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A Functioning State? Never Seen One of Those feat. Sanjana Varghese

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TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Look, lots of things have happened that have made the content of this week's episode a bit out of date. This week's episode features Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice catching up on the Cummings scandal, the abomination of a tech house DJ collective made up of bankers, and a bit more. However, we also have an extended interview with freelance journalist Sanjana Varghese (@sanjanamv) on the topic of the socialist Indian state of Kerala and its success with controlling covid-19. We hope you enjoy. Sanjana's work can all be found here: https://sanjanavarghese.com We also want to pass along a link from ActBlue that lets you donate to a bunch of bail funds, Black Lives Matter local organizations, LGBTQ+ care organisations, trans rights organisations, and many more. These are all based in the US and are helping to relieve the financial burden place by America's terrible legal system on protesters and vulnerable people. Get it here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd Also, please help us save Nour Cash and Carry from the band Housekeeping. Yes, literally the horrible pricks we mentioned in this episode are trying to gentrify Brixton Market. There's a petition here: https://www.change.org/p/lambeth-council-save-nour-cash-carry-brixton If you want one of our *fine* new shirts, designed by Matt Lubchansky, then e-mail trashfuturepodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. £15 for patrons, £20 for non-patrons, plus shipping. *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. It's Riley here. So anytime we open the show by saying, hi, everyone, and then saying our names, you know that we have something to say about the content that's coming. We recorded this before, like, while the protests over the murder of George Floyd were like just beginning, and obviously now it's being released, they have taken on a new character.

0:28.2

So we don't talk about them very much in the episode, which is, to be honest, I think, okay, because a lot of people have said all that we could possibly say about the protests.

0:42.0

So what we can say now is just to remind you that it's important that you donate to bail funds if you can.

0:51.5

And the Minneapolis bail fund is said that it's fine.

0:55.7

Stop donating to them.

0:57.5

So I've actually linked an article from Vogue in the show notes that is giving another list of bail funds that do need assistance.

1:09.2

So, hey, do that and enjoy this episode where we talk to, well,

1:16.8

we talk amongst ourselves for a while about some stuff that feels like, basically a historical

1:23.3

document at this point, but that still is pretty funny because Dominic Cummings edited his own blog,

1:28.9

which I can't stop chuckling at. And then Hussein and I talk to journalist and tech writer Sanjana Vargas

1:37.2

about the coronavirus response in the socialist Indian state of Kerala. So that's also pretty good listening towards the end.

1:46.5

Anyways, look, point is,

1:48.8

enjoy, sit back, relax, try to take your mind off stuff.

1:53.9

But then once your mind's back on stuff,

1:55.5

make sure you hit those bail funds, tip jars up.

1:59.6

Anyway, enjoy the episode, everyone. Bye.

2:15.8

Hello and welcome back again to this week's free episode of Trash Future.

2:20.3

That's the podcast you were currently listening to.

2:22.7

It's me, Riley.

2:24.0

I'm joined by Hussein.

2:27.8

Hi.

2:28.8

I'm also joined by Milo.

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