Venture out of the Daily Show studio and into the real world with Ronny Chieng, as we revisit some of his best field pieces. Ronny heads to Arizona to dig up the dirt on body donation scams, then to Washington D.C. to try his hand at law enforcement policing plastic straw bans. Next he plugs in to the world of Bitcoin and stupid meme currencies. Heading to Chicago, he goes to jail to find the best pizza in town, then all the way to Australia to learn about compulsory voting. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What are the issues with body donation scams in Arizona?
And here in Arizona, people thinking about the afterlife are choosing something new, whole body donation.
More and more people are choosing to forego traditional burial and just donate their bodies to science.
There was a 20% increase in the number of people donating their body. Right here in Arizona, that's about 47,000 people.
To investigate, I hit up a popular spot for the old folks to see if body donation really was all the rage. What do you want to happen to your body after you die? I'd consider whole body donation. Have you considered whole body donation?
Yes. I have it all ready set up.
So you seem pretty old and close to death. What do you want to happen to you after you die?
I'm going to be donating it to science.
What made you think of doing that?
I have no living relatives. Who's going to bury me?
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Chapter 2: How do body donation scams operate and what are the legal implications?
A human chop shop? These were people, not cars you strip down for parts. I turned to a team of lawyers trying to end this horror. So what the is happening in Arizona?
People are getting people to donate their bodies and telling them that they're going to treat the bodies with dignity and respect.
And they were sold off like you would sell off the parts of a cow.
And then ultimately the FBI raided this organization here in Arizona.
So what did the FBI find? There were coolers and freezers of disarticulated body parts. You know, a cooler of arms, a cooler of legs.
They found heads. They found the torso of a large human male with the head of a small female sewn on the top.
All right, OK, we get it. Enough already. Jesus. Anyone here have a puppy I can pet for 10 seconds just to clear my head?
And they found a giant bag of penises.
They found a bag of dicks?
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