The Chaser Report - Extra - Covid health hacks

Episode Date: July 19, 2020

Do you put your fruit in the dishwasher? If not, why not? What is the appropriate way to protest against wearing a mask? And should you have a shower while Zooming in for an important meeting. With Dom Knight, Charles Firth and Nina Oyama. Plus Rebecca De Unamuno brings you all the latest Chaser news headlines. 
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The Chaser Report, Global World International News Headlines Update with Rebecca Dayunamuno. The Prime Minister has cancelled the next two weeks of Parliament over fears it could lead to him infecting Cronulla Sharks fans. Scott Morrison said he was worried doing frivolous things like attending Parliament would imperil his more important job of going to the footy and barricing for the sharks with a beer in his hand. A man who wanted the elderly to give up their lives so he could go outside has announced he is not willing to wear a bit of cloth so he can go outside. The announcement comes after new research debunked the idea that masks cut off oxygen to the brain. Scientists say their study proves that anti-maskers are already brain-ded to begin with. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has complained that she has been silenced

after people disagreed with some of her views. The most published woman in history told her millions of 20. Twitter followers that there was absolutely no way for her to make her thoughts known except through her books, her movies, stageplays, newspaper articles, TV interviews and Twitter. That's the latest Chaser news. Check outchaser.com.com.com for more updates. And now it's time for Charles Firth, Nina O'Yama and Dom Knight. Thanks, Beck. Let's catch up on the very latest headlines in one of these.

International Global News World Rounder. My name is Domnight. have Nina Yama and Charles Firth with us. Let's start with a wonderful COVID health hack. We've all been washing our fruit and veg much more than usual. But TikTok user at Smile Op, rather than boring old, you know, washing in a sink, she washes her fruit and veg in her dishwasher. She puts loose items like apples and kiwi fruits in the top drawer,

pineapples and pannets even in the bottom drawer, and then she puts some white vinegar in the detergent dispenser and hits express wash. What do you think? Has this changed your life, Nina? Yes, it has, knowing that people do this. I don't have a dishwasher. I'm not at that level of wealth yet.

So that's why I'm actually doing this podcast and I'm saving up. But when I get one, I'm definitely going to try this. Just to see what it does to the fruit. It can't be good. Well, no, look, I think, Nina, you don't need a dishwasher to do this. You just use your washing machine. And my hot tip is, instead of using vinegar, which I find makes the fruit a bit sort of bitter and sort of vinegar.

And vinegory. Just use gin in the thing. Just add a bit of gin and I'll tell you what, the kids love it. They absolutely love it. Can't get enough fruit nowadays. I mean, there are so many wonderful household hacks out there to save time like this. Are there any others that come to mind, have you managed during this COVID period have come up with any household tips to save time

that perhaps we could publish and go viral like this did. Charles, we need some TikTok views, I think. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I must say, I have been fine. You know how when you get home and you feel like all your clothes are infected because you've been out there in the sort of thing? I put my clothes into the dishwasher. I think that's a really helpful thing because there's too much fruit in the washing machine,

obviously, to be able to do that. And then if you're looking to clean your. plates. Unfortunately, there's too much, too many clothes in my dishwasher. So I, I tend to wash them in my bath. Yeah, that's what I do. Yeah. And where do you wash yourself? What a minute, I don't wash. I haven't washed in years. It certainly makes me think. I mean, my daughter would fit quite easily into the dishwasher. She's not very big. Yeah, don't do that. Yeah, let me know. It's like that story about the cat that got trapped in the washing machine for 12 minutes and they said he came out very soft.

Yeah, look, but this is the way to cut through. I mean, we're all stuck at home. It seems like other than all the horrible COVID news, every single thing on news websites now is either just hacks or viral TikTok videos. I mean, this one has both. Is this a good thing for our society that basically news websites are just full of hacks and TikTok? Yeah, and I don't think it's anything to worry about either, Dom, because the thing is you sort of go, oh, hang on, there's no investigative journalism now does.

you know, what would Chris Masters or Paul Barry do in this sort of, there's no, you know, people out there finding the corruption. But I think we're going to just have a generation of politicians who are going to tick-tock their corruption to share with their followers. Like that's what they're going to do. And so you don't need to go out and find the corruption because it'll all just be there on social media anyway. Well, Chris Masters must feel like a right idiot that he never thought

to investigate whether you could put a punt of blueberries in the dishwasher. Yeah, that's right. I mean, and imagine how much better Chris Masters career would be if he'd spent it, you know, collating TikTok videos. I mean, he could have been a great. Yeah, he could have been a, he could have gone TikTok viral. I feel like most of TikTok is people doing silly dances. And so it's just cringe-worthy when a politician does it.

