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  • Auto lenders can steer vulnerable people into crushing debt. Keegan-Michael Key and Bob Balaban help John Oliver show exactly how.
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  • @Dakkalistic
    @Dakkalistic Před 7 lety +6798

    "Boy did we screw these people with their mortgages, they're living in their cars now."
    "Hm, cars you say..."

    • @LouJNT
      @LouJNT Před 7 lety +103

      lmao

    • @KimFKjr
      @KimFKjr Před 7 lety +17

      +nGon- What a great idea 😂

    • @Dakkalistic
      @Dakkalistic Před 7 lety +1

      /)

    • @justAguyDs
      @justAguyDs Před 7 lety +1

      +nGon- you backwards ignorant fuck. #Hillary (btw I hate Hillary and I laugh at your joke)

    • @ChimobiHD
      @ChimobiHD Před 7 lety +8

      You hit the nail right on the head.

  • @alisonselje2809
    @alisonselje2809 Před 4 lety +2931

    "The Lincoln assassination but with cars."
    ...So the Kennedy assassination?

  • @RobertMichael
    @RobertMichael Před 3 lety +942

    I will never tire of hearing John Oliver saying “TRUUUCK YEEEAAAHH”

    • @charlessandison5740
      @charlessandison5740 Před 3 lety +42

      He objectively says it better than the song itself

    • @leafa8544
      @leafa8544 Před 3 lety +22

      I will never “tire”

    • @theradicalreviewer6053
      @theradicalreviewer6053 Před 3 lety +10

      It's so trucking good

    • @skeetrix5577
      @skeetrix5577 Před 3 lety +7

      I drive a truck and never heard that song before this. and I thought I knew most all of them by now lol

    • @JDboxbox
      @JDboxbox Před 3 lety +3

      He nailed it for sure

  • @Queen_Siobhan
    @Queen_Siobhan Před 3 lety +1787

    Me: Actually puts my 9-month-old daughter in front of the screen
    John: "You don't know I'm mocking you"
    9-month-old: Excitably babbles and reaches for John

    • @mondhase5915
      @mondhase5915 Před 3 lety +211

      Well, he said 7-months-old. Using a 9-months-old is cheating.

    • @Queen_Siobhan
      @Queen_Siobhan Před 3 lety +155

      @@mondhase5915 Lol I'm probably still a terrible parent

    • @pastaspaghettimonster1893
      @pastaspaghettimonster1893 Před 3 lety +11

      @@Queen_Siobhan Was that ever in doubt?! Like, no one ever asks a trump supporter if they beat people they dislike/their wives/their ex wives/someone they have been told by a 'friend of a friend' possibly is a democrat? It kind of goes without saying... :-p

    • @spv420
      @spv420 Před 3 lety +46

      @@pastaspaghettimonster1893 i'm sure that was a joke, but at the same time, dismissing the other side is one of the problems that got our politics into such a shithole.

    • @pastaspaghettimonster1893
      @pastaspaghettimonster1893 Před 3 lety +3

      @@spv420 I couldn't agree more. However, I believe joke and satire can also be useful in politics. I know a lot of his voters vote for him as he is the republican candiate, and that is there party of choice, and thus they would for the party. However (and I admit definitely the minority) of voters vote for hi, base on him being very vocal against democrats and politically incorrect. That minority was who I aimed to make fun of, although I am not suggesting all of them do what I suggested.
      However, I bet a higher proportion than national average would. I say 'bet' as I have no stats to back that up but at least that's how news in Australia (ALL channels and ~80% of newspapers) report it.
      Thank you for being a thinker that questions what they read, and have a good day!

  • @danielmoshi6214
    @danielmoshi6214 Před 7 lety +3577

    Never watched a comedy show and get informed like this show. The level of research and amount of work you guys are putting into your material is absolutely unbelievable. Thank you

    • @MENDLER1
      @MENDLER1 Před 7 lety +18

      You do realize that Oliver is quite biased

    • @nirke_
      @nirke_ Před 7 lety +153

      +Splugen pass you do realize every single person in the world is biased in one way or another

    • @robertp457
      @robertp457 Před 7 lety +23

      I don't know about all that. These auto loan people are clearly predatory, however if people didn't agree to the crappy deals they were offered the dealers would stop doing it. It's the fault of the consumer and the dealer, but the video only blamed the dealers.

    • @batoukovacs7511
      @batoukovacs7511 Před 7 lety +14

      Of course. Notice he doesn't mention the buyer's responsibility to buy a car they can afford. Or my single moms comment above. I find I'm 50/50 on John O. Half the time I'm cringing at libtard shit like the pay gap, and half the time I'm cheering his amazing brilliance. Examples include: NCAA basketball, iPhone security, Civil forfeiture

    • @stephenferrar9150
      @stephenferrar9150 Před 7 lety +7

      go hawks

  • @CVL13
    @CVL13 Před 7 lety +5251

    I'm a terrible parent? HAH! Joke's on you, this isn't my kid!

    • @burtonl7239
      @burtonl7239 Před 7 lety +74

      Somebody call the cops! We've got a kidnapper here!

    • @megasonicgeo
      @megasonicgeo Před 7 lety +322

      Did you get that kid from a car you repossessed?

    • @CVL13
      @CVL13 Před 7 lety +306

      I swear it was already there when I found... reposse... bought that car!

    • @Armendicus
      @Armendicus Před 7 lety +39

      welp time to return this one to the park where I found it.

    • @maximusbrabson3813
      @maximusbrabson3813 Před 7 lety +6

      lol Good one

  • @NotJustBikes
    @NotJustBikes Před 2 lety +2641

    Now that you've watched this, think about _why_ America has designed cities where everybody - even the very poor - need to spend thousands of dollars per year for the cost of an automobile, just to participate in society. Car-dependency is not an inevitability. We can design our cities better. Even if you like cars, you should be willing to join the fight against car-dependency.

    • @alanthefisher
      @alanthefisher Před 2 lety +206

      And transit system fares for an entire year are usually (at maximum) 1/4 the price of paying for everything about a car :)

    • @witt2424
      @witt2424 Před 2 lety +14

      That sound like you want commiusm there pal

    • @MegaMementoMori
      @MegaMementoMori Před 2 lety +5

      That is a bad idea. Once it is possible to live without a car, mad eco-maniacs will fight for it to be mandatory to live without a car.

    • @PP-ed9cf
      @PP-ed9cf Před 2 lety +1

      Not just America, many countries do this. Been to Australia, it's exactly the same. If you don't have a car, you're fucked. If you do, they fuck you in a whole different way. No idea why anyone lives in these shitholes.

    • @lovecraftscat5044
      @lovecraftscat5044 Před 2 lety +108

      @@MegaMementoMori Slippery slope fallacy.

  • @keithhamilton9707
    @keithhamilton9707 Před 3 lety +168

    Keegan Michael Key is a national treasure and needs to be protected at all costs.

  • @ace_mbt842
    @ace_mbt842 Před 7 lety +818

    damn that poor car has seen more shit than a $20 prostitute.

    • @xYouthAttackx
      @xYouthAttackx Před 7 lety

      hahahhaa

    • @mrmolamola6163
      @mrmolamola6163 Před 7 lety +75

      the worst part is that it didn't even start out as a high dollar prostitute, it went into the game demanding $20.

    • @huzzabuzatrolol
      @huzzabuzatrolol Před 7 lety +1

      +Adam Rouleau So much truth it hurts

    • @Vile_Oreo
      @Vile_Oreo Před 7 lety +44

      The two have probably met at some point.

    • @XxKingCraZyxX
      @XxKingCraZyxX Před 7 lety +26

      Not quite. It's a 20$ prostitute sold for 11'000 $.

  • @jasondouglas152
    @jasondouglas152 Před 5 lety +2445

    I worked as a sub prime finance manager for a car dealer for about 5 years.
    It's insane how low they will go. I got so stressed out and felt so awful knowing a lot of these people were getting into loans they'd never be able to afford that I quit a $85,000 a year job to go back to school and become a chef. ( after spending $50k. In 2 years , I'm still making less than half what I did, but I don't feel like a heaping pile of dog shit anymore)
    I literally felt so awful that I couldn't sleep at night. It's an absolute miserable bottom feeding scam business.
    You need to have no soul to do that for a career.
    I couldn't imagine doing that for 30+ years.
    FML

    • @mjallen1308
      @mjallen1308 Před 5 lety +109

      Soooooooo they’re hiring? Where?

