The Chaser Report - Mein Trumpf
Episode Date: August 27, 2020The Republican Convention is on this week, and well, yeah, it's a bit Nazi. Nina Oyama looks at the desperate plight of Britney Spears, Dom Knight takes a long look at a nudist camp in France and Char...les Firth introduces a new quiz: Is it Republican or is it Nazi. Plus Rebecca De Unamuno with all the latest Chaser headlines that we can get past the legal team. 
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                                        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.
                                         
                                        Hey.
                                         
    
                                        And what a great word.
                                         
                                        Victoria has finally turned the corner.
                                         
                                        Great news.
                                         
                                        Less than 150 cases a day consistently in Victoria.
                                         
                                        Isn't that great news?
                                         
                                        They seem to have flatten the curve and Daniel Andrews.
                                         
                                        And even better than that, the Masked Singer got shut down.
                                         
                                        So things are really looking up.
                                         
    
                                        Finally.
                                         
                                        But look, I guess the Republican National Convention has been what we've all been watching this week.
                                         
                                        It's been quite extraordinary.
                                         
                                        You know, last week the Democrats did their very earnest or pre-recordedals.
                                         
                                        socially distanced conference, full of hope and progress
                                         
                                        and American values and boring stuff.
                                         
                                        Oh, God, I hate hope.
                                         
                                        The Republicans went dark.
                                         
    
                                        Like, this was the dark night version of a convention.
                                         
                                        Like, one of the people on the bill,
                                         
                                        they invited a couple called the McCloskey's,
                                         
                                        who became famous when they pointed firearms
                                         
                                        at Black Lives Matters protest.
                                         
                                        They don't have a protest outside.
                                         
                                        The guys who pointed guns at the peaceful protest,
                                         
                                        they were the ones on the bill.
                                         
    
                                        It's like, these are our people.
                                         
                                        We've got to get them on the bill.
                                         
                                        There are some limits.
                                         
                                        For instance, the Q and non-supporter who tweeted blatantly anti-Semitic things.
                                         
                                        She got dumped from the bill with a couple of hours to spare.
                                         
                                        So there are limits, who knew?
                                         
                                        But really what we saw at the RNC, to a quite extraordinary degree, was Trumps.
                                         
                                        There were all of the Trumps.
                                         
    
                                        And they started with Donald.
                                         
                                        I mean, Donald's decided to put himself.
                                         
                                        He's the main one to be there.
                                         
                                        But he's put himself on the bill every single day of the RNC,
                                         
                                        which no one's ever done before.
                                         
                                        He reminds me of an old, like, comedy club promoter that used to, you know,
                                         
                                        headline every gig just for his own ego, like similar energy.
                                         
                                        Well, definitely.
                                         
    
                                        And in fact, his ego was very much on display.
                                         
                                        His first words were actually a gag, Nina.
                                         
                                        Just an innocent little gag about being dictated for life.
                                         
                                        More more years.
                                         
                                        If you want to really drive him crazy, you see, 12 more years.
                                         
                                        Yeah, there they go shouting.
                                         
                                        12 more years.
                                         
                                        Oh, man.
                                         
    
                                        If Trump is in power.
                                         
                                        for the next foreseeable future.
                                         
                                        Like, there won't be 12 more years to be in charge of.
                                         
                                        The world's just going to explode.
                                         
                                        Absolutely right.
                                         
                                        But there were so many Trumps then.
                                         
                                        I mean, Donald, of course, Donald Jr., Ivanka, Malania.
                                         
                                        Even Eric got on the bill.
                                         
    
                                        And Tiffany, the forgotten Trump, the Trump he never talks about, was on the bill.
                                         
                                        Did Zippo Trump make an appearance?
                                         
                                        Frankly, I was surprised that his late brother who died last week wasn't on the bill.
                                         
                                        The one Trump who wasn't there
                                         
                                        He was there in spirit
                                         
                                        He was there in spirit
                                         
                                        Yeah yeah
                                         
                                        Mary Trump didn't get a gig
                                         
    
                                        Yeah the niece wasn't on the bill
                                         
                                        Just talk about that book of hers
                                         
                                        But look a lot of people say that all of Donald's children's
                                         
                                        Are dead shits
                                         
                                        Now they are
                                         
                                        But Donald Trump
                                         
                                        Donald Trump Jr's skills
                                         
                                        Actually really surprised me
                                         
    
                                        And I thought all he was good at was just going
                                         
                                        And killing endangered animals
                                         
                                        But I reckon he's the man
                                         
                                        If you've got a crappy late-night infomercial
                                         
                                        Listen to this guy
                                         
                                        Imagine the life you want to have
                                         
                                        One with a great
                                         
                                        job, a beautiful home, a perfect family. You can have it. You can have it. You can have it.
                                         
    
                                        And what's the salute? Like, how do you get that? See, after four years of his dad in power,
                                         
