1 00:00:04,604 --> 00:00:11,711 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:11,778 --> 00:00:19,018 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:19,085 --> 00:00:25,658 ♪ ♪ 4 00:00:25,725 --> 00:00:27,060 ♪ ♪ 5 00:00:27,127 --> 00:00:32,665 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 6 00:00:32,732 --> 00:00:33,933 >> John: WELCOME, WELCOME, 7 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,201 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT." 8 00:00:35,268 --> 00:00:36,603 I'M JOHN OLIVER. 9 00:00:36,669 --> 00:00:37,203 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING 10 00:00:37,270 --> 00:00:38,271 US. 11 00:00:38,338 --> 00:00:40,073 IT HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK. 12 00:00:40,140 --> 00:00:41,674 AL QAIDA'S LEADER WAS KILLED BY 13 00:00:41,741 --> 00:00:43,109 THE U.S., KANSANS OVERWHELMINGLY 14 00:00:43,176 --> 00:00:44,744 PRESERVED ABORTION PROTECTIONS, 15 00:00:44,811 --> 00:00:47,180 AND THERE WAS A BIG SCANDAL IN 16 00:00:47,247 --> 00:00:48,448 THE WORLD OF SCIENCE. 17 00:00:48,515 --> 00:00:50,817 >> A PROMINENT FRENCH SCIENTIST 18 00:00:50,884 --> 00:00:53,119 IS APOLOGIZING AFTER TWEETING A 19 00:00:53,186 --> 00:00:55,121 PHOTO HE CLAIMED WAS THE IMAGE 20 00:00:55,188 --> 00:00:56,956 OF A DISTANT STAR TAKEN BY THE 21 00:00:57,023 --> 00:00:58,792 JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE. 22 00:00:58,858 --> 00:01:00,727 TURNS OUT IT WAS ACTUALLY A 23 00:01:00,794 --> 00:01:01,327 CLOSE UP PHOTO OF A SLICE OF 24 00:01:01,394 --> 00:01:03,997 CHORIZO SAUSAGE. 25 00:01:04,063 --> 00:01:04,564 [LAUGHTER] 26 00:01:04,631 --> 00:01:05,365 >> John: WHAT A GREAT SCIENCE 27 00:01:05,432 --> 00:01:06,433 JOKE! 28 00:01:06,499 --> 00:01:08,802 ALSO, THIS IS PROBABLY A GOOD 29 00:01:08,868 --> 00:01:09,536 TIME TO TELL YOU, THAT OTHER 30 00:01:09,602 --> 00:01:10,670 JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE PHOTO WAS 31 00:01:10,737 --> 00:01:11,571 ACTUALLY JUST ONE OF THOSE OLD 32 00:01:11,638 --> 00:01:12,772 MOVIE THEATER CARPETS. 33 00:01:12,839 --> 00:01:15,508 YOU IDIOT! 34 00:01:15,575 --> 00:01:16,075 [LAUGHTER] 35 00:01:16,142 --> 00:01:16,976 YOU SERIOUSLY GRAPPLED WITH THE 36 00:01:17,043 --> 00:01:17,944 EXISTENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL 37 00:01:18,011 --> 00:01:19,078 LIFE OVER THAT PHOTO. 38 00:01:19,145 --> 00:01:20,380 WHAT A FUCKING MORON! 39 00:01:20,447 --> 00:01:21,481 ANYWAY, WE'RE GOING TO START 40 00:01:21,548 --> 00:01:23,249 TONIGHT WITH ALEX JONES. 41 00:01:23,316 --> 00:01:24,184 A MAN WHO BOLDLY ANSWERS THE 42 00:01:24,250 --> 00:01:24,818 QUESTION, "WHAT IF GRIMACE WERE 43 00:01:24,884 --> 00:01:27,487 A PROUD BOY?" 44 00:01:27,554 --> 00:01:28,188 [LAUGHTER] 45 00:01:28,254 --> 00:01:29,055 BECAUSE JONES HAS HAD HIMSELF 46 00:01:29,122 --> 00:01:32,125 QUITE THE WEEK. 47 00:01:32,192 --> 00:01:33,393 >> JONES UNDER PRESSURE, FOUND 48 00:01:33,460 --> 00:01:34,861 LIABLE IN THREE SEPARATE 49 00:01:34,928 --> 00:01:36,930 DEFAMATION LAWSUITS BROUGHT BY 50 00:01:36,996 --> 00:01:38,431 THE FAMILIES OF TEN VICTIMS OF 51 00:01:38,498 --> 00:01:40,133 THE SANDY HOOK MASSACRE. 52 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:41,634 THE JURY FOR THIS CASE 53 00:01:41,701 --> 00:01:43,703 DETERMINING HOW MUCH JONES MUST 54 00:01:43,770 --> 00:01:46,606 PAY FOR HIS LIES. 55 00:01:46,673 --> 00:01:50,210 >> SANDY HOOK IS A SYNTHETIC, 56 00:01:50,276 --> 00:01:51,478 COMPLETELY FAKE, WITH ACTORS, IN 57 00:01:51,544 --> 00:01:53,680 MY VIEW, MANUFACTURED. 58 00:01:53,746 --> 00:01:54,547 >> John: LOOK, OBVIOUSLY, THOSE 59 00:01:54,614 --> 00:01:56,683 CLAIMS WERE DISGUSTING. 