1 00:00:32,132 --> 00:00:32,899 >> WELCOME, WELCOME, 2 00:00:32,966 --> 00:00:34,868 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT!" 3 00:00:34,934 --> 00:00:35,568 I'M JOHN OLIVER. 4 00:00:35,635 --> 00:00:36,770 THANK YOU SO MUCH 5 00:00:36,836 --> 00:00:40,073 FOR JOINING US. 6 00:00:40,140 --> 00:00:41,207 IT HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK. 7 00:00:41,274 --> 00:00:42,375 BONGBONG MARCOS WAS ELECTED 8 00:00:42,442 --> 00:00:43,042 PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES, 9 00:00:43,109 --> 00:00:43,643 WE SAW A PRETTY HOT PICTURE OF 10 00:00:43,710 --> 00:00:45,378 A BLACK HOLE, AND THE EUROVISION 11 00:00:45,445 --> 00:00:46,980 SONG CONTEST TOOK PLACE, 12 00:00:47,046 --> 00:00:48,114 FEATURING THIS SPECTACULAR ENTRY 13 00:00:48,181 --> 00:00:49,716 FROM NORWAY. 14 00:00:49,783 --> 00:00:51,217 >> 15 00:01:20,780 --> 00:01:22,315 >> YES. 16 00:01:22,382 --> 00:01:23,650 EVERY PART OF THAT 17 00:01:23,716 --> 00:01:25,552 GETS A BIG YES FROM ME. 18 00:01:25,618 --> 00:01:27,187 FROM THE DRESS CODE, WHICH CAN 19 00:01:27,253 --> 00:01:28,021 ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS "WEREWOLF 20 00:01:28,087 --> 00:01:30,723 APPLYING FOR A LOAN," TO THE 21 00:01:30,790 --> 00:01:31,891 SEXY BUSINESS MINION BACKUP 22 00:01:31,958 --> 00:01:33,493 DANCERS, TO THE FOSSE MEETS 2008 23 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:35,395 GAGA CHOREOGRAPHY, TO THE LINES 24 00:01:35,462 --> 00:01:36,629 "IS THAT SALIVA OR BLOOD 25 00:01:36,696 --> 00:01:38,798 DRIPPING OFF YOUR CHIN", 26 00:01:38,865 --> 00:01:40,600 THE HORNIEST LYRIC SINCE 27 00:01:40,667 --> 00:01:41,401 ALL OF "MONTERO," 28 00:01:41,468 --> 00:01:42,669 IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY, 29 00:01:42,735 --> 00:01:43,169 "IF YOU DON'T LIKE 30 00:01:43,236 --> 00:01:44,704 THE NAME KEITH, 31 00:01:44,771 --> 00:01:46,206 IMMA CALL YOU JIM" 32 00:01:46,272 --> 00:01:47,574 WHICH IS PURE CHAOS. 33 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:48,641 THAT BAND -- 34 00:01:48,708 --> 00:01:49,809 CALLED "SUBWOOLFER," 35 00:01:49,876 --> 00:01:50,376 BY THE WAY -- 36 00:01:50,443 --> 00:01:51,077 UNDERSTOOD EXACTLY WHAT 37 00:01:51,144 --> 00:01:52,812 EUROVISION IS FOR. 38 00:01:52,879 --> 00:01:54,247 AS, INCIDENTALLY, DID THE 39 00:01:54,314 --> 00:01:55,748 LATVIAN ENTRY, WHICH DIDN'T EVEN 40 00:01:55,815 --> 00:01:57,450 MAKE IT TO THE FINAL, DESPITE 41 00:01:57,517 --> 00:01:58,985 HAVING ONE OF THE BEST OPENINGS 42 00:01:59,052 --> 00:01:59,552 TO A SONG IN THE HISTORY OF 43 00:01:59,619 --> 00:02:05,992 MUSIC. 44 00:02:06,059 --> 00:02:09,562 >> 45 00:02:19,706 --> 00:02:22,775 >> I MEAN, COME ON. 46 00:02:22,842 --> 00:02:23,810 ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? 47 00:02:23,877 --> 00:02:24,577 THE EUROVISION SONG 48 00:02:24,644 --> 00:02:25,144 CONTEST IS MAYHEM 49 00:02:25,211 --> 00:02:26,112 IN ALL THE BEST WAYS. 50 00:02:26,179 --> 00:02:26,779 BUT AS MUCH AS I'D LOVE TO SPEND 51 00:02:26,846 --> 00:02:27,580 THE NEXT TEN MINUTES TALKING 52 00:02:27,647 --> 00:02:28,147 ABOUT THAT, WE SADLY HAVE TO 53 00:02:28,214 --> 00:02:29,415 MOVE ON. 54 00:02:29,482 --> 00:02:30,683 ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THIS HAPPENED 55 00:02:30,750 --> 00:02:31,885 IN ALABAMA. 56 00:02:31,951 --> 00:02:33,052 >> THE USE OF PUBERTY BLOCKERS 57 00:02:33,119 --> 00:02:36,289 AND HORMONES TO TREAT 58 00:02:36,356 --> 00:02:36,823 TRANSGENDER MINORS IS NOW 59 00:02:36,890 --> 00:02:38,057 ILLEGAL IN ALABAMA. 60 00:02:38,124 --> 00:02:39,492 >> YEAH, THE STATE'S TRANSGENDER 61 00:02:39,559 --> 00:02:41,394 YOUTH BAN IS NOW IN EFFECT AND 62 00:02:41,461 --> 00:02:42,629 THAT MEANS IT IS NOW A FELONY 63 00:02:42,695 --> 00:02:43,663 FOR DOCTORS TO PROVIDE 64 00:02:43,730 --> 00:02:45,365 MEDICATIONS TO TRANS PEOPLE 65 00:02:45,431 --> 00:02:47,834 UNDER THE AGE OF 19. 66 00:02:47,901 --> 00:02:49,469 ALABAMA'S THE FIRST STATE TO 67 00:02:49,536 --> 00:02:50,103 ENACT SUCH A BAN ON THESE 68 00:02:50,169 --> 00:02:50,937 TREATMENTS. 69 00:02:51,004 --> 00:02:51,838 IT'S PUNISHABLE BY UP TO 10 70 00:02:51,905 --> 00:02:55,708 YEARS IN PRISON. 71 00:02:55,775 --> 00:02:56,843 >> THAT IS ABSOLUTELY 72 00:02:56,910 --> 00:02:57,210 APPALLING. 73 00:02:57,277 --> 00:02:58,044 AND LOOK, THERE ARE LOTS OF 74 00:02:58,111 --> 00:02:59,479 UNDERSTANDABLE REASONS SOMEONE 75 00:02:59,546 --> 00:03:00,079 IN ALABAMA MIGHT BE CRIMINALLY 76 00:03:00,146 --> 00:03:00,947 PUNISHED. 77 00:03:01,014 --> 00:03:02,382 FOR MURDER, SAY, OR FOR RUNNING 78 00:03:02,448 --> 00:03:03,950 A PONZI SCHEME OR FOR CREATING 79 00:03:04,017 --> 00:03:08,421 THIS ACTUAL STATUE AT AN ALABAMA 80 00:03:08,488 --> 00:03:10,456 McDONALD'S OF RONALD McDONALD 81 00:03:10,523 --> 00:03:11,758 REIMAGINED AS A GIANT 82 00:03:11,824 --> 00:03:12,191 BOLL WEEVIL. 83 00:03:12,258 --> 00:03:12,959 BUT NO ONE SHOULD EVER BE 84 00:03:13,026 --> 00:03:13,560 FACING CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT FOR 85 00:03:13,626 --> 00:03:14,160 PROVIDING HEALTHCARE TO YOUNG 86 00:03:14,227 --> 00:03:15,094 PEOPLE. 87 00:03:15,161 --> 00:03:16,596 THIS LAW WAS SIGNED BY THE 88 00:03:16,663 --> 00:03:17,263 STATE'S GOVERNOR, KAY IVEY, 89 00:03:17,330 --> 00:03:19,299 A WOMAN WHO, AS YOU CAN SEE, 90 00:03:19,365 --> 00:03:20,300 ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE SHE'S SAYING 91 00:03:20,366 --> 00:03:21,501 "HAM." 92 00:03:21,568 --> 00:03:23,336 HERE SHE IS AGAIN, SAYING 93 00:03:23,403 --> 00:03:24,737 "HAM," AND HERE SHE IS, 94 00:03:24,804 --> 00:03:25,705 MIXING IT UP AND SAYING 95 00:03:25,772 --> 00:03:30,009 "HAM, Y'ALL." 96 00:03:30,076 --> 00:03:37,784 IVEY WAS DEEPLY COMMITTED TO 97 00:03:37,850 --> 00:03:39,519 THESE ANTI TRANS LEGISLATION. 98 00:03:39,586 --> 00:03:39,886 EVEN MAKING THEM 99 00:03:39,953 --> 00:03:40,453 A FEATURE OF HER REELECTION 100 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:40,987 CAMPAIGN. 101 00:03:41,054 --> 00:03:41,988 >> SOME THINGS ARE JUST FACTS. 102 00:03:42,055 --> 00:03:42,822 SUMMER'S HOT, THE OCEAN'S BIG, 103 00:03:42,889 --> 00:03:43,389 AND GENDER IS A QUESTION OF 104 00:03:43,456 --> 00:03:44,591 BIOLOGY, NOT IDENTITY. 105 00:03:44,657 --> 00:03:47,026 HERE IN ALABAMA, WE'RE GONNA GO 106 00:03:47,093 --> 00:03:48,962 BY HOW GOD MADE US BECAUSE WE 107 00:03:49,028 --> 00:03:50,263 IDENTIFY WITH SOMETHING LIBERALS 108 00:03:50,330 --> 00:03:54,067 REALITY. 109 00:03:54,133 --> 00:03:55,034 >> OKAY, FIRST, FUCK YOU. 110 00:03:55,101 --> 00:03:57,170 SECOND, "SUMMER'S HOT, OCEAN'S 111 00:03:57,236 --> 00:03:58,538 BIG" DOESN'T SOUND LIKE 112 00:03:58,605 --> 00:03:59,539 THE WIND UP TO DENYING TRANS 113 00:03:59,606 --> 00:04:00,540 PEOPLE THEIR RIGHTS. 114 00:04:00,607 --> 00:04:01,975 IT SOUNDS LIKE A CHILDREN'S BOOK 115 00:04:02,041 --> 00:04:03,810 THE AUTHOR WROTE WHILE HUNGOVER. 116 00:04:03,876 --> 00:04:04,410 "SUMMER'S HOT. 117 00:04:04,477 --> 00:04:05,411 OCEAN'S BIG. 118 00:04:05,478 --> 00:04:06,412 I DON'T KNOW, WHAT MORE DO YOU 119 00:04:06,479 --> 00:04:08,514 FUCKING KIDS WANT FROM ME?" 120 00:04:08,581 --> 00:04:10,083 AS FOR HER POINT THAT WE HAVE 121 00:04:10,149 --> 00:04:11,351 TO RESPECT "HOW GOD MADE US," 122 00:04:11,417 --> 00:04:13,853 DO WE? 123 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:14,621 REALLY? 124 00:04:14,687 --> 00:04:15,922 WHY? 125 00:04:15,989 --> 00:04:17,023 'CAUSE WE'VE GOT TOO MANY HOLES, 126 00:04:17,090 --> 00:04:17,690 WAY TOO LITTLE HAIR, 127 00:04:17,757 --> 00:04:18,891 AND NECKS -- 128 00:04:18,958 --> 00:04:20,259 FRAGILE LOLLIPOP BONES THAT 129 00:04:20,326 --> 00:04:21,828 BALANCE OUR DUM-DUM HEADS IN ONE 130 00:04:21,894 --> 00:04:24,230 VERY SPECIFIC DIRECTION OR ELSE 131 00:04:24,297 --> 00:04:24,597 WE DIE. 132 00:04:24,664 --> 00:04:24,964 NONE OF THIS IS 133 00:04:25,031 --> 00:04:27,500 INTELLIGENT DESIGN. 134 00:04:27,567 --> 00:04:28,768 AND WHILE ALABAMA'S WORST 135 00:04:28,835 --> 00:04:32,538 MEE-MAW MIGHT APPEAL TO 136 00:04:32,605 --> 00:04:34,073 "REALITY," THE TRUTH IS, THE 137 00:04:34,140 --> 00:04:35,408 MAJOR MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS 138 00:04:35,475 --> 00:04:36,509 OPPOSE BANS ON GENDER-AFFIRMING 139 00:04:36,576 --> 00:04:37,577 CARE, AND WITH GOOD REASON -- 140 00:04:37,644 --> 00:04:39,879 BECAUSE IT SAVES LIVES, AND 141 00:04:39,946 --> 00:04:41,881 WITHDRAWING IT CAN BE INCREDIBLY 142 00:04:41,948 --> 00:04:43,216 HARMFUL, AS THIS 15-YEAR-OLD 143 00:04:43,282 --> 00:04:44,217 GIRL NAMED HARLEIGH 144 00:04:44,283 --> 00:04:45,151 WILL TELL YOU. 145 00:04:45,218 --> 00:04:46,486 >> IF I DID STOP MY 146 00:04:46,552 --> 00:04:50,156 GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE, 147 00:04:50,223 --> 00:04:51,557 MY PHYSICAL OUTSIDE WOULDN'T 148 00:04:51,624 --> 00:04:53,493 REFLECT ON WHO I WAS INSIDE. 149 00:04:53,559 --> 00:04:55,628 AND THAT WOULD, LIKE, COMPLETELY 150 00:04:55,695 --> 00:04:57,363 DESTROY ME MENTALLY AND 151 00:04:57,430 --> 00:05:01,100 PHYSICALLY. 152 00:05:01,167 --> 00:05:05,938 >> OKAY, FIRST OFF, 153 00:05:06,005 --> 00:05:07,573 HARLEIGH, YOU SEEM GREAT. 154 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:08,775 YOU'RE LIVING AS YOUR FULL, 155 00:05:08,841 --> 00:05:10,043 AUTHENTIC SELF, 156 00:05:10,109 --> 00:05:10,943 AS FOR GOVERNOR IVEY, 157 00:05:11,010 --> 00:05:12,145 IF YOU CAN LOOK AT HARLEIGH 158 00:05:12,211 --> 00:05:13,446 OR ANY CHILD AND COMFORTABLY 159 00:05:13,513 --> 00:05:15,048 SAY, "TAKE AWAY THE CARE THAT 160 00:05:15,114 --> 00:05:15,782 GIVES THEM PEACE AND A SENSE OF 161 00:05:15,848 --> 00:05:18,251 SELF," YOU ARE A BAD PERSON. 