S2 E17: Torture, Jack Warner & Putin: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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- Season 2, Episode 17, June 14th, 2015. With the help of Helen Mirren, John Oliver discusses America's enhanced interrogation program, Jack Warner responds to John's message on Trinidad TV, and Ukraine expects a Russian invasion.
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1:08 "Even people who live in Russia don't want to visit Ukraine in the winter." Oh boy, John was ahead of the times by around 6.5 years.
They invaded Crimea and annexed it in 2014. He wasn't far off.
I HAVE BEEN WONDERING WHERE "FIRE" FROM THE TRAILER COMES FROM!
22:23 Did anyone else need to pause the video and look at that list of candidates and just think WOW?
Yup, same.
Came looking for this comment
Yes wow, does time fly!!
@@LyonsM Not just that, I just had to stare, and then laugh, and then cry.
To think, at that moment, no one has any idea that not a single one of those candidates were going to win.
I don’t remember anymore. When did Trump enter the stage.
23:20 "We asked all 14 declared candidates" (None of them won)
How different it would have been...
Started as a show, ended as a Rammstein concert. Well played.
Good call.
Take me back to 2015 😭
Wow the russia/ukraine stuff went exactly how it seemed
It was a long time coming, but it wasn't unforeseeable. I have a background in Russian, Central, and East European culture and politics. Within the group of people with that background, we were predicting this conflict even before Crimea was occupied. Look at the history with Abkhazia, North Ossetia, and the Republic of Chechnya. He's been slowly seeing how far he can push the global West for decades.
It helped that the world did absolutely nothing to stop him in Syria @@victoriaeads6126
Thank you for the whole of Season Two. So many topics, handled so well, and many still relevant. Kudos all around.
the library certainly is open
the classic "we tortured some folks"😂
This is the start of the bombastic retorts that John Oliver does for his opponents. Good Job Mr. Turner for bringing the avengeful John Oliver to the scene.
How the heck did they get Helen Mirren? In season 2? I guess that dragon money was working for them already.
He figured out by around the middle of season 1 that HBO was giving him an almost blank check, and he's made no secret that he's tried to push that as far as possible. He's essentially been trying to see when they will say no, and not really finding that line to cross 😂
@@victoriaeads6126the musical of eat shit bob was one of the lines John can cross
@@123alexkongI was telling a mate about this exact thing earlier at the pub haha. A guy who always tried to bully people with money getting shown what a guy who doesn’t care about the money he’s spending can do haha.
@29:22; Wait; seriously, how is it that it took until SLAPP Suits to get a lawsuit against Last Week Tonight?
My guess is that most organizations have at least 1 person who's heard of the Streisand effect. And I sincerely believe FIFA's direction appreciated someone openly acknowledging their efforts to be recognized as super villains...
Wait, I’m curious. Are you saying that’s a good thing or are you being sarcastic??
@@LyonsMi think more in disbelief
@@LyonsM How does sarcasm even make sense there?
Love this guy ✌️💚 from Montana
You bloody fool
When John says that it was rude for Putin to keep the Pope waiting for over an hour, he knows of which he speaks! Remember that Edward Snowden kept John waiting for over an hour too! 😄
As it turned out, Putin was about 7 years late
“We tortured some folks, Op”. Lmao
“Torture does not provide reliable information” is one of those facts that some people refuse to believe even when provided with ample evidence.
I once had someone tell me, in the same five minute span of time, that American soldiers won’t give in to torture because they’re trained to give as much conflicting information as possible, so even if they do give in and give real information it’s surrounding by bad information, then say that torture gives reliable information on terrorists, not realizing that if that’s true and American soldiers are easily trained to not give in, terrorists would be trained to do the same thing.
That person was my mom, who’s dead now, so I feel bad making fun of her stupid opinion in a comment section on youtube. But it was stupid, so I have to (sorry mom).
I want to know- is the audiobook for that report still available?
And where to find it
I went back and looked at comments from the time, mostly reddit and on some articles that still had visible comments. It is believed that the audiobook was fake. Which is kinda disappointing.
I took it as only being made for that person that he was referencing
I looked and there is a real audiobook recorded by others, but the Helen one isn't available.
John was having so much fun with the fire
The FDNY Explosive Unit, everybody!!
They do good work.
LWT: Hey everyone, here are a bunch of our old episodes for free that you couldn't otherwise watch. Enjoy!
