On this month's episode of NEWS FIGHTERS, chief wacky clips correspondent Dylan Behan takes a deep dive into what’s driving the cost of living and housing crises in Australia, as well as all the stupid solutions proposed by our self-serving politicians. ALSO: News Fighters is coming to the Sydney Fringe Festival! For the first time ever, we’re doing an episode LIVE ON STAGE at The Factory Theatre in Marrickville on September 15 at 6:50pm, with special guests including Dan Ilic, Stefan Pazur and ...
Aug 27, 2023•19 min•Ep 201•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ G'day Fearmongers, We're back with our 200th episode of our award winning podcast. 200! Time flies when you have a series of crushing deadlines to meet. Later on this year we’ll also hit 1 million downloads, that is if we’re not shot down flying from St. Petersberg to Moscow. Sitting in the co-host seat this week we have comedian, writer, producer, theatre maker AJ Lamarq...
Aug 25, 2023•33 min•Ep 200•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ Something a bit different from A Rational Fear this week — Long time listeners will be familiar with our spin off — The Greatest Moral Podcast Of Our Generation. Today we have a long form conversation with one my favourite climate voices. This week I sat down with energy and climate journalist David Roberts from the popular climate and energy podcast Volts . If you don't ...
Aug 17, 2023•31 min•Ep 199•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ BONUS SPECIAL: A Rational Conversation. This is the story of how Grace Tame and Camilla Cleese became best friends. It's a wonderful story of resilience, vulnerability, creativity, comedy and the last supper. IMAGE LINK: Grace Tame's Last Supper Picture. https://twitter.com/johncleese/status/928316728278421512 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFea...
Jul 26, 2023•51 min•Ep 198•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ G'day Fearmongers, We're back with the season finale of our award winning podcast. We're talking 🤖 Artificial Intelligence, 🌏 Climate Clubs, 🇺🇸 Americans on tour and 🧵 Threads. With fellow fearmongers: Lee Constable Ange Lavoipierre Lewis Hobba #OpenToWork and Dan Ilic . And if you're a Patreon supporter you'll hear this week's sketch. Written by Crikey's Tom Red, an...
Jul 14, 2023•49 min•Ep 197•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear Here's all the fun stuff you get when you sign up to Patreon. 🎧 Get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show. 🎟 Get early access and discounts to live shows. 🎥 Get early access to final videos, and draft edits of upcoming videos. 👨🏼⚖️ Make show suggestions. 💬 Get a link ...
Jul 07, 2023•35 min•Ep 196•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear Here's all the fun stuff you get when you sign up to Patreon. 🎧 Get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show. 🎟 Get early access and discounts to live shows. 🎥 Get early access to final videos, and draft edits of upcoming videos. 👨🏼⚖️ Make show suggestions. 💬 Get a link ...
Jun 30, 2023•44 min•Ep 195•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ G’day Fearmongers, Hockeyroo and Olympian Georgie Parker (not the actress) is our guest this week, and after spending 5 nights up watching the ashes, there’s few people more qualified to talk about Bazball vs Cumball. On the podcast this week we talk: 🏡 Housing Affordability Future Fund. 🍫 Fantales are off the shelves. 🏏 Cumins and the anti-woke brigade. 🍗 KFC price g...
Jun 21, 2023•28 min•Ep 194•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ G’day Fearmongers — We’re back on the tools for the next five weeks to laugh in the face of the scariest news. This episode we talk about the US Government being so embarrassed at surveilling its own citizens, that they’re now telling everyone about it, and hoping someone else in the US Government will fix it. Why won’t someone fix the legal loop holes!? We also chat abou...
Jun 15, 2023•31 min•Ep 193•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ NEWS FIGHTERS PODCAST This month on News Fighters host Dylan Behan takes an in-depth look at the 2023 “Goldilocks” Budget. Somehow treasurer Jim Chalmers and Labor have lucked out with a once-in-15-year surplus, but can they use it to help those out in the cold while not overheating the economy with inflation? Meanwhile Peter Dutton and the coalition argue that inste...
May 14, 2023•21 min•Ep 192•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ SEE OUR LIVE SHOW: https://comedy.com.au/tour/a-rational-fear-live/ G'day Fearmongers,Last night at an industry dinner on the Gold Coast I was having a joke with some British TV producers about the Coronation. I was gently mocking the ceremony for how everything about it was modern and progressive. Or at least I thought I was gently mocking. From the magic stone seat,...
May 05, 2023•36 min•Ep 191•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ G’day Fearmongers, To celebrate the start of the Sydney Comedy Festival we put the RØDECaster Pro II in a duffle bag and headed to the Factory Theatre courtyard. One of the only arts venues in Sydney which boasts a commercial airliner flying overhead every 10 minutes. It’s their version of an “Applaud Now” sign. With a beer and a plate of jerk chicken in hand, I was joine...
Apr 28, 2023•29 min•Ep 190•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 👨🏼⚖️ David McBride's Legal Fund G’day Fearmongers — As we head into the long weekend known as Australian Halloween, ANZAC Day, I thought we should chat with a former solider who represents Australians at their best. David McBride is up for a jail sentence of ‘UNLIMITED YEARS’ after he blew the whistle on astonishing accounts of misconduct and warcrimes by Australian sp...
