🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOWS We’re back with the first A Rational Fear podcast for 2023. Both Lewis Hobba (who often is co-hosting on this podcast) and Jacob Round (who does all of the amazing sound engineering) have had kids in the last few weeks. That means we need even more of you to chip into the Patreon. With your help we can put these kids into the best private school podcast money can buy. Joking of course — we use the Patreon money for drugs*. 🎟 We are going on tour to Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne! Adelaide Fringe —  March 4thBrisbane World Science Festival — March 26thMelbourne International Comedy Festival — APRIL 2nd We’ve got great line-ups for each show, including Andrew Hansen, Alice Fraser and Gabbi Bolt for Adelaide. In Brisbane we have Mel Buttle, Many Nolan, Mark Humphries, and Dr. Jessie Christiansen who worked on the James Web Telescope! And in Melbourne we have Sami Shah, Grace Tame, Nat’s What I Reckon and too many more to list here! Our live shows are always so much fun, and the best live podcast recording experience you’ll ever come to. Discount code for Adelaide and Melbourne: “PODCAST” 🎙On the podcast this week: Minister for Arts — Tony Burke MPJournalist, author, opinionista — Antoinette LattoufGen Z’s voice of #Auspol — Hannah Ferguson from Cheek MediaWe talk: 💸 Adani dropping out of rich top ten.🤳 ACCC crackdown on influencers.🎪 Beach Cabanas.🎭 The National Cultural Policy. Lewis was going to beam in from his beach airbnb — but struggled to find good enough wifi — he’ll be back next week! Enjoy the pod! Cheers Dan Ilic *We actually use the Patreon money to pay for the costs of making the podcast and putting on live show, the satire industrial complex is very difficult to make money from, please subscribe.   🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/🎟️ BUY TICKETS TO THE A RATIONAL FEAR LIVE SHOWS   Dan Ilic  0:00  This podcast is supported in part by Australian ethical, irrational fear. This is big news. Louis is a new dad that's why he's not joining us tonight he had bedtime issues with the new baby couldn't put together a baby and the podcast it just doesn't work for him. You know as a man, you can't have it all this is true. You can't have it all. Jacob round also had a new baby you might know Jacob Brown, he's the wizard who makes a sound so great. His baby is only a few days old. He hasn't got a name yet. But if you are not a Patreon supporter, and you're going to become a patreon supporter to help feed these children, if you become a patreon supporter, you can choose a name yes, you can choose Jacob rounds kid's name I haven't told him this yet, but he's gonna be excited cuz he hasn't picked one yet. We'll take one from the Patreon hit us [email protected] forward slash irrational fear. Now also letting you know around the country we are going to be performing Adelaide march for with ours Fraser Gabby bald Andrew Hansen, Dylan Bane for news fighters, Melbourne at the Comedy Festival April 2 hours Fraser Gabi bulk nats what I reckon Grace time Sammy SHA Vidya Rajan and any McClellan is DJing it is already 15% sold out. I can't wait for that room to be completely sold out. So please get along to Melbourne. Also, if you live in Brisbane, march 26. We're performing at World Science Festival with Mark Humphries Melbourne or Dylan Bain and a woman who lives in Brisbane but also works in NASA who worked on the James Webb telescope. Dr. Jesse Christianson. She is joining us at World Science Week and you want to discount to Melbourne and Adelaide. You can all you got to do is become a patreon supporter or sign up to the email list at irrational fear.com And