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

• The Rice Purity Test.
• Early robodebt critics outraged by how long Coalition persisted with unlawful scheme.
• States are weakening their child labor restrictions nearly 8 decades after the US government took kids out of the workforce.
• Thirty million join Meta’s Twitter rival Threads, Zuckerberg says.
• Twitter threatens to sue Meta over rival Threads app.
• Cocaine in the White House: a brief history.
• Canadian farmer ordered to pay more than $92,000 after confusion over the meaning of a thumbs-up emoji.

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:

• John Goodenough, world’s oldest Nobel Prize winner who helped pioneer lithium batteries which power our devices, dies aged 100.
• Former MP Daryl Maguire charged with giving false evidence to ICAC.
• Gladys Berejiklian and Daryl Maguire engaged in serious corrupt conduct, report finds.
• France to deploy 45,000 police to tackle riots that Macron blames on video games, with some Paris streets to be evacuated.
• Russia holds General Sergei Surovikin over Wagner mutiny: Reports.
• Brazil’s top electoral court bars former president Bolsonaro from office until 2030.
• Twitter applies reading limit after users report issues with platform.
• Free the nipple: Facebook and Instagram told to overhaul ban on bare breasts.

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:

• OceanGate Was Warned of Potential for ‘Catastrophic’ Problems With Titanic Mission.
• Wagner chief to leave Russia for Belarus in deal that ends armed insurrection, Kremlin says.
• Squatting Russian diplomat refusing to leave terminated Canberra embassy site.
• Embattled PwC caught up in Russian cyberattack.
• have i been pwned?
• Federal government a step closer to early election trigger as Senate rejects housing bill.
• Lidia Thorpe announces she will be backing No campaign against Indigenous Voice.
• Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight.

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 Italian prime minister and billionaire Silvio Berlusconi dies, 86.
• Trials and allegations involving Silvio Berlusconi.
• Katy Gallagher says she didn’t alert Albanese or Wong to the pending Brittany Higgins’ interview.
• Lidia Thorpe tells Senate she was ‘followed, aggressively propositioned and inappropriately touched’ in parliament.
• Lidia Thorpe tells Pauline Hanson to ‘f*** off’ after bombshell speech in Senate.
• Former Liberal senator accuses Senator David Van of ‘inappropriate touching’.
• Peter Dutton says senator David Van should quit parliament, after another allegation raised with him.
• Liberals come a cropper when they try to dig afresh into the Brittany Higgins story.
• Senator David Van resigns from Liberal Party following allegations of inappropriate behaviour.
• Van refuses to quit, but will take leave.
• Greens push for more change after PM’s $2bn social housing pledge.
• Scotland’s former leader Nicola Sturgeon arrested, insists she’s done nothing wrong.
• ‘Dead’ woman knocks on coffin during her wake: doctors are asked to please explain.

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 president Donald Trump says he has been indicted over classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
• The startling, damning details in the Trump indictment.
• Nearly 10K photos from Hunter Biden’s laptop hit the web: ‘Truth and transparency’.
• ‘Fabulous dinner’: Reserve Bank spent $25,000 on exclusive Perth function after raising rates in May.
• US weather agency declares first El Niño in eight years is already underway.

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:

• As it happened: Ben Roberts-Smith’s major court loss, costs will ‘follow inevitably’.
• Afghanistan war crime allegations prompted US warnings about cooperation with Australia.
• AFL ends Hawthorn racism inquiry, with ‘no adverse findings’ against coaches.
• Crown Resorts and AUSTRAC agree to $450 million fine over money laundering breaches.
• Alexander Lukashenko offers ‘nuclear weapons for everyone’ joining Belarus-Russia union.
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan​​​​​​​ declares victory over opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in Türkiye’s presidential run-off election.
• Experts say new spotting of accused Russian spy whale proves he just wants companionship.

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:

• PwC agrees to ‘stand down’ staff who knew about Treasury tax leak from government contracts.
• France bans short-haul domestic flights that could be made by train.
• US President Joe Biden and Republican Kevin McCarthy end meeting with no deal on US debt ceiling.
• Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy reach ‘agreement in principle’ on US debt ceiling.
• Narendra Modi and Anthony Albanese speak about temple vandalism during bilateral talks in Sydney.
• Why Australia gave India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi a rock star welcome.
• Albanese Should Raise Human Rights Concerns with Modi.
• Man who opened Asiana plane door in mid-air tells police he did it because he was ‘uncomfortable’.
• The Federal Police Commissioner sharing some data he’d picked up at a seminar on how to keep young staff happy.

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:

• ‘Sexist’ and ‘inappropriate’ Barely Legal beer withdrawn from craft beer festival, sparking industry debate.
• Richard Boyle faces life behind bars while those in the PwC scandal are protected by the corporate world.
• PwC scandal shows consultants, like church officials, are best kept out of state affairs.
• Google released a .zip web domain and people can’t decide if it’s the phishing apocalypse or just as bad as any other dodgy link.
• Argentina raises interest rate to 97 per cent as it struggles to tackle inflation.

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

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

• A balanced but timid budget: The Age’s scorecard.
• Tax cuts for rich Australians worth five times handouts to the poor.
• Australia budget 2023: six graphs that explain this one-off surplus.
• Donald Trump found liable for sexually abusing writer E Jean Carroll in civil trial.
• Tasmania’s Liberal government thrown into minority as MPs defect over $715 million AFL stadium in Hobart.
• Moira Deeming expelled from Victorian Liberal party room after threat to sue leader John Pesutto.

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:

• AOC, Gaetz unite to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.
• Nancy Pelosi’s net worth.
• Political disclosures: vast majority of MPs properly declared directorships and shares.
• Why there should never be another Met Gala.
• Karl Lagerfeld’s long history of disparaging fat women.
• Treasurer Jim Chalmers insists nation’s most vulnerable will be supported in federal budget.
• Liberal MP Stuart Robert, who claimed ‘absolute responsibility’ for Robodebt’s implementation, to retire from politics.
• All About the Writers Strike: What Does the WGA Want and Why Are They Fighting So Hard for it?
• King Charles has been crowned at his ‘slimmed-down’ coronation ceremony. These were the key moments.

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