Weather: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- John Oliver discusses the tension between the public and private worlds of predicting the weather.
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The USA is a corporation that tolerates citizens.
Warren 20/20 for big structural change 💙
That's pretty accurate. And even that tolerance is contentious at best.
@brmbly Better than nothing. You can't get anything better in this current political climate. Maybe it can start a movement.
Let me guess... It all Trump's fault.
@brmbly You're definitely right. But are there any other options right now? Corporations still hold a vastly influence and they aren't going to go away soon. We can only hope that Warren can be a change from the top down.
how to get rich in america
1. find something that's free
2. start selling it
3. make people unable to get it for free
4. PROFIT
Not just in America, unfortunately.
is this the whole idea behind 'Clima Change isn't real) is trump trying to sell us air?!
_Ahhh hello comrades ;)_
Thats the saddest fact I've ever seen.
Well summarized.
Take bottled water. In some places it's a necessity but in others it's the same thing you get from pipes but extra stale and full of microplastics.
As a meteorologist, I thank you for bringing this out into the open, Last Week Tonight.
Good news. He's out of the picture.
"Nov. 21, 2019 , 3:25 PM
Barry Myers, the former CEO of AccuWeather Inc., withdrew late yesterday his hot-button nomination to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its 12,000 employees, citing health concerns.
The full Senate never voted on President Donald Trump's embattled NOAA pick, even though a split Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee sent his nomination to the floor three times in party-line decisions."
Same.
As a storm chaser, I second this. It is infuriating that people wish to profit and make unavailable something that should be public. The fact some people are even TRYING to make it so you have to pay for something like, say, a tornado warning, is absolutely horrifying and deeply infuriating. Weather data and warnings should be FREE TO THE PUBLIC, END of discussion. That is NOT something that should be warped into something to be a profit off of. -_-
Danielle Whipple, you look like such a cute go getter nerd in that profile picture! Good career!👨🏻🏫
God Bless.
You're welcome
"Feels like 70 or feels like 19, I don't know" is the most accurate description of weather in the Midwest though, so I guess he's right.
I'm amazed weather forcasters in Chicago don't just up and commit toaster bath
also basically me describing my age
@@Sonichero151 real question isnt Chicago in the mideast allso why dont people say mideast. us wars in the middle east what oh the foreign 1 lol idk but theres a joke in there somewhere
@@ridanann I know you're joking but I'm gonna mention for people out of the loop (and because I just like talking about it) that "Midwest" means the middle of the western hemisphere (where the Americas are along with the very western tips of Europe and Africa) and "Middle East" means the middle of the eastern hemisphere (where Asia, Oceania, and most of Africa and Europe are). But I should note and Midwest/Middle East refers only to the northern half of the hemisphere. So the Midwest ends up being the states roughly in the center of the US (including Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, and a few other surrounding states) and the Middle East ends up being where western Asia meets Africa (although realistically the center of the eastern hemisphere is further east, kind of around western China, but I think the people who named it thought the dividing line between the western and eastern hemisphere was in the Atlantic ocean when really it's slightly to the east of Spain and England).
@@migitri lol i prefer jokes there just as valid as the idea of dividing a single solid object like a ball its gona be fun visiting American can u get kicked for trolling lol
"Pay us or die in a tornado" is literally a supervillain business plan, except that the supervillain will at least have had the decency to have invented and built a tornado machine.
Haha! Read this in Johns voice and it sounds like a joke he would say. Well done.
Good stuff
That's a fact smh everything is a profit game
@@TheSquad4life Until it's not.
At least the super villian would have a cool costume and a code name like "Storm Master" or "Evil Snow"
Only in America, where not even the weather service is safe from capitalist greed.
Who wants to be a middle-man (where none is necessary)?
Germany as well actually.
@@NordeGrasen34 Yup. German Weather Service (dwd / Deutscher Wetter Dienst) is offering an App which, after court ruling, can no longer be offered for free, since the App was ruled "unfair competition". Now only the hazard warnings remain free. The weather forecast part of the App is one-time payment only.
@@hmartinlb didn't know that...what BS.
Reminds me how german public television put ALL their content online for free well befor amazon prime or Netflix was a big deal and private TV channels sued against it as they saw it as unfair competition.
Human greed*
_Last Week Tonight:_ Bringing issues I didn’t know were issues to attention, and making topics I thought were utterly boring, exciting.
John and his staff are national treasures.
sexual harassment, trump would not be president.
@@asktoseducemiss434 Well, you can trust Bernie to reverse course of Drumpf dismanteling (facebook.com/berniesanders/posts/2497170797004576/)
Depo ta ka gaga kaw bweset ka
Exciting and fookin’ hillarious! Man I love this guy
Hes British (like me) so um..
It's really impressive that this guy can get nearly 5 million people (at the time of writing) to click on a video called 'Weather'
John Oliver could make a video about "old wet newspaper lying on the sidewalk" and I would want to watch it, because I'm sure it would be amazing!
He is a "generational talent," as the saying goes. (And he could do a killer episode on Generational Talents.)
Update: more than 8 million (though if I'm any indicator, this does have something to do with the lockdown -- then again I'm only bingeing his shows because of his amazing covid-19 & protest coverage).
He is British, he probably spends half his life talking about the weather.
6,2 now
Thank you, John Oliver, for roasting the man who asked me, in a job interview at Accuweather way back, if I was a 'republican', because 'it would be better if I was'. This, of course, was right after he asked if I wanted to also do the on camera weather, as with the new High Definition, their existing 'women' had too many skin imperfections to be on-camera.. as I interviewed for a position working as a meteorological programmer.. sooo needless to say I didn't take the job.
💥
Wow! That's incredible that someone would ask about your voting habits in a job interview. I'm pretty sure you could get taken to court for that here in the UK.
