The Chaser Report - Kanye West's Unrequited Love

Episode Date: December 5, 2022

Dom Perrottet wants to send protestors to jail for being inconvenient, so John and Lachlan ponder what other inconvenient people should be sent to jail. Plus, Kanye West went on Alex Jones's show and it went about as bad as you'd expect. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Chaser Report is recorded on Gadigal Land. Striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence, this is the Chaser Report. Hello and welcome to the Chaser Report. I am Lachlan Hodson and joining me is... John, how's your weekend? My weekend was good though, so like... Thanks for asking. Did you watch the soccer in the morning on Sunday?

Yeah, I watched a bit of it. I am. And then it was weird because I was watching it to see how long it would go. And then... Well, because everyone on line was like, oh, they're going to win it. They're going to win it for sure. And I was like, I didn't think that was a reality. And then I turned it on.

And I was like, oh, no, it's not. I got to say, I cannot believe that Australia, a team that's only rated just three stars on the FIFA games, lost to someone called Argentina, one of the best teams with one of the best plays in the world. I thought that we really had a chance, but apparently we didn't. Yeah. Our issue was we didn't bring out Scott Morrison. We've seen him on a soccer field. If he was up against Messi, he would have dropped.

a shoulder or two, he would have copped a yellow card, which is the same punishment as showing respect for LGBTQ plus people, Matthew would be out and we would have won the game. I honestly thought that once we scored that one individual goal against a completely different team, that we had the whole World Cup in the bag. But look, you know, the game's over, the result to result. Team played well, good on your socceroos. But now that it's over, I can get back to boycotting watching the rest of the World Cup. I've got to say that, John, It's protesting a whole World Cup is pretty exhausting. Dare I say, it's actually a bit inconvenient.

So I kind of gave up on protesting the Qatar FIFA Cup for just one match. I'm back at it now. It's a PR stunt by a country that doesn't care about human rights teaming up with a international company that claims to have no money that is also abusive of human rights. Look, these are all good points. And I agree with you on all of them, but it's just inconvenient to hear. And I don't think that inconvenience should really affect me.

Like my roommate walked in front of the TV for 30 seconds and said, Lachlan, I don't think you should be watching this. And I'm all for protesting. You know, I think that if you're going to protest, you should be allowed to do that. What you shouldn't be allowed to do is slightly inconvenience people. And I think that if you were inconvenience people, even marginally, even just inconvenience them for a fraction of their day

you should get fined you should get jailed prison execute execute them guillotine bring out the guillotine so talking about the World Cup where does like

the inconvenience cause to all the families who they stood in front of the TV they stood in front of the TV for me for 30 seconds and if you get in front of my way of life I think that you need to sort of have justice

do you agree with me not really oh well I'm going to go for a second opinion. Hey, Dom Perrite, what do you think? No, it's not excessive. And if protesters want to put our way of life at risk, they should have the book thrown at them. And that's pleasing to see. We want people to be able to protest, but you should do it in a way that doesn't inconvenience people around you. Does Dom Peritay know what a protest is? So I had not listened to the full clip before. You can't protest without having an effect on the other people. That is just standing

somewhere and making noise. That is not a protest. The whole point of protest is to get in someone's way. Yeah, exactly. John, for our listeners who don't know what Don Peritay is talking about, could you feel a signal on the story there? So a climate activist who blocked one lane of travel on a multi-lane road for, I think, less than half an hour while the New South Carolina's government was

approving, giving a shit ton of money to fossil fuel executives for no reason. They have been jailed for, I think, 15 months? 15 months, 15 months, because they inconvenienced people who are trying to drive in Sydney, which I'll tell you is already pretty inconvenient. Did they even notice? Did they even notice? No, they probably just thought that, I don't know, the trains had stopped going again, which is nothing that has ever happened before as a result of actions from the Peritay government.

So what we've had here is a jail for 15 months, but that's not that excessive. It's not like anyone is telling us that we shouldn't be jailing people for something like this. I mean, the UN did. The UN did. Yeah, I can't write his name right now, but a representative for the UN tweeted out that it was extremely concerning and that the New South Wales government should change the decision. Isn't it true that the United Nations is just more of a recommendation body? Like, they can't enforce anything.

I mean, yeah, their strongly worded letters are very inconvenient to the world leaders who clearly don't even open them. If they're going to be inconvenient, we should protest the UN. Ah, send them to jail for 15 months. Yeah, that's not concerning. But what I am hearing, though, is that there's an Australian constitutional right to jail anyone who does slightly inconvenience you. And I want that distilled. I want that passed as a law immediately because I'd really like to send some of my own people to jail for inconveniencing.

