1 00:00:06,340 --> 00:00:09,276 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:09,343 --> 00:00:14,281 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:14,348 --> 00:00:18,285 ♪ ♪ 4 00:00:18,352 --> 00:00:21,788 ♪ ♪ 5 00:00:21,855 --> 00:00:28,862 ♪ ♪ 6 00:00:29,863 --> 00:00:32,799 [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] 7 00:00:32,866 --> 00:00:33,800 >> JOHN: WELCOME, WELCOME, 8 00:00:33,867 --> 00:00:34,401 WELCOME TO LAST WEEK TONIGHT! 9 00:00:34,468 --> 00:00:35,002 I'M JOHN OLIVER, THANK YOU SO 10 00:00:35,068 --> 00:00:36,803 MUCH FOR JOINING US! 11 00:00:36,870 --> 00:00:38,805 IT'S BEEN A BUSY WEEK. 12 00:00:38,872 --> 00:00:39,373 IN CHICAGO, OBAMA OPENED HIS 13 00:00:39,439 --> 00:00:40,807 PRESIDENTIAL CENTER. 14 00:00:40,874 --> 00:00:43,310 IN DC, DESPITE TRUMP SPENDING 15 00:00:43,377 --> 00:00:44,311 $14 MILLION, THE LINCOLN 16 00:00:44,378 --> 00:00:48,315 REFLECTING POOL LOOKS LIKE SHREK 17 00:00:48,382 --> 00:00:49,316 PISSED IN IT, AND IN THE UK, 18 00:00:49,383 --> 00:00:49,950 ANDY BURNHAM WON THE MAKERFIELD 19 00:00:50,017 --> 00:00:50,951 BY-ELECTION, AND IS NOW ODDS-ON 20 00:00:51,018 --> 00:00:53,320 TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER. 21 00:00:53,387 --> 00:00:53,854 AND HERE'S THE MOMENT THE 22 00:00:53,921 --> 00:00:56,823 RESULTS BECAME CLEAR: 23 00:00:56,890 --> 00:00:59,259 >> BURNHAM ANDREW MURRAY, 24 00:00:59,326 --> 00:01:00,327 COMMONLY KNOWN AS ANDY BURNHAM, 25 00:01:00,394 --> 00:01:01,328 THE LABOUR AND COOPERATIVE 26 00:01:01,395 --> 00:01:08,402 PARTY, 24,977. 27 00:01:08,902 --> 00:01:10,337 [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] 28 00:01:10,404 --> 00:01:11,004 >> JOHN: YEP — AS HARD AS IT IS 29 00:01:11,071 --> 00:01:11,939 TO BELIEVE — EVERYONE ON THAT 30 00:01:12,005 --> 00:01:12,472 STAGE WAS RUNNING IN THAT 31 00:01:12,539 --> 00:01:16,843 ELECTION. 32 00:01:16,910 --> 00:01:18,111 MEANING BURNHAM MANAGED TO NOT 33 00:01:18,178 --> 00:01:19,846 ONLY DEFEAT THE REFORM UK 34 00:01:19,913 --> 00:01:21,848 CANDIDATE, BUT ALSO DARTH TRASH 35 00:01:21,914 --> 00:01:24,851 CAN AND THE METH-TASTIC MR. FOX. 36 00:01:24,918 --> 00:01:25,852 MEANWHILE, THE WORLD CUP 37 00:01:25,919 --> 00:01:27,854 CONTINUED, WITH FANS STILL 38 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:29,356 HAVING A GREAT TIME, FROM 39 00:01:29,423 --> 00:01:32,859 NORWAY'S ROWING UP ESCALATORS, 40 00:01:32,926 --> 00:01:33,860 TO DUTCH SUPPORTERS DOING THE 41 00:01:33,926 --> 00:01:34,461 ORANJE FAN WALK, TO AUSTRALIAN 42 00:01:34,527 --> 00:01:35,362 FANS COMING UP WITH THE SONG OF 43 00:01:35,429 --> 00:01:38,865 THE SUMMER: 44 00:01:38,932 --> 00:01:41,368 ♪ AUSSIE BOYS WE'RE ON A BENDER, 45 00:01:41,435 --> 00:01:42,102 DONALD TRUMP IS A SEX OFFENDER! 46 00:01:42,169 --> 00:01:44,871 ♪ 47 00:01:44,938 --> 00:01:45,539 ♪ AUSSIE BOYS WE'RE ON A BENDER, 48 00:01:45,606 --> 00:01:46,173 DONALD TRUMP IS A SEX OFFENDER! 49 00:01:46,239 --> 00:01:50,377 ♪ 50 00:01:50,444 --> 00:01:51,044 ♪ AUSSIE BOYS WE'RE ON A BENDER, 51 00:01:51,110 --> 00:01:51,645 DONALD TRUMP IS A SEX OFFENDER 52 00:01:51,712 --> 00:01:54,881 ♪ 53 00:01:54,948 --> 00:01:56,383 >> JOHN: EXCELLENT. 54 00:01:56,450 --> 00:01:57,884 UNTIL NOW THE BEST THING 55 00:01:57,951 --> 00:01:58,884 AUSTRALIA GAVE THE US WAS 56 00:01:58,952 --> 00:02:00,887 AVOCADO TOAST AND NICOLE KIDMAN, 57 00:02:00,954 --> 00:02:01,888 BUT THEY'VE JUST TOPPED 58 00:02:01,955 --> 00:02:03,890 THEMSELVES. 59 00:02:03,957 --> 00:02:05,392 BECAUSE SEEING DRUNK AUSSIES 60 00:02:05,459 --> 00:02:07,394 JOYOUSLY CHANTING "TRUMP'S A SEX 61 00:02:07,461 --> 00:02:08,895 OFFENDER" IS THE EQUIVALENT OF 62 00:02:08,961 --> 00:02:09,896 LOOKING OUT YOUR OFFICE WINDOW 63 00:02:09,963 --> 00:02:10,896 AND SEEING TOURISTS EATING ICE 64 00:02:10,964 --> 00:02:13,400 CREAM ON A DOUBLE DECKER BUS. 65 00:02:13,467 --> 00:02:14,901 "I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW YOU COULD 66 00:02:14,968 --> 00:02:17,404 HAVE THAT MUCH FUN HERE." 67 00:02:17,471 --> 00:02:18,405 MEANWHILE, THE SCOTTISH FANS 68 00:02:18,472 --> 00:02:19,406 HAVE BEEN IN BOSTON, MAKING 69 00:02:19,473 --> 00:02:21,408 FRIENDS WHEREVER THEY GO, 70 00:02:21,475 --> 00:02:23,410 PUTTING CONES ON STATUES, AND 71 00:02:23,477 --> 00:02:24,011 CAUSING SOME REAL SUPPLY CHAIN 72 00:02:24,077 --> 00:02:30,917 PROBLEMS. 73 00:02:30,984 --> 00:02:31,485 >> IF YOUR FAVORITE BEER IS 74 00:02:31,551 --> 00:02:31,918 MISSING FROM A TAP-- 75 00:02:31,985 --> 00:02:32,486 >> WE'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING 76 00:02:32,552 --> 00:02:32,719 LIKE IT. 77 00:02:32,786 --> 00:02:33,253 >> THERE'S A DECENT CHANCE 78 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:33,820 SCOTLAND HAD SOMETHING TO DO 79 00:02:33,887 --> 00:02:35,055 WITH IT. 80 00:02:35,122 --> 00:02:35,656 SAM ADAMS DOWNTOWN RAN OUT OF 81 00:02:35,722 --> 00:02:36,923 THEIR SIGNATURE BOSTON LAGER 82 00:02:36,990 --> 00:02:38,992 OVER THE WEEKEND AND NEEDED AN 83 00:02:39,059 --> 00:02:40,427 EMERGENCY DELIVERY TO KEEP UP 84 00:02:40,494 --> 00:02:42,429 WITH THE WORLD CUP FANS. 85 00:02:42,496 --> 00:02:43,030 AND THEY'RE NOT THE ONLY ONES 86 00:02:43,096 --> 00:02:44,430 RUNNING DRY. 87 00:02:44,498 --> 00:02:44,965 >> THE WHITE BULL TAVERN. 88 00:02:45,031 --> 00:02:48,935 THERE WAS NO BEER. 89 00:02:49,002 --> 00:02:49,936 THE SCOTS FANS JUST DRUNK THE 90 00:02:50,003 --> 00:02:50,570 PLACE DRY, AND ALL THEY HAD WAS 91 00:02:50,637 --> 00:02:53,440 LIKE BUD LIGHT. 92 00:02:53,507 --> 00:02:54,941 >> JOHN: YEAH, THEY DRANK 93 00:02:55,008 --> 00:02:57,944 EVERYTHING BUT THE BUD LIGHT. 94 00:02:58,011 --> 00:02:59,946 AND DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD A BEER 95 00:03:00,013 --> 00:03:00,947 HAS TO BE FOR SCOTTISH PEOPLE 96 00:03:01,014 --> 00:03:03,950 NOT TO DRINK IT? 97 00:03:04,017 --> 00:03:05,952 THEIR NATIONAL DISH IS HAGGIS, 98 00:03:06,019 --> 00:03:06,953 WHICH LOOKS LIKE THE SANDWORM 99 00:03:07,020 --> 00:03:10,957 FROM DUNE SHIT ITSELF. 100 00:03:11,024 --> 00:03:12,959 THEY'LL EAT THAT HAPPILY, BUT 101 00:03:13,026 --> 00:03:14,461 DRAW THE LINE AT AMERICA'S DICK 102 00:03:14,528 --> 00:03:15,462 SPITTLE, A BEVERAGE THAT-- ON 103 00:03:15,529 --> 00:03:16,463 ITS BEST DAY-- TASTES LIKE PISS 104 00:03:16,530 --> 00:03:19,966 FLAVORED LA CROIX. 105 00:03:20,033 --> 00:03:20,966 BUT IT'S TRUE: SCOTLAND FANS 106 00:03:21,034 --> 00:03:22,069 HAVE BEEN DRINKING BOSTON DRY, 107 00:03:22,135 --> 00:03:23,970 WITH ONE EMPLOYEE OF A DOWNTOWN 108 00:03:24,037 --> 00:03:25,472 BAR SAYING, "WE'VE BEEN HERE FOR 109 00:03:25,539 --> 00:03:27,974 OVER 30 YEARS, AND WE'VE NEVER 110 00:03:28,041 --> 00:03:28,475 SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. 111 00:03:28,542 --> 00:03:30,977 WE TRIPLED ST. PATRICK'S DAY." 112 00:03:31,044 --> 00:03:32,978 WHICH IS WILD! 113 00:03:33,046 --> 00:03:34,981 I GUESS THE SCOTS SAW THE WAY 114 00:03:35,048 --> 00:03:36,483 BOSTONIANS DRINK AND SAID "HOLD 115 00:03:36,550 --> 00:03:37,050 MY BEER, WHILE I CHUG THREE 116 00:03:37,117 --> 00:03:39,486 MORE." 117 00:03:39,553 --> 00:03:40,987 APPARENTLY, WHEN ONE CUSTOMER 118 00:03:41,054 --> 00:03:41,988 CAME INTO A BOSTON LIQUOR STORE 119 00:03:42,055 --> 00:03:44,991 AND PURCHASED TWO BOTTLES OF 120 00:03:45,058 --> 00:03:45,992 WATER, A BUNCH OF SCOTLAND FANS 121 00:03:46,059 --> 00:03:46,593 IN THE STORE BOOED HER FOR THE 122 00:03:46,660 --> 00:03:53,500 PURCHASE. 123 00:03:53,567 --> 00:03:54,468 AND WHILE THAT'S OBVIOUSLY VERY 124 00:03:54,534 --> 00:03:55,067 FUNNY, I DO HAVE TO LOOK AT IT 125 00:03:55,135 --> 00:03:55,736 FROM THAT WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE -- 126 00:03:55,802 --> 00:03:56,503 SHE HAD A HARD DAY AT THE OFFICE 127 00:03:56,570 --> 00:03:57,037 -- SHE'S A PARALEGAL, I'M 128 00:03:57,103 --> 00:03:57,304 GUESSING. 129 00:03:57,370 --> 00:03:57,938 HER DOCTOR KEEPS TELLING HER TO 130 00:03:58,004 --> 00:03:58,505 HYDRATE MORE. 131 00:03:58,572 --> 00:04:00,107 SO SHE LEAVES WORK -- AFTER 132 00:04:00,173 --> 00:04:01,007 HOURS, AS USUAL -- AND STOPS AT 133 00:04:01,074 --> 00:04:01,541 THE NEAREST SPOT, A LIQUOR 134 00:04:01,608 --> 00:04:04,010 STORE. 135 00:04:04,077 --> 00:04:04,611 SHE DOESN'T DRINK ANYMORE, NOT 136 00:04:04,678 --> 00:04:06,513 SINCE THE ACCIDENT, BUT IT'S 137 00:04:06,580 --> 00:04:07,147 POURING RAIN AND HER EX GOT ALL 138 00:04:07,214 --> 00:04:09,516 THE UMBRELLAS IN THE DIVORCE. 139 00:04:09,583 --> 00:04:10,517 SHE RUSHES INSIDE, GRABS TWO 140 00:04:10,584 --> 00:04:11,818 WATER BOTTLES, AND HEADS TO THE 141 00:04:11,885 --> 00:04:13,019 CHECKOUT, RIFLING THROUGH CREDIT 142 00:04:13,086 --> 00:04:14,588 CARDS, HOPING ONE WILL GO 143 00:04:14,654 --> 00:04:16,523 THROUGH, SHE MAKES A GOOD WAGE, 144 00:04:16,589 --> 00:04:17,524 BUT ONLINE POKER WAS THE DEVIL 145 00:04:17,591 --> 00:04:20,527 SHE COULD NEVER IGNORE. 146 00:04:20,594 --> 00:04:21,528 SHE TAPS, IT WORKS, THANKFULLY. 147 00:04:21,595 --> 00:04:23,029 BUT SHE SPOTS THE CLERK'S 148 00:04:23,096 --> 00:04:25,031 NAMETAG -- "KYLE". 149 00:04:25,098 --> 00:04:30,036 THAT WAS "HIS" NAME 150 00:04:30,103 --> 00:04:30,604 HER EYES GLAZE, AND HER MIND 151 00:04:30,670 --> 00:04:32,572 DRIFTS TO SUMMER 2006, SLEEPAWAY 152 00:04:32,639 --> 00:04:33,206 CAMP, AND THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY 153 00:04:33,273 --> 00:04:33,707 SHE'D EVER SEEN -- KYLE 154 00:04:33,774 --> 00:04:37,043 KIRKPATRICK. 155 00:04:37,110 --> 00:04:37,611 SHE REALIZES HER GRANDMA WAS 156 00:04:37,677 --> 00:04:38,545 RIGHT -- THE WORST PART OF 157 00:04:38,612 --> 00:04:41,047 GROWING UP ISN'T THE WRINKLES OR 158 00:04:41,114 --> 00:04:42,015 THE RESTRAINING ORDERS, IT'S 159 00:04:42,082 --> 00:04:42,616 THAT YOU NEVER KNOW YOU'RE IN 160 00:04:42,682 --> 00:04:43,250 THE BEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE UNTIL 161 00:04:43,316 --> 00:04:45,552 THEY'RE OVER. 162 00:04:45,619 --> 00:04:47,554 AND THEN SHE'S SUDDENLY SNAPPED 163 00:04:47,621 --> 00:04:48,555 BACK TO REALITY BY A 164 00:04:48,622 --> 00:04:51,558 MOB OF REDHEADS BOOING HER FACE. 165 00:04:51,625 --> 00:04:52,259 AND "THAT'S" WHY IT'S IMPOSSIBLE 166 00:04:52,325 --> 00:04:53,058 TO BE A WOMAN. 167 00:04:53,126 --> 00:04:55,562 ANYWAY. 168 00:04:55,629 --> 00:04:56,563 THE WORLD CUP'S STILL VERY FUN. 169 00:04:56,630 --> 00:04:57,330 BUT THE BIG NEWS THIS WEEK 170 00:04:57,397 --> 00:04:58,064 CONCERNED IRAN. 171 00:04:58,131 --> 00:04:59,599 A WEEK AGO, TRUMP ANNOUNCED A 172 00:04:59,666 --> 00:05:01,067 DEAL TO END HIS WAR, POSTING, 173 00:05:01,134 --> 00:05:01,601 "THE DEAL WITH THE ISLAMIC 174 00:05:01,668 --> 00:05:02,702 REPUBLIC OF IRAN IS NOW 175 00:05:02,769 --> 00:05:04,070 COMPLETE. 176 00:05:04,137 --> 00:05:05,071 CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL! 177 00:05:05,138 --> 00:05:06,072 SHIPS OF THE WORLD, START YOUR 178 00:05:06,139 --> 00:05:08,575 ENGINES. 179 00:05:08,642 --> 00:05:10,577 LET THE OIL FLOW!", LIKE A REAL 180 00:05:10,644 --> 00:05:13,580 CHA-CHA DIGREGORIO IN GREASE. 181 00:05:13,647 --> 00:05:14,347 AND ON WEDNESDAY, TRUMP SIGNED A 182 00:05:14,414 --> 00:05:15,916 "MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING." 183 00:05:15,982 --> 00:05:17,082 AND IT QUICKLY BECAME CLEAR THIS 184 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:19,085 WAS LESS A COMPREHENSIVE PEACE 185 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:20,086 DEAL, AND MORE "A PLAN TO 186 00:05:20,153 --> 00:05:21,087 EVENTUALLY HAVE ONE" -- WITH 187 00:05:21,154 --> 00:05:24,591 SOME PRETTY BIG HOLES IN IT. 188 00:05:24,658 --> 00:05:25,592 >> THE AGREEMENT CALLS FOR THE 189 00:05:25,659 --> 00:05:27,594 WAR TO END ON ALL FRONTS, 190 00:05:27,661 --> 00:05:29,095 INCLUDING ISRAEL'S STRIKES 191 00:05:29,162 --> 00:05:31,097 AGAINST HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON, 192 00:05:31,164 --> 00:05:32,632 BUT THE ISRAELIS, WHO HAVE BEEN 193 00:05:32,699 --> 00:05:34,100 THE U.S.'S PARTNER IN THIS WAR, 194 00:05:34,167 --> 00:05:35,702 BUT WERE NOT INVOLVED IN THIS 195 00:05:35,769 --> 00:05:36,603 DEAL, HAVE MADE CLEAR THEY 196 00:05:36,670 --> 00:05:39,606 AREN'T WITHDRAWING FROM LEBANON. 