Robot Chores feat. James Vincent

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Well, the Conservatives are at it again. Whether it’s Matt Hancock or Liz Truss or Rory Stewart, they’re out being dumb and unaware. But don’t worry, friends -- your reassembled gang of all original lads, Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) are here to tell you why the Instagram Tories are bad and untrustworthy. This week, we’re joined in studio by James Vincent (@jjvincent), senior reporter for the Verge, on the topic of hellish developments in automation. Imagine if Capital could make robots driven by drone operators in countries without a minimum wage? And imagine those robots were meant to act like butlers? You can read about it in James’s article here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18538020/home-robot-butler-telepresence-ugo-mira-robotics Additionally, we reference an Astra Taylor article from Logic Magazine, which you can read here: https://logicmag.io/05-the-automation-charade/ If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *PLEASE VOTE* Vote for us in the British Podcast Awards! Help us shake up the damn establishment by ruining everyone’s night: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote *LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing once again at the Star of Kings in Kings Cross (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) on Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 pm. Get your tickets here and return to the podcasting basement! https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-30052019/ *ADDITIONAL LIVE SHOW ALERT* On June 15, we’ll perform at Wolfson College Bar (Wolfson College, Cambridge CB3 9BB) in Cambridge. The show starts at 8:30 pm, so be there and be ready to hear about Gundams. Tickets are £8 for students and £10 for general admission: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-in-cambridge-15062019/ *COMEDY KLAXON*: If you’re in Cambridge, come to Milo’s show tonight, May 14, at 11pm and hear all about Russia. It’s at the ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge CB5 8AS. https://www.adctheatre.com/whats-on/comedy/pindos-an-adventure-in-modern-russia/ Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously. Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is available here: https://teespring.com/what-if-phone-cops#pid=659&cid=102968&sid=front

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0:00.0	Hello, my good bitches. So I just got back from a tour of the Balkans where I overall made a net profit of minus 10 euros. But I, so I flew into, I flew into Ljubljana, which is in Slovenia, but most of the dates I had to do were actually in Croatia. So I hired a car and at the airport, the guy was like, are you planning to drive this car out of Slovenia? And I was like,
0:24.7	obviously I'm planning to drive the car out of Slovenia. I'm hiring a car in Slovenia. If I was going somewhere in Slovenia, I'd fucking walk. Like, have you looked at this country recently? So he
0:29.6	charges me extra because I want to drive the car out of Slovenia and I'm like fucking fine. But then I
0:33.3	regretted driving the car out of Slovenia because I had to drive along the Croatian highways, which were all built by like Tito himself.
0:40.0	And I'm passing, I'm like really hungry and I keep passing all these motorway service
0:43.2	stations.
0:44.2	I'm like, I need to make some phone calls and I really want to eat something.
0:47.0	But every time I pass one, I'm like, well, I can't pull over at this place.
0:50.2	This looks like a place that didn't know that Yugoslavia ended.
0:53.2	Like literally. And I'm like, okay.
0:55.0	So I'm going to get to one with like a McDonald's or something at some point in the very
0:57.7	least.
0:58.0	And after like two hours of this, I'm like, oh no, they're all the same, aren't they?
1:01.3	Every single one is like, just has a place called restaurant.
1:04.6	And I'm like, okay, fuck it.
1:06.3	So I pull over at one. I go in there and there's like a girl behind the bar and I'm trying to get some food.
1:11.6	And then she like hands me an alcohol menu and I'm like, no, I've driven here. I want food.
1:16.6	And then she like points to this like rotating cabinet of delights, right? And there's this thing that's like a big like pasty but it's made out of bread.
1:24.1	And she's like, it's a pizza. And I'm like, that's not what a pizza is. And she's like it's a pizza and I'm like that's not what a pizza is and she's
1:30.4	like pizza inside and I'm like okay fine so it's like this kind of cursed Balkan calzone and I'm like
1:36.3	can you heat it up for me and she's like yeah yeah and then I pay for it and she just hands it to me
1:39.9	and I'm like no can you heat it up and she like, looks to me like I've grown a second head. And I'm like, no, like, heat it like warm.
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