The Chaser Report - Gender Reveals Revealed (As Stupid)

Episode Date: September 10, 2020

This week Nina wades into the latest TikTok controversy, Dom reveals whether gender reveal parties are a good idea, and Charles meets a $16,000 laundry-folding robot. Plus Rebecca De Unamuno with the ...newsiest news that ever news knew.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 In times like these, it's important to know who you can trust. At last, a new source that's reliably reliable, informatively informational, and never wrong. Unfortunately, you're not listening to it. Instead, you're listening to The Chaser Report. Hello and welcome to The Chaser Report. I'm Charles Firth, and with me today are Dom Knight and Nina Oyama. Hello. Hiya.
Starting point is 00:00:28 And have you had a good one? week, Nina? No, I've had a terrible week, actually. I went on, I went to the liquor store to buy some booze. And when I was buying the booze at the counter, the guy asked me to take off my mask. And so I did. And I thought it was a bit weird. And then he said, he looked at my mouth and he was like, oh, I was going to cut at you, but now I won't. And so I just presume I have a really old mouth, like cheeks up, beautiful, like teenage dream, right? Like, nose below just a hag just a fucking droopy old wrinkled bitch so oh well what are you doing on the show today old mouth ohama um i will be talking i hope this nickname doesn't stick i will be
Starting point is 00:01:14 talking about ticot and what about you dom i'm doing uh gender reveal parties that lovely moment where you share the the gender of your upcoming child with your friends and family occasionally they go slightly wrong i'm told i feel like at the lickerland i did a mouth reveal party I think that's what that was. It's funny. I'm the exact opposite. From the nose down, I look in my mid-30s, but see my bald head, I'm definitely in my 40s.
Starting point is 00:01:38 Yeah, well, it was like a gender reveal party in that it was a total catastrophe, your mouth reveal party. It really was. And it's also like, I'm buying a $5 bottle of red wine at midday on a Wednesday. Like, I'm not doing well, man. Like, you should just discard me.
Starting point is 00:01:54 It's for me, man. Like, don't worry about the law. I just need this. Although anyone buying a $5 bottle of wine in the middle of the day is probably a teenager, right? No, they're probably a whino, like Nina, like old mouth Yamaha here. Today on the show, I'm going to be taking you on a trip into the future where I review actually a really good and useful machine.
Starting point is 00:02:15 That's all coming up. But first of all, let's go to Rebecca Dana Minow in the Chaser Newsroom. Peter Dutton has demanded the Victorian border be immediately opened to French au pairs. The Home Affairs Minister denied his position on borders was inconsistent, saying he had always believed in open borders as long as the travellers were white. The Facebook Corporation has confirmed it will circumvent government attempts to make it pay for news content by using incognito mode, just like everyone else does. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said by using incognito mode, the number of free articles Facebook is entitled to will never run out. predicting the move will save the company $5 billion a year in subscriptions to the Sydney Morning Herald alone. A policeman has made sure he turned off his body cam moments before behaving reasonably.
Starting point is 00:03:03 Constable Josh Brown turned off his body-worn camera moments before helping a toddler find his mother. Constable Brown said that if his colleagues saw him reuniting a crying child with their parent, instead of body slamming them into the ground, it'd be career suicide. That's the latest Chaser news. Check outchaser.com.com. for all the latest updates. Thanks, Beck. Hey, Beck, did you see England's gone back into lockdown? Gatherings have been severely restricted
Starting point is 00:03:31 and everyone has to wear face masks everywhere. Yeah, the virus must be really out of control. No, no, no, it's just that Tony Abbott's over there and Boris Johnson wants an excuse not to meet with him. Well, I have heard he has terrible onion breath. Striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence, this is the Chase of Report. This episode of The Chaser Report is brought to you by veganism, the ethical way to become iron deficient.
