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TRASHFUTURE

*PREVIEW* Lord Item feat. Gareth Dennis

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Gareth joins us to discuss new developments in UK transit, specifically outside of London, that look... promising? And not terrible? But we also have to check in with other old friends: the ones who're still scamming, the ones who've been pardoned by Trump and now plan to reinvent the airplane bathroom, and the ones who've been made earls in Scotland for some reason.If you want to hear more from Gareth, check out Rail Natter here! Get the whole episode on Patreon here! TF Merch is still available here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

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0:00.0

The Horizon World was supposed to be the main Metaverse platform and was supposed to relate to the Metaverse as Facebook relates to social media.

0:08.1

The Metaverse was supposed to be all of these virtual spaces where you can go and interact and stuff.

0:14.1

It's just Horizon Worlds was like, because Mark Zuckerberg only knows how to do one thing, which is build the first thing and force everyone to use your

0:21.2

shitty product and then just deprecate it over time. So does that mean that there, so that,

0:26.7

if that's gone, does that mean they're like one or two corporate instances still running

0:31.6

of like with like the one guy, the one IT guy who's like been forced to make it work and no,

0:36.6

none of the people are actually using it.

0:37.8

Is that all that's left in the metaverse now?

0:40.1

The publicly facing Horizon Worlds, which is what that was supposed to be is being shut down as of April.

0:46.8

Now we know that they've ramped down their spending.

0:48.4

We knew this was coming.

0:49.4

Yeah.

0:49.6

But now that they've actually announced it, I actually, I don't even have anything to talk about about that. I want to read you some facts and figures.

0:58.4

All right. I'm excited. In 2023, Goldman Sachs estimated the Metaverse's economy could hit

1:03.6

$8 trillion. Okay. By 2043. So we're saying, we're saying 66% of China's GDP.

1:11.8

We're saying about...

1:13.1

One Japan.

1:14.2

55% of America's GDP.

1:16.5

One Japan.

1:18.4

Two-thirds of the European Union.

1:22.2

This is the first bullet point as well.

1:24.3

So this is the most sane of the bullet points you've chosen to put that

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