A Rational Fear

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearMAILING LIST: www.arationalfear.comThe pod must go on — from our separate homes we keep cup and carry on — on the show this week we bring you the best and brightest brains on COVID19 including Eureka Prize winner Dr. Darren Saunders, comedian Rosie Piper, Dj Dylabolical, hosts Dan Ilic and Lewis Hobba and comedian Bec Melrose drops in to do 5min from her cancelled Melbourne Comedy Festival Show.(00:00) Preamble.(01:40) Start.(02:50) Introductions.(04:27) Sponsor: Visit the 90's.(06:22) The 3rd week of Coronarama.(12:28) Dr. Darren Saunders gives some COVID19 answers.(26:40) Alan Jones on the Coronavirus(29:10) Bec Melrose does 5min of her cancelled MICF show.(35:50) Wrap up(36:47) News FightersDan Ilic 0:00Well, before we start, the building committee festival has been cancelled. Lewis actually predicted this the day before they actually cancelled it on our last week's show. I've actually got a clip of you Lewis predicting this. Here it is. Now before we start letting people know that our Melbourne Comedy Festival show Tickets are on sale at this stage. The Melbourne Comedy Festival is still going. Yeah, I mean, what is it? It's currently Thursday evening, I would say we have 12 hours left for you to purchase tickets, feel good about them and then feel the need to return them when the coroner predicted predicted Louis hell but what do you think about that? I mean, obviously, I'm a genius. I see everything. It's palpable tonight. It's Thursday again $60 million. It's gonna be number 37. Touch all your money. I'm 37. Now if you if you get a refund, I should let you know. become one of our subscribers on Patreon. For as little as five bucks a month you can support a rational fear to bring you podcasts and videos. This week. We actually double Our Patreon subscriber limit term to 11. And a big shout out to someone named Margot haba. Who is now donating any relation Louis maga haba hey, yeah, that's myLewis Hobba 1:14mom shout for mom. She's been financiallyDan Ilic 1:18helping me out since day job. So it's still good to know that she hasn't laid off Thank you, mom. And also, for every patient subscriber who wins will expected like 50% of that to go to restaurant fears pitcher Patreon. Thank you very much, Louis. It's very generous of you. irrational fears are coated on gadigal Land of urination. I pay my respects to elder's past, present and emerging. Let's start the show.Unknown Speaker 1:42A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, camera,Unknown Speaker 1:48and gum and section 40 of a rationalUnknown Speaker 1:51fear recommended listeningUnknown Speaker 1:53by a mature audience.Dan Ilic 1:54Today on irrational fear cuantas is reportedly seeking a government bailout when asked What they did with their recent $5 billion profit, a spokesman suggested it was stuck on the back of the cuantas lounge. The NFL is seeking a bailout from the government claiming that Australia won't be Australia without Rugby League, which is news to people in Western Australia, South Australia Victoria Northern Territory in Tasmania who all said who is rugby lake. Tasmania has shut its border to mainland Australia. On top of a 14 day quarantine people will be deported from the island if they don't test positive to being a close cousin. There's plenty of toilet paper for everyone. This is irrational.Unknown Speaker 2:38irrational.Dan Ilic 2:50Welcome to irrational fear. Now let's meet our fear mongers tonight billed as one of Australia's premier transgender lesbian Canadians maybe it's rise pifo Hello Hello, in 2019 he was the winner of Australia's most prestigious science prize in 2020. He's shutting down his lab because as it turns out, being good at important work is not valued in Australia. It's Dr. Darren Saunders. Good, I will look I'm fine. And as someone who is pretty good for the apocalypse and as someone who has to live with the uncertainty every day in the cutthroat, chaotic world of US public broadcasting, it's Lewis. Hello. Hello, Dan. Yes, a joy to be here. Not broadcasting. I can't hear anything. It's actually can I say, my my Cynthia virus here and everyone's been working from home. This current setup of a million people speaking from different places, has become the norm. And I feel like I'm just back in high school watching my substitute teacher struggle with the DVD player again. And on the pots and pans, it's DJ diabolicalUnknown Speaker 3:59now Now I've always stood up the back end being the silent DJ and the whole by Paul Shaffer and I took a global pandemic to get me on the mic. You will probably regret it. Thank you, Dan.Dan Ilic 4:09A little later on the show broadcast. Alan Jones shares his view on Corona virus comedian Beck Melrose will be popping by two to five minutes after cancelled Melbourne Comedy Festival show and della balika will deliver us fresh new news fighters. But first, we couldn't do this show without our sponsors. Here's our first sponsor for tonight. Hi,Unknown Speaker 4:29I'm unindicted war criminal and foppish former Prime Minister Tony Blair. And I mean, look, these are uncertain times, right? Like 2020 his brothers coronavirus, the climate crisis and married at first sight. And since international travel has been banned, I'm inviting you to take a break and book a journey to somewhere when nothing interesting happens. The 90s I mean, look, you could learn to surf the web with Morgan Freeman.Unknown Speaker 4:55Click on Netscape NavigatorUnknown Speaker 4:56and type in www dot But you thought out the vista.comUnknown Speaker 5:02then search for the answer to anything you want. Like why can Kevin Costner doUnknown Speaker 5:06an English accent? Or go on a tour of the White House with my good colleague, Bill Clinton. And in this drawer is where I put all the things I want to disappear, lock cigars use tissues and genocide in Rwanda. I've never even heard of that place. Sir. Mr. Epstein's on the phone. Oh,Unknown Speaker 5:25excuse me,Unknown Speaker 5:26Jeffrey. Hi. Of course, Saturday's great for me. Or you could even visit the set of a television commercial with Donald Trump. I don't even drink vodka. They want me to sell it because I can sell it. Vodka. It'sUnknown Speaker 5:42fantastic. Believe me, but Oh, hang on a second. Hello. Hello Jeffrey. Jeffrey Epstein. My friend is a billionaire just like me. It's what we have in common. Saturday. I'll be there of course.Unknown Speaker 5:57So look, book a ticket to of the 90s when the war on terror was just sparkle in my eye. What has it hasn't finished yet? This month? Oh, good, who? Actually Don't tell me I'll watch it on DVR. So pimp your right to the 90s. Right? a time where if you wanted to enjoy an apocalypse, you have to go to the cinema. How about good deeds?Unknown Speaker 6:22Thank you.Dan Ilic 6:23This is irrational fear we're into the third week of coronavirus on last week on inside is paid event ensel and tweeted that when tweeted when the CMO into the studio he offered to shake everyone's hand. Later that afternoon the Prime Minister suggested that everyone stop shaking hands which gave us a huge release to everyone who is forced to meet the prime minister and Kobe did a monologue this week from his bath. The NBC today show as Al Roker the weatherman did the weather from his kitchen TV shows are doing shows with that audiences which is nothing new. We did we did it tonight lay all the time the difference is popular shows are seeing their audiences to stay at home and people in the middle Panic buying weed. So my friends, how is the apocalypse treating you so far?Unknown Speaker 7:05I thinkUnknown Speaker 7:07people would probably expect it to be worse than it is. Right. But I've been doing some thinking. Because a lot of people think that like comedy is in like a bit of crisis at the moment, right? Like the comedy festivals being cancelled and everything. And that's obviously, you know, a bad thing. But I think like, it's actually going to, sort of, in at least when like, everything kind of blows over in the end, it's actually going to set the comedy community out quite well. And I like I've been talking to a lot of comedians and whatnot. I've just got like a sort of like a list of things he that I'd like love to go through. Sort of like, tell everyone, what, what sort of good, good stuff we've got to look forward to right. So like, at least while we're all like self isolating, socially distancing and whatnot right now. There's a Everybody is being pushed to like the podcasting world, right?Dan Ilic 8:04Unfortunately, yeah, this is how we do it. We were unfortunately having to make a podcast over Google Hangouts. It's very shoddy.Unknown Speaker 8:11Yeah. Well, I think there's gonna be a lot more of that right and like obviously like, that's a great thing because all we want is a lot more straight white men telling us which movies we need to watch right? So I've talked to like a few people who have got some like podcasts in the in the works and I just want to go through some of them right now. So I've heard there's there's one coming up was called Mighty Morphin Power recap, right? Which is a it's two middle aged white men just sort of watching Mighty Morphin Power Rangers episode by episode and going through that and I can only imagine that that is going to be some truly interesting content. Another one that is come through my my friends podcast, you should go to the fuck are you looking at again, middle aged males Come on there and discuss all the best fights that they've gotten into over their, over their lifetime. So that's a pretty good one is there's also one called, we'll just tell you a mother, we ate it all, which is essentially it's two white males and a trans woman who watched sort of that American Pie style teen sex comedies every week and discuss those and I know you're thinking that doesn't sound like it has any legs at all. It couldn't even have 100 episodes. It didn't celebrate that today. Please listen, please listen.Dan Ilic 9:30Is this is this your podcast? Right?Unknown Speaker 9:33Oh, no, it's certainly not mine. No, I don't know he's talking about I don't have any involvement in that podcast at all. Please listen. We really need it. Please listen,Unknown Speaker 9:41this there's certainly going to be a lot of time for binge watching. So I see those podcasts going well, I'm just not sure about the restaurant review and travel podcasts how they're gonna car living,Unknown Speaker 9:51may not suddenly gonna suffer. Yeah.Unknown Speaker 9:56I think what it's gonna come down to is a lot of kind of reminiscing style. ones another one that I've heard of, sort of in the vein of in the vein of guys we fuck these chicks we've routed so I'm sure there'll be quite a lot of tasteful material covered in in that podcast yeah orUnknown Speaker 10:12remember what toilet paper was or what was foodUnknown Speaker 10:17Yeah, that was that was actually quite a good thing I haven't posted I wait I wait I might move out today and left behind or who gives a crap toilet paper so we are setDan Ilic 10:26oh my god that is my leaving behind gold.Unknown Speaker 10:29Yeah, I was surprised exceptDan Ilic 10:31you can watch your mom with it.Unknown Speaker 10:34You can watch it on with gold if you try hard enough.Unknown Speaker 10:36Yeah, probably get to that point.Dan Ilic 10:38I think it's a it's a rough endorsement if someone facing a period of potential quarantine with housemates is moving out right now. Like I don't want to spend two weeks with you specifically. Thanks not even two weeks. It's like It's like people would really have to be bunkering down for if month so I pick people that are saying the next five months are going to be awful in this house if I don't move. It's gonna be a real test, particularly if you live in a share house. I think a lot of people are talking about the the rate of babies going up in nine months after this, but I think people are gonna start talking about the rate of divorces going out.Unknown Speaker 11:20Statistically divorces have gone up in China because of the all the all the isolation. Well, really well. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's it's already in this in the stats.Unknown Speaker 11:30Yeah, that's the biggest problem actually. Yeah. Well, Darren, what's yourUnknown Speaker 11:34best shot his biggest problem?Dan Ilic 11:36Darren, what are you saying? What are you predicting will happen in five months time?Unknown Speaker 11:40Ah, look, I think I just want to point out that I think I was way ahead of the curve. I'm shutting down my lab because unless you're building covert test kits or vaccines, everyone's shutting down their lab. So that turned out to be quite prescient, actually. I'm just yeah, I'm, it's where are we gonna be in five months time? Well, I think the world's gonna look really different. I hate to be really heavy about that, but I think actually, you know, to put a positive slant on it, I reckon we're gonna come out the other side of much better society and a much better community. I think we're getting a really good reminder of what's actually important in life. And I think that's a good that's a good thing to hang on to. As we go into as we go into pastor it's definitely a good thing to hang on to. I've been eating I've been eating types of pasta and rice I never even knew existed this week.Unknown Speaker 12:23First time in about five years.Dan Ilic 12:27Darren, it's great to have you on the podcast because we're not experts at all. But you know, you are an expert. You are a doctor now a professor. So can you tell us I'm sure people were turning to you for all kinds of scientific advice because your head is often on the television. Often your voices often on the radio as a as a communicator of science. What are the kinds of questions I thought maybe I could ask you to collect a bunch of questions that people have been asking you and maybe you could quiz us tonight on the answers and so we'll we'll try and provide With the answers, and then you can tell us whether we're right or wrong.Dr. Darren Saunder 13:02Oh, this is perfect. I've got more questions than I can answer so I can feed these back to people this will be excellent. I reckon the good ones will lead off with is what? What's the effect