                                        what you need to do is imagine a different world. That's what he was selling. To be fair,
                                         
                                        it does come with a free set of steak knives. It does. He really tried to have a message of
                                         
                                        being inclusive and just everyone can be part of the dream, while also being incredibly negative.
                                         
                                        That did create a couple of logic problems.
                                         
                                        Joe Biden and the radical left Democrats, our party is open to everyone.
                                         
                                        It starts by rejecting radicals who want to drag us into the dark.
                                         
                                        Not everyone.
                                         
    
                                        Not quite everyone, nearly everyone.
                                         
                                        I love it.
                                         
                                        Open to everyone who immediately reject it.
                                         
                                        But the thing was, it was an incredible fantasy of an alternative America.
                                         
                                        You know how in all those movies, all the trailers start with, in a world.
                                         
                                        Yes.
                                         
                                        Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                        Have listen to this.
                                         
    
                                        imagine a world where there are evils of communism and radical Islamic terrorism
                                         
                                        are not given a chance to spread where heroes are celebrated and the good guys win
                                         
                                        you can have it but wait a minute Trump's already in power like surely this is the
                                         
                                        future that should already be here yeah Charles it's a reboot it's a reboot of the timeline
                                         
                                        but look Tiffany Trump she hasn't had much attention over the years but they did give her a go
                                         
                                        I'm not sure if anyone proofread her speech, though, because let's just say it was genuinely quite wacky.
                                         
                                        A country where our differences are embraced and the only country where the word dream has been attached to it.
                                         
                                        Yeah, that's right. America is a dream from which we'd all like to wake up.
                                         
    
                                        I mean, like, it's really funny because the American dream that's always kind of like something to be criticized, right?
                                         
                                        Like the American dream's like, everyone's like, oh yeah, it's this false idea.
                                         
                                        And she's like, it's great because the word dream is next.
                                         
                                        to American.
                                         
                                        Lean into it.
                                         
                                        But also, aren't the Republicans
                                         
                                        against the Dreamers Act,
                                         
                                        which gives citizenship
                                         
    
                                        to people who've come to America?
                                         
                                        Yeah, that's their dream is no American dream
                                         
                                        for migrants.
                                         
                                        But unfortunately, despite all the wacky stuff,
                                         
                                        it also turned a bit dark at the end,
                                         
                                        and this was pretty chilling.
                                         
                                        Have a listen.
                                         
                                        In America, your life is yours to chart.
                                         
    
                                        So if you're hearing these things
                                         
                                        and thinking to yourself,
                                         
                                        that is the kind of country that I want to live in.
                                         
                                        Well, whether you realize it or not, you are a Trump supporter.
                                         
                                        Oh, no.
                                         
                                        Hang on, whether I'm thinking that I'm living a life that I want to live in,
                                         
                                        I'm a Trump supporter.
                                         
                                        You aren't. Sorry, Nina. You're your team Trump now.
                                         
    
                                        Really, the bar is so low.
                                         
                                        What have you just very confused by, are you then a Trump supporter?
                                         
                                        Well, Tiffany had a dream that her dad would love her enough to put her on the bill at the RNC, and it came true.
                                         
                                        But look, it did turn a bit dark, and the darkest of them all was Kimberly Gilfell.
                                         
                                        She's Donald Trump Jr.'s girlfriend, and she's a former host on Fox News, until she started dating Donald.
                                         
                                        I think that's called a corporate merger.
                                         
                                        Have a listen to what she had to say.
                                         
                                        They want to steal your liberty, your freedom.
                                         
    
                                        They want to control what you see and think and believe so that they can control how.
                                         
                                        You live.
                                         
                                        So Donald Trump promised it up lifting event this week.
                                         
                                        She had her arms lifted up during that rant.
                                         
                                        I'm not sure.
                                         
                                        I don't think she got the memo that the whole event wasn't supposed to seem like a creepy Nuremberg
                                         
                                        rally.
                                         
                                        Listen to this bit.
                                         
    
                                        They want to enslave you to the weak, dependent, liberal victim ideology to the point
                                         
                                        that you will not recognize this country or yourself.
                                         
                                        Yeah, I mean, that does sound a direct quote from Mn-Kunf.
                                         
                                        Are you sure that's the right to speak?
                                         
                                        Oh, no, no, she can't be like a dictator or anything.
                                         
                                        She's part Latino.
                                         
                                        She says that herself.
                                         
                                        Yeah, that's actually, she says as an immigrant to this country,
                                         
    
                                        even though she was born in the United States.
                                         
                                        Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                        Which is technically the US.
                                         
                                        But look, she did try to have some variety from the shouting to the empty void that she had.
                                         
                                        At one point, she actually tried to give the audience some encouraging affirmations
                                         
                                        to really build their sense of belief in themselves.
                                         
