Get to the underground bunkers, put on those military issue nylons and lipstick, and brace for impact as Jeff and Emma get into the tonal whiplash between Kubrick’s nightmare comedy Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb and its Cold War serious counterpart Red Alert by Peter George. How do we go from a countdown to the end in a quest for world peace to protecting our fluids from Russians and women? Why is Peter Sellers so many guys? Are you just as capable of being as sorry as I am, Dmitri? Content warnings for Red Alert include: violence, bombings, suicide, death, threat of doom, 60’s-standard outlooks on the world. Content warnings for Dr. Strangelove include: violence, bombings, suicide, death, threat of doom, so much horniness, one goofy Nazi, and a Tim Robinson lookalike. The articles Emma references in this episode can be found here: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240129-dr-strangelove-at-60-the-mystery-behind-kubricks-cold-war-masterpiece https://collider.com/stanley-kubrick-dr-strangelove-original-story/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dr-strangelove-stanley-kubrick-making-of-1235808181/ You can find Emma on twitter @ematsca and the show @UnselectPod. You can find Jeff most places @PartyofOnePod. Jeff’s book The Ultimate Fantasy Character Creator is available now. Unnatural Selection and Jeff’s show All My Fantasy Children are both a part of the Moonshot Podcast Network. If you like what you’ve heard and want to support them, you can become a patron at patreon.com/moonshotnetwork The music for this show was composed by Jake Loranger. You can check out more of his work at https://amaranthine.bandcamp.com

A month ago, Katharine and Emma hit the mattresses, but now that things are calming down between the Mafia families of New York they’re here to talk about cinematic masterpiece The Godfather and the extremely trashy novel that inspired it. They get into all of it, from the ten thousand story lines, to the mid-century Italian-American gender essentialism, to just how many synonyms there are for penis used in this novel. And yet somehow, the movie is still (spoiler) a 10/10. Content warnings for The Godfather novel include: Mob violence, domestic violence, racism, sexism, death of a loved one, lots of death in general, death of an animal, and an extremely detailed description of vaginal reconstructive surgery. Content warning for The Godfather film include: Mob violence, domestic violence, racism, sexism, death of a loved one, once again it’s a mob movie lots of death and violence in general, death of an animal, and Al Pacino looking so so hot. The article Emma references in this episode can be found here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/03/24/godfatherhood You can find Emma on twitter @ematsca and the show @UnselectPod. You can find Katharine on twitter or letterboxd @ferrifrigida and her website at https://kcoldiron.com/ . If you want to hear more of Katharine’s takes on film you can listen to The Take-Up on your podcatcher of choice or read her book Junk Film. Unnatural Selection is a part of the Moonshot Podcast Network. If you like what you’ve heard and want to support the network, you can become a patron at patreon.com/moonshotnetwork The music for this show was composed by Jake Loranger. You can check out more of his work at https://amaranthine.bandcamp.com

Happy Halloween from Unnatural Selection! This month Audrey and Emma face one of the spookiest things known to podcaster: historical fiction from the early 2010’s. Listen along as Emma’s brain full of facts short circuits as the pair tear apart Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith and its 2012 adaptation. We ask questions everyone else is too afraid to, like “Did this even need to be Abraham Lincoln?” and “Was there a single sensitivity reader looking at the slavery plot?” as well as “Hey is that the guy from Mama Mia?” and many more! Content warnings for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter include: vampire-standard gore, racism, slavery, death of a child, death of a family member, death of a loved one, politics, and a shocking amount of actual Lincoln facts. The articles and book Emma references in this episode can be found here: https://ew.com/article/2012/06/29/abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter-2/ https://www.fangoria.com/qa-seth-grahame-smith-vampire-scripter/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562046/shakespeare-in-a-divided-america-by-james-shapiro/ You can find Emma on twitter @ematsca and the show @UnselectPod. Audrey doesn’t vibe with social media, but you can find their podcast Alone at the Table on your podcatcher of choice. Unnatural Selection and Alone at the Table are part of the Moonshot Podcast Network. If you like what you’ve heard from either of them and want to hear more, you can become a patron at patreon.com/moonshotnetwork The music for this show was commissioned from and composed by Jake Loranger. You can check out more of his work at https://amaranthine.bandcamp.com/