I think that for grievous damages and grievous damages and grievous inconveniences. I'd really like McDonald's, all of the head workers at McDonald's to be jailed for at least 15 months. John, can I ask you a simple question. How much does a $1 frozen Coke cost? A $1.20, I think? Worse. It's $2 now. $2 for a $1 large frozen Coke. Because lots of things were getting hiked up by about 10%. Isn't that correct? Yeah, it was hiked up by whatever the companies wanted, right? It was 10% at most places that were basing it on the actual need. Yes.

Obviously, oil companies and coal companies all had to double their prices for a 10% rise and cause the whole fucking economy to collapse. But, I mean, obviously, that just means that Frozen Coke is made of the same scarce material that oil and coal is. It is. As an ex-Mackers worker who could tell you all about the inconveniences of probably not getting paid penalty rates, not getting paid Sunday rates, not getting any of the things that you're supposed to get as a worker and as a miner,

the biggest inconvenience that Mac has ever done is charged $2 for a Frozen Coke that has historically cost $1. Do you know how much profit they make off the old Frozen Cokes? I'm assuming it would be like 50 cents or something. 95 cents. Oh, wow. 95 cents because most of the cost was for the cup. Yeah, yeah, I knew the cost it would be the cup.

Like it's absolutely cooked that it costs $2 now. I don't think they cook the Frozen Cokes. What about you? Is there any one that you'd like? like to have jailed for grievous inconveniences. See, now, this idea that I can get benefits from this has me more on cyber domperit because I have a long wish. Hit me with your grievances, John.

I mean, you for making me do this podcast episode. Yep. Guilty as charged. Let's see. The other day I went to see one of my friends on TV. Well, I'm hearing a little humble brag there and I'll let it go. Okay, yeah, humble brag. It was friend of the show, Grace Tame.

Friend of the show, Grace Tame. I've got to start saying friend of the show, Grace Tame, who was on friend of what show? Q&A is, I don't think that's our friend. You're a friend of Q&A? I'm not a friend of Q&A. I haven't been on Q&A. Do you know what this term means? I just say friend of the show whenever Charles name drops someone to sort of like neg him into going,

oh, actually I look a bit like a cockwomble right now. Yeah, that's why I wasn't saying any. You jump. No, I did. Okay. I'll take double grievances for inconveniences. you in two ways now. Okay, so I was hanging out with the legendary Grace Tame.

Just own it. Just your friends with Grace Tame. That's not a thing. Have we broadcasted on the show before? No, we haven't. No, just own it. What we have done is we've had Grace on the podcast twice. I am in both those episodes, but not in the segment that she is in.

So, John, you're hanging out with your best mate, Grace Tame. Yeah, but so before I got... Hi, Grace. She's not listening. If you're listening to this, Grace, why? Grace invited me to why? watch Q&A and all the stuff that ABC sent me for the tickets or whatever

I just followed it to a T. Yeah. And then I lined up and it was a really long line. I spent about 20 minutes in this line at the very end of it after multiple points of like giving my name and stuff. They were like, oh why didn't you just use the term to skip the line? Nothing

in anything they sent me even mentioned that remotely. What? I think I got inconvenience more than any of the drivers in Sydney because I was waiting for 20 minutes in that line. The Chaser Report, news you can't trust. That's the inconvenience that we can deal with is the ABC in general. Yeah.

Anyone who sent me an annoying tweet before, get them gone. Get them gone. Annexed. My family who want to see me at Christmas. You've got an even greater inconvenience, though, because you actually have to fly somewhere. Yeah, no, that's even worse. I'd travel a very short distance to Canberra.

And that's like, that is like, what, 10 times how long people are their cars. I want all my family. I'm Manus Island at this point. Just get rid of them. I can just keep going. I've got another one which is um, uh, I think that the makers of be real, uh, should be jailed for two reasons. One is because it never goes off, uh, like at a good time for me. Like I, I'm always at work when it goes off. So, so that's not convenient for like showing that I have a social life. Uh, but more inconvenient crime, uh, is the fact that every time I do a B-reel, I then have to explain to anyone over 30 around me what I'm doing. Yeah, that is the main issue with B-Real is, like, it makes just enough sense that people over

35 are like, oh, what's that? Oh, this is quirky. I'm going to get into this. But not enough that they actually get into it. So it means you're just stuck explaining it to everyone. Do you have Domain Charles on B-reel? Of course not. It's just kid photos.