162 00:05:18,317 --> 00:05:19,686 IN FACT, THE ONLY GOOD THING YOU 163 00:05:19,752 --> 00:05:21,521 COULD POSSIBLY BRING INTO THIS 164 00:05:21,587 --> 00:05:22,522 WORLD IS IF YOU WERE PLAYED BY 165 00:05:22,588 --> 00:05:23,856 BELOVED CHARACTER ACTRESS MARGO 166 00:05:23,923 --> 00:05:25,758 MARTINDALE IN A LIMITED SERIES. 167 00:05:25,825 --> 00:05:26,626 IT WOULDN'T BE EASY FOR MARGO, 168 00:05:26,693 --> 00:05:27,994 BECAUSE SHE'S SO UNIVERSALLY 169 00:05:28,061 --> 00:05:29,395 BELOVED, AND YOU'RE AN ABSOLUTE 170 00:05:29,462 --> 00:05:30,763 GARBAGE LADY, BUT IT WOULD BE 171 00:05:30,830 --> 00:05:34,667 UNMISSABLE TV. 172 00:05:34,734 --> 00:05:35,501 NOW THE RHETORIC AROUND THESE 173 00:05:35,568 --> 00:05:37,170 BILLS IS THAT THEY'RE DESIGNED 174 00:05:37,236 --> 00:05:38,271 TO PREVENT -- AND I AM USING THE 175 00:05:38,337 --> 00:05:38,871 BIGGEST AIR QUOTES IMAGINABLE 176 00:05:38,938 --> 00:05:40,273 HERE -- "IRREVERSIBLE HARM." 177 00:05:40,339 --> 00:05:42,141 AND ITS SUPPORTERS -- 178 00:05:42,208 --> 00:05:42,675 AND ITS SUPPORTERS -- 179 00:05:42,742 --> 00:05:43,609 LIKE MANY TRANSPHOBES -- 180 00:05:43,676 --> 00:05:44,444 TEND TO FIXATE ON THE SURGERY 181 00:05:44,510 --> 00:05:47,146 PART OF TRANSITIONING, 182 00:05:47,213 --> 00:05:47,914 EVEN THOUGH, FOR THE RECORD 183 00:05:47,980 --> 00:05:49,582 TRANSITIONING IS FAR 184 00:05:49,649 --> 00:05:50,116 MORE EXPANSIVE THAN THAT, 185 00:05:50,183 --> 00:05:51,250 MAY NOT ENTAIL SURGERY, AND, AS 186 00:05:51,317 --> 00:05:52,018 WE'VE SAID BEFORE, WHEN IT DOES, 187 00:05:52,085 --> 00:05:52,919 IS NONE OF YOUR FUCKING 188 00:05:52,985 --> 00:05:59,959 BUSINESS. 189 00:06:00,026 --> 00:06:01,594 BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE 190 00:06:01,661 --> 00:06:02,228 CHILDREN OF ALABAMA, AS A DOCTOR 191 00:06:02,295 --> 00:06:02,795 TOLD THEIR STATE LEGISLATURE 192 00:06:02,862 --> 00:06:03,396 JUST LAST YEAR, IT'S NOT EVEN 193 00:06:03,463 --> 00:06:03,996 A FACTOR. 194 00:06:04,063 --> 00:06:06,599 >> HERE'S WHAT WE DO 195 00:06:06,666 --> 00:06:07,934 AND WHAT WE DON'T. 196 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,769 GENITAL SURGERY IS NEVER 197 00:06:09,836 --> 00:06:12,238 PERFORMED ON MINORS IN ALABAMA. 198 00:06:12,305 --> 00:06:13,806 PUBERTY BLOCKING MEDICATIONS 199 00:06:13,873 --> 00:06:16,676 ARE 100% REVERSIBLE AND CAN BE 200 00:06:16,743 --> 00:06:17,777 LIFESAVING. 201 00:06:17,844 --> 00:06:20,246 NOW, SOME OLDER TEENS, 202 00:06:20,313 --> 00:06:21,481 NOT SEVEN-YEAR-OLDS, 203 00:06:21,547 --> 00:06:23,382 MERIT HORMONAL THERAPY. 204 00:06:23,449 --> 00:06:25,184 BUT INITIATION INVOLVES LENGTHY 205 00:06:25,251 --> 00:06:27,820 INFORMED CONSENT, LENGTHY MENTAL 206 00:06:27,887 --> 00:06:29,689 HEALTH OVERSIGHT, AND THE 207 00:06:29,756 --> 00:06:31,691 SUB-SPECIALIZED CARE PROVIDED. 208 00:06:31,758 --> 00:06:32,692 >> YEAH, OF COURSE DOCTORS 209 00:06:32,759 --> 00:06:33,426 ARE GOING TO BE THOUGHTFUL AND 210 00:06:33,493 --> 00:06:34,026 RIGOROUS WHEN CARING FOR THEIR 211 00:06:34,093 --> 00:06:38,464 PATIENTS. 212 00:06:38,531 --> 00:06:39,365 BECAUSE, UNLIKE THE ALABAMA 213 00:06:39,432 --> 00:06:40,166 LEGISLATURE, THEY ACTUALLY CARE 214 00:06:40,233 --> 00:06:42,468 ABOUT KIDS' WELL-BEING. 215 00:06:42,535 --> 00:06:43,069 BUT YOU CAN SEE WHY LAWMAKERS 216 00:06:43,136 --> 00:06:43,636 DON'T TELL THE WHOLE PICTURE 217 00:06:43,703 --> 00:06:44,237 WHEN IT COMES TO GENDER 218 00:06:44,303 --> 00:06:46,205 AFFIRMING CARE. 219 00:06:46,272 --> 00:06:46,906 BECAUSE A LAWN SIGN SAYING, 220 00:06:46,973 --> 00:06:48,341 "BAN LENGTHY INFORMED CONSENT, 221 00:06:48,407 --> 00:06:50,009 LENGTHY MENTAL HEALTH OVERSIGHT, 222 00:06:50,076 --> 00:06:50,543 AND SUB-SPECIALIZED CARE" 223 00:06:50,610 --> 00:06:51,544 DOESN'T QUITE HAVE THE SAME 224 00:06:51,611 --> 00:06:52,945 PUNCH TO IT, DOES IT? 225 00:06:53,012 --> 00:06:54,313 NOW, THE GOOD NEWS IS, 226 00:06:54,380 --> 00:06:56,315 ON FRIDAY, A FEDERAL JUDGE 227 00:06:56,382 --> 00:06:57,316 ISSUED A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION 228 00:06:57,383 --> 00:06:58,551 ON ALABAMA'S BAN, MEANING THAT 229 00:06:58,618 --> 00:07:00,586 THE STATE IS BARRED FOR NOW 230 00:07:00,653 --> 00:07:01,220 FROM ENFORCING PART 231 00:07:01,287 --> 00:07:02,889 OF ITS LAW, SPECIFICALLY 232 00:07:02,955 --> 00:07:03,289 THE BAN ON ACCESS 233 00:07:03,356 --> 00:07:05,057 TO MEDICATION. 234 00:07:05,124 --> 00:07:07,026 BUT IT'S ALREADY WORKING ON 235 00:07:07,093 --> 00:07:07,994 FILING AN APPEAL, AND THE REST 236 00:07:08,060 --> 00:07:10,096 OF THE LAW REMAINS IN PLACE. 237 00:07:10,163 --> 00:07:12,532 AND YOU CAN'T HELP THINKING THAT 238 00:07:12,598 --> 00:07:13,032 THIS WHOLE THING IS JUST 239 00:07:13,099 --> 00:07:14,667 RIGHT-WING VIRTUE-SIGNALING, 240 00:07:14,734 --> 00:07:16,969 SENDING A HATEFUL MESSAGE 241 00:07:17,036 --> 00:07:18,571 TO A CONSERVATIVE BASE 242 00:07:18,638 --> 00:07:21,474 WITH NO THOUGHT GIVEN TO THE 243 00:07:21,541 --> 00:07:22,542 PAIN IT WILL CAUSE. 244 00:07:22,608 --> 00:07:24,010 AND NO MATTER WHAT THE EVENTUAL 245 00:07:24,076 --> 00:07:25,111 FATE OF THE LAW IS, ACTUAL TRANS 246 00:07:25,178 --> 00:07:26,345 PEOPLE AND THEIR ADVOCATES IN 247 00:07:26,412 --> 00:07:27,947 ALABAMA HAVE HEARD THE MESSAGE 248 00:07:28,014 --> 00:07:28,648 IT WAS MEANT TO SEND, LOUD AND 249 00:07:28,714 --> 00:07:30,216 CLEAR. 250 00:07:30,283 --> 00:07:31,551 >> AS HUMANS, 251 00:07:31,617 --> 00:07:34,086 THEY'RE AFRAID OF US. 252 00:07:34,153 --> 00:07:36,389 IT'S NOT REALLY FUN, BUT AS LONG 253 00:07:36,455 --> 00:07:38,224 AS IT'S PROTECTING THEIR IDEALS, 254 00:07:38,291 --> 00:07:39,559 THEY DON'T CARE. 255 00:07:39,625 --> 00:07:42,395 >> I'M JUST A NORMAL KID. 256 00:07:42,461 --> 00:07:45,431 LIKE, I WENT TO HOOVER HIGH 257 00:07:45,498 --> 00:07:45,865 SCHOOL AND 258 00:07:45,932 --> 00:07:46,833 I WAS IN ENGINEERING. 259 00:07:46,899 --> 00:07:47,466 I PLAYED HOCKEY, A LITTLE WEIRD 260 00:07:47,533 --> 00:07:47,800 FOR ALABAMA. 261 00:07:47,867 --> 00:07:48,401 THAT'S PROBABLY THE MOST 262 00:07:48,467 --> 00:07:49,735 ABNORMAL PART. 263 00:07:49,802 --> 00:07:50,469 LIKE, I'M TRANS, AND WHAT HARM 264 00:07:50,536 --> 00:07:55,641 AM I DOING? 265 00:07:55,708 --> 00:07:56,742 >> I WANT TO KNOW WHY YOU FEEL 266 00:07:56,809 --> 00:07:57,910 SO COMFORTABLE DICTATING OTHER 267 00:07:57,977 --> 00:07:59,178 PEOPLE'S LIVES? 268 00:07:59,245 --> 00:08:01,581 I JUST NEED TO KNOW, NOT 269 00:08:01,647 --> 00:08:03,749 RELIGION BASED, WHERE THE 270 00:08:03,816 --> 00:08:05,084 ENTITLEMENT COMES FROM. 271 00:08:05,151 --> 00:08:08,454 >> TO THOSE SENATORS AND 272 00:08:08,521 --> 00:08:09,088 REPRESENTATIVES WHO SUPPORT THIS 273 00:08:09,155 --> 00:08:09,789 BILL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 274 00:08:09,856 --> 00:08:10,857 MAKING ALABAMA A NATIONAL 275 00:08:10,923 --> 00:08:19,098 EMBARRASSMENT YET AGAIN. 276 00:08:19,165 --> 00:08:20,199 >> YEAH, HE'S 277 00:08:20,266 --> 00:08:20,933 ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. 278 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:21,767 AND TO TRANS CHILDREN IN ALABAMA 279 00:08:21,834 --> 00:08:22,368 RIGHT NOW, LET ME SAY THIS. 280 00:08:22,435 --> 00:08:22,602 Y'ALL -- 281 00:08:22,668 --> 00:08:23,436 AM I SAYING THAT RIGHT? 282 00:08:23,502 --> 00:08:23,803 Y'ALL? 283 00:08:23,870 --> 00:08:26,205 I DON'T THINK I CAN CARRY THAT 284 00:08:26,272 --> 00:08:28,674 OFF. 285 00:08:28,741 --> 00:08:30,576 YOU ARE IMPORTANT. 286 00:08:30,643 --> 00:08:31,510 I CAN'T IMAGINE TRYING TO BUILD 287 00:08:31,577 --> 00:08:32,144 SELF-ESTEEM IN CHILDHOOD AS YOUR 288 00:08:32,211 --> 00:08:32,678 OWN GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTS TO 289 00:08:32,745 --> 00:08:33,679 UNDERMINE YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. 290 00:08:33,746 --> 00:08:34,413 BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW, YOU'RE 291 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,983 PROFOUNDLY VALUABLE AND 292 00:08:37,049 --> 00:08:38,684 YOU ARE IRREPLACEABLE. 293 00:08:38,751 --> 00:08:39,252 AS FOR KAY IVEY, WHAT THE FUCK 294 00:08:39,318 --> 00:08:40,720 IS WRONG WITH YOU? 295 00:08:40,786 --> 00:08:42,688 I KNOW THAT'S A SIMPLE QUESTION 296 00:08:42,755 --> 00:08:43,890 WITH PROBABLY A LONG, 297 00:08:43,956 --> 00:08:44,490 COMPLICATED ANSWER, BUT TO PUT 298 00:08:44,557 --> 00:08:45,124 THIS IN TERMS YOU'LL DEFINITELY 299 00:08:46,659 --> 00:08:48,828 SUMMER'S HOT, OCEAN'S BIG, 300 00:08:48,895 --> 00:08:50,263 AND THE PEOPLE OF ALABAMA 301 00:08:50,329 --> 00:08:50,763 DESERVE A LOT BETTER 302 00:08:50,830 --> 00:08:51,364 THAN YOU. 303 00:08:51,430 --> 00:08:58,371 AND NOW THIS. 304 00:08:58,437 --> 00:09:01,574 >> AND NOW THE 305 00:09:01,641 --> 00:09:03,442 DELIGHTFUL DELIGHT OF 306 00:09:03,509 --> 00:09:04,143 ALLISON HAMMOND. 307 00:09:04,210 --> 00:09:05,444 >> FROM THE ORIGINAL BLADE 308 00:09:05,511 --> 00:09:05,678 RUNNER. 309 00:09:05,745 --> 00:09:08,414 THIS IS WHAT THEY USED. 310 00:09:08,481 --> 00:09:09,715 ATTENTION TO DETAILS. 311 00:09:09,782 --> 00:09:12,018 FANS WILL PROBABLY LIKE THAT. 312 00:09:12,084 --> 00:09:15,388 >> ARE YOU A FAN OF THE 313 00:09:15,454 --> 00:09:15,655 ORIGINAL? 314 00:09:15,721 --> 00:09:17,990 >> NEVER SEEN IT. 315 00:09:18,324 --> 00:09:19,659 I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A QUOTE 316 00:09:19,725 --> 00:09:20,226 THAT YOU HAVE TO LET ME KNOW 317 00:09:20,293 --> 00:09:23,629 WHETHER YOU THINK IT'S 318 00:09:23,696 --> 00:09:25,898 SHAKESPEARE. 319 00:09:26,432 --> 00:09:28,601 LOOK AT THAT. 320 00:09:28,668 --> 00:09:32,238 BEAUTIFUL. 321 00:09:33,639 --> 00:09:37,576 >> WHY CAN'T YOU JUST PICK IT 322 00:09:37,643 --> 00:09:37,743 UP? 323 00:09:38,077 --> 00:09:41,180 >> HERE ARE SOME OTHER NOTES. 