60 00:01:56,749 --> 00:01:57,650 BUT THEY SHOULDN'T BE THAT 61 00:01:57,717 --> 00:01:58,952 SURPRISING, COMING FROM A GUY 62 00:01:59,018 --> 00:02:00,587 WHO LITERALLY NAMED HIS PLATFORM 63 00:02:00,653 --> 00:02:01,321 AFTER GOING TO WAR WITH 64 00:02:01,387 --> 00:02:03,623 INFORMATION. 65 00:02:03,690 --> 00:02:04,224 [LAUGHTER] 66 00:02:04,290 --> 00:02:05,191 GUESS WHAT, ALEX? 67 00:02:05,258 --> 00:02:06,392 YOU FUCKED WITH INFO, AND THIS 68 00:02:06,459 --> 00:02:11,631 TIME, INFO FUCKING WON. 69 00:02:11,698 --> 00:02:15,435 NOT THAT JONES HAS PUT UP MUCH 70 00:02:15,502 --> 00:02:16,269 OF A FIGHT. 71 00:02:16,336 --> 00:02:17,237 IN FACT, JUDGES HAVE ISSUED 72 00:02:17,303 --> 00:02:17,871 DEFAULT JUDGMENTS AGAINST JONES 73 00:02:17,937 --> 00:02:18,905 IN MULTIPLE SUITS REGARDING HIS 74 00:02:18,972 --> 00:02:19,539 SANDY HOOK REMARKS, AFTER HE 75 00:02:19,606 --> 00:02:20,473 FAILED TO COMPLY WITH COURT 76 00:02:20,540 --> 00:02:21,474 ORDERS. 77 00:02:21,541 --> 00:02:22,709 SO THE TRIAL THIS WEEK WAS 78 00:02:22,775 --> 00:02:23,576 THE FIRST OF THREE IN WHICH THE 79 00:02:23,643 --> 00:02:24,611 ONLY QUESTION IS DETERMINING HOW 80 00:02:24,677 --> 00:02:26,179 MUCH HE'LL HAVE TO PAY. 81 00:02:26,246 --> 00:02:27,380 AND THE WAY HE'S HANDLED THIS 82 00:02:27,447 --> 00:02:28,448 TRIAL IS ALMOST A MASTER CLASS 83 00:02:28,515 --> 00:02:30,884 IN "WHAT NOT TO DO IN COURT." 84 00:02:30,950 --> 00:02:32,051 [LAUGHTER] 85 00:02:32,118 --> 00:02:33,219 STARTING WITH THE FACT HE LIED 86 00:02:33,286 --> 00:02:33,920 SO MANY TIMES, THE EXASPERATED 87 00:02:33,987 --> 00:02:38,024 JUDGE HAD TO SAY THIS: 88 00:02:38,091 --> 00:02:43,630 >> IT SEEMS ABSURD TO INSTRUCT 89 00:02:43,696 --> 00:02:45,899 YOU, AGAIN, THAT YOU MUST TELL 90 00:02:45,965 --> 00:02:46,966 THE TRUTH WHILE YOU TESTIFY, YET 91 00:02:47,033 --> 00:02:48,268 HERE I AM: YOU MUST TELL THE 92 00:02:48,334 --> 00:02:49,702 TRUTH WHILE YOU TESTIFY. 93 00:02:49,769 --> 00:02:51,404 THIS IS NOT YOUR SHOW. 94 00:02:51,471 --> 00:02:52,005 DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I HAVE 95 00:02:52,071 --> 00:02:52,939 SAID? 96 00:02:53,006 --> 00:02:55,141 YES OR NO? 97 00:02:55,208 --> 00:02:55,742 DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I HAVE 98 00:02:55,808 --> 00:03:00,346 SAID? 99 00:03:00,413 --> 00:03:02,982 >> YES. 100 00:03:03,049 --> 00:03:03,616 I BELIEVE WHAT I SAID WAS TRUE, 101 00:03:03,683 --> 00:03:04,517 SO I DON'T -- 102 00:03:04,584 --> 00:03:05,184 >> YES, YOU BELIEVE EVERYTHING 103 00:03:05,251 --> 00:03:06,352 YOU SAY IS TRUE, BUT IT ISN'T. 104 00:03:06,419 --> 00:03:07,253 YOUR BELIEFS DO NOT MAKE 105 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:08,087 SOMETHING TRUE. 106 00:03:08,154 --> 00:03:10,323 THAT IS -- THAT IS WHAT WE'RE 107 00:03:10,390 --> 00:03:11,658 DOING HERE! 108 00:03:11,724 --> 00:03:12,225 >> John: YEAH, AND YOU CAN 109 00:03:12,292 --> 00:03:13,159 UNDERSTAND HER FRUSTRATION 110 00:03:13,226 --> 00:03:13,693 THERE. 111 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:14,561 WHEN IT COMES TO RULES A JUDGE 112 00:03:14,627 --> 00:03:15,828 DOESN'T EXPECT TO HAVE TO SPELL 113 00:03:15,895 --> 00:03:17,497 OUT, "DON'T LIE IN COURT" IS 114 00:03:17,564 --> 00:03:18,898 RIGHT UP THERE WITH "YOU HAVE TO 115 00:03:18,965 --> 00:03:20,567 LEAVE YOUR BEER OUTSIDE," 116 00:03:20,633 --> 00:03:21,935 "IT'S NOT ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE IF 117 00:03:22,001 --> 00:03:23,236 IT HAPPENED IN A DREAM," AND 118 00:03:23,303 --> 00:03:24,070 "WE DO NOT CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN 119 00:03:24,137 --> 00:03:26,673 IN HERE." 120 00:03:26,739 --> 00:03:27,340 [LAUGHTER] 121 00:03:27,407 --> 00:03:32,278 BUT THAT'S NOT THE ONLY WAY 122 00:03:32,345 --> 00:03:33,379 THAT JONES PROVOKED THE JUDGE. 