1 00:00:11,444 --> 00:00:16,182 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:16,249 --> 00:00:23,390 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:23,456 --> 00:00:29,796 ♪ ♪ 4 00:00:29,863 --> 00:00:35,235 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 5 00:00:35,301 --> 00:00:36,369 >> John: WELCOME, WELCOME, 6 00:00:36,436 --> 00:00:38,705 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT!" 7 00:00:38,772 --> 00:00:41,074 I'M JOHN OLIVER, THANK YOU SO 8 00:00:41,141 --> 00:00:41,574 MUCH FOR JOINING US, AND 9 00:00:41,641 --> 00:00:42,075 NORMALLY, THIS IS WHERE 10 00:00:42,142 --> 00:00:42,675 WE'D DO A QUICK RECAP OF THE 11 00:00:42,742 --> 00:00:44,110 WEEK. 12 00:00:44,177 --> 00:00:45,678 BUT, AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED, 13 00:00:45,745 --> 00:00:49,649 WE'VE BEEN OFF AIR FOR THE LAST 14 00:00:49,716 --> 00:00:50,517 FIVE MONTHS DUE TO THE WRITERS 15 00:00:50,583 --> 00:00:51,851 STRIKE -- WHICH I'M VERY HAPPY 16 00:00:51,918 --> 00:00:52,519 TO SAY IS OVER, AND EVEN HAPPIER 17 00:00:52,585 --> 00:00:54,120 TO SAY WAS SUCCESSFUL. 18 00:00:54,187 --> 00:00:56,122 SO INSTEAD OF RECAPPING THE LAST 19 00:00:56,189 --> 00:00:57,690 WEEK, WE'RE GOING TO START BY 20 00:00:57,757 --> 00:00:58,591 RECAPPING EVERYTHING THAT'S 21 00:00:58,658 --> 00:01:00,527 HAPPENED IN THE LAST FIVE 22 00:01:00,593 --> 00:01:01,961 MONTHS -- WHICH HAS BEEN A LOT. 23 00:01:02,028 --> 00:01:03,096 AND WE'LL BEGIN IN THE U.S. 24 00:01:03,163 --> 00:01:06,499 SENATE WITH THIS: 25 00:01:06,566 --> 00:01:07,267 >> I GOT A NEW STRAP -- 26 00:01:07,333 --> 00:01:11,404 STRAP-ON HARNESS TODAY. 27 00:01:11,471 --> 00:01:14,641 I CAN'T WAIT TO PUT IT ON YOU. 28 00:01:14,707 --> 00:01:16,676 IT WILL FIT MY FAVORITE DILDO 29 00:01:16,743 --> 00:01:17,944 PERFECTLY. 30 00:01:18,011 --> 00:01:20,580 YOU'RE GOING TO LOOKO HOT. 31 00:01:20,647 --> 00:01:22,215 I CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE YOUR COCK 32 00:01:22,282 --> 00:01:23,650 IN MY MOUTH. 33 00:01:23,716 --> 00:01:25,585 I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THE 34 00:01:25,652 --> 00:01:27,654 BLOWJOB OF YOUR LIFE THEN I WANT 35 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,323 YOU INSIDE OF ME. 36 00:01:30,390 --> 00:01:31,524 >> John: LOOK. 37 00:01:31,591 --> 00:01:32,358 I KNOW YOU MAY HAVE BEEN 38 00:01:32,425 --> 00:01:33,460 WONDERING, "WHAT'RE THEY GOING 39 00:01:33,526 --> 00:01:34,093 TO TALK ABOUT WHEN THEY COME 40 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,763 BACK? 41 00:01:36,830 --> 00:01:37,363 WHAT IS SO IMPORTANT IT HAS TO 42 00:01:37,430 --> 00:01:37,964 BE THE FIRST THING THEY BRING 43 00:01:38,031 --> 00:01:39,098 UP?" 44 00:01:39,165 --> 00:01:42,202 WELL, IT'S THIS. 45 00:01:42,268 --> 00:01:42,769 SINCE THE MOMENT THE PHRASE 46 00:01:42,836 --> 00:01:43,403 "STRAP-ON HARNESS" CAREENED OUT 47 00:01:43,470 --> 00:01:44,737 OF SENATOR FOGHORN LEGHORN'S 48 00:01:44,804 --> 00:01:46,773 MOUTH, IT WAS ALWAYS THIS. 49 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:47,807 AND SURE, HE STUMBLES ON 50 00:01:47,874 --> 00:01:48,708 "STRAP-ON," BUT HE GLIDES 51 00:01:48,775 --> 00:01:52,645 BEAUTIFULLY THROUGH 52 00:01:52,712 --> 00:01:53,847 DOESN'T FALTER FOR A SECOND ON 53 00:01:53,913 --> 00:01:55,014 "COCK IN MY MOUTH," 54 00:01:55,081 --> 00:01:55,648 THEN STICKS THE LANDING ON 55 00:01:55,715 --> 00:01:56,716 "BLOWJOB OF YOUR LIFE" WHILE 56 00:01:56,783 --> 00:01:57,317 PUNCTUATING IT WITH A PERFECT 57 00:01:57,383 --> 00:02:00,220 LOOK DOWN HIS GLASSES. 58 00:02:00,286 --> 00:02:02,422 IT'S A TRULY SUBLIME 25 SECONDS, 59 00:02:02,489 --> 00:02:03,056 AND IF WE DIDN'T HAVE SO MUCH TO 60 00:02:03,122 --> 00:02:04,023 CATCH UP ON TONIGHT, I WOULD 61 00:02:04,090 --> 00:02:05,058 PLAY IT ON REPEAT FOR THE REST 62 00:02:05,124 --> 00:02:07,060 OF THE SHOW. 63 00:02:07,126 --> 00:02:08,595 BUT CLEARLY, A LOT MORE HAPPENED 64 00:02:08,661 --> 00:02:09,896 IN THE WORLD OF POLITICS. 65 00:02:09,963 --> 00:02:10,964 THE SUPREME COURT EFFECTIVELY 66 00:02:11,030 --> 00:02:12,599 BANNED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 67 00:02:12,665 --> 00:02:13,633 TRUMP WAS INDICTED MULTIPLE 68 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:14,834 TIMES, ONE OF WHICH GAVE US THIS 69 00:02:14,901 --> 00:02:16,336 MUG SHOT IN WHICH HE LOOKS LIKE 70 00:02:16,402 --> 00:02:17,604 HE'S STRUGGLING TO FIND WALDO ON 71 00:02:17,670 --> 00:02:20,473 A CROWDED SKI SLOPE. 72 00:02:20,540 --> 00:02:21,875 AND LAUREN BOEBERT WAS KICKED 73 00:02:21,941 --> 00:02:23,042 OUT OF A MUSICAL FOR 74 00:02:23,109 --> 00:02:24,244 INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR. 75 00:02:24,310 --> 00:02:25,478 AND WHILE I WOULD LOVE TO JOKE 76 00:02:25,545 --> 00:02:26,513 ABOUT THAT, I DON'T WANT TO GET 77 00:02:26,579 --> 00:02:27,680 BOGGED DOWN IN IT. 78 00:02:27,747 --> 00:02:28,414 AFTER ALL, SHE WAS KICKED OUT OF 79 00:02:28,481 --> 00:02:29,382 THE SHOW. 80 00:02:29,449 --> 00:02:30,450 THAT IS PROBABLY PUNISHMENT 81 00:02:30,517 --> 00:02:30,884 ENOUGH. 82 00:02:30,950 --> 00:02:32,185 SO INSTEAD WE'RE GOING TO MOVE 83 00:02:32,252 --> 00:02:33,419 ON TO ITALY, WHERE ECONOMIC 84 00:02:33,486 --> 00:02:35,288 PROBLEMS HAVE PUT REAL PRESSURE 85 00:02:35,355 --> 00:02:36,856 ON PRIME MINISTER GEORGIA 86 00:02:36,923 --> 00:02:38,391 MELONI'S UPCOMING BUDGET -- 87 00:02:38,458 --> 00:02:39,759 ALTHOUGH, YOU KNOW WHAT? 88 00:02:39,826 --> 00:02:41,060 JUST BRIEFLY, THE INAPPROPRIATE 89 00:02:41,127 --> 00:02:43,663 BEHAVIOR THAT BOEBERT ENGAGED IN 90 00:02:43,730 --> 00:02:45,365 APPARENTLY INVOLVED HER BEING 91 00:02:45,431 --> 00:02:46,165 LOUD AND REFUSING TO STOP VAPING 92 00:02:46,232 --> 00:02:49,702 AROUND A PREGNANT WOMAN. 93 00:02:49,769 --> 00:02:51,037 ALSO THERE WAS SOME FONDLING AND 94 00:02:51,104 --> 00:02:54,207 LIGHT OVER-THE-PANTS HAND STUFF 95 00:02:54,274 --> 00:02:55,141 WHICH WAS CAUGHT ON VIDEO. 96 00:02:55,208 --> 00:02:57,010 BUT AGAIN, I DON'T WANT TO GET 97 00:02:57,076 --> 00:02:57,744 INTO THAT TOO MUCH, BECAUSE IN 98 00:02:57,810 --> 00:02:58,912 ITALY, MARKETS ARE DUBIOUS THAT 99 00:02:58,978 --> 00:02:59,679 MELONI WILL BE ABLE TO -- 100 00:02:59,746 --> 00:03:03,316 IT WAS "BEETLEJUICE," BY THE 101 00:03:03,383 --> 00:03:04,183 WAY. 102 00:03:04,250 --> 00:03:07,854 THAT WAS THE MUSICAL 103 00:03:07,921 --> 00:03:09,222 LAUREN BOEBERT WAS WATCHING. 104 00:03:09,289 --> 00:03:09,822 IT WAS A TOURING PRODUCTION OF 105 00:03:09,889 --> 00:03:12,225 "BEETLEJUICE THE MUSICAL." 106 00:03:12,292 --> 00:03:13,126 I JUST NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT. 107 00:03:13,192 --> 00:03:13,760 I'M NOT SAYING IT'D BE 108 00:03:13,826 --> 00:03:14,561 APPROPRIATE TO ENGAGE IN HIGH 109 00:03:14,627 --> 00:03:15,161 SCHOOL FRESHMAN-ERA HAND STUFF 110 00:03:15,228 --> 00:03:16,229 DURING A PRODUCTION OF ANY 111 00:03:16,296 --> 00:03:16,896 MUSICAL, BUT I JUST WANTED TO BE 112 00:03:16,963 --> 00:03:18,364 ABSOLUTELY CLEAR THAT THIS 113 00:03:18,431 --> 00:03:19,666 WASN'T ONE OF THE MORE 114 00:03:19,732 --> 00:03:23,937 EXPLICITLY SEXUAL ONES 115 00:03:24,003 --> 00:03:24,737 LIKE "SPRING AWAKENING" OR 116 00:03:24,804 --> 00:03:27,040 "ROCKY HORROR" OR "CATS 117 00:03:27,106 --> 00:03:29,576 THIS WAS "BEETLEJUICE," A SHOW 118 00:03:29,642 --> 00:03:30,777 THAT'S QUITE LOUDLY ABOUT DEATH. 119 00:03:30,843 --> 00:03:31,444 I'M JUST SAYING, IF YOU'RE GOING 120 00:03:31,511 --> 00:03:32,378 TO GET YOUR NIPPLES TWEAKED AND 121 00:03:32,445 --> 00:03:33,780 YOUR PIPE SQUEAKED, YOU SAVE 122 00:03:33,846 --> 00:03:35,048 THAT SHIT FOR "FIDDLER" LIKE A 123 00:03:35,114 --> 00:03:36,849 GODDAMN ADULT. 124 00:03:36,916 --> 00:03:38,885 BUT AGAIN, IT'S AN OLD STORY, 125 00:03:38,952 --> 00:03:42,121 IT'S BEEN RESOLVED, AND IT 126 00:03:42,188 --> 00:03:43,523 FUNDAMENTALLY DOESN'T MATTER. 127 00:03:43,590 --> 00:03:44,857 WHAT MATTERS IS, IN ITALY, 128 00:03:44,924 --> 00:03:46,359 ECONOMIC GROWTH RATES ARE 129 00:03:46,426 --> 00:03:46,926 CAUSING SOME SIGNIFICANT -- 130 00:03:46,993 --> 00:03:49,862 SORRY, THERE IS JUST ONE MORE 131 00:03:49,929 --> 00:03:50,730 THING ABOUT LAUREN BOEBERT. 132 00:03:50,797 --> 00:03:51,965 REPORTS SAY THAT AFTER RECEIVING 133 00:03:52,031 --> 00:03:53,733 A WARNING AT INTERMISSION, THE 134 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:54,367 FINAL COMPLAINT THAT LED TO HER 135 00:03:54,434 --> 00:03:54,834 BEING KICKED OUT CAME 136 00:03:54,901 --> 00:03:56,135 FIVE MINUTES INTO ACT II. 137 00:03:56,202 --> 00:03:57,503 NOW, IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE SHOW, 138 00:03:57,570 --> 00:03:58,905 THAT PUTS US COMFORTABLY INTO 139 00:03:58,972 --> 00:04:00,373 "THAT BEAUTIFUL SOUND," A SONG 140 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:01,908 WHERE BEETLEJUICE AND LIDIA 141 00:04:01,975 --> 00:04:03,009 GLEEFULLY TORTURE A SERIES OF 142 00:04:03,076 --> 00:04:04,944 VISITORS INCLUDING A GIRL SCOUT, 143 00:04:05,011 --> 00:04:06,212 A PIZZA DELIVERY PERSON, AND ONE 144 00:04:06,279 --> 00:04:09,716 OF THEIR NEIGHBORS. 145 00:04:09,782 --> 00:04:10,516 IT'S A SONG ABOUT HOW THEY LIKE 146 00:04:10,583 --> 00:04:12,118 THE SOUND OF TORTURED SCREAMS. 147 00:04:12,185 --> 00:04:12,986 IS IT THE LEAST SEXY THING 148 00:04:13,052 --> 00:04:14,454 PERSON CAN SIT THROUGH? 149 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:14,621 NO. 150 00:04:14,687 --> 00:04:16,489 THAT WOULD BE THIS 151 00:04:16,556 --> 00:04:19,292 BUT IT IS UP THERE. 152 00:04:19,359 --> 00:04:20,126 ANYWAY, AS SHE WAS BEING 153 00:04:20,193 --> 00:04:20,793 ESCORTED OUT OF THE THEATER, SHE 154 00:04:20,860 --> 00:04:24,797 APPARENT SAID "DO YOU KNOW WHO 155 00:04:24,864 --> 00:04:25,965 I AM?" AND "I WILL BE CONTACTING 156 00:04:26,032 --> 00:04:26,532 THE MAYOR." 157 00:04:26,599 --> 00:04:27,166 WHICH ARE TWO JUST 158 00:04:27,233 --> 00:04:28,501 CATASTROPHICALLY BAD DECISIONS. 159 00:04:28,568 --> 00:04:29,902 IF YOU'VE BEEN CAUGHT FOR, 160 00:04:29,969 --> 00:04:31,971 AGAIN, SEXUAL ACTIVITY DURING 161 00:04:32,038 --> 00:04:37,076 "BEETLEJUICE THE MUSICAL," YOU'D 162 00:04:37,143 --> 00:04:38,378 HOPE NO ONE KNEW WHO YOU WERE 163 00:04:38,444 --> 00:04:39,012 AND YOU DEFINITELY WOULDN'T WANT 164 00:04:39,078 --> 00:04:40,013 TO IMMEDIATELY GET ON THE PHONE 165 00:04:40,079 --> 00:04:40,647 WITH THE MAYOR TO TELL HIM WHAT 166 00:04:40,713 --> 00:04:43,616 HAD JUST HAPPENED. 167 00:04:43,683 --> 00:04:48,021 AND THE THING IS, SADLY, THIS 168 00:04:48,087 --> 00:04:48,888 INCIDENT HAS NOW DERAILED ME SO 169 00:04:48,955 --> 00:04:49,689 MUCH, I DON'T EVEN HAVE TIME TO 170 00:04:49,756 --> 00:04:50,556 TALK ABOUT ITALY'S ECONOMIC 171 00:04:50,623 --> 00:04:51,157 STRUGGLES ANYMORE, SO -- MUCH 172 00:04:51,224 --> 00:04:52,091 LIKE LAUREN BOEBERT AND THE 173 00:04:52,158 --> 00:04:52,725 MUSICAL "BEETLEJUICE" -- YOU'LL 174 00:04:52,792 --> 00:04:53,292 NEVER GET TO KNOW HOW IT ALL 175 00:04:53,359 --> 00:04:56,529 TURNS OUT. 176 00:04:56,596 --> 00:04:57,630 INSTEAD, WE NEED TO CATCH UP ON 177 00:04:57,697 --> 00:04:58,197 WHAT HAPPENED IN NEWERSEY, 178 00:04:58,264 --> 00:04:58,931 WHOSE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR 179 00:04:58,998 --> 00:05:00,400 BOB MENENDEZ WAS INDICTED ON 180 00:05:00,466 --> 00:05:01,434 CORRUPTION CHARGES FOR ACCEPTING 181 00:05:01,501 --> 00:05:02,702 BRIBES TO AID LOCAL BUSINESSMEN 182 00:05:02,769 --> 00:05:03,436 AND BENEFIT THE EGYPTIAN 183 00:05:03,503 --> 00:05:04,437 GOVERNMENT. 