A Rational Fear

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/G’day Fearmongers,This week we’re explaining the Walkleys walkout by some of the most celebrated cartoonists in the country. Australia’s most prestigious Journalism Awards are sponsored by a fossil fuel company, and Megan Herbert is on the podcast to talk us through her decision.Also Matt Bray joins us to talk about his latest creation. Gas Tycoon The Board Game. Which I should stress is NOTHING like Monopoly. Matt has launched a Kickstarter Campaign to get it off the ground. Go chip in to to support it, or you could win one of five copies by simply becoming an A Rational Fear Patreon supporter.KICKSTARTER: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/artdisrupt/gas-tycoon-australias-no1-fossil-gas-expansion-board-gamePATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearWe also talk burning man, Qantas, and bad jokes on Netflix specials.Dan🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearHere's all the fun stuff you get when you sign up to Patreon.🎧 Get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show.🎟 Get early access and discounts to live shows.🎥 Get early access to final videos, and draft edits of upcoming videos.👨🏼‍⚖️ Make show suggestions.💬 Get a link to the A Rational Fear discord.If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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On this month's episode of NEWS FIGHTERS, chief wacky clips correspondent Dylan Behan takes a deep dive into what’s driving the cost of living and housing crises in Australia, as well as all the stupid solutions proposed by our self-serving politicians.ALSO: News Fighters is coming to the Sydney Fringe Festival! For the first time ever, we’re doing an episode LIVE ON STAGE at The Factory Theatre in Marrickville on September 15 at 6:50pm, with special guests including Dan Ilic, Stefan Pazur and more TBC. Use the promo code FRIENDS to get 10% off tickets at burgerrings.com. PLEASE COME!News Fighters is a comedic look at Australian news, media and political hypocrisy from TV comedy editor and producer Dylan Behan. To find new monthly episodes on the A Rational Fear podcast feed, subscribe at arationalfear.com or on your podcasting app of choice:Apple: http://apple.co/3VOx4LjSpotify: http://spoti.fi/3QemUCoGoogle Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3VRov29Chip into support the show at http://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearBuy Dylan a coffee: http://ko-fi.com/newsfightersWatch News Fighters on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/newsfightersFollow News Fighters on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newsfighterspod/Follow News Fighters on X/Twitter: http://twitter.com/NewsfightersPodFollow Dylan on X/Twitter: http://twitter.com/dylabolicalBuy merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/dylabdesignsEmail: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/G'day Fearmongers,We're back with our 200th episode of our award winning podcast. 200! Time flies when you have a series of crushing deadlines to meet. Later on this year we’ll also hit 1 million downloads, that is if we’re not shot down flying from St. Petersberg to Moscow.Sitting in the co-host seat this week we have comedian, writer, producer, theatre maker AJ Lamarque. They’re very charming, and worth a follow.THE BANTER THIS WEEK CONSISTS OF: 🤖 India landing on the moon. 🌏 Should NZ become part of Australia? 🔌 Chris Minns’ coal kink feat. Matt Kean.🧵 And we chat with Disrupt Burrup Hub protestor Jesse Noakes.EXTRA FEAR:If you sign up to the Patreon you can listen to the podcast ad-free, sponsor free and this week you’ll be able to get some EXTRA FEAR with the full conversation with Matt Kean on Chris Minns’ coal kink.Patreon supporters also get a link to the Discord server where we make jokes about the news and discuss the podcast.UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS:We’ve got two live shows coming up — the Women in Media Conference Sept 9th and the Torres Strait Sept 18th. Yes performing on a Monday on Thursday Island.Outrageous.Cheers,Dan🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearHere's all the fun stuff you get when you sign up to Patreon.🎧 Get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show.🎟 Get early access and discounts to live shows.🎥 Get early access to final videos, and draft edits of upcoming videos.👨🏼‍⚖️ Make show suggestions.💬 Get a link to the A Rational Fear discord.If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/Something a bit different from A Rational Fear this week — Long time listeners will be familiar with our spin off — The Greatest Moral Podcast Of Our Generation. Today we have a long form conversation with one my favourite climate voices.This week I sat down with energy and climate journalist David Roberts from the popular climate and energy podcast Volts. If you don't listen already you can subscribe here.  But I suspect many of you like our podcast producer Jacob Round (from the Teppanyaki Timeline) are big fans.David is in Australia to do some side events around the ALP Conference in Brisbane later this week. He's here to have conversations with folks on the opportunities that unions, workers, and capital have in the the renewable energy transition.We cover a lot of territory in 30minutes — including what the ALP should do around climate, and what may happen to the Inflation Reduction Act (big US climate policy) if Trump gets back in. If you listen to us all the time, you may know some of this, however if you're new to the renewable space, this is a good refresher.Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/KUnvzIP39fd3Jyc5wJe9rEOpF50?utm_source=copy_urlTHANKSTo Australian Ethical, Rode, and as I now live outside of the big smoke, big thanks to Dom and Charles at The Chaser for lending me their studio to record this conversation, and thanks to Jacob Round for the fast turn around edit.🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearHere's all the fun stuff you get when you sign up to Patreon.🎧 Get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show.🎟 Get early access and discounts to live shows.🎥 Get early access to final videos, and draft edits of upcoming videos.👨🏼‍⚖️ Make show suggestions.💬 Get a link to the A Rational Fear discord.If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/BONUS SPECIAL: A Rational Conversation.This is the story of how Grace Tame and Camilla Cleese became best friends.It's a wonderful story of resilience, vulnerability, creativity, comedy and the last supper.IMAGE LINK: Grace Tame's Last Supper Picture.https://twitter.com/johncleese/status/928316728278421512🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearHere's all the fun stuff you get when you sign up to Patreon.🎧 Get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show.🎟 Get early access and discounts to live shows.🎥 Get early access to final videos, and draft edits of upcoming videos.👨🏼‍⚖️ Make show suggestions.💬 Get a link to the A Rational Fear discord.If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/G'day Fearmongers,We're back with the season finale of our award winning podcast.We're talking 🤖 Artificial Intelligence, 🌏 Climate Clubs, 🇺🇸 Americans on tour and 🧵 Threads.With fellow fearmongers:Lee ConstableAnge Lavoipierre Lewis Hobba #OpenToWorkand Dan Ilic .And if you're a Patreon supporter you'll hear this week's sketch. Written by Crikey's Tom Red, and read by Wendy Harmer. Gina Rinehart reads a poem outlining her position on the voice.🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearHere's all the fun stuff you get when you sign up to Patreon.🎧 Get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show.🎟 Get early access and discounts to live shows.🎥 Get early access to final videos, and draft edits of upcoming videos.👨🏼‍⚖️ Make show suggestions.💬 Get a link to the A Rational Fear discord.If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/G’day Fearmongers,Hockeyroo and Olympian Georgie Parker (not the actress) is our guest this week, and after spending 5 nights up watching the ashes, there’s few people more qualified to talk about Bazball vs Cumball.On the podcast this week we talk:🏡 Housing Affordability Future Fund.🍫 Fantales are off the shelves.🏏 Cumins and the anti-woke brigade.🍗 KFC price gouging. (ONLY ON PATREON)PLEASE chip into the Patreon if you can. We need to buy some new gear for the podcast, and everything is sooo expensive. You’ll notice we’re running programatic ads now — one of the benefits of the Patreon is that you get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show, and this week you get a little bit extra of the podcast. We’re talking about how KFC is far outpacing inflation when it comes to raising it’s prices.Cheers,DanActing CEO.OceanGate LLC. PLUGS:See Dan Ilic at It's The News: https://improvtheatresydney.com.au/events/its-the-news/See Dan Ilic perform at Slide Night! at the Sydney Opera House: https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/comedy/slide-night🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearHere's all the fun stuff you get when you sign up to Patreon.🎧 Get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show.🎟 Get early access and discounts to live shows.🎥 Get early access to final videos, and draft edits of upcoming videos.👨🏼‍⚖️ Make show suggestions.💬 Get a link to the A Rational Fear discord.If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/G’day Fearmongers —We’re back on the tools for the next five weeks to laugh in the face of the scariest news.This episode we talk about the US Government being so embarrassed at surveilling its own citizens, that they’re now telling everyone about it, and hoping someone else in the US Government will fix it.Why won’t someone fix the legal loop holes!?We also chat about this strange new group of conservatives who are planning to solve the meaning of life. Who is in this group? John Howard, Tony Abbott, and Jordan Peterson to name a few. They’re called the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. Sounds like a bunch of people who need a night on the shrooms.Also we chat with Ange Lavoirpierre about the disaffection that Gen Z and Millennials have with politics-as-usual. And how ideas like capitalism are very much out of fashion, and the coolest new derogatory term of people who dare to participate in thrift store arbitrage.Here more from Ange on her excellent podcast SchmeitgeistCheersDan🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear Here's all the fun stuff you get when you sign up to Patreon. 🎧 Get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show. 🎟 Get early access and discounts to live shows. 🎥 Get early access to final videos, and draft edits of upcoming videos. 👨🏼‍⚖️ Make show suggestions. 💬 Get a link to the A Rational Fear discord. If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ SEE OUR LIVE SHOW: https://comedy.com.au/tour/a-rational-fear-live/G'day Fearmongers,Last night at an industry dinner on the Gold Coast I was having a joke with some British TV producers about the Coronation. I was gently mocking the ceremony for how everything about it was modern and progressive.Or at least I thought I was gently mocking.From the magic stone seat, to the 500 year old spoon, to the oil from a duck, to the hand of God picking one man to rule over a whole bunch of people who have no say in the matter. All the Australians at the table laughed.The English producers shuffled uncomfortably and one said "But we do it well, don't we." To which all the Australians felt the discomfort and politely agreed that England does do pomp and circumstance very well.I added that Harry Potter was also done very well, took my drink and left.So — Happy Coronation Weekend to those who celebrate.On the podcast this week we have some great fearmongers. 🏃‍♀️Australian Athletic Legend, Erchana Murray-Bartlet.🎙 Comedian and broadcaster, Craig Quartermaine💨 Former vaper, Lewis Hobba.💸Persephone Fraser from Australian EthicalWe cover the Coronation, Beetaloo Basin, Vaping, the AI coup, and the Budget.We're taking a few weeks off the podcast, but we'll be putting the odd video out on Patreon.Next week on the feed you'll hear from News Fighters.CheersDanDepartment of DisinterestReserve Bank Australiahttps://twitter.com/ARationalFear/status/1654024492824555523 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearHeading into the election your support is going to be more crucial than ever!Thank you FEARMONGERS!If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/G’day Fearmongers,To celebrate the start of the Sydney Comedy Festival we put the RØDECaster Pro II in a duffle bag and headed to the Factory Theatre courtyard. One of the only arts venues in Sydney which boasts a commercial airliner flying overhead every 10 minutes. It’s their version of an “Applaud Now” sign.With a beer and a plate of jerk chicken in hand, I was joined by Two Hearts’ Joseph Moore, and Heath Franklin not just to promote their SCF shows, but to laugh in the face of the most awful news we could find.🏡 Tasmania’s housing crisis solution🏟 Tasmania’s AFL team name.👶🏼 Muffin Break employees.🚀 Elon’s projectile dysfunction.🇳🇿 Kiwis eligible for Australian citizenship after 4 years.Go see Heath and Two Hearts at the Sydney Comedy Festival, they’re terrific.🎟 See Heath Franklin at the Sydney Comedy Festival.🎟 See Two Hearts at the Sydney Comedy Festival.CheersDan IlicFox NewsHuman Resources 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/👨🏼‍⚖️ David McBride's Legal FundG’day Fearmongers —As we head into the long weekend known as Australian Halloween, ANZAC Day, I thought we should chat with a former solider who represents Australians at their best.David McBride is up for a jail sentence of ‘UNLIMITED YEARS’ after he blew the whistle on astonishing accounts of misconduct and warcrimes by Australian special Forces in Afghanistan.He did this six years ago — 2017!He’s been in legal limbo ever since.But now he’s forced the Australian Defence Force into court in November, and will have his moment to show he was just, and right to release the information he did.In this conversation McBride and I chat about:Tactics and strategy in the court room.If media will be allowed inside his trial.Why he's losing weightHow he finds joy in this very stressful time.And his laugh — is it real?This episode is followed up by one of favourite live shows from last year, our live show on Australian Secrecy on stage at the Festival Of Dangerous Ideas.It's one of our best — and a reminder around ANZAC Day that there are Some soliders who are fighting the good fight, that need our support.Chip into help David McBride and his legal fees here.CheersDan🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/G'day Fearmongers —Thanks to the 300 or so of you who came out the the show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival — it was such a great vibe.Gabbi BoltSami ShahGrace TameLewis HobbaNats What I ReckonVidya RajanLewis Hobbaand me (Dan Ilic)DJ Andy McClellandWe cover the great gamete of crucial topics — Gwyneth Paltrow, Murdoch's Minions, U2, Donal Trump, AI, Cops, and we interview the owners of the house that Tim Smith ran into. They were so traumatised by the event that they want to get rid of the famous temporary fence they put in place whilst waiting for Tim Smith to pay the bills. You may have already seen on social media.already that we made a fancy sketch, and am auctioning it off on eBay with proceeds going to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre — it's already up to $3500! If you chip-in on Patreon — THANKS for supporting A Rational Fear — your support meant we could pay for that Chappaquiddick Fence sketch, and for it to be framed too. It's an expensive sketch!We also used a chunk of the Patreon money to pay for sponsorship on Triple R radio to advertise the Melbourne show, and another chunk of it to pay for a poster campaign.It's times like this that an extra chunk of money really helps off set the Ludicrous expenses of running a festival show like this.Thanks so much for your support! If you'd like to pay a little bit chip in here:https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNEG'day Fearmongers —Be sure to buy a ticket to the Melbourne show THIS SUNDAY — April 2ndFailing that — In your feed this week, we have the live show we did last weekend at the World Science Festival In Brisbane.It was one of our best live shows — the podcast doesn’t do it justice. If you were there and you’re listening back, you’ll notice a lot of the visual jokes have been disappeared like a Russian business man from a seven story building.But — thanks to Jacob Round on the teppanyaki timeline, you have a wonderful audio experience.On the podcast we have an elite squad of fearmongers:From left to right in the picture that you can see in the Substack newsletter: https://arationalfear.com/👽 Dr. Jessie Christiensen🧮 Mel Buttle💿 Dj Dylan Behan💨 Dan Ilic🕺🏻 Mark Humphries🌲 Mandy Nolan🌕 Lewis HobbaIt was a terrific show — for nearly 90 minutes (the podcast is about 60) we shot the science shi💩t, talked about the harmful effects of Gas, if we really need Maths and Science, we all sat a science exam, we looked at cookers in the Northern Rivers, we hunted Aliens, and spoke about mines on the Moon (again).Enjoy the show — and come to our Melbourne show TOMORROW (April 2nd 2023)— we spent a lot of money on the poster. (Sorry, that was the last reminder)CheersDan IlicProfessor of Breaking EvenMelbourne Comedy Festival 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN BRISBANEGuest Fearmongers on A Rational Fear this week include:Alice Tovey 🎟 Performing at MICF in Not Like Other GhoulsLaura Hughes 🎟 Performing at MICF in Laura Hughes Presents: Laura Hughes, Laura Hughes and some other Laura HughesesOn this episode we talk:🌏 David Attenborough reads the IPCC report.🪧 Nazis in Melbourne.🎃 Trump's Arrest.🌝 Samsung replacing the moon. 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN BRISBANE 0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Good evening, Lewis.0:05 Hello, Daniel. How are you?0:07 I'm good. I'm good. And you sound good. You look good. You. You look taller. For some reason. I don't know. Maybe it's my screen. Maybe my screen is higher than usual.0:16 Yeah, I don't believe I've grown. But it will be thrilling if I had it would kick me over from just like regular tall until weirdly tall.0:24 Well, our Patreon subscribers are growing this week, we grew by one so big thank you to Sam Arnold, who joined up on Patreon. We've got a few of you now. And now I'm, I'm Louis. I don't know if this is rude of me to say this to our audience. But I want to get a few more because I want to hire an assistant. Oh, because if you've ever thought about supporting the podcast ship into the Patreon, it's you know, the price of a cup of coffee these days, like even less, like we've kept our prices the same. And coffee has gone up sky high. Like yeah,0:54 it's easy to keep your price the same when it's zero.0:58 Yeah, that's it. That's it. So if you've ever thought about to begin, please head on over to Patreon and chip in and that way we can employ someone younger, smarter, funnier to do most of the work that I don't have time to do.1:10 Oh, now I feel threatened. What? Yeah, you you feel threatened1:14 and you work at the Youth broadcaster? You've got younger, smarter and funnier people around you all day long.1:19 That's true. But what are you actually going to do with this assistant? Because I have to admit, if you're asking for money, you know, it's not exactly like you're curing cancer here begging for an assistance. I feel like you might need to give us some more information.1:30 They're going to be you know, writing writing the podcast notes publishing the podcast. They're going to be organising guests. There's a whole I've got a list of things to do. It's very exhausting to make a whole podcast.1:43 Oh, I mean, I can only assume that's why I don't do anything.1:48 I don't know that you and your fancy producers at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.1:54 That singular one single producer.1:57 Okay, very good. And give her your cell phone. Of course. Yeah. Well, that's good. Anyway, have you met? Do you know anyone2:06 who's looking for an underpaid job? Yeah, dude, everyone at the ABC? Yeah, well,2:11 great. Well, we pay more than the ABC so I'm recording my end of irrational feet on Gadigal Land of the Euro nation's sovereignty was devastated. We need a treaty. Let's start the show. The following2:22 programme contains medium coarse language and traces of nuts. A rational fear recommends listening by immature audiences. Comedians experts laughing at2:34 the world as it burns down2:37 around. This is2:43 a rational fear.2:47 Tonight and Australian Army helicopter has crashed into Jarvis Bay, the Defence Minister said it's the closest thing we'll get to a new submarine until the 2040s. And with the New South Wales election just days away, Premier Dominic Paris, he regrets that he and his wife could have made a few more voters in time for election day. And after already using code red and time bomb in order to describe the IPCC report. You're not a nation of bits that analogies to climate change are an endangered species. It's the 24th of March 2023. And this is a rational fear3:19 is a rational fear.3:32 Working irrational fear, I'm your host, former Labour Party Bus Driver Daniel itch and this is the podcast that makes Aaron Sorkin newsroom look a bit like a documentary. Let's make our fear mongers for tonight. Guests. Number one. They're one of Australia's best Laura Hughes's. They'll go by the name of Laura Hughes and they'll be joined on stage at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with several other Laura Hughes's it's the one and only well actually turns out one of many Laura Hughes's. Welcome to the podcast Laura yours.3:59 Thanks for having me.4:01 Laura. Just how many Laura Hughes's are going to be in your show in Melbourne. They are4:06 going to be seven including myself. But 1000s4:12 actually Googled you to find your b

🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN BRISBANEThis month Dylan Behan takes an in-depth look at all the big NSW state election issues from boat ramps to cashless gaming cards to superannuation for kids and why neither major party will do anything to actual tackle the biggest cost of living issue in NSW: astronomical rents. Also we look at the two middle aged white men who are determined to promise to do as little as possible in order to get your vote this Saturday.🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN BRISBANEAnnouncer 0:01 This is News Fighters, where we fight the news so you don't have to.Dylan Behan 0:09 Yes, Hi everyone. Welcome to Episode 122 of news fighters for February 2023. If you haven't listened before News Fighters is an in depth yet comedic look at the big stories in Australian news, media and politics presented by me, TV comedy editing wizard and future AUKUS submarine captain Dylan Behan. Yes, thanks for joining us this month, once again on the A Rational Fear podcast feed. We had a great time with A Rational Fear down in Adelaide at the Fringe Festival. Thanks to everyone who came out and saw us there and this weekend. We're at the Brisbane Science Festival on Sunday. Get your tickets now but, a little bit south of the border, the New South Wales State election campaign feels like it's been in full swing for months now. And I'd totally understand if you haven't been paying attention to it because most of the policy announcements have been pretty uninspiring ones like this.Journalist 1:04 The premier was talking about water. He's hoping to hook voters with a $20 million promise to upgrade boating ramps and fishing facilities across the state.Dylan Behan 1:13 Yes in New South Wales 2023 will go down as the year of the boat ramp state election. Oh geez. This is the least interesting New South Wales State election I've covered and I've only covered two at least back in 2019. We had the spectacle of Labour leader Michael Daly's lucky meat pie Michael Daley 1:29 Before every election I've been doing it for 30 years are always gonna have my Lucky Piea pie and strawberry milk having my Lucky Pie.Journalist 1:37 What pie having Mr. Daley?Michael Daley 1:38 just a plain pie with strawberry milk is // eating a Lucky Pie for breakfast at a local shop // we opted for as usual fortifying election breakfast a pie and strawberry milk // For 30 years I had a Lucky Pie. No sauce beef,Journalist 1:53 No Sauce? Are you feeling confident? Michael Daley 1:54 Terrific. I have my lucky pie Journalist 1:56 Hoping what he eats tonight. He's not humble pie.Dylan Behan 2:00 Anyway, strap yourselves in everyone because this episode I'm taking a deep dive into all the big issues in the current New South Wales State election campaign. And before I begin, I'm sad to announce that I just don't have time to recap the past 12 years of scandals that have plagued the O'Farrell embed then Berejiklian Imperator a coalition governments you know, you know, all the scandals, the you know, the pork barreling or the brand stalking or the cushy overseas jobs with the boys or the fact koalas are facing extinction or the pandemic lockdown measures that unfairly targeted poor and migrant communities or the cracked rail carriages, or the stuffing up of the bushfire recovery or the stuffing up of the flood recovery or the lockout laws that said our nightlife and art scenes back by generation, or the failure of the government to implement any of the recommendations from the special commission of inquiry into the drug is or the way they've used StrikeForce rapidly to intimidate musical acts and try and get them to change their lyrics or the shocking stories of the sharing of pornographic images of Parliamentarians by other parliamentarians. I just haven't got time for any of that. Besides, I'm sure it's probably already been covered by a friendly jordiz In a funny accent. No, I'm just going to assume you're up to speed with all the corruption and scandals and we're going to jump right in to the choices facing New South Wales voters this Saturday. So I hear you asking who are the contenders for the top job? Well, first of all, is the current Premier and former treasurer, conservative liberal party leader and Millennial in name only Dominic parity. And Isn't he good at talking up his own record? Well,Dominic Perrottet 3:23 we need to do better. Well, I've always said we've got to do better. Can we do more? Yes, he alsoDylan Behan 3:28 needs to do better on knowing the ages of his seven young children. Journalist 3:31 Mr. Perrottet name all seven of your kids in age order.Unknown Speaker 3:35 Just not their age, Charlotte Amelia. Annabel, William. Harriet. Beatrice. Celeste.Dylan Behan 3:46 I can barely afford to have a cat Perrottet has been premier for almost 18 months and he's reputations held up

🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN BRISBANEJoining us for this week's podcast is Amelia Navascues, who you can see at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in a couple of weeks time.🎟 Tickets to Amelia's show Blurrier IRL And we have a wide ranging chat with Leader of the Greens, Adam Bandt MP. We talk submarines, safeguard mechanism, and how he works with the climate independants.I should point out during this NSW Election period, we have asked Chris Minns, and Matt Kean to also join us, but no luck so far on that front. Apparently they're busy.🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN BRISBANE0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. It's my favourite time of the week when I hear that music Lewis I don't know about you, but none of our podcast listeners will ever know what that music is. Because it's the music we have on our web streaming video anyway, so thank you.0:15 It does feel like yeah, we're just about to introduce a BEx ad on blankety blank. So it's a real old school television moment.0:25 That's right. That's right. And I am ugly David grey. Welcome to irrational fear. We've got two new people on the Patreon this month big thank you to Bruce and Kamini. Incidentally, Bruce and Kamini sounds like an architect firm. I'd love them to build me a presidential library that would be great. Bruce and Kamini, thank you so much for joining us on Patreon. We've got two things Louis, I need to make you aware of in particular because your presence is needed. Brisbane next Sunday, the 26th of March. We've still got a few seats left for that it's going to be fun. And Lewis you will love this and you know me very well I have shot a rap a parody of a bad eight Israel.1:04 Jesus, Stan,1:06 you know why? Because it why? Because it must be done. It must be done. It will all be explained live on stage. We're going to talk about1:15 2023 We're not doing parody rap anymore. I know. Even the Lonely Island isn't doing parody rap anymore. And they were actually good. And1:23 I know, I know. But I couldn't resist. If anything, it's a rap of a parody of a parody. So does that mean it's like your Icarus? Already? That's fine. It's fine and funny. It's good. We shot it. And it's funny. I'm excited to show everyone in Brisbane. It's gonna be there. You can decide next week and tell me what you think I was really excited to hear your thoughts.1:48 I don't want to turn this whole intro into this. But when was the last time you listened to a song in the genre of hip hop? That wasn't a parody you had written?1:56 I can't remember it doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter. Yeah,2:00 parody gets genre you know nothing about it makes me deeply. I'm a big2:03 fan of my own work. Alright, the other thing you need to know is that Melbourne is about half sold. And there's going to be a bit of a surprise on stage you as an audience member will get the chance to win a piece of Victorian politics history. Does that intrigue you Lewis?2:20 It does. I can't wait to get down Andrew as part of it.2:24 Well, it's very much along those lines. What if I said the word Chappaquiddick to you? What does that mean? In terms of Victorian niche politics history?2:33 I'm assuming it's a car accident. I'm hoping it doesn't involve it.2:38 There isn't a death there is a car accident. Yes, there's something to do with Tim Smith and the word Chappaquiddick and it's gonna be pretty excited reveal on stage so I can't wait to share that with you. Or in Melbourne, April 2 on stage,2:54 you're giving away the remnants of Tim Smith's career. No one's gonna want it.2:57 That is so closely we're so close. Oh, you almost got it. I'm recording my irrational fear on Gadigal land in your nation. Sovereignty was never seated. We need a treaty. Let's start the show. The following3:08 programme contains medium coarse language and traces of nuts. A rational fear recommends listening by immature audiences. Comedians experts sloughing at the world as it burns down around. This is a rational fear.3:33 Tonight, the stock price of Credit Suisse plummets causing worldwide financial turmoil. Authorities in Switzerland say they are no longer going to hide money in the holes in the cheese. And the US has warned tic TOCs Chinese owners they must sell due to security concerns. Tik Tok respond to threats with two dances and a makeup tutorial that talks continue. And Australia is to legalise MDMA for medicinal use as one reaches virtual said, Oh man, I fucking love you man, man. I mean, just menu, but I can tell. I can tell Hey, seriously, no, seriously, we just wish to start a podcast together man. It's the 16th of March 2023. And with more poker machines in Nevada, this is irrational fear.4:13 This is a rational fear.4:27 Welcome to rational fear. I'm your host caliphal Sydney identity Dan Ilic. And this is the

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN BRISBANEG’day Fearmongers —It was hot, it was fun, it was full of audio problems.Nethertheless, here is the podcast of our Adelaide Fringe Festival Show.The conversation we had with Kyam Maher, the South Australian Attorney General was super inspiring. South Australia is in the process of passing legislation to enshrine their own Indigenous Voice To Parliament, and the Attorney General is one of the folks leading the charge in SA to bring it to fruition.Big thanks to the great Jacob Round (on the teppanyaki timeline) who took the dogy audio and massaged and mixed this episode so it’s very listenable.ALSO on the podcast:📡 Dan Ilic discovers one of our co-hosts has a branding problem.🚔 Gabbi Bolt finds out just how long it takes to re-train as cop.🎸 Andrew Hansen doesn’t like his own name.📉 Alice Fraser has beef with crypto bros.📺 Dylan Behan mashes up the summer of news you missed.👑 Lewis Hobba finds someone to perform at the King’s Coronation.Brisbane ARF show only has 80 seats left!If you were planning on coming to our World Science Festival show in Brisbane, you better be quick, it’ll sell out. There’s only 80 seats left and with 3 weeks to go, run, don’t walk to get your tickets. Also if comedy panel shows about science are your thing; I’m also performing in a show called Night Of The Nerds, the night before A Rational Fear. It’s like Spicks and Specs for geeks. You’ll have a good time.CheersDan🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN BRISBANE0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. When I formally introduced the legislation as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in the upper house, there were so many Aboriginal people there that journalists and my fellow MPs from the chamber couldn't get in to have a seat. It was the proudest day of my working life.0:17 That is the voice of Kyam Maher. He is the Attorney General of South Australia and he said a whole bunch of other super interesting things. In this episode of irrational fear recorded live at the Adelaide Fringe Festival just last weekend now, please, just a word on the audio. I couldn't actually hear myself very well, because the audio was quite squeaky in the audience. I don't know how or why it sounded that way. I had a weird headset mic, so I changed my axe halfway through, it sounded a lot better. So Jacob round or the teppanyaki timeline has done absolute wonders at polishing the audio we recorded in Adelaide. So please enjoy this episode. And please enjoy the conversation we had with Kai Omar is really good. Also quick note. If you are in Brisbane and Melbourne, we're coming to you live March 26 in Brisbane at the World Science Festival that is selling really well. We've only got about 80 seats left to sell there. And then April 2 in Melbourne at the Comedy Festival. We are we've we're about half sold out there so pick up your tickets to Brisbane and Melbourne. Right now enjoy this episode of irrational fear recorded live at the Adelaide Fringe Festival1:21 in Burundi natural pork and pokey Oh Mango yellow Qatar curry Yara thumping De Niro pura chi ha mana Yang jeeyar Tacoma tamping the mining Nina Pudney Ghana Yatta Nina button Ipanema pokey Mocha bhandal Tula poro taken the 10 year panda Taberna to Tacoma, Yang Chicana yada, yada yada. Today we are meeting on sacred Ghana land. We pay our respects to all the Ghana that were and all the Ghana that are we pay our respects to all of our elders earthside and beyond and to all First Nations people. On behalf of the ancestors and Guyana people. We welcome you to our country and ask that as you travel these planes. You remember the people that walked here before you the spirit still lives amongst the steel or concrete the roads and the lawns wherever you go you stand on unseeded Aboriginal land, always was always will be.2:13 Hello, Robbie McGregor here letting you know that this is a podcast recording that as such you as the audience should make as much noise as possible. Specifically, you should laugh and cheer Dan's opening three jokes regardless of the quality. I know I know. I didn't make the rules okay. The following programme contains medium coarse language and traces of nuts. A rational fear recommends listening by immature audiences. Comedians experts sloughing at the world as it burns down around the live from the Adelaide Fringe Festival. This is a rational fear3:04 jumps as shocked as all around Australia hundreds of equity five gyms collapsed from too many reps. And the return of the s&p 500 has been a success delivering 51 million to the

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOWSTickets are on sale now for A Rational Fear live in a city near you!Adelaide Fringe — Sat 5pm March 4th (TOMORROW)Brisbane World Science Festival — March 26thMelbourne International Comedy Festival — APRIL 2ndG'day Fearmongers —Here is this week's podcast — Lewis Hobba, Elyce Phillips, Jane Ball, and Dan ILic talk shit about:💸 Superannuation changes.🖨 Gen Z's office equipment problems.🌓 Moon Time Extra Fear.🤖 Robodebt and Stuart Robert's eating problem.⛽️ and we interview Nicolette Boeler from the Smart Energy Council about the Safeguard Mechanism.If you're in Adelaide — we're performing tomorrow at the Adelaide Fringe: 🎟 https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/a-rational-fear-live-af2023Cheers DanEXTRA FEAR only on the Patreon & Apple Subscription — we talk RobotDebt and Stuart Robert's peculiar eating habbits🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOWS0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Good evening Lewis.0:05 Hello Dan. How are you?0:07 Lewis? I'm at the start of the show. I'm energised because I want to tell the people who are listening in Adelaide and Melbourne just one thing and that is to please please for the sake of breaking even buy a ticket to the show.0:20 Absolutely. If you happen to know the Port Adelaide Football Club get them all along. If you know this Adelaide strikers sixes0:33 This is good. This is good. This is good local content. If you know anyone whose family ends in polites get them alone.0:41 Oh, my family are from Adelaide originally, my mum and dad met at Adelaide University. So if you if you're at Adelaide University, you know, man, you're looking for love. Maybe one or two could have a little Lewis0:56 or at all, Louis, depending on how your Louis is go. We've got a great show in Adelaide and we've got Gabby bolt, Alice Fraser. We've also got Andrew Hanson from the chaser. And we've also got for some reason, the South Australian Attorney General is joining us in Adelaide, which is amazing. We're gonna be talking to him about South Australia's voice, which is great. And Melbourne is selling a lot slower than we anticipated. Despite having Grace time on the show, which killed last year. You guys gotta get tickets, you gotta go go right now to Melbourne Comedy festival.com.au and buy a tickets, not even the websites probably why we aren't selling many tickets. But you should go you should go and buy a ticket because it's so it's such a huge show. And it's gonna be really great. Surprisingly, Louis, our Brisbane show is doing really well for sales. We've already sold like 120 So we're like we're killing it. The show's not even on for like another another few weeks.1:46 It's the World Science Festival and they sent me my invite the other day and I was flicking through some of the other events that are on and we stick out. I'm like these people are very smart. And they've done a lot of research.2:02 We've done we've got a really smart person on stage with us. His name is Dan Ilic. Her name is Jessie Christiansen She's a doctor. She runs the exoplanet library for NASA and she works with the JW S T team, the James Webb Space Telescope team so we're going to be grilling her about aliens. It's very exciting. So that is happening in Brisbane at the end of March. I'm recording my irrational feet on Gadigal land in the urination. Sovereignty was never seated. We need a treaty. Let's start the show.2:33 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum and section 40 of our rational view recommended listening by immature audience.2:46 Tonight with the New South Wales set to vote next Saturday, polling suggests the other guy is maintaining a strong lead whatever his name is and the creator of the comic strip Dilbert goes on a racist tirade getting him dropped from hundreds of newspapers but a job offer at the Australian and after Rupert Murdoch admits that Fox News was lying to its audience. Donald Trump has accused the media mogul of throwing his anchors under the table instead of in the sea where they obviously belong. It's the third of March 2023. And with more lies than Fox News. This is irrational fear.Welcome to rational fear. I'm your host former only fans nurse Dan Ilic. This is the podcast that puts a shot of vodka. In your news, irrational fear let's meet our fear mongers for tonight. They're a former corporate ladder climbing shill, but now they are a children's party clown performing her show slops at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. It's Jane Bell welcome Jane.3:53 Hello, hello. If anyone wants to book a clown please reach outs to her on this side of the ladder now4:01 you just do corporate ladder comedy Do you do you