Oh my God I bet he thought it was a compliment to insult your intelligence like that I'm so sorry you had to go through that
Wtf is wrong with people
How can he really be less professional than Fast Food managers? Good on ya for not accepting his bs proposal.
Every time I see a segment from LWT, I'm like, " how big of a deal can this be?"
30 mins later...
"WTF! How can they get away with that?"
i feel the same way. scary times we are living in now with con man Dump.
@Officer Rod Farva I was just thinking the same thing... lol love your user name lol
It's like Rick & Morty. So out there, it can't be hated!
@@dablet Problem is, lot of John's episodes also shed light on crazy things like this under Obama. It's not the president doing this, it's the system that's allowing it. And by shouting at Obama or Trump, that system is the only thing winning.
@@EpigTheEpicPig I was just gonna say this. I am unenviably going to have to say that not every calamity in America is Trump's fault. It's a fundamental foul-up of the system.
As someone who does fieldwork for research purposes, everyone on our team relies on radar and weather apps to plan for field seasons. Whether it be for personal safety/preparedness or to ensure our data can actually be collected. I had no expectations coming into this video but let me say that I deleted my Accuweather app before the video ended and every extra minute I watched made me more certain in my decision.
Elizabeth Lopez I’ve never liked Accuweather and I wasn’t sure why. Now I know.
Elizabeth Lopez You can use the website yr.no instead. It has all the data, including radar, windmaps and airpressure. Just select english in the top right corner. It should have all major cities in the world, or at least regions.
Its free to use, paid by norweigian tax payers :)
same here, i paused to check if i was using Accuweather (i'm not), because, I've never really paid much attention to the 'who', i only cared about the 'what'
I only get my forecast from the NWS. My department got a teletype from NOAA one afternoon that said rain up to an inch a minute. We thought it was a typo. Who would predict THAT. 45 minutes later it rained an inch a minute. By the time the storm broke the upper tier of the beach was flooded. Porous sand with 4 inches of standing water. It was nuts, but it was accurate. I do wish they'd update their user interfaces again, though. I don't get teletypes anymore.
@@adde9506 Is it possible to dial into this teletype service, or is it a dedicated network?
I would like to see a John Oliver episode where he catches up with old episodes and let's us know what happened a year later.
That's sort of the SLAPP suit piece
And Opioids II
And COVID…Brexit
I mean if you wanted to know, Barry myers actually withdrew his name about a month after this show aired due to "health concerns"
Not sure what going on, but I know that the weather channel app keeps asking me to become a subscriber...it hasn't blocked all content yet, but im waiting
“Cooperation makes you weak and subservient” is the kind of thing you expect a Saturday morning cartoon villain to say
"Saturday morning cartoon villain" is an unnecessary long an complicated way of saying modern Republican.
It's so stupid. Both US and EU renew their supercomputers and weather satellites in long intervals. There's always somebody that has the better equipment over the another in some aspect. I think It's amazing these organisations freely exchange this data. EU has the 6x Copernicus satellites where the last one will be launched early next year. US will then renew Its own in +10 years.
Carewolf not really. Some Saturday morning cartoon villains are actually likable
"Oppression is my profession!"
And IQ 4.5 is a Saturday morning cartoon...........7 days a week.
Me the whole time: please don't let Trump be involved.
Me at the end: damnit.
Lol!
im also tired of hearing news about the dude
I don’t think he’s the only one.
dammit*
As a Latinamerican I would laugh at the problems gringos put onto themselves.
Then I remember he is also destroying the enviroment and regresing a lot of advances in ecological policies that affect the world.
God fucking dammit.
My birds got proportionally louder as I turned this up to hear over them. Either they really hate the sound of John’s voice or they recognize their own kind and were trying to communicate.
"One of us! One of us!"
This isn’t at all relevant to anything but I absolutely love your profile photo
Kierra Nodel mine do exactly the same thing
oof John got 🔥 roasted 🔥
Is John also a government drone?
"Suck on this one, sit on that one!" Thanks John, TOTALLY using that in the future! 🤣🤣
Same
I already have 😂
Why? That’s so weird… “Hey you! I don’t like you. Suck my finger!” Why? That doesn’t make any sense. “Hey you! I don’t like you. Sit on my finger!” Why? That doesn’t make any sense either. People are strange…
Me: There’s no way John Oliver can ruin the weather for me. It’s weather!
Me 16 minutes later: DAMN IT
Lol, I was thinking the same!! It matters who is president in ways I had no idea. We have to vote in 2020
@T Mox We laugh cause we're screwed.
Dear @Google,
I want this your pre-installed criminal Trump NAZIS Accuweather TRASH off all of our Android devices .@Google! Or you will be massively Globally sued, you criminal kids-fuckers.
Thank you kindly!
czcams.com/video/qMGn9T37eR8/video.html
Nice abs
@@samimotaghedi True that!! Please vote the madman in there now, OUT!
“Unfortunately hit a town that didn’t have our service and a couple dozen people died”
Excuse me wha-HUT the fu-HUCK
The disconnected nonchalance in which he said that gave me the creeps.
It was the fact that he even brought it up that gave me the creeps. If you know you could’ve saved a couple dozen people’s lives and you didn’t, why would you even mention it?
lolol
The word "Unfortunate" is way overused in our culture. Cop out, useless sentiment.
@@WildFyreful yeah, it feels like that guy is a sociopath...
John Oliver, a man that makes depressing news entertaining.
"We meet again, Corporate Greed"
- The American People
So true! I was thinking the same thing!
@@RuleofFive
I know right? It's seems like everywhere we turn we run into another "Gordon Gecko" or "Wolf of Wall Street" trying to take advantage of someone. However, good people can and will stop the greedy bad ones.
linux750 Bernie 2020!