184 00:05:04,504 --> 00:05:06,539 AND WHILE HE HAS DENIED THOSE 185 00:05:06,606 --> 00:05:08,474 CHARGES, SOME OF THE DETAILS 186 00:05:08,541 --> 00:05:09,642 LOOK PRETTY BAD. 187 00:05:09,709 --> 00:05:10,843 >> THE INDICTMENT ALLEGES 188 00:05:10,910 --> 00:05:13,046 MENENDEZ AND HIS WIFE RECEIVED 189 00:05:13,112 --> 00:05:13,846 NEARLY A HALF MILLION DOLLARS IN 190 00:05:13,913 --> 00:05:15,348 CASH AND $150,000 WORTH OF GOLD 191 00:05:15,415 --> 00:05:17,684 BARS. 192 00:05:17,750 --> 00:05:19,018 PROSECUTORS ALSO SAY THAT THE 193 00:05:19,085 --> 00:05:20,219 DAY AFTER THE TWO RETURNED FROM 194 00:05:20,286 --> 00:05:21,854 A TRIP TO EGYPT, MENENDEZ 195 00:05:21,921 --> 00:05:25,291 SEARCHED ONLINE, "HOW MUCH IS 196 00:05:25,358 --> 00:05:27,794 ONE KILO OF GOLD WORTH?" 197 00:05:27,860 --> 00:05:30,430 >> John: YEAH, NOT GREAT, BOB! 198 00:05:30,496 --> 00:05:32,432 THAT IS PRETTY INCRIMINATING. 199 00:05:32,498 --> 00:05:33,566 NO ONE CASUALLY GOOGLES "HOW 200 00:05:33,633 --> 00:05:35,101 MUCH IS ONE KILO OF GOLD WORTH?" 201 00:05:35,168 --> 00:05:37,437 BECAUSE THEY'RE BORED. 202 00:05:37,503 --> 00:05:38,905 THEY GOOGLE, "DO BUTTERFLIES 203 00:05:38,971 --> 00:05:40,373 FEEL PAIN WHEN THEY FWAP THEIR 204 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:41,474 WINGS?" 205 00:05:41,541 --> 00:05:42,809 "JUST HOW LITTLE LOVE CAN A 206 00:05:42,875 --> 00:05:43,876 PERSON LIVE ON?" 207 00:05:43,943 --> 00:05:44,844 AND "WHAT EXACTLY IS A 208 00:05:44,911 --> 00:05:47,213 TRAVIS KELCE?" 209 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:48,715 "HOW MUCH IS ONE KILO OF GOLD 210 00:05:48,781 --> 00:05:49,449 WORTH?" IS AN INHERENTLY 211 00:05:49,515 --> 00:05:50,917 INCRIMINATING GOOGLE SEARCH, 212 00:05:50,983 --> 00:05:55,421 IT'S RIGHT UP THERE WITH "CAN 213 00:05:55,488 --> 00:05:56,189 YOU SNORT ADDERALL" OR "HOW TO 214 00:05:56,255 --> 00:05:56,989 GET BLOODSTAINS OUT OF YOUR 215 00:05:57,056 --> 00:05:58,124 WIFE." 216 00:05:58,191 --> 00:05:58,991 AND IT'S NOT JUST MENENDEZ WHO'S 217 00:05:59,058 --> 00:06:01,160 BEEN IN LEGAL JEOPARDY -- 218 00:06:01,227 --> 00:06:01,994 PILLOW BARON MIKE LINDELL 219 00:06:02,061 --> 00:06:02,762 CONTINUES TO FACE LAWSUITS 220 00:06:02,829 --> 00:06:03,696 STEMMING FROM THE FALSE CLAIMS 221 00:06:03,763 --> 00:06:04,897 HE PROMOTED ABOUT VOTING 222 00:06:04,964 --> 00:06:05,932 MACHINES, AND A FEW WEEKS AGO, A 223 00:06:05,998 --> 00:06:07,734 DEPOSITION FROM ONE OF THOSE 224 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,302 CASES CAME OUT, FEATURING THIS 225 00:06:09,368 --> 00:06:10,803 SPECTACULAR MOMENT, AS HE 226 00:06:10,870 --> 00:06:11,471 DISCUSSED WHAT SORT OF 227 00:06:11,537 --> 00:06:13,072 CUSTOMER SERVICE CALLS HIS 228 00:06:13,139 --> 00:06:14,107 COMPANY GETS. 229 00:06:14,173 --> 00:06:15,441 >> OKAY. 230 00:06:15,508 --> 00:06:18,377 AND I'M NOT ASKING ABOUT THE 231 00:06:18,444 --> 00:06:20,713 LUMPY PILLOW CALLS. 232 00:06:20,780 --> 00:06:21,714 >> NO, THEY'RE NOT LUMPY 233 00:06:21,781 --> 00:06:22,348 PILLOWS. 234 00:06:22,415 --> 00:06:24,450 THAT'S NOT WHAT THEY CALL ON. 235 00:06:24,517 --> 00:06:25,585 OKAY. 236 00:06:25,651 --> 00:06:26,586 WHEN YOU SAY LUMPY PILLOWS, NOW 237 00:06:26,652 --> 00:06:27,220 YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE, YOU GOT THAT, 238 00:06:27,286 --> 00:06:28,121 YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE IS WHAT YOU 239 00:06:28,187 --> 00:06:28,821 ARE. 240 00:06:28,888 --> 00:06:30,256 >> MIKE, MIKE. 241 00:06:30,323 --> 00:06:31,891 >> NO, HE'S AN ASSHOLE. 242 00:06:31,958 --> 00:06:32,825 HE'S AN AMBULANCE-CHASING 243 00:06:32,892 --> 00:06:33,760 ASSHOLE. 244 00:06:33,826 --> 00:06:34,727 THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE. 245 00:06:34,794 --> 00:06:36,729 LUMPY PILLOWS? 246 00:06:36,796 --> 00:06:37,497 KISS MY ASS. 247 00:06:37,563 --> 00:06:39,699 >> John: YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE 248 00:06:39,766 --> 00:06:40,833 THING ABOUT MIKE LINDELL IS THAT 249 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:42,101 HE'S THE RARE EXAMPLE OF HOW 250 00:06:42,168 --> 00:06:42,735 RECOVERING FROM A CRACK 251 00:06:42,802 --> 00:06:44,170 ADDICTION CAN ACTIVELY MAKE YOU 252 00:06:44,237 --> 00:06:46,806 WORSE. 253 00:06:46,873 --> 00:06:48,641 ALTHOUGH, FOR THE RECORD, MIKE, 254 00:06:48,708 --> 00:06:50,276 IF THEY ARE NOT LUMPY PILLOWS, 255 00:06:50,343 --> 00:06:54,180 HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THIS AMAZON 256 00:06:54,247 --> 00:06:54,714 LISTING FOR YOUR PRODUCT, 257 00:06:54,781 --> 00:06:55,314 FEATURING A VERY REAL EXCHANGE 258 00:06:55,381 --> 00:06:56,415 IN WHICH ONE CUSTOMER ASKS 259 00:06:56,482 --> 00:06:56,983 "SHOULD IT BE THIS LUMPY AND 260 00:06:57,049 --> 00:06:59,619 FLAT? 261 00:06:59,685 --> 00:07:00,720 I JUST GOT IT." 262 00:07:00,787 --> 00:07:03,356 AND ANOTHER REPLIES "MINE WAS/IS 263 00:07:03,422 --> 00:07:04,223 LUMPY." 264 00:07:04,290 --> 00:07:04,857 OR THIS REVIEW TITLED, "IT IS A 265 00:07:04,924 --> 00:07:06,225 BAG O' LUMPS." 266 00:07:06,292 --> 00:07:07,727 OR THIS ONE TITLED "LUMPY," WITH 267 00:07:07,794 --> 00:07:12,765 WE ALSO MISSED A BCH OF 268 00:07:12,832 --> 00:07:13,566 INTERNATIONAL NEWS, LIKE THE 269 00:07:13,633 --> 00:07:18,437 CORONATION OF KING CHARLES, THE 270 00:07:18,504 --> 00:07:19,238 WORLD'S OLDEST BOY, DURING WHICH 271 00:07:19,305 --> 00:07:21,140 HE SAID "I COME NOT TO BE 272 00:07:21,207 --> 00:07:21,607 SERVED, BUT TO SERVE." 273 00:07:21,674 --> 00:07:22,708 ALTHOUGH HE CLEARLY DIDN'T MEAN 274 00:07:22,775 --> 00:07:23,442 THAT IN THE SENSE OF 275 00:07:23,509 --> 00:07:24,577 "SERVING LOOKS," GIVEN THAT THIS 276 00:07:24,644 --> 00:07:26,579 IS HIS OFFICIAL CORONATION 277 00:07:26,646 --> 00:07:29,749 PORTRAIT, IN WHICH HE SEEMS TO 278 00:07:29,816 --> 00:07:30,883 BE AIMING FOR "SUCCESSFUL PIMP" 279 00:07:30,950 --> 00:07:31,684 BUT ENDS UP LOOKING LIKE SOMEONE 280 00:07:31,751 --> 00:07:32,652 WEARING A SET OF TACKY DRAPES 281 00:07:32,718 --> 00:07:35,755 OVER A LAKERS JERSEY. 282 00:07:35,822 --> 00:07:37,390 ALSO, TURKEY HAD AN ELECTION, 283 00:07:37,456 --> 00:07:39,425 WHICH ERDOGAN NARROWLY WON. 284 00:07:39,492 --> 00:07:40,626 AND, FOR ABOUT A DAY AND A HALF, 285 00:07:40,693 --> 00:07:42,428 IT SEEMED LIKE THERE GENUINELY 286 00:07:42,495 --> 00:07:44,063 MIGHT BE A COUP IN RUSSIA, WHICH 287 00:07:44,130 --> 00:07:45,198 ENDED WITH ITS LEADER, 288 00:07:45,264 --> 00:07:48,668 YEVGENY PRIGOZHIN, ACCEPTING A 289 00:07:48,734 --> 00:07:49,235 WEIRD DEAL BROKERED BY THE 290 00:07:49,302 --> 00:07:49,869 BELARUSSIAN PRESIDENT, AND THEN 291 00:07:49,936 --> 00:07:50,636 DYING IN THE MOST PREDICTABLE 292 00:07:50,703 --> 00:07:53,873 PLANE CRASH OF ALL TIME. 293 00:07:53,940 --> 00:07:54,740 AND ON TOP OF ALL OF THAT, CHINA 294 00:07:54,807 --> 00:07:56,042 WAS SHAKEN TO THE CORE BY THIS 295 00:07:56,108 --> 00:07:57,977 CONTROVERSY: 296 00:07:58,044 --> 00:08:01,247 >> IT'S BIZARRE VIDEO OF A 297 00:08:01,314 --> 00:08:02,582 SPECIES KNOWN AS A SUN BEAR 298 00:08:02,648 --> 00:08:03,416 THAT'S LEADING EVERYONE TO ASK, 299 00:08:03,482 --> 00:08:04,650 "IS THAT REALLY A BEAR OR JUST A 300 00:08:04,717 --> 00:08:06,152 GUY IN A BEAR SUIT?" 301 00:08:06,219 --> 00:08:08,421 THE CREATURE, NAMED "ANGELA," 302 00:08:08,487 --> 00:08:11,390 STANDS UPRIGHT JUST LIKE A 303 00:08:11,457 --> 00:08:12,592 HUMAN, AND ARE THOSE WRINKLES? 304 00:08:12,658 --> 00:08:13,926 IT SURE GIVES THE IMPRESSION 305 00:08:13,993 --> 00:08:16,329 THAT IT'S A DUDE IN AN 306 00:08:16,395 --> 00:08:18,197 ILL-FITTING BEAR COSTUME. 307 00:08:18,264 --> 00:08:19,498 AND JUST LOOK AT THE WAY SHE 308 00:08:19,565 --> 00:08:20,867 WAVES. 309 00:08:20,933 --> 00:08:23,603 NOW CHINESE ZOO AUTHORITIES ARE 310 00:08:23,669 --> 00:08:24,570 SETTLING THE MYSTERY, DECLARING, 311 00:08:24,637 --> 00:08:26,172 "ANGELA IS DEFINITELY NOT A 312 00:08:26,239 --> 00:08:27,173 HUMAN." 313 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:28,541 >> John: HEY! 314 00:08:28,608 --> 00:08:29,809 HEY! 315 00:08:29,876 --> 00:08:31,277 EVERYONE! 316 00:08:31,344 --> 00:08:35,381 LEAVE ANGELA ALONE! 317 00:08:35,448 --> 00:08:35,982 STOP TALKING ABOUT HER AWKWARD 318 00:08:36,048 --> 00:08:36,883 WAVE AND WRINKLY BOTTOM. 319 00:08:36,949 --> 00:08:40,920 AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY I'M SO 320 00:08:40,987 --> 00:08:42,154 PERSONALLY INVESTED IN THIS -- 321 00:08:42,221 --> 00:08:43,723 SOME OF US NEVER GET TO SEE OUR 322 00:08:43,789 --> 00:08:45,057 EXACT BODY TYPE ON SCREEN, AND 323 00:08:45,124 --> 00:08:47,460 FINALLY I GET WHY REPRESENTATION 324 00:08:47,526 --> 00:08:48,694 MATTERS. 325 00:08:48,761 --> 00:08:50,329 AND SPEAKING OF REPRESENTATIONS 326 00:08:50,396 --> 00:08:51,264 OF ME SPECIFICALLY, BACK IN 327 00:08:51,330 --> 00:08:53,032 JUNE, AFTER REDDIT ANNOUNCED A 328 00:08:53,099 --> 00:08:54,600 NEW POLICY TO CHARGE THIRD-PARTY 329 00:08:54,667 --> 00:08:56,969 APPS FOR ACCESSING ITS DATA, 330 00:08:57,036 --> 00:08:58,571 MANY OF ITS MEMBERS ENGAGED IN A 331 00:08:58,638 --> 00:09:00,339 STRIKING PROTEST. 332 00:09:00,406 --> 00:09:01,474 >> SOME OF THE BIGGEST FORUMS ON 333 00:09:01,540 --> 00:09:03,442 REDDIT ARE BEING FLOODED WITH 334 00:09:03,509 --> 00:09:04,410 PHOTOS OF COMEDIAN JOHN OLIVER. 335 00:09:04,477 --> 00:09:07,713 THIS IS ALL TAKING PLACE OVER A 336 00:09:07,780 --> 00:09:08,648 PROTEST TO CHANGES ON HOW THE 337 00:09:08,714 --> 00:09:11,250 WEBSITE IS BEING RUN. 338 00:09:11,317 --> 00:09:12,051 TWO OF THE MOST POPULAR 339 00:09:12,118 --> 00:09:13,686 SO-CALLED SUBREDDITS HAVE 340 00:09:13,753 --> 00:09:14,820 DECIDED TO POST NOTHING BUT 341 00:09:14,887 --> 00:09:16,255 PHOTOS OF OLIVER. 342 00:09:16,322 --> 00:09:18,691 >> John: IT'S TRUE. 343 00:09:18,758 --> 00:09:19,525 FOR WEEKS, IMAGES OF ME WERE 344 00:09:19,592 --> 00:09:22,228 USED AS A FORM OF PROTEST ON 345 00:09:22,295 --> 00:09:22,929 SOME OF THE MOST POPULAR 346 00:09:22,995 --> 00:09:23,829 SUBREDDITS. 347 00:09:23,896 --> 00:09:24,430 AND TO THEIR CREDIT, THEY USED 348 00:09:24,497 --> 00:09:25,431 SOME PRETTY GOOD ONES, LIKE THIS 349 00:09:25,498 --> 00:09:27,400 ONE OF ME AS A MUPPET, 350 00:09:27,466 --> 00:09:28,567 THIS ONE OF ME AS A BLOBFISH, 351 00:09:28,634 --> 00:09:30,102 THIS ONE OF ME APPEARING IN A 352 00:09:30,169 --> 00:09:31,837 PIECE OF TOAST, 353 00:09:31,904 --> 00:09:33,005 AND MY PERSONAL FAVORITE, 354 00:09:33,072 --> 00:09:33,973 THIS ONE LABELED 355 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:38,010 "JOHN OLIVER WICK," 356 00:09:38,077 --> 00:09:40,212 WHICH IS A PRETTY GOOD WAY OF 357 00:09:40,279 --> 00:09:41,347 SHOWING YOU EXACTLY WHAT 358 00:09:41,414 --> 00:09:41,814 IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IF 359 00:09:41,881 --> 00:09:42,481 PROFESSOR SNAPE EVER COMMITTED 360 00:09:42,548 --> 00:09:43,349 ARMED ROBBERY. 361 00:09:43,416 --> 00:09:44,383 IT WAS A PRETTY INSPIRING ACT OF 362 00:09:44,450 --> 00:09:46,852 MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE, BUT JUST 363 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:50,756 WATCH AS TRYING TO EXPLAIN IT 364 00:09:50,823 --> 00:09:51,590 SEEMED TO BREAK THE BRAINS OF 365 00:09:51,657 --> 00:09:52,625 THAT LOCAL NEWS TEAM. 366 00:09:52,692 --> 00:09:54,226 >> I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS -- 367 00:09:54,293 --> 00:09:54,827 SO ARE THEY FOR JOHN OLIVER? 