The Chaser Report - Extra - If you eat something and don't post about it, did you really eat it?

Episode Date: September 21, 2020

An Australian official is now in trouble for eating a type of endangered native turtle. People were alerted to the dish when he tweeted about it. A man in England has used a giant live snake as a facemask. And a bridezilla has complained about receiving a hamper as a wedding gift. Plus the latest Chaser news headlines from Rebecca De Unamuno.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Chaser Report, Global World International News Headlines Update with Rebecca Dayunamuno. The Goodyear Company has today filed for bankruptcy after being sued for false advertising by every single person who has had to live through 2020. One unhappy customer told the Chaser that Goodyear had one job to deliver good years and make blimps, or whatever it is the company does. Canada has today honoured its obligations under. the NATO Treaty and launched a ground invasion across the American border. The invasion was triggered by an imminent threat to the safety and well-being of Americans across the country, with the Canadian government pledging to do whatever it takes to save America from itself.

A berry farmer offering fuck all for jobs in the middle of nowhere can't find employees for some reason. The farmer denied the solution to the problem was to raise wages and said that it was simply another example of lazy, unemployed people being too greedy and wanting enough money to not starve to death. That's the latest Chaser News. Check out chaser.com.com.com for all the latest. Now it's time for a wrap-up of news around the world

with Charles, Dom and Nina. Thanks, Beck. Now it's time for everyone's favourite segment. International Global News World Roundup. Dom and Charles, have you ever been to Cambodia? I have. I went to Phnom Penh. Oh, good on you. Well, guess what happened there?

an Australian official named Pablo Kang is now in trouble for eating a type of endangered native turtle. I did not do that during my trip. I don't know, man. I don't know. You look like someone that might eat a turtle. Anyway, people were alerted to Pablo eating this dish when he tweeted about it and he has since apologized. But what is the bigger mistake here?

Is it eating an endangered turtle or eating the turtle and then tweeting about it? Well, it's a bit of a dilemma, isn't it? Because if you eat something and you don't tweet about it, Did you really eat it? If a turtle gets eaten in a forest and no one's there. I don't know. I think both are, I think one is bad and one is stupid. Yeah.

And also, tweening's not the right thing. For something like that, it's more Instagram. Yeah, you should be doing a live video. Yeah, you want to see the turtle. You want to do like a bon appetit style top-down, you know, meal prep version of cooking the turtle. You want to see the life drain out of its eyes as it slowly dies. Yeah, and you'll see the rapport between the kitchen staff.

Yeah, maybe an issue. in-memorium package on the way through. Well, actually, the turtle's, fun fact, the turtle is a Cambodian delicacy, and it's a very high-status food for fancy people. So do you think that kind of makes it okay? You know, it's like, it's a delicacy, so it's a special Cambodian food. Oh, I'm so torn between my sort of PC, want to respect the local customers of Cambodia and my white heritage that tells me I shouldn't pay any attention to them.

Would you eat it? Would either of you eat it? I'd eat it. I'd definitely eat it. I reckon endangered species of a best to eat because there's always a sense of jeopardy. Like I could, you know, like this whole species could die because of my reckless behaviour eating this. That's something you're proud of. I mean, have you eaten whale?

No. You're half Japanese, darling. That's a bit of a racist question, Charles. It really is. All Japanese people eat will eat whale. But actually, my dad has eaten whale. and he said it's very good. I have it in whale,

and the reason why I ate whale is because it's endangered. No, it's because I was at a fancy dinner and someone had paid for like the whole Kiseki meal. It would have been very rude to say, I can't believe this is whale and to make a fuss. Because as much as I like saving the whales, I really fear giving offence in a social situation. The only time I've ever been on Q&A,

I admitted eating whale, and they never invited me back. I don't know why. Well, I've never eaten a whale, so Q&A, my phone number is 04. No, I'm kidding. I'm not Charles. I'm not giving my number out. If you want, actually, if you want Nina on Q&A,

there's a great actress who plays the role of Nina. We'll put you in touch. Yeah, she's had 20 years of theatre experience. All right, now let's head to Manchester, England, where a man has boarded a bus with a giant snake wrapped around his head, and then he rode the bus for 10 kilometres. He was apparently wearing the snake like a face mask, and then after he sat down, he took the snake off,

and he'd let the snake wind itself around all the handrails of the bus. I mean, does that make it cleaner, though? Like, maybe that's a way of sanitising the bus. I don't know, maybe the snake was just very itchy and it was just causing friction on the poles. That would have been a much better sequel to speed, though, than the speed two on a boat. If then speed two, the bus, a person to come onto a bus

with a giant poisonous snake. I think if it's like any movie, it's like snakes on a plane, you know, it's snakes on a bus. It should be a prequel to say it on a plane. Anyway, a passenger quoted, at first I thought he had a really funky mask on, then he let it crawl around the handrails. So what would you do if you're a passenger on this bus? Well, I think I'd turn it into a rare Cambodian delicacy and ease it.