197 00:05:39,673 --> 00:05:40,273 >> IN THE DOCUMENT IRAN DOES NOT 198 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:41,107 COMMIT TO DESTROYING ITS NUCLEAR 199 00:05:41,174 --> 00:05:46,613 STOCKPILE. 200 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:47,247 THEY'VE ONLY AGREED TO NEGOTIATE 201 00:05:47,314 --> 00:05:49,616 FURTHER OVER THE NEXT 60 DAYS. 202 00:05:49,683 --> 00:05:50,617 >> JOHN: YEAH, THIS AGREEMENT 203 00:05:50,683 --> 00:05:52,385 DOESN'T EVEN ADDRESS IRAN'S 204 00:05:52,452 --> 00:05:53,620 NUCLEAR PROGRAM -- SUPPOSEDLY 205 00:05:53,687 --> 00:05:54,221 THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS WAR IN 206 00:05:54,287 --> 00:05:57,123 THE FIRST PLACE. 207 00:05:57,190 --> 00:05:58,124 AND ANYONE CAN SIGN AN AGREEMENT 208 00:05:58,191 --> 00:05:59,626 TO JUST FIGURE THINGS OUT LATER. 209 00:05:59,693 --> 00:06:02,629 THAT'S NOT DIFFICULT. 210 00:06:02,696 --> 00:06:03,196 IT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 211 00:06:03,263 --> 00:06:04,664 JONAS SALK DISCOVERING THE POLIO 212 00:06:04,731 --> 00:06:07,133 VACCINE, AND HIM JUST WRITING 213 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:07,734 "I.O.U. 1 POLIO VACCINE" ON A 214 00:06:07,801 --> 00:06:09,636 PIECE OF PAPER. 215 00:06:09,703 --> 00:06:11,137 NEVERTHELESS, TRUMP TOOK A FULL 216 00:06:11,204 --> 00:06:12,639 VICTORY LAP, CLAIMING HIS NEW 217 00:06:12,706 --> 00:06:14,341 DEAL WITH IRAN WAS FAR BETTER 218 00:06:14,407 --> 00:06:16,309 THAN THE ONE OBAMA MADE IN 2015, 219 00:06:16,376 --> 00:06:18,144 AND WHICH TRUMP TORE UP IN HIS 220 00:06:18,211 --> 00:06:20,146 FIRST TERM, USING SOME STRONG 221 00:06:20,213 --> 00:06:23,650 LANGUAGE TO DESCRIBE WHY: 222 00:06:23,717 --> 00:06:25,652 >> HE GAVE THEM 1.7 BILLION 223 00:06:25,719 --> 00:06:27,487 DOLLARS IN CASH -- GREEN CASH, 224 00:06:27,554 --> 00:06:31,658 FROM BANKS -- INTO A BOEING 757 225 00:06:31,725 --> 00:06:33,659 AND FLEW IT INTO IRAN. 226 00:06:33,727 --> 00:06:35,161 AND THEY STOOD AT THE PLANE -- I 227 00:06:35,228 --> 00:06:36,663 HAVE PICTURES OF IT -- LIKE 'OH 228 00:06:36,730 --> 00:06:37,297 MY GOD, LOOK AT THIS MONEY HE'S 229 00:06:37,364 --> 00:06:44,170 GIVING US! 230 00:06:44,237 --> 00:06:44,838 AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE IRANIANS 231 00:06:44,905 --> 00:06:45,005 DID? 232 00:06:45,071 --> 00:06:45,639 THEY LAUGHED AT OBAMA AND THEY 233 00:06:45,705 --> 00:06:46,239 SAID, "HE'S A STUPID SON OF A 234 00:06:46,306 --> 00:06:46,473 BITCH!" 235 00:06:46,539 --> 00:06:47,073 >> JOHN: OKAY, LOTS TO UNPACK 236 00:06:47,140 --> 00:06:49,175 THERE, BUT I'D LIKE TO FOCUS ON 237 00:06:49,242 --> 00:06:50,176 "GREEN CASH FROM BANKS" -- YET 238 00:06:50,243 --> 00:06:51,678 MORE EVIDENCE THIS GUY SEES 239 00:06:51,745 --> 00:06:54,180 EVERYTHING IN CARTOONS. 240 00:06:54,247 --> 00:06:55,181 "THEY HAD BILLIONS IN CASH, 241 00:06:55,248 --> 00:06:57,183 GREEN CASH, FROM BANKS. NOT THE 242 00:06:57,250 --> 00:06:59,419 GOLD PILE OF MONEY THAT THE DUCK 243 00:06:59,486 --> 00:07:00,687 JUMPS INTO -- THE OTHER KIND. 244 00:07:00,754 --> 00:07:02,289 AND THEY FLEW IT TO IRAN REAL 245 00:07:02,355 --> 00:07:02,956 FAST CUZ THE PLANE WENT ACROSS A 246 00:07:03,023 --> 00:07:04,190 LITTLE MAP. 247 00:07:04,257 --> 00:07:05,191 AND WHEN THE IRANIANS SAW IT 248 00:07:05,258 --> 00:07:06,192 THEIR EYES TURNED INTO DOLLAR 249 00:07:06,259 --> 00:07:08,194 SIGNS AND THEIR TONGUES TURNED 250 00:07:08,261 --> 00:07:09,195 INTO BIG WADS OF CASH -- AGAIN, 251 00:07:09,262 --> 00:07:10,697 GREEN, LIKE FROM THE BANKS. 252 00:07:10,764 --> 00:07:16,703 AND THEY WERE ALL LIKE A-WOOGA." 253 00:07:16,770 --> 00:07:17,270 BUT ABOUT THAT SUPPOSED $1.7 254 00:07:17,337 --> 00:07:18,204 BILLION GIFT -- AS HAS BEEN 255 00:07:18,271 --> 00:07:21,207 POINTED OUT FOR YEARS, THAT 256 00:07:21,274 --> 00:07:22,709 WASN'T US JUST HANDING OVER 257 00:07:22,776 --> 00:07:24,210 MONEY, IT WAS US REPAYING A DEBT 258 00:07:24,277 --> 00:07:25,612 OWED TO IRAN, WHICH HAD BOUGHT 259 00:07:25,679 --> 00:07:26,379 MILITARY EQUIPMENT FROM THE U.S. 260 00:07:26,446 --> 00:07:32,719 THAT IT NEVER RECEIVED. 261 00:07:32,786 --> 00:07:33,353 SO AS USUAL, TRUMP SEIZED ON ONE 262 00:07:33,420 --> 00:07:33,954 ACTUAL FACT - THE NUMBER "1.7 263 00:07:34,020 --> 00:07:36,723 BILLION" - AND LAYERED SO MUCH 264 00:07:36,790 --> 00:07:37,324 BULLSHIT ON TOP, IT EVENTUALLY 265 00:07:37,390 --> 00:07:39,726 BECAME SOMETHING TOTALLY 266 00:07:39,793 --> 00:07:40,260 DIFFERENT, LIKE AN OYSTER 267 00:07:40,327 --> 00:07:41,227 TURNING A GRAIN OF SAND INTO A 268 00:07:41,294 --> 00:07:42,228 PEARL, OR AN IMPROV GROUP 269 00:07:42,295 --> 00:07:44,431 TURNING AN AUDIENCE SUGGESTION 270 00:07:44,497 --> 00:07:44,998 INTO A WASTE OF EVERYBODY'S 271 00:07:45,065 --> 00:07:52,072 TIME. 272 00:07:56,308 --> 00:07:56,843 BUT I GUESS IT'S GOOD TO KNOW 273 00:07:56,909 --> 00:07:57,477 THAT TRUMP'S AGAINST IRAN BEING 274 00:07:57,544 --> 00:07:57,811 GIVEN MONEY. 275 00:07:57,877 --> 00:07:58,411 IT JUST MAKES IT A BIT STRANGE 276 00:07:58,478 --> 00:07:58,912 TO LEARN THIS MEMORANDUM 277 00:07:58,979 --> 00:07:59,546 INCLUDES "AT LEAST $300 BILLION" 278 00:07:59,612 --> 00:08:00,180 FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND ECONOMIC 279 00:08:00,246 --> 00:08:00,613 DEVELOPMENT OF IRAN. 280 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:01,247 AND MAN, IF IRAN CALLED OBAMA A 281 00:08:01,314 --> 00:08:04,317 "STUPID SON OF A BITCH" FOR 282 00:08:04,384 --> 00:08:04,951 GIVING THEM 1.7 BILLION DOLLARS, 283 00:08:05,018 --> 00:08:06,252 I THINK WE'RE ABOUT TO FIND OUT 284 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:07,754 WHAT THE PERSIAN WORD IS FOR 285 00:08:07,821 --> 00:08:08,755 SOMEONE THREE HUNDRED TIMES 286 00:08:08,822 --> 00:08:11,758 DUMBER THAN THAT. 287 00:08:11,825 --> 00:08:12,392 AS FOR WHAT THE U.S. IS GETTING 288 00:08:12,459 --> 00:08:14,361 OUT OF THIS -- IT SEEMS, NOT A 289 00:08:14,427 --> 00:08:16,763 LOT WE DIDN'T ALREADY HAVE. 290 00:08:16,830 --> 00:08:17,764 IT'S NO WONDER THAT EVEN 291 00:08:17,831 --> 00:08:18,765 REPUBLICANS HAVE EXPRESSED 292 00:08:18,832 --> 00:08:19,766 OUTRAGE AT THE DEAL, WITH TED 293 00:08:19,832 --> 00:08:21,267 CRUZ CALLING IT, "AN 294 00:08:21,334 --> 00:08:23,269 EXCEPTIONALLY BAD IDEA," AND THE 295 00:08:23,336 --> 00:08:23,837 CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE ARMED 296 00:08:23,903 --> 00:08:25,338 SERVICES COMMITTEE SAYING IT WAS 297 00:08:25,405 --> 00:08:25,972 "COMPLETELY OUT OF STEP WITH THE 298 00:08:26,039 --> 00:08:27,607 PRESIDENT'S GOALS." 299 00:08:27,674 --> 00:08:30,276 AND THEY WEREN'T ALONE. 300 00:08:30,343 --> 00:08:31,778 >> REPUBLICAN SENATOR BILL 301 00:08:31,845 --> 00:08:33,279 CASSIDY POSTING, "BEFORE THE 302 00:08:33,346 --> 00:08:34,881 WAR, THE STRAIT WAS OPEN, IRAN 303 00:08:34,948 --> 00:08:36,783 WAS BEING CRUSHED BY SANCTIONS 304 00:08:36,850 --> 00:08:37,350 AND 13 SERVICE MEMBERS WERE 305 00:08:37,417 --> 00:08:39,786 STILL ALIVE. 306 00:08:39,852 --> 00:08:41,788 NOW, 13 AMERICANS ARE DEAD. 307 00:08:41,855 --> 00:08:42,389 FAMILIES HAVE PAID BILLIONS AT 308 00:08:42,455 --> 00:08:44,790 THE PUMP. 309 00:08:44,858 --> 00:08:45,925 SANCTIONS WILL BE LIFTED AND THE 310 00:08:45,992 --> 00:08:46,793 BOMBING HAS STOPPED." 311 00:08:46,860 --> 00:08:48,795 ADDING, "THIS IS THE WORST 312 00:08:48,862 --> 00:08:49,796 FOREIGN POLICY BLUNDER IN 313 00:08:49,863 --> 00:08:51,798 DECADES." 314 00:08:51,865 --> 00:08:52,799 AND THIS MORNING, PRESIDENT 315 00:08:52,866 --> 00:08:54,300 TRUMP IS FIRING BACK AT HIS 316 00:08:54,367 --> 00:08:55,902 CRITICS, SAYING THOSE WHO THINK 317 00:08:55,969 --> 00:08:56,803 HE HASN'T BEEN TOUGH ENOUGH ON 318 00:08:56,870 --> 00:08:58,805 IRAN ARE, QUOTE, EITHER, 319 00:08:58,872 --> 00:09:04,811 "JEALOUS, BAD PEOPLE OR STUPID." 320 00:09:04,878 --> 00:09:05,812 >> JOHN: LOOK, I GET TRUMP 321 00:09:05,879 --> 00:09:06,446 REFLEXIVELY CALLING CRITICS BAD 322 00:09:06,513 --> 00:09:07,814 AND STUPID, BUT "JEALOUS?" 323 00:09:07,881 --> 00:09:08,381 WHO, EXACTLY, IS JEALOUS OF 324 00:09:08,448 --> 00:09:11,317 TRUMP RIGHT NOW? 325 00:09:11,384 --> 00:09:12,318 THE MAN JUST GOT GLOBALLY 326 00:09:12,385 --> 00:09:12,986 HUMILIATED BY TWO DIFFERENT 327 00:09:13,053 --> 00:09:15,822 BODIES OF WATER. 328 00:09:15,889 --> 00:09:16,456 WHO'S DYING FOR A PIECE OF THAT 329 00:09:16,523 --> 00:09:18,825 ACTION? 330 00:09:18,892 --> 00:09:20,827 MANY OBSERVERS ARGUE THIS 331 00:09:20,894 --> 00:09:21,828 AGREEMENT PUTS IRAN IN A 332 00:09:21,895 --> 00:09:25,832 STRONGER POSITION THAN BEFORE. 333 00:09:25,899 --> 00:09:26,433 ITS LEADERS HAVE ALREADY SAID 334 00:09:26,499 --> 00:09:27,400 THAT THEY HAVE PLANS TO 335 00:09:27,467 --> 00:09:27,967 INTRODUCE FEES TO ACCESS THE 336 00:09:28,034 --> 00:09:29,335 STRAIT OF HORMUZ -- SOMETHING 337 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:29,936 THEY WEREN'T DOING BEFORE THIS 338 00:09:30,003 --> 00:09:30,837 WAR. 339 00:09:30,904 --> 00:09:32,839 AND U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES 340 00:09:32,906 --> 00:09:33,840 HAVE ASSESSED THAT IRAN "CAN 341 00:09:33,907 --> 00:09:35,408 EFFECTIVELY SHUT DOWN ACCESS TO 342 00:09:35,475 --> 00:09:37,343 THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ AT WILL 343 00:09:37,410 --> 00:09:38,344 FROM NOW ON," WITH ONE SOURCE 344 00:09:38,411 --> 00:09:40,346 SAYING, "WE'VE NOW HANDED IRAN 345 00:09:40,413 --> 00:09:41,981 DE FACTO CONTROL OVER THE STRAIT 346 00:09:42,048 --> 00:09:42,615 — A WEAPON MORE POWERFUL THAN 347 00:09:42,682 --> 00:09:44,350 ANY NUKE." 348 00:09:44,417 --> 00:09:47,887 AND OF COURSE IT IS! 349 00:09:47,954 --> 00:09:48,955 BEING ABLE TO SHUT DOWN A VITAL 350 00:09:49,022 --> 00:09:52,358 WATERWAY IS EXTREMELY POWERFUL! 351 00:09:52,425 --> 00:09:52,959 REMEMBER WHEN THIS QUEEN SHUT 352 00:09:53,026 --> 00:09:54,861 DOWN THE SUEZ CANAL? 353 00:09:54,928 --> 00:09:57,931 WE ALL HAD A GOOD LAUGH AT THAT. 354 00:09:57,997 --> 00:09:58,565 BUT NOW IMAGINE IF SHE DID THAT 355 00:09:58,631 --> 00:10:03,369 ON PURPOSE, AS AN ACT OF WAR. 356 00:10:03,436 --> 00:10:04,370 NOT SO FUNNY, IS IT? 357 00:10:04,437 --> 00:10:05,872 IRAN ESSENTIALLY NOW HAS A 358 00:10:05,939 --> 00:10:06,439 BUTTON THEY CAN PUSH TO MAKE 359 00:10:06,506 --> 00:10:07,874 U.S. GAS PRICES GO UP, AND 360 00:10:07,941 --> 00:10:09,876 TRUMP'S SIGNALED HE'LL DO 361 00:10:09,943 --> 00:10:10,510 ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING TO KEEP THEM 362 00:10:10,577 --> 00:10:11,878 FROM PRESSING IT. 363 00:10:11,945 --> 00:10:12,879 SO THERE'S NO REASON TO THINK WE 364 00:10:12,946 --> 00:10:13,880 HAVE LEVERAGE TO GET A GOOD DEAL 365 00:10:13,947 --> 00:10:16,382 MOVING FORWARD. 366 00:10:16,449 --> 00:10:18,384 AND IT'S NOT A GREAT SIGN HE'S 367 00:10:18,451 --> 00:10:20,386 ALREADY PUT J.D. VANCE IN CHARGE 368 00:10:20,453 --> 00:10:21,387 OF FINISHING THE DEAL, AND AS A 369 00:10:21,454 --> 00:10:22,388 FOX NEWS REPORTER POINTED OUT, 370 00:10:22,455 --> 00:10:27,393 THERE MAY BE A REASON FOR THAT. 371 00:10:27,460 --> 00:10:28,027 >> IS THERE SOME ELEMENT TO THIS 372 00:10:28,094 --> 00:10:30,396 WHERE YOU SEND THE VICE 373 00:10:30,463 --> 00:10:34,901 PRESIDENT, IF IT WORKS OUT, 374 00:10:34,968 --> 00:10:35,502 GREAT, YOU LOOK LIKE A GENIUS 375 00:10:35,568 --> 00:10:36,402 FOR SENDING HIM, AND IF IT 376 00:10:36,469 --> 00:10:37,036 DOESN'T WORK OUT, IT'S THE VICE 377 00:10:37,103 --> 00:10:37,437 PRESIDENT'S FAULT. 