A Rational Fear
Dan Ilic
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We’re back with the first A Rational Fear podcast for 2023.
Both Lewis Hobba (who often is co-hosting on this podcast) and Jacob Round (who does all of the amazing sound engineering) have had kids in the last few weeks. That means we need even more of you to chip into the Patreon. With your help we can put these kids into the best private school podcast money can buy.
Joking of course — we use the Patreon money for drugs*.
🎟 We are going on tour to Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne!
Adelaide Fringe — March 4th
Brisbane World Science Festival — March 26th
Melbourne International Comedy Festival — APRIL 2nd
We’ve got great line-ups for each show, including Andrew Hansen, Alice Fraser and Gabbi Bolt for Adelaide. In Brisbane we have Mel Buttle, Many Nolan, Mark Humphries, and Dr. Jessie Christiansen who worked on the James Web Telescope! And in Melbourne we have Sami Shah, Grace Tame, Nat’s What I Reckon and too many more to list here!
Our live shows are always so much fun, and the best live podcast recording experience you’ll ever come to.
Discount code for Adelaide and Melbourne: “PODCAST”
🎙On the podcast this week:
Minister for Arts — Tony Burke MP
Journalist, author, opinionista — Antoinette Lattouf
Gen Z’s voice of #Auspol — Hannah Ferguson from Cheek Media
We talk:
💸 Adani dropping out of rich top ten.
🤳 ACCC crackdown on influencers.
🎪 Beach Cabanas.
🎭 The National Cultural Policy.
Lewis was going to beam in from his beach airbnb — but struggled to find good enough wifi — he’ll be back next week!
Enjoy the pod!
Cheers
Dan Ilic
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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
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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 — The best sketches and selected bits from 2022
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Happy new fear!
Currently I’m on holidays in the south coast of NSW. Yesterday I found myself sitting in a local cafe with my laptop going through the year of sketches, and my favourite bits.
Suffice to say regional cafes are not used to award winning podcasters sitting in the corner laughing to themselves and maniacally writing jokes. Before they called the cops, I pulled together about an hour of some of the best bits of A Rational Fear for the year.
Some of which has previously only been avaliable behind the paywall on Patreon.
And despite how many people quit the Patreon based on the fact that "Alan Jones" was hosting the end of year special... I decided to invite him to do it again.
He's back by un-popular demand.
By doing our podcast he literally gets 100 x the audience of his YouTube show, but at this time of year it's important to be in a giving spirit, even to your enemies.
Big thank you this episode go to my in-laws, whose spare bedroom I recorded this podcast in. They too are not Alan Jones fans, but were quite obliging to allow him to seep through into the living space for 20 minutes.
It’s been another big year for us on A Rational Fear.
We did live shows around the country, played the Sydney Opera House, won Best Comedy at the Australian Podcast Awards (again), we put out 2 new series; Julia Zemiro Asks Who Cares, and Jan Fran Has Issues, as well as a limited election column by Kara Schlegl who now has her own brilliant substack you can subscribe too.
And we couldn’t have done it without the help of our listeners who support us on Patreon, on Apple Subscriptions or who pay for this otherwise free newsletter on Substack.
The thing about podcasting is the more popular you get, the more you pay in bandwidth and hosting. We also are one of the very few podcasts, or shows of any kind for that matter that actually pay our comedy guests. This is really important to us. It’s cool we can do that, and we can because of Patreon, every little bit helps.
Come see us live next year:
Adelaide — March 4th — Garden of Unearthly Delights
Brisbane — March 26th — World Science Festival
Melbourne — April 2nd — Capitol Theatre
And also in 2023 — we will hit 1,000,000 downloads.
I know! 1,000,000!
If I had a dollar for every time someone downloaded our show, I’d have enough money to buy a mouldy 1 bedroom deathtrap in Sydney with an outdoor toilet. We’ll do something special for it, we may need your help for suggestions.
Thanks for listening this year, we love making this show. It makes us feel better about the world.
I hope it does the same for you.
Cheers
Dan Ilic
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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 as…
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Dec 15, 2022
The Boys Say Some Bad News — Bec Charlwood, Alex Jae, Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba
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G’day Fearmongers —
On the final regular podcast of the year we’ve got a cheap and cheerful chat on the podcast that the Dude Cinema hosts have labeled “The Boys Say Some Sad News Podcast”. We’re lucky to have said hosts — Alex Jae and Bec Charlwood join us for a spot of fearmongering.
We talk about:
🚬 NZ banning smoking for people born in 2008 and later.
🗃 NZ Rental Crisis is bad.
🤖 Elon Musk being booed off stage in San Francisco.
Happy Christmas to you all, may all your policy dreams come true. We'll be back for New Year's Eve for our best of A Rational Fear sketches special.
And if you’re in Adelaide you can buy a ticket to our Fringe Festival show now!
Dan
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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.
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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
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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 yo…
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Dec 7, 2022
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One of the UK’s best satirical brains; Nish Kumar joins Alice Fraser, Lewis Hobba and Dan Ilic (me) for this week’s podcast.
Nish has just finished an 86 date tour of his latest comedy special culminating in a hilarious and energetic show at the Sydney Opera House last week. You may have seen Nish on Taskmaster, The Mash Report and maybe, just maybe on Hello America on Quibi (but probably not). And if you’ve never heard of him — good — he’s on this week’s A Rational Fear podcast, and he’s great!
The topics this week:
🤖 Alexa Loses $10bn a year.
💸 The FTX fake money machine is DOA.
⚖️ The disproportionate jail sentence given the a climate protestor.
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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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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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?
6:23
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 t…
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Dec 2, 2022
How to vanquish Clive Palmer — 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
🙊 Scott Morrison's Censure
🇳🇿 New Zealand's Supreme Court ruling that the voting age of 18 is discriminatory.
🤿 Kanye West saying dumb things on Alex Jones' Info Wars.
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Nov 24, 2022
Taylor Swift vs Ariana Venti — 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:
⚽️ Animals correctly guessing the outcome of FIFA World Cup fixtures.
🎟 Ticketmaster and Live Nation's Taylor Swift Snafu.
💸 The $98 Billion Australians are giving their bosses for free each year.
👩🏼🍳 And we have a chat with Leader of the Reason Party in Victoria, Fiona Patten MP, about the broad mix of characters running for state parliament this weekend in Victoria.
And once again thanks for all of your support for A Rational Fear in a way YOU make the Best Comedy Podcast in Australia — If you'd like to help us pay the bills please chip in to the Patreon.
Thanks very much.
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Unknown Speaker 0:00
This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. G'day Louis. Hello Daniel.
