeners can tolerate digression, speed, and a thick fog of references. That is part of the point. The show sounds like people already inside the same argument, sharpening it in public. Its best moments happen when a joke about a startup, a politician, or a product turns into a clear account of how power sells bad ideas as inevitability.
Made for: For listeners who like politics, technology, media criticism, and finance discussed with speed, sarcasm, and very little reverence. Best suited to people comfortable with dense references and panel crossfire.
What sets it apart: TRASHFUTURE stands out by making hype language collapse under its own implications. It does not just mock failed futures; it traces the money, institutions, and political habits that let them get sold as serious plans.
comedy show about late stage capitalism fucking our lives up. acct run by @raaleh other cohosts are @HKesvani, @milo_edwards, @inthesedeserts, @postoctobrist and friends / line go down!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
TRASHFUTURE uses comic group argument and close attention to incentives to make geopolitical claims and technology hype easier to read.
TRASHFUTURE turns political and economic news into a group argument sharpened by jokes. Riley, Hussein and Nova move between geopolitical conflict, startup finance and institutional failure, often bringing in guests who can press beyond the day's framing.
A compliance pitch gets compared to a restaurant health inspection; you can hear the sales copy buckle.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A bonus episode that turns plugs, hockey, and mammoths into one long, weird sprint.
Trashfuture opens in its usual scramble of scheduling conflicts, then uses the bonus slot for Lauren Walker from Batting Around before folding in the London live show plugs, Milo's Australia tour, and the Second Homes Bandcamp pre-sale.
A chaotic, useful look at propaganda, protest theater, and strategic stupidity.
This episode treats the information war around Iran and Israel as farce with real consequences, moving from state-hacker humiliation photos and Kash Patel in Cuba to how governments and media try to manufacture momentum.
A San Francisco ad blitz turns AI compliance into a test of corporate reality.
Delve makes AI-powered compliance sound like a necessary business upgrade, and the episode treats that pitch as a useful stress test for a familiar tech habit: turning dull corporate work into venture-backed spectacle.
A sharp panel riff on Iran, economic blowback, and propaganda finds comedy in political certainty and media absurdity.
The episode starts in loose panel mode, with Nova, Hussain, Riley, and Joseph Burton joking through the many "layers of Israel," white jeans, unpopularity, and a startup bit before the news takes over.
A small AI startup story becomes a sharp comic autopsy of LinkedIn success mythology and fake work.
This unlocked bonus episode treats a small AI startup story as a comedy of business mythmaking. Riley's research follows Josh Payne and Nathan Townsend, two Australian former miners, from Payne's coal-mining downtime and entrepreneurship books to a LinkedIn success story…
A free TF episode that foregrounds the organizing behind Zoran Mamdani's campaign, then turns a sharp eye on technology without a clear purpose.
This free TF episode looks past the easy read of Zoran Mamdani's campaign as personality or short-form media success and keeps its attention on the organizing underneath it.
A museum visit turns Canadian hockey banter into a sharp, durable joke about confidence.
TRASHFUTURE's unlocked bonus episode turns a Utah Mammoth museum visit into a tidy little study of hockey-player confidence. Lauren Walker from Batting Around joins the conversation as Sean Dursey and Alex Kerfoot visit New York's Museum of Natural History, where a sixty-foot…
Parenthood and bodies, told one honest story at a time.
The hosts humorously brainstorm impractical ways to rebind the entire Berserk manga series into a single portable volume, eventually suggesting buying a Jeep and an iPad as a workaround.
This episode of TrashFuture starts with hosts joking about Jordan Peterson's spiritual attacks and health woes.
This episode features an interview with Patrick Wyman, host of Tides of History and Past Lives, discussing humorous and awkward parenting moments, particularly around interactions with children in pools.
This unlocked bonus episode of TrashFuture features guest Lauren Walker from Batting Around.
Riley and guest Hesse Deni read the Wall Street Journal's profile of Constellation, a Berkeley co-working space for AI-safety researchers, alongside a 107-page post alleging that 'AI safety is mainly a sex cult in Berkeley.' They trace the movement from Eliezer Yudkowski's Less Wrong posts to GiveWell's 2014 pivot toward AI risk, funded by Sam Bankman-Fried and Peter Thiel.
This episode discusses Alberta separatism efforts, including signature thresholds, legal challenges from indigenous tribes, and potential U.S.
Scheduling conflicts forced Trashfuture to unlock a bonus episode.
This episode critiques the economics of major AI companies like OpenAI, highlighting massive financial losses, questionable funding rounds, and comparisons to other tech companies like Uber.
It starts with a state-hacker fantasy.
This episode preview discusses the use of military-style surveillance technology in schools to monitor and prevent student vaping activities.
TRASHFUTURE's 'The Tetsuo Economy feat.
Trashfuture's "Dire Straits feat.
The free-feed bonus opens with Riley explaining why the episode has been unlocked.
This episode features FT journalist Rob Smith discussing where money has gone over the past decade, focusing on financial scams, frauds, and the absurd case of $12 billion in missing windshield wipers that could trigger a small financial crisis.
This episode satirizes the privatization of American politics through a humorous discussion about a fictional White House ballroom sponsored by major tech companies.
This episode features a conversation with Grace Mausser and Álvaro López from Democratic Socialists of America about the pandemic's impact and the organizing behind the Zoran Mamdani campaign, challenging superficial political narratives.