                                        It didn't quite go according to plan.
                                         
                                        You are key.
                                         
    
                                        You are qualified, you are powerful, and you have the ability to choose your life and determine your destiny.
                                         
                                        I mean, that is the world's most chilling self-help tape.
                                         
                                        I actually use it to go to bed at night.
                                         
                                        But the strangest part of her speech, and it was six minutes of utter strangeness that's worth watching, is this bit.
                                         
                                        If you want to see the socialist Biden-Harris future for our country, just take a look at California.
                                         
                                        The Democrats turned it into a land of discarded heroin needles and parks, riots and streets, and blackouts and homes.
                                         
                                        Now, the important detail to know about Kimberly Guilfoyle is that her ex, Gavin Newsom, is the governor of California.
                                         
                                        I like that. That's the sort of equivalent of sub-tweeting somebody.
                                         
    
                                        So memo to Donald Trump, Jr., if you break up with her, she will burn you to the ground.
                                         
                                        Yeah, we'll see her at the next Democratic convention.
                                         
                                        That's right.
                                         
                                        To her credit, she really tried to strike an optimistic and non-terrifying note at the end of her speech.
                                         
                                        Ladies and gentlemen, leaders and fighters for freedom and liberty and the American dream,
                                         
                                        the best is yet to come.
                                         
                                        Yes, you failed.
                                         
                                        There's nothing that makes me feel more hope.
                                         
    
                                        than someone just screaming, the best is yet to come at my face.
                                         
                                        I'm so happy.
                                         
                                        Everything's good.
                                         
                                        We've got a great show coming up.
                                         
                                        I'm going to actually do a quiz about the Republican convention later on.
                                         
                                        There are a lot of questions.
                                         
                                        That's right.
                                         
                                        What are you got on, Nina?
                                         
    
                                        I'm going to talk about the free Brittany movement.
                                         
                                        And I'm going to explore a COVID outbreak at a nudist colony.
                                         
                                        But first of all, let's go to the news headlines with Rebecca.
                                         
                                        day and a minute.
                                         
                                        Contact traces for the masked singer have hit a brick wall
                                         
                                        after failing to guess who the kitten is.
                                         
                                        Health officials have been pleading with the public
                                         
                                        to keep their masks on,
                                         
    
                                        which in this case has made it very hard to work out who is who.
                                         
                                        Rumors suggest that the kitten is in fact a person of colour,
                                         
                                        which has led Karl Stefanovic to deny his involvement.
                                         
                                        Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been appointed trade envoy for Great Britain
                                         
                                        in a sign that England has essentially just given up.
                                         
                                        On hearing the news, Australia offered the United Kingdom a special deal,
                                         
                                        which would see Australia give them five ex-prim ministers for the price of one.
                                         
                                        Mr Abbott's first decision as trade envoy was to swap the nation's entire food supply for raw onions.
                                         
    
                                        That's the latest Chaser News.
                                         
                                        Thanks, Vic.
                                         
                                        Hey, Beck, are you excited about the new season of Fortnite that's about to drop?
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah, I love playing shoot-em-up computer games with adolescent boys.
                                         
                                        That's my favourite hobby.
                                         
                                        What do you reckon it's going to be in the next season?
                                         
                                        Yeah, look, I reckon there'll be some extra guns, a lot more remotes.
                                         
                                        I hope they bring the pump back.
                                         
    
                                        Oh, yeah, the pump is the best gun.
                                         
                                        So sad it was vaulted in season three.
                                         
                                        I can't agree more.
                                         
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                                        More news, less often.
                                         
                                        The Chaser Report is sponsored by Kimberly Gilfoyle.
                                         
                                        I'm very excited about the slow creep of fascism in America.
                                         
                                        It's wonderful.
                                         
    
                                        The Chaser Report, news a few days after it happens.
                                         
                                        Now, Charles and Nina, it's time for a look at, you know, this whole global crisis disaster thing.
                                         
                                        COVID-Watch.
                                         
                                        In previous weeks, we've looked at all the crazy finds going on and just the general
                                         
                                        terribleness of all that is happening.
                                         
                                        But I found out something this week that I thought I wanted to share with you.
                                         
                                        Just one little story from France.
                                         
                                        And this really intrigued me.
                                         
    
                                        there's been a massive COVID-19 outbreak at the world's largest nudist colony.
                                         
                                        It's called Cap-Dag-D-E, where they had a 30% positive test rate with 150 positive tests.
                                         
                                        And I thought we should look more closely.
                                         
                                        I think we should just look on the right side.
                                         
                                        30% positive.
                                         
                                        Yeah, so positive.
                                         
                                        Yeah, absolutely.
                                         
                                        I love a positive French nudist.
                                         
    
                                        And my question to you, Charles Nanner, is why do you think nudists would get
                                         
                                        get COVID-19.
                                         