@@RuleofFive
I hope so, man. I certainly hope so.
Corporate greed is just people being people. The corporation is run by people. They make the decisions. There corporation isn't an entirely separate entity, and there are people who aren't involved in the decision to be greedy. Does your boss consult with you if the company wants to be greedy? No. It's the people at the top.
People: Weather, the one safe subject that you just can't corrupt!
John Oliver: Actually, give me a moment...
Project DJ Fuck, that’s actually a kinda upsetting to think about.
so not more small talk I guess...
Yeah, I didn't think it was possible...😨
Honestly, just the fact that there are so many climate change deniers out there has also been a big reason why the weather isn’t considered a ‘safe’ subject anymore.
“Boy, there sure are a lot more hurricanes lately...”
“No there aren’t! Climate change is a hoax!”
“Dude, I didn’t even mention climate change!”
Did everyone forget the sharpie incident with Trump and Dorian? He forced the National Hurricane Center to make a statement saying he was right when he was clearly wrong. I’d gone back and checked the dated forecasts they listed themselves. Trump is now an expert on hurricanes and the cone of error🤦🏼♀️ I’m sure his buddy Barry Myers helped him out and let him know he totally wasn’t wrong, check out AccuWeather’s data!
I did not wake up today with a "f*ck accuweather" mindset.... but here we are.
You think you didn't? I fucking live in Pittsburgh!
Ironically I’ve never liked them and I didn’t really have a reason and now I’m like, hmm..I can always predict when something is bad and I guess I was right yet again.
Greedy scumbags...
Hearing a British man attempt a 90s Seattle grunge voice was something I didn’t know I needed until I had it
That one killed me 😂
I feel like this could be an actual headline: "Nestle buys rights to air, charges people money to breathe it."
It was the pitch for the Lorax movie.
It probably will be once they figure out a way to accurately measure how much air everyone's breathing
You don't need to buy the rights to air when you can profit by polluting the atmosphere and then by selling your clean branded air!
Which now that I think of it explains pretty much every greedy corrupt capitalist scheme nowadays, they pollute the (re)public institutions to manufacture their own demand.
Oh no. The giant robot maid is going to follow, isn't it.
"Feels like 70 or feels like 19, I don't know" is the most accurate description of weather in the Midwest though, so I guess he's right.
As one of those weather nerds he briefly mentions, I'm really glad that John Oliver covered this. I've been worried about this ever since he was nominated, but as John says, it's difficult to get people interested in talking about a mundane topic like government weather agencies, especially when all the other crap is going on. I swear half of the scandals he's involved with are just cover to distract people from stuff like this.
It sure is sir😔really sad there.
Started out using the private sector weather companies for my weather but honestly I’m so over the bullshit memberships and “premium” features. Now I get my forecast for free directly from the source of the data and have found the models and data easier and more accurate than the weather channel. Especially with Florida weather being as unpredictable as it is. Hate the fact that one of the last few agencies in the government with the most passionate and historically unbiased scientists is being politicized by that idiot in the White House.
Just wait for the John Oliver Effect to take hold. Then people pay attention.
Jonathan Taylor I’m for the legalization of marijuana but fuck off!
Also that the news cycle goes too fast
Did anyone else think that John looked just like Austin Powers when he was dressed up as a weatherman?
Yeah baby!
gumballguy34 Shagadelic!
I hadn't reached that point in the video and now you've spoiled it for me...
Wait... Austin Powers is a grown up Harry Potter?
Mind blown!
He actually looks like his younger self to me. Like watch his old videos like the clip of him mocking Monica Lewinsky, I think it was in the public shaming episode of last week tonight.
Looking through Last Week Tonight videos basically reads as a list of "Things you thought were fine but are actually being completely undermined by greed and elitism"
Alternate title! 😂
"Things you thought were fine but are actually being completely undermined by [CAPITALISM].” True!
"We predict a heavy fog of nepotism for the next semester."
At this point is more difficult to find someone who doesn't have a conflic of interests a the top of a government agency.
It starts at the top with Trump currently, and once folks see he can get away with it, they figure they can, too. One look at his current and former cabinet post holders can confirm that.
@Jake Galler Some of them did. If you think "the problem existed before trump" is a rational dismissal of the problem, or a defense of intentionally making it worse, then you GTFO.
@Jake Galler
"I know for a fact"
How do you know that?
"You think conflict of interest began with Trump?"
Now I can't read minds, but I doubt he thinks this, as he used the word "currently" which indicates that he talks about the present which suggests that at other times there were also conflicts of interest, but back than it wasn't Trump putting corrupt people into office.
@Jake Galler
"Not sure what that currently gibberish means"
Ah than that explains how you didn't understand his comment.
Currently means: "at the present time"
So if he says something along the lines of [currently the conflict of interest starts from the top aka Trump appointing people who have a conflict of interest] then that means that at the present there are so many people in government with a conflict of interest cause Trump appoints people with a conflict of interest.
I hope that helps. So he doesn't claim that Trump appointed Dick Cheney or somehow appointed people in the nixon administration as that would be pretty absurd as he wasn't in politics back that.
(Btw the last part was brought to you by sarcasm. I know you didn't mean that but it is equally absurd as what you understood.
He didn't write "conflict of interest started with trump" (as I guess that's what you somehow understood), but that [at the moment the conflict of interest is brought to you by Trump].
