1 00:00:03,903 --> 00:00:07,273 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:07,340 --> 00:00:19,018 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:19,085 --> 00:00:30,897 ♪ ♪ 4 00:00:30,964 --> 00:00:33,933 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 5 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,769 >> John: WELCOME, WELCOME, 6 00:00:35,835 --> 00:00:38,772 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT." 7 00:00:38,838 --> 00:00:39,305 I'M JOHN OLIVER. 8 00:00:39,372 --> 00:00:40,073 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING 9 00:00:40,140 --> 00:00:41,841 US. 10 00:00:41,908 --> 00:00:42,909 IT HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK. 11 00:00:42,976 --> 00:00:44,043 THE U.S. ENTERED A BEAR MARKET. 12 00:00:44,110 --> 00:00:44,677 THERE WAS HISTORIC FLOODING IN 13 00:00:44,744 --> 00:00:45,545 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 14 00:00:45,612 --> 00:00:46,613 AND IN PERU, A HEARING 15 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:47,680 CONCERNING A CORRUPTION INQUIRY 16 00:00:47,747 --> 00:00:52,419 INTO THEIR PRESIDENT WAS 17 00:00:52,485 --> 00:00:53,319 DISRUPTED IN A TRULY SPECTACULAR 18 00:00:53,386 --> 00:00:54,287 WAY. 19 00:00:54,354 --> 00:00:55,088 >> WHAT THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR'S 20 00:00:55,155 --> 00:00:57,957 OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING IS -- 21 00:00:58,024 --> 00:01:02,262 [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE] 22 00:01:02,328 --> 00:01:05,298 >> THE GENTLEMAN THERE IS 23 00:01:05,365 --> 00:01:05,965 INTERFERENCE FROM WHAT SEEMS TO 24 00:01:06,032 --> 00:01:10,103 BE THE LAW FIRM SHOWING VERY 25 00:01:10,170 --> 00:01:11,104 SUGGESTIVE IMAGES. 26 00:01:11,171 --> 00:01:14,507 [LAUGHTER] 27 00:01:14,574 --> 00:01:16,543 >> John: WOW, THAT'S A LITTLE 28 00:01:16,609 --> 00:01:17,444 MORE THAN SUGGESTIVE IMAGES. 29 00:01:17,510 --> 00:01:18,244 A SUGGESTIVE IMAGE IS THE 30 00:01:18,311 --> 00:01:19,145 ENTICING HINT OF WHAT LIES 31 00:01:19,212 --> 00:01:20,113 BENEATH. 32 00:01:20,180 --> 00:01:20,980 THAT'S STRAIGHT UP DICK. 33 00:01:21,047 --> 00:01:21,981 THAT'S A WHOLE DICK ON THE TV IN 34 00:01:22,048 --> 00:01:24,083 PERU. 35 00:01:24,150 --> 00:01:25,251 [LAUGHTER] 36 00:01:25,318 --> 00:01:26,319 BUT INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON THAT, 37 00:01:26,386 --> 00:01:27,253 WE'RE GOING TO CONCENTRATE ON 38 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:28,321 THE U.S., WHERE THE HOUSE 39 00:01:28,388 --> 00:01:29,322 COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING JANUARY 40 00:01:29,389 --> 00:01:30,523 6TH CONTINUED TO UNEARTH NEW 41 00:01:30,590 --> 00:01:31,424 DETAILS REGARDING THE DAYS 42 00:01:31,491 --> 00:01:33,193 LEADING UP TO THE INSURRECTION, 43 00:01:33,259 --> 00:01:34,427 INCLUDING THE SURPRISINGLY LARGE 44 00:01:34,494 --> 00:01:35,495 ROLE OF TRUMP'S LEGAL ADVISER, 45 00:01:35,562 --> 00:01:38,264 JOHN EASTMAN. 46 00:01:38,331 --> 00:01:39,599 AND QUICK SIDENOTE: IF YOU'RE 47 00:01:39,666 --> 00:01:41,434 EVER ACCUSED OF A CRIME AND YOUR 48 00:01:41,501 --> 00:01:42,435 LAWYER SHOWS UP TO COURT DRESSED 49 00:01:42,502 --> 00:01:43,536 LIKE THIS, YOU ARE GOING TO 50 00:01:43,603 --> 00:01:44,404 JAIL. 51 00:01:44,471 --> 00:01:46,439 [LAUGHTER] 52 00:01:46,506 --> 00:01:47,841 EASTMAN WAS THE ONE WHO DEVISED 53 00:01:47,907 --> 00:01:49,309 THE THEORY THAT MIKE PENCE COULD 54 00:01:49,375 --> 00:01:50,910 SINGLE-HANDEDLY NEGATE THE 55 00:01:50,977 --> 00:01:52,479 ELECTION RESULTS, A THEORY THAT 56 00:01:52,545 --> 00:01:53,780 WAS MET WITH AN APPROPRIATE 57 00:01:53,847 --> 00:01:55,215 LEVEL OF SKEPTICISM AT THE TIME 58 00:01:55,281 --> 00:01:58,384 FROM THIS WHITE HOUSE LAWYER. 59 00:01:58,451 --> 00:01:59,486 >> I SAID, HOLD ON A SECOND, I 60 00:01:59,552 --> 00:02:00,653 WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE 61 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:01,821 SAYING. 62 00:02:01,888 --> 00:02:03,289 YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU BELIEVE 63 00:02:03,356 --> 00:02:05,725 THE VICE PRESIDENT ACTING AS 64 00:02:05,792 --> 00:02:07,160 PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE CAN BE 65 00:02:07,227 --> 00:02:08,895 THE SOLE DECISION MAKER AS TO, 66 00:02:08,962 --> 00:02:09,929 UNDER YOUR THEORY, WHO BECOMES 67 00:02:09,996 --> 00:02:10,964 THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 68 00:02:11,030 --> 00:02:13,566 STATES? 69 00:02:13,633 --> 00:02:16,669 AND HE SAID "YES." 70 00:02:16,736 --> 00:02:17,604 I SAID, ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR 71 00:02:17,670 --> 00:02:19,105 F-ING MIND? 72 00:02:19,172 --> 00:02:20,406 >> John: RIGHT. 73 00:02:20,473 --> 00:02:22,275 ALTHOUGH, I WILL SAY, AT THIS 74 00:02:22,342 --> 00:02:25,278 POINT, YOU CAN JUST SAY "FUCK." 75 00:02:25,345 --> 00:02:26,279 [LAUGHTER] 76 00:02:26,346 --> 00:02:27,146 DEMOCRACY IS HANGING ON BY A 77 00:02:27,213 --> 00:02:28,014 THREAD, AND YOU HAD A FRONT ROW 78 00:02:28,081 --> 00:02:28,948 SEAT. 79 00:02:29,015 --> 00:02:29,949 YOU CAN SAY "FUCK." 80 00:02:30,016 --> 00:02:30,783 YOU SAID IT THEN AND YOU SHOULD 81 00:02:30,850 --> 00:02:31,684 SAY IT NOW. 82 00:02:31,751 --> 00:02:32,719 BECAUSE WHAT HE WAS SUGGESTING 83 00:02:32,785 --> 00:02:34,120 TO YOU THERE WAS BONKERS. 84 00:02:34,187 --> 00:02:35,622 THE IDEA THAT A SINGLE PERSON 85 00:02:35,688 --> 00:02:37,323 COULD DECIDE THE PRESIDENCY IS 86 00:02:37,390 --> 00:02:39,292 COMPLETELY AGAINST THE IDEALS OF 87 00:02:39,359 --> 00:02:40,927 THIS COUNTRY, WHICH IS WHY THE 88 00:02:40,994 --> 00:02:43,029 CONSTITUTION STARTS WITH "WE THE 89 00:02:43,096 --> 00:02:44,297 PEOPLE" AND NOT "MIKE." 90 00:02:44,364 --> 00:02:46,466 [LAUGHTER] 91 00:02:46,533 --> 00:02:47,567 ALSO, I KNOW IT'S NOT THE 92 00:02:47,634 --> 00:02:48,668 IMPORTANT THING, BUT WHAT IS 93 00:02:48,735 --> 00:02:51,204 HAPPENING BEHIND THAT MAN? 94 00:02:51,271 --> 00:02:52,205 [LAUGHTER] 95 00:02:52,272 --> 00:02:53,273 WHY DOES THIS BAT HAVE "JUSTICE" 96 00:02:53,339 --> 00:02:56,209 WRITTEN ON IT? 97 00:02:56,276 --> 00:02:57,076 AND WHAT ARE THESE THREE METAL 98 00:02:57,143 --> 00:02:58,478 WIG THINGS RIGHT BELOW IT? 99 00:02:58,545 --> 00:02:59,579 DO YOU WEAR THEM? 100 00:02:59,646 --> 00:03:00,713 OR DID YOU SEE ONE OF THOSE GUYS 101 00:03:00,780 --> 00:03:01,681 PAINTED SILVER WHO MOVES WHEN 102 00:03:01,748 --> 00:03:02,348 YOU GIVE HIM MONEY AND SCALP 103 00:03:02,415 --> 00:03:05,118 HIM? 104 00:03:05,184 --> 00:03:06,586 ALSO THAT PANDA PAINTING, AND 105 00:03:06,653 --> 00:03:08,187 THIS IS TRUE, WAS APPARENTLY 106 00:03:08,254 --> 00:03:09,088 FEATURED IN THE "FIFTY SHADES OF 107 00:03:09,155 --> 00:03:13,126 GREY" MOVIE. 108 00:03:13,192 --> 00:03:16,729 IT IS ALL VERY WEIRD! 109 00:03:16,796 --> 00:03:17,497 I WOULD SAY IT'S THE MOST 110 00:03:17,564 --> 00:03:18,398 DISTRACTING VISUALS DURING A 111 00:03:18,464 --> 00:03:22,368 TELEVISED GOVERNMENT HEARING, 112 00:03:22,435 --> 00:03:25,338 BUT AS WE ALL KNOW, PERU HAS 113 00:03:25,405 --> 00:03:26,272 SIGNIFICANTLY RAISED THE BAR IN 114 00:03:26,339 --> 00:03:27,273 THAT REGARD. 115 00:03:27,340 --> 00:03:28,107 NOW, OBVIOUSLY, THE POINT OF 116 00:03:28,174 --> 00:03:29,242 THESE HEARINGS IS TO LEARN 117 00:03:29,309 --> 00:03:30,443 LESSONS FROM THE EFFORTS TO 118 00:03:30,510 --> 00:03:31,110 STEAL THE LAST ELECTION, TO 119 00:03:31,177 --> 00:03:32,011 PREVENT IT FROM HAPPENING AGAIN. 120 00:03:32,078 --> 00:03:33,046 BUT FOR MANY REPUBLICANS, IT 121 00:03:33,112 --> 00:03:34,681 SEEMS THE ONLY MISTAKE THEY SEE 122 00:03:34,747 --> 00:03:35,248 IS THAT THEY DIDN'T GO FAR 123 00:03:35,315 --> 00:03:35,915 ENOUGH. 124 00:03:35,982 --> 00:03:37,183 BECAUSE WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF A 125 00:03:37,250 --> 00:03:38,184 MIDTERM ELECTION YEAR RIGHT NOW, 126 00:03:38,251 --> 00:03:39,185 AND ALREADY, MORE THAN A 127 00:03:39,252 --> 00:03:40,820 HUNDRED REPUBLICAN PRIMARY 128 00:03:40,887 --> 00:03:41,688 WINNERS BACK TRUMP'S FALSE 129 00:03:41,754 --> 00:03:43,056 CLAIMS OF ELECTION FRAUD. 130 00:03:43,122 --> 00:03:44,357 AN ESPECIALLY CONCERNING 131 00:03:44,424 --> 00:03:45,458 SUBSET ARE CANDIDATES FOR 132 00:03:45,525 --> 00:03:47,026 SECRETARY OF STATE, BECAUSE THEY 133 00:03:47,093 --> 00:03:48,761 COULD END UP IN A POSITION TO 134 00:03:48,828 --> 00:03:49,696 DIRECTLY INFLUENCE THE NEXT 135 00:03:49,762 --> 00:03:51,764 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. 136 00:03:51,831 --> 00:03:53,533 TAKE JIM MARCHANT, WHO LOOKS 137 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,535 LIKE WHAT A CHILD WOULD PRODUCE 138 00:03:55,602 --> 00:03:56,269 IF YOU SIMPLY TOLD THEM TO "DRAW 139 00:03:56,336 --> 00:03:57,837 BUSINESS." 140 00:03:57,904 --> 00:03:59,572 [LAUGHTER] 141 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:01,074 ON TUESDAY, MARCHANT BECAME THE 142 00:04:01,140 --> 00:04:01,941 REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR SECRETARY 143 00:04:02,008 --> 00:04:03,576 OF STATE IN NEVADA. 144 00:04:03,643 --> 00:04:04,811 WHICH IS ALARMING, GIVEN THAT 145 00:04:04,877 --> 00:04:05,778 HE'S A CONSPIRACY THEORIST WHO'S 146 00:04:05,845 --> 00:04:08,181 SAID THINGS LIKE THIS: 147 00:04:08,247 --> 00:04:10,016 >> THE SHAPE THAT OUR COUNTRY IS 148 00:04:10,083 --> 00:04:10,917 IN RIGHT NOW IS BECAUSE OF 149 00:04:10,984 --> 00:04:12,585 ELECTION FRAUD. 150 00:04:12,652 --> 00:04:15,088 THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA HAVE NOT 151 00:04:15,154 --> 00:04:16,589 ELECTED ANYBODY SINCE 2006, 152 00:04:16,656 --> 00:04:18,257 THEY'VE BEEN INSTALLED BY THE 153 00:04:18,324 --> 00:04:19,726 DEEP STATE CABAL. 154 00:04:19,792 --> 00:04:21,160 >> John: WOW. 155 00:04:21,227 --> 00:04:22,962 "THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA HAVEN'T 156 00:04:23,029 --> 00:04:25,131 LEGITIMATELY ELECTED ANYBODY 157 00:04:25,198 --> 00:04:27,100 SINCE 2006." 