TRASHFUTURE - *PREVIEW* Viral Content Will End Climate Change: TF Live in Manchester, 16/5/23

Episode Date: June 9, 2023

We continued our Regional Authenticity Tour and stopped in the famous city of Manchester, where we recoiled in horror at a startup Riley found that claimed it was--and I'm saying this verbatim--'gamifying good humaning.' We then proceeded to recoil in embarrassment at the next chapter of Mister Book Eater's latest tome. Hope you enjoy!   Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/viral-content-tf-84228148   *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 and check out a recording of Milo’s special PINDOS available on YouTube here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRI7uwTPJtg *ROME ALERT* Milo and Phoebe have teamed up with friend of the show Patrick Wyman to finally put their classical education to good use and discuss every episode of season 1 of Rome. You can download the 12 episode series from Bandcamp here (1st episode is free): https://romepodcast.bandcamp.com/album/rome-season-1 Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

Also, I wanted to, I hope that he's here tonight because I received an email via our website. I do look at those from one Andrew Glassford. Are you here tonight? Yeah. Yeah, Andrew, thank you. And I had a different startup plan. I always say, nice cock. On with the start of second.

The podcast that sexually harasses its fans from the stage. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we're just tracking. Just so you know, that was a job of a tribe. That was an awful cock. That's a reference to something we were talking. That's a callback to something we were talking about earlier today in the car. All of that rein has been completely fried. There was like a 25% chance I was gonna come out here and say hello Liverpool.

Like I'm... So, Andrew, thank you. I had a different startup planned and I cleared the decks for this one when I saw everything about it. It is called Good Empire. And it's Australian. Oh, strength.

Struth indeed. Struth. Struth indeed. Good Empire, what do we think it does? Starting with Milo. You know Andrew, no yelling it out. Is it a company that goes around the world taking up all of the railway tracks to the British Empire lane and selling them off a scrap metal? No, it is... That is interacting with the real world more than good Empire seems to be able to do. That was also going to be my thought was it's going to crush all of the old pith helmets and make them into sort of like cork

coasters and play smats. TM TM TM. That would make a fight. Tribit for like an oven dish. Yeah, if you imagine a crushed flat hit helmet, it'd be quite wide. It'd be a good size for like an oven dish or something. If you imagine a crushed phoenix, it's gonna be quite wide. It'd be a good size for like a Dutch oven or something. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Are you going with pith helmets? Yeah, that's my own pith helmets. It's not that. Who's saying fuck? Good Empire. I'm really trying to like, because I imagine, I don't want to be like thrown off by it, but I'm gonna, I reckon it's sort of like some VR bullshit.

It's a VR simulation, but a lot of, you know, when people sort of, like people who are four-seers old, you remember when they were also part of British India. Um, and they can relive that experience that they absolutely had, where they were called the white noir, and it's the Raj, but with no legs. Where they got to have their little spitting boy and no one said it was problematic. The magic Raj. All these, all these, all these moments

that they had in childhood that was taken away by metropolitan works like us. And also you apparently, because podcasts listen as our part of this demographic. Oh, we'll get to that. We'll get to that. That's a little spoiler. Nate, good empire.

It's like parental controls for British school children. If they ever try to get on Wikipedia to read anything about the British Empire, it blocks. Wait, it's just like one page where it says it was good actually. It was good, actually. It was good, railways, end of. That's slavery. We started to abolish it. Nothing else.

British Empire, bunch of sick cats, no dogs, don't worry about it. That's the only thing the Department of Education will be allowed to spend any money on this time next year. So like, yeah, patent pending, patent pending. Yeah, so, okay, I think the most developed idea here is a metaverse to sell to the Department of Education that talks about all the good stuff the Empire did. Unfortunately, no, here's some of the taglines. It's time to save the fucking world, but you and the C are stars.

Oh, it's so way through. It's an epic brand. It's an epic brand, yeah. This is the brood dog of like crushing pith helmets. Well, it's not just the brood dog of crushing pith helmets. It is also a revolution. This is a revolution. Oh, is that allowed?

What really is the brood dog? Do you want to be one of those. Oh, and I'll do the last one. Game of Fying, Good, Humaning. Oh. You love it, you dogs. Oh. That's why you're here.