    • @PheydraSunstar
      @PheydraSunstar Před 5 lety +179

      Jason Douglas
      Good for you for quitting! It sucks we have to struggle more to survive if we actually use our moral compass when picking a job, and it’s a hard decision making less money for your family (and therefore not being able to do as much for your kids as you otherwise could etc etc) to prevent contributing to the hardships of another family. Just, good for you, dude! If more people were like you our country wouldn’t have these kinds of God-awful messes in the first place!

    • @afnankhokhar
      @afnankhokhar Před 4 lety +91

      Good on you for making that move. It's a shame that some people aren't able to make such decisions because they're caught up in the rat race and have themselves tied down financially. Worse yet are those people who think they're not doing anything wrong by pushing those plans onto vulnerable people.

    • @jenniekelly571
      @jenniekelly571 Před 4 lety +74

      It's nice to hear you have morals and a conscience. Not too many people have that combination in today's world. Good for you!!!!!

    • @stevenbuck07
      @stevenbuck07 Před 4 lety +26

      @@mjallen1308 lol. I'm sure you're joking. But I guess a lot of ppl growing up today believe in greedy inhuman treatment is a thing to consider, or they feel like it's the only path to take. Their parents or grand parents didn't learn good things in life to pass on to them. It's unfortunate that for some, when they finally wise up, it's too late.

  • @MickSnow42
    @MickSnow42 Před 3 lety +248

    The year is 2020 and the calmness of a British comedian discussing the logistics of automobiles is the only that that allows me to sleep

  • @Zzyzzyzzs
    @Zzyzzyzzs Před 4 lety +128

    For those wondering about that lady's commute, I live in an area with a similar situation. Basically where I live is on top of a high ridgeline, above a bend of a river. My friend's house is just two suburbs away, round the bend and in the valley below, by the river. If one could drive, it would take just ten minutes to do the 2.5 miles. But if one had to use public transport, one'd have to get a bus into the city, which takes about 25 minutes, then another bus back out, so another 20 minutes. Factor in walking to and from bus stops, wait times for and between buses and potential delays, and it could easily take an hour. Our record for making that commute was 40 mins, and that was late-night, no traffic, the buses fortunately synced up and no one else got on or off. One could cycle but, given going in one direction would be up the steep ridge, it would be very difficult; I for one have bad knees so could never do it. Walking the whole distance takes an hour and, again, not something someone who is unfit or compromised would want to do.

    • @FirstNameLastName-od3qq
      @FirstNameLastName-od3qq Před 4 lety +5

      🛵 ? Or 🚲?

    • @seigeengine
      @seigeengine Před 3 lety +4

      I used to walk/take the bus to school. Took about an hour. Driving would take 5-10 minutes. Hell, walking directly there would usually only take 45-50 minutes, but then I'd have to walk the entire way, and I barely managed to show up at all half of the time, so y'know.

    • @josephyoung6749
      @josephyoung6749 Před 3 lety +4

      Thank republicans (i.e. one billionaire manipulating half the country into following his abominably idiotic pet theory) for having no transportation. Next thing they'll think of is ripping up sewer lines so people can drink and piss/shit in plastic water bottles. It's the same thing as forcing people to travel in extremely dangerous bottles on wheels that cause so much of the pollution in the world. It's unfathomably stupid, and benefits no one.

    • @corbeau-_-
      @corbeau-_- Před 3 lety +1

      I'm poor too, I tend to move to wherever my job is and I find jobs in areas where the rent is low. I don't have a driver's license. But I also don't buy on credit and try to save to buy stuff in bulk. When I lost my job, I mostly lived on potatoes, eggs and fruit. Friends of mine have big houses, but they also have to work 50-60 hours a week. I work in healthcare, 24 hours a week. For me, it was a choice, though... My parents were sort of wealthy, but also immensely stressed...

    • @jakob.k_design
      @jakob.k_design Před 2 lety +1

      Get fit and bike up the hill.
      Sounds ignorant but I don't care. l know plenty of people who bike to commute, as do I and I have to get up a hill on my way home as well.

  • @Firestar3440
    @Firestar3440 Před 7 lety +1330

    im envious of all the people in the comments who have CLEARLY never severely struggled financially. good for you, but before you ask 'how someone can be so stupid', consider that you have no idea what its like to really struggle in terms of money. its so easy to get trapped

    • @jeancarlodallabrida2734
      @jeancarlodallabrida2734 Před 7 lety +48

      I know. I still used to walk an hour to work and stretch my meagre budget to healthy food (oatmeal is still cheaper than pop tarts). I lived without borrowing. It was hard but possible to do.

    • @Clymaxx
      @Clymaxx Před 7 lety +115

      The entire economy is built upon borrowing, which is one gigantic capitalist ponzi scheme. Sure, people can live without borrowing, but if we all did, every major financial sector would collapse. They designed it this way.

    • @KarenBear
      @KarenBear Před 7 lety +3

      so true

    • @briandouglas1908
      @briandouglas1908 Před 7 lety +28

      Truth my gangster. Credit score shows how good you are at being in debt

    • @jeancarlodallabrida2734
      @jeancarlodallabrida2734 Před 7 lety +18

      But, Climax, every financial sector collapsing might not result in the apocalypse. An economy based on collateral and living within one's means is feasible. people seem unhappier than ever and they have more than any other generation. I wasn't trying to simplify it all or slag off a particular person. I'm just saying it is possible to avoid most debt.

  • @hittingyouoverthehead
    @hittingyouoverthehead Před 7 lety +602

    Who else expected Jordan Peele to be Crazy Walter?

    • @CocoOPNY
      @CocoOPNY Před 7 lety +2

      do you know who that guy was, btw? :)

    • @hittingyouoverthehead
      @hittingyouoverthehead Před 7 lety

      Coco S The guy who actually played Crazy Walter?

    • @burtonl7239
      @burtonl7239 Před 7 lety

      Me.

    • @Smartijnmenm
      @Smartijnmenm Před 7 lety

      +Coco S do tell

    • @CocoOPNY
      @CocoOPNY Před 7 lety

      +Smartijnmenm Sorry, I actually am asking if anyone knows, since the audience was clapping so wildly for him?

  • @kodidelaney9608
    @kodidelaney9608 Před 4 lety +90

    So I work at a bank, and I see people who have taken out loans like this ALL the time. They are so predatory! If you have a 520 credit score and have defaulted on several debts in the past, you need a financial counselor to help you rebuild your credit and savings, NOT another loan. My biggest suggestion to people is to get approved at a bank that you *trust* first, and then go look for cars with that set amount of money.

  • @elovejapan7818
    @elovejapan7818 Před 2 lety +65

    I’m amazed that they took both the car and the baby. I remember seeing something about a car thief who was stealing a car from a store parking lot, discovered there was a baby inside, brought the baby into the store, and then took off with the car. In other words, a car thief off the street has more morals than these assholes.

    • @coalblooded
      @coalblooded Před 4 měsíci +3

      I'm kind of upset that she left the baby in the car in the first place.

    • @user-wq9gp2ve6l
      @user-wq9gp2ve6l Před 3 dny

      ​@coalblooded ya that was my thought too. Why was the baby in there without her?

  • @mattwilliams4807
    @mattwilliams4807 Před 7 lety +527

    The thing I love about John Oliver's show is that they do good investigative journalism. He's very intelligent and he has some extremely bright writers working with him. On their main segment of every show they go in depth on one terrible issue. Also this satire bit at the end is the best he has ever done. That's saying something considering he has some great ones.

    • @marquisewilliams3904
      @marquisewilliams3904 Před 7 lety +2

      There's also vice, but other than that...yeah.

    • @Elfishery
      @Elfishery Před 7 lety +8

      But, What about Jeff the diseased lung in a cowboy hat?

    • @kylemagaro6979
      @kylemagaro6979 Před 7 lety +5

      This show is the most important on TV right now

    • @neosashi
      @neosashi Před 7 lety +10

      Actually, he'll never be able to top his sesame street prison bit.

    • @cottagechskitty
      @cottagechskitty Před 7 lety +1

      Bob Balaban makes everything better :)

  • @visionhawk4403
    @visionhawk4403 Před 7 lety +240

    When I became disabled and unable to work, I was forced into bankruptcy and lost almost everything. It wasn't even a month until I started getting letters like explained in the video for credit cards, auto loans, every other type of loan. I had literally lost almost all of my material possessions, along with a lot of other things in my life, due to disability, and I had more "pre-approved" credit than I ever did at the $80k per year job I was working for before I became disabled. It was ridiculous! And I knew it was bad when my bankruptcy attorney warned me that it would happen! This has been going on for so long and it's ruining people's lives. It's about time that the media is starting to take notice.