@Jake Galler"but people like you labeled them conspiracy theorists"
You pretty much labeled yourself as stupid and blind at same time with this comment. What Tony R said, is "actually" on point. There arent many administrations in the US-history where you can say what he said with such certainity as with the actual administration. Stating this does by no means negate the fact, that a) corruption has always
existed and b) people have always talked about corruption
You in contrary are defending unspecified conspiracy theories which are (my assumption) unlikely to be favored here, but have never been part of any substantial critic of
corruption, especially when we are talking about big corporations connected to the government. This was always the area of leftleaning critics (who, by the way, did talk alot
about literally any case you mentioned). Who do you think was watching the daily show back then? Exactly, liberals and leftists or whoever is somewhat either one or other. And as for new and younger viewers, what do you expect from them?
Go back in time and critisize someone?
" I know for a fact you are schilling this thread"
You barely know anything about him except his comment and his blank profile. If i would go around and "yell" at every commenter "hey, i said/knew that alrdy years ago!!",
i d be yelling for weeks, but what gives? Worst case he ll get an upvote. Is that what makes you mad?
me 5 minutes into this: "I don't know how but I feel Trump screwed this up"
me at the end: "...f****"
iron duck honestly not much this guy can do. There are federal laws and national security policies in place to prevent disasters. What’s scarier is 5g might knock out a lot of the Weather systems and satellite tech because of the way the transmission waves work. That’s what I thought this was about. That’s why we have been on 4g tech for longer then 3g
@@ONEIL311 There's a lot he can do actually. What Accuweather wants to do is put the NOAA weather models and radar data behind paywalls, so only the big private corporations like Weather Channel, cable networks like NBC and Fox and Accuweather can afford the data. Weather enthusiasts, storm chasers, scientists, and scholars will no longer have free and easy access to this data, which means you will put your trust in large corporations to provide an accurate and clear forecast (which won't happen because every company will create their own warning system and create trademarks and copyrights for their weather, and have to pay for the premium data plans they create. Having a central agency has provided us with the best access to weather data anywhere in the world, and without, that give citizens access to their offices, models, and storm chaser information and classes for budding meteorlogists.
@@coherentpanda7115 and all tax payers would still have to pay for the agencies work. That's sheer madness
And surprisingly enough, Sharpiegate wasn't mentioned even once.
@@etekweb Same here. But seeing as his business-daddy is AT&T, a network corporation, even _if_ he'd've wanted to talk about the dangers 5G poses for the Weather Forcasting System, they probably put their foot-down on him even _hinting_ at the likely disturbances and interferences 5G will cause to the instruments and other equipment used by weather services world wide to observe minute oscillations of water molecules, which vibrate at about the same frequencies as 5G is clocked in to operate.
Of all the things that happened that year, you will be happy to know Barry Myers never became the Head of NOAA.
Can we, from here on out, refer to thunderstorms as “flashy flashy boom booms”.
2nd that
Please!
We used that for fireworks :/
it's sad that i only hear about this on an HBO comedy show instead of the network news channels.
Network News needs those sweet 3D disaster hologram packages. Otherwise, its just the weather. Add 3D, similar to Hollywood obsession, and now it is the MF WEATHER!! :D
Comedy has always been more honest and topical than news. The "fool" can say what the town crier cannot.
@Denam ya they give Peabody's for "propaganda"... Let him eat his own tail, he is obviously trying and failing to compensate for his lacking.
@World Python lol ok so are you saying Trump did not appoint this man or there's no conflict of interest. I want to understand the part that you think is propaganda? Because it's public knowledge, you can actually get the info yourself. I'm genuinely curious about your thoughts...
@World Python then what is the propaganda, whats the truth
Everytime I see an old man doing something sketchy and bad for the government I think "well they'll die soon" but then my dreams are crushed by hearing the old dude's family is also in the business
It's almost like the problem isn't the individuals but the system that enables and encourages them.
Mythical Potatoes ... so are you talking about the weather guy, or Trump? 😬
@@mscloudherder329 Or about both of them
@@antenna_prolly They tried that once, ran out of blades, so they gave up. Too bad.
I'm infinitely more qualified as a high school drop out who has never sexually assaulted anyone and listenes to climate scientists. I'll take the job.
But you won't get it because of credentialism!
I'm not interested in being corrupt. Can I be involved in your campaign? I'm much more qualified than Paul Manafort ever was.
And believe you me, with adamant poof to your claim, I'd hire you and throw that crusty scab out the door
faster than he could say
"Partly cloudy"
I’m almost sure that nobody cares, but in the 80s Accuweather graphics it says that the USA has the world’s deepest snows, when in fact it’s actually Aomori, Japan.
In the 80' the world simply ended at the American coastline. Due to north there was that strange 'Not-the-US-but-they-speak-mostly-English-and-play-hockey' and to the south were 'Not-the-US-but-they-plow-and-harvest-our-fields'.
@@robertnett9793 I have no clue what you are talking about.
I didn't know that.
@@TheStevehuff I talk as an outsider looking in. But a few years back it seemed on one hand that US foreign policy was all over the world, while the majority of it's inhabitants (again speaking from an outside perspective) didn't have much of a clue what's going on outside their borders.
So Accuweather isn't even accurate?
My younger brother is almost done with his meteorology bachelor's, does his internships with NOAA, and we got to hear an absolute earfull about AccuWeather. More to come over Thanksgiving I'm sure :')
LOL. Some idjut that contracted for them comes to my wensday coffe clutch sometimes. On the webyweb side as he puts he'd rather have a steam gun up the ass then to work for those inept, corrosive acid filled cheepskate assholes ever again. If you use google to get the weather that's some of his(Brian's) teams work. I have no idea google still gets data from AcuWeather.
Their's about 10k things wrong with how they (litterally) store the data. Like fucking excell spread sheets.
More stories about the evil 💩s at Accuweather, please! We need all the dirt about these creepy sociopaths made public!
@@gorkskoal9315 "Cool story bro" .. meh story
Great, then ask him about “Global Climate Destabilization “, of which warming is secondary and proxy to...
