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We woke up on Sunday and the world was the same. In our final episode for this special Federal Election season James, Nick and Bryce share their experience of election night 2019. 

This week the Daily Telegraph tried to take down Bill Shorten's mum. That played out as well as could be expected. Hosted by James Colley and Nick Fischer Produced by Bryce Halliday whose amazing mailing list can be found here.

Just a dizzying array of gaffs and boomer nonsense played out the day that we recorded this but the main things that happened this week are an incredibly boring debate between Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten, and Pauline Hanson did an interview on A Current Affair where she played the victim to her own decisions. Hosted by James Colley and Nick Fischer Produced by Bryce Halliday

Another terrible week! Mostly overshadowed by the Water Buybacks scandal but here's what we're talking about: Palmer United Party is polling quite well. Get Up! made a pretty weird misstep in an Abbott attack ad. Rowan Dean has boycotted personal hygiene and boomers are boycotting paying for that opinion and DON'T YOU DARE think about modifying the ANZAC biscuit recipe. Also James' computer didn't record his side of the conversation so all we've got is the recording Bryce made of the Skype call. Ain't technology grand? Sounds okay though. Stick with it.  Hosted by James Colley & Nick Fischer Produced by Bryce Halliday

There's finally an official election for which we can give you the analysis you so desperately didn't ask for! This week: Notre Dame caught fire and for some reason old mate Malcolm thinks this is something which needs Australian money to fix. The Ecuadorian Embassy released footage of Julian Assange trying to do a kick flip. And Israel Folau teaches all of us, you simply must post. Hosted by James Colley and Nick Fischer Produced by Bryce Halliday.

We're back, motherfuckers. Sorry for calling you motherfuckers. It's Stop The Posts Electoral Season We recorded this episode the night before the election was called meaning that we have already been personally aggrieved by this campaign. We'll be talking Captain Get Up, the most baffling thing on earth, Vegan protests, and Adani being greenlit.

We swore that we wouldn't come out of retirement unless there was a new Prime Minister and Australia delivered once again. Thanks to regular listener and friend of the show Peter Dutton for his inspiration.

James and Nick talk about wages, Pete Evans, and a truly bizarre pitch for the worst political party that has ever been pitched. Support the show: Patreon.com/StopThePosts

Raise the bat! Stop The Posts turns 100!  We're celebrating with a new RSS Feed. Is that a terrible gift? Absolutely! But if you can read this than you did it well enough anyway.

Bob Hawke has a few sick burns on the SSM plebiscite. Also after yet another violent tragedy in the USA, Australia's lingering smugness around its gun laws pops up again. Stop The Posts now has a Patreon. If you enjoy this show and would like to contribute a little something to the costs of hosting the show online and the hours it takes to put this show together each week, that would be just bonza. Visit: https://www.patreon.com/stoptheposts Bryce is fine, guys. 

Nick and James are a little excited this week that Australia has announced its very own Space agency. Plenty of unexpected developments in the SSM debate. Apparently dogs have an opinion on this. What next?

The SSM debate has taken a few strange turns this week. But on a lighter note, Tony Abbott's onion eating antics have made a powerful comeback. Also we swear we were all in the same room when we recorded this. We have famously not cracked remote recordings. I have no idea why Nick sounds like he's on a Skype line. I hope you can bear with it.

We vaguely struck on a theme this week. Covering stories which mostly seem to have been published to stir up nonexistent outrage over Benjamin Law, Malcolm Turnbull, and some baby. Also this week we're looking for feedback on whether or not starting a Patreon to fund this whole shenanigan would be a crazy idea or not. If this is something you'd be interested in hit us up on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stoptheposts Or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Stopthepostspodcast/

The postal plebiscite is going ahead, if we all debate REAAAAAALLY nicely. Also Malcolm dropped a c-bomb on Tony.  Stop the Posts is produced by very nice man Bryce Halliday.