378 00:10:37,504 --> 00:10:39,405 >> I LIKE THAT IDEA, SURE. 379 00:10:39,472 --> 00:10:40,006 THIS WAY IF IT WORKS OUT, I'M 380 00:10:40,073 --> 00:10:40,907 GONNA TAKE THE CREDIT. 381 00:10:40,974 --> 00:10:42,408 IF IT DOESN'T WORK OUT, I'M 382 00:10:42,475 --> 00:10:43,910 BLAMING J.D.! 383 00:10:43,977 --> 00:10:45,912 YOU BETTER BE CAREFUL, J.D.! 384 00:10:45,979 --> 00:10:47,413 HE'S GONNA TURN HIS PLANE AROUND 385 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:48,414 AND GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE. 386 00:10:48,481 --> 00:10:55,488 YEAH I LIKE THAT IDEA." 387 00:10:59,492 --> 00:11:00,026 >> JOHN: YEAH I BET YOU DO! 388 00:11:00,093 --> 00:11:00,660 YOU KNOW, THE BEST JOKES ALWAYS 389 00:11:00,727 --> 00:11:01,227 HAVE AN ELEMENT OF TRUTH TO 390 00:11:01,294 --> 00:11:01,528 THEM. 391 00:11:01,594 --> 00:11:01,995 "YOU HEAR THAT, J.D.? 392 00:11:02,061 --> 00:11:02,762 PRETTY GOOD, RIGHT! 393 00:11:02,829 --> 00:11:03,329 WOULDN'T THAT BE FUNNY, YOUR 394 00:11:03,396 --> 00:11:03,930 CAREER ENDING AND ME JUST KIND 395 00:11:03,997 --> 00:11:04,564 OF MOVING ON TO THE NEXT THING? 396 00:11:04,631 --> 00:11:05,165 BUT DON'T WORRY, I WOULDN'T DO 397 00:11:05,231 --> 00:11:05,798 THAT, EVEN THOUGH IT'D BE SUPER 398 00:11:05,865 --> 00:11:06,432 EASY AND I PROBABLY WILL. 399 00:11:06,499 --> 00:11:07,066 MY FANS TRIED TO MURDER THE LAST 400 00:11:07,133 --> 00:11:08,935 GUY WHO HAD YOUR JOB. 401 00:11:09,002 --> 00:11:12,438 REMEMBER THAT, J.D.?" 402 00:11:12,505 --> 00:11:13,940 AND LOOK, ULTIMATELY IT'S GOING 403 00:11:14,007 --> 00:11:14,507 TO BE MONTHS OF NEGOTIATION 404 00:11:14,574 --> 00:11:15,942 BEFORE THE KEY DETAILS IN THIS 405 00:11:16,009 --> 00:11:16,943 DEAL ARE HAMMERED OUT, BUT IT 406 00:11:17,010 --> 00:11:17,944 SEEMS PRETTY CLEAR THERE ISN'T 407 00:11:18,011 --> 00:11:20,446 GOING TO BE MUCH UPSIDE TO 408 00:11:20,513 --> 00:11:22,448 TRUMP'S DISASTROUS WAR -- EITHER 409 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:23,750 FOR US, OR INDEED FOR IRAN'S 410 00:11:23,816 --> 00:11:24,951 PEOPLE, WHOSE HOPES OF CHANGE 411 00:11:25,018 --> 00:11:27,954 AND REVOLUTION SEEM TO HAVE BEEN 412 00:11:28,021 --> 00:11:28,454 DASHED. 413 00:11:28,521 --> 00:11:29,956 BASICALLY, IT LOOKS LIKE TRUMP'S 414 00:11:30,023 --> 00:11:30,590 GOING TO TAKE WHATEVER CRUMBS HE 415 00:11:30,657 --> 00:11:31,457 CAN GET AT THIS POINT, GIVE 416 00:11:31,524 --> 00:11:32,959 IRAN'S LEADERSHIP WHATEVER IT 417 00:11:33,026 --> 00:11:34,961 WANTS, AND LEAVE THE REST OF US 418 00:11:35,028 --> 00:11:36,462 VERY MUCH LIKE THE SCOTS LEFT 419 00:11:36,529 --> 00:11:37,964 EVERY BAR IN BOSTON THIS PAST 420 00:11:38,031 --> 00:11:39,566 WEEK: HIGH AND FUCKING DRY. 421 00:11:39,632 --> 00:11:45,972 AND NOW, THIS. 422 00:11:46,039 --> 00:11:47,974 >> Announcer: AND NOW, WHAT DO 423 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:49,976 YOU WANT FOR FATHER'S DAY? 424 00:11:50,043 --> 00:11:52,478 >> FATHER'S DAY IS COMING UP ON 425 00:11:52,545 --> 00:11:52,979 SUNDAY. 426 00:11:53,046 --> 00:11:54,881 SO HAVE ANY ONE PLANNED AND YOU 427 00:11:54,948 --> 00:11:57,984 KNOW WHAT TO DO FOR YOUR DAD? 428 00:11:58,051 --> 00:11:58,618 >> NO. 429 00:11:58,685 --> 00:12:00,153 I ASKED CRAIG THIS MORNING, 430 00:12:00,220 --> 00:12:01,654 AGAIN, GREG IF YOU ARE WATCHING, 431 00:12:01,721 --> 00:12:02,488 LET ME KNOW. 432 00:12:02,555 --> 00:12:04,490 >> MY WIFE ASKED WHAT I WANT TO 433 00:12:04,557 --> 00:12:04,657 DO. 434 00:12:04,724 --> 00:12:06,092 I DON'T KNOW, WHAT DO YOU WANT 435 00:12:06,159 --> 00:12:06,993 TO DO? 436 00:12:07,060 --> 00:12:08,494 >> SHE SAID WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR 437 00:12:08,561 --> 00:12:10,997 FATHER'S DAY. 438 00:12:11,064 --> 00:12:12,565 >> YOU KNOW WHAT THOUGH -- 439 00:12:12,632 --> 00:12:13,600 >> WHAT DO YOU WANT? 440 00:12:13,666 --> 00:12:15,501 >> AS FOR WHAT PEOPLE ARE 441 00:12:15,568 --> 00:12:16,703 BUYING, THE NUMBER 1 IS GREETING 442 00:12:16,769 --> 00:12:17,503 CARDS. 443 00:12:17,570 --> 00:12:19,138 DADS DON'T WANT GREETING CARDS. 444 00:12:19,205 --> 00:12:21,007 >> WHAT DO Y'ALL WANT? 445 00:12:21,074 --> 00:12:22,175 >> ONE TIME I WENT OUT TO DO 446 00:12:22,242 --> 00:12:23,209 SOME MAN ON THE STREET 447 00:12:23,276 --> 00:12:24,210 INTERVIEWS AND ASKED DADS, WHAT 448 00:12:24,277 --> 00:12:25,612 DO YOU WANT FOR FATHER'S DAY? 449 00:12:25,678 --> 00:12:27,180 AND THEY WERE LIKE, NOTHING. 450 00:12:27,247 --> 00:12:28,014 >> WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR 451 00:12:28,081 --> 00:12:29,515 FATHER'S DAY? 452 00:12:29,582 --> 00:12:30,583 >> I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE IT WAS 453 00:12:30,650 --> 00:12:33,019 FATHER'S DAY UNTIL YESTERDAY. 454 00:12:33,086 --> 00:12:36,022 >> ANYTHING FOR A GIFT? 455 00:12:36,089 --> 00:12:37,023 >> NO, NO. 456 00:12:37,090 --> 00:12:39,525 IT'S FINE. 457 00:12:39,592 --> 00:12:42,528 >> WOULD A MUG BE FINE? 458 00:12:42,595 --> 00:12:42,795 >> SURE. 459 00:12:42,862 --> 00:12:44,030 >> WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO? 460 00:12:44,097 --> 00:12:45,531 >> I HAVE SOMETHING TO DO AND I 461 00:12:45,598 --> 00:12:46,266 CAN'T REMEMBER IT. 462 00:12:46,332 --> 00:12:48,034 YOU ASKED ME TO FAST. 463 00:12:48,101 --> 00:12:48,534 DON'T KNOW. 464 00:12:48,601 --> 00:12:51,037 YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS? 465 00:12:51,104 --> 00:12:52,538 THIS IS GOING TO BE GROSS, BUT 466 00:12:52,605 --> 00:12:58,044 I'VE GOT TO GET A COLONOSCOPY ON 467 00:12:58,111 --> 00:13:00,546 MONDAY. 468 00:13:00,613 --> 00:13:01,047 ♪ ♪ 469 00:13:01,114 --> 00:13:02,048 >> JOHN: MOVING ON. 470 00:13:02,115 --> 00:13:02,682 OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT CONCERNS 471 00:13:02,749 --> 00:13:03,049 PIGS. 472 00:13:03,116 --> 00:13:03,549 FAT DOGS IN TAP SHOES. 473 00:13:03,616 --> 00:13:04,584 SPECIFICALLY, WE'RE GOING TO BE 474 00:13:04,651 --> 00:13:05,184 TALKING ABOUT FERAL PIGS, OR 475 00:13:05,251 --> 00:13:08,054 HOGS. 476 00:13:08,121 --> 00:13:08,688 THEY'RE THE THINGS BEING CHASED 477 00:13:08,755 --> 00:13:09,289 IN THIS RECENT VIRAL CLIP FROM 478 00:13:09,355 --> 00:13:16,362 POLAND. 479 00:13:16,629 --> 00:13:17,397 >> HERE'S SOMETHING YOU DON'T 480 00:13:17,463 --> 00:13:18,031 SEE EVERY DAY, A HUMANOID ROBOT 481 00:13:18,097 --> 00:13:19,065 CHASING A HEARD OF WILD BOARS. 482 00:13:19,132 --> 00:13:20,566 THE NOW VIRAL VIDEO FROM POLAND 483 00:13:20,633 --> 00:13:21,634 SHOWS A ROBOT NAMED EDWARD, AS 484 00:13:21,701 --> 00:13:22,201 IT CHASES THE BOARS OUT OF A 485 00:13:22,268 --> 00:13:23,569 WARSAW NEIGHBORHOOD. 486 00:13:23,636 --> 00:13:25,071 EDWARD CAN BE HEARD SHOUTING 'GO 487 00:13:25,138 --> 00:13:27,073 AWAY' IN POLISH, AS THE ANIMALS 488 00:13:27,140 --> 00:13:29,075 FLED INTO THE FOREST, BEFORE 489 00:13:29,142 --> 00:13:31,577 THEN WAVING GOODBYE. 490 00:13:31,644 --> 00:13:32,578 >> JOHN: YEAH, THAT'S REAL! 491 00:13:32,645 --> 00:13:35,048 APPARENTLY, POLAND HAS A 492 00:13:35,114 --> 00:13:36,082 HUMANOID ROBOT NAMED EDWARD, WHO 493 00:13:36,149 --> 00:13:39,085 TOOK IT UPON HIMSELF TO CHASE 494 00:13:39,152 --> 00:13:39,619 OFF SOME FERAL PIGS, THEN 495 00:13:39,686 --> 00:13:43,089 POLITELY WAVE THEM GOODBYE. 496 00:13:43,156 --> 00:13:43,656 WHICH IS A PRETTY CANNY P.R. 497 00:13:43,723 --> 00:13:44,223 CAMPAIGN FOR ANTHROPOMORPHIC 498 00:13:44,290 --> 00:13:45,591 ROBOTS. 499 00:13:45,658 --> 00:13:47,093 ALL I'M SAYING IS, THAT'S A NICE 500 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:48,594 WAY TO GET US ALL USED TO HIM 501 00:13:48,661 --> 00:13:50,096 BEFORE HE'S INEVITABLY, ONE DAY, 502 00:13:50,163 --> 00:13:57,170 USED AS A WEAPON OF WAR. 503 00:13:58,171 --> 00:13:58,638 "OH NO, EDWARD?! 504 00:13:58,705 --> 00:13:59,605 AT THE HAGUE?! 505 00:13:59,672 --> 00:14:00,173 BUT HE WAS SO CHILL TO THOSE 506 00:14:00,239 --> 00:14:01,607 PIGS!" 507 00:14:01,674 --> 00:14:02,175 BUT FERAL HOGS AREN'T JUST A 508 00:14:02,241 --> 00:14:03,176 PROBLEM IN POLAND -- THERE ARE 509 00:14:03,242 --> 00:14:04,610 LOTS OF THEM IN THE U.S., TOO, 510 00:14:04,677 --> 00:14:05,712 AS YOU MAY REMEMBER FROM THIS 511 00:14:05,778 --> 00:14:06,279 TWEET THAT WENT VIRAL A FEW 512 00:14:06,346 --> 00:14:07,113 YEARS AGO. 513 00:14:07,180 --> 00:14:08,614 >> YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED THAT 514 00:14:08,681 --> 00:14:10,116 THE TOP TRENDING TOPIC 515 00:14:10,183 --> 00:14:14,120 EVERYWHERE SEEMED TO BE FERAL 516 00:14:14,187 --> 00:14:14,620 HOGS. 517 00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:15,221 A BIZARRE TURN OF EVENTS WHICH 518 00:14:15,288 --> 00:14:16,122 BEGAN WITH A TWEET FROM A GUY 519 00:14:16,189 --> 00:14:17,123 NAMED WILLIE IN ARKANSAS WHO 520 00:14:17,190 --> 00:14:18,624 ADDED HIS TWO CENTS TO THE 521 00:14:18,691 --> 00:14:19,258 ROILING DEBATE OVER BANNING 522 00:14:19,325 --> 00:14:20,626 ASSAULT WEAPONS. 523 00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:22,228 QUOTE, "LEGIT QUESTION FOR RURAL 524 00:14:22,295 --> 00:14:24,630 AMERICANS -- HOW DO I KILL THE 525 00:14:24,697 --> 00:14:26,532 30 TO 50 FERAL HOGS THAT RUN 526 00:14:26,599 --> 00:14:27,800 INTO MY YARD WITHIN THREE TO 527 00:14:27,867 --> 00:14:28,434 FIVE MINUTES WHILE MY SMALL KIDS 528 00:14:28,501 --> 00:14:31,137 PLAY?" 529 00:14:31,204 --> 00:14:31,804 >> JOHN: YEAH, THE INTERNET 530 00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:32,638 ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED OVER THAT 531 00:14:32,705 --> 00:14:39,145 TWEET. 532 00:14:39,212 --> 00:14:39,779 IT GOT ITS OWN "KNOW YOUR MEME" 533 00:14:39,846 --> 00:14:40,413 PAGE, AND PEOPLE RESPONDED WITH 534 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:41,147 AN AVALANCHE OF JOKES, LIKE "MY 535 00:14:41,214 --> 00:14:41,714 MILKSHAKE BRINGS 30-50 FERAL 536 00:14:41,781 --> 00:14:43,149 HOGS TO THE YARD." 537 00:14:43,216 --> 00:14:44,650 AND "MY NECK, MY BACK, MY 30-50 538 00:14:44,717 --> 00:14:46,152 FERAL HOG ATTACK." 539 00:14:46,219 --> 00:14:47,687 WHICH IS VERY FUNNY. 540 00:14:47,754 --> 00:14:50,156 TWITTER USED TO BE GOOD. 541 00:14:50,223 --> 00:14:51,557 BUT THE THING IS, THAT GUY 542 00:14:51,624 --> 00:14:53,159 WASN'T EXAGGERATING ABOUT THE 543 00:14:53,226 --> 00:14:54,660 POTENTIAL THREAT OF HOGS. 544 00:14:54,727 --> 00:14:55,661 BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT, THEY'RE 545 00:14:55,728 --> 00:14:59,165 ACTUALLY A MASSIVE PROBLEM. 546 00:14:59,232 --> 00:15:00,666 >> AS BIG AS 400 POUNDS, FAST AS 547 00:15:00,733 --> 00:15:01,667 A CAR, SHARP-TOOTHED, AND 548 00:15:01,734 --> 00:15:04,170 AGGRESSIVE. 549 00:15:04,237 --> 00:15:06,172 FERAL HOGS, WILD BOARS, 550 00:15:06,239 --> 00:15:07,173 RAZORBACKS -- WHATEVER YOU CALL 551 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:08,674 THEM, THEY ARE ONE OF THE MOST 552 00:15:08,741 --> 00:15:10,676 DESTRUCTIVE SPECIES IN AMERICA." 553 00:15:10,743 --> 00:15:12,678 >> JOHN: THAT'S TRUE. 554 00:15:12,745 --> 00:15:13,279 FERAL HOGS ARE ONE OF THE MOST 555 00:15:13,346 --> 00:15:14,313 DESTRUCTIVE SPECIES IN THE 556 00:15:14,380 --> 00:15:15,181 COUNTRY. 557 00:15:15,248 --> 00:15:16,349 WHICH IS GENUINELY SHOCKING, 558 00:15:16,416 --> 00:15:17,683 BECAUSE LOOK AT THAT THING. 559 00:15:17,750 --> 00:15:21,187 IT LOOKS ADORABLE. 560 00:15:21,254 --> 00:15:21,821 IT'D BE LIKE LEARNING THE NUMBER 561 00:15:21,888 --> 00:15:22,455 ONE PRODUCER OF CARBON EMISSIONS 562 00:15:22,522 --> 00:15:23,689 IS BAYMAX. 563 00:15:23,756 --> 00:15:24,690 SURE HE'S A ROBOTIC HEALTHCARE 564 00:15:24,757 --> 00:15:26,692 PROVIDER WHO LOOKS LIKE A 565 00:15:26,759 --> 00:15:27,693 MARSHMALLOW, BUT TURNS OUT, HIS 566 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:28,694 FARTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 567 00:15:28,761 --> 00:15:32,198 KILLING MOST OF THE BEES. 568 00:15:32,265 --> 00:15:32,799 AND IF THAT WASN'T ALREADY BAD 569 00:15:32,865 --> 00:15:34,300 ENOUGH, FERAL HOGS ARE ALSO 570 00:15:34,367 --> 00:15:35,768 SPREADING AT AN ALARMING RATE -- 571 00:15:35,835 --> 00:15:37,703 AND NOT JUST IN RURAL AMERICA. 