The Chaser Report - PODCAST BOYCOTT UNTIL ALBO JOINS US: DAY #1

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

Anyone can become a trillionaire, not just Elon Musk! So Dom shares how easy it is to theoretically possess an amount of wealth that a thousand generations of your kids couldn't spend. Plus, Charles is put to the test on how well he knows obscure NSW Labor history.---Listen AD FREE: https://thechaserreport.supercast.com/ Follow us on Instagram: @chaserwarSpam Dom's socials: @dom_knightSend Charles voicemails: @charlesfirthEmail us: [e-mail] CEO’s Super-yacht upgrade Fund: https://chaser.com.au/support/ Send complaints to: [e-mail] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Chaser Report is recorded on Gatigal Land. Striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence, this is The Chaser Report. Hello and welcome to The Chaser Report with Dom and Charles. Charles, I am fuming. I'm absolutely furious. Oh, really, right. You know I'm a mild manic guy, usually Charles, but today... Is this because you're a huge Turkey fan?

Is this what's going on? We've already done that episode. Okay. No, no, no. No, I'll tell you why after this, we've got all... kind of news to catch up on. It could be because Elon's worth 1.1 trillion.

Oh, right. But it's not something even more egregious has happened. Oh my goodness, okay. Now, you're not, you're not fuming because you took financial advice from this podcast and didn't invest in SpaceX. I didn't invest in SpaceX. I didn't put a cent into it.

I think I said 100 bucks. I'd a spare 100, or was it 50. And I called it the great heist in the history of humanity. And it's all gone up. You owe me, you owe me at least until it drops. Yeah. Well, this is the whole thing is, like, as I said, the one thing that Elon Musk is the Jenny said is financial manipulation.

Yeah, well, the one thing Space X is good at is things crashing and burning on reentry. That's literally their business model, isn't it? But they've only sold off like a small percentage of the company. It's like 5% of the company or something like that. Really? So for $80 billion, right? But that gives it this theoretical valuation of two billion. It's very theoretical.

So to call Elon a trillionaire, which I think, you know, I think we can all say that because it's a great headline. You know, like as long as he never sells anything that he owns, then he's totally a trillionaire. Charles, I've got a great idea. I've got a great idea. Have you got a $1 coin? I've got a $2. Give me a $2.00 coin. I'm very uncharacteristically.

Give me a $2 coin. I overpaid for something. And then I got given a coin back. You know how when you're overpay for something. They give you change. That's actual cash on. It's like from the 1980s. Yeah, it's this weird thing where you get this sort of metal object.

Yeah, it's a bit of metal. It's very useless. It's very true. So give me that. In return for I will transfer you one trillionth. Oh, yeah. Of a share of the market cap of, no, of Chaser. Of Chaser.

What? I already own some of Chaser. But I will give you part of my pile of Chaser. Oh, okay. Oh, I see. Equivalent to one. So that means, if I'm out of correct, the Chase is now worth $2 trillion.

Okay, we're going to do this. The only problem is there might be slight, especially after the Anthony Aberneesie budget, there might be slight capital gains tax implications for valuing the chaser at $2 trillion. Isn't Charmins carving out innovative businesses? We could save. No, no.

Are they going to... Oh, wouldn't that be good? Remar is. We do that. Wait for the carve out and then we value Chaser at two trillion dollars. Yeah. Sell $2 worth of shares. Yeah.

That's what Elon's done. Yes. And then we're all paper trillionaires. I think that that is a brilliant idea. Can I sort of solve the Australian economy, won't be? Because the way balance sheets work, the nation's balance sheet will suddenly be $2 trillion richer. Can I buy a lot of very big houses based on my trillionaire valuation?

Yes. Yes, you definitely can. You can just borrow against the value of it. And then when they say, oh, you're going. got to make an interest payment, you just borrow to pay that interest bill. Can I, I, I'm going to buy the Batuta Advocate. That's what I'm going to do. No, Charles, that's not why I'm furious, though.