Starting point is 00:03:58 Veganism. The Chaser Report, news you know you can't trust. Charles and Nina, I have some pretty major regrets right now because when my wife and I found out we were going to have a daughter, all we did was tell our friends and family, oh, this is really cool, we're going to have a little girl. We didn't have a gender reveal party. I can't believe it. Ah, idiots. I know. we really missed the opportunity to get everyone together
Starting point is 00:04:23 and have a big dramatic reveal of, you know, pink smoke or a little pink cake or whatever it was. Now, this whole idea goes back to 2008. Actually, a blogger by the name of Jenna Carvinidis came up with the idea. She had a sponge cake and she put pink icing between the layers and carved into the cake. And all of her friends and family were like,
Starting point is 00:04:42 oh, that's really cool. What a good idea. And since then the idea... But what happened with the cake? So... Did she cut into the cake? Imagine a cake. What happened.
Starting point is 00:04:51 Charles, imagine a cake with just plain white icing on it. The mum to be cuts into the cake revealing pink icing between the layers of the sponge cake. And everyone knows that it's going to be a little girl. And it's a little lovely moment. That went viral because she's a blogger. And we are where we are today when this happens. Calfire investigators say the flames erupted Saturday morning shortly before 1030 at El Dorado Ranch Park. Cal Fire Captain Bennett Molloy says a family had come to the park for a gender reveal party.
Starting point is 00:05:25 He says surveillance video from the park bathrooms and also cell phone videos from family members shows them standing in three to four foot high seasonal grass like this. That family at that time used a pyrotechnic device which emits smoke. Malloy says that device started the fire and family members tried to put it out but the flames took off. So there you go. So gender reveal party ends in a massive wildfire, one of the many burning in California at the moment. And the family actually ran back to their car, got some bottles of water and tried to put
Starting point is 00:05:58 out the flames with it. Didn't work. But most importantly, what gender was the baby? I don't know. I haven't done my research proper. Is it fair to say that people who do gender reveal parties are not, they're not the top minds of the human race? is that, like what's going on here?
Starting point is 00:06:19 Why are they doing? I'm just looking back over the Guardian report and I can't see a single bit of information about what happened, whether it was a boy or a girl. Well, it is strange. Like, if you're going to set a forest on fire, you might as well, you know, also reveal the gender. Like you might as well do the thing you came there to do.
Starting point is 00:06:36 Maybe that's what, because I did see the headlines, you know, gender party gone wrong. Maybe that's the thing that went wrong. It wasn't the fire. It was the fact that they forgot to reveal the gender. But the amazing thing is this is this is, isn't even the only time that a gender reveal party has caused a massive forest fire. In 2017, a border patrol agent in Arizona set off fireworks in a grassland, and the fireworks
Starting point is 00:07:00 were meant to reveal the colour, but instead it started a massive wildfire that caused 8 million bucks worth of damage and required 800 firefighters to get it under control. I have the feeling that it's not gender reveal parties that kill people. It's actually the stupidity of parents that kill people. I also think, like, if they, you know, have an explosive gender reveal party and then they have to go to jail, that's not very good for the baby. Like, that's really shooting themselves in the foot there for the future of their family. Mind you, presumably, it'll be the father that goes to jail.
Starting point is 00:07:37 And it's probably a good thing to get him out of the way. Like, if he's that irresponsible, it should be in jail rather than looking after the poor baby. Now, the amazing thing is I did a bit of digging around, and it turns out that there is a very long history of gender reveal parties going incredibly wrong. It's almost as though by having one, you're sort of dicing with death and serious personal injury. I'm going to tell you about a setup for a whole bunch of different gender reveal parties. I want you to try and guess what went wrong. Let's start with a YouTuber, and this is all on video if you want to watch it, who built a giant cannon in his backyard. It was called like the BabyTron 8,000.
Starting point is 00:08:18 And they had a party, had the friends over, lit the cannon. Guess what happened? It actually came apart in the hands of the man who was holding it. He got a massive gash in his leg and had to rush to hospital. I love how men have managed to make the birth of, you know, by their partners, something that's now all about them. They have. Like it seems to me, yeah, it's sort of an excuse for explosives and fireworks.