Enjoy the holidays..
You’re fucked
🤗🔴⚪️🔵
Be sure to provide him with this visual context...
I’m sure you will
Puff puff pass 🌬💨💨💨
And I thought talking about the weather was the go to safest topic to avoid families infighting, due to political, philosphical or religious differences. Now that is all gone. Thank you trump administration for ruining "the weather". I guess we can't talk about Eddie Vedder too now, damn it.
It's so unnerving how so many Americans see cooperation as weakness.
Yeah and the reality is we couldn't be self sustaining even if we wanted to, and we don't. Our current president just wants to take from countries and not defend them as allies, in turn turning them against us. Now the world may not be falling on us (yet), but the precedent has been set and most of us can already tell where it's headed. The sad part is, we can change this, but given the support still in place for this bs, it wont be worked on any time soon.
Everything is seen s zero-sum in the States.
It's not alone, sadly. A lot of countries are turning away from international cooperation and institutions that helped everyone's lives become better and safer. Britain is the big example, but all the nationalist populist stuff in lots of countries has a similar attitude.
It's more that they see it as lost market share.
@World Python That's some quality whataboutism
John Oliver imitating
Eddie Vedder's voice is priceless,
comedy awesomeness!
Last Week Tonight is one of the best shows on HBO!
John Oliver rocks!
Watching this in October 2020 is bizarre. There’s a live audience and everything is so light hearted. It feels like we’re skipping down a magical rainbow path, arm in arm, without needing to social distance because there isn’t a pandemic.
Don't worry, in 2 years we can go back to social distance for self-indulgence and general distrust and resentment. Probably...
It’s kind of hard to think of about anything connected to the Trump administration as connected to the words “magical rainbow path,” even _before_ his documented botches with regards to the COVID pandemic.
Weather: that thing the president of the United States thinks he can alter with a sharpie.
That's a good one lol
He is a genius beyond human understanding.
Don't forget that time he was asking if was good idea nuke a hurricane.
@@4578684SC Which presidents and scientists have been asking since Ike back in the 50s. Short answer : No, Long answer : Yes, but with need for a megaton class warhead and accuracy only granted as recent as the late 80s with the Peacekeeper ICBM (But no ICBM has been capable of carrying a Megaton class warhead since the Atlas in the 60s.)
Oddly enough there are nukes with almost no radioactive footprint but the emp... That would probably knock out the eastern seaboard.
John Oliver.
Because he's the hero Earth deserves, AND the one it needs right now.
I mean, earth could need someone like superman too
@@Leo-xz7tv too expensive
@@CooperAATE ah shit
@@Leo-xz7tv Haha yeah I agree, but remember the massive amount of collateral damage caused in Zack Snyder's controversial depiction of Superman in Man of Steel? I couldn't believe my eyes!
Just a few off the top of my head.
1) Completely wrecked the vehicle of the rude guy who provoked him in the bar scene.
2) Violently smashing a government surveillance satellite right at the foot of a general to intimidate them into not trying to spy on him anymore, which is a very thinly-veiled threat.
3) My favourite part was when he casually hops over a fuel truck instead of easily stopping it, which then explodes behind him, leveling yet another entire building structure.
( czcams.com/video/FGL4-sXko9w/video.html @ 0:52 )
Snyder jokes aside, I still enjoyed Man of Steel, but the REAL Superman would definitely be awesome to have as a protector of Earth, but John Oliver's far more entertaining/informative. :D
More like John and his crew.
I have driven past NOAA's head quarters many times and never really realized how vital they were. Thank you, John, for enlightening me.
When he imitated Eddie Vedder, I almost peed myself i was laughing so hard
I didn't know how much I needed to hear John Oliver's Eddie. Fulfilling.
In a conversation: Urgh, talking about the weather is so boring
John Oliver posts a video: Oh boy, the weather! Hell yeah!
Sansho want to know something scarier then this dude being in charge of the weather service?
Same here
@Tayce Sells Weather is wet.
lol
"In this week's reason not to move to USA"
Nice and reasonable people in the US should just make a collective walk-out and spread all over the world and make the places they go to better. Then we should let the people who remain in the US build a giant wall all around the US - because that is of course what they'd want to do - and only deal with them if they start bombing other countries from inside of the US or if they produce too many greenhouse gas emissions.
@@camelopardalis84 Put a big roof on top of the wall (lot of them believe in a dome overhead anyways) and watch it crash and burn inside, instead of crashing and burning the entire world
This week's reason not to move to the USA? Because the National Weather Service is a tremendous scientific organization providing an essential government service to the public for free?
@Josh Hadley yeah lousy farmers with their goddamn subsidies.
@Josh Hadley Do you lot get welfare for mental disabilities? You seem to speak from experience there.
The Eddie Vedder impersonation= Pure gold
Who's the weather dude that snapped in the beginning? He was awesome, I hope he still got that job!
Today's forecast: Nepotism, conflicts of interest and sexual harassment.
#ThisIsAmerica
You fergot, 90% chance of gross utter utter inept failure, fallowed 99% chance of Storm Anus and ClusterFuck Explosions, with Heavy Twitter Storms, and neaderthal level explosions.
@@gorkskoal9315 Dude... Read that shit you just wrote. I think you know what I'm getting at.
Don't forget unregulated capitalism
Who would've a thought an orange daughter-pumpin pawnstar rawdawgin mini-mushroom would do this?
*Sees the title:* Even weather is wrong in America?
