Unnatural Selection
374 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★ - 2 ratingsUnnatural Selection is a weekly comedy podcast about news and politics. Each week the guys take a few stories from the week's news, and bring a fresh and funny new take that you may not have considered.
They cover Australian and American news as well as some stores from around the world.
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Episodes
323: Very Special Prosecutor
May 20, 2017 07:22 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: A special prosecutor assigned to the Trump affair. Mike Pence and the Republicans need to grow a spine. Good luck! Crisis in Venezuela - shit's fucked! FBI Director Robert Mueller gets appointed as special counsel. We suck at hosting the show all over the place. Sweden drops charges of rape against Julian Assange. Julian Assange comes off like a bit of a shitlord. ATO deputy commissioner Michael Cranst...
322: You Used to Call Me
May 14, 2017 08:18 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: The totally fair budget 2017. LNP - lets lower some expectations. Drug testing welfare recipients, because, sure, why the fuck not? Cory Bernardi: You used to call me on my cell phone. The government wants you to save for a home: BUT NOT TOO MUCH YOU GREEDY PLEB. Adam watches a LOT of Antiques Roadshow. Macron wins the French election. QANTAS CEO Alan Joyce gets creampied for gay marriage. Trump fire...
321: Health-que?
May 07, 2017 17:40 - 43 minutes - 30 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: American things are different. Veep stars respond to Aussie MP knocking himself out laughing at them. Aussie Senate has a twitter battle with House of Reps on Star Wars Day. New HELP debt scheme means you make repayments from $42k now! Yay. Gonski 2.0 - Live Free or Gonsk Hard. Adam's expressive faces and meme seepage. Prince Phillip 'retires' - meaning he doesn't need to meet Donald Trump. Donald...
320: How Have I Not Failed?
May 02, 2017 03:44 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Facts Don't Matter - so you say how I failed. The Rain Album - it really does rain a lot in Seattle. Cory Bernardi gathers his forces of darkness - joins with Family First. Yay for conservatives, or as Jorge likes to call them "Historical Enthusiasts." Mark "Burned Too Hot and Too Bright" Ellis and how he quits One Nation. Pauline Hanson and One Nation referred to law enforcement by Labor senator. Lets...
319: Sabre Rattling
April 26, 2017 00:27 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Jorge is in America! North Korea threatens to nuke Australia. Hopefully Australia will still exist on Jorge's return. 457 working visas revoked as Malcolm Turnbull proves he is in fact a weird spinless amoeba. Only effects 1% of visas - so it's definitely not a shitty wedge issue. New 100%-not-racist new citizenship test. One Nation Candidate was one of the 'pinkenba six' kidnapping 23 years ago....
318: Sean 'Scary' Spicer
April 19, 2017 10:12 - 48 minutes - 33 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Jorge loves dead air(?) We have the lovely Suzanne Stevens on the podcast - and she has cookies. United Airlines fiasco - man dragged away and it was horrible. $800mil loss will ensure a genuine apology. Every time. Pauline Hanson wanted you to boycott Halal chocolate because yay prejudice! #GetTomSomeEggs - and nobody did. Humpty Dumpty is an egg - nobody mentions it. Merry Xmas ISIS - how a Melbourne...
317: Quagmire
April 10, 2017 12:30 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Melbourne weather: everyone loses their damn minds. Oh yeah, Trump may have started World War Three. Trump orders the drop of 59 Tomahawk missiles on Syrian air base in retaliation for Syrian government's chemical weapon attack. America First and don't attack Assad... Unless... Prolonging a civil war. 'Extreme vetting' means hand over your phone and passwords now. John Clarke, noted satirist and ...
316: Immunity Like Flynn
April 03, 2017 12:07 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Mark Latham sacked from Sky News after being a predictable twat. Brexit triggered: the EU and the United Kingdom begin the negotiation process. Woman Fucks Entire Country: Theresa May signs the exit papers. Donald Tusk is like a sad, dumped teenage boyfriend. Michael Flynn offers to testify to congress in exchange for immunity from... something? Mike Flynn: When you're given immunity you've probably co...