158 00:04:27,166 --> 00:04:29,302 THAT IS A PRETTY BOLD CLAIM, 159 00:04:29,369 --> 00:04:30,370 ESPECIALLY COMING FROM A GUY WHO 160 00:04:30,436 --> 00:04:31,704 HIMSELF WAS ELECTED TO THE STATE 161 00:04:31,771 --> 00:04:33,239 ASSEMBLY THERE IN 2016. 162 00:04:33,306 --> 00:04:34,841 [LAUGHTER] 163 00:04:34,907 --> 00:04:36,943 ALSO, WHEN MARCHANT WAS ASKED TO 164 00:04:37,010 --> 00:04:38,344 SPECIFY WHO, EXACTLY, HE THOUGHT 165 00:04:38,411 --> 00:04:41,214 WAS STEALING ELECTIONS, HE SAID, 166 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:42,649 "I DON'T KNOW, ACTUALLY. 167 00:04:42,715 --> 00:04:43,983 I THINK IT'S A GLOBAL THING. 168 00:04:44,050 --> 00:04:44,550 THE PEOPLE IN POWER WANT TO 169 00:04:44,617 --> 00:04:46,285 MAINTAIN THEIR POWER." 170 00:04:46,352 --> 00:04:47,153 WHICH IS HONESTLY PRETTY 171 00:04:47,220 --> 00:04:47,920 REFRESHING COMING FROM A 172 00:04:47,987 --> 00:04:50,256 CONSPIRACY THEORIST. 173 00:04:50,323 --> 00:04:51,324 "LOOK, WE KNOW THERE'S A SECRET 174 00:04:51,391 --> 00:04:52,425 CABAL PULLING THE STRINGS OF 175 00:04:52,492 --> 00:04:53,526 POLITICIANS AROUND THE WORLD, 176 00:04:53,593 --> 00:04:54,727 BUT I'M CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO 177 00:04:54,794 --> 00:04:56,295 WILDLY SPECULATE ABOUT IT. 178 00:04:56,362 --> 00:04:58,965 THAT WOULD BE IRRESPONSIBLE." 179 00:04:59,032 --> 00:05:00,266 [LAUGHTER] 180 00:05:00,333 --> 00:05:01,401 BUT CRUCIALLY, MARCHANT ISN'T 181 00:05:01,467 --> 00:05:02,568 ALONE, HE'S ACTUALLY LEADING A 182 00:05:02,635 --> 00:05:03,903 GROUP OF CANDIDATES CALLED 183 00:05:03,970 --> 00:05:05,438 THE AMERICA FIRST SECRETARY OF 184 00:05:05,505 --> 00:05:06,806 STATE COALITION, WHICH ALSO 185 00:05:06,873 --> 00:05:08,508 INCLUDES NEW MEXICO'S 186 00:05:08,574 --> 00:05:09,776 AUDREY TRUJILLO, WHO'S REFERRED 187 00:05:09,842 --> 00:05:12,378 TO THE 2020 ELECTION AS 188 00:05:12,445 --> 00:05:13,613 "A COUP," MAKING HER EXPLANATION 189 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:14,914 OF WHY SHE DECIDED TO RUN FOR 190 00:05:14,981 --> 00:05:17,116 OFFICE A BIT WORRISOME. 191 00:05:17,183 --> 00:05:19,952 >> I DECIDED TO RUN FOR 192 00:05:20,019 --> 00:05:22,221 SECRETARY OF STATE WHEN I SAW 193 00:05:22,288 --> 00:05:23,556 THE VERY INCONSISTENCIES IN THIS 194 00:05:23,623 --> 00:05:25,992 LAST ELECTION, YOU KNOW. 195 00:05:26,059 --> 00:05:27,193 I FEEL THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE, 196 00:05:27,260 --> 00:05:29,062 WHETHER WE CAN PROVE IT OR NOT, 197 00:05:29,128 --> 00:05:30,029 FEEL THAT THIS ELECTION WAS 198 00:05:30,096 --> 00:05:32,065 STOLEN. 199 00:05:32,131 --> 00:05:32,999 >> John: WAIT, WAIT, "WHETHER WE 200 00:05:33,066 --> 00:05:34,834 CAN PROVE IT OR NOT?" 201 00:05:34,901 --> 00:05:36,469 BUT THAT'S A PRETTY BIG 202 00:05:36,536 --> 00:05:38,604 LOOPHOLE, ISN'T IT, AUDREY? 203 00:05:38,671 --> 00:05:40,239 WE ALL BELIEVE PLENTY OF THINGS 204 00:05:40,306 --> 00:05:41,874 THAT WE CAN'T PROVE, BUT WE 205 00:05:41,941 --> 00:05:42,508 SHOULDN'T BASE MAJOR LIFE 206 00:05:42,575 --> 00:05:44,077 DECISIONS ON THEM. 207 00:05:44,143 --> 00:05:45,478 FOR INSTANCE, I CAN'T PROVE 208 00:05:45,545 --> 00:05:49,782 THAT, IN HIS DAY, BELOVED 209 00:05:49,849 --> 00:05:51,751 CHILDREN'S AUTHOR OF "THE GIVING 210 00:05:51,818 --> 00:05:52,652 TREE" SHEL SILVERSTEIN WAS 211 00:05:52,719 --> 00:05:54,053 FUCKING NONSTOP. 212 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:54,954 I BELIEVE IT, THOUGH! 213 00:05:55,021 --> 00:05:57,123 LOOK AT HIM. 214 00:05:57,190 --> 00:05:58,591 NOW YOU BELIEVE IT, TOO! 215 00:05:58,658 --> 00:05:59,592 LOOK AT AMERICA'S FIRST FUCK 216 00:05:59,659 --> 00:06:00,226 BOY, HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE THE 217 00:06:00,293 --> 00:06:01,527 SIDEWALK ENDS. 218 00:06:01,594 --> 00:06:02,929 [LAUGHTER] 219 00:06:02,995 --> 00:06:03,796 BUT AGAIN, WE CAN'T PROVE IT, 220 00:06:03,863 --> 00:06:04,597 CAN WE? 221 00:06:04,664 --> 00:06:06,766 SO WE JUST KEEP THAT BELIEF IN 222 00:06:06,833 --> 00:06:08,968 OUR HEARTS, AND TRY NOT TO USE 223 00:06:09,035 --> 00:06:09,936 IT AS MOTIVATION TO COMPLETELY 224 00:06:10,002 --> 00:06:11,270 DISMANTLE DEMOCRACY. 225 00:06:11,337 --> 00:06:12,872 IT'S THE LEAST THAT WE CAN DO! 226 00:06:12,939 --> 00:06:13,773 AND THEN THERE IS KRISTINA 227 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:14,607 KARAMO, WHO'S RUNNING FOR 228 00:06:14,674 --> 00:06:16,175 SECRETARY OF STATE IN MICHIGAN, 229 00:06:16,242 --> 00:06:18,678 AND WHO IS REALLY SOMETHING. 230 00:06:18,745 --> 00:06:19,946 >> KRISTINA KARAMO HAS NOT BEEN 231 00:06:20,012 --> 00:06:21,147 SHY IN INSISTING THERE WAS 232 00:06:21,214 --> 00:06:22,582 WIDESPREAD CHEATING IN THE 2020 233 00:06:22,648 --> 00:06:24,784 VOTE, TOUTING DEBUNKED CLAIMS 234 00:06:24,851 --> 00:06:25,818 AND SAYING DONALD TRUMP WAS THE 235 00:06:25,885 --> 00:06:27,487 TRUE WINNER IN MICHIGAN. 236 00:06:27,553 --> 00:06:28,654 HER MOST INFLAMMATORY LANGUAGE 237 00:06:28,721 --> 00:06:30,389 IS AIMED AT DEMOCRATS. 238 00:06:30,456 --> 00:06:31,524 >> THEIR PARTY HAS TOTALLY BEEN 239 00:06:31,591 --> 00:06:33,459 TAKEN OVER BY A SATANIC AGENDA. 240 00:06:33,526 --> 00:06:34,227 >> INCLUDING MICHIGAN'S CURRENT 241 00:06:34,293 --> 00:06:35,695 SECRETARY OF STATE. 242 00:06:35,762 --> 00:06:37,964 >> SHE'S AN EVIL WOMAN. 243 00:06:38,030 --> 00:06:38,564 SHE'S A VERY, EVIL, EVIL, EVIL 244 00:06:38,631 --> 00:06:39,599 WOMAN. 245 00:06:39,665 --> 00:06:42,235 >> John: OKAY, OBVIOUSLY, 246 00:06:42,301 --> 00:06:43,436 DEMOCRATS DON'T HAVE A SATANIC 247 00:06:43,503 --> 00:06:44,804 AGENDA, MAINLY BECAUSE THAT 248 00:06:44,871 --> 00:06:45,671 WOULD REQUIRE HAVING AN AGENDA 249 00:06:45,738 --> 00:06:48,241 IN THE FIRST PLACE. 250 00:06:48,307 --> 00:06:49,675 [LAUGHTER] 251 00:06:49,742 --> 00:06:50,543 ALSO, FOR THE RECORD, MICHIGAN'S 252 00:06:50,610 --> 00:06:53,646 CURRENT SECRETARY OF STATE, 253 00:06:53,713 --> 00:06:57,049 JOCELYN BENSON, IS NOT EVIL, 254 00:06:57,116 --> 00:06:58,551 EVIL, EVIL. 255 00:06:58,618 --> 00:06:59,485 IN FACT, JUST GO TO HER 256 00:06:59,552 --> 00:07:00,553 WIKIPEDIA PAGE, AND LOOK FOR THE 257 00:07:00,620 --> 00:07:01,354 SECTION ENTITLED "HORRIBLE ACTS 258 00:07:01,420 --> 00:07:02,421 OF EVIL." 259 00:07:02,488 --> 00:07:03,756 IT IS JUST NOT THERE. 260 00:07:03,823 --> 00:07:04,757 ALTHOUGH YOU WILL FIND THAT "SHE 261 00:07:04,824 --> 00:07:05,558 HAS COMPLETED 23 FULL MARATHONS 262 00:07:05,625 --> 00:07:06,626 SINCE 2005." 263 00:07:06,692 --> 00:07:07,660 BUT THAT'S NOT EVIL, IS IT? 264 00:07:07,727 --> 00:07:08,895 IT'S JUST ANNOYING. 265 00:07:08,961 --> 00:07:10,096 [LAUGHTER] 266 00:07:10,163 --> 00:07:11,130 NO JUDGMENT, BUT THE ONLY REASON 267 00:07:11,197 --> 00:07:12,098 TO RUN THAT MANY MARATHONS IS 268 00:07:12,165 --> 00:07:13,032 BECAUSE YOU LIKE BRAGGING TO 269 00:07:13,099 --> 00:07:14,167 YOUR FRIENDS, OR YOU'RE HORNY 270 00:07:14,233 --> 00:07:15,601 FOR STOPPING TRAFFIC. 271 00:07:15,668 --> 00:07:18,271 THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO OPTIONS. 272 00:07:18,337 --> 00:07:19,539 [LAUGHTER] 273 00:07:19,605 --> 00:07:20,840 BUT LOOK, EXTREME VIEWS ON 274 00:07:20,907 --> 00:07:22,208 ELECTION FRAUD ARE PAR FOR THE 275 00:07:22,275 --> 00:07:23,242 COURSE FOR THIS COALITION. 276 00:07:23,309 --> 00:07:24,510 THE THING WITH KARAMO IS THAT 277 00:07:24,577 --> 00:07:25,645 SHE HAS A LOT OF OTHER VIEWS, 278 00:07:25,711 --> 00:07:26,679 TOO. 279 00:07:26,746 --> 00:07:28,114 >> SHE SUGGESTED IN A PODCAST 280 00:07:28,181 --> 00:07:29,182 THAT PREMARITAL SEX PAVES THE 281 00:07:29,248 --> 00:07:30,516 WAY FOR SOCIETY CONDONING 282 00:07:30,583 --> 00:07:31,784 PEDOPHILIA. 283 00:07:31,851 --> 00:07:35,555 >> WHEN WE NORMALIZE PEOPLE 284 00:07:35,621 --> 00:07:36,856 FORNICATING, AND WE NORMALIZE 285 00:07:36,923 --> 00:07:38,424 PEOPLE LIVING TOGETHER WITH 286 00:07:38,491 --> 00:07:39,292 THEIR BOYFRIENDS AND 287 00:07:39,358 --> 00:07:41,594 GIRLFRIENDS, ALL THIS STUFF, WE 288 00:07:41,661 --> 00:07:42,995 OPEN A DOOR TO US TO GET TO THE 289 00:07:43,062 --> 00:07:43,696 POINT WHERE WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO 290 00:07:43,763 --> 00:07:45,965 WANT TO NORMALIZE PEDOPHILIA. 291 00:07:46,032 --> 00:07:46,933 >> SHE ALSO REFERRED TO 292 00:07:46,999 --> 00:07:48,000 HERSELF AS AN ANTI-VAXXER BEFORE 293 00:07:48,067 --> 00:07:48,534 THE COVID-19 VACCINES WERE 294 00:07:48,601 --> 00:07:49,836 AUTHORIZED. 295 00:07:49,902 --> 00:07:51,337 >> [WHISPERING] 296 00:07:51,404 --> 00:07:52,939 GUESS WHAT, I'M CRAZY. 297 00:07:53,005 --> 00:07:54,540 I'M AN ANTI-VAXXER. 298 00:07:54,607 --> 00:07:55,608 >> John: OH, COME ON, YOU DON'T 299 00:07:55,675 --> 00:07:57,076 SOUND CRAZY, WHISPERED VOICE ON 300 00:07:57,143 --> 00:07:59,178 THE PHONE. 301 00:07:59,245 --> 00:08:00,112 [LAUGHTER] 302 00:08:00,179 --> 00:08:01,681 AND WHILE THERE'S A LOT TO 303 00:08:01,747 --> 00:08:02,615 OBJECT TO THERE, "WE NORMALIZE 304 00:08:02,682 --> 00:08:03,216 PEOPLE FORNICATING AND LIVING 305 00:08:03,282 --> 00:08:05,284 TOGETHER AS BOYFRIEND AND 306 00:08:05,351 --> 00:08:06,519 GIRLFRIEND" IS LIKE, TEN FAKE 307 00:08:06,586 --> 00:08:07,987 MORAL PANICS AGO. 308 00:08:08,054 --> 00:08:09,856 I'M NOT SAYING SHE'S NOT WRONG, 309 00:08:09,922 --> 00:08:12,658 IT'S JUST SHE'S WRONG IN SUCH AN 310 00:08:12,725 --> 00:08:14,060 OUTDATED WAY, IT'S LIKE FINDING 311 00:08:14,126 --> 00:08:15,027 OUT SOMEONE'S MAD AT 312 00:08:15,094 --> 00:08:15,761 BILL CLINTON FOR TRYING WEED. 313 00:08:15,828 --> 00:08:17,530 YOU'RE UPSET ABOUT THAT? 314 00:08:17,597 --> 00:08:19,198 TODAY? 315 00:08:19,265 --> 00:08:19,999 I MEAN, YOU'RE WRONG FOR BEING 316 00:08:20,066 --> 00:08:21,167 MAD ABOUT THAT BUT EVEN WORSE, 317 00:08:21,234 --> 00:08:24,570 YOU'RE LATE. 318 00:08:24,637 --> 00:08:26,706 LOOK, THESE ARE JUST THREE OF 319 00:08:26,772 --> 00:08:27,273 THE WORRYING CANDIDATES FOR 320 00:08:27,340 --> 00:08:31,577 SECRETARY OF STATE AROUND THE 321 00:08:31,644 --> 00:08:36,148 COUNTRY. 322 00:08:36,215 --> 00:08:37,283 THERE ARE MANY, MANY OTHERS. 323 00:08:37,350 --> 00:08:37,817 WHICH SHOULD FRANKLY GIVE 324 00:08:37,884 --> 00:08:38,584 EVERYONE PAUSE. 