The Chaser Report - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Podcast of Chaser | Aleksa Vulovic

Episode Date: July 20, 2022

NOTE: Due to COVID our Pub Live recording is POSTPONED. Don't come to the pub tonight expecting a recording, we are all sick.Aleksa Vulovic recounts his fantastical trip around the land of the brave and the home of the nuts: America. Find out what Aleksa got up to and why he was kissing so many of his friends for scientific research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence, this is The Chaser Report. Okay, welcome to The Chaser Report for Thursday, the 21st of July. I'm Chosforth, and with me today, Lachlan Hodson, and Alex Ovalovich. Hello. Who's fresh back from the US after two and a half months spent... Enjoying freedom. Just enjoying freedom and there are lots of crazy people? Yes, yes, it was...

disgusting and terrifying and horrible i um i don't have you guys been to i guess la in the past yeah but yeah past years yeah i think we're both at around 2016 but it's all it's all gone to like it's more crazy it's gone so much worse yeah i was there in like 2019 and it's just it's like mad max over there there's just so many people on the street um i guess homeless uh every person you walk past is having some kind of psychotic episode it's baffling. It feels like hell. Well, we're going to talk to Alex all about America in a sec,

but just I will note that tonight, Thursday, we are having Tony Burke live in the pub. He's the Minister for Arts. He's the new Federal Minister for Arts. And employment, yeah. And he's going to be in the pub. So if you're in Sydney, you can get tickets to that event at chaser.com.com.

There's still a few tickets there, really. There's two tickets left. Right, okay. Well, you know, hurry. That episode will go out tomorrow, so you'll be able to hear it. But you'll also, if you're a subscriber, there'll be a bonus drunk Q&A version of that episode with Tony Burke there,

which promises to be terribly career ending for him. And you can do that by going to abcast plus. Just go to chase it.com.com.com.com slash podcast. You'll be able to subscribe that. to the chase for nine bucks. Wait, sorry, can I just check something real quick? Did you say that there'll be two episodes coming out on the Friday morning?

Because I have to edit these things. You just edit them at like 4 a.m. They've got to go out of 4 a.m. They've got to be out of 4 a.m. And I've got to get them checked. You're a fucking word. Well, you're a great editor. You can do it.

You're really good. You know what? If you keep paying me in these compliments, I'll be fine. Well, let's go to an ad for the people who don't subscribe to this podcast. And for everyone else, well, we'll see you. right immediately the chaser report news a few days after it happens wow that was fast look we're already back yeah

anyway Alexa yes tell us all about the land of the free um it was disgusting it's really sad because like I um I mean throughout a lot of the time on this podcast I'm always talking shit about America and I thought there'd be some vague vindication every time I go there that like oh I was right it's horrible here but it just it never feels good it's not a proper vindication you get there and you just want to cry also it's not a it's not a happy I told you so it's more like a prove me wrong and then they put in little curveballs like stuff you weren't even expecting to be terrified by they start doing like they you know now now abortion's illegal and that happened that happened like two weeks after

was that you because that is an incredible stunt I know that we've done some fantastic work in the past but the fact that you were able to go there and ban abortion, Roe v. Way. Yeah, yeah. Like, you, you've outdone yourself. Oh, thank you. Thank you. I mean, it was very easy to do. It wasn't.

I don't have to put in a lot of effort. It just required 50 years of organizing on the ground through mega churches. And you managed to do it over to it? It's funny, but it's also really disappointing. Yeah. And so, I mean, were there lots of protests? Like, what did it feel like? Or was it, and were there guys?

There were so many guns. Big gun fan. I love them. Did you go shooting? I didn't stop shooting. I was just shooting the whole time. Quintessential American experience. And there are another big event that happened in a school that you were part of that one.

We went to a shooting range just 10 minutes down the road from Vivaldi. You're kidding. In San Antonio? Yeah. Why? Gee, that's scary. Yeah, it was pretty disgusting. Well, there's this very big YouTuber who does lots of gun stuff,

and we were going to go and see what it's like to be a gunman in America. I don't want to, don't want to live too much about it. Is that video going to come out later than a year? Yeah, it should be coming out at the end of the month. Yeah, right. Ideally. And you don't charge your subscribers to watch things like we're doing. No, no, it's all free.

It's all. And is this boy boy, or? This is boy boys. So we did a couple of videos there. One of them was living with this gun nut. This guy has 850 guns, and he lives just down the street from the school shooting. But we did another one,

which is also a super fun aspect of America, evangelicals. Apparently Disney is turning kids gay. It's a big issue in America. Really? Disney is making. I saw that Disney were incredibly hot. homophobic. Yeah.

But you enjoy the homophobes who turn out to be secretly gay. Yeah. Well, why else would you be protesting it? I feel like these people understand that they're so close to becoming gay. Yes, exactly. But we went to this protest in front of Disney World. We had like a couple hundred, I guess, conservative Christians in America screaming about, you know, Disney is making my kids gay and we need to stop it.

Yeah, it was a very bizarre place to be. Sounds a lot like the happiest place on earth. Yeah. Did you get the sense that these were sort of cult-like in their beliefs? So why, how do hundreds of people come to believe this? They've been told by their pastor? Yeah, I think so. I think, I mean, it's a...