Oh, no, so that's not why you're furious. No, okay. You can get back to that. Oh, God, okay. I am furious because you will recall, and loyal listeners will recall. Yes. I threw down a gauntlet. A gauntlet.

A gauntlet on this podcast. Oh, yeah. I said, I invited Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, to come on the podcast. Oh yes. Has he responded? No, he hasn't responded. And I find out in crikey today that after Carl Stefanovic mentioned Albo coming on the podcast, he was on there four days later. Right.

Didn't even really have a plan. You know what we need to do. We need to do a tilt to the right. I thought you're going to say we should need to get Carl on the podcast. No, let's do a tilt to the right. Because isn't the whole thing about it, like, I've actually never listened to Carl on the podcast. But isn't the whole point? You know what it's going to be like.

I'm trying to be Joe Rogan. Yeah, he's trying to be Joe Rogan. He sort of picked his moment to sort of take a bit of a right-hand turn. Go away from mainstream Australia to sort of like, I don't know, be the man's man. And Albo wants to go on his podcast. Why? Well, no, but this is the whole thing is like, yeah, you've got to appeal to the manosphere. There's no point talking to people who agree with you. Yes, you've got to appeal to people who are dipshits.

Actually, Charles, a little bit of a side part. I recently published an article with some colleagues. I am. Talking about the brosphere of podcasting. The brosphere. Is that us? Is that us? No, we don't talk enough about UFC.

If we keep talking about the World Cup, we could be the brosphere. But Charles, it's not just Carl. It's not just Carlos. And do we have to have derogatory sort of opinions of our wives and things like that? No, no. Oh, no, you don't. You don't mention them at all. Oh, you don't exist.

You occasionally just say her indoors or something. Oh, the misses. Oh, the misses wouldn't like that. all the jokes are on the basis that you don't really like your partner that you've chosen for life. Oh, the person who I contractually married to. The structure of each gag is, oh God, you know, I hate my wife. Oh, oh, I've made a stupid decision in front of my friends and family and loved ones. Charles, no, look, it's actually quite emasculating that joke, isn't it?

If you think about it, it's quite... Cut, side of anything for myself. Ha, ha, ha. I've given up agency. I think we're losing listeners. Even if you joke about it. Here's my other gripe. He went on Carlos and he went on the Daily Oz podcast.

He went on the Daily Oz podcast. Well, they're not right-leaning. No, they're youth. And also, I would never go on that because that's Billy Fitzsimons, isn't it? Yeah. She's like one of the best interviews in Australia. She would go toe for toe against, you know, Sarah. Fergus and any day of week.

Does she combine the best of Peter and Lisa? Yes, she's evilly good. Oh my goodness. Like never, if you ever get into trouble. I don't go to... Never go anywhere near the daily hours. They are savage. Oh, savage.

All right. Because what Billy does is this thing called research. Have you heard about this? No, I haven't. Yeah. Ironically, I haven't looked it up. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm sure Peter Fitzsimons has written a book about research. Yeah, isn't you? Yeah, guess people would have. research very good at it. Yeah, he researches everything. Yeah, yeah. So, okay, oh, I'd love it if Bruce Lamon went on that podcast. Can you imagine? He probably wouldn't know. You probably wouldn't realize that Billy Fitzsimons was Lisa. Oh my God. It would be a murder. Let's just get that. Bruce, I've got a gratitude for how you can restore your reputation. No, here's the ultimate insult. Yeah. Okay. The ultimate insult. Yeah. Not only did he go on the prime minister on the daily

Oz. Yeah. He went on something called Seven Newses the issue podcast. Have you ever heard of that? It barely exists as far as I'm aware. Let's have a look at how many people have looked at it. Seven News, the issue. I mean, he's anyone. He's a cheap podcast date, except for us. Except for us. But mind you, we haven't actually put a formal request in, have we?

We did. We just said it on the podcast. You set it on the podcast. That's how it works, Charles. It's taught influence. No, see, this is the thing that Billy understands, which we don't. Okay. Which is you've got to then follow it up.

