A Rational Fear
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This 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.
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Announcer 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 Pie
a 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 also
Dylan 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 despite the fact that he admitted to wearing a Nazi uniform in his own 21st birthday party. Surprisingly, the Australian public were quite forgiving of this, leading to this amazing voxpop
Journalist 4:04
What did you think of him before this?
Man on the street 4:06
Well, he seemed like an upstanding member of the community. Right? Seven kids.
Journalist 4:11
What do you think of him now?
Man on the street 4:13
Seven kids in a Nazi uniform!
Dylan Behan 4:14
Yes, that also sounds like potential movie collaboration between Nancy Meyers and Mel Brooks this holidays, get ready for the heartwarming romcom seven kids and a Nazi uniform and then there's Labour leader Chris Minns. Now if you haven't heard of him, don't worry, because neither has anyone else
Journalist 4:31
on a day when a small poll found the majority of voters in the labor leaders knife edge seat. Can't name him. Do you know who this man is?
Unknown Speaker 4:40
No, I don't it's the Leader of the Opposition. I just can't remember his name and on top of my head Did you know this man?
Unknown Speaker 4:47
He's the opposition leader opposition of New South Wales, Chris something
Dylan Behan 4:50
Yeah, no worries. Good luck with that. It's not like you said is the most marginal in the entire state anyways. Also, there's probably a good reason why people in the Chinese community didn't recognize him
Journalist 5:00
Chris Minns has suffered a little lost in translation incident. Cantonese speakers pointing out. These characters when spoken aloud can also sound a lot like having to use a bathroom.
Dylan Behan 5:12
Yeah, so finally, if any Liberal staffers are caught urinating on men's posters outside polling booths on election day, they've got an excuse. The poster told them to in Cantonese! now on to Chris Minns' campaign itself and it appears to be focused on one big issue
Chris Minns 5:26
No privatization under labour. // New South Wales Labour will never sell Sydney Water //no more reckless energy privatizations // Sydney Water is on the ballot at this election campaign // and we'll do it all without privatizing Sydney Water // There's no point selling your house to fund an upgrade of your driveway.
Dylan Behan 5:44
Yes, and I think I speak for most people in Sydney when I say what's a driveway? Jeez, what's this guy's obsession with Sydney Water? Oh, that's right. It's the only asset left that hasn't been privatized under the last 12 years with the Liberals and fun fact I just discovered it turns out that humans need water to live I just discovered that thanks wiki pedia! Yes, it turns out men seems to be copying word for word Anthony Albanese is small target strategy where you don't promise anything very much and instead just say they've been in too long. Give us a go!
Chris Minns 6:12
The premier of New South Wales leads a team that's been in power for 12 years and is asking for 16 years in office. Now that's a long peā¦
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460 ft long Subs ā Adam Bandt, Amelia Navascues, Lewis Hobba, and Dan Ilic
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Joining 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.
š 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jesus, Stan,
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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 about
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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. And
1:23
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 big
2:03
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 following
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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.
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This is a rational fear.
4:27
Welcome to rational fear. I'm your host caliphal Sydney identity Dan Ilic. And this is the show that takes the news and forces upon it a trilateral agreement whether you want it or not. Joining us tonight is how we've got our own trilateral agreement. It's very exciting here. Our first theme manga is about to launch her debut solo show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. It's called blurrier IRL writer, performer producer podcast host Amelia. Now that skews Welcome to irrational fear.
4:53
Hello, yay. Hi. Thanks for having me. All that stuff people say at the top of pot Ha.
5:01
Are you pumped? Are you pumped for your debut in Melbourne?
5:04
Yeah, pumped. It's good. I like the bulletins that they send to all of the performers because the most recent one that they said was mental health. Make sure you call the hotline if you guys are stressed. Emails, you guys get it?
5:16
Oh, this is your first time doing the Comedy Festival. It's, yeah, yeah. This will make sense in week two,
5:23
and also on the show is Lewis Lewis. Welcome to your podcast. co host irrational fear.
5:28
Thanks, Dan. A pleasure to be here and across everything as per usual, let's talk about all the things that are on this show. Right.
5:36
Adam ban is popping in we'll ask him about the CPRS probably but first here's a message from this week's sponsor.
5:41
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6:12
this week's first fear blackouts in Adelaide are being caused by bats. Of course if you live in South Australia, you already know this by the more colloquial name. The bat out Yes. Last year 89 blackouts in Adelaide were attributed to bats resting on power lines in the wee hours of the morning as bats went to and fro from feeding authorities tried to call a subcontractor to deal with a problem known as Batman, but they didn't have power to get the signal out fear mongers what is going on with Adelaide bats, Amelia?
6:42
Well, I think this is clear that the bats are plotting revenge for a speciesist inflicted discrimination after COVID. That's clearly what's going on here. Let's be real South Australia clearly had some strong opinions during the pandemic, and they're just plotting their revenge. I think that's so interesting. I don't know why I targeted South Australia specifically, but I think they had any particularly different opinions to the rest of the nation.
7:09
Do you think that? Like obviously, I've been I assume you haven't communicated with the bats? I don't want to make any presumptions.
7:17
Personally,
7:18
yeah, you personally, because obviously this tā¦
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Mar 9, 2023
The Vengabus on the O-Bahn ā LIVE IN ADELAIDE ā Kyam Maher, Andrew Hansen, Dan Ilic, Alice Fraser, Gabbi Bolt, Lewis Hobba, Dylan Behan
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Gāday Fearmongers ā
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 itās very listenable.
ALSO on the podcast:
š” Dan Ilic discovers one of our co-hosts has a branding problem.
š Gabbi Bolt finds out just how long it takes to re-train as cop.
šø Andrew Hansen doesnāt like his own name.
š Alice Fraser has beef with crypto bros.
šŗ Dylan Behan mashes up the summer of news you missed.
š Lewis Hobba finds someone to perform at the Kingās 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, itāll sell out. Thereās only 80 seats left and with 3 weeks to go, run, donāt walk to get your tickets.
Also if comedy panel shows about science are your thing; Iām also performing in a show called Night Of The Nerds, the night before A Rational Fear. Itās like Spicks and Specs for geeks. Youāll have a good time.
Cheers
Dan
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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.
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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 Festival
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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.