of what bushfire smoke we all breathe in for months and months and months on what's going to happen? We've covered infection.Dan Ilic 13:20Your lungs will taste like smoked salmon.Unknown Speaker 13:26Fewer koalas are alive to die.Unknown Speaker 13:30That's a positive shadow that koalas can get covered up? That's a good question.Unknown Speaker 13:33Let's find out why I gave I gave them chlamydia.Rose Piper 13:39I think in effect it will have is because we were all told that we were breathing, whatever it was, like 37 dots a day or something like that. But now the economic downturn is probably going to cause some people to stop smoking. So it was like kind of getting your fixing before you before you quit, you know?Unknown Speaker 13:57Yeah, yeah, it's not not a bad way to look at it.Dan Ilic 14:00actually did buy a facemask during the bush fires that turned out to be quite handy in the long runUnknown Speaker 14:06ahead of the curve again,Unknown Speaker 14:07yeah, you're like NostradamusDan Ilic 14:13Listen to me more. But what what do you think Dan? What do you think the the ramifications of breathing in that bushfires mega?Unknown Speaker 14:21The actual answer is we probably don't know the guests or the hypothesis would be that we're probably a little bit more susceptible to infection all that smoke has been damaging our lungs the whole time we bring breathing it in and it's probably making us a little bit more susceptible to the infection as for having fictional play out in people had to say so it's not a good news story. That one.Dan Ilic 14:41There was such a weird point in kind of time where the smoke you couldn't really avoid it anywhere like you like with the corona virus. I feel like you can probably do if you don't have it, you can probably do your best to not have it for a long time. But the smoke was just so unavoidable because you couldn't really escape to any place that didn't have it.Unknown Speaker 15:01Yeah at one point I was sharing it the water tank where I was staying actually got permeated with smoke. It was like sharing scotch. It was not pleasant.Unknown Speaker 15:10Yeah, it sounds pretty good. It's not youDan Ilic 15:14could you could you could sell that at a Gwyneth Paltrow resort. Out showering genuine Australian bush is a $300 so I'm just gonna make a note of that. That's actually pretty good. What's your next question? Derek? All right, next question wasUnknown Speaker 15:32what is going to happen to everyone that's swimming and can we swimming pools? Can we swim in the ocean and avoid covertDan Ilic 15:39thought calls? Were a no no rush think the ocean should be fine, right?Unknown Speaker 15:43I hope the ocean is fine.Dan Ilic 15:45That's my thought to my thought is that the ocean is antibacterial. EveryUnknown Speaker 15:53interesting one isn't the ocean. Nobody knows the ocean. The sunlight kills a lot of germs. But if probably want to kill the viruses. ButDan Ilic 16:03before you go on are the answers to all your question is nobody knows. There's a lot ofUnknown Speaker 16:11things that we're all getting it right.Dan Ilic 16:13It's good. All right, great. What's the next question?Unknown Speaker 16:17When are we gonna have a vaccine?Dan Ilic 16:20I got this one. I got this one. I got this one. Nobody knows.Unknown Speaker 16:25Louis, what do you think?Unknown Speaker 16:26I would have said, Yeah, nobody knows. Dan is one of the few things we do we actually don't know.Unknown Speaker 16:34I'm gonna I'm gonna get confident andUnknown Speaker 16:36get on the front foot and say within a month.Unknown Speaker 16:38Damn. Oh, that's a big goal. Wow.Unknown Speaker 16:42I was actually hoping that Louis would say that because then it would happen. Oh, that's notUnknown Speaker 16:49to say that I'm afraid.Unknown Speaker 16:53So this one I picked deliberately because I can't actually answer this one. This is ah,Unknown Speaker 16:58so I don't know if you saw Yes, I think it was yes. TodayUnknown Speaker 17:00the very first human guinea pigs patients got the first test doses of one of the new vaccines. SoUnknown Speaker 17:07where were they? Where can we get it from?Unknown Speaker 17:10Woollies? I think I think Trump's bought it already. Probably. That's whatUnknown Speaker 17:13he tried to he tried to buy one of the German companies.Dan Ilic 17:16So where were they doing where who gotUnknown Speaker 17:18the first vaccine? Why don't we find out? I believe they were in Europe. I could be wrong. I don't remember precisely. We've got a we got a vaccine in development in Australia that's been in animals now. So it's almost ready to test in humans. And then the trick is making enough for hundreds of millions of people that that will take a few months at least.Dan Ilic 17:36Right. Is that when you're gonna start your lab again, that's the that's the plan.Unknown Speaker 17:40We're just gearing up for that. Now.Dan Ilic 17:42Do you have another question for us about 19? just mash misconceptions.Unknown Speaker 17:46Oh, look, here's the one. Here's the question of the day or the question of the week is, why haven't they shot schools yet?Unknown Speaker 17:53Why haven't they shot the schools yet? That's the one that's on everyone's lips around here. Why haven't they shot the schools yet?Dan Ilic 17:58Because people need To know about white history and forget about colonialism. That's why schools Yeah, this time, the white man fixes everything. That is why they haven't shut the schools yet.Unknown Speaker 18:09There's probably too many decision makers in there who've just had the kids get to school age who have gone I'm not fucking taking them back in the house now. I feelUnknown Speaker 18:18likeDan Ilic 18:20it is consistent with like this government's long term war against teachers, namely that it's hoping that instead of having to underpaid them, though, they can just get what?Unknown Speaker 18:42destination crook?Unknown Speaker 18:44Yeah. It's funny. Remembering the value of all of these kind of jobs like nurses and teachers, right.Dan Ilic 18:50What is what is it Darren, I mean, you're someone who's seen the brunt of this kind of attitude from our government that there seems to be a dislike or distrust of expertise of really smart people who know things. Why is it that this government does have all got this government? Not in this not it's not particularly this government coming through all around the world? Yeah, have a have a distaste and a distrust of people with expertise and doing everything they can to seemingly defund them and get rid of them. I thinkUnknown Speaker 19:22the brutal truth of that is because they delivered some uncomfortable facts and truth to them that didn't suit their sort of political ends. And so they undermine them as much as they could, you know, people have been profiteering politically and financially for years of undermining facts and truth.Dan Ilic 19:38But getting rid of like that getting rid of like the pandemic unit for the CDC in America seems like a completely counterintuitive act,Unknown Speaker 19:48given that we're just they're just sitting around doing nothing. It's justDan Ilic 19:52wasting money, and then we can get them back. We want them we know where they are. We can get them back whenever we want.Unknown Speaker 20:00No like firemen, they just sit around all day doing nothing get rid of them.Unknown Speaker 20:03Most medicine?Dan Ilic 20:05Do you honestly think Darren that that is like that is the motive like it's it is purely, you're you're delivering information that is too dangerous for us politically to even have.Unknown Speaker 20:14But I think well, you're probably I mean, if you look at the climate change, the climate change is an obvious one, you know, that's where it seems to be the lightning rod for this sort of approach of denying truth, or whatever you want to call it. And it was literally that there were some really rich people and big companies that were, you know, their profits are under threat, and they've spent a lot of money trying to prop up those profits by sitting down, you know, we saw the tobacco companies do it before them and then and then what's happened is the political parties have all figured out that that's a really good way of getting hold of power is to is to take that approach, you know, and I think that that's fine when the threat is just as existential as the as the coronavirus, but it's, you know, 20 or 40 years down the road and suddenly that model doesn't work when the threat is very real and very now, huh?Dan Ilic 20:56Well, here are some good things about Kovac 19. There has been a huge reduction in co2 emissions up to 10%. In some countries, because of the ban on cruise ships, the Venice canals have become extremely clear and you can see to the bottom bottom of them without pollution and sediment. And another good thing about the Cova 19 is that your revision has been cancelled for this year. So no Eurovision what are the good things have we seen out there because it covered 19 do you thinkUnknown Speaker 21:25a lot of videos of penguins loose in zoos looking at the fish for them all sounds pretty good.Unknown Speaker 21:32I think my favourite good news story was the directive from ISIS that came out through the wayUnknown Speaker 21:41ISIS put out a press release banning theUnknown Speaker 21:47suicide bombers from going to Europe because obviously, you know, Venice, probably beautiful but you know, even all h&s sit up today. They've ended it. If terrorists you go into EuropeUnknown Speaker 22:03you don't want to you know, blow off a building while you're feeling a bit snotty in the nose thereUnknown Speaker 22:10is a one way ticket surely I don't quite know what they're saying.Unknown Speaker 22:16And then I believe the the mayor of Baltimore has ordered everyone to stop shooting each other so they can. So they can create rooms for in the hospitals for covered victims. So I think they'll be a massive downturn in street violence until we run out of toilet paper and then there'll be a massive upturn in street violence.Dan Ilic 22:37Well, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been making great content from his home he's been advocating for social distancing you may have seen earlier in the week him feeding his ponies inside his home. Here is one of him sitting in a sitting in a in a hot tub, smoking a cigar giving some very good advice.Unknown Speaker 22:55I just finished a bike ride and a little bit of workout and I just didn't keep staying at home all the way from the crowd and away from outside. The reason why I'm saying that is because I still see photographs and videos of people sitting outside compares all over the world and having a good time and hanging out in crowds. That is not wise, because that's how you can get the virus. That's how you get it, like contact with other people. So stay away from crowds stay away from being in restaurants and outdoor cafes, especially now it's springtime, all the kids are going to the beach and celebrate and drink and all that stuff. This is not a good idea to stay away from the crowd, go home, and then we can overcome this whole problem. This whole virus in no time, but you got to go and follow those orders. Just remember, stay at home. Don't go go to crowds, but they took it down.Dan Ilic 23:55Think he's been incredibly responsible. He is the most responsible vendor out there. I've been trying to tell my mom to stay away from her church and stop going to the shops. But she just ignores me She completely says she says, you young people are too worried we're at church and we're not coughing over each other. The upside of that is I can say my inheritance will be coming a little bit earlier than I expected, but it's silver linings, a silver lining, how do we convince how do we convince our parents that they should be staying home kalon that there's a property that they can buy inside their already existing property?Unknown Speaker 24:33negatively?Unknown Speaker 24:38Many negatively,Unknown Speaker 24:41that it just sort of folds in on itself, and then they'll never leave. They'll always be searching for that next property that we can't haveUnknown Speaker 24:49a good excuse for them to be more xenophobic, because then they can blame someone for them. Having to beDan Ilic 24:57I hate to tell this story, but my mom, you very quietly xenophobic. whenever she's telling anecdotes she will dip her voice whenever she has to name the race of the person in the anecdote so she'll be like, and then at the shops I saw, man and he just went. Well, that's nice Alicia, Alicia blunting is xenophobia.Unknown Speaker 25:18My mom went from complete and utter coronavirus denial to full blown prepper in 24 hours. So I had a quiet word to use.Unknown Speaker 25:26What was the turning point? Because I'm curious. Yeah. Cuz a lot of Berman's like everything's fine. And then they turn what was the feed for them?Unknown Speaker 25:32I pointed out she was letting me down. You know, I was going on TV and radio and telling everybody all this stuff. And she was basically making me look like a fool for ignoring me. And, you know, no mom wants to embarrass this unlike that. I was talking to a girl and she's gone from, you know, you need to teach the kids how to grow their own food they need to know how to so she went right back to full on 1930s self sustaining skills. Can she talk to my mom, we can swap numbers.Unknown Speaker 25:57I think the main thing the responsibility for all of us to do Is share our netflix possible with our parents.Unknown Speaker 26:05My mom the shares with me.Dan Ilic 26:10I'm just trying to do as many irrational fear podcasts as we can because I know as a passionate subscriber, we make a lot of money. We'll just keep listening and you'll never be able to leave the house. Thank you, Margot harbour. Thank you very much. A little later on comedian back Melrose will join us to do a type five from her cancelled Melbourne Comedy Festival shot. But I don't know if you heard this. Earlier this week. Alan Jones compared the corona virus to climate change claiming it was a high experimentally yesterday and clarified a few things. Good morning everyone. A lot of people have suggested to me that I'm not taking Corona virus seriously enough by comparing it to the hopes of climate