572 00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:39,205 JUST LISTEN TO THIS MAN, WHO 573 00:15:39,272 --> 00:15:41,207 LIVES IN A SUBURB OF DALLAS. 574 00:15:41,274 --> 00:15:42,708 >> TED FAULKNER HAS LIVED IN 575 00:15:42,775 --> 00:15:44,710 SOUTH MESQUITE FOR 17 YEARS. 576 00:15:44,777 --> 00:15:46,712 >> THEY LOOK LIKE COWS. 577 00:15:46,779 --> 00:15:47,814 >> AND THE ENTIRE TIME HE'S 578 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,216 DEALT WITH FERAL HOGS. 579 00:15:50,283 --> 00:15:51,217 AS OF LATE, HE SAYS THEY'VE BEEN 580 00:15:51,284 --> 00:15:54,220 COMING AROUND MORE FREQUENTLY. 581 00:15:54,287 --> 00:15:56,722 >> OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD! 582 00:15:56,789 --> 00:15:59,225 >> THERE ARE SIX TO EIGHT TO TEN 583 00:15:59,292 --> 00:15:59,425 HOGS. 584 00:15:59,492 --> 00:16:01,727 AND SOME ARE AS LARGE AS COWS. 585 00:16:01,794 --> 00:16:03,963 >> JOHN: YEAH, AND THAT'S NOT A 586 00:16:04,030 --> 00:16:05,731 ONE-OFF -- THERE'S A BUNCH OF 587 00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:07,233 RING CAMERA FOOTAGE OF FERAL 588 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:08,234 HOGS ROAMING VARIOUS U.S. 589 00:16:08,301 --> 00:16:10,236 SUBURBS. 590 00:16:10,303 --> 00:16:11,337 SO HOGS CAN NOW OFFICIALLY JOIN 591 00:16:11,404 --> 00:16:12,738 THE USUAL BLEND OF RING CAMERA 592 00:16:12,805 --> 00:16:15,241 CONTENT: DANCING UPS DRIVERS, 593 00:16:15,308 --> 00:16:16,476 RACCOONS BEING SNEAKY LITTLE 594 00:16:16,542 --> 00:16:17,477 GUYS, AND SCREAMING 595 00:16:17,543 --> 00:16:18,744 CONFRONTATIONS BETWEEN NEIGHBORS 596 00:16:18,811 --> 00:16:19,745 AS THE INCREASING TECHNOLOGICAL 597 00:16:19,812 --> 00:16:20,746 DISTANCE BETWEEN US CONVERTS 598 00:16:20,813 --> 00:16:22,248 WHAT WAS ONCE A SHARED COMMUNITY 599 00:16:22,315 --> 00:16:22,982 INTO A PARANOID SURVEILLANCE 600 00:16:23,049 --> 00:16:24,250 DYSTOPIA. 601 00:16:24,317 --> 00:16:28,287 YOU KNOW, RING CAMERA STUFF. 602 00:16:28,354 --> 00:16:29,755 THE POINT IS, THERE ARE A LOT 603 00:16:29,822 --> 00:16:30,389 MORE FERAL HOGS IN THE U.S. THAN 604 00:16:30,456 --> 00:16:32,258 YOU MAY THINK. 605 00:16:32,325 --> 00:16:34,260 THE USDA ESTIMATES THERE ARE 606 00:16:34,327 --> 00:16:36,262 CURRENTLY OVER SIX MILLION FERAL 607 00:16:36,329 --> 00:16:37,263 SWINE IN THE US, AND THAT 608 00:16:37,330 --> 00:16:38,364 THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR OVER 609 00:16:38,431 --> 00:16:40,199 THREE BILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGE 610 00:16:40,266 --> 00:16:42,268 TO U.S. AGRICULTURE EACH YEAR. 611 00:16:42,335 --> 00:16:44,270 AND THEY'RE SPREADING, FAST. 612 00:16:44,337 --> 00:16:45,771 IN THE PAST THIRTY YEARS, HOGS 613 00:16:45,838 --> 00:16:47,273 HAVE EXPANDED THEIR RANGE FROM 614 00:16:47,340 --> 00:16:50,276 20 STATES TO 36. 615 00:16:50,343 --> 00:16:51,277 AND EXPERTS HAVE REFERRED TO 616 00:16:51,344 --> 00:16:52,778 THEIR INCREASE IN NUMBERS AS A 617 00:16:52,845 --> 00:16:53,880 "PIG BOMB," THAT COULD HAVE 618 00:16:53,946 --> 00:16:54,780 DEVASTATING EFFECTS ON FOOD 619 00:16:54,847 --> 00:16:56,282 PRODUCTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 620 00:16:56,349 --> 00:16:57,783 WHICH IS SURPRISING BOTH ON ITS 621 00:16:57,850 --> 00:16:59,785 FACE, AND BECAUSE I CAN'T 622 00:16:59,852 --> 00:17:00,786 BELIEVE THE TERM "PIG BOMB" 623 00:17:00,853 --> 00:17:01,787 HADN'T ALREADY BEEN TAKEN BY 624 00:17:01,854 --> 00:17:06,291 SOMETHING ON THE DENNY'S MENU. 625 00:17:06,358 --> 00:17:07,292 AND ALL OF THAT ISN'T EVEN 626 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:07,960 TAKING INTO ACCOUNT STORIES LIKE 627 00:17:08,027 --> 00:17:09,795 THIS: 628 00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:10,896 >> A WARNING THIS MORNING ABOUT 629 00:17:10,963 --> 00:17:11,797 THE GROWING DANGERS FROM FERAL 630 00:17:11,864 --> 00:17:14,800 HOGS. 631 00:17:14,867 --> 00:17:16,801 THESE PIGS WERE BLAMED FOR THE 632 00:17:16,868 --> 00:17:17,470 GRUESOME DEATH OF A WOMAN IN 633 00:17:17,537 --> 00:17:18,804 TEXAS LAST WEEK, AND NOW EXPERTS 634 00:17:18,871 --> 00:17:21,307 ARE SAYING THAT INCIDENTS LIKE 635 00:17:21,374 --> 00:17:22,308 THESE ARE LIKELY TO BECOME MORE 636 00:17:22,375 --> 00:17:24,310 COMMON ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. 637 00:17:24,377 --> 00:17:25,444 MILDER WINTERS CAUSED BY CLIMATE 638 00:17:25,511 --> 00:17:25,912 CHANGE ARE HELPING THE 639 00:17:25,978 --> 00:17:30,316 POPULATION EXPLODE. 640 00:17:30,383 --> 00:17:31,317 WILD PIGS ARE DESTRUCTIVE, THEY 641 00:17:31,384 --> 00:17:31,851 ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO 642 00:17:31,918 --> 00:17:32,818 CONTROL, AND THEY ARE 643 00:17:32,885 --> 00:17:35,321 STATISTICALLY MORE DANGEROUS 644 00:17:35,388 --> 00:17:36,822 THAN SHARKS. 645 00:17:36,889 --> 00:17:37,323 >> JOHN: YEAH! 646 00:17:37,390 --> 00:17:38,190 THAT'S ACTUALLY TRUE. 647 00:17:38,257 --> 00:17:39,325 WILD PIGS HAVE KILLED SLIGHTLY 648 00:17:39,392 --> 00:17:39,825 MORE PEOPLE THAN SHARKS 649 00:17:39,892 --> 00:17:40,393 WORLDWIDE IN THE PAST TWENTY 650 00:17:40,459 --> 00:17:40,826 YEARS. 651 00:17:40,893 --> 00:17:47,900 ALTHOUGH TO BE FAIR: 652 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:48,434 STATISTICALLY, LOTS OF ANIMALS 653 00:17:48,501 --> 00:17:49,235 ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN SHARKS. 654 00:17:49,302 --> 00:17:49,869 COWS KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN THEY 655 00:17:49,936 --> 00:17:50,836 DO, FOR EXAMPLE. 656 00:17:50,903 --> 00:17:51,470 AND YET THE COWARDS AT DISCOVERY 657 00:17:51,537 --> 00:17:52,071 CHANNEL STILL REFUSE TO DO COW 658 00:17:52,138 --> 00:17:52,338 WEEK. 659 00:17:52,405 --> 00:17:53,839 WHY? 660 00:17:53,906 --> 00:17:56,842 BECAUSE THEY'RE AFRAID OF COWS. 661 00:17:56,909 --> 00:17:57,443 AS, TO BE HONEST, THEY FUCKING 662 00:17:57,510 --> 00:17:59,845 SHOULD BE. 663 00:17:59,912 --> 00:18:06,919 NOW, LUCKILY, IT IS STILL NOT 664 00:18:07,420 --> 00:18:07,987 LIKELY THAT FERAL HOGS WILL KILL 665 00:18:08,054 --> 00:18:08,354 YOU. 666 00:18:08,421 --> 00:18:09,188 BUT AS YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE, THEY 667 00:18:09,255 --> 00:18:09,822 CAN STILL DO A LOT OF DAMAGE IN 668 00:18:09,889 --> 00:18:10,456 OTHER WAYS -- TO THE POINT WHERE 669 00:18:10,523 --> 00:18:11,057 MANY RESEARCHERS CONSIDER THEM 670 00:18:11,123 --> 00:18:11,657 THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE INVASIVE 671 00:18:11,724 --> 00:18:13,359 SPECIES ON THE PLANET. 672 00:18:13,426 --> 00:18:14,860 SO GIVEN THAT, TONIGHT, LET'S 673 00:18:14,927 --> 00:18:15,528 TALK ABOUT FERAL HOGS -- WHERE 674 00:18:15,595 --> 00:18:16,862 THEY CAME FROM, THE DAMAGE 675 00:18:16,929 --> 00:18:17,463 THEY'RE DOING, AND HOW WE CAN 676 00:18:17,530 --> 00:18:19,365 FIGHT BACK. 677 00:18:19,432 --> 00:18:20,366 AND LET'S START WITH THE FACT 678 00:18:20,433 --> 00:18:21,367 THAT FERAL HOGS AREN'T NATIVE TO 679 00:18:21,434 --> 00:18:23,369 THE U.S. 680 00:18:23,436 --> 00:18:24,370 IN FACT, NO PIG OR ANY OTHER 681 00:18:24,437 --> 00:18:25,371 MEMBER OF THE SWINE FAMILY IS 682 00:18:25,438 --> 00:18:25,871 NATIVE TO THE WESTERN 683 00:18:25,938 --> 00:18:28,374 HEMISPHERE. 684 00:18:28,441 --> 00:18:29,375 BUT OVER THE CENTURIES, AS 685 00:18:29,442 --> 00:18:29,976 PEOPLE CAME FROM ALL OVER THE 686 00:18:30,042 --> 00:18:30,576 WORLD, THEY BROUGHT PIGS WITH 687 00:18:30,643 --> 00:18:31,877 THEM. 688 00:18:31,944 --> 00:18:32,878 FIRST, DOMESTICATED PIGS WERE 689 00:18:32,945 --> 00:18:34,347 BROUGHT OVER BY CHRISTOPHER 690 00:18:34,413 --> 00:18:34,947 COLUMBUS, IN WHAT'S REMEMBERED 691 00:18:35,014 --> 00:18:38,884 AS HIS ONLY MORAL FAILING. 692 00:18:38,951 --> 00:18:40,386 AND LATER, IN THE 19TH CENTURY, 693 00:18:40,453 --> 00:18:41,887 THEY WERE JOINED BY WILD BOAR, 694 00:18:41,954 --> 00:18:42,888 WHICH WERE BROUGHT OVER TO 695 00:18:42,955 --> 00:18:43,489 PROVIDE A NEW GAME SPECIES FOR 696 00:18:43,556 --> 00:18:45,391 WEALTHY HUNTERS. 697 00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:47,393 MANY OF THOSE PIGS AND BOARS 698 00:18:47,460 --> 00:18:48,394 THEN ESCAPED CAPTIVITY AND IN 699 00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:50,396 SOME CASES BRED TOGETHER, 700 00:18:50,463 --> 00:18:51,397 EVENTUALLY BECOMING THE HYBRID 701 00:18:51,464 --> 00:18:53,899 FERAL SWINE WE HAVE TODAY. 702 00:18:53,966 --> 00:18:56,002 AND PART OF THE REASON THEY 703 00:18:56,068 --> 00:18:57,403 SURVIVED SO WELL IN THE WILD IS 704 00:18:57,470 --> 00:19:03,409 THAT ASIDE FROM HUMANS, PIGS 705 00:19:03,476 --> 00:19:04,910 HAVE VERY FEW NATURAL PREDATORS. 706 00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:05,678 THEY'RE ALSO INCREDIBLY 707 00:19:05,745 --> 00:19:05,978 RESOURCEFUL. 708 00:19:06,045 --> 00:19:06,646 THEY CAN EAT A VARIETY OF FOODS. 709 00:19:06,712 --> 00:19:07,413 AND WHILE THEY MAINLY THRIVE IN 710 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:08,414 SOUTHERN STATES, EVEN IN COLD 711 00:19:08,481 --> 00:19:09,415 CLIMATES, THEY CAN BURROW INTO 712 00:19:09,482 --> 00:19:10,916 THE SNOW, CREATING SO-CALLED 713 00:19:10,983 --> 00:19:12,918 "PIGLOOS" TO SURVIVE THE WINTER. 714 00:19:12,985 --> 00:19:13,919 WHICH IS -- AND THIS IS TRUE -- 715 00:19:13,986 --> 00:19:15,921 CUTE. 716 00:19:15,988 --> 00:19:17,423 THEY ALSO APPARENTLY MAINTAIN 717 00:19:17,490 --> 00:19:18,424 COMPLEX SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS, 718 00:19:18,491 --> 00:19:20,092 CAN CHOOSE TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS 719 00:19:20,159 --> 00:19:20,926 WITHOUT VIOLENCE, AND SEEM TO 720 00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:21,927 UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY SEE IN A 721 00:19:21,994 --> 00:19:22,928 MIRROR. 722 00:19:22,995 --> 00:19:23,496 WHICH, OBVIOUSLY, WE ALREADY 723 00:19:23,562 --> 00:19:25,931 KNEW. 724 00:19:25,998 --> 00:19:27,600 SHE CAN RESOLVE CONFLICTS 725 00:19:27,667 --> 00:19:28,134 WITHOUT VIOLENCE; SHE JUST 726 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,936 CHOOSES NOT TO. 727 00:19:31,003 --> 00:19:31,937 IF THERE'S ONE THING A PIG IS 728 00:19:32,004 --> 00:19:32,505 GONNA DO, IT'S ESCALATE THE 729 00:19:32,571 --> 00:19:35,941 SITUATION. 730 00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:37,443 AS FOR THE PREVALENCE OF THESE 731 00:19:37,510 --> 00:19:40,446 HOGS, A KEY THING YOU NEED TO 732 00:19:40,513 --> 00:19:41,080 UNDERSTAND IS, THEY CANNOT STOP 733 00:19:41,147 --> 00:19:43,949 FUCKING. 734 00:19:44,016 --> 00:19:44,450 >> ONE SOW BECOMES 735 00:19:44,517 --> 00:19:45,084 REPRODUCTIVELY ACTIVE WHEN SHE'S 736 00:19:45,151 --> 00:19:46,819 SEVEN OR EIGHT MONTHS OLD. 737 00:19:46,886 --> 00:19:47,520 SHE CAN HAVE A LITTER OF SIX 738 00:19:47,586 --> 00:19:49,955 EVERY TIME SHE HAS A LITTER. 739 00:19:50,022 --> 00:19:52,324 SO, IN FIVE YEARS, ONE SOW COULD 740 00:19:52,391 --> 00:19:52,958 HAVE 1,000 DESCENDANTS. 741 00:19:53,025 --> 00:19:53,959 >> JOHN: YEAH, THAT'S A LOT OF 742 00:19:54,026 --> 00:19:56,028 PIG BIRTHS. 743 00:19:56,095 --> 00:19:57,029 AND LOOK, I DON'T WANT TO SAY "I 744 00:19:57,096 --> 00:19:59,031 TOLD YOU SO," BUT I THINK IT'S 745 00:19:59,098 --> 00:19:59,965 TIME TO ADMIT THAT 746 00:20:00,032 --> 00:20:00,966 ABSTINENCE-ONLY PIG SEX 747 00:20:01,033 --> 00:20:02,468 EDUCATION JUST ISN'T WORKING. 