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOWSOnce a month on the A Rational Fear podcast feed and email list, comedy editor, Dylan Behan, will bring you News Fighters.Dylan has been cutting wacky clips for film and television along side me for all of my careers. I first met Dylan when he was an assistant editor at Tracks Post Production when he worked on The Ronnie Johns Half Hour with me back in 2005. And since then he’s worked in the comedy trenches with The Chaser, Tonightly, It’s Not A Race, and of course regularly appearing at A Rational Fear gigs on stage and on the mic.For the first episode of News Fighters for 2023, host Dylan Behan looks back on an oddly quiet summer of news, a lowlight of which was the right’s outrage over Anthony Albanese going to the tennis. Also why Peter Dutton is going to do everything he can to block the Voice to Parliament (hint: because Albo is in favour of it!)News Fighters is a comedic look at Australian news, media and political hypocrisy from TV comedy editor Dylan Behan. Chip into support the show at http://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearWatch on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/newsfightersListen to old episodes at http://podfollow.com/newsfightersFollow News Fighters on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newsfighterspod/Follow News Fighters on Twitter: http://twitter.com/NewsfightersPodFollow Dylan on Twitter: http://twitter.com/dylabolicalEmail: [email protected] 0:00 G'day A Rational Fear listeners, Dan Ilic here letting you know that yes, you may have noticed I took the week off last week. That's because I'm currently in both amp amp amp and amp amp. Africa. Not Toto's Africa. But the Bertha Fellowship's Africa. Yes. They flew me out to Cape Town. After supporting the podcast for two years. They they got us all together because of COVID. We weren't able to get together before. But now we're all in one room currently. And who knows if I'll make it back? This was recorded before I left. I might have been mauled by a hippopotamus so impailed by the last ever North African Rhino. Who knows who knows, but in my place, I have a very special treat and once a month, coming up for the next few months, we've got the one and only Dylan bein, who's going to be delivering us a juicy news fighters on this feed once a month get a Dylan get a0:48 Dan, thanks for having me. On your feed. I hope we both get to feed some sumptuous wacky clips.0:56 Yes, yes. For those of you don't know, Dylan is a longtime collaborator of mine is TV editor. He makes wacky clips. He has this incredible podcast called news fighters, which is kind of like the monthly news in a blender. And it's drip fed, through snarky comments. Is that probably is that probably,1:15 yes, yes, it's very much I take the months news in clip form. And I riff on the clips, and it's a very fun time to be had by all and then at the end of the show, I have an interview, which this week is going to be you.1:28 Well, that's how convenient I'm right here. I'm ready to go. This is so amazing. So thank you for continuing on with supporting irrational fear. Your Patreon is actually helping Dylan as well. So we're gonna be getting Dylan some of the Patreon money so please, if you enjoy news fighters and irrational fear chipping in to patreon.com forward slash a rational fear. I'm recording my end of irrational fear. Well, news fighters on on Gadigal Land of the Eora Nation, what land are you on?1:55 I'm also on Gadigal Land of the Eora Nation I believe.1:57 There we go. There you go. This is a very this is a very you're a nation centric show. A lot of people have said that this feed is to your nation century we're gonna get some Naarm in here. Speaking of speaking of other nations, we're going to be up in meanjin. We're going to be in Brisbane on the 26th of March and we're going to be in Adelaide in two weeks. In March for so we'll see you then. Oh, of course. And we'll we'll be in Nam will be in Melbourne performing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. April 2, so we're dealing with B there'll be a different DJ we hired out of pure convenience and cost sake. We found a DJ there was a DJ in Melbourne. Apparently there are no DJs in Brisbane, there are no comedy DJs in Adelaide and we had to fly them in2:38 Andrew McClellan's a great mate of mine and will arguably do the job better than me. So enjoy that.2:45 All right, here's this month's episode of news fighters.2:47 Let's start the show.2:49 This is News Fighters, where we fight the news so you don't have to with Dylan Behan.2:57 Yes, G'day everyone. Welcome to News fighters. It's episode 121 for February 2023 News Fridays everybody loves it. Tiller on it. For those of you joining us for the very first time news fighters is a comedic look at the month in Australia news media and political hypocrisy hosted by me ex to nightly and chaser edit

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOWSG’day Fearmongers —Happy Superbowl weekend, we have juicy podcast served with a side of ranch dressing and celery sticks — BUT before we get to that, you should know:Tickets are on sale now for A Rational Fear live in a city near you!Adelaide Fringe — March 4thBrisbane World Science Festival — March 26thMelbourne International Comedy Festival — APRIL 2ndWe’ve got great line-ups for each show. And we have a limited number of discounted tickets for podcast listeners for Adelaide and Melbourne: “PODCAST” is the code.On the podcast this week we have some wonderful guests:Osher GunsbergFloyd Alexander-HuntLewis HobbaDan Ilic + we warm up for the NSW elections with the Independant Candidate for Wollondilliy and The Southern Highlands, Judy Hannan. We talk about Clive Palmer’s failed mine bid.How to save Australia Post.New Zealand’s HUGE cocaine haul.EXTRA FEAR only on the Patreon & Apple Subscription — we talk Alan Tudge's resignation.🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOWS 0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Good morning or good evening, Lewis.0:06 Hello. Yes, good, good. Whatever day off time time of day this finds you.0:12 It's a flat circle. No one, no one really has a good handle on time. Time is irrelevant. Now, there was an article in the BBC saying that time is a construct, we actually time doesn't actually exist, which I have to0:23 agree that in the BBC before that when you like, Oh, I thought God gave it to us.0:30 Other time was brought down by Neptune. Neptune gave us time. Big news, Louis. You You know this news, by the way. Oh, yeah. But you are a new dad. This is so exciting. Congratulations.0:43 Thank you. It's actually so rare that when you tell me that we have news that I actually am across a rare and precious fact. Yes. thrilled. I have a five week old daughter her name's olive. She's a really good baby, but pretty into her. And that's why I've been away for the law. I missed last week. I tried to join kinda, but it was a mess. It's also I genuinely have no idea what's happening. Like, whatever comes up today will be relatively new information.1:10 Great. It'd be fresh years and we really, yeah, well, it means also, the Patreon is more important than ever, because we've got more mouths to feed, we gotta feed olive. I don't give Lewis any of the Patreon money but the point is, you know, in principle, chipping, chipping, like Nick or rock voiceover actor who was in last week's episode, he just I wanted to give him money. He said, No, I'm gonna give you money and become a patreon supporter. Thank you, Nick. David Bluestein. Comedian and game developer also signed up for Patreon this week. Thank you, Dave Lewis, we've got some live shows so you can spend less time with your new family around the country. Adelaide is happening in four weeks Andrew Hanson, Gabby Bolte, Alice, Fraser Lewis and myself. Then we've got April 2 at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Huge show. Gabby Alice Grace time Vidya Rajan. That's what I reckon Sammy Shah, and then Brisbane, coming up at the end of March with a huge show for World Science Festival. Mark Humphries. Mel bottle Mandy, darlin Lewis and myself. Also, Louis, we are talking with onstage live. Someone who is a Brisbane native Her name is Dr. Jesse Christianson sees the head of the NASA exoplanet library. And she works on the JW S T. She's probably one of the smartest people we've ever had on the show. So it's very excited. We have we've had some smart people on the show. You know, we've had that the Bondi hipsters. We've had Dr.2:30 Cow. I don't even understand what her job is what from what you've just told me like, well, it's an exoplanet. I guess we'll have to wait and see.2:37 We'll have to wait and see in Brisbane. So that's exciting. Anyway, join us in Brisbane at the end of March. It's going to be very exciting. I'm recording mine of irrational fear on Gadigal land in the urination. Sovereignty was never seated. When did a treaty Let's start the show.2:48 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks. Canberra, fed gum and section 40 of a rational view recommended listening by immature audiences.3:02 Tonight family reunions breakout across the world as Twitter outage causes people to put down their phones and pay attention to their loved ones for one hour and sports bit paid $9,000 for the communications minister on election Eve paid for dinner Minister Roland said it wasn't lobbying. It was just the same dinner multi and former Prime Minister Tony Abbott joins a climate sceptic Think Tank A sentence that makes more sense in the phrase former Prime Minister Tony Abbott. It's the ninth of February 2023. And

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOWSWe’re back with the first A Rational Fear podcast for 2023.Both Lewis Hobba (who often is co-hosting on this podcast) and Jacob Round (who does all of the amazing sound engineering) have had kids in the last few weeks. That means we need even more of you to chip into the Patreon. With your help we can put these kids into the best private school podcast money can buy. Joking of course — we use the Patreon money for drugs*.🎟 We are going on tour to Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne!Adelaide Fringe — March 4thBrisbane World Science Festival — March 26thMelbourne International Comedy Festival — APRIL 2ndWe’ve got great line-ups for each show, including Andrew Hansen, Alice Fraser and Gabbi Bolt for Adelaide. In Brisbane we have Mel Buttle, Many Nolan, Mark Humphries, and Dr. Jessie Christiansen who worked on the James Web Telescope! And in Melbourne we have Sami Shah, Grace Tame, Nat’s What I Reckon and too many more to list here!Our live shows are always so much fun, and the best live podcast recording experience you’ll ever come to.Discount code for Adelaide and Melbourne: “PODCAST”🎙On the podcast this week:Minister for Arts — Tony Burke MPJournalist, author, opinionista — Antoinette LattoufGen Z’s voice of #Auspol — Hannah Ferguson from Cheek MediaWe talk:💸 Adani dropping out of rich top ten.🤳 ACCC crackdown on influencers.🎪 Beach Cabanas.🎭 The National Cultural Policy.Lewis was going to beam in from his beach airbnb — but struggled to find good enough wifi — he’ll be back next week!Enjoy the pod!CheersDan Ilic*We actually use the Patreon money to pay for the costs of making the podcast and putting on live show, the satire industrial complex is very difficult to make money from, please subscribe. 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOWS Dan Ilic 0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical, irrational fear. This is big news. Louis is a new dad that's why he's not joining us tonight he had bedtime issues with the new baby couldn't put together a baby and the podcast it just doesn't work for him. You know as a man, you can't have it all this is true. You can't have it all. Jacob round also had a new baby you might know Jacob Brown, he's the wizard who makes a sound so great. His baby is only a few days old. He hasn't got a name yet. But if you are not a Patreon supporter, and you're going to become a patreon supporter to help feed these children, if you become a patreon supporter, you can choose a name yes, you can choose Jacob rounds kid's name I haven't told him this yet, but he's gonna be excited cuz he hasn't picked one yet. We'll take one from the Patreon hit us [email protected] forward slash irrational fear. Now also letting you know around the country we are going to be performing Adelaide march for with ours Fraser Gabby bald Andrew Hansen, Dylan Bane for news fighters, Melbourne at the Comedy Festival April 2 hours Fraser Gabi bulk nats what I reckon Grace time Sammy SHA Vidya Rajan and any McClellan is DJing it is already 15% sold out. I can't wait for that room to be completely sold out. So please get along to Melbourne. Also, if you live in Brisbane, march 26. We're performing at World Science Festival with Mark Humphries Melbourne or Dylan Bain and a woman who lives in Brisbane but also works in NASA who worked on the James Webb telescope. Dr. Jesse Christianson. She is joining us at World Science Week and you want to discount to Melbourne and Adelaide. You can all you got to do is become a patreon supporter or sign up to the email list at irrational fear.com And you can find the discount code for Melbourne Adelaide there. I'm recording my end of irrational fear on Gadigal land in the Euro nation sovereignty was never ceded. We need a treaty. Let's start the show.Unknown Speaker 1:48 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum and section 40 of our rational view recommended listening by immature audiences.Dan Ilic 2:01 Tonight Tony Abbott continues his record breaking streak of being wrong by saying that George Pell is the greatest man he's ever known and King Charles will not appear on the new $5 note. According to the Reserve Bank. The only requirement for the $5 note is to have a design that when folded looks like a whale is giving fellatio, and after being lost for 10 days a tic tac sized radioactive capsule has been found in the outback of Western Australia. Eastern states have expressed concern and are looking into how to manufacture tic tac sized radioactive capsules of their own. When will this Brickman ship and it's the second of February 2023 This is irrational fear.Hello, welcome to rational fee. I'm your host former quarterback of the New En

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/👕 BUY OUR MERCH HERE 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR ADELAIDE FRINGE SHOWHappy new fear!Currently I’m on holidays in the south coast of NSW. Yesterday I found myself sitting in a local cafe with my laptop going through the year of sketches, and my favourite bits.Suffice to say regional cafes are not used to award winning podcasters sitting in the corner laughing to themselves and maniacally writing jokes. Before they called the cops, I pulled together about an hour of some of the best bits of A Rational Fear for the year.Some of which has previously only been avaliable behind the paywall on Patreon.And despite how many people quit the Patreon based on the fact that "Alan Jones" was hosting the end of year special... I decided to invite him to do it again.He's back by un-popular demand.By doing our podcast he literally gets 100 x the audience of his YouTube show, but at this time of year it's important to be in a giving spirit, even to your enemies.Big thank you this episode go to my in-laws, whose spare bedroom I recorded this podcast in. They too are not Alan Jones fans, but were quite obliging to allow him to seep through into the living space for 20 minutes.It’s been another big year for us on A Rational Fear. We did live shows around the country, played the Sydney Opera House, won Best Comedy at the Australian Podcast Awards (again), we put out 2 new series; Julia Zemiro Asks Who Cares, and Jan Fran Has Issues, as well as a limited election column by Kara Schlegl who now has her own brilliant substack you can subscribe too.And we couldn’t have done it without the help of our listeners who support us on Patreon, on Apple Subscriptions or who pay for this otherwise free newsletter on Substack. The thing about podcasting is the more popular you get, the more you pay in bandwidth and hosting. We also are one of the very few podcasts, or shows of any kind for that matter that actually pay our comedy guests. This is really important to us. It’s cool we can do that, and we can because of Patreon, every little bit helps.Come see us live next year:Adelaide — March 4th — Garden of Unearthly DelightsBrisbane — March 26th — World Science FestivalMelbourne — April 2nd — Capitol TheatreAnd also in 2023 — we will hit 1,000,000 downloads.I know! 1,000,000!If I had a dollar for every time someone downloaded our show, I’d have enough money to buy a mouldy 1 bedroom deathtrap in Sydney with an outdoor toilet. We’ll do something special for it, we may need your help for suggestions.Thanks for listening this year, we love making this show. It makes us feel better about the world.I hope it does the same for you.CheersDan IlicChefJerry’s Pizza, Romania 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical.0:03 This episode of irrational fear was recorded on the land of the Darrel wall people. Sovereignty was never ceded. The first step to treaty is the voice. Let's start the show.0:12 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed GM and section 40. Have a rational view recommended listening by immature audiences. Hey, a0:25 rational fear fear mongers Welcome to a rational year. This is where we rip through the highlights of the year in one little podcast so you don't have to spend more than you know about an hour or so listening to us but if you can, and you want to in person, we are going to be performing live for you around Australia very soon. We are going to be at the Adelaide Fringe Festival march for Brisbane at the World Science Festival March 26. And we are going to be at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival April 2. In fact, our Melbourne lineup is so big. In fact, we've called the show irrational fear has too many guests for a one hour festival show spectacular it is going to be a lot of fun, and I can't wait to do it. So join us then in Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane in the first half of the year. But right now, I'm going to be handed the mic over to a good friend of mine, Alan Jones. Alan,1:19 welcome to rational fear. Good morning, dad. Do you know who else has too many guests? No Christmas dinner and Scott Morrison said.1:28 Well, thank you for coming back to host the end of Year special.1:31 Good to be with you.1:32 When you hosted last time 30 people unsubscribed from the email list and six people cancelled their Patreon memberships. Yes, well,1:39 you know, go woke go broke. What were the listen to numbers like well, it was the most listened to episode we've ever had. Well, there you have it. You know, my own internet show on YouTube has registered its 15 subscriber. I'm more popular than Anthony clear in an area after party. Well, Alan, the floor is yours. Take it away. Thank you, Dan. Good morning, everyone. I'm back hosting irrational year. This show is dedicated to the most imp

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical 🎟 TICKETS TO ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL NOW ON SALEG’day Fearmongers —On the final regular podcast of the year we’ve got a cheap and cheerful chat on the podcast that the Dude Cinema hosts have labeled “The Boys Say Some Sad News Podcast”. We’re lucky to have said hosts — Alex Jae and Bec Charlwood join us for a spot of fearmongering.We talk about:🚬 NZ banning smoking for people born in 2008 and later.🗃 NZ Rental Crisis is bad.🤖 Elon Musk being booed off stage in San Francisco.Happy Christmas to you all, may all your policy dreams come true. We'll be back for New Year's Eve for our best of A Rational Fear sketches special.And if you’re in Adelaide you can buy a ticket to our Fringe Festival show now!DanGuest BookerChappelle Show 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical 🎟 TICKETS TO ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL NOW ON SALE 0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical Day Lewis.0:05 Hello, Dan, how are you?0:07 I'm very well. I'm a little cold colder than usual. I don't know if our listeners can hear but currently, I am sitting outside. Outside doing this outdoors. It's very exciting.0:18 You look like you're doing some sort of like war correspondent like your crash down in a car park. Like you looked at I looked like you're reporting on the Boxing Day sales.0:29 That's well, I'm actually I'm doing some pre reporting on the Boxing Day sales. I'm here at Westfield in Chatswood on top of the roof because I'm doing my Christmas shopping and doing my Santa photo and nothing can stop the Santa photo was not even this podcast. I've had to find space and time and I've had to try to get tethering working. I hope it's all recording. I hope it sounds okay. But you know, all we can do is hoped for the best.0:55 You sound weirdly amazing. Are you Santa? Is that what's happening? You take a quick break from your job as Santa.1:00 My nipples are hard. I couldn't be on the North Pole. This is what this is what we have a hey, I want to say a big thank you to Joel Pittman, Joshua Nicholson toe Lowe's, Stu holding and the incredible illustrator, comedian Megan Herbert, who joined us on Patreon this week. Thank you so much. It's a great way to support the show head to patreon.com forward slash irrational fear. You get an ad free version of this show and Louis we've got some live shows coming up which remind people Adelaide to Melbourne on sale Adelaide is firming up. We've got Alex Fraser and Gabby bolt joining us for Adelaide. But Melbourne is pretty exciting. We've got Alice Fraser, Sami Shah, and somebody who did the show last year Lewis who is excited to come back to do their second ever. Comedy Spot on stage.1:44 Oh, really?1:46 Yeah. Yeah. She they texted me to say in and again,1:52 that's greatly awesome. If it's too I think it is can you put me on before them this time, so I don't have to follow the most beloved person in Australia.2:03 You're gonna close the show. We can't rely on newbies to close the show. All hands closed the show. Yeah, so Melbourne. Make sure you get your tickets for that we are performing April 2 in Melbourne at the capital of huge venue. But we've got some great guests, including some others we haven't announced yet. So full announcement next year in the new year. I'm recording my end of irrational fear on gamma ray go land on the rooftop of Westfield. Sovereignty was devastated. We need a treaty. Let's start the show.2:33 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, and gum and section 40 of a rational view recommended listening by immature audience.2:47 Tonight Elon Musk appears on stage in San Francisco and gets booed by a crowd of 10,000 of his children. And Scott Morrison claims Robo debt was not his fault as one of his multiverse clones was prime minister at the time, and Dominic ParaType threatens to shut down Christmas as elves vote to Unionise it's the 15th of December 2022. And this is the podcast that is Elliot banks refuses to come back on. This is a rational fear.Welcome to irrational fear. I'm your host disgraced Sky News Anchor Dan Ilic. And this is the podcast that takes the week's news and express posts to the tip for the final time in 2022. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight. Yes, they are the CO hosts of bobbly, the ladies guide to dude cinema podcast now, just dude cinema podcast and they're not afraid to tell you that your favourite film is probably pretty rubbish. It's Vic Charlwood and Alex J. Welcome to restaurants. Merry Christmas. You know coming into summer, we've got a big blockbuster season coming up. What is the dirtiest cinema? You're hoping to check out over summer just just give us one thing? What is th