change. Oh, God. Well, let me tell you Cova 19 as they're calling it, that some sort of scientist or something Ah God, nerds. kovat 19 is a hoax much like carbon dioxide. I haven't seen it with my own eyes so it doesn't exist. And my eyesight is very good, like posted on the door on the other side of my Southern Highlands studio where I'm broadcasting from for the next six months for no reason in particular, I could read a sign that says warning stay 1.5 metres away from this door. Nothing to do with coronavirus I've just got to keep the home studio sounding crystal clear. Don't want some sort of goose coming in here squawking at me, and I'm not talking about any easy God. Now my good friend Scott Morrison has just told me you must stop panic buying it's clearly an Australian Well let me tell you something. He got something wrong there. The only thing you should be panic buying is my new album, Alan Jones's songs for a life of isolation. Got me Alan Jones singing all of your favourites like oh bye byeUnknown Speaker 28:00Don't want to pay OhUnknown Speaker 28:07give us a call the open lineUnknown Speaker 28:10wonderful. Don't forget that classic don't don'tUnknown Speaker 28:16don't sketch show close to me. And how about a cheeky Jewett? You give me feedUnknown Speaker 28:25when you kiss me fever when you hold me tightUnknown Speaker 28:32in the morning fever all throughoutUnknown Speaker 28:35the night taken away Anthony KaliaDan Ilic 28:38god what a voice wait till you hear him sing our water voice. We had to do it on Skype but still you get the idea so don't believe what you read. There is no Corona virus. If you can't see it, it doesn't exist a bit like the Bledisloe Cup. I've never seen it so we've never lost it. All ballad joads Alan Jones there.Unknown Speaker 28:58That's right. I haven't I haven't been travelling work for a few weeks but I feel like I just had a nice taxi ride to the airport. That was fantastic.Dan Ilic 29:04irrational fear and I haven't touched my face in weeks and weeks since the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has been cancelled I thought wouldn't be great to get some of our comedy Friends of the show to come and do their best tight five from the cancel shows that they can't perform in Melbourne and coronavirus is really knocked that right out of the park. Now we have to do it on Google Hangouts, but we're going to try it anyway. I thought we'd get back Melrose to give it a go since she's gonna be on the show on irrational fear next week, I thought what better way to get her to come on the show but do a bit of a warm up by doing her best High Five from her cats of Melbourne, Melbourne Comedy Festival show. So ladies and gentlemen without any further ado back Mel rose.Unknown Speaker 29:51Hello are legends. How are we doing?Dan Ilic 29:53Yeah, well.Unknown Speaker 29:55Good, good.Unknown Speaker 29:57Nice crowd work.Unknown Speaker 30:01What I do for a living?Unknown Speaker 30:03I thought I do. I'm the top five of my office gear because some I thought I wrote that thinking it'd be evergreen and I'd be able to use it forever, but we don't have offices anymore. So I might as well give it a run.Unknown Speaker 30:17Please come straight from work. Give us a word. Yeah,Unknown Speaker 30:23that's all right. Don't worry.Unknown Speaker 30:25What's blocked isn't it? I've just started working in an office so my zest for life is draining faster than the Murray Darling I can assure you No one's talking to one another like human beings in the office. There's all this jargon and buzzwords and shit that get in the white. My favourite one they use it my work is as per my last email. Have we heard this?Unknown Speaker 30:49A power move. As per my last email. It's the closest you can get to saying Fuck off. You grow up at work, isn't it?Unknown Speaker 31:00As per my last name I haven't got the confidence to use as per my last name I like 50 Bernie brown TED Talks short of the conference it takes to use as per my last email but there's so much of this bizarre language at work I kept hearing my boss say well why don't you give that project to back she's got capacity but once we got one over the back she's got capacity pass that over the back she's got capacityUnknown Speaker 31:25to fucking Tupperware containerUnknown Speaker 31:28absolutely ridiculous. And everyone works worried about AI taking their jobs robots taking our jobs. I'm not that worried yet. I've seen the test online to prove you're not a robot. I reckon it's I can't check a box. So pick out a bridge in a lineup. I don't reckon they'll be coming for our jobs anytime soon. But even when they do, like my job, I don't give a shit. Let's see you try and machine learn your way through the social obstacle course. passive aggressive If kitchen signs we did set in my office had a sign above another sign that said read the sign.Unknown Speaker 32:11Never mind a robot that shit would short circuit a robot.Unknown Speaker 32:16We are decades away from developing the kind of technology that's going to be able to definitely navigate pretending to give a fuck about nails weekend's No, but we can do the same argument about I don't mean that it's going to save us so much time. So what we're just going to find more bullshit to fill the time with anyway. All the time we saved not having to turn our own butter that bought a training time just dissolved in extra weeks in a single generation. But my boss has been trying to get in a roll up but my work amongst a spate of redundancies and he kept trying to get us to do a sweep for the last races and no one was ever came. And I felt kind of sorry for him. So All right, so I printed out photos of everyone in the office and put us all into a little bowl. You're about to pick someone out.Unknown Speaker 33:08Now we just have to wait and see who gets the next redundancy.Unknown Speaker 33:13Someone's gone home with a hammer. Someone's kids aren't going to Disneyland this year. But we'll pull it ourselves a glass of yellow and we filed into the boardroom watch the real race unfold. It's a beautiful day for it. The race it stops a nation the crow's nest regional office redundancy cop. Janet from accounts is playing up in the barriers and what do you know what Alan the it lead made it to the start after having every Monday off for the last financial quarter.Unknown Speaker 33:45It is a miracle.Unknown Speaker 33:48They're all in. The lights are on set.Unknown Speaker 33:52Racing in the crow's nest regional office redundancy copy combo from comms is started strong closely followed by as per my last email Do you have five for a quick chat and Kathleen What do you even do? They round the corner and who called the unions coming down the outside buffeted by clearly the intern mansplain Mark has midfield on the rails just behind no before I've had my coffee and that's sort of my job description. Coming down the street is unsolicited neck massage on med KPI and some pre k my sandwich. Just a quick one for years going steady. Peter from risk is yelling, but nobody's listening. Hop ahead to For God's sake. Rob, why do you have the microwave? Oh, we've had a fall. It's clearly the intern. Clearly the interns broken down at the 650 and Neil says millennials just can't hack it in the workplace off the road. Deborah the gender and diversity lady is going strong having a renaissance in relevance off to some dodgy comments were made at the Christmas party. Janet from accounts hasn't wasted energy on a single smile as they had for him and he called the union's out in front of Monday morning small talk common from concert Oh, good birthday song. But he comes accidental reply Oh, accidental reply. Oh, Challenge by Rich Craig left jr in the lunchroom 350 to go in the crow's nest regional office, redundancy kaput, it's over called the union number called the union. Kathleen What do you even do and get fucked at smartcard, but who's this coming down the outside? It's the favourite wrench reparations is the line down the outside. He's not going anywhere. He plays tennis with the chairman. He's utterly useless and he's here to stay at wrench taking out the crow's nest regional office redundancy cop. hoffa had to wake on fire the CEO and a further third between should have stayed in Union I'm useless but the director is my uncle.Unknown Speaker 35:34Thanks, guys. Thanks very much. My I lost my job but I did want a hand.Dan Ilic 35:41You can't say back Melrose at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival tickets are not on sale now. Well, we're gonna be back weekly with irrational fear since our Comedy Festival show isn't going so please hit us up on Patreon give us a few bucks a month. Also FBI Radio where we normally record this needs your help. So please go to FBI radio.com for slash donate and give them a few bucks particularly if you live in Sydney and you love independent radio and and great music Special thanks to this episode to Rupert de gas Jacob Brown, FBI radio, Darren Saunders Lewis haba, Rose Piper, Dillon, Bain and the wonderful Beck Melrose.Unknown Speaker 36:25News guys.Dan Ilic 36:27Thanks so much. We'll leave you with the latest news fighters on the coronavirus Dylan Do you want to introduce it?Unknown Speaker 36:34Sorry coronavirus I actually did it on the NBA March Madness. No one I haven't haven't.Unknown Speaker 36:44What's coronavirus?Unknown Speaker 36:47This is new spiders.Unknown Speaker 36:52So you don't have to. One of theUnknown Speaker 36:54great things about the current age of having internet and social media is being able to watch your favourite celebrity breakdown over the corona virus pandemic in real time. sama handling it better than others he is rapid kadhi Bay who had her to a cancelledUnknown Speaker 37:09guess why because Corona Corona virus is thisUnknown Speaker 37:19Corona virus shake on me like a couple of weeks after she was gonna be a couple of months after she let me know soccer star motherfucking backing up all foods a man clear so a bass can move to motherfucking Antarctica which once again cardi Bay the voice of reason in an age of confusion. Meanwhile, Arnold Schwarzenegger is living his best life hanging out at home with Danny DeVito. Oh, no, wait, sorry. That's a miniature horse.Unknown Speaker 37:45Luna loves carrots. Whiskey loves carrots. I just said my little bitter vegan food. Oh, that was yummy. Hmm. I just had a fantastic broker that the house amount, Jim.Unknown Speaker 37:58Yeah, I am at home. Take Michiko Both hills stoegerUnknown Speaker 38:05finished a bike ride and a little bit of workout and I just you know keep staying at home.Unknown Speaker 38:10Yes Do like on a stay at home, but maybe don't smoke a cigar I think we might need your lungs to be as healthy as possible. Meanwhile, Michael Stipe from REM isn't coping too well. It's the end of the world as we know it. And I feel stop trying to help Michael Stipe And don't you dare pivot to that shiny happy people bullshit either. We need you to stay calm in this time of crisis. Now a lot of musicians are getting in on holding online quarantine concepts, including Chris Martin of Coldplay whose music is like coronavirus for your ears.Unknown Speaker 38:49They were OhUnknown Speaker 38:52look, I'm not trying to say that keyboard sounded bad but geez I think the audio is better on Keyboard Cat Just when things couldn't look any worse, Willie Nelson son Lucas hates us about the years with the biggest cliche he could reach for.Unknown Speaker 39:22Now look, if any government out there is listening Scott Morrison Trump bars Angela Merkel, the UN who I don't care, please Institute an immediate indefinite ban on performances of hallelujah. This is actually a policy I've been pushing for years long before Corona virus but this is the time we can make it happen. Meanwhile, Aussies returning home from overseas are going to be facing two weeks of self isolation. And most of them seem to be handling it pretty well. Yeah, just gonna lock myself in and just have some kinds for kotlin eyes.Unknown Speaker 39:53You're gonna spend the next two weeks again thanksUnknown Speaker 40:04Okay, that's news five is an irrational fear to listen to the full episode, subscribe to news fighters on your podcasting app or check us out at news fighters calm. I'm Dylan Bane. Keep washing your hands and bye for now.Unknown Speaker 40:16This is News spiders where we find the news. So you don't have toTranscribed by https://otter.aiA Rational Fear on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