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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 fear
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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 state. Next year South Australia you'll be able to buy a house and sit there and wait till we tell you where you can see the Southern Lights in Adelaide. Now tell the White Horse behind the streets. Live from the Adelaide Fringe Festival. This is a rational rational fear
this is the podcast that takes the news and gives it a little ride on the Oba. I didn't know what an Oban is. Sounds dangerous. That sounds pretty good. Alright, let's make our fear mongers for tonight. First up is a musical Wiz and a showbiz master of showbiz, a man who's no stranger to making people annoyed on television, but it's only apologise once. It's Andrew Hansen. Hello, Andrew. Hello, Andrew, you've annoyed a lot of people on TV. Do you have your advice for the project?
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The project is apologise more often and somebody might start watching again.
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And they've received their second five star review at the Adelaide Fringe Festival but they refuse to let it go to their head. It's the very humble and she asked him to say this The artist formerly known as Gabby bolts. Yes. Gabby congratulations on your great reviews. What keeps you grounded?
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The rocks that I put in my pocket as they walk into the ocean.
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And then the first of two lawyers here on this panel is the satirical miracle that is Alice Rebecca Fraser. Alice, have you ever been on a call Many panels with more than one lawyer.
5:02
I have always been more than one lawyer on the inside. Inside everybody there are two lawyers one wants you to win and one that wants you to fail and they're in constant court battle.
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And he's not only a DJ but a master craftsman of wacky clips from the news fighters podcast and behind the scenes on every TV show in Australia it's still in vain dealing what is the what is the worst comedy show you've ever worked on? No. I want to work again it's a very small and they know the law inside and out. I hope you have your parking tickets ready for review it South Australia's Attorney General chi ma
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good eye and good afternoon, everyone.
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Time for all of us visitors to this land. What is the strangest law in South Australia we need to be aware
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of you can spend two years in jail for pretending to be a clairvoyant. Is that right? Section 40 of the summary Offences Act.
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Just jail everybody who's claiming to be a clairvoyant because you wouldn't claim to be a clairvoyant. If you were a clairvoyant, because you'd see the jail coming.
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You can just imagine the prosecution the judge tells you Are you a clairvoyant or not you want to and you are gonna ask that case dismissed.
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And finally, each Sunday, our guest visits a maternity ward to drain the stem cells from discarded umbilical cords to keep him youthful enough to host Triple J. Dr. It's the radiant Lewis
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Yes. Welcome your
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children. Last time we came to Adelaide, we are done.ā¦
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Mar 2, 2023
The Half a Chubb Review ā Elyce Phillips, Jane Bell, Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba + Nicolette Boele
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G'day Fearmongers ā
Here is this week's podcast ā Lewis Hobba, Elyce Phillips, Jane Ball, and Dan ILic talk shit about:
šø Superannuation changes.
šØ Gen Z's office equipment problems.
š Moon Time Extra Fear.
š¤ Robodebt and Stuart Robert's eating problem.
ā½ļø and we interview Nicolette Boeler from the Smart Energy Council about the Safeguard Mechanism.
If you're in Adelaide ā we're performing tomorrow at the Adelaide Fringe:
š https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/a-rational-fear-live-af2023
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This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Good evening Lewis.
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Hello Dan. How are you?
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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.
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Absolutely. If you happen to know the Port Adelaide Football Club get them all along. If you know this Adelaide strikers sixes
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This is good. This is good. This is good local content. If you know anyone whose family ends in polites get them alone.
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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 Lewis
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum and section 40 of our rational view recommended listening by immature audience.
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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.
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Hello, hello. If anyone wants to book a clown please reach outs to her on this side of the ladder now
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you just do corporate ladder comedy Do you do you turn up to kids parties and say hey, let's talk about some EBIT DA is that what happens?
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I feel like I was more doing clown comedy in the workplace. And now I found my target audience so it's honestly for the best.
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And she has haunted the writing rooms at hard quiz and has been published in McSweeney. She's also sells a bathing suit covered in little cute hands on her website, performing her show tropical holiday at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. It's Elise Phillips. Welcome, Elise.
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Hello, thank you for having me.
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These bathing suits on your website do they sell well they look amazing little hands on.
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Literally any other piece of merch I've ever made in my life.
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Really? It looks amazing. It looks it looks incredible. It looks this might sound weird, but it looks delicious.
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Oh, thank you.
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Thank you, men's version as well. Do you do like a speedo
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ABS salutely We've got a swim trunk. Haven't got to Speedo yet. I think I think a bunch of spunk covering ham would be a good option though.
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I'm ready. I put me on the waiting list.
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All right. Speaking of hams, it's Louis Harbaugh.
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a delight to be with you thrilled. I don't know how long it's been since our last one. It might be a week. It might be a year for three weeks,
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I think two weeks. Yeah, two weeks. In
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fact, Dan, I know we don't do a lot of personal business. But you were in South Africa. Did you have a nice time?
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I had a great time I hung out with the my birthday of fellows from the birth of Foundation, who kind of got this podcast back on his feet for a couple of years. So it was a really amazing and inspiring time saying you know what everybody's been up to so yeah, went to Cape Town. It's really good. Good place there. I like it.
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How are we looking for this season? financially? Do they call you guy over there to fight?
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No, no, I strain ethical was looking after us. And if you if you're on the Patreon, you don't hear the ads. But if you are on our regular feed, of course, you'll know that Australian ethical is looking after us. So we're being looked after this year from them. But maybe maybe there could be some special birth of money later on down the line. I pitched them an idea of doing a show from the First Nations group who are sitting on a Danny's land. I thought it'd be funny to take a bunch of our friends Louis like David Simpson and Craig quarterman. And Steph Tisdall and do a comedy show. At the defenders land on the Adani land, I thought that would be really fun. So they seem to be interested in that and they may even pay for it. So
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a lot of fallen to remove us right now. So now
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like I like I had a realisation while I was there. We no longer live in electorates. We live in billionaires bank books. So you have to pick the billionaires you like we are. We're I'm aā¦
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Feb 23, 2023
INTRODUCING NEWS FIGHTERS: Anthony Albanese goes to the tennis and the right canāt deal!
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Once 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 heās worked in the comedy trenches with The Chaser, Tonightly, Itās 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 rightās 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.
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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 a
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Dan, thanks for having me. On your feed. I hope we both get to feed some sumptuous wacky clips.
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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,
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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.
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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?
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I'm also on Gadigal Land of the Eora Nation I believe.
