S1 E12: Nuclear Weapons, Russian Geckos & Thailand: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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- Season 1, Episode 12, July 27th, 2014. John Oliver discusses how America manages its nuclear weapons, a Russian gecko experiment in space, an unsuccessful ceasefire in Gaza, genital mutilation, and why he is considered a threat to the monarchy in Thailand.
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Absolutely hate how the opening line could be mistaken for current events a decade later.
You look like such a adorable princess...
I was soooo confused
I thought this was.
Ukraine is sliding into anarchy, the Gaza ceasefire is tenuous... oof.
I only realized this was a decade-old episode when the segment about nuclear weapons started to feel like I've seen it already.
HBO, please put the original air date in the description. ⭐️
Yessssss I looked so hard for that and it was nowhere!! gah!
Hi, IMDB says it aired on Sun.,July 27,2014. So, almost 10 years ago.
I Googled it....season 1 started in 2014
I noticed there have been several Donald trump jokes and this is long before the he came to power.
@@southsirenThat's because he's always been an attention whore.
I thought he looked young
Who else has HBO Max but watches all these on CZcams?
I just have HBO for house of dragon. Johnny Ollie lives on my yt feed for free lol
As a professional gastrointestinal professional.. I can't afford HBO Max.. nor food.. please help me..
Your mom
Me
Yea, why do we do this?
Had to double check since Jon looks younger and then remembered that they're releasing the full library here. Excellent!
I was just thinking to myself.... "wait.... why does he look... so young..... "
Thank you! I thought I was seeing things lol
So is it old?
This has to be old -- look at his teeth. He had those points-and-gaps fixed years ago.
@satyamsingh4653 Yes. They announced they're releasing season 1 on CZcams, with more years coming.
He started talking about war in Gaza I thought this was recent, then I realized it could be anytime in human history
Not really, no. All this took off in 1948
Today in the news: tensions in the Middle East
Only if human history began in 1948, sure.
@@TheGreatAtariono that region has been in war and turmoil every decade for 3500 years
@@TheGreatAtarioyou obviously don’t know your history that region has been having wars every decade for thousands of years
Ten years ago, they were talking about war in Ukraine and Gaza. Some things never change
Gaza is never out of the headlines😂😂
Hahahaha!
It does, John never talks about Ukraine now. Western leftists are no longer interested, because they can't blame it on the west.
War. War never changes.
This video was from nearly 10 years ago!
History really does repeat itself
lol here on YT.
Idk if it’s so much repeating itself as much as it’s always been like that.
I just hope we do not have the same fate as those geckos.
RIP geckos.
A bit like my grandma then
@@AjarnSpencerand even worse
"Ukraine is sliding in to anarchy, the Gaza ceasefire is tenuous ..." WHAT YEAR IS IT?!
It could be any point in the last decade and it would still be 100% accurate. 😊
@@D64nz Any point since 2010; I don't know history before that but I suspect that the Ukraine has been in trouble for decades, pulled by Western money and Russian loyalty.
Intimidation, bribing and eventually military invasion is not loyalty. 2014 is the year russia invaded Ukraine for the first time if you forgot @@daledewar
Former USAF nuclear weapons technician, here. I think about them all the time. People are clueless as to their power and lasting effects. And if you think we're doing a poor job of maintaining them; you should see how Russia operates.
The point isn't "are we better than Russia" we all know Russia is the bottom of the barrel. If you're being compared to RUSSIA of all places about anything, things are seriously wrong!
@myfaceismyshield5963 I feel that he meant the scary part is that Russia has more nuclear weapons, and is doing a worse job with maintaining their stuff.
@@myfaceismyshield5963 The United State’s nuclear arsenal is your shield. Not your face. And it works. Not quite as well as your face preventing you from getting laid, but it does work…
~ former Global Strike Airman
Thank you @dougmackenzie5976
I hope they don't misfire as do your neurons when trying to formulate arguments.
100% I'm not sure why lukilladog is so negative, but I appreciate you sharing your opinion as a nuclear weapons tech.
S1 Ep12 ya don't say, the Black Hair and lack of stress said entirely enough 😂
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Timbuk 3
I study nuclear science
I love my classes
I got a crazy teacher
He wears dark glasses
Things are goin' great
And they're only gettin' better
I'm doin' all right
Gettin' good grades
The future's so bright
I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades
I got a job waitin'
For my graduation
Fifty thou a year
Will buy a lotta beer
Things are goin' great
And they're only gettin' better
I'm doin' all right
Gettin' good grades
The future's so bright
I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades
Well I'm heavenly blessed
And worldly wise
I'm a peeping Tom techie
With x-ray eyes
Things are goin' great
And they're only gettin' better
I'm doin' all right
Gettin' good grades
The future's so bright
I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades
I study nuclear science
I love my classes
I got a crazy teacher
He wears dark glasses
Things are goin' great
And they're only gettin' better
I'm doin' all right
Gettin' good grades
The future's so bright
I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades
I STUDY NUCLEAR SCIENCE
I LOVE MY CLASSES
I GOT A CRAZY TEACHER
HE WEARS DARK GLASSES
@@user-te7tx1wf8i Things are going bad, and they`re only getting worse.