You've got to email his media team. or something. Should we try and do it? He's obviously keen for podcasting. He's keen for podcasting. Yeah, I reckon maybe he's, you know what it is. Do you know people? Actually, I'm willing to call this.

Oh, you're going to call it now? I think that he realizes the writings on the wall. Really? Pauline Hanson's going to be the next podcaster in chat. Sorry, Prime Minister. Okay. And so he's looking to get a bit of hours up in the podcasting space. I think he needs to get across it.

So that he can become a podcaster. after he retires from politics because, or gets ousted from politics, because if there's one thing that's more, you know, prestigious and important than being Prime Minister in this country, as you know, Dom, it's being a podcaster. The Chaser Report, news a few days after it happens. You know how we try and podcast daily? I'm trying to find the Seven News podcast that Albo went on. They've got a podcast that I've not making it.

this up, which updates roughly every minute. Oh, wow. It must be automated. Well, that would get your numbers up, wouldn't it? It would. I don't know how they've done it. There's one 31 minutes ago, one 35 minutes ago, 35 minutes, 36, 36, 36, 38. It wouldn't get your numbers up, though, because no one would subscribe to it, would they?

I mean, who would... I can't. There are so many Channel 7 podcasts. They have like five abandoned podcasts. I don't know what's going on. Anyway, I can't find Albo. Maybe he didn't go on. You can't find Albo.

I can't find the episode with the Prime Minister of it. Well, it's really about 5,000 episodes ago. if they put one out every minute. That must be what it is. I mean, was he on it yesterday? I honestly can't see where he is. I'll never find it yet. So, Privitia, if you're going to go on that,

I can't find it with my advanced podcast searching skills. Yeah. Maybe we just say he came one on our podcast and no one can never find the episode. No, we've got to get him on. No, we're getting him on. But why? He should come and... Because I'm not sure, like, first of all...

What's in it for him and what's in for our listeners? Would we have to do research? No. No, we just go... No. No, we just go... No. How old did research?

No, of course not. So he'd probably like a break from Billy Fitzhomes. And then, so what do we? No, but he'd just be all smart. Like, what would we ask him? Yeah. We go, What have you got to say for yourself?

No, we should do one of those hard hitting things that they do against Trump and then Trump storms out. That's good. We should do the same with elbow. And we go, what do you? Like, what would we ask? You're the radio broadcaster. You know, what's a hard hitting question?

Why do they call your elbow? So you like playing tennis. What's the price of milk? Gotcha! Gotcha! Are you dyeing your hair red to try and win over one nation? No, that's a good question. We should probably have an answer for what we want to ask the Prime Minister.

Yeah, okay. Well, any suggestions, send them to podcast at chaser.com. Because it will, this is on. Oh, Charles, this is the way that we get out of it, by the way, is we say we're just going to ask what listeners want to know. We're not going to have to come up with questions ourselves. We'll just pass on questions. So listeners, we need questions. So I feel like, because surely have they done enough on climate change?

I feel like that's probably something that we could really ping them on. Oh, we want listeners. Yeah, no, it's true, actually. We used to have a rule. Why does you like Canberra so much? No, it's got to be hard hitting. It's like, what about intergenerational wealth? But then he'd just talk about tax.

Housing, talk about tax. What's something that, like, you've got to be able to sort of, what you want to see is you want to see the real album. The real old. Which is, as far as I know, somebody who yells at you all the time. So what we do is we get him on, make him feel all, you know, valued and everything like that. But then say something really irritating. What would the question be? Oh, I know what it would be.

You're the only one to do this. You and potentially the Honourable Press of Verity Firth, I am. Yeah. You need to ask an obscure point about Labor Party internal politics. About standing orders. Like, yeah. Like, Prime Minister, why did you in 1997 intervene in this particular subcommittee of the left caucus of the ALP? Why did you hand over to Luke Foley as assistant secretary of Young Labor?

Did he? Back in 1987. Luke Foley? I really hope that's true. Yeah, it's true. The one-time opposition leader in New South Wales because no one will know who he is. No, he was secretary. Actually, no, so what happened was?