https://bitly.com/ARF_MICF🎫 Melbourne Comedy Festival Tickets STILL ON SALE: ☕ https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearChip in with our Patreon:📧 http://www.arationalfear.com/Subscribe to the email:Fearmongers this week are Chris Taylor, Bridie Connell and Professor Hilary Bambrick from the the QUT school of public health and social work. We also have special guests Harry Mountbatten-Windsor and Bernie Sanders as voiced by the insanely talented Rupert Degas.00:00 House keeping.01:40 Start03:00 Guest Intro04:45 Prince Harry Sketch05:50 Coronavirus talk19:30 Professor Hilary Bambrick on COVID1929:27 National Bushfire Recovery Fund33:00 Senator Bernie Sanders34:55 CreditsTHANKS TO:Jacob Round, Rupert Degas, and FBi Radio TRANSCRIPT BY OTTER.AI:Dan Ilic 0:00Now before we start letting people know that our Melbourne Comedy Festival show Tickets are on sale on this stage, the Melbourne Comedy Festival is still going. Yeah, I mean, what day is it? It's currently Thursday evening, I would say we have about 12 hours left for you to purchase tickets, feel good about them and then feel the need to return them when the corona quit hit. So please go and buy Melbourne Comedy Festival tickets. I think we're about halfway sold. It's really great. We're going to have a great show. We've got the ARIA award winning bridey and white from tonight, Lee. We've got the Walkley award winning Patricia Cabela's we've got the Walkley award losing James Colley the multiple award winner Alice Fraser DJ Tila and Bain will be there and also Louis and I we've been nominated for many things like you've been nominated for most hygienic man, that'sUnknown Speaker 0:40true. Um, I lost toLewis Hobba 0:44God I got myself into a pickle here. Who's a really hydrating person. Mr. Shea There we go.Unknown Speaker 0:53I was thinking of something completely different. Oh my god. All sudden you sit down with a real surprise. Anyway, the show we better than that.Unknown Speaker 0:59You We also have a Patreon which we launched last week. So go to patreon.com forward slash irrational feet and give us some spare change like three bucks a month, Louis and I've been doing a restaurant fee for about eight years. And we decided this year we're gonna go pro.Unknown Speaker 1:13I want to get rich.Unknown Speaker 1:14And a big thank you to the following people who are giving us 11 bucks a month in total Julia Polito, Patti McIntosh, Susan Cobra and team Hughes for being our very first Patreon subscribers that $11 is going to very good use. This episode of rational fear is made on gadigal land in the eora nation we pay our respects to elder's past, present and emerging sovereignty was never seated. Let's start the show.Unknown Speaker 1:39A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks can rub and gum and section 40 of a rational fear recommended listening by emerge your audience.Unknown Speaker 1:52Today on irrational fear in what appears to be not a marketing stunt for a Capitol Avenue nightclub. Tom Hanks has come down with coronavirus on the Gold Coast. He is undergoing social distancing with his volleyball wife Wilson. Sorry, Rita Wilson. I didn't realise that pole had a first name anyway. Okay. And Scott camp says that earning $350,000 from the government for doing one appearance and full social media posts is his business. And a pretty good one Minister for employment. Kelly cash says that the government wanted Scott cam because he's just a typical tradie over quotes and under delivers, and in the wake of Corona virus related economic meltdown. The federal government has mercifully killed a surplus that never existed and is implementing a $17 billion stimulus package, including cash payments of $750. to people who can prove that they voted for the coalition. Stop picking your nose and touching your face. This is irrational fear.Unknown Speaker 2:59All right, welcome. irrational fear. Joining us tonight our fear mongers include a writer performer, a bon vivant it is Chris Taylor.Chris Taylor 3:07I'm thinking my bond move on days are numbered. Are you allowed to go to bars anymore? Or is it all button?Unknown Speaker 3:14She is an area award winning Saturday standard rock on her. It is a variety inconelUnknown Speaker 3:21This is the most highbrowUnknown Speaker 3:22sounding professional fee. Don't worry, we will ruinUnknown Speaker 3:25the illusion very shortlyUnknown Speaker 3:26and he's a hand sanitizer connoisseur it is Louis Silva.Unknown Speaker 3:31Please double check this episode's recording Damn. Yeah, I'm pretty sure what are the main to bring it up. But it's not the first time it's happened. And by even just last week, we were here and the show that we recorded was probably the felt like there was no environments where I got a weird hygienic setup that I couldn't finish with a punch line. I was really knocking them down lastUnknown Speaker 3:50night. It was the tightest irrational fear I've ever heard. I think what's held the show back is that Dan has recorded them in the past. When it's just silence I find there's a slickness. is a Pisces and energy to them that's probably worth replicating on more than one occasion.Unknown Speaker 4:04Well, I would love to thank you both for being here and as a special gift here is a rawUnknown Speaker 4:07threeUnknown Speaker 4:08ply toilet paper.Unknown Speaker 4:12That's just showing off.Unknown Speaker 4:14You can have a roll Ah, take that home or give it to a loved one. Okay, a little later on in the show. Tonight we'll be discussing this week's disappointing Democratic primary with presidential nominee senator Bernie Sanders. So stick around for that. We also asked questions, the big questions, in fact, like what happened to that national bushfire recovery fund? And we wade into the petri dish that is the coronavirus with what I should say is an interview with an actual epidemiologist who is the Head of School of Public Health and Social Work at Qt but first we have a sponsor for today's show. Someone who's done a bit of social distancing themselves.Unknown Speaker 4:49Greetings former subjects Harry here formerly known as Prince now of course, Harry Mountbatten Windsor. Gosh, that's a mouthful. I don't know how the normies do it. Anyway, I'm a former distant heir to the throne of the British Kingdom now full time ruler of the at Sussex royal Instagram account and it's my pleasure to offer my family services to you. My wife and I are very good at the following our silver level service includes hours of inane chit chat cutting ribbons, looking at things pointing at things. Or for more premium service, try our goldUnknown Speaker 5:17level packageUnknown Speaker 5:18that's looking at things and pointing at things whilst doing an end chitchat and cutting a ribbon. At this level we can even kiss your baby or for little extra you can kiss us if you like, but please, please don't ask me if I can dress up like a Nazi. That's Platinum level and you probably can't afford that. Well, maybe you can. Either way. Let us know your budget. We're available for hire all year round, all around the world. So slide into our DMS today.Unknown Speaker 5:43tonnes of conditions apply baby kissing only available in coronavirus free countries Nazi uniform will be self supplied and will be burned at the end of engagement.Unknown Speaker 5:49I love it. Look, I've put my hand up. I've been guilty of this too. But if ever there was an example in comedy of effect, one goesUnknown Speaker 6:00He comes from a family who were actual Nazis. And yet Harry, who just had a dress up party wants to do that, fleetingly. We're still how many years old? 20 years old still doing jokes about it. Well,Unknown Speaker 6:11you know, I hate to say this in a roomful of comedians, but we've all done it. Sure. I mean,Unknown Speaker 6:17we all have something.Unknown Speaker 6:20I mean, for me, it was the goat fucking.Unknown Speaker 6:24Yeah. Well, ladies, I don't know how you feel about this week. It certainly feels like for the last week, it's been probably like reliving the first five minutes of a disaster movie over and over again. Like you turn on the radio. And it's the end of the world you turn on the TV. It's the end of the world. Of course, we're talking about coronavirus. How do you guys feel? The Zeitgeist is out there at the moment for Corona related material.Unknown Speaker 6:46It's genuinely Interesting, isn't it because I personally oscillate between been kind of quite concerned about it. And thinking the world's gone completely batshit crazy and I think I don't know if There's a middle ground between those two or one of those positions is correct. It's certainly true that no one really knows how bad this is gonna get which is what makes it genuinely scary. I mean, I'm personally not really worried about dying or even getting the job but I am worried about inconvenience. Yeah,Unknown Speaker 7:13well that's the thing is that because it's like in the disaster movies, it's like Jeff Goldblum running in and going, guys like I told you that this crazy virus was going to come and it turns everyone crazy and they turn into zombies whereas this would be Jeff Goldblum running and going guys it's pretty bad cold. Yeah, you don't get a pretty bad cold.Unknown Speaker 7:31Please stay inside by yourself to like my dream.Unknown Speaker 7:36But yeah, there's no like, you know, Jurassic Park theme. There's no epic kind of. Yeah, I want a bit more.Unknown Speaker 7:42That's what we need. We need a theme song for the corona virus. I actually have some stings for this segment. I'm just gonna play them as we go. Let me know what you think they're pretty obvious.Unknown Speaker 8:05There's a few things I hate about that.Unknown Speaker 8:08And I'm gonnaUnknown Speaker 8:10let me list them, but I'll just leave you with number one. Weird Al Yankovic. Weird Al Yankovic came out this week and said please stop asking me to do my CoronaUnknown Speaker 8:24that withoutUnknown Speaker 8:29before we recorded this Friday, I've got a stings and I'm pretty sure Brady would like them.Unknown Speaker 8:37I have to tell you something, just as a quick aside of that, one of the things that I found really fascinating psychologically about this whole thing is is the cabin fever that people are experiencing been quarantined and you know, isolated for some people. It's just that two week period, but in some places around the world, people have been in their apartments now for a couple of months, which obviously will have psychological effects. But there has been a microphone to song that was release, which gets progressively bleaker, as you watch it. There's oldest content that's coming out. And look, I'm sure the four of us we're all comedians, if we were isolated for months, we'd probably be like, yeah, time to launch a YouTube channel like we do it.Unknown Speaker 9:13That's what a rational theory so I haven't jumped in yet.Unknown Speaker 9:16But it's interesting because a lot of the stuff that's coming out, you know, started very funny and sharp and is getting progressively weirder as a cabin fever. Really,Unknown Speaker 9:26I think this is a story of Corona I think, you know, Corona, the corona virus 19 we've all been saying this story. It did start off quite benign. It's like, Oh, it's in China. Oh, it's in it's another place. Oh, it's another place now it's here. But in like in Italy, the death rate is significant. Like it's something like 80% I can honestlyUnknown Speaker 9:41say Is there ever been a better time to go to Italy?Unknown Speaker 9:45We've all been there. Well, I share a lot of people have been there and the queues until the Duomo in Makkah square in Venice, or to see the cathedral in Florence right now. Sure. There's a risk of picking up a job. For the convenience of getting straight into some of the world's greatest sites with no other crowds in the way you could have a gondola sing to you through a flu mask or we canUnknown Speaker 10:12set up theUnknown Speaker 10:14exclusive toUnknown Speaker 10:15go on a Chris Taylor chaser tour. finallyUnknown Speaker 10:18make it a cruiseUnknown Speaker 10:22I've got another sting.Unknown Speaker 10:33Hey, that is mom's Good luck song and now you'veUnknown Speaker 10:38I've already started judging people who call it covered 19 you know, like there's two types of people. Those of us I'm still a bit old school I go with coronavirus arcanist people now when you're at barbecues or wherever, trying to sound a bit moreUnknown Speaker 10:50American. I've done a bit more readingUnknown Speaker 10:52on four. I've read the Lancet this week. Cova 90. Use the Latin to describe your dog and call it canineUnknown Speaker 11:02stick to it.Unknown Speaker 11:02It's the best he comes back and goes I just came back from each gun boom.Unknown Speaker 11:08My friendUnknown Speaker 11:10stop calling it coronavirus Dan can't do half his pantsUnknown Speaker 11:15please for the sake of day they still got Kobe.Unknown Speaker 11:26I do have oneUnknown Speaker 11:27I do have one more. Okay IUnknown Speaker 11:29need toUnknown Speaker 11:32run around the world a lot of things being cancelled. The NBA is being cancelled cancelled. The NBA.Unknown Speaker 11:38Cancel College has gone too far.Unknown Speaker 11:40One NBA player last week whereas was at a press conference and joked that he had coronavirus and then at the press conference touched all the microphones that was last week. This week. He's been diagnosed with Corona virus conferences have been cancelled. Mona's doc mofo has been cancelled. hipsters gonnaUnknown Speaker 11:56swim in the nude and winter now.Unknown Speaker 11:59Coachella has been postponed South by Southwest was cancelled James Bonds, the release of James Bond has been moved to the end of the year. That's really interesting because if it was just a normal normal theatre release from a normal studio, it just would just go out but like because MGM has one film franchise and they bank the house on it, they've got to move.Unknown Speaker 12:18Also, I heard a rumour that is completely unfounded. So I really must stress that this might not be true, but I think yeah, that the plotline is loosely. pandemic base. Oh, really? Right.Unknown Speaker 12:31Wow.Unknown Speaker 12:33Wow. I actually woke up on the weekend. I was like, I feel a bit sick. So I'm like, oh God. So I stayed in and was like flicking through Netflix. And all of the top films over the weekend. Were like contagious and like people are just staying at home watching like what they think of is now a documentary.Unknown Speaker 12:50They've gone viral.Unknown Speaker 12:52AIDS epidemic what was everyone just watching.Unknown Speaker 12:58stuck insideUnknown Speaker 13:00Yeah, there's one event in France that continued Friday that you you noticedBridie Connell 13:03is Look, I love this story. I kind of think it's quite inspiring, which is absolutely not the angle that most media have taken to this story, but in a town in the northwest of France, there you know, despite all of the advice of the local health bodies to stay at home and to maintain, you know, distance and a bit of social isolation and be very careful and hygienic, and don't and not to congregate. Almost 4000 people came out dressed as Smurfs to break the world record for the amount of people dressed to Smurfs at one time. Yeah, just reckless defiance in the face of this adversity. And I love it because I feel like if the world is ending, let's go out being the weirdos that we are doing the things that we love.Unknown Speaker 13:48Don't even if you don't break the record for the most amount of space, you probably would break the record for the most amount of dead Smurfs.Unknown Speaker 13:58The experts are recommending handling And social distancing Chris as someone who dated for a very long time you've got some good tips on social.Unknown Speaker 14:08First of all, I I hadn't heard this phrase social distancing until this week it sounds if ever there was a phrase that sounded very euphemistic sounds like something that Nazis would have done during the