325 00:08:38,651 --> 00:08:39,318 BECAUSE THE JANUARY 6TH 326 00:08:39,385 --> 00:08:40,152 COMMITTEE IS REMINDING EVERYONE 327 00:08:40,219 --> 00:08:41,153 JUST HOW CLOSE WE CAME TO 328 00:08:41,220 --> 00:08:42,021 DEMOCRACY BASICALLY COLLAPSING. 329 00:08:42,088 --> 00:08:43,055 IT WAS A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE IN 330 00:08:43,122 --> 00:08:43,956 THE RIGHT POSITION CHOOSING TO 331 00:08:44,023 --> 00:08:45,258 DO THE RIGHT THING THAT SAVED US 332 00:08:45,324 --> 00:08:45,925 FROM A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. 333 00:08:45,992 --> 00:08:46,959 BUT THERE ARE MULTIPLE 334 00:08:47,026 --> 00:08:48,027 CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR 335 00:08:48,094 --> 00:08:49,061 CONSEQUENTIAL POSITIONS RIGHT 336 00:08:49,128 --> 00:08:50,363 NOW ON THE PLATFORM OF 337 00:08:50,429 --> 00:08:51,931 BASICALLY, "LET'S DO THE COUP 338 00:08:51,998 --> 00:08:54,400 AGAIN, BUT BETTER NEXT TIME." 339 00:08:54,467 --> 00:08:55,701 AND IF YOU'RE NOT WORRIED ABOUT 340 00:08:55,768 --> 00:08:57,203 THAT, IF I MAY QUOTE A MAN WITH 341 00:08:57,270 --> 00:08:59,205 THE WORLD'S MOST CHAOTIC ZOOM 342 00:08:59,272 --> 00:09:00,306 BACKDROP, YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR 343 00:09:00,373 --> 00:09:01,474 FUCKING MIND. 344 00:09:01,540 --> 00:09:06,312 AND NOW, THIS. 345 00:09:06,379 --> 00:09:07,513 >> Announcer: AND NOW, IN 346 00:09:07,580 --> 00:09:10,116 HONOR OF FATHER'S DAY, ZADDIES. 347 00:09:10,182 --> 00:09:10,917 >> I HEARD YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A 348 00:09:10,983 --> 00:09:15,454 ZADDY IS! 349 00:09:15,521 --> 00:09:16,355 >> I DON'T. 350 00:09:16,422 --> 00:09:17,089 >> WHAT IS A ZADDY? 351 00:09:17,156 --> 00:09:18,124 >> A ZADDY IS A VERY HOT, 352 00:09:18,190 --> 00:09:18,891 SEXY OLDER MAN OLDER MAN. 353 00:09:18,958 --> 00:09:23,062 >> WHAT DOES THE "Z" STAND FOR? 354 00:09:23,129 --> 00:09:25,932 >> IT'S LIKE DADDY BUT WITH THE 355 00:09:25,998 --> 00:09:26,165 Z. 356 00:09:26,232 --> 00:09:28,034 DEFINED AS AN ATTRACTIVE MAN WHO 357 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:31,771 IS ALSO CHARMING AND CONFIDENT. 358 00:09:31,837 --> 00:09:33,005 >> ARE YOU A ZADDY? 359 00:09:33,072 --> 00:09:36,409 >> I DON'T THINK SO. 360 00:09:36,475 --> 00:09:37,610 >> ZADDIES STAY OVER THERE. 361 00:09:37,677 --> 00:09:41,047 >> DO WE QUALIFY AS ZADDIES? 362 00:09:41,113 --> 00:09:47,086 >> LET'S TALK ABOUT JEFF BEZOS, 363 00:09:47,153 --> 00:09:49,322 HE HAS ACHIEVED A LOT BUT NOW HE 364 00:09:49,388 --> 00:09:50,222 IS ADDING ZADDY. 365 00:09:50,289 --> 00:09:54,894 >> IS HE A ZADDY? 366 00:09:54,961 --> 00:09:55,861 >> 100% NOT. 367 00:09:55,928 --> 00:09:58,397 >> WHO IS MORE ZADDY? 368 00:09:58,464 --> 00:10:01,934 >> YOU ARE BOTH ZADDY. 369 00:10:02,001 --> 00:10:04,303 >> I WOULD SAY MY HUSBAND IS 370 00:10:04,370 --> 00:10:06,806 ZADDY. 371 00:10:06,872 --> 00:10:07,340 [LAUGHTER] 372 00:10:07,406 --> 00:10:09,342 >> THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT 373 00:10:09,408 --> 00:10:11,043 GARY DOWN THE HALLWAY TOO, BUT 374 00:10:11,110 --> 00:10:12,378 WHATEVER. 375 00:10:12,445 --> 00:10:13,879 [LAUGHTER] 376 00:10:13,946 --> 00:10:14,747 >> John: MOVING ON. 377 00:10:14,814 --> 00:10:15,748 OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT CONCERNS 378 00:10:15,815 --> 00:10:22,088 HOUSING. 379 00:10:22,154 --> 00:10:23,089 THE THING THAT 16-YEAR-OLD 380 00:10:23,155 --> 00:10:24,623 TIKTOK MILLIONAIRES CAN AFFORD, 381 00:10:24,690 --> 00:10:25,758 AND YOU CAN'T. 382 00:10:25,825 --> 00:10:26,659 HOUSING IS SOMETHING TV 383 00:10:26,726 --> 00:10:27,793 AUDIENCES CAN'T SEEM TO GET 384 00:10:27,860 --> 00:10:28,527 ENOUGH OF, WHETHER IT'S WATCHING 385 00:10:28,594 --> 00:10:29,528 ANGRY COUPLES HUNT FOR THE 386 00:10:29,595 --> 00:10:30,196 PERFECT PLACE TO GET DIVORCED 387 00:10:30,262 --> 00:10:31,230 IN, OR WATCHING CELEBRITIES 388 00:10:31,297 --> 00:10:32,198 GIVING ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST 389 00:10:32,264 --> 00:10:33,199 TOURS OF THEIR HOMES, AS THEY 390 00:10:33,265 --> 00:10:34,166 DISCOVER THINGS THAT WERE 391 00:10:34,233 --> 00:10:35,067 CLEARLY PUT THERE BY STYLISTS, 392 00:10:35,134 --> 00:10:36,102 AND OCCASIONALLY CALL IT OUT IN 393 00:10:36,168 --> 00:10:36,969 A GLORIOUSLY PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE 394 00:10:37,036 --> 00:10:38,404 WAY. 395 00:10:38,471 --> 00:10:39,605 >> I LOVE COOKING. 396 00:10:39,672 --> 00:10:41,741 I COOK A LOT AND I BAKE A LOT. 397 00:10:41,807 --> 00:10:42,942 >> I LOVE LIMES, I LOVE THEM, 398 00:10:43,009 --> 00:10:43,809 THEY'RE GREAT, I LOVE THEM SO 399 00:10:43,876 --> 00:10:44,910 MUCH AND I LIKE TO PRESENT THEM 400 00:10:44,977 --> 00:10:47,780 LIKE THIS IN MY HOUSE. 401 00:10:47,847 --> 00:10:50,583 [LAUGHTER] 402 00:10:50,649 --> 00:10:51,317 >> John: SHE'S SO MAGNIFICENTLY 403 00:10:51,384 --> 00:10:52,718 WEIRD. 404 00:10:52,785 --> 00:10:54,086 REAL DAKOTA-HEADS WILL KNOW THAT 405 00:10:54,153 --> 00:10:54,920 SHE LATER CLAIMED SHE IS, IN 406 00:10:54,987 --> 00:10:56,122 FACT, ACTUALLY ALLERGIC TO 407 00:10:56,188 --> 00:10:57,189 LIMES, SAYING "IT WAS HARD TO 408 00:10:57,256 --> 00:10:58,424 IGNORE THEM, SO I JUST LIED." 409 00:10:58,491 --> 00:10:59,792 BUT SHE MAY WELL HAVE JUST BEEN 410 00:10:59,859 --> 00:11:00,826 LYING ABOUT THAT AS WELL. 411 00:11:00,893 --> 00:11:01,560 SHE'S PURE CHAOS, I LOVE HER, 412 00:11:01,627 --> 00:11:03,963 SHE SHOULD BE THE PRESIDENT. 413 00:11:04,030 --> 00:11:05,231 [LAUGHTER] 414 00:11:05,297 --> 00:11:05,998 BUT THIS STORY ISN'T GOING TO BE 415 00:11:06,065 --> 00:11:06,932 ABOUT PEOPLE WHO OWN THEIR OWN, 416 00:11:06,999 --> 00:11:08,200 LIME-INFESTED HOMES. 417 00:11:08,267 --> 00:11:13,973 IT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT THE MORE 418 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:14,440 THAN 1/3 OF AMERICAN 419 00:11:14,507 --> 00:11:15,641 HOUSEHOLDS WHO RENT. 420 00:11:15,708 --> 00:11:16,776 AND IF YOU DO RENT, YOU'LL 421 00:11:16,842 --> 00:11:17,376 UNDOUBTEDLY BE AWARE OF WHAT'S 422 00:11:17,443 --> 00:11:18,611 BEEN HAPPENING RECENTLY. 423 00:11:18,677 --> 00:11:19,211 >> TONIGHT, SKYROCKETING RENTS 424 00:11:19,278 --> 00:11:19,979 FORCING A GROWING NUMBER OF 425 00:11:20,046 --> 00:11:20,780 AMERICANS TO THINK TWICE ABOUT 426 00:11:20,846 --> 00:11:21,981 WHERE HOME IS. 427 00:11:22,048 --> 00:11:22,948 >> RENT PRICES ACROSS THE 428 00:11:23,015 --> 00:11:24,350 COUNTRY SKYROCKETING. 429 00:11:24,417 --> 00:11:26,685 >> RENTS ARE RISING NATIONWIDE. 430 00:11:26,752 --> 00:11:28,821 >> RENTS ARE GOING WAY, WAY UP. 431 00:11:28,888 --> 00:11:29,588 >> John: YEAH, RENT IS 432 00:11:29,655 --> 00:11:31,323 SKYROCKETING. 433 00:11:31,390 --> 00:11:33,059 AND THAT IS THE LAST THING YOU 434 00:11:33,125 --> 00:11:34,693 WANT TO HEAR IS ON THE RISE, 435 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,028 ALONG WITH COVID CASES, MURDER 436 00:11:36,095 --> 00:11:36,796 RATES, AND HENRY KISSINGER'S 437 00:11:36,862 --> 00:11:39,598 LIFE EXPECTANCY. 438 00:11:39,665 --> 00:11:40,733 [LAUGHTER] 439 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:41,567 THE BITCH JUST WON'T QUIT, WILL 440 00:11:41,634 --> 00:11:43,736 HE? 441 00:11:43,803 --> 00:11:45,204 THE MEDIAN MONTHLY ASKING RENT 442 00:11:45,271 --> 00:11:46,672 IN THE U.S. SURPASSED $2,000 443 00:11:46,739 --> 00:11:49,475 FOR THE FIRST TIME LAST MONTH. 444 00:11:49,542 --> 00:11:50,810 THAT'S UP 15% SINCE THE SAME 445 00:11:50,876 --> 00:11:51,710 TIME LAST YEAR, WELL ABOVE THE 446 00:11:51,777 --> 00:11:53,579 RATE OF INFLATION. 447 00:11:53,646 --> 00:11:55,714 AND IT'S UP OVER 30% IN CITIES 448 00:11:55,781 --> 00:11:57,683 LIKE CINCINNATI, SEATTLE, AND 449 00:11:57,750 --> 00:11:59,118 NASHVILLE, AND NEARLY 50% IN 450 00:11:59,185 --> 00:12:00,853 AUSTIN. 451 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:02,221 YOU, OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW, MIGHT 452 00:12:02,288 --> 00:12:04,090 WELL BE STRUGGLING TO FIND A 453 00:12:04,156 --> 00:12:05,024 PLACE RIGHT NOW, OR ARE BEING 454 00:12:05,091 --> 00:12:06,192 PRICED OUT OF WHERE YOU 455 00:12:06,258 --> 00:12:08,194 CURRENTLY LIVE BY YOUR LANDLORD. 456 00:12:08,260 --> 00:12:10,429 BUT THE FACT IS, RENT 457 00:12:10,496 --> 00:12:11,130 AFFORDABILITY ISN'T A REMOTELY 458 00:12:11,197 --> 00:12:13,732 NEW PROBLEM. 459 00:12:13,799 --> 00:12:14,967 >> IF YOU LIVE IN NEW YORK, YOUR 460 00:12:15,034 --> 00:12:16,402 CITY BECAME UNAFFORDABLE TO RENT 461 00:12:16,469 --> 00:12:17,937 IN IN 2004. 462 00:12:18,003 --> 00:12:19,672 SEE THIS LINE? 463 00:12:19,738 --> 00:12:20,506 THAT LINE IS 30% OF WHAT YOU 464 00:12:20,573 --> 00:12:21,540 MAKE. 465 00:12:21,607 --> 00:12:22,708 GENERALLY, FOR RENT, IT'S 466 00:12:22,775 --> 00:12:23,609 ADVISED YOU DON'T SPEND PAST 467 00:12:23,676 --> 00:12:25,277 THAT LINE. 468 00:12:25,344 --> 00:12:26,679 BUT IF YOU LIVE IN MIAMI, YOU 469 00:12:26,745 --> 00:12:27,313 PROBABLY PASSED THAT LINE IN 470 00:12:27,379 --> 00:12:30,216 2001. 471 00:12:30,282 --> 00:12:32,118 AND IN CHICAGO IN 2012. 472 00:12:32,184 --> 00:12:33,486 LOS ANGELES HAS BEEN PLAIN 473 00:12:33,552 --> 00:12:35,721 UNAFFORDABLE SINCE BEFORE 1979. 474 00:12:35,788 --> 00:12:37,323 RENT IS GROWING FASTER THAN THE 475 00:12:37,389 --> 00:12:38,257 MONEY MOST PEOPLE MAKE TO PAY 476 00:12:38,324 --> 00:12:45,564 IT. 477 00:12:45,631 --> 00:12:47,566 >> John: IT'S TRUE, RENT IS 478 00:12:47,633 --> 00:12:49,068 GROWING FASTER THAN WAGES. 479 00:12:49,135 --> 00:12:50,002 IT'S A PROBLEM WE'VE KNOWN ABOUT 480 00:12:50,069 --> 00:12:50,769 FOR DECADES AND IS ONLY GETTING 481 00:12:50,836 --> 00:12:51,437 WORSE. 482 00:12:51,504 --> 00:12:52,404 WHICH WAS, I BELIEVE, A WORKING 483 00:12:52,471 --> 00:12:56,242 TITLE FOR THIS SHOW. 484 00:12:56,308 --> 00:13:00,813 IT WAS EITHER THAT, OR 485 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:01,714 "AMERICA'S SADDEST HOME VIDEOS 486 00:13:01,780 --> 00:13:03,649 WITH ADULT McLOVIN." 