123 00:03:33,446 --> 00:03:33,980 BECAUSE HE'S ALSO CONTINUED TO 124 00:03:34,047 --> 00:03:34,647 DO HIS SHOW, ON WHICH HE 125 00:03:34,714 --> 00:03:35,582 HAS -- AMONG OTHER THINGS -- 126 00:03:35,648 --> 00:03:36,516 BASELESSLY LINKED HER TO 127 00:03:36,583 --> 00:03:37,650 PEDOPHILIA, AND SHOWN THIS IMAGE 128 00:03:37,717 --> 00:03:38,851 OF HER ENGULFED IN FLAMES. 129 00:03:38,918 --> 00:03:40,019 HE ALSO WENT AFTER THE JURY, 130 00:03:40,086 --> 00:03:41,287 QUESTIONING THEIR INTELLIGENCE 131 00:03:41,354 --> 00:03:42,455 AND IMPLYING THAT HIS POLITICAL 132 00:03:42,522 --> 00:03:43,990 ENEMIES HAD HANDPICKED 133 00:03:44,057 --> 00:03:45,491 BLUE-COLLAR PEOPLE WHO WERE 134 00:03:45,558 --> 00:03:46,926 ILL-EQUIPPED TO DECIDE WHAT 135 00:03:46,993 --> 00:03:49,495 MONETARY DAMAGES HE MUST PAY. 136 00:03:49,562 --> 00:03:52,231 HE EVEN ENGAGED IN THE PETTIEST 137 00:03:52,298 --> 00:03:53,333 KIND OF BEHAVIOR, LIKE THIS: 138 00:03:53,399 --> 00:03:54,300 >> SPIT YOUR GUM OUT, MR JONES. 139 00:03:54,367 --> 00:03:55,535 >> IT'S NOT GUM. 140 00:03:55,602 --> 00:03:56,502 >> WELL, WHAT IS IT? 141 00:03:56,569 --> 00:03:58,237 BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED FOOD 142 00:03:58,304 --> 00:03:58,771 OR GUM OF ANY KIND IN THE 143 00:03:58,838 --> 00:04:01,608 COURTROOM. 144 00:04:01,674 --> 00:04:02,241 >> I HAD MY TOOTH PULLED A WEEK 145 00:04:02,308 --> 00:04:04,444 AND A HALF AGO. 146 00:04:04,510 --> 00:04:05,044 AND I HAD SOME GAUZE IN THERE 147 00:04:05,111 --> 00:04:06,813 EARLIER. 148 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:07,480 AND IT'S BEEN CAUSING ME TO HAVE 149 00:04:07,547 --> 00:04:08,715 SOME PAIN. 150 00:04:08,781 --> 00:04:09,449 >> SO, YOU'RE CHEWING ON YOUR 151 00:04:09,515 --> 00:04:10,316 GAUZE? 152 00:04:10,383 --> 00:04:10,883 >> WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SHOW 153 00:04:10,950 --> 00:04:11,551 YOU? 154 00:04:11,618 --> 00:04:12,318 >> NO. 155 00:04:12,385 --> 00:04:13,453 >> RIGHT HERE. 156 00:04:13,519 --> 00:04:14,120 >> I JUST WANT YOU TO ANSWER 157 00:04:14,187 --> 00:04:15,288 MY QUESTION. 158 00:04:15,355 --> 00:04:16,155 >> I WAS MASSAGING THE HOLE IN 159 00:04:16,222 --> 00:04:17,123 MY MOUTH WITH MY TONGUE. 160 00:04:17,190 --> 00:04:18,524 I'LL SHOW YOU RIGHT HERE. 161 00:04:18,591 --> 00:04:19,692 >> I DON'T WANT TO SEE THE 162 00:04:19,759 --> 00:04:22,795 INSIDE OF YOUR MOUTH. 163 00:04:22,862 --> 00:04:23,596 [LAUGHTER] 164 00:04:23,663 --> 00:04:24,597 >> John: HOLY SHIT. 165 00:04:24,664 --> 00:04:25,365 IF YOU HEARD JUST HER SIDE OF 166 00:04:25,431 --> 00:04:26,399 THAT INTERACTION -- FROM "SPIT 167 00:04:26,466 --> 00:04:28,001 IT OUT" TO "I DON'T WANT TO SEE 168 00:04:28,067 --> 00:04:28,735 THE INSIDE OF YOUR MOUTH" -- 169 00:04:28,801 --> 00:04:30,336 YOU'D ASSUME SHE WAS TALKING TO 170 00:04:30,403 --> 00:04:33,239 A, A SMALL CHILD, OR B, A DOG. 171 00:04:33,306 --> 00:04:34,407 YOU WOULD NOT GUESS SHE WAS 172 00:04:34,474 --> 00:04:35,808 TALKING TO PROFESSIONAL 173 00:04:35,875 --> 00:04:37,110 CONSPIRACIST/GROWN MAN, ALEX 174 00:04:37,176 --> 00:04:40,246 JONES, UNTIL AT LEAST GUESS D. 175 00:04:40,313 --> 00:04:42,248 THAT IS PATHETIC ENOUGH BEFORE 176 00:04:42,315 --> 00:04:43,149 YOU LEARN, LATER THAT DAY, YOU 177 00:04:43,216 --> 00:04:44,550 COULD VERY CLEARLY SEE HIM 178 00:04:44,617 --> 00:04:45,818 TURNING AWAY FROM THE JUDGE AND 179 00:04:45,885 --> 00:04:47,787 PUTTING SOMETHING IN HIS MOUTH. 