Keeping up with the Rubiales

🎧 PODCAST GUESTS: Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba, Tash Exelby & Issy Phillips

G’day Fearmongers,

We're back talking 🪱 worms, ⚽️ Spanish football saga, ✈️ Politicians expenses and in Extra Fear we talk about 🎙️ the voice interview on A Current Affair.

Guest fearmongers this week include: 

🎙️ Issy Phillips from FBi Radio and Pedestrian.
🎙️ Tash Exelby newsreader of renown.

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Please vote for us in the Listener’s Choice award at the Australian Podcast Award website— it’s a bit like the Logies of podcasting. I doubt we’ll win it, we only have 10,000 listeners because we haven’t murdered anyone and then tried to solve the crime.

ICYMI:

Albo was on ACA talking up The Voice. Langdon, renowned journalist who has been covering this story for a while, said a few things that were surprising. One was “My parents don’t get it.” and “My office doesn’t get it.” This is a failure on behalf of the Yes campaign. They’ve done a pretty good job communicating to educated folks about what it is, but what about the uneducated Channel Nine office? Who is talking to them in a language they know? Why aren’t they getting pitched The Voice parodies? Who is pitching them Constitutional Reform at First Sight? They need to get all the footy show EPs in the room, explain it to them, then get the Footy Show to make some very insensitive content around it. THAT is middle Australia.

But the more outrageous and troubling line from Langdon was when Albo posited that Government and Australia as a whole needed to do more listening to First Nations people, to which Langdon retorted “Hang on! Haven’t we been listening?” — Bloody hell. The Uluru Statement of The Heart has been around a while mate — and the ACA newsroom doesn’t know about it. Maybe — just maybe — you haven’t.

The last prominent indigenous person ACA platformed was Pauline Hanson when they paid for her to climb Uluru. It was a pretty funny story, entirely confected outrage about Uluru being closed to climbers. Aside from being gross. There were two great bits. Pauline Hanson being too scared to climb Uluru and this clip of Hanson claiming that she’s….. indigenous.

EXTRA FEAR:

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UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS:

We’ve got two live shows coming up — the Women in Media Conference Sept 9th and the Torres Strait Sept 18th. Yes performing on a Monday on Thursday Island.

Outrageous.

Cheers,

Dan Ilic
Voting F-Yes.

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