Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central, yew.
Speaker 2: If you gotta talk about Arizona, you have to talk
Speaker 2: about old people because they're everywhere here. See which brings
Speaker 2: me to death? No, not yours. Obviously, you still have
Speaker 2: a long road ahead of you, and here in Arizona,
Speaker 2: people thinking about the afterlife are choosing something new, whole
Speaker 2: body donation.
Speaker 3: More and more people are choosing to forgo traditional burial
Speaker 3: and just donate their bodies to science.
Speaker 4: There is a twenty percent increase in the number of
Speaker 4: people donating their body right here in Arizona.
Speaker 5: That's about forty seven thousand people.
Speaker 2: To investigate, I hit up a popular spot for the
Speaker 2: old folks to see if body donation really was all
Speaker 2: the rage.
Speaker 6: What do you want to happen to your body after
Speaker 6: you die?
Speaker 4: I'd consider whole body donation.
Speaker 6: Have you considered whole body donation?
Speaker 7: Yes? I have it already shared it up.
Speaker 2: So you seem pretty old and close to death. What
Speaker 2: do you want to happen to you after you die?
Speaker 7: I'm gonna be donating it to science.
Speaker 6: What made you think of doing that?
Speaker 8: I have no living relatives, who's gonna bury me?
Speaker 6: You have any friends?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: They don't care about my body.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe they should care, because when I turn on
Speaker 2: the news, I discovered this scandal involving a body donation
Speaker 2: business in Phoenix.
Speaker 7: The owner accused of selling bodies and body.
Speaker 3: Parts, essentially running a chop shop for human body parts, a.
Speaker 1: Human chop shop. These what people not cause you stripped
Speaker 1: down for pots? I turned to a team of lawyers
Speaker 1: trying to end this horror.
Speaker 2: So, what the fuck is happening in Arizona?
Speaker 8: People are getting people to donate their bodies and telling
Speaker 8: them that they're going to treat the bodies with dignity
Speaker 8: and respect.
Speaker 5: And they were sold off like you would sell off
Speaker 5: the parts of a cow.
Speaker 8: And then ultimately the FBI they rated this organization here
Speaker 8: in Arizona.
Speaker 6: So what did the FBI find?
Speaker 9: There were coolers and freezers of disarticulated body parts, you know,
Speaker 9: a cooler of.
Speaker 7: Arms, a cooler of legs. They found heads.
Speaker 5: They found the torso of a large human male with
Speaker 5: the head of a small female sewn on them.
Speaker 2: All right, okay, we get it enough already, Jesus. And
Speaker 2: when you have a poppyac and pet for ten seconds
Speaker 2: just to clear my head.
Speaker 7: And they found a giant bag of penises.
Speaker 6: They found a bag of dicks.
Speaker 8: Yes, it was referred to as a large bag of
Speaker 8: male genitalia.
Speaker 6: So it's a large bag of dicks. Yes, I'm sched
Speaker 6: to even asked. But what they're going to do with
Speaker 6: this lodge bag of dicks, Well.
Speaker 7: We really can only speculate.
Speaker 8: We know that some of it may have gone to
Speaker 8: the black market in Southeast Asia for something like penis wine.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm from Southeast Asia. I've never heard of penis wine.
Speaker 6: What is it?
Speaker 8: I think it's a wine that has a penis in
Speaker 8: it that's supposed to make.
Speaker 7: People more virile.
Speaker 6: That is disgusting, I thought. So is it red or white?
Speaker 7: I don't even get close enough to it to you.
Speaker 6: What kind of flavor profile is this? Is it nutty?
Speaker 7: I didn't taste it?
Speaker 6: Have notes of foreskin?
Speaker 1: Can we move on this?
Speaker 3: This is a serious case.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right, Holly. We'll just gonna mention penis whine,
Speaker 2: not talk about it.
Speaker 3: This case is about the harm that was done to
Speaker 3: people and families, not about penis wine.
Speaker 1: She's right.
Speaker 2: People thought they were donating their bodies for research to
Speaker 2: find cures for diseases. But instead it was real life
Speaker 2: invasion of the body snatchers.
Speaker 1: How are they going to fix this?
Speaker 7: We need regulations, licenses.
Speaker 2: For example, you don't need a license to deal with
Speaker 2: dead bodies, correct. You need a license to do You
Speaker 2: need a license to fish, You need a license to
Speaker 2: drive a fork lift.