Holocaust it's a no brainer we didn't get those Jews with socially distance ourselves from them. I I love the coronavirus. Well,Unknown Speaker 14:28happy to be the patinaUnknown Speaker 14:32and take a contrary view, what's socially acceptable,Unknown Speaker 14:34you aren't chasing that oh myUnknown Speaker 14:36god, I'm gonna call the academy or television remove those loads.Unknown Speaker 14:41Anyone is has a slightly anti socialist trick will probably understand like for years, we've had to come up with excuses when we don't want to go to your shitty play, or your annoying birthday party that's in an incredibly inconvenient location. I've I've had to kill relatives just to pretend I've got a death in the family now. It's so easy to not go anywhere you simply say,Unknown Speaker 15:03yeah, it's so funny lead this shitty play because out of the four of us here, how many plays Have you written?Unknown Speaker 15:09I remember getting invites to several of those. It's actually very easy for me to say I wasn't goingUnknown Speaker 15:15back then we didn't have a virus to rely on. It wasn't a good virus so you can't say sighs because it's Asia nurse was in the Middle East Exactly. Now we've got our very ownUnknown Speaker 15:24got our own and I'm milking this like I I'm really hoping it's hanging around for a long time as for anti social sort of smoke bombs like me. perfect opportunity to lock yourself up and never see anyone.Unknown Speaker 15:34I was half expecting a text tonight saying sorry. Via fire.Unknown Speaker 15:39Look, it's the thing about I mean, I don't know a lot of us probably do work from home as Freelancer so it's not unusual. So I've got a lot of friends who have been getting serious sort of emails or lectures from their bosses encouraging them to work from home. A good friend of mine works on the great ABC show mad as hell and they had a serious discussion yesterday, apparently. They're gonna continue without a studio audience Well, now I don't know at what point like from next week I will just wind it up. That is sort of monitoring that as everyone is like I know that I knowUnknown Speaker 16:09there are a lot of festivals Wayne, Ellen Ellen's deep Nicks her audience in America and I know there there's not a lot of people in the audience's for coal barons, Seth andUnknown Speaker 16:19his own still bringing out anyone from YouTube like an actual ad on his son like kid who did a dance on a wholesale ad.Unknown Speaker 16:27Imagine if you were that kid who wore bright sneakers to school that day at tik tok that blew up and went to Elon to go on Elon and there was no one in the audience to celebrateUnknown Speaker 16:37the warm up guy even if there's not an actual likeUnknown Speaker 16:42that would be a union job, sir.Unknown Speaker 16:45Warming up when aUnknown Speaker 16:50guy makes a joke.Unknown Speaker 16:51Yeah. Let me ask a philosophical question here.Unknown Speaker 16:54I mean, I've done often comedy shows with a very thin audience. Well, it'sUnknown Speaker 16:59a good idea. For the comedy festival when no one's gonna come to the irrational fear show and now at least we can blame it on something. ItUnknown Speaker 17:05sounds a lot like oh yeah, actually last week's episode was the best one ever. It just wasn'tUnknown Speaker 17:11I mean, this week's episode nightly didn't do you know what it's like to performUnknown Speaker 17:17without a TV audience actually without any otherUnknown Speaker 17:19one that just cracks me up even though it's awful is sport. You mentioned the NBA. Yeah, Italy's banned all its soccer fixtures or like professional matches, not the matches just the audience. Yeah. So I still, there's two things I love about this one. Do they still sing the anthem?Unknown Speaker 17:38Last night last night the Matilda's the string soccer team qualified for the Tokyo Olympics against Vietnam in Vietnam. They played to an empty stadium. They sat out and sang the anthem to begin with.Unknown Speaker 17:51Okay, this is because normally Eric and a lot of athletes really rely on the crowd to do the heavy lifting. Yeah, they can't think of a sheet. Most of them. Don't know that. HowUnknown Speaker 18:00did they go when there's no one around? They seem to do okay. Yeah. But also it was a very it was a very wide shot. So I could I didn't they didn't do the full cut ups on the lips. I couldn't I couldn't judge.Unknown Speaker 18:10And then the second thing that I'm looking forward to, especially in the European soccer leagues, is gold celebrations. How much do you really feed off the energy of the crowd? If you're doing a backflip and getting your shirt off and do it? Do you still do that when you know there's no one there to see it?Unknown Speaker 18:26Now? You just kidding. Got one. Yeah.Unknown Speaker 18:31Let's go back to the middle.Unknown Speaker 18:33I got one more thing. No.Unknown Speaker 18:40She's back in the penguin. The whole thing. She put the bat in the bank, an agent orUnknown Speaker 18:50an agent the whole thing up.Unknown Speaker 18:59Sorry, I just saw I'm gonna actually have toUnknown Speaker 19:03know what that song is. But I do know that without put out aUnknown Speaker 19:08sign if anyone does a parody of that,Unknown Speaker 19:10wash your hands and refrain from releasing parody songsUnknown Speaker 19:13a little later on, we'll have Bernie Sanders and he'll be discussing what he went through for the Democratic primaries. But soon we'll be discussing when a national bushfire recovery fund isn't a national bushfire recovery fund, but right now, he's a real expert on Corona virus. It's friend of the show, epidemiologist professor, Hilary bendrick.Unknown Speaker 19:31Thanks, Dan.Unknown Speaker 19:32Now, how is Kovac 19 for you, as someone who's an epidemiologist, I assume that it's like Christmas for epidemiologists. Right?Unknown Speaker 19:43Well, thankfully, I'm not that kind of epidemiologist. So I'm quite well, well protected. I get to sit up sit at my desk and and look at numbers and patterns. But there are some epidemiologists out there who are actually doing the what we called applied epidemiology where they're out in the thick of it, so AmongstUnknown Speaker 20:00now broadly speaking, we hear a lot of so called experts on on 2g Bay and and Sky News. Tell us what we should be thinking about when it comes to coronavirus on fox news that you've been downplaying covert 19 to maybe what could be seemed to be dangerous levels of reporting to kind of minimising the threat. What do you think that happy balance is in communicating the dangers of coronavirus? 90?Unknown Speaker 20:24Yeah, that's not that's a really good question. Because it is something that for many people won't actually be a serious infection. But for a large number of people in the community, they are actually at increased risk. So if you're if you're older, if you have a number of what we call comorbidities, you know, chronic disease going on. If your immune suppressed, then then it is actually pretty serious. So I guess, you know, it's not a serious issue for you if for you personally if you're not one of those people, but we all actually have a part to play in terms of protecting everyone else around us. And I have to say that I'm not sure whether to be heartened or terrified by the absence of soap on the supermarket. When I was shopping the other night, because it made me wonder, you know why it's great that people have got the message that hand washing is good, but it made me wonder what were they doing beforehand?Unknown Speaker 21:11Exactly. I mean on such a big nose pickup myself. I've had to put restrictions on the times I pick my nose you know, I make sure I pick get a good pick in after I do some hand washing for I sanitise my hand, but I assume that would be bad anyway because I'm sure there's diseases that my nose has already trapped and they're just going straight into my fingers.Unknown Speaker 21:31Well, and from a public health perspective, we you know, I asked you on behalf of Australia to also sanitise your hands after you've picked your nose as well.Unknown Speaker 21:40Right? Okay, I'm only thinking about myself, always thinking about myself. Now you actually made a good point about thinking about for for folks who may have symptoms or may be concerned about their own health to think about the people in their lives, who may be more vulnerable. What kind of things do you think people should be? Considering,Unknown Speaker 22:00well certainly if you're unwell do stay away from stay away from other people avoid going to work where you can look, nobody is indispensable from from their from their job, and your colleagues are not going to thank you if you make them sick. And this is a message I give out to my staff every flu season as well, you know, if you're sick, please don't turn up. If you've been asked to self isolate, don't go and do a mad rush last minute shop at your local supermarket. I mean, we've seen that happening, please just ask somebody else to go get you, you know, hand down some toilet paper for you or hand sanitizer, whatever it is that you need in a baked beans. But don't go out and do it yourself. So if you know do take this seriously. And the whole idea at this stage is we're very unlikely to actually stop the corona virus in its tracks and have it you know, it is something that is going to be much more widespread in our community. So the whole plan at the moment is to avoid that massive peak of infection. And basically, we don't want to overwhelm the health system. So the whole idea is to sort of Right out there the rate at which people are getting infected, slow it down so that our health system can actually cope.Unknown Speaker 23:06You're on the climate council as well. Is there any correlation? Or what's the link between diseases and pandemics like this and a warming planet? Is there any?Unknown Speaker 23:17Look, I wouldn't say so for for Corona virus but there is some indication that you know, the the ambient temperature and humidity and so on may play a part in how some diseases are transmitted including Corona virus, but I'd say it's very early days yet to say what that might be. of more concern is that, you know, it seems to be more readily transmitted where people are, you know, hanging around indoors, for example. So we'd see similarly with flu season, that it's actually sort of the the colder months that are of a risk at greater risk in terms of where people are hanging outUnknown Speaker 23:55what you said what you're saying, Hillary is that our Melbourne Comedy Festival show in three weeks time you He's going to be a fantastic incubator for not only culture of comedy, but culturalUnknown Speaker 24:05coronavirus.Unknown Speaker 24:09I understand what's one interesting stat about Kovac 19, that you've been wowed by over the last few weeks of looking at this virus take home around the world,Unknown Speaker 24:18something that's impressed me the most, is that infection numbers and numbers of people dying are actually declining. In China, for example, while we're seeing sort of massively increasing rates of infection and people dying in Italy for as another sort of contrasting example, and I guess, thinking about the the ways that we manage these sorts of things, the rules put in place in China sort of you know, really lock lock places down seem quite extreme, but they do actually work like quarantine is something that does actually work. It's sort of you know, tried and true way of stopping spreading infection.Unknown Speaker 24:54I can't imagine that laissez faire attitude of your average Italian would would go so go Go down so well we've beenUnknown Speaker 25:01missing in the hugging. Oh yeahUnknown Speaker 25:02the double kissing you have doubled the chance of getting coronavirus because young wah wah The Continental way. That's right. Oh my gosh, is it is it a crazy idea to stockpile toilet paper?Unknown Speaker 25:17Or Comedy Festival tickets perhaps might be it's notUnknown Speaker 25:19a crazy idea to stockpile to call the comedy festival in fact you can use your Comedy Festival ticket if you get it mailed to you as toilet paper before it comes to the show.Unknown Speaker 25:27That's right look look I think it shows how an imaginative Australians are when it comes to wiping our asses or cleaning our asses. So you know if we Italy's not suffering for example, from a shortage of toilet paper, are they because they've all got their their birthdays in their in their bathrooms instead of toilet paper and look you will find on the internet if you're feeling a little bit inclined that you'd prefer a little bit of a bit of a wash rather than a wipe. There are instructions on the internet on how to convert your own toilet into with a sort of a bead a attachment. it's um it's basically you know a bit bit of a hose and a squat. In a gun and away you go.Unknown Speaker 26:02That's great. I love the idea that people's houses are gonna have shortage of garden hose but not for making bombs but they're making good days sometimes. SoUnknown Speaker 26:13let's go Oh, what are you doing? You make it a bombUnknown Speaker 26:15now make it a day. Let meUnknown Speaker 26:18wash my bomb. God, is there one tip you want to impart to people one bit of advice you want to party people, but before you go,Unknown Speaker 26:27Oh, yeah, well, maybe it may be a couple actually. I guess wash your hands. Get your kids to wash their hands. Don't maybe stop shaking hands. You can do the fist bump instead or you know some of us were talking about doing the back bump but that might be a bit overly familiar for some people. And I guess some Yeah, just be be courteous, be kind. Not everyone's got an amazing immune system and this will be something that affects people.Unknown Speaker 26:50I had a lady I was walking down the street. I was walking to Oxford Street two days ago, and I stroked my bead and subconsciously and a lady kind of like rushed hen metres towards me and said thank you so much in a sarcastic way and then stroked her own face. I'm like, What are you doing? Like I just stroke my beard unintentionally you intentionally stroke to your face by making fun of me for stroking my face.Unknown Speaker 27:17Do you think so?Unknown Speaker 27:19You probably find you actually stroke up at