324 00:09:41,247 --> 00:09:41,747 HERE'S ONE OF THEM. 325 00:09:41,814 --> 00:09:45,418 THIS IS "LOVE YOU." 326 00:09:46,619 --> 00:09:51,357 YOU ARE THE BADDEST WOMAN. 327 00:09:55,294 --> 00:09:58,698 >> YOU KNOW I DON'T DRINK. 328 00:09:59,031 --> 00:10:05,338 AND THERE YOU HAVE IT. 329 00:10:06,839 --> 00:10:07,873 >> MOVING ON. 330 00:10:07,940 --> 00:10:08,975 OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT CONCERNS 331 00:10:09,041 --> 00:10:10,076 UTILITIES -- SPECIFICALLY, 332 00:10:10,142 --> 00:10:11,477 ELECTRIC UTILITIES -- 333 00:10:11,544 --> 00:10:13,145 THE COMPANIES RESPONSIBLE FOR 334 00:10:13,212 --> 00:10:14,180 DELIVERING US POWER, AND ALSO, 335 00:10:14,246 --> 00:10:16,048 GIVING US THE CREEPIEST MASCOT 336 00:10:16,115 --> 00:10:18,718 REDDY KILOWATT, 337 00:10:18,784 --> 00:10:20,019 A HELL-CREATURE WHO FOR DECADES, 338 00:10:20,086 --> 00:10:21,454 APPEARED IN ADS FOR OVER TWO 339 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:22,822 HUNDRED ELECTRIC COMPANIES, LIKE 340 00:10:22,888 --> 00:10:25,224 THIS ONE ABOUT HIM EMANCIPATING 341 00:10:25,291 --> 00:10:27,193 WOMAN IN THE HOME AND THIS ONE, 342 00:10:27,259 --> 00:10:28,661 WHERE HE TELLS A HOUSEWIFE, 343 00:10:28,728 --> 00:10:29,762 "DON'T KILL YOURSELF, 344 00:10:29,829 --> 00:10:31,797 IT AIN'T WORTH IT." 345 00:10:31,864 --> 00:10:32,898 REDDY EVEN APPEARED ON 346 00:10:32,965 --> 00:10:33,899 CHILDREN'S SHOWS, WHERE HE 347 00:10:33,966 --> 00:10:35,134 UNDOUBTEDLY GAVE A WHOLE 348 00:10:35,201 --> 00:10:37,269 GENERATION NIGHTMARES. 349 00:10:37,336 --> 00:10:38,704 >> WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? 350 00:10:38,771 --> 00:10:40,139 >> HA, HA. 351 00:10:40,206 --> 00:10:41,407 YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT YOU CAN 352 00:10:41,474 --> 00:10:42,808 EXPECT ANYTHING TO HAPPEN HERE, 353 00:10:42,875 --> 00:10:43,809 MR. TOOT. 354 00:10:43,876 --> 00:10:45,111 >> BOY, I'LL SAY. 355 00:10:45,177 --> 00:10:47,013 WHOA, HEY, WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW? 356 00:10:47,079 --> 00:10:48,848 THOSE -- THOSE PEANUTS, 357 00:10:48,914 --> 00:10:50,783 THEY'RE FLOATING IN THE AIR! 358 00:10:50,850 --> 00:10:51,717 >> THAT'S MY NEW ELECTROSTATIC 359 00:10:51,784 --> 00:10:59,358 GENERATOR. 360 00:10:59,425 --> 00:11:00,292 >> GET OUT OF THERE! 361 00:11:00,359 --> 00:11:01,193 THAT'S THE ONLY TIME I'VE EVER 362 00:11:01,260 --> 00:11:02,028 BEEN SCARED FOR A CLOWN. 363 00:11:02,094 --> 00:11:02,862 WE CAN'T ACTUALLY SHOW YOU THE 364 00:11:02,928 --> 00:11:03,763 REST OF THAT VIDEO, BECAUSE -- 365 00:11:03,829 --> 00:11:04,530 AND THIS IS TRUE -- IF YOU WATCH 366 00:11:04,597 --> 00:11:05,164 IT TILL THE END, REDDY SHOWS UP 367 00:11:05,231 --> 00:11:06,332 BEHIND YOU AND BRUTALLY MURDERS 368 00:11:06,399 --> 00:11:08,134 YOU. 369 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:08,768 NOW, YOU PROBABLY DON'T GIVE TOO 370 00:11:08,834 --> 00:11:09,535 MUCH THOUGHT TO YOUR LOCAL 371 00:11:09,602 --> 00:11:10,569 ELECTRIC UTILITY. 372 00:11:10,636 --> 00:11:11,637 BUT IF YOU DO, IT MIGHT BE 373 00:11:11,704 --> 00:11:12,972 BECAUSE THEY'RE CHARGING 374 00:11:13,039 --> 00:11:14,774 EXORBITANT RATES FOR A BASIC 375 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:15,941 HUMAN NECESSITY, AS THIS NORTH 376 00:11:16,008 --> 00:11:18,511 CAROLINA PASTOR EXPLAINS. 377 00:11:18,577 --> 00:11:19,945 >> ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS 378 00:11:20,012 --> 00:11:21,147 OF THIS CHURCH, SISTER LINDA 379 00:11:21,213 --> 00:11:23,549 JONES, SHE LITERALLY CUT HER 380 00:11:23,616 --> 00:11:26,552 PILLS IN HALF, SKIPPED DAYS, 381 00:11:26,619 --> 00:11:29,288 IN ORDER TO PAY HER LIGHT BILL. 382 00:11:29,355 --> 00:11:30,856 GOD BLESS HER SOUL. 383 00:11:30,923 --> 00:11:32,224 SHE PASSED ON. 384 00:11:32,291 --> 00:11:34,160 AND THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE 385 00:11:34,226 --> 00:11:35,594 RIGHT AROUND HERE WHO NEED THAT 386 00:11:35,661 --> 00:11:39,498 HELP. 387 00:11:39,565 --> 00:11:40,866 >> THAT IS TERRIBLE. 388 00:11:40,933 --> 00:11:41,700 AND IN CASE IT BUMPED YOU AT 389 00:11:41,767 --> 00:11:43,369 ALL, YOU'RE RIGHT, THAT WAS A 390 00:11:43,436 --> 00:11:44,303 PROPERTY BROTHER YOU SPOTTED 391 00:11:44,370 --> 00:11:45,404 THERE. 392 00:11:45,471 --> 00:11:46,539 HE MADE A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT 393 00:11:46,605 --> 00:11:48,074 UTILITIES AND IT'S ACTUALLY 394 00:11:48,140 --> 00:11:49,275 PRETTY GOOD, TO THE POINT YOU'RE 395 00:11:49,341 --> 00:11:49,909 EVEN GOING TO SEE A LITTLE MORE 396 00:11:49,975 --> 00:11:50,843 OF IT LATER ON. 397 00:11:50,910 --> 00:11:57,183 AND IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHICH 398 00:11:57,249 --> 00:11:58,084 PROPERTY BROTHER THAT IS, I'LL 399 00:11:58,150 --> 00:11:59,251 GIVE YOU A CLUE. 400 00:11:59,318 --> 00:12:00,653 IT'S THE CIRCUMCISED ONE. 401 00:12:00,719 --> 00:12:01,220 AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHICH 402 00:12:01,287 --> 00:12:02,154 PROPERTY BROTHER IS CIRCUMCISED, 403 00:12:02,221 --> 00:12:02,755 YOU'RE CLEARLY NOT THAT BIG A 404 00:12:02,822 --> 00:12:03,556 FAN OF THE "PROPERTY BROTHERS." 405 00:12:03,622 --> 00:12:04,290 AND HIGH BILLS ARE JUST THE 406 00:12:04,356 --> 00:12:05,324 BEGINNING OF THE PROBLEMS HERE. 407 00:12:05,391 --> 00:12:06,759 BECAUSE UTILITIES ARE ALSO 408 00:12:06,826 --> 00:12:08,561 EXCEPTIONALLY PRONE TO SCANDAL. 409 00:12:08,627 --> 00:12:10,496 IN FACT, JUST GOOGLE YOUR 410 00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:11,597 UTILITY COMPANY RIGHT NOW AND 411 00:12:11,664 --> 00:12:13,232 THE WORD "SCANDAL," AND CHANCES 412 00:12:13,299 --> 00:12:14,366 ARE, THEY'VE GOTTEN INTO SOME 413 00:12:14,433 --> 00:12:15,701 MAJOR TROUBLE. 414 00:12:15,768 --> 00:12:17,036 IT'S BASICALLY LIKE GOOGLING 415 00:12:17,103 --> 00:12:19,071 YOUR LOCAL JIMMY JOHNS 416 00:12:19,138 --> 00:12:20,606 AND "E. COLI" OR THE NAME OF 417 00:12:20,673 --> 00:12:22,942 YOUR FAVORITE TEACHER FROM HIGH 418 00:12:23,008 --> 00:12:24,276 SCHOOL AND "JANUARY 6TH." 419 00:12:24,343 --> 00:12:26,612 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LIKE 420 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:27,680 THE RESULTS THAT YOU FIND. 421 00:12:27,746 --> 00:12:28,514 AND AT THEIR WORST, UTILITIES 422 00:12:28,581 --> 00:12:29,515 CAN EVEN BE DEADLY. 423 00:12:29,582 --> 00:12:31,050 TAKE PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC, 424 00:12:31,117 --> 00:12:32,351 ONE OF CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST 425 00:12:32,418 --> 00:12:36,555 UTILITIES. 426 00:12:36,622 --> 00:12:40,693 WE'VE TALKED BEFORE ABOUT THE 427 00:12:40,759 --> 00:12:42,161 2018 CAMP FIRE, THE DEADLIEST 428 00:12:42,228 --> 00:12:43,062 WILDFIRE IN CALIFORNIA HISTORY, 429 00:12:43,129 --> 00:12:44,263 AND HOW IT ALL STARTED WHEN THIS 430 00:12:44,330 --> 00:12:44,730 HOOK HOLDING UP A PG&E 431 00:12:44,797 --> 00:12:45,397 TRANSMISSION LINE BROKE, CAUSING 432 00:12:45,464 --> 00:12:46,465 THE LINE TO IGNITE THE BRUSH 433 00:12:46,532 --> 00:12:47,700 BELOW, EVENTUALLY DECIMATING 434 00:12:47,766 --> 00:12:51,570 SEVERAL NEARBY COMMUNITIES AND 435 00:12:51,637 --> 00:12:52,338 LEAVING 85 PEOPLE DEAD. 436 00:12:52,404 --> 00:12:53,339 PG&E HAS SINCE PAID FINES AND 437 00:12:53,405 --> 00:12:54,006 SETTLEMENTS, BUT IT'S STILL VERY 438 00:12:54,073 --> 00:12:55,941 MUCH IN OPERATION. 439 00:12:56,008 --> 00:12:57,276 DESPITE THE FACT THAT WASN'T 440 00:12:57,343 --> 00:12:58,911 CLOSE TO THE ONLY SCANDAL 441 00:12:58,978 --> 00:13:00,279 THEY'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN, AS 442 00:13:00,346 --> 00:13:01,914 THIS REPORTER WILL TELL YOU. 443 00:13:01,981 --> 00:13:03,649 >> THIS IS A COMPANY THAT, IT 444 00:13:03,716 --> 00:13:05,417 WAS FINED HUNDREDS OF TIMES AND 445 00:13:05,484 --> 00:13:06,952 FACED MORE THAN $2 BILLION -- 446 00:13:07,019 --> 00:13:08,087 ALMOST $3 BILLION WORTH 447 00:13:08,154 --> 00:13:09,555 OF FINES. 448 00:13:09,622 --> 00:13:10,189 YOU KNOW, IF PG&E WAS AN 449 00:13:10,256 --> 00:13:11,690 INDIVIDUAL AND NOT A 450 00:13:11,757 --> 00:13:13,192 CORPORATION, I THINK BY NOW THEY 451 00:13:13,259 --> 00:13:17,830 WOULD BE IN PRISON. 452 00:13:17,897 --> 00:13:18,531 THERE'S JUST BEEN REPEAT 453 00:13:18,597 --> 00:13:19,298 OFFENDERS. 454 00:13:19,365 --> 00:13:20,232 THEY'VE BEEN ON PROBATION. 455 00:13:20,299 --> 00:13:20,799 THEY'VE VIOLATED 456 00:13:20,866 --> 00:13:21,634 PROBATION. 457 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:22,501 THE PROBLEM IS YOU CAN'T TAKE 458 00:13:22,568 --> 00:13:23,102 A CORPORATION AND PUT IT INTO 459 00:13:23,169 --> 00:13:24,470 PRISON. 460 00:13:24,537 --> 00:13:25,104 >> YEAH, HE'S RIGHT! 461 00:13:25,171 --> 00:13:26,705 YOU CAN'T. 462 00:13:26,772 --> 00:13:29,175 EVEN THOUGH MANY CORPORATIONS 463 00:13:29,241 --> 00:13:30,576 CLEARLY DESERVE TO BE IN PRISON, 464 00:13:30,643 --> 00:13:32,411 FROM ENRON TO PURDUE TO ANY 465 00:13:32,478 --> 00:13:33,078 COMPANY THAT INSISTS ON TALKING 466 00:13:33,145 --> 00:13:33,846 LIKE A SASSY BITCH ON SOCIAL 467 00:13:33,913 --> 00:13:37,483 MEDIA. 468 00:13:37,550 --> 00:13:40,553 HELLMANN'S ONCE TWEETED, 469 00:13:40,619 --> 00:13:41,020 "YOU'RE IN THEIR DMs, 470 00:13:41,086 --> 00:13:41,720 WE'RE GETTING SPREAD 471 00:13:41,787 --> 00:13:42,087 ON THEIR BREAD?" 472 00:13:42,154 --> 00:13:42,321 AND WHY? 473 00:13:42,388 --> 00:13:43,255 YOU DON'T NEED TO DO THIS, 474 00:13:43,322 --> 00:13:43,923 HELLMANN'S. 475 00:13:43,989 --> 00:13:46,892 YOU CAN JUST BE MAYONNAISE. 476 00:13:46,959 --> 00:13:49,995 BUT PG&E IS NOT ONLY NOT IN 477 00:13:50,062 --> 00:13:50,596 PRISON; IT IS STILL SUPPLYING 478 00:13:50,663 --> 00:13:51,230 POWER TO MILLIONS OF 479 00:13:51,297 --> 00:13:51,864 CALIFORNIANS WHO HAVE NO CHOICE 480 00:13:51,931 --> 00:13:53,132 IN THE MATTER. 