A Rational Fear

Dec 21 2024 223 ep. 40 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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SPECIAL EPISODE: News Fighters 2024 Year In Review

Dec 21 2024 25 mins  
Tonightly and Media Watch wacky clips craftsman Dylan Behan is back with his annual News Fighters year in review episode taking an in depth look at 2024 in news and politics. From Dutton’s nuclear epiphany to Albo’s endless cash splashing (mostly on his own house) this year has marked an an ever increasing enshittifcation of Australian politics. Also Stefan Pazur does his annua

A RATIONAL YEAR - live from the xmas party

Dec 13 2024 37 mins  
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/G’day Fearmongers!Merry Christmas to everyone (except Raygun).Join A Rational Fear as we break down some of the most memorable stories (to us). We gathered around table at the Tilbury Hotel — one of the earliest satirical venues in Australia, the birth

EXIT INTERVIEW: Kylea Tink Is Not Done

Dec 05 2024 29 mins  
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/Hello Fearmongers,This is the Exit Interview for Kylea Tink, the current independant Member of Parliament for North Sydney. But not for long thanks to AEC the boundaries of North Sydney are being folded into the neighbouring electorates.Since there is no H

Is Long Head the next Bluey?

Nov 29 2024 28 mins  
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/G’day Fearmongers,We have a very different episode of the podcast this week — we’re throwing out the rule book to bring a conversation with Millie Holten (Instagram), the brilliant creator of a new web series that is doing huge numbers on TikTok call

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