about 30 times an hour without realising.Unknown Speaker 27:24I. You know, I've been arguing my panda loves my beard, but I've been arguing with her that I should shave it off because I'll probably touch my face less.Unknown Speaker 27:32Well, he might find it so smooth and delightful that you touch it moreUnknown Speaker 27:35understandably for her. I look better with it because I'm just extremely fat. It really hides my double chin.Unknown Speaker 27:44Thanks, professor.Unknown Speaker 27:45No worries. Thanks, Dan.Unknown Speaker 27:48most extraordinary flirt piece in your flirting with a wall talking about how much your wife loves you.Unknown Speaker 27:54Not to brag, but I look really bad.Unknown Speaker 27:58Nothing better than bringing up issue with someone who can't see you as okay. She's like, I'm not gonna comment on that.Unknown Speaker 28:06Here's referred refused. She did well, very smallUnknown Speaker 28:09anecdote about the person in the street. Yeah, it is true. There are some very, very powerfulUnknown Speaker 28:16passive aggressiveness out there.Unknown Speaker 28:18The most extraordinary little encounter this week I, this might be a slight overshare but I just been a pathologist for some fertility testing. And they'd given me this little cup and it was sort of in a very medical looking bag and after I left with it, I went into the corner shop. And this man,Unknown Speaker 28:36there's no way you meant to fill it. If you'reUnknown Speaker 28:44a painter, and recently I'll give you some tips.Unknown Speaker 28:46The whole wall of Pringles in the very arousing so I like to go there, but he just saw me carry anything looking vaguely medical immediately assumed coronavirus and ordered me to get out of the shop and I just had like the perfect comeback. I sort of embarrassed him But no, no, no, I need to masturbate in to show you. I'm happy not to do it in your shop. But I assure you it's nothing Corona related. But just the smallest thing that looks vaguely medical is now assumed to be Karina.Unknown Speaker 29:20I reckon given that visual I would ask you thatUnknown Speaker 29:24I think of as eataly right now.Unknown Speaker 29:27irrational fear and I haven't touched my face in weeks and weeks.Unknown Speaker 29:31Back in January six Scott Morrison stood at a press conference and announced a national bushfire recovery fund of about $2 billion, but this week in senate estimates it was discovered that it didn't exist Louis, this is your favourite story of the week?Unknown Speaker 29:46Well, I mean, I don't know if it's my favourite I found it quite chilling. If I'm honest, like I think that the coronavirus obviously taking up all of our time and all the media, it could not have come at a better time for Scott Morrison. really like it. All of the things that it is glossing over the sports rights Angus Taylor, and now they like the they basically, if you just catch up on the story, he was under a lot of pressure it the whole Hawaiian crisis was there. And he just stood up and was like, well, we're gonna give $2 billion to the bushfire and put out an ad. Yeah, that's right. They put out that crazy ad, which potentially,Unknown Speaker 30:21people said, Oh, well, from holiday. He's doing something. He's given 2 billion. Maybe he's got this.Unknown Speaker 30:26Yeah. And so then they went through sentences. And they there's there's a revised budget here, which is looking for this 2 billion with a B billion dollars that you promised, and we can't see it. and nice. And the response from the coalition was well, it's a notional Fund, which they then dug into notional meaning speculative, theoretical, or only in the mind, which is truly is the art like we were there was notional. There was a notional surplus, yet this notional notional emergency fund thing, like, it's like shredding is funding. If you look at it, it disappears. It'sUnknown Speaker 31:04like we're being gas lit.Unknown Speaker 31:07Like I dated this guy.Unknown Speaker 31:11I totally told you I was dating someone else.Unknown Speaker 31:16I notionally propose to you.Unknown Speaker 31:19It's it's stunning. And I absolutely. In any other time, this would this would undo a government and right now, the fact that he's been able to go, Well, I've just promised another 17 billion and you're like,Unknown Speaker 31:32Well, have you?Unknown Speaker 31:34Yeah, we don't even know Will you?Unknown Speaker 31:36Will it extend out to 22 billion and journalists on each case about it and every question i pit against Angus Tyler and sports words, he just goes no, we're not dealing with that we're gonna do with Corona right now. And Corona becomes the thing that he can totally get rid of any other question about any IUnknown Speaker 31:52mean, always say how good Corona is for the anti social people but for governments with something in the heart, it is amazing. I mean, this can't last long enough for this government. It's The only thing that probably is gonna, you know, save him in the eyes of Australian people. Trump, by contrast, you think, you know he's got his own problems, but then just having survived an impeachment. You think he'd want to go full on scare fearful with it, but he's sort of gone the opposite direction bizarrely and sort of pretending has nothingUnknown Speaker 32:18to see. And I think there's a major problem there because Fox News, they're doing the same. They're like copying him and kind of saying minimising the threat to the point where it's dangerous because the only people that watch fox news are old people, and they and they're the most paid. They're the most vulnerable people most at risk from dying of Corona and if I don't think it's a real issue,Unknown Speaker 32:36then they're gonna be they're gonna be dead. If all they will start dying. It's gonna be bad news for the coalition because I won't have any voters. The only other people it's really in effect is the IBC there'll be no one left to watch it. Gardening Australia will just be Costa will just be watching it at home himself. I mean, grand designs, you know, who's watching grand designs if Karina takes over and over 65Unknown Speaker 32:58Well, one person who is very clearly upset With Corona, and other things in his world, his senator Bernie Sanders and I spoke to him earlier this week. Joining us now from his Vermont headquarters, his Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Sanders, have this week's results at all diminished your enthusiasm at all for this presidential race.Unknown Speaker 33:17You'll know what my enthusiasm has not diminished at all. There is still work to be done. I'm just excited I still have a job with with medical benefits that will see me through the corona virus outbreak. WellUnknown Speaker 33:30send it out. Good luck out there and I hope you don't get infected.Unknown Speaker 33:32Well, you know what, I cannot possibly get get infected then because I have the vaccine. Oh, I didn't know there was a vaccine. Well, of course it's a vaccine. You make a virus you make a vaccine.Unknown Speaker 33:43Senator, are you saying that you inventedUnknown Speaker 33:45Corona virus? Let me be clear. Yeah. Let me be very clear. This is Plan B for Bernie. I didn't want to enact it. What the mainstream media msnbc cnn but BNC they made me do it coronavirus will be The biggest wealth redistribution policy of the last hundred years you see a disproportionately affects the older generation 99% of the 1% or 100%. Older as fuck you understand, excuse my language, it's simple, but boomers will get sick. And now money will trickle down to the younger generations for the working people. All of the countries in Europe are doing it. It's very big in Italy, in Iran and China, those last countries and actually in Europe. My the words the United States of America not let's not forget that. Now. This is a message to the DNC and the super delegates out there. You're all listening. You want to live let democracy take hold. The person who gets the most votes should win. A vote for Bernie is a vote for a universal vaccine. I'm Bernie Sanders on I approve this message.Unknown Speaker 34:45Well, then yeah, I think for all our sakes, I IUnknown Speaker 34:48hope you are the Democratic nominee. Thank you very much done. I appreciate the call. Thank you, Benny.Unknown Speaker 34:53has good chat with Danny. Well, thank you very much for joining us for irrational fear. Once again. It's very awesome of you Make your way in here despite the coronavirusUnknown Speaker 35:04just want to apologise if I've used up the entire toilet?Unknown Speaker 35:09I haven't had any for the last two weeks. Thank you for humouring me while I watched two weeks worth of shit.Unknown Speaker 35:15We are back weekly until our Comedy Festival show so please head to our Patreon give us a few bucks to make this show happen. It costs us quite a bit of time and some money every week toUnknown Speaker 35:24get working out of and Scott can inside.Unknown Speaker 35:27Yeah, we've already put out two shotsUnknown Speaker 35:29and we recorded more thanUnknown Speaker 35:32two hour. Special thanks to Rupa Degas Jacob round FBI radio and I'll see amongst tonight Louis harbour Chris Taylor bridey Connell, do you guys have anything to plug in? OhUnknown Speaker 35:46yeah, he's the guest spots in shows that will probably be cancelled in Melbourne International.Unknown Speaker 35:52Dan, I'll be back next week and I'm on radio every day you can listen to plug it you know, listen Oh,Unknown Speaker 36:00I'd like to plugUnknown Speaker 36:00my site 3pmUnknown Speaker 36:03Triple J listen in I don't knowUnknown Speaker 36:05you pay for it you might have to listen to Patreon.Unknown Speaker 36:10In the meantime, there's always something to be scared of good night. 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MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL TICKETS ON SALE NOW: https://bitly.com/ARF_MICFPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearWell, Dan lost the show. Always eject the disk properly people!We lost the show! But we still have a podcast! Chock a block of content.(03:30) Sponsorship announcement: Local Newspapers.(05:25) We speak with journalist Asher Wolf about how people with vulnerable immune systems are taking coronavirus seriously.(10:30) And we speak with progressive comedian Francesca Fiorentini about the wash up of Super Tuesday and the way forward for Bernie Sanders' supporters.(17:50) Credits(19:00) Newsfighters on Coronavirus____________________________TRANSCRIPTION by Otter.ai:Unknown Speaker 0:00G'day Dan Ilic, here from A Rational Fear. Well, we just had a great show. We had Christiaan Van Vuuren. We had Madeline Stewart. We had Louis Hobba. All in this space here at FB high radio, and we had a fantastic show. But I lost it. Yes, I pulled the hard drive out before I was meant to. 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A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks cambro fan and section 40 of a rational fear recommended listening by emerge your audienceUnknown Speaker 2:00Tonight on a rational fear as the Australian Government prepares to ban cash transactions over $10,000 It leaves drug dealers with only one choice to buy and sell drugs with rolls of toilet paper instead. And the federal government has rolled out funding Australia's only dedicated bushfire Research Centre, claiming that there's no way to guarantee the prevention of bushfires in only marginal electrics. And after last year cutting $100 million from the CSI row, the federal government generously boosted their funding by 2 million to fast track a Corona virus faxing $2 million. So to put it in a way that a government minister might understand it's about the same price as a rugby clubs women's change room, wash your hands twice and don't touch your face. This is irrational fear.Unknown Speaker 2:58Like I said at the very top of the show where youUnknown Speaker 3:00We have a very short show for you tonight. First up, we spoke with journalist Asher wolf about what kinds of things people should really be stocking up on during this coronavirus pandemic. And from AJ plus MSNBC and the Young Turks, comedian Francesca Fiorentina, he gives us a taste of what young progressives are feeling like after the Joe Biden search on Super Tuesday. Also, we've got a great sample of news fighters as they wade into the petri dish. That is the corona virus. The first step it's 2020. And as well as the Patreon we also have sponsors. He's our first sponsor for irrational fear this year.Unknown Speaker 3:37Hello, I'm rupert murdoch, defender of freedom and owner of some of the world's greatest democracies. Therefore, I was a successful mogul of many media. I started out in just one local newspapers. Well actually I inherited from my dad, but that's beside the point that always used to say TV, gonna rock your mind. So I thought, that's howUnknown Speaker 4:00And I started Sky News. He also used to say radio doesn't have pictures and I thought that's perfect for ugly men with beautiful things to say. He also used to tell me you can't tear the internet into strips and wipe your ass with all he would have if he was alive fucking internet. So why not get hold of a news corp local newspaper today? We're specialists and providing two or three pages of inaccurate and poorly written local articles copied and pasted from press releases by 19 year old kids whose dreams of being real journalists will slowly fade. Mix in 50 pages of real estate porn for houses your neighbours don't want to live in ads for sex workers traders, secondhand car sales and third hand power sales and you've got yourself a local newspaper. Pick up a free local newspaper down Put on the nature strip or underneath a hedge new you today.Unknown Speaker 5:00On have a rain. Actually, we don't care if you do, we've already been paid by the advertisers. So they'reUnknown Speaker 5:10fair. During the last taping of irrational fear. We did speak a lot about the crazy pandemic and panic buying that people are going through when it comes to stockpiling toilet paper. But you know, some people have no choice to take this stuff seriously. Here is a chat I had with someone who has to do just that.Unknown Speaker 5:31Joining us now is one person who has a real reason to be