487 00:13:03,716 --> 00:13:04,483 [LAUGHTER] 488 00:13:04,550 --> 00:13:05,551 YOU'RE LAUGHING TOO HARD AT 489 00:13:05,618 --> 00:13:06,719 THAT. 490 00:13:06,785 --> 00:13:07,820 IN FACT, RIGHT NOW THERE'S NOT A 491 00:13:07,887 --> 00:13:08,554 SINGLE COUNTY IN THE U.S. WHERE 492 00:13:08,621 --> 00:13:09,321 A WORKER EARNING MINIMUM WAGE 493 00:13:09,388 --> 00:13:10,222 CAN AFFORD A MODEST TWO-BEDROOM 494 00:13:10,289 --> 00:13:15,227 RENTAL HOME. 495 00:13:15,294 --> 00:13:16,262 AND LOOK, THERE ARE UNDOUBTEDLY 496 00:13:16,328 --> 00:13:16,896 INDIVIDUAL LANDLORDS OUT THERE 497 00:13:16,962 --> 00:13:17,763 WHO BEHAVE DECENTLY TO THEIR 498 00:13:17,830 --> 00:13:18,664 TENANTS. 499 00:13:18,731 --> 00:13:19,598 BUT OTHERS WILL CONVENIENTLY 500 00:13:19,665 --> 00:13:20,499 BLAME "THE MARKET RATE" FOR 501 00:13:20,566 --> 00:13:23,636 EXTORTIONATE RENT HIKES, AND 502 00:13:23,702 --> 00:13:26,539 IMPLY THAT THE DECISION SIMPLY 503 00:13:26,605 --> 00:13:27,940 ISN'T THEIRS TO MAKE. 504 00:13:28,007 --> 00:13:28,841 JUST WATCH FINANCIAL GURU 505 00:13:28,908 --> 00:13:29,775 DAVE RAMSEY TRY AND REASSURE ONE 506 00:13:29,842 --> 00:13:30,643 LANDLORD WHO SAID HE FELT GUILTY 507 00:13:30,709 --> 00:13:31,911 ABOUT RAISING HIS RENTS ABOVE 508 00:13:31,977 --> 00:13:32,945 WHAT HIS TENANTS COULD AFFORD. 509 00:13:33,012 --> 00:13:35,047 >> IF I RAISE MY RENT TO BE 510 00:13:35,114 --> 00:13:36,048 MARKET RATE, THAT DOES NOT MAKE 511 00:13:36,115 --> 00:13:38,751 ME A BAD CHRISTIAN. 512 00:13:38,817 --> 00:13:41,320 I DID NOT DISPLACE THE PERSON 513 00:13:41,387 --> 00:13:42,321 OUT OF THAT HOUSE IF THEY CAN NO 514 00:13:42,388 --> 00:13:43,189 LONGER AFFORD IT, THE 515 00:13:43,255 --> 00:13:44,790 MARKETPLACE DID. 516 00:13:44,857 --> 00:13:48,027 THE ECONOMY DID. 517 00:13:48,093 --> 00:13:51,530 THE RATIO OF THE INCOME THAT 518 00:13:51,597 --> 00:13:52,431 THEY EARN TO THEIR HOUSING 519 00:13:52,498 --> 00:13:53,732 EXPENSE DISPLACED THEM. 520 00:13:53,799 --> 00:13:55,401 I DIDN'T CAUSE ANY OF THAT. 521 00:13:55,467 --> 00:13:56,402 >> John: OF COURSE, KICKING 522 00:13:56,468 --> 00:13:58,204 SOMEONE OUT OF YOUR HOUSE 523 00:13:58,270 --> 00:13:58,771 DOESN'T MAKE YOU A BAD 524 00:13:58,837 --> 00:13:59,705 CHRISTIAN. 525 00:13:59,772 --> 00:14:00,839 IT'S IN THE BEATITUDES: 526 00:14:00,906 --> 00:14:01,974 "BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT, 527 00:14:02,041 --> 00:14:02,541 FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF 528 00:14:02,608 --> 00:14:03,842 HEAVEN. 529 00:14:03,909 --> 00:14:05,144 FUCKED ARE THE POOR IN MONEY, 530 00:14:05,211 --> 00:14:05,744 FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF 531 00:14:05,811 --> 00:14:07,313 LANDLORDS. 532 00:14:07,379 --> 00:14:09,048 WAZZAAAAAAAAAAAA!" 533 00:14:09,114 --> 00:14:11,016 [LAUGHTER] 534 00:14:11,083 --> 00:14:12,451 SO GIVEN THAT RENTS ARE GOING UP 535 00:14:12,518 --> 00:14:14,053 AND SOME LANDLORDS SEEM TO THINK 536 00:14:14,119 --> 00:14:15,588 THAT'S COMPLETELY UNAVOIDABLE, 537 00:14:15,654 --> 00:14:16,889 WE THOUGHT, TONIGHT, WE'D LOOK 538 00:14:16,956 --> 00:14:18,624 AT RENTAL HOUSING: WHY IT'S 539 00:14:18,691 --> 00:14:19,792 INCREASINGLY EXPENSIVE, HOW 540 00:14:19,858 --> 00:14:21,227 STEEPLY THE SYSTEM IS STACKED 541 00:14:21,293 --> 00:14:22,328 AGAINST RENTERS, AND WHAT WE CAN 542 00:14:22,394 --> 00:14:23,662 DO TO COMBAT THAT. 543 00:14:23,729 --> 00:14:24,763 AND LET'S START WITH 544 00:14:24,830 --> 00:14:25,664 UNDERSTANDING OUR CURRENT 545 00:14:25,731 --> 00:14:26,932 HOUSING SUPPLY. 546 00:14:26,999 --> 00:14:28,801 YOU'LL OFTEN HEAR THAT HIGH 547 00:14:28,867 --> 00:14:30,069 RENTS ARE A SUPPLY AND DEMAND 548 00:14:30,135 --> 00:14:31,270 ISSUE: BASICALLY, TOO MANY 549 00:14:31,337 --> 00:14:34,673 RENTERS, NOT ENOUGH UNITS. 550 00:14:34,740 --> 00:14:35,774 AND THAT IS PARTIALLY TRUE. 551 00:14:35,841 --> 00:14:36,875 BECAUSE THERE CURRENTLY AREN'T 552 00:14:36,942 --> 00:14:37,843 NEARLY ENOUGH AFFORDABLE UNITS 553 00:14:37,910 --> 00:14:39,712 IN THE U.S. 554 00:14:39,778 --> 00:14:40,846 WHICH IS A LITTLE WEIRD TO THINK 555 00:14:40,913 --> 00:14:42,281 ABOUT, BECAUSE IF YOU LIVE IN 556 00:14:42,348 --> 00:14:43,549 ANY CITY, YOU PROBABLY SEE NEW 557 00:14:43,616 --> 00:14:45,017 BUILDINGS CROPPING UP ALL THE 558 00:14:45,084 --> 00:14:47,186 TIME, CALLED THINGS LIKE 559 00:14:47,253 --> 00:14:49,755 "4 EAST" OR "SUMMIT 3ELEVEN," 560 00:14:49,822 --> 00:14:51,190 WITH TAGLINES LIKE "LUXURY URBAN 561 00:14:51,257 --> 00:14:53,158 DWELLINGS DRIVEN BY DESIGN." 562 00:14:53,225 --> 00:14:54,126 THERE'S ALMOST CERTAINLY A 563 00:14:54,193 --> 00:14:54,994 COFFEE SHOP WITHOUT A BATHROOM 564 00:14:55,060 --> 00:14:57,363 ON THE GROUND FLOOR. 565 00:14:57,429 --> 00:14:58,497 [LAUGHTER] 566 00:14:58,564 --> 00:14:59,865 SO APARTMENTS ARE BEING BUILT. 567 00:14:59,932 --> 00:15:01,433 BUT THE PROBLEM IS, THANKS IN 568 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:02,801 PART TO LOCAL, NIMBY OPPOSITION 569 00:15:02,868 --> 00:15:04,303 TO MORE AFFORDABLE, MULTI-FAMILY 570 00:15:04,370 --> 00:15:05,104 HOUSING, IT'S MAINLY BEEN AT THE 571 00:15:05,170 --> 00:15:06,872 HIGH END. 572 00:15:06,939 --> 00:15:08,440 IN FACT, IN THE LAST THREE 573 00:15:08,507 --> 00:15:10,042 DECADES, THE NATIONAL STOCK OF 574 00:15:10,109 --> 00:15:11,944 RENTAL UNITS AVAILABLE ACTUALLY 575 00:15:12,011 --> 00:15:14,313 GREW BY MORE THAN 13 MILLION. 576 00:15:14,380 --> 00:15:15,581 BUT, CRUCIALLY, THE NUMBER OF 577 00:15:15,648 --> 00:15:17,283 UNITS AT THE LOWEST END OF THE 578 00:15:17,349 --> 00:15:18,117 MARKET FELL BY NEARLY FOUR 579 00:15:18,183 --> 00:15:19,918 MILLION. 580 00:15:19,985 --> 00:15:21,520 THAT MIGHT BE WHY IF YOU'VE EVER 581 00:15:21,587 --> 00:15:22,721 TRIED TO SEARCH FOR AFFORDABLE 582 00:15:22,788 --> 00:15:23,656 APARTMENTS IN YOUR AREA, GOOGLE 583 00:15:23,722 --> 00:15:25,291 JUST SAYS "NOPE." 584 00:15:25,357 --> 00:15:27,026 [LAUGHTER] 585 00:15:27,092 --> 00:15:28,594 AND THIS SERIOUS LACK OF NEW 586 00:15:28,661 --> 00:15:29,662 AFFORDABLE HOUSING HAS ENABLED 587 00:15:29,728 --> 00:15:31,063 LANDLORDS TO CHARGE HIGHER RENTS 588 00:15:31,130 --> 00:15:33,198 FOR THE UNITS THAT EXIST, 589 00:15:33,265 --> 00:15:35,100 SOMETHING THAT'S INCREASINGLY 590 00:15:35,167 --> 00:15:41,740 ATTRACTED INSTITUTIONAL 591 00:15:41,807 --> 00:15:42,841 INVESTORS: THESE ARE CORPORATE 592 00:15:42,908 --> 00:15:44,109 LANDLORDS, LIKE PRIVATE EQUITY 593 00:15:44,176 --> 00:15:45,377 FIRMS, OR EVEN PUBLICLY TRADED 594 00:15:45,444 --> 00:15:46,545 COMPANIES, THAT POOL THE RENTS 595 00:15:46,612 --> 00:15:47,913 OF THEIR TENANTS AND SELL THEM 596 00:15:47,980 --> 00:15:49,281 AS INVESTMENTS. 597 00:15:49,348 --> 00:15:50,482 THEY'VE LONG BEEN PLAYERS IN 598 00:15:50,549 --> 00:15:51,550 APARTMENT RENTALS, BUT MORE 599 00:15:51,617 --> 00:15:52,685 RECENTLY, AFTER THE 2008 HOUSING 600 00:15:52,751 --> 00:15:54,153 CRASH, COMPANIES LIKE THESE 601 00:15:54,219 --> 00:15:55,754 POPPED UP TO SNAP UP 602 00:15:55,821 --> 00:15:57,189 SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES AND RENT 603 00:15:57,256 --> 00:15:58,557 THEM OUT. 604 00:15:58,624 --> 00:15:59,892 AND BECAUSE INSTITUTIONAL 605 00:15:59,958 --> 00:16:00,959 INVESTORS ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO 606 00:16:01,026 --> 00:16:01,927 MAXIMIZE RETURNS, THEY'LL TAKE 607 00:16:01,994 --> 00:16:03,195 ANY OPPORTUNITY TO PUSH RENTS 608 00:16:03,262 --> 00:16:04,363 HIGHER. 609 00:16:04,430 --> 00:16:05,597 TAKE MONARCH, WHICH HAS BEEN 610 00:16:05,664 --> 00:16:06,432 CALLED MIDDLE AMERICA'S 611 00:16:06,498 --> 00:16:07,566 FASTEST-GROWING LANDLORD. 612 00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:09,335 HERE IS THEIR OWNER LAST YEAR 613 00:16:09,401 --> 00:16:10,502 SALIVATING AT THE PROSPECT OF 614 00:16:10,569 --> 00:16:12,171 RENT HIKES. 615 00:16:12,237 --> 00:16:13,839 >> WE HAVE AN UNPRECEDENTED 616 00:16:13,906 --> 00:16:15,741 OPPORTUNITY, AT LEAST IN MY 617 00:16:15,808 --> 00:16:18,043 WORKING LIFETIME, TO REALLY 618 00:16:18,110 --> 00:16:19,878 PRESS RENTS, PRESS RENTS ON 619 00:16:19,945 --> 00:16:20,979 RENEWALS BECAUSE THE COUNTRY IS 620 00:16:21,046 --> 00:16:22,314 HIGHLY OCCUPIED. 621 00:16:22,381 --> 00:16:24,516 WE'RE 97.5%. 622 00:16:24,583 --> 00:16:25,284 AND SO, WHERE ARE PEOPLE GOING 623 00:16:25,351 --> 00:16:26,218 TO GO? 624 00:16:26,285 --> 00:16:27,820 THEY CAN'T GO ANYWHERE. 625 00:16:27,886 --> 00:16:29,254 THEY WANT TO BE IN APARTMENTS, 626 00:16:29,321 --> 00:16:30,155 OR THEY HAVE TO BE IN 627 00:16:30,222 --> 00:16:31,457 APARTMENTS, AND WE HAVE A 628 00:16:31,523 --> 00:16:34,226 TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY TO PRESS 629 00:16:34,293 --> 00:16:36,962 BOTH ON RENEWING LEASES FOR 630 00:16:37,029 --> 00:16:39,231 EXISTING RESIDENTS, AND TO RESET 631 00:16:39,298 --> 00:16:41,533 MARKET RATES, WHICH WE'VE RESET 632 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:42,868 NUMEROUS TIMES EVEN THIS YEAR. 633 00:16:42,935 --> 00:16:44,570 >> John: WOW. 634 00:16:44,636 --> 00:16:46,138 "THEY CAN'T GO ANYWHERE, AND FOR 635 00:16:46,205 --> 00:16:47,840 US, THAT'S AN UNPRECEDENTED 636 00:16:47,906 --> 00:16:50,042 OPPORTUNITY TO PRESS THEM." 637 00:16:50,109 --> 00:16:50,743 THAT IS A TERRIBLE WAY TO TALK 638 00:16:50,809 --> 00:16:53,112 ABOUT PEOPLE. 639 00:16:53,178 --> 00:16:53,946 HONESTLY, IT'S BARELY AN 640 00:16:54,012 --> 00:16:54,813 ACCEPTABLE WAY TO TALK ABOUT 641 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,382 PANINIS. 642 00:16:56,448 --> 00:16:57,549 "THOSE SANDWICHES CAN'T GO 643 00:16:57,616 --> 00:17:00,386 ANYWHERE, FUCK IT, PRESS 'EM. 644 00:17:00,452 --> 00:17:01,653 SQUEEZE THOSE FUCKERS! 645 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:05,224 I WANNA SEE LINES!" 646 00:17:05,290 --> 00:17:05,491 [LAUGHTER] 647 00:17:05,557 --> 00:17:10,362 SO IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHY YOUR 648 00:17:10,429 --> 00:17:11,397 RENT IS GOING UP, IT MAY WELL 649 00:17:11,463 --> 00:17:12,664 BE BECAUSE YOUR LANDLORD SEES 650 00:17:12,731 --> 00:17:14,099 THE CURRENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING 651 00:17:14,166 --> 00:17:15,300 CRISIS AS A CHANCE TO "RESET 652 00:17:15,367 --> 00:17:16,535 MARKET RATES." 