TRASHFUTURE - *PREVIEW* I Bought A Cyber Truck And All I Got Was This Brown T-Shirt (feat. Victoria Scott)

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

Automotive journalist Victoria Scott joins us to talk about Tesla’s ailing fortunes, and the new cottage industry appearing in the media of articles to the effect of “I bought the Nazi car and everyone keeps calling me a nazi.” Additionally, the new American century, Starmer’s (non) diplomacy, and showing the entire country a video.   Get the full episode on Patreon here!   *NATE ALERT* Lions Led By Donkeys is performing live in London on Friday, 11th April! Get tickets here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here: https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *TF LIVE ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Big Fat Festival hosted by Big Belly Comedy on Saturday, 21st June! You can get tickets for that here! Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

You just think about this, you go back to it. Hey, you know, it would have made us a lot more resilient to the economic fallout caused by all of this happening. Probably if we like invested in stuff, probably if we invested in stuff in broadband, energy generation, food security, you know, maybe we wouldn't be, we wouldn't have to every time like the economy went down deciding a new class of people to kill. We wouldn't have, just no one would be doing that. We're kind of running out of classes here, like this is a bad time, we're running out of adjectives. Hey, you know what? It's gonna be fine, because Keir Starmer watched Adolescence, and that's his new plan. Great.

Yeah, fantastic. I mean, if nothing else, right, retreating towards the TV is... it's an interesting redoubt for kind of like the centre right, right? Because posting, posting is the province of like the truly weird now, like us, but like, you can still, there's enough of a wall around TV for the most part that like isn't even there in movies necessarily, that you can still be like, well, this is something that we can use, and so you end up with this really strange British phenomenon of governance by prestige drama? Yeah.

This is the second time this has happened in the last year. It's crazy. It's one of those things, where like, if I had a nickel for every time the Labour Party made policy on the basis of a prestige drama, I would have two nickels. That's still too many nickels for that particular thing. Yeah. I think it'd be so funny if Keir Starmer just did this every time he sort of saw a film or TV show that he really liked.

He sort of called everyone in to be like, I've been watching Chef's Table. I watched this wonderful film called Enora. It made me think about, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what his opinions on Nora would be. Yeah, Keir Starmer watching like the absolute slop tier of Netflix, just like I've seen the floor is lava. And that's going to be the kind of thing that gives him impetus for the next couple of years of government is what if, what if, what if you couldn't touch the floor? What if you had to get around by jumping on couches and stuff?

Just don't just, yeah, just don't let him watch Squid Game. No, I was saying, I know what his policy would be after watching Enora, which is he'd want to sanction those fictional Russian oligarchs. They were very cruel to Mikey Madison. I'm seeking all manners available to freeze their assets in the UK. Ban video games. Actually, that one might not be so bad. So, to, again, for context, again, I think for those of you who might be outside the

UK, you might be confused as to what we're talking about, is the Netflix hit show Adolescence, which is about the sort of... It's about himself. I haven't seen it, but the British political class responded to it in two, I think, very representative ways, right? Because Stammer was like, okay, well this is something that's easier than governing. And obviously we have a problem with the youths in this country, and the problem isn't anything that might be sort of remediable by policy, like, you know, feeling like they're not gonna

ever have a pension, or like we're gonna broil all of them alive with the climate, or anything like that. No, it's- Or, I'll just add, or, the fact that a lot of, like, in-cell beliefs are amplified by our normal mainstream media. Yep. Yep. Yep. What it is, is it's like online radicalization and it's like extreme, like, toxic misogyny, which, yeah, sure, absolutely, right? But the solution to that, then, is to take this Netflix drama, written for adults, in order to make adults go, gosh, I should speak to my kid once in a while, and show that,

like, mandatorily in all schools, to the kids themselves, to be like, if you do an in-cell murder, your dad Stephen Graham is going to be sad. Yeah, there's like, I think the analogy about like, oh, this is like another sort of Captain Tom thing is like very apt. One because no one saw the end credits where like the family actually build a sauna in their back garden in honor of their incel son. No, no, like it's that very sort of classic, like... The inso-onsen. Just sitting around with your dad in the men only inso-onsen.

Yeah, and you're talking about your feelings and like, that's the way that you prevent them from radicalization. Every school is going to have an inso-onsen built into it by the end of this parliament. You got to be naked with your teacher and talk about your feelings. Not again, I already did that once in my life. That's how we're going to fix misogyny by making a boys only sauna in every school. It's a very like, yeah, so it's a, this is like a very classic example of like using something that is sort of already like instead of like doing any type of government or any type of policy.