481 00:13:53,199 --> 00:13:54,600 AND IF YOU'RE THINKING 482 00:13:54,667 --> 00:13:56,502 "HOW THE FUCK IS THAT POSSIBLE?" 483 00:13:56,569 --> 00:13:57,102 THAT IS WHAT THIS STORY 484 00:13:57,169 --> 00:13:58,237 IS ABOUT. 485 00:13:58,304 --> 00:13:59,905 IT'S ABOUT THE INCREDIBLE AMOUNT 486 00:13:59,972 --> 00:14:02,274 OF POWER WE GIVE TO UTILITIES, 487 00:14:02,341 --> 00:14:03,175 HOW WEAKLY THEY CAN BE 488 00:14:03,242 --> 00:14:03,709 REGULATED, AND THE DAMAGE 489 00:14:03,776 --> 00:14:06,645 THEY CAN DO. 490 00:14:06,712 --> 00:14:07,646 AND LET'S START WITH THE SINGLE 491 00:14:07,713 --> 00:14:08,380 MOST IMPORTANT THING TO KNOW 492 00:14:08,447 --> 00:14:09,615 ABOUT UTILITY COMPANIES, WHICH 493 00:14:09,682 --> 00:14:10,849 IS THAT FOR MOST OF US, THEY'RE 494 00:14:10,916 --> 00:14:13,352 ACTUALLY THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN. 495 00:14:13,419 --> 00:14:16,021 >> IF YOU WANT TO GO BUY AN 496 00:14:16,088 --> 00:14:17,122 iPHONE OR ANY OTHER KIND OF 497 00:14:17,189 --> 00:14:18,257 CONSUMER PRODUCT, YOU GO OUT TO 498 00:14:18,324 --> 00:14:20,526 A STORE AND YOU HAVE A NUMBER OF 499 00:14:20,593 --> 00:14:21,193 CHOICES. 500 00:14:21,260 --> 00:14:22,728 WITH ELECTRICITY, IN MOST OF THE 501 00:14:22,795 --> 00:14:24,129 COUNTRY, YOU REALLY ONLY HAVE 502 00:14:24,196 --> 00:14:25,264 ONE CHOICE, AND THAT COMPANY HAS 503 00:14:25,331 --> 00:14:28,534 A MONOPOLY. 504 00:14:28,601 --> 00:14:29,368 >> EXACTLY. 505 00:14:29,435 --> 00:14:30,736 IN OUR MODERN ECONOMY, YOU'RE 506 00:14:30,803 --> 00:14:31,604 SUPPOSED TO HAVE CHOICE. 507 00:14:31,670 --> 00:14:32,738 JUST LOOK AT ALL THE STREAMING 508 00:14:32,805 --> 00:14:34,473 SERVICES OUT THERE. 509 00:14:34,540 --> 00:14:37,076 THERE'S BLOCKBUSTER 2.0, 510 00:14:37,142 --> 00:14:38,611 SUPERHEROES AND OLD RACISM, 511 00:14:38,677 --> 00:14:39,945 ANIME, PROBABLY CRASHING ON YOU 512 00:14:40,012 --> 00:14:41,447 RIGHT NOW, NO IDEA, NO IDEA, AND 513 00:14:41,513 --> 00:14:45,150 UNTIL RECENTLY, NEWS QUIBI. 514 00:14:45,217 --> 00:14:47,086 THAT'S ARGUABLY TOO MUCH CHOICE. 515 00:14:47,152 --> 00:14:48,554 BUT UTILITIES OPERATING AS 516 00:14:48,621 --> 00:14:49,955 NATURAL MONOPOLIES DATES BACK 517 00:14:50,022 --> 00:14:50,756 TO THE FACT THAT, AROUND THE 518 00:14:50,823 --> 00:14:52,391 START OF THE 20TH CENTURY, 519 00:14:52,458 --> 00:14:53,525 WE NEEDED TO BUILD A NATIONWIDE 520 00:14:53,592 --> 00:14:55,094 POWER GRID FROM SCRATCH, AND 521 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:56,595 THAT OBVIOUSLY REQUIRED A HUGE 522 00:14:56,662 --> 00:14:58,731 INVESTMENT. 523 00:14:58,797 --> 00:15:00,599 COMPANIES WERE ONLY INCENTIVIZED 524 00:15:00,666 --> 00:15:01,333 TO DO THAT WITH A GUARANTEE THAT 525 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:02,434 THEY'D BE ABLE TO OPERATE IN A 526 00:15:02,501 --> 00:15:03,769 NONCOMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT. 527 00:15:03,836 --> 00:15:04,270 AND AT THE TIME, 528 00:15:04,336 --> 00:15:06,372 THAT MADE SENSE. 529 00:15:06,438 --> 00:15:07,373 BUT THOSE MONOPOLIES PERSIST 530 00:15:07,439 --> 00:15:12,378 TO THIS DAY. 531 00:15:12,444 --> 00:15:16,148 MOSTLY AS FOR PROFIT 532 00:15:16,215 --> 00:15:17,783 INVESTOR OWNED COMPANIES.L 533 00:15:17,850 --> 00:15:18,350 NOW, IN EXCHANGE FOR GIVING 534 00:15:18,417 --> 00:15:19,518 UTILITIES A DEAL THAT SWEET, 535 00:15:19,585 --> 00:15:20,085 WE DID PUT SOME RESTRICTIONS 536 00:15:20,152 --> 00:15:20,352 IN PLACE. 537 00:15:20,419 --> 00:15:20,953 THE LAW SAYS THEY SHOULD SPEND 538 00:15:21,020 --> 00:15:21,553 THE LEAST THEY CAN WHILE 539 00:15:21,620 --> 00:15:22,021 PROVIDING QUALITY, 540 00:15:22,087 --> 00:15:25,391 ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE SERVICE. 541 00:15:25,457 --> 00:15:26,358 WHICH SOUNDS GREAT. 542 00:15:26,425 --> 00:15:27,559 BECAUSE IT CAPS THEIR ABILITY TO 543 00:15:27,626 --> 00:15:28,027 MAKE TOO MUCH MONEY. 544 00:15:28,093 --> 00:15:31,297 BUT -- AND THIS IS 545 00:15:31,363 --> 00:15:32,698 A HUGE "BUT" -- 546 00:15:32,765 --> 00:15:33,465 THERE'S A CARVEOUT. 547 00:15:33,532 --> 00:15:34,833 BECAUSE WHEN THEY BUILD 548 00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:36,869 SOMETHING, A PIECE OF PHYSICAL 549 00:15:36,935 --> 00:15:37,736 INFRASTRUCTURE, THEY'RE 550 00:15:37,803 --> 00:15:40,005 ALLOWED TO THEN PASS ALONG THAT 551 00:15:40,072 --> 00:15:41,140 COST TO YOU THROUGH YOUR BILL, 552 00:15:41,206 --> 00:15:41,940 PLUS AN ADDITIONAL PERCENTAGE 553 00:15:42,007 --> 00:15:43,042 THEY GET TO KEEP AS PROFIT, 554 00:15:43,108 --> 00:15:44,843 USUALLY AROUND TEN PERCENT. 555 00:15:44,910 --> 00:15:45,344 AND THIS CREATES A CLEAR 556 00:15:45,411 --> 00:15:46,612 INCENTIVE. 557 00:15:46,679 --> 00:15:48,714 THE BIGGER THE PROJECT, 558 00:15:48,781 --> 00:15:51,183 LIKE A POWER PLANT, 559 00:15:51,250 --> 00:15:51,950 THE MORE PROFIT THEY MAKE, 560 00:15:52,017 --> 00:15:53,052 AS THIS ACTIVIST EXPLAINS. 561 00:15:53,118 --> 00:15:55,220 >> BIG MONOPOLY UTILITIES GET 562 00:15:55,287 --> 00:15:56,588 A GUARANTEED RANGE OF A RATE OF 563 00:15:56,655 --> 00:15:57,289 RETURN ON THEIR CAPITAL 564 00:15:57,356 --> 00:15:58,657 EXPENDITURES. 565 00:15:58,724 --> 00:16:00,292 SO, LIKE A WAITER 566 00:16:00,359 --> 00:16:02,628 IN A RESTAURANT WHERE THERE'S 567 00:16:02,695 --> 00:16:04,029 A GUARANTEED TIP, THE MORE THAT 568 00:16:04,096 --> 00:16:06,098 IS SPENT, IF YOU BUY DESSERT 569 00:16:06,165 --> 00:16:07,700 OR YOU GET A BOTTLE OF WINE, 570 00:16:07,766 --> 00:16:08,634 THE MORE MONEY 571 00:16:08,701 --> 00:16:10,269 THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE. 572 00:16:10,336 --> 00:16:13,939 >> RIGHT. 573 00:16:14,006 --> 00:16:15,240 IF YOUR PROFIT IS PEGGED TO 574 00:16:15,307 --> 00:16:16,241 DOING CERTAIN THINGS, YOU'RE 575 00:16:16,308 --> 00:16:16,975 GOING TO MAKE SURE YOU DO THOSE 576 00:16:17,042 --> 00:16:17,776 THINGS MORE. 577 00:16:17,843 --> 00:16:19,044 JUST LIKE IF HBO ONLY PAID ME 578 00:16:19,111 --> 00:16:19,912 FOR EVERY TIME I GOT WEIRDLY 579 00:16:19,978 --> 00:16:21,547 HORNY FOR AN ANIMAL... 580 00:16:21,613 --> 00:16:22,881 EXCEPT THAT'S ACTUALLY A BAD 581 00:16:22,948 --> 00:16:26,118 EXAMPLE, BECAUSE THE SHOW WOULD 582 00:16:26,185 --> 00:16:27,553 PRETTY MUCH LOOK EXACTLY LIKE IT 583 00:16:27,619 --> 00:16:27,886 ALREADY DOES. 584 00:16:27,953 --> 00:16:28,854 NOT NOW! 585 00:16:28,921 --> 00:16:29,455 NOT NOW! 586 00:16:29,521 --> 00:16:30,389 I'M TRYING TO MAKE A POINT. 587 00:16:30,456 --> 00:16:32,891 GO AWAY BEFORE I CHANGE MY MIND. 588 00:16:32,958 --> 00:16:34,960 GOODNESS GRACIOUS. 589 00:16:35,027 --> 00:16:37,696 AND IN THE BEST CASE SCENARIO, 590 00:16:37,763 --> 00:16:38,364 THIS MIGHT MEAN UTILITIES ARE 591 00:16:38,430 --> 00:16:40,666 INVESTING IN INFRASTRUCTURE 592 00:16:40,733 --> 00:16:42,534 THAT IS BADLY NEEDED. 593 00:16:42,601 --> 00:16:43,202 THE PROBLEM IS, THEY CAN ALSO BE 594 00:16:43,268 --> 00:16:44,403 SHAMELESS IN INCREASING 595 00:16:44,470 --> 00:16:45,738 SPENDING, EVEN WHEN IT'S NOT 596 00:16:45,804 --> 00:16:46,705 NEEDED OR ON PROJECTS THAT ARE 597 00:16:46,772 --> 00:16:48,307 ACTIVELY FALLING APART. 598 00:16:48,374 --> 00:16:50,008 TAKE SOUTH CAROLINA. 599 00:16:50,075 --> 00:16:51,744 WHEN UTILITIES THERE TRIED TO 600 00:16:51,810 --> 00:16:52,411 ADD TWO NUCLEAR REACTORS TO AN 601 00:16:52,478 --> 00:16:54,113 EXISTING PLANT, THE PROJECT'S 602 00:16:54,179 --> 00:16:55,514 COST SPIRALED. 603 00:16:55,581 --> 00:16:56,415 AND A MASSIVE FEDERAL 604 00:16:56,482 --> 00:16:57,316 INVESTIGATION LATER REVEALED 605 00:16:57,383 --> 00:16:58,617 THAT EXECUTIVES AT SOUTH 606 00:16:58,684 --> 00:17:00,953 CAROLINA ELECTRIC AND GAS AND 607 00:17:01,019 --> 00:17:02,588 ITS PARENT COMPANY KNEW THE 608 00:17:02,654 --> 00:17:03,856 PROJECT WAS FACING MAJOR DELAYS 609 00:17:03,922 --> 00:17:05,824 AND COST OVERRUNS, BUT WITHHELD 610 00:17:05,891 --> 00:17:08,460 THAT INFORMATION IN ORDER TO 611 00:17:08,527 --> 00:17:09,561 KEEP IT GOING. 612 00:17:09,628 --> 00:17:10,763 MEANWHILE, LOCAL CUSTOMERS PAID 613 00:17:10,829 --> 00:17:12,731 MORE THAN $2 BILLION IN 614 00:17:12,798 --> 00:17:13,532 THE FORM OF HIGHER BILLS FOR A 615 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:14,967 PROJECT WHICH, BY THE WAY, 616 00:17:15,033 --> 00:17:19,338 NEVER GENERATED ANY POWER. 617 00:17:19,405 --> 00:17:20,672 AND SOME WORKING ON THE PROJECT 618 00:17:20,739 --> 00:17:21,273 AT THE TIME WERE TROUBLED BY 619 00:17:21,340 --> 00:17:21,940 WHAT THEY WERE SEEING. 620 00:17:22,007 --> 00:17:23,142 JUST LISTEN TO A LEAKED 621 00:17:23,208 --> 00:17:25,043 VOICEMAIL FROM A VICE-PRESIDENT 622 00:17:25,110 --> 00:17:26,278 AT THE PARENT COMPANY WHO LATER 623 00:17:26,345 --> 00:17:27,780 BECAME A WHISTLEBLOWER IN WHICH 624 00:17:27,846 --> 00:17:28,547 SHE TRIED TO WARN HER COLLEAGUES 625 00:17:28,614 --> 00:17:30,516 ABOUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING. 626 00:17:30,582 --> 00:17:31,450 >> THEY ARE MISMANAGING THAT 627 00:17:31,517 --> 00:17:33,218 PROJECT. 628 00:17:33,285 --> 00:17:34,953 AND IT'S AT Y'ALL'S EXPENSE. 629 00:17:35,020 --> 00:17:36,822 THEY'RE DOING IT BECAUSE THEY 630 00:17:36,889 --> 00:17:39,792 WANT TO MAKE MONEY AND THEY'RE 631 00:17:39,858 --> 00:17:41,393 PROPPING UP EARNINGS TO BE ABLE 632 00:17:41,460 --> 00:17:42,661 TO MAKE THEIR BONUSES, AND IT'S 633 00:17:42,728 --> 00:17:44,496 GOING TO BE AT YOUR EXPENSE. 634 00:17:44,563 --> 00:17:45,063 >> YEAH, THAT'S PRETTY 635 00:17:45,130 --> 00:17:46,899 SHOCKING. 636 00:17:46,965 --> 00:17:48,600 NOT JUST WHAT SHE'S SAYING, BUT 637 00:17:48,667 --> 00:17:49,201 ALSO THAT PEOPLE STILL LEAVE 638 00:17:49,268 --> 00:17:53,205 VOICEMAILS. 