653 00:17:16,602 --> 00:17:17,803 AND IN A LOT OF THE COUNTRY, 654 00:17:17,870 --> 00:17:18,670 THERE ARE VERY FEW LEGAL 655 00:17:18,737 --> 00:17:19,738 CONSTRAINTS TO STOP THEM DOING 656 00:17:19,805 --> 00:17:21,206 THAT. 657 00:17:21,273 --> 00:17:22,174 YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF "RENT 658 00:17:22,241 --> 00:17:23,242 CONTROL," WHICH STRICTLY LIMITS 659 00:17:23,308 --> 00:17:24,610 HOW MUCH A LANDLORD CAN CHARGE 660 00:17:24,676 --> 00:17:25,978 YOU, BUT VANISHINGLY FEW PEOPLE 661 00:17:26,044 --> 00:17:27,246 HAVE ACCESS TO THAT ANYMORE. 662 00:17:27,312 --> 00:17:28,380 MORE COMMONLY, THERE'S RENT 663 00:17:28,447 --> 00:17:29,448 STABILIZATION. 664 00:17:29,515 --> 00:17:30,849 WHICH, IN THEORY, MEANS THAT ON 665 00:17:30,916 --> 00:17:32,151 CERTAIN OLDER PROPERTIES, 666 00:17:32,217 --> 00:17:33,385 LANDLORDS CAN ONLY RAISE THE 667 00:17:33,452 --> 00:17:34,319 RENT BY A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE PER 668 00:17:34,386 --> 00:17:35,387 YEAR. 669 00:17:35,454 --> 00:17:36,822 BUT ONLY TWO STATES AND DC 670 00:17:36,889 --> 00:17:38,290 REQUIRE IT, AND MORE THAN 30 671 00:17:38,357 --> 00:17:39,324 STATES HAVE ACTUALLY PASSED LAWS 672 00:17:39,391 --> 00:17:41,160 BANNING IT. 673 00:17:41,226 --> 00:17:42,594 AND EVEN WHEN PROTECTIONS EXIST, 674 00:17:42,661 --> 00:17:43,395 LANDLORDS CAN FIND WAYS AROUND 675 00:17:43,462 --> 00:17:45,030 THEM. 676 00:17:45,097 --> 00:17:46,298 FOR INSTANCE, THEY MIGHT TRY AND 677 00:17:46,365 --> 00:17:47,633 FORCE RENT-STABILIZED TENANTS 678 00:17:47,699 --> 00:17:49,067 OUT BY ALLOWING A PROPERTY TO 679 00:17:49,134 --> 00:17:50,769 FALL INTO DISREPAIR. 680 00:17:50,836 --> 00:17:52,271 OR BY HARASSING THEM WITH 681 00:17:52,337 --> 00:17:53,672 INCESSANT CONSTRUCTION UNTIL 682 00:17:53,739 --> 00:17:55,641 THEY VOLUNTARILY LEAVE. 683 00:17:55,707 --> 00:17:56,875 TAKE THE RENT-STABILIZED TENANTS 684 00:17:56,942 --> 00:17:57,810 WHO LIVED IN THIS BUILDING IN 685 00:17:57,876 --> 00:17:59,445 NEW YORK. 686 00:17:59,511 --> 00:18:00,913 THEIR LANDLORD CLAIMED HE WAS 687 00:18:00,979 --> 00:18:02,014 SIMPLY UPGRADING IT TO IMPROVE 688 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,183 TENANTS' QUALITY OF LIFE. 689 00:18:04,249 --> 00:18:04,883 BUT THAT IS NOT HOW IT FELT TO 690 00:18:04,950 --> 00:18:06,485 THEM. 691 00:18:06,552 --> 00:18:08,420 >> TENANTS SAY THEY WERE OFFERED 692 00:18:08,487 --> 00:18:09,822 BUYOUTS TO LEAVE, BUT SOME, LIKE 693 00:18:09,888 --> 00:18:11,089 GEORGE MANATOS AND GRETCHEN 694 00:18:11,156 --> 00:18:12,658 MONGRAIN, WHO'VE LIVED HERE FOR 695 00:18:12,724 --> 00:18:14,927 ALMOST TEN YEARS, OPTED TO STAY. 696 00:18:14,993 --> 00:18:15,761 A DECISION THEY SAY CAME WITH A 697 00:18:15,828 --> 00:18:17,296 WARNING. 698 00:18:17,362 --> 00:18:19,264 >> WELL, IF YOU DON'T TAKE THE 699 00:18:19,331 --> 00:18:22,167 BUYOUT, WE ARE GOING TO RENOVATE 700 00:18:22,234 --> 00:18:23,535 THIS AND YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE 701 00:18:23,602 --> 00:18:24,970 TO LIVE THROUGH THE NIGHTMARE OF 702 00:18:25,037 --> 00:18:26,205 RENOVATION. 703 00:18:26,271 --> 00:18:27,306 >> MONGRAIN SAYS THE UNIT NEXT 704 00:18:27,372 --> 00:18:28,674 TO HER WAS DEMOLISHED WITH A 705 00:18:28,740 --> 00:18:29,741 CROWBAR. 706 00:18:29,808 --> 00:18:30,809 WHEN SHE ASKED ABOUT THE NOISE 707 00:18:30,876 --> 00:18:32,377 AND DEBRIS LEFT BEHIND -- 708 00:18:32,444 --> 00:18:34,546 >> ALL THE PERSON SAID WAS, "I 709 00:18:34,613 --> 00:18:35,747 JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW 710 00:18:35,814 --> 00:18:37,316 THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF 711 00:18:37,382 --> 00:18:42,154 RATS FROM NOW ON." 712 00:18:42,221 --> 00:18:45,657 >> John: YOU KNOW, IT SAYS A LOT 713 00:18:45,724 --> 00:18:46,725 THAT THEY WOULD ENDURE A 714 00:18:46,792 --> 00:18:47,693 RAT-LITTERED CONSTRUCTION SITE 715 00:18:47,759 --> 00:18:51,964 JUST TO HOLD ONTO A 716 00:18:52,030 --> 00:18:54,700 RENT-STABILIZED UNIT, BECAUSE 717 00:18:54,766 --> 00:18:55,367 THAT'S NOT EXACTLY A WELCOMING 718 00:18:55,434 --> 00:18:56,468 MESSAGE. 719 00:18:56,535 --> 00:18:58,470 IF YOU WENT TO SOMEBODY'S HOME 720 00:18:58,537 --> 00:18:59,238 AND THEIR WELCOME MAT SAID 721 00:18:59,304 --> 00:19:00,272 "THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF 722 00:19:00,339 --> 00:19:02,007 RATS FROM NOW ON," YOU'D DROP 723 00:19:02,074 --> 00:19:02,774 YOUR CASSEROLE DISH THEN AND 724 00:19:02,841 --> 00:19:06,979 THERE AND TURN THE FUCK AROUND. 725 00:19:07,045 --> 00:19:07,946 THEREBY INSTANTLY FALLING RIGHT 726 00:19:08,013 --> 00:19:10,315 INTO THE RATS' TRAP. 727 00:19:10,382 --> 00:19:11,483 [LAUGHTER] 728 00:19:11,550 --> 00:19:12,551 AND IT'S WORTH NOTING: WHEN 729 00:19:12,618 --> 00:19:13,285 RENT-STABILIZED TENANTS DID 730 00:19:13,352 --> 00:19:14,253 LEAVE THAT BUILDING, THE ASKING 731 00:19:14,319 --> 00:19:15,187 RENTS, UNSURPRISINGLY, THEN AS 732 00:19:15,254 --> 00:19:16,121 MUCH AS DOUBLED. 733 00:19:16,188 --> 00:19:17,189 AND I ASSUME THOSE APARTMENTS 734 00:19:17,256 --> 00:19:18,056 WERE THEN SNAPPED UP BY A NICE 735 00:19:18,123 --> 00:19:18,790 YOUNG RAT COUPLE WITH RICH 736 00:19:18,857 --> 00:19:19,691 TASTES AND DISPOSABLE INCOME. 737 00:19:19,758 --> 00:19:20,759 I BELIEVE WE HAVE A PHOTO? 738 00:19:20,826 --> 00:19:21,793 THERE IT IS. 739 00:19:21,860 --> 00:19:24,129 THEY SEEM NICE. 740 00:19:24,196 --> 00:19:25,163 [LAUGHTER] 741 00:19:25,230 --> 00:19:26,732 AND WITH RENTS BEING SQUEEZED 742 00:19:26,798 --> 00:19:27,499 ACROSS THE BOARD, AND 743 00:19:27,566 --> 00:19:29,101 PROTECTIONS FEW AND FAR BETWEEN, 744 00:19:29,167 --> 00:19:30,469 LOWER-INCOME RENTERS ARE, 745 00:19:30,536 --> 00:19:31,770 OBVIOUSLY, THE MOST VULNERABLE. 746 00:19:31,837 --> 00:19:33,238 EVEN BEFORE THE PANDEMIC STRUCK, 747 00:19:33,305 --> 00:19:34,439 23 MILLION PEOPLE LIVED IN 748 00:19:34,506 --> 00:19:35,307 HOUSEHOLDS THAT PAID MORE THAN 749 00:19:35,374 --> 00:19:36,074 HALF THEIR INCOME ON RENT AND 750 00:19:36,141 --> 00:19:37,843 UTILITIES. 751 00:19:37,910 --> 00:19:38,844 WHICH IS JUST NOT SUSTAINABLE 752 00:19:38,911 --> 00:19:40,612 FOR ANYONE. 753 00:19:40,679 --> 00:19:41,914 NOW, IN THEORY, WE HAVE 754 00:19:41,980 --> 00:19:42,614 SOMETHING DESIGNED TO COMBAT 755 00:19:42,681 --> 00:19:44,049 THAT. 756 00:19:44,116 --> 00:19:45,417 FEDERAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE IN 757 00:19:45,484 --> 00:19:46,485 THE FORM OF HOUSING CHOICE 758 00:19:46,552 --> 00:19:47,252 VOUCHERS, COMMONLY KNOWN AS 759 00:19:47,319 --> 00:19:49,187 "SECTION 8." 760 00:19:49,254 --> 00:19:50,522 THE IDEA BEHIND THEM IS THAT A 761 00:19:50,589 --> 00:19:51,690 HOUSEHOLD STILL HAS TO PAY 762 00:19:51,757 --> 00:19:53,358 30% OF ITS MONTHLY INCOME FOR 763 00:19:53,425 --> 00:19:54,826 RENT AND UTILITIES, BUT THE 764 00:19:54,893 --> 00:19:56,028 GOVERNMENT WILL HELP COVER THE 765 00:19:56,094 --> 00:19:59,898 REST. 766 00:19:59,965 --> 00:20:01,266 THE PROBLEM IS, THE PROGRAM IS 767 00:20:01,333 --> 00:20:02,267 MASSIVELY UNDERFUNDED, TO THE 768 00:20:02,334 --> 00:20:03,969 POINT THAT ONLY 1 IN 4 769 00:20:04,036 --> 00:20:04,970 HOUSEHOLDS THAT QUALIFY FOR 770 00:20:05,037 --> 00:20:06,438 ASSISTANCE ACTUALLY RECEIVE IT. 771 00:20:06,505 --> 00:20:07,506 AS WE'VE SHOWN ON THIS SHOW 772 00:20:07,573 --> 00:20:08,974 BEFORE, SOMETIMES PEOPLE HAVE 773 00:20:09,041 --> 00:20:10,409 LITERALLY RACED TO APPLY FOR 774 00:20:10,475 --> 00:20:11,276 VOUCHERS WHEN THEY BECAME 775 00:20:11,343 --> 00:20:12,945 AVAILABLE. 776 00:20:13,011 --> 00:20:14,313 AND EVEN ONCE YOU'VE APPLIED, 777 00:20:14,379 --> 00:20:15,180 THE WAITING PERIOD CAN BE 778 00:20:15,247 --> 00:20:17,316 ABSURD. 779 00:20:17,382 --> 00:20:18,917 TAKE CHICAGO ALDERWOMAN JEANETTE 780 00:20:18,984 --> 00:20:20,919 TAYLOR, WHOSE APPLICATION TOOK A 781 00:20:20,986 --> 00:20:22,020 RIDICULOUSLY LONG TIME TO BE 782 00:20:22,087 --> 00:20:23,422 APPROVED. 783 00:20:23,488 --> 00:20:24,756 >> WHEN DID YOU APPLY FOR THIS 784 00:20:24,823 --> 00:20:25,591 VOUCHER? 785 00:20:25,657 --> 00:20:27,159 >> IN 1993. 786 00:20:27,225 --> 00:20:30,829 >> AND WHEN DID YOU GET IT? 787 00:20:30,896 --> 00:20:34,366 >> 2022. 788 00:20:34,433 --> 00:20:36,401 SO 29 YEARS. 789 00:20:36,468 --> 00:20:37,202 >> WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN 790 00:20:37,269 --> 00:20:38,804 YOU GOT THAT LETTER? 791 00:20:38,870 --> 00:20:40,572 >> I JUST SAT ON THE SIDE OF THE 792 00:20:40,639 --> 00:20:42,074 BED FOR LIKE AN HOUR IN SHOCK. 793 00:20:42,140 --> 00:20:42,941 AND I WAS LIKE, GOD, YOU GOT A 794 00:20:43,008 --> 00:20:44,977 SICK SENSE OF HUMOR. 795 00:20:45,043 --> 00:20:46,244 >> John: I MEAN, SHE'S RIGHT, 796 00:20:46,311 --> 00:20:49,481 HE DOES. 797 00:20:49,548 --> 00:20:50,282 ALTHOUGH TO BE HONEST, I PREFER 798 00:20:50,349 --> 00:20:51,483 GOD'S EARLY STUFF. 799 00:20:51,550 --> 00:20:52,250 CONVINCING ABRAHAM TO ALMOST 800 00:20:52,317 --> 00:20:53,752 KILL HIS SON AS A PRANK? 801 00:20:53,819 --> 00:20:54,920 VERY FUNNY. 802 00:20:54,987 --> 00:20:55,921 FLOODING THE WORLD AND MAKING 803 00:20:55,988 --> 00:20:57,556 ONE GUY GET EVERY ANIMAL SPECIES 804 00:20:57,623 --> 00:20:58,523 TO FUCK ON A BOAT? 805 00:20:58,590 --> 00:21:00,892 HILARIOUS! 806 00:21:00,959 --> 00:21:02,127 [LAUGHTER] 807 00:21:02,194 --> 00:21:03,028 BUT A HOUSING VOUCHER THAT'S 29 808 00:21:03,095 --> 00:21:04,329 YEARS LATE? 809 00:21:04,396 --> 00:21:05,230 I DUNNO. 