In the Field with Ronny Chieng

In the Field with Ronny Chieng

Released Sunday, 23rd March 2025
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To investigate, I hit up a

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popular spot for the old folks

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to see if body donation really

2:12

was all the rage. What do

2:14

you want to happen to your

2:16

body after you die? I'd consider

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whole body donation. Have you considered

2:20

whole body donation? Yes, I have

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it all ready set up. So

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you seem pretty old and close

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to death. What do you want

2:29

to happen to happen to you

2:31

after you die? I'm donating it

2:33

to science. What made you think

2:36

of doing that? I have no

2:38

living relatives. Who's going to bury

2:40

me? Any friends? Uh, yeah, they

2:42

don't care about my body? Well,

2:44

maybe they should care, because when

2:46

I turn on the news, I

2:49

discovered this. Scandal involving a body

2:51

donation business in Phoenix. The owner

2:53

accused of selling bodies and body

2:55

parts. Essentially running a chop shop

2:57

for human body parts. A human

2:59

chop shop? These were people. Not

3:02

cars you stripped down for parts.

3:04

I turned to a team of

3:06

lawyers trying to end this horror.

3:08

So what the fuck is happening

3:10

in Arizona? People are getting people

3:13

to donate their bodies and telling

3:15

them that they're going to treat

3:17

the bodies with dignity and respect.

3:19

And they were sold off like

3:21

you would sell off the parts

3:23

of a cow. And then ultimately

3:26

the FBI raided this organization here

3:28

in Arizona. So what did the

3:30

FBI find? There were coolers and

3:32

freezers of disarticulated body parts. You

3:34

know, a cooler of... arms, a

3:36

cooler of legs. They found heads.

3:39

They found the torso of a

3:41

large human male with the head

3:43

of a small female sewn on

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the... All right, okay, we get

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it. Enough already. Jesus. Anyone here

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have a puppy I can pet

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for 10 seconds just to clear

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my head? And they found a

3:56

giant bag of penises. They found

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a bag of... Yes, it was

4:00

referred to as a large bag

4:03

of male genitalia. So it was

4:05

a large bag of dicks? Yes.

4:07

I'm scared to even ask, but

4:09

what are they going to do

4:11

with this large bag of dicks?

4:13

Well, we really can only speculate.

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We know that some of it

4:18

may have gone to the black

4:20

market in Southeast Asia for something

4:22

like penis wine. Okay. I'm from

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Southeast Asia. I've never heard of

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penis wine. What is it? I

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think it's wine that has a

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penis in it that's supposed to

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make people more virile. That is

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disgusting. I thought so. Is it

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red or white? I mean, you

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can go push them up to

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it. What kind of flavor profile

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is it? Is it nutty? I

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didn't taste it. I have notes

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of foreskin. Can we move on?

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This is a serious case. Oh,

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yeah. That's right, Holly. We're just

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going to mention penis wine and

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not talk about it. This case

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is about... the harm that was

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done to people and families. Not

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about penis one. She's right. People

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thought they were donating their bodies

5:08

for research to find cures for

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diseases, but instead it was real-life

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invasion of the body snatchers. How

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are they going to fix this?

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We need regulations. Licenses, for example.

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You don't need a license to

5:21

deal with dead bodies. Correct. You

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need a license to do nails.

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You need a license to fish.

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To drive a fork to drive

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a forklift. Pay your money, fill

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out a form, and you're a

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medical director. That has to change.

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This is f- horrific. This is

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not just an Arizona problem, it's

5:40

a nationwide problem. And if you

5:43

think it's not happening in your

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backyard, you're mistaken. Okay, sorry, can

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we just go back to the

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penis wine for a second? Do

5:51

they stomp on dicks the way

5:53

they stomp on grapes? Are they

5:56

squeezing out the penis? Are they

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just fermenting out dead body violated?

6:00

or that genitals turn into a

6:02

tasty beverage. If people are going

6:04

to donate, they should at least

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know exactly what they're getting themselves.

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They need to know the truth.

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Until Arizona puts regulations in place,

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changes its laws. Give Ronnie your

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body.com. Give me your body. I

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want your body. Ronnie Chang is

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unlicensed and has no experience in

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this field, which is not a

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problem in the state of Arizona.

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So avoid the service altogether and

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do your research or donate to

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medical centers. Here in America, we

6:56

use straws for everything. Drinking, snorting

6:59

cocaine. Okay, just those two things.

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But still, that's not nothing. Yet

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recently, local governments across the nation

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have been challenging our God-given right

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to bear straws. Straws represent only

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0.02% of the 9 million tons

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of plastic waste that is estimated.

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People would like to keep the

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plastic straw, just saying. Conservative Big

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the latest city to ban straws,

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to meet Lillian, an environmental inspector.

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Her actual job is to going

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to local businesses and make sure

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they're not using plastic. straws. That's

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right, she's a straw cop. So

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what you hope to accomplish by

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banning something that's like 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 1%

7:40

about trash? You know, that's a

7:42

good question. It's a perfect symbol

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for our overuse independence on single

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use plastics, right? So am I

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supposed to do. If I don't

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use straws, what you want me

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to do? You want me to

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do? You want me to do

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this? Lillian explained that over 40%

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of all plastic menu is single-use.