                                        My problem is I have so many potential answers that I can't decide which.
                                         
                                        What do you think?
                                         
                                        So what's the, but do they have to wear masks still?
                                         
                                        Like, is it sort of...
                                         
                                        I think you've hit the first problem.
                                         
                                        For the first problem is, so this is a huge, huge resort.
                                         
    
                                        It's massive.
                                         
                                        It's on the beach in France near Montpellier and no one wears, well, anything, let alone
                                         
                                        at all.
                                         
                                        Oh, God.
                                         
                                        Yeah, no, that's bad.
                                         
                                        That's really bad.
                                         
                                        I guess you can't be a nudist and cover your mouth.
                                         
                                        That's one of the first rule.
                                         
    
                                        of nudist club, I believe.
                                         
                                        You're not allowed to wear clothes.
                                         
                                        Any clothes, even masks.
                                         
                                        See, that's, yeah, because is that to them, like, you know, overdressing?
                                         
                                        They're, like, sort of putting on a heavy coat when you go outside in the sun.
                                         
                                        Well, I mean, there is a sign at the beach that when you walk up, it's in multiple languages,
                                         
                                        and it says, in French, it's nudity obligatory.
                                         
                                        And it's a naturism compulsory.
                                         
    
                                        And so maybe you're not allowed to wear a mask even if you want to.
                                         
                                        Yeah, it's actually considered quite offensive to dress up to a nudist event with a mask.
                                         
                                        Now, but I just, I thought that, like, do they have lots of sex?
                                         
                                        Is that the reason why they do it or?
                                         
                                        See, Charles, you've hit on something here because what seems to be the case at Cup dug
                                         
                                        is that part of it is just natures, frolicing, and then the other part of it is just
                                         
                                        swing is fucking on the beach.
                                         
                                        And that, I suspect that that could be what it is.
                                         
    
                                        That's the crucial 30%.
                                         
                                        It's actually divided into zones
                                         
                                        And I gather that there's a huge schism
                                         
                                        Whereas the innocent natures
                                         
                                        Don't like being associated
                                         
                                        With the public sex swinging throws on
                                         
                                        I must say if I was a went to the effort
                                         
                                        Of being a nudist
                                         
    
                                        I think I'd be on the swingers
                                         
                                        So like you go to the whole effort
                                         
                                        Of taking off all your clothes in front of everyone
                                         
                                        You might as well go to the foot
                                         
                                        I don't understand nudists
                                         
                                        You just want to go
                                         
                                        Oh well there's nothing sexual about this
                                         
                                        Really? No I'm the opposite
                                         
    
                                        Like I would go
                                         
                                        straight to the flurlicking.
                                         
                                        You know, just like an animal, just like a deer, like a Bambi.
                                         
                                        I'll just frolic in the woods.
                                         
                                        It'll be beautiful.
                                         
                                        Really?
                                         
                                        You'll be a great time.
                                         
                                        I don't know.
                                         
    
                                        I like, you're the, what's that beach in Kudji?
                                         
                                        That's like a women's only beach where it's essentially like a nudist beach.
                                         
                                        But I just go there all the time and hang out.
                                         
                                        And it's the nicest thing.
                                         
                                        But I think the key ingredient is no men.
                                         
                                        Yeah, that's not a rule of this place.
                                         
                                        I'm okay.
                                         
                                        I think it's perfectly demonstrated by the difference in opinion
                                         
    
                                        Between you and me, yeah.
                                         
                                        I just have sex all the time.
                                         
                                        So, Charles, your stance is, look, given that we're nude, we may as well get into it.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        And then he says, I don't want to get into it.
                                         
                                        Well, I wanted to know more about what kind of place this is.
                                         
                                        So, of course, I did what everyone would do and looked at the TripAdvisor reviews.
                                         
    
                                        Just the images, though, right?
                                         
                                        Yeah, right, just for the images.
                                         
                                        And a person called Warren says, plenty of entertainment.
                                         
                                        It's up to you whether or not you participate.
                                         
                                        So, Charles, I think there are some CD old men at this place.
                                         
                                        It's great right in.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        I mean, if it's just seedy old men entertaining each other, I mean, that's beautiful, you know.
                                         
    
                                        Each to their own.
                                         
                                        I mean, this is the thing.
                                         
                                        And once I got about 10 or 20 reviews in, I found one that says, look, to be frank,
                                         
                                        this is all changed.
                                         
                                        Everyone's 60 plus now.
                                         
                                        Oh, well, then you guys would fit in perfectly, even better.
                                         
                                        I couldn't go there even if I was, even if I tried.
                                         
                                        Too young.
                                         
    
                                        I'm off on the young beach next door with no COVID.
                                         
                                        We all wear masks.
                                         
                                        We're all very conscious on the young person, nudist beach.
                                         