Lewis Hobba 0:04
How are you?
Dan Ilic 0:06
Good you're not doing the podcast and I because you're doing something else. Yes I am at the red carpet of the reo was Australian music's might have died. Oh my god. Oh my god you were just going from awards night to awards night on Yeah, yeah.
Lewis Hobba 0:21
Although I don't think I'm gonna win anything at this one if I'm honest.
Dan Ilic 0:24
Earlier this week, Lewis and I were at the Australian Podcast Awards and we we somehow managed to win again so big thank you to everyone who supports our show and listens including those who go do other award nights like you Louis Yeah,
Lewis Hobba 0:39
thanks that sorry I'm just here with a deal at all caught he's trying to get me to I don't know. Get up to some mischief. I
Dan Ilic 0:46
think he put him on the phone but what can we talk to him?
Lewis Hobba 0:49
I will give him give me one sec.
Dylan Alcott 0:52
podcast of the Year Award winner Daniel it
Dan Ilic 0:54
is it is it is oh my god. I'm talking to multiple title award winner of the year doing all caught
up one of the one of the one of the red carpet flight right now
Dylan Alcott 1:11
I kiss on the lips something
Dan Ilic 1:13
good. Let me let me ask you this question. Now harbor told a story about you meeting Elon Musk and Splendour in the Grass a few years ago. Is that true? Did you end up meeting Elon Musk? That is a real story.
Dylan Alcott 1:24
Oh, he wasn't doing photos. I mean, because Arizona took a photo of him. He had his T shirt on that made him like holographic so you couldn't say
Dan Ilic 1:32
no way. It was a t shirt that was reflective.
Dylan Alcott 1:35
Reflective t shirt. And it all laid out. Hey guys, I can't get near him. All because I wrote straight up like it like Make A Wish kid. And I wasn't that famous at this point. Yeah, yes. It was like, fuck you. He was furious.
Dan Ilic 1:57
Sorry, Greg. Right. Put Louis back. saying oh, I just I just wanted to verify that Elon Musk story. Yeah, no, it
Lewis Hobba 2:07
was true. I still think about it all the time.
Dan Ilic 2:10
All right, we're recording our part of the podcast on Gadigal land in your nation. sovereignty has never said it. Let's start the show. A
Simon Chilvers 2:16
rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra COMM And section 14, a rational view recommended listening by immature audience.
Dan Ilic 2:30
Tonight the Wallabies are missing 40 of their best players due to injury sparking concerns of forced conscription. And it's snowing in Australia a few days out from summer or as climate change deniers are calling it. It's a Christmas miracle. And Barack Obama announces his tour of Australia for March. Unfortunately, he didn't make the cut off for a festival manage venue that is just for the people on the show tonight. It's the 25th of November we refuse to make any more iPhones. This is a rational fear, irrational fear.
G'day Welcome to rational fi I'm your host former crypto billionaire Dan Ilic. And this is the podcast that takes the news and pause it over ice. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight. She studied jazz at a new but studied comedy at the coalface of open mics. Also known as you can you come it's Stephanie Broadbridge Steph when Scott Morrison took out the year gone 60 minutes were you annoyed that he was doing your bit?
Steph Broadbridge 3:36
Haha No, I actually got work out of that. Yeah, I did an ad to play ukulele in front of his house and tell him that he should keep it up and he'll get better know what
Dan Ilic 3:46
it was Yeah, who was who was paying you to do that? It was for
Steph Broadbridge 3:49
a soap. It made a lot of sense at the time.
Dan Ilic 3:53
And he's one of Australia's sharpest and most original comedians expert and hilarious or So says the bio he wrote himself on his website is one of my favorite content kings Jack Druce. Jack you've been doing so much great video work lately on your Instagram. What? What's taking you so long to get to the medium?
Jack Druce 4:09
I was just pursuing stand up comedy which I would recommend to no one goes. For everyone stuck doing it.
Dan Ilic 4:19
And earlier this week. I got to sit next to her on the national broadcaster on Question everything as she completely destroyed the ABC audience with her tampon jokes. Tonight's co pilot back Melrose bello Bella, you seem to get a great response from those jugs. That was amazing. Yeah, there were
bec Melrose 4:36
a couple that that really the audience went up but it was good fun. I really enjoyed it.
Dan Ilic 4:41
Coming up later we speak with Australia's most despised politician according to spectator magazine about this weekend's Victorian election. But first, here is a message from this week's sponsor. The Emir of Qatar has come to his senses. It's true. I have come to my senses. All stadiums must go at the Qatar black Friday's sale eight barely used stadiums are going for next to nothing. Coincidentally, they're also currently standing next to nothing pristine seats, unused beer taps, mystery bones in the foundation. I don't know how that got there. Perfect if you're hosting your own World Cup ideal for creating an internment camp or if you're a New South Wales premier just wanted to buy a stadium to knock it down to get your mates to build your new one just like it. These stadiums cost $200 billion, but could be yours for a shipload of sheep. It's not a bad deal. Qatar's blackFriday stadium sale and opportunity like this one present itself until an autocratic regime bribes FIFA to make bad decisions again, egg is our culture. Please respect it. Yes, it's their culture. This week's first beer it is the World Cup time of course, which means sentient beings from across the animal kingdom are being forced to do their things that their little brains never had in mind. And I'm not talking about durables and 1980s film stars. No, I'm talking about octopi and now otters are being forced to play dumb games to predict the outcome of the winners of FIFA World Cup Now Jack Is there a problem with using animals for helping humans place bets on football games? I
Jack Druce 6:09
like I really like it. I get I like I find that sports exciting, but this puts it to a next level to me like there's just a weird like Japan had an upset win against Germany. And it was predicted by this order this time. And it's this very cute Japanese order putting a ball in a bucket and I was just thinking like they've got the the Japanese flag and the German flag on different buckets. And I just liked that detail that they also like on top of us being expected to believe that the otter has sort of like godly supernatural powers. On top of that it also knows what Germany is like it's just got…
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Nov 17, 2022
Cup of Strife — 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:
⚽️ The Wold Cup in Qatar.
🐦 Elon Musk's ultimatum to his staff.
🐼💖🦘 Albo restoring diplomatic relations with China.
🩸 Victoria Labor's promise for free pads and tampons.
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Dan Ilic 0:00
This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Good evening, Lewis.
Lewis Hobba 0:04
Hello Daniel. How are you?
Dan Ilic 0:07
Good now since this since we didn't do a much of a pre show banter, I just needed to make sure you're recording your end.
