Tasmania Becomes New Zealand's West Island

A very special Tassie episode of the A Rational Fear podcast.

Dan Ilic

May 10, 2020

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THIS WEEK’S PODCAST: #POLITAS SPECIAL

On this week’s podcast Anna Kidd, Yanni Agisilaou, Lewis Hobba and Dan Ilic cover illegal dinner parties, how Tasmania can become a state of New Zealand, the north-south divide on the Apple Isle, and a smattering of animal news stories.

Also we chat with Anna Bateman, one of Senator Jacqui Lambie’s inner circle of advisors. She sheds light on the process of advising one of the loudest independent voices in the Australian Senate.

And Yianni does a great stand-up set from his cancelled Melbourne International Comedy Festival show.

Many thanks to Anthony Morgan who tried to join the show at the start but sadly the NBN wasn’t up to the job — see below:

A D Morgan @A_D_Morgan

@ARationalFear @danilic I'll get off this soon, possibly after this tweet, but listening to the intro where you say I live where there is spotty internet - I live across the road from an NBN fixed wireless tower. Regionally speaking, that's as good as it gets. The fault is with the fucking government.

WATCH THIS:

Exciting news Ray Martin lovers - I’m the Showrunner of a new ABC television show. Set your VHS recorder for 9pm this Wednesday. It’s a parody of a lifestyle show for the pandemic, chock full of Australian comedy names and celebrity guests. It’s going to be very good. Please pass this info onto the people in your life who still watch television.

Also, it could be the reason why we’ll be publishing the podcast at a slower cadence for the next month or so, as it turns out running a TV show during a pandemic is time consuming.

THANKS:

Thanks to Rupert Degas for his mateship voice over, and Jacob Round for doing the dishes and making us sound great.

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ONE MORE THING — BOOK CLUB:

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If you got this far — thank you very much.

If you didn’t — I get it! It’s Mother’s Day, you’ve got things to do.

Cheers

Dan Ilic
Chief Fear Officer.

A Rational Fear