In the Field with Ronny Chieng

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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Comedy, Daily News, News

4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:05.0	If you're going to talk about Arizona, you have to talk about old people, because they are everywhere here.
0:15.0	See? Which brings me to death.
0:21.6	Not, no, not yours. Obviously, you still have a long broader head of you.
0:25.6	And here in Arizona, people thinking about the afterlife are choosing something new.
0:30.6	Whole body donation.
0:32.6	More and more people are choosing to forego a traditional burial and just donate their bodies to science.
0:39.3	There was a 20% increase in the number of people donating their body.
0:42.8	Right here in Arizona, that's about 47,000 people.
0:46.3	To investigate, I hit up a popular spot for the old folks to see if body donation really was all the rage.
0:53.3	What do you want to happen to your body after you die?
0:55.8	I'd consider whole body donation.
0:58.1	Have you considered whole body donation?
1:00.6	Yes, I have it already set up.
1:03.1	So you seem pretty old and close to death.
1:04.7	What do you want to happen to you after you die?
1:07.1	I'm going to be, I'm donating it to science.
1:09.7	What made you think of doing that? I have no living relatives. Who's going to be, I'm donating it to science. What made you think of doing that?
1:12.3	I have no living relatives.
1:14.3	Who's going to bury me?
1:15.9	Do you have any friends?
1:17.4	Yeah, they don't care about my body.
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