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical 🎟 TICKETS TO ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL NOW ON SALEOne of the UK’s best satirical brains; Nish Kumar joins Alice Fraser, Lewis Hobba and Dan Ilic (me) for this week’s podcast.Nish has just finished an 86 date tour of his latest comedy special culminating in a hilarious and energetic show at the Sydney Opera House last week. You may have seen Nish on Taskmaster, The Mash Report and maybe, just maybe on Hello America on Quibi (but probably not). And if you’ve never heard of him — good — he’s on this week’s A Rational Fear podcast, and he’s great!The topics this week:🤖 Alexa Loses $10bn a year.💸 The FTX fake money machine is DOA.⚖️ The disproportionate jail sentence given the a climate protestor.Thanks:Big thanks to our Patreon Supporters, RODE Mics, Jacob Round, Virginia Gay and Amanda Buckley for their voice acting on the Wentworth sketch and as always Australian Ethical.🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical 🎟 TICKETS TO ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL NOW ON SALE0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Good evening Lewis.0:04 Hello Daniel. How are you?0:05 I'm good. I'm good. I want to say a big shout out to our latest patreon supporters Sylvie longtime fan manga buyer of merchandise has joined us as a $3 month member it looks $3 That's fine. You know, $3 is fine. That'd be pretty good demo. $3 is great. Hey, we'll take it.0:21 We'll absolutely take it. $3 a month. Think of all the things that could buy you over the year. What are we looking at? $36 Yeah, that's we could buy half of our own t shirt.0:30 That's true. That's true.0:32 If you figure out a time machine and travel back to the 1800 That's like a year's salary. Yeah, absolutely.0:37 That's what working on next Patriot enough0:39 to make us landed gentry. Finally, the dream of this podcast. Patreon does0:43 help us pay for things in the show like unexpected things we need to pay for like this professional radio studio we're in tonight because sometimes you got to pay for the good stuff. When you have special guests to we've got a special guest. Getting a radio studio record a podcast is a comedians version of putting up the silverware for a cup of tea. Also big thanks to Australian ethical for supporting the show. I'm recording my irrational fear on Gadigal land in the urination. Sovereignty was never seated, we need a treaty. Let's start the show.1:11 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum and section 40 of a rational view recommended listening by immature audiences.1:24 Tonight the premier who shut down the train network for a month is glad to see climate protesters locked up for causing 25 minutes of traffic delays and the Prime Minister of Australia has contracted COVID 19. The opposition leader says it's proof that life will be Wheezy under Albanese. And it's only 50 sleeps until Australia Day. So whether you grew here or your fluid here, enjoy the next month of arguing with your relatives and friends about why we should change the date. It's the eighth of December 2022 And this is the only podcast made with entirely artificial intelligence. This is irrational fear.Welcome to irrational fear. I'm your host, former director of FIFA ethics committee Daniel itch and this is the podcast that stacks up the news on into a pile and covers it with maple syrup. And we have an all star lineup tonight. Let's meet the fear mongers. She's the banjo playing satirical with more podcasts that Scott Morrison has ministries. It's Alex Fraser. Hello, Dan. Hello, Alice. Now I checked on Twitter today and it said that you said on Twitter that you're 24 in businesses. What does that mean2:35 means I don't deliver on weekends. I discovered at the Royal Women's Hospital in Randwick about a year ago.2:43 Congratulations, by the way, keeping the human alive for one hour a year. And he's lost the hosting gig for more satirical comedy tonight shows than anyone else on tonight's panel. It's Nish Kumar. Nish. Welcome to the show.2:56 It's lovely to be here. I am instantly fired. Yeah, like when you2:59 lose like the most coveted role in satirical comedy multiple times. It doesn't make you strong.3:05 I mean, I took down a whole broadcast. I feel like you're slightly underselling it. That I lost the hosting. I torpedoed an entire network whose business model admittedly was YouTube, but you have to pay for it. But yeah, I obviously I destroyed Kwibi3:24 your David Cameron. This has been a pretty good run for us to say it all burned down. All right, well,3:30 let's trust is now raise the stakes even further in the United Kingdom. She's much she might have taken the whole country down in three months. W

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🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical On the podcast this week we have a fun crew.Bec MelroseSteph BroadbridgeJack DruceDan Ilic (me, I'm fun)We cover:⚽️ Animals correctly guessing the outcome of FIFA World Cup fixtures.🎟 Ticketmaster and Live Nation's Taylor Swift Snafu.💸 The $98 Billion Australians are giving their bosses for free each year.👩🏼‍🍳 And we have a chat with Leader of the Reason Party in Victoria, Fiona Patten MP, about the broad mix of characters running for state parliament this weekend in Victoria.And once again thanks for all of your support for A Rational Fear in a way YOU make the Best Comedy Podcast in Australia — If you'd like to help us pay the bills please chip in to the Patreon.Thanks very much.Dan🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical Unknown Speaker 0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. G'day Louis. Hello Daniel.Lewis Hobba 0:04 How are you?Dan Ilic 0:06 Good you're not doing the podcast and I because you're doing something else. Yes I am at the red carpet of the reo was Australian music's might have died. Oh my god. Oh my god you were just going from awards night to awards night on Yeah, yeah.Lewis Hobba 0:21 Although I don't think I'm gonna win anything at this one if I'm honest.Dan Ilic 0:24 Earlier this week, Lewis and I were at the Australian Podcast Awards and we we somehow managed to win again so big thank you to everyone who supports our show and listens including those who go do other award nights like you Louis Yeah,Lewis Hobba 0:39 thanks that sorry I'm just here with a deal at all caught he's trying to get me to I don't know. Get up to some mischief. IDan Ilic 0:46 think he put him on the phone but what can we talk to him?Lewis Hobba 0:49 I will give him give me one sec.Dylan Alcott 0:52 podcast of the Year Award winner Daniel itDan Ilic 0:54 is it is it is oh my god. I'm talking to multiple title award winner of the year doing all caughtup one of the one of the one of the red carpet flight right nowDylan Alcott 1:11 I kiss on the lips somethingDan Ilic 1:13 good. Let me let me ask you this question. Now harbor told a story about you meeting Elon Musk and Splendour in the Grass a few years ago. Is that true? Did you end up meeting Elon Musk? That is a real story.Dylan Alcott 1:24 Oh, he wasn't doing photos. I mean, because Arizona took a photo of him. He had his T shirt on that made him like holographic so you couldn't sayDan Ilic 1:32 no way. It was a t shirt that was reflective.Dylan Alcott 1:35 Reflective t shirt. And it all laid out. Hey guys, I can't get near him. All because I wrote straight up like it like Make A Wish kid. And I wasn't that famous at this point. Yeah, yes. It was like, fuck you. He was furious.Dan Ilic 1:57 Sorry, Greg. Right. Put Louis back. saying oh, I just I just wanted to verify that Elon Musk story. Yeah, no, itLewis Hobba 2:07 was true. I still think about it all the time.Dan Ilic 2:10 All right, we're recording our part of the podcast on Gadigal land in your nation. sovereignty has never said it. Let's start the show. ASimon Chilvers 2:16 rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra COMM And section 14, a rational view recommended listening by immature audience.Dan Ilic 2:30 Tonight the Wallabies are missing 40 of their best players due to injury sparking concerns of forced conscription. And it's snowing in Australia a few days out from summer or as climate change deniers are calling it. It's a Christmas miracle. And Barack Obama announces his tour of Australia for March. Unfortunately, he didn't make the cut off for a festival manage venue that is just for the people on the show tonight. It's the 25th of November we refuse to make any more iPhones. This is a rational fear, irrational fear.G'day Welcome to rational fi I'm your host former crypto billionaire Dan Ilic. And this is the podcast that takes the news and pause it over ice. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight. She studied jazz at a new but studied comedy at the coalface of open mics. Also known as you can you come it's Stephanie Broadbridge Steph when Scott Morrison took out the year gone 60 minutes were you annoyed that he was doing your bit?Steph Broadbridge 3:36 Haha No, I actually got work out of that. Yeah, I did an ad to play ukulele in front of his house and tell him that he should keep it up and he'll get better know whatDan Ilic 3:46 it was Yeah, who was who was paying you to do that? It was forSteph Broadbridge 3:49 a soap. It made a lot of sense at the time.Dan Ilic 3:53 And he's one of Australia's sharpest and most original comedians expert and hilarious or So says the bio he wrote himself on his website is one of my favorite conten

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical On the podcast this week we have two hosts from other podcasts that have been nominated for Best Comedy Podcast at the Australian Podcast Awards. Clare Stephens from Mamamia's Cancelled Podcast and Georgie Carroll from The Swab Podcast .Also on the podcast this week we're joined by friend of the show Brynn O'Brien from the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility who broke down the epic battle for controll of the AGL board. A move that could see Australia's emissions drop by 10% in the coming years.We also talk:⚽️ The Wold Cup in Qatar.🐦 Elon Musk's ultimatum to his staff.🐼💖🦘 Albo restoring diplomatic relations with China.🩸 Victoria Labor's promise for free pads and tampons.🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical Dan Ilic 0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Good evening, Lewis.Lewis Hobba 0:04 Hello Daniel. How are you?Dan Ilic 0:07 Good now since this since we didn't do a much of a pre show banter, I just needed to make sure you're recording your end.Lewis Hobba 0:13 Oh, yes, I am recording my Thank you, Dan. Sorry, everyone. I are very patient guests have been waiting awhile. I just forgot. Just forgot that this was on. And do you know what I was doing? I was at an event and I bumped into our friend, everyone's friend, Tom Ballard. And he told us I've got to get to the Comedy Store. I'm like, hey, I'll give you a lift. I've got nothing. And then I was driving him. And there's a there's a soccer game on at the Sydney football stadium. So we got stuck, Punt Road level traffic for like 45 minutes shooting the breeze having a great chinwag. And then I was like, Are you close? I'm like, I am not close.Dan Ilic 0:56 Well, that is fantastic. We have a football theme show for tonight. Big thank you to Australia fickle who are sponsoring the show. And also congratulations to Carmen champion and Kate millat. From the Patreon who signed up this week, they get a picture of the King each. You may remember last week, I ordered some pictures of the king. Well, congratulations, Calvin and Kate, they go into you also big thanks to Sonya and Patrick who missed out on pictures of the king. But they tried anyway.Lewis Hobba 1:21 Dan, have the pictures of the King include the Kings hands? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen his hands? Oh, yeah, they look like Frank Frankfurt's. Right, they're horrific. And he you know how he keeps getting angry about webapp pens. He can't hold a pen.Dan Ilic 1:39 Well, you know what? I will, I will send a pen and some Frankfurt's along to Kate the garment as well. So I'm a big thank you, folks on signing up on the Patreon if you want to sign up and support the show, go to patreon.com forward slash irrational fear. This is a content warning for this show. This show will contain a short impression of a powerful authority figure who happens to have a lisp and if you are offended by such content, this one is not for you. Does he have a lisp? He's got a little speech impediment, but Sybil Adeste Yes, that's right. Well, little bit like my spit bill. Like you know who's got a good sibilance he's got good siblings a bomber. I love a bomb of sibilance Yeah, it's different. It's richer. Yep. I'm recording my end of irrational fear on Gadigal land in the nation's sovereignty was never ceded. We need a treaty. Let's start the show.Unknown Speaker 2:26 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum, and section 40 of a rational view recommended listening by immature audience.Dan Ilic 2:39 Tonight, White Ribbon organizers canceled plans to have 50 Men ride jet skis around Sydney Harbour to raise awareness about violence against women. Instead, they're gonna have a pop poll, and a sad day for food delivery ecosystems as the beloved Deliveroo has gone extinct. Witnesses say the last ever deliver was seen circling around the apartment block looking for an entrance before giving up and after much controversy. Norman Swan has publicly apologized for his terrible pronunciation of COVID-19 It's the 18th of November with more shuffling of chairs and AGL This is irrational fear.We're gonna rational fear I'm your host former head of risk at FTX crypto exchange Dan Ilic. And this is the podcast that takes the status headlines. It's a little bit of a tickle. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight both and nominated for the Best Comedy podcast at the Australian Podcast Awards. It's returning friend of the show Adelaide funniest medical professional from the swab podcast. It's nurse Georgie Cairo.Georgie Carroll 3:48 Sofia Good day Dan Lewis.Dan Ilic 3:51 You go and now Georgie How are you preparing for the for the for the awards

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical G'day Fearmongers —.👑The Australian Monarchist League making demands of Netflix.🎥 Sylvester Stallone's new Reality Project.🏆 Sean Penn giving Volodymyr Zelensky an Oscar®.🇺🇸 The US Mid-term elections.With fellow fearmongers Matt Bevan (Russia If You're Listening), Cam James (Finding Yeezus), Dan Ilic (me), Lewis Hobba (Australia's Best Competition, Competition) and Alison Piotrowski (Nine's US Correspondent).Thanks so much for listening!You're all legends — if you feel compelled.. please chip into the Patreon🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical Lewis Hobba 0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Oh,Matt Bevan 0:04 good morning. Not good morning. Good evening, Louis.Lewis Hobba 0:07 Well, depending on when you're listening to this podcast Good evening, good morning. Good day to you.Matt Bevan 0:14 Yeah, exactly. Well, we are going to be talking to Allison Petroski a little later on in the program and her time when we're talking to her. It's 4am So she's in Washington DC, so I don't know if she's had a good morning so far but we'll find out when we talk to her in half an hour.Lewis Hobba 0:29 Wow. Right we the midterm results flowing in Yeah, imagine cheat, we probably haven't got her up. She'd be awake anyway,Matt Bevan 0:34 she said, I just want to get to bed, Dan, but for you, I'll do it. Anyway, there's a big thanks to Australian ethical who help us do what we do here on irrational fear. Also some other folks who also help us out, including our Patreon supporters, including Sonya, exclamation mark, Patric, Kate, and Chad. Thank you for new Patreon supporters. Big thank you to you guys, Chip. Again, as you'll see, a little later on the show. I started to spend Patreon money on frivolous things. And it's that kind of money that keeps the show on the air. And a little later on, we'll talk a little bit about, you know, being nominated for a podcast award. Very excited.Lewis Hobba 1:12 Is that right? Yeah,Matt Bevan 1:13 surely you know this, Louis?Lewis Hobba 1:15 I found out because you sent me an email to invite me I was thrilled.Matt Bevan 1:18 I'm recording my end of irrational fear and getting Atlanta the urination. Sovereignty was never seated. We did a treaty. Let's stop the show.Unknown Speaker 1:26 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks can rub off. Fed COMM And section 40 of our rational view recommended listening by immature audiences.Matt Bevan 1:39 Tonight, the US midterm elections causes a rise in serious journalists saying the word gubernatorial and Vogue Sue's Drake for making a parody of a magazine cover despite no one suing vogue for making a parody of a fashion magazine. And Anthony Albanese is set to meet President Zhi Jing ping at the G 20. Summit Alamo will present the Chinese president with an album by gang of us and G will present albeau with an ultimatum fit for a capitalist lapdog of American imperialism, and a lovely pair of shoes made by a gang of detained dudes. It's the 11th of November and we're not afraid to go lower than Bitcoin. This is a rational fear.Hello, welcome to irrational fear. My name is Daniel H. I am the CO creator of the den Andrews Tuesday program. And this is the podcast that is nominated for one of the best comedy podcasts in Australia for 2022.Lewis Hobba 2:47 That's crazy.Matt Bevan 2:49 Yeah, because there are so many comedy podcasts. I don't know how we did it. Yeah, we'll talk aboutLewis Hobba 2:54 there. I don't mean to say that we're a shit podcast, but there are so many great podcasts.Matt Bevan 2:58 We'll talk a little bit more about it in a second. But I just want to introduce you to our fear mongers for tonight. They two very highly successful podcasters but they are also Newcastle's fourth and fifth favorite sons from the podcast, Russia. If you're listening, it's Matt Bevin and from the web series finding years this is cam James. Hey,Cam James 3:20 thanks for having us feeling very gubernatorial tonight. So thank you.Matt Bevan 3:23 Yeah, I'm very excited. First longtime listener first time Fira, I guess you know, terrified person. People on the show, what are you talking about? What is what is it? A few years? younger female.Lewis Hobba 3:38 You're supposed to create the fear, man. Yeah, you're not supposed to feel the fear youMatt Bevan 3:43 bring the fear? Yeah, bring it.Lewis Hobba 3:46 I didn't actually know you were both from Newcastle. Yeah, who's above you? I guess the three John's brothers. And Daniel Jones.Cam James 3:53 Are we counting Daniel? Daniel as a sibling to Maddie and Andrew.Matt Bevan 3:59 Three John's brothers could family is the other one. Generally ranks ab