315: Idiot Baby
March 28, 2017 10:52 - 1 hour - 45 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Adam’s awesome start-up idea. Westminster bridge terror attack. Sadiq Kahn vs Donald Trump Junior. Pauline Hanson proposes a Muslim ban for completely not cynical and and opportunistic reasons. Trump playing trucks while all the politicians fail to pass Trumpcare. Trump’s repeal of Obamacare fails. TV Show contenstants spend a year and wilderness - and they didn’t even get famous! Malcolm Roberts, renowned...
314: International Shirtfronting Week
March 20, 2017 23:49 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Conciliatory Croissants at the UN and being Double French. Adam is a walking Australia meme. We don’t all love Vegemite. Adam doesn’t watch the Simpsons and thus doesn’t get our references. Should we pivot to being a podcast just about Simpsons Memes. THE SNOWY HYDRO SCHEME THO. Lets to a feasibility study! Politics has always been dumb and terrible. People are people. People are garbage. Nothing chang...
313: Everything is Hacked
March 15, 2017 10:25 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Labour Day is not a day celebrating Labor. Pauline Hanson and One Nation failed miserably in the WA election. More like POORLY HANSON! More Trump and Russia stuff. Trump sold a house to a Russian for a $50 Million profit. Russian involvement in the election is like a season finale of House of Cards. Jorge writes on a typewriter? NO MORE AWKWARD PAUSE. How the CIA can hack your phone, PC and TV. WikiL...
312: Paleo Pear and Banana Bread
March 08, 2017 03:33 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Only good news this week. Can't find any biased news! FACTS DON'T MATTER is on sale. Centrelink debt recovery debacle - turns out your info isn't private at all! Government decides that government can release your private data whenever it feels like it. Is Centrelink bad on purpose? Paleo Pear and Banana Bread - Department of Finance's hilarious recruitment video. There's an AusPost one from the same p...
311: Oscars Shenanigans
February 28, 2017 11:18 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Oscars Spoilers. 'La La Land' got announced as the winner for best picture - turns out it was 'Moonlight'. LOL. Star system with 7 planets discovered. Memes ensue. The James Webb telescope is amazing. Penalty rate cuts and Tom's outrage. Tony Abbott snipes at Malcolm Turnbull in transparent, terrible bid for the leadership. Aus Post CEO Ahmed Fahour resigns and Jorge is now no longer on his side. White...
310: THE "MAINSTREAM MEDIA"
February 22, 2017 10:34 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Jorge gets off his high horse. The panda is no longer endangered? Malcolm "The Data Has Been Corrupted" Roberts corrupts his own Twitter poll data. Tom knows Morning Joe and Jorge is so proud. He's still disappointed in Adam. Consistently. George Soros must be handing out a lot of cheques. Mitch is a good guy and now it's weird. Slacktivism, clicktivism and Doesn't-give-a-shit-stivism. LBJ and his big ...
309: ClusterTrump
February 17, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 36.6 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Australia Post's CEO's comp package is... impressive. Donald Trump is 100% not mentally ill... This 'so-called judge'. Cory Bernardi is having a great first week. @AUConservatives? Or @AU_Conservatives? DO NOT TROLL AU CONSERVATIVES PLEASE Let's make homelessness illegal! Problem solved! The Chinese government has opinions about how late you should be gaming. Apparently you couldn’t buy gaming consoles i...
308: President Trumble
February 08, 2017 06:03 - 46 minutes - 26.8 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Adam can’t order food or do intros. But we love him anyway. The Superbowl was a thing that happens. Cory Bernardi has split away from the LNP to create the Australian Conservative Party. Jorge and Adam relitigate their never-mounted play. We almost forgot about Clive Palmer! Cory Bernardi sounds like Adam with a sinus infection in a wind tunnel. Donald Trump and his Muslim ban gets held up in the courts...
