Unnatural Selection: Deeply Unqualified Australian & American Political Comedy

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: The Unnatural Selection Podcast is still a little homeless. The week of hot takes in the wake of the 2019 Australian election. Why did Queensland turn blue? Why is Melbourne such a bubble? Anthony Albanese named new Labor leader without ceremony. Chris Bowen and Tanya Plibersek both want to spend time with their own separate kid...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Keep it simple stupid: Labor's messaging was too fucking complicated and the LNP plays dirty. Maybe we just live in a conservative country? The Bill Australia Can't Afford: How conservative messaging works on all the different moral foundations. Conservatives want things to stay the same, but we literally don't have time to argu...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss:   High vis vest will get you just about anywhere in life. The election is still happening and there's nothing you can do about it. Jorge argues with a climate-change denier in Queensland. Campaigning is literally just about the horse race and not about policy at all. People don't lover Bill Shorten as much as hate the LNP. Daily...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: All the candidates who got dumped this week by federal Australian parties. It's a lot. Australian Federal election on May 18th - 19th if you're a conservative ;) Nobody mowed a swastika into the lawn - so we're doing well. The long tail of your digital history will come back to haunt you one day. Lady centaurs and the other thin...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: The nomadic Unnatural Selection podcast recordings. Modi's Operandi - any further Indian corruption scandals. The Muller Report arrives - everyone has lots of opinions. Trump was too stupid and inept to collude. Ukraine's new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy played the role on TV before taking the top job Whale with harness could b...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Donald Trump fires Kirstjen Nielsen, his Homeland Security Secretary - or did she resign? Black holes - we get the first image of an actual event horizon around a black hole. Gotta love that accretion disc. You're looking into the past: where's your whimsey?? Future Former Aussie PM Scott Morrison calls an election for the 18th...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Adam's throaty voice and his failed beer review podcast. Some beers aren't vegan! There you go. 'Green Criminals' take over the CBD in Melbourne to promote a vegan film. Veganism is good - but is protest the way to win hearts and minds? The Fox interview with a vegan goes tits up. Scott Seymour misses the vote on NZ gun laws… be...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Facebook bans White Nationalism. It'd be great if we knew what it means. The problem with Facebook and all the tech companies. James Ashby 'on the sauce' in 'How to sell a massacre' expose by Al Jazeera. One Nation staff caught courting the NRA. A picture of Ronald Regan riding a velociraptor with an American Flag Senator Mike L...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: The Mueller Report in - the verdict? Trump declared innocent of damn near everything, right? Fun fact, not-guilty is not the same thing as innocent. Trump finds Trump not guilty of collusion with Russia. Robert Mueller - not the knight in shining armour the Dems were hoping for, hey. LNP wins the NSW election despite the protest...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Mosque shooting in Christchurch claims 50 lives. Mass murder streamed live on Facebook. Fraser Anning gets egged by a 17 year old for his NZ massacre comments. Moving the Overton Window - How white nationalism has influenced the debate over the last twenty years. Thoughts and prayers. Global protests over climate change. The cul...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Photo of Melania and Donald Trump excites the dark web into revisiting the 'Fake Melania' conspiracy. Conservatives love order + conspiracy theories. Don't worry, we'll have all the info about the Trump presidency pretty quick. Adam gets a VR headset - the boys discuss the future of VR. It's looking real scary. Is realistic vide...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Cardinal Pell convicted in a child sex offence in December of 2018 and the Australian public is now aware. The front page of the Herald Sun was redacted and it was fucking obnoxious. How the Law and Order party found itself defending a convicted pedophile. John Howard submitted a character reference AFTER he found out about Pell...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Blackfish and exploding whales. What are the Oscars at this point? Marvel movies do well at the technical awards at the Oscars, but never take out the top spot. Why is that? What makes an 'Oscars' movie? Changing perspectives on what an 'awarded movie' looks like in the 21st century. What's popular vs what's arty. DISNEY IN FILM...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Trump declares a national emergency over the border wall. I didn't have to do this - but how is it then an emergency? Ann Coulter and her shrill books and tweets. Could you imagine if Obama did ANY of this?? LNP gets kicked in the nuts over medivac bill. Fire up the old boat cannons - how good is that propaganda. Parliament wrap...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Clive Palmer is at it again: mass texting more texts about mass texts. Adam reads all of the terms and conditions on everything. Have there been any assassination attempts on Trump? Dividend cash imputations - get excited. Tim Wilson's Committee - where's the line between a public inquiry and a party fundraising effort? LNP want...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: The US and Russia both pull out of a nuclear treaty. It's like some sort of not warm warm. Walk softly, but carry a big dick: LBJ and his big ol dick Banking Royal Commission comes to a head. Everything is fine. Josh Frydenberg and Commissioner Hayne have a fun time handing over the banking royal commission report. The Trump Adm...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Is Jorge's sister's dog cute or just very small? Australia Day - we solved it the change the date debate, you guys. 46 Degree Day - Free beer and outdoor cooking, what else could you ask for? Who watches the watchdogs? ASIC and the ACCC forced to disclose the 'gifts' they've been given by the companies they're regulating. FYRE -...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: MAGA Hat-wearing shitlords have a go at a native American elders. Ben Shapiro wants to not kill baby Hitler, because he's still a baby? Irish man found to have been injecting himself with semen to cure his back pain? Gnocchi is potato butts - how did we get to this? Michael Cohen helps Trump fake some polls with a Supervillian I...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: The US Government shutdown. It's the longest in US history. Yay. The President Generally owns the shutdown no matter who's in power. There's no minority trying to force an issue - the GoP is doing this to themselves. Mitch McConnell refuses to table bills that he knows Trump won't sign - it's ironically a Mexican standoff. Donal...

  On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: The Birdbox discussion - love it or hate it? Less is more. Don't show the monster. Pokemon - cockfighting with sentient animals. Nazis on the beach - St Kilda beach in Melbourne overtaken by protests by a far-right group. Free-speech vs de-platforming. Are we giving extremists oxygen by protesting? Fishing sinkers at a protest...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Red Dead Redemption hour with Tom and Jorge. Donald Trump and the slowly escalating Russia scandal.  Fortnite - Is it murdering your children? Kids in cages and other crimes against humanity. The Caravan. Encryption laws and the distraction of the population. Andrew Broad resigns amid sugar daddy scandal. The LNP's slow and stea...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Adam likes unloading on air. David Leyonhjelm loves his young brown men in the strangest compliment ever. The libertarian contrarian who's brain behaves like an octogenarian. Trolly man and the case of the Milkshake Duck. John Pesutto loses his seat in Hawthorn, will no longer lead the LNP. The human toll of instant delivery - A...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: That time the boys drank a beer made by a guy who punched a shark. ScoMo BoMo a NoGo - Julia Banks decides to resign from the LNP. Turns out we like Malcolm Turnbull a lot more when he's shredding the LNP. Craig Kelly has a go at a bunch of kids protesting because freedom. Remember when people resigned from politics because of s...

  On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Everything that's happened in the world in the last month. Trump and operation 'Faithful Patriot' and other racist dog whistles. Democrats and the blue wave that actually materialised. Labor sweeps the LNP in recent Victoria State election. Some call it a 'Danslide' but we can't get behind that at all. John Pesutto (maybe?) lo...

Jorge Tsipos and his mate Ilana Charnelle sit down and have a chat about her new album, cabaret, Deafferant Theatre and networking in the arts. Spotify and the future of music money. 'Vlogging' music to cheat the algorithms. Paying for studio time and a memorialising music model. Do Both: how to do all the things and survive as an artist. "Am I Successful?" Imposter Syndrome and the arts. How to c...