Attack of the 100-Foot Metaverse

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We look at the shape of the (contracting) frontiers of politics and (expanding) frontiers cooked up in the minds of our most addled billionaires. Let Mark Zuckerberg make a skinwalker out of you, let Elon Musk put your brain into a tunnel, but try to work a little less and - as the British state always does - then "we got problems." If you’re in the UK and want to help Afghan refugees and internally displaced people, consider donating to Afghanaid: https://www.afghanaid.org.uk/ *MILO ALERT* Milo has a bunch of live shows this month in both London and Prague. Check them out here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Middons Mosaic.
0:18.0	It is, yes, the four of us are palace guards in Constantinople.
0:21.9	It's Milo, Alice, Hussein, and Riley.
0:24.6	And we are standing around the portrayal of Mosaic where we're speculating.
0:30.7	What will the palace eunuchs do when confronted with Emperor Theodosia's treachery.
0:38.7	It is Yon Free one.
0:42.0	I'm stealing Varanjian guard, valor.
0:44.9	I'm like carving my name into the Iosphere.
0:47.2	That's right. It is here.
0:49.0	It's real Byzantine hours over here at the podcast.
0:52.9	We love Byzantine operations and disputes in the British government.
0:58.5	Yeah, no, it's great. It's where we, of course, make mosaics that are then distributed to
1:03.6	Capadochean farmers and, you know, minor southern Italian city-state functionaries,
1:08.9	or they can wonder, you know, is Empress Theodosia
1:14.2	going to have to answer to the bureaucracy for her many crimes against the decency of the state?
1:19.5	Yeah, and was there a cake?
1:21.2	Surely, surely they're going to get her this time after, at long last.
1:26.5	Quoos quaint-em, Boris, Abutere, patientia nosra.
1:31.3	No, no, it's, it's just kidding, it's not a mosaic, and we're not in the Byzantine Empire.
1:37.3	It's T.F and it's a podcast.
1:39.3	No, I, look, what would it be the Byzantine version of a podcast?
1:46.3	We would be like, yeah, traveling bars.
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