368 00:09:54,894 --> 00:09:55,761 >> I ACTUALLY -- 369 00:09:55,828 --> 00:09:56,162 >> OR AGAINST HIM? 370 00:09:56,228 --> 00:09:56,963 >> I -- I THINK THIS IS JUST 371 00:09:57,029 --> 00:09:58,164 PART OF THEIR-THEIR PROTEST. 372 00:09:58,230 --> 00:09:59,865 >> SO WE'RE GOING TO PUT UP 373 00:09:59,932 --> 00:10:01,300 SOMETHING THAT'S BORING, THAT 374 00:10:01,367 --> 00:10:03,302 NOBODY'S GOING TO CARE ABOUT. 375 00:10:03,369 --> 00:10:04,503 >> SILLY. 376 00:10:04,570 --> 00:10:05,371 >> IS THAT RIGHT? 377 00:10:05,438 --> 00:10:06,539 >> WELL, THIS SAYS -- MODERATORS 378 00:10:06,605 --> 00:10:07,306 OF A CERTAIN SUBREDDIT SAY THAT 379 00:10:07,373 --> 00:10:08,441 THEY'RE ONLY ALLOWING USERS TO 380 00:10:08,507 --> 00:10:09,308 POST PICTURES OF JOHN OLIVER 381 00:10:09,375 --> 00:10:10,609 "LOOKING SEXY." 382 00:10:10,676 --> 00:10:11,210 AND IN FACT -- 383 00:10:11,277 --> 00:10:12,378 [LAUGHS] 384 00:10:12,445 --> 00:10:13,012 ANY PICTURE OF THE COMEDIAN WAS 385 00:10:13,079 --> 00:10:13,779 ALLOWED BECAUSE JOHN OLIVER IS 386 00:10:13,846 --> 00:10:14,380 ALWAYS SEXY. 387 00:10:14,447 --> 00:10:15,014 SO YOU'RE SAYING BORING -- 388 00:10:15,081 --> 00:10:16,082 ACCORDING TO THE REDDIT USERS, 389 00:10:16,148 --> 00:10:16,582 THEY'RE DOING IT 'CAUSE 390 00:10:16,649 --> 00:10:18,117 HE'S SEXY. 391 00:10:18,184 --> 00:10:19,085 I DON'T KNOW! 392 00:10:19,151 --> 00:10:20,219 THIS IS ACCORDING TO THIS 393 00:10:20,286 --> 00:10:22,221 ARTICLE. 394 00:10:22,288 --> 00:10:23,189 >> John: OKAY, PUTTING MY 395 00:10:23,255 --> 00:10:24,757 FEELINGS ASIDE -- WHICH THEY 396 00:10:24,824 --> 00:10:30,496 CERTAINLY DID THERE -- WHY DOES 397 00:10:30,563 --> 00:10:31,797 IT SEEM LIKE EVERYONE ON THAT 398 00:10:31,864 --> 00:10:32,398 SHOW IS COMPLETELY UNPREPARED? 399 00:10:32,465 --> 00:10:32,965 THIS GUY IS CONFUSED BY THE 400 00:10:33,032 --> 00:10:33,499 STORY ENTIRELY, AND SHE'S 401 00:10:33,566 --> 00:10:36,202 GOOGLING IT LIVE ON AIR. 402 00:10:36,268 --> 00:10:37,136 IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE HOSTING AN 403 00:10:37,203 --> 00:10:38,471 IMPROV SHOW WHERE THE AUDIENCE 404 00:10:38,537 --> 00:10:39,238 GAVE THEM THE WORDS "REDDIT," 405 00:10:39,305 --> 00:10:41,207 "SEXY," AND "JOHN OLIVER," AND 406 00:10:41,273 --> 00:10:42,742 THEY HAD TO BUILD A SCENE AROUND 407 00:10:42,808 --> 00:10:43,142 THAT. 408 00:10:43,209 --> 00:10:44,377 OH, YOU KNOW WHAT OTHER MAJOR 409 00:10:44,443 --> 00:10:45,378 POP CULTURE NEWS WE MISSED? 410 00:10:45,444 --> 00:10:48,881 BARBENHEIMER! 411 00:10:48,948 --> 00:10:50,383 IT WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST MOVIE 412 00:10:50,449 --> 00:10:51,017 EVENTS OF THE SUMMER, ALONGSIDE 413 00:10:51,083 --> 00:10:52,451 "SOUND OF FREEDOM," THE 414 00:10:52,518 --> 00:10:53,252 FEEL-GOOD CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING 415 00:10:53,319 --> 00:10:56,489 HIT WE'D ALL BEEN WAITING FOR. 416 00:10:56,555 --> 00:10:57,690 ALTHOUGH I'D ARGUE, IF YOU'RE 417 00:10:57,757 --> 00:10:58,824 LOOKING FOR THE SINGLE-BEST 418 00:10:58,891 --> 00:11:00,960 MOVIE OF THE SUMMER, IT'S GOTTA 419 00:11:01,027 --> 00:11:02,795 BE "COP SLIDE": 420 00:11:02,862 --> 00:11:05,998 >> IT ALMOST HURTS TO WATCH. 421 00:11:06,065 --> 00:11:08,000 A POLICE OFFICER IS TAKING A 422 00:11:08,067 --> 00:11:10,036 QUICK BREAK, HEADING DOWN A 423 00:11:10,102 --> 00:11:11,270 POPULAR SLIDE. 424 00:11:11,337 --> 00:11:13,639 OUCH! 425 00:11:13,706 --> 00:11:14,340 IT'S LIKE HE'S SHOT OUT OF A 426 00:11:14,407 --> 00:11:17,410 CANNON. 427 00:11:17,476 --> 00:11:18,377 HE HITS THE GROUND HARD. 428 00:11:18,444 --> 00:11:19,545 >> John: YEAH. 429 00:11:19,612 --> 00:11:20,112 YEAH, HE DOES HIT THE GROUND 430 00:11:20,179 --> 00:11:23,215 HARD. 431 00:11:23,282 --> 00:11:24,216 AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. 432 00:11:24,283 --> 00:11:32,558 FROM THE SOUND OF HIM THUNDERING 433 00:11:32,625 --> 00:11:34,527 DOWN THE SLIDE, TO HIS COP TOYS 434 00:11:34,593 --> 00:11:35,261 FLYING. 435 00:11:35,327 --> 00:11:35,795 IT'S CINEMA AT ITS FINEST. 436 00:11:35,861 --> 00:11:36,429 IT'S NOT THE FIRST, AND IT WON'T 437 00:11:36,495 --> 00:11:36,996 BE THE LAST TIME THAT I SAY 438 00:11:37,063 --> 00:11:37,630 THIS, BUT "I WISH COPS TURNED ON 439 00:11:37,696 --> 00:11:38,097 THEIR BODY CAMS MORE." 440 00:11:38,164 --> 00:11:38,898 BECAUSE I'D LOVE TO HAVE SEEN 441 00:11:38,964 --> 00:11:39,498 THAT FROM INSIDE THE SLIDE AS 442 00:11:39,565 --> 00:11:39,899 WELL. 443 00:11:39,965 --> 00:11:40,733 "COP SLIDE" TOOK THE INTERNET BY 444 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,068 STORM, INSPIRING MEMES AND 445 00:11:42,134 --> 00:11:44,370 REMIXES, MY FAVORITE OF WHICH 446 00:11:44,437 --> 00:11:45,604 WAS THIS: 447 00:11:45,671 --> 00:11:47,039 >> ♪ PAIN STILL GROWS ♪ 448 00:11:47,106 --> 00:11:48,974 ♪ IT'S NO STRANGER TO YOU AND 449 00:11:49,041 --> 00:11:49,842 ME ♪ 450 00:11:49,909 --> 00:11:55,014 ATTLING] 451 00:11:55,081 --> 00:11:56,916 ♪ I CAN FEEL IT COMING IN THE 452 00:11:56,982 --> 00:12:03,556 AIR TONIGHT ♪ 453 00:12:03,622 --> 00:12:05,257 >> John: COME ON! 454 00:12:05,324 --> 00:12:05,758 EAT YOUR HEART OUT, 455 00:12:05,825 --> 00:12:06,559 "MIAMI VICE." 456 00:12:06,625 --> 00:12:07,059 THAT IS NOW THE ALL-TIME 457 00:12:07,126 --> 00:12:07,593 GREATEST USE OF THAT SONG. 458 00:12:07,660 --> 00:12:08,661 THE VIDEO WENT SO VIRAL, 459 00:12:08,727 --> 00:12:10,329 "BOSTON COP SLIDE" IS NOW LISTED 460 00:12:10,396 --> 00:12:12,064 ON GOOGLE MAPS. 461 00:12:12,131 --> 00:12:13,699 AND BECAUSE IT'S IN BOSTON, IT'S 462 00:12:13,766 --> 00:12:16,902 OF COURSE DOWN THE STREET FROM A 463 00:12:16,969 --> 00:12:17,770 DUNKIN', AND ACROSS THE PLAZA 464 00:12:17,837 --> 00:12:18,604 FROM ANOTHER DUNKIN', WHICH IS 465 00:12:18,671 --> 00:12:20,406 NEXT TO ANOTHER DUNKIN', WHICH 466 00:12:20,473 --> 00:12:21,640 IS ACROSS THE STREET FROM 467 00:12:21,707 --> 00:12:24,510 ANOTHER FUCKING DUNKIN'. 468 00:12:24,577 --> 00:12:26,545 THERE ARE FOUR DUNKIN'S WITHIN A 469 00:12:26,612 --> 00:12:27,480 ONE-BLOCK RADIUS OF COP SLIDE. 470 00:12:27,546 --> 00:12:28,414 AND IF YOU EXPAND IT A FEW 471 00:12:28,481 --> 00:12:28,914 BLOCKS, THERE ARE 13 OF 472 00:12:28,981 --> 00:12:31,917 THEM. 473 00:12:31,984 --> 00:12:32,651 BOSTON, YOU TRULY ARE A 474 00:12:32,718 --> 00:12:33,519 SELF-PARODY. 475 00:12:33,586 --> 00:12:35,488 THE POINT IS, WE MISSED SO MANY 476 00:12:35,554 --> 00:12:36,822 STORIES. 477 00:12:36,889 --> 00:12:38,057 I HAVEN'T EVEN BROUGHT UP THE 478 00:12:38,124 --> 00:12:41,060 TITAN SUBMERSIB! 479 00:12:41,127 --> 00:12:41,760 YEAH, WE MISSED THAT TOO! 480 00:12:41,827 --> 00:12:42,895 THAT WAS A WEIRD FEW DAYS, 481 00:12:42,962 --> 00:12:44,330 WASN'T IT? 482 00:12:44,396 --> 00:12:45,931 ALSO, THERE WAS A BATSHIT RAID 483 00:12:45,998 --> 00:12:47,233 ON A NEWSPAPER IN KANSAS, 484 00:12:47,299 --> 00:12:48,767 WILDFIRES IN MAUI, AND A 485 00:12:48,834 --> 00:12:49,902 SPECTACULAR BRAWL AT A DOCK IN 486 00:12:49,969 --> 00:12:51,003 MONTGOMERY WHERE SOME DRUNKEN 487 00:12:51,070 --> 00:12:52,138 WHITE ASSHOLES GOT THEIR ASSES 488 00:12:52,204 --> 00:12:53,305 AND A FOLDING CHAIR HANDED TO 489 00:12:53,372 --> 00:12:58,110 THEM. 490 00:12:58,177 --> 00:12:59,211 WE MISSED SO MUCH IT WOULD TAKE 491 00:12:59,278 --> 00:13:00,346 A WHOLE NEW VERSION OF 492 00:13:00,412 --> 00:13:00,946 BILLY JOEL'S "WE DIDN'T START 493 00:13:01,013 --> 00:13:01,814 THE FIRE" TO COVER IT. 494 00:13:01,881 --> 00:13:04,116 WHICH REMINDS OF SOMETHING ELSE 495 00:13:04,183 --> 00:13:05,284 WE MISSED: FALLOUT BOY RELEASED 496 00:13:05,351 --> 00:13:06,418 A NEW VERSION OF "WE DIDN'T 497 00:13:06,485 --> 00:13:08,754 START THE FIRE" THAT ABSOLUTELY 498 00:13:08,821 --> 00:13:09,822 NOBODY ASKED FOR, COVERING THE 499 00:13:09,889 --> 00:13:12,158 LAST 34 YEARS. 500 00:13:12,224 --> 00:13:14,093 AND IF YOU'RE WONDERING, "HOLD 501 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:14,660 ON, HOLD ON, 2001 WAS IN THE 502 00:13:14,727 --> 00:13:16,028 LAST 34 YEARS. 503 00:13:16,095 --> 00:13:17,163 THEY DIDN'T BRING UP THAT THING, 504 00:13:17,229 --> 00:13:18,497 DID THEY?" 505 00:13:18,564 --> 00:13:19,165 WELL, THE ANSWER IS, YES, THEY 506 00:13:19,231 --> 00:13:21,300 VERY MUCH DID. 507 00:13:21,367 --> 00:13:23,202 >> ♪ MARS ROVER, "AVATAR," 508 00:13:23,269 --> 00:13:24,803 SELF-DRIVING ELECTRIC CARS ♪ 509 00:13:24,870 --> 00:13:26,105 ♪ SSRIs, PRINCE AND THE QUEEN 510 00:13:26,172 --> 00:13:27,640 DIE ♪ 511 00:13:27,706 --> 00:13:29,708 ♪ WORLD TRADE, SECOND PLANE ♪ 512 00:13:29,775 --> 00:13:30,776 ♪ WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAY? ♪ 513 00:13:30,843 --> 00:13:31,443 >> John: WHAT ELSE DO YOU HAVE 514 00:13:31,510 --> 00:13:33,479 TO SAY? 515 00:13:33,546 --> 00:13:34,280 NOTHING, FALLOUT BOY! 516 00:13:34,346 --> 00:13:36,148 NO ONE'S MAKING YOU DO THIS. 517 00:13:36,215 --> 00:13:37,283 NESTLY, I DON'T KNOWHO 518 00:13:37,349 --> 00:13:38,484 SHOULD BE MORE PISSED OFF ABOUT 519 00:13:38,551 --> 00:13:39,418 THAT VERSE -- PRINCE, 520 00:13:39,485 --> 00:13:41,320 JAMES CAMERON, OR THE 521 00:13:41,387 --> 00:13:42,488 FIRST PLANE. 522 00:13:42,555 --> 00:13:43,789 AND FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, 523 00:13:43,856 --> 00:13:44,857 "WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE" IS 524 00:13:44,924 --> 00:13:45,791 THE LAST SONG ANYONE SHOULD 525 00:13:45,858 --> 00:13:49,328 COVER FROM BILLY JOEL'S 526 00:13:49,395 --> 00:13:50,229 DISCOGRAPHY. 527 00:13:50,296 --> 00:13:50,863 EVEN IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM, IT'S 528 00:13:50,930 --> 00:13:51,797 THE MUSICAL EQUIVALENT OF A 529 00:13:51,864 --> 00:13:53,632 CHILD TELLING YOU EVERYTHING HE 530 00:13:53,699 --> 00:13:54,433 LEARNED ABOUT AT SCHOOL THAT 531 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:55,701 DAY. 532 00:13:55,768 --> 00:13:56,502 SLOW DOWN, BUT ALSO, I DON'T 533 00:13:56,569 --> 00:13:59,004 CARE. 534 00:13:59,071 --> 00:14:00,406 AND BEFORE ANY BILLY JOEL FANS 535 00:14:00,472 --> 00:14:01,941 START GETTING ANGRY WITH ME, 536 00:14:02,007 --> 00:14:03,008 THE MAN HIMSELF THINKS THE SONG 537 00:14:03,075 --> 00:14:04,710 IS TERRIBLE. 538 00:14:04,777 --> 00:14:05,978 HERE HE IS SHIT-TALKING IT IN 539 00:14:06,045 --> 00:14:08,080 FRONT OF HIS OWN AUDIENCE. 540 00:14:08,147 --> 00:14:09,815 >> IT'S THE SAME THING VERSE 541 00:14:09,882 --> 00:14:11,217 AFTER VERSE. 542 00:14:11,283 --> 00:14:12,818 JUST THE WORDS CHANGE. 543 00:14:12,885 --> 00:14:14,186 ♪ NA NA NA, NA NA NA, NA NA NA 544 00:14:14,253 --> 00:14:17,089 NA NA NA NA ♪ 545 00:14:17,156 --> 00:14:18,157 ONE OF THE WORST MELODIES I EVER 546 00:14:18,224 --> 00:14:20,025 WROTE. 547 00:14:20,092 --> 00:14:21,327 >> John: EXACTLY. 548 00:14:21,393 --> 00:14:23,395 I DIDN'T THINK I'D EVER SAY THIS 549 00:14:23,462 --> 00:14:24,263 SENTENCE OUT LOUD AND MEAN IT, 550 00:14:24,330 --> 00:14:25,231 BUT LISTEN TO BILLY JOEL, 551 00:14:25,297 --> 00:14:26,565 FALLOUT BOY, HE'S GOT A GOOD 552 00:14:26,632 --> 00:14:31,870 POINT. 553 00:14:31,937 --> 00:14:32,671 AND LOOK, I'D HAVE LOVED TO HAVE 554 00:14:32,738 --> 00:14:33,472 COVERED ALL OF THESE STORIES 555 00:14:33,539 --> 00:14:34,006 BACK WHEN THEY ORIGINALLY 556 00:14:34,073 --> 00:14:34,473 HAPPENED. 