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*PREVIEW* A Series of Tubes ft. Ben Tarnoff

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The gang talks to Ben Tarnoff about his book “Internet for the People,” which looks at the present miserable state of the internet “as public utility,” and how it can be made better. But first, we look at a startup back from the dead, think about the on-purpose recession that the global north is about to tip into and (thinking about other recessions), what we can expect, and how the IMF created political monsters it can no longer control. Buy Ben's book here! https://www.versobooks.com/books/3927-internet-for-the-people Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/68117655 *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)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Listen, I heard five minutes of an economics class through a door once.

0:03.8

And I-

0:04.2

Wooden Brown promised to end, boom and not boom.

0:07.0

This is the tagline of wonder.

0:09.6

A chef is on board, a state-of-the-art mobile restaurant, ready to cook your meal on demand

0:14.8

right outside your door right now.

0:16.8

Look outside your window.

0:18.8

Like, oh my God, it's Jason Bourne.

0:22.8

It's like, I love that tagline because it feels like a threat.

0:26.3

No, it feels like you're going to go outside.

0:28.3

It feels like you're going to go outside and you're just going to hear distantly Gordon Ramsey screaming.

0:35.2

Actually, I don't have a drop that I can use for that.

0:38.3

Knife sharpening noises as you leave your flat.

0:42.3

Just like walking down the street, you just hear.

0:45.3

Where's the last door?

0:47.3

That's right, yeah. You just hear the faint, faint strains of the chef's table music,

0:52.3

but played in like a spooky way as you're walking home in a night. Mining key chef's table music, but played in like a spooky way as you're walking

0:55.1

home.

0:55.4

Minor key chef's table music, yeah.

0:57.7

And I mean, like, I feel like the actual, the promise here as ever is always just

1:04.2

that it's, and again, this is going to come up when we talk about your book, Ben, that

1:07.9

the only thing that sort of this entire sort of industry is able to do,

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