Lewis Hobba 0:13
Oh, yes, I am recording my Thank you, Dan. Sorry, everyone. I are very patient guests have been waiting awhile. I just forgot. Just forgot that this was on. And do you know what I was doing? I was at an event and I bumped into our friend, everyone's friend, Tom Ballard. And he told us I've got to get to the Comedy Store. I'm like, hey, I'll give you a lift. I've got nothing. And then I was driving him. And there's a there's a soccer game on at the Sydney football stadium. So we got stuck, Punt Road level traffic for like 45 minutes shooting the breeze having a great chinwag. And then I was like, Are you close? I'm like, I am not close.
Dan Ilic 0:56
Well, that is fantastic. We have a football theme show for tonight. Big thank you to Australia fickle who are sponsoring the show. And also congratulations to Carmen champion and Kate millat. From the Patreon who signed up this week, they get a picture of the King each. You may remember last week, I ordered some pictures of the king. Well, congratulations, Calvin and Kate, they go into you also big thanks to Sonya and Patrick who missed out on pictures of the king. But they tried anyway.
Lewis Hobba 1:21
Dan, have the pictures of the King include the Kings hands? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen his hands? Oh, yeah, they look like Frank Frankfurt's. Right, they're horrific. And he you know how he keeps getting angry about webapp pens. He can't hold a pen.
Dan Ilic 1:39
Well, you know what? I will, I will send a pen and some Frankfurt's along to Kate the garment as well. So I'm a big thank you, folks on signing up on the Patreon if you want to sign up and support the show, go to patreon.com forward slash irrational fear. This is a content warning for this show. This show will contain a short impression of a powerful authority figure who happens to have a lisp and if you are offended by such content, this one is not for you. Does he have a lisp? He's got a little speech impediment, but Sybil Adeste Yes, that's right. Well, little bit like my spit bill. Like you know who's got a good sibilance he's got good siblings a bomber. I love a bomb of sibilance Yeah, it's different. It's richer. Yep. I'm recording my end of irrational fear on Gadigal land in the nation's sovereignty was never ceded. We need a treaty. Let's start the show.
Unknown Speaker 2:26
A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum, and section 40 of a rational view recommended listening by immature audience.
Dan Ilic 2:39
Tonight, White Ribbon organizers canceled plans to have 50 Men ride jet skis around Sydney Harbour to raise awareness about violence against women. Instead, they're gonna have a pop poll, and a sad day for food delivery ecosystems as the beloved Deliveroo has gone extinct. Witnesses say the last ever deliver was seen circling around the apartment block looking for an entrance before giving up and after much controversy. Norman Swan has publicly apologized for his terrible pronunciation of COVID-19 It's the 18th of November with more shuffling of chairs and AGL This is irrational fear.
We're gonna rational fear I'm your host former head of risk at FTX crypto exchange Dan Ilic. And this is the podcast that takes the status headlines. It's a little bit of a tickle. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight both and nominated for the Best Comedy podcast at the Australian Podcast Awards. It's returning friend of the show Adelaide funniest medical professional from the swab podcast. It's nurse Georgie Cairo.
Georgie Carroll 3:48
Sofia Good day Dan Lewis.
Dan Ilic 3:51
You go and now Georgie How are you preparing for the for the for the awards, a winner and award mindset coming up this Monday.
Georgie Carroll 3:58
Might might even start listening to podcasts.
Dan Ilic 4:04
And it's first time fear monger flying solo without her twin sister. It's Mamma Mia is editor in chief and host of the canceled podcast. Claire Stevens welcome Claire.
Clare Stephens 4:13
Hello, will I'll be seeing you at the Podcast Awards. One idea.
Dan Ilic 4:17
Oh, excellent. What do you what are you gonna do to get yourself in a podcast award mindset? what's your what's your game?
Clare Stephens 4:22
So my sister and I have decided we're never going to be invited to any other Australian award show like the low gays or the arias. We're never going to make it to the Emmys or anything like that. So we're treating the Podcast Awards as our logins. So we'll be getting really dressed up we'll be going really, really over the top and just making everybody uncomfortable I think is is where it's at. So
Dan Ilic 4:49
it's a shame you know, Richard, Richard Wilkins won't be there to give everyone cocaine it will be real devastating. And the podcast no podcast is gonna afford cocaine nicely. The only ones that can. Tony and Ryan The other ones that can afford cocaine they just did that million dollar deal with Spotify.
Georgie Carroll 5:03
Well, you know a table though to you then don't you Claire? Yeah. Yeah, I'm not even going I'm gonna be in Adelaide so you are rock on without me. And you know I've written a speech because of winning but
Dan Ilic 5:20
well if you want it to want us to do it for you and pass it on to Luis, he'll read it out for you. And he's the co host of many podcasts and rush to irrational fears is one of them. He's a man that makes money because he is the voice of honey. It is Lewis Hall by welcome Louis.
Lewis Hobba 5:32
Hello Dan. How are you? Oh, it's
Dan Ilic 5:35
so he's such a sexy voice.
Lewis Hobba 5:38
Yeah. Next week I'm going to the Podcast Awards and the arias it's a it's a real awards week for me.
Georgie Carroll 5:46
Music jam Lewis, why?
Lewis Hobba 5:48
I don't know why we're there. Actually. Were just there. Were just there. Carpet meet.
Dan Ilic 5:58
Coming up later, we talked to Brynn O'Brien about how a board shuffle at ato could possibly bring about the most dramatic drop in carbon emissions in Australia's history. But first here is a message from this week's sponsor.
Unknown Speaker 6:12
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Unknown Speaker 6:22
football players ends up picking a chip Patty CIO for the wildcards alleged Oh J Trump, every game as a loser. There are just lots more losers and football teams play Oh, I've seen jockstraps treated better than the construction workers in Qatar
Unknown Speaker 6:38
32 nations will go head to head and then turn their heads to look the other way.
Unknown Speaker 6:44
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Nov 9, 2022
The Monarchist Cookbook — Alison Piotrowski, Matt Bevan, Cam James, Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba
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G'day Fearmongers —.
👑The Australian Monarchist League making demands of Netflix.
🎥 Sylvester Stallone's new Reality Project.
🏆 Sean Penn giving Volodymyr Zelensky an Oscar®.
🇺🇸 The US Mid-term elections.
With fellow fearmongers Matt Bevan (Russia If You're Listening), Cam James (Finding Yeezus), Dan Ilic (me), Lewis Hobba (Australia's Best Competition, Competition) and Alison Piotrowski (Nine's US Correspondent).
Thanks so much for listening!
You're all legends — if you feel compelled.. please chip into the Patreon
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Lewis Hobba 0:00
This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Oh,
Matt Bevan 0:04
good morning. Not good morning. Good evening, Louis.