                                        So my question is what changes do you think they need to make to get this outbreak under control?
                                         
                                        I mean, it's clearly it's one of the worst outbreaks in the whole of France.
                                         
                                        What do they need to do?
                                         
                                        I mean, if they are 60 plus, doesn't that put them in the, you know, the COVID, the immunocompromise?
                                         
                                        The death zone.
                                         
    
                                        The death zone.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        So I don't know.
                                         
                                        I actually think this is part of a global conspiracy to kill off nudists.
                                         
                                        That's right.
                                         
                                        Maybe it's a death wish.
                                         
                                        I mean, maybe there's something a lot darker going on.
                                         
                                        with all those 60-year-old nudists.
                                         
    
                                        Maybe they just don't want to die at home alone.
                                         
                                        Maybe they want to die on a beach with a bunch of other 60-year-olds.
                                         
                                        Yeah, I died doing what I love,
                                         
                                        being part of a massive orgy on a beach.
                                         
                                        Striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence,
                                         
                                        this is the chase of report.
                                         
                                        So we're all living in a kind of lockdown right now,
                                         
                                        but someone who's been living in their own personal lockdown
                                         
    
                                        for over a decade now is Brittany Spears.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Poor Brittany.
                                         
                                        Yeah, poor Brittany.
                                         
                                        She's just a pop star.
                                         
                                        She just wanted to live.
                                         
                                        So what's the deal with that?
                                         
                                        Well, this week, she's back in the news because she filed paperwork against her father
                                         
    
                                        to have him removed as her conservator.
                                         
                                        So basically, back in 2008, Brittany was placed under a conservatorship,
                                         
                                        which means her father started to control her finances and her life, essentially,
                                         
                                        because she was deemed too mentally unwell to take care of herself.
                                         
                                        And that was when she went through that whole breakdown where she shaved her head and stuff like that, isn't it?
                                         
                                        Yeah, she shaved her head, she hung out with Paris Hilton.
                                         
                                        There are shirts now that you can get that say,
                                         
                                        if Brittany made it through 2007, you can make it through to this day.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, I mean, I did feel so sorry for her back then,
                                         
                                        particularly when she was dating Kevin Fedeline,
                                         
                                        the world's worst rapper.
                                         
                                        Well, I was going to say, my question for you is,
                                         
                                        I mean, is shaving your head parting with Paris Hilton
                                         
                                        and marrying Kevin Fedeline,
                                         
                                        are these indications of being mentally unstable?
                                         
                                        No, I reckon she was just ahead of the time.
                                         
    
                                        Like, that's literally what every millennial does.
                                         
                                        They sort of aspire to that,
                                         
                                        except maybe the Kevin Fideline.
                                         
                                        That is, there's genuinely borderline mentally ill.
                                         
                                        Yeah, man, I feel like Milsie for American Idol's done two out of three.
                                         
                                        I mean, I've definitely started dressing like Kevin Fetterline,
                                         
                                        and I have shaved half my head during quarantine.
                                         
                                        So somebody lock me up.
                                         
    
                                        But for a few years, I think it seemed kind of okay that Brittany was in a conservatorship,
                                         
                                        you know, because she was going out, she was doing her Vegas residency,
                                         
                                        see she was releasing new music, but about three years ago, people started to notice her
                                         
                                        Instagram was a bit strange.
                                         
                                        And I don't know if you guys, have you frequented Britney's Instagram at all?
                                         
                                        Of course, that's one of the only reason I go on Instagram.
                                         
                                        It's truly, it's a side to behold.
                                         
                                        There was that video where she burned down her gym and she's kind of like, hey guys.
                                         
    
                                        So I burned down my gym because I left candles out.
                                         
                                        And she's very vacant in the eyes, have you noticed?
                                         
                                        Ooh, okay.
                                         
                                        At all?
                                         
                                        Well.
                                         
                                        I must say, look, Nina, I'm not a, like, not on the Insta.
                                         
                                        following Brittany.
                                         
                                        But I now will.
                                         
    
                                        Thanks for the deboff.
                                         
                                        I mean, so she burnt down her entire gym.
                                         
                                        Yeah, she burnt down her gym and then she posted a video.
                                         
                                        She was like, yeah, so I burnt down my gym and all my equipment's gone.
                                         
                                        But now I have two weights.
                                         
                                        So I'm going to do a workout routine with those.
                                         
                                        I mean, to be fair, I've regularly wanted to burn down my gym.
                                         
                                        And was this scene as a sort of signal?
                                         
    
                                        Like, it was that sort of passive aggression against a conservatorship or something?
                                         
                                        Is that the idea?
                                         
                                        Yeah, so that's kind of what people are thinking.
                                         
                                        Back in 2018, there was a podcast run by two comedians called Britney's Graham.
                                         
                                        And basically they took like all these, they looked at all the things on Britney's Graham
                                         