748 00:20:02,535 --> 00:20:05,971 BECAUSE THE PIGS ARE GONNA FUCK. 749 00:20:06,038 --> 00:20:06,572 LOOK AT ME: THE PIGS ARE GOING 750 00:20:06,639 --> 00:20:09,475 TO FUCK. 751 00:20:09,542 --> 00:20:10,476 AND AS THEIR POPULATION HAS 752 00:20:10,543 --> 00:20:11,477 GROWN, FERAL HOGS HAVE BEGUN TO 753 00:20:11,544 --> 00:20:12,978 DRIFT FROM RURAL ENVIRONMENTS 754 00:20:13,045 --> 00:20:14,180 INTO SUBURBAN AND EVEN URBAN 755 00:20:14,246 --> 00:20:15,481 ONES. 756 00:20:15,548 --> 00:20:16,982 AND IT CAN BE PRETTY ALARMING TO 757 00:20:17,049 --> 00:20:17,983 SUDDENLY SEE THEM IN YOUR 758 00:20:18,050 --> 00:20:19,485 NEIGHBORHOOD. 759 00:20:19,552 --> 00:20:20,986 >> RESIDENTS IN THE SOUTHERN 760 00:20:21,053 --> 00:20:22,254 SECTION OF THE FLORIDA SHORES 761 00:20:22,321 --> 00:20:23,489 SUBDIVISION, AROUND 35TH AND 762 00:20:23,556 --> 00:20:24,990 YULE TREE, WOKE UP THIS MORNING 763 00:20:25,057 --> 00:20:26,425 TO FIND THEIR LAWNS LOOKING MORE 764 00:20:26,492 --> 00:20:27,493 LIKE TOSSED SALAD. 765 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,995 AND IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME. 766 00:20:30,062 --> 00:20:30,996 THEY'RE FED UP WITH WILD HOGS 767 00:20:31,063 --> 00:20:31,997 HAVING THEIR WAY WITH THE 768 00:20:32,064 --> 00:20:32,998 PROPERTIES HERE. 769 00:20:33,065 --> 00:20:36,502 >> RUNNING ALL OVER THE PLACE. 770 00:20:36,569 --> 00:20:37,603 GOING [EMPHATIC OINKING] LIKE 771 00:20:37,670 --> 00:20:40,272 THEY'RE PLAYING. 772 00:20:40,339 --> 00:20:42,341 >> JOHN: EXCELLENT. 773 00:20:42,408 --> 00:20:43,008 I WANT TO SEE THAT MAN WEIGH IN 774 00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:44,009 ON ALL LOCAL NEWS STORIES. 775 00:20:44,076 --> 00:20:44,610 A STABBING AT THE LOCAL STRIP 776 00:20:44,677 --> 00:20:46,011 MALL? 777 00:20:46,078 --> 00:20:48,013 "THEY'RE TAKING KNIVES OUT, 778 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,515 GOING REE REE REE REE AND THEN 779 00:20:49,582 --> 00:20:50,149 BLOOD PSSHHHHHHH PSHHHHHHHH. THE 780 00:20:50,216 --> 00:20:51,016 GUY'S LIKE OWWWWWW OWWWWWW THE 781 00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:52,017 LIGHT! 782 00:20:52,084 --> 00:20:56,522 LIKE HE'S DYING." 783 00:20:56,589 --> 00:20:57,223 BUT AS SILLY AS DOING A PIG 784 00:20:57,289 --> 00:20:58,023 IMPRESSION ON THE NEWS IS, ANY 785 00:20:58,090 --> 00:20:58,557 TIME YOU HAVE WILD ANIMALS 786 00:20:58,624 --> 00:20:59,525 CROSSING OVER INTO HEAVILY 787 00:20:59,592 --> 00:21:00,526 POPULATED AREAS, IT CAN BE VERY 788 00:21:00,593 --> 00:21:07,032 DANGEROUS. 789 00:21:07,099 --> 00:21:08,033 AS ONE EXPERT SAID THAT "HITTING 790 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:08,634 A TWO- OR THREE-HUNDRED-POUND 791 00:21:08,701 --> 00:21:10,002 PIG ON A HIGHWAY IS NOT THAT 792 00:21:10,069 --> 00:21:11,036 MUCH DIFFERENT THAN HITTING A 793 00:21:11,103 --> 00:21:11,604 TWO- OR THREE-HUNDRED-POUND 794 00:21:11,670 --> 00:21:13,038 ROCK." 795 00:21:13,105 --> 00:21:14,039 AND IT'S NOT JUST CARS -- TWO 796 00:21:14,106 --> 00:21:15,040 F-16 FIGHTER JETS CRASHED AFTER 797 00:21:15,107 --> 00:21:17,543 THEY HIT PIGS ON A RUNWAY. 798 00:21:17,610 --> 00:21:19,044 BUT THE MAIN DAMAGE THESE HOGS 799 00:21:19,111 --> 00:21:20,546 DO IS ENVIRONMENTAL, AS THEY NOT 800 00:21:20,613 --> 00:21:22,548 ONLY EAT FARMERS' CROPS, BUT CAN 801 00:21:22,615 --> 00:21:23,249 DESTROY SEEDLINGS BY ROOTING IN 802 00:21:23,315 --> 00:21:25,050 THE DIRT. 803 00:21:25,117 --> 00:21:26,051 THERE ARE FIELDS THAT'VE BEEN 804 00:21:26,118 --> 00:21:29,054 TOTALLY DESTROYED BY THEM. 805 00:21:29,121 --> 00:21:30,055 AND WHILE THEY'RE ROOTING, HOGS 806 00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:31,056 CAN BREAK UP IRRIGATION LINES 807 00:21:31,123 --> 00:21:33,058 AND INFRASTRUCTURE ON FARMS, AND 808 00:21:33,125 --> 00:21:34,560 LEAVE HOLES IN FIELDS THAT CAN 809 00:21:34,627 --> 00:21:35,561 SINK A TRACTOR AND DESTROY 810 00:21:35,628 --> 00:21:37,563 EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT. 811 00:21:37,630 --> 00:21:39,565 AND THE THING IS, THEY SEEM TO 812 00:21:39,632 --> 00:21:41,567 DO THIS NO MATTER THE CROP. 813 00:21:41,634 --> 00:21:43,068 ONE EXPERT EVEN SAID "WE HAVEN'T 814 00:21:43,135 --> 00:21:44,069 BEEN ABLE TO FIND A CROP THAT 815 00:21:44,136 --> 00:21:45,571 FERAL SWINE WON'T EAT." 816 00:21:45,638 --> 00:21:48,073 THAT INCLUDES EVERYTHING FROM 817 00:21:48,140 --> 00:21:50,075 CORN TO SOYBEANS TO PEANUTS. 818 00:21:50,142 --> 00:21:52,077 APPARENTLY, HOGS LOVE PEANUTS. 819 00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:53,078 AND DON'T JUST TAKE THAT FROM ME 820 00:21:53,145 --> 00:21:54,079 -- LISTEN TO THIS FORMER STATE 821 00:21:54,146 --> 00:21:57,082 AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER. 822 00:21:57,149 --> 00:21:58,250 >> HOGS LOVE PEANUTS. 823 00:21:58,317 --> 00:22:05,090 >> JOHN: SEE? 824 00:22:05,157 --> 00:22:06,091 I TOLD YOU! 825 00:22:06,158 --> 00:22:07,593 YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE ME, DID YOU? 826 00:22:07,660 --> 00:22:08,594 YOU THOUGHT "BULLSHIT, YOU'RE 827 00:22:08,661 --> 00:22:09,762 THE LAST PERSON I'D TRUST TO 828 00:22:09,829 --> 00:22:10,396 TELL ME WHETHER OR NOT HOGS LOVE 829 00:22:10,462 --> 00:22:12,097 PEANUTS." 830 00:22:12,164 --> 00:22:13,098 BUT NOW THAT MISSISSIPPI STATE 831 00:22:13,165 --> 00:22:15,134 COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND 832 00:22:15,201 --> 00:22:16,602 COMMERCE LESTER SPELL SAYS IT, 833 00:22:16,669 --> 00:22:18,103 SUDDENLY YOU'RE ALL "OH, 834 00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:24,109 EVERYONE KNOWS HOGS LOVE 835 00:22:24,176 --> 00:22:25,611 PEANUTS, JOHN. 836 00:22:25,678 --> 00:22:25,978 IT'S NOT NEWS." 837 00:22:26,045 --> 00:22:26,545 AND ON TOP OF ALL THIS, HOGS 838 00:22:26,612 --> 00:22:27,146 WILL EVEN THREATEN LIVESTOCK. 839 00:22:27,213 --> 00:22:27,746 >> THE BIG BOARS ARE OUR MAIN 840 00:22:27,813 --> 00:22:29,114 PROBLEM. 841 00:22:29,181 --> 00:22:30,616 THEY WILL KILL THE NEWBORN LAMBS 842 00:22:30,683 --> 00:22:32,618 AND KID GOATS THAT ARE RIGHT 843 00:22:32,685 --> 00:22:34,620 THERE ON THE MATING GROUND 844 00:22:34,687 --> 00:22:36,121 BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN THEY'RE MOST 845 00:22:36,188 --> 00:22:38,123 VULNERABLE IS WHEN THEY'RE 846 00:22:38,190 --> 00:22:39,225 YOUNG, AND THEY'LL COME ALONG 847 00:22:39,291 --> 00:22:40,626 THROUGH THERE AND THEY'LL EAT 848 00:22:40,693 --> 00:22:42,628 THOSE KIDS AND LAMBS, JUST LIKE 849 00:22:42,695 --> 00:22:45,130 A THREE-YEAR-OLD WOULD M&M'S. 850 00:22:45,197 --> 00:22:45,698 >> JOHN: YEAH, THAT'S PRETTY 851 00:22:45,764 --> 00:22:51,637 ALARMING. 852 00:22:51,704 --> 00:22:52,638 THOUGH, QUICK SIDE NOTE ON HIS 853 00:22:52,705 --> 00:22:53,639 ANALOGY THERE: YOU DON'T HAVE TO 854 00:22:53,706 --> 00:22:54,273 BE THREE YEARS OLD TO ABSOLUTELY 855 00:22:54,340 --> 00:22:54,807 HORK DOWN A BOWL OF M&MS. 856 00:22:54,874 --> 00:22:55,407 NO ONE'S SAVORING THEM AT ANY 857 00:22:55,474 --> 00:22:57,142 AGE. 858 00:22:57,209 --> 00:22:57,776 NO ELDERS ARE OUT THERE DIGGING 859 00:22:57,843 --> 00:23:00,145 IN WITH A KNIFE AND A FORK. 860 00:23:00,212 --> 00:23:01,146 NO, THE FDA CLASSIFIES M&MS AS 861 00:23:01,213 --> 00:23:04,583 AN INHALANT FOR A REASON. 862 00:23:04,650 --> 00:23:06,151 THE PROPER WAY TO EAT THEM IS TO 863 00:23:06,218 --> 00:23:08,087 POUR THEM INTO YOUR OPEN MOUTH 864 00:23:08,153 --> 00:23:09,154 LIKE A BABY BIRD AND FEEL 865 00:23:09,221 --> 00:23:11,857 ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AFTERWARDS. 866 00:23:11,924 --> 00:23:12,658 AND IT'S NOT JUST LAMBS. 867 00:23:12,725 --> 00:23:14,660 HOGS PREY ON FAWNS AND 868 00:23:14,727 --> 00:23:16,161 ENDANGERED SALAMANDERS, AND RAID 869 00:23:16,228 --> 00:23:17,162 THE CLUTCHES OF GROUND-NESTING 870 00:23:17,229 --> 00:23:17,663 BIRDS AND THREATENED SEA 871 00:23:17,730 --> 00:23:19,665 TURTLES. 872 00:23:19,732 --> 00:23:21,166 IN FACT, ONE EXPERT SAID THAT 873 00:23:21,233 --> 00:23:23,636 "WE HAVE TAKEN FERAL SWINE AND 874 00:23:23,702 --> 00:23:25,170 IN NECROPSIES SHOWN THEIR ENTIRE 875 00:23:25,237 --> 00:23:26,171 STOMACH AND INTESTINES ARE FULL 876 00:23:26,238 --> 00:23:28,674 OF BABY SEA TURTLES." 877 00:23:28,741 --> 00:23:30,175 WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST 878 00:23:30,242 --> 00:23:32,378 DISTURBING THINGS YOU COULD FIND 879 00:23:32,444 --> 00:23:35,381 INSIDE A DEAD HOG, OTHER THAN 880 00:23:35,447 --> 00:23:35,981 MAYBE A SKELETON LABELED "THE 881 00:23:36,048 --> 00:23:38,183 REAL TOM HANKS." 882 00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:39,818 I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS THERE, 883 00:23:39,885 --> 00:23:42,187 INCLUDING: WHY THE NAMETAG? 884 00:23:42,254 --> 00:23:44,189 ALSO: IF HE'S IN THERE, WHO WAS 885 00:23:44,256 --> 00:23:48,694 IN "A MAN CALLED OTTO"? 886 00:23:48,761 --> 00:23:49,929 Y'KNOW, I GUESS I ENDED UP ONLY 887 00:23:49,995 --> 00:23:50,696 HAVING TWO QUESTIONS, BUT 888 00:23:50,763 --> 00:23:51,330 THEY'RE BIG ONES, AND I DO WANT 889 00:23:51,397 --> 00:23:52,698 ANSWERS. 890 00:23:52,765 --> 00:23:54,199 AND WHEN YOU TAKE HOGS' IMPACT 891 00:23:54,266 --> 00:23:55,200 ON AGRICULTURE AND WILDLIFE 892 00:23:55,267 --> 00:23:58,203 TOGETHER, IT'S NO WONDER SOME OF 893 00:23:58,270 --> 00:23:58,804 THOSE WHO STUDY THEM DESCRIBE 894 00:23:58,871 --> 00:24:01,206 HOGS IN APOCALYPTIC TERMS. 895 00:24:01,273 --> 00:24:02,207 >> FERAL HOGS ARE AN ECOLOGICAL 896 00:24:02,274 --> 00:24:04,710 TRAINWRECK. 897 00:24:04,777 --> 00:24:06,712 FERAL HOGS ARE COMPETITORS FOR 898 00:24:06,779 --> 00:24:08,714 NATIVE WILDLIFE, THEY'RE NEST 899 00:24:08,781 --> 00:24:10,215 PREDATORS FOR ANYTHING THAT LAYS 900 00:24:10,282 --> 00:24:11,283 AN EGG ON THE GROUND, AND 901 00:24:11,350 --> 00:24:13,719 THEY'RE A SIGNIFICANT SOURCE OF 902 00:24:13,786 --> 00:24:15,020 MORTALITY FOR SENSITIVE SPECIES 903 00:24:15,087 --> 00:24:17,222 AND ENDANGERED SPECIES. 904 00:24:17,289 --> 00:24:18,223 >> JOHN: IT TURNS OUT, EVER 905 00:24:18,290 --> 00:24:19,725 SINCE PIGS SHOWED UP IN AMERICA, 906 00:24:19,792 --> 00:24:21,226 THEY'VE SET ABOUT ANNIHILATING 907 00:24:21,293 --> 00:24:21,827 ANY LIVING THING THEY CAME IN 908 00:24:21,894 --> 00:24:22,728 CONTACT WITH. 909 00:24:22,795 --> 00:24:24,730 SO, I GUESS BEING AROUND 910 00:24:24,797 --> 00:24:26,031 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS MUST'VE 911 00:24:26,098 --> 00:24:27,833 REALLY RUBBED OFF ON THEM. 912 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:29,234 IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT FERAL 913 00:24:29,301 --> 00:24:30,736 SWINE HAVE PLAYED A ROLE IN THE 914 00:24:30,803 --> 00:24:32,204 DECLINE OF NEARLY 300 NATIVE 915 00:24:32,271 --> 00:24:32,838 PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN THE U.S. 916 00:24:32,905 --> 00:24:35,240 ALONE. 917 00:24:35,307 --> 00:24:35,941 OVER 250 OF WHICH ARE THREATENED 918 00:24:36,008 --> 00:24:37,743 OR ENDANGERED. 919 00:24:37,810 --> 00:24:39,244 IN FACT, RESEARCH SHOWS THAT A 920 00:24:39,311 --> 00:24:41,246 HABITAT WHERE HOGS ARE PRESENT 921 00:24:41,313 --> 00:24:42,247 IS MORE THAN A QUARTER LESS 922 00:24:42,314 --> 00:24:43,248 BIOLOGICALLY DIVERSE THAN ONE 923 00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:46,251 WHERE THEY'RE NOT. 924 00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:47,753 AND IF YOU'RE STILL NOT 925 00:24:47,820 --> 00:24:49,254 CONVINCED THAT HOGS ARE BAD 926 00:24:49,321 --> 00:24:54,760 NEWS, FIRST, CONGRATULATIONS ON 927 00:24:54,827 --> 00:24:55,761 BEING THE BIGGEST RIDE-OR-DIE 928 00:24:55,828 --> 00:24:56,261 HOG FAN ON THE PLANET. 929 00:24:56,328 --> 00:24:57,262 AND SECOND: WE HAVEN'T EVEN 930 00:24:57,329 --> 00:24:57,830 GOTTEN TO THE POTENTIAL FOR 931 00:24:57,896 --> 00:24:59,631 DISEASE OUTBREAKS YET. 932 00:24:59,698 --> 00:25:01,767 FERAL SWINE CARRY OVER 30 933 00:25:01,834 --> 00:25:02,401 PATHOGENS AND 40 PARASITES, MANY 934 00:25:02,468 --> 00:25:04,770 OF WHICH CAN INFECT WILDLIFE. 