Lewis Hobba 0:07
Well, depending on when you're listening to this podcast Good evening, good morning. Good day to you.
Matt Bevan 0:14
Yeah, exactly. Well, we are going to be talking to Allison Petroski a little later on in the program and her time when we're talking to her. It's 4am So she's in Washington DC, so I don't know if she's had a good morning so far but we'll find out when we talk to her in half an hour.
Lewis Hobba 0:29
Wow. Right we the midterm results flowing in Yeah, imagine cheat, we probably haven't got her up. She'd be awake anyway,
Matt Bevan 0:34
she said, I just want to get to bed, Dan, but for you, I'll do it. Anyway, there's a big thanks to Australian ethical who help us do what we do here on irrational fear. Also some other folks who also help us out, including our Patreon supporters, including Sonya, exclamation mark, Patric, Kate, and Chad. Thank you for new Patreon supporters. Big thank you to you guys, Chip. Again, as you'll see, a little later on the show. I started to spend Patreon money on frivolous things. And it's that kind of money that keeps the show on the air. And a little later on, we'll talk a little bit about, you know, being nominated for a podcast award. Very excited.
Lewis Hobba 1:12
Is that right? Yeah,
Matt Bevan 1:13
surely you know this, Louis?
Lewis Hobba 1:15
I found out because you sent me an email to invite me I was thrilled.
Matt Bevan 1:18
I'm recording my end of irrational fear and getting Atlanta the urination. Sovereignty was never seated. We did a treaty. Let's stop the show.
Unknown Speaker 1:26
A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks can rub off. Fed COMM And section 40 of our rational view recommended listening by immature audiences.
Matt Bevan 1:39
Tonight, the US midterm elections causes a rise in serious journalists saying the word gubernatorial and Vogue Sue's Drake for making a parody of a magazine cover despite no one suing vogue for making a parody of a fashion magazine. And Anthony Albanese is set to meet President Zhi Jing ping at the G 20. Summit Alamo will present the Chinese president with an album by gang of us and G will present albeau with an ultimatum fit for a capitalist lapdog of American imperialism, and a lovely pair of shoes made by a gang of detained dudes. It's the 11th of November and we're not afraid to go lower than Bitcoin. This is a rational fear.
Hello, welcome to irrational fear. My name is Daniel H. I am the CO creator of the den Andrews Tuesday program. And this is the podcast that is nominated for one of the best comedy podcasts in Australia for 2022.
Lewis Hobba 2:47
That's crazy.
Matt Bevan 2:49
Yeah, because there are so many comedy podcasts. I don't know how we did it. Yeah, we'll talk about
Lewis Hobba 2:54
there. I don't mean to say that we're a shit podcast, but there are so many great podcasts.
Matt Bevan 2:58
We'll talk a little bit more about it in a second. But I just want to introduce you to our fear mongers for tonight. They two very highly successful podcasters but they are also Newcastle's fourth and fifth favorite sons from the podcast, Russia. If you're listening, it's Matt Bevin and from the web series finding years this is cam James. Hey,
Cam James 3:20
thanks for having us feeling very gubernatorial tonight. So thank you.
Matt Bevan 3:23
Yeah, I'm very excited. First longtime listener first time Fira, I guess you know, terrified person. People on the show, what are you talking about? What is what is it? A few years? younger female.
Lewis Hobba 3:38
You're supposed to create the fear, man. Yeah, you're not supposed to feel the fear you
Matt Bevan 3:43
bring the fear? Yeah, bring it.
Lewis Hobba 3:46
I didn't actually know you were both from Newcastle. Yeah, who's above you? I guess the three John's brothers. And Daniel Jones.
Cam James 3:53
Are we counting Daniel? Daniel as a sibling to Maddie and Andrew.
Matt Bevan 3:59
Three John's brothers could family is the other one. Generally ranks above us.
Cam James 4:05
You met Doug McDougal. I don't know if he's from there. Reese Nicholson. Comedian. He's from Merrill. Yes, yes.
Matt Bevan 4:11
So I've I've an anecdote about reasoning, because here we go. Do you want a quick anecdote about reasons. So reason Nicholson and I were in community theater together. And the community theater that we were at, would do a thing where they would, in order to give as many kids a turn as possible. They would set up two casts for each show, and then you sort of take turns performance. And Reese and I were both the lion in the Wizard of Oz, taking turns being the lone, but that meant that we had to share the same lion suit beautiful. And the show was done in like October, November of a very hot year. And so Reese and I both lost several kilos, doing that roll into the suit. And yeah, and you shared that suit around for quite some time, so yes, reason I share a bond that few other people share
Cam James 5:05
thicker than thicker than a bond lion
Lewis Hobba 5:10
where the phrase lion's share comes from Newcastle theater.
Matt Bevan 5:17
I met when, when the lion news broke last week, did you have an inkling or an urge to jump on the jog? Get in the line suit and negotiate on behalf of lions in Taronga Zoo. Yeah, I had a feeling that it was something there was something lion related happening and
Cam James 5:30
Soluna race just texted to check in.
Matt Bevan 5:33
We don't need to text we just sort of communicate telepathically. But yeah, I'm sure I'm sure I could have sorted it out at least better than the Mosman police station. We are nominated for a podcast at the Australian Podcast Awards. And I wanted to you've mentioned that I just I just wanted to bring this up because it's something interesting that someone pointed out to me one of Shannon marinko, who is the co host of the Xero project sent me this link apparently sports bet has odds on for
Lewis Hobba 6:05
most of the awards to sports but have a podcast?
Matt Bevan 6:08
Definitely should comedians need work. And that's all they employ at the moment.
Lewis Hobba 6:13
Get the three John's brothers.
Cam James 6:16
Look at this on the John's triplets.
Matt Bevan 6:18
We're paying $2.20 And then probably the big the biggest podcast out of this with the one of the most listeners Tony and Ryan, who's got hundreds of 1000s of listeners. They're paying $7 I don't know how that I think that's all wrong. Surely
Lewis Hobba 6:33
that if I was a gambling person I I'd quickly put a lot of money on. Yeah,
Matt Bevan 6:40
I am actually thrilled that you guys are nominated for Best Comedy podcasts because you guys do quite a lot of climate content, obviously on the show and you could have decided to nominate yourselves for the climate. Matt Bevin I paid $200 of the petro money to apply for the climate award and we didn't even get oh well you're not in this ca…
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Nov 3, 2022
Lions, Horses and Bombers, Oh my! — 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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Dan Ilic 0:00
This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Good evening, Lewis.
