🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 👕 BUY OUR MERCH HERE Trigger Warning: On this week's podcast we discuss in depth Scott Morrison's Are You Okay Day instagram video. Comedian and host of the Dead Dad's Society Podcast Mitch Garling talks us through what it's like to be mistaken for COVID19 Crisis Actor . Blair Palese also joins us to call bull shit on NewsCorp's promise to do better on climate action. We...
Sep 10, 2021•37 min•Ep 126•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 Once a month on the A Rational Fear Podcast feed we have a long-form conversation about climate change with climate leaders from all walks of life. This month Linh Do and Dan Ilic speak with David Pocock about the launch The Cool Down . An open letter of over 400 people in the sports community. all The Sport Positive Summit 2021 Every Sin...
Sep 05, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep 125•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 On the podcast this week we've got a great line up for you: Julia Zemiro (Rockwiz) Rob “Millsy” Mills (Wicked) ( You Little Ripper Podcast ) Lewis Hobba (The Australian Billy Joel Experience) Dan Ilic (The Australian Jon Lovitz Experience) AND we also interview Leanne Minshull who is launching a new par...
Sep 03, 2021•44 min•Ep 124•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 G'day Fearmongers — Ross Noble from The Ross Noble Podcast joins us from hotel quarantine in Perth for his A Rational Fear debut. As a result the podcast this week is about double the usual length, with double the jokes. Also joining Lewis and I is long time fearmonger Alice Fraser who managed to fit us in her gruelling 15 podcasts a day schedu...
Aug 27, 2021•48 min•Ep 123•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 G'day Fearmongers, Thrilled to present our crossover episode with the award winning Just The Gist podcast. Joining Dan Ilic and Lewis Hobba as guest fearmongers we have Rosie Waterland , and Jacob Stanley . On this week's podcast we chat: BHP selling its fossil fuel assets. Cash Me Outside girl cashing ...
Aug 19, 2021•34 min•Ep 122•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 13th August 2021 We are joined by guest fearmongers from the House Warming podcast. Marty Smiley Nat Damena As well as regulars Dan Ilic and Lewis Hobba IPCC Report Young Liberals Auctioning off Coal George Christensen's New Website Brad Hazzard's "Other Backgrounds" Lockdown Etiquette 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARational...
Aug 13, 2021•25 min•Ep 121•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 ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK: We are joined by the orphans of satirical comedy shows past. From the Roast, and Tonightly, Jazz Twemlow joins us to plug his new Amazon Prime sketch show . And from The Feed, and At Home Alone Together we have Vidya Rajan to plug nutritional yeast. Then there's me Dan Ilic and Lewis Hobba — you know us already. SkyNew...
Aug 06, 2021•28 min•Ep 121•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 On this week's podcast we invade the suburbs of South West Sydney, Dissect Channel Seven's Olympics Coverage, find a missing lotto ticket and interview Alan Jones after he's been kicked out of News Corps Newspapers. Guest Fearmongers: Nat Tran David Smiedt — Chris Obrien Lifehouse Lewis Hobba and Dan Ilic Thanks for listening — if y...
Jul 30, 2021•30 min•Ep 120•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 G'day Fearmongers — On the podcast this week: Sami Shah makes his case to be the new host of Q+A. It is compelling. We also dive into the ethics of the guy who got both the Astra Zeneca vaccine, and the Pfizer vaccine, and look at how the Australian Government is trying to do the numbers to delay UNESCO's decision to put the Great Barrier...
Jul 22, 2021•33 min•Ep 119•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ GET A TICKET TO OUR MELBOURNE SHOWS — AUGUST 14th 👕 BUY OUR MERCH HERE G'day Fearmongers — Here is the live recording of this month's two regional shows in climate vulnerable cities — Newcastle and Bega! This is an edited super cut of both shows, if you'd like to see/hear the full unedited shows you can watch the video on our Patreon . W...
