The Lithium Rush ft. Thea Riofrancos

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Riley, Alice, and Milo look at the ongoing descent of the UK pundit class into embodying the global death drive, and take a look at a story of a certain kind of British Guy achieving apotheosis (spending £218 of Bolton Council's money meant for excluded children at the Spar in Praia du Luz in Portugal). In between, Riley talks to academic Thea Riofrancos about why "onshoring" mining is all the rage now that the world's security and energy orders have both been thrown into disarray. The interview with Thea starts at 23:16 and ends at 53:45! Read Thea’s article on mining here (paywalled): https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/07/renewable-energy-transition-critical-minerals-mining-onshoring-lithium-evs-climate-justice/ If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *LIVE SHOW ALERT* We will be doing a live show in London on Wednesday, March 2. Get your tickets here! https://www.designmynight.com/london/whats-on/comedy/trashfuture-live-pre-election-christmas-spectacular *MILO ALERT* Milo has a bunch of live shows this month in both London and Prague. Check them out here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-show *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0	Well, we did it. We changed the name of the chicken Kiev at Sainsbury's.
0:20.7	Finally. Yeah, welcome to Kiev future. We changed the name of the chicken, Kiev at Sainsbury's. Finally.
0:21.6	Yeah, welcome to Kiev future.
0:22.6	We changed the name of the Russian blue cat to the Ukrainian blue.
0:26.6	Yeah, absolutely.
0:28.6	We're absolutely beyond parody.
0:30.6	The cocktail is now a white Ukrainian.
0:32.6	Is it really?
0:34.6	I have seen, with my own eyes, a sign taped over a cocktail machine that said,
0:40.2	white Ukrainian.
0:41.2	Now, for me, the terms white Russian and white Ukrainian have very different associations.
0:48.0	And I would be loath to use the second one.
0:52.0	Feeling like a white Ukrainian.
0:54.0	Yeah. Yeah. just feeling like a white
0:56.9	Stefan Bandera. And, uh, what else is happening? Every day of his life, Stefan
1:02.0	Vandera was feeling like a white Stefan Bandera. Yeah. I also got accused this week of
1:07.3	funding and arming the Azov battalionalion because I'm doing a benefit gig for the
1:11.4	Ukrainian Red Cross.
1:12.8	Mm-hmm.
1:13.8	Yep.
1:14.8	Why does that cross have all of the extra arms on it?
1:17.3	Weird.
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