487: Biden Wins!

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff:

  • Holy shit, they really did it. Biden hits 270 electoral votes and becomes the president elect.
  • Trump throws a tantrum, loses the popular vote and refuses to concede the election. 
  • The fact that Dems won Arizona is crazy. That fact that Texas was up for debate should scare the shit out of the GOP.
  • Certificates of Ascertainment and other totally modern normal democracy things.
  • Alex Jones and his pretty scary calls for election violence.
  • Wait, Australia’s in a trade war with China.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

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486: Vote!

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff:

– Adam hates Halloween still.
– How many ‘tell alls’ have come out of the Trump administration?
– Trump down 9 points in the polls nationally, but you know, polls.
– Four more years? Absolutely not. Please god no.
– Tens of millions of Americans vote early.
– Jorge wants not Donald Trump for Christmas.
– Voter suppression, Republicans and the deliberate feeling of disenchantment.
– Remember when the president wanted to nuke hurricanes?
– A snifter of Melbourne train cleaning corruption.
– Jorge has… contributed to making those trains dirty.
– Contract cleaning is a dirty business.
– Josh Frydenberg and his super helpful Victoria comments.
– The virus is the economy at this point.
– The suicide rate, excessive deaths and other LNP KPIs.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.
 
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485: Corruptober

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff:

  • Clean cut boy joins the show – where’s Pirate Direen?
  • Everyone’s upset about the lockdown, but please don’t take it out on the horses.
  • The unofficial VicGov needle exchange in hotel quarantine. 
  • Australia Post gifts $20,000 in watches for senior managers.
  • James Shipton resigns as ASIC Chair after $118,000 personal tax bill comes to light.
  • Jaala Hinchcliffe, head of the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, sacked the barrister who made the recommendation to go hard on the Border Force.
  • Federal ICAC now pls.
  • Trump’s second/third debate with Joe Biden was also terrible.
  • The latino vote in Florida may fuck things up for everyone!

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

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484: Premier

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff:

  • Lockdowns work – we’re down to single digit cases in Victoria.
  • Adam needs a haircut.
  • Gladys Berejiklian corruption scandal results in two votes of no confidence in her.
  • Gladys’ boyfriend is quite clearly corrupt and she knew SOMETHING about it.
  • For people to have faith in democracy you need not just to avoid corruption, you need to avoid even the APPEARANCE of corruption.
  • Kevin Rudd and the Murdoch Royal Commission Petition, found here: https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1938
  • Americans begin to vote – what would you wait 11 hours in line for?
  • Judge Amy Coney Barrett belongs to a highly partisan, extremely religious portion of judges who don’t reflect the electorate. And she’s a shoe in!

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

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@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

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483: Le Budget

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff:

  • Is it even a live show if there’s not someone mowing their lawn during the recording?
  • How to get rid of a couch during quarantine.
  • Josh Frydenberg and the 2020 budget.
  • How good are tax cuts (if you’re already a rich person who doesn’t need them!)
  • Tax cuts don’t help people out of work.
  • Deficits, debts and the reason that you can’t afford a Honda.
  • LNP assumptions about the next 12 months are very optimistic.
  • Wage subsidies – there are some good things about this, but it’s not without its problems.
  • Watch and see how many write-offs from business turn out to be bullshit.
  • Donald Trump has become his own personal super-spreader event.
  • Trump feels GREAT and it has nothing to do with the steroids for sure.
  • The president is not actually receiving good care – he’s getting experimental drugs!
  • “Maybe I’m immune.” Trump is a literal danger to democracy and common sense.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

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482: He Got It

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff:

  • Victoria’s restrictions ease somewhat.
  • St Kilda beachgoers go absolutely nuts at the first signs of warm weather. Apparently coronavirus doesn’t like the beach?
  • Seven News reporter doesn’t really get it.
  • Clearly Australians actually just don’t give a shit about other people at this point.
  • How about a story that hundreds of people are flouting the law and it’s unacceptable? 
  • The Trump/Biden debate was an absolute dumpsterfire, and it was 1000% Donald’s fault.
  • Debate 2.0 will be better this time, they promise. 
  • Trump gets coronavirus.
  • The Trump administration had reason to believe Trump had been exposed and still turned up to the debate without masks.
  • I can’t believe I’m looking forward to the vice-presidential debate.
  • What if he dies?

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

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@TomDHeath

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481: Lefties at a Structural Disadvantage

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff:

  • Westpac pinged with a record $1.3bil fine which has affected them, not at all, as it turns out.
  • Turns out the LNP is totally on board with the fibre to the premises NBN – as they always have been!
  • Loosening lending standards – great for the banks annnnnndd….
  • Are lefties at an inherent disadvantage when it comes to good behaviour in parliament?
  • 70% of people with Andrews on climate change but Murdoch media describes it as ‘Stockholm Syndrome’
  • Balance as Bias.
  • Jenny Mikakos, Dan Andrews and the bad faith attack from the conservative media.
  • Vietnamese re-used condom scheme.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

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@TomDHeath

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480: RBG

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff:

  • Covid cases in Victoria are down!
  • Lots of deeply upsetting non-corona content!
  • The LNP and their disappointing half-measure on climate change.
  • Say ‘energy policy’ and the knives come out in the LNP party meeting.
  • The very depressing story out of an ICE detention centre in Georgia.
  • The US immigration Ice hysterectomy allegations in line with US’s long and racist history of eugenics.
  • Guatemala syphilis experiments.
  • Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
  • RBG has passed away at 87, a judicial and femminist giant.
  • The political situation with the presidential election of 2020 and supreme court appointments.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

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@TomDHeath

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479: Wet Ass Premier

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff:

  • Wet Arse Pussy.
  • Dan Andrews announces the roadmap out of coronavirus has… some critics.
  • If you want to get out of the lockdown faster, then BEHAVE.
  • Government is hard – bureaucracies aren’t meant to respond in an agile fashion.
  • You gotta love all these morons acting like they could’ve done a better job on the COVID-19 response.
  • Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence.
  • The Ballarat protest was a bit of a fizzer in the end, thank Christ.
  • The new trend towards smart metres that could have your personal data end up in unexpected places. 
  • The need for legislation that allows us to control our data – one day may be too late.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

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478: The Road Out

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff:

  • Dan Andrews announces the roadmap out of coronavirus restrictions.
  • Jorge’s neighbours think he’s a sexist because he yells at his Google Home puck.
  • A more cautious reopening for Victoria, with KPI’s.
  • We’re gonna need some good reporting to make sure all of these things are clear.
  • Freedom Humpers Unite! Melbourne anti-lockdown protesters arrested.
  • Ballarat woman arrested for putting together an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook. The Right-Wing reacts really well.
  • Pick an island – any island, call it Freedom Island and let them all catch the virus. 
  • Speaking of Facebook, they’re firing shots at the ACCC.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

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@TomDHeath

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