639 00:17:53,272 --> 00:17:56,875 ABSOLUTELY NO ONE SHOULD 640 00:17:56,942 --> 00:17:58,177 BE DOING THAT ANYMORE. 641 00:17:58,243 --> 00:17:58,677 IN FACT, EVERY VOICEMAIL 642 00:17:58,744 --> 00:17:59,711 GREETING SHOULD JUST BE, 643 00:17:59,778 --> 00:18:00,245 "SORRY I MISSED YOUR CALL. 644 00:18:00,312 --> 00:18:00,813 PLEASE DON'T LEAVE A MESSAGE 645 00:18:00,879 --> 00:18:01,280 AFTER THE TONE. 646 00:18:01,346 --> 00:18:02,147 JUST TEXT ME INSTEAD 647 00:18:02,214 --> 00:18:04,383 BECAUSE IT'S NOT 1997." 648 00:18:04,450 --> 00:18:06,251 AND OVERSPENDING ISN'T THE ONLY 649 00:18:06,318 --> 00:18:08,120 WAY UTILITIES' INCENTIVES CAN 650 00:18:08,187 --> 00:18:09,421 WIND UP SCREWING OVER CUSTOMERS. 651 00:18:09,488 --> 00:18:10,489 BECAUSE THEY CAN DELIBERATELY 652 00:18:10,556 --> 00:18:12,858 STIFLE INNOVATION THAT MIGHT 653 00:18:12,925 --> 00:18:14,493 MAKE POWER CHEAPER OR BE A NET 654 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:15,227 BENEFIT TO SOCIETY, AS THIS 655 00:18:15,294 --> 00:18:16,295 SOLAR POWER EXECUTIVE WILL TELL 656 00:18:16,361 --> 00:18:16,962 YOU. 657 00:18:17,029 --> 00:18:19,164 >> NOW SOLAR IS BECOMING REAL. 658 00:18:19,231 --> 00:18:20,599 THE UTILITY MONOPOLIES ARE 659 00:18:20,666 --> 00:18:21,600 SAYING, "WELL, WAIT A MINUTE, 660 00:18:21,667 --> 00:18:22,568 WE'VE GOT TO CRUSH IT 661 00:18:22,634 --> 00:18:25,904 BEFORE IT GETS TOO BIG." 662 00:18:25,971 --> 00:18:26,672 THEY WANT TO BUILD MORE PLANTS 663 00:18:26,738 --> 00:18:27,673 SO THEY CAN MAKE MORE MONEY, AND 664 00:18:27,739 --> 00:18:29,842 IF WE TAKE A LITTLE BITE OUT OF 665 00:18:29,908 --> 00:18:31,210 THAT APPLE AND WE SAY, "HEY, 666 00:18:31,276 --> 00:18:32,344 GUYS, WE'VE GOT SOLAR PANELS 667 00:18:32,411 --> 00:18:32,978 EVERYWHERE ON ALL THESE HOMES, 668 00:18:33,045 --> 00:18:33,912 YOU DON'T NEED TO BUILD THAT 669 00:18:33,979 --> 00:18:36,715 MANY MORE POWER PLANTS." 670 00:18:36,782 --> 00:18:38,350 THEN THE UTILITY GOES, 671 00:18:38,417 --> 00:18:38,817 "WELL, WAIT A MINUTE. 672 00:18:38,884 --> 00:18:39,251 HOW AM I GOING TO MAKE 673 00:18:39,318 --> 00:18:41,587 MORE MONEY NEXT YEAR?" 674 00:18:41,653 --> 00:18:42,654 >> EXACTLY. 675 00:18:42,721 --> 00:18:43,255 PEOPLE PUTTING UP SOLAR PANELS 676 00:18:43,322 --> 00:18:44,490 AND GENERATING THEIR OWN 677 00:18:44,556 --> 00:18:45,290 ELECTRICITY THREATENS THE 678 00:18:45,357 --> 00:18:47,059 ANTI-COMPETITIVE STRUCTURE OF A 679 00:18:47,125 --> 00:18:49,394 UTILITY'S MONOPOLY, SO THEY'RE 680 00:18:49,461 --> 00:18:50,596 OBVIOUSLY GOING TO TRY 681 00:18:50,662 --> 00:18:51,897 AND STEP IN AND BLOCK IT. 682 00:18:51,964 --> 00:18:53,565 WHO WANTS COMPETITION? 683 00:18:53,632 --> 00:18:54,566 IT JUST MAKES THINGS HARDER! 684 00:18:54,633 --> 00:18:55,667 YOU THINK I WANT TO COMPETE WITH 685 00:18:55,734 --> 00:18:57,669 "EUPHORIA" OR "LOVE ISLAND" 686 00:18:57,736 --> 00:18:58,904 OR THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO OF DUCKS 687 00:18:58,971 --> 00:19:06,311 ANNIHILATING A BOWL OF PEAS? 688 00:19:12,584 --> 00:19:14,286 YOU COULD BE WATCHING THAT 689 00:19:14,353 --> 00:19:15,554 ON A LOOP RIGHT NOW INSTEAD OF 690 00:19:15,621 --> 00:19:17,322 WATCHING THIS SHOW, YOU IDIOTS. 691 00:19:17,389 --> 00:19:21,126 WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE? 692 00:19:21,193 --> 00:19:22,127 MAKE BETTER CHOICES. 693 00:19:22,194 --> 00:19:24,029 SOME ACTIVISTS HAVE EVEN USED 694 00:19:24,096 --> 00:19:24,563 ROOFTOP SOLAR AS A WAY OF 695 00:19:24,630 --> 00:19:25,163 CHALLENGING THE MONOPOLIES IN 696 00:19:25,230 --> 00:19:27,499 THEIR STATES. 697 00:19:27,566 --> 00:19:28,033 REMEMBER THAT CHURCH FROM 698 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:28,734 EARLIER, WHERE THE PASTOR WAS 699 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:29,635 TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE CUTTING 700 00:19:29,701 --> 00:19:33,071 PILLS IN HALF TO MAKE ENDS MEET? 701 00:19:33,138 --> 00:19:35,474 IN 2015, TO HELP CUT COSTS, 702 00:19:35,541 --> 00:19:36,808 IT PARTNERED WITH THIS LOCAL 703 00:19:36,875 --> 00:19:37,943 NONPROFIT, AND IN AN ATTEMPT TO 704 00:19:38,010 --> 00:19:40,646 CHALLENGE THE LAWS ON THE BOOKS, 705 00:19:40,712 --> 00:19:42,548 THE NONPROFIT INSTALLED A SMALL 706 00:19:42,614 --> 00:19:43,715 SOLAR PANEL SYSTEM ON THE ROOF 707 00:19:43,782 --> 00:19:44,950 OF THE CHURCH, AT NO UPFRONT 708 00:19:45,017 --> 00:19:46,351 COST, FINANCING IT BY SELLING 709 00:19:46,418 --> 00:19:50,822 ELECTRICITY TO THEM AT ABOUT 710 00:19:50,889 --> 00:19:51,957 HALF THE RATE THAT THEIR 711 00:19:52,024 --> 00:19:52,591 UTILITY, DUKE ENERGY, CHARGED. 712 00:19:52,658 --> 00:19:53,992 SIMILAR ARRANGEMENTS ARE 713 00:19:54,059 --> 00:19:56,528 PERMITTED IN OTHER STATES, BUT 714 00:19:56,595 --> 00:19:57,930 NOT IN NORTH CAROLINA, AND DUKE 715 00:19:57,996 --> 00:20:01,533 ENERGY PUSHED BACK HARD, ASKING 716 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:02,534 THE STATE'S REGULATORS TO ISSUE 717 00:20:02,601 --> 00:20:03,969 A CEASE AND DESIST TO THE 718 00:20:04,036 --> 00:20:04,603 NON-PROFIT AND INVOKE ITS POWER 719 00:20:04,670 --> 00:20:05,237 TO FINE THEM UP TO A THOUSAND 720 00:20:05,304 --> 00:20:06,905 DOLLARS A DAY FOR EVERY DAY IT 721 00:20:06,972 --> 00:20:08,407 SOLD POWER TO THE CHURCH. 722 00:20:08,473 --> 00:20:09,408 AND IN THE END, DUKE ENERGY GOT 723 00:20:09,474 --> 00:20:11,977 WHAT THEY WANTED. 724 00:20:12,044 --> 00:20:13,679 THAT CHURCH'S SOLAR ARRANGEMENT 725 00:20:13,745 --> 00:20:15,480 WAS SHUT DOWN, AND ANY HOPE OF 726 00:20:15,547 --> 00:20:16,882 REPLICATING IT IN THE STATE WAS 727 00:20:16,949 --> 00:20:21,386 SQUASHED. 728 00:20:21,453 --> 00:20:22,254 AND WHEN CIRCUMCISED 729 00:20:22,321 --> 00:20:23,388 PROPERTY BROTHER ASKED DUKE 730 00:20:23,455 --> 00:20:24,623 ABOUT THIS WHOLE SAGA, THEIR 731 00:20:24,690 --> 00:20:25,257 RESPONSE WASN'T GREAT. 732 00:20:25,324 --> 00:20:27,392 >> FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH WANTED 733 00:20:27,459 --> 00:20:28,393 TO TEST REGULATION IN NORTH 734 00:20:28,460 --> 00:20:29,161 CAROLINA BY DOING SOMETHING THAT 735 00:20:29,227 --> 00:20:30,829 WAS BASICALLY ILLEGAL. 736 00:20:30,896 --> 00:20:31,396 >> THEY WERE TRYING TO PICK 737 00:20:31,463 --> 00:20:32,164 A FIGHT? 738 00:20:32,230 --> 00:20:33,865 >> YOU COULD SAY THAT. 739 00:20:33,932 --> 00:20:34,533 THEY HAD A GOOD SETUP TO GET 740 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:35,867 PUBLICITY. 741 00:20:35,934 --> 00:20:38,570 THIS WAS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN 742 00:20:38,637 --> 00:20:39,438 CHURCH, AND WE'RE A BIG UTILITY 743 00:20:39,504 --> 00:20:40,672 AND WE'RE A TARGET, AND 744 00:20:40,739 --> 00:20:41,607 SOMETIMES THERE ARE GROUPS OUT 745 00:20:41,673 --> 00:20:43,141 THERE, THEY'RE NOT TRYING TO 746 00:20:43,208 --> 00:20:44,576 ADVANCE POLICY, THEY'RE TRYING 747 00:20:44,643 --> 00:20:45,744 TO GET MEDIA ATTENTION AND THEY 748 00:20:45,811 --> 00:20:48,313 DID A GOOD JOB HERE. 749 00:20:48,380 --> 00:20:48,914 >> ARE THERE SITUATIONS WHERE, 750 00:20:48,981 --> 00:20:50,582 AS A HUMAN BEING, YOU HAVE A 751 00:20:50,649 --> 00:20:52,250 CONFLICT AS A UTILITY COMPANY 752 00:20:52,317 --> 00:20:54,186 WHERE YOU'RE SAYING THIS IS HOW 753 00:20:54,252 --> 00:20:55,187 IT HAS TO BE, VERSUS MAYBE 754 00:20:55,253 --> 00:20:55,787 THERE'S A BIGGER PICTURE WITH 755 00:20:55,854 --> 00:20:57,389 SOMETHING THAT'S BROKEN? 756 00:20:57,456 --> 00:20:58,390 >> I THINK THAT'S JUST THE WAY 757 00:20:58,457 --> 00:21:02,027 IT HAS BEEN. 758 00:21:02,094 --> 00:21:04,396 >> WAIT, WAIT. 759 00:21:04,463 --> 00:21:05,297 "JUST THE WAY IT'S BEEN" 760 00:21:05,364 --> 00:21:06,198 HAS, HISTORICALLY, NEVER 761 00:21:06,264 --> 00:21:06,932 BEEN A GREAT JUSTIFICATION FOR 762 00:21:06,999 --> 00:21:07,499 SOMETHING STILL HAPPENING. 763 00:21:07,566 --> 00:21:09,401 IN FACT, THERE'S ONLY ONE TIME 764 00:21:09,468 --> 00:21:10,569 THAT WORKS AS AN ARGUMENT, AND 765 00:21:10,636 --> 00:21:12,671 IT'S WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT 766 00:21:12,738 --> 00:21:14,573 THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS 767 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:14,973 SAUSAGE RACE. 768 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:16,108 NOW, WHY DO A BUNCH OF SAUSAGES 769 00:21:16,174 --> 00:21:16,775 RACE AROUND THE FIELD BEFORE THE 770 00:21:16,842 --> 00:21:17,709 BOTTOM OF THE SIXTH INNING? 771 00:21:17,776 --> 00:21:18,276 BECAUSE THAT'S JUST THE WAY 772 00:21:18,343 --> 00:21:20,579 IT'S BEEN. 773 00:21:20,646 --> 00:21:21,346 IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, 774 00:21:21,413 --> 00:21:22,581 AND MAY IT NEVER CHANGE. 775 00:21:22,648 --> 00:21:25,150 LONG LIVE THE RACING SAUSAGES. 776 00:21:25,217 --> 00:21:26,685 AND THERE ARE EXAMPLES ALL OVER 777 00:21:26,752 --> 00:21:28,387 THE COUNTRY OF UTILITIES 778 00:21:28,453 --> 00:21:28,954 GETTING IN THE WAY OF PEOPLE 779 00:21:29,021 --> 00:21:30,355 USING SOLAR ENERGY. 780 00:21:30,422 --> 00:21:32,424 THE ARGUMENT BEING, IF PEOPLE 781 00:21:32,491 --> 00:21:33,025 START LEAVING THE GRID AND 782 00:21:33,091 --> 00:21:34,693 GENERATING THEIR OWN POWER, THEN 783 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:36,261 OVER TIME, THE COST IS GOING TO 784 00:21:36,328 --> 00:21:37,129 GO UP FOR EVERYONE LEFT BEHIND. 785 00:21:37,195 --> 00:21:39,498 AND LOOK, THERE IS A LONGER 786 00:21:39,564 --> 00:21:41,066 CONVERSATION TO BE HAD ABOUT THE 787 00:21:41,133 --> 00:21:42,267 PROPER WAY TO BILL PEOPLE WHO 788 00:21:42,334 --> 00:21:44,002 USE SOLAR PANELS. 789 00:21:44,069 --> 00:21:46,071 BUT MAKING IT COST PROHIBITIVE 790 00:21:46,138 --> 00:21:47,873 IS DEFINITELY NOT THE ANSWER. 