180 00:04:47,854 --> 00:04:49,989 [LAUGHTER] 181 00:04:50,056 --> 00:04:51,524 LOOK, OBVIOUSLY, A LOT OF THIS 182 00:04:51,591 --> 00:04:52,191 WAS DELIBERATE SHTICK ON JONES'S 183 00:04:52,258 --> 00:04:53,326 PART. 184 00:04:53,393 --> 00:04:55,128 HE DECIDED TO MAKE THIS COURT 185 00:04:55,194 --> 00:04:56,429 HEARING A CIRCUS, BECAUSE HE'S 186 00:04:56,496 --> 00:04:57,997 IN THE CIRCUS BUSINESS. 187 00:04:58,064 --> 00:04:59,365 WHICH IS PARTICULARLY 188 00:04:59,432 --> 00:05:00,967 DESPICABLE, BECAUSE THE PARENTS 189 00:05:01,034 --> 00:05:02,301 OF ONE OF THE CHILDREN THAT WAS 190 00:05:02,368 --> 00:05:03,736 KILLED AT SANDY HOOK, WHO WERE 191 00:05:03,803 --> 00:05:05,038 HARASSED CONSTANTLY BY JONES'S 192 00:05:05,104 --> 00:05:06,873 FANS, WERE IN THAT ROOM. 193 00:05:06,939 --> 00:05:08,007 BUT THERE WAS ONE TWIST THAT HE 194 00:05:08,074 --> 00:05:09,609 MAY NOT HAVE SEEN COMING. 195 00:05:09,676 --> 00:05:10,877 BECAUSE ON WEDNESDAY, ONE OF THE 196 00:05:10,943 --> 00:05:11,978 LAWYERS FOR THE PARENTS 197 00:05:12,045 --> 00:05:13,279 INTRODUCED A TEXT MESSAGE FROM 198 00:05:13,346 --> 00:05:14,080 ALEX JONES'S PHONE, REGARDING 199 00:05:14,147 --> 00:05:15,948 THE SANDY HOOK SHOOTING. 200 00:05:16,015 --> 00:05:17,216 WHICH WAS NOTABLE, BECAUSE HE'D 201 00:05:17,283 --> 00:05:18,484 PREVIOUSLY TESTIFIED THAT HE'D 202 00:05:18,551 --> 00:05:19,485 SEARCHED HIS PHONE, AND COULD 203 00:05:19,552 --> 00:05:21,187 FIND NO SUCH MESSAGES. 204 00:05:21,254 --> 00:05:22,388 AND IT THEN EMERGED EXACTLY HOW 205 00:05:22,455 --> 00:05:24,390 IT HAD BEEN OBTAINED. 206 00:05:24,457 --> 00:05:25,525 >> DO YOU KNOW WHERE I GOT THIS? 207 00:05:25,591 --> 00:05:29,495 >> NO. 208 00:05:29,562 --> 00:05:31,964 >> MR. JONES, DID YOU KNOW THAT 209 00:05:32,031 --> 00:05:34,000 12 DAYS AGO -- 12 DAYS AGO -- 210 00:05:34,067 --> 00:05:37,170 YOUR ATTORNEYS MESSED UP AND 211 00:05:37,236 --> 00:05:39,872 SENT ME AN ENTIRE DIGITAL COPY 212 00:05:39,939 --> 00:05:41,708 OF YOUR ENTIRE CELL PHONE WITH 213 00:05:41,774 --> 00:05:43,242 EVERY TEXT MESSAGE YOU'VE SENT 214 00:05:43,309 --> 00:05:45,611 FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS? 215 00:05:45,678 --> 00:05:47,346 AND WHEN INFORMED, DID NOT TAKE 216 00:05:47,413 --> 00:05:48,981 ANY STEPS TO IDENTIFY IT AS 217 00:05:49,048 --> 00:05:51,517 PRIVILEGED OR PROTECTED IN ANY 218 00:05:51,584 --> 00:05:52,652 WAY, AND AS OF TWO DAYS AGO, IT 219 00:05:52,719 --> 00:05:53,986 FELL FREE AND CLEAR INTO MY 220 00:05:54,053 --> 00:05:55,922 POSSESSION, AND THAT IS HOW I 221 00:05:55,988 --> 00:05:56,989 KNOW YOU LIED TO ME WHEN YOU 222 00:05:57,056 --> 00:05:58,224 SAID YOU DIDN'T HAVE TEXT 223 00:05:58,291 --> 00:06:00,293 MESSAGES ABOUT SANDY HOOK. 224 00:06:00,359 --> 00:06:02,962 >> John: OH, SHIT! 225 00:06:03,029 --> 00:06:04,630 [LAUGHTER] 226 00:06:04,697 --> 00:06:05,465 FIRST, CREDIT TO THAT LAWYER FOR 227 00:06:05,531 --> 00:06:06,866 HAVING THE SUPERHUMAN PATIENCE 228 00:06:06,933 --> 00:06:08,234 TO SIT ON THOSE TEXT MESSAGES 229 00:06:08,301 --> 00:06:10,069 FOR 12 WHOLE DAYS. 230 00:06:10,136 --> 00:06:11,304 JUST IMAGINE RECEIVING THOSE 231 00:06:11,370 --> 00:06:11,971 RECORDS, WITH TEXTS THAT 232 00:06:12,038 --> 00:06:13,139 PROBABLY SAID THINGS LIKE, 233 00:06:13,206 --> 00:06:14,407 "I KNOW SANDY HOOK REALLY 234 00:06:14,474 --> 00:06:15,808 HAPPENED, I'M JUST A GHOUL WHO 235 00:06:15,875 --> 00:06:16,809 WANTS TO MAKE THE WORLD SUFFER 236 00:06:16,876 --> 00:06:18,778 AND MAKE MONEY DOING IT." 237 00:06:18,845 --> 00:06:19,545 FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY BY ONE 238 00:06:19,612 --> 00:06:20,680 SAYING, "CAN YOU MAKE THE FROGS 239 00:06:20,747 --> 00:06:22,648 LOOK GAYER IN THE GRAPHICS?" 