Starting point is 00:08:43 One of my favorites involves baseball, the Great American Pastime. So this is in California, in the backyard. And the concept was the dad was going to swing a baseball bat, connect with the ball, which would then explode and, you know, sort of smoky powder or talcum or whatever, would be revealed in the color, you know, in pink or blue. What do you think it went wrong? Well, I think it probably went completely all right because that sounds like a really good idea. So it was a little smoke bomb or something.
Starting point is 00:09:12 Yeah, well, they often make these things out of powder so that when they shatter, you get a cloud. Did he hit it and then he, I don't know, ingested the powder and then he choked on it and had a bad time? Well, the person who made the biggest mistake was Grandpa, because Grandpa decided to serve as catcher. The batter missed the ball and the ball hit the grandfather in the face. And it didn't even explode to reveal the colour. I don't know if they ever found out what gender the child was. Let's go to an Australian one now, because this does happen here. And look, of course, being Australian, being a bit bogan, donuts were involved.
Starting point is 00:09:51 And a car's exhaust had been rigged to spew blue smoke as it did donuts in front of the family. What do you think went wrong? It triggered an explosion of a nuclear weapon that hadn't been exploded by the British in the 1950s. Yeah, they shouldn't have done donuts in Maralinga. The smoke was made out of poison and everyone inhaled it and passed out. It was Reese and gas. Yeah, right. It was it.
Starting point is 00:10:24 It was Novichok, was it? The car caught on fire and the driver had to jump out of the moving car. Oh, that's a bit of an anti-climax. I thought it was going to be a nuclear explosion, Dom. I just feel like if you were the child of those parents, like they would just grow up blaming like all the bad things. in life on you, you know, you'd just be like, right? Like, you'd have impossible expectations there.
Starting point is 00:10:49 Now, let's head to New Jersey where a very special day came up for a dad to be. It was in 2018 and Father's Day coincided with this guy's birthday. Christopher Ojeda, his name was. So what he thought he would do is get a football, like an American football, put it on one of those kicking teas, kick the football, which would then explode. with pink powder telling everyone that um that he's going to have a little girl i was so with you i was like this is analog this is a medieval practice you just put the football on the tea no explosives no planes and then at the end there just had to be an exploding football didn't there
Starting point is 00:11:31 what could possibly go wrong the exploding football that you kick i've seen the video of this one yeah the football was fine the pink smoke happened everyone got to say that it was a baby girl and do a little cheer. Everyone likes baby girls. The only problem was that on his birthday and father's day, the dad broke his ankle in half. So how do you break an ankle in half? How does one do that?
Starting point is 00:11:55 I think he managed to slip, but also I suspect that the football was a lot harder than he thought because it would have been made of like packed palkan powder. So this guy just like fly kicked, he dropped kicked a rock into the sky. And he was like, well, it's not going to hurt at all. What, oh, God. Well, this is the problem with this, Nina, is that all these people survive to reproduce.
Starting point is 00:12:18 You should have to, you know what? I think you should have to do a gender reveal party before you have the baby. And I know that defeats the purpose. But if you survive the gender reveal party, then you can reproduce. Before you have sex. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:33 That's a good idea. Everyone at 16 should have to do some form of gender reveal party. And if they live to tell the tale, then you can have your. real one. Instead of a, what are they called debutante ball? Instead of walking a woman in a white dress down the aisle, you should have to kick a rock into the sky or explode a car. And if you can do that safely, you're good to go. We won't have any Americans left within a generation to wipe out America. I mean, is that such a bad thing when you consider all that they've done?
Starting point is 00:13:05 But I think the thing that's being discounted here, if we stopped having gender reveal parties, is the creativity. I mean, who would have thought of this next idea from Mike Cleburne? He runs an alligator farm in Louisiana. What could go wrong? And his concept was to get a watermelon, put it in the mouth of a gator, the gator bites into the watermelon and it explodes with blue goo. He's having a baby boy. Nothing went wrong in the execution of this stunt. That's good. That's great. You know what? I love and respect, lots of time for the alligator man. Why do you think it made the list then of the disasters? Did it then go and eat her baby or something?