557 00:14:34,540 --> 00:14:35,107 I WISH SO MUCH I COULD HAVE TOLD 558 00:14:35,174 --> 00:14:35,774 YOU THESE JOKES AT THE TIME. 559 00:14:35,841 --> 00:14:36,709 BUT I COULDN'T, BECAUSE OUR 560 00:14:36,775 --> 00:14:37,409 WRITERS -- THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE 561 00:14:37,476 --> 00:14:40,379 THOSE JOKES -- WERE FORCED TO 562 00:14:40,446 --> 00:14:40,980 STRIKE FOR A FAIR CONTRACT FOR 563 00:14:41,046 --> 00:14:42,848 THE LAST FIVE NTHS. 564 00:14:42,915 --> 00:14:43,983 AND IT WAS AN IMMENSELY 565 00:14:44,049 --> 00:14:49,054 DIFFICULT TIME, NOT JUST FOR 566 00:14:49,121 --> 00:14:50,589 THEM, BUT FOR EVERYONE ELSE 567 00:14:50,656 --> 00:14:51,624 WORKING ON THIS SHOW AND MANY 568 00:14:51,690 --> 00:14:52,658 OTHERS WHO COULD NO LONGER DO 569 00:14:52,725 --> 00:14:53,225 THEIR JOBS. 570 00:14:53,292 --> 00:14:53,792 AND TO BE CLEAR, THIS STRIKE 571 00:14:53,859 --> 00:14:54,860 HAPPENED FOR GOOD REASONS. 572 00:14:54,927 --> 00:14:55,728 OUR INDUSTRY HAS SEEN ITS 573 00:14:55,794 --> 00:14:56,929 WORKERS SEVERELY SQUEEZED IN 574 00:14:56,996 --> 00:14:58,764 RECENT YEARS. 575 00:14:58,831 --> 00:15:00,933 YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN STORIES 576 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,970 ABOUT WRITERS AND ACTORS, 577 00:15:05,037 --> 00:15:06,438 WHOSE WORK YOU MAY EVEN 578 00:15:06,505 --> 00:15:09,375 RECOGNIZE, ROUTINELY NOT MAKING 579 00:15:09,441 --> 00:15:11,310 ENOUGH TO QUALIFY FOR 580 00:15:11,377 --> 00:15:12,011 HEALTH INSURANCE 581 00:15:12,077 --> 00:15:12,478 OR AFFORD BASIC NEEDS. 582 00:15:12,544 --> 00:15:13,345 SO THE WRITERS' GUILD WENT ON 583 00:15:13,412 --> 00:15:14,513 STRIKE, AND THANKFULLY WON, BUT 584 00:15:14,580 --> 00:15:15,147 IT TOOK A LOT OF SACRIFICES FROM 585 00:15:15,214 --> 00:15:15,781 A LOT OF PEOPLE TO ACHIEVE THAT. 586 00:15:15,848 --> 00:15:16,382 AND WHILE I'M HAPPY THAT THEY 587 00:15:16,448 --> 00:15:17,216 EVENTUALLY GOT A FAIR DEAL, AND 588 00:15:17,283 --> 00:15:17,783 IMMENSELY PROUD OF WHAT OUR 589 00:15:17,850 --> 00:15:19,752 UNION ACCOMPLISHED, I'M ALSO 590 00:15:19,818 --> 00:15:20,519 FURIOUS THAT IT TOOK THE STUDIOS 591 00:15:20,586 --> 00:15:24,757 148 DAYS TO ACHIEVE A DEAL THEY 592 00:15:24,823 --> 00:15:27,860 COULD'VE OFFERED ON DAY FUCKING 593 00:15:27,926 --> 00:15:28,994 ONE. 594 00:15:29,061 --> 00:15:29,995 BUT HOPEFULLY, THIS MAY 595 00:15:30,062 --> 00:15:32,164 ENCOURAGE OTHERS -- FROM 596 00:15:32,231 --> 00:15:33,098 AUTOWORKERS TO STARBUCKS 597 00:15:33,165 --> 00:15:34,166 BARISTAS TO HEALTH CARE 598 00:15:34,233 --> 00:15:34,967 PROVIDERS -- WHETHER THEY'RE IN 599 00:15:35,034 --> 00:15:36,702 UNIONS OR WOULD LIKE TO BE -- 600 00:15:36,769 --> 00:15:38,771 TO FIND POWER IN EACH OTHER. 601 00:15:38,837 --> 00:15:40,272 AND WITHIN OUR PARTICULAR 602 00:15:40,339 --> 00:15:41,840 INDUSTRY, I REALLY HOPE THE 603 00:15:41,907 --> 00:15:43,075 ACTORS' UNION AND IATSE, WHICH 604 00:15:43,142 --> 00:15:44,476 REPRESENTS CREWS, WILL BE ABLE 605 00:15:44,543 --> 00:15:45,811 TAKE WHAT THE WRITERS ACHIEVED 606 00:15:45,878 --> 00:15:46,812 AND LEVERAGE IT TO WIN FAIR 607 00:15:46,879 --> 00:15:48,981 CONTRACTS FOR THEMSELVES TOO. 608 00:15:49,048 --> 00:15:50,749 BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS, IT TAKES 609 00:15:50,816 --> 00:15:52,484 MANY PEOPLE, WORKING REALLY 610 00:15:52,551 --> 00:15:54,386 HARD, TO MAKE FILM AND TV, 611 00:15:54,453 --> 00:15:56,622 ALL OF WHOM DESERVE A PIECE OF 612 00:15:56,689 --> 00:15:57,523 THE PIE. 613 00:15:57,589 --> 00:15:58,791 AND FOR THE ACTORS IN 614 00:15:58,857 --> 00:16:03,362 PARTICULAR, THEY CANNOT COME 615 00:16:03,429 --> 00:16:04,430 BACK TO WORK SOON ENOUGH. 616 00:16:04,496 --> 00:16:05,064 ESPECIALLY BECAUSE WE'VE NOW ALL 617 00:16:05,130 --> 00:16:05,631 SEEN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 618 00:16:05,698 --> 00:16:06,565 NON-PROFESSIONALS ARE TRUSTED 619 00:16:06,632 --> 00:16:09,168 WITH THE WRITTEN WORD. 620 00:16:09,234 --> 00:16:10,369 >> I CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE YOUR 621 00:16:10,436 --> 00:16:13,038 COCK IN MY MOUTH. 622 00:16:13,105 --> 00:16:14,506 I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THE 623 00:16:14,573 --> 00:16:16,742 BLOWJOB OF YOUR LIFE THEN I WANT 624 00:16:16,809 --> 00:16:19,144 YOU INSIDE OF ME. 625 00:16:19,211 --> 00:16:20,779 >> John: EXACTLY. 626 00:16:20,846 --> 00:16:22,748 AND NOW THIS. 627 00:16:22,815 --> 00:16:24,216 >> Announcer: AND NOW, 628 00:16:24,283 --> 00:16:25,584 LOCAL NEWS IS VERY EXCITED ABOUT 629 00:16:25,651 --> 00:16:28,620 WHAT WEEK IT IS. 630 00:16:28,687 --> 00:16:30,489 >> THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 631 00:16:30,556 --> 00:16:32,124 HAS ANNOUNCED THE RETURN OF 632 00:16:32,191 --> 00:16:35,327 "FAT BEAR WEEK." 633 00:16:35,394 --> 00:16:36,495 >> THAT'S A REAL THING. 634 00:16:36,562 --> 00:16:37,029 >> IT IS BACK, EVERYBODY. 635 00:16:37,096 --> 00:16:38,197 THE CONTEST FOR THE FATTEST BEAR 636 00:16:38,263 --> 00:16:41,100 IS HERE. 637 00:16:41,166 --> 00:16:41,900 >> IT IS A CONTEST FOR CHUBBY 638 00:16:41,967 --> 00:16:42,935 CHUNKERS HOPING TO ADVANCE TO 639 00:16:43,001 --> 00:16:44,870 THE MAIN FAT BEAR WEEK. 640 00:16:44,937 --> 00:16:45,504 >> WHICH IS THE FATTEST BEAR OUT 641 00:16:45,571 --> 00:16:47,005 THERE? 642 00:16:47,072 --> 00:16:48,073 >> MM, CHUBBY. 643 00:16:48,140 --> 00:16:48,707 >> WHO HAS BEEN EATING THE MOST 644 00:16:48,774 --> 00:16:49,408 FISHIES? 645 00:16:49,475 --> 00:16:51,443 >> FAT BEAR WEEK. 646 00:16:51,510 --> 00:16:52,711 >> OKAY. 647 00:16:52,778 --> 00:16:53,245 >> LOOK AT THAT GUY. 648 00:16:53,312 --> 00:16:58,817 >> LOOK AT THOSE CHUNKS, BIG 649 00:16:58,884 --> 00:16:59,385 CHUNKY BEARS, BIGGIE SMALLS IS 650 00:16:59,451 --> 00:16:59,918 THE ILLEST, LOOK AT THEM. 651 00:16:59,985 --> 00:17:00,552 >> THEY ATE 20 BOXES OF DOUGHNUT 652 00:17:00,619 --> 00:17:01,320 HOLES AND SIX PACKAGES OF 653 00:17:01,387 --> 00:17:02,421 DOUGHNUTS. 654 00:17:02,488 --> 00:17:06,325 >> GETTING READY FOR FAT BEAR 655 00:17:06,392 --> 00:17:06,825 WEEK. 656 00:17:06,892 --> 00:17:07,426 >> IT IS FAT BEAR WEEK. 657 00:17:07,493 --> 00:17:08,026 >> I WONDER HOW THE BEARS FEEL 658 00:17:08,093 --> 00:17:09,161 ABOUT BEING CALLED FAT? 659 00:17:09,228 --> 00:17:10,662 >> I HAVE A HISTORY OF PICKING 660 00:17:10,729 --> 00:17:11,830 THE BEAR THAT USUALLY WINS. 661 00:17:11,897 --> 00:17:12,464 WE'VE GOT A TRADITION HERE, WE 662 00:17:12,531 --> 00:17:15,200 LIKE TO PICK. 663 00:17:15,267 --> 00:17:16,635 >> PICK ONE OUT. 664 00:17:16,702 --> 00:17:17,269 WELL, POLICE IN MICHIGAN HELPED 665 00:17:17,336 --> 00:17:17,903 SAVE AN 8-YEAR-OLD BOY AFTER HE 666 00:17:17,970 --> 00:17:18,303 WAS ELECTROCUTED. 667 00:17:18,370 --> 00:17:22,174 ♪ ♪ 668 00:17:22,241 --> 00:17:23,342 >> John: MOVING ON. 669 00:17:23,409 --> 00:17:24,309 OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT CONCERNS 670 00:17:24,376 --> 00:17:26,278 HEALTH CARE. 671 00:17:26,345 --> 00:17:29,648 THE THING THAT "ER" WAS 672 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:30,282 ORIGINALLY ABOUT BEFORE, IN 673 00:17:30,349 --> 00:17:31,583 LATER SEASONS, IT REALLY BECAME 674 00:17:31,650 --> 00:17:34,553 MORE ABOUT SCENES LIKE THIS: 675 00:17:34,620 --> 00:17:43,228 >> [SCREAMS] 676 00:17:43,295 --> 00:17:45,898 >> John: WOW. 677 00:17:45,964 --> 00:17:46,899 OBVIOUSLY A LOT GOING ON THERE. 678 00:17:46,965 --> 00:17:47,966 NOT LEAST OF WHICH, IF YOU'RE 679 00:17:48,033 --> 00:17:48,801 NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE 680 00:17:48,867 --> 00:17:51,069 "ER"-NIVERSE, THIS GUY WAS 681 00:17:51,136 --> 00:17:51,870 ALREADY LIVING WITH ONE ARM 682 00:17:51,937 --> 00:17:52,538 BECAUSE HE LOST THE OTHER -- 683 00:17:52,604 --> 00:17:54,173 AND THIS IS TRUE -- 684 00:17:54,239 --> 00:17:55,073 IN A DIFFERENT HELICOPTER 685 00:17:55,140 --> 00:17:55,941 ACCIDENT. 686 00:17:56,008 --> 00:17:56,842 AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY, 687 00:17:56,909 --> 00:17:58,110 HIT ME WITH A HELICOPTER ONCE, 688 00:17:58,177 --> 00:17:59,478 SHAME ON YOU. 689 00:17:59,545 --> 00:18:00,746 HIT ME WITH A HELICOPTER TWICE, 690 00:18:00,813 --> 00:18:02,481 YOU MUST BE IN SOME LATE-STAGE 691 00:18:02,548 --> 00:18:06,051 POST-CLOONEY "ER" SEASONS. 692 00:18:06,118 --> 00:18:07,019 SPECIFICALLY, TONIGHT'S STORY IS 693 00:18:07,085 --> 00:18:08,654 ABOUT THE HEALTHCARE CURRENTLY 694 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:09,755 OFFERED IN JAILS AND PRISONS. 695 00:18:09,822 --> 00:18:11,657 THAT'S RIGHT, AFTER FIVE LONG 696 00:18:11,723 --> 00:18:13,659 MONTHS, WE'RE WELCOMING YOU BACK 697 00:18:13,725 --> 00:18:16,328 WITH A STORY ABOUT PRISONER 698 00:18:16,395 --> 00:18:17,429 HEALTHCARE, BECAUSE DEEP DOWN, 699 00:18:17,496 --> 00:18:19,064 THIS IS WHO WE ARE. 700 00:18:19,131 --> 00:18:20,766 AND I KNOW THAT, FOR SOME, THE 701 00:18:20,833 --> 00:18:22,034 VERY CONCEPT OF INCARCERATED 702 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:23,635 PEOPLE GETTING MEDICALARE IS 703 00:18:23,702 --> 00:18:24,903 SOMEHOW OFFENSIVE -- AS YOU CAN 704 00:18:24,970 --> 00:18:25,671 TELL FROM THE FACT THAT, FOR 705 00:18:25,737 --> 00:18:26,705 YEARS, THE SUBJECT'S BEEN FRAMED 706 00:18:26,772 --> 00:18:29,908 ON TV LIKE THIS: 707 00:18:29,975 --> 00:18:30,809 >> SPOKANE COUNTY TAXPAYERS ARE 708 00:18:30,876 --> 00:18:32,010 PAYING THE BILL FOR ALLEGED 709 00:18:32,077 --> 00:18:33,078 KILLERS, RAPISTS, AND 710 00:18:33,145 --> 00:18:34,279 CHILD MOLESTERS TO SEE 711 00:18:34,346 --> 00:18:34,947 DOCTORS, DENTISTS, AND 712 00:18:35,013 --> 00:18:37,015 SPECIALISTS. 713 00:18:37,082 --> 00:18:38,083 >> HAVE YOU EVER SEEN 714 00:18:38,150 --> 00:18:39,618 A METH USER'S TEETH? 715 00:18:39,685 --> 00:18:41,386 IT'S CALLED "METH MOUTH" AND 716 00:18:41,453 --> 00:18:42,488 IT'S AWFUL. 717 00:18:42,554 --> 00:18:43,222 >> KOAT ANCHOR TODD KURTZ SHOWS 718 00:18:43,288 --> 00:18:44,289 YOU HOW ALL OF THAT DECAY IS 719 00:18:44,356 --> 00:18:45,123 COSTING YOU MONEY AS JAILS AND 720 00:18:45,190 --> 00:18:46,325 PRISONS ARE FORCED TO FIX THOSE 721 00:18:46,391 --> 00:18:47,960 TEETH. 722 00:18:48,026 --> 00:18:49,428 >> THERE IS A PLACE WHERE WE ARE 723 00:18:49,495 --> 00:18:51,029 ALL GUARANTEED HEALTH CARE BY 724 00:18:51,096 --> 00:18:53,165 LAW -- IT'S CALLED JAIL. 725 00:18:53,232 --> 00:18:56,535 >> AND CRIMINALS KNOW THEIR WAY 726 00:18:56,602 --> 00:18:58,170 AROUND THE SYSTEM AND LOOK FOR 727 00:18:58,237 --> 00:18:58,804 CHANCES TO GET TREMENT ON THE 728 00:18:58,871 --> 00:19:03,709 TAXPAYER'S DIME. 729 00:19:03,775 --> 00:19:05,244 >> John: OKAY, IT IS JUST WILD 730 00:19:05,310 --> 00:19:05,878 TO POINT OUT THAT THE ONLY PLACE 731 00:19:05,944 --> 00:19:06,512 AMERICANS ARE GUARANTEED 732 00:19:06,578 --> 00:19:07,112 HEALTHCARE IS JAIL AND SOMEHOW 733 00:19:07,179 --> 00:19:09,715 MAKE IT SEEM LIKE THE PROBLEM IS 734 00:19:09,781 --> 00:19:10,415 PRISONERS AND NOT OUR DEEPLY 735 00:19:10,482 --> 00:19:13,519 BROKEN SYSTEM. 736 00:19:13,585 --> 00:19:14,152 YOU CAN GET FREE DENTAL IS JAIL. 737 00:19:14,219 --> 00:19:15,420 ARE YOU THINKING WHAT I'M 738 00:19:15,487 --> 00:19:16,154 THINKING? 739 00:19:16,221 --> 00:19:17,723 EXACTLY. 740 00:19:17,789 --> 00:19:19,124 FUCK THAT GUY AND HIS TEETH!" 741 00:19:19,191 --> 00:19:19,858 AND PUTTING ASIDE THE FACT THAT 742 00:19:19,925 --> 00:19:21,560 NOT EVERYONE WHO'S INCARCERATED 743 00:19:21,627 --> 00:19:24,129 IS EVEN GUILTY, IT'S WORTH 744 00:19:24,196 --> 00:19:25,063 POINTING OUT THAT, ACCORDING TO 745 00:19:25,130 --> 00:19:26,598 A RECENT STUDY, 100% OF 746 00:19:26,665 --> 00:19:28,433 PRISONERS ARE ACTUALLY PEOPLE -- 747 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:29,635 I MEAN LIKE "HUMAN BEINGS" 748 00:19:29,701 --> 00:19:31,403 PEOPLE, LIKE THE KIND YOU ARE. 749 00:19:31,470 --> 00:19:33,038 THEY HAVE HOPES AND SOULS AND 750 00:19:33,105 --> 00:19:35,040 FARTS AND BRAINS. 