Daily Show legend John Oliver visits Hawaii to hear from Republicans everything wrong with its (beloved) health care system. Next up he gets his School House Rock on, embodying a beat up Dodd Frank Act. He trades his English accent for Long Island after a Presidential debate. Finally Jon sits down with Ronny Chieng to talk finding a place for satire, and how their status as immigrants developed their comedy chops. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is this podcast episode about?
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Chapter 2: Why did John Oliver visit Hawaii?
Just because Republicans don't want to talk about health care with the president doesn't mean they don't want to talk about it. When John Oliver visited the RNC winter meeting in Hawaii, he found plenty of people eager to chat. He filed this report.
Chapter 3: What are the views on Hawaii's healthcare system?
Hawaii. Not only is it an island paradise, it's also been held up as a model for healthcare reform. Here, government mandates that businesses give health insurance to any employee working over 20 hours a week, resulting in near universal coverage. Which made it the perfect place for the Republican National Committee to hold their annual meeting and deliver one key message.
Healthcare reform isn't really a reform, it's a boondoggle.
It would be one more step towards socialism.
Do you think the American people should be thanking the Republican Party for destroying the healthcare bill?
Absolutely, they should be thanking those that have stood up for the American people to stop this.
But for some reason, Hawaiians didn't understand how bad their own system was. Healthcare is awesome, you know, especially with my baby.
I'm in between jobs right now, and they're taking on my healthcare free of charge until I get back on my feet, and that's awesome.
Hawaii has awesome health care, right?
You have health insurance. This guy has health insurance. The guy with a skateboard and without functioning shoelaces. How the f*** does that work out? Even visitors to the island were initially impressed.
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Chapter 4: What issues face the Dodd-Frank Act?
I lost my thought.
It's just not going to work and it will destroy the healthcare system. What would you say to a Hawaiian who said you literally don't know what you're talking about? Well, I would say that I do, and I would hope that you would give me a chance to show you there is a better way.
What if that Hawaiian then said, OK, you've got that chance, dazzle me?
There are some people that may believe that government-run health care is OK because they've not had the opportunity of seeing how it works on the private side.
Even Hawaiians who make frequent visits to the emergency rooms somehow didn't see it. I have been in an arrest and happen to get some stitches. I go into Hawaii and they say get... the gurney, get him fixed, dog you okay, and the doctor starts working. I go to the mainland, they say, you got insurance. Right. Is your wallet on you? Right. It's not my wallet that hurts, it's my lip.
Let me get this straight. Dog the bounty hunter believes in Hawaiian healthcare. Dog the bounty hunter believes in Hawaiian health care, correct?
These poor bastards just didn't realize they were living in a socialist nightmare, forced to scrounge for a living, unable even to afford shirts, many driven to suicide. But for those who do survive, what will their world look like?
Let's look down the road. Ten years from now, 20 years from now, your children, your grandchildren, how are they going to pay for this?
You're going to regret it. Well, we've done it for 40 years. This isn't something we just started in the last few months or past few years.
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Chapter 5: How does John Oliver mimic a Long Island accent?
Lobby, Lobby, Lobby, get your access here. Lobby, Lobby, Lobby, get your access here.
Lobby, Lobby, that's your stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Hold it. I can't do this. Blaming lobbyists is a cop-out, John. Here's what's going down. This whole financial reform thing is a sham. The only way that Congress would pass me was if the details of my rules and regulations were left unspecified, giving K Street lobbyists all the time they would need to water me down post passage.
And you know what? Exactly. Boo, exactly. Thank you, boys and girls. Thank you. And do you know what? If any actual tough rule managed to squeak through, Congress people cut the budget of the agency responsible for enforcing it. The whole thing is a giant punt. I'm no law. I'm no law, John. I'm just an undefined, impotent, 2,300-page piece of legislative ****. You see this?
You see this here, John? LAUGHTER I stole this off the Voting Rights Act of 1965!
This isn't mine!
This isn't even mine! I'm sorry, I had no idea, Law. I had no idea, Dodd-Frank. that you have been through so much.
You don't know what you're talking about. You haven't seen the things I've seen.
I know. I'm just a law, but my ass was raw. And my balls put through a circular saw. And everyone who swore up and down to support me Now they want Planned Parenthood to lay term aboard me. Last night I got hit by a car. It's gone too far for this law. Did I mention my ass was f***ing wrong?
The Don Frank Act, everybody. We'll be right back. I have no idea. The debate, of course. Being out tonight in Hempstead, Long Island at Hofstra. John, thank you so much for joining us. Ain't no problem, Johnny. Least I can do, all right? Obviously, make or break night for John McCain. How did the candidates do, John?
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All right, all right. We get it. Enough already. Enough. I agree with you more than I agree with them.
Well, well, well, look who's come crawling back. Yes. We're all started. I know. It's pretty weird to be back. I do not like being in that guest room at all. Oh, really? That was the one room where I worked here you were not allowed to go in, and I don't like being in it now. It feels like I'm doing something wrong by being inside it. You never snuck in to see a guest? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We were never allowed to really be in there because it had to be kept nice for the guest. Yeah. And it never really occurred to me one day I might be that, and I still don't feel it. So I put my bag in there and then stood in the corridor for the rest of it. I don't want to be in there at all. Yeah, but this place brings back to my memories. You were here. You were in this building.
I was very much in this building, yeah. This was the reason I came to America, and I was here for eight years. Yeah, same.
Yeah. That's why... That's why I was so happy you came on, because people don't know by looking at us, but we actually have very similar backgrounds, because we both joined the show. I moved to America to do this show, just like you. And when I first joined the show, you know, the Daily Show alumni network is so strong, I asked to meet up with Mr. Oliver.
You came to the office.
Mr. Oliver. Hold on. He was Mr. Oliver. I was like, there's no way this guy's going to let me meet up with him.
And you were like, no, come before work. There's nothing I like more than talking to people who have questions about how to make field pieces. Yeah. Because it's such a narrow set of skills. Yes. And all of your questions were great. I remember you leaving and thinking, oh, you're going to be fine. Even though you don't have the answers yet, all your questions are right, so you're going to be fine.
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