240 00:06:22,715 --> 00:06:26,119 [LAUGHTER] 241 00:06:26,185 --> 00:06:26,986 AND SAYING TO YOURSELF "WAIT, 242 00:06:27,053 --> 00:06:28,221 YOUR TIME WILL COME." 243 00:06:28,287 --> 00:06:28,955 BUT THE CONTENTS OF JONES'S 244 00:06:29,021 --> 00:06:29,789 PHONE COULD BECOME A PROBLEM FOR 245 00:06:29,856 --> 00:06:31,124 HIM. 246 00:06:31,190 --> 00:06:31,924 NOT ONLY HAS THE JANUARY 6th 247 00:06:31,991 --> 00:06:33,326 COMMITTEE ALREADY REQUESTED 248 00:06:33,392 --> 00:06:34,127 THOSE PHONE RECORDS, BUT THEY 249 00:06:34,193 --> 00:06:35,461 ALSO SHOW THAT JONES -- WHO'S 250 00:06:35,528 --> 00:06:36,963 TRIED TO PLEAD POVERTY IN THIS 251 00:06:37,029 --> 00:06:39,632 CASE -- WAS EARNING REVENUE OF 252 00:06:39,699 --> 00:06:41,834 AS MUCH AS $800,000 PER DAY IN 253 00:06:41,901 --> 00:06:44,137 RECENT YEARS FROM SALES. 254 00:06:44,203 --> 00:06:45,571 IN THE END, IT WAS DETERMINED 255 00:06:45,638 --> 00:06:47,540 THAT HAS TO PAY $4 MILLION IN 256 00:06:47,607 --> 00:06:48,541 COMPENSATORY DAMAGES -- BUT, AS 257 00:06:48,608 --> 00:06:54,847 WE NOW KNOW, THAT COULD BE A 258 00:06:54,914 --> 00:06:58,985 WEEK'S WORK FOR HIM -- AND 259 00:06:59,051 --> 00:07:01,454 ANOTHER $45 MILLION IN PUNITIVE 260 00:07:01,521 --> 00:07:03,956 DAMAGES, THOUGH THAT'LL 261 00:07:04,023 --> 00:07:05,925 UNDOUBTEDLY BE THE SUBJECT OF 262 00:07:05,992 --> 00:07:06,526 FURTHER LITIGATION. 263 00:07:06,592 --> 00:07:07,193 NONE OF THIS IS GOING TO STOP 264 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:07,860 HIM. 265 00:07:07,927 --> 00:07:08,628 THERE ARE TWO MORE TRIALS COMING 266 00:07:08,694 --> 00:07:09,529 UP, BUT HE'S PROBABLY GOING TO 267 00:07:09,595 --> 00:07:10,696 FIND WAYS TO TURN THOSE INTO A 268 00:07:10,763 --> 00:07:11,464 CLOWN SHOW, AND FUNDRAISE OFF 269 00:07:11,531 --> 00:07:12,231 THEM, TOO. 270 00:07:12,298 --> 00:07:12,999 BUT AT THE VERY LEAST, THIS 271 00:07:13,065 --> 00:07:13,633 PHONE THING COULD MAKE HIS LIFE 272 00:07:13,699 --> 00:07:14,233 MUCH MORE DIFFICULT, AND FOR A 273 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:15,034 WHILE. 274 00:07:15,101 --> 00:07:16,002 AND THAT IS SOMETHING WE SHOULD 275 00:07:16,068 --> 00:07:16,736 ALL BE ALLOWED TO ENJOY. 276 00:07:16,803 --> 00:07:17,737 BECAUSE TO WAKE UP ONE MORNING 277 00:07:17,804 --> 00:07:18,838 AND FIND OUT THAT ALEX JONES' 278 00:07:18,905 --> 00:07:20,239 LAWYERS MISTAKENLY SHARED HIS 279 00:07:20,306 --> 00:07:20,907 CELL PHONE RECORDS IS A TRUE 280 00:07:20,973 --> 00:07:23,075 BLESSING. 281 00:07:23,142 --> 00:07:24,277 WE DON'T DESERVE THIS, BUT ONE 282 00:07:24,343 --> 00:07:25,411 THING'S FOR SURE: HE DEFINITELY 283 00:07:25,478 --> 00:07:26,479 DOES. 284 00:07:26,546 --> 00:07:28,047 [APPLAUSE] 285 00:07:28,114 --> 00:07:30,082 AND NOW THIS. 286 00:07:30,149 --> 00:07:32,285 >> Announcer: AND NOW, SOME 287 00:07:32,351 --> 00:07:32,885 THOUGHTS FROM C-SPAN'S MOST 288 00:07:32,952 --> 00:07:35,822 FREQUENT CALLER. 289 00:07:35,888 --> 00:07:36,355 >> LET'S GET TO SOME PHONE 290 00:07:36,422 --> 00:07:37,223 CALLS. 291 00:07:37,290 --> 00:07:37,824 LET'S GO TO WALTER IN BUTLER, 292 00:07:37,890 --> 00:07:38,891 INDIANA, GOOD MORNING. 293 00:07:38,958 --> 00:07:40,259 IS THE GOVERNMENT DOING ENOUGH 294 00:07:40,326 --> 00:07:43,529 TO PREVENT CYBERATTACKS? 295 00:07:43,596 --> 00:07:45,498 >> THANKS FOR TAKING MY CALL. 296 00:07:45,565 --> 00:07:46,132 I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER, I HAVE 297 00:07:46,199 --> 00:07:50,102 NO IDEA. 298 00:07:50,169 --> 00:07:52,271 >> HERE'S BUTLER, INDIANA, WE 299 00:07:52,338 --> 00:07:52,905 HEAR FROM WALTER. 