And this is why Professor/Physicist Brian Cox has made the comment that people's biggest fear should not be war, but stupidity. Great show John!!!!!!
"Ukraine is sliding into anarchy, the Gaza ceasefire is tenuous..." Oh, this is _old._
I know John wont see this but id love to hear his thoughts on how the topics he covered 10 years ago are still relevant. I know its not just me but its incredibly discouraging that it feel like nothing changes, that it feels like a miracle that his show exists at all with corporate consolidation and silencing of journalists, it feels like no matter how much I may want change, in another 20 years Columbia will be silencing another humanitarian protest :c
That guy 100% still thinks those two are from India. Totally over his head lol.
Interesting to see how a decade ago, both Gaza and Ukrain are headline news at the same time... Wild.
Somebody PLEASE make a 3 hour analysis/retrospective/review of every season of the show🤩
Need airdate on every episode now
Or we can just assume the date based on the amount of grey hair on John’s head
someone should make an algorithm to derive that! 😅
I’m amazed at how relevant this is currently.
Not sure why HBO is re-uploading episodes but I'm all for it.
I'm assuming they realized they could get AdSense revenue for basically no cost, it's easier to find it here than on DailyMotion or Vimeo or whatever (and better SEO)
ETA: heck they've made ten bucks from this video already, pays for itself
This is the release of the season 1 playlist; they’re archiving the episodes
I think they're doing this because John is now in jail in Thailand. Or Denmark. Or the Netherlands. Or in some other country where he said something bad about them. Basically, this is a new version of "Where in the World is Waldo?" starring John. ;)
They never upload full episodes that are recent which sucks
@@ThePCExpertAmateur We know it's not Japan: ChiiJohn is a Beloved Icon!
If that gecko story wasn't on John Oliver I wouldn't believe it🤣
So they never got the geckos?😔😢
@@STSWB5SG1FANSadly, no. But at least they didn't starve to death-they froze.
Someone in the audience really liked that 'Almost-gedon' joke.
using obsolete tech like big floppies is actually a security feature now... nobody can hack them without being physically on site.
LOL. No, a USB stick will do the same dude... it also requires physical interaction with the actual pc. LOL
@@Jinkypigs A floppy disk is made with 7 very basic simple components. Its consists of a magnetic disk, shutter, spring, hub, paper rings, write-protect tab and a plastic flap. A USB drive consists of a motherboard, memory chips, controller chip, capacitors, resistors, crystal oscillators and however many other components a manufacturer decides to put on it. A floppy disk can easily be repaired without losing any of the stored data. A USB drive can easily have one of many components fail which would result in all data being lost.
He was also referring to obsolete tech in general and that was just one example. I think the main point he was getting at is modern day hackers are born into the world of high speed internet and probably have not even used a operating system as old as Windows XP let alone the operating systems our nuclear silos are using from the 70s. Using old tech is a safety features because there is not many people in todays world that would know how to hack it or even use it for that matter. Those old systems are strictly offline and locally networked whereas modern military systems are networked through military satellites etc and are vulnerable to potential attacks.
Older systems are also way more reliable and simple which makes them easier to maintain and keep running. The reason they still use a computer thats 50 years old is in contrast by the fact its 50 years old and it still works. Go buy a modern laptop from best buy and tell me if it still works 50 years later. As the old saying goes if its not broke dont fix it. Its just like how the USA was using Russian Soyuz capsules to get to and from the international space station for decades and only up until recently did they start using spacex etc to shuttle astronauts to the space station. They did that for the exact same reason, The Soyuz ran off of computers from the 70s and they never updated it because why update something and make it more complicated and unreliable when it works perfectly fine and has had nearly a 100% success rate. Its been through all the testing, they know how it works and how to fix any issues. Why slap in a modern computer system that has 100x more components that can fail and a less likely chance that the average technician can fix it?
I love being reminded of the nuclear sword of Damocles hovering over all our heads.
John Oliver delivering the only show i don't have to watch on 2x
If you watch stuff on 2x speed what the fuck is the point?
