A Rational Fear

Nov 20 2024 218 ep. 41 mins 3.8k
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Laughing in the face of fear. Comedians and experts rip into the news. It's #QandA on crack.

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Jon Ronson on psychopaths, shame & spending time with Alex Jones

Nov 20 2024 51 mins  
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/G’day Fearmongers,The privilege of being a white guy with a podcast is that you get to talk to your heroes, record those conversations and then share them with your friends, acquaintances, and 10,000 of you — our fellow fearmongers.In this episode Jon

Direct from COP29: The juicy gossip and a beached whale

Nov 15 2024 22 mins  
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/Salam Fearmongers,This week we’re connecting with two of our favourite friends of the pod who are wandering around the hall of COP29 in Baku, Azerbijan.Linh Do & Richie Merzian.We chat negotiations, financial commitments and how no one at COP is even tal

NZ leaves us with nothing but ANUS

Nov 08 2024 51 mins  
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/Howdy Fearmongers,Trying to make sense of the US Elections is a fools errand.Well, consider us your fools.I spent Wednesday afternoon not being able to do work, or anything really, the limit of my motor skills maxed out at flipping between live YouTube cha

Season finale of the United States of America

Oct 30 2024 39 mins  
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/Howdy Fearmongers,We’re in the home stretch — at the time of publishing, there’s only 6 days left until Americans everywhere skip work, neglect their families, and dodge bullets to line up in droves to spend a few good hours deciding who will be the

JokeTober sketch review

Oct 28 2024 19 mins  
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/Welcome to the JokeTober episode.Throughout October I had the privilege to run some satirical comedy workshops for 2SER, a community radio station in SydneyPart of the “prize” of being selected as a JokeTober co-hort they got some actual jokes publishe

Judging fat bears & hawking Trump Bibles

Oct 10 2024 26 mins  
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/G'day Fearmongers,This week we’re joined by Emerson Brophy and Hannah Ferguson.While the NACC is getting knackered, climate action is getting neutered, and action on cost of living is nixed. Albo is really getting into shrinkflation.albompA pos

The return of the sausages

Oct 03 2024 34 mins  
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/📋 LISTENER SURVEY: CLICK HEREG’day Fearmongers,UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer had one of the all time gaffes in politics this week — demanding at the Labour conference that Hamas “Free the sausages” immediately he spat out “Free the Hostages�

Nuclear Desert & Dan's $2K shop

Sep 26 2024 32 mins  
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/📋 FILL OUT OUR AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://z5xf13rh5z4.typeform.com/to/J0SFy05NCharlotte George, Zach Mander, Wayne Smith, Lewis Hobba, Dan IlicG’day Fearmongers,This week Peter Dutton took his Nuclear dog for a walk in Sydney and it off the leash at the

Scrotum lookalike wants the world to burn

Sep 19 2024 33 mins  
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/G'day Fearmongers,Big thanks to Ampel and Myrtle & Pine Studio for lending us their podcast studio to record this week's A Rational Fear in person.We have in the studio Grace Tame, and Punter's Politics, as well as Lewis Hobba and me (Dan Ilic).This week w

Don't ask where the money is coming from - Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba, Mark Connely & Alice Brennan

Sep 13 2024 33 mins  
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/In this episode of A Rational Fear, the hosts discuss a range of topics including the impact of Russian funding on YouTube influencers, the effectiveness of political propaganda, and a detailed analysis of the recent US presidential debate. They also touch