Shaming ScoMo in Times Square!

🎧 NEW PODCAST: Dane Simpson, Angela Lavoipierre, Lewis Hobba, Dan Ilic + Joe Hildebrand

Oct 15, 2021

G’day Fearmongers,

What a day it has been.

Starting out at 9:45am Scott Morrison at this point still had no plans to travel to Glasgow for COP26.

So A Rational Fear with the help over over 1,900 people paid for an epic and very public shame campaign against our government’s climate inaction...

… on the most iconic billboards in the world, in Times Square, New York City:

A Rational Fear @ARationalFear

Just another day in New York City — #JokeKeeper #Auspol

Seán Marsh: Visit Australia. We’re Rich In Sunshine, Wind & Climate Denial.

A nice apology, with Coal-I-con’s special guest Matt Canavan.

Cuddle A Koala (Before we make them extinct) — by Nordacious

Then at 2:45pm there was a divine intervention ⚡(Us? The Queen? who knows?!) and this happened:

SBS News @SBSNews

After weeks of resistance, Scott Morrison has announced he will attend the COP26 summit in Glasgow to represent Australia in crucial talks on climate change.

Now, I’m not saying that shaming the Prime Minister on the world’s most iconic billboard about his climate change record in front of a global audience forced him to reconsider going top COP26, but I’m also not, not saying that. Thanks team.

The Lead CNN @TheLeadCNN

“We have to drag our leaders to lead us,” comedian and podcaster Dan Ilic says about crowdfunding a Times Square billboard calling out lawmakers’ inaction on climate change.

On this week’s podcast:

This week’s fearmongers: Dane Simpson, Angela Lavoipierre, Lewis Hobba, and Dan Ilic (me).

We talk about the ins and outs of out-of-home media buying in the USA, ICAC, anti-vaxers trying to claim segregation — and we spend a good 40 minutes trying to understand why News Corp is trying to save the world with the promotion of climate action, when they’ve been such a malignant force for successive governments implementing meaningful climate policy for so long. To help us break it down we speak with the Editor at Large at the Daily Telegraph — Joe Hildebrand.

This podcast episode is best described as … chaotic good.

Hope you enjoy, let us know what you think in an Apple Podcasts review.

Cheers

Dan Ilic
Senior Out-of-Home Media Buyer

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