TRASHFUTURE - PREVIEW: Britain’s Most Controversial Pool and Spa Complex

Episode Date: October 19, 2023

At a country's darkest hour, a hero will emerge. Then he will die immediately of the novel coronavirus after going on holiday. Then his feckless idiot children will build a "controversial spa" in his name. It's the denouement of the Captain Tom saga. Also, we look into the domestic/UK dimension of Israel's attack on Gaza, and think about how the state and press will gleefully make one another even more dangerously deranged.   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  Donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians here! https://www.map.org.uk/ *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *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/ *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

This is all coming up because a film about Captain Tom which we will certainly be watching on it for the show. Has been delayed after a producer revealed this is all from like Sky News and talk to you the stuff that captain Sir Tom Moore's daughter has admitted to pocketing 800,000 pounds from books written by the veteran. Hell yes, girl boss. I have a number of questions. First of all, I was aware, of course, as a divotay, as a follower of the act of Captain Tom, nowhere in that list, do I recall writing a book, let alone multiple books? Like unless he was writing them on the walk,

these books didn't really figure in my memory of him. I think they had ghosts. They had slightly. Yeah, possibly, as he knows. But like, they had enough of an impact to have had like 800,000 pounds in revenue. No, just to be pocketed. That's a royalties.

To be pocketed in the first place, that's amazing. Like who the fuck was buying these? Like, what were they? Who was reading them? You know what? I can tell you, we were Captain Tom's life lessons, a book called 100 Steps, and an autobiography called Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day. His daughter Hannah Ingraham.

Pretty funny to write, but called Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day when you're a hundred years old. I mean, there's not a lot left. Well, I can remember the day we were having been objectively. It's just objectively speaking. If it's not been good enough so far. I'm not holding out of all of it. So again, like so many things about Captain Tom, really this, the heroes of the story are his family, specifically his daughter, Hannah, and Rymore.

Yeah, because it was their idea. Like it was her husband who like over Christmas or whatever was like, yeah, listen, why don't you like fuck off down the garden and like walk up and down for a bit and you know At some point in the cause of him walking around giving himself exposure They you know charity came into the equation and they were off the races, but like it was their idea Wasn't he didn't do shit? So so they they said this was on an interview with Pierce Morgan who just like remembered how to ask a follow-up quit It's like British journalist know how to ask a follow-up question if they feel like it

She said which is all others books and it was honestly such a joy for him to write them But they were his books he had an agent and they worked in the deal and his wishes were that money would sit in club Nook, which is like the private company that owns all the Captain Tom life, right? Why did they fucking name it that? Like what in the animal crossing? Fuck was that? Club Penguin was taken.

And then Pierce Morgan interjects, saying, for you to keep to which she said, yes, specifically for us to keep. That's very generous of him. Saying further, this is my favorite part. This is my favorite part. Ingraham Moore then said, there was nothing in the books

that referred to the Captain Tom Foundation at all. And so therefore, no reason to think that any of the money would, the book sales would go to that. Yeah, and in the same way that like dreams for my father was not related to the Obama presidential campaign. Like, maybe I guess, but like, come on. Well, this is sort of, this is an interesting one, right? Because like,

have we, have we actually got any info on whether they embezzled any money out of the actual explicit donations? Because if it's just, no, legally, we can't say that. Yeah. But on the other hand, I can say the phrase, legally, we can't say that. But on the other hand, I can say the phrase, legally, we can't say that in a significant one. You can always say, legally, we can't say that. That's one of your own, right? Yeah, legally, you can't say anything, potentially. Yeah, exactly.

No, I'll tell you this. They have been, what appears that has happened is, they have stuck scrupulously to all of the rules that would maximize the amount of money you could ring out of doops. Yeah, basically, I'd honestly, I have to applaud this because like, look, he shouldn't have been raising money for the NHS in the first place. It's a complete misunderstanding of how the NHS should work.