Do they have, like, every single founder on their about us has been Photoshopped to be a Shiba Inu on their page? Every single founder on their about us does have a lot of interesting stuff when you Google them. It was founded by a guy who was on neighbors. Awesome. A real dog comes. So imagine, imagine an app. Is everyone imagining an app? I don't want to do it. You all imagine an app.

I'm not in my mind yet. Imagine an app. By the way, before I say what I'm going to say next, this was launched in 2021, just went insolvent now and relaunched just like two days ago and then relaunched something else. Imagine an app where the ice bucket challenge was happening every single day. Imagine a bucket of ice being dumped on a human face. Sounds like a description of hell. Wait, wait, wait. So is it like a sort of like benevolent form?

You can, it's an app that lets you be tortured. It's a type of whole pet life, a fuck sake. Is it just the calendar app for Wim Hof? So with millions of people taking action and sharing viral TikTok challenges, but having an impact towards the UN sustainable development goals. You know, I hope I- Hopefully. On my TikToks, impacting the UN sustainable development goals.

Also, I do love the idea of being like, we're going to make something that's like a gamified version of the ice Bucket Challenge in 2021. It's like seven years too late. So good empire is an app slash platform slash community, slash movement to challenge unite and empower. So keep all of that end-to-end relationship together, please. Us all to level up the people and planet. And now repeat all of that up the people and planet. I can't.

Now repeat all of that back in the right order. Yeah, so it's like they're phrasing it like it's an empire of people doing good. That's the idea. They just forgot that when you say good empire to Brits and Australians, they think something very different. Yeah, they think, yep. Yep.

That's right. Well, on about my day to see if I disagree with anything. Well, you might find that sort of confusing as to how that would work. They've published a helpful explainer. Uh-huh. The Earth rotates counterclockwise. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, citation needed. Yeah. This has to vibe of one of those recipes for brownies, where it's like, I remember where I was on September 11th, 2001. Scrolling fastest, scrolling fastest. I remember where I certainly wasn't at work. And yet we humans hurtle forwards, clockwise, consuming, burning potentially towards our own destruction.

We need a revolution and to change the way we live and consume before it's too late. This is the thing about climate change, right? It's some heavy shit, and the problem with that is that now that it's like, you know, omnipresent in the culture, startups are also laying it on you, and you're like, oh man, the planet's dying, but it's coming from Australia. The guy who used to be on neighbors is talking like, Barrett from Final Fantasy. Yeah.

Which guy from neighbors is it? Uh, it's called Andre. I haven't written down like that. Barrett from Final Fantasy. Like, which guy from Neighbors is it? It's called Andre. I haven't written down. I'll try the giant from Neighbors. Peter Andre from Neighbors. You think there is something very disconcerting about an app basically being like,

yet prepare for a sustainable future. Put on an Oculus and train to fight in a rater gang for the water wars. Sorry, excuse me. I said neighbors, he's best known for beastmaster in 1999. Beastmaster? Well, that's like young Mr. Beast. I think someone in the audience

when they heard the beastmaster fully went like... So, anyway, the Earth rotates kind of clockwise. We're going clockwise. We need like a new social sharing platform that's gonna stop all of that. And this thing imploded two days ago, you said. Here's how I know that there was not a single queer person on the staff

because they said, this is the inspiration behind the G revolution. Yeah, G'd out. Almost. I saw on Twitter and HSBC had the other day that's like, we are using the F-wood everywhere. It's like apparently they meant freedom. I'm sure. It was fees.

The app offers a free to... how it actually works is it's like any of these supposedly social sharing platforms are good right it's a thing where your company can pay to sign up and then you like post a video of yourself like clipping a beer six pack things what doesn't choke a turtle and then you're like we calculate that that's four tons of micro plastics removed from the ocean based on our internal formulas okay so it's an m it's a good mpub because you're're like all paying it forward and shit. Yes. Okay. So they say, for example, they said, we're going to remove 100 million tons of plastic in the ocean, they sign up some companies who film themselves doing challenges and they're

like, well, job done. 100 million tons of plastic, that's how they are according to our calculations. Yeah, very personal. They're a free person who watched this TikTok, removes one ton of plastic from the ocean. So I assume a ton is not a lot. person who watched this TikTok removes one ton of plastic from the ocean. So, I assume a ton is not a lot.