300 00:07:52,972 --> 00:07:53,472 >> WALTER, BUTLER, INDIANA. 301 00:07:53,539 --> 00:07:54,040 >> WALTER IS JOINING US FROM 302 00:07:54,106 --> 00:07:55,541 BUTLER, INDIANA. 303 00:07:55,608 --> 00:07:56,209 >> ON THE REPUBLICAN LINE, 304 00:07:56,275 --> 00:07:56,475 WALTER. 305 00:07:56,542 --> 00:08:01,013 >> WALTER. 306 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:01,581 >> WALTER, REPUBLICAN LINE. 307 00:08:01,647 --> 00:08:02,682 GOOD MORNING. 308 00:08:02,748 --> 00:08:06,285 >> WHEN THIS WHOLE CORONA THING 309 00:08:06,352 --> 00:08:11,190 STARTED, I HUNKERED DOWN IN MY 310 00:08:11,257 --> 00:08:14,293 BUNKER, I WENT AND BOUGHT ABOUT 311 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,097 400 BOTTLES OF GOOD IRISH 312 00:08:18,164 --> 00:08:18,898 WHISKEY, I LOADED UP WITH ALL 313 00:08:18,965 --> 00:08:19,532 THE TOP QUALITY MADURO CIGARS. 314 00:08:19,599 --> 00:08:20,132 I WENT TO THE SUPERMARKET AND 315 00:08:20,199 --> 00:08:20,733 GOT CORNED BEEF HASH AND SPAM, 316 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:21,367 AND I'VE BEEN HANGING OUT IN MY 317 00:08:21,434 --> 00:08:22,735 BUNKER EVER SINCE. 318 00:08:22,802 --> 00:08:28,975 I LOVE WATCHING TV BECAUSE 319 00:08:29,041 --> 00:08:29,609 I'M TOO OLD TO DO EXERCISE SO I 320 00:08:29,675 --> 00:08:30,877 SIT AND WATCH THE BOOB TUBE. 321 00:08:30,943 --> 00:08:31,811 >> THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL. 322 00:08:31,878 --> 00:08:32,445 I USUALLY TALK TO MYSELF AND NO 323 00:08:32,511 --> 00:08:33,112 ONE LISTENS, BUT NOW I HAVE YOU 324 00:08:33,179 --> 00:08:33,779 ON THE LINE. 325 00:08:33,846 --> 00:08:34,780 I DON'T HAVE THE INTERNET, I 326 00:08:34,847 --> 00:08:35,348 DON'T HAVE FACEBOOK, I DON'T 327 00:08:35,414 --> 00:08:41,254 HAVE A CELL PHONE. 328 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:42,121 WHEN I GET A LITTLE BUMMED OUT, 329 00:08:42,188 --> 00:08:42,755 I GO OUT AND FEED THE DUCKS. 330 00:08:42,822 --> 00:08:43,923 >> I AM THE PROUD OWNER OF NO 331 00:08:43,990 --> 00:08:47,326 INTERNET, NO CELL PHONE, I DON'T 332 00:08:47,393 --> 00:08:53,499 TWEET, FACEBOOK. 333 00:08:53,566 --> 00:08:54,100 I WRITE LETTERS IN CURSIVE, I 334 00:08:54,166 --> 00:08:57,136 PUT THEM IN A MAILBOX WITH A 335 00:08:57,203 --> 00:08:57,770 RETURN-TO-SENDER ADDRESS ON IT. 336 00:08:57,837 --> 00:08:58,404 >> I FEEL BAD, YOU'VE GOT YOUR 337 00:08:58,471 --> 00:08:58,938 CUP OF COFFEE AND YOU'RE 338 00:08:59,005 --> 00:08:59,538 PROBABLY DYING TO TAKE A SWIG 339 00:08:59,605 --> 00:09:05,011 OF IT. 340 00:09:05,077 --> 00:09:05,578 >> I'LL TAKE IT, THANK YOU. 341 00:09:05,645 --> 00:09:06,212 >> THAT'S PROBABLY ALL I'VE GOT 342 00:09:06,279 --> 00:09:06,846 TO SAY, BUT I'VE STILL GOT SPAM. 343 00:09:06,913 --> 00:09:07,613 REMEMBER SPAM? 344 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:08,381 THE KEY IS TO OPEN IT UP AND PUT 345 00:09:08,447 --> 00:09:11,817 IT ON A FRYING PAN, PUT IT 346 00:09:11,884 --> 00:09:14,120 TOGETHER WITH SOME BREAD AND 347 00:09:14,186 --> 00:09:15,187 MAYO AND YOU'RE GOOD TO GO. 348 00:09:15,254 --> 00:09:18,424 >> REMEMBER, WALTER, 30 DAYS IS 349 00:09:18,491 --> 00:09:18,991 THE IN-BETWEEN CALLS HERE ON 350 00:09:19,058 --> 00:09:22,295 "WASHINGTON JOURNAL." 351 00:09:22,361 --> 00:09:23,496 [APPLAUSE] 352 00:09:23,562 --> 00:09:24,563 >> John: MOVING ON. 353 00:09:24,630 --> 00:09:25,331 OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT CONCERNS 354 00:09:25,398 --> 00:09:25,932 SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN GETTING 355 00:09:25,998 --> 00:09:28,935 MORE AND MORE URGENT OVER THE 356 00:09:29,001 --> 00:09:29,535 PAST TWO MONTHS: LEA MICHELE'S 357 00:09:29,602 --> 00:09:30,503 COMEBACK. 