Speaker 8: Pay your money, fill out a form, and you're a
Speaker 8: medical director.
Speaker 7: That has to change.
Speaker 6: This is horrific.
Speaker 5: This is not just an Arizona problem. It's a nationwide problem.
Speaker 5: And if you think it's not happening in your backyard,
Speaker 5: you're mistaken.
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, Can we just go back to the penis
Speaker 2: wine for a second. Did they stomp on digs the
Speaker 2: way they stomp on grapes? Are they squeezing out the
Speaker 2: penis or are they just fermenting it?
Speaker 7: I don't know, and I'm really not sure. I want
Speaker 7: to know.
Speaker 6: Know.
Speaker 2: Once you have that dead body violated, or that genitals
Speaker 2: turned into a tasty beverage, if people are going to donate,
Speaker 2: they should at least know exactly what they're getting themselves into.
Speaker 1: They need to know the truth.
Speaker 2: Until Arizona puts regulations in place, all we can do
Speaker 2: is all of competing services introducing give ronnieobody dot com.
Speaker 2: Just give me your body and we'll take care of
Speaker 2: the rest.
Speaker 1: With us, you'll know exactly what you're getting. We provide
Speaker 1: services such as.
Speaker 2: Into a human ventriloquist, useful weekend at Bernie sequels, literal
Speaker 2: body pillar he fill out of oscars.
Speaker 1: Those are just some of the many things we can do.
Speaker 2: Sound horrifying, you bet youa, but it's also perfectly legal
Speaker 2: until Arizona changes its laws.
Speaker 1: Give Ronnie youoorbody dot com.
Speaker 6: Give me your body. I want your body.
Speaker 10: Ronnie Change is un license and has no experience in
Speaker 10: this field, which is not a problem in the state
Speaker 10: of Arizona.
Speaker 1: So avoid the service altogether and do your research or
Speaker 1: donate to medical summers.
Speaker 2: Here in America, we use straws for everything.
Speaker 6: Drink it, snorting cocaine.
Speaker 2: Okay, just those two things, but still that's not nothing.
Speaker 6: Yet.
Speaker 2: Recently, local governments across the nation have been challenging our
Speaker 2: god given right to bear straws.
Speaker 1: Straws represent only zero point h two percent of the
Speaker 1: nine million tons.
Speaker 7: Of plastic waste that is estimated.
Speaker 11: People would like to keep the plastic straw just.
Speaker 1: Saying conservative Big Bird actually has a point here. So
Speaker 1: I headed to Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: The latest they need to ban straws to meet Lilian,
Speaker 2: an environmental inspector.
Speaker 1: Her actual job is to go into local.
Speaker 2: Businesses and make sure they're not using plastic straws.
Speaker 1: That's right, she's a straw.
Speaker 2: Carp So what do you hope to accomplish by banning
Speaker 2: something that's like zero points zero zero zero zero zero
Speaker 2: or zero zero zerst.
Speaker 6: One percent about trash?
Speaker 3: You know, that's a good question. It's a perfect symbol
Speaker 3: for our Our over use and dependence on single use
Speaker 3: plastics rank so much.
Speaker 10: What you do if I don't use straws? What you
Speaker 10: want me to do? You want me to do this?
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, that's what I would love.
Speaker 2: Lilian explained that over forty percent of all plastic manufacturing
Speaker 2: is single use, throwaway items that will take somewhere between
Speaker 2: four hundred and fifty years and.
Speaker 6: Forever to disappear.
Speaker 1: But still, why are people suddenly so angry about straws?
Speaker 10: Why do you hate straw so much? What did straws
Speaker 10: have to do to you?
Speaker 3: I think that really started with the straw video, the
Speaker 3: plastic straw getting stuck up the seat girl's nose. It
Speaker 3: has over thirty five million views on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Wait, this is all because of a dumb viral video.
Speaker 10: Look, I've seen a lot of shit on YouTube. I'm
Speaker 10: bad to this.
Speaker 1: View turns out really bad. Ugh straw Okay, okay, I'm done.
Speaker 1: No more straws. But the video did leave me with
Speaker 1: one burning question.
Speaker 2: If I stick a straw on my nose, I could
Speaker 2: get thirty five million views on YouTube.