And it's interesting because like a new story came out maybe today or perhaps yesterday where it was basically the point was that the British government had an opportunity to not bring Andrew Tate to justice, but to take him to court for things that are pretty bad, mostly to do with abuse towards women that he was dating. Information of a sort of came out quite recently and they decided not to do it. Right. Yeah. And this is like on the same day that Keir Stammer is sort of doing this press conference or you're doing this sort of like, like video up being, you know, saying, Oh, you know, as a father of teenage boys and as a son of a tool maker, this was, this moved me so much. And I believe that like every student in the UK should watch, should, should watch and we should talk about it with their parents, with their teachers. Number one, sort of ignoring the fact that like every student in the UK should watch it, and we should talk about it with their teachers.

Number one, sort of ignoring the fact that like, teachers don't really have the time to like be doing, which is like addressed in this show. I think like it was a decent serial. It's not like, I don't think it's sort of like as amazing in terms of like its story as people are saying it is. It's fine. It's like there are parts of it that are very,

that are sort of interesting, and I thought some of it was done very well. But like the critiques that are sort of being made in that show, i.e. that like you have young people, not just like young men, but young people who are sort of like finding like, you know, these very false senses of belonging in these like very visible, I was going to say obscure, but they're not really obscure. These visible like online communities that everyone else, including their adults who are supposed to be looking after them, either ignore it or they are actively participating in them. And then being like, oh, the way to solve this problem is not by any type of meaningful intervention. It's not to think about why people who are young

kids in this country are finding more belonging with, or they feel like they can feel more related to the Andrew Tapes of the world. That's kind of something that we don't really want to talk about. Instead, what we're going to do is we're going to wheel out the TV that hasn't been changed since 1996, and everyone's going to watch a grainy version of like the adolescents TV show. Oh watch Netflix on the CRT. I mean it's like there's there's another aspect to this as well which is Starmer had his reaction to it which is build build the onsen right but like yeah Cami Badenoch who you don't hear much from these days. Mostly because she's online right like I kind of quite... She's a poster. She is a poster.

Yeah. I relate to Kimmy Badenock in the sense that she mostly doesn't give a fuck about work but does enjoy, like, posting on the internet and getting absolutely brain poison from it. And so she used, like, this, like, Nazi conspiracy theory from online that they had... the writers of Adolescents had like race swapped the character to make him white in order to do like anti-white racism. And then her press office were like, we're not saying where she got that idea from. We, we, we're not answering any questions about why she thinks this or why she said this.

Which is, she's, she's like genuinely up there with JD Vance in the sense of like, you have an important job but you don't want to do it what you want to do as post, right? And I dread to think what Discord server she's on. Yeah, I mean, taking it back, right? The reason that so many policymakers seem to want to seize on individual works of sort of television, or oh, Captain Tom's going up and down his garden, or adolescence is finally the answer to teenage male misogyogyny or oh my God, some government contract champion by the Blair administration wrongfully convicted like hundreds of sub

postmasters. I think it's a combination of a couple of things. It's, but mainly it's that I think that they think that TV is where normal lives. and once something is popular on TV, it's now normal, and it's now safe. Yeah, this passion for, like, cutting through, right? And like, this is something we can all agree on as still a traditional mode of power where, you know, the old rules still apply. Which, like I say, it's got a kind of wall around it that might make that true, to a point. But it's no a kind of wall around it that might make that true, to a point.

But it's no way to govern, right? TK Well, government purely by reacting to TV isn't government, it's fucking cocklebox. I mean, we talk about, like, just, every day it seems like the Labour government comes up with new ways to tell us, it is fundamentally out of ideas. And the repeated policy that gets made because Keir Starmer watched it on TV is ludicrous. ALICE It's interesting as well, Starmer's use of his children, politically, public, because I remember for a long time during the campaign, and before that even, he was like, I don't talk about my kids, I want to try and like shield them from like, you know, all of this negativity and like

political discourse and stuff, I'm not gonna, you're not gonna see my kids, I'm not gonna name my kids, I'm not gonna talk about them, we're gonna like, sort of ruthlessly punish anyone who tries to like, you know, do any press about them, which is fine, like that's all well and good, right? Except the second things get a bit tough politically, he's like, well, I was watching this show with my kids because I care about my kids, I'm gonna talk about this a lot instead of like, doing anything else. And it's just like, that strikes me as a little bit cynical, maybe. Yeah, also he's like, I never talk about my kids because I want to protect them. Anyway,

my son might be an incel murderer, so I definitely needed to show him. Yeah, yeah, adolescence. I went into, I need, I need to, I'm not going to tell you anything else about my kids other than the fact that when I saw adolescence, it made me feel like I had to intervene with my son