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical On the podcast this week we talk aboutAUSTRAC investigating Bet365 and BetFair.The Lions trying to escape Sydney's Toronga Zoo.Elon Musk's Twitter purchase.B-52's in Darwin.And whether or not Australia will be welcomed back at the COP27 table.Your fearmongers this week are Osman Faruqi (Nine) Scott Mitchel (7am) Linh Do (CANA), Dan Ilic + Lewis Hobba🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical Dan Ilic 0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Good evening, Lewis.Lewis Hobba 0:05 Hello Daniel. How are you?Dan Ilic 0:07 I'm great. It's great to be in Melbourne. It's stupid old studios.Lewis Hobba 0:10 So beautiful. I'm really impressed with the stupid old studios. Obviously they do so much great work. And I know we both donated to the crowdfunding a little whileDan Ilic 0:20 ago. We night I forgot that. Why am I paying for this booking?Lewis Hobba 0:25 That microphone you're using? That's the memorial mine. Yeah,Dan Ilic 0:30 I actually met someone Off the Telly today. It was a bit taken aback. I'm like, Oh, we're famous person.Lewis Hobba 0:35 What do you mean? Oh, at the studio?Dan Ilic 0:36 Yeah. The people that come from,Lewis Hobba 0:38 we're just excited in general of having met someone from television, like, bumped into the cash cow on the street and you were like,Dan Ilic 0:44 speaking of cash, big thank you to Australian ethical for helping out the podcast for another few weeks. And big thank you to Andrew Carr and Chad Thompson, who signed up on the Patreon you'd not only get an ad free feed, you get access to the discord. And you can write jokes for the show if you want. That's good. You get early access to the big one on one interviews we have you also get access to early works in progress of sketches, video sketches, and rare recordings of live shows that are too defamatory to put out in public.Lewis Hobba 1:12 I love that your Patreon model is a lot like Elon Musk's plan to charge people for their blue check. It's like hey, if you give us money, you can also write for it.Dan Ilic 1:21 And we're gonna be speaking a lot about Elon Musk. In just a second. I'm recording my end of irrational fear on Wurundjeri lands of the Kulin nation, sovereignty was never ceded. We need a treaty. Let's start the show.Simon Chilvers 1:31 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum, and section 40 of a rational view recommended listening by immature audience.Dan Ilic 1:44 Tonight lions escaped from a Sydney zoo but returned to their cages when they realized the city's nightlife is dead. And after tourism Victoria stepped up to sponsor the national netball team Gina Reinhardt insists on trying out for a position called own goal attack. And Dominic Perret J has hired Scott Morrison's election strategist hoping he'll curry favor with the people of New South Wales. It's the fourth of November and we're just days away from the final episode of the USA this is a rational fear.Welcome to irrational fear. I'm your host former head of security at Taronga Zoo Dan Ilic. And this is the podcast that takes the scariest news and shoots it with a tranquilizer gun. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight. They are the executive producer of the number one news podcast in Australia that doesn't do jokes. They are the they are also the former housemate of Louis harbor. Scott Micho.Scott Mitchell 2:44 Thank you so much.Dan Ilic 2:45 Scott. What is the one thing you know about Louis Harbor that nobody else knows?Scott Mitchell 2:50 Oh, my God, so many Friday, I'dLewis Hobba 2:52 be like we should I don't think we need to do this.Scott Mitchell 2:54 I don't think we need to do this. So many Dan,Lewis Hobba 2:57 but also I know, Scott would be very afraid of reprisals.Dan Ilic 3:05 And the culture editor for nine and host of the drop podcasts and current flatmate of Scott Mitchell Osman for okay Daniel, how you doing? Well, I was What is one thing about Scott Mitchell that nobody else knows.Osman Faruqi 3:17 I'm not terrified of reprisals because I'm perfect as a housemate.Dan Ilic 3:21 It's pretty good to me.Osman Faruqi 3:22 No, I mean, there's nothing done they've done the things like I said it's got a lovely things. He's a wonderful housemate and a wonderful cook. You know, thisDan Ilic 3:27 is such born with me, call Santa lands we need him and he's already dusting off his Loki suit after his one episode of television aired last week. It's former flatmate of Scott Mitchell Louis harbor.Lewis Hobba 3:43 Yes, thank you, Dan. It it's true. The logos are calling the actors are calling. I assume the international Emmys are calling. I'm preparing several suits.Dan Ilic 3:5

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical Recorded IN PERSON around Lewis' kitchen table. Fearmongers this week are Chris Taylor, Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba, Dan Adams CEO of Amber, AND WENDY ZUKERMAN from the podcast Science Vs.She's back in Australia — we're lucky to have her!There's a different energy to the in person podcasts that's for sure. We cover —Covid and cruise lines.Climate Protests.Money coming back to the ABC in the budget.Energy price shocks with the CEO of Amber, Dan Adams.Thanks for listening, Chip into the Patreon if you can! 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical Dan Ilic 0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Hello. Hello Hi. Oh,it's exciting, Louis Hello Daniel. How are you? I'm great. We're at your house around your kitchen table WelcomeLewis Hobba 0:11 Welcome to the mansion. This is the bottom of 16 storyDan Ilic 0:18 wow that ABC grant has really kicked in earlyLewis Hobba 0:21 actually just leave out the ABC IDan Ilic 0:25 want to say a big thank you to our new Patreon supporter Andrew car this week we gained a Patreon supporter but last 12 I don't know what happened. Churn if a lot of rip but a big thank you to Australia ethical who has jumped on board once again as our sponsor for the next nine weeks Thank you Australian eCycleChris Taylor 0:42 what you couldn't get Hancock big dollar from the ethics community really kicked in.Dan Ilic 0:51 Soon all of the previous 10 years of irrational fears are going to be heading to the Patreon only or Apple subscriptions oh you know the old episodes from this you're going to be kicking around but you know, the previous nineLewis Hobba 1:03 are you going to put up the one where you're in blackface? Because hey, yearsDan Ilic 1:09 Yes, yes, thank you to all those who are can imagine what it would be like to have like face on a podcast that's going behind the paywall, but there is going to be some serious cutting edge comedy from 2013. If you want you're gonna have to pay. Yeah, so remember that we had some good Kevin Rudd jokes. Chris Taylor had some good Superleague jokes. SoChris Taylor 1:30 yeah, I was doing I had a very tight two minutes.Lewis Hobba 1:33 Well, you're talking about Superleague again. TodayDan Ilic 1:37 we're recording this on Gadigal Land of the Euro nation's sovereignty was never seen it we need a treaty. Let's start the show.Simon Chilvers 1:43 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum, and section 40 of our rational view recommended listening by immature audience.Dan Ilic 1:56 Tonight after being dumped by editors for making anti semitic comments Kanye West announces a new line of ugly sandals in collaboration with Hugo Boss and Elon Musk will finally take the case to Twitter promising the long awaited features that users have been demanding, such as the ability to read Donald Trump's tweets, and the ABC loses the television rights of Dr. Hodor. Disney plus the underfunded public broadcaster has commissioned a new series to make up for the loss of Dr. Who called in turn where did you lose? Yeah, yeah, it was it was really good in my head.Chris Taylor 2:38 As you were reading ahead, and we're like, Oh, I've been just on that story. I mean, it's been devastating is but the good news is ABC has maintained the rights to Whovians. But they have gone on to the goal.Dan Ilic 2:51 It is the 27th of October and this is the podcast with fewer manners than James Corden. This is a rational, rational.Dan Adams 2:58 Half of you are excited.Dan Ilic 3:10 Wasn't a rational fear on your host former cast member of friends Dan Ilic. And this is the podcast that takes the news and adds a bit of ice magic. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight. He's been avoiding the news for to make his comedy of late preferring to kind of foist stories from his own head upon the unsuspecting public. It's comedy writer Chris Taylor. Welcome, Chris. It'sChris Taylor 3:28 great to be back on the podcast. ThankDan Ilic 3:29 you. It has the world of fiction treating you.Chris Taylor 3:33 It's almost as fictional as real world politics. It's very paradoxical. You retreat from you know, having done all like topical satirical news based comedy for years. You think, you know, that's got a shelf life, I'm going to retreat to the world of fiction. And it's really more real in the fictional world than it is in the news world.Dan Ilic 3:52 Yeah. And we thought Australia has lost her forever to the hustle and bustle of New York City. But she's now returned to our boring shores. It's podcaster. Wendy Zukerman. Welcome, Wendy. Thanks for having me. Oh, why are you coming back to Australia?Wendy Zukerman 4:05 Ah, well, the ratio of kangaro

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical This podcast was recorded about 1 hour before Liz Truss resigned — but is well worth a listen. Not only do with have a stellar Australian panel featuring comedian Bea Barbeau-Scurla and Journalist Rick Morton, we brought in the big guns from the UK to help us all understand what is happening in UK politics right now.Athena Kugblenu unleashes a cathartic and hilarious rant, that distills the situation into a joyful 15 minute conversation. If you really want to know what’s going on in the UK — listen to this podcast.WE HAVE A SPONSOR!This is awesome news, as you know, making a weekly podcast is a lot of work, with many mouths to feed.So we are super grateful (no pun intended) that Australian Ethical have come on board to help us out with the bills for the next 10 weeks.We spent sometime looking AE up and down, sussing out their vibe, and we really liked the cut of their jib. They’ve been around for a long time helping people make good choices when it comes to investing ethically. Thank you Australian Ethical for your support.CheersDan IlicDeputy Senate Leader🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical Bronwen Morgan 0:00 This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Hey, good evening, Lewis. Hello, Daniel.Lewis Hobba 0:05 How are you? Good, good.Dan Ilic 0:08 I'm just doing some stretches to get ready for the next 10 weeks of irrational.Lewis Hobba 0:12 It's so good to be back. I was just trying to think I know you've been squirreling away doing episodes without me, but I can't think of the last time I was on, like six months ago. So,Dan Ilic 0:23 I don't know. It must have been a bit at least three or four data breaches ago. I think.Lewis Hobba 0:30 I'm currently the victim of three separate data breaches.Dan Ilic 0:33 Hang on, are you a Medibank customer? Vina? A customer and an optics customer?Lewis Hobba 0:37 I'm a former Optus customer actually, no, my. No, I'm currently an optics customer. I am I was a Vito MoPhO customer. In fact, a real warning sign I had during the pandemic was when vino MoPhO the wine delivery company wrote me an email to inform me that I had now bought enough wine to justify my self as a VIP customer. And that was when I was like, oh, gotta stop this.Dan Ilic 1:02 That's that sounds like you're a VIP member at the RSL. And you don't have to go to that little room and play yeah,Lewis Hobba 1:08 I need that like facial recognition software that's tells me buying wine online. Also my deal, which was the other data breach, that's one of the Woolworths brands and I once bought some like dining chairs from them. So there is no data about me that you cannot buy for tuppenceDan Ilic 1:26 and I only know a whole bunch of stuff about you. I'm gonna go traveling and hire a car in your name. It does right that I'm excited about that. Louis, we have a brand new sponsor for rational fear strain ethical. We'll be hearing more about them a little later on. It's really exciting because it means Louis, you get paid.Lewis Hobba 1:42 That's some ethics I can get behind.Dan Ilic 1:45 I'm recording my end of a rational fee on Gadigal land into your nation's sovereignty was never seated. We did a treaty. Let's start the show.Simon Chilvers 1:52 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum, and section 40 of a rational view recommended listening by immature audience.Dan Ilic 2:05 Tonight Lydia thought resigns as Senate deputy leader after neglecting dimension she dated a bikie. The senator will now take up the role as Chair of the Joint Standing Committee for being cool. And the cost of stage three tax cuts has jumped $11 billion, which is just enough money to bribe your own government for some tax cuts. And in order to crack down on businessman falling out of windows. Russian CEOs are moving their offices to single storey buildings without windows or stairs or in Russia. It's October 21. And we've dropped our fossil fuel sponsors. This is irrational fear.Welcome to rational fear on your host former Deputy Senate Leader Daniel edge and this is the podcast that gives you the news but with a little bit of a tickle. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight is packing up his city life and he's moving to the country with his mum, but he's still bragging the big stories from regional Queensland from the Saturday paper it's Ricky Morton.Rick Morton 3:15 Wow, I'm gonna have to go into hiding now. It's a status intro I've everDan Ilic 3:23 the biggest regional Queensland story you're gonna be bring into the countryRick Morton 3:26 damn levels and whether we need at least 100 More, and also local councils. I think the time is ripe to get into some dodgy, dodg

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/We’re gearing up for a big 10-week season of weekly A Rational Fear Podcasts — but before we hit full steam, enjoy this chat with one of Australia's most prominent satirical broadcasters. From ABC's The Weekly: Charlie Pickering.We also speak with NASA Scientist and Climate Activist: Peter KalmusThis is a big discussion about civil disobedience and what actions may or may not work when it comes to shaking up the narrative of climate action. Dan also pushes Charlie on how he covers climate, and his thoughts on reaching the ABC audience.Leave us a review here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ Dan Ilic 0:00 G'day, welcome to A Rational Fear, another special episode of A Rational Fear light as I call it's not the full A Rational Fear. It's just a slimmed down version that is the least amount of effort to make to maintain your Patreon support. That's all it is. That's what we're doing. And we've got a great guest, Charlie Pickering needs no introduction, but I'll give you one in a second. Anyway, here we go. I'm recording my end of A Rational Fear on Gadigal Land of the Eora Nation. sovereignty with never ceaded, we need a treaty. Let's startSimon Chilvers 0:29 the show. A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, and gum and section 40 of our A Rational Fear recommended listening by immature audience.Dan Ilic 0:43 Tonight the CEO of Star City casino says that even though the casino license has been revoked, customers will still be allowed to leave their kids in their car unsupervised. And Kanye West agrees to buy in principle, Paula and I agree in principle to not buy anything from Kanye West. And in a shocking misstep, Scott Morrison has signed up to a speaker's bureau initially wanted to sign up to a meandering rant bureau. Instead, it's the 19th of October. And this is A Rational FearWelcome to A Rational Fear I'm your host, former president of China, Dan Xi Ping and joining us onA Rational Fear light is the host of Foxtel's The Mansion it is Charlie Pickering.Charlie Pickering 1:39 That's great. It's great that some remember by someDan Ilic 1:42 people that worked on the show is of that show? Yeah, it was great. Don't Charlie, one of the best moments in show business in my life. I was having lunch with you in Manly one day, and you saying, Hey, man, I've got a show coming up. Do you want to come and work on it? And I'm like, yeah, that's my chili peppers, my cherry picker impression.Charlie Pickering 2:02 It's pretty accurate. It's prettyDan Ilic 2:04 good. Don't often I don't often doCharlie Pickering 2:09 more of them come and beDan Ilic 2:13 waiting here by chamber impression. It's great. Yeah, I don't often do my impressions to the people who do the impressions ofCharlie Pickering 2:20 it shows extreme confidence when that's your absolute confidence with an impression used to do it to the person.Dan Ilic 2:27 I did do my Andrew Denton impression to him at a rap party once on the microphone. And it was it went down. Well, I think Andrew was like, that doesn't? That doesn't sound like me at all. What do you what do you try it? Like? Why are you implying that I make people cry? Yeah. Hey, thanks for joining us on irrational fear. Charlie. I really appreciate I've been meaning to get you on for a long time. But you, you know, one of the busiest man in showbiz. You're like the James Brown of Australian comedy showbiz.Charlie Pickering 2:55 Hopefully, you're talking purely about work ethic and notDan Ilic 2:58 talking about your work. busiest man in China,Charlie Pickering 3:01 yes, well, I think I've done I've done very well to cultivate the image of busyness. And I think that's been probably the greatest achievement of my career. So far. Everyone thinks that I've got a lot onDan Ilic 3:12 Yeah, tell us easier. It's perception at a distance, you've done a great job. That's right. I kind of wanted to get you on because you're, you're always thinking about the big issues, and you kind of have to as a person who runs a inflammation refinery that is the weekly. And with a lot of the civil disobedience stuff that's been happening around climate, I thought it might be good to have a little chat with you about about your thoughts on it, and how, as someone who runs an inflammation distillery, the weekly, how you go about covering climate, like, you know, the weekly has been on for so many years now. And you've covered it in so many ways. How, let me ask you, first of all, how do you think about approaching climate stories, because it's a story that just keeps on going? I don'tCharlie Pickering 3:55 think we do it a lot. Because we do it with a philosophy of, we want to change minds that need to be changed. And if you actu