Speaker 3: I can't guarantee that, you know, people might not connect
Speaker 3: with seeing a person in a full rottensult with a
Speaker 3: strap or no, the same way connect with the sea turtle.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't go.
Speaker 10: No, no, that stuck. No, I'm uh okay, So tell
Speaker 10: me what you do on a day to day basis.
Speaker 1: Turns out that Total was not faking it.
Speaker 3: We actually go out and do some random and inpections,
Speaker 3: and we talked to business owners about the new rules
Speaker 3: and how to come into compliance.
Speaker 9: When that sounds great, it was time for me to
Speaker 9: hit the streets and shadow Lilian on an actual straw rate.
Speaker 1: First step case the.
Speaker 2: Joint clear clear clear clear clear clear clear all right clip.
Speaker 3: So once we enter our business, usually we kind of
Speaker 3: take a look around, right. We want to see if
Speaker 3: we can see any straws. Yeah, I mean we're looking
Speaker 3: at the straws.
Speaker 6: For people.
Speaker 1: Next look for contraband, So these are what we use.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's excellent. So these are absolutely incompliance.
Speaker 2: Turns out this guy was clean at least for today.
Speaker 2: But I knew things were about to get real when
Speaker 2: we hit the mother Lode, a coffee shop with enough
Speaker 2: plastic nosecandy to take down Nemo's.
Speaker 1: Oh goddamn reef.
Speaker 3: And it looks like these are plastic. Right, so you
Speaker 3: are currently out of compliance.
Speaker 2: That's right, you're buster, and now the straw cobs are
Speaker 2: gonna make you pay right now.
Speaker 12: We haven't switched yet, but we are in the process
Speaker 12: of switching.
Speaker 2: Oh really, that that's convenient. Just happened to be switching
Speaker 2: when we walk in.
Speaker 10: Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: So what I'm gonna do today is I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: give you a warning letter.
Speaker 6: Well we mean warning letter.
Speaker 1: So Lilian just walks around warning businesses. That's it. I'm
Speaker 1: taking a lead on this investigation.
Speaker 10: Straw straw, straw, straw.
Speaker 2: We got straw over here, crazy plus straw in a
Speaker 2: straw cob.
Speaker 10: Sorry, this is your straw? Whose straw is this?
Speaker 2: Straw straw here, sorry, Falsel, it's fine. This paper.
Speaker 6: Dispatch.
Speaker 2: We are entering premises over. I see that guy over there,
Speaker 2: the black hoodie. He's just gonna go ask him a
Speaker 2: few questions. Oh, he's gon he's going go, go go go.
Speaker 1: Strabols. Strabols, drop the straw.
Speaker 2: Get But despite the successful raid, Lilian wasn't happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was absolutely useless in getting people to come
Speaker 3: into compliance.
Speaker 6: Well let's agree to disagree.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it takes a lot of time and energy, and
Speaker 3: there's one on one conversations to really the natural change.
Speaker 2: Okay, change people's minds through constructive conversations.
Speaker 6: I can do that.
Speaker 2: Do you know how many turtles are dying in the
Speaker 2: ocean because there are straws of their nose?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 2: Because mothers can't seem to drink from.
Speaker 1: Cups without straws.
Speaker 10: Just put the cup to your mouth.
Speaker 6: Just put the cup to your mouth.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 6: You don't need a middle man.
Speaker 2: Do you know how much damage this you gonn due
Speaker 2: to a dolphins and us and always still can eat
Speaker 2: this and suffocate to death. It's like you guys don't
Speaker 2: even care.
Speaker 10: We need to go back on the police.
Speaker 1: You can't call the police.
Speaker 6: We are the police. We are the police. We are
Speaker 6: the police.
Speaker 1: Show your badge, Yeah we're not show a badge. Now
Speaker 1: she has a bad show her the badge.
Speaker 2: After a successful conversation, we voluntarily left the restaurant. Come back,
Speaker 2: I see any plastic straws in here? I'm burning this
Speaker 2: play still ground.
Speaker 1: And hey, if.
Speaker 2: A restaurant can ban me just for doing my job,
Speaker 2: how hard can it be to ban straws cryptocurrency? Is
Speaker 2: this some fake something you know it's made up on
Speaker 2: the internet to steal our money?
Speaker 6: Or is it a future of finance?