Starting point is 00:13:48 Did the alligator eat the baby? Did it poison the alligator? The alligator was okay, but there was a massive outcry over animal cruelty. Of an alligator forced to eat blue goo, like weird, disgusting, gross food coloring. Hey, don't you reckon? Like, these are all terrible, right? But they haven't actually involved anyone dying. Like, you sort of go, come on.
Starting point is 00:14:15 There must be ones where they involve dying. Well, you two chicken shit to tell us those ones. I mean, I didn't want it to get dark, but I have to confess that there was one. And look, if you're planning a gender reveal party, knowing that they go wrong, I definitely don't have it in flamble grass and use an incendiary device. All right. But I guess the other thing. thing is, just as a cautionary tale, don't make a pipe bomb that then kills your mum.
Starting point is 00:14:44 Don't make a pipe bomb that kills the grandmother to be. Like, that is another just general piece of advice. What that killed the grandmother to be? So someone made a literal bomb to reveal that what, I don't know, is that's out, it's got the word bomb in it. That's all I need to know. It was just an al-Qaeda cover story. Oh, no, we were doing a dinner reveal party.
Starting point is 00:15:05 The Chaser Report, news you can't trust. Now, Charles Dom, I know that you've heard of TikTok and you constantly tell me that the Chaser is very much present on TikTok, but I did check the Chaser profile out and the bio on your page actually says hit that follow button, which already tells me you don't belong on the internet because the phrase is actually smash that motherfucking like button, laughing emoji, laughing emoji, laughing emoji.
Starting point is 00:15:31 So like already it yells Baby Boomer. from your profile. Well, the other thing is, isn't our TikTok, and in most of our social content these days, just videos of that good TV series we did 13 years ago? Yeah, it is. That's actually, that's why you're so popular on TikTok, apparently.
Starting point is 00:15:49 But anyway, TikTok has been in the news again this week, but for something a little more serious. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is demanding that a horrifying video circulating on social media be taken down. Parents have been warned of a video on TikTok showing a man in the United States, taking his own life. The Prime Minister says the laws and standards of behaviour for the real world must also apply online.
Starting point is 00:16:14 TikTok has been unable to delete the video from the platform. What was that incredibly fun music behind the killing report? Oh, you know, just fun TikTok stuff. It is weird that people like associate TikTok with, you know, poppy music to the extent that they will play it under a news grab about what is the sensibly. Serious self-armed. Yeah, it's pretty red-hot.
Starting point is 00:16:36 The video in question, it started originally on Facebook Live, where all bad videos to start. And when it was on Facebook Live, a bunch of people reported it as soon as they saw it, and Facebook said them all the message that was like, sorry, but this doesn't violate our code of standards. So they're like, it's fine. Even that it's called Facebook Live?
Starting point is 00:16:54 Yeah, on Facebook Live. Apparently people reported it for self-injury and suicide, and Facebook was like, no, we checked it out, man. It's all good. And it stayed up for one and a half. half more hours. And then during that time, it was downloaded and recorded and copied and then made available on TikTok, Twitter, Reddit and the whole of the internet. But this particular video ended up on TikTok. And the reason that people are freaked out is that they think kids will see it
Starting point is 00:17:21 because it's reportedly couched in a more innocuous video like a cat video. And then in the middle of the cat video, it cuts to a very graphic, more graphic thing. Yeah, I mean, that's what our school, because I've got kids, and they sent home a message. like an urgent alert saying, warning, keep your kids off social media for the next few days. Really? Yeah, because, you know, trolls are hiding this graphic video inside cat videos and, you know, funny videos. I mean, it does seem like a big concern, and I spent about 15 minutes yesterday, helping my brother delete TikTok from all the devices in their house for this reason.