                                        and they used to make jokes about them because they love Brittany, right?
                                         
                                        These like two young girls, basically my age, that are Britney's stands.
                                         
                                        But then in late 2018, the podcast got information from an anonymous source
                                         
    
                                        that Britney was actually in this conservatorship against her will.
                                         
                                        And the reason that she was posting erratic content was because she was being like sedated
                                         
                                        and she wasn't allowed to leave her house.
                                         
                                        And so now all the people watching her,
                                         
                                        Britney's Instagram think that she's sending like signals to people
                                         
                                        that she wants to be free.
                                         
                                        I mean, it's quite tricky, isn't it?
                                         
                                        Because as means of convincing the world
                                         
    
                                        that you're ready to be free and independent,
                                         
                                        posting weird, kooky shit is not a great way to signal that.
                                         
                                        Like, yeah, no, I can make my own decisions.
                                         
                                        Like when I decided to buy myself to burn the gym.
                                         
                                        Yeah, but the other thing is like the fact a podcast started the free Britney movement.
                                         
                                        I mean, like, a comedy podcast, the most effective way to bring attention to an issue.
                                         
                                        They're all we've got, they're all we've got.
                                         
                                        I don't.
                                         
    
                                        Like, what should we expose?
                                         
                                        Yeah, no, exactly.
                                         
                                        No, survey after survey shows that actually news satire is way more trusted than genuine, you know, journalistic.
                                         
                                        You know, like the New York Times has less brand trust than, say, John Oliver or, you know, the Tonight Show.
                                         
                                        I mean, the chaser is probably, even though our slow.
                                         
                                        is news you can't trust.
                                         
                                        It's basically more trusted than any other, you know,
                                         
                                        journalistic institution in Australia.
                                         
    
                                        Is that why Fran Kelly keeps calling me?
                                         
                                        Stop it, Fran.
                                         
                                        It's more authentic.
                                         
                                        If you just say what you are,
                                         
                                        which is news you can't trust.
                                         
                                        Yeah, if you're fake news.
                                         
                                        People can trust that.
                                         
                                        It's certainly true that in trying to decide
                                         
    
                                        whether actually watch the hours of the RNC,
                                         
                                        like watching the cold bear summaries,
                                         
                                        you probably just cut to the good bits.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        A couple of clips of,
                                         
                                        A couple of clips of screaming and you know what you need to know.
                                         
                                        And it makes you feel less bad because you're like, people are making fun of them.
                                         
                                        So I think we need, yeah, I think you're right.
                                         
    
                                        We need to expose our own sort of Brittany-style scoop.
                                         
                                        We really do.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        So who is trapped that we can, well, I'll tell you one person who's trapped who we should
                                         
                                        try and free.
                                         
                                        Who?
                                         
                                        Craig Ruccastle.
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah.
                                         
    
                                        Oh, where's he?
                                         
                                        He's been taken, don't you know, he's been taken hostage.
                                         
                                        He used to be a comedian.
                                         
                                        He used to be really funny.
                                         
                                        and has been taken hostage.
                                         
                                        Hang on, you're telling me Craig Rookastel used to be a comedian.
                                         
                                        Yes.
                                         
                                        I thought he was just that waste guy.
                                         
    
                                        Before he was earnest, before he somehow got the sense that he could save the world.
                                         
                                        He used to be funny.
                                         
                                        Yeah, he used to make fun of people like Craig Rucasel.
                                         
                                        Yeah, exactly.
                                         
                                        But, no, he's been taken hostage by the woke brigade at the ABC.
                                         
                                        And he keeps sending all these signals in his TV shows saying, oh, no, you know, like, I'm actually funny.
                                         
                                        I'm just trying to get out of here.
                                         
                                        Free Rui.
                                         
    
                                        Yes.
                                         
                                        Yeah, that should be our new hashtag.
                                         
                                        You know another comedian actually who is really, really like, in prison
                                         
                                        is Chris Lilly.
                                         
                                        I mean, it is entirely his own fault.
                                         
                                        But still, that's where he is.
                                         
                                        I don't want to free Chris Lily.
                                         
                                        No, hashtag Jail Lily.
                                         
    
                                        Probably burn down his gym just so he's got some black ash to use for his back face.
                                         
                                        But let's get back to Britney Spears for a second.
                                         
                                        So a lot of people think that Britney's Instagram is the only one.
                                         
                                        where she's able to communicate with the outside world
                                         
                                        because she's not allowed to go out,
                                         
                                        she's not allowed to meet people.
                                         
                                        And so there's actually been a few little theories
                                         
                                        about things she's done.
                                         
    
                                        So one person has commented on her TikTok,
                                         
                                        if you need help, wear yellow in your next video.
                                         
