TRASHFUTURE - *PREVIEW* 100 Days of Bro-litude ft. Nathan Tankus

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

Notes on the Crises’ Nathan Tankus returns to talk to Riley about 100 days of DOGE, and the catastrophic risks those broccoli haired little rascals pose the entire global financial system, in addition to the moral depravity of the whole enterprise. In the first half, Riley, Milo, and Hussein discuss yet more in the “AI will replace the human soul” file, and call a winner in the interim Starmer-Trump 2025 capitulation contest… but finals are still all to play for! Get the whole episode on Patreon 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)

The United Kingdom has been the first to bitch out and capitulate to Donald Trump's tariff campaign. Yeah, Donald Trump thinks he's the number one capitulator in chief. Wrong. Kissed armor. Undefeated. Number one. Holding the title belt over his head. I capitulate more than anyone else.

In fact, if you try and take this belt off me, I'll give it to you. Which is why I deserve this belt. In fact, I'm gonna give it to the first person who looks at me askance. I will hold my line on nothing. Nothing is more important to me in Atlantis. So what has happened before we get to some more of the AI stuff that I've got here is, of course, that the first of the trade deals announced with the US against its global regime of semi-randomly calculated tariffs has been the UK, of course, for a number of reasons. One of which is that

we have a relatively balanced trade relationship that was not a difficult deal to strike. The other one, of course, is that Keir Starmer never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. It's called a grindset. Around the rest of the Anglosphere, everybody else of his like broad political tendency has like reaped enormous gains electorally even which is all they seem to care about from being anti Trump and starmer is saying no Atlantis ism over everything we will follow America into the pits of death yeah right have you considered that Keir Starmer could fix him yeah maybe Donald Trump's sleeping in a clothes nest right now and Keir Starmer could fix him? Yeah, maybe. Donald Trump's sleeping in a clothes nest right now.

And Keir Starmer is the kind of wholesome farm girl who could draw him out of his slump. Just like a nest of like big suits? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ties and so on. Yeah, really big. One of those ties I could sleep in. They're huge. Yeah.

So the firm details haven't yet emerged, but what's happened is at the average rate of tariffs for us importing to the US is 10% and them importing to us about 1.8 down from 5%. So again, we have on their terms completely bitched out. All it took was we're now also going to get American food imported here. American food. Fantastic. The best kind. Yeah. Yeah. The best food system in the entire world. That's what Americans are always telling me online, that British food is really bad and

that their food is much better. There's like some Cheeto and Oreo brands that you can only get in the US, so actually I'm very supportive of like that coming in. We're going to get Flourig Hot Cheetos. We're going to get Twinkoos. Finally. Finally. Yeah, what do we even export to the US?

Jaguar Land Rover. Great. Steel and aluminium. Fantastic. A huge number of services that just are being ignored. Films. We export a fuck ton of films. Presumably services aren't really covered under this right? No, no, yeah

So it wouldn't have mattered really for the most of what we do because we have a service economy The overall boost to GDP will be point one percent, but it was worth it because we got to capitulate and that is why case Yeah, it's that's the thing. It's not the winning or taking part that counts. It's the losing It's not the winning or taking part that counts, it's the losing. Basically, yeah, I mean, trust Britain, trust Britain to be the first country to run up to the United States and just tongue its asshole. Yeah, very embarrassing for all concerned, except, of course, in the World Cup of capitulating where we have taken the number one spot. Yeah, for rimming our opponent.

Yeah, that's right. It's unusual. It's a flare move. The rare double axle opponent rim. Okay. All right. But that's enough of the trade deal. More details will, I'm sure, emerge. They're saying, oh, we're not compromising our food standards. I don't understand how that matches up with importing huge amounts of US beef because presumably what's going to happen is that Donald Trump, the guy who never goes back on a deal ever, right? He always keeps up his end of the bargain is now this is going to be the end of it. He's not ever going to say your food standards are a non-tariff barrier. You must relax them

immediately or the trade deal goes away again and Jaguar Land Rover has to close the factory. And this is great as well because also the FDA have announced that they're going to stop inspecting food in the US because they've lost too many staff or whatever, which I'm sure will have no negative consequences. What every British person should do is get the... If on every piece of meat or animal derivative product that's shipped to the UK, they should just put a little screen with a little battery on it and then it's a movie. For example, if you buy a carton of milk, let's say it was imported from the US, you wouldn't because you wouldn't ship milk that far. But let's just say, right?

Why not? Or like a steak, right? Sure. You buy a steak, you go to the store, you buy a steak. They slap a little video on it. And then... Like cooler screens, but for your steak. Yeah, cooler steak screens. You can recreate what the cow would have been like as a vibe with AI. And then you can decide if you think the cow has healthy vibes.