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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 in
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Andrew McClellan's a great mate of mine and will arguably do the job better than me. So enjoy that.
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All right, here's this month's episode of news fighters.
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Let's start the show.
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This is News Fighters, where we fight the news so you don't have to with Dylan Behan.
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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 editor and 80s Rock Legend. Dylan bein. Yes. And news fighters, of course is now monthly. Here on the irrational fear podcast feed and if you love irrational fear stick around because my interview guest is none other than my new boss, Dan Ilic, who's here to talk about the New South Wales election amongst other things.
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I don't mind getting a parking fine. It's in the app. I could I could see it. I can see how many points I've lost by going through that red light. I have any I haven't gone through any red LEDs.
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But first Happy New Year's everyone I don't know about you. But to me, it feels like it's the first year where we're not in 2020 anymore. Yes, it's the first summer in four years here in Australia that hasn't been dominated by deadly bushfires, COVID lock downs or scary new variants. Of course the upshot of that is the media has been absolutely scrambling for news stories to report on I mean, look, somehow this made the national news
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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are making the most of their time here in Australia. It was a recent trip to a kebab shop that had the Hollywood couple wowing locals here
Nicole and Keith stopped by manly sucide kebabs for a tasty treat.
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And for those of you who believe that long form interrogative interviews died when lease sales left 730 Well, I give you the most confrontational explosive interview since frost Nixon with Sunrise kebabs shop!
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How exciting was it to have Nicole and Keith in your store? And most importantly, what did they order?
Is there any time of the day when a kebab isn't appropriate?
I've got to ask Do you have a specialty tasty dish is something that Keith hasn't tried yet that maybe he should give a go
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may I'm gonna get him to try the lamb kebab.
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What a story. How Good, good on you.
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And thanks for the great kebabs. Oh, that'd be studying that interview a journalism school for decades to come. And in international news this summer there was almost a major diplomatic incident as a mysterious foreign balloon was spotted over America.
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Bluey the lovable Blue Heeler pup from Australia is making her debut in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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Yes, fun fact though. bluey was actually Australia's first balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade since the Babadook. In 2015. Summer of course is also the season of sport in this country and the New Year's cricket test in Sydney gave us a telling sign that maybe COVID is finally behind us.
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Matt Renshaw has actually tested positive to COVID. Now he will play but he's keeping a safe distance and he is in the starting 11 Of course he will play and it will play a full part.
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Yes, that's right at the third test against South Africa and Sydney. Australian cricketer Matthew Renshaw tested positive to COVID and played anyway. never even bothered to put a mask on well, that Scott Morrison would say Ausā¦
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Feb 10, 2023
What does Clive Palmer do now? ā Osher Gunsberg, Floyd Alexander-Hunt, Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba + Judy Hannan
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This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Good morning or good evening, Lewis.
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Hello. Yes, good, good. Whatever day off time time of day this finds you.
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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 to
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agree that in the BBC before that when you like, Oh, I thought God gave it to us.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 this is the only media outlet that is not sued by Ben Robert Smith. This is irrational fear.
Welcome to rational feet. I'm your host, former Green Senator Dan Ilic. And this is the podcast that takes the news and puts it into blender with some protein powder. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight. She's put on hold the money and the stability of being a lawyer for something much more exciting. Yes, she's a comedian Floyd Alexander. Hi and welcome to irrational fear.
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Thanks so much for having me back.
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Look, my pleasure look why why shouldn't comedy be the backup job here? Shouldn't you be you know, all gung ho for a for a proper career in law, that's where the money is a short
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I think it's that my parents were really it was it was like, when I said I was gonna do law, they were really disappointed in me. So I was like, I was very confused.
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And his career is long serving, but his hip is brand new. It's broadcaster podcaster and Rose distributor. Asha, Gunzburg. Asha. You've got a new haircut. Are you planning on any more upgrades in the future? No, I'm
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actually I might hit number. I've walked on hip number one and hit number five. There was yeah, it's been a long and winding journey but I'm finally here tonight. And I'm grateful that none of you got that guy Sebastian Australian Idol season one job but fine. That's it No, I'm not planning on any more upgrades.
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I was listening out for the words battle and scars Asha I couldn't hear battle and scars together in a sentence so totally love
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never get behind me at the airport. I will always, always be touched by security guy every time for the rest of my life.
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It feels like you've been a contestant on like the grandad bachelor where instead of giving metal hips
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pretty much I brought this great misconception, Louis as I never actually touched the roses. I just can't touch the
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drug deal. I like it. The development of drug dealer kingpin never touches the gear. He's the only broadcaster at Triple J who gets called Daddy, it's Louis harbour
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I did beforehand as well. So writing right on through
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coming up later, we are getting warmed up for the New South Wales state elections we're gonna be chatting with independent candidate for a while and really shy and the Southern Highlands Judy Hannon will ask her is the gumnut Bakery overrated. But first heard this message from this week's sponsor?
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Feb 2, 2023
Uncool Cabanas ā Arts Minister Tony Burke MP, Antoinette Lattouf, Hanna Ferguson, Dan Ilic
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Weāre 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.
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Adelaide Fringe ā March 4th
Brisbane World Science Festival ā March 26th
Melbourne International Comedy Festival ā APRIL 2nd
Weāve 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, Natās What I Reckon and too many more to list here!
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Minister for Arts ā Tony Burke MP
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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 up@patreon.com 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.
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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 England Patriots Dan Ilic Chen This is the podcast that takes the saddest headlines and eats them for breakfast. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight. Our first fear monger is an omnipresent media maven, Author Activist Changemaker one of AFRs 100 Women of Influence. It's Antoinette Latif, welcome Antoinette.
Antoinette Lattouf 3:14
Thank you so much for having me. I look forward to like think like scaring the shit out of everybody.
Dan Ilic 3:22
I mean 100 100 Women of Influence What do you do to get on that list?
Antoinette Lattouf 3:26
I look you as a man and you'd never understand. But the interesting thing is I can get on AFS 100 Women of Influence, but I can't influence my child to brush her teeth.
