John Bull’s Other Occupation feat. Arron Merat

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Alice and Riley speak with returning guest, journalist Arron Merat (@a_merat), reflecting on twenty years of cruelty and institutional failure on the part of the British state and its bloody imperial adventure in Afghanistan. We look deeper into the domestic pressures, economic and psychological, that made this all happen, and look at some of the attempts to actively forget what we have been doing If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture 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* see Milo perform in London here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/milo-edwards-voicemail-preview-tickets-167077291677 *TF LIVE SHOW ALERT* We have a live show in London on September 1! Patrons have a discount so check the posts if you are a subscriber! https://www.trashfuture.co.uk/event-details/trashfuture-live-at-vauxhall-comedy-club-1-9-21 *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, Trash Future listeners. Just wanted to give you a quick heads up before the start of the episode that there are two live events involving the TF cast that if you are interested in and live in London, you can attend.
0:11.8	One of them is tonight. Link is in the show notes for Milo doing a stand-up show. And we also have our first Trash Future live show since the start of the pandemic.
0:21.7	It's on September 1st at Vauxhall Comedy Club in Vauxhall.
0:25.3	There's a link in the show notes if you want to get tickets.
0:27.7	And also, if you're a Patreon subscriber, there's a discount for purchasing tickets.
0:33.4	So just look at the Patreon posts.
0:36.3	Regardless of what tier you're on,
0:38.2	there is, in fact, a discount available to you.
0:41.0	Anyway, thank you, and please to this three episode of T.F.
1:02.4	That podcast you're listening to right now.
1:05.0	It's the serious one.
1:07.2	It's the serious one.
1:09.4	It is just myself and Alice, and we are joined once again by a journalist and sort of a reporter from Iran and Afghanistan. Aaron, how's it going?
1:26.0	Hi there. Glad to be here. And we are, well, we are glad to
1:31.0	have you back, though the circumstances, I think, are much like the previous time we spoke.
1:36.1	Yeah. Thank you for coming on our comedy podcast to talk about a human tragedy again.
1:41.3	I'm so glad to get a call every time a human tragedy happens.
1:45.0	I don't know why I've been specialising in them so much.
1:47.4	We're very simple people, right?
1:49.2	We have guys for stuff.
1:50.8	So, like, if we need to read a bad book by an MP, we call Nish Kumar.
1:56.2	If we need to read, like, a bad book by, like, a brains guy we call Felix Biederman.
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