Speaker 2: There is no way all these people buying cryptocurrency have
Speaker 2: any idea what the hell they're investing in.
Speaker 1: And it's not just bitcoin.
Speaker 2: Ethereum, the number two cryptocurrency, has risen five thousand percent
Speaker 2: since the start of this year. Why if you imagine
Speaker 2: bitcoin as being a gold coin, Ethereum is a coin
Speaker 2: that has a magic spelling it.
Speaker 1: What the hell does that mean?
Speaker 2: I spoke with one of the founders of Ethereum, Joe Lubin,
Speaker 2: to find out first question, what is it?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 13: Ether the cryptocurrency that lives on the decentralized Ethereum platform,
Speaker 13: it's actually a much more programmable cryptocurrency than bitcoins.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean anything, what is it?
Speaker 13: We created a platform for decentralized applications.
Speaker 2: Does everyone in cryptocurrency talk like you?
Speaker 10: Pretty much?
Speaker 2: Isn't just everyone just going decentralized? Women in the dark
Speaker 2: word and drugs online?
Speaker 10: Exactly?
Speaker 2: Does cryptocurrency make you feel angry and confused?
Speaker 6: Well, it should to.
Speaker 1: Make it easier to understand.
Speaker 2: We ripped off the big short and asked Margot Robbie
Speaker 2: to explain it in a bubble bath, but she said no.
Speaker 2: Cryptocurrencies are transparent and decentralized. When two strangers exchange money
Speaker 2: over the Internet, it requires a middleman like PayPal or
Speaker 2: a bank who takes a percentage of the transaction, and
Speaker 2: that transaction is vulnerable to hacking. Cryptocurrencies are recorded in
Speaker 2: a public ledger called the blockchain, so it's impossible to cheat.
Speaker 2: They actually solve a lot of problems with exchanging money
Speaker 2: in a global digital world. I'll get thet it, but
Speaker 2: still is that worth a bajillion dollars? Why there's so
Speaker 2: many suckers on the Internet? Sorry, I mean people believe
Speaker 2: fake money as value.
Speaker 13: If there's real it's based on faith and the Ethereum blockchain.
Speaker 13: When you get enough people believing in cryptocurrency, then you
Speaker 13: can snowball into something that a society actually deems valuable.
Speaker 10: It's like the US.
Speaker 6: Dollars, Well, what do you mean the US dollar?
Speaker 13: The US dollar is based on faith in the system.
Speaker 2: So the only thing backing this money is belief in
Speaker 2: the competency of the US government.
Speaker 13: Unfortunately that's true.
Speaker 7: Damn.
Speaker 2: So not only is cryptocurrency faith, all money is fake.
Speaker 2: Wake up Wall Street. You know money isn't real, right,
Speaker 2: All this stuff is all faith. But Wall Street doesn't
Speaker 2: care if money is real as long as they're making
Speaker 2: lots of it. They've been pumping millions into Bitcoin and Ethereum,
Speaker 2: driving the creation of thousands of new cryptocurrencies.
Speaker 1: But how low is the bar for entry?
Speaker 6: Let me get this straight.
Speaker 2: You took bitcoin and you just changed the font to
Speaker 2: comic sans.
Speaker 10: And we put a dog on it.
Speaker 1: This was the guy to talk to.
Speaker 6: So tell me about the genesis of doggy coin.
Speaker 2: Well, firstly, it's dirish coin, but I created wise it
Speaker 2: doge It's actually based on a meme. What it's not
Speaker 2: dog e coin electronic coin.
Speaker 6: Dog e coin Oh that's pretty.
Speaker 5: It's not.
Speaker 6: Actually it's not.
Speaker 2: But guess what, this stupid med currency is worth almost
Speaker 2: four hundred million dollars, So why does its creator have
Speaker 2: some problems with cryptocurrency?
Speaker 12: When you see price charts go up into the ride exponentially, ultimately,
Speaker 12: it can be a sign of a bubble.
Speaker 6: Yeah, bubbles are great. What you're talking about. I love bubbles.
Speaker 6: People are gonna lose a bunch of money.
Speaker 2: And sure, cryptocurrency might destroy the planet through climate change
Speaker 2: and supporting road nuclear states.
Speaker 1: But this is America. So I decided to make my
Speaker 1: own cryptocurrency. But that has to be an incredibly complex done.