Lewis Hobba 0:05
Hello Daniel. How are you?
Dan Ilic 0:07
I'm great. It's great to be in Melbourne. It's stupid old studios.
Lewis Hobba 0:10
So beautiful. I'm really impressed with the stupid old studios. Obviously they do so much great work. And I know we both donated to the crowdfunding a little while
Dan Ilic 0:20
ago. We night I forgot that. Why am I paying for this booking?
Lewis Hobba 0:25
That microphone you're using? That's the memorial mine. Yeah,
Dan Ilic 0:30
I actually met someone Off the Telly today. It was a bit taken aback. I'm like, Oh, we're famous person.
Lewis Hobba 0:35
What do you mean? Oh, at the studio?
Dan Ilic 0:36
Yeah. The people that come from,
Lewis Hobba 0:38
we're just excited in general of having met someone from television, like, bumped into the cash cow on the street and you were like,
Dan Ilic 0:44
speaking of cash, big thank you to Australian ethical for helping out the podcast for another few weeks. And big thank you to Andrew Carr and Chad Thompson, who signed up on the Patreon you'd not only get an ad free feed, you get access to the discord. And you can write jokes for the show if you want. That's good. You get early access to the big one on one interviews we have you also get access to early works in progress of sketches, video sketches, and rare recordings of live shows that are too defamatory to put out in public.
Lewis Hobba 1:12
I love that your Patreon model is a lot like Elon Musk's plan to charge people for their blue check. It's like hey, if you give us money, you can also write for it.
Dan Ilic 1:21
And we're gonna be speaking a lot about Elon Musk. In just a second. I'm recording my end of irrational fear on Wurundjeri lands of the Kulin nation, sovereignty was never ceded. We need a treaty. Let's start the show.
Simon Chilvers 1:31
A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum, and section 40 of a rational view recommended listening by immature audience.
Dan Ilic 1:44
Tonight lions escaped from a Sydney zoo but returned to their cages when they realized the city's nightlife is dead. And after tourism Victoria stepped up to sponsor the national netball team Gina Reinhardt insists on trying out for a position called own goal attack. And Dominic Perret J has hired Scott Morrison's election strategist hoping he'll curry favor with the people of New South Wales. It's the fourth of November and we're just days away from the final episode of the USA this is a rational fear.
Welcome to irrational fear. I'm your host former head of security at Taronga Zoo Dan Ilic. And this is the podcast that takes the scariest news and shoots it with a tranquilizer gun. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight. They are the executive producer of the number one news podcast in Australia that doesn't do jokes. They are the they are also the former housemate of Louis harbor. Scott Micho.
Scott Mitchell 2:44
Thank you so much.
Dan Ilic 2:45
Scott. What is the one thing you know about Louis Harbor that nobody else knows?
Scott Mitchell 2:50
Oh, my God, so many Friday, I'd
Lewis Hobba 2:52
be like we should I don't think we need to do this.
Scott Mitchell 2:54
I don't think we need to do this. So many Dan,
Lewis Hobba 2:57
but also I know, Scott would be very afraid of reprisals.
Dan Ilic 3:05
And the culture editor for nine and host of the drop podcasts and current flatmate of Scott Mitchell Osman for okay Daniel, how you doing? Well, I was What is one thing about Scott Mitchell that nobody else knows.
Osman Faruqi 3:17
I'm not terrified of reprisals because I'm perfect as a housemate.
Dan Ilic 3:21
It's pretty good to me.
Osman Faruqi 3:22
No, I mean, there's nothing done they've done the things like I said it's got a lovely things. He's a wonderful housemate and a wonderful cook. You know, this
Dan Ilic 3:27
is such born with me, call Santa lands we need him and he's already dusting off his Loki suit after his one episode of television aired last week. It's former flatmate of Scott Mitchell Louis harbor.
Lewis Hobba 3:43
Yes, thank you, Dan. It it's true. The logos are calling the actors are calling. I assume the international Emmys are calling. I'm preparing several suits.
Dan Ilic 3:55
Any lawsuits loose?
Lewis Hobba 3:57
None yet. I mean, once people get into the Patreon I'm sure they'll be able to find some stuff in the old irrational fear episode.
Dan Ilic 4:04
Coming up later, Australia is returning to the climate talks table as a fully fledged adult we're gonna be talking with lindo to see if the world will have us back. but first here's a message from this week's sponsor.
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Dan Ilic 5:07
I should mention gamble responsibly there gamble responsibly. This week's first fear move over Melbourne there was only one animal based news story that stopped the nation for a short period on Wednesday. All eyes were on Taronga Zoo as the lions had escaped, presumably because like all of us, they'd had Jack have locked down. But they went back to their cages shortly after they after they when they realized they all forgot their masks. Taronga Zoo found out that they had basically what they called an integrity issue with the containment fence oz. What was the integrity issue with the fence?
Osman Faruqi 5:40
Absolutely. My favorite part of this story was when Taronga Zoo was asked to explain at a press conference why they had let the lions out. And I think it's an example of how everyone even zookeepers is so media trained and terrified of saying a single thing wrong. When they're asked what what happened here. They said there was an integrity issue with the fence. Maybe some sort of iconic style investigation. And
Scott Mitchell 6:06
I think there's like a rule in New South Wales that every press conference to get there eventually.
Osman Faruqi 6:12
Eventually, when they were pressed, it was basically like there was a hole in the face. Yeah. Why don't just say that. This No,
Dan Ilic 6:16
no, I liked the late putting it like that. It's like they were like, nefarious monkeys that were like run. Yeah, running security. And the like. So the lions gave them a banana. They open up and say, yeah, that's how it works. Yeah.
Osman Faruqi 6:31
The other bit of story that I think was really, the media did, I think on one hand, an excellent job of covering this because even here in Melbourne, the ABC was just an eff…
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Oct 27, 2022
Boring Budget Special — 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 — we're lucky to have her!
There's a different energy to the in person podcasts that's for sure.
We cover —
* Covid and cruise lines.
* Climate Protests.
* Money coming back to the ABC in the budget.
* Energy price shocks with the CEO of Amber, Dan Adams.
Thanks for listening,
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Dan Ilic 0:00
This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical. Hello. Hello Hi. Oh,
it's exciting, Louis Hello Daniel. How are you? I'm great. We're at your house around your kitchen table Welcome
Lewis Hobba 0:11
Welcome to the mansion. This is the bottom of 16 story
Dan Ilic 0:18
wow that ABC grant has really kicked in early
Lewis Hobba 0:21
actually just leave out the ABC I
Dan Ilic 0:25
want to say a big thank you to our new Patreon supporter Andrew car this week we gained a Patreon supporter but last 12 I don't know what happened. Churn if a lot of rip but a big thank you to Australia ethical who has jumped on board once again as our sponsor for the next nine weeks Thank you Australian eCycle
Chris Taylor 0:42
what you couldn't get Hancock big dollar from the ethics community really kicked in.
