Totally Unprepared Politics

We have some coronavirus lockdown specials coming out over the next week but seeing as everyone is stuck at home we though we would organise some activities for the group! This is a recording of the first Great TUP Lockdown Quiz! Full Video on Youtube via: https://youtu.be/54_cTHyWCEI Round 2 coming next week! ================================================== Support TUP and gain some cool benefits in the process: Patreon.com/tup Join in the community over on our Facebook group for more...

Over this period of COVID lockdown we will be doing some special shows covering different countries and thier varying responses for those interested in keeping up to date. This episode was reorded with regular in the TUP group Iain who is currently based in Spain close to Madrid. This episode was recorded on the first day of spanish lockdown and the information may be somewhat out of date, please follow the health advice from the official sources wherever you are based....

Coronavirus AKA Covid 19 gets even more coverage after Italy goes into quarantine and Xi Jinping visits Wuhan, Ada reckons the UK can win Eurovision and wants TUP to attend and Boris Johnson has gone from never winning a vote to winning them all! Learn how you can make 50k a day if you own a natural gas power plant, how cash is on the way out and we hurriedly talk about the man who licked the supermarket ice cream... ================================================== Support TUP and gain...

Jack and Ada welcome Tiernan Douieb of stand up comedy and the Partly Political Broadcast Podcast onto the show to talk Joe Biden's battle with Bernie, the shutting down of Heathrow's third runway project and the weird and wonderful world of Brexit negotiations. Also Boris Johnson is pregnant, iPhones on TV reveal their secrets and American prisons are even more immoral than we thought. Still though, we have a good time talking about it all. ==================================================...

In this weeks episode of The TUP Show Jack and Ada find out how the USA leaked the UK's planned nuclear weapons upgrade before it was meant to be made public, talk about the tug of war the UK is stuck in over chlorinated chickens, and argue about the coverage of Coronavirus Covid-2019. Apologies for the late upload! All of us here at TUP HQ have been hard at work on the upcoming special episodes for China Week, coming soon, so stay tuned and keep it Totally Unprepared!...

Extinction Rebellion have shut down fashion week, Junior Doctors are advertising meat and yohhurt on Instagram and Veterans are being guaranteed job interviews! Are XR a terrorist group? Are doctors paid enough? Why are we only helping Veterans now? Jack and Ada have a crack at finding out. There is also chat about pipes and consciousness, not to mention the Puerto Rico scam, the cost of Big Ben and Dominic Cummings' the super villain. License Fee consultation:...

Donald Trump survives impeachment and calls the whole thing bullshit, Brexit means the UK is Orwellian and despite the dangers America is trialling E-voting again. Should we be using facial recognition software? Will E-voting increase voter fraud? Should Donald Trump do as Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson did and not run for re-election? Jack and Ada try to answer all this whilst there is also a corona virus spike, a load of fuss over an MP's clothes and Trump tries to bring back landmines....

In this weeks TUP show Jack, Ada and special guest Ed “The Reasonable Right Winger” get together in the studio to talk the latest goings on in the world of politics. Brexit day has come and gone, Huawei now officially owns the UK (much to the USA’s dismay) and Donald Trump, the unimpeachable POTUS WOAT, has a plan to heal the divisions in the middle east…. ================================================== Support TUP and gain some cool benefits in the process: Patreon.com/tup Join in the...

In the latest episode of The TUP Show Jack and Ada discuss the alleged Jeff Bezos hack by Saudi Arabia, the inaction of the UK parliament since the election and try and guess the origin of 2019-nCov, were all the memes predicting a plague in 2020 correct? Find out in this weeks show! ================================================== Support TUP and gain some cool benefits in the process: Patreon.com/tup Join in the community over on our Facebook group for more discussion: bit.ly/tupgroup...

This month started with TUP's #TechWeek where we sat down with tech kings like Graham Cluely, Scott Manley and Konner Blunt. Well now we are casting our minds back to those shows and asking what did we learn. To be honest we mainly talk about Star Wars, with a little bit of green tech and cybersecurity. Still great though... ================================================== Support TUP and gain some cool benefits in the process: Patreon.com/tup Join in the community over on our Facebook...