Starting point is 00:17:58 15 whole minutes, man. Yeah, my nephew's tricky, hit it pretty well on the phone. But isn't the Prime Minister denouncing a video and the school warning you about the video the perfect way to get kids to want to watch a video? Well, this is exactly right. So it caused all this controversy amongst the parents because one of the fathers, you know, what stepped around the whole year saying, look, I've just looked up the video. It's actually not that bad. It's the sort of thing you'd see in a Hollywood movie.
Starting point is 00:18:29 You can't even really tell that it's real. Surely better than scaring our kids about this, we should just have an open dialogue. But the one thing that's going to make them want to download this video is sort of telling them it's completely banned. Well, it's just announcing that that dad has now been completely cancelled. Oh, no. And he actually sent a message this morning going, I apologize for my comments yesterday. He's sort of It's almost like Hollywood star style cancelled.
Starting point is 00:19:01 I like that you're telling this story as if it was another dad, Charles. And definitely not you. Definitely not you. It was another dad that was my friend that he had the comments. Not me. I did think he had a really good point. Okay.
Starting point is 00:19:14 I mean, sure. I mean, he saw it and it wasn't as bad as say John Wick. I'm sure it wasn't as bad as John Wick. Also in terms of the cinematography and all that sort of stuff. But when it's real, it's upset. surely, isn't it? I mean, don't we think that the fact that it's supposedly real makes it worse than... You don't want your kids seeing it. I think that's right. Yeah, I think so too. But I do think, like, obviously I don't have kids, so I don't know this. And I probably wouldn't
Starting point is 00:19:40 want little kids to see it. But I grew up in an age where, like, the internet existed. And when I was like 13, me and my friends used to log on to rotten.com and watch the pain Olympics, where I watched like a man cut his own dick off with a butter knife. And I was like, oh, yeah. So, And that went for way longer than this video did. And Nina, would you say that that produced a well-balanced, happy and ideal human being as a result? Like, is this the model we want to go for? Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:20:09 All parents listening like bookmark rotten.com, which Chaz watched too, by the way, when we were growing up. And it is rotten.com. But my concern is repeated exposure to rotten.com produces chaz. Yeah. I really do think I'm like the poster child for a reason. not to let your children see horrible shit. But in saying that,
Starting point is 00:20:29 so one of the problems, right, is that it's couched in these cat videos, allegedly. The thing is like, I've been on TikTok, and I had that thing where you have the Barbara Streisand effect where you draw attention to something. Like, I wanted to see that video so badly. Like, that's why I spent 10 hours on TikTok yesterday for research purposes.
Starting point is 00:20:47 Not because I was just having fun. But I didn't see anything, first of all. But secondly, like that element of surprise, I had that experience too because my friends when I was 14 knew that I loved Saturday Night Live. And so they went on, they brought me to a computer and they're like, hey, we've seen this really funny S&L sketch. And then they played two girls one cup. You have got to watch out, Nina. I mean, I was on TikTok the other day just checking out what's going on. And I clicked on like funny cat dancing video. And I got a horrifying clip of Charles
Starting point is 00:21:20 doing a stunt in 2006. I'm traumatized. Actually, I don't do that anymore. I now hide all my videos inside Nina Oyama videos. It's a really popular way to do it. It's really not. You get what, max 2,000 views on TikTok? I'm not doing well, guys, I could admit. Everyone's gone and follow Nina right now, so she feels less terrible.
Starting point is 00:21:44 But, I mean, this has been going on for years, right? I remember the New York Times had this big investigation that a lot of Peppa Big videos, which my nephew and niece are watching at a time, like led to horrifying content where Peppa gets dismembered. No, my kid watches those videos. They're great. I mean, having had a child of my own, I'm kind of into the idea of Pepper being dismembered,
Starting point is 00:22:08 but I decided I don't have to watch another video. But it's not right. Like, surely you should be able to police what your kids consume, even if it is rotten.com. But it's very different. Like, rotten.com, you know what you're going to see. Yeah, you're going to see something. It's not like fun cat videos.com. Yeah. And the other thing is that TikTok users are
Starting point is 00:22:27 aware of this. I have this theory that because I'm on alt TikTok, which is where a lot of like the LGBT community is, it's where a lot of activism is. And I have personally never seen the video, which leads me to think it's a heterosexual thing and that everyone should just stop being heterosexual and then we'll have all our problems solve. So the problem isn't TikTok. It's heteronormative TikTok. Now wonder Scott Morrison's concerned. The Chaser Report, news a few days after it happens. This episode of The Chaser Report is brought to you by veganism. We're not even allowed eggs or cheese.