Speaker 10: That was easy, I get it.
Speaker 2: It literally takes ten minutes to go on a website
Speaker 2: and make your own coin. Time to make it rain
Speaker 2: chan coin and kick start the financial revolution?
Speaker 6: Do you accept chang coin?
Speaker 10: Chim chang coins? I dig coin.
Speaker 2: It's disrupting global financial systems using blockchain technology.
Speaker 10: No no, no, look at.
Speaker 2: I'll send you money over the internet.
Speaker 10: Money I'm going to demonstrate.
Speaker 2: So imagine if I send you this right, no, no,
Speaker 2: but digitally no no no, no, give me back my five.
Speaker 1: How are people not getting this?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 6: I'm paying you.
Speaker 10: I'm paying you in chance, out of my camp. Out
Speaker 10: of my camp.
Speaker 2: Remember this moment, Remember this moment when you had a
Speaker 2: chance to jump on chan coin and you did it?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 1: His loss invest in chang coin. Just don't ask me
Speaker 1: how it works.
Speaker 2: Chicago, big city, windy city, opinionated city. Whether you're from
Speaker 2: Hyde Park, Lincoln Park, or Wicker Park, why is everything
Speaker 2: a park?
Speaker 1: Their food is as iconic as their corruption.
Speaker 2: L's Italian Beef Sandwich, Garrett's Addicted popcorn Mix, Fortillo's Jumbo
Speaker 2: hot Dog, and of course the legendary Chicago pizza.
Speaker 1: I've heard so much about.
Speaker 6: What the four is this?
Speaker 2: This is Chicago deep dish pizza.
Speaker 6: Yo.
Speaker 2: I said, I wanted a pizza, not some Italian guys
Speaker 2: dump on a plate. This looks like me eating pizza
Speaker 2: and then throwing it up into a bread ball and
Speaker 2: then leaving in the sun to drive.
Speaker 6: This is how Chicago does pizza. I refuse to believe you.
Speaker 1: Can't get a decent slice of pizza in this city.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 2: This is the birthplace of Lincoln Obama, Michael Jordan.
Speaker 10: None of those people were born here.
Speaker 2: Burthers, Oh, this is what people in Chicago called pizza.
Speaker 2: Where can I find a decent slice in the city.
Speaker 2: So this stupid bull, I couldn't find a single place
Speaker 2: that sold real pizza, just these deep dish dough dumpsters.
Speaker 1: This isn't pizza, This isn't even human food. After hours
Speaker 1: of only deep dish.
Speaker 2: I finally found a place that served delicious, normal pizza
Speaker 2: pot the Cook County Jail. That's right, the best pizza
Speaker 2: in Chicago is in the biggest jail in America.
Speaker 1: This goalmet pizza.
Speaker 2: It's actually made by and so to inmates as parva
Speaker 2: training program called Recipe for Change.
Speaker 11: Recipe for Change is made it a point to put
Speaker 11: together a program where we have phenomenal pizza.
Speaker 2: Thomas dott is the sheriff of Cook County Jail. He's
Speaker 2: been running the pizza program for four years.
Speaker 11: We have a lot of good pizza in Chicago.
Speaker 6: This is really good, though, what do you mean that's
Speaker 6: good pizza in Chicago.
Speaker 2: Have you tried that deep dish Chicago pizza?
Speaker 11: Yeah, but the inmates didn't want that.
Speaker 2: So they're telling me even in jail, people did not
Speaker 2: want deep dish pizza.
Speaker 11: They haven't been asking for it.
Speaker 2: Recipe for Change is one of several rehab programs out
Speaker 2: of the Cook County Jail, along with drumming, painting, chess, gardening,
Speaker 2: and more So, what made you become a hero sheriff
Speaker 2: and not a Joe Pio Sheriff?
Speaker 11: You know we said raised like seventy percent. It's expensive
Speaker 11: to incarcerate people. It's not expensive to give him a skill.
Speaker 1: The man giving them that skill.
Speaker 2: Local restaurant here Chef Bruno about it, who volunteers his
Speaker 2: time and expertise to tease inmates how to cook the
Speaker 2: best pizza in Chicago. Chef, what do you think about
Speaker 2: this deep dish pizza?
