The Sotadic Economic Zone feat. Ed Zitron
For this week's bonus, the nearly-full cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice speak with technology publicist and crypto sceptic Ed Zitron about the current state of the cryptocurrency market--of course it's a scam, everyone knows that, but just how much is it on the precipice? The answer will probably not shock you, but might unsettle you regardless. Hope you enjoy!
Check out Ed's newsletter on Substack here: https://ez.substack.com
Comments (21)
Super Crypto Bros. A block chain game where e when you collect coins along the level, you don't collect it, and instead it just disappears forever. And the final boss is a conical shaped object with a wide base.
The Ed newsletter immediately feels like Trashfuture in written form, so sure I'll give him money
Honestly just add Ed to the podcast perfect fit
Musk successfully proved that if you dig a tunnel with no safety clearance, no aeration, signalling, emergency exits, approach viaducts, then actually it's pretty cheap! civil engineering firms btfo'd!
this episode is way funnier if you imagine that they're not talking about the Vinklevoss twins, the olympic rowers and early facebook fortune but the Da Vinki twins, the canadian wrestlers who got famous online for mispronouncing things
Y’all (the show hosts) should go check out Coffeezilla on YouTube. He’s an excellent internet journalist and has personally interviewed a lot of scammers including good old sammy bank ;) check out his stuff have him on the pod!
https://youtu.be/4o_jPzBZSIo
Very fucking weird to hear Abergavenny mentioned in a Trashfuture episode but it is 100% the place middle class Tory dad's would get super into crypto.
This was a good one. Almost worth the money.
Referring to the winklevoss twins as "the Winklevi" like theyre some sort of archfey creatures
If you mention them by name or family name ... You have to give them your money. Now that I look carefully, you just did. Sorry, the crypto twins will now take your money. They only accept credit card, real money.
Putting the cybertruck and the tunnel together is like putting a square peg in a round hole
Everyone is praising Mr. Zitron for his immaculate riffs, but I am praising him for what I believe was a throwaway reference to Delphine Software's magnum opus Flashback.
The reference to Betamax was fun for me but only because my wife named our cats Betamax and Laserdisc. We'll probably keep the theme of defunct video formats for future cats
next up: DivX
He even slipped right into Elon Musk impression. I totally agree that he felt like a natural fit.
A handy guide to differentiating between Blackstone/rock/water i.redd.it/x0jeiofl7j471.jpg
Nice Ed is one of my faves!
you can all hate on Al-Quaeda all you want but one thing you gotta give them: very clear branding strategy
Ed honestly just sounds like the lost 6th member of TF
"The identical river giants" "the wet brothers" "co-brothers" these are all instant classic TF bits