Starting point is 00:23:04 What can you eat? Vegans? None of the medical advice contained in the Chaser Report should legally be considered medical advice. The Chaser Report. And now it's time for... Welcome to the future. That's right.
Starting point is 00:23:17 This is the segment where I usually come to the table with a device that fixes a very specific problem that isn't really a problem and doesn't need to be fixed. For example, this. This is Belty, the world's first smart belt. It will just, every time I get up, I sit down. It also has a pedometer built in
Starting point is 00:23:37 so it can measure how much you've been walking throughout the day and it will monitor your waistline each and every day. It reports all those measurements to your smartphone. God, that's the last thing I need, Charles, a fat-shaming belt. Like the mirror does that for me already. Thanks, Beltie. Yeah, and it is, it's an automatic belt. It actually automatically goes, you know, like tightens and loosens for you,
Starting point is 00:24:00 which is a huge problem, isn't it? The whole putting on your belt. It's just, you need to get rid of that. Oh, really? I would actually love that because I feel like when I sit down, my waist gets big and then when I stand up, it gets smaller. And I feel like that's actually quite useful for me as someone who loves a cinched waist. Okay, well.
Starting point is 00:24:19 Shut up, Nina. The point is, it's a totally pointless product, Bluetooth-connected belt. So today, instead, what I've decided to do is actually bring to the table something really genuinely cool that solves a problem that I think we all actually hate about our lives. It's called The Laundroid by a Japanese company called Seven Dreamers. It's got AI neural networks, deep learning. It's got robotic arms on the inside. side that'll pick up the piece of clothing and scan it with the camera in 3D to see what kind
Starting point is 00:24:54 of clothing item it is. And then it folds it. It's a folding machine. Now, it costs $16,000 to fold your clothes. But, you know, it's still in the sort of prototype phase, right? But, I mean, you can buy it, but it is $16,000. But just imagine as the price comes down as this technology. matureders, we're all going to be able to have folding machines.
Starting point is 00:25:23 Are you excited, go? Oh my God, Charles. If you're telling me that that will take the clothes that I've thrown on the floor every night when I take them off and make them nice and folded and lovely, $16,000. Where's my checkbook? I don't know, man. I'm a bit suspicious of this. I don't think, I think folding's not that hard.
Starting point is 00:25:41 No, no fence, boys. But I do think it's quite simple. Nah, you're wrong. You guys have watched the Conmari method. I would sell my own son to get a folding machine. For $16,000. Yeah. Part of the problem is that, Nina, it sparks joy for me to throw my shit on the ground.
Starting point is 00:26:02 So that's why my room's so messy. I kind of like it like that. So let's just have a listen to how it works. For example, this Verge T-shirt, the robotic arms would pick it up and it would determine which side is the front, where is the collar, how long are the sleeves. So in the video, yeah, she's got this sort of black verge t-shirt, and she's going to, and she's putting it, she's at some convention where they're showing off the new machine. And she puts it into the machine. And the great thing is she then downloads an app and it actually shows you all the different clothes that you've got that you've put into your folding machine.