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/We’re gearing up for a big 10-week season of weekly A Rational Fear Podcasts — but before we hit full steam, enjoy this chat with the very smart and curious Sarah Wilson in a new ARF format called A Rational Fear Lite.This week on the pod:🤑 The Alex Jones $1bn Verdict.🦾 No one at Meta wants to use the Metaverse. Great piece from The Verge🕴️The 10 year anniversary of the Julia Gillard Misogyny speech. Hear the full interview with Ben Rhodes — the juicy bit about Abbott and Gillard speech hits around 35min in.Sarah’s plugs:🎙️Sarah's podcast WILD✍🏻 Sarah's Substack THIS IS PRECIOUSWe’ll be back next week with a new A Rational Fear season.And I’d love to hear from you. What shall we do next season? What do you want to hear more of? What would you like to hear less of? How can we delight our audience more?Leave a comment on the Substack post for this podcast.CheersDan Ilic Dan Ilic 0:00 G'day there, Dan Ilic here with a rational fear lite this week. Yes, it is a light version just me and a guest. You'll meet them in just a second. Just kind of warming up for the next 10 weeks of regular recording. It's going to be exciting. I think we might have a sponsor as well. So next week, I'll tell you all about that on a rational fear. In the meantime, I'm recording irrational fear on the land of the Gadigal. In the urination, sovereignty was never seated, we need a treaty. Let's start the show.Simon Chilvers 0:26 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum, and section 40 of our rational view recommended listening by image your audience.Dan Ilic 0:39 Tonight, Sydney takes over Canberra as the most expensive city to rent in Australia. In order to win back the title of Canberra and landlords are increasing levels of mold. And after Mark Zuckerberg released his new avatar with legs is promised to invest another $10 billion to develop a personality. And cuantas has hit a huge profit the first six months of the year earning $1.3 billion before tax, most of which they discovered was stored in baggage lost in broomed. It's the 14th of October just weeks away from a state street tax cut. This is a rational fear.Welcome to rational fear. I'm your host, former coach of the Manly Sea Eagles, Dan Ilic. And this is a rational fear light, just me and a guest. Talking through a few stories, having a bit of fun catching up, seeing someone face to face. Oh, it's good. It's gonna be good fun. And when it gets we have journalist, thinker, doer, and most crucially, my neighbor Sarah Wilson, welcome to irrational fear.Sarah Wilson 1:47 I think it's absolutely apps that are on the diet version of the show, don't you? Because that's the reputation I've always had as peddling a diet. Yeah,Dan Ilic 1:55 this is perfectly fine. This is the sugar free version of a rational fire. Yeah,Sarah Wilson 1:59 yeah. I mean, I quit. I quit sugar. I don't know if everyone got that memo. But yes, I'm still associated as a diet. So I've never been on a diet my life. Dan, you've seen me eat. SoDan Ilic 2:09 like, yeah, I have seen you eat and I've had burgers with you. I'm robust. Yeah. The thing is, when you say you've quit sugar, and you've quit, quit sugar. Are you now back into sugar? Are you now investing? Double downing on sugar and double boosting sugar?Sarah Wilson 2:23 No, not at all. Not at all. I mean, nothing's changed. It's just that I'm not caught up in the tedium of running a business, which is just not my thing, right? And also a commitment I made to myself, blah, blah, blah, that when it made a certain amount of money, I gave it all away.Dan Ilic 2:37 Well, would you believe it? I'm not committed to running a business either. That is why we need your help on Patreon. On Patreon, and can I say Sarah's also got an incredibly interesting and thought provoking substack and she provides us on substack. But my partner loves your substack she absolutely enthralled with the stories of your travels and insights that you gather from people you meet on the road. It's a terrific subject. ShouldSarah Wilson 3:03 I enjoy writing? It's a nice realm to be in, isn't it just having worked for News Corp for many years and ACP slash was a Bauer, the Germans Yeah, yeah. It's it's nice just to be to have my own space where I can actually yeah, get subscribers who want to read my stuff.Dan Ilic 3:19 What's it like being your own editor?Sarah Wilson 3:20 Oh, this is typos. Isn't there?Dan Ilic 3:24 Alright, let's get into the stories this week. A Connecticut jury awarded nearly a billion dollars in damages to 15 plaintiffs who were defined by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Now this is absolutely incredible like this, this landed today, a billion dollars Alex Jones is now gonna have to pay these poor people that he spent years defaming over the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting back in 2012. So long ago now but

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/Australia is the most secretive liberal democracy in the world. We’d love to tell you more about it, but need our lawyer present. In this special edition of A Rational Fear where we’ll rip into Australia’s most closely-guarded secrets. How did ▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓ drown? And why can’t you say a ▓▓▓▓ has arrived from ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓?On this very special edition of A Rational Fear live on stage at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, we bring together some big names in journalism, comedy and whistleblowing to examine what went wrong with Australian Secrecy.05:21 Dan Ilic sets the context for the ultra secretive world we live in now.16:10 Damien Cave points out that Australia is secretive for no good reason.26:29 Amber Schultz highlights that the press also have secrets when they shouldn't.37:18 Kate McClymont gives you tips on how to remain secret.43:35 David McBride talks about the personal toll for doing the right thing.50:15 Lewis Hobba says we're all being told things we shouldn't, and none of the things we should.Big thanks to everyone who came to the live show.Please support the podcast on Patreon and Subscribe to the email list. We can't keep doing this kind of stuff without your help.🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ Dan Ilic 0:00 Oh, hello everyone. Yay round of applause We haven't even done anything. It's it's fantastic. Joy. We're recording a live podcast of our show. So you are an integral part of the show. So it's important to clap and cheer and laugh at all the jokes no matter the quality of the jokes. Yeah, that's right. Yes. Like, move that person to the front. Yeah. Well, we've got a seat down here for you. Particularly at the top. At the very start of the show. Dan likes to start the show with three big jokes. terrible jokes very, very in quality. And they are wafting. Terrible, yeah, really. Lewis Hobba 0:42 For his sake. I beg if you clap, and she just pretend they're really good. Dan Ilic 0:49 It's a format point of the show. We want to we want to be as close to the weekly as possible. Lewis Hobba 0:56 It's gonna be a really fun show. This is an incredible house. And let's firstly just give it a huge round of applause. Yeah. Carriageworks festival dangerous idea. Dan Ilic 1:03 Yeah. Thanks for having me. I'm Dan. And I'm Louis. Yeah. And we'll introduce these folks in a second. All right, great. I'm recording my end of irrational fear on Gadigal land in the urination sovereignty was never seated when at a treaty. Let's start the show. Simon Chilvers 1:17 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum, and section 40 of a rational fear recommended listening by immature audience. Dan Ilic 1:31 leaked documents show that top defense officials were kept in the dark about submarine contracts. When asked about it, Scott Morrison said he wouldn't talk about ongoing underwater matters. And in order to increase transparency Anthony Albanese auditor or government ministers to leave their dream journals unlocked. And Governor General David Hurley becomes a Patreon supporter of irrational fear. No jokes. He is the best Governor General ever. Viva la Governor General. It's the 17th of September 2022. And you'll if you're listening to this it means I'm in a secret prison in Tuggeranong. This is a rational irrational fear on your hosts former sovereign Daniel itch and this is the show live at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. This is the podcast where we make fun of the toughest topics because you know if we don't we try. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight. She's been uncovering lies in Sydney for over 25 years. Tonight we'll ask her for her tips about how to lie to her face. It's the host of Leia Leia, Kate McClymont. Now Kate is not what we're talking about tonight. But everyone in this room wants to know did the husband do it? Kate McClymont 2:55 Oh, you haven't left me with a foot to stand on. Dan Ilic 3:00 Don't be fooled by this man's accent. He's so Australian. He makes the rest of us look like immigrants from the New York Times it's Damien caves. Damien when it comes to learning about Australia, is this something you haven't quite mastered yet? Damien Cave 3:15 You know, I just discovered what it means to have a smoker still there. Dan Ilic 3:22 And she's covered everything this year from Canberra to Kyiv tonight will be her toughest assignment yet, please give it up for Amber shocks. And as a cranky journalist who is more transparent Russia or Australia Amber Schultz 3:39 spends the metrics transparent about body composition that's transparent about ability to succumb to peer pressure. That's elbow. Dan Ilic 3:49 And he's the former Australian Defense Lawyer turn whistleblower now professional panel guest is David McBride. David, is there anything funny about the being the enem

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ SEE OUR NEXT LIVE SHOW AT THE FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS: https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/secretive-australia/Once in a while on the A Rational Fear podcast feed we do an interview with someone who is a leader on climate, and we've got a great get this week.Richard Duke represents the United States of America around the globe on climate, he is the Deputy Special Envoy for Climate — his boss is former Secretary of State John Kerry who leads the SPEC.On this episode of the Greatest Moral Podcast Of Our Generation we chat through:The IRAAustralia's place in the pacificAussie Scope 3Global Supply ChainsThe Methane PledgeGuamSmall Island StatesPatreon QuestionsTRANSCRIPTION Dan Ilic 0:00 Good air Dan Ilic with you for the greatest moral podcast of our generation. This is a great episode. I have had the privilege of talking with America. Yes, the whole country actually, Rick Duke, who is the Deputy climate envoy for the US State Department. His job is essentially to travel around the world preaching from the Gospel of climate action, a job that considerably got a lot easier in August when the US passed the inflation Reduction Act. And then that hides exactly what it is, which is a mega climate spending spree Yeah, huge amounts of money tax credits and incentives for things like renewable energy, CCS, EVS community projects. And of course, it is not without controversy. It also opens up federal landfill fossil fuel exploration, it's a bit of a complicated story. But essentially, this whole thing, the IRA, the inflation Reduction Act, not Irish Republican Army, is essentially a huge deal for climate change, and could revolutionize America's approach for years to come when it comes to their emissions. The more I've learned about it, the more excited I am about it, and the more it will hopefully encourage other countries to do the same. Now, it is a far cry from the lip service that Australia's government has so far provided on climate action. But maybe, maybe with the US leading the way that could change a word about how we can make this podcast you know, this was kind of an expensive one, because I couldn't go to the consulate to record my podcast there. They don't actually allow people to take electronic equipment into the US Consulate. It's a whole deal. Let me tell you, and I couldn't exactly invite America into my house. It's very small country, a whole country in there. And let me tell you, the deputy climate envoy had a hell of an entourage, so I had to book professional studios, but it was well worth doing face to face. And I could only do this podcast and last week's podcast as well when we did a stupid old studios in Melbourne, because of your support on Patreon. Now, if you enjoy these conversations, you've enjoyed rational fear. If you enjoy our climate chats, please chip in as a Patreon supporter, it costs real money to make this show and I need your help. So you can chip in for as little as a cup of coffee of months. The benefit is you get unedited previews of stuff you get to see videos I'm working on. And you get a link to the discord so you can join in, in the conversations that people who make this show and also a rational few super fans are all on Discord. And we have great conversations about as Paul there. It's really, really, really good fun. And I look I know there are 7000 of you who listen to the show, which is huge, but only about 300 of you chip in so what we'd love to do this year is get that 300 to 600. And that way we could do more expensive podcasting. We recorded our conversation on Gadigal. land at the urination at a very expensive studio. Let's start the interview.Robbie McGreggor 2:53 Despite global warming, a rational fear who's adding a little more heart here with long form discussions with Climate Leaders. Good.Unknown Speaker 3:06 This is called Don't be great. Heat waves and drought greatest mass extinction moral we're facing a manmade disasterRobbie McGreggor 3:16 podcast, climate criminals, Jenner raishin. All of this with the global warming and a lot of it's a hoax book. Right. That's my role podcast about generation. For short,Dan Ilic 3:31 well, our next guest on The Greatest moral podcast of our generation is someone who's been at the forefront of culture, society, democracy, industry and corn syrup based foodstuffs since 1776. It's great privilege to have an irrational fear, one of the longest running superpowers ever. United States of America. Welcome America.Richard Duke 3:50 It's good to be here.Dan Ilic 3:52 Thank you. That is the voice of Rick Juke, who despite everything going on in the world, has spent 20 years trying to make the world a better place through global democracy and focusing on climate change. He was a special adviser on climate to President Barack Obama, a fellow at the Brookings Institute and like our many of

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ SEE OUR NEXT LIVE SHOW AT THE FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS: https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/secretive-australia/Dan is eating his way through Melbourne's cafes — so this ARF is recorded face to face from Stupid Old Studios.Is a cracker covering Labor Climate Catastrophe, the dance moves of the Finish Prime Minister, the Murdoch's suing Crikey, Russia's new ad campaign and #DadVsAdaniFearmongers include:Kirsty WebeckSam PetersenAlice ToveyHost Dan IlicInterview Guest: Ben Pennings See more about Ben's campaign against Adani below. SUPPORT BEN PENNINGS CAMPAIGN:#DadvsAdaniAdani is after the suburban family home of Brisbane dad Ben Pennings, suing him for $17m in the Supreme Court for peaceful protest action. They even followed his wife and kids around. Support #DadvsAdani to protect the freedom of all Australians.Donate to the legal fund - https://tinyurl.com/yc5zwxknPost your own photo - https://tinyurl.com/mr2dar5p 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ SEE OUR NEXT LIVE SHOW AT THE FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS: https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/secretive-australia/Dan Ilic 0:00 G'day, Dan Ilic here. Guess what? We're in Melbourne. Yes, it's very exciting. Just letting you know before we start the podcast we've got a big live show coming up at the festival dangerous ideas at carriage works. It's a huge show all about how Australia is the most secretive liberal democracy in the world so we could potentially go to jail. It's very exciting. On the panel, Damian Kay from the New York Times Emma shorts from crikey Kate McCann from the Sydney Morning Herald, David McBride, former Australian defense lawyer and turned whistleblower he is joining us and of course, Lewis harbor, and myself who are renowned, secretive people we don't know anything about us. So that's what's so exciting about the show seven senses of timber in Sydney. I'm recording my irrational fear on the land of the orangery in the cooler nation's sovereignty was never seen it we need a treaty. Let's start the show.Simon Chilvers 0:46 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum, and section 40 of a rational view recommended listening by immature audiences.Dan Ilic 0:59 Tonight after months of turmoil Qantas is apologizing to his customers by offering a $50 gift voucher The only catch is it's only redeemable on Qantas and it will be delivered to you by Qantas baggage handlers and Lachlan Murdoch is suing crikey for defamation after they allege that Fox News was somehow responsible for the capital rights. Meanwhile, anyone who reads the Murdoch press is asking what's a Crikey. And after a disastrous interview on insiders that crudely sold out his colleagues for a few extra staff Barnaby Joyce is declared patient zero for Foot and Mouth Disease. It's the 26th of August and we refuse to quiet quit this is a rational fear.Welcome to rational fear. I'm your host disgraced celebrity chef Dan Ilic. And this is the podcast that takes the worst news of the weekend. It just sucks it down like a word is original. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight that their cabaret queen with a sharp tongue and adult implement. Please give it up for Alice Toby Hello as well. Why do you carry that doll implement around with you everywhere you go.Alice Tovey 2:09 Oh, you know what they say carry a doll implement. I think that was Tim Ferguson's comedy. That's good to be here on pocket size Louis this week.Dan Ilic 2:17 Yeah, that's it. Yeah. CO hosting the show. How do you feel?Alice Tovey 2:19 I feel good. It feels right. I'm coming for triple date. But J next, Louis, if you're listening or someoneDan Ilic 2:24 has to be in the demographic, a Triple J they're a producer podcaster and purveyor of the souls of the guiltiest idiots around from the confessions of the idiot. Sam Peterson,Sam Petersen 2:36 thank you so much for having me on clip myself.Alex Dyson 2:41 Why are you down carrying around these confession? EverythingSam Petersen 2:43 goes all the way down by the instrument that we spoke about before? Yeah, no, it does it. I have to now go on Reddit once a week and look up for online confession. But I have to go through about 100 to get to those four. So a lot of stuff that I don't bring to the podcast is the worst sort of stuff that could possibly have a domain today. And I'm reading through a lot of that. SoDan Ilic 3:03 can I propose the confessions of the idiots up late?Sam Petersen 3:07 I don't think anyone could handle it. And they're a businessAlex Dyson 3:08 genius with a master's degree in fine laughs It's Kirsty Wait.Sam Petersen 3:15 Did you get stressed?Dan Ilic 3:18 me because I went through a couple of your old tweets this afternoon. I thought this was a genius idea for a TV show. Tell us a lit

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ SEE OUR NEXT LIVE SHOW AT THE FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS: https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/secretive-australia/In the space of 72 hours we saw the birth, the brightly burning and death of the Scott Morrison Many Ministry Meme. We have a new podcast from A Rational Fear featuring the A Rational Fear twitter key holder, Killian David, and one of the few conservative voices in Australian comedy that’s not Rowan Dean — James McCann from the James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan Podcast. 🎟️ SEE OUR NEXT LIVE SHOW AT THE FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS:https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/secretive-australia/Dan Ilic 0:00 Hello, irrational fear. It's good to be back. We are kind of easing our way back into weekly shows for the rest of 2022. Thing is, it's just been so exhausting. We've had the election, I've had to go on holidays, I then went on another holiday and you know, I might even go on another holiday. And you know what that means? It's just it's difficult to do a regular podcast. But good news is we're doing live shows we've got a big live show coming up for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. September 17, at Carriageworks is all about Australia and how Australia is the most secretive, liberal democracy in the world. It's great. We've got a great lineup, Kate McClymont, from the Sydney Morning Herald Damian case for the New York Times Amber Schultz, who of course has done this show a few times before she's from crikey, Lewis Harbor, who you know, he's, he's the boomer that's on Triple J. Daniel, which that's me and David McBride, who is a whistleblower lawyer who was the guy who basically told the press about our war crimes in Afghanistan, he's gonna be doing the show as well. It's going to be an incredibly funny and strange live show all about secrecy. Who knows we all may go to jail, but you know, that's that's for the good of everybody listening. I'm recording my end of irrational fear on Gadigal land in the Euro nation, sovereignty was never ceded. We need a treaty. Let's start tonight's show.Simon Chilvers 1:18 A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum, and section 40 of a rational view recommended listening by immature audience.Dan Ilic 1:31 Tonight Scott Morrison reveals he was also secretly sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia, and the Labour Party has achieved what many people thought was impossible. They passed a bill that nearly does something effective on climate change, and unemployment hits a new low of 3.4% with the creation of 20,200 new jobs last quarter that Scott Morrison had to give up after the election. It's the 19th of August and with more jobs for the boys, the New South Wales nationals. This is irrational fear.James Donald McCann 1:58 I can't hear anything, I'm sorry.Dan Ilic 2:14 Welcome to rational fear. I'm your host, former Royal National Park Daniel edge, and this is the podcast that takes the news and gives it a nice warm blanket and a cup of tea. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight. He's a comedy writer, improviser and as the key to the irrational fear Twitter account. It's Killian, David. Hello.Killian David 2:29 Thanks for having me.Dan Ilic 2:30 What have you tweeted lately, that's going to put us in jail,Killian David 2:33 something about Scott Morrison as some of the hypeDan Ilic 2:38 around it. And he's gonna buy a podcast with his Patreon money. It's the host of the James Donald falls McCann catamaran plan, James McCann,James Donald McCann 2:47 it's so nice to be here until I make a technical error and disappear once again. You would think two years of pandemic two years of pandemic I'd get it rightAlex Dyson 2:56 you know, and you know, for people who are new to James we can James McCann has this podcast called The James Donald forms McCann catamaran plan, and he's been begging people to book him on their podcast to get rich for his podcast, because he considers himself to be a good talent of which he is.James Donald McCann 3:13 I tell you, Dan to smash into hurdle number one, so swiftly as promptly, right? There's no hubris about me being on mumbling with the 19th ranked comedy podcasts in Australia. I'm humbled. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so sorry for my burden that I bring to the show.Dan Ilic 3:30 Yes. And for people who are listening on the podcast, I'm sure the bit where you logged on and couldn't hear anything has been cut out. So that's what we're referring to. For people listening toJames Donald McCann 3:39 it was the five minutes of racial slurs thatUnknown Speaker 3:44 as well, we can't do that. ThanksKillian David 3:46 to the Patreon and your your crew.Alex Dyson 3:49 James, where are you at with your catamaran plan, how's how's the fundraising going for your catamaran you started the podcast in order to get it insanely popular. So you could buy a catamaran, we're atJames