751 00:19:35,107 --> 00:19:36,508 AND IF THAT ISN'T ENOUGH, YOU 752 00:19:36,575 --> 00:19:39,845 SHOULD KNOW THE CONSTITUTION 753 00:19:39,912 --> 00:19:41,313 REQUIRES THAT WE PROVIDE 754 00:19:41,380 --> 00:19:42,548 ADEQUATE HEALTHCARE TO ANYONE 755 00:19:42,614 --> 00:19:42,981 BEHIND BARS. 756 00:19:43,048 --> 00:19:43,715 IN 1976, THE SUPREME COURT RULED 757 00:19:43,782 --> 00:19:44,316 THAT DENYING MEDICAL TREATMENT 758 00:19:44,383 --> 00:19:45,651 TO PRISONERS CONSTITUTES 759 00:19:45,717 --> 00:19:46,718 "CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT" 760 00:19:46,785 --> 00:19:47,853 IN VIOLAON OF THE EIGHTH 761 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:49,855 AMENDMENT. 762 00:19:49,922 --> 00:19:51,223 YET DESPITE ALL OF THAT, THE 763 00:19:51,290 --> 00:19:52,124 QUALITY OF CARE PRISONERS 764 00:19:52,190 --> 00:19:54,493 RECEIVE IS ABYSMAL. 765 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:55,460 INVESTIGATIONS IN STATE AFTER 766 00:19:55,527 --> 00:19:57,029 STATE HAVE FOUND IT TO BE 767 00:19:57,095 --> 00:19:59,565 WOEFULLY DEFICIENT. 768 00:19:59,631 --> 00:20:00,566 AND A LAWSUIT AGAINST ARIZONA A 769 00:20:00,632 --> 00:20:01,433 WHE BACK MADE SOME HORRIFYING 770 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:02,935 ALLEGATIONS. 771 00:20:03,001 --> 00:20:05,070 >> IT ALLEGES THAT PRISONERS ARE 772 00:20:05,137 --> 00:20:06,905 AT "SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF 773 00:20:06,972 --> 00:20:10,309 PAIN, AMPUTATION, DISFIGUREMENT, 774 00:20:10,375 --> 00:20:12,844 AND DEATH." 775 00:20:12,911 --> 00:20:13,946 IT CITES EXAMPLES OF PRISONERS 776 00:20:14,012 --> 00:20:15,347 BEING TOLD TO PRAY TO BE CURED 777 00:20:15,414 --> 00:20:17,215 OR DRINK ENERGY SHAKES 778 00:20:17,282 --> 00:20:18,817 TO TREAT CANCER SYMPTOMS. 779 00:20:18,884 --> 00:20:19,751 >> John: OKAY, THAT IS BOTH 780 00:20:19,818 --> 00:20:21,019 TERRIBLE ADVICE AND ALSO NOT 781 00:20:21,086 --> 00:20:22,721 EVEN CLOSE TO BEING TRUE. 782 00:20:22,788 --> 00:20:24,723 IF ENERGY DRINKS COULD TREAT 783 00:20:24,790 --> 00:20:25,991 CANCER SYMPTOMS, YOU WOULD HAVE 784 00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:27,392 HEARD ABOUT IT. 785 00:20:27,459 --> 00:20:29,027 RED BULL WOULD MENTION IT IN ALL 786 00:20:29,094 --> 00:20:30,028 OF THEIR ADS INSTEAD OF THEIR 787 00:20:30,095 --> 00:20:31,496 CURRENT MARKETING COPY, WHICH 788 00:20:31,563 --> 00:20:32,798 IS, "RED BULL, THERE'S NOTHING 789 00:20:32,864 --> 00:20:33,899 WE CAN DO ABOUT THE TASTE, BUT 790 00:20:33,966 --> 00:20:36,768 LET'S BE HONEST: YOU'RE 22 AND 791 00:20:36,835 --> 00:20:37,402 HUNGOVER AND JUST NEED SOMETHING 792 00:20:37,469 --> 00:20:38,036 TO GET YOU THROUGH YOUR SHIFT AT 793 00:20:38,103 --> 00:20:38,870 RED LOBSTER AND YOU'RE STILL A 794 00:20:38,937 --> 00:20:40,272 FEW YEARS AWAY FROM HAVING 795 00:20:40,339 --> 00:20:41,940 COCAINE MONEY, SO JUST SHUT UP 796 00:20:42,007 --> 00:20:45,944 AND PUT THIS POISON IN YOU." 797 00:20:46,011 --> 00:20:46,979 AND THE THING IS, THE 798 00:20:47,045 --> 00:20:49,514 CONSEQUENCES OF POOR CARE ARE 799 00:20:49,581 --> 00:20:50,382 ONLY GOING TO GET MORE DIRE, 800 00:20:50,449 --> 00:20:51,183 GIVEN OUR RAPIDLY AGING PRISON 801 00:20:51,249 --> 00:20:53,051 POPULATION. 802 00:20:53,118 --> 00:20:54,553 FROM 1999 TO 2015, THE NUMBER OF 803 00:20:54,620 --> 00:20:56,521 PEOPLE 55 OR OLDER IN PRISON 804 00:20:56,588 --> 00:21:00,559 INCREASED BY 264%. 805 00:21:00,626 --> 00:21:02,094 AND WHY ARE WE CONFINING SO MANY 806 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,629 ELDERLY PEOPLE IN PRISONS WHEN 807 00:21:03,695 --> 00:21:04,896 WE SHOULD CLEARLY BE PUTTING 808 00:21:04,963 --> 00:21:06,164 THEM WHERE THEY BELONG: 809 00:21:06,231 --> 00:21:07,065 ON "THE GOLDEN BACHELOR," 810 00:21:07,132 --> 00:21:11,436 TAKING FULL ADVANTAGE OF 811 00:21:11,503 --> 00:21:18,076 MENOPAUSE AND FUCKING RAW. 812 00:21:18,143 --> 00:21:20,245 I PRESUME THAT'S WHAT'S 813 00:21:20,312 --> 00:21:21,947 SO GIVEN ALL THIS, TONIGHT, 814 00:21:22,014 --> 00:21:22,514 LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT PRISON 815 00:21:22,581 --> 00:21:23,115 HEALTHRE -- WHO PROVIDES IT, 816 00:21:23,181 --> 00:21:23,749 WHY IT'S SO BAD, AND HOW WE CAN 817 00:21:23,815 --> 00:21:24,282 IMPROVE IT GOING FORWARD. 818 00:21:24,349 --> 00:21:24,883 AND LET'S START WITH THE FACT 819 00:21:24,950 --> 00:21:25,417 THAT, AT ONE POINT, STATES 820 00:21:25,484 --> 00:21:26,451 THEMSELVES PROVIDED MEDICAL CARE 821 00:21:26,518 --> 00:21:28,553 FOR THEIR JAILS AND PRISONS. 822 00:21:28,620 --> 00:21:31,089 SOME STILL DO, IN FACT -- AND IN 823 00:21:31,156 --> 00:21:31,790 MOST PLACES, IT'S GENERALLY BEEN 824 00:21:31,857 --> 00:21:33,625 PRETTY BAD. 825 00:21:33,692 --> 00:21:36,061 THAT "TREAT CANCER WITH PRAYER 826 00:21:36,128 --> 00:21:36,962 AND ENERGY DRINKS" STORY IS FROM 827 00:21:37,029 --> 00:21:37,863 WHEN ARIZONA RAN ITS OWN PRISON 828 00:21:37,929 --> 00:21:40,432 HEALTHCARE. 829 00:21:40,499 --> 00:21:41,566 BUT INCREASINGLY, STATES HAVE 830 00:21:41,633 --> 00:21:43,168 STARTED CONTRACTING CARE OUT TO 831 00:21:43,235 --> 00:21:45,270 PRIVATE COMPANIES. 832 00:21:45,337 --> 00:21:46,738 AS OF 2018, MORE THAN HALF OF 833 00:21:46,805 --> 00:21:49,307 ALL U.S. STATES HIRE PRIVATE 834 00:21:49,374 --> 00:21:51,610 COMPANIES TO PROVIDE AT LEAST 835 00:21:51,677 --> 00:21:52,444 SOME OF THEIR PRISON HEALTHCARE. 836 00:21:52,511 --> 00:21:53,612 AND WHEN IT COMES TO OUR LARGEST 837 00:21:53,679 --> 00:21:54,713 JAILS, THAT NUMBER IS MORE THAN 838 00:21:54,780 --> 00:21:55,414 60%, ALL OF WHICH EXPLAINS WHY 839 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,483 THIS IS NOW A ROUGHLY $4 BILLION 840 00:21:58,550 --> 00:21:59,251 INDUSTRY. 841 00:21:59,317 --> 00:22:00,052 AND THE SELL COMPANIES MAKE IS 842 00:22:00,118 --> 00:22:01,753 THAT THEY CAN TAILOR CARE TO THE 843 00:22:01,820 --> 00:22:04,322 PARTICULAR NEEDS OF THE 844 00:22:04,389 --> 00:22:05,290 INCARCERATED -- A POPULATION 845 00:22:05,357 --> 00:22:06,391 THAT CAN HAVE HIGH RATES OF 846 00:22:06,458 --> 00:22:06,958 SUBSTANCE ABUSAND MENTAL 847 00:22:07,025 --> 00:22:07,993 ILESS, BOTH OF WHICH DO POSE 848 00:22:08,060 --> 00:22:11,530 SPECIAL CHALLENGES. 849 00:22:11,596 --> 00:22:12,764 JUST LISTEN TO THIS PROMO FOR 850 00:22:12,831 --> 00:22:13,632 ADVANCED CORRECTIONAL 851 00:22:13,699 --> 00:22:14,433 HEALTHCARE, WHICH SERVES 852 00:22:14,499 --> 00:22:17,102 FACILITIES IN 21 STATES, AS IT 853 00:22:17,169 --> 00:22:18,804 MAKES A VERY BIG PROMISE. 854 00:22:18,870 --> 00:22:20,672 >> THE PURPOSE OF ADVANCED 855 00:22:20,739 --> 00:22:22,574 CORRECTIONAL HEALTHCARE IS TO 856 00:22:22,641 --> 00:22:23,208 SOLVE PROBLEMS FOR OUR PATIENTS 857 00:22:23,275 --> 00:22:23,975 AND CLIENTS AND MAKE THEIR LIVES 858 00:22:24,042 --> 00:22:27,212 EASIER. 859 00:22:27,279 --> 00:22:28,947 IN FACT, OUR DATA INDICATES YOUR 860 00:22:29,014 --> 00:22:30,115 DETAINEES WILL BE HEALTHIER IN 861 00:22:30,182 --> 00:22:30,716 YOUR JAIL THAN THEY ARE WHEN 862 00:22:30,782 --> 00:22:32,918 THEY GO TO THEIR OWN DOCTORS. 863 00:22:32,984 --> 00:22:34,553 >> John: WELL, THAT DEFINITELY 864 00:22:34,619 --> 00:22:36,221 DOESN'T IMMEDIATELY SEEM LIKE 865 00:22:36,288 --> 00:22:37,155 BULLSHIT, DOES IT? 866 00:22:37,222 --> 00:22:37,989 FROM THE FACT SHE'S CITING 867 00:22:38,056 --> 00:22:38,590 "OUR DATA" TO THE FACT 868 00:22:38,657 --> 00:22:40,759 THAT, WHEN YOU'RE GOOGLING FOR 869 00:22:40,826 --> 00:22:43,962 "BEST DOCTORS NEAR ME," THE TOP 870 00:22:44,029 --> 00:22:45,330 RESULT IS VERY RARELY "HAVE YOU 871 00:22:45,397 --> 00:22:46,031 TRIED YOUR LOCAL JAIL?" 872 00:22:46,098 --> 00:22:46,965 AND UNSURPRISINGLY, THE ROSY 873 00:22:47,032 --> 00:22:47,999 PICTURE THAT PROMO PAINTS 874 00:22:48,066 --> 00:22:49,167 DOESN'T REMOTELY LIVE UP TO 875 00:22:49,234 --> 00:22:50,502 REALITY. 876 00:22:50,569 --> 00:22:51,770 TAKE THIS STORY FROM A WISCONSIN 877 00:22:51,837 --> 00:22:52,838 JAIL THAT USED THAT COMPANY'S 878 00:22:52,904 --> 00:22:55,107 SERVICES. 879 00:22:55,173 --> 00:22:57,242 >> SIX MONTHS AGO, 39-YEAR-OLD 880 00:22:57,309 --> 00:22:58,376 DANTE WILSON WAS IN A WISCONSIN 881 00:22:58,443 --> 00:23:02,214 JAIL FOR A CHILD SUPPORT 882 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:03,148 VIOLATION. 883 00:23:03,215 --> 00:23:04,249 HE COMPLAINED OF CHEST PAINS. 884 00:23:04,316 --> 00:23:05,050 THE JAIL NURSE CONCLUDED HE HAD 885 00:23:05,117 --> 00:23:06,752 HEARTBURN AND GAVE HIM TWO TUMS. 886 00:23:06,818 --> 00:23:08,086 LESS THAN AN HOUR LATER, WILSON 887 00:23:08,153 --> 00:23:09,488 ASKED FOR HELP. 888 00:23:09,554 --> 00:23:10,722 AGAIN, "RELAX" WAS THE 889 00:23:10,789 --> 00:23:12,724 NURSE'S ADVICE. 890 00:23:12,791 --> 00:23:14,593 SOON AFTER, WILSON DIED OF A 891 00:23:14,659 --> 00:23:18,230 HEART ATTACK. 892 00:23:18,296 --> 00:23:19,965 LATER... 893 00:23:20,031 --> 00:23:20,866 >> [BLEEP] HAPPENS. 894 00:23:20,932 --> 00:23:23,235 >> THE NURSE WAS FIRED. 895 00:23:23,301 --> 00:23:23,568 >> John: GOOD! 896 00:23:23,635 --> 00:23:25,203 SHE SHOULD'VE BEEN! 897 00:23:25,270 --> 00:23:26,204 BECAUSE THAT IS THE SINGLE WORST 898 00:23:26,271 --> 00:23:26,938 THING YOU CAN POSSIBLY SAY IN 899 00:23:27,005 --> 00:23:29,341 RESPONSE TO SOMEONE DYING OF A 900 00:23:29,407 --> 00:23:29,975 HEART ATTACK BECAUSE YOU SCREWED 901 00:23:30,041 --> 00:23:31,543 UP. 902 00:23:31,610 --> 00:23:32,544 AND WHILE I'M SURE SHE WAS UPSET 903 00:23:32,611 --> 00:23:38,683 AT LOSING HER JOB, IF I SHARE A 904 00:23:38,750 --> 00:23:41,153 QUOTE THAT IT SEEMS THERE'S 905 00:23:41,219 --> 00:23:41,720 SIMPLY NO BAD TIME FOR, 906 00:23:41,787 --> 00:23:42,387 "SHIT FUCKING HAPPENS." 907 00:23:42,454 --> 00:23:43,688 AND AT THIS POINT, YOU WILL NOT 908 00:23:43,755 --> 00:23:44,289 BE SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT IN 909 00:23:44,356 --> 00:23:44,856 INTERNAL TRAININGS, ADVANCED 910 00:23:44,923 --> 00:23:46,291 CORRECTIONAL HEALTHCARE SEEMED 911 00:23:46,358 --> 00:23:46,925 TO SPEND AN UNNERVING AMOUNT OF 912 00:23:46,992 --> 00:23:48,293 TIME TEACHING ITS EMPLOYEES WHAT 913 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:50,996 CONSTITUTES THE LEGAL BARE 914 00:23:51,062 --> 00:23:53,131 MINIMUM OF CARE. 915 00:23:53,198 --> 00:23:53,832 THAT ROUGH DRAFT JENNIFER GARNER 916 00:23:53,899 --> 00:23:56,268 WAX FIGURE ONCE CONDUCTED A 917 00:23:56,334 --> 00:23:58,904 VIDEO SEMINAR FOR STAFF TITLED 918 00:23:58,970 --> 00:24:01,807 "A JAIL IS NOT A HEALTH SPA." 919 00:24:01,873 --> 00:24:02,841 AND JUST WATCH HER EXPLAIN THE 920 00:24:02,908 --> 00:24:03,542 IMPORTANCE OF AVOIDING 921 00:24:03,608 --> 00:24:06,945 "DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE" -- 922 00:24:07,012 --> 00:24:07,979 BASICALLY, NOT BLATANTLY 923 00:24:08,046 --> 00:24:08,613 NEGLECTING TO TREAT PRISONERS -- 924 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,415 BY USING THE WEIRDEST POSSIBLE 925 00:24:10,482 --> 00:24:12,851 EXAMPLE. 926 00:24:12,918 --> 00:24:14,019 >> SO, HOW DO WE DEFINE 927 00:24:14,085 --> 00:24:14,986 "DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE" NOW? 928 00:24:15,053 --> 00:24:15,987 YOU MUST KNOW OF AND DISREGARD 929 00:24:16,054 --> 00:24:17,522 AN EXCESSIVE RISK TO INMATE 930 00:24:17,589 --> 00:24:20,025 HEALTH OR SAFETY. 