935 00:25:04,837 --> 00:25:06,305 THEY CAN INTRODUCE DISEASES LIKE 936 00:25:06,372 --> 00:25:07,272 GIARDIA, SALMONELLA AND E. COLI 937 00:25:07,339 --> 00:25:10,275 INTO THE WATER SUPPLY. 938 00:25:10,342 --> 00:25:11,276 AND THE WORRY IS THAT AN 939 00:25:11,343 --> 00:25:12,277 OUTBREAK INVOLVING FERAL PIGS 940 00:25:12,344 --> 00:25:13,278 WOULD BE INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO 941 00:25:13,345 --> 00:25:15,280 CONTAIN. 942 00:25:15,347 --> 00:25:16,782 BUT EVEN THE DISEASES THAT DON'T 943 00:25:16,849 --> 00:25:18,250 THREATEN HUMANS DIRECTLY CAN 944 00:25:18,317 --> 00:25:20,786 STILL CARRY OTHER RISKS. 945 00:25:20,853 --> 00:25:22,287 FOR INSTANCE, PSEUDORABIES ISN'T 946 00:25:22,354 --> 00:25:24,289 A THREAT TO PEOPLE, BUT IS 947 00:25:24,356 --> 00:25:26,291 USUALLY FATAL TO OTHER ANIMALS. 948 00:25:26,358 --> 00:25:27,292 THEN THERE'S AFRICAN SWINE 949 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,795 FEVER, WHICH THANKFULLY HASN'T 950 00:25:29,862 --> 00:25:30,796 SHOWN UP IN AMERICA YET, BUT 951 00:25:30,863 --> 00:25:31,864 GIVEN OUR GROWING FERAL HOG 952 00:25:31,930 --> 00:25:33,298 POPULATION, IT COULD ONLY BE A 953 00:25:33,365 --> 00:25:35,300 MATTER OF TIME. 954 00:25:35,367 --> 00:25:37,302 ONE EXPERT WARNED "IF AN ANIMAL 955 00:25:37,369 --> 00:25:38,804 DISEASE LIKE AFRICAN SWINE FEVER 956 00:25:38,871 --> 00:25:40,305 OR HOOF-AND-MOUTH GETS INTO 957 00:25:40,372 --> 00:25:41,306 THESE ANIMALS, IT WILL BE ALMOST 958 00:25:41,373 --> 00:25:44,309 IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP." 959 00:25:44,376 --> 00:25:44,943 "IT WILL SHUT DOWN OUR LIVESTOCK 960 00:25:45,010 --> 00:25:46,311 INDUSTRY." 961 00:25:46,378 --> 00:25:46,912 AND IF YOU'RE THINKING "WELL, 962 00:25:46,979 --> 00:25:48,313 SURE, THAT SOUNDS FRIGHTENING. 963 00:25:48,380 --> 00:25:49,815 BUT IT'S NOT LIKE INFECTED PIGS 964 00:25:49,882 --> 00:25:50,449 CAN JUST BUY A PLANE TICKET AND 965 00:25:50,516 --> 00:25:52,317 FLY HERE." 966 00:25:52,384 --> 00:25:55,320 WELL, KINDA! 967 00:25:55,387 --> 00:25:56,321 >> WELL, SOME PORK PROBLEMS AT 968 00:25:56,388 --> 00:25:57,322 HARTSFIELD-JACKSON. 969 00:25:57,389 --> 00:25:58,824 AIRPORT OFFICIALS DISCOVER A 970 00:25:58,891 --> 00:26:00,325 COOKED PIG IN CHECKED LUGGAGE. 971 00:26:00,392 --> 00:26:02,861 OFFICIALS SAY K-9 HARDY, A 972 00:26:02,928 --> 00:26:04,329 MEMBER OF THE AIRPORT'S BEAGLE 973 00:26:04,396 --> 00:26:10,335 BRIGADE, ALERTED THEM TO THE 974 00:26:10,402 --> 00:26:10,869 BAGGAGE OF A TRAVELER FROM 975 00:26:10,936 --> 00:26:11,336 ECUADOR. 976 00:26:11,403 --> 00:26:12,337 AND INSIDE, SPECIALISTS 977 00:26:12,404 --> 00:26:12,871 DISCOVERED THIS, A NEARLY 978 00:26:12,938 --> 00:26:14,339 TWO-POUND ROASTED PIG HEAD. 979 00:26:14,406 --> 00:26:14,940 >> JOHN: LOOK: THERE HAVE BEEN 980 00:26:15,007 --> 00:26:16,341 SOME HAPPY MOMENTS IN MY LIFE. 981 00:26:16,408 --> 00:26:17,676 THE BIRTH OF MY CHILDREN, MY 982 00:26:17,743 --> 00:26:19,344 WEDDING, YADDA YADDA, BUT I 983 00:26:19,411 --> 00:26:21,346 DON'T THINK I'VE EVER 984 00:26:21,413 --> 00:26:24,349 EXPERIENCED A JOY AS PURE AS 985 00:26:24,416 --> 00:26:26,852 THAT BEAGLE WHO JUST FOUND TWO 986 00:26:26,919 --> 00:26:28,854 POUNDS OF ROASTED PIG FACE. 987 00:26:28,921 --> 00:26:30,355 WHEN YOU'RE AN AIRPORT DOG YOU 988 00:26:30,422 --> 00:26:31,356 SPEND ALL YOUR TIME FINDING 989 00:26:31,423 --> 00:26:32,357 BORING THINGS LIKE GUNS OR 990 00:26:32,424 --> 00:26:34,860 COCAINE. 991 00:26:34,927 --> 00:26:35,861 BUT THAT IS THE FACE OF A DOG 992 00:26:35,928 --> 00:26:36,862 WHO JUST SCORED HIMSELF A 993 00:26:36,929 --> 00:26:39,098 SURPRISE LUAU. 994 00:26:39,164 --> 00:26:39,865 AND LOOK: WE'RE ALL LUCKY THAT 995 00:26:39,932 --> 00:26:42,367 PIG GOT INTERCEPTED. 996 00:26:42,434 --> 00:26:43,001 BUT I HOPE THEY WERE CAREFUL IN 997 00:26:43,068 --> 00:26:45,370 DISPOSING OF IT. 998 00:26:45,437 --> 00:26:46,371 BECAUSE EXPERTS WE TALKED TO 999 00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:48,373 POINTED OUT THAT, IF IT HAD BEEN 1000 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:49,374 INFECTED, HADN'T BEEN FULLY 1001 00:26:49,441 --> 00:26:50,976 COOKED, AND WAS JUST DUMPED INTO 1002 00:26:51,043 --> 00:26:52,377 A LANDFILL, FERAL HOGS OFTEN 1003 00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:54,413 FEED THERE, AND COULD WELL HAVE 1004 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:55,013 ENDED UP SPREADING THE DISEASE 1005 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:56,882 ANYWAY. 1006 00:26:56,949 --> 00:26:57,883 THE POINT IS, CLEARLY, AN 1007 00:26:57,950 --> 00:26:58,951 UNCONTROLLED FERAL HOG 1008 00:26:59,017 --> 00:26:59,551 POPULATION IS BAD FOR A LOT OF 1009 00:26:59,618 --> 00:27:01,386 REASONS. 1010 00:27:01,453 --> 00:27:02,888 AND WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN TRYING 1011 00:27:02,955 --> 00:27:03,889 ALL SORTS OF WAYS TO CONTAIN IT, 1012 00:27:03,956 --> 00:27:04,890 BUT WITH VARYING DEGREES OF 1013 00:27:04,957 --> 00:27:06,391 SUCCESS. 1014 00:27:06,458 --> 00:27:08,393 FIRST, THERE'S HUNTING. 1015 00:27:08,460 --> 00:27:10,462 SPORT HUNTING CAN UNDENIABLY BE 1016 00:27:10,529 --> 00:27:11,096 A POWERFUL TOOL FOR CONTROLLING 1017 00:27:11,163 --> 00:27:13,398 ANIMAL POPULATIONS. 1018 00:27:13,465 --> 00:27:14,566 AND SOME STATES HAVE LOOSENED 1019 00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:15,901 LAWS TO ENCOURAGE MORE PIG 1020 00:27:15,968 --> 00:27:17,402 HUNTING IN PARTICULAR -- 1021 00:27:17,469 --> 00:27:18,904 ELIMINATING SEASONS AND BAG 1022 00:27:18,971 --> 00:27:19,905 LIMITS, AND BASICALLY DOING 1023 00:27:19,972 --> 00:27:21,907 EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO ENCOURAGE 1024 00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:22,541 HUNTERS TO KILL AS MANY HOGS AS 1025 00:27:22,608 --> 00:27:24,409 POSSIBLE. 1026 00:27:24,476 --> 00:27:25,410 WITH TEXAS PROBABLY GOING THE 1027 00:27:25,477 --> 00:27:27,913 FURTHEST: 1028 00:27:27,980 --> 00:27:29,414 >> IT IS NOW LEGAL TO KILL A 1029 00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:30,415 FERAL HOG IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, 1030 00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:31,049 EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE A HUNTING 1031 00:27:31,116 --> 00:27:38,123 LICENSE. 1032 00:27:39,491 --> 00:27:40,926 THIS LAW IS THE LEAST 1033 00:27:40,993 --> 00:27:42,427 RESTRICTIVE YET FOR TEXAS 1034 00:27:42,494 --> 00:27:43,929 PROPERTY OWNERS. 1035 00:27:43,996 --> 00:27:48,433 NO QUESTIONS ASKED, NO LICENSE 1036 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:48,667 NEEDED. 1037 00:27:48,734 --> 00:27:49,301 >> JOHN: YEAH -- NO LICENSE, NO 1038 00:27:49,368 --> 00:27:49,668 QUESTIONS ASKED. 1039 00:27:49,735 --> 00:27:50,269 ALTHOUGH I GUESS IF ANY STATE 1040 00:27:50,335 --> 00:27:50,869 WAS GOING TO LEAD THE WAY ON 1041 00:27:50,936 --> 00:27:51,470 THIS, IT'D BE TEXAS, THE PLACE 1042 00:27:51,537 --> 00:27:52,070 WHERE LOCAL NEWS STARTS EVERY 1043 00:27:52,137 --> 00:27:52,604 MORNING WITH A LIST OF THE 1044 00:27:52,671 --> 00:27:54,940 THINGS IT'S NOW LEGAL TO KILL. 1045 00:27:55,007 --> 00:27:55,574 "GOOD MORNING TEXAS, TODAY: IT'S 1046 00:27:55,641 --> 00:27:56,942 MIMES! 1047 00:27:57,009 --> 00:27:58,443 MIMES ARE ON THE LIST. 1048 00:27:58,510 --> 00:27:58,977 SO GRAB YOUR GUN AND HAPPY 1049 00:27:59,044 --> 00:28:00,445 HUNTING. 1050 00:28:00,512 --> 00:28:01,046 I'VE ALREADY GOT MY MIME CALL 1051 00:28:01,113 --> 00:28:01,446 RIGHT HERE: 1052 00:28:01,513 --> 00:28:02,447 [SILENCE] 1053 00:28:02,514 --> 00:28:04,950 IT'S SILENT. 1054 00:28:05,017 --> 00:28:05,951 JUST A LITTLE MIME HUNTING JOKE 1055 00:28:06,018 --> 00:28:11,957 THERE. 1056 00:28:12,024 --> 00:28:12,524 SERIOUSLY THOUGH, IT'S OPEN 1057 00:28:12,591 --> 00:28:13,458 SEASON ON MIMES TODAY. 1058 00:28:13,525 --> 00:28:14,426 HUNT THEM AND PUT THEM IN A 1059 00:28:14,493 --> 00:28:14,960 BOX." 1060 00:28:15,027 --> 00:28:16,461 AND WITH ENCOURAGEMENT LIKE 1061 00:28:16,528 --> 00:28:17,462 THAT, IT'S NO SURPRISE THAT, 1062 00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:18,063 AFTER WHITE-TAILED DEER, FERAL 1063 00:28:18,130 --> 00:28:18,964 PIGS ARE NOW THE MOST POPULAR 1064 00:28:19,031 --> 00:28:19,565 BIG GAME ANIMAL IN NORTH 1065 00:28:19,631 --> 00:28:21,466 AMERICA. 1066 00:28:21,533 --> 00:28:21,967 AND THAT CAN SEEM LIKE A 1067 00:28:22,034 --> 00:28:24,102 WIN-WIN. 1068 00:28:24,169 --> 00:28:24,970 AFTER ALL, HOGS NEED TO BE 1069 00:28:25,037 --> 00:28:28,040 GOTTEN RID OF, AND HUNTERS LOVE 1070 00:28:28,106 --> 00:28:28,974 GOING AFTER THEM -- ESPECIALLY 1071 00:28:29,041 --> 00:28:29,675 BECAUSE THEY'RE A CHALLENGING 1072 00:28:29,741 --> 00:28:30,209 QUARRY, BECAUSE THEY'RE SO 1073 00:28:30,275 --> 00:28:32,077 SMART. 1074 00:28:32,144 --> 00:28:33,478 FOR INSTANCE, HUNTERS USED TO GO 1075 00:28:33,545 --> 00:28:35,480 AFTER THEM DURING THE DAY, BUT 1076 00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:36,481 PIGS THEN RESPONDED BY BECOMING 1077 00:28:36,548 --> 00:28:38,183 LARGELY NOCTURNAL. 1078 00:28:38,250 --> 00:28:39,484 AND THAT INTELLIGENCE HAS 1079 00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:40,986 CREATED A COTTAGE INDUSTRY OF 1080 00:28:41,053 --> 00:28:42,154 TECHNIQUES TO TRY AND OUTSMART 1081 00:28:42,221 --> 00:28:43,488 PIGS, INCLUDING MY ABSOLUTE 1082 00:28:43,555 --> 00:28:45,490 FAVORITE, THIS DEVICE: 1083 00:28:45,557 --> 00:28:47,092 >> OKAY, FOR YOU HUNTERS THAT 1084 00:28:47,159 --> 00:28:48,493 HOG HUNT, THIS IS IT. 1085 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,996 KNIGHT & HALE'S HOG CALL. 1086 00:28:51,063 --> 00:28:52,064 WITH THIS ONE, ALL YOU GOTTA DO 1087 00:28:52,130 --> 00:28:52,698 IS BLOW IN IT AND JUST SEE THAT 1088 00:28:52,764 --> 00:28:53,498 HOG OUT THERE. 1089 00:28:53,565 --> 00:29:00,572 YOU KNOW THE SOUND. 1090 00:29:03,575 --> 00:29:04,142 THAT'S THE HOG CALL BY KNIGHT & 1091 00:29:04,209 --> 00:29:05,510 HALE. 1092 00:29:05,577 --> 00:29:09,014 >> JOHN: IS IT THOUGH? 1093 00:29:09,081 --> 00:29:10,015 I GUESS IT DEPENDS: ARE HOGS 1094 00:29:10,082 --> 00:29:11,516 ATTRACTED TO THE SOUND OF A 1095 00:29:11,583 --> 00:29:15,020 KAZOO BEING VIOLENTLY MURDERED? 1096 00:29:15,087 --> 00:29:17,522 LOOK, I'M NO EXPERT IN HOG 1097 00:29:17,589 --> 00:29:18,090 CALLING, BUT I DO HAVE IT ON 1098 00:29:18,156 --> 00:29:18,724 PRETTY GOOD AUTHORITY WHAT THEY 1099 00:29:18,790 --> 00:29:19,024 SOUND LIKE. 1100 00:29:19,091 --> 00:29:21,026 [EMPHATIC HOG NOISES] 1101 00:29:21,093 --> 00:29:22,060 EXACTLY. 1102 00:29:22,127 --> 00:29:23,028 MAYBE CONSULT WITH THAT GUY NEXT 1103 00:29:23,095 --> 00:29:25,030 TIME. 1104 00:29:25,097 --> 00:29:26,531 BUT WHILE SOME HOG HUNTERS RELY 1105 00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:29,034 ON CALLS, OTHERS HAVE RESORTED 1106 00:29:29,101 --> 00:29:32,537 TO MORE EXTREME ADVANTAGES: 1107 00:29:32,604 --> 00:29:33,538 >> THE PROBLEM HAS GOTTEN SO BAD 1108 00:29:33,605 --> 00:29:34,273 HERE, IT'S LEGAL TO HUNT HOGS 1109 00:29:34,339 --> 00:29:35,540 FROM THE SKY. 1110 00:29:35,607 --> 00:29:37,542 >> IT'S LOADED. 1111 00:29:37,609 --> 00:29:40,178 >> YOU DON'T EVEN NEED A LICENSE 1112 00:29:40,245 --> 00:29:41,046 TO KILL, FIRING OUT OF SO-CALLED 1113 00:29:41,113 --> 00:29:45,550 "PORK CHOPPERS." 1114 00:29:45,617 --> 00:29:46,551 >> THE HELICOPTER HOG HUNTING IS 1115 00:29:46,618 --> 00:29:47,219 THE NUMBER ONE MOST EFFECTIVE 1116 00:29:47,286 --> 00:29:48,553 WAY TO HUNT PIGS. 1117 00:29:48,620 --> 00:29:49,187 >> GOOD SHOT, BABY! 1118 00:29:49,254 --> 00:29:51,556 >> THANK YOU! 1119 00:29:51,623 --> 00:29:53,058 >> JOHN: IT'S TRUE: PEOPLE NOW 1120 00:29:53,125 --> 00:29:54,626 HUNT HOGS FROM HELICOPTERS, 1121 00:29:54,693 --> 00:29:56,128 WHICH SOUNDS LIKE THE SORT OF 1122 00:29:56,194 --> 00:29:57,629 ACTIVITY YOU'D PLAN IF YOU ASKED 1123 00:29:57,696 --> 00:29:58,630 CHATGPT TO INVENT A NEW BACHELOR 1124 00:29:58,697 --> 00:30:02,567 PARTY ACTIVITY FROM SCRATCH. 