Speaker 10: It's got to be People should not eat this. It's
Speaker 10: like a brick. Look at this. Look I mean, I
Speaker 10: don't know where do you buy this?
Speaker 6: I don't want to know, but this is shade.
Speaker 2: After a straight hour of shutting on deep Dish pizza,
Speaker 2: Chef Bruno finally got around to telling me more about
Speaker 2: how his program is affecting inmates. The program Racing People
Speaker 2: Change is here to open your mind, to open your brain,
Speaker 2: give you whole, give yourself, Steven Gibby.
Speaker 10: Give you pizza.
Speaker 2: Everyone in the Cook County GA wants to be a
Speaker 2: part of this great program.
Speaker 6: I learned how to be a better leader.
Speaker 7: I learned how to work with a lot of other people.
Speaker 1: I basically I've learned how to eat better.
Speaker 2: It was great to be with people in Chicago who
Speaker 2: understood what pizza supposed to look and taste. Like, Guys,
Speaker 2: this pizza is genuinely awesome.
Speaker 1: You must have people lying around the block by this.
Speaker 7: Actually it's only for inmates.
Speaker 6: Guys.
Speaker 2: We gonna rescue Chicago from that boat deep this pizza.
Speaker 3: Ohkay, know, the pieza is great, but this is not
Speaker 3: how you dere a conflict.
Speaker 10: All right, I'll be right back.
Speaker 4: Hey, where are you going with the pizza?
Speaker 14: Ronnie knew pizza this good wasn't meant to be caged.
Speaker 14: He also really loved prison escape movies.
Speaker 6: Ronnie, where are you?
Speaker 10: Look at the Messa? Say pizza, look at you?
Speaker 8: Why?
Speaker 14: In October twenty seventeen, Ronnie Chang smell of thing across
Speaker 14: pizza out of Cook County Jail. Oh RUNI loved pizza,
Speaker 14: but he also hated Chicago beet dish. He had to
Speaker 14: find a way to get thin crust pizza to the
Speaker 14: people of Chicago. All it takes to get pizza out
Speaker 14: is cheese, dough and time. That and a big ass poster.
Speaker 6: Run a chanan.
Speaker 14: He crawled through a river Marinella and came out smelling
Speaker 14: like basil.
Speaker 2: In the last presidential election, forty four percent of Americans
Speaker 2: did not vote. That puts you in twenty six position
Speaker 2: among developed countries.
Speaker 1: That's pathetic.
Speaker 6: You should be ashamed of yourself.
Speaker 1: That's garbage.
Speaker 6: It's so garbage that in twenty sixteen Trump got.
Speaker 2: Elected only a quarter of eligible voters supporting him.
Speaker 6: That is a broken system.
Speaker 2: Some politics nerds are proposing a solution. Jewelry duty and
Speaker 2: taxes are mandatory, why not voting? But America is the
Speaker 2: land of the free, where the whole point is to
Speaker 2: do anything you want, even dress up as fat iron
Speaker 2: men in Times Square on a Tuesday afternoon.
Speaker 6: So can you really force Americans to vote? Do you
Speaker 6: think in America voting should be compulsory?
Speaker 2: I think it should, but it's not going to happen
Speaker 2: because people won't even wear a mask.
Speaker 9: If we were told to do something at this point,
Speaker 9: exactly get we wouldn't do it.
Speaker 10: Do you think.
Speaker 6: America would ever accept mandatory voting?
Speaker 2: Definitely not.
Speaker 6: Why not?
Speaker 2: Because Americans are lazy?
Speaker 1: In general, America is the land of the free. People
Speaker 1: come here because it's a.
Speaker 2: Free place, and that includes the freedom to not Yeah,
Speaker 2: pretty much. Do you think mandatory voting can happen in America?
Speaker 1: No not, I do not.
Speaker 11: I think that American values are like a toxic version
Speaker 11: of what freedom is.
Speaker 6: Isn't that what makes America great?
Speaker 14: It's not so great at the moment.
Speaker 2: Maybe Americans think it's impossible, but mandatory voting does exists
Speaker 2: in twenty two countries, including one that's even drunker, crazier
Speaker 2: and whiter than the US. I'm talking about Australia, where
Speaker 2: they've had it since nineteen twenty two.
Speaker 4: It was quite a small step for Australians to think, well,
Speaker 4: we want the majority of people to be selecting our
Speaker 4: government and that gives it greater legitimacy.