    • @alegendarywolf3278
      @alegendarywolf3278 Před 7 lety +5

      Sorry to hear that, hope things are better for you now, and you are right many Americans are hurting right now because of this, now we need our congress to step up and help us by raising the minimum wage and giving us the lift many need to get us out of poverty.

    • @poohduece
      @poohduece Před 7 lety +13

      Please stop Hoping and start Accepting the fact that congress doesn't care about the average American. The life spans of Americans are actually falling; the poorer half are dying sooner.
      A good part of the United States is starting to resemble the impoverished areas of Rio, Brazil.

    • @DFX2KX
      @DFX2KX Před 7 lety

      Yeah, I know where you're coming from here. only reason it hasn't happened to me is I never bothered with the whole bankruptcy thing.

    • @emmarosewrites
      @emmarosewrites Před 7 lety +2

      And so when you get letters like this and you KNOW you can't afford to pay back the credit card or to pay the car loan, you rip them up and throw them away, right? No one forces anyone to apply for loans that they can't afford nor are people forced to spend money they don't have. That is a choice.

    • @visionhawk4403
      @visionhawk4403 Před 7 lety +9

      Well yeah. Even now that I'm back to working part time, I don't accept these things. Always read the fine print. Some of these "offers" have up to 30% interest rates. That's just financial suicide. I don't even have a credit card anymore.

  • @CameronBrtnik
    @CameronBrtnik Před 3 lety +88

    I felt like poor crazy Walter couldn't read his cue cards in between the explosion of tinsel raining down in front of him lol

    • @roosreviews3624
      @roosreviews3624 Před 3 lety

      Lol

    • @corbeau-_-
      @corbeau-_- Před 3 lety +3

      for a second there, he really got pissed off xD
      Look at how he looks at the bucket, haha

    • @gaylebynumcardosa7034
      @gaylebynumcardosa7034 Před 2 lety +7

      At the time, Bob Balaban (Crazy Walter) was 70 years old. Bless him for trying the little air kick.

    • @kstar1489
      @kstar1489 Před 2 lety +1

      @@corbeau-_- I think he was acting but either way it was pretty funny

    • @footvantage06
      @footvantage06 Před rokem +1

      @@gaylebynumcardosa7034 Thank you. I sat there for few mins going I have seen him somewhere. He is the NBC CEO in Seinfeld.

  • @northerngiant2915
    @northerngiant2915 Před 3 lety +151

    Visiting here in 2020 all nostalgic like, “Aw, I remember when we had time to care about things.”

    • @decentlysmartforanidiot8284
      @decentlysmartforanidiot8284 Před 3 lety

      shit moves too quickly nowadays

    • @corbeau-_-
      @corbeau-_- Před 3 lety +3

      2021, same thing. To be fair, we had more time to think than ever before, but we decided to mostly spend it on squabling - about nothing... As usual...

    • @tejasnair3399
      @tejasnair3399 Před 2 lety

      @@corbeau-_- yeah we have no excuse for this garbage. It’s all because we stopped reading and caring about the progress of the human spirit

    • @chrismanuel9768
      @chrismanuel9768 Před 27 dny

      2024... humanity is still fucked

  • @lishiping84
    @lishiping84 Před 6 lety +680

    I finally understand what's the job Franklin is doing in GTA 5

    • @shelbysteiner
      @shelbysteiner Před 4 lety +65

      It's disturbing how accurate it is to real life too.

    • @thegrayyernaut
      @thegrayyernaut Před 4 lety +45

      Yeah, me, too. I had an enlightenment on why Franklin thought his job was "low" xD

    • @bradcarver8127
      @bradcarver8127 Před 4 lety +48

      Yeah but instead of a baby in the backseat he got a pistol toting Michael De Santa

    • @haph2087
      @haph2087 Před 4 lety +15

      brad carver That turned out pretty well for him in the long run though... Assuming he doesn’t die.

    • @jamesflynn4951
      @jamesflynn4951 Před 4 lety +8

      @@bradcarver8127 tgen he got invilved in a load of insane shit, a turfwar between the CIA snd FBI but robbed $200m in gold bars and is now one rich mofo
      So maybe DON'T check the back seat when repoing. You never know what might happen.

  • @OtakuD50
    @OtakuD50 Před 7 lety +621

    "I have an upper limit of $2000-3000."
    "She took out a loan of $8000."
    ...I feel like I'm missing something here.

    • @jadeandlilac
      @jadeandlilac Před 7 lety +2

      Welp

    • @HelgaCavoli
      @HelgaCavoli Před 7 lety +98

      It's called capitalism.

    • @bp92009
      @bp92009 Před 7 lety +170

      Administrative fees, sales tax, basic warranty (that actually doesn't cover much, if anything), sales fees, dealership fees, finance fees.
      its easy to imagine it, you just have to think like someone who sees other people as subhumans, only useful as a source of cash to you.

    • @spoton3278
      @spoton3278 Před 7 lety +14

      +bp92009 all those things costing more than the price of the actual car is still pretty fishy.

    • @brinbart7999
      @brinbart7999 Před 7 lety +32

      Yeah exactly. Read the shit before you sign lol

  • @Nitrinoxus
    @Nitrinoxus Před 4 lety +489

    "And normally, if you add the phrase 'but with cars' to any historical event, it sounds a lot more fun, like 'the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but with cars.'"
    The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand had cars, and that was decisively *not fun.*

    • @Lowkeylie
      @Lowkeylie Před 4 lety +3

      I would argue the only historical event that is significantly improved with cars if you are literally adding the band Cars to it.

    • @Nitrinoxus
      @Nitrinoxus Před 4 lety +2

      @@Lowkeylie Perhaps. If you added the *movie* Cars as well, though, it'd be a net loss on the fun scale, I think.

    • @seigeengine
      @seigeengine Před 3 lety +3

      Imagine all the video games we wouldn't have if not for WW1... without 1 we can't have 2!

    • @atticusv668
      @atticusv668 Před 3 lety

      Alright but we did get a great 2000's British rock band out of it

    • @joshua2atkins772
      @joshua2atkins772 Před 3 lety

      JFK

  • @eazy8579
    @eazy8579 Před 4 lety +63

    Me: Hears 'Sub-Prime' in any context
    My Brain: *SCREAMS IN TERROR*

  • @therealmihai8510
    @therealmihai8510 Před 6 lety +563

    "sleazy lobster selling it to a poor unsuspecting fish"
    ... Anyone else immediately think Mr Krabs?

    • @youtubeuniversity3638
      @youtubeuniversity3638 Před 5 lety +12

      If only he said crab!

    • @mattwells5347
      @mattwells5347 Před 5 lety +7

      It would have been so much better if he mentioned spongebob

    • @chrisfloyd9204
      @chrisfloyd9204 Před 4 lety +2

      Surprised he didn't use a loan shark joke

    • @matthewdeepblue
      @matthewdeepblue Před 4 lety

      Crabs aren't lobsters... You are speciesist for saying that, and so is John The Bird Man Oliver for saying it

    • @Some_Doggo
      @Some_Doggo Před 4 lety

      “So why did you sell the car?”
      “M o n e y.”

  • @littleblueclovers
    @littleblueclovers Před 6 lety +304

    Crazy Walter's attempt at a jump 17:07 17:29 is what I live for.

    • @yasmine315
      @yasmine315 Před 6 lety

      littleblueclovers is

    • @TomatoestDuck
      @TomatoestDuck Před 6 lety +8

      littleblueclovers the cutest thing ever

    • @jemiebridges3197
      @jemiebridges3197 Před 5 lety +6

      well he's not an entertainer but he tried hard and remembered all his lines AND remembered to skip on the way out lolz. I call that champion effort.

    • @matthewschilling1277
      @matthewschilling1277 Před 5 lety +7

      @@jemiebridges3197 ? you mean Bob Balaban?

    • @carrietoo
      @carrietoo Před 5 lety

      LOL!!

  • @Ryan.gambill23
    @Ryan.gambill23 Před 5 měsíci +3

    I think everyone’s sleeping on exactly how in tune that “truck yeeeaahhhh” from John was

  • @chrisdumea961
    @chrisdumea961 Před 4 lety +46

    In my city, Melbourne Australia, ppl living in the outer suburbs usually leave their cars at the train station and take the train into the city to work. It takes roughly the same time but it saves them on the petrol cost- its $1.49 here- and they don't get stuck in peak hour traffic. Also we don't have to pay for parking here at train stations, or actually hardly anywhere. Cars do not get towed away here due to parking laws like in the US. Don't know why I added that, but there it is. Peace out

  • @01man01truck
    @01man01truck Před 6 lety +1518

    2k dislikes from all the people who previously owned that Kia.