Dan Ilic 3:41
And she's a Gen Zed media mogul. And when she's not, you know, pushing words into her manuscript for her new book, she's pushing as many hot takes on the internet as a team of 1000 monkeys. It's the founder and CEO of cheek media Hannah Ferguson Hannah Welcome to irrational fears having
Hannah Ferguson 3:57
me that's in my mother's never said that many nice things about me in a row so it's very beautiful damn thing
Dan Ilic 4:02
what Hannah I used to consider myself prolific but you know watching you operate on the internet all day. I think I'm lazy. How do you keep up such a relentless hot take machine as checkmate?
Hannah Ferguson 4:13
I've never considered them heartaches I've definitely consider them more of like a Pizza Hut buffet. We're getting very average and a lot of it. Like, let's just keep it pumping.
Dan Ilic 4:23
And he's not here. Here's the Tom Brady of us broadcasting. It's Louis harbour he, he wished he could be here, but he's gonna put the baby to bed coming up later. We speak with the Minister for department infrastructure transport, regional development, communications and the arts. Yes, Tony Burke is joining us. We'll be talking about revive the 10 year arts roadmap, and we'll be auditioning for Poet Laureate. But first, a message from this week's sponsor.
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Dec 29, 2022
A Rational Year ā The best sketches and selected bits from 2022
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Happy new fear!
Currently Iām 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.
Itās 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 couldnāt 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. Itās cool we can do that, and we can because of Patreon, every little bit helps.
Come see us live next year:
Adelaide ā March 4th ā Garden of Unearthly Delights
Brisbane ā March 26th ā World Science Festival
Melbourne ā April 2nd ā Capitol Theatre
And also in 2023 ā we will hit 1,000,000 downloads.
I know! 1,000,000!
If I had a dollar for every time someone downloaded our show, Iād have enough money to buy a mouldy 1 bedroom deathtrap in Sydney with an outdoor toilet. Weāll 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.
Cheers
Dan Ilic
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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.
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A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed GM and section 40. Have a rational view recommended listening by immature audiences. Hey, a
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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,
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welcome to rational fear. Good morning, dad. Do you know who else has too many guests? No Christmas dinner and Scott Morrison said.
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Well, thank you for coming back to host the end of Year special.
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Good to be with you.
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When you hosted last time 30 people unsubscribed from the email list and six people cancelled their Patreon memberships. Yes, well,
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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 important people in the country, the sponsors of irrational fear. Yes, we'll celebrate them all in this very special episode, the highs, the lows and meet in between. This is genuinely cash for comment. Okay, let's kick it off from a message from one of most popular podcasters in Australia called Mark No, not Mark Latham. The other one.
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Imagine your true crime podcast hosts tracking down some of the grisly murders ever committed in Australia, only to discover that they're all already covered by other True Crime podcasts. That is the moment I discovered something so terrifying in myself that I had no choice but to turn it into a blood curdling audio experience. Hi, I'm Mark Fidel, and I host the true crime podcast is not for now. A murderer. Yes, he is. Come with me as I investigate a freshman that I come in each week until I get caught. I pick victims out at random from the white pages. I know shocking. How did I find the white pages in 2022? To find out you'll have to listen to is Mark funnel a murderer? Yes, he is available only on Audible and as a transcript from criminal court and while you're there check out my other podcast stuff Mark stall and that murder guy. Shit. I have to go now by
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Coronavirus. Remember that God I barely do. I failed COVID-19 away in my brain in the same place where I still have memories of when the Wallabies lost when a match got. Well back in January 2022 The New South Wales government gave up on Coronavirus to, to them all of a sudden it no longer existed, just like climate change.
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49,900 the New South Wales Government is changing the way it's counting Coronavirus cases because we only learned how to count up to 50,000 89,999 50,000. From today if you have symptoms of Coronavirus, you'll have to acquire a rapid antigen test through a series of physical challenges in your local district. The winner of each district will battle it out for the title of state champion who will then be given one rapid antigen test. And if that person tests positive they will then be added to the daily count.
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We've got one more that 50,000 plus one
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and if you've done report your positive test result you will be shocked oh my god Max is so hot from all of us at the New South Wales Government may the odds be ever in your favour.
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countdowns on radio are still a big deal when I was still on to GB we used to have the hottest 100 liberal Prime Ministers of all time, Scott Morrison took out the top 50 Well back at generate the woker radio Triple J insisted on starting a new countdown.
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Hey Veronica Milsom here to remind you that you've only got two days left to submit your favourite years for the hot is 100 now with over 2000 years to choose from, we want to know which year you think will come out on top as the hottest year ever.
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I thought 1989 was pretty high. No, no,
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it's not when you will asā¦
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Dec 15, 2022
The Boys Say Some Bad News ā Bec Charlwood, Alex Jae, Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba
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Gāday Fearmongers ā
On the final regular podcast of the year weāve got a cheap and cheerful chat on the podcast that the Dude Cinema hosts have labeled āThe Boys Say Some Sad News Podcastā. Weāre lucky to have said hosts ā Alex Jae and Bec Charlwood join us for a spot of fearmongering.
We talk about:
š¬ NZ banning smoking for people born in 2008 and later.
š NZ Rental Crisis is bad.
š¤ 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 youāre in Adelaide you can buy a ticket to our Fringe Festival show now!
Dan
Guest Booker
Chappelle Show
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This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical Day Lewis.
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Hello, Dan, how are you?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You sound weirdly amazing. Are you Santa? Is that what's happening? You take a quick break from your job as Santa.
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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.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah. Yeah. She they texted me to say in and again,
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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.
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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.
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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 the duty of cinema?
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I mean, it's Tarantino releasing his next film. That would be that
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basically. Is it avatar is is the new avatar.
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I would have to say the new avatar is definitely the duty is first of all, it's coming back into our lives after being absent for 13 years just like my dad
4:34
will do a full dude cinema summer blockbuster at the end of the podcast, but please, stay standing. The king of Australia. It's now easier to read your majesty
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just put it back the words are clearly on. Look. I wrote it in Comic Sans. I want to read it in comics in Good evening subjects and people who live in countries we forgot to invade When times were better, King Charles here to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Just another one of the many goddamn jobs I've had to learn to do at age 75. Did you know that I also have to be the head of the church to Christ almighty 22 was a year of challenges for us all. Mummy died, and one had to use a blast at inkwell. This year, we're thinking of those suffering at the hands of cancelled culture, namely, Netflix, Hulu subscription we've cancelled for the entire palace. Our thoughts and prayers also go out to those who are suffering under the rule of governments undergoing bloody coup, like in the Kingdom of Great Britain. But there is always hope. For those of you concerned about mummys legacy. Don't worry. It's in good hands. Sure the hands are a little puffy and red, but working fine. Nevertheless. So from all of the top tier Royals, except for Andrew, we wish you all a Merry Christmas Temitope put these bloody tree here. Why is it inside? Just get rid of it. Just get it get get
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rid of it. Your Majesty. Of course, Your Majesty.