... aaah
Depends on the state
Ever heard of Michael Fish?
oh poo
@@Jose-mf3br this
Yes everything is wrong in and with America
how to go from walthy to disgustingly rich:
- take something owned by everyone, payed for by everyone (weather service)
- lobby politicians to privatize it
- buy it
- charge fees
- call anyone who has a problem with this a socialist
Just an update: Barry withdrew his name from nomination consideration in November of 2019. He cited health concerns, but that’s good.
Thanks!
Thank you 🎉❤
*The ability to cooperate with others is an evolutionary advantage.*
Yep, nature figuring that out is what lead to us!
That's very well said and it's what made our species go through. There is a study on that, made with chimpanzee who are not able to cooperate and share food...while bonobos where able to catch food when cooperation and then sharing it.
@@lightarrow1684 Indeed, it's why us an ultrasocial organism capable of working in groups of billions of unrelated individuals is the most successful and transformative the earth has ever seen.
@@lightarrow1684 Bonobos are just awesome in general
@@fandomguy8025 I don't think nature wanted to create a supervillain/psychopath lifeform capable of decimating (on accident or on a whim) all life on the planet.
(That isn't natural selection 'cause it's not humans running an evo race with other things and the other things just couldn't keep up, it's that humankind's creations then went on to have far-reaching extraneous impacts that make life unsustainable for itself and others.)
It’s almost like capitalism doesn’t care about the well being of humans that aren’t rich
Predatory capitalism will eat itself,
Just almost 🤔
@@leftjab276 Yes sadly it might take the planet and innocent people with is
Bingo
makes you think 🤔🤔🤔
"He ruins everything" is pretty much how history books is going to remember Trump in the future.
Depends on who wins
@@gonnzoGonnzales doesn't matter. Even if the Republicans win they will still write him off as "he ruins everything," since he actively torpedoes any attempt at damage control with his insane behavior.
It's like he is the opposite of Midas.
@@BeenSauce everything he touches turns to shit.
Wow I didn’t even stop to consider that one day kids will have to read about him in text books. I would love to go into the future and read that chapter.
Only good thing happened in this quarantine was I found John Oliver. He"s a gem.
at the start i was like: all sounds nice and fine why is john talking about this then?
me 5 mins later: of course trump has to be what was wrong with weather
Of course lol 😂 I'm no left but yeah he and his cabinet's funny (!)
Is he wrong? Or did Trump literally do the same thing he's done with every vacancy and fill it with a private business owner with a clear conflict of interest and a tendency to abuse it?
@@Saintly Yea. It's just hard to remember everything cause he makes awful choices throughout the government every four days or so. You kinda end up forgetting about what he did last week thinking about what he did just this week.
Trump is the cancer that grows on anal cancer.
Orange Man Bad
Joel and Barry Myers: The Koch Brothers of Weather
HE'S WITHDRAWN HIS NOMINATION! WOOOOOOOT!
Tuffsmoygles really ?
Even if you're not a pilot, the Aviation Weather Center is one of the best resources. Use it everyday, thank you NOAA!
Last Week Tonight: turning dry information into state-of-the-art entertainment since 2014.
Mark Hashman
This is an excellent comment.
@@Bellpower20 Thanks much!
This comment is *john oliver voice* excellent
@@MoonyLupa Much appreciated!
"Who lost WWII? Britain for accepting help" I lost it LOL
Actually an opinion you can read a lot on History related videos.
And Germany won, for not accepting help but stabbing partners in the back or loosely aligning with partners who bring the US into the war.
@@TBFSJjunior hahahahaha
Did you ever find it again?
@@whocantexplain
There is a German comedian (yes I know) who has a great routine about WW2 "breaking out". So as it broke out in Germany, Germany tried to be nice and followed the war around Europe trying to catch it. Etc.
John Oliver is a public treasure
That newscaster in the beginning 🤣🤣🤣 GOLD!!!
You have been ruining my Monday classes for 5 years now man.
Edward Delugo 😂😂
Shoot the messenger? Is it really John ruining your Monday classes, or is it the bullshit going on in the world that he’s informing the rest of us about ruining your Monday classes?
😂
Take a nap before hand. Problem solved hehe
so how many more years before you graduate?
"WHY...WHY NOT FIND ANOTHER GUY? ANY OTHER GUY"
Literally, since 2016 everything is WHY...WHYYYY...WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Also since 2016: We never thought we needed to explain this, but here we are...
@Mawmaw Sue trump 2020? I hope not. Then again, it's not up to me to decide.
@Mawmaw Sue this person is a bot. Keeps pasting the same thing
BECAUSE IF HE FINDS ANOTHER GUY THEY'LL DELAY THEM TOO. IT'S NOT ABOUT TRUMP'S APPOINTMENTS, IT'S ABOUT STOPPING TRUMP. LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED WITH KAVANAGH.
John Oliver swears! He's just a ordinary guy like all of us
Would like to say as of November 20th Barry Myers has withdrawn his nomination.
11:52
“And at this point you can probably guess what’s coming”
This sentence is depressing, accurate but depressing
Though I have to admit I’ve been waiting for Trump to pop up for 11 minutes
Last time I was this early the hurricane WAS going to hit Alabama
Very sharp joke you made! 😆
How about the last time you reused old jokes with a twist just hoping for a thumbs up. Have a finger instead 🖕🏻
@@DaPoopIsInDaPudding Since my joke was regarding the ocean, its always good to recycle. #savetheturtles
@@DaPoopIsInDaPudding ok your name is gold.
James Barnum wow that was smooth
As meteorological scientist, I can tell you that the european model is one of the most reliable ones out there, especialy when it comes to hurricane/storm predictions, even though we have ours here in Morocco called Aladin, I still allways consult it before making my final predictions, especialy in winter.