Dan Ilic 0:51
Soon all of the previous 10 years of irrational fears are going to be heading to the Patreon only or Apple subscriptions oh you know the old episodes from this you're going to be kicking around but you know, the previous nine
Lewis Hobba 1:03
are you going to put up the one where you're in blackface? Because hey, years
Dan Ilic 1:09
Yes, yes, thank you to all those who are can imagine what it would be like to have like face on a podcast that's going behind the paywall, but there is going to be some serious cutting edge comedy from 2013. If you want you're gonna have to pay. Yeah, so remember that we had some good Kevin Rudd jokes. Chris Taylor had some good Superleague jokes. So
Chris Taylor 1:30
yeah, I was doing I had a very tight two minutes.
Lewis Hobba 1:33
Well, you're talking about Superleague again. Today
Dan Ilic 1:37
we're recording this on Gadigal Land of the Euro nation's sovereignty was never seen it we need a treaty. Let's start the show.
Simon Chilvers 1:43
A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, fed gum, and section 40 of our rational view recommended listening by immature audience.
Dan Ilic 1:56
Tonight after being dumped by editors for making anti semitic comments Kanye West announces a new line of ugly sandals in collaboration with Hugo Boss and Elon Musk will finally take the case to Twitter promising the long awaited features that users have been demanding, such as the ability to read Donald Trump's tweets, and the ABC loses the television rights of Dr. Hodor. Disney plus the underfunded public broadcaster has commissioned a new series to make up for the loss of Dr. Who called in turn where did you lose? Yeah, yeah, it was it was really good in my head.
Chris Taylor 2:38
As you were reading ahead, and we're like, Oh, I've been just on that story. I mean, it's been devastating is but the good news is ABC has maintained the rights to Whovians. But they have gone on to the goal.
Dan Ilic 2:51
It is the 27th of October and this is the podcast with fewer manners than James Corden. This is a rational, rational.
Dan Adams 2:58
Half of you are excited.
Dan Ilic 3:10
Wasn't a rational fear on your host former cast member of friends Dan Ilic. And this is the podcast that takes the news and adds a bit of ice magic. Let's meet our fear mongers for tonight. He's been avoiding the news for to make his comedy of late preferring to kind of foist stories from his own head upon the unsuspecting public. It's comedy writer Chris Taylor. Welcome, Chris. It's
Chris Taylor 3:28
great to be back on the podcast. Thank
Dan Ilic 3:29
you. It has the world of fiction treating you.
Chris Taylor 3:33
It's almost as fictional as real world politics. It's very paradoxical. You retreat from you know, having done all like topical satirical news based comedy for years. You think, you know, that's got a shelf life, I'm going to retreat to the world of fiction. And it's really more real in the fictional world than it is in the news world.
Dan Ilic 3:52
Yeah. And we thought Australia has lost her forever to the hustle and bustle of New York City. But she's now returned to our boring shores. It's podcaster. Wendy Zukerman. Welcome, Wendy. Thanks for having me. Oh, why are you coming back to Australia?
Wendy Zukerman 4:05
Ah, well, the ratio of kangaroos to guns was just let me check more kangaroos.
Dan Ilic 4:17
And he may have his own TV show on the ABC but he's not above allowing us to sit in his kitchen to record our little podcast. It's TV. It's Louis Oba.
Lewis Hobba 4:26
That's right. Yes. This is the last podcast I'll be doing. I've come to say goodbye to the silver screen. After the glimmering lights of one episode of television.
Dan Ilic 4:37
When this goes to air that's tonight.
Lewis Hobba 4:40
Yeah, tonight 8:30pm on ABC plus.
Chris Taylor 4:45
All right, Ken, that's genius. Because you know that there's so much scrutiny of TV especially ABC at the moment like I think you know, the Frank Kelly show, frankly was gone. Oh, I'd only give that three episodes. Your Genius is to only promise one and get out there'll be no Twitter demands for less of this you're delivering the least possible Yeah
Lewis Hobba 5:04
Chris
Dan Ilic 5:06
you've had many TV shows of your own like Do you have any advice for Louis with his one episode
Chris Taylor 5:12
don't read the tweets
Lewis Hobba 5:14
and it's not it's not like it was when because Dan and I were on television you are on well obviously you were on for a long time before we were and then when we weren't hungry base Twitter was that was toxic peak I think. I don't actually think it's that bad for television anymore.
Chris Taylor 5:28
No, because there's no viewers anymore. I actually have done shows recently named the reason I knew they weren't going well wasn't because there was an avalanche of sort of negative tweets. It was just no one was complaining. Like so bad that people it was almost like kicking a dog when it's already dead. Even even the world of Twitter thought nobody just crawled to tweet about this
Wendy Zukerman 5:51
so depressed right?
Lewis Hobba 5:55
It was worse than Emily inherit.
Dan Ilic 6:00
Coming up later, with energy prices set to explode. We talked with Amber's ceo dan Adams about what else we can burn to keep the aircon on this summer. But first a message from this week's sponsor.
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Oct 20, 2022
Britain's anti-Truss campaign — 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 — but is well worth a listen.
Not only do with have a stellar Australian panel featuring comedian Bea Barbeau-Scurla and Journalist Rick Morton, we brought in the big guns from the UK to help us all understand what is happening in UK politics right now.
Athena Kugblenu unleashes a cathartic and hilarious rant, that distills the situation into a joyful 15 minute conversation. If you really want to know what’s going on in the UK — listen to this podcast.
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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.
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Oct 18, 2022
A Rational Fear Lite : Charlie Pickering + Peter Kalmus + Van Gogh + Dan Ilic
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We’re gearing up for a big 10-week season of weekly A Rational Fear Podcasts — but before we hit full steam, enjoy this chat with one of Australia's most prominent satirical broadcasters.
From ABC's The Weekly: Charlie Pickering.
We also speak with NASA Scientist and Climate Activist: Peter 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.
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G'day, welcome to A Rational Fear, another special episode of A Rational Fear lig…
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Oct 13, 2022
A Rational Fear Lite — Dan Ilic + Sarah Wilson
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We’re gearing up for a big 10-week season of weekly A Rational Fear Podcasts — but before we hit full steam, enjoy this chat with the very smart and curious Sarah Wilson in a new ARF format called A Rational Fear Lite.
