The Chaser Report

This Summer The Chaser Report presents... WAR STORIES! Chas is back and his body is on the line! Chas shares his Top 5 most painful moments in his career caused by doing stunts, including ones that were so dangerous they never made it to air, and a stunt that has left him with physical damage to this day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This Summer The Chaser Report presents... WAR STORIES!Chris Taylor enters the studio to join our Summer Stunt Series to unpack why he thinks The Chaser's stunts were so successful in their day. Chris shares inside stories on how some of the crowd favourite stunts like "Cracked Pepper" came to be, and tells the story of his least favourite stunt recording. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This Summer The Chaser Report presents... WAR STORIES!The Chaser's resident musical comedy legend Andrew Hansen joins our Summer Stunt Series to talk about some of his favourite musical Chaser moments. Andrew talks about the times he forced Craig to sing, and also promotes his new ABC show "Stories From Oz", and new tour "Everyone Else Is Wrong". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This Summer The Chaser Report gives you... WAR STORIES!Craig Reucassel stops by to join our Summer Stunt Series and talk about some of his favourite Chaser moments, who unlike Charles and Dom actually wants to forget all his old stunts. Together they help Craig forget stunts like when he flew a blimp in Vatican City, when he crashed a Liberal election party, and when Craig first got arrested, by talking about them in keen detail. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This Summer The Chaser Report gives you... WAR STORIES!Chas Licciardello graces us with his presence for our first episode of our Summer Stunt Series. Chas reminisces all about previous legendary stunts and all the times he brushed with the law - including some small stunt at APEC may be familiar with. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BEST OF: Craig Reucassel & Ketan Joshi - Craig directed a movie! He’s here to tell us about The Big Deal, a doco that looks at how money influences our political system. The results of all this influence-buying can be seen in today’s other conversation, where climate specialist Ketan Joshi talks us through the landmark IPCC Report on climate change – what’s in those 3,900 pages, anyway? And can we do anything stop a climate catastrophe? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BEST OF: Saul Griffith - Energy guru Saul Griffith reckons Australia can lead the way in solving the climate crisis, with our abundant sunlight and love of new technology. Griffith has been advising the Biden Administration on renewables and is well known around the world for his passion for energy solutions that don’t just work, but work better than what we have now. He reckons we already have all the technology we need to make it happen – if only we had the political will. His new book is Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook For A Clean Energy Future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BEST OF: Wil Anderson - At the start of the millennium The Chaser team met with one of Australia’s best standup comedians to explore the prospect of working together. Which, in hindsight, would have been a great idea – at least for us. It did not go well. 20 years later, Charles and Dom talk it over with Wil Anderson – and discover why nothing excites him more than a standup show with no plan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BEST OF: Julia Zemiro - Julia Zemiro of Rockwiz, Home Delivery and many other fabulous things joins Gabbi, Dom and Charles to explore how ordinary people can get their voices heard in Canberra – and maybe even get elected. Her new podcast about this is called ‘Who Cares With Julia Zemiro’, and will be in the A Rational Fear feed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BEST OF: David Kilcullen - The Taliban’s swift capture of Kabul means that it now controls Afghanistan – how did they do it, and why didn’t any of the experts see it coming? This is a longer version of today’s interview with counterinsurgency expert, Dr David Kilcullen. His latest book is The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.