1:45 that comment about the rest of the months being trash for NYC is on point with what’s happening right now
aurelien 57 for real! They didn’t know how scarily right they would be for new york
Same for Denver
The 4 seasons of Australia:
Summer, Summer light, Summer and The floor is lava
oh sorry, I meant to say "oh nooo I've been geoblocked I can't see this video"
Or in recent weeks. "Everyhing is fire"
MotoCat I mean.... in Melbourne we get a solid winter. So it’s like “Hell, Hell LTE, Rain and Floods, Hayfever” - in one day.
"...a couple of dozen people were killed, but the railroads did not lose anything." Hooray for the rich!
Walt F.
This looks like a line from Atlas Shrugged 🤷♀️
@@margaritam.9118 Ugh, I can't read that horrible trash.
Walt F., my mom read it to get a better understanding of some libertarians. The whole time, she had awful dreams, and every conversation would get back to how terrible it was! It’s like the mad ranting of a person with narcissistic personality disorder, and the main character is a Mary Sue!
@@evilsharkey8954 That's one of the best, most succinct summaries of the book I've ever read.
Not sure what's worse: The fact that he's gloating trains & their goods weren't damaged in comparison to people losing their lives or the fact that he not so subtly insinuated the town wouldn't have lost anyone if they'd used HIS company's services.
"This video offended me"
-Magnus, storm.
*tries to get the coastline cancelled*
@@ichijofestival2576 you're kid would have instant respect with that name.
"I need more winter storm money."
-Anus, storm.
@@companerger9416 Anus Storm sounds like a real anus.
A porn name if I ever heard one.
The whole “businessmen in the government agency that regulates his former business” thing also occurs with foodstuffs
7:18 "winter storms EVEN FLOW"
*Eddie Vedder intensifies again*
"Everything Trump does is designed to destroy government from the INSIDE."
Truer words were never spoken. Grover Norquist must be SO proud...
It's been pretty standard since at least Reagan to place industry folks in charge of applicable departments, to hobble regulatory enforcement, because they worship at the altar of business, er, I mean greed.
And Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, and other folks who hate democracy.
Is he destroying it or just not playing ball? People aren't getting their money through corruption and lies and they're really pissed. Trump need to cut off tax payer money to Soros NGO's next.
@@mikespongili8254 Privatization has ruined America,started with Reagan breaking the unions, putting former local jobs that were under the auspices of government,in the hands of a few who rape the system, then move on and do it again, all to the detriment of the American wage earner. Face it there have been No raises since 1981 that have come close to keeping up w/ the cost of living index. Benedict Orangehole is a nasty jANUS that needs to be removed!
@@CasiodorusRex sooooooo, the government not charging people to help them avoid tornados is corrupt how?
Hadn't heard Myers was nominated to be the undersecretary of Commerce for NOAA and I'm so angry. Also not surprised about the sexual harassment accusations given meteorology is a largely male-dominated field despite the fact that so many weather people on TV are women.
As someone who had the pleasure of interning for the NWS, this piece meant a lot to me. The people working at the NWS are underpaid and overworked and yet almost all of them friendly, devoted to their work, and hardworking in general.
Also, most meteorologists I studied with don't even think Accuweather is that, well, accurate. I did research on the efficacy of that 45-day forecast and it was worse than using historical averages.
I assumed that that was what that 45 day forecast was. Historical averages combined with a tiny bit of contextual awareness.
I hate when AccuWeather pops up on my phone automatically. WhatTheForecast is going on there.
Also I freaking love the NWS and the NHC; this was my first hurricane season down here in Florida and I was tuning into the NHC Facebook lives every day and looking up the forecasts on their website. Got me through my first hurricane safe and unharmed, didn’t even lose power. I felt safe knowing who was doing the forecasting, and that they could also teach so well that I came out of it knowing so much more about hurricanes. I have deep, deep respect for meteorologists and a newfound love for NOAA, the NWS and the NHC❤️
I am sure Moscow Mitch and the rest of the deplorables, wanted to slip that through, with no one noticing.
@@Silverhawk100 It didn't even seem to be that. We did about 6 months of data collection and compared to the historical averages, it was worse.
I'd love to comment, but it is November 2019 and about one quarter of my country is on fire...
But hey! Best of luck to everyone else!
Cheers from Australia.
Wait how did you guys get set on fire!!!
@@Sonichero151 It's almost summer, it's hot as shit, many places are in drought, and everything is combusting. But apparently Climate Change isn't real. And it';s not even summer yet
@@Sonichero151 Please tell me you are joking.
don't let these corrupt fucking trogs in parliament get away with this shit. they are killing us.
Same :( and they refuse to talk about climate change in parliament because it would be 'politicising' an emergency.. an emergency we face every year, and it's getting worse. Good god. Down in Vic the weather is only just starting to heat up but we're gearing up for a particularly scary summer.
Why not find another guy? I bet it's cuz any qualified person would be sounding the alarm on extreme weather irregularities from rapid climate change
Suck on that one, sit on this one-
John Oliver 2019
Another marvelous and brilliant exposé of the ruthless selfish greed that fits so well into the present zeitgeist:
“What’s in it for ME”, and “To Hell with everyone else.”
Me: "I need a nice weather app. Oh, Accuweather looks good". Downloads the app.
John Oliver: "Let me tell you about that company".
Me: "Damn it John Oliver. Not again!" Deletes the app. "URRRGH"
Do not go to Accuweather because they had 1980s graphics in the 1980s
@@nmarbletoe8210 That.... that's really all you got from this?
@@beth8775 I'm just astounded that a comic thinks it's funny or informative to talk about graphics for 1 minute 40 seconds.
John is great but he's hit or miss, and maybe needs an editor.
He only informs you because he cares.
@@tomhill3248 I know.