Jun 18, 2021•2 hr 51 min•Ep 118•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ GET A TICKET TO OUR NEWCASTLE SHOW — JUNE 5TH 🎟️ GET A TICKET TO OUR BEGA SHOW — JUNE 13TH 👕 BUY OUR MERCH HERE On the A Rational Fear podcast this week — Ben Russell Sadie Bruce Lomack Lewis Hobba Dan Ilic + Special guest: Daniel Bleakley from Miners In Teslas 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE T...
Jun 04, 2021•41 min•Ep 117•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ GET A TICKET TO OUR NEWCASTLE SHOW — JUNE 5TH 🎟️ GET A TICKET TO OUR BEGA SHOW — JUNE 13TH 👕 BUY OUR MERCH HERE Once a month on the A Rational Fear podcast feed with publish a Greatest Moral Podcast Of Our Generation podcast. These are long-form chats with climate leaders from all walks of life. This month I bring you tw...
May 28, 2021•2 hr 40 min•Ep 116•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ GET A TICKET TO OUR NEWCASTLE SHOW — JUNE 5TH 👕 BUY OUR MERCH HERE Kurri Kurri Gas, Empathy Gap at the NDIS, Mice are coming to Sydney, and Kirsty O'Connell is pumped about this weekend's by-election in the Upper Hunter. Amy Remeikis. Andy Saunders. Kirsty O'Connell. Dan Ilic and Lewis Hobba. A Rational Fear on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARatio...
May 21, 2021•39 min•Ep 115•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ GET A TICKET TO OUR NEWCASTLE SHOW — JUNE 5TH 🎟️ GET A TICKET TO OUR SYDNEY SATIRE SHOW AT JNI — JUNE 24TH 👕 BUY OUR MERCH HERE Welcome to our Budget Reply special of A Rational Fear, it's all the numbers you wanted to know, and many of the numbers you didn't. Joining us for this weeks podcast is. Dylan Behan from the Newsfighters podcast. Ga...
May 14, 2021•43 min•Ep 114•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ This week's podcast takes you flash points for disaster around the world; India, London, and Clive Palmer's office. Indian authorities are clamping down on criticism against Prime Minister Modi, banning critical hashtags and throwing people in jail who tweet against the PM's response to COVID19. So at only a small personal risk to himself, Anuvab Pal unleashes his thought...
Apr 30, 2021•35 min•Ep 113•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ Once a month on A Rational Fear on the podcast feed we present a different kind of show: Greatest Moral Podcast Of Our Generation is a long form conversation with a climate leader from around the world. (02:21) Linh Do and Dan Ilic rip into the Leaders Climate Summit from this week in the climate news (14:08) This month's Dan Ilic talks with School Strike for Climat...
Apr 23, 2021•44 min•Ep 112•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ Thanks to so many of you who made it out to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival on the weekend. We had an absolutely cracker show from start to finish Feat. Alice Fraser Sami Shah Gabbi Bolt Lewis Hobba James Colley Dan Ilic + Simon Holmes à Court 💉 We covered the vaccination rollout. 🥔 Peter Dutton suing people on twitter for defamation. ⭐⭐⭐ Bit Clout an...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep 111•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ SEE A RATIONAL FEAR AT MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2021/shows/a-rational-fear On the podcast this week, we grab an e-meter in both hands and audit the accounts of Scientology in Australia. We rip into the Government missing the vaccination target, and ask ourselves is being a tradie-cum-stripper an essential worker...
Apr 02, 2021•39 min•Ep 110•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ SEE A RATIONAL FEAR AT MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2021/shows/a-rational-fear On the podcast this week, we talk about the Prime Minister putting journalists on notice for asking questions, Dark Mofo's Big F Up, and BoJo dumping ScoMo via telegram over Australia's lack of action on climate change. We're joined by Amber Sch...
Mar 26, 2021•34 min•Ep 109•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ SEE A RATIONAL FEAR AT MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2021/shows/a-rational-fear On this week's podcast we hit the UK and Australia's slide into authoritarianism, and ask Steve Keen if Mattias Cormann's appointment to the OECD will mean anything meaningful for climate action globally. Adam Hills 🎟️ (Shoes Half Full) Alex Le...