1125 00:30:02,634 --> 00:30:04,569 AND APPARENTLY, THEY GENUINELY 1126 00:30:04,636 --> 00:30:05,570 ARE CALLED "PORKCHOPPERS," WHICH 1127 00:30:05,637 --> 00:30:06,571 IS CLEARLY VERY GOOD. 1128 00:30:06,638 --> 00:30:08,240 WHEN YOU COME UP WITH A PUN LIKE 1129 00:30:08,307 --> 00:30:10,075 THAT, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO, NOT 1130 00:30:10,142 --> 00:30:10,609 SHOOT RIFLES AT PIGS FROM 1131 00:30:10,676 --> 00:30:11,076 AIRCRAFT? 1132 00:30:11,143 --> 00:30:13,578 COME ON. 1133 00:30:13,645 --> 00:30:14,212 PORKCHOPPERING HAS NOW BECOME AN 1134 00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:14,813 EXTREMELY POPULAR WAY TO HUNT 1135 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,581 HOGS. 1136 00:30:16,648 --> 00:30:18,583 NOT ONLY DOES THE USDA DO IT, 1137 00:30:18,650 --> 00:30:19,584 BUT STATES LIKE TEXAS HAVE 1138 00:30:19,651 --> 00:30:20,585 TURNED IT INTO SOMETHING OF A 1139 00:30:20,652 --> 00:30:22,587 TOURISM INDUSTRY. 1140 00:30:22,654 --> 00:30:25,090 A FEW YEARS AGO, TEXAS EVEN 1141 00:30:25,157 --> 00:30:26,158 LEGALIZED HUNTING HOGS BY 1142 00:30:26,224 --> 00:30:28,026 HOT-AIR BALLOON, SOMETHING 1143 00:30:28,093 --> 00:30:29,594 NOBODY SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN 1144 00:30:29,661 --> 00:30:30,595 INTERESTED IN DOING, GIVEN THE 1145 00:30:30,662 --> 00:30:32,597 HEAD OF THE BALLOON FEDERATION 1146 00:30:32,664 --> 00:30:39,671 OF AMERICA TOLD REPORTERS, "I 1147 00:30:42,674 --> 00:30:43,241 HAVE NEVER HAD A PHONE CALL FROM 1148 00:30:43,308 --> 00:30:43,809 ANYBODY ASKING TO DO THIS, I 1149 00:30:43,875 --> 00:30:44,343 THINK THAT PEOPLE HAVE NOT 1150 00:30:44,409 --> 00:30:44,810 STOPPED LAUGHING YET." 1151 00:30:44,876 --> 00:30:45,344 AND YOU KNOW A PROPOSAL IS 1152 00:30:45,410 --> 00:30:46,011 STUPID WHEN IT'S LAUGHED DOWN BY 1153 00:30:46,078 --> 00:30:46,511 THE HEAD OF THE BALLOON 1154 00:30:46,578 --> 00:30:47,612 FEDERATION OF AMERICA. 1155 00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:49,614 BUT THERE ARE REAL PROBLEMS WITH 1156 00:30:49,681 --> 00:30:50,649 JUST RELYING ON HUNTING TO BE 1157 00:30:50,716 --> 00:30:52,617 THE SOLUTION HERE. 1158 00:30:52,684 --> 00:30:53,618 FOR ONE, HOGS ARE REPRODUCING 1159 00:30:53,685 --> 00:30:55,620 FASTER THAN THEY CAN BE HUNTED. 1160 00:30:55,687 --> 00:30:56,621 TO ERADICATE THEM, THEIR 1161 00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:58,190 POPULATION MUST DROP 60 TO 80 1162 00:30:58,256 --> 00:31:00,625 PERCENT EACH YEAR. 1163 00:31:00,692 --> 00:31:02,461 AND IN A BUSY YEAR, RECREATIONAL 1164 00:31:02,527 --> 00:31:03,628 HUNTERS KILL ONLY ABOUT 24 1165 00:31:03,695 --> 00:31:04,629 PERCENT. 1166 00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:05,997 BUT HUNTING ISN'T JUST 1167 00:31:06,064 --> 00:31:06,631 INSUFFICIENT -- IT MAY ACTUALLY 1168 00:31:06,698 --> 00:31:10,635 BE MAKING THE PROBLEM WORSE. 1169 00:31:10,702 --> 00:31:12,137 BECAUSE HOGS ARE SUCH AN 1170 00:31:12,204 --> 00:31:13,638 APPEALING GAME ANIMAL, SOME 1171 00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:16,141 BUSINESSES STARTED TRANSPORTING 1172 00:31:16,208 --> 00:31:17,142 THEM TO NEW STATES, SO THEY 1173 00:31:17,209 --> 00:31:19,644 COULD BE HUNTED THERE. 1174 00:31:19,711 --> 00:31:21,146 AND UNSURPRISINGLY, MANY OF 1175 00:31:21,213 --> 00:31:22,147 THOSE WHO IMPORTED PIGS TO THEIR 1176 00:31:22,214 --> 00:31:23,148 AREA FOR HUNTING HAVE SINCE COME 1177 00:31:23,215 --> 00:31:26,651 TO SERIOUSLY REGRET IT. 1178 00:31:26,718 --> 00:31:28,153 >> A LOT OF THESE HUNTERS AND 1179 00:31:28,220 --> 00:31:29,154 HUNTING CLUBS CAN REMEMBER 20 OR 1180 00:31:29,221 --> 00:31:30,655 30 YEARS AGO WHEN PIGS WERE 1181 00:31:30,722 --> 00:31:35,160 ACTUALLY BROUGHT IN. 1182 00:31:35,227 --> 00:31:36,161 NOW, IF YOU ASK THOSE PEOPLE 1183 00:31:36,228 --> 00:31:36,795 TODAY, THEY WOULD TELL YOU THEY 1184 00:31:36,862 --> 00:31:37,996 MADE A HUGE MISTAKE. 1185 00:31:38,063 --> 00:31:38,897 >> JOHN: YEAH, I BET! 1186 00:31:38,964 --> 00:31:41,166 AND LOOK, I MIGHT BE MORE 1187 00:31:41,233 --> 00:31:42,167 SYMPATHETIC TO SOMEONE WHO 1188 00:31:42,234 --> 00:31:42,801 BROUGHT ANIMALS WHERE THEY DON'T 1189 00:31:42,868 --> 00:31:44,269 BELONG BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT'D 1190 00:31:44,336 --> 00:31:44,903 BE FUN, ONLY TO LOSE CONTROL OF 1191 00:31:44,970 --> 00:31:45,804 THEM AND WATCH THEM DESTROY 1192 00:31:45,871 --> 00:31:48,173 EVERYTHING, IF THAT WASN'T 1193 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:48,807 LITERALLY THE PLOT OF "JURASSIC 1194 00:31:48,874 --> 00:31:55,881 PARK." 1195 00:31:56,748 --> 00:31:57,215 OR, IN THIS CASE, I GUESS, 1196 00:31:57,282 --> 00:31:58,183 JURASSIC "PORK," OBVIOUSLY. 1197 00:31:58,250 --> 00:31:58,817 SO CLEARLY, HUNTING ISN'T GOING 1198 00:31:58,884 --> 00:32:00,185 TO BE THE SOLE ANSWER HERE. 1199 00:32:00,252 --> 00:32:01,186 BUT UNFORTUNATELY, EVERY OTHER 1200 00:32:01,253 --> 00:32:01,753 OPTION ALSO HAS ITS PROS AND 1201 00:32:01,820 --> 00:32:03,688 CONS. 1202 00:32:03,755 --> 00:32:04,322 FOR INSTANCE, THERE'S TRAPPING, 1203 00:32:04,389 --> 00:32:05,190 WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO CAPTURE 1204 00:32:05,257 --> 00:32:06,191 ENTIRE GROUPS OF HOGS AT THE 1205 00:32:06,258 --> 00:32:07,692 SAME TIME. 1206 00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:09,694 THAT SOUNDS GOOD! 1207 00:32:09,761 --> 00:32:11,196 THE CHALLENGE THERE, THOUGH, IS 1208 00:32:11,263 --> 00:32:13,698 PIGS -- AS I'VE MENTIONED -- ARE 1209 00:32:13,765 --> 00:32:14,299 VERY SMART, AND TEND TO LEARN 1210 00:32:14,366 --> 00:32:17,702 FAST. 1211 00:32:17,769 --> 00:32:18,703 >> I HAVE TRAPS THAT I NO LONGER 1212 00:32:18,770 --> 00:32:20,205 USE BECAUSE THE HOGS HAVE 1213 00:32:20,272 --> 00:32:20,806 FIGURED OUT HOW TO GET OUT OF 1214 00:32:20,872 --> 00:32:22,707 THEM. 1215 00:32:22,774 --> 00:32:24,209 SEE HOW THEY'RE PILING UP? 1216 00:32:24,276 --> 00:32:25,710 THEY'RE FORMING A PIG PYRAMID. 1217 00:32:25,777 --> 00:32:26,678 IT'S KIND OF FOR PROTECTION, 1218 00:32:26,745 --> 00:32:27,312 THEY TRY TO GET UNDERNEATH EACH 1219 00:32:27,379 --> 00:32:27,712 OTHER. 1220 00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:28,713 THEY'LL ATTACK THAT CORNER. 1221 00:32:28,780 --> 00:32:30,215 AND A LOT OF TIMES WHAT THEY DO 1222 00:32:30,282 --> 00:32:31,516 IS THEY'LL RUN OUT OVER THE TOP 1223 00:32:31,583 --> 00:32:33,218 OF EACH OTHER AND JUMP OUT. 1224 00:32:33,285 --> 00:32:34,219 >> JOHN: THAT'S BOTH IMPRESSIVE, 1225 00:32:34,286 --> 00:32:36,221 AND PRETTY HUMBLING. 1226 00:32:36,288 --> 00:32:37,722 PIGS GET CAUGHT IN A TRAP ONCE 1227 00:32:37,789 --> 00:32:39,724 AND INSTANTLY FIGURE OUT HOW TO 1228 00:32:39,791 --> 00:32:40,225 GET OUT OF IT. 1229 00:32:40,292 --> 00:32:41,226 MEANWHILE, THIS MORNING, I 1230 00:32:41,293 --> 00:32:42,727 PUSHED A DOOR THAT SAID PULL IN 1231 00:32:42,794 --> 00:32:43,361 THE BUILDING I'VE WORKED IN FOR 1232 00:32:43,428 --> 00:32:45,730 THIRTEEN YEARS. 1233 00:32:45,797 --> 00:32:47,799 AND THEY MIGHT NOT EVEN NEED TO 1234 00:32:47,866 --> 00:32:49,234 BUILD SOMETHING AS ELABORATE AS 1235 00:32:49,301 --> 00:32:49,768 A PIG PYRAMID, GIVEN THAT 1236 00:32:49,835 --> 00:32:52,337 SOMETIMES, THEY'LL GET OUT WITH 1237 00:32:52,404 --> 00:32:54,239 PURE DETERMINATION, AS THIS MAN 1238 00:32:54,306 --> 00:32:55,307 DISCOVERED WHEN HE TAUNTED A PIG 1239 00:32:55,373 --> 00:33:00,745 HE FOUND IN HIS TRAP: 1240 00:33:00,812 --> 00:33:01,746 >> HE'S A LITTLE PISSED OFF. 1241 00:33:01,813 --> 00:33:07,252 HOW YOU DOING BUDDY? 1242 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:07,853 LET'S SEE, LOOK AT THIS -- OH 1243 00:33:07,919 --> 00:33:12,257 FUCK. 1244 00:33:12,324 --> 00:33:13,258 MOTHERFUCKER. 1245 00:33:13,325 --> 00:33:15,260 >> JOHN: WOW. 1246 00:33:15,327 --> 00:33:17,262 THERE ARE VERY FEW INSTANCES OF 1247 00:33:17,329 --> 00:33:18,263 SOMEONE BEING AS COMPLETELY 1248 00:33:18,330 --> 00:33:19,764 OWNED BY A PIG AS THAT. 1249 00:33:19,831 --> 00:33:21,266 IT'S BASICALLY JUST THAT GUY, 1250 00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:22,267 AND THE SHEEPDOG WHO CAME IN 1251 00:33:22,334 --> 00:33:23,368 SECOND AT THE END OF THE MOVIE 1252 00:33:23,435 --> 00:33:25,770 "BABE." 1253 00:33:25,837 --> 00:33:26,905 "I LOST A SHEEP HERDING CONTEST 1254 00:33:26,972 --> 00:33:27,873 TO A PIG. 1255 00:33:27,939 --> 00:33:31,276 WHAT DO I EVEN DO NOW?" 1256 00:33:31,343 --> 00:33:32,277 AND THE CRUCIAL THING ABOUT 1257 00:33:32,344 --> 00:33:35,280 TRAPPING PIGS IS, YOU NEED TO 1258 00:33:35,347 --> 00:33:35,847 CATCH THE ENTIRE GROUP -- OR 1259 00:33:35,914 --> 00:33:37,282 "SOUNDER" -- ALL AT ONCE. 1260 00:33:37,349 --> 00:33:38,783 BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T GET THE 1261 00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:39,784 WHOLE SOUNDER, THE TRAP IN THAT 1262 00:33:39,851 --> 00:33:40,785 LOCATION IS NO LONGER REALLY 1263 00:33:40,852 --> 00:33:42,787 VIABLE, BECAUSE THEY'LL 1264 00:33:42,854 --> 00:33:43,388 BASICALLY COMMUNICATE "THAT'S 1265 00:33:43,455 --> 00:33:47,292 NOT SOME PLACE TO GO." 1266 00:33:47,359 --> 00:33:47,926 THAT'S WHY SOME HAVE PUSHED FOR 1267 00:33:47,993 --> 00:33:48,493 A MORE EXTREME ALTERNATIVE: 1268 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:49,294 POISON. 1269 00:33:49,361 --> 00:33:50,295 RESEARCHERS HAVE SPENT YEARS 1270 00:33:50,362 --> 00:33:51,296 TESTING POISON OPTIONS, BUT 1271 00:33:51,363 --> 00:33:52,797 UNFORTUNATELY, THE IDEAL HOG 1272 00:33:52,864 --> 00:33:54,799 BAIT -- ONE THAT CAN KILL THEM 1273 00:33:54,866 --> 00:33:56,334 HUMANELY WITHOUT RISKING HURTING 1274 00:33:56,401 --> 00:33:57,302 PEOPLE OR OTHER ANIMALS -- 1275 00:33:57,369 --> 00:33:59,804 HASN'T BEEN DISCOVERED YET. 1276 00:33:59,871 --> 00:34:01,306 AND NOT FOR LACK OF TRYING. 1277 00:34:01,373 --> 00:34:02,707 A FEW YEARS BACK, TEXAS'S 1278 00:34:02,774 --> 00:34:03,808 AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER PUSHED 1279 00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:04,809 FOR THE USE OF A POISON CALLED 1280 00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:06,311 "WARFARIN," UNDER THE BRAND NAME 1281 00:34:06,378 --> 00:34:07,812 "KAPUT", BUT MANY HUNTERS, 1282 00:34:07,879 --> 00:34:09,313 WILDLIFE ORGANIZATIONS, AND PORK 1283 00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:11,815 PRODUCERS PUSHED BACK, CITING 1284 00:34:11,882 --> 00:34:13,318 THE OBVIOUS ISSUE WITH 1285 00:34:13,385 --> 00:34:15,020 INTRODUCING A TOXIC INGREDIENT 1286 00:34:15,085 --> 00:34:17,322 INTO A WHOLE ECOSYSTEM: 1287 00:34:17,389 --> 00:34:17,989 >> YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU GOT A 1288 00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:18,822 DEER COMES UP AND EATS IT, HE 1289 00:34:18,889 --> 00:34:19,324 DIES. 1290 00:34:19,391 --> 00:34:20,324 A BUZZARD COMES UP AND EATS THE 1291 00:34:20,391 --> 00:34:22,827 DEER, HE DIES. 1292 00:34:22,893 --> 00:34:23,828 THEN YOU GOT COONS THAT EAT THE 1293 00:34:23,895 --> 00:34:24,362 LEFTOVERS THAT ARE ON THE 1294 00:34:24,429 --> 00:34:24,596 GROUND. 1295 00:34:24,663 --> 00:34:25,496 THEY DIE. 1296 00:34:25,563 --> 00:34:26,331 I MEAN, YOU NEVER KNOW. 1297 00:34:26,398 --> 00:34:28,033 IT'S JUST A CHAIN REACTION. 1298 00:34:28,099 --> 00:34:29,833 >> JOHN: YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE! 1299 00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:30,835 IT'S NOT LIKE YOU CAN JUST PUT 1300 00:34:30,902 --> 00:34:31,937 UP A SIGN IN THE WOODS THAT SAYS 1301 00:34:32,003 --> 00:34:33,338 "DELICIOUS TREATS FOR PIGS 1302 00:34:33,405 --> 00:34:34,339 ONLY", FOR A BUNCH OF REASONS. 