  • @JLPicard1648
    @JLPicard1648 Před 7 lety +670

    Do one about NASA's huge lack of funding!

    • @syawkcab
      @syawkcab Před 7 lety +8

      NASA is enough of a suck on our economy. We need to give them less, not more

    • @zanebrown1728
      @zanebrown1728 Před 7 lety +1

      It's true I don't really give a shit if et has homies as long as they stay there and we stay here I'm good

    • @bihansiceklone
      @bihansiceklone Před 7 lety +55

      +syawkcab Instead of giving NASA less, we should just stop funding Israel and Saudi Arabia

    • @GrammarOGs
      @GrammarOGs Před 7 lety +43

      +syawkcab No, and not nearly as much as you are wasting on your army

    • @TheSansui123
      @TheSansui123 Před 7 lety +16

      +syawkcab can't tell if you're joking or not....

  • @jurvanoerle2845
    @jurvanoerle2845 Před 3 lety +197

    It feels like it should be criminal but somehow it isn't. as a European:that sums up how I view the US in recent years

    • @fuzzybuzzy3159
      @fuzzybuzzy3159 Před 3 lety +4

      It's been this way since our beginning. Our genesis was brought forth by a bunch of wealthymen who used the population's frustrations against the crowne to enrich themselves with their own robber state while stroking their cocks over ideology.

  • @danylbarbour7030
    @danylbarbour7030 Před 4 lety +173

    back in the day this was called lone sharking and it was illegal

  • @dixonsmith6311
    @dixonsmith6311 Před 7 lety +66

    I got chills from watching this video, when will we get our heads out of our asses.

    • @stanleyguzman694
      @stanleyguzman694 Před 7 lety +8

      when we all become millionaires

    • @Vilis_Farthuk
      @Vilis_Farthuk Před 7 lety +8

      When congress stops working for Wall Street and chasing campaign dollars, and actually does their job.

    • @m1l3s27
      @m1l3s27 Před 7 lety +6

      +James Closs People love complaining but at the end of the day the people have the power, and more resources than ever in the internet, to fix things. The issue is people don't care.

    • @TheNefariousness
      @TheNefariousness Před 7 lety +5

      The best part is, the people don't even have to wait for Congress to change its act, we can simply choose not to do business with these dealers/lenders. Weird how this shit works.

    • @mr.mcgibblets7048
      @mr.mcgibblets7048 Před 7 lety

      soon as we take a shit..... but were constipated

  • @JustinPerea
    @JustinPerea Před 7 lety +156

    I was waiting for this to upload just so I can say NO The Imitation Game is one of the best movies ever!

    • @Kyouki1337
      @Kyouki1337 Před 7 lety +4

      ...and if you pay attention you might learn something about early days cryptation and computing.

    • @talv
      @talv Před 7 lety +2

      REALLY? you find that an "ok film"? this is like one of my favorite movies

    • @camreddish1fan202
      @camreddish1fan202 Před 7 lety +1

      I rate 1/1 I loved it!!

    • @sugarfrosted2005
      @sugarfrosted2005 Před 7 lety +2

      I had issues with it, but I work in the area of math he created and know people who knew his advisor. I enjoyed it before I started thinking about it (minus the one part where they actual brought up the turing machine.)

    • @JustinPerea
      @JustinPerea Před 7 lety +1

      ***** You seem to be under the impression that just because a movie follows a typical pattern that it can't be good.

  • @obviously1871
    @obviously1871 Před 4 lety +9

    Here's the replay button in case y'all needed one: 0:19
    That impression is trucking gold!

  • @Harrier_DuBois
    @Harrier_DuBois Před 3 lety +10

    That Crazy Johnny/Jimmy bit was awesome

    • @bobopa5624
      @bobopa5624 Před 3 lety

      All the funnier because John is NOT pulling off that cowboy hat 😂

  • @MrDrewwills
    @MrDrewwills Před 7 lety +727

    Remind me again how America is the greatest country on earth.

    • @Lietzen22
      @Lietzen22 Před 7 lety +108

      Used car salesmen do not represent a whole nation.

    • @rotodexthepaleontologist2267
      @rotodexthepaleontologist2267 Před 7 lety +52

      I didn't realize we were all used car salesmen holy shit when do I start my new job?

    • @jonoghue
      @jonoghue Před 7 lety +71

      it _isn't_.

    • @samfisher645
      @samfisher645 Před 7 lety +158

      What about Payday Loans? Debt Buyers? Death Penalty? The NCAA? Marketing to doctors? ALEC? No paid leave? No free Health Care?Abortion Laws? Torture? Public Defendants? Judicial System? Lead in water? Congressional Funding? Lobbying? Mandatory Minimums?
      Do these things represent the whole nation? Oh wait, I forgot the most important thing. Donald Trump.

    • @Psycho841
      @Psycho841 Před 7 lety +13

      always nice to punch down while you're money is mostly used to finance tax cuts for the rich and wars that big companies profit from.

  • @bernielopez7429
    @bernielopez7429 Před 7 lety +501

    Did they... TRACK DOWN THAT CAR?! Holy shit, these guys are dedicated.

    • @ZrinNZ
      @ZrinNZ Před 6 lety +12

      #adfriendlycontent

    • @iwantitpaintedblack
      @iwantitpaintedblack Před 6 lety +42

      Yeah with that actual baby in it, can you believe ?

    • @brandondavidson4085
      @brandondavidson4085 Před 6 lety +35

      Clearly, another good use of that HBO dragon money.

    • @WestCoastSwinger
      @WestCoastSwinger Před 6 lety +9

      HBO dragon money lol!

    • @CollinMcLean
      @CollinMcLean Před 6 lety +39

      Tracking down a car, buying debt, setting up a mega church and donating the proceeds to Doctors Without Borders, charging 1,000,000 dollars for wet wipes for Doctors Without Borders, having Stephen Colbert stand on a statue podium, getting the real Lord Bucket Head... They deliver!

  • @ballapalleballe
    @ballapalleballe Před 3 lety +7

    One of the best John Oliver Episodes ever.

  • @namiix7365
    @namiix7365 Před 4 lety +537

    Broke: repossessed
    Woke: stolen by rich people

    • @williambrennan104
      @williambrennan104 Před 3 lety +2

      ^communist

    • @namiix7365
      @namiix7365 Před 3 lety +2

      @@williambrennan104 alright sure, attack me rather than my point. if you think i’m wrong then maybe say how i’m wrong instead of calling names.

    • @corbeau-_-
      @corbeau-_- Před 3 lety

      @@namiix7365 communist isn't a bad name... Just as capitalism can be abused, so can communism. Always by the top 1-5%. Both communism and capitalism can be wholesome, but tend to be destroyed by greed. Every system on earth has this problem: We humans control the system and we aren't fair when push comes to shove. Hence a repeat of history.
      But yeah, he had no valid point whatsoever and did try to offend you - in his own silly little way. Petty at best.

    • @corbeau-_-
      @corbeau-_- Před 3 lety

      America thrives on nationalism as well and like with the nationalistic socialists (who were also fascist) that can be a very bad thing - thinking you are better, for no clear reason. American exceptionalism isn't that far off from claiming to have superior genes, like the Nazis did...

    • @kstar1489
      @kstar1489 Před 2 lety

      @@williambrennan104 based Chad communist*

  • @KETimiko
    @KETimiko Před 7 lety +236

    Someone please explain this to a European: How on earth does a 10 minute drive turn into a 2 hour long buss commute?!

    • @CamelDance
      @CamelDance Před 7 lety +125

      Bad connections. I bet she has to go in the wrong direction first before she can get into the bus that drives past her destination..
      That said, right here in the Netherlands, a commute which takes me 45 minutes by car takes me 2 hours by bus. (and 3 hours by bike)

    • @Trainboy1EJR
      @Trainboy1EJR Před 7 lety +45

      +KETimiko 30+ minutes between busses, 1+ hour between trains depending on location. you are better off walking than taking public transportation in America.

    • @ttlpwn34
      @ttlpwn34 Před 7 lety +55

      buses stop everywhere, that alone adds a ton of time. Let's say your place of employment is 4 miles east of where you live, but the bus route goes 3 miles west, 4 miles north, 5 miles east and then you have to change buses to one that will actually take you close to work. Shit can be crazy, man.

    • @KETimiko
      @KETimiko Před 7 lety +1

      Trainboy1EJR Wow. That's insane. I mean I knew it was bad but this bad? If parking wasn't an issue it would take me 10 to 15 minutes to drive to work, it takes me 15 to 20 minutes to take the buss to work, and (let's just say there isn't a slope on my way) it takes me 20 to 30 minutes to bike to work. Fuck, I'm pretty sure i'd get there in 45 minutes if I walked.