Apr 21, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Ep 189•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ G'day Fearmongers — Thanks to the 300 or so of you who came out the the show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival — it was such a great vibe. Gabbi Bolt Sami Shah Grace Tame Lewis Hobba Nats What I Reckon Vidya Rajan Lewis Hobba and me (Dan Ilic) DJ Andy McClelland We cover the great gamete of crucial topics — Gwyneth Paltrow, Murdoch's Minions, U2, Donal Trump,...
Apr 07, 2023•55 min•Ep 188•Transcript available on Metacast 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE G'day Fearmongers — Be sure to buy a ticket to the Melbourne show THIS SUNDAY — April 2nd Failing that — In your feed this week, we have the live show we did last weekend at the World Science Festival In Brisbane. It was one of our best liv...
Mar 31, 2023•54 min•Ep 187•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN BRISBANE Guest Fearmongers on A Rational Fear this week include: Alice Tovey 🎟 Performing at MICF in Not Like Other Ghouls Laura Hughes 🎟 Performing at MICF in Laura Hughes Presents: Laura Hughes, Laura Hughes and some other Laura Hugheses On this episode we...
Mar 24, 2023•29 min•Ep 186•Transcript available on Metacast 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN BRISBANE This month Dylan Behan takes an in-depth look at all the big NSW state election issues from boat ramps to cashless gaming cards to superannuation for kids and why neither major party will do anything to actual tackle the biggest cost of living issue in NSW: astronomical rents. Also we look at the two middle aged white men who are determined to promise to do as little as poss...
Mar 20, 2023•24 min•Ep 185•Transcript available on Metacast 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN BRISBANE Joining us for this week's podcast is Amelia Navascues , who you can see at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in a couple of weeks time. 🎟 Tickets to Amelia's show Blurrier IRL And we have a wide ranging chat with Leader of the Greens, Adam Bandt MP . We talk submarines, safeguard mechanism, and how he works with the climate independants. I should point out during...
Mar 17, 2023•42 min•Ep 185•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN MELBOURNE 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOW IN BRISBANE G’day Fearmongers — It was hot, it was fun, it was full of audio problems. Nethertheless, here is the podcast of our Adelaide Fringe Festival Show. The conversation we had with Kyam Maher , the South Australian Attorney General was super inspiring. So...
Mar 10, 2023•48 min•Ep 185•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOWS Tickets are on sale now for A Rational Fear live in a city near you! Adelaide Fringe — Sat 5pm March 4th (TOMORROW) Brisbane World Science Festival — March 26th Melbourne International Comedy Festival — APRIL 2nd G'day Fearmongers — Here is this week's podcast — Lewis Hobba, Elyce Phillips , Jane Ball , and Dan ILic talk s...
Mar 03, 2023•37 min•Ep 184•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOWS Once a month on the A Rational Fear podcast feed and email list, comedy editor, Dylan Behan, will bring you News Fighters. Dylan has been cutting wacky clips for film and television along side me for all of my careers. I first met Dylan when he was an assistant editor at Tracks Post Production when he worked on The Ronnie ...
Feb 24, 2023•37 min•Ep 183•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOWS G’day Fearmongers — Happy Superbowl weekend, we have juicy podcast served with a side of ranch dressing and celery sticks — BUT before we get to that, you should know: Tickets are on sale now for A Rational Fear live in a city near you! Adelaide Fringe — March 4th Brisbane World Science Festival — March 26th Melbourne Inte...
Feb 10, 2023•28 min•Ep 182•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOWS 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 ...
Feb 03, 2023•32 min•Ep 181•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 👕 BUY OUR MERCH HERE 🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR ADELAIDE FRINGE SHOW 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 laughin...
Dec 30, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep 180•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical 🎟 TICKETS TO ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL NOW ON SALE 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...
Dec 16, 2022•32 min•Ep 179•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical 🎟 TICKETS TO ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL NOW ON SALE 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 H...
Dec 08, 2022•43 min•Ep 178•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical 🎟 TICKETS TO ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL NOW ON SALE 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...
Dec 03, 2022•36 min•Ep 177•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical On the podcast this week we have a fun crew. Bec 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 ...
Nov 25, 2022•32 min•Ep 176•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical On the podcast this week we have two hosts from other podcasts that have been nominated for Best Comedy Podcast at the Australian Podcast Awards. Clare Stephens from Mamamia's Cancelled Podcast and Georgie Carroll from The Swab Podcast . Also on the podcast this week we're joined by friend of the show Brynn O'B...
Nov 18, 2022•40 min•Ep 175•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🐬 A Rational Fear is supported in part by Australian Ethical G'day Fearmongers —. 👑The Australian Monarchist League making demands of Netflix. 🎥 Sylvester Stallone's new Reality Project. 🏆 Sean Penn giving Volodymyr Zelensky an Oscar®. 🇺🇸 The US Mid-term elections. With fellow fearmongers Matt Bevan ( Russia If You're Listening ), Cam James ( Finding Yeezus ), Dan I...
Nov 10, 2022•39 min•Ep 174•Transcript available on Metacast 