Or is it Fox News? Oh, it's definitely Fox News. There's a lot of... So the guy who runs the events, Sean Foyt, he's constantly appearing on Fox News. but there's a there's a pipeline right it's not just Disney turning your kids gay it started with COVID the government was grooming children by making them wear masks and then a natural extension of that is once you can make them wear masks then you can do anything you want to them including making them gay which obviously Disney wants to do and and it's incredibly

profitable well I think they just or is it just power I think I think they just want people to be gay. Because they're Hollywood, like the Hollywood elites, like fresh fodder. Oh yeah, no, yeah, they won't have sex with the kids. Oh, like that time that I met. To be, to be honest, it was very hard to understand

motivation on the part of Disney when speaking to these people. It was, I'd ask why they were doing it, and it was usually just like, well, you know, Satan and the enemy working against us. And so that's why there was all that controversy over, Has anyone seen Lightyear, the movie? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, where two of the adult characters are lesbians.

Yeah. And it's very, it's not even an issue. I don't even notice it. But that's why it's inflamed them so much because it sort of just proves their point. Exactly. Well, that's the thing is like Disney for the last maybe, like it definitely at least last five years, every single movie has had, oh, this is our first something that we haven't done before with same-sex characters. and it's like always a big PR thing that they push particularly out to Western countries.

I know that Star Wars Rise of Skywalker was like, oh, we've got Disney's first same-sex kiss on screen and what it actually... Well, so, you know, you know that scene where two of the characters, the two male characters are reuniting for the first time and there's always been a ton of tension between them for the three movies? Po and Finn, they've just blown up the Death Star again, again.

Spoiler alert, by the way. Is these two characters reuniting for the first time? Did this start blowing up? Like, who could have predicted that? For the fourth time in the Star Wars movie? Yeah. So they reunite for the first time and they embrace each other in their arms

and they don't kiss, but in the background of that shot, you do see two women kiss. Oh. Was that on purpose? Yes, it was absolutely on purpose. Yeah. Right, so.

So the idea was the lesbian kissing was sort of easier to enjoy. introduce the audience and the men kissing. When it's in the background of a shot and it's blurred out. And it's this criticism that Disney often gets, which is like, you'll make a big deal out of something incredibly small. But maybe that's it. Maybe that's how they do the gradual change.

Yes, this is their 43% law on climate change. The Chaser Report, news you can't trust. We wanted to go about this scientifically. We wanted to find out, like, if there was any veracity to these claims, does Disney make you gay? Oh, yeah. And, like, boy, boy, our audience is pretty much entirely gay, and they all think that we're gay.

And we try to keep it ambiguous because we don't want to lose any people. So for this video, we're going to actually reach out to the audience, be like, look, we're going to give it a go, we're going to try being gay, and we don't know how to do it, so we're going to go to Disney World to do that. Oh, to become gay? Yes. So we tested it out. We were kissing all over Disney World at all the big rides,

eating the food and kissing. There was a really romantic photo of you guys going down, Splash Mountain. Yes. Isn't it? Really cute. And keep kissing on Splash Mountain. And like, it didn't make me very gay.

Like, it barely made me gay. Like, I... Was there any stirrings in your loins? No, no, not really. To be fair, it was easier for me because Alex has got these big soft lips and I've got this horrible moustache. Yeah, you'd be horrible.

Yeah, not nice. But the first time was quite bad, but we were also standing in the sun. So, like, that's just uncomfortable anyway. And so did you then go back to the protesters and say, well, we've tried. It doesn't work. And Disney doesn't make you gay.

No, no, they had disappeared pretty quickly. It turns out it's actually quite hard to protest against Disney anywhere near Disney. Was it in Florida? Yes. Yeah, yeah. They've got that whole don't say gay legislation. Yeah. Which would make it very hard to protest against gay, shouldn't it?

I'm glad that I've heard this backstory. I'm going to steal that joke for the video. I'm glad I've heard this backstory because it does explain a lot about your Twitter. When Alexa was away from us for two months, all the other interns and ex-turns were very much curious about why all of this new content was coming out. And there was one post in particular. They got everyone's attention, Alexa, that you put on your Twitter. Lots of nudity.

Have you seen the photo, Charles? Very tasteful. It's very tasteful. There was that post where Alex was asleep on a couch next to a wax figure of Jackie Chan. Yeah, very believable wax figure. That thing was. That was incredible. Someone had commented, they were like, who took the photo?

So it was just a picture of Alex sleeping next to Jackie Chan. And then we thought, like, what can we do? Like, how can we be funny? And the issue was, is that we had been kissing so much. and like we've been posting this on the internet and then you're like you need to go further like once you've done that then you're just like well what's the next funny thing um and it was just it was just me naked i was just i was just naked taking a photograph about like sleeping and the guy has like the most the ugliest feet in the world and he was using this big chunky foot just

to barely cover my enormous penis um yes and that's right you do have an enormous penis yeah yeah the thing is we've shot myself in the foot with that one because now what's the Oh, you've deleted it? No. No, haven't you? No. Oh, is it on his Twitter? Yes, it might be censored.

But now it's worrying because, like, the logical next step is just to be completely naked. And I think Twitter's fine with that. Yeah. So, like. But also, is your penis still broken, though? Like, I'm like, the world ready? Is the world ready for a broken penis pick? I think it's what the world needs.

I feel like there's, um, I'm sick of these. designer penises all over Twitter. Okay, so out of 10, how much do you rate America? Oh, well, I mean, I think it just depends on how much money you have. I think it's convincingly, I'm convinced it is the worst place in the world. It is the worst place in the world if you're poor. You're not even joking. No, no, like I've never seen, I've never seen a scarier country in my life.

But if you have money or you're a famous YouTuber, it is the best. It's so cool. You get to shoot whoever you want. want you get to you get to kiss your friends the American dream yeah our gear is from road microphones we're part of the ACAS

creator network we'll be back tomorrow with two episodes oh oh yeah