                                        And sure enough,
                                         
                                        Britney Spears posted a video caption,
                                         
                                        wearing my favorite yellow top,
                                         
                                        where she just walks past the screen,
                                         
                                        stares into the camera,
                                         
                                        and just wears a yellow top.
                                         
    
                                        But hang on.
                                         
                                        Like, was her favourite colour previously yellow?
                                         
                                        like dated a more unambiguous signal like if you need help like wear a t-shirt that says
                                         
                                        help written on it well I mean she can't do that because then her conservator would see it
                                         
                                        and they would stop the conservative from reading the thing about wear yellow in your next
                                         
                                        video well I don't know not enough clearly they haven't got their eye on her um
                                         
                                        so maybe she needs to be placed in more lockdown maybe that's the problem
                                         
                                        Unfortunately, her conservatorship has actually been extended till February 2021.
                                         
    
                                        The real indication to me that Britney Spears is doing better mentally
                                         
                                        is that she did a post about wealth inequality in America.
                                         
                                        Ooh, gosh, that is off the rails.
                                         
                                        Yes.
                                         
                                        No, surely that makes her much more hyper-aware than the rest of us.
                                         
                                        I feel like Brittany's not well because she's incredibly rich.
                                         
                                        People like Brittany are supposed to pretend everything's all right.
                                         
                                        Yes, exactly.
                                         
    
                                        I mean, this is all fine, Nina, but you're saying,
                                         
                                        that for many years she's been stuck at home, she can't go out, she can't meet anyone.
                                         
                                        We're all in that situation.
                                         
                                        What colour do we wear to escape from 2020?
                                         
                                        Yellow.
                                         
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                                        Is this loud enough?
                                         
    
                                        How about this?
                                         
                                        The Chaser Report, less news more often.
                                         
                                        Now it's time for a very new quiz.
                                         
                                        Republican or Nazi.
                                         
                                        Okay, so this is this quiz.
                                         
                                        I'm going to tell you something that somebody has said,
                                         
                                        and you have to guess whether the speaker is a Republican or a Nazi.
                                         
                                        Okay, very simple.
                                         
    
                                        I've one question.
                                         
                                        Why not both?
                                         
                                        Exactly.
                                         
                                        Well, actually, with some of these, you could ask that question.
                                         
                                        But no, these are genuinely, these are either Nazis from the 1930s,
                                         
                                        the German Nazis or Republicans, you know,
                                         
                                        who've spoken in the last few days at a Republican convention.
                                         
                                        Okay, let's start with an easy one just to begin with.
                                         
    
                                        This person urged followers to read up on a Jewish plan
                                         
                                        to enslave the world's peoples and steal their land.
                                         
                                        Was that a Nazi or a Republican?
                                         
                                        I'm going with Republican because of the use of the word followers,
                                         
                                        which means to me that this is a question of the modern age.
                                         
                                        Oh, okay.
                                         
                                        Well, because the Nazis didn't have followers.
                                         
                                        I think Hitler had followers.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, but he didn't have like social media followers.
                                         
                                        So it doesn't count.
                                         
                                        There's no way Facebook would have blocked his page.
                                         
                                        That is very shrewd because, Nina, you are correct.
                                         
                                        That was Mary Ann Mendoza.
                                         
                                        She was a speaker scheduled for the convention second night who got canned after she.
                                         
                                        She's handed out a tweet urging her followers to read up on the protocols of the elders of Zion,
                                         
                                        which is an anti-Semitic text.
                                         
    
                                        There you go.
                                         
                                        So there you go.
                                         
                                        Okay. Next, question two. Okay, I'll put this one to Dom.
                                         
                                        Dom, they want to enslave you, this is a quote from this person.
                                         
                                        They want to enslave you to the weak, dependent victim ideology,
                                         
                                        to the point that you will not recognise this country or yourself.
                                         
                                        I recognise that from the RNC.
                                         
                                        Ah, no, this quiz is going, you know too much.
                                         
    
                                        Yes, that was a Republican. That was Kimberly Guilfoy, who we heard earlier on.
                                         
                                        Yes, Dom, you're such a nerd. You did all the required reading.
                                         
                                        Except, Charles, you didn't deliver it properly. You've got to say it's shouting.
                                         
                                        Yeah, that's right.
                                         
                                        They want to enslave you to the wake!
                                         
                                        Whoa, Kimberly Guilfoyle, where did you come from?
                                         
                                        That was about 50% of her level, but nice one.
                                         
                                        Okay, next one, Nina.
                                         
    
                                        Yes.
                                         
                                        I play to people's fantasies.
                                         
                                        People may not always think big themselves,
                                         
                                        but they can still get very excited by those who do.
                                         
                                        I don't think that's a Republican or a Nazi.
                                         
                                        I think that's the girl I subscribe to you on an Only fans.
                                         
                                        I'm going to go with Nazi?
                                         
                                        Oh, just for variety?
                                         
