TRASHFUTURE - PREVIEW: The Ballad of George and Tommy

Episode Date: December 7, 2023

We meet a bevy of new Guys using strategic litigation to undo the United States federal regulatory system. This one is a "preserved in amber" 2011 era Tea Party radio host! Also, we look at Israeli's AI and QR code systems and think about what the *real* purpose of those systems is, as well as checking out a startup and reading all about country living. 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 Medical Aid for Palestinians: 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)

Homes are how's it where we spend most of our time It should be built to the highest standard. So we partner with developers to build single-family homes in California and Texas Step inside a home built for superior value for developer and homeowners alike This takes to know two things in conflict with one another. No, about it This two-story product is thoughtfully designed using digital twin technology for efficient scalability and effortless construction Digital twin. It's where they build an AI version of the house so they can see what's gonna happen if the wind blows and stuff.

Oh, okay. So it's like a model. Yes, but an AI model. Right, okay. And an AI is different from all tech ad in ways. We're not gonna specify that. Every day our team is innovating ways to improve our digital home operating system.

This is what I decided I wanted to talk about it. Updates are set wirelessly to provide new software features and functionality upon release, so our home's only improved with time. I fucking hate it when my house needs a firm wear-up day. Okay, I've not paid my subscription to my house. No, not rent, the software that runs my house. They are built on enterprise-grade infrastructure

for superior connectivity and secure backend systems. So, what is the home like? They use this thing called HPS or a high performance surface. They say, we call HPS our limitless material. You sweat our homes, including interior walls, backsplashes, countertops, and more. It's incredibly durable, non--porous and certified hygienic What it actually is is it's called Korean which is a composite used for like bathroom countertops

Which they use for everything Oh Yeah, you live in the bath that you can live in the house made of bathroom. It's great house for like a piss fetishist Every surface is wipe clean. You know what we have, we've used it for interior, exterior doors and walls as well. Where can be used to? Tools, it's so heavy.

Where can be made to resemble. Corrine is like a stone-like material. It's also really expensive. Well, they say can be used to make, make to resemble wood or exposed brick. And also they use drop ceilings made of like a stretchy PVC fabric. So I hope you didn't want a ceiling.

It's a tent. So it's like a bathroom counter tent. So it's like a weird, very heavy general material, but it's all covered by a tent. The ceilings are a stretch. There is a normal roof. The ceilings are the stretchy felt material. Fabric material.

Ah, okay. So I mean, so it's a journal tent, but look, it's a place that you would want to design if you were trying to design a more efficient house that could be made at scale all mass, and crucially, you never had to live in it. That's true. Yeah, I mean, it sounds like one of those places where it's just like, it's sort of your classic

new build situation of like, it looks really nice once you've completed it. And then the moment you take a photo of it as it's done, it then deteriorates rapidly. Well, what happened is, so Veeve has been around for a little while. It's an Israeli company that mostly has developments in California. So there had corporate headquarters in manufacturing facilities are based in Cali. And they've only built a couple of standalone houses

in the many years of hundreds of millions of dollars of valuations that they've enjoyed, as well as a couple townhouses. And Gavin Newsom used the company's most high profile development, which was housing built for homeless people in San Jose as a backdrop for a press conference in 2020. Viva developed 78-

What do you like to live in intent inside? 78 bedrooms, the habitat for humanity. However, the outlet found the project had riddled with delays, delays, code violations and wage issues, and that Viva hadn't actually installed most of the electoral equipment in the walls before bringing them to site like they said they would. But that's the whole thing, is that they've got stuff in the walls.

Well, apparently not. And that's turning up without stuff in the walls. Easier and quicker to make these than like normal houses made of just walls. Well, and also they recently had a storehouse building material, it was like house. Yeah. Well, they had a $400 million funding round last March. They've now gone into bankruptcy protection and investors are unlikely to recoup any of the $600 million

they poured into the company. So they ultimately got a couple of houses that were intended to be made of bathroom, with fabric ceilings and then panelized walls, the atomic unit of the house, that were going to be filled with electrical equipment, and ultimately, it seems, weren't. We were spared the prospect of an electrical fire burning

in between two big slabs of bathroom counter, which I'm sure would have been fantastic. They're not very flammable. I mean, look, what if your old house was a bathroom? Like me. CEO and co-founder of Veeve, Amit Holler, posted recently, Veeve is building for humanity in a better world.

Well, the USA and Israel are fighting for humanity and a better world. Right. Oh, okay. Right, yeah. Got some notes here. None of that is true. You can see with your phone or your eyes in Tamil TV.

I'm going to go back. I'm going to go back to my bathroom house and prove you all wrong. It takes a lot to make me more depressed than the regular house builders do. My sister lives in a new build house and the other day I was driving down her road and I felt like I was going insane because what I've realized is that now housebuilders in the UK, they just build streets narrower and narrower because they want to get more slightly too small houses with no parking on like a smaller and smaller amount of land. So you just feel like you're going insane because you're driving down what is effectively a two lane road, but you can't actually get one car down in. Accidental anti-car action.

You're being like, you're being gaslit by Taylor Wimpy into like, yeah, your car can fit down this street. You're being forcibly pedestrianized. Yeah. So I want to finish on an article. I want it's going to look at the Kierstamer article for the telegraph where he goes through his usual thing and says Margaret Thatcher did a lot of great stuff. My says a dollar and discs number one, Margaret Thatcher. Number two, Chasen Dive. Yeah, where specifically what he said was, every moment of meaningful change in modern British politics begins with the realization that politics must act in service to the British people, rather than dictating to them,

Margaret Thatcher sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by letting loose our natural entrepreneurialism. You know, yeah, that's the end. He, I've decided I don't want to read that article because the best way to understand much, until he does something else, the best way to understand much until he does something else the best way to understand much of what he does is just the kind of negative of what he thinks Corbin would have liked but he exists in politics to infuriate an undue Jeremy Corbin like kind of like Trump did for Obama except none either of the two of them were ever in office.

We heard of my song the a bad Corbin Blues. I would like to sing it for you now. Yeah. Oh, Jeremy Corbin. The slow bat. I woke up this morning. Jeremy Corbin was still bad. You can say I woke up this morning and made Jeremy sad.

Yeah, there you go. Yeah, there we go. The songwriting too of Rely and Mila. No, you, no. And if you ever wanted an example of negative dialectics of the, the, the, the sort of reaction to anything changing by the insistence of not change, the sort of universal, it's in position of a project of negation, then you don't really have to look further than British politics since 2019,

where everything, no one's doing anything, everyone's just gainsaying what Corbin did, except that one time Liz Truss actually did try to do something. Yeah, anyway, and it went very well. It went great. No, I want to talk about a different article. Now, I have been going back and forth about whether this article is

Tuggin' Cheek, and I think maybe the author of it, William Sitwell, might have been having a little giggle while he- But how does he stand? My have been having a little giggle while writing it. However, based on his, I would say, relatively humorless- Yeah, it will be a week. He was a weak as a strange kind of humor. is I would say relatively humorless. Yeah, it will be a vegan. He's a vegan.

He's a strange kind of humor, as exemplified by the time that he's a food writer, right? And this other food writer, email him to be like, hey, do you have any dishes for vegans? Any kind of like, maybe we could do some features about vegans. And William Sittmo writes back about like, oh yeah, you mean like how to like hunt them to the death

or like to like broil them. And it's just kind of like, oh, you think that's funny, and that's maybe more revealing than you intend it to be. And he ends up having to have a problem. Is it a desert vegan? Poison.

Exactly, that kind of thing. poison. Exactly. That kind of thing.