It's all marriage and lawyers this week. The same sex marriage campaign ads have begun and the "No" campaign is displaying the usual amount of self awareness. Dutton thinks refugee lawyers are "unaustralian", while other lawyers are apparently a little sheepish about telling their colleagues they are against equal marriage.  But also WE DID THREE WEEKS OF EPISODES IN A ROW. And the podcast is vaguely popular now. You can now follow Stop The Posts podcast on twitter: @stoptheposts Produced by Bryce Halliday (with help this week from David Muratore)

Holy Moses! Two episodes in a fortnight? Can we keep it up? Who knows! Statues and plebiscites continue to be an source of much consternation in this week's news. Produced by Bryce Halliday at Nauti Studios.

Hey it's us! That's right your podcatcher is still checking this feed and there's something new in it! We have no idea how long this will last but James and Nick are in top form, the season naming format is emojis now, and the most baffling news events of the week went down after we recorded this. Oh joy. Produced by Bryce Halliday at Nauti Studios.

Nick and James return to recap the major news stories from this exhausting year. Spoiler Alert: The beloved celebrity deaths don't let up. This is part 2 of the recap, starting in July. For January to June see the previous episode in the feed. Produced by Bryce Halliday at Nauti Studios.  

Surprise! We're back. James and Nick are back to review all the major news stories of 2016. All the politics here and abroad, the scandals, the many many MANY deaths and... hooooooo-boy why did we want to do this again? This is the first of two episodes, covering the news of January to June. A chance to look back and remember all of the things that really should have dominated the headlines had they occurred in any other news year. Produced by Bryce Halliday at Nauti Studios.

Bryce is back! How does the show change? There's a little bit more to read in these descriptions. This week Triple J considers moving its Hottest 100 countdown (which Macklemore won in 2012) to a different day. Malcolm Turnbull pleads with the Australian people to vote for marriage equality. Malcolm Roberts and Pauline Hanson gave their first speeches to our new senate. The tour was pretty great guys, thanks for asking. Produced by Bryce Halliday. Recorded at Nauti Studios.

This is a terrible Jovi. It's the worst Jovi. It's episode 70. Get in.

We're back. The Census still kinda isn't. Climate Science is in vogue And the Nauru Files .. oh god .. oh dear, sweet god. 

We're back for another week As we record the census goes down. We're still online though. Stop the Posts - 1 Census - #NUMBERUNAVAILABLE

Why is it called 67? It's our 67th episode. And our naming convention is off anyway. Still not convinced this is read by anyone.

The election is over! And this podcast has changed about as much as our government has. James Colley. Nick Fischer. Produced by Bryce Halliday. This week's episode features a rather delicious outtake at the end.

We made it. We fucking made it. We're dead inside and out but it's over. It's fucking over. Like and subscribe or whatever but good lord, it's done!

James and Nick are excited to announce the results of the 2016 Australian Federal Election!… are yet to be fully determined at the time of this recording. Let this episode serve as a time capsule of a strange moment in Australian politics. Recorded at Nauti Studios by Bryce Halliday.

The End Is Nigh! We're finally almost through with this fucking endless election. Enjoy one last look at the week in the campaign before getting your democracy sausage on.

The end is in sight. Nick and James read comments about whether Tradies are fake, whether Medicare is actually under attack and whether Eddie McGuire should be allowed to say anything at all. It's Stop The Posts Produced by Bryce Halliday at Nauti Studios.

This election will not end. It must end. Please, set us free. Let us die. Like and Subscribe to the show. Thanks.

We continue to astound ourselves and our audience by releasing an episode just about weekly.  This week Malcolm Turnbull became the first feminist prime minister of Australia (at least, as far as SMH can remember), David Leyonhjelm released a pretty callous video, and Richard Di Natale gave us pretty good reason to bring back our Soundbite of the Week segment (with new and equally obtuse theme music!) Stop The Posts is James Colley (@jamcolley) Nick Fischer (@nickrfischer), and produced by Bryce Halliday at Nauti Studios.

James and Nick are back with a third election special and James is writing the descriptions in podcasts which he's fairly certain nobody reads so enjoy the electoral analysis in the episode and try not to notice that this is just a bit of nonsense including where I wrote 'poop' on the screen just to see if anyone was paying attention.