cautiously pragmatic. It's journalist Tasha wolf. She suffers from Ehlers danlos Syndrome and autoimmune progesterone anaphylaxis. She's basically allergic to her own hormones. And while she's actually a young person, even the slightest threat to her immune system is very, very real. Ashley, thanks for joining us.Unknown Speaker 5:55If someone who, whose body is actually probably more prone to this virus thanUnknown Speaker 6:00But being still a young person how do you deal with all the jokes about missing toilet paper and things like that? Look on one hand there is some crazy cracking going on where people are right out there grabbing Kansas, you know my wife cheeseUnknown Speaker 6:16but on the other hand it's a privilege to make fun of people whoUnknown Speaker 6:21probably are at a higher risk of being seriously ill if they catch cruda virus but you have people who are like, you know, it doesn't matter to me like the 1% of people who are seriously ill who are going to die and I'm like, yet I'm one of those 1% who have low immune to skin issues. If I catch a general flu, I walk away feeling terrible. For months. I really like not to catch coronavirus.Unknown Speaker 6:45It's a risk. It's a real risk to me, but I also didn't want to go wild, I guess you could say with prepping, but I wanted to be cautious. The other night you put out a list on Twitter about things that folks with disabilities have to think about.Unknown Speaker 7:00During this oncoming crisis, what are some of those things that people with disabilities kind of need to consider when you're a person with disability quite often you have a very different experience of life and survival than the average Christian you know, you might not have the income to orderUnknown Speaker 7:18on a regular basis, you may be allergic to certain foods, and it becomes quite hard to eat out, or you know, order a great because now even if you did have the cash to do it, then you're allergic to half of the things that get put in, you know, take away food, you really do need to cook for yourself, if you have some allergies and sensitivities say, for me, it would be completely it'll be both impractical and potentially cause me a good deal of pain if I was just you know, 100 or a noodle dish for demonstrate if I had to stay home. So there's a few people who I've talked to on Twitter, who said certain things going off their shelves like crazy like people are obviouslyUnknown Speaker 8:00bulk ordering. So they call doc storage. And then distortions that are used for online orders, things that they really seeing flying off the show. Nothing formula. If you're a parent with a small toddler quite often, you find that some toddlers have certain issues with like regurgitation, and they can only use certain sorts of formula. If you had a child like that. And it's already difficult to find the right formula. I would be stocking up as a parent with a child like that. I mean, to me, it's just if things go badly wrong, I don't want to injure myself tryna handle a trial and illness and your mid I had to to access any my schedule, right? You might want to have a chat to your doctor about the supply chain of short, sir, get you like drugs because it's absolutely awful to detox off those kinds of meds at home without support just because you want out and you can't get anymore. The other thing people might want to have a chat to their doctor about is is they have meds that are already hard to access.Unknown Speaker 9:00Kind of like acid to start building sometimes. And sometimes it takes interrupted for migraines you want to get for the packet when it comes to sumatriptan with trying to mimic acid dozle already some problems with supply chain, you might want to put aside a little bit extract or getting early research your scripts now because proximately 90% of our meds come from China and things not shipping as per normal contract. What kind of late time Can Can people still those kinds of meds on their own in their own fridge? right they weren't that's the problem. There's a thing called psycho script, which means that you get deemed a pharmacy if you try and take out certain men early. For one way around. It may be that doctors decide to order the script, put it in their own fridge and hold it for a month for patients. And then they can release it to patients when needed. But I think it would be a really terrible situation. If you ended up with people who are or IPS. You know, there's a range of skinnyUnknown Speaker 10:00Drugs fortunateUnknown Speaker 10:03including palliative care patients.Unknown Speaker 10:17turning out to Super Tuesday, Joe Biden's search past all predictions and knocked the wind out of Bernie Sanders the sales. The most surprising thing of was, of course, was that Mike Bloomberg didn't win anything after spending $700 billion of his own money, except for American Samoa. Earlier today I spoke with Bernie Sanders Die Hard and comedian Francesca if you're intending on just how she's feeling a day after the bomb and wipe outUnknown Speaker 10:48in a bunker somewhere in California is a comedian and broadcaster too scared to face the reality of what could be the return to normcore 90s politics in the USA from AJ plus and MSNBC and TYTUnknown Speaker 11:00Francesca Fiorentina. Hello, Francesca. Hello? No, just Yeah, all the acronyms. I love it.Unknown Speaker 11:08I assume people know what all those things.Unknown Speaker 11:12It's the day after Super Tuesday in the USA right now or I, as I believe you call it woeful Wednesday. How is progressive America dealing with the news that Joe Biden could be the new daddy?Unknown Speaker 11:24Yes, it's it's Boxing Day for our hopes and dreams. And what the Biden pill has been, the vitamin pill has been one that's a little bit tough to swallow, because, you know, he is a very rapid, rapidly ageing, cognitively eating old man. And I know that's strange to say when someone like Bernie Sanders is in the race, but, you know, Biden has like regular mental gaffes. And you're kind of just like, I don't know if I want to watch this debate between Biden and Trump, which effectively is like you're inUnknown Speaker 12:00Laws arguing over who's going to carve the turkey with it? Oh, you gotta use an electric knife. No, you know. And that, I think is the fear that a lot of people are looking at like, Are we really going to put our senile old man up against their senile old man?Unknown Speaker 12:20And I don't know if our see no man's gonna win? Well, at least you know being from the left. It's a fair fight. No. And obviously it's not over yet. I mean, that's the big thing is that there's still more than half the delegates to get remember, in this country for some reason we have and just in this party, we don't elect the nominee based on popular vote. It's just this ridiculous, kind of wonky delegate math that nobody gets. And so there's still more than half the delegates. It's not over yet. Of course, a lot of folks are saying that young people didn't turn out to vote over Super Tuesday. Why is it that young people in America don't like divide? It's not cool, and it's long Tick Tock? No, it's got it.Unknown Speaker 13:00Once and this is a thing, Bernie or Biden will have to be big on Tick Tock and once they are, if they have a coordinated dance where every elbow jab also points to like, where the voting station is like that's, you know that that's when voting becomes cool, but no, I think Bernie, Bernie is the renegade Ben Bernie could do the renegade. He is the original Renegade. Oh, absolutely.Unknown Speaker 13:25I mean, I think young folks, I'm not sure about all the data. That's like one article that I saw that was like young folks aren't turning out.Unknown Speaker 13:32I do think that of all the young people, it's the Sanders campaign that has overwhelmingly the majority of support among young folks of all races, religions, ethnicities, etc. But it is a hard moment in your life to go out and vote in a primary, right? You're like, just starting to have sex and smoke weed. You are you're you're maybe in college, you're like, how am I gonna afford to pay for this? Also, I'm learning aboutUnknown Speaker 14:00colonialism. Oh my god. So you're like voting that feels stupid. So I think there's a lot of reasons why young people, especially in a primary are like I got, you know better things to do. Why would I vote without? There's only six on me? Yeah, I just exactly get it off. Now even though Mike Bloomberg did get in the race quite late, he spent half a billion dollars he did win American Samoa, what do American Samoans see him Bloomberg and no one else can listen. I'm pretty sure he bought the entire island. Oh, my mistake. This is the thing with every time there's a you know, there's an election and we're like, wait a minute, we still have American Samoa what like what are these like vestiges of colonial past that for some reason the US wields way too much power over and as like devastated and impoverished. And I think it is kind of sad to be totally honest with you that people aren't reaching out to American Samoa and then it was advertisedUnknown Speaker 15:00Mint dollars, mostly that reach them. But it's hard to send canvassers out there or it's hard to get, you know, canvassers there. Listen, I'm happy to be sent to Americans and volunteer work on the very end. I thought that'd be fun. I would learn how to serve and cook barbecue or something. I think a hunger a hunger, I think I think they call it a honey. It's a barbecue in a pit. Yeah, a honey. Exactly. And we will barbecue the billionaire's roast them on an open flame. When Bernie Sanders gets into office. Obviously, that's what democratic socialism is about. At the time of recording right now. Warren still hasn't conceded she's still hanging in there. Why do you think that is?Unknown Speaker 15:40Yes, it's this is a very interesting for progressives in the US.Unknown Speaker 15:46And people out there just progressives, again, people want actually something a little bit different than then, as you said, a return to 90s politics, which is the Warren question and whether she should have dropped out sooner or not. I just want to say from the outset, likeUnknown Speaker 16:00I distinguish between her supporters who I feel like, I'm not all but a lot of them, their hearts are in the right place. They do want, as she says big structural change. They believe that she was the best messenger and the best vehicle and the best leader for that structural change, I think after three or four races, and US states where she came in, third, fourth, and fifth, you can't really say that anymore. You can't really claim that she's got a plan for everything because clearly that plan should have included at winning at least one of the early states, whoever is running her campaign, and her herself. They've really been watching this. It's been hard to watch the heel turn away from Medicare for all the heel turn when she was swearing that she wouldn't raise the taxes of the middle class. And it's like, you know, that's a trick question. Elizabeth, like, you know, you were just being asked whether you were going to raise taxes on the middle class, just toUnknown Speaker 17:00appeal to a conservative voter who would never even vote for you anyway. And you kind of fell for it in the same way that you fell for a DNA test to prove that you were point 03 percent Native American. She absolutely needs to drop out now. And but we'll see. You know, I liken it a little bit to Game of Thrones, no spoilers, but you know, the generic question is like, which way is she going to go? How is it going to end is Khaleesi going to be on the side of good or on the side of burn it all down? And that would be I think, going with Biden, throwing the progressive movement under the bus, a rational fear. Knowing your viewers know how crazy Trump is, and they know that same people have to work together.Unknown Speaker 17:48You can listen to the full interview of Francesca on our Patreon. Also, you can check out Francesca's work on a j pluses news broke and MSNBC. Red, white and hurt now next week on irrational fear.Unknown Speaker 18:00promise we will have a show that I won't lose. Chris Taylor will be on the show from the chase bridey corner from tonight will also be here, and we're back weekly until our Comedy Festival show so please head to our Patreon and give us a few bucks to help us make the show cost us a little bit of money each way to make it a big thank you to Robert De gas Peter G. Jacob brown FBI radio and our fear mongers tonight Lewis harbour Christian Van Buren, Madeline Stewart, who have all got great things on that they need to plug including Madeline Stewart has got a comedy festival Sharon called the underdogs. She's taken to the Melbourne Comedy Festival and the Sydney Comedy Festival. She runs a great night called crypts and crepes. It's for comedians who have got disabilities. And she runs it monthly at one of seven projects in Redmond. So do go check that out. We'll leave you right now with the latest news fighters episode on coronavirus from DJ diabolical Until next week, there's always something to be scared of, namely, pulling the USB disk out before it's free.Unknown Speaker 19:00fully exploited a rational fear and I haven't touched my face in weeks and weeks. This is News fighters.Unknown Speaker 19:10We fight the news so you don't have to. Okay, so first up, it's time for an update on the coronavirus and a New South Wales. Things are getting real health minister Brad has suggested that people stop shaking hands. I think it's time for us to stand shaking. It will be sensible not to be hand shaking, no hand shaking, no hand shaking. I mean, I think for sydneysiders this will be normal for us. I mean, our traditional grading when we encounter someone for the first time is just to get out of my way. So what is the New South Wales health minister suggesting we do instead of shaking hands then why would be suggesting to the community in New South Wales and a more morally afoot, the time that Ozzy's actually gave each other a pat on the back, you know, like your parents never gave you But it doesn't stop there. You could be exercising a degree of care and caution withUnknown Speaker 20:00Whom you choose to kiss? What no more