358 00:09:30,569 --> 00:09:31,237 IT'S AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE, AND 359 00:09:31,304 --> 00:09:32,138 THE LONGER WE LET IT CONTINUE, 360 00:09:32,204 --> 00:09:32,905 THE HARDER IT'LL BE TO STOP. 361 00:09:32,972 --> 00:09:33,506 SORRY, DID I SAY LEA MICHELE'S 362 00:09:33,572 --> 00:09:34,740 COMEBACK? 363 00:09:34,807 --> 00:09:36,108 I MEANT MONKEYPOX. 364 00:09:36,175 --> 00:09:39,745 MONKEYPOX HAS COME AS AN 365 00:09:39,812 --> 00:09:40,313 UNPLEASANT SURPRISE, AND IS 366 00:09:40,379 --> 00:09:40,913 BECOMING INCREASINGLY HARD TO 367 00:09:40,980 --> 00:09:42,315 STOP. 368 00:09:42,381 --> 00:09:42,949 FOR THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS, YOU 369 00:09:43,015 --> 00:09:43,816 MAY HAVE NOTICED MONKEYPOX BEING 370 00:09:43,883 --> 00:09:44,450 DISCUSSED WITH AN INCREASING 371 00:09:44,517 --> 00:09:45,351 SENSE OF ALARM. 372 00:09:45,418 --> 00:09:46,419 >> THERE ARE NOW DOZENS OF 373 00:09:46,485 --> 00:09:47,053 CONFIRMED CASES OF MONKEYPOX IN 374 00:09:47,119 --> 00:09:47,987 THE UNITED STATES. 375 00:09:48,054 --> 00:09:49,722 >> HUNDREDS OF CONFIRMED 376 00:09:49,789 --> 00:09:53,559 MONKEYPOX CASES IN THE U.S. 377 00:09:53,626 --> 00:09:56,796 >> U.S. CASES SKYROCKET FROM 378 00:09:56,862 --> 00:09:57,463 1,400 LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AGO TO 379 00:09:57,530 --> 00:09:58,331 NEARLY 3,000 TODAY. 380 00:09:58,397 --> 00:09:59,298 >> THE CDC NOW REPORTING MORE 381 00:09:59,365 --> 00:10:01,767 THAN 4,600 CASES. 382 00:10:01,834 --> 00:10:02,301 >> MORE THAN 5,200 CASES 383 00:10:02,368 --> 00:10:04,437 REPORTED. 384 00:10:04,503 --> 00:10:05,338 >> MORE THAN 6,300 CASES NOW 385 00:10:05,404 --> 00:10:06,405 REPORTED. 386 00:10:06,472 --> 00:10:09,308 >> CURRENTLY, THE U.S. LEADS THE 387 00:10:09,375 --> 00:10:15,514 WORLD IN CASE COUNT, WITH OVER 388 00:10:15,581 --> 00:10:16,148 7,000. 389 00:10:16,215 --> 00:10:16,849 >> John: YEAH, MONKEYPOX CASES 390 00:10:16,916 --> 00:10:17,817 ARE RISING SHARPLY. 391 00:10:17,883 --> 00:10:19,085 AND THAT'S THE ABSOLUTE WORST 392 00:10:19,151 --> 00:10:21,654 COLLECTION OF WORDS YOU'RE GOING 393 00:10:21,721 --> 00:10:22,588 TO HEAR THIS SUMMER, ASIDE FROM 394 00:10:22,655 --> 00:10:23,656 MAYBE "50 YEAR-OLD DANE COOK 395 00:10:23,723 --> 00:10:24,991 ENGAGED TO LONGTIME 23 YEAR-OLD 396 00:10:25,057 --> 00:10:25,691 GIRLFRIEND." 397 00:10:25,758 --> 00:10:26,392 ALTHOUGH THAT'S NOT ACTUALLY 398 00:10:26,459 --> 00:10:27,793 FAIR. 399 00:10:27,860 --> 00:10:28,894 IT'S NOT THAT BIG OF AN AGE 400 00:10:28,961 --> 00:10:29,795 DIFFERENCE, THEY'RE JUST AN 401 00:10:29,862 --> 00:10:31,030 ENTIRE TIMOTHEE CHALAMET APART. 402 00:10:31,097 --> 00:10:31,864 MATH IS FUN! 403 00:10:31,931 --> 00:10:32,631 BUT THE SPREAD OF MONKEYPOX IS 404 00:10:32,698 --> 00:10:33,833 GENUINELY ALARMING. 405 00:10:33,899 --> 00:10:35,101 ITS MOST OBVIOUS SYMPTOM IS SKIN 406 00:10:35,167 --> 00:10:38,237 LESIONS, WHICH CAN IN SEVERE 407 00:10:38,304 --> 00:10:42,908 CASES BE EXTREMELY PAINFUL, AND 408 00:10:42,975 --> 00:10:43,843 WHILE THE PAIN IS NOT REMOTELY 409 00:10:43,909 --> 00:10:44,477 FUNNY, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN GETTING 410 00:10:44,543 --> 00:10:45,444 VERY CREATIVE IN HOW THEY 411 00:10:45,511 --> 00:10:46,278 DESCRIBE IT. 412 00:10:46,345 --> 00:10:47,313 >> I HAD BETWEEN 6 AND 800 413 00:10:47,380 --> 00:10:49,582 LESIONS. 