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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Pizza and Rehabilitation in Chicago’s Cook County Jail | Beyond the Scenes

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

iHeartPodcasts and Paramount Podcasts

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

How is pizza helping to rehabilitate people in jail? Daily Show correspondent Ronny Chieng, segment director Sebastian DiNatale, and Chef Bruno Abate join host Roy Wood Jr. to discuss Recipe for Change, a pizza-making program for people in Chicago’s Cook County Jail. The group also delves into America’s mass incarceration crisis, and debates why deep dish pizza is trash.

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0:00.7

You're listening to Comedy Central

0:11.2

Hey, welcome to Beyond the Scenes now I've tried to explain what this podcast is

0:17.3

Do you know what this podcast is this podcast is after you've had a great night in the club and

0:22.6

Then you go out on a sidewalk and there's a hot dog on a grill

0:28.2

It's not even a grill. It's someone who's created a grill type device and

0:33.6

It's savory and it's bacon wrapped and it's delicious. It was exactly what you need

0:39.1

You only left the house to go to the club, but you left with a bacon wrapped hot dog under questionable sanitary conditions

0:48.4

That's what this podcast is all about and this week

0:51.5

I've got food on my mind because we are talking about

0:54.2

Pizza and how it relates to the criminal justice system. Let's roll the clip

1:01.8

This is what people in Chicago called pizza, but can I find a decent slice in the city instead of this stupid bull

1:09.4

I couldn't find a single place that sold real pizza

1:13.3

Just these deep dish dough dumpster

1:16.2

This isn't pizza

1:19.2

This isn't even human

1:22.2

After hours of only deep dish

1:24.8

I finally found a place that served delicious normal pizza pie

1:30.8

The Cook County jail

1:35.0

This gourmet pizza is actually made by and sold to inmates as part of a training program called recipe for change

1:42.7

You know recidivism rates like 70% it's expensive to incarcerate people

1:47.5

It's not expensive to give them a skill the man giving them that skill

1:51.4

Local restaurateurs chef Bruno Abate who volunteers his time and expertise to teach inmates how to cook the best pizza in Chicago

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