We actually bloody did it. We did two episodes just about within the space of a week. Anthony Albanese is in the news this week, Tony Abbott never really left it, and oh god Pauline Hanson could be making a comeback. Also James trials a new segment on Nick. It's a bottom up view of the week's news in Australia. Produced by Bryce Halliday, who also puts wayyy too much effort into the stings. Recorded at Nauti Studios.

Good god man. James is back from Melbourne and we're ready for some bottom-up coverage of the 2016 Australian election. This week a bunch of poor people had the nerve to want more money and the prime minister of Australia visited a gentlemen's club, but we're mostly annoyed that Mark Di Stefano never told us who Wyatt Roy's starter pokemon was. At the end we take a slight break from election coverage for a human interest story that from the Daily Telegraph that seemed particularly off-brand. Recorded at Nauti Studios. Produced by Bryce Halliday.

It's our last chance to have Nick and James in the same city for a while so we thought we'd have one more crack at doing a remote record while we can still figure out the bugs. It went pretty good but it's a short episode this week. Kevin Rudd could be up for the UN, and yet another year begins with Woolworths having a merchandise publicity disaster. It's Stop The Posts! Hosted by James Colley (@JamColley) and Nick Fischer (@Nickrfischer)Produced by Bryce Halliday: @MrBryceHalliday

We're all in the same room! And Gina Rushton of The Australian joins us to chat through the most serious news stories from this week... Okay it's mostly about lettuce. Our guest is: @ginarush Hosted by James Colley (@JamColley) and Nick Fischer (@Nickrfischer) Produced by Bryce Halliday: @MrBryceHalliday

Guess who's back? Yet again? It's a New Year and a new season of Stop The Posts for 2016! James will once again be in Melbourne for the next 6 months working on the second season of The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. Before he goes we thought we'd see if we could use the witchcraft of modern technology to do a remote record in two locations. Which is why James is a bit quieter in parts of this episode, sorry about that. Still it's a cracker of an episode and a great way to start your year off terribly. Produced by Bryce Halliday.

Season 5 is kicking along! Buzzfeed Australia's Mark Di Stefano drops by to help us deconstruct Tony Abbott's latest interview with Leigh Sales, the Matildas pay dispute and whether or not Peter Dutton knows how jokes work. Hosted by James Colley and Nick Fischer. Produced by Bryce Halliday. Recorded at 2ser.

Good God, Man! James Colley is back in town, and so is Stop The Posts. After a 6 month hiatus we're very excited to begin a new season of your favourite podcast. Taking a look at the week's news through the comments left on the major Australian news outlet's websites. For our first episode back we're joined by writer for the Backburner and all round fun guy Ben Mclay (@thomas_violence on Twitter). In other news, while James was away, Nick finally joined Twitter: @NickRFischer Produced, as ever, by Bryce Halliday. Recorded at 2SER, Sydney, Australia.

It's the end of another season! James is moving to Melbourne for six months for a sweet sweet job so in the meantime we're calling this an indefinite hiatus. We could have gone out like Scrubs and had every guest who ever appeared on the show in the last episode, but instead we thought we'd get a firm favourite Kara Schlegl back in the hot seat. We chat about the week's news as normal for the first half of the episode (which went to broadcast on 2SER on March 15) but we thought we'd do a little bit extra for you podcast people who have been with us from the start. Bryce joins the conversation and we go roundtable discussing a few scenarios involving AusPol characters. It's... a little chaotic but totally worth it for Nick's new nickname for Scott Ludlam at the end. Thank you to 2SER for picking up the show over the last 6 months. Thank you to Bryce Halliday for producing every incarnation of the show from its inception. Thank you to all our wonderful guests who helped us develop the show. Thank you James Colley and Nick Fischer for creating a great show format and trawling some of the darkest corners of the internet to find great comments. And of course thank you to you idiots for subscribing and sharing the show and being bothered to read all of this text. You're amazing. Please follow us all on Twitters and Facebooks to keep up with the other things we're doing. There's a lot going on. James is @JamColley and has a website. Bryce is @MrBryceHalliday and brycehalliday.com. And... I dunno, add Nick Fischer on Facebook or something.