Yeah, I like that. I think that'll work. Yeah, why not? It's an individual choice. You don't want to have to bow to the woke FDA. Yeah. It's pretty fun that like Britain is going to get to have mad cow disease twice. And like once we did it to ourselves, and then the second time the Americans did it to us, it's like kind of like Terminator, you know? I mean, it's one of those things where it's like the first time we did it to ourselves and the second time we did it to ourselves again via America. Yeah, sort of suicide by cop.

Yeah, more like we went for America's service cow. You never grab for a man's service cow. Anyway, so I speak also about, I'm going back and also into my file of people using AI in horrifying ways that are especially connected to the hereafter and the spiritual. Where a court in, I believe, Arizona recently, this was in last week, had a murder victim, someone who was killed in a road rage incident, had them give a victim impact statement after their death. Via AI.

Via AI. Okay, that's sick. Can we pull this up? Hello. Just to be clear for everyone seeing this, I am a version of Chris Pelkey recreated through AI that uses my picture and my voice profile. I was able to be digitally regenerated to share with you today. But here is insight into who I actually was in real life. Take a look. Who okayed that? That can't be admissible in court, surely. Well, it's a victim impact statement, but it does affect sentencing. And it did affect sentencing.

Well, that's what I mean. Surely a victim impact statement has to be given by the victim or their family. You can't have a computer, even in Arizona. Surely, Riley, please. No, no, no. Christopher Pelkey was killed in a road rage incident in 2021 in the city of Chandler. Pelkey's sister and brother-in-law used AI to recreate his image and voice likeness

so he could give a speech to the courtroom about his life and the day he met Gabriel Horcacitas, who shot him during a confrontation on the road. The AI creation said, in another life, Mr. Horcacitas, we probably could have been friends, but I believe in forgiveness. And then they had him forgive the guy that killed him. Wow. This is okay. This really isn't the way I expected it to go. So Joe, it reduced the sentence. No. Oh, they were like, well, that guy was so nice. Now I'm even more mad at that guy for killing him.

Kinda. All I can say is if you have a lawyer, and my lawyer is like, yeah, we're going to get someone in the witness stand and they're going to be an AI, like you're going to jail. Yeah, I like that. We're going to get someone in the witness stand. The guy you killed, he's's gonna say you didn't do it Yeah, you're on trial and your lawyer is horny John Cena You're like fuck I'm going to jail dude, and then you see the judge's horny Judy Dench and you're like, maybe I'm not actually

The AI video also included real video clips for videos taken while he was alive along with some of his personality and humor It's so funny of a guy who murdered you to say in another life We might have been friends. And it's like, what evidence are you basing that on? We have one instance to go off and you were like so far from being friends. Like as far from being friends as it's possible to get. Like that's like something you say about someone you bump into on the bus or something. In another life we might have been friends.

And someone who shot you dead. Shot you dead. Maybe he would have shot someone else and we would have hung out about maybe I could have been your lawyer Yeah, I could have been your sexy AI lawyer Then he said to everyone in the courtroom The best I can ever give you of what I would have looked like if I got the chance to grow old is that was Like aged up with an age filter. Don't tell me they fucking face apt in No, yeah, they face up to him in his victim impact statement He's not even dead for four years!

It's irrelevant! He wouldn't be old now anyway! See, this is what I would do! If the trial was happening now and he was alive, if he'd been shot non-fatally, he wouldn't be an old man! He'd be about the same age he was when he died, because it wasn't that long ago! And here's what I'd look like if I was black or Chinese. Yeah!

By killing me, you prevented me from becoming black or shiny. Remember the AI went on to say, getting old is a gift that not everybody has, so embrace it and don't worry about your wrinkles. Wow. It's sort of like an anti-Instagram beauty advertising statement at the end of the victim impact. Yeah, I like that victim impact statement slash dove ad that dove ad. Yeah. That they seem to have produced using- All bodies are beautiful, especially mine, which you shot dead.

Which you shot dead, I think we could be friends. Yeah, I was just learning to love my love handles, and then you shot me dead. You shot me in a sort of car argument. Yeah, and to be fair, I have now lost a lot of weight. Yeah, the state asked for a nine and a half year sentence, but the judge ended up giving 10.5 after being so moved by the powerful video man I have to say America has I think possibly hands down the dumbest judges on the planet like because they're all just like elect Like they all used to run a car dealership and then they just and then you just run to be a judge

You don't even need to have quality and then they're just like yeah, I was moved by this AI speech Yeah, I really turned it around even need to have quality and then they're just like yeah I was moved by this AI speech yeah I was moved by this dove ad that I watched and would now like to put this guy in jail for longer I'm gonna I want I want to put more plus-size people in jail after watching that dove ad I really think we need to bounce it out when his family's asked about it they were like yeah that's yeah we we tried to make as faithful a representation of him as possible, but you don't know who he was. All he was was the person who lived inside your head. If you think that that was a faithful representation,

that was just your perception of him. That's why I fucking hate this shit. Yeah. I really think more people need to have like a master's degree in philosophy before engaging with any of this stuff.