This week on the pod:
🤑 The Alex Jones $1bn Verdict.
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🕴️The 10 year anniversary of the Julia Gillard Misogyny speech. Hear the full interview with Ben Rhodes — the juicy bit about Abbott and Gillard speech hits around 35min in.
Sarah’s plugs:
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We’ll be back next week with a new A Rational Fear season.
And I’d love to hear from you. What shall we do next season? What do you want to hear more of? What would you like to hear less of? How can we delight our audience more?
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Sep 25, 2022
Secretive Australia — Festival Of Dangerous Ideas — 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. We’d love to tell you more about it, but need our lawyer present. In this special edition of A Rational Fear where we’ll rip into Australia’s most closely-guarded secrets. How did ▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓ drown? And why can’t you say a ▓▓▓▓ has arrived from ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓?
On this very special edition of A Rational Fear live on stage at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, we bring together some big names in journalism, comedy and whistleblowing to examine what went wrong with Australian Secrecy.
05:21 Dan Ilic sets the context for the ultra secretive world we live in now.
16:10 Damien Cave points out that Australia is secretive for no good reason.
26:29 Amber Schultz highlights that the press also have secrets when they shouldn't.
37:18 Kate McClymont gives you tips…
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Sep 1, 2022
GMPOOG: Richard Duke — 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 — 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
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Dan Ilic 0:00
Good air Dan Ilic with you for the greatest moral podcast of our generation. This is a great episode. I…
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Aug 26, 2022
Russia's new advertising campaign — Kirsty Webeck, Sam Petersen, Alice Tovey, Dan Ilic + Ben Pennings
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Dan is eating his way through Melbourne's cafes — so this ARF is recorded face to face from Stupid Old Studios.
Is a cracker covering Labor Climate Catastrophe, the dance moves of the Finish Prime Minister, the Murdoch's suing Crikey, Russia's new ad campaign and #DadVsAdani
Fearmongers include:
Kirsty Webeck
Sam Petersen
Alice Tovey
Host Dan Ilic
Interview Guest: Ben Pennings
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Aug 19, 2022
The Morrison Cinematic Universe — 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 that’s not Rowan Dean — 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 go…
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Aug 14, 2022
The Best* of Lewis Hobba — A Rational Encore — (*50min of Lewis Hobba yelling)
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G'day Fearmongers —
After looking at all the data it was discovered that most of you don't listen all the way through the podcast, so that means most of you have never heard Lewis Hobba go on a deranged un-hinged rant about some minutiae.
So — here in this episode of A Rational Fear, we've pulled together the best bits of Lewis in about a 50min episode.
If you manage to listen all the way through
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https://twitter.com/LewisHobba
Enjoy.
Dan
Lewis Hobba 0:00
Hello, hello. Hello Daniel, I
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 halfw…
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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 — The Greatest Moral Podcast Of Our Generation.
On this episode of GMPOOG: Dan Ilic hosts a conversation with journalist Nick Bryant — Media watchers in Australia would certainly know Nick's work from the BBC and of course twitter. He's often got one of the clearest eyes on Australian and global politics.
Nick is doing a special episode of his podcast, Journo, with journalists who cover climate, so he came on ARF's Greatest Moral Podcast Of Our Generation to chat about it.
You can listen to the Journo Podcast here:
https://jninstitute.org/education/journo-podcast/
On this episode we talk about News Corp's supposed move to embracing climate change, how Pasi…
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Jun 8, 2022
JUDITH NEILSON INSTITUTE LIVE: The Joke Is Mightier Than The Pen
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G’day Fearmongers —
It is with great thanks to the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas we can bring you this excellent conversation about satire and journalism.
Can satire change the world? Never.
Can satire be more powerful than journalism? Doubtful.
Can satire be journalism? Probably not.
Australia’s top satirists will ask themselves these questions and come up with the same answers during a special live event from A Rational Fear and JNI.
In this episode of A Rational Fear some of Australia’s most available smart arses wrangle with their (questionable) career choices and take a deep dive into satire’s ability to replace journalists at half the price.
Featuring cartoonist Cathy Wilcox, Dylan Behan (Newsfighters), Jan Fran (The Project), Ben Jenkins (The Feed), Lewis Hobba (Triple J), and Dan Ilic (A Rational Fear).
Check o…
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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.
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May 19, 2022
Jan Fran Has Issues - Ep 7 - Election Cheat Sheet with Amy Remeikis + Alex Morris
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Jan Fran Has Issues…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. ✏️🍆✅
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May 15, 2022
Julia Zemiro Asks 'Who Cares?' — E5 — Penny Ackery (Hume indy Candidate)
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G'day Fearmongers,
This is the 2nd last JZAC — and it's a good one. JZ has a conversation with Independent Candidate for Hume, Penny Ackery.
There is a feeling of change in country NSW.
Penny Ackery is a former special needs teacher who has been tasked by her community to represent the huge electorate of Hume.
At 17 240 sq km it spans from Boorowa in the west to Appin in the east, with Goulburn smack bang in the middle. It's currently held by the Minister for Emission Expansion, Angus Taylor. One of the most powerful ministers in the government.
But Penny has been hard at it, campaigning publicly since June 2021 — traveling the breadth of the electorate, listening, and consulting with folks about how to better represent them. It's the world's longest job interview…
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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 Issues…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.
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) We’re 60% sold! So get in quick!
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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 Issues…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 with… Idk, somewhere to live? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also, we dissect the Coalition’s plan to increase affordable housing with novelty cheques.
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.
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May 2, 2022
A Rational Fear — LIVE — Melbourne Comedy Festival 2022 — 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 Issues…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.
Also, American producer Frank Lopez reveals the weird and wonderful history behind the US/Australia relationship and the origins of ‘The Keagle’.
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.
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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 — 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.
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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 Issues…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 we’ve 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.
Also, Ray Martin tells us how the cost of a birthday cake brought down a potential Prime Minister in this week’s ‘Weird Election History’.
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.
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Apr 8, 2022
Jan Fran Has Issues - Ep2 - Race feat. Michael Towke
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Jan Fran Has Issues… with Race. Yup, we’re tackling race and Scott Morrison’s 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.
Don’t 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.
Produced by F+K media
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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 - we’re tackling the big A - Accountability. We find out the real meaning behind pork barrelling (no it doesn’t come from the gay bear scene), and speak to Independent candidate Jo Dyer about burning down Parliament House.
Don’t 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.
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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.
Keep your eye on the podcast feed for new episodes in the coming weeks.
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 universe
* Our favourite insects
* And much, much more
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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.