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ SEE OUR NEXT LIVE SHOW AT THE FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS:https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/secretive-australia/G'day Fearmongers —After looking at all the data it was discovered that most of you don't listen all the way through the podcast, so that means most of you have never heard Lewis Hobba go on a deranged un-hinged rant about some minutiae.So — here in this episode of A Rational Fear, we've pulled together the best bits of Lewis in about a 50min episode.If you manage to listen all the way through https://www.instagram.com/lewishobba/https://twitter.com/LewisHobbaEnjoy.DanLewis Hobba 0:00 Hello, hello. Hello Daniel, IDan Ilic 0:01 discovered something. When I looked at the podcast analytics. Oh, yeah. What's that? That 1000s of people listen to us, hey, it wasn't discovered they tend to turn off about halfway through the podcast. All right. And what does that make you think? I think? Well, I here's what I think. I think they get they're missing out. They're missing out on a crucial component of the show, Louis?Lewis Hobba 0:24 Yeah. Because I'll tell you what it makes me think. I always close the show. Every live show, I slave away, sometimes for up to an hour, working on a funny little series of jokes. And I put them right at the end of the show. And it's a barnstorming performance. People always say you got to stick around to the end. Louis homeboyz closes the show. He's very funny Crusher, they call me a crushes comedy. And so these table you're telling me that the 1000 people who listen to the podcast, they don't even know what I do there. They don't know why I'm there. Everyone doesn't even know what you're doing on the weekly shows. Who's this guy that's on the weekly shows. I know we listen to the live show. He just he just hangs out there writing on Dan's coattails. I mean, people have said that to me before and we'll say it to me again. But right now I'm period. Well, here's what I've done. I've put together a special of all of your bits back to back so people can enjoy you 100% of the time on this episode of rational fear. That's interesting, because I wonder how it'll be like, I do think a little bit of Louis five minutes each episode is probably good. I wonder if you put all of it back to back if it'll just sound like the unhinged ravings of a lunatic? Yeah, ofDan Ilic 1:31 course it will. Because you are renowned for being an unhinged raving lunatic on irrational fear. Well, the good news is they can turn off any time, which turns out to be about halfway through,Lewis Hobba 1:38 oh, my God. So the back half of this, we'll have to put the podcast out again. And then maybe finally, you'll actually listen to me.Dan Ilic 1:50 If you want to hear more of loose, please sign up to our Patreon.Lewis Hobba 1:53 And if you want to hear less, sign up to the Patreon and leave a little note saying less, Louis, please, and I'll just quit. I'll quit. I'll do it.Dan Ilic 2:02 And if you are on Patreon, you are getting this first you're getting this special episode a week before everybody else. So there are there are benefits of being on the Patreon though. That's they're very scant.Lewis Hobba 2:12 Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, we we have so little to offer. But we are very, very grateful. So thank you. And thank you for listening to so much me yelling so much me yelling before people head into this 50 minute episode. Do you minutes.Unknown Speaker 2:28 Are you insane? Well, it's your fluids. You've done soDan Ilic 2:31 many great bits, so we needed to put them all together. That's fucking insane. Well, you fucking destroy the show. Like you're really good. Like in the live setting. It's just that no one has heardLewis Hobba 2:41 God believe I've been doing this podcast for 10 years and no one's heard me.Dan Ilic 2:46 outright. Should instead of closing the show.Unknown Speaker 2:50 On open the show and leaveLewis Hobba 2:53 the disrespect. So what are you gonna? WhatDan Ilic 2:55 are you gonna tell? What are you gonna tell?Lewis Hobba 2:56 I honestly, I don't even know. From all the episodes. Yeah, yeah, there's probably some great gear there from 2013. You can cancel it. Great. Yeah, if you can take out. You can't see blackface on a podcast. Thank god. Okay, good. As long as you can't see that. We should be all sweet. I don't know what's in here. But I've been angry about so much, so much over the years. And I hope you enjoy it. And please, I love you remember that at the end? You'll see me at the back. It's a joke. I'm very tall. It's a it's a good visual gag. But the podcast was actually going to be a lot of those. So if you're listening at home, I'm sorry. I'm not the biggest event on the planet is happening right now. The World Cup of football around half the world's population will watch it but our Socceroos had been knocked out. And thank God because now we ca

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/👕 BUY OUR MERCH HEREEvery now and then on the A Rational Fear Podcast feed we have a long-form conversation about climate change with climate leaders from all walks of life.We call them — The Greatest Moral Podcast Of Our Generation.On this episode of GMPOOG: Dan Ilic hosts a conversation with journalist Nick Bryant — Media watchers in Australia would certainly know Nick's work from the BBC and of course twitter.  He's often got one of the clearest eyes on Australian and global politics.Nick is doing a special episode of his podcast, Journo, with journalists who cover climate, so he came on ARF's Greatest Moral Podcast Of Our Generation to chat about it.You can listen to the Journo Podcast here: https://jninstitute.org/education/journo-podcast/On this episode we talk about News Corp's supposed move to embracing climate change, how Pasifika journalists see themselves, and also great yarns about Greta Thunberg and UN Secretary-General António Guterres.🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/👕 BUY OUR MERCH HERE  Dan Ilic  0:00  This podcast is supported in part by the birth of foundation. Daniel, it's with you here for another episode of The Greatest more podcasts of our generation on the irrational fear feed. If you haven't heard the gumboots before, it's largely conversations about climate change with Climate Leaders. Good and bad. We'll be back with the regular irrational fears show probably I reckon July maybe August, I'm taking a few weeks off because I am freaking exhausted after the election. I need to recharge. Think about this show. Think about how to make it better for the future. And all that stuff. You have any ideas hit me up on Twitter or email Dan at irrational fear.com We'd love to hear from you. DespiteRobbie McGreggor  0:41  global warming, or rational fear, he's adding a little more heart here with long form discussions with Climate Leaders. Good.Unknown Speaker  0:53  This is called Don't be great. Heat waves and droughts. greatest mass extinction moral when facing a manmade disaster, podcast, climate criminals,Robbie McGreggor  1:07  Jenner raishin.Unknown Speaker  1:09  All of this with global warming and a lot of it's a hoaxRobbie McGreggor  1:13  book, right. That's my role podcast about generation.Unknown Speaker  1:17  For short,Dan Ilic  1:18  many folks who listen to the podcast, you'd be familiar with the works of our next guest, Nick Bryant, BBC senior correspondent to Australia, South Asia, in Washington in New York. One thing you may not know about him is he holds a doctorate in American politics from Oxford. Like Nick has also been seconded by the Judith Nielsen Institute for journalism and ideas to host journalists, a podcast about journalism, those who dabble in it. My first question to Nick is have you ever been on a plane when they call for a doctor? Dr. Nick, Brian.Nick Bryant  1:46  I've always yearned for that moment. And to go out the front and to say, you know, what, what do you want to know about American history? But alas,Dan Ilic  1:54  let me talk to you about gerrymandering.Nick Bryant  1:56  Exactly. I could talk you through the sort of checks and balances of the US Constitution. But I don't think that would particularly help as this guy's of chokey God is, you know, first class mail. No, I haven't done that. But it's very sweetly mentioned the doctor. I mean, I've I've started deploying it for the first time in what 30 years, I've, I've left the BBC now and you've doneDan Ilic  2:16  the work. So you know, you've got to use those Doctor titles whenever you can. Like,Nick Bryant  2:21  I've hooked up with Sydney University, actually, where that kind of title carers a bit of clout, you know, so I have actually started using it again. But yeah, it still feels very odd when anybody calls me up to Brian, I gotta look around. There must be somebody else.Dan Ilic  2:36  Yeah. Well, I do think that American politics is so diseased that they could use your help. Brian,Nick Bryant  2:42  that is a great way of putting it. But I think, you know, is beyond the help of a physician at the moment, America, I think it is such a sickly state. Terminal, maybe it's too strong. But yeah, it's certainly got problems. I think it's terminal in terms of United States of America as a cohesive country right now. I think we're talking about to Americans, and, you know, across the board, I think you're going to, you know, the end of Roe versus Wade will mean there's an America where you can legally get an abortion as America where you can't get an abortion, there's going to be an America where you

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/G'day Fearmongers —It is with great thanks to the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas we can bring you this excellent conversation about satire and journalism.Can satire change the world? Never.Can satire be more powerful than journalism? Doubtful.Can satire be journalism? Probably not.Australia's top satirists will ask themselves these questions and come up with the same answers during a special live event from A Rational Fear and JNI.In this episode of A Rational Fear some of Australia's most available smart arses wrangle with their (questionable) career choices and take a deep dive into satire's ability to replace journalists at half the price.Featuring cartoonist Cathy Wilcox, Dylan Behan (Newsfighters), Jan Fran (The Project), Ben Jenkins (The Feed), Lewis Hobba (Triple J), and Dan Ilic (A Rational Fear).Check out the photos below the podcast links 📸 👇📺 You can watch the whole video of this even exclusively on the A Rational Fear Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear or keep an eye on the @ARationalFear socials for 1 min snippets over the next few weeks.Big thanks to everyone at JNI who helped us pull it together.CheersDan Ilic🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/Dan Ilic  0:00  Dan Ilic here with a pre show announcement to let you know that if you missed out on tickets to the opera house show for our 10 years of irrational fear, you can listen to it now it's on the irrational fear Patreon. So go to patreon.com forward slash irrational fear, become a member and you'll see the post there. The audio is a little dodgy because the recording was recorded at quite a high level. So unfortunately, the really loud music of Paul McDermott we had to cut out but the good news is we're going to try and get him on a nother live show next month, so you'll be able to hear that right here on the free fade podcasts, I think. Yeah, so go to irrational fear.com forward slash patreon to hear our 10 years of irrational fear live show live from the Sydney Opera House. It was astonishing. And let me just say Louis hubbers rant about the Queen's Jubilee was something else. It'll make you feel extremely patriotic. Right now. However, you're going to listen to an incredible live show we did at the Judith Nielsen Institute for journalism and ideas about a month ago, about two weeks before the federal election. This was a show loosely about satire versus journalism. I think it was called The joke is mightier than the pen. And we had some of the best satirist in Sydney. Join us on stage to discuss whether comedy or satire is better than journalism right there in the home the crucible of Australian journalism, which is the Judith Nielsen Institute. So please enjoy this live show. If you were a member of the Patreon you probably would have seen the video of this about a month ago. So as he does this thing you get these live shows a little before everyone else. So please go to patreon.com forward slash irrational fear to get early access to our live shows and our special events. All right, catch you later. We're at the Judith Nielsen Institute. It's beautiful. I'm recording my end of irrational fear I'm gonna go out to the urination. Sovereignty was never said we did a treaty. Let's stop the show.Simon Chilvers  2:00  A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, and gum and section 40 of a rational view recommended listening by immature audience.Dan Ilic  2:13  Tonight satirists declare themselves so important they don't actually have to be funny. Journalists declares themselves hilarious after putting 10 Dog pugs in a story about hot dogs. If you can wait a Walkley for a wacky headline where's the Walkley for most scathing Trump impression it's 15 days since the next sales 15 days until the next federal election Saturday stadion punch lines, this is irrational fear.Lewis Hobba  2:42  And such natural cheers.Dan Ilic  2:59  Putting this in putting your cheese in context, Louis and I just did a show the billboard International Comedy Festival in front of 800 people and it was slightly slightly we were used to a slightly different level of cheeringLewis Hobba  3:11  every person here is worth 100 MelbournianDan Ilic  3:15  Welcome to a rational fee on your host former host of CBS his Late Late Show Dan Ilic. And this is irrational fear live at the Judith Nielsen Institutewhere we'll be asking the question, is the joke mightier than the pen open open brackets? Probably not close brackets question mark. All right now we've put together a Supreme Team of Sydney's satirist to ask this question or to answer this question and what a team it is the very fact that Sydney has like five employed satirists is

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ SEE OUR LIVE SHOW: https://comedy.com.au/tour/a-rational-fear-live/ G'day Fearmongers,This is the 2nd last JZAC — and it's a good one. JZ has a conversation with Independent Candidate for Hume, Penny Ackery.There is a feeling of change in country NSW.Penny Ackery is a former special needs teacher who has been tasked by her community to represent the huge electorate of Hume.At 17 240 sq km it spans from Boorowa in the west to Appin in the east, with Goulburn smack bang in the middle. It's currently held by the Minister for Emission Expansion, Angus Taylor. One of the most powerful ministers in the government.But Penny has been hard at it, campaigning publicly since June 2021 — traveling the breadth of the electorate, listening, and consulting with folks about how to better represent them. It's the world's longest job interview.JZ lives in the electorate next door and has been supporting Penny Ackery in her campaign, so if this chat  sounds like two friends who are trying to make change in their communities — it's because it is.CheersDan 🤑 CHIP INTO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear During the election, your support is more crucial than ever! Thank you FEARMONGERS!If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261 Bertha Announcement  0:00  This podcast is supported in part by the Bertha Foundation. Julia Zemiro  0:04  Hi, Julia Zemiro here, I'm recording this podcast on the land of the Gundam gara people. Sovereignty was never ceded. We need a treaty. Let's start the podcast.Dan Ilic  0:13  A podcast about politics for people who hate politics. This is Julian Zemiro asks, Who cares?Julia Zemiro  0:24  On this second to last podcast I'm doing with the irrational fie organization, how I love them. I wanted to speak with an independent, no matter how you look at it. One big part of Australia's 2022 election will have been the independence no matter what the result is, and I wanted to speak to one close to home Penny Ackery is an independent running in the federal electorate of Hume in New South Wales. And for the last nine years, it's been held by Angus Taylor, Minister for energy and emissions reduction, or is he anyway, Hume is enormous. I live in Whitlam, which is right next door, and it stretches from Warragamba. We're Alicia Camden and loving them in the north, down through Wollondilly, winter, Caribee, and golden, which is where Penny lives to borrow, gunning and Crookwell in the southwest. penny spent 30 years of her life in this electorate. Her most recent job has been as a teacher for kids with special needs. And she has been a teacher at Golden and picked in high schools. And during the pandemic, she was an advocate for small businesses across the electorate, showcasing what they were doing, just helping them to kind of keep alive. And I thought it was interesting to talk to an independent I've been a bit involved with independence, doing some launches, doing some webinars on Zoom, etc. Because I was fascinated by it. And I wanted to find out what it was all about why people were doing it, were people really stepping up and they absolutely were. And I think it's going to be a very interesting chapter in Australian politics, and it will be interesting to see where it goes. In the future. It feels like a circuit breaker for me. And I reckon a circuit breaker is not a bad idea. I wanted to speak to Penny about why she stepped up to run as an independent what the process was like, and what it's like in there now with a few days to go to the election day. Welcome, Penny, how you going?Penny Ackery  2:24  I'm tired. I'm getting to the exhaustion stakes. It's been a pretty exciting journey. It's I've met so many great people. I've had a great time actually in reality, so I'm doing pretty well. I'm just getting pretty tired and a bit of exhaustion setting inJulia Zemiro  2:40  I had a little flashback to the launch your launch. As a matter of just explaining why I'm interested in the independent movement in general. I like the way it's made people wake up a little bit to the fact that whether you like it or not, whether you think you should vote or not. There is someone in Canberra that represents your electorate and your life. And if you don't find out a bit about those people, then how can you make informed decisions when you vote, but I was excited by having read Kathy McGowan's book I was excited about people getting involved and getting enthusiastic about something that doesn't usually enthuse it make them enthusiastic, which is politics. And I almost feel like saying politics isn't even the word for it. It's just how we live. It's how we want to run our lives. It's it