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A tree with lights and shit all over it. You can't go chopping down trees. Think of the environment. Bloody hell
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Hill. It's always good to have your majesty on the podcast. Alright, let's get stuck into some fears. Two big stories tonight coming from New Zealand First fear New Zealand passed the law to ban cigarette sales to everyone born after 2008 Yes, starting next year, the country's smoking age of 18 will be raised year on year. And so eventually it's gonna be applied to the whole population. So if you are under 50 Now, you're basically going to be banned for life for the rest of your life to buy cigarettes fear mongers, will this outride smoking ban work back?
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I can hear the use of New Zealand crying? Oh no, I guess we'll just have to vape then. What can I don't friggin care. vaping is cool, guys. I reckon this is smoking, admitting defeat. This is what's happening. Giving up to vaping and they can't admit it.
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There's gonna be this huge black market soon, you know, people are gonna be buying cigarettes in school, like imagine being like the one year above the people in school. Like who you can actually or you can buy cigarettes but people when yoā¦
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Dec 7, 2022
Hey Alexa, play Nish Kumar's comedy specials ā Nish Kumar, Alice Fraser, Lewis Hobba, Dan Ilic
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One of the UKās best satirical brains; Nish Kumar joins Alice Fraser, Lewis Hobba and Dan Ilic (me) for this weekās 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 youāve never heard of him ā good ā heās on this weekās A Rational Fear podcast, and heās great!
The topics this week:
š¤ Alexa Loses $10bn a year.
šø The FTX fake money machine is DOA.
āļø 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.
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This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Good evening Lewis.
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Hello Daniel. How are you?
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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.
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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.
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That's true. That's true.
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If you figure out a time machine and travel back to the 1800 That's like a year's salary. Yeah, absolutely.
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That's what working on next Patriot enough
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to make us landed gentry. Finally, the dream of this podcast. Patreon does
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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.
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A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum and section 40 of a rational view recommended listening by immature audiences.
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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 mean
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means I don't deliver on weekends. I discovered at the Royal Women's Hospital in Randwick about a year ago.
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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.
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It's lovely to be here. I am instantly fired. Yeah, like when you
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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 Kwibi
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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. We look back on the Cameron era as a Halcyon one.
3:41
Then you obviously lost a job trying to get a satirical comedy job. Yeah, you didn't even you didn't even lose the job you had.
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I have you know that AlJazeera is still very much alive and kicking. And he's the last millennial standing at the National Youth broadcasting.
4:00
Well, I mean, second last, Michael, he's a month older than me. Richard Kingsville, I believe is an elder Millennial.
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Millennial rendered Reagan Boomer become an elder millennial. Coming up a little later on, we're going to talk to Nish Kumar about the state of politics in the United Kingdom. But first,
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does that mean that as soon as he does that, this show will get out?
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Fingers crossed, please join us on Patreon.
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I surely don't think I can cause problems on balance in different countries. I certainly caused a few issues in my own country's national broadcaster, but I don't think I can I mean, I don't know.
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But first here is a message from this week's sponsor. On the next season of Wentworth a new contender for top dog has arrived at the prison.
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I took a knife and I put it in the side of my husband's abdomen and then I let his intestine spill out across the marble floor of our harbor side mansion. So new fish are you in full If
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I had to track on the Sydney Harbour Bridge,
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you're a total badass.
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I then delay traffic for about 20 to 25 minutes. Why would you do that? Because our government isn't doing enough about climate change, girls,
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I resign. Coco was the new top dog around here.
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And if you come for the king, you bet enough in carbon positive.
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It's a whole new level of disproportionate justice this season on Wentworth only on showcase, which is on something called Foxtel. Ask your parents about it. This week's first via Amazon is set to lose $10 billion on Alexa proving that just like reality TV, and STIs, you can be really popular but not worth anything to anyone. The voice activated assistant is the most popular piece of hardware on amazon.com, presumably after those little screaming goats that you press. And the internal report says that Alexa was getting a billion interactions a week but most of those conversations were, quote, trivial commands to play music or ask about the weather. Those questions aren't monetizable Yeah, you don't need to give me $10 billion to tell you that the only question that is monetizable is how can I win the infection of my father? That is the only question. You can make money on fear fear mongers, why is an always on microphone sending private conversations to the cloud for monetization and data profiling a total abject failure, Louis?
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Well, I mean, for me, I spent all of my life monetizing, talking into a microphone. So my problem with Alexa was really use that intuition of contracting. They just wouldn't tā¦
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Dec 2, 2022
How to vanquish Clive Palmer ā Murrawah Johnson, Sami Shah, Floyd Alexander Hunt, Dan Ilic and Lewis Hobba
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On the podcast this week:
Marrawah Johnson of Youth Verdict telling us how they beat Clive Palmer and got the Queensland Land and Environment Court to recommend against the Waratah Coal mine.
ALSO on the podcast Floyd Alexander-Hunt, Sami Shah, Dan Ilic , and Lewis Hobba talking about
š Scott Morrison's Censure
š³šæ New Zealand's Supreme Court ruling that the voting age of 18 is discriminatory.
š¤æ Kanye West saying dumb things on Alex Jones' Info Wars.
Also keep a listen out for Marc Fennell's cameo this episode, and a reminder to people living in Adelaide you can buy a ticket to our Fringe Festival show now!
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Nov 24, 2022
Taylor Swift vs Ariana Venti ā Bec Melrose, Steph Broadbridge, Jack Druce, Dan Ilic + Fiona Patten MP
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On the podcast this week we have a fun crew.
Bec Melrose
Steph Broadbridge
Jack Druce
Dan Ilic (me, I'm fun)
We cover:
ā½ļø Animals correctly guessing the outcome of FIFA World Cup fixtures.
š Ticketmaster and Live Nation's Taylor Swift Snafu.
šø The $98 Billion Australians are giving their bosses for free each year.
š©š¼āš³ 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 ā If you'd like to help us pay the bills please chip in to the Patreon.
Thanks very much.
