# Jokes, data & election predictions Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-rational-fear-1080338/jokes-data-election-predictions Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-rational-fear-1080338/jokes-data-election-predictions.md Podcast: [A Rational Fear](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-rational-fear-1080338) Published: 2025-03-28T02:25:42+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/a-rational-fear-1/episodes/jokes-data-election-predictions Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/646ebc5fb383020012ef0cbe/e/67e60522bf74401b773c47e5/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-rational-fear-1080338/episodes/jokes-data-election-predictions Duration seconds: 2108 ## Resource πŸ€‘ CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear πŸ“¨ SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL TICKETS: https://www.malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/comedy-festival-2025/a-rational-fear In this episode, we discuss the upcoming election on May 3rd with Alex Fein from RedBridge and Populares ’ Ed Coper. These two people have their fingers (and toes) on the pulse more than most politicians β€” and the word that sums up the electorate in 2025 is β€œabandonment”. And we make some ropey jokes from 2005, and get some predictions where this election will end up in 5 weeks time. You can get a ticket to the Populares Campaigning Event here: https://events.humanitix.com/populares_event πŸ€‘ CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear Here's all the fun stuff you get when you sign up to Patreon. 🎧 Get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show. 🎟 Get early access and discounts to live shows. πŸŽ₯ Get early access to final videos, and draft edits of upcoming videos. πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€βš–οΈ Make show suggestions. πŸ’¬ Get a link to the A Rational Fear discord. If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-rational-fear-1080338/episodes/jokes-data-election-predictions/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-rational-fear-1080338/jokes-data-election-predictions.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.