? CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/We’re gearing up for a big 10-week season of weekly A Rational Fear Podcasts — but before we hit full steam, enjoy this chat with one of Australia's most prominent satirical broadcasters. From ABC's The Weekly: Charlie Pickering.We also speak with NASA Scientist and Climate Activist: Peter KalmusThis is a big discussion about civil disobedience and what actions may or may not work when it comes to shaking up the narrative of climate action. Dan also pushes Charlie on how he covers climate, and his thoughts on reaching the ABC audience.Leave us a review here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261? CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/  Dan Ilic  0:00  G'day, welcome to A Rational Fear, another special episode of A Rational Fear light as I call it's not the full A Rational Fear. It's just a slimmed down version that is the least amount of effort to make to maintain your Patreon support. That's all it is. That's what we're doing. And we've got a great guest, Charlie Pickering needs no introduction, but I'll give you one in a second. Anyway, here we go. I'm recording my end of A Rational Fear on Gadigal Land of the Eora Nation. sovereignty with never ceaded, we need a treaty. Let's startSimon Chilvers  0:29  the show. A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks, Canberra, and gum and section 40 of our A Rational Fear recommended listening by immature audience.Dan Ilic  0:43  Tonight the CEO of Star City casino says that even though the casino license has been revoked, customers will still be allowed to leave their kids in their car unsupervised. And Kanye West agrees to buy in principle, Paula and I agree in principle to not buy anything from Kanye West. And in a shocking misstep, Scott Morrison has signed up to a speaker's bureau initially wanted to sign up to a meandering rant bureau. Instead, it's the 19th of October. And this is A Rational FearWelcome to A Rational Fear I'm your host, former president of China, Dan Xi Ping and joining us onA Rational Fear light is the host of Foxtel's The Mansion it is Charlie Pickering.Charlie Pickering  1:39  That's great. It's great that some remember by someDan Ilic  1:42  people that worked on the show is of that show? Yeah, it was great. Don't Charlie, one of the best moments in show business in my life. I was having lunch with you in Manly one day, and you saying, Hey, man, I've got a show coming up. Do you want to come and work on it? And I'm like, yeah, that's my chili peppers, my cherry picker impression.Charlie Pickering  2:02  It's pretty accurate. It's prettyDan Ilic  2:04  good. Don't often I don't often doCharlie Pickering  2:09  more of them come and beDan Ilic  2:13  waiting here by chamber impression. It's great. Yeah, I don't often do my impressions to the people who do the impressions ofCharlie Pickering  2:20  it shows extreme confidence when that's your absolute confidence with an impression used to do it to the person.Dan Ilic  2:27  I did do my Andrew Denton impression to him at a rap party once on the microphone. And it was it went down. Well, I think Andrew was like, that doesn't? That doesn't sound like me at all. What do you what do you try it? Like? Why are you implying that I make people cry? Yeah. Hey, thanks for joining us on irrational fear. Charlie. I really appreciate I've been meaning to get you on for a long time. But you, you know, one of the busiest man in showbiz. You're like the James Brown of Australian comedy showbiz.Charlie Pickering  2:55  Hopefully, you're talking purely about work ethic and notDan Ilic  2:58  talking about your work. busiest man in China,Charlie Pickering  3:01  yes, well, I think I've done I've done very well to cultivate the image of busyness. And I think that's been probably the greatest achi