The creator of 'Stop Tony Meow' Dan Nolan returns for another stellar episode of Stop The Posts. This week in news the Medicare Co-Payment dies (...again?), the LNP proves there are all sorts of ways to celebrate International Womans Day, and Clive Palmer mistook a press conference for an edgy open mic night. Recorded at 2SER. Produced by Bryce Halliday.

We chat about the hepatitis berries, why going back to Iraq would be terrible all around and Joe Hockey is promising we're all going to live forever again. It's Stop The Posts with James Colley, Nick Fischer and this week's guest Sebastian Hernage. Produced by Bryce Halliday. Recorded at 2ser.

Good news! The leadship spill didn't go ahead so our last episode was still relevent when it was broadcast. Exasperated hoorays all around. Kara Shlegl returns as our guest on an excellent episode of Stop The Posts. So good in fact that we went way over time in our recording and you lovely podcasters get the unedited version. We chat about the spill and about Joe Hockey's cuts to Medicare. Freya Newman joins The Greens and we suggest some new branding. Australia is part of Eurovision now and Nick teaches us a new term. Produced by Bryce Halliday Recorded at 2SER.

Leaderships is spilling all over the country! And there's a good chance that there will be another huge political shift between the time we recorded this and the time you listen to it. So enjoy hearing us try to guess the future you know too well. Tony Abbott coins a new catchphrase, the Queensland election thwarted everyone's expectations (ours included) and NT News is just awesome. It's Stop The Posts. Special guest Jonathan Baker (aka Anatole).  Produced by Bryce Halliday Recorded at 2ser.

Hey. So we forgot to hit publish on this episode and a whole lot of political who-ha happened in the days since this was recorded. So enjoy hearing us follow up on the #Tay4Hottest100 story like that has any bearing on your life any more! Joined by wonderful guest Shubha Sivasubramanian. Produced by Bryce Halliday Recorded at 2ser. New episode this Sunday 10:30pm.

Taylor Swift might ruin the Hottest 100, Joe Hockey thinks you might live to 150, Warnie might be on Tindr. It's a strange week of news and James and Nick are joined by Xavier Rubetzki Noonan to discuss it. Recorded at 2SER, produced by the very handsome Bryce Halliday.

The boys are back in town. It's a new year and everyone hoping for a real change in fortune from 2011 got a good four hours of sweet bliss before something awful happened.  We're joined by Guardian Australia Comment Is Free editor Adam Brereton to discuss all the big stories including the biggest of all: a riot at a darts tournament. This one is good. Get on this one.

In a year that's had plenty of grim weeks of news, our last episode for 2014 comes at probably the grimmest of them all! Nonetheless, we've managed to find some lighter news stories and plenty of batshit commenters to chat about and had a lot of fun finishing off the year. #robotarms Producer Bryce Halliday sits in the guest chair and gets too much enjoyment out of launching the stings with his recorded voice in them. We're pretty sure we'll be back next year, but it may well be a different format so to be sure you're up to date with our next projects Like Stop The Posts on Facebook. Nick doesn't have Twitter but you can follow James (@JamColley) and Bryce (@MrBryceHalliday). Thanks for all of your support and feedback as we moved from a podcast format to a radio broadcast show. It's been a great year.

Just before he heads off to his fancy new job for Al Jazeera Plus, Dan Ilic (A Rational Fear, Hungry Beast, all round professional at this) joins us and teaches the boys a thing or two about radio. We discuss the Medicare co-payment being scrapped (sort of, not really), Julia Bishop giving her chaperone the slip, and Tony Abbott having a bumbly sort of week on morning television. It's a great week of Stop The Posts. Produced by Bryce Halliday. Recorded at 2SER in Sydney.

The headlines this week were pretty bleak, and James is out of town so we thought we'd try something a bit different. Nick steps into the hot seat and Bryce steps into the damp seat for a special SCIENCE themed episode. We chat to University of Sydney pysicist-turned-local-brewer Scott Brownless about some of the more exciting science related headlines from the last month. Let us know what you think of the slight change of pace. You can hit us up at facebook.com/StopThePostsPodcast This episode recorded at 2SER and produced by Bryce Halliday.