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ SEE OUR LIVE SHOW: https://comedy.com.au/tour/a-rational-fear-live/10 Years Of A Rational Fear. Sydney Opera House. June 4th 2022-----------------------------------------------------G'day Fearmongers,Thrilled to bring you the A Rational Fear LIVE show we did last month at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.It is a long and very enjoyable show featuring.Alice FraserGabbi BoltDane SimpsonGrace TameZoe DanielVidya RajanLewis HobbaDan IlicDJ Andy McClellandIt maybe one of our best shows we've ever done. Thanks to everyone who came along, and we hope to see you at our 10 year show at the Sydney Opera House on June 4th.🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear During the election, your support is more crucial than ever! Thank you FEARMONGERS!If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261 -------------------------------Unknown Speaker  0:00  This podcast is supported in part by the Bertha Foundation.Lewis Hobba  0:10  thank you so much for coming here. This is amazing. OhDan Ilic  0:13  my god. Wow. When our producer said do you want the 200 seats, the 300 seat or the 800 seat, I said, give us the 800 seat. We'll fill it almost. AndLewis Hobba  0:26  I said give me the MCGDan Ilic  0:29  right tonight shows a bit of a different kind of show. If you come to Comedy Festival. This is a podcast recording I'm sorry.Lewis Hobba  0:35  It basically just means fewer jokes. Lower the expectation,Dan Ilic  0:40  but you get some discounts on a great mattress. It's gonna be great. We're gonna put on a great show regardless, but you have to do your job as a great audience. Can you be a great audience? Fantastic. So part of that, you know, laughing clapping cheering whistling all of that. That's good stuff. That is good stuff but heckling is out. What'sLewis Hobba  0:57  the opinion on like, flares out? No flare, pyrotechnics of any kind.Dan Ilic  1:02  No piratesLewis Hobba  1:03  weaponsDan Ilic  1:04  Bad. Very bad unless theyLewis Hobba  1:07  have to get rid of some stuff.Andrew McClelland  1:09  Twain What about Twain,Dan Ilic  1:10  Shania Twain. Perfect. So heckling is a little tricky. If you do hecho you'll be removed faster than a liberal who's won pre selection? Who made the Lebanese so you'll be out you'll be straight out of there, straight out of there. Now if you think someone next year is going to do something, just give them a stern look. The kind of look my mum gives her friends when she's got to explain what I do for a jobLewis Hobba  1:36  that you do the tree brothers are so much better than you.Dan Ilic  1:38  I know. They are really lovely. So we're making this a safe space for you and our people on stage. Can you do that for me? Right. We also going to cover some pretty tricky topics. Okay, so and we've got a lot of foul language. A lot of adult words will be flung at you but there will be puns as well. The worst kind of should give you full warning and that Alice Fraser is here. She's brought all the puns she has. If something does trigger you something gives you an easy feelings. Sophie Minetti is over at the sound desk over there. She's waving by the sound desk. If you need to talk to someone during the show. Go have a chat with Sophie or afterwards as well. We've got a place you guys can go. All right, great. What else we're gonna do here Oh, big thank you to our Patreon supporters. Here. We got one right here. Thank you, Tim. Thank you.Lewis Hobba  2:26  I feel this like like when you get on a plane and they're like oh, big thank you to Oh, Qantas oneworld customers canDan Ilic  2:35  see more merch here. You're a Patreon supporter. Oh, fantastic. Oh my God.Lewis Hobba  2:42  Is there anyone here tonight who's never heard of the podcasts and doesn't know why they're here?Dan Ilic  2:49  Well, you're fine. You're about to find out sign up to get a poster. I certainly get the show. Right. Let'sLewis Hobba  2:55  do it. Let's get the show started. The other quick thing is right at the start, Dan likes to do three jokes. And there are varying quality. But I would really appreciate it if for the benefit of those listening at home. You laugh so loudly. He he really need his brothers are so much better than he really needs this.Dan Ilic  3:16  Thank you, Louis. All right. We're recording this episode of irrational fear on Wonderland in the Kulin nation, sovereignty was never seated. We need a treaty. Let's stop the show.Alice Fraser  3:31  Let everybody go gang prepping for irrational fear with grace to making the transition to a come

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ SEE OUR LIVE SHOW: https://comedy.com.au/tour/a-rational-fear-live/G'day Fearmongers,Sadly there's no Jan Fran Has Issues this week as all of our producers at F&K Media have been sidelined with COVID19 — instead enjoy this 10 minute sample of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival live show to hear the full thing before it goes on the free feed in a week's time.If you want to hear the full thing — sign up to Patreon!www.patreon.com/ARationalFear If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261  0:00  If we're really good at Dean stuff up in Australia and making sure it can feel the rest of the world0:14  good I feel mongers Dan Ilic. Here. There is no Jad Fran has issues this week because unfortunately, everyone on the production team has COVID-19 COVID-19 in 2022, can you believe it, but so behind the times in our team, so instead we are letting our good team rest and regain their energy because we don't break anyone. And instead, I'm giving you a free 10 minute sample of the irrational fear Melbourne International Comedy Festival live show, which is only available to our Patreon subscribers exclusively for one more week. And if you want to hear the full thing, please sign up to our Patreon like these awesome people have this month so big shout out to these people Laura Maya David pickers, Gwen Harper, Katie Maltby, Deborah Reedy, Bernadette Mortlock, Jen Mackenzie, Felicity nibs Tracy man Tiger Lily KitKat snark, St. Catherine Ford puzzling a Tassie storm Thank you puzzling what has he storm? Tom read Ozzie Jim Fein 11 Rich talk well Nam Blusky sous good on your sous Ella Griffis Tony canard, Jonathan freckle Akira unveiled Daniel Harvey, Zachary Kendall, Lucy Bauer, Michael Lynch, and AJ Heiko Val. Oh my goodness, so many people have signed up this month. So big thank you, it really makes a difference. It basically means we can pay our producers to put the show on every week. And and we can, you know, pay people to appear on the show, which is something a lot of other podcasts don't do. And that's really cool. So please, thank you very much. Here is the first 10 minutes of our festival show from last week. If you want to hear the full thing she had been to irrational fear on Patreon. And we'll be back next week with a brand new episode of Jan Fran has issues. Oh, and also, we've got our 10 year anniversary show at the Opera House June for so if you're in Sydney, please go to the Sydney Opera House and buy a ticket there. Luis is going to be there. I'm going to be there. Mark Humphries is going to be there and I've asked a few other excellent people to be there too. It's going to be so do come along June 4 at the Sydney Opera House. Enjoy this live show. It's a crackup, probably one of our best ever live shows. Well worth signing up for the patreon to hear the full thing before it becomes free in seven days. See you.2:33  Thank you so much for coming here. This is amazing. Oh my2:36  god. Wow. You know, when our producer said, Do you want the 200 seats, the 300 seat or the 800 seat? I said, give us the 800 seat. We'll fill it almost. And I said give me the MCG right tonight shows a bit of a different kind of show. If you come to Comedy Festival. This is a podcast recording I'm sorry.2:58  It basically just means fewer jokes. Lower the expectation,3:03  but you get some discounts on a great mattress. It's gonna be great. We're gonna put on a great show regardless, but you have to do your job as a great audience. Can you be a great audience? Fantastic. So part of that, you know, laughing clapping cheering whistling all of that. That's good stuff. That is good stuff. But heckling is3:20  what's the opinion on like, flares out? No flare, pyrotechnics of any kind. No pirates weapons Bad.3:28  Very bad unless they3:29  have to get rid of some stuff. Twain What about Twain,3:33  Shania Twain. Perfect. So heckling is a little tricky. If you do hecho you'll be removed faster than a liberal who's won pre selection who made the Lebanese so you'll be out you'll be straight out of there, straight out of there. Now if you think someone next year is going to do something, just give them a stern look. The kind of look my mum gives her friends when she's got to explain what I do for a job3:59  that you do the tree brothers are so much better than you.4:01  I know. They are really lovely. So we're making this a safe space for you and our people on stage. Can you do that for me? Right. We also going to cover some pretty tricky topics. Okay, so and we've got a lot of foul language. A lot of adult words will be flung at you but there will be puns as well. The worst kind of should give you full warning and that Alice Fraser is he

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO OUR MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL SHOW HEREWe're joined this week by fearmonger and filmmaker Damon Gameau. And we cover:Storytelling and climate changeCommunity lead climate recoveryRegenerating our democracy PLUGS:See Damon's new film Regenerating Australia in a theatre near you🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearHeading into the election your support is going to be more crucial than ever!Thank you FEARMONGERS!If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261-----------------------------Bertha Announcement  0:00  This podcast is supported in part by the Bertha Foundation. Dan Ilic  0:04  Good evening, Lewis.Lewis Hobba  0:06  Hello Daniel. How are you?Dan Ilic  0:07  You know what I'm I'm thoroughly exhausted.Lewis Hobba  0:11  Yeah, I was about to say you sound sick.Dan Ilic  0:14  I'm not sick. I've had two COVID tests today though, but they're both negative. I think it gets to the point where I get so busy, my voice becomes incredibly sexy.Lewis Hobba  0:24  Getting into SBS up late territory, which is exciting for the show.Voice Over  0:28  The following programme may contain nudity and traces of nuts. SBS recommends viewing by immature audiences.Lewis Hobba  0:38  Yeah, it's a going around though the Mardi Gras really brought back the resurgence of Coronavirus. Certainly in my friendship group. Dan Ilic  0:47  Yeah, I was wondering about that because you went to Mardi Gras. Did you get a second dose of Coronavirus by-Lewis Hobba  0:55  No, I didn't go to the actual SCG. But I was within you know, I was in the zone about a K away at a couple of parties. It was fun. It's nice to be out and about.Dan Ilic  1:04  Yeah. There's an interesting story. I don't know if he saw this is incredible story about one of the 78'ers as being arrested by the police because she held up a sign saying fuck Putin or something. And the police came up to her and said, You can't hold up a sign. It's offensive. So who am I offending is like- This is a licenced venue. You can't hold up a sign because it's political and therefore offensive. And she got arrested. This is old 78'er It's incredible because the Mardi Gras is entirely a political event. The whole thing is a political event. Oh my god, Lewis Hobba  1:40  that is wildDan Ilic  1:41  Just you know, but that's a cop shouldn't be in the money, right? Oh, I should just get rid of them. They I think that's probably right. Yeah, they should probably probably have the Defence Force run the Mardi Gras then. You know this. So yeah,Lewis Hobba  1:52  they're doing everything else. Why not pull them out of pull them out of the photo ops and Lismore pull them out of the, I guess old- aged care facilities where they are now. And yeah, get him in there.Dan Ilic  2:03  Get them out of the medina apartments stopping people from escaping quarantine, get them down to the Mardi Gras. Let's kick off the show. Damon Gummo on the line and we're going to be talking to him in just a second. Before we get to him, we'll talk about our comedy festival show as well. So here we go. I'm recording my end of irrational fear on Gadigal land in the Eora nation. Sovereignty was never ceded. We need a treaty. Let's start the show. Voice Over  2:23  A Rational fear contains naughty words like Bre***, Canberra b***ble, fair d**nkum and section 4*. A rational fear recommendeds listening by immature audiences.Dan Ilic  2:36  Tonight with one in 100 year floods becoming more frequent Scott Morrison renames them miracle floods. And Scott Morrison prepares for another miracle election win by visiting Lismore and attempting to walk on water. And we're all waiting for Scott Morrison to launch a new National Flood Coordination Committee to drain the Beetaloo Basin. It's the 11th of March 2022. This is a rational fear. I'm so tired.Lewis Hobba  3:12  Honestly, I've never heard you sell those jokes with less verve in 10 years. That was it. That was rock bottom.Dan Ilic  3:20  Well, I just wanted to point out those jokes quickly. Like it's so interesting. Like I wrote that Scomo National floods Coordination Committee joke at the end of February when the floods really took off throughout Queensland. And not seven days later, to the date I put that tweet out. They actually gave $7.5 million for fracking in the Northern Territory. It's like we're not gonna give out flood support, but we will pay for someone to drain the middle of it. So yeah.Lewis Hobba  3:48  we're gonna get some of that moisture and just pump it into some seams. See what we ca

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/👕 BUY OUR MERCH HEREThis is the 4th Episode of the monthly spin-off podcast from A Rational Fear:Julia Zemiro Asks 'Who Cares?' Each month for the next 3 months on the A Rational Fear podcast feed, Julia interviews change makers, civic leaders, and people who organise their communities and claim their power to discover the secrets to making good things happen.This month Julia chats with two artists who have built extraordinary communities around their craft, how both these artists have shown leadership and helped their respective communities thrive in times of crisis.Jen Cloher (Ngāpuhi & Ngati Kahu) — is a highly respected recording and performing artist living on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia. Cloher is co-founder of Milk! Records (Courtney Barnett, Tiny Ruins, Hand Habits) and I Manage My Music, a masterclass series for self-managed artists to assist self-managed artists with the challenges of creating and releasing music in Australia.“When an artist stands up on a stage, we invite everyone in that room to tap into what it is to be human, which is something politicians are not capable of doing because they're not connected. They've got their own agenda, they're not there to bring us together”— Jen Cloheralso we hear from:Astrid Jorgensen — Founding Director of Pub Choir™and its COVID adaptation, Couch Choir. She is also a co-creator of Australia's Biggest Singalong which aired on SBS TV in 2021.“It's not about competing, there is no way to win. All we can do is work together. And the sum is always greater than the parts. If you have honest and optimistic leadership.” — Astrid JorgensenI hope you enjoy these conversations with two great artists building community and helping other to thrive culturally and financially.Kindest of Regards,Dan IlicIf you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261And subscribe to our Patreon so we can keep making shows like this for you:https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearTHANK YOU TOJulia, Jen, & Astrid.Rode Microphones,The Bertha Foundation,Jacob Round.Jess Harwood for the amazing artwork.and our Patreon Supporters.Julia Zemiro  0:00  This podcast is supported in part by the birther foundation. Hi, Julia Zemiro Here, I'm recording this podcast on the land of the Gandangara people. Sovereignty was never ceded. We need a treaty. Let's start the podcast,Dan Ilic  0:15  a podcast about politics for people who hate politics. This is Julia Zemiro asks, Who cares?Julia Zemiro  0:24  Well, hello everyone. 2022 Can you believe it? Welcome back to Julia Zemiro asks, Who cares? And you know what it turns out quite a lot of people do. Today I'm talking to two incredible artists who care create and want others to experience that creativity to the both musicians Jen Cloher and Astrid Jorgensen. The Creator and conductor of public choir, but first up, Jen Cloher Ngāpuhi & Ngati Kahu who their most recent self titled album debuted at number five on the ARIA Charts and received rave reviews. And they were crowned double Jays Australian artist of the year. Now on top of that, Jen is a co founder of The Independent Melbourne label milk records and created I managed my music, a masterclass series for self manage artists just to get them on top of what it means to run your own business in music. We talk acting schools, impressing your heroes, all the training and belief that goes into being an artist, longevity, and why more than ever, we need culture to turn to. It's so good to seeJen Cloher  1:32  you. So good to see you. Like truly,Julia Zemiro  1:36  I mean, one of the joys of Rockwell's has been to have these incredible musicians just just a hand spin away from me onstage, and you've given me some of the best moments in my performing life. chanclaJen Cloher  1:49  Oh, that is so sweet. That really actually means a lot because I know you've seen many people come through the hallowed halls.Julia Zemiro  1:57  And what people might not know is my thrill to when Jen was on the desk, answering questions. And just the newest stuff is that of course you do a little biog and you'd been an acting student, you'd gone through NIDA and I was fascinated that there was someone who had trained as an actor, and then had become a musician. And I just think it's an excellent thing. And I know you didn't have a fabulous time there. Not everyone has a fabulous time at acting school. I did I did have a good time at acting school. But I do think that there are things you can learn at those places that are about asking yourself questions about who you are and how you move through the world.Jen Cloher  2:35  Oh, absolutely. I mean, I th

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/👕 BUY OUR MERCH HEREWe're joined this week by fearmongers:Steve HiliLauren EdwardsLewis Hobba and Dan IlicAnd we cover:Tim Wilson vs Signage in Goldstein Rest in peace Queen Elizabeth? The Russian Invasion of UkraineAnd in EXTRA FEAR only available on Patreon or Apple Subscription we ask Brynn O'Brien from Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility about the $10 billion buy out of major polluter AGL — https://www.accr.org.au/ PLUGS:See Lauren in 'Everything Is A Lie' at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Follow Steve on Twitter for upcoming tour dates and other news🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearHeading into the election your support is going to be more crucial than ever!Thank you FEARMONGERS!If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261-----------------------Bertha Announcement  0:00  This podcast is supported in part by the Bertha Foundation. Dan Ilic  0:04  G'day Lewis.Lewis Hobba  0:05  Hello, Daniel. How are you?Dan Ilic  0:07  Good. You look so much better than you did last week.Lewis Hobba  0:10  Thank you. Yeah, I feel a million times better. I'm still not at 100 I'm probably at like 80% but I am yeah. Mostly recovered from COVID. Back on deck backhoe work ready to talk about World War Three.Dan Ilic  0:23  I'm glad you recovered just in time for the most dire times. Hey, we got a new joke. Keep a poster up at about in Sutherland Shire. Let me share it with you. I took a trip out to southern China to take a photo of it. It says Hawaiian hideaway for when things get too hot at home. This is bushfire sale now on so if you live near Sutherland station or you want to take a trip to southern station, go check it out.Lewis Hobba  0:48  And take yourself I don't think you can take a train trip in Sydney at the moment. So probably strike the Uber. YouDan Ilic  0:54  have to get an Uber take an Uber does other than station. Also, Louis. I've sent out the final perk for jokey but it's only taken 24 weeks. But finally, there's a guy who lives in Colorado. He runs a ski tech company. He ordered a plaque. And this is it here I'll shout it. It's a bronze plaque. And it says during a national crisis, the Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison stood on this spot and did nothing so that that is gonna go to Colorado for some reason. So that's fantastic. Big thank you to Steve for that.Lewis Hobba  1:27  That's beautiful.Dan Ilic  1:28  It is made it took forever to bake. But you know, it's also what was a massive success was the reordering of irrational fear. Last year, last week, we actually picked up nine new Patreon subscribers so big thank you to everyone who signed up to here extra fear, which is the phrase we're going with. It's not going with lend me your fears. Would you believe? Interesting?Lewis Hobba  1:49  Interesting. Yeah. Fair enough. I mean, extra fee is a bit simpler. A little less fun.Dan Ilic  1:54  Yeah, but you know, so our listeners are simple people. They simple. Like big ideas. Simple folk, like big ideas.Lewis Hobba  2:01  I disagree. I think they logged my my lend me your fee is based.Dan Ilic  2:06  When you go to patreon.com forward slash irrational fear, you get to listen to extra fear. Also, you get discounted tickets to our live shows. And we we are working on a new live show for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Put it in your diary. It's not on sale yet. But April 10 5pm. At the forum. It's it's definitely day after your show, Louis? Yeah.Lewis Hobba  2:31  Oh, God. Yes. Okay. It's a Sunday. Yes. Sunday, Sunday. Yeah, great. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. We haven't announced the other show, by the way. So Cafe all right. No, no, no,Dan Ilic  2:40  no, no. Yeah. So if you want to come to irrational fear, live on stage, we are going to play the biggest room we have ever played, Louis. It's 580 seater, which is also great. If we if it's half full, it's good for social distancing. So we're about at the forum. We're gonna play the forum, the big the big room at the forum. Yeah. I love the forum. It's beautiful. It's very exciting. So please come along to that. Tickets should be on sale. Hopefully at the end of the week.Lewis Hobba  3:04  It's so have you been to the new forum. I don't think we're nice enough for that theatre. Like that's, it's a really nice theatre, we're gonna need to do like a dance number.Dan Ilic  3:13  Okay, all right, let's do a dance number. I'm trying to get some I'm trying to get at least one really, really big name to come join us. So I'm excited. So should we go out a little known up and comer calle