931 00:24:20,091 --> 00:24:22,327 SOMETHING WHICH WOULD CAUSE THE 932 00:24:22,394 --> 00:24:23,762 UNNECESSARY AND WANTON OR 933 00:24:23,829 --> 00:24:27,165 MALICIOUS INFLICTION OF PAIN. 934 00:24:27,232 --> 00:24:28,934 A FEW YEARS BACK, THERE WAS AN 935 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,837 NBA PLAYER WHO WAS ARRESTED FOR 936 00:24:31,903 --> 00:24:33,004 SHOOTING A GUN INTO THE AIR FIVE 937 00:24:33,071 --> 00:24:34,940 TIMES OUTSIDE OF A STRIP CLUB. 938 00:24:35,006 --> 00:24:36,474 THAT IS CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS. 939 00:24:36,541 --> 00:24:40,846 THAT IS CONSCIOUSLY DISREGARDING 940 00:24:40,912 --> 00:24:41,413 A SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF HARM. 941 00:24:41,479 --> 00:24:42,781 A STRAY BULLET COULD HAVE HIT A 942 00:24:42,848 --> 00:24:44,082 STRIPPER. 943 00:24:44,149 --> 00:24:46,218 >> John: OKAY. 944 00:24:46,284 --> 00:24:48,820 THAT IS DEFINITELY AN EXAMPLE. 945 00:24:48,887 --> 00:24:50,088 ALTHOUGH, TO BE HONEST, IT ONLY 946 00:24:50,155 --> 00:24:50,622 REALLY MAKES SENSE IF SHE 947 00:24:50,689 --> 00:24:51,189 EXPLAINS EVERY LEGAL CONCEPT 948 00:24:51,256 --> 00:24:52,023 LIKE THAT. 949 00:24:52,090 --> 00:24:53,024 ABDUCTION? 950 00:24:53,091 --> 00:24:54,226 A STRIPPER GETS KIDNAPPED. 951 00:24:54,292 --> 00:24:55,060 BANKRUPTCY? 952 00:24:55,126 --> 00:24:56,561 A STRIPPER STOPS STRIPPING. 953 00:24:56,628 --> 00:24:57,662 ESCROW? 954 00:24:57,729 --> 00:24:58,964 A STRIPPER BUYS A HOUSE BUT 955 00:24:59,030 --> 00:24:59,798 ENLISTS A THIRD PARTY TO 956 00:24:59,865 --> 00:25:00,966 TEMPORARILY HOLD ASSETS UNTIL 957 00:25:01,032 --> 00:25:03,335 THE DEAL IS FINALIZED. 958 00:25:03,401 --> 00:25:04,536 NOW, YOU SHOULD KNOW, THAT WOMAN 959 00:25:04,603 --> 00:25:06,037 WAS THE COMPANY'S SENIOR 960 00:25:06,104 --> 00:25:06,872 COUNSEL. 961 00:25:06,938 --> 00:25:07,772 AND I'M HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT 962 00:25:07,839 --> 00:25:09,140 SHE IS NO LONGER IN THAT ROLE. 963 00:25:09,207 --> 00:25:10,508 BUT THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE SHE'S 964 00:25:10,575 --> 00:25:12,644 NOW THE PRESIDENT OF THE WHOLE 965 00:25:12,711 --> 00:25:13,912 MOTHERFUCKING COMPANY, Y'ALL! 966 00:25:13,979 --> 00:25:17,616 [GUNSHOTS] 967 00:25:17,682 --> 00:25:17,816 WHOO! 968 00:25:17,883 --> 00:25:21,353 BUT THE PROBLEM ISN'T JUST WITH 969 00:25:21,419 --> 00:25:23,255 THIS ONE COMPANY. 970 00:25:23,321 --> 00:25:29,294 IT'S WITH THE WHOLE INDUSTRY. 971 00:25:29,361 --> 00:25:30,262 A REVIEW OF 500 JAILS FOUND 972 00:25:30,328 --> 00:25:30,795 THOSE RELYING ON THE FIVE 973 00:25:30,862 --> 00:25:31,663 LEADING CONTRACTORS HAD HIGHER 974 00:25:31,730 --> 00:25:32,631 DEATH RATES THAN FACILITIES RUN 975 00:25:32,697 --> 00:25:33,832 BY THE GOVERNMENT. 976 00:25:33,899 --> 00:25:34,366 AND ONE OF THE KEY REASONS 977 00:25:34,432 --> 00:25:35,400 COMPANIES SO OFTEN DELIVER 978 00:25:35,467 --> 00:25:37,102 SUBSTANDARD CARE IS THAT THEY'RE 979 00:25:37,168 --> 00:25:37,936 ACTIVELY INCENTIVIZED TO DUE TO 980 00:25:38,003 --> 00:25:40,405 HOW THEY'RE PAID. 981 00:25:40,472 --> 00:25:42,941 >> IT'S BASICALLY A FIXED DOLLAR 982 00:25:43,008 --> 00:25:44,643 AMOUNT CONTRACT. 983 00:25:44,709 --> 00:25:45,477 IT'S 16 DOLLARS AND CHANGE PER 984 00:25:45,543 --> 00:25:47,712 PRISONER, AND THE CONTRACT 985 00:25:47,779 --> 00:25:50,815 ASSUMES 34,000 PRISONERS. 986 00:25:50,882 --> 00:25:53,618 SO IT'S BASICALLY, THIS IS HOW 987 00:25:53,685 --> 00:25:55,854 MUCH WE'RE GIVING YOU. 988 00:25:55,921 --> 00:25:58,523 AND THE MORE MONEY YOU SPEND ON 989 00:25:58,590 --> 00:25:59,291 PROVIDING HEALTHCARE, THE LESS 990 00:25:59,357 --> 00:25:59,991 PROFIT YOU MAKE. 991 00:26:00,058 --> 00:26:01,559 >> John: RIGHT. 992 00:26:01,626 --> 00:26:02,193 AND THAT IS A PRETTY OBVIOUS 993 00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:03,228 INCENTIVE TO CUT CORNERS. 994 00:26:03,295 --> 00:26:05,030 IF YOU GIVE YOUR BABYSITTER $100 995 00:26:05,096 --> 00:26:06,631 AND SAY "WHATEVER YOU DON'T 996 00:26:06,698 --> 00:26:07,866 SPEND ON DINNER YOU CAN KEEP," 997 00:26:07,933 --> 00:26:10,368 DON'T BE SURPRISED IF YOU COME 998 00:26:10,435 --> 00:26:11,736 HOME TO A VERY HAPPY BABYSITTER 999 00:26:11,803 --> 00:26:13,605 AND A BUNCH OF PISSED-OFF KIDS 1000 00:26:13,672 --> 00:26:14,572 EATING TOP RAMEN. 1001 00:26:14,639 --> 00:26:16,308 AND THAT PROFIT MOTIVE HAS LED 1002 00:26:16,374 --> 00:26:18,109 TO SOME PRETTY OUTRAGEOUS 1003 00:26:18,176 --> 00:26:19,244 POLICIES. 1004 00:26:19,311 --> 00:26:20,211 A RECENT COURT CASE AGAINST 1005 00:26:20,278 --> 00:26:21,980 WEXFORD, ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S 1006 00:26:22,047 --> 00:26:23,548 LARGEST PRISONER HEALTHCARE 1007 00:26:23,615 --> 00:26:24,516 PROVIDERS, REVEALED THAT FOR 1008 00:26:24,582 --> 00:26:25,483 YEARS IT HAD HAD A DE FACTO 1009 00:26:25,550 --> 00:26:27,218 "ONE GOOD EYE" POLICY, AS WHEN A 1010 00:26:27,285 --> 00:26:29,054 69-YEAR-OLD PRISONER GOT 1011 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:31,222 CATARACTS IN BOTH EYES AND 1012 00:26:31,289 --> 00:26:32,357 WANTED THEM FIXED, THE PRISON 1013 00:26:32,424 --> 00:26:33,191 DOCTOR TOLD HER THAT SHE'D HAVE 1014 00:26:33,258 --> 00:26:34,326 TO MAKE A CHOICE. 1015 00:26:34,392 --> 00:26:36,094 WHICH EYE DID SHE WANT FIXED, 1016 00:26:36,161 --> 00:26:38,496 THE RIGHT ONE OR THE LEFT ONE? 1017 00:26:38,563 --> 00:26:39,998 WHICH IS CLEARLY AN IMPOSSIBLE 1018 00:26:40,065 --> 00:26:40,932 QUESTION. 1019 00:26:40,999 --> 00:26:41,599 IT'S LIKE SOMEONE ASKING WHICH 1020 00:26:41,666 --> 00:26:42,934 PROPERTY BROTHER YOU'D LIKE TO 1021 00:26:43,001 --> 00:26:43,902 KILL. 1022 00:26:43,969 --> 00:26:45,637 THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE RESPONSE TO 1023 00:26:45,704 --> 00:26:46,838 EITHER QUESTION IS, "BOTH. 1024 00:26:46,905 --> 00:26:50,475 WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME CHOOSE?" 1025 00:26:50,542 --> 00:26:51,810 BUT TO SHOW JUST HOW DANGEROUS 1026 00:26:51,876 --> 00:26:53,011 THESE COMPANIES CAN BE, LET'S 1027 00:26:53,078 --> 00:26:57,282 JUST LOOK AT ONE STATE, ARIZONA. 1028 00:26:57,349 --> 00:26:57,849 BACK IN 2009, IT ANNOUNCED A 1029 00:26:57,916 --> 00:26:58,950 PLAN TO SWITCH FROM STATE CARE 1030 00:26:59,017 --> 00:27:01,119 TO PRIVATE PROVIDERS. 1031 00:27:01,186 --> 00:27:01,853 AND THE INITIAL PITCH WAS THAT 1032 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,155 THIS WOULD BE A COST-SAVING 1033 00:27:04,222 --> 00:27:05,223 MEASURE. 1034 00:27:05,290 --> 00:27:06,358 BUT AS THIS WOMAN EXPLAINS, 1035 00:27:06,424 --> 00:27:07,459 SOMETHING INTERESTING HAPPENED 1036 00:27:07,525 --> 00:27:09,127 FAIRLY EARLY ON. 1037 00:27:09,194 --> 00:27:10,295 >> THEY PUT OUT A REQUEST FOR 1038 00:27:10,362 --> 00:27:11,596 PROPOSALS, AN RFP, AND NOBODY 1039 00:27:11,663 --> 00:27:13,565 BID FOR IT BECAUSE NOBODY COULD 1040 00:27:13,631 --> 00:27:15,166 DO IT FOR LESS THAN WHAT THE 1041 00:27:15,233 --> 00:27:17,268 STATE WAS SPENDING, BECAUSE THE 1042 00:27:17,335 --> 00:27:18,470 STATE WASN'T SPENDING VERY MUCH 1043 00:27:18,536 --> 00:27:19,170 AS IT IS. 1044 00:27:19,237 --> 00:27:20,105 A COUPLE YEARS LATER, THE 1045 00:27:20,171 --> 00:27:25,410 LEGISLATURE CAME BACK AND 1046 00:27:25,477 --> 00:27:26,077 SAID, "UH, WE'RE GONNA AMEND 1047 00:27:26,144 --> 00:27:26,644 THAT PRIOR LAW. 1048 00:27:26,711 --> 00:27:27,278 REMEMBER WHERE WE SAID IT HAS TO 1049 00:27:27,345 --> 00:27:27,946 BE LESS? 1050 00:27:28,013 --> 00:27:28,680 IT'S OKAY. 1051 00:27:28,747 --> 00:27:30,315 IT CAN COST MORE." 1052 00:27:30,382 --> 00:27:31,383 >> John: OOH, IT CAN, CAN IT? 1053 00:27:31,449 --> 00:27:32,717 SO YOU DEMANDED A COMPETITIVE 1054 00:27:32,784 --> 00:27:33,318 BID, AND WHEN NO ONE RESPONDED, 1055 00:27:33,385 --> 00:27:34,753 YOU ROLLED OVER AND GAVE UP 1056 00:27:34,819 --> 00:27:37,155 ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. 1057 00:27:37,222 --> 00:27:37,756 IT'S A SHREWD TACTIC FROM THE 1058 00:27:37,822 --> 00:27:38,356 FAMOUS BOOK ON NEGOTIATING, 1059 00:27:38,423 --> 00:27:38,957 "THIS IS WHERE I'M SOFTEST AND 1060 00:27:39,024 --> 00:27:42,027 OTHER BUSINESS IDEAS 1061 00:27:42,093 --> 00:27:45,730 BY A TIMID PUPPY." 1062 00:27:45,797 --> 00:27:48,466 BUT SINCE THEN, IT HAS BEEN A 1063 00:27:48,533 --> 00:27:49,000 NIGHTMARE, AS ARIZONA HAS 1064 00:27:49,067 --> 00:27:49,567 CYCLED THROUGH CONTRACTORS. 1065 00:27:49,634 --> 00:27:53,772 THEY STARTED WITH WEXFORD, 1066 00:27:53,838 --> 00:27:54,839 THE "ONE GOOD EYE" PEOPLE. 1067 00:27:54,906 --> 00:27:55,440 BUT AS THINGS DIDN'T IMPROVE, 1068 00:27:55,507 --> 00:27:56,174 LESS THAN A YEAR LATER, THEY 1069 00:27:56,241 --> 00:27:56,775 SWITCHED TO A COMPANY CALLED 1070 00:27:56,841 --> 00:27:57,075 CORIZON. 1071 00:27:57,142 --> 00:27:58,043 BUT ALMOST IMMEDIATELY, HEINOUS 1072 00:27:58,109 --> 00:27:58,943 STORIES STARTED EMERGING ABOUT 1073 00:27:59,010 --> 00:27:59,611 THE CARE THEY WERE PROVIDING 1074 00:27:59,677 --> 00:28:01,112 TOO, INCLUDING ONE WE'VE 1075 00:28:01,179 --> 00:28:02,313 ACTUALLY SHOWN YOU BEFORE, ABOUT 1076 00:28:02,380 --> 00:28:03,748 A WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH BEHIND 1077 00:28:03,815 --> 00:28:05,450 BARS AND WHOSE C-SECTION WOUND 1078 00:28:05,517 --> 00:28:06,851 HAD NOT FULLY HEALED. 1079 00:28:06,918 --> 00:28:08,620 AND I'LL LET HER MOTHER PICK UP 1080 00:28:08,686 --> 00:28:10,488 THE STORY FROM THERE. 1081 00:28:10,555 --> 00:28:11,556 >> THEY DECIDED SHE HAD BEEN 1082 00:28:11,623 --> 00:28:12,824 THERE LONG ENOUGH THAT SHE COULD 1083 00:28:12,891 --> 00:28:14,025 GO BACK TO HER YARD. 1084 00:28:14,092 --> 00:28:15,160 BUT IT WAS STILL OPEN A LITTLE 1085 00:28:15,226 --> 00:28:17,962 BIT. 1086 00:28:18,029 --> 00:28:20,065 AND SO THEY DECIDED THAT, UM, 1087 00:28:20,131 --> 00:28:20,832 THE BEST THING TO DO FOR THIS 1088 00:28:20,899 --> 00:28:21,466 WOULD BE TO PACK IT WITH KITCHEN 1089 00:28:21,533 --> 00:28:22,567 SUGAR. 1090 00:28:22,634 --> 00:28:23,768 >> SUGAR? 1091 00:28:23,835 --> 00:28:26,671 >> SUGAR. 1092 00:28:26,738 --> 00:28:28,173 AND, WE'RE TALKING SUGAR THAT 1093 00:28:28,239 --> 00:28:30,175 YOU GET FROM -- 'CAUSE THEY 1094 00:28:30,241 --> 00:28:31,009 DONATE IT, FROM McDONALD'S, FROM 1095 00:28:31,076 --> 00:28:32,777 BURGER KING. 1096 00:28:32,844 --> 00:28:33,745 YOU KNOW, THEY'RE STANDING THERE 1097 00:28:33,812 --> 00:28:35,080 RIPPING OPEN THESE LITTLE PACKS 1098 00:28:35,146 --> 00:28:38,650 OF SUGAR AND FILLING THAT WOUND. 1099 00:28:38,716 --> 00:28:40,085 PACKING IT IN WITH WHAT'S LEFT, 1100 00:28:40,151 --> 00:28:42,220 AND -- 1101 00:28:42,287 --> 00:28:42,821 >> WITH SUGAR FROM A FAST FOOD 1102 00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:43,388 RESTAURANT. 1103 00:28:43,455 --> 00:28:44,255 >> YES. 1104 00:28:44,322 --> 00:28:45,356 >> John: OKAY. 1105 00:28:45,423 --> 00:28:46,091 LET ME BE CLEAR: I'M NOT A 1106 00:28:46,157 --> 00:28:47,792 DOCTOR -- ALTHOUGH IF YOU PUT ME 1107 00:28:47,859 --> 00:28:49,294 IN A LAB COAT, I DO THINK I 1108 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:50,295 COULD GET AWAY WITH IT FOR 1109 00:28:50,361 --> 00:28:51,429 TWO TO SIX WEEKS. 1110 00:28:51,496 --> 00:28:52,630 I HAVE AN ACCENT AND KNOW HOW TO 1111 00:28:52,697 --> 00:28:53,832 SAY "SUBDURAL HEMATOMA" -- 1112 00:28:53,898 --> 00:28:54,732 I'M BASICALLY HALFWAY THERE 1113 00:28:54,799 --> 00:28:56,134 ALREADY. 