Mar 19, 2021•39 min•Ep 108•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ SEE A RATIONAL FEAR AT MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2021/shows/a-rational-fear Once a month on A Rational Fear on the podcast feed we present a different kind of show: Greatest Moral Podcast Of Our Generation is a long form conversation with a climate leader from around the world. This month Dan Ilic talks with Ketan Joshi...
Mar 14, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep 107•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ SEE A RATIONAL FEAR AT MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2021/shows/a-rational-fear Fearmongers this week: Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki 📚 ( Dr. Karl's Little Book of Climate Change Science ) Naomi Higgins 📺 ( Why Are You Like This ) Michael Hing 🎟️(MICF show: Kill-Hing in the Name Of) Lewis Hobba 🎟️(MICF show: A Rational Fear ) Da...
Mar 12, 2021•36 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ True to form, A Rational Fear, takes a look at week's scariest news. Catastrophic ecosystem collapse, Gerry Harvey's JobKeeper bonus, sexual assault allegations in Canberra, and Schapelle Corby on Dancing With The Stars have all been loaded into the ARF canon and ready to be shot into space. Fearmongers this week: Amy Remeikis Prof. Lesely Hughes (Climate Council) Adam Zw...
Mar 05, 2021•40 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ We're back, just like Facebook news, and just like Facebook we're giving out money to Australian publishers (if we feel like it). If you're a major publisher of news content and want some coin, hit me up at dan[at]arationalfear.com, or if you're an Australian Treasurer giving away pre-election grants for towing the party line, hit us up too, we'll say what ever you want, ...
Feb 26, 2021•41 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ This week we're throwing the spotlight on Dylan Behan's News Fighters Podcast — it's another satirical comedy podcast from Australia. If you like A Rational Fear, you'll love News Fighters. Dylan Behan is one of the best comedy editors in Australia, he's worked on every great comedy TV show over the last 15 years, and now he's turning his brain to making an incredib...
Feb 18, 2021•40 min•Ep 103•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ Last night at Giant Dwarf we had an absolute cracker of a live show to celebrate our 100th episode of A Rational Fear. Chris Taylor opened all of The Queen's excel files. Alice Fraser tip toed through the mindset of billionaire Elon Musk. Yumi Stynes graciously examined what Eddie McGuire's departure from Collingwood really means. Hamish Blake tries to monetise the Austra...
Feb 11, 2021•2 hr 36 min•Ep 102•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 100th EPISODE LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! 🎟️ COME SEE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE. Feb 10th, Giant Dwarf, Sydney: https://giantdwarf.com.au/events/a-rational-fear-100/ On this week's podcast we play kick the kick with Eddie McGuire's handling of the Do Better report, learn about a young man who has been in a coma since the start of the pandemic, and talk about the shopping habits o...
Feb 05, 2021•41 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 100th EPISODE LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! 🎟️ COME SEE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE. Feb 10th, Giant Dwarf, Sydney: https://giantdwarf.com.au/events/a-rational-fear-100/ 📖 CHIP-IN TO #LEARNOUTTRUTH CAMPAIGN: https://www.chuffed.org/project/learnourtruth The hot tip from r/wallstreet is that you should buy $ARF Shares because we have a cracker podcast this week with some of our favou...
Jan 29, 2021•35 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 100th EPISODE LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! 🎟️ COME SEE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE. Feb 10th, Giant Dwarf, Sydney: https://giantdwarf.com.au/events/a-rational-fear-100/ This episode has a special interview with Brad Blanks from his Washington D.C. hotel, also us expat comedian Tommy Dean, viral star Lucinda 'Froomes' Price, Lewis Hobba and Dan Ilic. We talk Tennis player enti...
Jan 22, 2021•38 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 100th EPISODE LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! 🎟️ COME SEE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE. Feb 10th, Giant Dwarf, Sydney: https://giantdwarf.com.au/events/a-rational-fear-100/ On this holiday episode of A Rational Fear, Dan Ilic and voiceover artist, mega-talent, Rupert Degas , take you through a year in A Rational Fear sketches. It turns out putting all the sketches back to b...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast 