810 00:21:05,297 --> 00:21:07,566 THAT DOES START TO FEEL LIKE 811 00:21:07,633 --> 00:21:09,034 GOD'S RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS. 812 00:21:09,101 --> 00:21:10,135 AND EVEN IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH 813 00:21:10,202 --> 00:21:11,069 TO GET A VOUCHER, YOU STILL THEN 814 00:21:11,136 --> 00:21:12,337 HAVE TO FIND A LANDLORD WILLING 815 00:21:12,404 --> 00:21:13,772 TO ACCEPT IT. 816 00:21:13,839 --> 00:21:15,040 BUT MANY LANDLORDS DON'T, EITHER 817 00:21:15,107 --> 00:21:16,174 BECAUSE THEY SEE IT AS A 818 00:21:16,241 --> 00:21:17,809 BUREAUCRATIC HASSLE, OR BECAUSE 819 00:21:17,876 --> 00:21:19,411 THEY HAVE A STIGMA AGAINST 820 00:21:19,478 --> 00:21:20,612 SECTION 8 RECIPIENTS, ALL OF 821 00:21:20,679 --> 00:21:21,913 WHICH LEADS TO A LOT OF STORIES 822 00:21:21,980 --> 00:21:23,949 LIKE THIS: 823 00:21:24,016 --> 00:21:27,285 >> I WAS BLESSED WITH A HOMING 824 00:21:27,352 --> 00:21:30,555 CHOICE VOUCHER IN APRIL, AND I 825 00:21:30,622 --> 00:21:31,823 HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIND A 826 00:21:31,890 --> 00:21:33,692 SPOT. 827 00:21:33,759 --> 00:21:34,960 I CALLED OVER 200 PLACES THAT 828 00:21:35,027 --> 00:21:36,695 WOULD SUPPOSEDLY TAKE THE 829 00:21:36,762 --> 00:21:37,996 VOUCHER, AND NONE OF THOSE 830 00:21:38,063 --> 00:21:39,331 PLACES WERE ACTUALLY RENTING. 831 00:21:39,398 --> 00:21:40,832 >> HOW MANY PLACES DO YOU THINK 832 00:21:40,899 --> 00:21:43,402 YOU GOT TURNED DOWN FROM? 833 00:21:43,468 --> 00:21:45,337 >> JESUS, AT LEAST 15. 834 00:21:45,404 --> 00:21:47,005 >> 15 PLACES TURNED YOU DOWN? 835 00:21:47,072 --> 00:21:48,573 >> IF NOT MORE. 836 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,742 IT'S LIKE I HAVE A PLAGUE. 837 00:21:50,809 --> 00:21:52,644 IT'S LIKE WE HAVE A PLAGUE. 838 00:21:52,711 --> 00:21:53,278 >> EVERYWHERE YOU TURN, NO 839 00:21:53,345 --> 00:21:54,579 SECTION 8. 840 00:21:54,646 --> 00:21:55,714 I'VE CALLED UP 50 APARTMENT 841 00:21:55,781 --> 00:21:57,816 COMPLEXES IN SACRAMENTO. 842 00:21:57,883 --> 00:21:58,517 THEY DON'T LOOK AT ME AS AN 843 00:21:58,583 --> 00:22:00,719 INDIVIDUAL. 844 00:22:00,786 --> 00:22:01,653 I'M ON SECTION 8, THEREFORE I'M 845 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,121 POOR. 846 00:22:03,188 --> 00:22:05,123 THEREFORE, I'M BAD. 847 00:22:05,190 --> 00:22:06,858 >> John: THAT IS TERRIBLE. 848 00:22:06,925 --> 00:22:07,759 BECAUSE EVEN THE WORST PEOPLE 849 00:22:07,826 --> 00:22:09,194 WILL HONOR VOUCHERS. 850 00:22:09,261 --> 00:22:10,662 TAKE WILLY WONKA. 851 00:22:10,729 --> 00:22:12,030 SURE, HE MAY HAVE RUN A 852 00:22:12,097 --> 00:22:13,365 SWEATSHOP WITH HORRIBLE SAFETY 853 00:22:13,432 --> 00:22:14,833 PROTOCOLS THAT PUT CHILDREN'S 854 00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:17,469 LIVES IN DANGER, BUT EVEN HE HAD 855 00:22:17,536 --> 00:22:18,236 THE DECENCY TO HONOR THE FUCKING 856 00:22:18,303 --> 00:22:20,305 VOUCHERS! 857 00:22:20,372 --> 00:22:22,140 [LAUGHTER] 858 00:22:22,207 --> 00:22:26,745 NOW, DISCRIMINATION AGAINST 859 00:22:26,812 --> 00:22:30,982 THOSE WITH SECTION 8 VOUCHERS IS 860 00:22:31,049 --> 00:22:31,883 ILLEGAL, IN SOME PLACES. 861 00:22:31,950 --> 00:22:33,185 BUT EVEN WHERE THAT'S THE CASE, 862 00:22:33,251 --> 00:22:34,319 LANDLORDS CAN JUST INVENT OTHER 863 00:22:34,386 --> 00:22:35,087 REASONS TO TURN PEOPLE AWAY. 864 00:22:35,153 --> 00:22:36,455 AND WITH HOUSING THIS TIGHT, 865 00:22:36,521 --> 00:22:37,522 RENTS SKYROCKETING, AND 866 00:22:37,589 --> 00:22:38,356 LANDLORDS HOLDING THIS MUCH 867 00:22:38,423 --> 00:22:39,424 POWER, LOW-INCOME RENTERS CAN BE 868 00:22:39,491 --> 00:22:40,759 LEFT VULNERABLE TO THE NIGHTMARE 869 00:22:40,826 --> 00:22:41,660 SCENARIO: EVICTION. 870 00:22:41,727 --> 00:22:42,594 WE'VE TALKED ABOUT EVICTIONS ON 871 00:22:42,661 --> 00:22:43,428 THIS SHOW BEFORE. 872 00:22:43,495 --> 00:22:44,696 THEY'RE INVASIVE, TRAUMATIZING, 873 00:22:44,763 --> 00:22:46,631 AND LIKE ALL THE OTHER PERILS OF 874 00:22:46,698 --> 00:22:47,232 RENTING, DISPROPORTIONATELY 875 00:22:47,299 --> 00:22:48,633 AFFECT BLACK PEOPLE. 876 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:49,868 ONE STUDY OF MORE THAN A 877 00:22:49,935 --> 00:22:51,870 THOUSAND COUNTIES FOUND BLACK 878 00:22:51,937 --> 00:22:53,739 RENTERS MADE UP AROUND 20% OF 879 00:22:53,805 --> 00:22:55,474 ALL ADULT RENTERS, BUT NEARLY A 880 00:22:55,540 --> 00:22:56,575 THIRD OF ALL EVICTION FILING 881 00:22:56,641 --> 00:22:58,009 DEFENDANTS. 882 00:22:58,076 --> 00:22:59,778 AND PERHAPS NOWHERE DEMONSTRATES 883 00:22:59,845 --> 00:23:01,413 THE ENORMOUS POWER IMBALANCE 884 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:02,647 BETWEEN LANDLORDS AND TENANTS 885 00:23:02,714 --> 00:23:05,350 MORE THAN HOUSING COURT. 886 00:23:05,417 --> 00:23:06,184 STARTING WITH THE FACT THAT, IN 887 00:23:06,251 --> 00:23:08,286 MOST PLACES, TENANTS DON'T HAVE 888 00:23:08,353 --> 00:23:09,488 A RIGHT TO A LAWYER IN EVICTION 889 00:23:09,554 --> 00:23:10,489 PROCEEDINGS. 890 00:23:10,555 --> 00:23:11,790 AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN 891 00:23:11,857 --> 00:23:13,558 ATTORNEY TO GUIDE YOU THROUGH 892 00:23:13,625 --> 00:23:15,861 WHAT CAN BE A COMPLEX PROCESS, 893 00:23:15,927 --> 00:23:17,662 NOT ONLY CAN YOU FAIL TO RAISE 894 00:23:17,729 --> 00:23:18,730 LEGITIMATE DEFENSES, YOU CAN 895 00:23:18,797 --> 00:23:19,798 MAKE BASIC MISTAKES WITH HUGE 896 00:23:19,865 --> 00:23:22,000 CONSEQUENCES. 897 00:23:22,067 --> 00:23:23,235 >> GINA COMES ACROSS A TENANT 898 00:23:23,301 --> 00:23:27,305 SITTING DISTRAUGHT. 899 00:23:27,372 --> 00:23:32,644 >> SO SHE CAME TO COURT, SHE 900 00:23:32,711 --> 00:23:33,578 CAME TO COURT EARLY AND AS 901 00:23:33,645 --> 00:23:34,713 HAPPENS SOMETIMES BECAUSE COURT 902 00:23:34,780 --> 00:23:35,313 IS CONFUSING, SHE SAT IN THE 903 00:23:35,380 --> 00:23:36,948 WRONG COURTROOM. 904 00:23:37,015 --> 00:23:37,749 >> WHILE HER CASE WAS HEARD IN A 905 00:23:37,816 --> 00:23:39,484 DIFFERENT COURTROOM. 906 00:23:39,551 --> 00:23:40,285 WHEN SHE REALIZED HER 907 00:23:40,352 --> 00:23:41,520 MISTAKE, SHE DASHED OVER AND 908 00:23:41,586 --> 00:23:42,420 CAUGHT THE LANDLORD OUTSIDE, BUT 909 00:23:42,487 --> 00:23:43,155 HE DOESN'T WANT TO SPEAK WITH 910 00:23:43,221 --> 00:23:44,222 HER. 911 00:23:44,289 --> 00:23:45,423 >> AND THE COURT INFORMED HER 912 00:23:45,490 --> 00:23:46,558 THAT AFTER TEN DAYS, THE SHERIFF 913 00:23:46,625 --> 00:23:47,225 WOULD COME IN AND REMOVE HER AND 914 00:23:47,292 --> 00:23:47,993 HER THREE CHILDREN FROM HER 915 00:23:48,059 --> 00:23:49,828 HOME. 916 00:23:49,895 --> 00:23:51,463 >> John: ONE TINY MISTAKE AND 917 00:23:51,530 --> 00:23:53,131 HER HOUSING WAS GONE. 918 00:23:53,198 --> 00:23:55,066 WHICH IS CLEARLY UNFAIR. 919 00:23:55,133 --> 00:23:56,234 THE ONLY TIME SOMEONE SHOULD BE 920 00:23:56,301 --> 00:23:57,369 PUNISHED FOR GOING INTO THE 921 00:23:57,435 --> 00:23:58,770 WRONG ROOM IS WHEN THEY 922 00:23:58,837 --> 00:23:59,805 ACCIDENTALLY STUMBLE INTO THE 923 00:23:59,871 --> 00:24:00,839 3:30 SHOWING OF "DOWNTON ABBEY: 924 00:24:00,906 --> 00:24:04,142 A NEW ERA." 925 00:24:04,209 --> 00:24:04,810 [LAUGHTER] 926 00:24:04,876 --> 00:24:06,144 GET READY FOR A LONG, BORING 927 00:24:06,211 --> 00:24:06,845 RIDE. 928 00:24:06,912 --> 00:24:07,779 "BUT JOHN, IT'S DELIGHTFUL 929 00:24:07,846 --> 00:24:09,080 BECAUSE THEY'RE BRITISH!" 930 00:24:09,147 --> 00:24:12,150 COUNTERPOINT: IT IS NOT. 931 00:24:12,217 --> 00:24:13,585 [LAUGHTER] 932 00:24:13,652 --> 00:24:14,786 ONE STUDY OF NEARLY 100,000 933 00:24:14,853 --> 00:24:15,754 EVICTION CASES IN DENVER FOUND 934 00:24:15,821 --> 00:24:17,088 THAT NEARLY 90% OF LANDLORDS 935 00:24:17,155 --> 00:24:18,623 WERE REPRESENTED BY A LAWYER, 936 00:24:18,690 --> 00:24:19,658 COMPARED TO LESS THAN 1% OF 937 00:24:19,724 --> 00:24:21,493 TENANTS. 938 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:22,961 WHICH IS NOT GOOD. 939 00:24:23,028 --> 00:24:24,863 AND YET, SOME ATTORNEYS WHO WORK 940 00:24:24,930 --> 00:24:28,633 FOR LANDLORDS GET VERY ANGRY AT 941 00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:29,668 THE SUGGESTION THAT TENANTS ARE 942 00:24:29,734 --> 00:24:30,468 POORLY PROTECTED. 943 00:24:30,535 --> 00:24:34,773 TAKE THIS GUY, WHO REPRESENTS 944 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:35,807 MULTIPLE LANDLORDS IN ST. LOUIS. 945 00:24:35,874 --> 00:24:36,675 HE'S A SELF-STYLED GURU FOR THE 946 00:24:36,741 --> 00:24:37,375 REAL ESTATE BAR. 947 00:24:37,442 --> 00:24:38,343 AND JUST LISTEN TO HIM GIVING A 948 00:24:38,410 --> 00:24:39,411 ZOOM SEMINAR ABOUT EVICTIONS, 949 00:24:39,477 --> 00:24:40,712 AND ROLLING HIS EYES AT SOME OF 950 00:24:40,779 --> 00:24:41,613 THE BASIC LEGAL PROTECTIONS 951 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:42,714 EXTENDED TO RENTERS DURING 952 00:24:42,781 --> 00:24:44,749 COVID. 953 00:24:44,816 --> 00:24:46,852 >> THE ADVOCATES FOR THE TENANTS 954 00:24:46,918 --> 00:24:49,187 ARE LIKE, "YOU KNOW, THESE 955 00:24:49,254 --> 00:24:50,856 PEOPLE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT'S 956 00:24:50,922 --> 00:24:52,224 AVAILABLE TO THEM AND THEY DON'T 957 00:24:52,290 --> 00:24:53,425 KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE CDC 958 00:24:53,491 --> 00:24:54,492 DECLARATION." 959 00:24:54,559 --> 00:24:55,660 [BLEEP] THEM! 960 00:24:55,727 --> 00:24:59,865 [BLEEP] THEM ALL! 961 00:24:59,931 --> 00:25:00,899 THEY'RE TOO STUPID TO KNOW WHAT 962 00:25:00,966 --> 00:25:01,766 THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS ARE? 963 00:25:01,833 --> 00:25:03,435 THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE SIGNED A 964 00:25:03,501 --> 00:25:05,737 [BLEEP] CONTRACT FOR 965 00:25:05,804 --> 00:25:10,976 $1,000-A-MONTH UNIT FOR A YEAR 966 00:25:11,042 --> 00:25:12,711 IF THEY'RE TOO [BLEEP] STUPID TO 967 00:25:12,777 --> 00:25:14,412 SIGN, TO KNOW ANYTHING, TO READ 968 00:25:14,479 --> 00:25:16,548 THE NEWS, TO HAVE ANY IDEA ABOUT 969 00:25:16,615 --> 00:25:18,149 THEIR RIGHTS! 970 00:25:18,216 --> 00:25:20,118 IF THEY'RE TOO [BLEEP] STUPID, 971 00:25:20,185 --> 00:25:21,052 THEY SHOULDN'T BE SIGNING THE 972 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,722 $12,000 CONTRACT. 