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On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Earlier today, Victorian MP Georgie Purcell shared a side-by-side photo comparison on X, blaming Nine News for ‘sexist’ image editing.
• Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes.
• Speaking at the National Press Club, Richard Denniss, the executive director at the Australia Institute, said the government’s decision to make alterations to the stage-three tax cuts was a ‘good call’.
• Evergrande: Why should I care if China property giant collapses?.

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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On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Ron DeSantis withdraws from Republican presidential race, endorses Trump.
• Trump takes aim at Haley in combative New Hampshire primary victory speech.
• Prime minister hints at expansion of stage 3 tax cuts to benefit lower-income earners.
• Are Labor’s stage 3 tax cut changes good economic policy, good politics, or both?
• Treasurer Jim Chalmers has defended changes to the government’s tax policy.
• Former prime minister Scott Morrison set to quit politics at end of February.
• Booming renewable energy generation halves wholesale power prices across national grid.
• Optus admits 10 times more people affected by triple-0 failures than previously disclosed.
• Crypto pastor admits to fraud on video, claims ‘the Lord told me to’ remodel house with funds.

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.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

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On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Best-selling author Jack Heath’s new novel: Kill Your Husbands.
• Iowa GOP presidential election results.
• Nuke policy quietly nuked: Australia to fund US nuclear weapon delivery program.
• US strikes more Houthi targets in Yemen after Greek ship becomes latest vessel struck in Red Sea.
• Lego worth thousands of dollars seized as police arrest alleged Melbourne drug trafficker.

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.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

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On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• The Day Before Has Already Lost 80% of Its Players in the First 3 Days on Steam.
• The Day Before Studio Fntastic Announces Closure Just Days After Early Access Launch.
• Fantastic Official statement.
• The Most Popular Game on Steam Is A Massive Scam?
• Kathleen Folbigg has convictions for killing her four children overturned.
• Australia will become the first country to ban engineered stone bench tops. Will others follow?
• ‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Japan says reason behind 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore is unknown.
• Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay nearly $223 million to two US election workers he defamed.

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.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

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On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• ‘Creeping politicisation’ in Victoria’s public service needs ‘urgent attention’, ombudsman warns.
• Alleged politicisation of the public sector.
• Alan Jones’s lawyers taking ‘first steps’ towards defamation proceedings over indecent assault allegations.
• Profile: Kate McClymont AM.
• New migration strategy aims to reduce Australian arrivals to ‘sustainable level’.
• NDIS Commissioner Tracy Mackey said she might have to resign over mistakenly misleading Four Corners, court documents allege.
• Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk resigns in shock announcement.

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.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

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On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Former US secretary of state and controversial Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger dies aged 100.
• Kissinger outlived so many people that not only did he outlive his obituary writer, he outlived the obituary writer of his obituary writer.
• Powerful Home Affairs boss Mike Pezzullo sacked after investigation into backchannel lobbying.
• Bruce Lehrmann tells court he believes Brittany Higgins’s fiance sent him threatening email titled ‘Coming for you’.
• Bruce Lehrmann admits in court asking for cocaine on evening Brittany Higgins interview aired and lying twice to boss.
• Ben Roberts-Smith ordered to pay indemnity costs for entirety of his failed defamation case against Nine.
• Why Americans’ ‘YOLO’ spending spree baffles economists.
• Elon Musk tells advertisers: ‘Go fuck yourself’.

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.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

Instagram:

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On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigns as Optus CEO.
• Barbra Streisand Explains: Why I Cloned My Dog.
• Javier Milei: Argentina’s far-right outsider wins presidential election.
• Javier Milei wants to gut spending and ditch the peso, but will it save Argentina’s economy?
• Dan Andrews Is Locked In A Battle With Melbourne Golf Clubs Still Bitter About Lockdowns
• OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns.
• New OpenAI CEO Was a Character in a Harry Potter Fanfic That’s Wildly Popular With Effective Altruists.
• Helen Toner, the effective altruist who sparked the Open AI coup.
• Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI.
• Jan. 6 rioter dubbed “QAnon Shaman” plans to run for U.S. Congress.
• Squid Game: The Challenge contestants threaten legal action against Netflix and producers.
• Truck stowaway ‘lucky to be alive’ after hiding beneath B-double for 390km trip to Gold Coast.

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.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

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@JorgeTsipos

@Tom.Heath

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On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Detainees released without visas after High Court decision in immigration revelation.
• Optus identifies cause of nationwide outage, says ‘changes to routing information’ after software upgrade to blame.
• Optus says 228 triple-0 calls were unable to be made during the outage.
• Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has faced a Senate grilling over customers being unable to call triple zero during their 12-hour network outage, with Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young asking the CEO to “cough up” and “accept responsibility”.
• David Cameron makes shock return to British politics as Home Secretary Suella Braverman sacked by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
• Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI.
• OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO.
• Meta allows Facebook and Instagram ads saying 2020 election was rigged.

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.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

Instagram:

@JorgeTsipos

@Tom.Heath

@UnnaturalShow

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Federal government announces investigation into Optus outage, minister urges telco consider compensation.
• The landmark High Court ruling that’s left Anthony Albanese in a political pincher.
• Advance Australia doubled donations to raise nearly $5m ahead of voice to parliament referendum.
• Ukraine military officer had key role in Nord Stream sabotage, reports say.
• Four men charged over $9 million golden toilet heist at Winston Churchill’s birthplace.

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.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

Instagram:

@JorgeTsipos

@Tom.Heath

@UnnaturalShow

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Suspected mushroom poisoning: Erin Patterson fronts court in Victoria on murder charges.
• Melbourne man Jacob Hersant set to be charged with performing a Nazi salute under new laws.
• Protest vote shows the ‘near-unanimous disdain’ the public has for Qantas, senator says.
• The Daily Mail and the West Australian have reported Jacinta Price was at the Sydney pro-Palestine rally. She wasn’t. 
• John Howard says he ‘always had trouble’ with the concept of multiculturalism.
• US House vote fails to expel Republican George Santos after 23 federal charges.
• Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video.
• ‘Crypto King’ Sam Bankman-Fried faces decades in jail after guilty verdict.

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.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

Instagram:

@JorgeTsipos

@Tom.Heath

@UnnaturalShow