791 00:21:47,939 --> 00:21:49,074 AND IF YOU'RE THINKING, 792 00:21:49,141 --> 00:21:50,709 "SHOULDN'T THERE BE SOMEONE WHO 793 00:21:50,776 --> 00:21:52,077 CAN REIN THESE COMPANIES IN?" 794 00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:53,311 WELL, IN THEORY, THERE IS. 795 00:21:53,378 --> 00:21:54,146 MOST STATES HAVE PUBLIC UTILITY 796 00:21:54,212 --> 00:21:55,714 COMMISSIONS. 797 00:21:55,781 --> 00:21:57,149 THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR THINGS 798 00:21:57,215 --> 00:21:58,617 LIKE SIGNING OFF ON ANY BIG 799 00:21:58,684 --> 00:21:59,885 INVESTMENTS PROPOSED AND ALSO 800 00:21:59,951 --> 00:22:02,087 OVERSEEING THE SETTING OF RATES. 801 00:22:02,154 --> 00:22:04,122 UNFORTUNATELY, MANY ARE BADLY 802 00:22:04,189 --> 00:22:05,757 OUTMATCHED BY THE UTILITIES 803 00:22:05,824 --> 00:22:09,127 THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO REGULATE. 804 00:22:09,194 --> 00:22:09,561 THIS CAN HAVE MAJOR 805 00:22:09,628 --> 00:22:10,362 CONSEQUENCES. 806 00:22:10,429 --> 00:22:12,097 A FEW YEARS BACK, MISSISSIPPI 807 00:22:12,164 --> 00:22:12,864 POWER RAN INTO MASSIVE COST 808 00:22:12,931 --> 00:22:14,800 OVERRUNS ON A NEW PLANT IT WAS 809 00:22:14,866 --> 00:22:16,635 BUILDING, WHICH WAS INITIALLY 810 00:22:16,702 --> 00:22:18,270 EXPECTED TO COST $1.8 BILLION 811 00:22:18,336 --> 00:22:20,739 BUT ENDED UP BALLOONING 812 00:22:20,806 --> 00:22:21,640 TO 7.5 BILLION. 813 00:22:21,707 --> 00:22:22,741 AND IN HINDSIGHT, THERE WERE 814 00:22:22,808 --> 00:22:24,276 OBVIOUS RED FLAGS THAT YOU'D 815 00:22:24,342 --> 00:22:25,444 HOPE THE STATE COMMISSION 816 00:22:25,510 --> 00:22:28,280 WOULD'VE BEEN MORE WARY OF FROM 817 00:22:28,346 --> 00:22:28,880 THE VERY START. 818 00:22:28,947 --> 00:22:29,481 JUST LISTEN TO A COMPANY 819 00:22:29,548 --> 00:22:30,382 REPRESENTATIVE EXPLAIN HIS SIDE 820 00:22:30,449 --> 00:22:31,950 OF THE STORY. 821 00:22:32,017 --> 00:22:34,686 >> CAN YOU TELL US WHY THE 822 00:22:34,753 --> 00:22:37,355 PROJECT IS OVER BUDGET AND ALSO 823 00:22:37,422 --> 00:22:39,191 BEHIND SCHEDULE? 824 00:22:39,257 --> 00:22:40,392 >> I WOULD TELL YOU THAT IF WE 825 00:22:40,459 --> 00:22:41,593 MADE ANY ERRORS IN JUDGMENT AT 826 00:22:41,660 --> 00:22:43,495 ALL, ANY MISSTEPS, IS THAT WHEN 827 00:22:43,562 --> 00:22:45,097 WE TOOK THAT PROPOSAL TO THE 828 00:22:45,163 --> 00:22:48,667 COMMISSION, WE WERE ONLY AT 829 00:22:48,734 --> 00:22:49,234 BETWEEN 10 OR 15% OF DESIGN. 830 00:22:49,301 --> 00:22:51,436 AND SO I THINK IT'S -- 831 00:22:51,503 --> 00:22:52,704 THE LITTLE ENGINEERING THAT WE 832 00:22:52,771 --> 00:22:54,072 HAD DONE AT THAT PARTICULAR 833 00:22:54,139 --> 00:22:54,873 POINT IN TIME THAT HAS SORT OF 834 00:22:54,940 --> 00:22:56,875 COME BACK TO HAUNT US 835 00:22:56,942 --> 00:22:57,509 A LITTLE BIT IN TERMS OF COST 836 00:22:57,576 --> 00:22:58,910 AND SCHEDULE. 837 00:22:58,977 --> 00:23:04,082 >> WAIT. 838 00:23:04,149 --> 00:23:04,983 LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT. 839 00:23:05,050 --> 00:23:06,351 THE PLANT WAS ONLY 10% TO 15% 840 00:23:06,418 --> 00:23:06,918 DESIGNED, AND THE COMMISSION 841 00:23:06,985 --> 00:23:07,753 LET IT GO AHEAD ANYWAY? 842 00:23:07,819 --> 00:23:08,386 THAT'S NOT HOW DESIGNING COMPLEX 843 00:23:08,453 --> 00:23:09,621 ENERGY PLANTS SHOULD WORK, 844 00:23:09,688 --> 00:23:11,523 THAT'S NOT EVEN HOW DESIGNING 845 00:23:11,590 --> 00:23:13,325 LEGO SETS WORK, WHICH IS WHY 846 00:23:13,391 --> 00:23:14,593 YOU'VE NEVER SEEN ONE CALLED 847 00:23:14,659 --> 00:23:15,193 "A LITTLE TREE AND YOU FIGURE 848 00:23:15,260 --> 00:23:17,095 OUT THE REST." 849 00:23:17,162 --> 00:23:18,530 NOW, IN MISSISSIPPI'S CASE, 850 00:23:18,597 --> 00:23:28,974 THE PROBLEM SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN 851 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:30,208 A COMMISSION RUSHING TO APPROVE 852 00:23:30,275 --> 00:23:31,243 A PROJECT WITHOUT DOING PROPER 853 00:23:31,309 --> 00:23:31,877 DUE DILIGENCE. 854 00:23:31,943 --> 00:23:32,744 BUT IN OTHER CASES, LIKE 855 00:23:32,811 --> 00:23:33,378 ALABAMA'S STATE COMMISSION, THE 856 00:23:33,445 --> 00:23:34,146 PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE IDEOLOGICAL. 857 00:23:34,212 --> 00:23:35,580 IT'S BEEN DESCRIBED AS ONE OF 858 00:23:35,647 --> 00:23:36,348 THE MOST OPAQUE, POLITICALLY 859 00:23:36,414 --> 00:23:36,948 MOTIVATED AND ENVIRONMENTALLY 860 00:23:37,015 --> 00:23:37,482 HOSTILE COMMISSIONS IN THE 861 00:23:37,549 --> 00:23:37,749 COUNTRY. 862 00:23:37,816 --> 00:23:38,717 THEIR COMMISSIONERS ARE ACTUALLY 863 00:23:38,784 --> 00:23:39,351 ELECTED, AND I DO WANT TO SHOW 864 00:23:39,417 --> 00:23:44,456 YOU ONE CAMPAIGN AD FOR THE 865 00:23:44,523 --> 00:23:45,123 WOMAN WHO IS CURRENTLY RUNNING 866 00:23:45,190 --> 00:23:45,724 IT. 867 00:23:45,791 --> 00:23:46,324 >> TWINKLE'S PRIORITY IS OUR 868 00:23:46,391 --> 00:23:46,925 JOBS! 869 00:23:46,992 --> 00:23:47,659 >> WE NEED MORE CONSERVATIVES 870 00:23:47,726 --> 00:23:48,326 LIKE TWINKLE WHO PUT JOBS FIRST. 871 00:23:48,393 --> 00:23:48,994 >> TWINKLE IS A PROVEN 872 00:23:49,060 --> 00:23:50,796 CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN. 873 00:23:50,862 --> 00:23:52,664 >> WHO HAS STOOD UP AND FOUGHT 874 00:23:52,731 --> 00:23:53,298 THE LIBERAL SPECIAL INTEREST IN 875 00:23:53,365 --> 00:23:55,267 WASHINGTON. 876 00:23:55,333 --> 00:23:57,135 >> CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN 877 00:23:57,202 --> 00:23:58,537 TWINKLE ANDRESS CAVANAUGH. 878 00:23:58,603 --> 00:24:00,939 OUR WAY OF FIGHTING BACK. 879 00:24:01,006 --> 00:24:01,940 >> YEAH. 880 00:24:02,007 --> 00:24:05,811 THAT WOMAN IS NAMED TWINKLE. 881 00:24:05,877 --> 00:24:06,511 THAT IS HER ACTUAL GIVEN NAME. 882 00:24:06,578 --> 00:24:07,913 AS IN, WHEN SHE WAS BORN, HER 883 00:24:07,979 --> 00:24:08,547 PARENTS WERE ASKED, "WHAT DO YOU 884 00:24:08,613 --> 00:24:09,047 WANT TO NAME YOUR BABY?" 885 00:24:09,114 --> 00:24:09,614 AND THEY GENUINELY REPLIED, 886 00:24:09,681 --> 00:24:10,115 "TWINKLE. 887 00:24:10,182 --> 00:24:12,217 DEFINITELY TWINKLE." 888 00:24:12,284 --> 00:24:13,819 SHE EVEN CONFIRMED THIS HERSELF, 889 00:24:13,885 --> 00:24:15,053 SAYING, "MY DADDY THOUGHT 890 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:16,288 I NEEDED A FANCY NAME. 891 00:24:16,354 --> 00:24:18,557 IT MAY BE CUTE 892 00:24:18,623 --> 00:24:20,158 FOR A THREE-YEAR-OLD, 893 00:24:20,225 --> 00:24:20,625 BUT IT GETS OLD." 894 00:24:20,692 --> 00:24:20,959 AND HONESTLY? 895 00:24:21,026 --> 00:24:21,927 I COULD SEE HOW BEING CALLED 896 00:24:21,993 --> 00:24:22,494 TWINKLE COULD GET OLD AFTER 897 00:24:22,561 --> 00:24:23,862 AWHILE. 898 00:24:23,929 --> 00:24:26,164 BUT LET ME SAY THIS, TWINKLE, 899 00:24:26,231 --> 00:24:26,998 FOR EVERYONE WHO ISN'T YOU, 900 00:24:27,065 --> 00:24:28,400 CALLING YOU TWINKLE 901 00:24:28,466 --> 00:24:33,104 WILL NEVER GET OLD. 902 00:24:33,171 --> 00:24:34,339 IT WILL NEVER GET OLD, TWINKLE. 903 00:24:34,406 --> 00:24:35,407 AND LOOK, I'M NOT SAYING TWINKLE 904 00:24:35,473 --> 00:24:38,243 IS A BAD COMMISSIONER BECAUSE 905 00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:38,710 SHE'S CALLED TWINKLE. 906 00:24:38,777 --> 00:24:39,244 I'M SAYING TWINKLE'S A BAD 907 00:24:39,311 --> 00:24:40,145 COMMISSIONER BECAUSE FOR ONE 908 00:24:40,212 --> 00:24:40,979 THING, WHEN THERE WAS A PUSH FOR 909 00:24:41,046 --> 00:24:42,113 MORE OPEN HEARINGS ON 910 00:24:42,180 --> 00:24:43,515 ELECTRICITY RATES IN THE STATE, 911 00:24:43,582 --> 00:24:44,549 SHE OUTRIGHT SAID "I WANT TO 912 00:24:44,616 --> 00:24:45,183 EXCLUDE THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS 913 00:24:45,250 --> 00:24:45,917 FROM TAKING PART IN THE 914 00:24:45,984 --> 00:24:47,352 PROCESS." 915 00:24:47,419 --> 00:24:49,154 AND SUGGESTED THAT ENVIRONMENTAL 916 00:24:49,221 --> 00:24:51,022 EXTREMISTS ONLY WANTED THESE 917 00:24:51,089 --> 00:24:52,557 OPEN PROCEEDINGS SO THEY COULD 918 00:24:52,624 --> 00:24:53,425 TROT OUT THEIR FANCY 919 00:24:53,491 --> 00:24:55,794 SAN FRANCISCO ENVIRONMENTAL 920 00:24:55,861 --> 00:24:56,294 LAWYERS AND JUNK SCIENCE 921 00:24:56,361 --> 00:24:58,563 HUCKSTERS. 922 00:24:58,630 --> 00:24:59,831 AND IT'S NOT JUST TWINKLE! 923 00:24:59,898 --> 00:25:01,166 WHEN ONE OF ALABAMA'S OTHER 924 00:25:01,233 --> 00:25:02,467 COMMISSIONERS, CHIP BEEKER -- 925 00:25:02,534 --> 00:25:04,536 AGAIN, REAL NAME, BECAUSE IT 926 00:25:04,603 --> 00:25:06,037 SEEMS ALABAMA'S UTILITY 927 00:25:06,104 --> 00:25:08,740 COMMISSIONERS MUST, BY LAW, 928 00:25:08,807 --> 00:25:09,374 SOUND LIKE HANNA-BARBERA CARTOON 929 00:25:09,441 --> 00:25:13,445 CHARACTERS -- 930 00:25:13,511 --> 00:25:15,046 WHEN CHIP BEEKER WAS RUNNING FOR 931 00:25:15,113 --> 00:25:15,380 HIS POSITION, 932 00:25:15,447 --> 00:25:16,147 HE WROTE IN AN OP- 933 00:25:16,214 --> 00:25:16,815 "THE SO-CALLED 934 00:25:16,882 --> 00:25:18,049 CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS IS ABOUT 935 00:25:18,116 --> 00:25:18,884 AS REAL AS UNICORNS AND LITTLE 936 00:25:18,950 --> 00:25:20,518 GREEN MEN FROM MARS." 937 00:25:20,585 --> 00:25:21,853 WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY RIDICULOUS, 938 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,189 BECAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL, 939 00:25:24,256 --> 00:25:30,528 AND UNICORNS DO NOT EXIST. 940 00:25:30,595 --> 00:25:30,729 SADLY. 941 00:25:30,795 --> 00:25:32,764 ALTHOUGH IF YOU'RE IN THE MARKET 942 00:25:32,831 --> 00:25:33,832 FOR A MAJESTIC CREATURE WITH A 943 00:25:33,899 --> 00:25:36,668 LOT OF HORN, THIS GUY MAY BE 944 00:25:36,735 --> 00:25:38,770 ABLE TO HELP YOU. 945 00:25:38,837 --> 00:25:40,672 AND LOOK, HAVING A COMMISSION 946 00:25:40,739 --> 00:25:41,706 RUN BY SCIENCE-DENYING 947 00:25:41,773 --> 00:25:43,041 IDEOLOGUES IS BAD ENOUGH. 