🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ SEE OUR NEXT LIVE SHOW AT THE FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS: https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/secretive-australia/ Dan is eating his way through Melbourne's cafes — so this ARF is recorded face to face from Stupid Old Studios. Is a cracker covering Labor Climate Catastrophe, the dance moves of the Finish Prime Minister, the Murdoch's suing Crikey, Russia's n...
Aug 26, 2022•38 min•Ep 166•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 NEXT LIVE SHOW AT THE FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS: https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/secretive-australia/ In the space of 72 hours we saw the birth, the brightly burning and death of the Scott Morrison Many Ministry Meme. We have a new podcast from A Rational Fear featuring the A Rational Fear twitter key holder, Killian David, and one of the few co...
Aug 19, 2022•27 min•Ep 165•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 NEXT LIVE SHOW AT THE FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS: https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/secretive-australia/ G'day Fearmongers — After looking at all the data it was discovered that most of you don't listen all the way through the podcast, so that means most of you have never heard Lewis Hobba go on a deranged un-hinged rant about some minutiae. So — h...
Aug 15, 2022•57 min•Ep 164•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 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 cert...
Jun 15, 2022•30 min•Ep 162•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 — 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 themselv...
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Ep 161•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, 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 re...
May 16, 2022•36 min•Ep 158•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/ 10 Years Of A Rational Fear. Sydney Opera House. June 4th 2022 ----------------------------------------------------- G'day Fearmongers, Thrilled to bring you the A Rational Fear LIVE show we did last month at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. It is a long and very enjoyable show featuring. ...
May 03, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep 155•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, 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'...
Apr 21, 2022•14 min•Ep 153•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 OUR MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL SHOW HERE 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 PLUGS: See Damon's new film Regenerating Australia in a theatre near you 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalF...
Mar 11, 2022•42 min•Ep 148•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 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. T...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep 147•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 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 Respon...
Feb 25, 2022•30 min•Ep 146•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 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 Way...
Feb 18, 2022•28 min•Ep 145•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 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 PLUGS: See Scout Boxall in Buck Wild at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival See Alice Tovey in One Night Only (Over Seven Ni...
Feb 11, 2022•39 min•Ep 144•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 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 PLUGS: Listen to Jess and Dave on 'Do Go On': Website 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear Heading into the election your support is going to be more cr...
Feb 04, 2022•47 min•Ep 143•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 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. PLUGS: Listen to Vanity Project Podcast: I nstagram / Omny 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear Head...
Jan 21, 2022•38 min•Ep 142•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 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. LISTEN TO: Trash Tiddas : https://open.spotify.com/show/...
Jan 14, 2022•32 min•Ep 141•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 OPERA HOUSE SHOW — JANUARY 29th HERE. 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...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr•Ep 140•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 OPERA HOUSE SHOW — JANUARY 29th HERE. 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...
Dec 17, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep 139•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 🎫 GET TICKETS TO OUR LIVE SHOW: 10 Years of Fear at the Sydney Opera House. January 29th: https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/events/whats-on/comedy/2022/a-rational-fear.html 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 olym...
Dec 10, 2021•41 min•Ep 138•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, 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 PATREON 💸: If you enjoy ou...
Dec 01, 2021•42 min•Ep 137•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 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 ...
Nov 26, 2021•43 min•Ep 136•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 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 Austra...
Nov 19, 2021•49 min•Ep 135•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 This is the 2nd Episode of the monthly spin-off podcast from A Rational Fear — Julia Zemiro Asks 'Who Cares?' Each month for the next 5 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 ...
Nov 05, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep 134•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 Joining us on A Rational Fear this week are fearmongers: Vidya Rajan Gabbi Bolt Lewis Hobba Dan Ilic and Graham Readfearn We talk about Billboards, Australia being a bad actor on the world stage (again) BlackRock's double standards. Prequels that don't need to exist. And Graham Readfearn from The Guardian Australia talking about their incredible Aust...
Oct 29, 2021•42 min•Ep 133•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 🤣 JOKEKEEPER: CLICK HERE Joining us on A Rational Fear this week are fearmongers: Harry Jun (One Of The Good Ones) Alex Jae (Laugh Out Of Lockdown) Dylan Behan and Dan Ilic We talk about Billboards, Australia being a bad actor on the world stage, meddling with the IPCC reports, prosthetic limbs to be used for COVD19 injections, Squid Gam...
Oct 21, 2021•27 min•Ep 132•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 🤣 JOKEKEEPER: CLICK HERE This week's fearmongers: Dane Simpson, Angela Lavoipierre, Lewis Hobba, and Dan Ilic (me). We talk about the ins and outs of out-of-home media buying in the USA, ICAC, anti-vaxers trying to claim segregation — and we spend a good 40 minutes trying to understand why News...
Oct 15, 2021•54 min•Ep 131•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 🤣 JOKEKEEPER: CLICK HERE Introducing the new monthly spin-off podcast from A Rational Fear — Julia Zemiro Asks 'Who Cares?' Each month for the next 6 months, 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 h...
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep 130•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 🤣 JOKEKEEPER: CLICK HERE G'day Fearmongers — On the podcast this week we chat with Kylea Tink — the new independent candidate for North Sydney who is running in the lower house at the next federal election. Who is she? Why is she running? Also comedians Ben Jenkins, Diana Nguyen , Dan Ilic , and Lewis Hobba dissect Sco...
Oct 01, 2021•41 min•Ep 129•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 — This week on the podcast we talk with Craig Reucassel about his new film Big Deal. A documentary about how big corporate money has infiltrated politics in Australia. It's a great chat. See where Big Deal is screening near you . Also we have great comedians Bec Charlwood (Ladies Guide To Dude Cinema) , Aleks Milinkovic , Lewi...
Sep 24, 2021•49 min•Ep 128•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 do a shallow dive on the Nuclear Submarine deal, and give it one ping only. We release a never before seen internal corporate video from The Liberal Party that shows us how they've fixed their woman problem. Refuse to go to the Met Gala with Nicki Minaj Heath Franklin takes us on a tour of all the Picnics he's been t...
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