Dan
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Nov 17, 2022
Cup of Strife ā Clare Stephens, Georgie Caroll, Brynn O'Brien, Dan Ilic & Lewis Hobba
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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:
ā½ļø The Wold Cup in Qatar.
š¦ Elon Musk's ultimatum to his staff.
š¼šš¦ Albo restoring diplomatic relations with China.
š©ø Victoria Labor's promise for free pads and tampons.
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Nov 9, 2022
The Monarchist Cookbook ā Alison Piotrowski, Matt Bevan, Cam James, Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba
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G'day Fearmongers ā.
šThe Australian Monarchist League making demands of Netflix.
š„ Sylvester Stallone's new Reality Project.
š Sean Penn giving Volodymyr Zelensky an OscarĀ®.
šŗšø 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 ā if you feel compelled.. please chip into the Patreon
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This podcast is supported in part by Australiaā¦
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Nov 3, 2022
Lions, Horses and Bombers, Oh my! ā Osman Faruqi, Scott Mitchell, Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba + Linh Do
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On the podcast this week we talk about
* AUSTRAC 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
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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 Hoā¦
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Oct 27, 2022
Boring Budget Special ā Wendy Zukerman, Chris Taylor, Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba + Dan Adams CEO Amber
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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 ā we're lucky to have her!
There's a different energy to the in person podcasts that's for sure.
We cover ā
* 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!
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This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Hā¦
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Oct 20, 2022
Britain's anti-Truss campaign ā Athena Kugblenu + Rick Morton + Bea Barbeau-Scurla + Dan Ilic + Lewis Hobba
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This podcast was recorded about 1 hour before Liz Truss resigned ā 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 whatās going on in the UK ā 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 sā¦
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Oct 18, 2022
A Rational Fear Lite : Charlie Pickering + Peter Kalmus + Van Gogh + Dan Ilic
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Weāre gearing up for a big 10-week season of weekly A Rational Fear Podcasts ā 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 Kalmus
This 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
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G'day, welcome to A Rational Fear, another special episode of A Rational Fear ligā¦
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Oct 13, 2022
A Rational Fear Lite ā Dan Ilic + Sarah Wilson
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Weāre gearing up for a big 10-week season of weekly A Rational Fear Podcasts ā 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:
š¤ The Alex Jones $1bn Verdict.
š¦¾ No one at Meta wants to use the Metaverse. Great piece from The Verge
š“ļøThe 10 year anniversary of the Julia Gillard Misogyny speech. Hear the full interview with Ben Rhodes ā the juicy bit about Abbott and Gillard speech hits around 35min in.
Sarahās plugs:
šļøSarah's podcast WILD
āš» Sarah's Substack THIS IS PRECIOUS
Weāll be back next week with a new A Rational Fear season.
And Iād 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?
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Sep 25, 2022
Secretive Australia ā Festival Of Dangerous Ideas ā Kate McClymont, Damien Cave, Amber Schultz, David McBride, Dan Ilic & Lewis Hobba
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Australia is the most secretive liberal democracy in the world. Weād love to tell you more about it, but need our lawyer present. In this special edition of A Rational Fear where weāll rip into Australiaās most closely-guarded secrets. How did āāāāā āāāā drown? And why canāt you say a āāāā has arrived from āāāāāāāā?
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 tipsā¦
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Sep 1, 2022
GMPOOG: Richard Duke ā US Deputy Special Envoy for Climate
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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 ā 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 IRA
* Australia's place in the pacific
* Aussie Scope 3
* Global Supply Chains
* The Methane Pledge
* Guam
* Small Island States
* Patreon Questions
TRANSCRIPTION
Dan Ilic 0:00
Good air Dan Ilic with you for the greatest moral podcast of our generation. This is a great episode. Iā¦
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Aug 26, 2022
Russia's new advertising campaign ā Kirsty Webeck, Sam Petersen, Alice Tovey, Dan Ilic + Ben Pennings
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Dan is eating his way through Melbourne's cafes ā 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 #DadVsAdani
Fearmongers include:
Kirsty Webeck
Sam Petersen
Alice Tovey
Host Dan Ilic
Interview Guest: Ben Pennings
See more about Ben's campaign against Adani below.
SUPPORT BEN PENNINGS CAMPAIGN:
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Adani 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.
Donā¦
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Aug 19, 2022
The Morrison Cinematic Universe ā Dan Ilic, Killian David, James Donald Forbes McCann
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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 thatās not Rowan Dean ā James McCann from the James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan Podcast.
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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 goā¦
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Aug 14, 2022
The Best* of Lewis Hobba ā A Rational Encore ā (*50min of Lewis Hobba yelling)
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G'day Fearmongers ā
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 ā 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/LewisHobba
Enjoy.
Dan
Lewis Hobba 0:00
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Dan 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 halfwā¦
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Jun 15, 2022
GMPOOG: Nick Bryant on how journalists could be covering climate change.
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Every 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 ā The Greatest Moral Podcast Of Our Generation.
On this episode of GMPOOG: Dan Ilic hosts a conversation with journalist Nick Bryant ā Media watchers in Australia would certainly know Nick's work from the BBC and of course twitter. Ā 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:Ā
https://jninstitute.org/education/journo-podcast/
On this episode we talk about News Corp's supposed move to embracing climate change, how Pasiā¦
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Jun 8, 2022
JUDITH NEILSON INSTITUTE LIVE: The Joke Is Mightier Than The Pen
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Gāday Fearmongers ā
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?Ā Never.
Can satire be more powerful than journalism?Ā Doubtful.
Can satire be journalism?Ā Probably not.
Australiaās 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 Australiaās most available smart arses wrangle with their (questionable) career choices and take a deep dive into satireās 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 oā¦
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May 27, 2022
Jan Fran Has Issues - Ep 8 - Grace Tame + Elizabeth Watson Brown
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For the FINAL Jan Fran Has Issues we speak to former Australian of the Year Grace Tame and the new Greens MP for the seat of Ryan (Brisbane) - Elizabeth Watson Brown.Ā
Also, join Veronica Milsom, Mark Humphries, Gabbi Bolt, Lewis Hobba, Dan Ilic, Sami Shah and Paul McDermott for 10 Years* of A Rational Fear. June 4th Sydney Opera House. (*Runtime approx. 90min)!
