The Black Hand of Streaming feat. Franz Ferdinand

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a big seven days for Trashfuture: we moved in to our new basement office in East London for starters, and this week Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) sat down with Alex Kapranos @alkapranos) and Bob Hardy (@B0bHardy) from Franz Ferdinand (a band you might have heard of) to discuss streaming’s effect on artists, why they believe in the welfare state, the dangerous effects of austerity on creative arts, and -- of course -- some discussion of our favourite billionaire idiots. A huge thank you to Bob and Alex for being such gracious and patient guests, considering this is easily one of the worst podcasts ever to exist. If you’re as big of a Franz Ferdinand fan as us, you should definitely buy their new album ‘Always Ascending’ directly from Domino Records: https://franzferdinand.dominomart.com/ Also, remember that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview Don’t forget that you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/. You can also purchase useful kitchen implements from our socialist cookware sponsor, Vremi (https://vremi.com/).

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0:00.0	I came back to my flat today to find a friend of mine was just sort of standing there.
0:05.9	He was very, very excited because he has an idea to make what he thinks is going to be
0:12.0	$60,000 or so dollars with minimal investment over the next year, taking advantage of an
0:17.5	apparent price arbitrage between French bulldogs in the United Kingdom and Canada,
0:24.1	because he saw one advertised on gum tree for 500 pounds, and a friend of his who breeds them on a farm in New Zealand can sell them for $5,000 each.
0:34.4	And so I asked him, what are you going to do with this? And he says, well, I'm going to buy it.
0:39.0	Say it's my pet. Fly back to Vancouver. And my parents have just cleaned out the garage. So I
0:43.7	assume they'll be okay dealing with this. So I'm wondering, is there something wrong with this dog
0:49.7	that he's purchasing, though? Think about that. It's like, is he not getting a great deal because this dog is
0:54.7	massively defective? Is he about to become the owner of like the lineage of bad, badly bred bulldogs?
1:00.1	Like the omen dog. Is he about to buy a Hobbsburg French bulldog? Absolutely.
1:06.5	An Austrian bulldog. And so I feel, I realize like, do, do, is, are there any licenses involved in doing this?
1:13.8	And he is like, I have no idea.
1:15.6	All I know is that you pay about $2,000 for one to come stud for you.
1:20.3	And then, you know, they can't give birth naturally.
1:23.3	So you need to give him a C section.
1:26.1	Which I'll just do in my garage because I'm a normal person. I've got a garage. That's most of what you need to give him a C-section. Which I'll just do in my garage, because I'm a normal person.
1:28.8	I've got a garage. That's most of what you need.
1:30.9	Sounds expensive. I mean, I mean, what's he going to do with the dog?
1:34.8	Why is he going to sell it in New Zealand?
1:36.2	Well, he's going to sell it in Canada based on New Zealand prices.
1:39.3	Where are you listening?
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