    
                                        Close, but no, that was Donald Trump
                                         
                                        in the art of the deal.
                                         
                                        Ah, no.
                                         
                                        No, that wasn't he didn't write that book, it was Tony Schwartz.
                                         
                                        I was like, that was Donald Trump on only fans.
                                         
                                        Yeah, it's just Donald Trump's only fans, but...
                                         
                                        Okay, next one, Dom.
                                         
                                        Tell a lie loud enough and long enough, and people will believe it.
                                         
    
                                        Isn't that Goebbels?
                                         
                                        No.
                                         
                                        Is that an instruction or a advice?
                                         
                                        I think that's a Nazi.
                                         
                                        It is a Nazi.
                                         
                                        It was this...
                                         
                                        Fairly unknown Nazi called Adolf Hitler.
                                         
                                        Oh, him.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Okay, next one.
                                         
                                        Didn't he get dumped from the RNC schedule?
                                         
                                        Okay.
                                         
                                        Next one, Nina.
                                         
                                        That which is built in the mind is even more powerful than the brick and water that holds it together.
                                         
                                        Oh, see, brick and mortar, that's a very 1920s phrase, I feel like.
                                         
                                        So I'm going to go with Nazi.
                                         
    
                                        Incorrect.
                                         
                                        It was a Republican Matt Getz from Florida, and that was in his speech on the first day of the committee.
                                         
                                        I know it's really hard to pick isn't it it's actually quite difficult you seem to be making a point
                                         
                                        here about the current Republican page in the end okay this is for you Dom in the end you're measured
                                         
                                        not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish what does that sound like
                                         
                                        oh that sounds like Adolf to me it does sound like Adolf but it's actually Donald Trump
                                         
                                        there you go okay Nina next one success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong is that I
                                         
                                        I mean, like, does it even matter who it is at this point?
                                         
    
                                        I'm going to say it's a Republican.
                                         
                                        Oh, no, it was Adolf Hitler.
                                         
                                        In his book, The Arts of Mine Deal.
                                         
                                        It is not the neutrals or the lukewarms who made history.
                                         
                                        Which one is that?
                                         
                                        Not the nuclear...
                                         
                                        Neutral and Luke...
                                         
                                        I'm going to say it's you're back at the RNC.
                                         
    
                                        Nah, it's Adolf Hitler again.
                                         
                                        These ideas are so pervasive in 2020.
                                         
                                        I like the idea of him saying Luke...
                                         
                                        Luke Warm is such a funny word to me.
                                         
                                        Like the idea of someone putting it in its speech is very funny.
                                         
                                        Look and Vum.
                                         
                                        Yeah, maybe it works better in the original German.
                                         
                                        I think, but he was talking about painting his house.
                                         
    
                                        Of course.
                                         
                                        He wasn't talking about, you know, radicalism.
                                         
                                        He loved painting.
                                         
                                        Yeah, he did.
                                         
                                        Okay, Nina.
                                         
                                        The riots and the burning of cities was planned over two years ago
                                         
                                        in case all other measures to take down the leader failed.
                                         
                                        Well, this definitely feels Republican to me.
                                         
    
                                        Is that Q and on?
                                         
                                        Yeah, no, it is. It's a supporter of QAnon.
                                         
                                        It's the Twitter account, War News, that the Miriam Mendoza tweeted.
                                         
                                        That's the tweet that she was referring to.
                                         
                                        See, that's why I thought it was Republican, because I'm on Twitter, and I've seen it before.
                                         
                                        Yeah, I thought the burning of city sounded a bit Nazi.
                                         
                                        To be fair to them, they were also into that.
                                         
                                        Okay, final question. You can both answer this one.
                                         
    
                                        Okay. Of course. The quote is, of course.
                                         
                                        I will be called racist, but if I can invite whom I want into my home,
                                         
                                        then I should have the right to have a say who comes into my country.
                                         
                                        Oh, I reckon R&C.
                                         
                                        That's a Republican.
                                         
                                        I'm saying Republican too.
                                         
                                        Because, like, they would be, you know, conscious of being called a racist.
                                         
                                        Whereas, like, I think Adolf Hitler would be past that.
                                         
    
                                        You know, he'd be like, well, obviously.
                                         
                                        Good guess.
                                         
                                        Unfortunately, it was Pauline Hans.
                                         
                                        Ah, should have known.
                                         
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                                        I don't know why I'm talking like this.
                                         
                                        The Chaser Report.
                                         
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                                        Well, that's about it for today.
                                         
                                        Although, hang on.
                                         
                                        We've got late breaking news from Rebecca Dana Minow.
                                         
                                        Charles, when something happens 20 episodes in a row,
                                         
                                        how can you possibly still be surprised?
                                         
    
                                        I'm shocked.
                                         
                                        I've got the memory of a goldfish.
                                         
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