The Chaser Report - Extra - Pete Evans launches new healing clinic

Episode Date: August 25, 2020

The last Blockbuster Video in the world is now an AirBNB - you can stay there and watch whatever you want. Public library workers in Washington State have found a stash of beers and gum dating back from the 80s. And Pete Evans has a new Byron healing clinic. Plus all the latest headlines you can't trust 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. Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has pledged bipartisan support for the Liberal Party's branch stacking. The Victorian Liberal Party has been engulfed in scandal after shock revelations that anyone thought the Victorian Liberal Party was worth stacking. Mr Albanese said branch stacking was a sacrosanct activity above party politics. and the Labour Party would support it, along with everything else the Liberal Party does. Christian leader Anthony Fisher has questioned the morality of the new Oxford vaccine ordered by the federal government over concerns it used tissue cells of a fetus in its development. Mr Fisher said that many priests were having real problems deciding whether to ban the vaccine

or have sex with it. Later he announced the church's problem with the vaccine had been solved after it was moved to another parish. Meanwhile, Jesus has said He can't understand why priests praying for a miracle cure to the coronavirus want to ban the miracle cure that he just gave the Oxford team.

That's the latest Chaser News. Check outchaser.com.com.com for more updates. And now it's time for a wrap of the world's news with Charles, Nina and Dom. Thanks, Beck, and welcome to yet another one of these. International Global News World Roundup. Yes, another mini-episode. of The Chast Report to clog up your podcast feed and hopefully increase our listens,

likes and eventually salary. Thanks, thanks, Nova. Now, Charles and Nina, some amazing news from Bend, Oregon. That is the site of the world's last blockbuster video. Now, any given that you're 27, do you know what a blockbuster video is? Yes, I know what a blockbuster video. I know I seem very young, but I'm not a Gen Z. I am a millennial.

Did you ever go to a video store and rent a video on a cassette? Yes, I have done that, like a VHS. Yes. Yeah, of course I've done that. Okay, there you go. Yeah, I know, I know, you know, the pencil test, the meme, where it says like, um, 90s kids don't know what this pencil is for. Or no, Gen Z kids don't know what this pencil is for.

It's got a pizza of a pencil next to the VHS. Have you seen that meme? There's not VHs. That's a cassette. Whatever, a VHS cassette. No, there's an audio cassette. She doesn't know what a VHS or cassette is. That's, oh, my God.

Wait, you rented audio cassettes from Blockbuster. What? No. But you used the pencil on an audio cassette. You don't use the pencil on the VHS. Don't you? And then, oh, well, I've fucked up everything. Sike, psych. I'm young. I don't give a fuck. I really, I really stuffed this whole thing up. I swear it was on the VHSA because you could. No, it's still to accept it. But the point, the point is you still win. You still win. Because you have decades more of life ahead of you than we do. Anyway, the point being, the, when Chaulder is.

Charles and I were young, we used to go to the video store to rent something to watch because... Really? I didn't know there were video stores in the 50s. There were. Because, you know, TV was boring. And so whenever my parents went out, they'd go to a video store and rent something to watch. But this one, this final blockbuster to exist is also an Airbnb. So you can go there and rent videos, but then also at the end of the night, some lucky person gets to stay in the store overnight. There's a sofa that pulls out as a sofa bed.

You can watch any video you want on VHS. Awesome or a bit weird and crap? What I mean, like, what's their selection like? Because you don't want to watch a modern movie on VHS. I reckon, surely no movies will put on VHS after about 1997. Well, no, because heapses collect them because Hips is like, yeah, I'm going to watch stuff, but they're never as good. Because my partner actually collects VHSs.

He has, like, over 30,000 VHSs. What? Who? Yeah, my partner, Craig. Really? Yeah. 30,000? That's an awful.

Maybe even more. He's got the biggest collection of VHS. tapes in the Southern Hemisphere. But they were terrible. No, they're actually pretty fun and awesome. But they degrade. Like VHS tapes last for about five, ten years. No, they're still, they still, he cleans them constantly. He's always scanning them and uploading. This is just a plug for my partner, to be honest. I feel like you want the video to include the ads. It's got to be a video that you've taped off the television, don't you think? And so, and be slightly sort of out of tune like of TV used to be.

Yeah, slightly out of sync. I don't know if you remember this, but when you got a video in the 90s, it came with like a bunch of ads that played at the beginning, anyway, and then a bunch of trailers that played at the end. And those trailers are not the same trailers

that you'll see on YouTube. So they're actually quite interesting and rare, and the cuts are very funny. That was actually the best part of many video apps that I rented. Because we used to just get weeklies. You'd go and get like six weeklies for 10 bucks or whatever.

Yeah. And then you'd never return them and then the fines would be astronomical. Yeah, I've done that. Yeah. We used to subscribe to video easy. Did you? They ended up having this, for about 30 bucks a month,

you could subscribe to the video store. Yeah. So would you spend the night though, Charles? Like now, it's 2020, assuming there was no COVID, would you go and spend the night on the sofa bed enjoying VHS tapes? Nina's partner would? Not in Blockbuster. Yeah, just come over to me in my boyfriend's house and...

I'd like to see them do it here in Australia. You know, with, say, Dick Smith or something like that, you know, or, you know, Franklin's. You know, one of the brands, the iconic brands that we had. Brashes. Brashes, yeah. It's brashes. You don't have brushes. Sanity.

It sounds nasty. It sounds like an STD. I've got brushes. You could get an STD at Brashes for sure. That's where you'd take a pencil if you needed because you could buy audio cassettes from brashes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Audio cassettes are cool again.

