The Conditional Release Program
by Jack the Insider and Joel Hill
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Episode 219 - Helen Haines
Episode 219 - Helen Haines
About this podcast
Welcome to The Conditional Release Program, a podcast that delves into the netherworld of cults, crims and con artists.
Who would have thought a spicy chest cough would turn everyone so completely mad?
Our weekly show covers the conspiracy theorists that created a 'shadow pandemic' of political idiocy and violent ideation within the fringe of politics.
From time to time we get our hands even dirtier with true crime deep dives. Jack is a seasoned expert in the true crime genre, having written and spoken extensively about Roger Rogerson, Stan 'the man' Smith and, of course, the Fine Cotton Fiasco. In various episodes he guides us through the dark underbelly of Australian crime in his trademark storytelling style.
The world is getting weird and we are getting weird with it. Let's watch as democracy crumbles into a smouldering heap - and take note of the kids carrying the matches and the metho.
Hosted by Jack the Insider and Joel Hill with an occasional rotation of guests that generally share our distaste toward the lunatic fringe.
Episodes
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- Episode 219 - Helen Haines · 1 h 46 minWe aren't doing the usual episode format this time and stripping it down to bare bones a bit. It took a little while for this one to come together - it's just been a bit of a…
- The Two Jacks - 176 - When the Centre Cannot Hold: Le Pen, the AfD and a Fraying West · 1 h 27 minDeepseek, bitches! Version 4 - but Pro bro. Pretty crap tbh. Title sucks. HKJ says some completely wrong things about an Edinburgh study on bots. I am assured this will be…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 175 - One Nation’s Big Test, Albo’s Balancing Act and Trump’s Midterm Gamble · 1 h 34 minLatest episode but I think this one took a while to go up as well. GPT Sol again. Did a good job. Jack the Insider and Hong Kong Jack return with a packed discussion of…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 174 - Four Corners Under Fire, Brisbane’s Escape and Man City’s Reckoning · 1 h 42 minOkay so this one is GPT 6.1 Sol and tbh it did a pretty good job. It has less clanker crap in it. The real turing test is whether it can go without saying JTI is actually Joel…
- Episode 218 - NEWS - Shoey - Pike - TREASON - Plague - Joanna Howe - BABET! · 1 h 40 min · Season 1 Episode 218We have decided this week we are not doing consent. It's not a thing, man. Except when it comes to beer. Consent is important when it comes to beer. SO PLEASE BUY CBCO TINS WITH…
- Black Label 44 - Sample - Kash Patel Refuses to Kinkshame FBI Applicants · 26 minAlright so this one's not very defamatory and it's mostly scripted - I was gonna put this in the last episode but it ran over time. I am being properly punished with uni work…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 173 - Australia's DV Crisis, One Nation's Migration Blitz, and Albo's Polling Slide · 1 h 28 minSorry folks this one took a while cause I was away and had no idea it existed. But it's still good! Pick it up, dust it off and have a listen. As usual this one is brought to you…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 172 - Hanson Doubles Down, Burgess Sounds the Alarm, and the Populist Playbook Goes Global · 1 h 43 minOh no, China! That's what all the techbros are saying. Let's test that theory with some shownotes generated by Qwen 3.8 Max. The max is for MAXIMUM. This is the maximum. EPISODE…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 171 - By-Election Blowouts, Pacific Soft Diplomacy, and Tobacco Policy Smoke & Mirrors · 1 h 38 minGoogle has updated their gemini model to 3.8 - it's pretty flash! PUN INTENDED. I know you guys only come here for the AI generated shownotes so this is brought to you by 3.8…
- Episode 217 - Dezi - MFA - Bird Flu - TVL in Secret Harbour - SignalSandra - STAUNCH! · 1 h 56 min · Season 1 Episode 217Bloody hell it's a big one listeners. There's a lot to go through. We are only scratching the surface. Mr. Insider alongside John Ferguson and Liam Mendes have unearthed new…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 170 - Farley and One Nation's Immigration Muddle, AI Bubble Warnings and the Swans Self-Destruct · 1 h 36 minThis one was Meta AI - it's a free model and it did a pretty good job. Obviously I am not going to read that and neither will anyone else, but outside of the lack of brevity here…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 169 - Bloods on the Brink, Political Cash Stashes, and Royal Commission Fatigue · 1 h 33 minThis using Google Gemini 3.7 Flash using extended mode. Got a free thing for uni so giving this a whirl. It's not that good. The Jacks dive into the ongoing debate surrounding…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 168 - Melons, Migrants and Meandering Polls · 1 h 33 minThis one is Claude Sonnet 5 - did a decent job. Got Gemini to do it at the same time and it was SHIT. -------------------------- Jack the Insider and Hong Kong Jack open with an…
- Episode 216 - Census - Antivax Lawsuit - Paedo Priest - ABSOLUTE PROOF - RFK Jr. · 1 h 41 min · Season 1 Episode 216It's back to back news finishing up with a bit of heroin and a bit of crack. First up we look at the census. This segment could have gone for about 3 days but we highlight some…