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Throw away items that will take

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somewhere between 450 years and forever

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to disappear. But still, why are

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people suddenly so angry about straws?

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Why do you hate straws? When

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did straws ever do you? I

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think that really started with the

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straw video. The plastic straw getting

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stuck up the Sea Turtles nose.

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It has over 35 million views

8:23

on YouTube. Wait, this is all

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because of a dumb viral video.

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Look, I've seen a lot of

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shit on YouTube. Turns out back

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to this be. Turns out, really

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f- Oh man, it's a freaking

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straw. Okay, okay, I'm done. No

8:39

more straws. But the video did

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leave me with one burning question.

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If I stick a straw of

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my nose, I could get 35

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think it should, but it's not

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going to happen because people won't

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even wear masks. If we were

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told to do something, at this

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point, we exactly, we wouldn't do

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it. Do you think America would

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ever accept mandatory voting? Definitely not.

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Because Americans are lazy. in general.

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America is the land of the

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free. People come here because it's

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a free place. And that includes

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the freedom to not participate? Yeah,

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pretty much. Do you think mandatory

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voting can happen in America? No.

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I do not. I think that

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American values are like a toxic

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version of what freedom is. Isn't

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that what makes America great? It's

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not so great at the moment.

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Maybe Americans think it's impossible. But

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mandatory voting does exist in 22

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I'm talking about Australia, where they've

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quite a small step for Australians

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to think, well, we want the

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majority of people to be selecting

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our government, and that gives a

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greater legitimacy. So basically in Australia,

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you force people to exercise their

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democratic rights. That's right. Yes, that's

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right. I don't think people in

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Australia regarded as a particular... big

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deal you've got to turn up

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on election day which is a

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Saturday you know it might take

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you like 15 minutes and the

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Parents and Teachers Association will be

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there selling sausages and that's where

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we get the term democracy sausage.

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Okay, for Americans the term democracy

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sausage has had a bad taste

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since the Clinton administration. But for

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Australians, consuming child intestine meat on

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bread has been a voting tradition

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since the 1940s. But what about

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the people who don't think a

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sausage sizzle is enough incentive to

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vote? What kind of punishment do

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you have to enforce? to make

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it so that over 90% of

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people go and vote. What, jail

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time, public spanking? You have to

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wear, I didn't vote sticker? It's

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a $20 fine. That's it? That's

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a bargain, I think. Look, there's

28:52

big advantages in our system because

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the political parties don't have to

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get the vote out. And that

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means... they don't have to appeal

29:01

to the base. So you don't

29:03

get the same sort of extreme

29:05

ideological appeals. And so it makes

29:07

our democracy, I think, more moderate.

29:10

Doesn't that make your election process

29:12

very boring? Well, I don't know.

29:14

It doesn't make it boring. Look,

29:16

I don't know that that's a

29:18

problem. For me, what democracy means

29:21

is that the majority of people

29:23

participate, and I find the extent

29:25

of voter suppression in the United

29:27

States. Surely shocking. I don't understand

29:29

how the Americans can call themselves

29:32

a democracy at all. Damn, political

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science world star is going to

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love this. But how do everyday

29:38

Australians see it? I took a

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25-hour flight and spent two weeks

29:43

in quarantine just so I could

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talk to them myself in sunny

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Brisbane, Australia. What do you feel

29:49

about the fact that voting is

29:51

compulsory in Australia? I feel very

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proud that it is and for

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people who don't want to vote,

29:58

they should go and live somewhere

30:00

else. Everybody has to decide and

30:02

it's mandatory to vote, so if

30:04

the result... Doesn't go your way,

30:07

you can't complain if we lose,

30:09

oh we're sad, but at least

30:11

we've had a chance to vote.

30:13

And that's it, brother. Done. Did

30:15

you just do it? It takes

30:18

five minutes, you just go in

30:20

there, vote, and get out. No

30:22

time, no everything. Just shut the

30:24

fuck up and vote. What do

30:26

you just shut the fuck up

30:29

and vote? What do you guys

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think about mandatory voting in Australia?

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No, I think it's drunk right

30:35

now? Yeah, we had a few

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big points, a couple shots, a

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couple shots, a couple shots, three

30:42

with Brecky, you know. Man, that

30:44

is fucking Australia. Why do you

30:46

think voting isn't mandatory in America?

30:48

Oh, maybe, I mean... Yeah, now

30:51

I already think, yeah, actually. Maybe

30:53

there's a purpose for it. America,

30:55

Australia, which one's doing better? I

30:57

feel like I'm a witness to

30:59

keep men discovering fire right now.

31:02

Yeah, that's fair enough, actually, yeah.

31:04

Even, yeah. Even, yeah. Even drunk

31:06

Australian, even, even, But for America,

31:08

the good news is that voter

31:10

turnout in 2020 is on track

31:13

to hit record levels. All we

31:15

needed to get people to vote

31:17

was to elect Donald Trump. And

31:19

then guess what? People turn up.

31:21

We don't need to force people

31:24

to vote. Well that's a pretty

31:26

big price to pay. I'd rather

31:28

pay a $20 fine than have

31:30

to put up with President Trump

31:32

for four years. Tush-shah, Judith. But

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31:37

learn to enjoy the sweet sweet

31:39

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