Alba, because I was in Young Labor at the time. No, it must have been a bit later, it must have been like 1989. Do you reckon Luke Foley's got a Wikipedia page? So Alba, no, I think he probably had it scrubbed from the internet. So Alba was the secretary of the ALP. He was president of Sydney Young Labor and then he became the secretary of Young Labor in New South Wales, right?

And then he handed over to Luke Foley the next year. And then Luke Foley, hilariously, then lost Young Labour to the right. Like basically the left, for the first time in 30 years, lost young labour, and Joe Tripodi took over. Wow. And Luke Foley was so bad even back then that he couldn't even win young people and make them left wing.

This is a complete side excursion, but does go to show why it would great have elbow on. Yes, we could do it. You know a lot about, you know a lot about doing South Wales AOP, far more than most people. I bet you can't get any of these questions correct. Okay. Three questions. How long, and I'm astonished, how long was Luke Foley the 37th leader of the opposition in New South Wales? How long did he serve as opposition leader? I'd like to say, because he got into trouble for that scandal with that journalist who he got

handsy with and propositioned drunkenly one night in Parliament and he had to resign in disgrace just for people who are not from New South Wales. I reckon I'm going to guess, oh, five months, I reckon. Maybe nine months? Like five to nine months. Unless someone's edited his Wikipedia. Yeah.

Nearly four years. What? Yes. From 2015 to 2018. And the beginning of 5th of January, 2015, to 8th of November 2018, I thought it was like a month. See, that's what trauma does to your brain.

It just makes you forget. All right. So there's... That's how long. My God. First question? Okay, you got none from one. None from one.

Okay. Who was the Labour leader and opposition leader before him? It was... I know no one's listening anymore. Okay. So... Okay, so it was... I must know this.

This is during the absolute doldrums. So after Christina Kinnealy, it went to... They went into opposition and... It was... I know who it was. It was that guy who, Michael, he was ex-police minister.

Michael, oh, not, Michael, what was his name? Come on, he was the ex-police minister. He had no personality. Michael, I have no.

You're thinking of Michael Daly. Michael Daly succeeded John Robertson. Oh, John Robertson's the other one. John Robertson. Robbo, before, Robo, then Foley, And Robbo, who's a lovely man. He's very, very genuinely nice man.

He was the guy who famously had actually worked to build Parliament House or something. He'd given, Robbo was an electrician, he'd given a letter of recommendation, like basically endorsing the personality and great, wonderful, of Mon Morris, who was then took over the link, had, was the lynn siege character. Yeah, that... So he basically had given this letter of recommendation to... It was like, you know, this person is of sound character and standing to a terrorist. And then he had to resign. Like, poor guy.

You're a nun from three. One letter of recommendation to a terrorist and suddenly your whole political career. I mean, that applied to me. I could never have a career in politics. You're back in one terrorist. I can't believe the... isn't already here to be interviewed on the podcast.

So you're none from three, Charles. I actually think that's really good because it goes to show you've diversified your interests. I've got my life. I've got a life. Okay, let's call it now. Yeah. I'm not doing the podcast again unless we have the prime minister wrong. Okay, we're going on strike.

Going on strike. Okay. Actually, you'll understand that. Yeah. Yeah, he'll love that. How can we still do it? Or young, Yang, I'll love that. How can we still do an episode tomorrow to keep our numbers going while technically being on strike?

Well, I think we just say that this is actually... Don't cross the picket line. No, no. I think what tomorrow's episode will be is us putting in the bank future episodes. Okay, right. You see what I mean? Yep, got it.

Okay. We're on strike officially until the primary after comes on the podcast. Come on, if you go on whatever the seven years, one was that I can't even find. From the rest of the time, until he comes on, this is an... From now on, it'll be unofficial. It's Tools down.

Tools down. We've got to work out some chance. Hey, hey. Ho-ho. No more reps till we get our bow. That's it. Done. We're part of the Oconiclus Network.

We won't see you tomorrow. Oh, maybe we won't. Hey.