    • @jaketrollston4866
      @jaketrollston4866 Před 7 lety +88

      It's called having one of the worst public transportation systems in the industrialized world.

  • @nikhildrogbacena
    @nikhildrogbacena Před 7 lety +159

    this video is a great gift for my birthday today. Thank you, John Oliver..
    And yes, a video is making me happy. My life is quite sad!

  • @kcennet
    @kcennet Před 3 lety +89

    I dont remember who said it but a wise person once said ‘ being poor is expensive’

  • @marciaa.parker9122
    @marciaa.parker9122 Před 3 lety +2

    I blame the quarantine but John Oliver has gotten unbelievably irresistible

  • @correctopinion505
    @correctopinion505 Před 5 lety +143

    The bankruptcy thing is true... Literally days after my parents filed for bankruptcy they received an insane amount of letters advertising for loans.

    • @catherineperry5099
      @catherineperry5099 Před 4 lety +2

      Same

    • @IncognitoSprax
      @IncognitoSprax Před 4 lety +9

      Disgusting

    • @dragontoothless4351
      @dragontoothless4351 Před 3 lety +2

      Yup. Mainly as the marketing partners of those companies pay to see the weekly lists of new filings nationwide as such cases are public record for 10 years.

  • @gnbman
    @gnbman Před 7 lety +143

    Come on, John. You of all people should have recognized sarcastic glee in that bankruptcy lawyer.

    • @bshafs
      @bshafs Před 5 lety +9

      Yeah I was surprised at this as well

  • @richardhedd3080
    @richardhedd3080 Před 3 lety +4

    Being poor in merica is expensive.

  • @miguelsilva9118
    @miguelsilva9118 Před 3 lety +2

    Best part of the video is that little jump Crazy Walter does when he's leaving the set. That's commitment to a role!

  • @Mr111255
    @Mr111255 Před 7 lety +1326

    Damn, what kind of place is 2 hours away on bus and train, but only a 10 minute drive

    • @b3nadry1
      @b3nadry1 Před 7 lety +177

      Looks like she is too disabled or something, to walk or ride a bicycle.

    • @DuranmanX
      @DuranmanX Před 7 lety +517

      I'm guessing the public transportation doesn't take the highway

    • @aguilacahc000
      @aguilacahc000 Před 7 lety +259

      Public transportation is pretty terrible, unless you're in a big, big city like San Francisco or NYC

    • @DrSteveBuscemi
      @DrSteveBuscemi Před 7 lety +64

      Narnia

    • @Twosocks42
      @Twosocks42 Před 7 lety +353

      I take my wife to her job on the way to mine. Takes 12 minutes. Her getting home on the bus takes about an hour and a half. The busses have roundabout routes and a crappy schedule to boot. The stop closest to our house is also about 1/2 mile away.

  • @feonjun
    @feonjun Před 7 lety +322

    @6:00 She left her baby alone in the car and no one cared?

    • @Scorpion_pit
      @Scorpion_pit Před 7 lety +2

      The incident probably happened before the hot car incident so no one really cared. It was taboo but nothing to truly care about at the time.

    • @pingpingthetinychainsmoker7863
      @pingpingthetinychainsmoker7863 Před 7 lety +2

      +nathaniel holden we didn't need babies to puff there cheeks in a car to care when people left there babies you idiot. That's some real donkey poop

    • @ChristophelusPulps
      @ChristophelusPulps Před 7 lety +42

      That's what I was thinking. Who leaves their baby in the car? I like John Oliver, but he is a little quick to defer personal responsibility in order to present people who make bad decisions as "victims."

    • @Scorpion_pit
      @Scorpion_pit Před 7 lety +5

      +PingWildShot Gaming you are implying that I don't care. Well I do. All I said was stating my opinion why it did not get the news coverage or why it seemed people did not care.
      For example. The police brutality and racial profiling (used by police) problem. It has been around for years and years. But people didn't pay much attention to it because it got no news coverage or was part of a nation wide movement...I would like to make it clear that I'm not saying there were not people who cared about the problems before the news took a look at it, or that I don't care about it.

    • @voidface8827
      @voidface8827 Před 7 lety +12

      In Denmark we leave babies outside of cafés/stores/houses so I don't really see a problem with that..? What would you expect to happen..?

  • @ike9854
    @ike9854 Před 4 lety +60

    "The crucifixion of Christ----- but with Cars" !

  • @miafine2584
    @miafine2584 Před 4 lety +4

    Can we appreciate that John actually sang that well?+

  • @TheHeroOfTomorrow
    @TheHeroOfTomorrow Před 7 lety +64

    This video is un-trucking-believable.

  • @michaelmendez5860
    @michaelmendez5860 Před 7 lety +12

    Being an army vet, I remember seeing young soldiers who were 18 or 19 get screwed all the time when buying a vehicle with up to 28% interest!!! places right outside the base who prey on them because they don't know any better.

    • @WingsofRedemption
      @WingsofRedemption Před 7 lety +2

      they joined the military that was the first sign they didnt know any better. The military preys on poor people promising things they cant keep.

    • @michaelmendez5860
      @michaelmendez5860 Před 7 lety +4

      I joined too man and loved everything about it. Got everything and more from it too and am now going for my master's and haven't paid a cent thanks to the military.

    • @CockatooDude
      @CockatooDude Před 7 lety

      The only problem is that if there is a war, well you are screwed. Unless you're a radar operator or something.

  • @ericadams214
    @ericadams214 Před 4 lety +7

    John kills these segments. My new favorite show..
    I love how when they pan to the baby, it has its hand out like, "Wtf is you lookin at?" Lol

    • @warmpianist
      @warmpianist Před 4 lety

      Is it me or the baby looks like James Corden?

  • @Dyvon.dynamo
    @Dyvon.dynamo Před 3 lety +5

    I remember seeing this BEFORE my divorce thinking the car we were trapped in was bad, then AFTER the divorce in 2020 Bridgecrest couldn't wait to proof Mr. Oliver right lol. I'll never be out of debt.

  • @thriversoffset
    @thriversoffset Před 6 lety +318

    Last week tonight is stunning piece of television work

    • @alextownsend4706
      @alextownsend4706 Před 6 lety +1

      thriversoffset I agree. Very Funny!!!

    • @tabutu1
      @tabutu1 Před 5 lety +2

      They're a bunch of American hating Communist filth.

    • @gooddypm
      @gooddypm Před 5 lety +7

      Tab Utu WTF are you smoking? He isn’t even a Yank!

    • @android12921
      @android12921 Před 4 lety +1

      It's a show of reality. Exposes the filth wrapped in glitter wrap.

    • @berkomatik8082
      @berkomatik8082 Před 4 lety

      It’s more like a corporal embodiment of George Carlin. May he rest in peace.

  • @danielbausch3776
    @danielbausch3776 Před 7 lety +2112

    do one about underfunding nasa. for real.

    • @CharlieBrown-os6qw
      @CharlieBrown-os6qw Před 7 lety +140

      Why fund nasa? We need $$$ to build walls and moar bombs FUCK YEA DONALD TRUMP IS GONNA BLAST EVERY *non-white americans* TO HELL AND THE CHRISTIAN AGENDA WILL REIN ONCE MORE YEEEEHAAAA!!!!!!!!

    • @justAguyDs
      @justAguyDs Před 7 lety +13

      +Charlie Brown lawl. funny how we can't blast the colored away because we didn't fund nasa

    • @Oscarbennewton
      @Oscarbennewton Před 7 lety +74

      This is a great idea, NASA funding is very important.

    • @PoeticInjusticeGames
      @PoeticInjusticeGames Před 7 lety +4

      yes please!

    • @johnsontrimble7881
      @johnsontrimble7881 Před 7 lety +1

      I agree

  • @samanthashipman5218
    @samanthashipman5218 Před rokem +2

    "Whats holding you back?"
    Morals

  • @Hansengineering
    @Hansengineering Před rokem +1

    I can't believe this segment ignored Neil Cicierega's song _Two Trucks_ . Truly defining work.

  • @peteri9973
    @peteri9973 Před 7 lety +39

    I wish real news was like this.....

  • @hopefulhyena3400
    @hopefulhyena3400 Před 6 lety +31

    I love the little heel click Walter does as he leaves

  • @emilydelamar4557
    @emilydelamar4557 Před 4 lety +3

    In Germany it is very common to buy used cars from private people, e.g. over ebay local or via newspaper. My VW Lupo cost me 1500€, and I'm a student with little financial resources. I saved 3 years for it, but it's completely mine now. I'd hate not owning it. It is an old and small car but does its job and runs well. We are a family of car mechanicans and always buy old, used cars privately. You can't do much wrong with a 10 to 20 yo VW Polo/Golf/Lupo or Audi Passat. And it's in general best to only buy something with a loan if you cannot avoid it. Only our house is financed. We don't own the newest or fanciest stuff, but it's ours. You can quickly sink deep into debt with those rates...