Produced by F+K mediaĀ
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This episode is supported by the jib foundation. final results are still being tallied. But one thing is crystal clear the 2022 election has delivered aā¦
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May 19, 2022
Jan Fran Has Issues - Ep 7 - Election Cheat Sheet with Amy Remeikis + Alex Morris
šØCORRECTIONšØ 20.05.22 If you have Covid, this morning the AEC has made it easier for you to vote via phone. You are now eligible to vote via phone if you were in isolation from 6pm last Friday May 13th. Sign up via their website here.Ā
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Jan Fran Has Issuesā¦with Election Questions. We speak to political reporter Amy Remeikis from the Guardian, and Alex Morris from the Australian Electoral Commission, who answers how you can make your vote count while drawing a dick on the ballot. āļøšā
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Also, join Veronica Milsom, Mark Humphries, Gabbi Bolt, Lewis Hobba, Dan Ilic, Sami Shah and Paul McDermott for 10 Years* of A Rational Fear. June 4th Sydney Opera House. (*Runtime approx. 90min)!
Produced by F+K mediaĀ
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May 15, 2022
Julia Zemiro Asks 'Who Cares?' ā E5 ā Penny Ackery (Hume indy Candidate)
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G'day Fearmongers,
This is the 2nd last JZAC ā 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 ā traveling the breadth of the electorate, listening, and consulting with folks about how to better represent them. It's the world's longest job interviewā¦
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May 13, 2022
Jan Fran Has Issues - Ep 6 - Climate Change with Alex Dyson + Anjali Sharma
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Jan Fran Has Issuesā¦with Climate Change. We speak to Alex Dyson - an Independent candidate for Wannon and former triple j breakfast choon lord, and Anjali Sharma who sued the Environment Minister whilst still in high school.Ā
Also, join Veronica Milsom, Mark Humphries, Gabbi Bolt, Lewis Hobba, Dan Ilic, Sami Shah and Paul McDermott for 10 Years* of A Rational Fear. June 4th Sydney Opera House. (*Runtime approx. 90min) Weāre 60% sold! So get in quick!
Produced by F+K mediaĀ
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During the election, your support is more crucial than ever! Thank you FEARMONGERS!
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TRANSCRIPT:ā¦
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May 6, 2022
Jan Fran Has Issues - Ep 5 - Housing Affordability with Adam Bandt
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Jan Fran Has Issuesā¦with Housing Affordability. On the week that mortgages across the country took a hike, we speak to Greens leader Adam Bandt about how to balance wealth creation withā¦ Idk, somewhere to live? ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Also, we dissect the Coalitionās plan to increase affordable housing with novelty cheques.Ā
A Rational Fear is having our 10 year anniversary on June 4 - come see us live at the Sydney Opera House featuring Lewis Hobba (triple j), Mark Humphries, Gabbi Bolt, Sami Shah, Veronica Milsom, Paul McDermott and more. You can support us by becoming a Patreon subscriber and helping us with our cost of living. Do it.Ā
Produced by F+K mediaĀ
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May 2, 2022
A Rational Fear ā LIVE ā Melbourne Comedy Festival 2022 ā Grace Tame, Zoe Daniel, Alice Fraser, Dane Simpson, Lewis Hobba, Dan Ilic, Vidya Rajan + DJ Andy McClelland.
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10 Years Of A Rational Fear. Sydney Opera House. June 4th 2022
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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 Fraser
Gabbi Bolt
Dane Simpson
Grace Tame
Zoe Daniel
Vidya Rajan
Lewis Hobba
Dan Ilic
DJ Andy McClelland
It 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.
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Apr 29, 2022
Jan Fran Has Issues - Ep4 - Foreign Affairs feat. Kevin Rudd
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Jan Fran Has Issuesā¦with Foreign Affairs. China is making new friends with our Pacific neighbours, should we be worried? Former Prime Minister and huge China nerd Kevin Rudd joins us to break down whether Australia could become the piggy in the middle between the US and China.Ā
Also, American producer Frank Lopez reveals the weird and wonderful history behind the US/Australia relationship and the origins of āThe Keagleā.Ā
A Rational Fear is having our 10 year anniversary - come see us live at the Sydney Opera House! And support us by becoming a Patreon subscriber and helping us with our cost of living. Do iiiit.Ā
Produced by F+K media.
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Apr 20, 2022
A Rational Fear Live in Melbourne 10 minute Sample
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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 ā 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 ā sign up to Patreon!
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If we're really good at Dean stuff up in Australia and making sure it can feel the rest of the world
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good I feel mongers Dan Ilic. Here. There is no Jad Fran has issues this week because unfortunately, everyone on the production team haā¦
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Apr 15, 2022
Jan Fran Has Issues - Ep 3 - Cost of Living feat. Ebony Bennett
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Jan Fran Has Issuesā¦with Cost of Living. You may have noticed everything is mad expensive at the moment, and both major parties have been spruiking how they can fix it. So weāve brought in a special referee - Ebony Bennett from the Australia Institute - to call our showdown match between Finance Minister Simon Birmingham and Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers.Ā
Also, Ray Martin tells us how the cost of a birthday cake brought down a potential Prime Minister in this weekās āWeird Election Historyā.Ā
If you missed A Rational Fear Live at the Melbourne Comedy Festival featuring Australian of the Year Grace Tame - you can listen to it for the next two weeks by becoming a Patreon subscriber and helping us with our cost of living. Do iiiit.