@@perrywcliftonto save half the time! I usually put most American content on 1.25x at least, gets the yanks to their point
@@perrywclifton Efficiency
10 + years later and the jokes still slap. 😂
i do wish these were labeled with original air dates
This episode aired on July 27, 2014.
The entire list is here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Last_Week_Tonight_with_John_Oliver_episodes
It said season 1 ep 12
It's like shitier Groundhog Day where the main character just gets more aged and stays British.
Kinda sad that we’re still in the same place all these years later
My father's best friend died in an explosion in Germany in the 80s from a Pershing missile. Thank God it wasn't armed and thank God for that man he saved lots of life's that day including my father's since he closed the blast doors containing the explosion......I've always wondered if Germany knows they almost had a nuclear explosion in their country? No matter if bases are considered American territory since the fallout doesn't stay in boundary lines.
Just For Men spokesman John Oliver been killing it lately
M83 MIDNIGHT. CITY
OFFICIAL VIDEO
What's hilarious is two seconds in to your black and white nuke video, my brain immediately said duck and cover lol
what the fuck I heard the first minute and had to double check if this was really an archive and not a recent event. Holy shit
Hate to break it to you, but I was born in the year of the Arab-Isreali war and it hasn't stopped since.
I remember watching this with my dad the back in the day.
One thing to note: they still use the old style computers on purpose.
The tech is so old its incompatible with modern systems, meaning its all but impossible to hack, and they require physical access to specific data disks
In fact, 5' flopy disks are the most advanced. Most use punch cards.
Who's this new young dude?
Its the clone 😅
Who is this British puffin?
The one welcome throws me off now 😅 I keep expecting three welcomes 😂
Edit: I really appreciate you guys deciding to make your old episodes free and available on youtube! 💕🎉
Man... this was the first episode at which I started watching Last Week Tonight. it's nuts to think that it's already been a decade since...
S1 E12 (aired July 27, 2014)
THIS WAS 2014?!?!?
I hope this show stays on for decades! I love how there’s a platform to hold people accountable for their shit they do in this world.
Shout out to all the people that have HBO MAX and still only watch on CZcams
20:28 You missed a joke! You could have called the cats agents of mice destruction.😂
This may be an old video, but it is still very relevant 😂
John Oliver is so funny. Arguably the funniest late night show host ever.
One thing of note about old nuclear weapons technology. It being so old running on a custom operating system and floppies can actually make them more secure as it can make it harder to hack or disrupt.
Who else binging allll the John Oliver
I absolutely love you! ❤ I sincerely hope that you enjoy what you do as much as we enjoy watching you do it!
At least the launch computer's would probably be harder to hack using floppy disks 😂😂😂
Honestly i find it funnier to imagine the loading crew frantically searching for the nukes they can't find.
Wait...a full episode?? From the official channel?? Thank you! (you can tell its old because of his hair color)
Also because of ISIS
Yes, and yet, the nuclear stuff probably still hasn't been fixed because we're sending DoD money to countries like Israel and Ukraine.
And Obama was president.
I thought so too but he kept mentioning 2023 statistics and '24 events. The hair and the constant use of Obama pics had me thinking one way but the Gaza mentions and the...nevermind just googled russian space geckos and on another show in January 2015 Oliver's Eulogizing the now dead Russian Space Geckos. I guess Gaza being a religiously inspired and maintained geo-canker on the Earth's face is a perennial thing.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade Ukraine is being invaded by Russia, The US military's entire raison detre is to counter Russian military expansion, I wouldn't compare that to helping Israel perpetrating its genocide.
Why isn't Hollywood directors courting John to the movie arena? John's facial expression and voice control is stellar. "Mr. Bean" move over...John is priceless. All that...and blinding intelligence! The man is Britiannia Jesus!!
This was always one of my favourite episodes, ill always come back to it for fun
I live in Goldsboro NC and the “nuclear mishap” is hardly even talked about here as well 😂😂😂😂
you only almost got taken off the map (was it twice now? I forgot what that missing fighter jet was carrying)
Anyways, how bout that NFL Draft?
It doesn't help that it's in the middle of a cow pasture. People know more about the Tybee incident in Georgia because it was on a beach.
I live 20 minutes away and I’ve been by the area the broken arrow happened at!
Thank you for uploading these, love this show!
Love this practice. Helps bring in revenue from old content while also archiving/publicizing it.
Geckos in space humping while floating around is hilarious yet sad. #GGTG
I suspect the geckos turned off the cameras and took the satellite back to their home planet. 😉⭐️
Fallout came out at such a good time
The fact that I get annoyed when people erroneously describe initialisms as an acronym is why I watch this show.
These references may be 10 years too late, but I appreciate them all the same.
Thank you Jon. For the nuclear segment.
And thank your researchers.