The internet: Give us the original air date! Why are they not in a playlist? You mean I have to search myself for the episodes I want? Thanks a lot for messing up my recommendations, you [expletive bleeping bleep]!
strawmanning /j
The release dates are in the description of every video
@@michaelf8221 for season 2, sure, after a bunch of people complained about them not being there for season 1!
Season 2, Episode 17, June 14th, 2015. or you can just google "last week tonight episodes wiki" and get it from wikipedia.
@@michaelf8221 I wasn't watching these until they had this info, but I assume those complaints were from before they added it to the video description
7:30 simple, Canada simply out-Britained Britain
Helen is absolutely fabulous
And you pretty good too John😂
Thank you x
"And I raise you ... FIRE!"
Chills. xD
"forced rectal feeding with no medical necessity"
Im sorry, is there ever a time when feeding someone rectally is a medical necessity?!
Maybe it can be a "Centipide Man" issue.
I’d imagine pretty often, it’s the second most direct access to the digestive system so I’d imagine it’s the go to when the most direct access is blocked for any reason. Beats going in through the nose or front hole, I’d imagine
I’d imagine in a medical setting they’d put you under for the process though and that it would be actual suppositories rather than just blended up cafeteria food
(Edit: I don’t think I said “I’d imagine” enough. Clearly I like thinking about butts 😅)
yes! if you live in the 19th century and tube feedings haven't really gotten effective yet
My assumption would be that they would use a feeding tube instead.
Torture, is not what thanking every s2 feels like when you realize there is more to thank
wot
Wow, Feinstein...
John Oliver, you crack me up😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🧢🧢🧢🧢
Why do people even watch TV shows like “24”? Who wants to watch fellow humans in pain? Is there an innate cruel streak in humanity that i seem to be missing?
We all tuned in because we loved the ticking sounds
I RAISE YA FIYAH
Jun 14, 2015 - wow how this has aged 😂
Bill taught me a lot in this episode. I must be one with the mango.
I remember finding that dramatic music like over 10 years ago
18:16 WTF LMAO
1:15 yeah…7 years late lol
THE FIRE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
SO late upoaded.. Yet so present. Quite upsetting, yet truth. lets be better.
Oh, those halcyon days. John McCain and Dianne Feinstein working together to do some good in the world.
John, I am proud to have a failed engish comic giving the world the news from one of englands failed colonies.
That's not very nice.
@@glenjennett no i think john oliver would approve of that remark
@@TheRealEvilkitten3 I doubt he would approve of someone insulting him. Besides, if he's such a failure, then why do so many people enjoy watching him and think he is funny, including you and the one who made the comment?
@@glenjennett john oliver has historically been pretty down with self-deprecating humor, and he frequently seems to think other people insulting him is also funny. moreover he himself has referred to his pre-america career in negative terms before, so i don't think he'd really mind all that much. for the record, i'm a huge fan of john oliver and have been for years; i'm not trying to be a jerk to him. i just genuinely think he'd be fine with this joke.
Grr.. you need to show him some respect
America's image overseas? What image? Imagine the rest of the statement...
You RULE John 😅
2:55 - in Morgan Freeman's voice: John did not, in fat, get tired of this game. ;)
Fire 28:45
Seriously, though, if he really did get Helen Mirren to read the whole thing, where can people find said audiobook? Like, release it? Upload it to youtube? The book is public domain, and I assume if Mirren did in fact read the whole thing, she'd love for people to actually listen to it?
Beatrix Potter so so ahead of her time.
8:38 Anyone reminded of that X-Files episode? "Bleeping alien"
Did Helen Mirren actually read the whole thing?
To be fair, beach soccer sounds fun
Did anyone say Rob Ford died in 2016? I imagine so
john oliver has joined a prodigious making fun of babies club! lets see if he responds
I forgot how fun reality used to be
Too funny!🇨🇦
Reggie Watts is from Montana
25:08
28:45
You almost irish mr alllover. Hilarious :)
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mean
are we suppose to insult Oliver, seems too easy
This has aged interestingly...
I lost a hang nail in my ear... Qtip or hospital? Please respond with urgency
Push a Q-tip into your other ear until you find the factory reset button.
The cost is worth it if you can further clamp down on unlawful/personal expenditures. Just imagine how much money the American citizens paid during the free cor all during COVID. It was epic in the fraud committed.