1303 00:34:34,406 --> 00:34:36,274 ONE: DEER CAN'T READ, AND TWO: 1304 00:34:36,341 --> 00:34:36,841 RACCOONS FAMOUSLY DON'T 1305 00:34:36,908 --> 00:34:38,842 RECOGNIZE AUTHORITY. 1306 00:34:38,909 --> 00:34:39,844 "FUCK YOU, OPPRESSOR! 1307 00:34:39,911 --> 00:34:45,350 LIVE FREE AND EAT TRASH." 1308 00:34:45,417 --> 00:34:46,784 RESEARCHERS HAVE TRIED TO 1309 00:34:46,851 --> 00:34:47,418 DEVELOP ALL SORTS OF TACTICS TO 1310 00:34:47,485 --> 00:34:48,085 ENSURE THAT ONLY PIGS EAT POISON 1311 00:34:48,152 --> 00:34:49,353 BAIT, INCLUDING PUTTING IT IN A 1312 00:34:49,420 --> 00:34:50,855 CONTAINER WITH A 17-LB LID -- 1313 00:34:50,922 --> 00:34:51,856 ALTHOUGH UNFORTUNATELY, THAT 1314 00:34:51,922 --> 00:34:52,857 STILL DOESN'T KEEP OUT BEARS, 1315 00:34:52,924 --> 00:34:53,425 WHO WOULD REMAIN AT RISK OF 1316 00:34:53,491 --> 00:35:00,365 GETTING POISONED. 1317 00:35:00,432 --> 00:35:00,899 THEY'VE EVEN TRIED THIS: 1318 00:35:00,966 --> 00:35:01,533 >> A NEW TYPE OF FEEDER IS BEING 1319 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:02,367 TESTED AT LSU THAT WOULD ONLY 1320 00:35:02,434 --> 00:35:03,001 DISTRIBUTE POISONED BAIT THROUGH 1321 00:35:03,068 --> 00:35:03,635 TECHNOLOGY THAT RECOGNIZES FERAL 1322 00:35:03,702 --> 00:35:05,870 HOGS THROUGH THEIR VOICE. 1323 00:35:05,937 --> 00:35:08,373 ACCORDING TO COMMISSIONER 1324 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,374 STRAIN, THIS OINK RECOGNITION 1325 00:35:09,441 --> 00:35:10,875 TECHNOLOGY COULD USHER THE 1326 00:35:10,942 --> 00:35:11,876 RETURN OF KAPUT IF IT PROVES TO 1327 00:35:11,943 --> 00:35:14,379 JUST TARGET PIGS. 1328 00:35:14,446 --> 00:35:15,380 >> JOHN: LOOK, IT'S NOT THE 1329 00:35:15,447 --> 00:35:16,881 POINT, BUT CREDIT TO WHOEVER 1330 00:35:16,948 --> 00:35:18,383 WROTE THE PHRASE "THIS OINK 1331 00:35:18,450 --> 00:35:19,484 RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY COULD 1332 00:35:19,551 --> 00:35:22,387 USHER IN THE RETURN OF KAPUT." 1333 00:35:22,454 --> 00:35:23,021 BECAUSE THAT'S JUST A BEAUTIFUL 1334 00:35:23,088 --> 00:35:24,889 CONCUSSION OF WORDS. 1335 00:35:24,956 --> 00:35:26,725 THERE SHOULD BE A MINI-PULITZER 1336 00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:27,359 FOR SENTENCES AND IT SHOULD BE 1337 00:35:27,425 --> 00:35:28,893 YOURS. 1338 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:29,894 UNFORTUNATELY, THERE ARE REAL 1339 00:35:29,961 --> 00:35:31,396 QUESTIONS REGARDING CRUELTY WHEN 1340 00:35:31,463 --> 00:35:32,397 IT COMES TO WARFARIN, AS IT CAN 1341 00:35:32,464 --> 00:35:33,898 CAUSE A SLOW, DAYS-LONG DEATH 1342 00:35:33,965 --> 00:35:36,401 DUE TO INTERNAL BLEEDING. 1343 00:35:36,468 --> 00:35:37,235 THAT'S WHY, WHEN AUSTRALIA 1344 00:35:37,302 --> 00:35:38,803 CONSIDERED USING IT, IT 1345 00:35:38,870 --> 00:35:39,404 EVENTUALLY CONCLUDED THAT THE 1346 00:35:39,471 --> 00:35:40,905 METHOD OF DEATH WAS SO CRUEL 1347 00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:41,906 THAT USE OF WARFARIN SHOULD BE 1348 00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:44,909 OUTLAWED. 1349 00:35:44,976 --> 00:35:45,510 MEANWHILE, STILL OTHER 1350 00:35:45,577 --> 00:35:46,411 RESEARCHERS HAVE LOOKED INTO 1351 00:35:46,478 --> 00:35:47,512 CONTRACEPTIVE BAIT, WHICH WOULD 1352 00:35:47,579 --> 00:35:48,079 NEUTRALIZE HOGS' ABILITY TO 1353 00:35:48,146 --> 00:35:48,913 REPRODUCE. 1354 00:35:48,980 --> 00:35:49,914 WHICH HONESTLY SOUNDS LIKE THE 1355 00:35:49,981 --> 00:35:53,418 BEST SOLUTION. 1356 00:35:53,485 --> 00:35:54,052 THERE'S EVEN A PRODUCT OUT THERE 1357 00:35:54,119 --> 00:35:57,422 RIGHT NOW CALLED "HOGSTOP", 1358 00:35:57,489 --> 00:35:58,456 WHICH CLAIMS IT'S EFFECTIVE AT 1359 00:35:58,523 --> 00:36:03,428 LOWERING SPERM COUNT IN BOARS. 1360 00:36:03,495 --> 00:36:07,432 THE PROBLEM THERE THOUGH, IT'S 1361 00:36:07,499 --> 00:36:07,932 FEMALE HOGS THAT DRIVE 1362 00:36:07,999 --> 00:36:08,533 FERTILITY, GIVEN THAT ONE SOW 1363 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:09,067 CAN HAVE MULTIPLE MALE PIG 1364 00:36:09,134 --> 00:36:09,934 FATHERS IN A GIVEN LITTER. 1365 00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:10,669 SO IDEALLY, THERE'D BE A 1366 00:36:10,735 --> 00:36:11,469 CONTRACEPTIVE TARGETING THE SOWS 1367 00:36:11,536 --> 00:36:12,937 AS WELL AS THE BOARS -- BUT 1368 00:36:13,004 --> 00:36:14,439 THERE ISN'T, YET. 1369 00:36:14,506 --> 00:36:16,441 THE BOTTOM LINE HERE IS THAT AS 1370 00:36:16,508 --> 00:36:17,442 IT STANDS, NO SINGLE METHOD IS 1371 00:36:17,509 --> 00:36:18,443 GOING TO BE ABLE TO CONTROL OUR 1372 00:36:18,510 --> 00:36:20,078 FERAL HOG POPULATION BY ITSELF. 1373 00:36:20,145 --> 00:36:20,945 INSTEAD, IT'S GOING TO TAKE A 1374 00:36:21,012 --> 00:36:25,450 BUNCH OF TOOLS. 1375 00:36:25,517 --> 00:36:26,451 AND THE KEY THING IS TO USE THEM 1376 00:36:26,518 --> 00:36:27,085 WISELY, BECAUSE ALMOST ALL OF 1377 00:36:27,152 --> 00:36:28,286 THEM COULD BACKFIRE. 1378 00:36:28,353 --> 00:36:28,920 SO THAT'S GOING TO MEAN HUNTING 1379 00:36:28,987 --> 00:36:29,554 WITHOUT INCENTIVIZING THE SPREAD 1380 00:36:29,621 --> 00:36:30,455 OF PIGS. 1381 00:36:30,522 --> 00:36:31,956 TRAPPING IN A WAY THAT DOESN'T 1382 00:36:32,023 --> 00:36:34,459 TEACH HOGS TO AVOID TRAPS. 1383 00:36:34,526 --> 00:36:36,061 AND DEVISING A TOXIC BAIT THAT 1384 00:36:36,127 --> 00:36:36,961 ISN'T UNNECESSARILY CRUEL, AND 1385 00:36:37,028 --> 00:36:37,962 DOESN'T DO EVEN MORE DAMAGE TO 1386 00:36:38,029 --> 00:36:39,464 THE ENVIRONMENT. 1387 00:36:39,531 --> 00:36:40,465 AND SUCCESS IS GOING TO LOOK 1388 00:36:40,532 --> 00:36:41,466 DIFFERENT DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU 1389 00:36:41,533 --> 00:36:42,967 LIVE. 1390 00:36:43,034 --> 00:36:44,469 IN STATES WITH NEW OR SMALL HOG 1391 00:36:44,536 --> 00:36:45,470 POPULATIONS, ERADICATION IS 1392 00:36:45,537 --> 00:36:46,638 POSSIBLE. 1393 00:36:46,705 --> 00:36:48,473 IOWA, NEW YORK AND IDAHO, HAVE 1394 00:36:48,540 --> 00:36:49,974 ALL MANAGED TO ELIMINATE FERAL 1395 00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:51,576 HOG POPULATIONS BECAUSE THEY 1396 00:36:51,643 --> 00:36:53,478 ADDRESSED THE PROBLEM EARLY ON. 1397 00:36:53,545 --> 00:36:55,980 BUT FOR THE HARDEST HIT STATES, 1398 00:36:56,047 --> 00:36:56,514 LIKE TEXAS, THE TRUTH IS, 1399 00:36:56,581 --> 00:37:03,588 ERADICATION'S NEVER GOING TO BE 1400 00:37:04,556 --> 00:37:04,989 HAPPENING. 1401 00:37:05,056 --> 00:37:05,623 IN FACT, RESEARCHERS DETERMINED 1402 00:37:05,690 --> 00:37:06,191 TEXAS WOULD NEED TO REMOVE 1403 00:37:06,257 --> 00:37:06,791 APPROXIMATELY 2 MILLION WILD 1404 00:37:06,858 --> 00:37:07,358 PIGS PER YEAR JUST TO KEEP 3 1405 00:37:07,425 --> 00:37:07,826 MILLION OF THEM ON THE 1406 00:37:07,892 --> 00:37:08,993 LANDSCAPE. 1407 00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:10,128 WHICH IS A HELL OF A LOT OF HOG 1408 00:37:10,195 --> 00:37:10,762 KILLING TO STILL HAVE A HELL OF 1409 00:37:10,829 --> 00:37:11,996 A LOT OF HOGS. 1410 00:37:12,063 --> 00:37:14,499 LOOK: LET'S FACE IT. 1411 00:37:14,566 --> 00:37:15,500 THE HARD TRUTH HERE IS THAT 1412 00:37:15,567 --> 00:37:16,501 FERAL HOGS ARE PROBABLY ALWAYS 1413 00:37:16,568 --> 00:37:17,068 GOING TO BE WITH US IN SOME 1414 00:37:17,135 --> 00:37:18,503 CAPACITY. 1415 00:37:18,570 --> 00:37:19,137 BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE HAVE TO 1416 00:37:19,204 --> 00:37:21,005 SURRENDER. 1417 00:37:21,072 --> 00:37:24,042 IN FACT, WE SHOULDN'T SURRENDER. 1418 00:37:24,109 --> 00:37:25,577 BECAUSE IF I'VE LEARNED ONE 1419 00:37:25,643 --> 00:37:27,045 THING FROM THE MOVIES, IT'S THAT 1420 00:37:27,112 --> 00:37:28,012 WHENEVER AMERICA GETS INVADED, 1421 00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:31,516 IT FIGHTS BACK IMMEDIATELY, 1422 00:37:31,583 --> 00:37:32,117 AFTER AN APPROPRIATE PAUSE FOR 1423 00:37:32,183 --> 00:37:39,190 AN INSPIRATIONAL SPEECH. 1424 00:37:41,092 --> 00:37:41,659 AND IF THAT'S WHAT AMERICA NEEDS 1425 00:37:41,726 --> 00:37:42,227 RIGHT NOW, THAT'S WHAT IT'S 1426 00:37:42,293 --> 00:37:42,627 GOING TO GET. 1427 00:37:42,694 --> 00:37:44,028 [INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC PLAYING] 1428 00:37:44,095 --> 00:37:44,596 BECAUSE LOOK: I'M NOT SAYING 1429 00:37:44,662 --> 00:37:45,797 THIS IS GONNA BE EASY. 1430 00:37:45,864 --> 00:37:48,133 BUT BELIEVE ME -- IF WE WORK 1431 00:37:48,199 --> 00:37:51,035 TOGETHER, WE CAN LOOK THIS HOG 1432 00:37:51,102 --> 00:37:52,537 INVASION STRAIGHT IN ITS BEADY 1433 00:37:52,604 --> 00:37:53,538 LITTLE EYES, AND START PUSHING 1434 00:37:53,605 --> 00:38:00,612 BACK! 1435 00:38:04,616 --> 00:38:05,216 YOU KNOW,WE CAN TURN BACK THIS 1436 00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:06,084 PIG TIDE, DEFUSE THIS PIG BOMB, 1437 00:38:06,151 --> 00:38:06,684 AND PUSH THEIR POPULATION BACK 1438 00:38:06,751 --> 00:38:08,520 DOWN TO A MANAGEABLE LEVEL! 1439 00:38:08,586 --> 00:38:10,655 BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, THEY THINK 1440 00:38:10,722 --> 00:38:13,057 THEY'VE BEATEN US, JUST BECAUSE 1441 00:38:13,124 --> 00:38:14,058 THESE HOGS ARE ABLE TO ROUTINELY 1442 00:38:14,125 --> 00:38:14,659 EAT OUR CROPS AND DESTROY OUR 1443 00:38:14,726 --> 00:38:20,565 FIGHTER JETS. 1444 00:38:20,632 --> 00:38:24,235 AND SNACK ON OUR BABY TURTLES. 1445 00:38:24,302 --> 00:38:25,069 SO WE NEED TO RESPOND, WITH 1446 00:38:25,136 --> 00:38:25,670 INGENUITY, WITH GRIT, AND -- I 1447 00:38:25,737 --> 00:38:26,271 CAN'T BELIEVE I'M ABOUT TO SAY 1448 00:38:26,337 --> 00:38:26,771 THIS -- WITH A JUDICIOUS 1449 00:38:26,838 --> 00:38:27,238 APPLICATION OF ASSAULT 1450 00:38:27,305 --> 00:38:28,273 HELICOPTERS! 1451 00:38:28,339 --> 00:38:29,073 >> I'VE GOT A GUN! 1452 00:38:29,140 --> 00:38:30,074 >> JOHN: GOOD! 1453 00:38:30,141 --> 00:38:32,577 THEN YOU CAN BRING IT! 1454 00:38:32,644 --> 00:38:34,612 >> I'VE GOT A BUCKET OF POISON! 1455 00:38:34,679 --> 00:38:36,080 >> JOHN: THAT NEEDS MORE 1456 00:38:36,147 --> 00:38:38,082 RESEARCH, SO LET'S HOLD OFF ON 1457 00:38:38,149 --> 00:38:38,683 USING IT NOW, AND CIRCLE BACK 1458 00:38:38,750 --> 00:38:42,587 LATER! 1459 00:38:42,654 --> 00:38:45,757 WHEN THE SCIENCE IMPROVES. 1460 00:38:45,824 --> 00:38:46,391 >> I'VE GOT ALL THESE HOG-SIZED 1461 00:38:46,457 --> 00:38:46,624 CONDOMS! 1462 00:38:46,691 --> 00:38:47,192 >> JOHN: I LOVE TO HEAR IT! 1463 00:38:47,258 --> 00:38:47,826 BUT UNTIL YOU'VE GOT AN IUD FOR 1464 00:38:47,892 --> 00:38:49,093 PIGS, IT'S JUST NOT GOING TO BE 1465 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:49,327 ENOUGH! 1466 00:38:49,394 --> 00:38:49,928 WHAT I'M SAYING IS, WE NEED TO 1467 00:38:49,994 --> 00:38:54,098 WORK TOGETHER. 1468 00:38:54,165 --> 00:38:55,333 IN FACT, WE HAVE TO WORK 1469 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,603 TOGETHER. 1470 00:38:58,670 --> 00:38:59,604 AND IF WE DO -- IF WE CAN CATCH 1471 00:38:59,671 --> 00:39:02,106 THIS MENACE BY ITS CURLY LITTLE 1472 00:39:02,173 --> 00:39:04,609 TAIL -- THEN I PROMISE YOU: THIS 1473 00:39:04,676 --> 00:39:05,176 WILL BE OUR SWINE-DEPENDENCE 1474 00:39:05,243 --> 00:39:05,610 DAY! 1475 00:39:05,677 --> 00:39:11,115 [CHEERING] 1476 00:39:11,182 --> 00:39:13,618 AND FOR ALL THE HOGS OUT THERE 1477 00:39:13,685 --> 00:39:14,619 WATCHING, I JUST HAVE ONE THING 1478 00:39:14,686 --> 00:39:21,693 TO SAY TO YOU: 1479 00:39:24,195 --> 00:39:26,130 [HOG CALL] 1480 00:39:26,197 --> 00:39:26,764 THAT'S OUR SHOW, THANKS SO MUCH 1481 00:39:26,831 --> 00:39:27,432 FOR WATCHING, SEE YOU NEXT WEEK, 1482 00:39:27,498 --> 00:39:32,136 GOOD NIGHT! 1483 00:39:32,203 --> 00:39:39,210 [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] 1484 00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:46,217 ♪ ♪ 1485 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:54,225 >> EXHALE, INHALE AND YOU GET... 1486 00:39:54,292 --> 00:39:54,993 I DON'T KNOW