Starting point is 00:26:41 And you can actually even integrate it with Alexa so that you can say, hey Alexa, can you get out my, verge t-shirt or my pair of Levi's jeans and it presents them to you at the end of the machine that is fantastic that is like look I've seemed clueless I knew that moment is going through her like computer wardrobe and yeah I feel like that is that's real now like that's incredible it's amazing anyway so in the video the reporter she puts it into the machine and let's just say there's just then this long delay, like, you're just standing there waiting. So we just might have broken a $16,000 laundry folding robot because I insisted on demoing it
Starting point is 00:27:31 with a Verge T-shirt that I brought. Okay, so what they had to do is they had to get some servicemen in. So they had to wait for a couple of hours because some off-site servicemen came in. And they're there in the video, you can see them lying on their backs reaching into the machine. And you actually start feeling really bad for this poor woman who's destroyed this thing that they brought along to the convention that's very expensive. I feel really anxious and apologetic and I never meant to harm this machine. It's not your fault, lady.
Starting point is 00:28:06 It's the machine's fault. Yeah, I mean, didn't she literally bring the t-shirt that it said it would fold? Like, didn't she bring a black verge shirt as per the ad? Well, no, no, no, that was her video saying, look, I've got this Verge shirt. I'm going to put it in because the verge is a tech blog. Yeah, so she was just branding. You're just, you know, branding the experience. Anyway, so, but no one stopped her from doing it.
Starting point is 00:28:31 Like, they went, okay, yeah, this will work. But it didn't work. Eventually, they do get it out of the machine. This is like literally a couple of hours later. And it's a very much unfolded, very crinkled t-shirt that they hand back. And she gets it with a bit of a wistful laugh. Thank you. I mean, they're a little bit.
Starting point is 00:28:56 They're a bit pissed off. So why do you think it didn't work? Why did this Black Birch T-shirt not fold? I'm going to hedge a bet here and say, it's because the machine does not work. I'm just thinking it doesn't. I reckon it's a scam. I reckon they took it and then they will.
Starting point is 00:29:14 But, Nina, they've developed an app. They've got the app. You know, you can download the app. They've integrated it with Alexa. It's got arms. The whole machine has arms. Sometimes you dream too big. I reckon it's because it was black.
Starting point is 00:29:29 And they somehow didn't manage to put a sensor that could tell, like what direction a black t-shirt was in because it's kind of difficult to do that with cameras. Dom, you are totally correct. This Verge t-shirt didn't work because it's black. And there's only set up to work with bright colors. God. If your wardrobe is only full of extremely bright, coloured, bad taste clothes, this is perfect for you.
Starting point is 00:29:54 So I'm definitely going to still buy one. I mean, they've definitely dismissed both the Berlin and the Melbourne market with that one already. No point in selling there. So is anyone going to buy one? Does anyone have a cheeky 16,000 lying around? Maybe we can split the difference. I mean, I think taking nice, tidy T-shirts and just turning them into a dishevelled mess on the floor. I think I can do that by myself, thanks.
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Starting point is 00:30:33 Okay, that's about all we've got time for barring. Wait a minute. We've got some late breaking news from Rebecca Danamuno. How are you still surprised? A single parent unable to pay rent has expressed relief to hear that Gina Reinhart will be getting a tax break from the federal government. Earlier this week, the Prime Minister announced large tax cuts for
Starting point is 00:30:55 the richest Australians. The single mother, who is facing eviction in the coming months, said she had been worried sick about how Gina Reinhart would make it through the economic crisis. Prime Minister Scott Morrison acknowledged that while trickle-down economics had never worked before, he had decided to give it one last shot on the off chance it works this time around. Well, that's it for today. Check us out on all the social media, including TikTok. No. No, you'll just see Charles's career die.
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Starting point is 00:32:04 In a world where people have kids. One couple are trying to announce their baby's gender. Before the baby is born. Yeah, so we brought you all here today for a bit of a gender reveal. Yeah, so if it's pink smoke, it's a girl, and if it's blue, it's a boy. So here goes nothing. Sorry, what gender is the grey smoke? From director Michael Bay.
Starting point is 00:32:41 You know, hon, you don't really need to have a gender reveal. I mean, no one cares, really. Yes, honey, they fucking do. Our child might grow up and decide it doesn't identify with either gender. I don't fucking care. I just want to explode something. Duck! The Gender Reveal in cinemas this summer.

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