- Two Jacks 167: From Pettingill to Perrottet — Corruption, Concussion, and Carlton’s Revival · 1 h 38 minThis week it's NVIDIA Nemotron Ultra through Perplexity - my sub is running out soon. It made some pretty amazing mistakes and totally made up the references list at the end. I…
- Episode 215 - Rod Culleton and Grubisa Update with Chris Baker and Jack · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 215We had a bit of an echo issue with the sound so I had to do a manual edit and at times for the sake of your sanity, Chris' audio was cut out. But I did my best to keep it all in…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 165 - From Crimea to Canberra: Putin Cornered, One Nation Rising, and an Economy Out of Ideas · 1 h 31 minThis weeks ai slop is served up by DeepSeek v4 Pro. I tried to use Kimi but it got stuck generating the notes. So now you get this. Could be worse. Episode Summary Jack the…
- Episode 214 - NEWS - AusAlert - Barky Barnaby and Teeny Weeny · 1 h 43 min · Season 1 Episode 214We are back! And this week we are keeping it simple and silly. While I am looking into Karl Stefanovic's main sponsor Ringers Western - I have got square eyes and research…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 164 - Housing, Hormuz and the PM’s Podcast Problem · 1 h 36 minThis weeks shownotes are brought to you by Microsoft CoPilot - and I think that's funny. Why? Because nobody really uses this outside of work. But here I am - using it. But I can…
- Episode 213 - NEWS - PHON AI Slop - AntiVax Infanticide - Clacton Bin Sea · 1 h 24 min · Season 1 Episode 213Listeners! Thanks for your patience! I've been sick and Jack's been distracted but you can't keep a good bitch down and we are back with a news ep to keep you going. Up first we…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 163 - Housing Jitters, One Nation’s Surge and Victoria’s Political Reckoning · 1 h 38 minOh my god don't get RSV it's so shit. We will be back with TCRP soon. My brain has been goats cheese. It's been a hell of a fortnight but there's a lot going on and it must be…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 162 - Missiles, Monoculture & a Mandatory Sell-Off: One Nation's Housing Bomb · 1 h 37 minThis weeks AI slop is brought to you by GLM 5.1 - a weird model I have never heard of before. Funnily enough, it kinda all sounds the same at this point. Still, half decent job I…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 161 - From Tehran to Canberra: Iran, Hanson and the World Game · 1 h 36 minOkay so I got Claude Opus 4.6 to do the shownotes this week and my god does it suck. I always thought Claude was good. Anthropic are the ones who refused to automate weapons…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 160 - Smokes, Swings and Scandals: Polls, Panic and a Very Messy Week · 1 h 33 minFriends! Romans! Cuntrymen! It is indeed that time again for another serving of AI slop to vaguely describe the TWO JACKS PODCAST! This has been generated by Kimi K2.6 which is…
- Episode 212 - A Hard Yarn about Clown Repellent - ft. Daniel Morrison · 2 h 39 minIf Daniel wrote these shownotes they would be much nicer. But honestly, this was exhausting. Listening to people who just ramble on about things they know nothing about is…
- Episode 211 - NEWS - Candace Tickets - Sarajevo Safaris - Trump Phone - Monica's Exy Hat · 1 h 53 minThere's a lot going on folks but we narrowed it down to this: Candace Owens ticketholders are stuffed. Unlike the Don Jr tour, where some people actually did get refunds - these…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 159 - The Pandemic We Parked: Long COVID, Broken Trust & the Populist Wave · 1 h 41 minIf you are worried about China taking over due to having better robots than the yanks, I got mixed messages for ya here. This was created using DeepSeek v4 Pro. Remember when…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 157 - From Housing Wars to Hate Speech: Albo’s Budget, the NDIS and Anti‑Semitism in Australia · 1 h 33 minThis summary was brought to you by NVIDIA Nemotron 3 super. What's that, you ask? I don't really know. It sounds a lot like the other models. It's just another dumb clanker…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 158 - Trust, Tax, and Turbulence: Budget Blowback, Burnham Bids, and the Teal Question · 1 h 35 minTitle and shownotes were generated by Perplexity using the transcript and a crap prompt. Didn't choose a model - I used whatever slop generator it assigned to the task. Titles…
- Episode 210 - The Guru Judgment ft. Rod '007' Swift · 1 h 45 minI know you are all hanging out to hear about this and the judgment still hasn't dropped on the NSW Caselaw website (though I hear it's doing the rounds) so here it is. It's…
- Episode 209 - Dominique Grubisa - The Long Con and the Regulators that Looked the Other Way · 1 h 58 minAround 4000 consumers paid $24 million to Dominique Grubisa, a Sydney lawyer. Many of those people were scammed out of their money. In this episode of the Conditional Release…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 156 - The Budget, the Backlash and the Broken Promise Problem (Carlton still sucks) · 1 h 30 minAI slop as usual. Perplexity Pro this time - on default settings. Once all these free AI subscriptions run out y'all are getting Gemini slop but why not mix it up while we can…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 155 - The Iran War Ripple & The Carlton Trauma · 1 h 36 minThis is such a crap job from Gemini but when you order AI slop I suppose you get what you are given. Welcome back to the Two Jacks. It is May 4, 2026, and today Jack the Insider…