948 00:25:43,108 --> 00:25:45,110 BUT IN OTHER STATES, PUBLIC 949 00:25:45,176 --> 00:25:46,344 OFFICIALS CAN APPEAR FULLY IN 950 00:25:46,411 --> 00:25:47,913 UTILITIES' POCKETS. 951 00:25:47,979 --> 00:25:49,281 TAKE OHIO. 952 00:25:49,347 --> 00:25:51,383 A FEW YEARS BACK, A BIG UTILITY 953 00:25:51,449 --> 00:25:53,318 THERE, FIRSTENERGY, WAS CAUGHT 954 00:25:53,385 --> 00:25:55,120 UP IN THIS MASSIVE SCANDAL. 955 00:25:55,186 --> 00:25:56,955 >> OHIO HOUSE SPEAKER LARRY 956 00:25:57,022 --> 00:25:58,023 HOUSEHOLDER AND FOUR OTHERS HAVE 957 00:25:58,089 --> 00:25:58,857 BEEN CHARGED WITH RACKETEERING, 958 00:25:58,924 --> 00:26:00,992 ACCUSED BY THE FEDS OF FUNNELING 959 00:26:01,059 --> 00:26:03,695 MILLIONS FROM THE ENERGY COMPANY 960 00:26:03,762 --> 00:26:05,563 INTO A 501C4 DARK MONEY GROUP 961 00:26:05,630 --> 00:26:07,265 CALLED GENERATION NOW. 962 00:26:07,332 --> 00:26:08,400 >> OKAY, FIRST. 963 00:26:08,466 --> 00:26:10,568 "GENERATION NOW" SOUNDS LIKE 964 00:26:10,635 --> 00:26:11,536 A FAILED '90s BOY BAND WHOSE 965 00:26:11,603 --> 00:26:12,904 MEMBERS ARE ALL NOW SPOKESMEN 966 00:26:12,971 --> 00:26:14,239 FOR DIFFERENT CRYPTOCURRENCY 967 00:26:14,306 --> 00:26:14,506 COMPANIES. 968 00:26:14,572 --> 00:26:16,274 BUT VERY BASICALLY, 969 00:26:16,341 --> 00:26:17,108 WHAT HAPPENED THERE IS THAT 970 00:26:17,175 --> 00:26:19,077 FIRSTENERGY FUNNELED SIXTY 971 00:26:19,144 --> 00:26:20,812 MILLION DOLLARS TO THE SPEAKER 972 00:26:20,879 --> 00:26:23,081 OF THE OHIO HOUSE, TO GET HIM TO 973 00:26:23,148 --> 00:26:24,816 PASS A BILL, H.B. 6, THAT'S BEEN 974 00:26:24,883 --> 00:26:25,450 CALLED THE WORST ENERGY BILL OF 975 00:26:25,517 --> 00:26:27,485 THE 21ST CENTURY. 976 00:26:27,552 --> 00:26:29,554 NOW, I HAVE TO TELL YOU. 977 00:26:29,621 --> 00:26:31,589 THE HOUSE SPEAKER IN QUESTION 978 00:26:31,656 --> 00:26:32,724 DENIES WRONGDOING AND IS STILL 979 00:26:32,791 --> 00:26:34,492 AWAITING TRIAL. 980 00:26:34,559 --> 00:26:35,460 BUT WHAT'S VERY CLEAR IS THAT 981 00:26:35,527 --> 00:26:36,928 FIRSTENERGY WAS WORKING VERY 982 00:26:36,995 --> 00:26:37,762 HARD TO INFLUENCE THE 983 00:26:37,829 --> 00:26:40,165 DECISION-MAKING PROCESS. 984 00:26:40,231 --> 00:26:40,832 THEY ACTUALLY PAID THE CHAIRMAN 985 00:26:40,899 --> 00:26:44,936 OF THE STATE'S UTILITY 986 00:26:45,003 --> 00:26:45,537 COMMISSION $22 MILLION IN 987 00:26:45,603 --> 00:26:46,705 CONSULTING FEES IN THE YEARS 988 00:26:46,771 --> 00:26:48,039 DIRECTLY PRECEDING HIM BECOMING 989 00:26:48,106 --> 00:26:49,007 THEIR REGULATOR. 990 00:26:49,074 --> 00:26:51,309 AND WHILE HE DENIES DOING 991 00:26:51,376 --> 00:26:53,878 ANYTHING IMPROPER, I WILL POINT 992 00:26:53,945 --> 00:26:55,080 OUT THAT ON THE VERY DAY THE 993 00:26:55,146 --> 00:26:56,815 BILL PASSED, FIRST ENERGY'S 994 00:26:56,881 --> 00:26:57,382 CEO WROTE TO HIM, SAYING -- 995 00:26:57,449 --> 00:26:58,583 AND I QUOTE -- 996 00:26:58,650 --> 00:27:00,118 "H.B. 6, 997 00:27:00,185 --> 00:27:02,954 FUCK ANYBODY WHO AIN'T US." 998 00:27:03,021 --> 00:27:04,422 WHICH IS VERY COOL. 999 00:27:04,489 --> 00:27:06,458 AND JUST SO YOU KNOW, THE MAN 1000 00:27:06,524 --> 00:27:08,526 WHO WROTE THAT IS THIS GUY, WHO 1001 00:27:08,593 --> 00:27:09,761 LOOKS LIKE HE'S LEFT LENGTHY 1002 00:27:09,828 --> 00:27:12,263 REVIEWS FOR MULTIPLE GAS GRILLS 1003 00:27:12,330 --> 00:27:12,664 ON HomeDepot.com. 1004 00:27:12,731 --> 00:27:14,265 THIS MAN WROTE THE WORDS 1005 00:27:14,332 --> 00:27:16,468 "FUCK ANYBODY WHO AIN'T US." 1006 00:27:16,534 --> 00:27:18,236 THIS OLD WHITE MAN TYPED THOSE 1007 00:27:18,303 --> 00:27:19,771 PRECISE WORDS WITH HIS OLD 1008 00:27:19,838 --> 00:27:22,774 WHITE FINGERS. 1009 00:27:22,841 --> 00:27:25,043 OUR UTILITY SYSTEM 1010 00:27:25,110 --> 00:27:26,644 LARGELY CONSISTS OF FOR-PROFIT 1011 00:27:26,711 --> 00:27:28,146 COMPANIES WITH MONOPOLIES OVER 1012 00:27:28,213 --> 00:27:30,448 AN ESSENTIAL SERVICE, BUILDING 1013 00:27:30,515 --> 00:27:31,916 AS MUCH SHIT AS POSSIBLE SO THEY 1014 00:27:31,983 --> 00:27:33,218 CAN PASS THE COST ALONG TO YOU 1015 00:27:33,284 --> 00:27:35,120 ON YOUR ELECTRIC BILL. 1016 00:27:35,186 --> 00:27:37,288 AND TO SEE JUST HOW BAD ALL THIS 1017 00:27:37,355 --> 00:27:40,592 CAN GET, LET'S GO BACK TO PG&E, 1018 00:27:40,658 --> 00:27:41,126 ARGUABLY CALIFORNIA'S MOST 1019 00:27:41,192 --> 00:27:42,394 HATED COMPANY. 1020 00:27:42,460 --> 00:27:45,096 IN FACT, A QUICK SKIM THROUGH 1021 00:27:45,163 --> 00:27:48,166 ANY PG&E AFFILIATE'S YELP PAGE 1022 00:27:48,233 --> 00:27:49,067 GIVES YOU JUST A TASTE OF THAT, 1023 00:27:49,134 --> 00:27:51,002 BECAUSE YOU'LL FIND REVIEWS 1024 00:27:51,069 --> 00:27:51,569 LIKE, "ABSOLUTE SHIT SHOW." 1025 00:27:51,636 --> 00:27:52,904 "FUCKING GARBAGE COMPANY." 1026 00:27:52,971 --> 00:27:53,505 "FUCK YOU, PG&E. 1027 00:27:53,571 --> 00:27:55,273 YOUR DAY WILL COME." 1028 00:27:57,442 --> 00:27:59,044 "THE ACTUAL TECHNICIANS LOVELY. 1029 00:27:59,110 --> 00:28:00,879 OFTEN HOT, TOO BOOT. 1030 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:02,680 HIT OR MISS. 1031 00:28:02,747 --> 00:28:03,248 EITHER DISMISSIVE AND STUPID 1032 00:28:03,314 --> 00:28:04,115 OR THOUGHTFUL AND KIND. 1033 00:28:04,182 --> 00:28:05,250 CORPORATION ITSELF 1034 00:28:05,316 --> 00:28:11,489 EVIL EMPIRE PERSONIFIED." 1035 00:28:11,556 --> 00:28:13,558 WHICH IS A LOT MORE NUANCED THAN 1036 00:28:13,625 --> 00:28:14,259 YOU TYPICALLY FIND 1037 00:28:14,325 --> 00:28:15,260 IN YELP REVIEWS. 1038 00:28:15,326 --> 00:28:16,194 LOOK, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE 1039 00:28:16,261 --> 00:28:16,761 LOWEST RANKING, SMOKING HOT 1040 00:28:16,828 --> 00:28:17,395 EMPLOYEE THAT I INTERFACED WITH 1041 00:28:17,462 --> 00:28:18,296 ISN'T TO BLAME FOR THE COMPANY'S 1042 00:28:18,363 --> 00:28:18,930 LARGER STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS. 1043 00:28:18,997 --> 00:28:20,165 BUT FOR THE RECORD, 1044 00:28:20,231 --> 00:28:20,732 FUCK EVERYONE IN THE C-SUITE 1045 00:28:20,799 --> 00:28:22,467 WITH A CACTUS. 1046 00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:24,636 AND YOU CAN SEE WHY CALIFORNIANS 1047 00:28:24,702 --> 00:28:26,838 HATE PG&E SO MUCH. 1048 00:28:26,905 --> 00:28:28,706 IN JUST ONE THREE-YEAR TIMESPAN, 1049 00:28:28,773 --> 00:28:29,774 IT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR AROUND 1050 00:28:29,841 --> 00:28:31,443 1,500 FIRES. 1051 00:28:31,509 --> 00:28:33,211 THAT'S AN AVERAGE OF MORE THAN 1052 00:28:33,278 --> 00:28:35,680 ONE FIRE A DAY. 1053 00:28:35,747 --> 00:28:37,115 AND AT THAT POINT, PG&E ARE LESS 1054 00:28:37,182 --> 00:28:38,583 A UTILITY AND MORE A FIRE 1055 00:28:38,650 --> 00:28:40,018 COMPANY THAT OCCASIONALLY ALSO 1056 00:28:40,085 --> 00:28:42,220 DELIVERS ELECTRICITY 1057 00:28:42,287 --> 00:28:42,620 TO PEOPLE'S HOMES. 1058 00:28:42,687 --> 00:28:44,722 AND SO MANY OF PG&E'S PROBLEMS 1059 00:28:44,789 --> 00:28:45,256 STEM FROM THE WAY THEY'RE 1060 00:28:45,323 --> 00:28:46,858 INCENTIVIZED TO OPERATE. 1061 00:28:46,925 --> 00:28:48,760 BECAUSE REMEMBER, THEIR PROFITS 1062 00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:50,261 ARE PEGGED TO MONEY THEY SPEND 1063 00:28:50,328 --> 00:28:52,497 ON NEW INFRASTRUCTURE THEY 1064 00:28:52,564 --> 00:28:54,065 BUILD, NOT ON WHAT THEY SPEND 1065 00:28:54,132 --> 00:28:54,833 MAINTAINING IT OR THE AREA 1066 00:28:54,899 --> 00:28:56,334 AROUND IT. 1067 00:28:56,401 --> 00:28:57,569 AND WHEN YOU DON'T MAINTAIN 1068 00:28:57,635 --> 00:29:00,171 EQUIPMENT, EVENTUALLY IT FAILS. 1069 00:29:00,238 --> 00:29:03,374 THAT OLD HOOK THAT BROKE 1070 00:29:03,441 --> 00:29:04,476 AND STARTED THE CAMP FIRE 1071 00:29:04,542 --> 00:29:05,343 WAS 97 YEARS OLD. 1072 00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:06,711 AND IT'S NOT EVEN THEIR ONLY 1073 00:29:06,778 --> 00:29:07,245 HOOK THAT WAS DANGEROUSLY 1074 00:29:07,312 --> 00:29:09,581 WORN DOWN. 1075 00:29:09,647 --> 00:29:11,249 >> THIS HOOK FOUND A COUPLE OF 1076 00:29:11,316 --> 00:29:12,951 MILES UP THE LINE FROM WHERE THE 1077 00:29:13,017 --> 00:29:13,618 CAMP FIRE STARTED SHOWS JUST HOW 1078 00:29:13,685 --> 00:29:15,687 BAD THINGS GOT. 1079 00:29:15,753 --> 00:29:18,089 A GROOVE MORE THAN HALFWAY 1080 00:29:18,156 --> 00:29:20,625 THROUGH THE METAL FROM DECADES 1081 00:29:20,692 --> 00:29:21,559 OF GRINDING AGAINST THE HOLE 1082 00:29:21,626 --> 00:29:22,627 IT HUNG FROM. 1083 00:29:22,694 --> 00:29:24,963 >> HOLY SHIT. 1084 00:29:25,029 --> 00:29:26,431 "DECADES OF GRINDING" ISN'T 1085 00:29:26,498 --> 00:29:28,399 EXACTLY A PHRASE YOU WANT TO 1086 00:29:28,466 --> 00:29:29,334 ASSOCIATE WITH A VITAL PIECE OF 1087 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,069 OUR POWER GRID. 1088 00:29:31,136 --> 00:29:32,804 IT'S BARELY A PHRASE YOU WANT TO 1089 00:29:32,871 --> 00:29:33,371 HEAR AT YOUR GRANDPARENTS' 1090 00:29:33,438 --> 00:29:36,341 50TH ANNIVERSARY. 1091 00:29:36,407 --> 00:29:37,242 I MEAN, YOU'RE HAPPY FOR THEM. 1092 00:29:37,308 --> 00:29:38,309 IT'S OBVIOUSLY WHAT'S KEPT THEM 1093 00:29:38,376 --> 00:29:39,777 TOGETHER FOR SO LONG. 1094 00:29:39,844 --> 00:29:43,982 YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT. 1095 00:29:44,048 --> 00:29:45,283 AND IT'S NOT LIKE PG&E DIDN'T 1096 00:29:45,350 --> 00:29:46,751 HAVE THE MONEY TO PERFORM BASIC 1097 00:29:46,818 --> 00:29:48,620 MAINTENANCE, BECAUSE IN THE FIVE 1098 00:29:48,686 --> 00:29:49,187 YEARS BEFORE THE CAMP FIRE, 1099 00:29:49,254 --> 00:29:50,221 IT ISSUED OVER 5 BILLION 1100 00:29:50,288 --> 00:29:52,957 IN DIVIDENDS TO SHAREHOLDERS. 1101 00:29:53,024 --> 00:29:56,928 LOOK, CLEARLY, THIS ISN'T A 1102 00:29:56,995 --> 00:29:57,562 SYSTEM WHERE YOU, THE CUSTOMER, 1103 00:29:57,629 --> 00:29:58,329 ARE GOING TO BE PRIORITIZED. 