indiscriminately French kissing my mailman and my barrister on a daily basis. Sorry Corey normal kissy kissy for you the new self was fun police have ruled it out. But New South Wales health minister bread has odd says there's no need to be totally alarmed. Common Sense should prevail.Unknown Speaker 20:19It's not as if faces are constantly touching public spaces. Yeah, except for this passionate fellow in Iran. This man is one of several who've posted videos of themselves licking a famous shrine to prove it safe. Yeah, he was just looking at trying to see if it was safe from the coronavirus. He wasn't still high from Mardi Gras on the weekend or anything. Meanwhile, around the world the authorities are saying there's one simple way to protect yourself from coronavirus. Wash your hands so you got to do we all have to be washing our hands. The single most useful thing that we can all do is to wash our hands washing my hands. This is Sydney we haven't had a public toilet with soap in it since 1998. All right. How long should IUnknown Speaker 21:00wash my hands for two times Happy birthday. Keep scrubbing until you've sung the Happy Birthday song twice. You know that song your parents never sung you to get the hand marching message out the World Health Organisation has joined us social media platform, tik tok normally harm to lip synching videos and dance offs. Here's a clip from their first video frequently clean your hands using an alcohol based hand rub product like in jail or wash your hands with soap and water. Boring who you should add some rap music or some dancing at least.Unknown Speaker 21:32New coronavirusUnknown Speaker 21:35Yeah, I did a bit of a troll through the old tik tok means and it turns out there's already the perfect tik tok Corona virus meme template. It's this one for when the government tells you you have to self isolate for 14 days, but you can't because you've never had paid sick leave in your entire life. You know, I'd really like to do that. But I don't have any fucking money. I don't have any fucking money. And if this is making you feel doomed, maybe that's whyUnknown Speaker 22:00Doing this as the virus spreads, so too does the panic buying bulk buying at supermarkets as shoppers stockpile food essentials and toiletries. Yes, everyone is panic buying because of the corona virus. Or at least that's what I said when I ran into a workmate who caught me buying 10 frozen pizzas and four blocks of chocolate last night. Yeah panic buying coronavirus got a stuck up, but there's no need to worry everyone while the Australian media keeps us up to date and well informed with this smartest and brightest coronavirus experts. Well for more on the coronavirus emergency we're joined by nationals and pay Barnaby Joyce.Unknown Speaker 22:36This isUnknown Speaker 22:38where we fight the news. So you don't have toA Rational Fear on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

WE MADE AN AUDIO SITCOM! — It’s called Riot Act and is out today on Audible.https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Riot-Act-Audiobook/B081VGWJLG?qid=1575317103&sr=1-1&pf_rd_p=771c6463-05d7-4981-9b47-920dc34a70f1&pf_rd_r=H1WJX9FR94HJ36GAQR9H&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1Over the last couple of yearsMark Humphries, Evan Williams and I have been writing a sitcom set in the world of conservative talkback radio. It’s not so much a workplace comedy but a story about ambition, and politics at the extremes.With the support of Audible we made it into an 8-part sitcom for your ears (we only did the sound, the images are created by your own mind – it’s cheaper that way), beating all the odds for making long-form narrative comedy in Australia.And check out this list of incredible performers:Liv HewsonTony MartinAnjali RaoGretel KilleenRupert DegasHeather MitchellMarc FennellBridie ConnelRobbie McGregorVeronica MilsomRosie WaterlandWendy HarmerJordan RaskopoulosClarke RichardsAsh WilliamsSandra SullyHugh RimmintonHamish MacdonaldPenny GreenhalghAnthony SalameIndira NaidooBen FordhamAngela Lavoirpierre.. plus a gazillion more including Mark Humphries and Dan Ilic (Me)We had a wonderful script editor in David K. Barnes (Wooden Overcoats) and an epic restructure and rewrite from Kacie Anning (The Other Guy). We made it with the incredible audio studio Uncanny Valley under the diligent supervision of Matt Perrot who built out the complex soundscape.So this podcast, Mark Humphries, Evan Williams and I had a chat about how and why we made Riot Act – with a call to Anjali Rao and Matt Perrot for some behind the scenes context.It was a real thrill for us to make it, and a privilege to work with our heroes and friends to create something we’re very proud of.It’s free if you’re an Audible subscriber — you can get a 30day free trial if you’re not — Riot Act is only 186 minutes so, you know, plenty of time to listen to it a few times, and leave a scathing review: https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Riot-Act-Audiobook/B081VGWJLG?qid=1575317103&sr=1-1&pf_rd_p=771c6463-05d7-4981-9b47-920dc34a70f1&pf_rd_r=H1WJX9FR94HJ36GAQR9H&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1You can listen to Riot Act here —A Rational Fear on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A very special episode of A Rational Fear — this is the audio from the Hungry Beast 10 year reunion show that we put on a couple of months ago.It has many of the voices and faces from the show telling stories about how it was put together and where most of the team is now."It’s been 10 years since the ABC TV show Hungry Beast was launched. In 2009 it brought together 20 young smart arses to create a new kind of new kind of TV show. One that was curious about the world, and didn’t take itself too seriously.Join former Hungry Beast presenters and producers as they try to remember what happened. There’ll be stories, unseen footage, clips now banned from the internet, and anecdotes about the show that changed Australian TV forever.*It’ll be just like Where Are They Now? — except that no one has ever asked that question.Join, Nick Hayden, Veronica Milsom, Kirsten Drysdale, Marc Fennell, Dan Ilic, Mon Schafter, Kirk Docker, Andy Nehl and others who haven’t replied to the email yet.Follow the money to your wallet and get a ticket to Hungry Beast Unplugged.*Probably not — but sounds good to say.A Rational Fear on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Enjoy a sample of the News Fighters podcast with guest host Dan Ilic from A Rational Fear.Head to newsfighters.com to check out the other episodes."In the fourth and final episode of our pilot week guest host Dan Ilic cherry picks at Energy Minister Angus Taylor’s appearance on Insiders this morning. Also ABC broadcaster and American political podcaster Josh Szeps drops by to talk Scott Morrison in Washington, the 2020 Democrat candidates and the most important issue on breakfast television. And finally we check in with our new finance reporter Rodney Todd."A Rational Fear on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🎟️Hungry Beast 10 year reunion show is on sale now: http://bitly.com/HUNGRYBEASTPLUG:Beaming to you from around Australia from Telecom Tower — this is recorded live at The Street Theatre in Canberra.A Rational Fear’s Mid-Winter Bore A huge satire-thirsty crowd turned up for our first ever from the capital. Hosted by Dan Ilic, the line-up is massive including: The Guardian’s Photographer at large Mike Bowers, Triple J Hack’s Shalailah Medhora, 730 Satirist Mark Humphries, and Triple J’s Lewis HobbaA Rational FearIt’s fast, it’s funny, it’s #insiders on crack.00:00:00 Preamble - Dan in his hotel in Canberra00:00:40 Start00:05:50Fearsome Fear #1: The Boats Are Back and the Tamil family.00:11:56Alan Jones on the Tamil family.00:15:22Fearsome Fear #2:Canberra misses out on the “most liveable city” top 10.00:20:05Tourists are asked “What is Canberra?”00:22:05Fearsome Fear #3: Pauline Hanson attempts to climb Uluru.00:27:54Mark Humphries: TV networks axing comedy shows.00:37:58Shalailah Medhora: Canberra isn’t the ‘Canberra bubble’.00:46:38The new exhibit at Questacon.00:48:14Mike Bowers: New Shows on Sky News.00:50:20Mike Bowers: Favourite photos. SLIDESHOW HERE00:53:20Lewis Hobba: Nine Network Fundraiser for Liberal Party01:00:26End.A Rational Fear on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

STOP THE PRESSJournalism is dead.Long live journalism.🎟️ CANBERRA SHOW - SEPT 7 - THE STREET - ON SALE NOWRecorded live, in front of a massive SOLD OUT crowd at Giant Dwarf ,some of Australia's best known journalists and a couple of Australia's least known comedians discuss the recent government crackdown on press freedom in Australia. (Waxed balls and All)Hear what happened to Ray Martin’s interview with a top CIA contact. How Kate McClymont sends a death threat to bikie gangs. Ben Fordham gets his house AFP raid-ready and hides his embarrassing things. Alice Workman tell us what Peter Dutton really thinks about the potato comparisons. Dan Ilic breaches the espionage act live on stage. Lewis Hobba tells us why Seachange is good for democracy, and Greta Lee Jackson from the Australian Federal Police shuts the show down in breach of telling bad facts about the government.One important takeaway from this episode is that despite the attacks on newsrooms from the Government, journalists are more determined than ever to hold the government to account than ever before — and Kate McClymont identifies as a witch.Thanks to: DJ Dylan Behan, Greta Lee Jackson, Alison Piorowski, Sandra Sully, Network Ten, Killian David, David Bloustien, James Colley, Kate Holdsworth, Marcel Bracks, FBi Radio, Giant Dwarf, the MEAA, the Walkleys, Sleeping Giant, and GetUp!00:00 Opening.01:02 Introductions.07:13 Press Freedom Discussion.19:53 Sandra sully’s approved news.21:20 Whistleblowers.25:30 Social media policy restrictions.27:59 Alice Workman vs Michaelia Cash.36:27 Ben Fordham auctions off his embarrassing shit.47:016 A Current Affair turn the cameras on the victims of press freedom.50:11 Kate McClymont and race fixing.58:50 ABC cuts having an effect already.1:00:01 Ray martin’s missing CIA interview .1:08:58 The afp shutdown the show.1:10:40 AFP #QandA.1:15:18 Lewis Hobba and why enjoying SeaChange is okay.A Rational Fear on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Never miss an episode.Subscribe to the newsletter: http://arationalfear.comGreetings Fearmongers —Recorded live on stage at the — In order for this political comedy podcast to qualify for a “Cabaret Festival” we brought the 2018 ARIA winners for best comedy Bridie Wyatt to sing songs at the start and the end of the show. Cabaret fans would say they’re the best bits. But we have some other great bits too we fix South Australia’s drop in tourists, we chip in on Izzy Folau’s Go Fund Me, and try to get our money back on the F-35 jet fighter.Adelaide Cabaret Festival andI’d urge you to listen out for the excruciating audience reactions duringLewis Hobba’s Logies rant in which he bravely rips into Adelaide a little too hard in front of the good people of Adelaide. Also in this showCal Wilsonweaves a beautiful allegory about millennials growing horns. Jon Brooks argues that it’s about time ‘the left’ had a rebrand. James McCann says Australia should stay a constitutional monarchy. Georgie Carol claims that germ warfare is grossly overrated. And journalist Andrew P. Street tells his story of seeking asylum in Adelaide.00:00 — Pre Show.01:24 — Opening.02:15 — Introductions.05:20 — Bridie and Wyatt Introduction.07:00 — Sex Pest.10:25 — I’m afraid of the Bees.16:10 — Fearsome Fears: Where Is Everyone Adelaide?.20:55 — Fearsome Fears: Israel Folau on Go Fund Me.23:00— Fearsome Fears: F-35 doesn’t do much jetting or fighting.30:14 — F-35 Promo.31:50 — James McCann: God Damn The Queen.38:34— Georgie Carol: Germ Warfare, so what?46:55 — Cal Wilson: Millennial Horns, the Wikipedia entry.54:10 — Jon Brook: Time to rebrand The Left’.1:03:00 — World Refugee Day: The political rhetoric need to change.1:06:40 — Andrew P. Street: Economic Refugee1:09:35 — Lewis Hobba: The Logies need a new home.1:19:40 — Bridie and Wyatt: The middle of a relationship.1:23:15 — Credits.A Rational Fear on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#ClimateWeekQLDHello Dan Ilic here —Thanks to the Queensland Government for inviting us to perform at Climate Week .The team of producers were incredible, and the production staff at the Brisbane Powerhouse were slick professional units.You may notice there is one word we’re avoiding to say in the show. That word begins with A and ends in I, has Dan in between. We were told about 20 minutes before the show, so some minor tweaks had to happen on the fly. I’m sure you’ll enjoy listening to that as we go.Bridie Connell and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd do some topical music for us. Tom Ballard tells us that it’s all over and there’s no hope left. The Queensland Government put a bid in for the 2038 Nuclear Winter Games. MICF Pinder Prize winner Steph Tisdell give insects the tick of approval, and goes on the hunt for true love with an entomologist. Mel Buttle hopes that foodies will go extinct. Alan Jones has some thoughts on climate change. Professor Hilary Bambrick scares us all to death with what the real health ramifications are for humans on a warming planet. Lewis Hobba thinks he has solutions to the climate crisis, but ends up just blaming Queenslanders for it all.It is truly and excellent 90 minutes of climate change banter.00:00 — Pre Show: AFP Warning.01:25 — Start.02:15 — Introductions.05:33 — Bridie and Wyatt Introduction.16:25 — Fearsome Fears: Freedom Gas.21:15 — Fearsome Fears: Flygskam.25:00 — Fearsome Fears: The internet will be underwater.27:30 — Tom Ballard: We’re all f***ed.37:48 — Queensland’s Bid for 2038 Nuclear Winter Games.40:16 — Steph Tisdell: Care about insects.47:45 — Mel Buttle: Foodies must die.1:00:30— Alan Jones’ Gloating.1:03:35— Prof. Hilary Bambrick: Health and Climate1:19:23— Lewis Hobba: Don’t vote for the climate.1:28:50— Queenslanders Apologise to Australia.1:30:03— Bridie and Wyatt’s Climate Love Song.1:33:33— Credits.A Rational Fear on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFearSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.