As a gastrointestinal professional..i found much humor in that.
Loving the release of the full episodes on CZcams!!!
holy shit Eric Adams popping up with the show me the money LOL
Just googled russian space geckos and on another show in January 2015 Oliver's Eulogizing the now dead Russian Space Geckos. I guess Gaza being a religiously inspired and maintained geo-canker on the Earth's face is a perennial thing.
I really enjoy the opening credits, I can't describe how exciting it is in later seasons when he turns to wave at the camera as the hostus mostus. I adore that man
The first minutes of the video made me check the season number twice.
Damn shame really
PSA: Read the Headline, this is a rerun of Season 1 Episode 12 from 2009.
The gaza part made me think it was a new episode for a sec, but with only 1000 dead, what a time to be alive, or unalive if you live in gaza.
Man that lady from the State Government was an absolute class act in her response to the Indian thing.
Thank you for releasing the entire first season from a current HBO subscriber! 🧡💛🧡
It is finally happening!!
John dropped the bomb on me.
I'll go now.
See yourself out.😅
19:05 is still one of my all-time favorites from John, even after all these years
Bruh I just realized this episode was from 10 years ago and my mind is blown
As a USian born in the mid-60s all I can say is "What, me worry?" 😂
My favorite is seeing how quickly those videos they made became out of date because we figured out how to slap them on rockets.
John is looking awfully young today
That Kardashian slight was so hard😂😂
This entire episode feels unreal. We are a live by chance at this point
There's a nuclear warhead that the military jetisoned sitting out in the river near where I live. Been sitting there for almost 70 years now. But I guess it's ok or something, right?
That statistic about Egypt seemed so unbelievable, I thought he must certainly be mistaken.
I did a quick google search, And now I’m scared to research any further…. Holy hell!
Unfortunately the entire region of North Africa and the Middle East has terrible women’s rights
@@jaquanpowell4605hey now, Tunisia and Morocco have women’s rights in their constitution. Especially Tunisia is quite decent. It’s sadly very much and Egyptian, Somalia, Eritrea situation
@@MrJimheeren Oh ok that’s good I was wrong about something bad
@@jaquanpowell4605that shows good character and strength, when admitting you were wrong.
the funny part is that out dated tech is used in missile silos, because it is pretty much unhackable, unless you physically change the computers or can get access to them,
This was probably the best episode I seen. The ICBM joke was the cherry
Got second hand embarrassment ten years later from that congressman trying to cozy up to "Indians"
With all due respect to Samuel Jackson, I have had it with these nuclear Thai geckos on this Russian plane.
🐸🐉🐸🐊🐸🐲🐸
“If this is where the monarchy is headed, count me out”- John Oliver Lion King
I can not express how happy I feel to see the intro and to look at your mug again John, I really do.
Thanks for sheering up my day and doing a wonderful job being informative and entertaining.
U probably def want the nuke computers to be the old ones with floppy disks its un hackable
I think it’ll be fine if we upload them to Meta… Definitely don’t upload them to Facebook! But Meta should be fine or TikTok
Queen Beatrix hasn't been the queen for like a while now. Her son is the king now.
It’s an old episode
This episode is like a decade old.
@@mrwassef
.......and Willem Alexander is King of the Netherlands since 04-30-2013.
How many were intially confused that these are current events?
History does repeat itself and some things just never change.
Well, John, a difficult week for diplomacy is, for diplomats, every week. Diplomats aren't needed when things are easy.
(I just want to give diplomats the praise they deserve. Your show, John&Co, is excellent most of the time!)
Not even a single date of original airing?
July 27, 2014
Wait... This episode has WAY too many Fallout references for how long ago it aired. (Geckos - G.E.CK.)
I remember this episode😊
THIS WAS HOW LONG AGO!?😮
All these events should be in a movie: Idiocracy 2 😂
The fact that we have 4,800 nuclear warheads is a travesty of the human condition, yet still seemingly necessary to uphold the complex web that convenience and technology have woven around us. I have faith we'll figure it out, however, hopefully with the aid of artificial intelligence reasoning systems.
The way John pronounced Oregon had me startled LOL
Haha, ya it always makes me cringe but you know like most of the U.S. pronounces it that way... unfortunately 😂
@@violetlove3580 I missed it… Time code?
Right!? It's "Or-reg-gun" people!
buzz aldrin saying #gogetthosegekos made my year
I'm confused. is this last week or last decade?
This could pass off as news from today.
The scariest thing is now..... We can't even use them but our enemies can , WE Haven't kept launch/ arming keys/ equipment up to date... AND THEY KNOW IT.
I love the show, but it is terrible that the original air date is not shown!
Wow, what a great dump. 28 seconds ago 😂