973 00:25:23,788 --> 00:25:25,056 >> John: OKAY, FIRST, THAT IS 974 00:25:25,123 --> 00:25:25,790 DEFINITELY THE ANGRIEST I'VE 975 00:25:25,857 --> 00:25:26,758 EVER SEEN ANYONE WEARING A 976 00:25:26,825 --> 00:25:29,494 "RUSH" HAT. 977 00:25:29,561 --> 00:25:30,161 [LAUGHTER] 978 00:25:30,228 --> 00:25:31,329 AND SECOND, THERE IS NO DOUBT 979 00:25:31,396 --> 00:25:32,864 THAT MAN, AT SOME POINT, HAS 980 00:25:32,931 --> 00:25:33,832 BEEN KICKED OUT OF A YOUTH 981 00:25:33,899 --> 00:25:35,433 SOCCER GAME. 982 00:25:35,500 --> 00:25:36,668 HE JUST EXUDES "REF, I'D LIKE A 983 00:25:36,735 --> 00:25:38,670 WORD" ENERGY. 984 00:25:38,737 --> 00:25:40,338 I GUARANTEE THAT IS A MAN WHO 985 00:25:40,405 --> 00:25:42,474 HAS THROWN A LAWN CHAIR, OR AT 986 00:25:42,540 --> 00:25:43,508 THE VERY LEAST, SQUEEZED A 987 00:25:43,575 --> 00:25:44,809 KOOL-AID JAMMER SO TIGHT IN HIS 988 00:25:44,876 --> 00:25:46,044 FISTS, THE OTHER PARENTS THOUGHT 989 00:25:46,111 --> 00:25:52,484 HIS HAND WAS COVERED IN BLOOD. 990 00:25:52,550 --> 00:25:53,184 BESIDES THAT, I WILL SAY, HE 991 00:25:53,251 --> 00:25:54,152 SEEMS LIKE A COOL GUY. 992 00:25:54,219 --> 00:25:55,186 [LAUGHTER] 993 00:25:55,253 --> 00:25:56,187 SO THAT IS WHAT TENANTS CAN BE 994 00:25:56,254 --> 00:25:56,988 UP AGAINST. 995 00:25:57,055 --> 00:25:58,189 AND THE PROBLEM IS, EVICTION 996 00:25:58,256 --> 00:25:58,924 FILINGS CAN BE ON YOUR RECORD 997 00:25:58,990 --> 00:25:59,758 FOR YEARS, JEOPARDIZING YOUR 998 00:25:59,824 --> 00:26:01,092 CHANCE AT FUTURE HOUSING. 999 00:26:01,159 --> 00:26:01,993 JUST WATCH AS THIS WOMAN 1000 00:26:02,060 --> 00:26:05,230 CONTACTS A REALTOR ABOUT A HOME 1001 00:26:05,297 --> 00:26:06,164 THAT SHE'S INTERESTED IN. 1002 00:26:06,231 --> 00:26:07,198 >> DID YOU GET A CHANCE TO DRIVE 1003 00:26:07,265 --> 00:26:08,166 BY AND TAKE A LOOK AT IT? 1004 00:26:08,233 --> 00:26:09,567 >> YEAH, I'M SITTING IN FRONT OF 1005 00:26:09,634 --> 00:26:11,202 THE HOME RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK. 1006 00:26:11,269 --> 00:26:12,203 >> OKAY. 1007 00:26:12,270 --> 00:26:13,438 AND WHAT'S YOUR NAME? 1008 00:26:13,505 --> 00:26:14,572 >> MARGARET. 1009 00:26:14,639 --> 00:26:16,241 >> OKAY, MARGARET. 1010 00:26:16,308 --> 00:26:17,208 AND HOW SOON ARE YOU LOOKING TO 1011 00:26:17,275 --> 00:26:18,910 MOVE INTO A HOME? 1012 00:26:18,977 --> 00:26:20,645 >> AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. 1013 00:26:20,712 --> 00:26:22,914 RIGHT NOW. 1014 00:26:22,981 --> 00:26:24,215 >> ARE YOU ON A LEASE WHERE 1015 00:26:24,282 --> 00:26:25,583 YOU'RE LIVING AT RIGHT NOW? 1016 00:26:25,650 --> 00:26:26,651 >> NO, AS A MATTER OF FACT, 1017 00:26:26,718 --> 00:26:28,553 WE'RE NOT. 1018 00:26:28,620 --> 00:26:32,223 WE'RE ACTUALLY HOMELESS. 1019 00:26:32,290 --> 00:26:33,058 >> OKAY, SO WHERE ARE YOU 1020 00:26:33,124 --> 00:26:34,893 CURRENTLY LIVING? 1021 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,596 >> IN OUR VEHICLE. 1022 00:26:38,663 --> 00:26:40,532 >> YEAH, UNFORTUNATELY, WHEN WE 1023 00:26:40,598 --> 00:26:41,866 CHECK THE COURT RECORDS AND SEE 1024 00:26:41,933 --> 00:26:42,801 AN EVICTION, UNFORTUNATELY, WE 1025 00:26:42,867 --> 00:26:44,836 CAN'T HELP YOU. 1026 00:26:44,903 --> 00:26:46,271 >> John: LOOK, THERE ARE SOME 1027 00:26:46,338 --> 00:26:46,972 THINGS THAT SHOULD PROBABLY STAY 1028 00:26:47,038 --> 00:26:48,773 ON YOUR RECORD. 1029 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,241 LIKE WAR CRIMES, OR VOTING FOR 1030 00:26:50,308 --> 00:26:51,576 TAYLOR HICKS IN THE 2006 SEASON 1031 00:26:51,643 --> 00:26:54,179 OF "AMERICAN IDOL." 1032 00:26:54,245 --> 00:26:54,980 [LAUGHTER] 1033 00:26:55,046 --> 00:26:56,381 YOU SHOULDN'T GET TO COME BACK 1034 00:26:56,448 --> 00:26:58,750 FROM THAT SO EASILY. 1035 00:26:58,817 --> 00:26:59,417 BUT PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE A CHANCE 1036 00:26:59,484 --> 00:27:00,585 TO FIND SAFE AND AFFORDABLE 1037 00:27:00,652 --> 00:27:01,419 HOUSING, SINCE THE ALTERNATIVE 1038 00:27:01,486 --> 00:27:03,054 IS BEING HOMELESS! 1039 00:27:03,121 --> 00:27:04,222 AND THE THING IS, YOU CAN BE 1040 00:27:04,289 --> 00:27:05,490 TURNED DOWN FOR HOUSING SIMPLY 1041 00:27:05,557 --> 00:27:07,325 BECAUSE AN EVICTION CASE WAS 1042 00:27:07,392 --> 00:27:09,260 FILED AGAINST YOU, EVEN IF THAT 1043 00:27:09,327 --> 00:27:10,562 CASE WAS LATER DROPPED, OR 1044 00:27:10,628 --> 00:27:12,897 INDEED, YOU WON IT. 1045 00:27:12,964 --> 00:27:13,865 THE LONG-TERM DAMAGE THAT 1046 00:27:13,932 --> 00:27:15,633 EVICTION FILINGS DO TO YOUR 1047 00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:17,769 RECORD IS WHY MANY WILL CHOOSE 1048 00:27:17,836 --> 00:27:18,403 NOT TO FIGHT WHEN A LANDLORD 1049 00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:20,071 TRIES TO KICK THEM OUT. 1050 00:27:20,138 --> 00:27:21,239 THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS PEOPLE 1051 00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:22,307 CAN WIND UP WITH A SO-CALLED 1052 00:27:22,374 --> 00:27:24,042 "INFORMAL" EVICTION. 1053 00:27:24,109 --> 00:27:25,310 THAT'S WHERE THEIR LANDLORD DOES 1054 00:27:25,377 --> 00:27:26,111 THINGS LIKE CHANGE THE LOCKS, 1055 00:27:26,177 --> 00:27:27,178 THREATEN THEM, OR EVEN REMOVE 1056 00:27:27,245 --> 00:27:31,516 THE FRONT DOOR. 1057 00:27:31,583 --> 00:27:32,517 IT IS HARD TO MEASURE JUST HOW 1058 00:27:32,584 --> 00:27:33,852 MANY OF THESE TAKE PLACE EACH 1059 00:27:33,918 --> 00:27:34,886 YEAR, BUT A SURVEY OF MILWAUKEE 1060 00:27:34,953 --> 00:27:35,653 RENTERS FOUND THAT FOR EVERY 1061 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:36,621 EVICTION EXECUTED THROUGH THE 1062 00:27:36,688 --> 00:27:37,922 JUDICIAL SYSTEM, THERE ARE TWO 1063 00:27:37,989 --> 00:27:39,157 OTHERS EXECUTED OUTSIDE THE 1064 00:27:39,224 --> 00:27:40,058 COURT, WITHOUT ANY FORM OF DUE 1065 00:27:40,125 --> 00:27:42,727 PROCESS. 1066 00:27:42,794 --> 00:27:44,462 AND GIVEN JUST HOW DEVASTATING 1067 00:27:44,529 --> 00:27:45,830 EVICTIONS CAN BE, IT IS 1068 00:27:45,897 --> 00:27:47,365 INFURIATING TO HEAR HOW SOME 1069 00:27:47,432 --> 00:27:49,501 INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS VIEW IT. 1070 00:27:49,567 --> 00:27:50,301 REMEMBER THAT SCREAMING RUSH FAN 1071 00:27:50,368 --> 00:27:51,836 FROM EARLIER? 1072 00:27:51,903 --> 00:27:53,605 WELL, IT TURNS OUT, HE ACTUALLY 1073 00:27:53,671 --> 00:27:55,940 HAS A LITTLE MORE TO SAY. 1074 00:27:56,007 --> 00:27:57,275 >> IT'S SAD TO SAY, AND SOME OF 1075 00:27:57,342 --> 00:27:59,044 YOU WHO ARE NOT LANDLORDS MIGHT 1076 00:27:59,110 --> 00:28:01,880 BE SHOCKED TO HEAR, WE EVICT 1077 00:28:01,946 --> 00:28:04,716 GRANDPARENTS WHO ARE POOR. 1078 00:28:04,783 --> 00:28:06,484 WE EVICT CANCER-STRICKEN PEOPLE 1079 00:28:06,551 --> 00:28:10,321 WHO ARE ATTENDING CHEMO. 1080 00:28:10,388 --> 00:28:13,158 IT'S SAD, BUT WHAT'S SADDER IS 1081 00:28:13,224 --> 00:28:15,760 THAT SOMEBODY WHO PURCHASES 1082 00:28:15,827 --> 00:28:18,096 PROPERTY FOR HUNDREDS OF 1083 00:28:18,163 --> 00:28:19,597 THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IS GIVEN 1084 00:28:19,664 --> 00:28:22,467 THE FINGER BY THE LAW. 1085 00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:26,371 >> John: EXCEPT IT'S NOT SADDER. 1086 00:28:26,438 --> 00:28:27,472 [LAUGHTER] 1087 00:28:27,539 --> 00:28:28,740 IT'S JUST NOT. 1088 00:28:28,807 --> 00:28:30,241 ON THE GREAT BIG LIST OF SAD 1089 00:28:30,308 --> 00:28:31,276 THINGS: PERSON GETTING EVICTED 1090 00:28:31,342 --> 00:28:32,510 DURING CHEMO IS UP THERE WITH 1091 00:28:32,577 --> 00:28:33,778 DOG DEATHS AND THE FIRST TEN 1092 00:28:33,845 --> 00:28:36,881 MINUTES OF "UP." 1093 00:28:36,948 --> 00:28:39,884 WHILE LANDLORD DOESN'T GET 1094 00:28:39,951 --> 00:28:43,021 RENT IS AT THE VERY BOTTOM, WITH 1095 00:28:43,088 --> 00:28:48,359 CELEBRITY TWEETS ABOUT A SHITTY 1096 00:28:48,426 --> 00:28:50,328 AIRLINE EXPERIENCE AND WHITE GUY 1097 00:28:50,395 --> 00:28:52,430 NOT ALLOWED TO RAP ALL THE 1098 00:28:52,497 --> 00:28:54,165 LYRICS. 1099 00:28:54,232 --> 00:28:54,766 IT'S OBJECTIVELY NOT SAD, AT 1100 00:28:54,833 --> 00:28:55,767 ALL. 1101 00:28:55,834 --> 00:28:56,568 THAT IS THE CORE ISSUE WITH 1102 00:28:56,634 --> 00:28:58,369 RENTAL HOUSING IN THIS COUNTRY: 1103 00:28:58,436 --> 00:28:59,304 PEOPLE WHO THINK INVESTMENTS 1104 00:28:59,370 --> 00:29:01,072 DESERVE MORE RESPECT THAN BASIC 1105 00:29:01,139 --> 00:29:02,574 HUMAN NEEDS. 1106 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,209 AND IT HAS SET UP A SYSTEM 1107 00:29:04,275 --> 00:29:05,343 DESIGNED TO ENSURE THAT SOME 1108 00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:06,544 PEOPLE JUST SPIRAL DOWNWARDS: 1109 00:29:06,611 --> 00:29:07,579 THEY CAN'T MOVE SOMEWHERE 1110 00:29:07,645 --> 00:29:08,613 CHEAPER IF NOWHERE CHEAPER 1111 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:09,647 EXISTS. 1112 00:29:09,714 --> 00:29:10,715 THEY CAN'T APPLY FOR FEDERAL 1113 00:29:10,782 --> 00:29:11,950 ASSISTANCE IF THERE'S NOWHERE 1114 00:29:12,016 --> 00:29:12,717 NEAR ENOUGH. 1115 00:29:12,784 --> 00:29:13,852 THEY CAN'T EVEN USE THAT 1116 00:29:13,918 --> 00:29:14,786 ASSISTANCE IF NO ONE ACCEPTS IT. 1117 00:29:14,853 --> 00:29:16,121 THEY CAN'T TAKE THEIR 1118 00:29:16,187 --> 00:29:17,122 LANDLORD TO COURT IF THE COURT 1119 00:29:17,188 --> 00:29:17,989 SYSTEM IS SKEWED AGAINST THEM. 1120 00:29:18,056 --> 00:29:18,923 AND THEY CAN'T DEPEND ON RENTAL 1121 00:29:18,990 --> 00:29:19,924 HOUSING EVER AGAIN IF THEY'RE 1122 00:29:19,991 --> 00:29:20,758 EVICTED EVEN JUST ONCE. 1123 00:29:20,825 --> 00:29:21,926 IT'S A COMPLETE SHIT SHOW. 1124 00:29:21,993 --> 00:29:22,961 SO WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? 1125 00:29:23,027 --> 00:29:24,095 WELL, THERE ARE SOME SMALL 1126 00:29:24,162 --> 00:29:24,896 THINGS. 1127 00:29:24,963 --> 00:29:26,397 WE COULD PASS RENT-STABILIZATION 1128 00:29:26,464 --> 00:29:27,532 LAWS, AND LAWS THAT PROHIBIT 1129 00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:28,900 DISCRIMINATION AGAINST 1130 00:29:28,967 --> 00:29:30,535 RECIPIENTS OF HOUSING CHOICE 1131 00:29:30,602 --> 00:29:31,202 VOUCHERS, AND MAKE IT EASIER FOR 1132 00:29:31,269 --> 00:29:32,637 LANDLORDS TO ACCEPT THEM. 1133 00:29:32,704 --> 00:29:34,038 WE ALSO COULD PASS LAWS 1134 00:29:34,105 --> 00:29:35,106 MANDATING THE SEALING OF MOST 1135 00:29:35,173 --> 00:29:36,508 EVICTION RECORDS, AND GIVE 1136 00:29:36,574 --> 00:29:37,542 PEOPLE A RIGHT TO COUNSEL IN 1137 00:29:37,609 --> 00:29:38,943 HOUSING COURT. 