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The House that Garfield Built feat. Hettie O’Brien

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Riley and November speak with journalist Hettie O’Brien about her book The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself. It’s not necessarily the most uplifting topic, but it’s very illuminating. And don’t worry: we also talk about “MPs should be allowed to be drunk on the job,” and much more. Check out Hettie’s work here! Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows *NATE ALERT* Lions Led By Donkeys will be performing live in London on 29th May and you can get tickets here! Nate's band Second Homes is about to release their debut album, and you can stream / preview / preorder it on Bandcamp here! Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to your free T.F. This week. It is just Nova and I, as Hussein has contracted what I believe to be Hanta virus. RIP. Yeah. And so the first half, we're going to talk a little bit about some of the goings-on of the day. And the, let's say, the great chip switch, the great transatlantic chip switch among right-wing NPCs. Yeah, some stuff's happened. Yeah, yeah. People feel the way

0:37.9

they've been told to feel about it. Then in the second half, we're going to be talking to Hedy O'Brien, about her new book, The Asset Class, which is all about private equity and what is this industry, what does it do, where does it come from, and what's its relationship to democracy? I assume fine. Yeah, nothing to worry about.

0:52.1

I'm fine.

0:52.6

All right, let's get into it.

0:53.6

I think that it's super crazy that conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic today got their NPC chips switched at the same time, but about different stuff. It's weird to see them be completely going in opposite directions right now. Yeah. And here's the thing. The British one, as ever, is the funnier one.

1:11.6

Because the American one, the American set of talking points that came out was, our president does

1:16.2

not get his gay ass ballroom. He will be assassinated by Antifa immediately, who will fire an

1:23.2

RPG full of dildos at him, killing him. Whereas over on this side of the Atlantic, it was, you know what's cool,

1:29.0

is drinking at work.

1:30.4

It's like every columnist and MP from every party except for the Greens and like maybe

1:38.7

the S&P and played are standing up, swaying gently and saying,

1:43.8

I don't have a problem, you have a fucking problem with Hannah Spencer.

1:48.1

How good is being drunk at work, though?

1:51.0

So for Americans who might not know,

1:53.3

because you're paying so much attention to the ballroom argument,

1:56.2

because from what I can tell, a, like,

1:58.8

Jesus was a socialist co-exist guy, Naruto ran into the Hilton where they

2:03.6

assassinate presidents. That's so funny. I mean, I have to give credit to my co-host on Kill James Bond,

2:09.5

Devin, for having the funniest take on this several years ago, which is, it's so embarrassing that

2:14.8

it's never a leftist. We're such pussies. We are cooked. But the thing is, right, there's a read on this. This is, this is, this is Jehers read. And I think it's correct, right, which is that if you're a socialist, if you're a communist and anarchist, you have a kind of optimistic program of government. If you are a lib, right? If you believe in the institutions and then,

2:34.6

and you don't think anything else needs to change, then he's got to go. Like, and just him,

2:39.9

that's fine. All these guys at the top, they need to be killed in that mindset. If you're a coexist

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