This fraud happened under Donald and Biden hasn't seen fit to give a voice to the millions embezzled if reporting is to be believed.
Lol orthodox to catholic
19:56
To be fair, you could actually enrich uranium like that. Although I doubt anyone can swing a bucket hard enough to act like an enrichment centrifuge, never mind for solid matter...
Most natural uranium is U-238, which is very weakly fissile and so, not very useful in nuclear bombs. What is useful is "highly enriched uranium" (Uranium samples composed of more than 20% U-235, and weapons grade uranum is usually around 60-80% U-235), unfortunately U-235 and U-238 have the same chemical properties, so the only way to seperate the two is to make use of the fact that U-238 is slightly heavier than U-235, so what you do is you vaporise it inside a spinning cylinder and filter away the stuff on the outside.
Then you let it cool and repeat until you've removed around 98% of the initial mass.
Congrantulation, you now have a small amount of weapons grade uranium.
Of course, you'll need about 10kg of the stuff, so you better be able to get your hands on about half a metric tons of raw uranium.
Plutonium is significantly easier to make into a weapon since you'd only need about a 10th of the mass to achieve the same result, but it's also significantly harder to get hold of; you either need a neutron enrichment reactor to turn U-238 into Pu-239, or you need literally all the plutonium in the Earth's crust.
Of course, if miniturisation was the goal, you'd want Californium, but Cf-252 is so hard to make that not even the nuclear nations are using it in their weapons programs, never mind terrorist organisations.
It's also way too dangerous to mass produce even if we could: the critical mass of a sphere of Cf-252 is 5kg!
Good luck getting Helen Mirren to read your comment.
the time lime on these uploads is confusing as hell!
uploaded 3 weeks ago
video from 9 years ago...
And same Russia Ukraine story in the news
Niagara Falls is the American side.
At least President Obama has the courage to tell the truth.
Thank you President Obama.
Why is this (vintage) edition in my feed..?
Because they're uploading one season per week off, since they now own their back catalogue
Because God loves you. Seriously. He loves you and he's making you the gift of John Oliver every week. You lucky devil.
Rainbows are cool.
a) thank you for pointing out the astoundingly stupid things scalia always said in his opinions b) thank you for covering torture, which our scotus has now sanctioned for executions by using the family dog as the most reliable expert, ignoring the real experts, and saying that prisoners prefer to be tortured (which makes no sense since those prisoners sued). they aren't worried that it would still be crimes against humanity in international law. so ppl should pay attention. it is no longer an easily reversible exec order.
if people would just get over it and admit shit is not swearing and even if it were, fuck is just a word
Eastern euros know what we never did colonizers don't get me wrong we fight amongst our selves but unlike western powers we never colonized native peoples African Indian Asian
did you just like forget about russia or...???
2:39 didn't age too well.
Can someone explain wtf the pope's deal is? Like who gives. What does he even do
He's a spiritual leader, like the Dalai Lama. He's the head of the Roman Catholic Church and in their religious tradition is chosen directly by God, making him the person effectively closest to God. As the head of a huge, ancient religious group, his words carry a lot of weight, especially within majority Catholic countries. He also has a direct influence on how scripture is interpreted and thus how people practice religion. He does a great deal of charity work and, like a regular priest, leads sermons and masses from the Vatican. Even if you're not religious, you cannot downplay his influence - he is effectively the highest-ranking Christian.
@@asamlos Isn't there a 16 year old taking his place or something
@@EskimoPablo907 No? The pope doesn't change until they formally step down or die and the youngest pope ever elected was 20 (this was back in 1032). Pope Francis has shown no interest in stepping down. Where on earth did you hear about that?
@@EskimoPablo907 That wouldn't be possible. The pope has to be elected by a group of representatives in the church from a group of candidates that are usually already known and they're all people that have served in the Church for a very long time... To change that now there would have to be a major shift in the politics of the overall organization... The Pope tells the Catholics what they're supposed to feel and think about several issues, advises political figures, sets the tone for Roman Catholic Christians, etc...
Keeps colonizer waiting so sad
Waterboarding shouldn't count, I know people that get off to that
What a clown and fantastic truth sayer!!!
Putin is the best Leader I have ever seen.
Why do people even watch TV shows like “24”? Who wants to watch fellow humans in pain? Is there an innate cruel streak in humanity that i seem to be missing?