1114 00:28:56,201 --> 00:28:57,735 BUT IF I HAD TO PICK THE WORST 1115 00:28:57,802 --> 00:29:00,338 POSSIBLE THING FOR A PERSON 1116 00:29:00,405 --> 00:29:01,372 RECOVERING FROM THE TRAUMA OF 1117 00:29:01,439 --> 00:29:01,940 CHILDBIRTH, IT'D PROBABLY BE 1118 00:29:02,006 --> 00:29:02,807 INJECTING McDONALD'S SUGAR 1119 00:29:02,874 --> 00:29:04,642 STRAIGHT INTO YOUR BLOODSTREAM. 1120 00:29:04,709 --> 00:29:06,077 AND THE STATE LAWMAKER WHO 1121 00:29:06,144 --> 00:29:07,545 SPEARHEADED THE MOVE TO TAKE 1122 00:29:07,612 --> 00:29:09,013 ARIZONA'S PRISON HEALTHCARE 1123 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:10,982 PRIVATE, JOHN KAVANAGH, DIDN'T 1124 00:29:11,049 --> 00:29:12,250 DISPLAY A GREAT DEAL OF EMPATHY 1125 00:29:12,317 --> 00:29:14,452 WHEN CONFRONTED WITH THAT STORY. 1126 00:29:14,519 --> 00:29:15,854 >> THAT SOUNDS RIDICULOUS. 1127 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,055 YOU KNOW, PRISONERS HAVE, YOU 1128 00:29:17,122 --> 00:29:18,990 KNOW, 24/7 TO THINK UP 1129 00:29:19,057 --> 00:29:20,859 ALLEGATIONS AND WRITE LETTERS. 1130 00:29:20,925 --> 00:29:23,027 I'M NOT SAYING THAT SOME OF THEM 1131 00:29:23,094 --> 00:29:24,395 CAN'T HAVE A BASIS IN FACT, BUT 1132 00:29:24,462 --> 00:29:25,497 YOU GOTTA TAKE THEM WITH A GRAIN 1133 00:29:25,563 --> 00:29:27,065 OF SALT, OR IN THE CASE OF THE 1134 00:29:27,132 --> 00:29:27,899 HOSPITAL, MAYBE A GRAIN OF 1135 00:29:27,966 --> 00:29:28,933 SUGAR. 1136 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:29,968 >> John: OH, I GET IT! 1137 00:29:30,034 --> 00:29:31,035 A JOKE! 1138 00:29:31,102 --> 00:29:32,837 PRISON GEPPETTO HERE IS HAVING 1139 00:29:32,904 --> 00:29:34,539 SOME FUN WITH WORDS. 1140 00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:35,473 AND I'M SURE THAT PRISONER'S 1141 00:29:35,540 --> 00:29:36,841 SIDES WERE SPLITTING. 1142 00:29:36,908 --> 00:29:37,976 LESS FROM LAUGHTER, THOUGH, AND 1143 00:29:38,042 --> 00:29:39,410 MORE FROM THE OPEN WOUNDS THAT, 1144 00:29:39,477 --> 00:29:40,278 THANKS TO HIM, SHE'D HAD FILLED 1145 00:29:40,345 --> 00:29:42,413 WITH FUCKING SUGAR. 1146 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,415 AND THAT'S JUST ONE OF MANY 1147 00:29:44,482 --> 00:29:45,917 STORIES OF CORIZON PROVIDING 1148 00:29:45,984 --> 00:29:47,585 ABYSMAL CARE, SEEMINGLY IN ORDER 1149 00:29:47,652 --> 00:29:49,921 TO CUT COSTS. 1150 00:29:49,988 --> 00:29:51,356 NOT ONLY WERE THEY REPEATEDLY 1151 00:29:51,422 --> 00:29:52,490 ACCUSED OF REFUSING TO PAY 1152 00:29:52,557 --> 00:29:54,292 SPECIALISTS, CAUSING HOSPITALS 1153 00:29:54,359 --> 00:29:55,660 TO HAVE TO SEND EMAILS LIKE THIS 1154 00:29:55,727 --> 00:29:56,461 ONE, IN WHICH THEY LITERALLY BEG 1155 00:29:56,528 --> 00:29:58,096 FOR PAYMENT. 1156 00:29:58,163 --> 00:29:59,264 BUT WHEN A CORIZON DOCTOR WAS 1157 00:29:59,330 --> 00:30:00,932 DEALING WITH A PRISONER WHO'D 1158 00:30:00,999 --> 00:30:02,267 HAD MULTIPLE SEIZURES AND 1159 00:30:02,333 --> 00:30:03,735 SUGGESTED SENDING HIM OUT FOR AN 1160 00:30:03,801 --> 00:30:06,638 EXAM, SHE WAS TOLD THAT WAS NOT 1161 00:30:06,704 --> 00:30:07,372 GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT THAT THEY'D 1162 00:30:07,438 --> 00:30:08,206 "ORDER A HELMET FOR HIM TO 1163 00:30:08,273 --> 00:30:09,474 PROTECT HIS HEAD INSTEAD." 1164 00:30:09,541 --> 00:30:12,010 AND WHILE IT IS CLEARLY NOT THE 1165 00:30:12,076 --> 00:30:13,511 MOST IMPORTANT THING, WE TRACKED 1166 00:30:13,578 --> 00:30:15,346 THAT DOCTOR DOWN TO ASK IF THEY 1167 00:30:15,413 --> 00:30:16,614 EVER GOT THAT HELMET FOR HIM, 1168 00:30:16,681 --> 00:30:17,415 AND YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT THE 1169 00:30:17,482 --> 00:30:18,183 ANSWER WAS, UNLESS YOUR GUESS IS 1170 00:30:18,249 --> 00:30:19,250 "NO," IN WHICH CASE, YOU'RE 1171 00:30:19,317 --> 00:30:22,520 ABSOLUTELY FUCKING RIGHT. 1172 00:30:22,587 --> 00:30:23,988 AND ALL OF THIS LED TO HORRIFIC 1173 00:30:24,055 --> 00:30:26,124 CONSEQUENCES, LIKE THIS MAN, 1174 00:30:26,191 --> 00:30:27,192 WHO HAD JUST TEN MONTHS LEFT ON 1175 00:30:27,258 --> 00:30:28,159 HIS SENTENCE FOR VEHICLE THEFT 1176 00:30:28,226 --> 00:30:30,428 WHEN HE COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN. 1177 00:30:30,495 --> 00:30:31,129 FOUR MONTHS LATER, HE FINALLY 1178 00:30:31,196 --> 00:30:32,730 GOT X-RAYS DONE WHICH SHOWED 1179 00:30:32,797 --> 00:30:33,731 SIGNS OF CANCER -- BUT EVEN 1180 00:30:33,798 --> 00:30:36,367 THEN, CORIZON DRAGGED ITS FEET. 1181 00:30:36,434 --> 00:30:38,002 >> THEY WOULDN'T DO AN MRI. 1182 00:30:38,069 --> 00:30:38,970 THEY KEPT DENYING AN MRI, 1183 00:30:39,037 --> 00:30:40,505 DENYING AN MRI. 1184 00:30:40,572 --> 00:30:41,806 >> IN MAY, CT SCANS WERE ORDERED 1185 00:30:41,873 --> 00:30:43,474 TO SEE IF VOCKE HAD CANCER, BUT 1186 00:30:43,541 --> 00:30:45,877 CORIZON DENIED IT. 1187 00:30:45,944 --> 00:30:47,579 FINALLY, AT THE END OF JULY 1188 00:30:47,645 --> 00:30:50,181 2013, A CT SCAN WAS PERFORMED. 1189 00:30:50,248 --> 00:30:52,684 IT CONFIRMED VOCKE HAD CANCER. 1190 00:30:52,750 --> 00:30:53,685 MEDICAL RECORDS SHOW THERE WAS A 1191 00:30:53,751 --> 00:30:55,086 LENGTHY DELAY IN TREATING 1192 00:30:55,153 --> 00:30:57,388 VOCKE. 1193 00:30:57,455 --> 00:30:59,023 >> AND IT WAS KIDNEY CANCER THAT 1194 00:30:59,090 --> 00:31:01,059 COULD HAVE BEEN 95% SURVIVABLE. 1195 00:31:01,125 --> 00:31:02,527 AND NOW THEY'RE SAYING THAT I 1196 00:31:02,594 --> 00:31:03,895 CAN'T SURVIVE IT WHATSOEVER. 1197 00:31:03,962 --> 00:31:05,263 >> VOCKE WAS GRANTED MEDICAL 1198 00:31:05,330 --> 00:31:07,165 PAROLE SO HE CAN DIE SURROUNDED 1199 00:31:07,232 --> 00:31:09,133 BY FAMILY. 1200 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:10,802 >> John: THAT IS A TRAGEDY. 1201 00:31:10,868 --> 00:31:12,370 JUST TEN MONTHS LEFT ON HIS 1202 00:31:12,437 --> 00:31:14,272 SENTENCE, SHOWING CLEAR SIGNS OF 1203 00:31:14,339 --> 00:31:17,175 CANCER, AND NOTHING WAS DONE. 1204 00:31:17,242 --> 00:31:19,444 AND AGAIN, HE WAS IN THERE FOR 1205 00:31:19,510 --> 00:31:20,511 VEHICLE THEFT. 1206 00:31:20,578 --> 00:31:21,045 THE PUNISHMENT FOR THAT IS 1207 00:31:21,112 --> 00:31:21,913 CLEARLY NOT DEATH, BUT UNDER A 1208 00:31:21,980 --> 00:31:23,648 SYSTEM THIS CRUEL, IT CAN TURN 1209 00:31:23,715 --> 00:31:24,582 OUT TO BE. 1210 00:31:24,649 --> 00:31:26,384 AND THIS WAS ALL PART OF A 1211 00:31:26,451 --> 00:31:26,884 CONSISTENT PATTERN. 1212 00:31:26,951 --> 00:31:28,553 THE STATE'S OWN RECORDS SHOWED 1213 00:31:28,620 --> 00:31:29,487 THAT CORIZON HAD DELAYED 1214 00:31:29,554 --> 00:31:32,190 DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE 16,000 1215 00:31:32,257 --> 00:31:33,725 TIMES IN JUST ONE EIGHT-MONTH 1216 00:31:33,791 --> 00:31:34,959 PERIOD. 1217 00:31:35,026 --> 00:31:36,461 IT GOT SO BAD, ARIZONA WAS 1218 00:31:36,527 --> 00:31:38,830 ACTUALLY FORCED TO PAY FINES FOR 1219 00:31:38,896 --> 00:31:39,764 THE SUBSTANDARD CARE PRISONERS 1220 00:31:39,831 --> 00:31:41,299 RECEIVED EVEN AS, MYSTIFYINGLY, 1221 00:31:41,366 --> 00:31:42,667 IT CONTINUED TO PAY MORE THAN 1222 00:31:42,734 --> 00:31:43,835 $2.5 MILLION IN PERFORMANCE 1223 00:31:43,901 --> 00:31:46,904 BONUSES TO CORIZON'S EXECUTIVES. 1224 00:31:46,971 --> 00:31:48,506 BUT EVENTUALLY ENOUGH WAS 1225 00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:49,674 ENOUGH, AND THE STATE GOT RID OF 1226 00:31:49,741 --> 00:31:50,808 CORIZON. 1227 00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:52,443 THE COMPANY -- FUN FACT -- HAS 1228 00:31:52,510 --> 00:31:54,045 SINCE DECLARED BANKRUPTCY, BUT 1229 00:31:54,112 --> 00:31:55,413 REBRANDED AS "YESCARE," WHICH IS 1230 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,349 A BOLD NAME CHOICE FOR THAT 1231 00:31:58,416 --> 00:32:00,051 COMPANY. 1232 00:32:00,118 --> 00:32:01,052 IT'S LIKE APPLEBEES CALLING 1233 00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:01,853 ITSELF "WON'T MAKE YOU POOP 1234 00:32:01,919 --> 00:32:03,221 WEIRD!" 1235 00:32:03,288 --> 00:32:08,760 TO PUT IT MILDLY, YOUR NAME 1236 00:32:08,826 --> 00:32:09,727 IS A LITTLE MISLEADING. 1237 00:32:09,794 --> 00:32:10,928 ANYWAY, ARIZONA REPLACED CORIZON 1238 00:32:10,995 --> 00:32:11,562 WITH A COMPANY CALLED CENTURION. 1239 00:32:11,629 --> 00:32:12,163 BUT THE SITUATION STILL DIDN'T 1240 00:32:12,230 --> 00:32:12,397 IMPROVE. 1241 00:32:12,463 --> 00:32:13,498 IN FACT, LAST JUNE, A 1242 00:32:13,564 --> 00:32:14,599 JUDGE RULED THAT FOR YEARS, 1243 00:32:14,666 --> 00:32:16,601 ACROSS MULTIPLE PROVIDERS, THE 1244 00:32:16,668 --> 00:32:17,302 STATE HAD SHOWN "THE MOST 1245 00:32:17,368 --> 00:32:18,536 CALLOUS AND INHUMANE 1246 00:32:18,603 --> 00:32:19,937 INDIFFERENCE," SAYING "NO 1247 00:32:20,004 --> 00:32:21,539 LEGITIMATE HUMANE SYSTEM WOULD 1248 00:32:21,606 --> 00:32:23,007 OPERATE IN THIS MANNER." 1249 00:32:23,074 --> 00:32:24,676 NOW, SINCE THAT RULING, THE 1250 00:32:24,742 --> 00:32:25,910 STATE'S CONTRACTED OUT TO YET 1251 00:32:25,977 --> 00:32:27,845 ANOTHER NEW PROVIDER, THIS ONE 1252 00:32:27,912 --> 00:32:29,781 CALLED NAPHCARE, WHICH ITSELF IS 1253 00:32:29,847 --> 00:32:30,782 FIGHTING ACCUSATIONS OF FORCIBLY 1254 00:32:30,848 --> 00:32:31,816 INDUCING PREGNANT PRISONERS INTO 1255 00:32:31,883 --> 00:32:33,584 LABOR AGAINST THEIR WILL. 1256 00:32:33,651 --> 00:32:35,920 AND THAT'S THE THING -- IN SO 1257 00:32:35,987 --> 00:32:38,222 MANY PLACES, STATES END UP JUST 1258 00:32:38,289 --> 00:32:39,290 ROTATING AMONG A SMALL HANDFUL 1259 00:32:39,357 --> 00:32:47,098 OF AWFUL PROVIDERS. 1260 00:32:47,165 --> 00:32:48,633 PRISONS IN FLORIDA WENT FROM 1261 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:49,367 CORIZON, TO WEXFORD, TO 1262 00:32:49,434 --> 00:32:50,134 CENTURION. 1263 00:32:50,201 --> 00:32:50,702 ALABAMA WENT FROM CORIZON TO 1264 00:32:50,768 --> 00:32:51,502 WEXFORD, TO YESCARE, WHICH, 1265 00:32:51,569 --> 00:32:52,103 YOU'LL REMEMBER, IS BASICALLY 1266 00:32:52,170 --> 00:32:53,671 JUST CORIZON REBRANDED. 1267 00:32:53,738 --> 00:32:56,174 SO STATES CHOOSE HEALTHCARE 1268 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:56,708 PROVIDERS LIKE OLD MARRIED 1269 00:32:56,774 --> 00:32:58,643 COUPLES CHOOSE SEXUAL POSITIONS: 1270 00:32:58,710 --> 00:33:00,011 BY CYCLING THROUGH AN EXTREMELY 1271 00:33:00,078 --> 00:33:01,412 LIMITED NUMBER OF OPTIONS, NONE 1272 00:33:01,479 --> 00:33:03,314 OF WHICH REALLY GET THE JOB DONE 1273 00:33:03,381 --> 00:33:05,950 IN A SATISFYING WAY. 1274 00:33:06,017 --> 00:33:06,851 AND THE OPTIONS CAN BE SO 1275 00:33:06,918 --> 00:33:08,286 LIMITED THAT, EVEN WHEN PUBLIC 1276 00:33:08,353 --> 00:33:16,361 OFFICIALS DO TRY TO DO THE RIGHT 1277 00:33:16,427 --> 00:33:17,428 THING AND DEMAND ACTION, THEY 1278 00:33:17,495 --> 00:33:18,896 CAN OFTEN FIND THEMSELVES STUCK. 1279 00:33:18,963 --> 00:33:19,364 TAKE WHAT HAPPENED IN 1280 00:33:19,430 --> 00:33:20,565 FORSYTH COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. 1281 00:33:20,631 --> 00:33:21,199 IT HAD A CONTRACT WITH A COMPANY 1282 00:33:21,265 --> 00:33:21,866 CALLED CORRECT CARE SOLUTIONS TO 1283 00:33:21,933 --> 00:33:22,600 PROVIDE CARE IN ITS JAIL. 1284 00:33:22,667 --> 00:33:23,801 BUT AFTER A SERIES OF 1285 00:33:23,868 --> 00:33:24,902 CALAMITIES, INCLUDING TWO MEN 1286 00:33:24,969 --> 00:33:25,636 DYING IN THE SPACE OF JUST 24 1287 00:33:25,703 --> 00:33:26,704 DAYS, THIS COUNTY COMMISSIONER 1288 00:33:26,771 --> 00:33:27,772 DECIDED TO VOTE AGAINST RENEWING 1289 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:29,374 THEIR CONTRACT, AND DID SO LIKE 1290 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,809 THIS: 1291 00:33:31,876 --> 00:33:33,544 >> I CAN'T VOTE TO SUPPORT 1292 00:33:33,611 --> 00:33:35,847 CORRECT CARE FOR ANY CONTRACT. 