  • @kathleenkinney275
    @kathleenkinney275 Před 3 lety +3

    Keegan Michael-Key is a treasure and my heart exploded with happiness at the last couple minutes of this video. that kind of happiness interruption is the kind of thing i thin we could use more of in 2020

  • @yattaguru
    @yattaguru Před 7 lety +116

    Last time I was this early, Key and Peele were still on Comedy Central...
    *manly cry*

    • @CharlieBrown-os6qw
      @CharlieBrown-os6qw Před 7 lety +4

      What's a "manly cry" supposed to sound like?

    • @Aflooos
      @Aflooos Před 7 lety +6

      +Charlie Brown Moooowaaaaaaaaaa! Deeply voiced.

    • @josephtedros2089
      @josephtedros2089 Před 7 lety

      +Charlie Brown loud and scary

    • @Sam-fw5tp
      @Sam-fw5tp Před 7 lety

      +Charlie Brown sounds like a regular cry except there is much more bacon

    • @Goooodawgs561
      @Goooodawgs561 Před 7 lety

      +Charlie Brown Monster trucks and fuckin'

  • @fidorover
    @fidorover Před 7 lety +2571

    *FOR SALE: 2003 Kia Optima.* -1 owner- 11 owners. -Excellent condition- You’ll pray for death within the first 50 miles. -Never driven in snow- Always towed in snow. -275 bucks- $11,900 -with attractive financing- We’ll eat our hats if you make it to 4 payments. *Schiester Motors* _Our goal is your complete_ _-satisfaction-_ _financial ruin._

    • @melissakaye1294
      @melissakaye1294 Před 7 lety +44

      👍😀😀

    • @MattHawkesPurdy
      @MattHawkesPurdy Před 7 lety +14

      I've been looking for one of those

    • @ExhaustedElox
      @ExhaustedElox Před 7 lety +54

      I wish there was some way I could give this a slow clap over the internet. Nice.

    • @CleverDan31
      @CleverDan31 Před 7 lety +2

      +Nahodakk Nah, I'm happy to give deals on my "1 free sex" coupons

    • @bezretmet
      @bezretmet Před 7 lety +15

      and the best comment of the day on youtube goes to this guy!

  • @1WildFlower93
    @1WildFlower93 Před 11 dny +1

    I trust this news comedy show more than my own news locally

  • @scekkel
    @scekkel Před 4 lety +13

    THE IMITATION GAME WAS HEARTFELT AND A VERY GOOD MOVIE AND CUMBERBATCH WAS AMAZING

  • @samiraperi467
    @samiraperi467 Před 7 lety +506

    So... re-re-re-re-re-re-re-repossessed? Should've called an exorcist.

    • @DC-cz2sr
      @DC-cz2sr Před 6 lety +1

      Samira Peri LOLLLLL I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!!!

    • @wolfwoodphreak
      @wolfwoodphreak Před 6 lety

      Your manufacturers in here with us, kia optima... lol

  • @Sonichero151
    @Sonichero151 Před 7 lety +71

    Holy shit It's Key....... Nice work Getting Key to go batsqueak insane with you on that Crazy Johnny Bit

    • @F1god04
      @F1god04 Před 7 lety +6

      Oliver is a great comedian, but he let Key totally run with it, and he made the scene. Glad he was there.

    • @RealTime88
      @RealTime88 Před 7 lety +3

      +F1god04 John is pretty generous in these skits though

  • @Trainfan1055Janathan
    @Trainfan1055Janathan Před měsícem +1

    "You can easily end up with no car _and_ thousands of dollars in debt." That happened to me.

  • @SuperCatman
    @SuperCatman Před 4 lety +31

    12:21 the audio is suspiciously different than what came before and is to come after...

    • @jamesiyer4937
      @jamesiyer4937 Před 3 lety +3

      Maybe a technical glitch in the recording meant it had to be VOed by John for the video?

    • @robbys5236
      @robbys5236 Před 2 lety

      Or maybe he got some info wrong in the HBO version that he wanted to correct for the CZcams version?

  • @Fedaykin24
    @Fedaykin24 Před 6 lety +262

    The underlying issue is the utter destruction of decent public transport out of the suburbs during the 1950's!

    • @matrixman8582
      @matrixman8582 Před 4 lety +5

      Thanks to highways

    • @martinezb825
      @martinezb825 Před 4 lety +11

      Systemic Racism can also be thanked

    • @dr.lyleevans6915
      @dr.lyleevans6915 Před 4 lety +1

      Gigaman How is that the case when the suburbs (primarily white) were the victims? I’m assuming your not speaking of anti-white racism (which is very common, actually encouraged these days) because that’s impossible, right? Identity politics, you folks are the only ones thinking this way

    • @StumpyDaPaladin
      @StumpyDaPaladin Před 4 lety +11

      ​@@dr.lyleevans6915 Its not race war. its class war.
      People flee into the suburbs from "those other people" that can't afford to escape.
      If there is viable public transport then the poor can go where you live. (And take your stuff) so you go to live in the suburbs where to get anywhere you need a car.
      Funny thing. After a few decades you wind up getting a bus line to go down the main street in your suburb because otherwise the help cant clean your house, raise your kids, mow your lawn, or bang your husband unless they live there.
      And avoiding the poor was the whole point of moving out there.

    • @dr.lyleevans6915
      @dr.lyleevans6915 Před 4 lety +1

      StumpyDaPaladin I understand, you have a point. I just didn’t like the racist connotations I read above (wasn’t just you). I live in the country, everybody gets along here.

  • @TheZeroJoker
    @TheZeroJoker Před 7 lety +412

    Regulation hurts businesses! Government shouldn't interfere! Free market! Etc.!
    People who squawk things like this should remember that they're pushing for the un/de-regulation of the scumbags who caused the mortgage crisis, and are going to be responsible (but probably not held accountable) when it happens again.

    • @thejimmydanly
      @thejimmydanly Před 7 lety +23

      Actually, if it weren't for the Federal Reserve creating these conditions by helping hold big banks together and their tendency to keep interest rates below the market value, it would be impossible for this kind of shit to happen.

    • @Iamcamper31
      @Iamcamper31 Před 7 lety +18

      +Jimmy Danly lol so you don't think mechanics and car salesman, people who are almost exclusively for being sleazy, are going to all act on their better angels and stop ripping people off? Things would be worse off if there was de-regulation because companies would be allowed to screw over employees and customers, and the customers and employees wouldn't have a choice but to keep using those businesses.

    • @thejimmydanly
      @thejimmydanly Před 7 lety +14

      +Iamcamper31 If we solved the root of the problem, there would be no economic incentive. The Federal Reserve's meddling is what makes this profitable. If we deregulated the banking sector, and by that I do mean abolishing the Federal Reserve, these loans would not be made.

    • @juanspyro4658
      @juanspyro4658 Před 7 lety +5

      Or you know, don't spend money at these places, real simple

    • @koopatroopa187
      @koopatroopa187 Před 7 lety +10

      +Jimmy Danly You do know why the banking sector is regulated, right? There once was a time in America when banks would regularly fail and cause entire towns to lose everything they had. We have business and working environment regulations because whatever it was that got regulated didn't work in the past without regulation. Deregulation is the battle cry of the ignorant.

  • @aroc420
    @aroc420 Před 4 lety +9

    My first car purchased at a dealership was a nightmare. They charged me 29% in interest. They took advantage of my lack of knowledge in the automobile industry and my urgent need for a car.

  • @chubbysumo2230
    @chubbysumo2230 Před 5 lety +4

    When my wife and I filed bankruptcy in 2012, we were hit with hundreds of offers for subprime auto loans, for both used and new cars. With auto prices going up with tariffs, and other crap, this is more relevant in 2019 and 2020 than even 2015.

  • @godzillasaurbuttersworth3176

    Watching John Oliver at 3 am on my birthday!
    Wooooooo!!!!!

  • @joshporter5205
    @joshporter5205 Před 7 lety +371

    Ah, and now its time for the comments where people who have mostly never been poor lecture poor people about thrift. The non-poor lecturing the poor about thrift is like having Michael Phelps lecture a fish about swimming.