That's what I do. I think I'd just live stream it on Instagram and you'd definitely get likes for that. I might get bitten and die, but in a way, what a great way to go. I get a lot of followers. Well, actually, here's a picture of it, if you want to see. Someone did take photos. It's stylish. It looks quite like a scarf.

It's a sort of snake skin scarf. It is. It is a snake skin scarf. It is a living scarf. Wow. I'll tell you why. It's got to be better than the sort of, you know, face masks that my wife buys on Instagram.

Well, I mean, do you think a snake counts as a face mask? Is it three ply? It's more than three plight. If it winds around your face three times, it's good. It's got flesh and bones between you and the, it's perfect. Extra thing. Well, unfortunately, you are both wrong because though he considered a face mask, officials actually issued a reminder that snakes did not count as a face covering. They stated, government guidance clearly states that this needn't be a surgical mask and that passengers can make their own or wear something suitable such as a scarf or bandana.

And while there is a small degree of interpretation that can be applied to this, we do not believe it extends to the use of snake skin, especially when the skin is still attached to the snake. Well, I mean, what animals could you use as a mask? Like, could you use a wing of a bat, for instance? I reckon... I think that would be a bad taste, Don. An endangered turtle, maybe? Or just the shell. I think if we started using bat wings as mask, it would be a great irony.

I think using bat wings as mask is how we got here in the first place. But at the end of the article, which appeared on news.com.com. Of course it did. They actually referenced the owner of another big pet snake. In fact, the owner of the biggest pet python in the world. world who is called Marcus Hobbs. And he said, I think people are so scared of snakes because they think that snakes are going to kill them. But if people come around, I can talk to them all day long about snakes to reassure them. Do you think this man talking to you all day about snakes would

make you like snakes? I think it's a brilliant idea because I would want to be more than 1.5 meters away from this guy at all times. Maybe everyone should be given snakes and that way social distancing would be a lot more, it would work a lot better. Yeah, well, there was a long period last year when Charles was threatening to get a snake for his son and that did make me want to move suburbs and because Dom had a baby at the time and the snake that I wanted to get had a history of sometimes very occasionally eating babies. Is this real or is this a bit? No, this is true. Red hot. This literally is a conversation that we had on the radio repeatedly. Well, stop using your old material. Now we're going to go to Canada where a bride named Laura is

furious after her friend Kathy gave her a hamper as a wedding gift. Now, Laura actually sent a message to Kathy that said, I want to thank you for coming to the wedding on Friday. I'm not sure if it's the first wedding you've been to, but for your next wedding, people usually give envelopes. I lost out on $200 covering you and your dates plate, and I got fluffy whip and sour patch kids in return. So I did see a picture of the hamper, and it's pretty funny.

It's like a crappy basket filled with like lollies from Woolworth. And Fluffy Whip's quite a good honeymoon present, isn't it? Yeah, I think that's all right. You get pretty hungry. But I got to say, I didn't think in these terms when I got married of needing to cover by the gifty economic cost of their seat, I think on that basis I've made a massive loss at my wedding. Yeah, I mean, but do you think it's okay to give someone a hamper full of lollies as a wedding gift?

Would have been better than a lot of the wedding gift. No, that's not true. I reckon, yeah, I reckon definitely, you can give what you want. It's a gift. It's a gift, like, they should just shut up about the gift and accept it politely because it's the polite thing to do. Now, during Charles's wedding, a lot of his friends organized to all give him the same model of toaster. Yeah, it's great. And I think compared to that, a hamper with Lollies probably would have been a welcome change.

70 fucking toasters. But what were the values of those toasters? Well, the great thing was we, Charles and I drove back to the store and returned them all. It was like the world's most inconvenient gift card. that is very funny well you'll be pleased to know that everyone on reddit actually oh sorry you'll be pleased to know that the bride actually posted it to reddit you know presumably she was looking for validation uh but everyone on reddit took kathy's side and then kathy made a comment that laura so which one was kathy kathy's the woman who gave the hamper yeah yeah she's right

yeah that's right yeah and then kathy says that laura has the etiquette of a twig which I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds quite mean. I think she's got the etiquette of somebody who eats turtle delicacies. Anyway, that's all we have time for this week. Feel free to follow us on social media. We're on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and give us a review on iTunes. As we've previously mentioned, our code word is Stephen Miles is a daddy.

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