6 of the funniest episodes of the award winning A Rational Fear podcast for 2023
and one from 2022.
G’day Fearmongers, longtime listeners and newly signed up suckers.
We’ve won our 4th term as Australia’s Best Comedy Podcast — We’ve entered into our Howard era and thus have a mandate to cause as much trouble as he did, in his final days.
What is A Rational Fear?
Before we give you 6 of our best episodes of the last year — here’ a little refresher for who we are for those who are new around here:
A Rational Fear is a platform for comedians to say something about the world. Most weeks we bring experts and comedians together to rip into the news and drill down on climate change. It’s fast, it’s funny, it’s a bit like #QandA on crack.
We make a podcast. Apple | Spotify | PocketCasts
We make videos. YouTube | Instagram
We put on great LIVE shows all around the country. (1,000,000th Download Malthouse Theatre 1st February 2024)
We’re also currently only supported by Patreon members which is an honour but also until we get a new sponsor for 2024 — things are a bit tight around here. Chip in for as little as a cup of coffee in 2019 prices: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear
We get it — where are your funniest 6 episodes Dan? We’ve got 6 hours of driving to do on Christmas Day.
LVIE: While The Voice Referendum didn’t go the way it should have — one month before we went to Waiben (Thursday Island) to put on a show to ridicule the “No” vote and Lewis Hobba.
Nish Kumar was in town — and we couldn’t resist to have a Bugle / Gargle / A Rational Fear cross over specia
LIVE: Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023 — A Rational Fear has TOO MANY Guests. The highlight was the interview at the and with the owners of Tim Smith’s fence cover up.
LIVE: Brisbane Science Week — yes — we know it’s “science” but it was really nerdy, and really funny.
Robbie McGregor’s wonderful Berlusconi’s Last Bunga Bunga ad at the start of the show really made this — The rest is pretty good too.
DAVID McBRIDE’S SECRET STRATEGY
This is a little bit of a cheat, while we did chat to David McBride in 2023, the vast majority of this episode is from our 2022 Australian Secrecy Show from the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
BONUS:
OUR CLIMATE SPIN OFF CONVERSATION SHOW — THE GREATEST MORAL PODCAST OF OUR GENERATION:
Occasionally we publish a conversation we have with someone who is big in the climate and renewable energy worlds. When David Roberts from the
podcast came to Australia, I grabbed him for a quick 1:1 convo which has ended up being quite prescient for the times we’re living in now.COMING UP….
1,000,000th Download Show
We’re on sale now for our 1,000,000th download show, here’s the line up!
Sami Shah
Charlie Pickering
Kirsty Webeck
Dan Ilic (Me)
Richard Fidler (The man with the most podcast downloads in Australia)
+ DJ Andy McClelland
(Lewis Hobba….may join us over zoom if his baby is sleeping… [quietly])
THANKS
Thanks to
‘s Sarah Wilson for the shoutout this week. Big thanks to RØDE Microphones for their ongoing support. Thanks to Jacob Round on the teppanyaki timeline for making us sound so good each week. Alex Henry and Kate Holdsworth who have to put up with Lewis and I each Thursday night as we record the show, and for their incredible support for us touring live, copy editing, jokes suggestions, and problem solving.And special thanks to our Patreon supporters for keeping this show on life-support between sponsors.
Cheers
Dan Ilic
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