Dear John & Crew of Last Week Tonight: Could you do an expose' on the predatory practices of ASCAP/BMI/SESAC? They are causing small businesses to shut their doors, and putting independent musicians out of work all over the country. And no one can say anything, because they don't want to attract their attention. I feel you might be the only ones who can help. Thanks for the important work you do...
John Oliver: the only person who can make me excited for 16 minute weather segment
Finally something where I must say : This crap is happening in my country too. The "german weather service" is not allowed to give away their data for free in their own app.
lol, why am I not surprised. xD I went to Germany few years ago and we had to pay for everything! You can't even walk in a random castle area without paying entrance fee.
Or maybe this is just the case in Berlin.
Laylla's Locker
Usually you have to pay if you want to get inside a castle (museum), walking around on the outside is most of the time for free.
Of course maintaining castles is pretty expensive, thus the entrance fee helps to pay for restoration.
As far as I know that’s basically also the case in the other European countries.
I've been here (Germany) for a year and no one seems to know if it's more capitalist or more socialist
Nick Chris that’s why it’s called social market economy 🙈
@@Strat94able what does that mean
I don't know why, but Weatherman John is my favorite John.
A few years ago, the forecast from Wellington, NZ the day after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake was "who cares, so long as the ground stays still."
I suggest calling the weird stunt he pulls at the very end of every show the "John Oliver Twist"
"The ol'John Oliver Twist"
The terrifying thing is that he doesnt need to talk to his family about anything in order to benefit them. All he needs to do is make the national weather service a shitty as possible and capitalism will do the rest.
That's basically what Trump did to the EPA, unfortunately.
@@aurorawolfe6060 Trump has been doing that with a lot of government agencies. Getting rid of them would be too difficult and draw a lot of attention, so he guts them to the point where they're useless.
It's a brilliant strategy; make government as ineffective as possible, then suggest the private companies take over as a viable alternative, thus privatizing a vital source of information, meaning people may (and eventually will) start having to pay for the service. And then said private firms will fight hard with lobbying and politicians to ensure that we cannot go back to the old system.
@@johnathanbarnes8639 It's what they've been doing to the VA. They've been gutting it so they can try to sell idiots on the idea of privatizing the VA. Cause you know, trying to make the VA a profitable business is what my disabled veteran ass needs the most.
It is called starving the beast and it is a tactic that Republicans have used for a while now.
I’ll be calling lightnings “flashy flashy boom booms” from now on.
I think out of all of the weather channels'' over the top cgi weather segments, the flooding ones are actually one of the best; they do a really good job of putting into perspective how deep and powerful those flooding disasters can be.
"We recieve 2/3rds more information than we give."
Trump: "We're clearly on the losing end of this deal."
Flunked 3 - 6 grade arithmetic and well.....
To be fair, the 2/3rds is the rest of the world combined so... Per nation bases US is at the losing end of that deal. That is just simple 3-6 grade arithmetic.
TheZeroNeonix anyone under Trump's Regime, where they are draining the swamp and filling it with the swampiest critters i.e. rich sacks 'o $hite who don't give any fox about a city full of people, but save the goods that are paid for by the people paying them. #goonsquad #TrumpsaTraitor #OrganizedCrime #Classist #CapitalistinGovernment #PeopleinDanger #NoFox2Give
@@hoffer54 xxxnxxx xxxnxxx xxxnxxx xxxnxxxl
Let me fix the math for you: US receives 2 (TWO) times more information than they give.
"Everyone complains about the weather but no one ever does anything about it." - Mark Twain.
@@DMVGREY Mark Twain was an American humorist who died in 1910?? I don't think he put that much thought into his joke...
@@DMVGREY He didn't put that much thought in it because he is one of the greatest American writers in History, A joke came to him like being confused comes to you. I put question marks at the end of the sentence because I was honestly shocked that you didn't know who Mark Twain was. He's probably the most Famous American writer, he's the Charles Dickens of America (Except he's funny). Honestly the Joke doesn't mean anything... It's just supposed to make you chuckle or grin.
@@DMVGREY We're also causing global warming, and we could work harder to stop causing it.
Everyone with half a brain just looks at our tax payer funded nws loop of the radar... free and funded by nasa, cant be beat by any weather person
Fast forward a hundred years and we're all roasting.
My favorite part of this episode was the audience's reaction to that cancer joke.
Thank you John Oliver for opening my eyes and mind to an issue I had no idea about. I immediately deleted accu weather off my phone.
Please do a show about the paywall for scientific articles.
He talked about something like that I believe in this episode. czcams.com/video/0Rnq1NpHdmw/video.html
I think he actually did do this at some point. I am just not sure when
Protip, if you can find out who wrote the article, there are literally no laws barring a scientist from sharing their articles. Just email them and most of them will be glad to give you an article for free.
czcams.com/video/bq2_wSsDwkQ/video.html
@@scowlinsun I think the bigger issue is getting the funding to do accurate, repeatable (and repeated) research.
This made me depressed, and then very, *_very_* angry. Looks like we've got another Ajit Pai situation on our hands.
Dammit, Trump... Peoples *_lives_* are at stake here!
Oh yeah, I forgot about på-guy... Fuck him.
Floating Sunfish If its not his life, his family's or his fellow elites that he's catering to Trump couldn't give a shit less about any other lives. He acts as if hes some populist while every action he takes tells a different story and somehow there are people out there that still believe Trump is looking out for them, lol.
Based on his recent actions regarding the Kurds and Turkey, I think it's safe to say he doesnt give a fuck about human lives.
You 're talking about a guy who tossed away Kurdish lives on a whim.
Bold of you to assume Trump ever cared about any life that didn’t have his last name.
Amazing Eddie Vedder Impression
Brilliant that an 'unsexy' topic like the Weather is deemed worthy of an episode. Hats off to the LWT team.