The Chaser Report - Extra - Mini Bus Dream Home

Episode Date: November 25, 2020

Dom chats all the greatest news from trusted news source, Domain, including a couple who have purchased their dream home in the form of a minibus. Plus, Rebecca De Unamuno with the latest news you can't trust.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. Victoria is officially COVID-free after the last patient with the disease recovered. However, scientists say it is too early to celebrate as traces of Andrew Bolt have been detected in Melbourne's sewage system. The government is pushing to allow young people to dip into their super to fund the purchase of a house. The treasurer says the best use of savings for young people is to give it to old people who own everything since it's not like millennials are ever going to be able to retire anyway. Donald Trump has demanded a recount of his children

after Tiffany Trump showed up to dinner. The president demanded Tiffany not be served until she produced a copy of her birth certificate demonstrating him to be her father. Mr Trump later claimed on Twitter that his family had been rigged to make him look bad. That's the latest Chaser news. Check outchaser.com.com.

Now it's time for Charles, Craig and Dom. Thanks, Beck. Look, for quite a few months now, we've done the world news updates here on the Chaser Report for the mini episodes, but we need to cover the most important news source in the country. And that is, of course, domain.com. com. Charles and Craig, it's worth far more than the rest of the Fairfax newspapers.

Now the nine newspapers, billions and billions of dollars, apparently, domain.com. And I just think we need to talk about the breaking news from their site. Very exciting. A Sydney couple have found their dream home in an old minibus. They paid just $11,000 for an old minibus. They spent $18,000 doing it up,

and it's got incredibly small toilet and solar panels on the roof. Is this a tempting solution to the crazy housing prices? It is, but it's a stupid article for Domain to write because the whole point is to sell houses. Yeah, it shouldn't have been... That's literally giving away the alternative to the very product they said, Surely Drive should be running that article. Yeah, drive.com.

It's screwed it up. No, no, Drive's got an article about this wonderful car that is planted into the ground. It's used car that he could be in. It's like the Dan Murphy's kind of, you know, it's like the Dan Murphy's magazine telling people about marijuana. I mean, it doesn't make any sense at all. It's a nice image, though. I mean, this couple, they have digital jobs, which in some cases means not really much of a job.

But they drive endlessly around Queensland and do a little bit of digital stuff, but then mostly just hang out in their minibus. Does that lifestyle appear? Would you like to spend years driving around rural Queensland? I think it sounds like a great-low. Can I just check for two seconds just what happened there? Did somebody who does a podcast just criticize somebody's job?

Yeah. I was actually... Oh, digital. Probably means they're not working much. I'm sorry. I was thinking of my own career at that stage, Greg, actually. But no, if I do decide to go and live in a minibus, I could do this podcast around rural Queensland, I guess.

But why Queensland? I would love that. I would love it. You'd like that? Because it's warm. Oh, that's true. You don't like the cold, D. I can't help feeling that these are just what we used to call poor people.

that's true it is timeless it is literally I mean the article does say the article does say that though the lake of space can be challenging at times before they bought the minibus

they spent the first four years together in a converted garden shed with a single bed so I think you've seen what it is it's basically the real purpose of this article we've now landed on, it's to make people who own houses in Sydney laugh at the poor people who have to live in a minibus.

Yeah. That's why it's on the main. Domain has created a problem and pushed up house prices so much. They're trying to put a nice spin on people that can't afford housing. They've been driven away from Sydney. We've solved it. I knew this was a good news site. Okay, how about another story?

There's apparently a new trend called Cluttercore. It's the opposite to the Marie condo minimalist thing when you throw things out. What you do in this case is cram things in and make piles. One clatter-cord devotee calls it organized anarchy. Does this sound fashionable to you guys? No, it just sounds like my house. I didn't know. I didn't realize there was a name for it.

One of the signs that you've reached 40 is that you've got at least two drawers just full of chords that you'll never separate. That's so true. I've got crates of the stuff. It does remind me of your desk back in all the children. chaser officers know, Craig, that it was often more vertical than it was horizontal after a few months of doing TV shows. Absolutely. I am a mass horde like that. I just didn't realize you came in the name for it. It's brilliant. That was mainly coffee cups. You were the most disgusting person in the world, Greg. You would just leave half-drunk coffee cups. And it never

occurred to you that you could take that coffee cup and then reuse it by washing it up. you just like you you were the first person to ever sort of take you know single use ceramic coffee cups you were such a slob and it would it would grow mold that just be mold everywhere in all the i was trying to come with penicillin okay you i think he's excited um the theory about this cladicor thing is that it makes us feel safe from the outside world during covid that it's familiar and the mess makes us feel comfortable. Do you feel comfortable around mess? I mean, I feel incredibly guilty.

I'm incredibly messy, but I also feel guilty about that the entire time. So it makes me feel bad about my life, but I guess I'm the exception. This is literally somebody whose house has just got messy during COVID coming up with a name for it, isn't it? Like, that is all this is. That is all this is. This is somebody, I think the domain has stopped paying. I'm starting to doubt the domains here. Yeah.

I'm starting to question domains. is journalistic integrity. All right. All right. Well, look, let me give you the final story. It's really in their strong suit, you know, what they're known for. The good news, guys,

is the prestige home market is surprisingly strong despite COVID. The stock broker Rob Fiani's going ahead. We're selling his mansion in Bellevue Hill in Sydney for more than $20 million. It's a statement home set above a five-car garage with a lavish, Marvel staircase, tennis court, and a suing pool.

What do you think the difference is between home and statement home? don't drive it around Queensland? I don't know. At what point do you rich enough that your house is actually just a, it's a statement. Statement, wow. I think, unfortunately, the statement is I'm a wanker. It's a statement that's been made there. I mean, five car, is five car spaces too many in this day, age.

Well, no, no, but it's got servants quarters. So the servants have to park somewhere. Yeah, it's not that. I mean, you think about it. You need five cars because where else are you going to put your 80,000, 88 toilet roll. I just realized that's a callback to another episode. Yeah, go ahead and see the last Friday episode for that to make sense.

But he's selling the house. The reason why this is going ahead is because he's moving into another house on the Vaucluse waterfront that costs $34 million. So some people are doing well in the recession, guys. Isn't that wonderful news? Well, yeah, no, that is good news. I actually bought that house. I bought the statement house, the $20 million one from him.

What was your statement? My statement was... My statement was fraudulent. Although, to be fair. How much money do you have? There's probably no less for fraudulent stock breaking. But finally, so having looked at some of the headlines on domain, can you see why the sites apparently worth hundreds of millions of dollars

more than all the form of Fairfax newspapers put together? Yes. I can. No, I can't. It's very good journalism. No, that's why it's very good journalism. And that doesn't make money anymore, Greg. I know.

Look, it's the only part of the newspaper I read. You can catch up with a chaser at chaser.com.com. These episodes come out three times a week. Leave us a review, a statement review, if you will, in the Apple podcast app. Catch you next time. Bye.