News Fighters

Jan 25 2025 144 ep. 21 mins 1.5k

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News Fighters is a comedic look at Australian news, media and political hypocrisy from TV comedy video editor Dylan Behan.
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I made an album: an exclusive look at "Pizza for me, doctor?" by The Traveltens

Jan 25 2025 32 mins

Dylan gives News Fighters listeners an exclusive look at his brand new musical project, an album of complete nonsense music he made purely for his own personal enjoyment. "Pizza for me, doctor?" by The Traveltens out now!BANDCAMP: https://traveltens.bandcamp.com/APPLE MUSIC: https://music.apple.com/au/album/pizza-for-me-doctor/1792184799SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/0wJ43

2024 Year in Review: The neverending enshittifcation of Australian Politics

Dec 22 2024 23 mins

Tonightly and Media Watch wacky clips craftsman Dylan Behan is back for an annual News Fighters year in review episode taking an indepth 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 annual w

Best of News Fighters: Putin's phoney call-in show! (from 2021)

Jan 21 2024 14 mins

After 5 years and 125 episodes News Fighters is going on indefinite hiatus while I work on other projects. But in the meantime I thought I’d re-release some classic episodes to the podcast feed to recap some of our better, least topical moments which hold up to this day.An incredibly huge thank you to everyone who's listened, shared, guested, hosted and written with us, especiall

Best of News Fighters: Boris Johnson becomes UK PM (from 2019)

Jan 15 2024 14 mins

After 5 years and 125 episodes News Fighters is going on indefinite hiatus while I work on other projects. But in the meantime I thought I’d re-release some classic episodes to the podcast feed to recap some of our better, least topical moments which hold up to this day.An incredibly huge thank you to everyone who's listened, shared, guested, hosted and written with us, especiall

Best of News Fighters: Christopher Pyne fixes podcasting (from 2021)

Jan 10 2024 17 mins

After 5 years and 125 episodes News Fighters is going on indefinite hiatus while I work on other projects. But in the meantime I thought I’d re-release some classic episodes to the podcast feed to recap some of our better, least topical moments which hold up to this day.An incredibly huge thank you to everyone who's listened, shared, guested, hosted and written with us, especiall

Best of News Fighters: The war on OneFour (from 2020)

Jan 25 2023 18 mins

For the final episode of News Fighters’ Classic Summer Replay series I revisit one of my favourite episodes, my January 2020 look at NSW Police’s Strike Force Raptor and their unrelenting pursuit of Aussie drill hip hop group OneFour. Also has a brand new intro!Looking for new episodes? We’re now over on the A Rational Fear podcast feed at arationalfear.com or atApple: apple.

Best of News Fighters: R.I.P The Queen (from 2022)

Jan 19 2023 38 mins

For this week’s classic replay episode we revisit one of the biggest news stories from 2022: the September death of Her Majesty The Queen and all the endless surreal and bombastic media coverage surrounding the pageantry and history.Watch the original episode on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/XCWV7vHDd0INews Fighters is a comedic look at Australian news, media and political hypoc

Best of 2022: Our Election Night Recap & Waiting for Gonski co-author Tom Greenwell.

Jan 12 2023 45 mins

For this week’s classic summer episode I replay the Federal Election Night Recap show originally released on May 22, 2022 that recaps why Scott Morrison lost and what we can expect from new PM Anthony Albanese.Then I replay my election interview with Tom Greenwell, co-author of the book "Gonski: How Australia Failed Its Schools" about how our politicians keep failing our educatio

Best of 2022: Rishi Sunak, the first Billionaire UK PM*! (Also, we're moving!)

Jan 05 2023 31 mins

It’s official! In 2023 News Fighters is moving to the A Rational Fear podcast feed! Listen for all the info! And then I play highlights from our 2022 Patreon Bonus Episodes, including a look at Rishi Sunak, the first billionaire British PM* (*in Australian Dollars).News Fighters is a comedic look at Australian news, media and political hypocrisy from TV comedy editor Dylan Behan.

2022 Year in Review: What a deluge!

Dec 15 2022 26 mins

It’s my fourth annual year in review wrap where I look back on the big Aussie news stories of the year: the floods, the rain, the weather emergencies, the lettuce prices, it’s all here! Also I look back on the May Federal Election, the invasion of Ukraine, China’s Covid Zero uprisings and the Iran protests. Expect hilarious wacky clips and a whole lot of “wait, was that thi