    • @jamesbizs
      @jamesbizs Před 7 lety +9

      I've been poor. My family of 5 came here with $3000 in our pockets, and no English. Can i lecture people about not being stupid with their money? My roommate keeps calling himself poor. He lives in a $2150 house, spends obscene money on food and going out to eat, and buys useless crap all the time.
      You know, perhaps the non poor are allowed to lecture the poor about thrift BECAUSE WE HAVE FUCKING BEEN THERE!!!!

    • @joshporter5205
      @joshporter5205 Před 7 lety +25

      Yeah, your friend.. he isn't poor. He can afford that house and to spend obscene amounts of money.
      $3000 in your pockets? Yeah, plenty of people can't even imagine having that kind of money at one time.
      Frankly, it sounds much like you haven't actually been there.

    • @jamesbizs
      @jamesbizs Před 7 lety +15

      +Josh Porter are you kidding me!?!? We sold our entire house. We weren't allowed to leave the Soviet Union with more than $3000, and that was only because we had 5 people. We came here because my mom was dying. We knew ONE person. We didn't have jobs. Car. Nothing. $3000 was literally all we had after selling everything we had, except the clothes on our backs. Screw you trying to tell me I don't know what being poor is like. We had nothing!!! You think $3000 lasts long in a new country when you have nothing!?!

    • @joshporter5205
      @joshporter5205 Před 7 lety +14

      $3000 dollars is still a whole lot more than many people have. Yeah, you had a hard time. That doesn't mean you understand what it is like to live in poverty for an extended period of time. How did you get by after that $3000 was gone?

    • @jamesbizs
      @jamesbizs Před 7 lety +11

      +Josh Porter how did we get by? My dad worked a $4 an hour job mopping shit at an old folks home, while his wife lay dying in a hospital. Taking buses that took him over 2 hours to go back and forth to his $4 an hour job. The 3 brothers worked part time jobs, riding their bikes that were donated to us. I should have said 6 people, as I forgot to count my grandmother. $500 per person leaving the country. $3000 between 6 people. With no other possessions! No car. Renting a couple rooms from his step brother. $3000 might be a lot for some people, but not when you're starting from absolute scratch. You think we were able to buy a car like these people in this video? No. We used buses and bikes. Stop trying to fight over who's been poorer than you. It's not a fucking contest. You want to pretend only you know what it's like? Go right ahead and be ignorant.

  • @SirCaIIum
    @SirCaIIum Před 4 lety +3

    As the father of a 7 month old I absolutely put her in front of this 😂

  • @williammcdaniel7470
    @williammcdaniel7470 Před 4 lety +2

    Crazy Johnny.....I love the skit....the pre pre pre pre pre pre pre pre pre pre preown car!

  • @miguelsilva9118
    @miguelsilva9118 Před 6 lety +954

    Just as a theoretical exercise, I tried to see how far I could go in 15 minutes (she said 10/15 minutes in the video) by car if my house was very close to the nearest motorway in my area. Then I tried to see how long it would take me by bike or by walking. Here are the results:
    - by car, it would take me 15 minutes;
    - by foot it would take me 3h17min;
    - by bike it would take me 1h15min;
    - I didn't calculate how long it would take by public transportation, because I don't know the routes here (I have to drive a lot on my job, so I don't use public transportation here).
    Mind you this is a semi-rural, mountainous area, and most of the roads are uphill (or downhill, depending on the way you're going). So, either going to work or coming back home, you'd face steep inclines and harsh weather - very cold (around 0º C, sometimes below) and/or rain in the winter, very hot (around 35º C) in the summer.
    So, as you can see, it's not as simple as "Just walk" or "just get a bike".

    • @blah914
      @blah914 Před 6 lety +32

      Miguel Silva jesus, not to be presumtive, but how slow do you move? I cover that distance 1.30hr on foot and 40ish by bike. And then i wont be hurrying. Uphill and downhills. In Norway.

    • @miguelsilva9118
      @miguelsilva9118 Před 6 lety +50

      What distance? There's no mention of any "distance" in my post.

    • @Numaticin
      @Numaticin Před 5 lety +29

      @@miguelsilva9118 The average person walks at about 5 km/h, at 3 hours and 17 minutes walking time, the distance is about 16.5 kilometres. Depending on the surface and terrain, speed on a bike can vary. I live in a fairly rural area, but I have a fair amount of flat ground with some inclines and reasonable road surfaces and pathways. I bike a fair amount and I average 20 km/h on each trip so my travel time would be 50 minutes. It's hard to find average bike speeds but a survey was made in Copenhagen and the average speed there was 15.5 km/h, which would put the time at 1 hour and 19 minutes.
      However, even at average speeds, the trip is still faster than she says public transport takes, so it would still be beneficial for her to go by bike.

    • @JacksonJinn
      @JacksonJinn Před 5 lety +72

      @@Numaticin That's not accounting for US traffic in a congested city, safety standards, or road conditions. I've biked in a city before, Ottawa, but it has specialized bike lanes and paths designed for our use. Many non-US cities do. But America is ass-backwards about this, and if her route involves highways in any degree biking's impossible. Either way, we shouldn't be telling a freaking mother to put her life on the line every day just to get to work.

    • @kostya22264
      @kostya22264 Před 5 lety +19

      you see in my case i can drive to the next town in 15 minutes but becouse of zoning laws its impossible to walk there and with poor public transport i will spend around 2 to 2.5 hrs on getting there

  • @Crazymofoinamajikbox
    @Crazymofoinamajikbox Před 7 lety +215

    Every once in a while I think about that car and wonder where it is now.

    • @JohnEthan777
      @JohnEthan777 Před 6 lety +10

      It's probably the exact same one in the ending act

    • @JohnEthan777
      @JohnEthan777 Před 6 lety +6

      Bummy McBummface 'stolen and then repossessed again! ' were their words in the end

    • @LexiLSify
      @LexiLSify Před 6 lety +12

      been sold to a fish by a sleezy lobster who then repossessed it to sell it to a whale. I hear some sharks have their eyes on it too.

    • @anirbanpaul8674
      @anirbanpaul8674 Před 6 lety +3

      The car was the one which was shown in the ending.

    • @swapneilmishra5510
      @swapneilmishra5510 Před 6 lety +2

      it is with harambe now.
      God Bless

  • @freewill676
    @freewill676 Před 3 lety +3

    I love this show already after 3 episodes

  • @natetv1494
    @natetv1494 Před 4 lety +3

    I would watch an entire series of John Oliver teaching me everything my quantitative literacy class is teaching me. I’d learn way more than I’m learning now.

    • @natetv1494
      @natetv1494 Před 4 lety

      For anyone who’s confused (it’s very confusing to me...) it’s a class about money tips and life skills.

  • @digital-alchemist
    @digital-alchemist Před 7 lety +111

    19-29% interest is insane. Is there no cap on interest rates for auto loans? WTF. How is this even legal?

    • @jfgfhfaeweswff210
      @jfgfhfaeweswff210 Před 7 lety +14

      Because two consenting adults should be allowed to do/agree to anything they want to.

    • @theangelicbread
      @theangelicbread Před 7 lety +10

      NO! We need the nanny state to protect us from those evil bourgeoisie. How can we be trusted to take care of ourselves and be responsible without big brother?!1!!

    • @rwold8779
      @rwold8779 Před 7 lety +5

      Problem is, we're going to pay for it either way. When that dumbass defaults on the auto loan and gets the car repossessed, loses their job, and files for unemployment, it's basically funneling our money toward whoever profited off the deal.

    • @vinimetal
      @vinimetal Před 7 lety +1

      My first car was a 2009 elantra (12.500) i gave 2k down which didn help much and financed the rest... by the end of 5 years i would have paid 22k for the car that was worth 4k.....i totaled that bitch and even got some money bk

    • @digital-alchemist
      @digital-alchemist Před 7 lety +6

      @Michael Szymanek Many people don't fully understand what they're agreeing to. These loans shouldn't be allowed - Period. Just because a car salesman can fast-talk unintelligent people into accepting insanely high interest rates doesn't mean it should be legal. Placing reasonable caps on APR is just common sense. Anything over 10% for an auto loan is ridiculous.

  • @dlg5485
    @dlg5485 Před 7 lety +327

    I suppose all you self-righteous types believe everyone in America has equal opportunities to succeed as well. Poverty and economic disparities are rampant and a lot of people are stuck in these situations, for a variety of reasons, but they still need transportation in order to hold down the only shitty job(s) they can get. Do yourselves a favor and lose the condescending indignation and learn how the 'strongest economy in the world' really works.

    • @phatsflawn8975
      @phatsflawn8975 Před 7 lety

      work it go on work it im waiting hhhhhhhh nope nothing the worlds still the same ole shit nice one

    • @dlg5485
      @dlg5485 Před 7 lety +24

      phats flawn
      I have absolutely no idea wth you're trying to say.