Speaker 2: So basically, in Australia, you force people to exercise their
Speaker 2: democratic rights.
Speaker 4: That's right, Yes, that's right. I don't think people in
Speaker 4: Australia regarded as a particularly big deal. You've got to
Speaker 4: turn up on election day, which is a Saturday. You know,
Speaker 4: it might take you like fifteen minutes, and the Parents
Speaker 4: and Teachers Association will be there selling sausages, and that's
Speaker 4: where we get the term democracy sausage.
Speaker 2: Okay, for Americans, the term democracy sauces has had a
Speaker 2: bad taste since the Clinton administration. But for Australians, consuming
Speaker 2: child and testing meat on brad has been a voting
Speaker 2: tradition since the nineteen forties. But what about the people
Speaker 2: who don't think age sizzle is enough incentive to vote?
Speaker 2: What kind of punishment do you have to enforce to
Speaker 2: make it certain all the ninety percent of people don't involve?
Speaker 6: What jail time, public spanking you have to wear? I
Speaker 6: didn't vote sticker?
Speaker 4: It's a twenty dollars fine, that's it.
Speaker 6: That's a bargain.
Speaker 10: I think.
Speaker 4: Look, there's big advantages in our system because the political
Speaker 4: parties don't have to get the vote out, and that
Speaker 4: means they don't have to appeal to the base, So
Speaker 4: you don't get the same sort of extreme ideological appeals,
Speaker 4: and so it makes our democracy, I think more moderate.
Speaker 6: Doesn't that make your election process very boring?
Speaker 4: Well, just make it boring. Look, I don't know that
Speaker 4: that's a problem for me. What democracy means is that
Speaker 4: the majority of people participate, and I find the extent
Speaker 4: of voter suppression in the United States truly shocking. I
Speaker 4: don't understand how the Americans can call themselves a democracy
Speaker 4: at all.
Speaker 2: Political science Wall Star is gonna love this, But how
Speaker 2: do every day Australian see it. I took a twenty
Speaker 2: five hour flight and spent two weeks in quarantine just
Speaker 2: so I could talk to them myself in sunny Brisbane, Australia.
Speaker 2: What do you feel about the fact that voting is
Speaker 2: compulsory in Australia.
Speaker 7: I feel very proud that it is. And for people
Speaker 7: who don't want to vote as you go and live somewhere.
Speaker 12: Else, everybody has to decide and it's mandatory to vote,
Speaker 12: so if the result doesn't go your way, you can't
Speaker 12: complain if we lose, We're said, but at least we've
Speaker 12: had a chance to vote.
Speaker 10: And that's it, brother done to just do it.
Speaker 1: It takes five minutes, You just go in mid vote,
Speaker 1: you get out, no time nowhere anyway, Just shut the
Speaker 1: f happened?
Speaker 9: Vote?
Speaker 2: Or what do you guys think about mandatory voting in Australia?
Speaker 1: Thanks pretty much?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so ertand of it.
Speaker 10: We don't care what we work with.
Speaker 9: We're just going there and take a few boxes and
Speaker 9: then things crossed, we get the right one.
Speaker 10: Are you guys drunk right now?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Shot yea with Brecky you know man that is.
Speaker 2: But why do you think voting isn't mandatory in America?
Speaker 10: Oh? Now I ready think it?
Speaker 1: Actually, maybe there's a purpose for America Australia.
Speaker 6: Which one's doing better?
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm a witness to cavemen discovering fire
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 10: Yeah that's fair.
Speaker 2: Eno'm actually yea. Even drunk Australian bros can see the
Speaker 2: benefits of mandatory voting. But for America, the good news
Speaker 2: is that voter turnout in twenty twenty is on track
Speaker 2: to hit record levels. All we needed to get people
Speaker 2: to vote was to elect Donald Trump and then guess
Speaker 2: what people turn up?
Speaker 6: We don't need to force people to vote.
Speaker 4: Well, that's a pretty big price to pay. I'd rather
Speaker 4: pay twenty dollars fines than have to put up with president.
Speaker 6: Four years tuche Judith.
Speaker 2: But hopefully one day Americans will also learn to enjoy
Speaker 2: the sweet, sweet taste of democracy sausage as much as
Speaker 2: our drunk vote loving mates down under.
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