1138 00:29:39,010 --> 00:29:40,078 THAT ALONE CAN HAVE MASSIVE 1139 00:29:40,145 --> 00:29:42,046 IMPACTS. 1140 00:29:42,113 --> 00:29:43,648 IN 2017, AFTER SUSTAINED 1141 00:29:43,715 --> 00:29:44,949 PRESSURE, NEW YORK CITY BECAME 1142 00:29:45,016 --> 00:29:46,818 THE FIRST PLACE IN THE COUNTRY 1143 00:29:46,885 --> 00:29:47,719 TO GIVE TENANTS THE RIGHT TO A 1144 00:29:47,785 --> 00:29:49,988 LAWYER IN HOUSING COURT. 1145 00:29:50,054 --> 00:29:51,022 IT IS A MAJOR REASON WHY, EVEN 1146 00:29:51,089 --> 00:29:53,291 BEFORE THE PANDEMIC MORATORIUMS, 1147 00:29:53,358 --> 00:29:54,592 RESIDENTIAL EVICTIONS WERE DOWN 1148 00:29:54,659 --> 00:29:56,461 40%. 1149 00:29:56,528 --> 00:29:57,862 AND LUCKILY, OTHER PLACES ARE 1150 00:29:57,929 --> 00:29:59,464 NOW FOLLOWING THAT LEAD. 1151 00:29:59,531 --> 00:30:01,399 BUT I WOULD ARGUE WHAT WE REALLY 1152 00:30:01,466 --> 00:30:03,234 NEED TO DO IS FUNDAMENTALLY 1153 00:30:03,301 --> 00:30:04,802 CHANGE OUR MINDSET AWAY FROM 1154 00:30:04,869 --> 00:30:06,838 SIMPLY HOPING THAT WE CAN JUST 1155 00:30:06,905 --> 00:30:08,106 TINKER AROUND THE EDGES OF 1156 00:30:08,173 --> 00:30:13,678 HOUSING POLICY AND THE PRIVATE 1157 00:30:13,745 --> 00:30:14,646 MARKET WILL SORT THE REST OF 1158 00:30:14,712 --> 00:30:16,247 THIS SHIT OUT. 1159 00:30:16,314 --> 00:30:17,715 BECAUSE WE'VE TRIED THAT FOR 1160 00:30:17,782 --> 00:30:18,950 DECADES, AND YET, HERE WE ARE. 1161 00:30:19,017 --> 00:30:20,318 INSTEAD, WE NEED TO AGREE: 1162 00:30:20,385 --> 00:30:21,686 HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT. 1163 00:30:21,753 --> 00:30:23,388 AND THAT IS NOT ACTUALLY JUST 1164 00:30:23,454 --> 00:30:24,656 SOME EMPTY SLOGAN LIKE SUBWAY'S 1165 00:30:24,722 --> 00:30:25,623 "EAT FRESH", OR GATORADE'S 1166 00:30:25,690 --> 00:30:26,824 "IS IT IN YOU?" 1167 00:30:26,891 --> 00:30:27,825 WHICH, LOOKING BACK, WAS VERY, 1168 00:30:27,892 --> 00:30:29,027 VERY WEIRD. 1169 00:30:29,093 --> 00:30:34,365 [LAUGHTER] 1170 00:30:34,432 --> 00:30:35,466 THIS CAN ACTUALLY BE POLICY. 1171 00:30:35,533 --> 00:30:36,267 MANY COUNTRIES, INCLUDING 1172 00:30:36,334 --> 00:30:37,235 FRANCE, SCOTLAND, AND SOUTH 1173 00:30:37,302 --> 00:30:38,203 AFRICA HAVE LEGALLY CODIFIED A 1174 00:30:38,269 --> 00:30:39,270 RIGHT TO HOUSING. 1175 00:30:39,337 --> 00:30:40,405 AND HERE IN THE U.S., 3/4 OF 1176 00:30:40,471 --> 00:30:41,406 AMERICANS ALREADY BELIEVE THAT 1177 00:30:41,472 --> 00:30:43,808 IT IS A HUMAN RIGHT. 1178 00:30:43,875 --> 00:30:45,310 AS FOR WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN, IT 1179 00:30:45,376 --> 00:30:46,878 WOULD ENTAIL A MASSIVE FEDERAL 1180 00:30:46,945 --> 00:30:48,913 INVESTMENT IN RENTAL ASSISTANCE, 1181 00:30:48,980 --> 00:30:50,148 AND THE CREATION OF MUCH MORE 1182 00:30:50,215 --> 00:30:51,216 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS ACROSS 1183 00:30:51,282 --> 00:30:53,051 THE BOARD. 1184 00:30:53,117 --> 00:30:55,853 AND BEFORE ANYONE SUGGESTS WE 1185 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,055 CAN'T AFFORD THAT: WE ALREADY 1186 00:30:57,121 --> 00:30:57,922 SUBSIDIZE CERTAIN PEOPLE'S 1187 00:30:57,989 --> 00:30:59,557 HOMES. 1188 00:30:59,624 --> 00:31:00,725 THE MORTGAGE INTEREST DEDUCTION 1189 00:31:00,792 --> 00:31:01,659 GIVES MASSIVE SUBSIDIES TO 1190 00:31:01,726 --> 00:31:02,794 HOMEOWNERS, BY LETTING THEM 1191 00:31:02,860 --> 00:31:04,028 DEDUCT THE INTEREST THAT THEY 1192 00:31:04,095 --> 00:31:04,796 PAY ON THEIR MORTGAGE ON THEIR 1193 00:31:04,862 --> 00:31:05,997 TAXES. 1194 00:31:06,064 --> 00:31:07,165 THAT HAS COST THE FEDERAL 1195 00:31:07,232 --> 00:31:08,733 GOVERNMENT MORE THAN 1196 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:09,968 $580 BILLION OVER THE LAST 1197 00:31:10,034 --> 00:31:12,170 DECADE. 1198 00:31:12,237 --> 00:31:13,438 AND CURRENTLY, NEARLY 2/3 OF THE 1199 00:31:13,504 --> 00:31:15,373 DEDUCTION'S BENEFITS ARE GOING 1200 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:16,341 TO THOSE MAKING $200,000 OR MORE 1201 00:31:16,407 --> 00:31:18,743 A YEAR. 1202 00:31:18,810 --> 00:31:20,445 I AM BENEFITING FROM THIS 1203 00:31:20,511 --> 00:31:23,815 PROGRAM AND I DO NOT NEED TO BE! 1204 00:31:23,881 --> 00:31:24,916 SO WE ARE CLEARLY WILLING TO 1205 00:31:24,983 --> 00:31:26,317 PRIORITIZE HOUSING IN THE 1206 00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:27,452 BUDGET, JUST NOT FOR THE PEOPLE 1207 00:31:27,518 --> 00:31:30,755 WHO NEED IT THE MOST. 1208 00:31:30,822 --> 00:31:32,090 THE POINT HERE IS, FOR A LARGE 1209 00:31:32,156 --> 00:31:32,924 PORTION OF THE POPULATION, 1210 00:31:32,991 --> 00:31:34,225 SIMPLY HAVING A PLACE TO LIVE IS 1211 00:31:34,292 --> 00:31:35,126 AN EVERYDAY BATTLE. 1212 00:31:35,193 --> 00:31:36,394 AND FOR FAR TOO LONG, WE'VE 1213 00:31:36,461 --> 00:31:38,363 PRIORITIZED THE PROTECTION OF 1214 00:31:38,429 --> 00:31:40,498 INVESTMENTS OVER INDIVIDUALS, 1215 00:31:40,565 --> 00:31:42,500 AND WE'VE SET UP A SYSTEM WHERE 1216 00:31:42,567 --> 00:31:43,835 LANDLORDS CAN "PRESS RENTS AND 1217 00:31:43,901 --> 00:31:45,403 RESET MARKET RATES," AND JUSTIFY 1218 00:31:45,470 --> 00:31:47,005 THEIR ACTIONS WITH SELF-SERVING 1219 00:31:47,071 --> 00:31:48,840 BIBLE READINGS, EVEN AS THEY 1220 00:31:48,906 --> 00:31:50,241 SUBJECT TENANTS TO EVERYTHING 1221 00:31:50,308 --> 00:31:52,210 FROM TACTICAL RAT ASSAULTS TO 1222 00:31:52,277 --> 00:31:53,778 THE INCOHERENT RAGE OF THE 1223 00:31:53,845 --> 00:31:56,047 SINGLE MOST FOUL-MOUTHED FAN 1224 00:31:56,114 --> 00:31:57,815 ONTARIO'S PREMIERE PROG ROCK 1225 00:31:57,882 --> 00:31:58,683 POWER TRIO HAS EVER FUCKING 1226 00:31:58,750 --> 00:32:00,685 KNOWN. 1227 00:32:00,752 --> 00:32:01,986 [LAUGHTER] 1228 00:32:02,053 --> 00:32:03,821 AND NOW, THIS. 1229 00:32:03,888 --> 00:32:05,757 >> Announcer: AND NOW, IT'S 1230 00:32:05,823 --> 00:32:08,660 ALWAYS HAPPY HOUR ON QVC. 1231 00:32:08,726 --> 00:32:09,794 >> I THINK YOU JUST LOOK SO 1232 00:32:09,861 --> 00:32:12,397 GREAT IN IT, AMY. 1233 00:32:12,463 --> 00:32:13,264 IT'S LIKE CASUAL BUT THERE'S AN 1234 00:32:13,331 --> 00:32:14,332 UPDATED ELEGANCE TO IT, AND OF 1235 00:32:14,399 --> 00:32:15,500 COURSE, I HAD TO STOP BY WITH 1236 00:32:15,566 --> 00:32:16,367 WINE BECAUSE I MISSED YOU GUYS 1237 00:32:16,434 --> 00:32:16,768 LAST WEEK! 1238 00:32:16,834 --> 00:32:18,970 >> WE LOVE YOU. 1239 00:32:19,037 --> 00:32:20,538 >> TRACY, THANKS FOR SWINGING BY 1240 00:32:20,605 --> 00:32:22,240 AND I WILL SWING BY AND BRING 1241 00:32:22,307 --> 00:32:23,174 YOU SOME MORE WINE LATER ON. 1242 00:32:23,241 --> 00:32:24,008 >> IT'S JUST ME, A FEW BOTTLES 1243 00:32:24,075 --> 00:32:25,877 OF WINE. 1244 00:32:25,943 --> 00:32:30,682 I'M A MOM AND I ENJOY A NICE 1245 00:32:30,748 --> 00:32:32,517 GLASS OF MY WINE SOMETIMES. 1246 00:32:32,583 --> 00:32:33,117 >> LITERALLY TOOK A SIP OF THE 1247 00:32:33,184 --> 00:32:36,621 WINE. 1248 00:32:36,688 --> 00:32:39,624 I JUST WANT THAT FOR THE RECORD. 1249 00:32:39,691 --> 00:32:40,525 IT'S NOT A PROP. 1250 00:32:40,591 --> 00:32:41,326 >> WE ARE GOING TO BRING IN 1251 00:32:41,392 --> 00:32:42,226 JACKIE STAFFORD! 1252 00:32:42,293 --> 00:32:42,994 >> OH, SHE HAS WINE! 1253 00:32:43,061 --> 00:32:43,895 >> OH, MY GOD! 1254 00:32:43,961 --> 00:32:46,964 >> AND THEY SAID "WINE?" 1255 00:32:47,031 --> 00:32:48,132 AND I SAID, UH, YEAH! 1256 00:32:48,199 --> 00:32:48,800 >> I NEED A HAND, I NEED A GLASS 1257 00:32:48,866 --> 00:32:50,468 OF WINE. 1258 00:32:50,535 --> 00:32:52,637 >> THERE YOU ARE. 1259 00:32:52,704 --> 00:32:55,039 >> WE HAVE WINE IN OUR TEACUPS. 1260 00:32:55,106 --> 00:33:00,278 >> WE HAVE ONE IN OUR TEACUPS. 1261 00:33:00,345 --> 00:33:06,284 WE ARE HAVING A TEA PARTY. 1262 00:33:06,351 --> 00:33:07,218 >> IS THERE WINE IN THE TEACUP? 1263 00:33:07,285 --> 00:33:07,952 >> LOVE YOU! 1264 00:33:08,019 --> 00:33:08,586 >> ALL RIGHT, I LOVE YOU. 1265 00:33:08,653 --> 00:33:09,187 >> I LOVE YOU. 1266 00:33:09,253 --> 00:33:10,988 >> AND WE ARE GOING TO GO 1267 00:33:11,055 --> 00:33:11,689 SHOPPING FOR WINE! 1268 00:33:11,756 --> 00:33:12,457 >> LET ME BRING MY OWN BOTTLE OF 1269 00:33:12,523 --> 00:33:15,893 WINE AND I WILL BE HERE. 1270 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,295 >> RIGHT HERE WITH MY GLASS OF 1271 00:33:17,362 --> 00:33:17,929 WINE. 1272 00:33:17,995 --> 00:33:18,563 >> IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO BE 1273 00:33:18,629 --> 00:33:19,130 HERE. 1274 00:33:19,197 --> 00:33:19,931 I THINK I LOST MY WINE. 1275 00:33:19,997 --> 00:33:20,765 OH, YOU HAVE YOUR WINE? 1276 00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:21,466 >> I LOST MY WINE FOR THE 1277 00:33:21,532 --> 00:33:22,233 HUNDREDTH TIME TONIGHT. 1278 00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:22,934 >> I HAVE MY COLLEGE TEACHERS, I 1279 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:23,601 HAVE MY DAVE MATTHEWS T-SHIRTS 1280 00:33:23,668 --> 00:33:25,937 THAT I LOVE. 1281 00:33:26,003 --> 00:33:26,938 DON'T GET ME STARTED. 1282 00:33:27,004 --> 00:33:30,007 [SINGING] 1283 00:33:30,074 --> 00:33:36,047 >> I'M NUMBER 41 ALL THE WAY. 1284 00:33:36,114 --> 00:33:36,681 WE ALMOST HAD DAVE MATTHEWS WINE 1285 00:33:36,748 --> 00:33:39,617 ON QVC YEARS AGO. 1286 00:33:39,684 --> 00:33:41,619 I THINK WE SHOULD ALL GO TO HIS 1287 00:33:41,686 --> 00:33:41,919 INSTAGRAM -- 1288 00:33:41,986 --> 00:33:43,654 >> OH, MY GOSH! 1289 00:33:43,721 --> 00:33:45,022 [LAUGHTER] 1290 00:33:45,089 --> 00:33:45,857 >> JOHN: THAT'S OUR SHOW. 1291 00:33:45,923 --> 00:33:51,028 THANK YOU FOR WATCHING. 1292 00:33:51,095 --> 00:33:53,564 THESE ARE MY LINES, AND I LOVE 1293 00:33:53,631 --> 00:33:55,566 THEM, AND I LOVE TO PRESENT THEM 1294 00:33:55,633 --> 00:33:56,067 LIKE THIS ON MY DESK. 1295 00:33:56,134 --> 00:33:57,568 SEE YOU, GOOD NIGHT! 1296 00:33:57,635 --> 00:34:04,075 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1297 00:34:04,142 --> 00:34:12,683 ♪ ♪