307: Executive Orders Are Fun!
February 02, 2017 07:44 - 1 hour - 35.4 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Jorge was late. Adam, out of boredom, develops a gambling habit. First Question = Donald Trump. Trump’s first week in office: a hell of a lot of bullshit. Jorge’s Trump impression is… passable. Trump dumps the TPP - he has no idea what it is. Do the GOP have a replacement for the ACA? Fuck no. Executive Orders - just fun rules! The problems with religion. Muslims shouldn’t have to apologise for...
306: American Carnage
January 24, 2017 10:28 - 53 minutes - 30.8 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Donald Trump has been inaugurated as the 45th President of the United Sates of America. God save us all. Trump's haunting fear monologue. Trump accidentally quotes Bane. You don't want to get 'dank lung' from the meme mines. One Nation actually begged for tickets to the inauguration. The Bourke Street Driver is identified and everyone has an opinion. Richard Spencer gets punched in the face. The Unnatur...
305: Don't Piss Off The CIA
January 18, 2017 06:55 - 42 minutes - 24.1 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Scraping the barrel - no more NPR intros. Sussan Ley reaches step 5 of an expenses scandal: resignation. We finally ended corruption once and for all! Lets have a federal ICAC already! Donald Trump is a literal dinosaur. 2016 was the worst - and 2017 will be even worse. Donald Trump is not a fan of CNN - calls them 'fake news'. "Do you honestly believe Hillary would be tougher on Putin than me?" Um. Y...
304: SUSSan Ley
January 10, 2017 12:58 - 44 minutes - 25.4 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: Jorge forgot to post the episode again. Embattled MP Sussan Ley steps down from cabinet. Here's the plan for an entitlements scandal. Nobody buys things on impulse - from Liberal party donors, that is. Do people understand how buying a house works? WA Senator Rod Culleton definitely doesn't 'shape up' for a fight. Trump lies to the public. The Russians 100% hacked the election. NZ MP blasts Malcolm Rob...
303: So It's 2017
January 08, 2017 12:01 - 40 minutes - 23.2 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast the boys discuss: 2016 is finally over. No celebrities are allowed to die now. Monster Trucks and other pieces of High Art. We're scared of the first piece of bad news. La La Land will crush your damn soul. Ryan Gosling might be bad at other stuff. Christmas in retail is complete garbage. The electoral college and hilarious liberal handwringing. Rex Tillerson and his 'foreign policy experience'. Donald Trump wants t...
302: The One With Jorge's Dad
December 27, 2016 01:49 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBOn this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast Jorge gets his dad Mark Tsipos over for an interview about his life. They discuss growing up in Greece and Australia, avoiding conscription, dreams of being a travelling salesman and starting your own business and family. You know, the run of the mill origins story of everyone. The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection podcast www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff...
301: The Bottle Episode
December 19, 2016 11:13 - 59 minutes - 33.8 MBOn this week's episode of Unnatural Selection Jorge sits down with Suzi and Andrew Stevens to discuss: Moving from Darwin. Money is a thing that you probably need to have. Tushy time - Jorge decides what the episode is called and it will not be that. Tongs are eternal - nobody ever knows where they come from. Buying a house is actually a thing that puts you in a place for a time. EQUITY. SO MUCH EQUITY. Cab ride and a pizza. New killer app. Parking is a thing in Melbourne. A...
300: The Worst of Unnatural Selection
December 12, 2016 23:30 - 47 minutes - 27.3 MBOn this week's episode of Unnatural Selection the boys discuss: Jorge screws with the intro again. How we used to be awful people. The Worst of Unnatural Selection for your listening 'pleasure' We grew up with the times. First dinosaur tail found preserved in amber. Nick Xenophon and submarine leaks. Secret CIA assessment shows Russia was actively helping Trump to win the election - oh and the Republicans knew and did nothing. So yeah. The Unnatural Selection podcast is produce...