Rich Lists, Rent Seeking, and Subsidized Royals ft. Grace Blakeley

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The Trashfuture crew welcomes back Milo (@milo_edwards), who managed to escape his FSB handlers and return to London unscathed. He and Riley (@raaleh) are joined by think-tank researcher Grace Blakely (@graceblakeley) to discuss the Sunday Times's 2018 Rich List and the implications of its members' rent-seeking behaviour for austerity Britain. They also got more than a little sloshed on wine, so you'll have to forgive the, uh, strident moments. They also discuss the topic on everyone's minds: why we both want to abolish the monarchy and also understand that this country defines itself by paying a small, inbred group millions of pounds for what amounts to an extended and elaborate bout of fancy dress. Hussein (@HKesvani) was unable to attend as he was on assignment reporting on the secret Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments of Raqqa, but he'll be back soon. Riley forgot to give the t-shirt shoutouts yet again, but that shouldn't stop you from commodifying your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/. Please support our comrade's business! Nate (@inthesedeserts) produced this, and he's going to need years of therapy as a result.

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0:00.0	The recent Simpsons.
0:01.1	You know that there was one the other day where they were like, there was like a thing about,
0:05.2	it was like a riff on Gone with the Wind and Marge was reading Lisa a book that was like
0:09.6	premised on that.
0:10.7	And then they like, and then Marge gets really pissed off because it's all dated and it's super
0:15.8	racist.
0:16.6	And then Lisa looks over to like a portrait of Ap poo she has on her bedside and she's like,
0:21.7	yeah, I mean, it's very terrible when writers of shows or novels are unable to make jokes that age well.
0:28.9	I mean, I just think that's very inclusive because I also have a portrait of the nearby
0:32.8	convenience store guy on my bedside table.
0:35.3	I think it was like a thing.
0:36.3	I don't think it was like... No, of course.
0:38.8	I mean, what it means is that also it's good because all of those conservatives and
0:44.8	intellectual dark web guys who say they keep getting silenced finally have clearly got a
0:49.1	writer on The Simpsons.
0:50.2	And that's really good because those guys need a voice, right?
0:53.0	Yeah, exactly. I mean, the only person that has been listening to them up to now has been you, right, on your little weird forums where you talk about.
0:58.3	What was that you were talking about earlier?
1:00.5	Oh, right.
1:01.6	Busting.
1:02.3	Busting.
1:03.0	Busting.
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