It's like, I thank you B-reel for taking me into a new social media experience that is Facebook where I don't have to look at photos of people and their kids, guess what I have to deal with photos of people in their kids? And it's our bosses. I mean, we should arrest Elon Musk for not destroying Twitter yet. Not yet. I've got a countdown on my watch that I'm looking forward to and he just hasn't done it yet. Also, he hasn't brought back Twitter Blue just because Twitter Blue was destroying, like they're losing more money than they're gaining with it. Is Twitter Blue not back? You can't buy any accounts yet. They still haven't, they keep pushing back the day that comes back because everyone's against it.

It's just annoying because I missed out by like an hour on my, getting my other account a blue check mark. And I, because I have a King Charles account just ready to go and I want to, you know, cause a few wars, but I can't because Elon Musk is so shoot at his job. This is fantastic. I think that the biggest one, though, if we're going to talk inconveniences, particularly socially,

there's one group of people that we got us sent to jail immediately, and that's Kanye West fans. Yeah, I'm fine with locking up Nazis. I mean, Nazis are the biggest inconvenience of all time. Yeah. If you aren't across this story already, Kanye West recently went on Alex Jones's podcast Info Wars. That's his podcast, right?

He's been doing well selling his supplements ever since he had to pay out to the victims that he abused. But yeah, he's still existing, apparently. He's still existing, and he's getting on high-profile guests like Kanye West to appear on his show. And then Kanye very, very subtly said this. I don't think Hitler was a good guy. I get the Hugo Boss uniforms amazing. But, I mean, just because you're in love with the design, you're a designer, can we just kind of say, like, you like the uniforms, but that's about it.

No, we, we, no, there's a lot of things that I love about Hitler. A lot of things. You can actually hear Alex Jones going, no, no, no, no, no. You don't actually like the guy. Like, you just like his uniforms. It's the first time someone has gone further than Alex Jones. If you're on Alex Jones's show and Alex Jones is trying to get you to hold back, you know that you have cooked.

Alex Jones claims that there are no school shootings in America. Alex Jones claimed that they're putting chemicals in the water to turn frogs gay. Alex Jones claims that Hillary and Obama both smell like sulfur and the devil. Yeah, Alex Jones is the man that news corporate. was like, okay, that's where we won't quite hit. But we'll get as close as possible. And then Kanye went along and just said the quiet part very loud. And you've got to have like an empathy because he's clearly going through some sort of mental breakdown.

But there's empathy and there's excusing. And we are not excusing. So I actually hate that people were like, oh, remember he's bipolar. And at one point during that interview, he said he is like someone on the spectrum. Oh, really? I didn't see this part. Neither of those things makes you a Nazi. Nazis killed both groups of people.

Anyone who is like, oh, what about his things? It's like, yeah, we can empathize with that. But there's no, don't what about the, like, we can draw the line at Hitler. Well, I think that if Don Perrote is listening and he's really feeling like throwing the book of people, we provided him with an extensive list of who he needs to, uh, And look, if jail's not enough, I'm all right with sending some of these people to jail. I've got more people. You've got more people.

On the weekend, I was scrolling through TikTok, and there was an ad from New South Wales Police. That was basically, do you want to shoot people become a cop? Look at them shooting guns. That could be you. That inconvenienced me. Put them in jail. How are you going to put the cops in jail? All right.

Well, we know that the cops don't do a good job at arresting themselves when they do the wrongdoing anyway. So, fuck it. We should get a different group to police the police. The problem is when the police throw the book at people, they know how to not let it bruise. Again, you're inconveniencing me by saying this. Another inconvenience would be anyone who shows up late to something. Also, anyone who complains if I show up late to something,

they can get the fucked as well, all them in jail. Inconvenience, the designers of IKEA's entire building, I don't appreciate getting lost and then getting hungry and then having a meal and then getting lost and then having to pay $500. And then feeling dumb when you realize that there's things painted on the ground so you don't get lost.

And then having to build my own furniture. Anyone who hasn't left a podcast review giving us five stars, maybe inconvenienced me. Dom and Charles who didn't shop to work. We've got to, I agree, but we should at least end the podcast because we're probably inconveniencing people as well.

You're only convincing me when I say in that. I want to keep going. No, Gabby and Mark Humphreys and James Schleffel for taking Charles away and leaving me to do all the marketing shit. We've been listening to the Chaser Report. No. We're part of the ACAST creator network.

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