To the amount of money he raised in the context of the NHS is a piss in the ocean anyway. Three, if you've got a hundred-year-old guy who's going to die soon anyway and you're not a public figure and you've got an opportunity to make a million pounds, you might as well. Yeah, she was go-bossing it, 100%. What are they doing? We are doing some like elder abuse. Ruined her reputation.

What are the funniest thing about this, and the reason why it popped off in the first place, is that she's a PR consultant, like professionally. Which is why it's said. Yeah, which is why it's so funny. Saying funny that like the PR for this has been, it's just sort of immediately devolved into the kind of like, sweating like indicted

congressman clay Davis shit that it's in now. Did they not walk down the street without giving out copies of Captain Thomas book? Also, it's like how if your whole thing right is built on the fact that you locked into a kind of Universal basic, I don't know you might call it Attenborough level of goodwill from the British public. How were you? Everyone everybody every single political tendency except for us specifically like me five of us Everybody else. Yeah. yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not saying we'll always be right about everything, but I am heavily implying it,

because like, what are the fucking hormones? Like, legally, I can't say that. I always write about everything. How are you that bad at PR that you manage to, which you do for work? Yeah, but that's not to say that like the PR people are good. There are lots of PR people, in fact, lots of PR people who are very, very bad. We're working on the basis that we're assuming that she failed journalists.

That's right. And I should know as one of them, which is to say, which is to say that we're working on the basis that we think that his daughter is a very good PR person when there is no reason to suggest when she is. She just flew. It's seemingly like seemingly she is flew to the sun. We can't say she's a very good PR person. We can legally we can't say that. She flew too close to the sun, but she still wants to keep flying.

I actually do have a PR strategy for a way to get out of this, but I will reveal that later on. I can reveal that later on. Yeah. I have a little more here. I have a little more here. Which is there are other controversies have also been arising at the same time, saying that for example, Engromor was paid 18,000 pounds to attend the following event. Now, as you know, the name of this event, Milo sand don't know if you do. Okay, right. The version media and O2 Captain Tom Foundation connector rewards. What? We'll lay he's fucking laying fiber optic cable. They've tied a spool of it to his

fucking and the least of that efficient. It just goes up and down this one. Yeah. I tell you what, the internal internet speed within his the least of that efficient. It just goes up and down this one. Yeah, I tell you what, the internal internet speed within his garden, if you're having a land party from his garden shed to his conservatory, man, your ping would be like zero. So, basically, so she was, she attended, she paid 80,000 pounds to attend the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation connector awards, which like rewards charitable bodies that did

good work during the pandemic. But I looked up with the last people to win that award, which is like some charity like called Artisan International, which won the, which was given gigabit broadband and a tech bundle worth up to 5,000 pounds. Wait, wait, wait, wait. So they, the foundation, the Captain Tom Foundation, didn't give anyone shit for winning the Captain Tom Awards. It was purely a middleman. As it would seem, it was more of a branding. Like, they're very good in the economy. They're just, they're 5% too stupid and venal to like not be hated.

It could have kept it going forever. Yeah. genuinely. It makes me wonder like how much more shit like this is happening that we just don't know about. Yeah. I mean, this, yeah, because this does also feel like, and we've spoken about so many things that are basically like scams, but legally we can't say so on this show. And we've seen how easy it is to do one of those things. It's easy to set it up. It's easy to get a very affable minister to sort of be the face for it. It's easy to keep these things running for a really long time. And so you've really got to be very bad at what you do and also incredibly greedy to like not get the easiest bag you

could get in this country, like other than being a landlord. And you could probably do that as well. You could have probably run like a captain Tom, like landlord service of some kind. That's, yeah. You know, captain Tom, you know, his inspirational legacy has allowed the foundation to sort of like better social housing by offering these cupboards. Yeah. Yeah. Making a bunch of money out of Captain Tom is the second easiest bag you can get in the

UK. The easiest bag you can get in the UK is a bag for life, which if you're Captain Tom, you don't need to be made of paper. Well, the other thing is, Ingrammore applied to be like, because you have to get, if you're an exesophage, the bag for life is a really funny bit. What was that trip to Barbados if not?