{"podcast":{"title":"A Rational Fear","slug":"a-rational-fear-1080338","podcast_index_feed_id":1080338,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/646ebc5fb383020012ef0cbe","website_url":"http://arationalfear.com/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/646ebc5fb383020012ef0cbe/1787116481434-27c5394f-65b8-4311-a1a4-d0b0577f4b96.jpeg","author":"Dan Ilic","episode_count":250,"summary":"Laughing in the face of fear. Comedians and experts rip into the news. It's #QandA on crack. 🏆 Winner Best Comedy Podcast 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023. Sign up to the newsletter: http://www.arationalfear.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-20T06:19:29.872857+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-rational-fear-1080338"},"episode":{"title":"BHP is taking Michael West to court! — feat. Michael West","slug":"bhp-is-taking-michael-west-to-court-feat-michael-west","published_at":"2026-05-20T22:34:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-rational-fear-1080338/bhp-is-taking-michael-west-to-court-feat-michael-west","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-rational-fear-1080338","url":"https://shows.acast.com/a-rational-fear-1/episodes/bhp-is-taking-michael-west-to-court-feat-michael-west","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/646ebc5fb383020012ef0cbe/e/6a0e36d9163f100183a0a559/media.mp3","summary":"🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ This week Dan and Lewis Hobba are joined by independent journalist Michael West of Michael West Media — who's being sued by BHP, Australia's biggest company, over his reporting on coal miner Simon Turner's decade-long fight for compensation. Turner broke his back at BHP's Mount Arthur mine in 2015, was misclassified as a \"clerical worker,\" and paid $400 a week for a job whose award rate is $137,000 a year. Sitting behind the lawsuit is a potentially $10 billion labour hire wage theft scandal involving Chandler Macleod and Coal LSL — and the awkward fact that BHP, a $300 billion company, is also the major sponsor of the Walkley Awards while using Minter Ellison to muzzle a four-person independent newsroom. 🤑 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. 🎥 Get early access to final videos, and draft edits of upcoming videos. 👨🏼‍⚖️ Make show suggestions. 💬 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 a Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ This week Dan and Lewis Hobba…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1593,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-rational-fear-1080338/episodes/bhp-is-taking-michael-west-to-court-feat-michael-west/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-rational-fear-1080338/bhp-is-taking-michael-west-to-court-feat-michael-west.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}