1293 00:33:35,913 --> 00:33:38,483 YOU KNOW, I DON'T CARE ABOUT 1294 00:33:38,549 --> 00:33:39,817 THREE MILLION, THREE YEARS, OR 1295 00:33:39,884 --> 00:33:40,318 WHATEVER. 1296 00:33:40,385 --> 00:33:41,986 I WOULDN'T GIVE CORRECT -- 1297 00:33:42,053 --> 00:33:43,721 CORRECT CARE SOLUTIONS $3,000 1298 00:33:43,788 --> 00:33:45,123 FOR THREE DAYS IF I HAD MY WAY. 1299 00:33:45,189 --> 00:33:46,524 SO I CAN'T SUPPORT IT. 1300 00:33:46,591 --> 00:33:47,859 >> John: THAT'S A PRETTY STRONG 1301 00:33:47,925 --> 00:33:50,762 "NO" FROM THAT MAN. 1302 00:33:50,828 --> 00:33:51,996 AND AS COMPLETELY JUSTIFIABLE 1303 00:33:52,063 --> 00:33:52,997 AS HIS RELUCTANCE TO RENEW 1304 00:33:53,064 --> 00:33:54,899 CORRECT CARE'S CONTRACT WAS, AS 1305 00:33:54,966 --> 00:33:56,000 THE COUNTY'S DEPUTY SHERIFF 1306 00:33:56,067 --> 00:33:56,968 POINTED OUT, THERE WAS A BIT OF 1307 00:33:57,034 --> 00:34:01,072 A PROBLEM. 1308 00:34:01,139 --> 00:34:02,039 >> THE ONLY THING I WILL 1309 00:34:02,106 --> 00:34:03,808 SAY, SIR, IS, WITH REGARD TO 1310 00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:04,409 THIS, THIS WAS -- CORRECT CARE 1311 00:34:04,475 --> 00:34:07,078 WAS THE ONLY VENDOR THAT BID. 1312 00:34:07,145 --> 00:34:08,446 >> John: IT'S TRUE. 1313 00:34:08,513 --> 00:34:09,580 THERE WAS NO OTHER OPTION. 1314 00:34:09,647 --> 00:34:10,548 SO THE WHOLE VOTE WAS BASICALLY 1315 00:34:10,615 --> 00:34:13,084 CEREMONIAL. 1316 00:34:13,151 --> 00:34:14,051 IT'D BE JUST AS EFFECTIVE TO 1317 00:34:14,118 --> 00:34:15,553 HOLD A VOTE ON THE QUESTION 1318 00:34:15,620 --> 00:34:16,087 "SHOULD IT BE SUMMER NOW?" 1319 00:34:16,154 --> 00:34:16,521 YES? 1320 00:34:16,587 --> 00:34:17,422 YES? 1321 00:34:17,488 --> 00:34:22,460 EVERYONE VOTES YES? 1322 00:34:22,527 --> 00:34:23,394 WELL, BAD NEWS, EVERYONE, 1323 00:34:23,461 --> 00:34:24,128 IT STILL ISN'T. 1324 00:34:24,195 --> 00:34:24,662 AND WHEN YOU PUT ALL THIS 1325 00:34:24,729 --> 00:34:25,263 TOGETHER, IT'S HARD TO ESCAPE 1326 00:34:25,329 --> 00:34:25,863 TWO CONCLUSIONS: THAT ALL THE 1327 00:34:25,930 --> 00:34:26,464 OPTIONS CURRENTLY ON THE TABLE 1328 00:34:26,531 --> 00:34:27,198 ARE BAD AND THAT THE REASON 1329 00:34:27,265 --> 00:34:28,332 THEY'RE ALLOWED TO BE SO BAD IS 1330 00:34:28,399 --> 00:34:29,967 BECAUSE OF WHO THIS CARE IS FOR. 1331 00:34:30,034 --> 00:34:32,069 AND I GET IT CAN BE DIFFICULT 1332 00:34:32,136 --> 00:34:34,572 FOR SOME TO CARE ABOUT ISSUES 1333 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:35,940 AFFECTING PRISONERS. 1334 00:34:36,007 --> 00:34:37,875 AND I ALSO GET THEIR HEALTH CARE 1335 00:34:37,942 --> 00:34:39,277 MAY BE ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT TO 1336 00:34:39,343 --> 00:34:40,111 RALLY AROUND, AS SO MANY ON THE 1337 00:34:40,178 --> 00:34:42,013 OUTSIDE DON'T HAVE HEALTH CARE 1338 00:34:42,079 --> 00:34:42,914 THEMSELVES. 1339 00:34:42,980 --> 00:34:43,915 I KNOW ALL OF THIS. 1340 00:34:43,981 --> 00:34:44,916 BUT THE FACT REMAINS: 1341 00:34:44,982 --> 00:34:47,885 PRISONERS ARE PEOPLE. 1342 00:34:47,952 --> 00:34:50,354 100% OF THEM ARE, IN FACT. 1343 00:34:50,421 --> 00:34:50,922 AND THERE ARE SOME SOLUTIONS 1344 00:34:50,988 --> 00:34:53,357 HERE. 1345 00:34:53,424 --> 00:34:53,958 I'D ARGUE THE BARE MINIMUM WE 1346 00:34:54,025 --> 00:34:54,959 SHOULD DO IS TO STOP OUTSOURCING 1347 00:34:55,026 --> 00:34:55,660 PRISON HEALTHCARE TO PRIVATE 1348 00:34:55,726 --> 00:34:57,395 COMPANIES. 1349 00:34:57,462 --> 00:34:58,663 AS THE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL 1350 00:34:58,729 --> 00:35:00,598 PRISON PROJECT AT THE ACLU PUTS 1351 00:35:00,665 --> 00:35:01,532 IT, "GOVERNMENT-RUN PRISON 1352 00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:02,500 HEALTH CARE IS OFTEN APPALLINGLY 1353 00:35:02,567 --> 00:35:03,501 DEFICIENT, BUT AT LEAST WHEN A 1354 00:35:03,568 --> 00:35:04,702 GOVERNMENT IS PROVIDING THE 1355 00:35:04,769 --> 00:35:06,604 SERVICE, THERE IS SOME MEASURE 1356 00:35:06,671 --> 00:35:08,105 OF OVERSIGHT." 1357 00:35:08,172 --> 00:35:09,173 AND IT SHOULD SAY SOMETHING 1358 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:10,775 ABOUT JUST HOW BAD THINGS ARE 1359 00:35:10,842 --> 00:35:12,009 THAT WHAT ACTIVISTS ARE PUSHING 1360 00:35:12,076 --> 00:35:13,377 FOR HERE IS THE "APPALLINGLY 1361 00:35:13,444 --> 00:35:15,179 DEFICIENT" OPTION. 1362 00:35:15,246 --> 00:35:17,381 AND LOOK, OBVIOUSLY, THE PROBLEM 1363 00:35:17,448 --> 00:35:18,716 IS SO MUCH BIGGER THAN JUST 1364 00:35:18,783 --> 00:35:20,218 SHITTY CONTRACTORS. 1365 00:35:20,284 --> 00:35:21,285 IF THE ISSUE IS THAT PRISONS ARE 1366 00:35:21,352 --> 00:35:22,453 OVERWHELMED WITH TOO MANY 1367 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,889 PATIENTS TO TAKE CARE OF, 1368 00:35:24,956 --> 00:35:25,823 MAYBE THERE SHOULD BE FEWER 1369 00:35:25,890 --> 00:35:27,391 PEOPLE IN THERE. 1370 00:35:27,458 --> 00:35:28,326 IF IT'S THAT THE PRISON 1371 00:35:28,392 --> 00:35:29,527 POPULATION IS GETTING OLDER 1372 00:35:29,594 --> 00:35:30,161 BECAUSE OF THE INCREDIBLY LONG 1373 00:35:30,228 --> 00:35:30,962 SENTENCES WE'VE IMPOSED UPON 1374 00:35:31,028 --> 00:35:33,464 PEOPLE, MAYBE WE SHOULD CONSIDER 1375 00:35:33,531 --> 00:35:34,532 RELEASING THEM. 1376 00:35:34,599 --> 00:35:36,801 IF IT'S THAT TOO MANY OF THEM 1377 00:35:36,868 --> 00:35:37,468 ARE DEALING WITH ADDICTION AND 1378 00:35:37,535 --> 00:35:38,603 MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, 1379 00:35:38,669 --> 00:35:39,637 MAYBE WE SHOULD BE EXAMINING 1380 00:35:39,704 --> 00:35:43,074 WHETHER PRISON IS THE BEST PLACE 1381 00:35:43,140 --> 00:35:44,242 TO TREAT THOSE CONDITIONS. 1382 00:35:44,308 --> 00:35:45,309 BECAUSE THE THING IS, IT'S 1383 00:35:45,376 --> 00:35:46,878 IMPOSSIBLE TO SEPARATE THIS 1384 00:35:46,944 --> 00:35:48,913 ISSUE FROM THE MUCH LARGER 1385 00:35:48,980 --> 00:35:50,114 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT UNIVERSAL 1386 00:35:50,181 --> 00:35:51,082 HEALTHCARE AND PRISON ABOLITION. 1387 00:35:51,148 --> 00:35:52,683 LIKE SO MANY STORIES THAT WE 1388 00:35:52,750 --> 00:35:55,453 COVER, THIS ONE ENDS AT THE 1389 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:56,521 PERPETUAL ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM, 1390 00:35:56,587 --> 00:35:57,154 THAT THE U.S. DOESN'T GUARANTEE 1391 00:35:57,221 --> 00:35:57,955 ANY OF ITS CITIZENS THE DIGNITY 1392 00:35:58,022 --> 00:35:59,190 OF GOOD HEALTHCARE, AND PUTS TOO 1393 00:35:59,257 --> 00:36:00,658 MANY OF ITS PEOPLE IN CAGES -- 1394 00:36:00,725 --> 00:36:02,026 CAGES WHERE MANY WILL NEEDLESSLY 1395 00:36:02,093 --> 00:36:04,295 DIE. 1396 00:36:04,362 --> 00:36:06,163 AND YOU CAN TAKE THAT WITH ALL 1397 00:36:06,230 --> 00:36:07,365 THE GRAINS OF SUGAR IN THE 1398 00:36:07,431 --> 00:36:09,000 WORLD, BUT IT SHOULD STILL BE 1399 00:36:09,066 --> 00:36:11,035 ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE TO 1400 00:36:11,102 --> 00:36:11,936 SWALLOW. 1401 00:36:12,003 --> 00:36:13,671 AND NOW THIS. 1402 00:36:13,738 --> 00:36:15,840 >> Announcer: AND NOW, 1403 00:36:15,907 --> 00:36:16,474 FALL IS HERE AND SO IS 1404 00:36:16,541 --> 00:36:23,581 SOMETHING ELSE. 1405 00:36:23,648 --> 00:36:24,348 >> A BIG MILESTONE FOR A 1406 00:36:24,415 --> 00:36:25,082 FAVORITE FALL DRINK THAT HELPED 1407 00:36:25,149 --> 00:36:26,117 START A YEARLY TREND. 1408 00:36:26,183 --> 00:36:26,817 THE STARBUCKS PUMPKIN SPICE 1409 00:36:26,884 --> 00:36:31,722 LATTE IS NOW 20 YEARS OLD. 1410 00:36:31,789 --> 00:36:36,327 >> 20 YEARS! 1411 00:36:36,394 --> 00:36:40,798 BUT AN INSTANT IN THE 1412 00:36:40,865 --> 00:36:41,899 BILLION-YEAR BURNING! 1413 00:36:41,966 --> 00:36:42,767 >> SPEAKING OF DELICIOUS, THE 1414 00:36:42,833 --> 00:36:43,367 LOVE AND APPRECIATION OF THE 1415 00:36:43,434 --> 00:36:44,201 PUBLIC SPACE IS AT AN ALL-TIME 1416 00:36:44,268 --> 00:36:45,136 HIGH. 1417 00:36:45,202 --> 00:36:45,770 AS WE DRINK AND EAT EVERYTHING 1418 00:36:45,836 --> 00:36:46,370 PUMPKIN, THE QUESTION IS BEING 1419 00:36:46,437 --> 00:36:47,004 RAISED, ARE AMERICANS ADDICTED? 1420 00:36:47,071 --> 00:36:47,405 >> YES! 1421 00:36:47,471 --> 00:36:49,974 WE ARE ADDICTED! 1422 00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:52,877 WE ARE POWERLESS WORMS! 1423 00:36:52,944 --> 00:36:53,778 DESIRE FOR YOUR WHIMSICAL FALL 1424 00:36:53,844 --> 00:36:54,312 FLAVORS! 1425 00:36:54,378 --> 00:36:54,879 >> HAD A PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE 1426 00:36:54,946 --> 00:36:55,680 YESTERDAY. 1427 00:36:55,746 --> 00:36:56,914 >> NO, YOU DIDN'T. 1428 00:36:56,981 --> 00:37:00,251 >> I HAD TO. 1429 00:37:00,318 --> 00:37:06,924 >> YOU HAVE TO! 1430 00:37:06,991 --> 00:37:07,758 WE ARE MERE PUPPETS AGAINST 1431 00:37:07,825 --> 00:37:08,392 THE PROPRIETARY BLEND OF SPICES 1432 00:37:08,459 --> 00:37:08,893 SO POWERFUL. 1433 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:09,360 >> I HAD A PSL PHASE. 1434 00:37:09,427 --> 00:37:10,127 >> YEAH? 1435 00:37:10,194 --> 00:37:12,930 >> BUT THEN I PSLed OUT. 1436 00:37:12,997 --> 00:37:13,531 >> YEAH. 1437 00:37:13,598 --> 00:37:14,732 >> MAYBE, LIKE, ONE A SEASON. 1438 00:37:14,799 --> 00:37:15,933 NOT ALL THE TIME. 1439 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,668 >> YES! 1440 00:37:17,735 --> 00:37:22,039 ALL THE TIME! 1441 00:37:22,106 --> 00:37:26,277 THE BLOOD OF THE PUMPKIN. 1442 00:37:26,344 --> 00:37:27,378 >> 35%, ACCORDING TO MORNING 1443 00:37:27,445 --> 00:37:28,613 CONSULTS, SAY THEY WANT PUMPKIN 1444 00:37:28,679 --> 00:37:29,213 SPICE ALL YEAR. 1445 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:29,647 >> THAT'S NOT TRUE. 1446 00:37:29,714 --> 00:37:35,252 >> IT IS TRUE, FRED! 1447 00:37:35,319 --> 00:37:35,886 THE THIRST FOR SPICE WILL NOT BE 1448 00:37:35,953 --> 00:37:36,520 DENIED, EVEN BY THE HOST OF THE 1449 00:37:36,587 --> 00:37:37,221 NATION'S SECOND MOST POPULAR 1450 00:37:37,288 --> 00:37:38,656 MORNING SHOW! 1451 00:37:38,723 --> 00:37:39,457 >> DESPITE THE DRINK'S MASSIVE 1452 00:37:39,523 --> 00:37:40,558 SUCCESS FOLLOWING ITS RELEASE, 1453 00:37:40,625 --> 00:37:43,394 THE COMPANY CONSIDERED 1454 00:37:43,461 --> 00:37:44,395 DISCONTINUING THE DRINK AT 1455 00:37:44,462 --> 00:37:45,262 ONE POINT TO KEEP THINGS NEW, 1456 00:37:45,329 --> 00:37:46,664 FRESH, AND NOT REPETITIVE. 1457 00:37:46,731 --> 00:37:48,633 >> NO! 1458 00:37:48,699 --> 00:37:53,004 IT CAN NEVER BE STOPPED! 1459 00:37:53,070 --> 00:37:57,174 ECHO INTO ETERNITY! 1460 00:37:57,241 --> 00:37:58,109 MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE! 1461 00:37:58,175 --> 00:38:03,314 [SCREAMS] 1462 00:38:03,381 --> 00:38:04,048 MORE! 1463 00:38:04,115 --> 00:38:04,782 >> John: THAT IS OUR SHOW, 1464 00:38:04,849 --> 00:38:07,618 THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. 1465 00:38:07,685 --> 00:38:08,252 IT IS SO, SO GOOD TO BE BACK. 1466 00:38:08,319 --> 00:38:09,320 WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK. 1467 00:38:09,387 --> 00:38:10,154 GOOD NIGHT. 1468 00:38:10,221 --> 00:38:13,758 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1469 00:38:13,824 --> 00:38:24,301 ♪ ♪ 1470 00:38:24,368 --> 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