    • @grumpy4369
      @grumpy4369 Před 7 lety +2

      D LG LMFAO

    • @appelpower1
      @appelpower1 Před 7 lety +5

      Well, at least he's right for being condescending.

    • @christiespraggins9660
      @christiespraggins9660 Před 7 lety

      ☺😍🐱🐯🐵🎅👻🏥💒🏨🏩😣

  • @GlennMcGrewII
    @GlennMcGrewII Před 4 lety +4

    I went looking for a used car for about $2,000 last year. I tried dealers but, after several shady ones selling garbage cars, I went to a nicer lot with nicer cars and discovered that, (keeping in mind sub-prime loans) with a DP of $2,000, I would pay about TRIPLE the asking price of the car, so the $8,000 car I really liked was really going to be $24,000!
    Now, a local car dealer, Mike Castrucci, has been authorized by Ford to sell cars with special terms (such as 0% interest for 6 months) because of the CoViD-19 shutdowns, and I'm terrified of the sticker price!
    Used car dealers make gonzo amounts of money, especially the ones who go to car auctions and buy up cars, sight unseen and unaware of repairs, and then resell them without fixing them - while telling customers that the car is in great shape! One of the lots I went to last year does this and the Pakistani owners, who were very polite and positive, tried to sell me 3 different cars that they claimed were in great shape, but were all utter crap!
    You should've used an eel or a shark instead of a lobster. Better yet, a jellyfish or spiny urchin!

  • @TheRockyTopRock
    @TheRockyTopRock Před 2 lety +1

    “You almost feel bad for the car” that line killed me bro

  • @Blittsplitt5
    @Blittsplitt5 Před 7 lety +43

    Damn it John, I should've been asleep hours ago and now you're keeping me up more 😀

    • @DemHighTimes
      @DemHighTimes Před 7 lety +1

      grow up then

    • @lnsflare1
      @lnsflare1 Před 7 lety +16

      Tell your parents that they are terrible for waking you up for this, but pretty impressive for teaching a 7 month old to post on CZcams.

  • @calm713
    @calm713 Před 5 lety +1013

    Lending rates over 12% should be considered loan sharking, and it should be a FELONY.

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin Před 5 lety +63

      Seriously! 29%? That is _insane!_ You'd be paying double the cost in just interest, let alone the original jacked-up cost.

    • @zdwade
      @zdwade Před 5 lety +23

      Because it’s not forced. People have to be responsible for their decisions. Like all those bitches complaining about student debt. Grow up.

    • @chuckhickman8093
      @chuckhickman8093 Před 5 lety +35

      To be fair though, as P.T Barnum once said, there's a sucker born every minute. If you're foolish enough to get sucked into a situation where you pay anywhere from 19-29% interest on a car, on top of the marked up price ( when compared to the real value of the car) when the value of a car literally depreciate every year and every mile you put in it, you get what you get.
      While I dont agree with the lending practices of the so called sub-prime lending industry, I feel it's up to the individuals to understand the terms and conditions of the contract and make an informed decision on whether or not to agree to the terms of the loan. I don't expect everyone to be able to dissect the contract like a lawyer might but they should understand the basics. If a company is gonna screw you on interest rates, don't accept the loan offer, it's common sense. Also never buy a car without first taking it to an independent mechanic. It's best to spend the $100 or so to have them look it over than to have the car break down before the ink is dry on the contract. Again common sense.
      Furthermore the ability of these companies to be able to swindle shows that Americans have little to no contract literacy or the ability to understand how credit works. Maybe instead of having high school kids learn about how Romeo was boning Juliet against the wished of their respective families, maybe have a class called contracts 101 where it teaches you the basics of reading, understanding, and writing contracts. Just my thoughts

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin Před 5 lety +4

      @@chuckhickman8093
      I would love to agree with you, whole heartedly, but thats is just not likely. Too bad tho.... Too bad...

    • @mikehurt3290
      @mikehurt3290 Před 5 lety +75

      The problem is if you have bad credit this is litterally your only choice, its either that or not have a job or a home

  • @wupme
    @wupme Před 3 lety +7

    In Germany if you sign somebody for a credit or anything similar without checking if they can even pay it back, you will end up in front of court as the defendant yourself.

    • @michael5654
      @michael5654 Před rokem

      I'm not sure if I'd prefer this or not
      It seems like a good idea, but I can see that ending poorly for a lot of innocent people

    • @weberman173
      @weberman173 Před 6 měsíci

      if you are a buisness that is allowed to issue (legaly enforcable) loans, and you do not do you due diligence. you are no longer innocent, you wanted people to edefault, you wanted to rip people off@@michael5654

  • @ArcanineEspeon
    @ArcanineEspeon Před 4 lety +19

    4:56 I've been rereading A Series of Unfortunate Events lately, and as I got to this part "it won't understand anything I'm saying", my brain sort of inadvertently added on (in John's exact voice and tone, of course) "Unless of course that baby is Sunny Baudelaire, and in that case she has much bigger problems to worry about than getting mocked by a late night show host who looks like *insert absurd self deprecating description.* Incidentally, if you are one of her parents then for the love of God invest in some good life insurance, close relationships with your extended family, and while you're at it some fire-proof clothing. And if you're not one of Sunny's parents, yeah, that explains a lot, and also fuck you."

  • @-Templar-
    @-Templar- Před 7 lety +337

    2,000 people disliked this video, but why?
    They're all auto dealers

    • @alberoDiSpazio
      @alberoDiSpazio Před 6 lety +13

      I'll tell you why. I'm a bicyclist, i commute to work on my Schwinn. Secondly, Imitation Game was a good movie - it pays tribute to Alan Turing one of the fathers of computing.

    • @MrThe1234guy
      @MrThe1234guy Před 6 lety +8

      Because of these credit criminals and their victim mentality. No one forced them to take a loan.

    • @krugerstan
      @krugerstan Před 6 lety +11

      I guess that makes everything about the industry OK then? Go vote Ron Paul, toolbox.

    • @humanbeing3699
      @humanbeing3699 Před 6 lety +1

      because he's talking about a bad thing... pretty obvious

    • @okumabear
      @okumabear Před 6 lety +7

      Probably "bootstrap" conservatives.

  • @RabidArtists
    @RabidArtists Před 6 lety +288

    Lmao had this happen to me in 2008 by Drive Time who used, guess what, a 2003 Kia Optima and sold it to me for 9k... Is this the official fraud car?? My car got towed because it was parked in the wrong spot, then they repossessed it because of a hidden clause saying if the car is ever impounded for any reason, they have the right to repo it within 15 days. THEN, they said they're going to sell the car and send me a bill for the difference, months later I got a bill for around $11k. So they took my car, and tried to charge me for about 3x the KBB value. I hope the CEO goes to jail for life.

    • @shioneshiori4471
      @shioneshiori4471 Před 5 lety +28

      I wouldn't be surprised, it seems like that car was cursed and the CEO was summoning demons. Sorry you got screwed so bad, my dude. Hope you're doing well now.

    • @crockerzz8896
      @crockerzz8896 Před 5 lety +1

      @@shioneshiori4471 ffr

    • @randyranderson690
      @randyranderson690 Před 5 lety +19

      If I were you, I would have asked the tow truck gy if I could get something out of the car first. Then I would have gotten in it and I would have shat and pissed all over the inside, wiped my ass on the center console and gotten out saying: Ok, you can take it now.

    • @mjallen1308
      @mjallen1308 Před 5 lety +5

      Randy Randerson we are soul mates!

    • @tybooskie
      @tybooskie Před 4 lety +4

      This is insane and should be illegal.

  • @paullees6687
    @paullees6687 Před 4 lety +27

    19-29%
    *Laughs in private after 1st deployment*

  • @thomasberinati3380
    @thomasberinati3380 Před 3 lety

    Bob Balaban as Crazy Walter. That’s AWESOME!

  • @7searchful
    @7searchful Před 7 lety +6

    Bob Balaban: the only man who could possibly match the raw animal magnetism of Oliver.

  • @natkatmac
    @natkatmac Před 5 lety +53

    *headbutts button with crazy levels of enthusiasm*
    "WE DON'T CARE"
    Yup, that about sums it up.

  • @uthmanbaksh3530
    @uthmanbaksh3530 Před 3 lety +1

    I keep watching this episode mostly for the Nathaniel on his pennyfarthing bicycle bit and the Saga of the pre owned 2003 Kia Optima!

  • @thespartanseagull9892
    @thespartanseagull9892 Před 3 lety

    I can never unhear him saying TRUCK YEAH!!!