This episode features a guest who wished to remain anonymous, apologies for the censored name. Hong Kong has been in a state of mass protest for over a year now. We sat down with an awareness group in Durham to hear all about how the protests began, what they are about and how the people of Hong Kong feel about the them. Durham Stands with HK joins us to talk how the protests organise, whether there is any financial backers and what the stated goals of the protests are. Find out all about...

Governments are in crisis! Russia's has resigned, Boris Johnsons' on their last warning and Trump is calling Huawei in the UK dangerous. Jack and Ada leap blindly into this weeks news stories hoping to catch some insights on the descent! Theres also the obligatory Prince Harry chat, the ultimate cryptocurrency Akoin and some madness to do with floating barrels. ================================================== Support TUP and gain some cool benefits in the process: Patreon.com/tup Join in...

In true TUP fashion we unpreparedly answer your questions! Does Grime cause crime? Who would we choose to have dinner with out of all humanity? Why is the TUP group public again? We answer all this as well as some madness about Dominic Cummings, getting called out over Sargon of Akkad and asking if the Labour Party is dead in the water. ================================================== Support TUP and gain some cool benefits in the process: Patreon.com/tup Join in the community over on our...

First Brexit, now Megxit. Then theres the battle between Iran and Trump, the Ukrainian plane strike and Extinction Rebellion being classified an extremist organisation. We try to make light of the chaos and not get too despairing. Theres also chat about Facebook, Stormont assembly, the Labour leadership race and Jack tries to convince Ada to go to the 2022 "Festival Of Brexit". All of last week was #TechWeek too! So listen to our techy goodness....

It's #TECHWEEK here at TUP, today Jack and Ada are joined by Konnor Blunt of The Blunt Report, a talented science communicator and regular guest on the show to talk about Green Energy. What is holding us back from going green? How can we store our power? And is nuclear fusion the ultimate solution? Tune in during the rest of #TECHWEEK for more in depth interviews on all things tech and politics! ================================================== Support TUP and gain some cool benefits in the...

It's #TECHWEEK here at TUP HQ, and in todays episode Ada is joined by cybersecurity expert Graham Cluley. Graham has worked in the industry for over 30 years including at some of the biggest players, Sophos and McAfee, as well as hosting his own award winning podcast and has even been inducted into Europe's Cybersec Hall of Fame! They discuss future cyber threats, election hacks, Edward Snowden, ransomware and much more! (As well as suggesting some easy ways to protect yourself and your...

It's #TECHWEEK here at TUP HQ, and today in the studio is one of Ada's hero's... Scott Manley! Scott is one of the the biggest Space content creators in the YouTubiverse, and is a great educator and source of information on the history and technology involved in space travel. He joins Jack and Ada to talk about the politics that got us into space, the billionaires space race and the potential of interplanetary politics. but there was no way they could resist also asking about China's...

It's the start of a new decade of Totally Unprepared Politics and to kick off #TECHWEEK in style Jack and Ada are joined by two close friends and regulars on the show, Biologist Jon the Magnificent and Tech YouTuber and Podcaster extraordinaire Retro Ravi, for an overview on the future technologies that excite us each the most. From General AI to Personal Medicine, Cyber Warfare to Asteroid Mining we all have our own view on how the future will look and what will be most revolutionary! Tune...

It's 2020 for the first time on the regular TUP Show! Unfortunately Donald Trump has possibly started world war 3 and huge areas of Australia are on fire. So there isn't much to celebrate. We also talk Benjamin Netanyahu, HS2, Trees For Cities, British Carbon Emissions, the banning of Menthol and flavoured cigarettes and 2 other stories about drones and anti vaxxers in 19th century. Also it's episode 50 YAY! We didn't notice until after recording so we don't mention it though......

In Celebration of a year of Totally Unprepared Politics we hand out awards to our favourite things from 2019. Jack and Ada bring a nomination for each category and then argue about who's is better. Just listen it's great... Happy New Year! ================================================== Support TUP and gain some cool benefits in the process: Patreon.com/tup Join in the community over on our Facebook group for more discussion: bit.ly/tupgroup Check out our interviews and video content over...