Produced by F+K mediaĀ
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Apr 8, 2022
Jan Fran Has Issues - Ep2 - Race feat. Michael Towke
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Jan Fran Has Issuesā¦ with Race. Yup, weāre tackling race and Scott Morrisonās political origin story featuring the man who faced off against Scomo in 2007 - Michael Towke. And we learn about (recent) racist political history from Senator Mehreen Faruqi.Ā
Donāt forget to catch A Rational Fear Live at Melbourne Comedy Festival on April 10 featuring Australian of the Year Grace Tame, Lewis Hobba, Alice Fraser, Dane Simpson, Vidya Rajan, DJ Andy McClelland and special interview guest Independent candidate Zoe Daniel.Ā
Produced by F+K mediaĀ
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Apr 1, 2022
Jan Fran Has Issues - EP1- Accountability feat. Jo Dyer
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In our first special edition election series - Jan Fran Has Issues - weāre tackling the big A - Accountability. We find out the real meaning behind pork barrelling (no it doesnāt come from the gay bear scene), and speak to Independent candidate Jo Dyer about burning down Parliament House.Ā
Donāt forget to catch A Rational Fear Live at Melbourne Comedy Festival on April 10 featuring Australian of the Year Grace Tame, Lewis Hobba, Alice Fraser, Dane Simpson, Vidya Rajan, DJ Andy McClelland, and special interview guest Independent candidate Zoe Daniel.Ā
Produced by F+K mediaĀ
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Mar 18, 2022
Jan Has Issues, We Have a Live Show - Jan Fran, Lewis Hobba and Dan Ilic
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We're joined this week by fearmonger Jan Fran to discuss our brand new upcoming mini series 'Jan Fran has issues'. Each week, Jan and Dan will tackle a hot button election issue in the lead up to the 2022 election.Ā
Keep your eye on the podcast feed for new episodes in the coming weeks.Ā Ā
In preparation for our live shows in Melbourne, at the end of this episode we throw it back to our 2019 show at the Brisbane Powerhouse for Climate Week. With fearmongers Bridie Connell, Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd, Steph Tisdell, Mel Buttle, Tom Ballard, Professor Hillary Bambrick and Lewis Hobba we cover:
* Freedom gas
* Internet Infrastructure
* The musical heat death of the universeĀ
* Our favourite insects
* And much, much moreĀ
PLUGS:
* Listen to 'Jan Fran has issues' in the A Rational Fear poā¦
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Mar 10, 2022
Regenerating Australia with Damon Gameau, Lewis Hobba and Dan Ilic
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We're joined this week by fearmonger and filmmaker Damon Gameau.Ā
And we cover:
* Storytelling and climate change
* Community lead climate recovery
* Regenerating our democracyĀ
PLUGS:
* See Damon's new film Regenerating Australia in a theatre near you
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This podcast is supported in part by the Bertha Foundation.Ā
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Good evening, Lewis.
Lewis Hobba Ā 0:06 Ā
Hello Daniel. How are you?
Dan Ilic Ā 0:07 Ā
Youā¦
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Mar 1, 2022
Julia Zemiro Asks 'Who Cares?' ā E4 ā Jen Cloher (NgÄpuhi & Ngati Kahu) & Astrid Jorgensen
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This is the 4th Episode of the monthly spin-off podcast from A Rational Fear:
Julia Zemiro Asks 'Who Cares?'Ā
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 (NgÄpuhi & Ngati Kahu) āĀ 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 serā¦
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Feb 25, 2022
Tim Wilson: Take This as a Sign - Steve Hili, Lauren Edwards, Lewis Hobba and Dan Ilic
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We're joined this week by fearmongers:
Steve Hili
Lauren Edwards
Lewis HobbaĀ
and Dan Ilic
And we cover:
* Tim Wilson vs Signage in GoldsteinĀ
* Rest in peace Queen Elizabeth?Ā
* The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
And 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 ā https://www.accr.org.au/Ā
PLUGS:
* See Lauren in 'Everything Is A Lie' at the Melbourne International Comedy FestivalĀ
* Follow Steve on Twitter for upcoming tour dates and other news
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Feb 17, 2022
Dope BONGs - Georgia Hooper, James Fitzgerald, Maggie Mckeown, Lewis Hobba, Dan Ilic
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We're joined this week by fearmongers:
Georgia Hooper
James Fitzgerald
Lewis HobbaĀ
and Dan Ilic
And we cover:
* Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal Tademark Lapse
* Grace Tame's BONGĀ
* Russian dopingĀ
PLUGS:
* Listen to Georgia and James' show Werk It Out on FBI RadioĀ
And in EXTRA FEAR only avaliable on Patreon or Apple Subscription we ask Wayne Smith from Smartvoting.com.au why the ACNC banned the Smart Energy Council from promoting their popular bin stickers ā SmartVoting.com.au
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Bertha Announcemeā¦
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Feb 10, 2022
Wedge Poli-sh*ts - Alice Tovey, Scout Boxall, Samuel Holland, Alice Fraser, Dan Ilic
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We're joined this week by fearmongers:
Alice Tovey
Scout Boxall
Alice Fraser
and Dan Ilic
And we cover:
* Spies on dating apps
* The Religious Discrimination Bill
* ThatĀ 60 minutes interviewĀ
* The New LiberalsĀ
PLUGS:
* See Scout Boxall in Buck Wild at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
* See Alice Tovey in One Night Only (Over Seven Nights) and The Melbourne Metropolitan Real Estate Agent of the Year Awards 2022 at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
* Support Alice Fraser on Patreon, and see Alice's show Chronos in Melbourne and SydneyĀ Ā
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Feb 3, 2022
A Horrible, Horrible Podcast ā Dave Warnake, Jess Perkins, Georgia Steele, Lewis Hobba, Dan Ilic
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We're joined this week by fearmongers:
Dave Warneke
Jess Perkins
Lewis Hobba
and Dan Ilic
And we cover:
* National Press ClubĀ
* Elon Musk's private jet
* Facial recognition
PLUGS:
Listen to Jess and Dave on 'Do Go On': Website
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Bertha Announcement Ā 0:00 Ā
This podcast is supported in part by the Bertha Foundation.
Dan Ilic Ā 0:04 Ā
G'day Lewis. How are you?
Lewis Hobba Ā 0:06 Ā
Good evening Daniel. I'm well I'm well how are you?
Dan Ilic Ā 0:09 Ā
I'm really good. I feel I feel it's good having a weekā¦
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Jan 20, 2022
National Child Forklift Rollout ā James Colley, Bridie Connell, Lewis Hobba, Dan Ilic
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We're joined this week by fearmongers:
James Colley
Bridie Connell
Lewis Hobba
and Dan Ilic
And we coverĀ
* Forklifts
* Boris Johnson
* UAP's insane political advertising spend
* Play a 2012 clip from the A Rational Fear vault.
PLUGS:
Listen to Vanity Project Podcast: Instagram / Omny
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Heading into the election your support is going to be more crucial than ever!
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https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261
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Bertha Announcement Ā 0:00 Ā
This podcast is supported in part by the birther foundation.
Dan Ilic Ā 0:04 Ā
Hello Lewis. How are you?
Lewis Hobba Ā 0:06 Ā
Daniel on well how the hell are you?
Dan Ilic Ā 0:09 Ā
I'm reallā¦
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