1104 00:29:58,396 --> 00:29:59,631 IF ANYTHING, THE MODEL ONLY 1105 00:29:59,697 --> 00:30:02,534 MAKES SENSE IF THE COMPANY'S 1106 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:03,635 SHAREHOLDERS ARE VIEWED AS THE 1107 00:30:03,701 --> 00:30:04,335 CUSTOMER AND YOUR BILLS ARE THE 1108 00:30:04,402 --> 00:30:05,436 PRODUCT. 1109 00:30:05,503 --> 00:30:07,172 AND WHILE YOU WOULD HOPE ELECTED 1110 00:30:07,238 --> 00:30:09,073 OFFICIALS IN CALIFORNIA WOULD 1111 00:30:09,140 --> 00:30:12,744 CRACK DOWN ON PG&E, MANY TAKE 1112 00:30:12,810 --> 00:30:13,378 MONEY FROM THEM AND DON'T SEEM 1113 00:30:13,444 --> 00:30:16,681 TO SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT. 1114 00:30:16,748 --> 00:30:18,616 JUST WATCH AS CALIFORNIA'S 1115 00:30:18,683 --> 00:30:20,151 GOVERNOR BLOWS OFF 1116 00:30:20,218 --> 00:30:20,685 A PRETTY POINTED QUESTION. 1117 00:30:20,752 --> 00:30:21,219 >> PG&E WAS CONVICTED OF A 1118 00:30:21,286 --> 00:30:22,086 FEDERAL -- OF SIX FEDERAL 1119 00:30:22,153 --> 00:30:23,555 FELONIES IN 2016. 1120 00:30:23,621 --> 00:30:25,924 AFTER THAT, YOU TOOK MORE THAN 1121 00:30:25,990 --> 00:30:28,226 $200,000 TO HELP GET ELECTED. 1122 00:30:28,293 --> 00:30:28,826 HOW SHOULD PEOPLE TRUST YOU TO 1123 00:30:28,893 --> 00:30:29,427 BE RUNNING THE SHOW TO COME UP 1124 00:30:29,494 --> 00:30:29,861 WITH THE SOLUTION? 1125 00:30:29,928 --> 00:30:31,996 >> I, UH... 1126 00:30:32,063 --> 00:30:33,164 I WISH YOU LUCK WITH WHATEVER 1127 00:30:33,231 --> 00:30:34,499 YOU'RE WORKING ON, 1128 00:30:34,566 --> 00:30:37,402 BUT THAT'S A STRANGE QUESTION. 1129 00:30:37,468 --> 00:30:39,837 >> WAIT, IS IT, THOUGH? 1130 00:30:39,904 --> 00:30:40,505 IS IT? 1131 00:30:40,572 --> 00:30:41,105 BECAUSE THAT SEEMED PRETTY 1132 00:30:41,172 --> 00:30:41,839 REASONABLE TO ME. 1133 00:30:41,906 --> 00:30:42,707 IT'S NOT LIKE THAT REPORTER 1134 00:30:42,774 --> 00:30:44,509 ASKED, "MR. GOVERNOR! 1135 00:30:44,576 --> 00:30:45,076 WHY DO YOU THINK THE WIGGLES 1136 00:30:45,143 --> 00:30:48,046 HAD PRINCESS DIANA KILLED?" 1137 00:30:48,112 --> 00:30:48,613 THAT IS A STRANGE QUESTION. 1138 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:49,113 THERE WAS NO BIG RED CAR 1139 00:30:49,180 --> 00:30:50,481 ANYWHERE NEAR THE SCENE. 1140 00:30:50,548 --> 00:30:51,115 BUT WHAT WHAT HE JUST ASKED YOU 1141 00:30:51,182 --> 00:30:53,017 DESERVED A PROPER ANSWER. 1142 00:30:53,084 --> 00:30:56,221 AND YET, FRUSTRATINGLY, IF YOU 1143 00:30:56,287 --> 00:30:57,188 LIVE IN CALIFORNIA AND PG&E IS 1144 00:30:57,255 --> 00:30:58,289 YOUR PROVIDER, THERE'S NOTHING 1145 00:30:58,356 --> 00:30:58,856 YOU CAN DO. 1146 00:30:58,923 --> 00:31:04,028 EVERY TIME YOU TURN YOUR LIGHTS 1147 00:31:04,095 --> 00:31:05,296 ON, YOU'RE REMINDED THAT YOUR 1148 00:31:05,363 --> 00:31:06,564 UTILITY HAS KILLED PEOPLE, AND 1149 00:31:06,631 --> 00:31:08,533 THE ONLY REAL RECOURSE YOU HAVE 1150 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:09,033 IS GIVING THEM A SHITTY 1151 00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:09,867 YELP REVIEW. 1152 00:31:09,934 --> 00:31:11,135 SO HOW DO WE FIX THIS? 1153 00:31:11,202 --> 00:31:12,704 WELL, IF WE WERE ABLE TO START 1154 00:31:12,770 --> 00:31:13,271 OUR POWER GRID OVER FROM 1155 00:31:13,338 --> 00:31:14,906 SCRATCH, WHAT WE'D PROBABLY DO 1156 00:31:14,973 --> 00:31:15,540 IS MAKE UTILITIES PUBLICLY OWNED 1157 00:31:15,607 --> 00:31:16,975 AND RUN BY THE GOVERNMENT. 1158 00:31:17,041 --> 00:31:18,643 IT WOULDN'T FIX EVERYTHING -- 1159 00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:20,211 THINGS MIGHT STILL GO WRONG -- 1160 00:31:20,278 --> 00:31:20,979 BUT YOU'D REMOVE SO MANY OF THE 1161 00:31:21,045 --> 00:31:23,147 WORST INCENTIVES HERE. 1162 00:31:23,214 --> 00:31:24,415 UNFORTUNATELY, TRANSITIONING NOW 1163 00:31:24,482 --> 00:31:25,116 WOULD BE HUGELY EXPENSIVE 1164 00:31:25,183 --> 00:31:26,818 AND IN ALL LIKELIHOOD ISN'T 1165 00:31:26,884 --> 00:31:28,286 HAPPENING ANYTIME SOON. 1166 00:31:28,353 --> 00:31:31,289 BUT THERE ARE SMALLER STEPS 1167 00:31:31,356 --> 00:31:32,090 WE SHOULD ALSO BE TAKING IN THE 1168 00:31:32,156 --> 00:31:32,624 MEANTIME. 1169 00:31:32,690 --> 00:31:33,358 FOR INSTANCE, INSTEAD OF HAVING 1170 00:31:33,424 --> 00:31:34,792 A SYSTEM WHERE UTILITIES ARE 1171 00:31:34,859 --> 00:31:36,694 INCENTIVIZED JUST TO BUILD 1172 00:31:36,761 --> 00:31:37,829 STUFF, WE COULD INCENTIVIZE THEM 1173 00:31:37,895 --> 00:31:38,830 TO WORK DIRECTLY IN THE 1174 00:31:38,896 --> 00:31:39,964 CUSTOMERS' BEST INTERESTS, 1175 00:31:40,031 --> 00:31:40,698 BY INVESTING IN THINGS LIKE 1176 00:31:40,765 --> 00:31:41,532 MAINTENANCE, RENEWABLES, 1177 00:31:41,599 --> 00:31:44,102 AND ENERGY CONSERVATION. 1178 00:31:44,168 --> 00:31:45,103 THIS IS SOMETHING KNOWN AS 1179 00:31:45,169 --> 00:31:46,804 PERFORMANCE-BASED REGULATION, 1180 00:31:46,871 --> 00:31:47,705 AND SEVERAL STATES 1181 00:31:47,772 --> 00:31:51,075 ARE ALREADY TRYING IT. 1182 00:31:51,142 --> 00:31:52,110 AS FOR THE REGULATORS, LOOK, 1183 00:31:52,176 --> 00:31:53,144 COMMISSIONS WILL, UNFORTUNATELY, 1184 00:31:53,211 --> 00:31:54,579 PROBABLY ALWAYS VARY IN 1185 00:31:54,646 --> 00:31:55,146 EFFECTIVENESS DEPENDING ON 1186 00:31:55,213 --> 00:31:57,215 WHETHER IT'S STAFFED BY PEOPLE 1187 00:31:57,282 --> 00:31:58,783 WHO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THIS, OR, 1188 00:31:58,850 --> 00:31:59,317 LET'S SAY, SOMEONE NAMED 1189 00:31:59,384 --> 00:32:01,352 TWINKLE. 1190 00:32:01,419 --> 00:32:06,424 BUT WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT 1191 00:32:06,491 --> 00:32:07,659 UNDER RESOURCED REGULATORS GET 1192 00:32:07,725 --> 00:32:08,693 MORE SUPPORT, 1193 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:09,193 MORE ACCESS TO TECHNICAL 1194 00:32:09,260 --> 00:32:09,861 EXPERTISE, AND MORE JURISDICTION 1195 00:32:09,927 --> 00:32:10,628 OVER THE COMPANIES THEY MONITOR. 1196 00:32:10,695 --> 00:32:12,130 AND AT THIS POINT, I'D USUALLY 1197 00:32:12,196 --> 00:32:14,165 BRING OUT A MASCOT WE MADE FOR 1198 00:32:14,232 --> 00:32:15,033 UTILITIES THAT'S REPRESENTATIVE 1199 00:32:15,099 --> 00:32:16,301 OF JUST HOW TERRIBLE AND 1200 00:32:16,367 --> 00:32:17,101 HORRIFYING THEY ARE. 1201 00:32:17,168 --> 00:32:21,139 BUT AMAZINGLY, I DON'T EVEN NEED 1202 00:32:21,205 --> 00:32:21,706 TO DO THAT, DO I? 1203 00:32:21,773 --> 00:32:23,508 BECAUSE THEY ALREADY 1204 00:32:23,574 --> 00:32:24,075 MADE A MURDEROUS HELL-DEMON 1205 00:32:24,142 --> 00:32:24,776 ALMOST A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, 1206 00:32:24,842 --> 00:32:25,643 WITH REDDY KILOWATT. 1207 00:32:25,710 --> 00:32:27,011 SO ALL WE NEED TO DO IS BRING 1208 00:32:27,078 --> 00:32:28,680 REDDY BACK. 1209 00:32:28,746 --> 00:32:30,782 SO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 1210 00:32:30,848 --> 00:32:33,284 I'M THRILLED TO PRESENT 1211 00:32:33,351 --> 00:32:34,352 TO YOU THE GLORIOUS RETURN 1212 00:32:34,419 --> 00:32:36,287 OF REDDY KILOWATT! 1213 00:32:36,354 --> 00:32:38,256 REDDY? 1214 00:32:38,323 --> 00:32:38,456 REDDY? 1215 00:32:38,523 --> 00:32:39,524 WHERE ARE YOU? 1216 00:32:39,590 --> 00:32:40,458 WHERE ARE YOU? 1217 00:32:40,525 --> 00:32:42,527 >> HELLO, JOHN! 1218 00:32:42,593 --> 00:32:44,929 HELLO, BOYS AND GIRLS! 1219 00:32:44,996 --> 00:32:45,763 >> YEAH. 1220 00:32:45,830 --> 00:32:46,531 THIS IS CREEPY. 1221 00:32:46,597 --> 00:32:47,098 I'M ALREADY REGRETTING THIS. 1222 00:32:47,165 --> 00:32:47,832 WHERE'S THE CLOWN? 1223 00:32:47,899 --> 00:32:48,633 WHERE'S MR. TOOT? 1224 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:50,635 >> HE'S DEAD, JOHN. 1225 00:32:50,702 --> 00:32:50,968 I KILLED HIM. 1226 00:32:51,035 --> 00:32:53,705 >> OF COURSE YOU DID. 1227 00:32:53,771 --> 00:32:57,075 I'D LIKE TO LEAVE. 1228 00:32:57,141 --> 00:32:57,809 THIS IS A BAD IDEA. 1229 00:32:57,875 --> 00:33:00,044 >> WHO SAID YOU GET TO DO THAT? 1230 00:33:00,111 --> 00:33:06,217 >> FUCK! 1231 00:33:06,284 --> 00:33:09,687 >> THE WORLD IS MY MONOPOLY. 1232 00:33:09,754 --> 00:33:14,192 YOUR LOCAL UTILITY IS YOUR GOD. 1233 00:33:14,258 --> 00:33:16,060 I AM YOUR GOD. 1234 00:33:16,127 --> 00:33:17,829 SB WHEN I CANNOT BELIEVE I'M 1235 00:33:17,895 --> 00:33:20,598 SAYING THIS BUT YOU ARE TOO GOOD 1236 00:33:20,665 --> 00:33:22,433 AT REPRESENTING HOW SHITTY 1237 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:26,504 UTILITY COMPANIES R. 1238 00:33:26,571 --> 00:33:29,340 >> YOU HAVE NO IDEA. 1239 00:33:29,407 --> 00:33:31,642 I COULD KILL YOU RIGHT NOW. 1240 00:33:31,709 --> 00:33:32,777 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LIGHTS?! 1241 00:33:32,844 --> 00:33:33,411 >> BLACKOUTS HAPPEN, JOHN. 1242 00:33:33,478 --> 00:33:34,078 >> TURN THE LIGHTS BACK 1243 00:33:34,145 --> 00:33:34,812 ON, YOU FREAK! 1244 00:33:34,879 --> 00:33:36,514 >> YOU CAN DO IT YOURSELF, JOHN! 1245 00:33:36,581 --> 00:33:38,149 JUST GO AHEAD AND PULL THAT 1246 00:33:38,216 --> 00:33:39,884 LEVER! 1247 00:33:39,951 --> 00:33:41,786 >> WAIT, THIS ONE HERE? 1248 00:33:41,853 --> 00:33:44,622 >> UH-HUH. 1249 00:33:44,689 --> 00:33:47,925 >> OKAY. 1250 00:33:47,992 --> 00:33:48,726 >> UH-HUH. 1251 00:33:48,793 --> 00:33:49,527 HA HA. 1252 00:33:49,594 --> 00:33:52,263 I'M GONNA GET SUCH A FINE 1253 00:33:52,330 --> 00:33:54,532 FOR THAT. 1254 00:33:54,599 --> 00:33:59,604 THAT'S OUR SHOW. 1255 00:33:59,670 --> 00:34:00,471 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. 1256 00:34:00,538 --> 00:34:01,072 SEE YOU NEXT WEEK FOR ANOTHER 1257 00:34:01,139 --> 00:34:01,672 EPISODE OF "LAST WEEK TONIGHT" 1258 00:34:01,739 --> 00:34:02,106 WITH REDDY KILOWATT. 1259 00:34:02,173 --> 00:34:04,041 HA, HA. 1260 00:34:04,108 --> 00:34:14,118 BYE-BYE.