Matt, I don't understand. They sucked. I did. I saw a movie called Work It on Netflix, which is a 2020 movie about a girl who learns to dance. But there is a scene where she gets a mixtape from someone and it's on a literal cassette. And I was like, you wouldn't do that now. You'd use a USB. Are there any, so are any stores gone by that you'd like to spend the night at? Like, would you spend the night at brushes, Charles? I'd spend it at Brashes just to go through all the CDs.

I used to love going in brushes. The listening posts. They were really fun. And when they weren't broken. Yeah, they're always broken. They were broken. I wonder why that shop didn't last. And do you know what a CD is? He doesn't know what fucking CD is.

I want to see Franklins. Do you remember Franklin's? Do you remember Franklin's was the third biggest supermarket chain in Australia for many years. And most shittiest. Franklin's is where depression goes to get more depression. No, that's Frankston. And boot makers. They don't have bootmakers anymore.

Yeah, they don't have, like, competition. All the good things. Yeah. And they don't have people to say your horses. There used to be several coblers on our main street. Where is the blacksmith? The house opposite us used to be stables for horses. Why don't bring that back as well?

Did you also have like a chamber pot guy? I don't understand. Well, yeah, there's lots of, around here. There's dundee lanes everywhere. It's true. Now, talking of things that were fun in the, 80s. Public library workers in Washington State were renovating their library

just during COVID because it was closed and they found a stash of beer cans of beer and gum dating back to the 80s. They checked it out that the design of can and the type of gum hadn't been around since the mid 80s. Which I actually think should all public libraries offer

booze and snacks? Ooh, interesting. I feel like that's not really becoming of a library. Like, shouldn't it be red wine and french? French cheese, yes. No, I feel like libraries got to expand their demographic. Because guess what, I have a very snobbish view of libraries.

I'm like, that's where people who read books go, which is already like, don't like it. So I'm not a reader. I'm not a nerd. But if they did offer free beer and snacks, that is enough of a hook for me. Then it becomes a pub, Nina. This is just a pub. But that might actually get me into reading. Get rid of the books, bring in beer and snacks.

That's just a pub. But I just, I need something that's going to get me to the library because I just don't, I don't go there. But no one goes to libraries, Charles. They've got to do something. I actually do go there for free internet. But if there was free internet and beers and snacks, and hell yeah, especially if they're beers and snacks in the 80s.

And you know what you need? I reckon they should get rid of the books and just put in charging stations for your mobile phones. Because actually, there's far more information on your mobile phone than could ever fit in a library. No, you know what they should do? they should get rid of books and replace them with screens and computers and cool gaming chairs and water slides become an internet cafe internet cafe that's what all libraries should be yeah and a water slide and a water slide now if you were one of those workers and you found

a beer and rename it not call it a library call it city hunter if you were one of those workers and you found chewy and and beer from the 80s would you be willing to try it hell yes I'll eat anything like as if you would okay so I'm not from the 80s so I don't know what these things taste like but I would want to try it you know I feel like the chewing gum would be fine

exactly the same I feel like the beer would probably be a bit off but how would you know fermented you know doesn't it isn't it already have all the good stuff well Nina we've got a beer from the 80s here

so why don't you try it well I don't know aren't old people like obsessed with really old alcohol like isn't that a thing like oh this is a whiskey from 1901 or whatever and they're like it's the it gets older as it gets better or whatever yeah yeah you're right okay I mean why do people not apply this to beer why is it only applied to champagne or because beer goes stale yeah you want your beer to be fresh you know how pub smell after someone's spilled beer all over them that's what would smell like I suspect now moving on um friend of the show Pete Evans um he has moved to Byron. Sydney's last time he's moved to Byron to set up a healing clinic. What services do you

imagine the Pete Evans' evolve health labs offers? I feel like he does Reiki. He probably does like anti-5G Reiki. I think he does direct debit deductions from your credit card. I mean, Reiki wouldn't be too bad because then at least he wouldn't touch you, right? Yeah, you could social distance Reiki. Now, all I can find out about is is that they offer transformational practices, whatever the fuck that is, and cryotherapy. That's where the body is exposed to very cold temperatures for several minutes, apparently to reduce pain and improve mood. Although because it's Pete Evans, there's no evidence that it works.

He's invented air conditioning, hasn't he? What a genius. Except I feel like, because he's paleo, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. So it would have to be done in a way that the cavemen did... Air conditioning. Air conditioning. So what is that?

But just go deep into a cave where it's really cold. Cave conditioning. Cave conditioning. And then maybe someone could roll a rock across the cave so that he never comes out. And the thing is, though, that Pete Evans, curiously enough, despite saying that COVID is a massive hoax, he has put in hand sanitizer stations

and all the signs and social distancing stuff that you have to put in a business now because all the COVID rules. And everyone goes, oh, Pete Evans, You're a hypocrite. You shouldn't have hand sanitizer? What do you reckon?

What should his position be on that? Well, I admire his flagrant cynicism. I didn't think there'd be any sort of universe in which I would respect Pet Evans. But to be, you know, saying that on the one hand that it's a complete hoax and then on the other hand just obeying all the rules so that you can make all the money. That's the sort of cynicism that I can get on board with. Yeah, it's a cynical cash grab. Yeah.

It actually has real integrity. So you mean he's not really just some sort of crazy quack. He's just another asshole who's after money. Yeah, he's just shameless. Oh, damn it, Pete Evans is ruined for me. I think that was possible. That's all we have time for, though, on this mini Chaser report. Don't forget the main episodes come up every Friday.

You can subscribe via your podcast app of choice. You can forget the latest Chaser news at chaser.com. You as well and subscribe to us on Instagram, TikTok, and any other service of your choice. Tick-Tac is a type of food. We have in the 80s, Nina. Delicious. Yeah, I'm aware of Tic-Tacks.

I've eaten a Tic-Tac before. Catch you next time here on The Chaser Report.