And we cover:
* Storytelling and climate change
* Community lead climate recovery
* Regenerating our democracy
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Mar 1, 2022
Julia Zemiro Asks 'Who Cares?' — E4 — Jen Cloher (Ngāpuhi & 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?'
Each month for the next 3 months on the A Rational Fear podcast feed, Julia interviews change makers, civic leaders, and people who organise their communities and claim their power to discover the secrets to making good things happen.
This month Julia chats with two artists who have built extraordinary communities around their craft, how both these artists have shown leadership and helped their respective communities thrive in times of crisis.
Jen Cloher (Ngāpuhi & Ngati Kahu) — is a highly respected recording and performing artist living on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia. Cloher is co-founder of Milk! Records (Courtney Barnett, Tiny Ruins, Hand Habits) and I Manage My Music, a masterclass ser…
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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 Hobba
and Dan Ilic
And we cover:
* Tim Wilson vs Signage in Goldstein
* Rest in peace Queen Elizabeth?
* 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 — https://www.accr.org.au/
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* 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 Hobba
and Dan Ilic
And we cover:
* Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal Tademark Lapse
* Grace Tame's BONG
* Russian doping
PLUGS:
* Listen to Georgia and James' show Werk It Out on FBI Radio
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 — SmartVoting.com.au
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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
* That 60 minutes interview
* The New Liberals
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* 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 Sydney
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Feb 3, 2022
A Horrible, Horrible Podcast — 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 Club
* Elon Musk's private jet
* Facial recognition
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Good evening Daniel. I'm well I'm well how are you?
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Jan 20, 2022
National Child Forklift Rollout — 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 cover
* Forklifts
* Boris Johnson
* UAP's insane political advertising spend
* Play a 2012 clip from the A Rational Fear vault.
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Daniel on well how the hell are you?
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Jan 13, 2022
KFC Shortage & Cannabis COVID solutions — Peppa Smith, Travis De Vries, Lewis Hobba, Dan Ilic
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We're back for 2021 with a short sharp A Rational Fear. We're joined by Peppa Smith (Yamma Mamma), Travis De Vries (Awesome Black), as well as Dan Ilic and Lewis Hobba.
* KFC Chicken Shortage.
* COVID and Cannabis.
* Australian Republican Movement's new platform for voting for a head of state.
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Trash Tiddas:
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Awesome Black:
Awesome Black Podcast Network
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Dec 30, 2021
Best Sketches of 2021 — Cash For Comment
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Dan Ilic is still on holidays so he asked his good friend Alan Jones (who was surprisingly available) to host the end of year wrap of all of our sponsors.
It's been an extraordinary year for A Rational Fear.
🎩 Melbourne Comedy Festival
🎩 100th episode Live Show
🎩 Newcastle Climate Show
🎩 Bega Climate Show
🎩>30 Twitter video sketches
🎩33 Weekly A Rational Fear Streams & Podcasts
🎩 4 New GMPOOGs
🎩 3 episodes of a brand new podcast Julia Zemiro Asks "Who Cares?"
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Dec 16, 2021
Julia Zemiro Asks 'Who Cares?' — E3 — Kerry O'Brien & Zara Seidler
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This is the 3rd Episode of the monthly spin-off podcast from A Rational Fear — Julia Zemiro Asks 'Who Cares?'
Each month for the next 4 months on the A Rational Fear podcast feed, Julia will be interviewing 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 Australian very different Australian media leaders who at the opposing ends of their career timelines
Kerry O'Brien— One Australia's most distinguished journalists. Kerry O'Brien may be off our TV screens, but he is far from retired. Kerry is busy, writing and thinking about journalism and democracy. In this chat with JZ, Kerry talks about how the atomisation of…
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Dec 9, 2021
Talking Pictures & Boycotting Olympics — Zoe Daniel, Mike Bowers, Fiona Katauskas, Yianni Agisilaou, Dan Ilic
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We're Talking Fears with the Talking Pictures crew.
Yianni Agisilaou
Mike Bowers
Fiona Katauskas
Dan Ilic
+ Zoe Daniel
We talk about the diplomatic boycot of the winter olympics, world leaders hitting the pingers at 4am, Andrew Laming's staffers poor choices, and we talk with Zoe Daniel about running as an independant.
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Dec 1, 2021
A Rational Bugle — Alice Fraser, Andy Zaltzman, Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba.
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G'day Fearmongers,
If you can't tell in this recording, I'm super stoked to have Alice Fraser and Andy Zaltzman on for the first ever Bugle X A Rational Fear crossover special.
We talk.
On-line Trolls.
Xenobots.
NFTs.
UK Anti Vax Protests.
and I attempt a Pun Run for Andy's sake.
Cheers
Dan
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Nov 26, 2021
Labor's 2022 Election Strategy: Rhyming — Matt Okine, Alex Dyson, Dom Knight, Andy Lee, Lewis Hobba, Dan Ilic + Tim Bailey
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We have a very loose, dude-heavy podcast this week, that is back to back bros being bros. There is ribbing, slander, sledging, marijuana, bitcoin, and as promised rhyming.
Joining Lewis Hobba (Triple J) and Dan Ilic (Third Person Writer) on the podcast this week are two of our old friends in comedy and broadcasting Matt Okine and Alex Dyson (All Day Breakfast) ripping into the news of the week. We also talk through all things Australian Podcast Awards we give Dom Knight (The Chaser), and Andy Lee (Hamish and Andy) a call. We also get a brief La Niña whether report direct from the Bureau of the Brolly CEO, Tim Bailey.
You can now get our classic billboard artwork through our RedBubble store as stickers! And if you’re an Indiegogo #JokeKeeper supporter your stickers will be going out in the mail next week!
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Nov 18, 2021
Happy International Men's Day to #NotAllMen — Kirsten Drysdale, Kirk Docker, Michael Mazengarb, Lewis Hobba and Dan Ilic
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On the podcast this week we are joined by fearmongers who go way back to Hungry Beast: Kirk Docker (You Can’t Ask That), Kirsten Drysdale (Reputation Rehab), Lewis Hobba (Triple J) and Dan Ilic (Out Of Home Media Buyer).
We’re also joined by Michael Mazengarb from RenewEconomy.com.au who gives us break down on the spurious modelling behind the Australian Government’s Net Zero by 2050 target that they took to COP26.
On the agenda this week:
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Australian Podcast Awards
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Alan Jones’ Social Network
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Dave Sharma’s Typos
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Golden Shower Rock and Roll
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Eddie Obeid’s family business
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Australia’s Greatest High Jumper
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Does Australia’s Net Zero by 2050 modelling add up? (It doesn’t)
Cheers
Dan Ilic
Hammer Purveyor
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