- Episode 208 - NEWS - Dezi Freeman - Russell Brand - Cooker Update and PETE! · 1 h 40 min · Season 1 Episode 208This is a terrible time of year for me where all the assessments are coming due and the law is right up my rectum. But hey, it's interesting stuff. I now know way more about…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 154 - From Anzac Boos to AFL Blues: Mateship, Migration, and the Myth of the Monoculture · 1 h 36 minAI slop brought to you by Gemini 3 (flash - thinking) and it thinks I am Jack because of the transcript. Whatever. Enjoy the show! There's a TCRP coming soon I promise! Episode…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 153 - The 58-Vote Fumble, the Death of Net Zero, and Why Your Makeup Artist Knows More Than Your Politician · 1 h 39 minThis weeks AI slop is being served to you by Google Gemini. Forgot to turn on thinking, so this is the 'fast' slop. Which may or may not be lesser quality than the other option…
- Episode 207 - Desi Freeman - Monica Parties - Iran - WWN or Trump? · 1 h 35 min · Season 1 Episode 207It has been a very busy period on the fringe of right wing politics and also the middle of semester. Which is annoying. But a bit of hard work from Jack at the keyboard and a few…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 151 - Egg Hunts, Air Strikes & the ASX · 1 h 38 minSame prompt as last time except this one is claude 4.6 opus. taking bloody ages no wonder they don't to be robot executioners they wouldn't fire until the target was in another…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 150 - Landslides, Losers, and Raised Bats · 1 h 33 minSo the shownotes are brought to you by Grok this week and this is the prompt. Please make podcast shownotes based on this transcript. Keep in mind that this is an Australian…
- Episode 206 - SA Election - Cobalt or Death - Florsheim Shoes - Monica & Guru in Court - · 1 h 34 minIt's been a huge week on the lunatic fringe. We have the SA election where One Nation basically won the whole thing while Peter Malinauskas and his stupid giant biceps are crying…
- SAMPLE - Black Label 39 - Iran - Naughty Jan 6ers - Farrer and SA elections - HCA Vic donations case · 33 minIn my legally unqualified opinion we didn't defame anyone in the first 30 mins so we will give y'all a bit of content to chew on while we get the next main ep going. Notes are…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 149 - How We Consume News (and Why It Matters) · 1 h 30 minOkay so it seems that episode 148 hasn't actually gone up yet. So I will do that later. Yes, 148 goes before 149 but we are post modern and cool like that. And hey, now you can…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 147 - Khamenei Down, Carney in Town & the AFL Kicks Off · 1 h 33 minClaude wrote these. I did not. Jack the Insider and Hong Kong Jack are back for Episode 147, recorded on 5 March 2026. It's a massive week of news — a record Kiwi exodus to…
- Episode 205 - Epstein Fury ft Hillary + Pizza - GC Trump Tower - Woke AI - BABET! · 2 h 1 minWe are back and it's been a huge fortnight on the fringe of right wing politics. We have forgotten about Epstein thanks to Operation Epstein Fury - but is that really why Trump…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 146 - One Nation’s Surge, NDIS Reform & the Politics of Fea · 1 h 34 minAS USUAL SHOWNOTES ARE AI SLOP BY CLAUDE SONNET 4.6 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER ----------------------------------------------------------- A wide‑ranging hour…
- SAMPLE - Black Label 38 - Thiel's Hallow App - Tariffs - Epstein - SovCit · 27 minI don't think we defamed anyone in the first thirty mins so I thought I might give a snippet to the public feed to keep y'all happy till the next main ep…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 145 - The Liberal Makeover, Epstein's Elite Friends & Cuba on the Brink · 1 h 30 minTHERE IS A FEEDBACK FROM HKJ'S HEADPHONES TO HIS MIC - THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE FIXED - I HAVE BEEN TOLD HKJ HAS BEEN YELLED AT APPROPRIATELY. AI slop from our mate Claude Sonnet…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 144 - Angus, Epstein and the Ashes of the Washington Post · 1 h 15 minShownotes are AI slop as usual. It's a week late cause nobody bothered to tell me it was recorded. Apologies for lack of freshness…
- Episode 204 - Kudelka - Perth - Superbowl - Epstein - SovCits - PETE! · 1 h 56 min · Season 1 Episode 204This week we are back with another news episode because there is a bloody lot going on. First up, Jack gives a quick eulogy for his friend Jon Kudelka, a political cartoonist…
- The Two Jacks - Episode 143 - RBA Raises Rates, Coalition in Crisis, and Epstein Files Revelations · 1 h 34 minShow Notes - Episode 143 Recorded: 3 February 2026 Released: 8 February 2026 Episode Description Jack the Insider (Joel Hill) and Hong Kong Jack tackle the RBA's surprise…