But if someone that I don't like, like a politician does a TikTok dance, then. Well, that's the reason to cancel politicians, isn't it? when they release a bad dance, you just cancel them and elect a new one. Yeah, like when Bill Shorten did a dab. Yes, exactly. That's when he lost the election. I hope Kate McClymont's listening and is now going to just stop investigating dodgy judges and instead just dance on TikTok.

Go for it, Kate. Bust a move. Let's head, though, to Oregon now where a woman staged a sitting in a Costco branch in one of those discount warehouse places after she was asked to wear a month. which was the rules of the cost code, but also, I think, of the state of Oregon. She claimed that it violated her constitutional rights to have to wear a mask. The strange thing about this is, and this is another viral video, she actually had a mask hanging from one ear.

She just refused to actually put it on. Do you think a sit-in is a good way to protest during the COVID-19? Was she on the right track with this? No. I mean, do sit-ins make sense at any point in time? Charles, you did sit-ins in your radical youth, didn't you? No. Let's go through all the things that I did sit-ins for. I wanted lower university fees. That was my first sit-in. Well, that went well, isn't it? $140,000 degrees. We got out of that one. Then legalization of marijuana. We had a sit-in for that. Oh, wait a minute. It's still illegal. That didn't work. Oh, stop war. That was another one when the Iraq war happened. We wanted to stop that. We had a sit-in. Wow, that worked out well, didn't it? Yeah. So, So, yeah, sit-ins don't work.

So maybe, actually, the point is that now the whole of America will start wearing face masks because she had a sit-in about it. I just wonder, Charles, whether it's to sit-in that's ineffective or you. What do you think that? Maybe, Charles, you should fly to America and sit in, and then it will have the intended effect. I love it. I can be like, this is an enormous superpower, isn't it? The ability to negatively affect.

world events. I do you think having a sit-in might actually work in this case because if a lot of people that potentially have the coronavirus sit in a small and closed area and give it to each other, then eventually they'll have to go home and leave the sit-in. I think that's called a Trump rally, isn't it? Yeah, I believe so after they re-put-up all the statues. Yes, the statues, quite.

But look, they did call the manager as you would do in the situation. And she said, I'm not leaving. you'll have to carry me because I have constitutional rights as an American. Do you think that under the American Constitution, people have the right to be carried? Yeah, I think that's the Third Amendment, isn't it? You've got the right to bear arms, the right to free speech, and then the right to be carried out of Costco. Yeah, it is, did you know, this is actually a fun Costco hack, is if you go into Costco

and ask if they can carry you out, they legally have to do it. It's there in the Constitution. It's what the founding fathers wandered. They love those low, low prices, didn't they? But look, there have been heaps of incidents like this. And I'm sure if you've looked on social media, you've seen people sharing videos of fights over masks in stores. How can shops get customers to wear their masks?

It seems to be an ongoing problem. Well, it's obvious, isn't it? Just tell them that I think that they shouldn't wear a face mask and then they'll immediately do it. Yeah, tell them that the Liberal left are currently not wearing face masks, and then they'll turn it into a political issue and then all the right will start wearing face masks. I like it.

Now, while we're catching up on COVID news from around the world, let's head to the town of Torre La Vega in northern Spain, where there was a council meeting conducted over Zoom as so many events are being conducted now, including this very podcast. And the council was worried that he would be late to drop off his daughter. So what he did was he took his laptop into the shower, that part of the Zoom meeting,

and he didn't realize that the camera was on. His colleagues could see him showering. Apparently, the steam covered most bits, but it was full body. And unfortunately, they tried to ring him, but he couldn't hear his phone, this guy. Now, as a result of this, he did offer to resign. Should he resign over this? I don't think so. No way.

I watched the video, not because I'm a purve or anything, but I don't think it was that bad. I mean, I saw the images. And I think it's fine. In fact, I'm actually showering right now, and no one said anything. So I think it's okay. Yeah, exactly. We've all accidentally zoomed naked during council meetings, Tom. You know, I think people have just got to get used to it.

I just wonder if it's a way to actually boosts public engagement. I mean, I never pay attention to the local council meetings. But if I knew that they're all being conducted in the shower on Zoom, maybe we'd all tune in for the feet. Well, I think the good thing about this is it'll encourage people to vote for younger councillors. It would be a clue. It would be a real booth to the youth ticket. You know, get rid of all the boomers on council.

And I think middle-aged, I think middle-aged ginger men would get a bit of a lift in the polls, wouldn't they? That strikes me as highly optimistic, middle-aged ginger man. I wonder, though, that whether we should all just all be zooming in the shower. I mean, maybe this is the next level. It would save time, wouldn't it? I believe it's a form of multitasking. I mean, again, I am doing it right now. No one's ever said anything.

But I believe it's like a high level. You need to have like a, you need to be highly intelligent in order to do those two things at once. So respect. Well, Nina, you're clearly very, very highly intelligent. Can you just clean the lens? No. The Chaser Report, news a few days after it happens. Now, that is all we have time for in this mini episode of The Chaser Report.

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