414 00:10:49,648 --> 00:10:52,551 IT WAS LIKE SOMEONE TAKING A 415 00:10:52,618 --> 00:10:53,152 HOLE PUNCHER ALL OVER MY BODY, 416 00:10:53,219 --> 00:10:54,587 RIGHT UNDER MY SKIN. 417 00:10:54,653 --> 00:10:57,189 >> IT'S LIKE SOMEBODY TAKES A 418 00:10:57,256 --> 00:11:00,259 DULL KNIFE THAT IS SEARINGLY HOT 419 00:11:00,326 --> 00:11:01,327 AND IS CUTTING INSIDE OF YOU AND 420 00:11:01,394 --> 00:11:02,361 THEN USES A TOOTHBRUSH 421 00:11:02,428 --> 00:11:04,030 AFTERWARDS AND BRUSHES IT. 422 00:11:04,096 --> 00:11:05,197 >> ANY TIME IT GRAZES SOMETHING 423 00:11:05,264 --> 00:11:06,032 OR TOUCHES SOMETHING, IT 424 00:11:06,098 --> 00:11:07,333 LITERALLY FEELS LIKE SOMEONE'S 425 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:07,933 TAKING A POTATO PEELER TO YOUR 426 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:08,934 SKIN. 427 00:11:09,001 --> 00:11:09,568 >> IT'S LIKE SITTING ON SHARDS 428 00:11:09,635 --> 00:11:11,704 OF GLASS. 429 00:11:11,771 --> 00:11:12,238 AND I HOPE THAT'S PG-RATED 430 00:11:12,304 --> 00:11:21,981 ENOUGH. 431 00:11:22,048 --> 00:11:22,982 >> John: THAT SOUNDS REALLY BAD. 432 00:11:23,049 --> 00:11:24,016 AND THIS ISN'T THE POINT, BUT 433 00:11:24,083 --> 00:11:24,617 "SITTING ON SHARDS OF GLASS," 434 00:11:24,683 --> 00:11:25,184 WHILE NOT ENTIRELY GRAPHIC, 435 00:11:25,251 --> 00:11:25,918 ISN'T EXACTLY PG EITHER. 436 00:11:25,985 --> 00:11:27,086 IF YOU TOOK YOUR KIDS TO SEE 437 00:11:27,153 --> 00:11:28,521 "MINIONS: RISE OF GRU" AND THE 438 00:11:28,587 --> 00:11:30,756 FIRST TEN MINUTES WAS THE YELLOW 439 00:11:30,823 --> 00:11:31,490 THUMBS PLOPPING THEIR ASSES ON 440 00:11:31,557 --> 00:11:32,425 SHARDS OF GLASS, YOU'D RACE YOUR 441 00:11:32,491 --> 00:11:33,325 KIDS OUT OF THE THEATER 442 00:11:33,392 --> 00:11:34,026 IMMEDIATELY. 443 00:11:34,093 --> 00:11:34,693 SADLY, AS WITH COVID, THERE'S A 444 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:35,694 LOT OF MISINFORMATION FLYING 445 00:11:35,761 --> 00:11:39,198 AROUND RIGHT NOW. 446 00:11:39,265 --> 00:11:39,832 ONLINE, THERE ARE THEORIES LIKE 447 00:11:39,899 --> 00:11:40,466 "MONKEYPOX CAN BE CAUSED BY THE 448 00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:41,834 COVID VACCINE." 449 00:11:41,901 --> 00:11:43,002 WHICH IT CAN'T. 450 00:11:43,069 --> 00:11:44,070 AND THAT IT ESCAPED FROM A LAB, 451 00:11:44,136 --> 00:11:46,238 WHICH IT DIDN'T. 452 00:11:46,305 --> 00:11:53,879 A SPREADING VIRUS, YET AGAIN, 453 00:11:53,946 --> 00:11:55,614 IS BRINGING OUT THE WORST IN 454 00:11:55,681 --> 00:11:57,850 PEOPLE, INCLUDING TARGETING 455 00:11:57,917 --> 00:11:58,651 THOSE SUSPECTED OF CARRYING IT. 456 00:11:58,717 --> 00:11:59,385 TAKE THIS TIKTOK VIDEO OF A 457 00:11:59,452 --> 00:12:00,453 WOMAN ON THE SUBWAY, WITH AN 458 00:12:00,519 --> 00:12:01,353 IMAGE OF A MONKEY AND A QUESTION 459 00:12:01,420 --> 00:12:01,954 MARK, CLEARLY IMPLYING SHE HAD 460 00:12:02,021 --> 00:12:02,888 MONKEYPOX. 461 00:12:02,955 --> 00:12:03,889 IT GOT OVER TWO MILLION VIEWS, 462 00:12:03,956 --> 00:12:04,723 AND WHEN THE WOMAN IN QUESTION 463 00:12:04,790 --> 00:12:05,491 FOUND OUT, THIS IS HOW SHE 464 00:12:05,558 --> 00:12:06,459 RESPONDED: 465 00:12:06,525 --> 00:12:13,265 >> HI, I'M THE GIRL FROM THE 466 00:12:13,332 --> 00:12:14,600 VIDEO IN WHICH YOU'RE WATCHING 467 00:12:14,667 --> 00:12:15,434 IS ME SITTING ON THE TRAIN 468 00:12:15,501 --> 00:12:16,769 TALKING ON THE PHONE. 469 00:12:16,836 --> 00:12:17,403 THE SKIN CONDITION THAT I HAVE 470 00:12:17,470 --> 00:12:18,504 IS CALLED NF1, AND THE BUMPS 471 00:12:18,571 --> 00:12:19,472 THAT YOU SEE ARE TUMORS. 472 00:12:19,538 --> 00:12:20,506 THE TUMORS ARE BENIGN, BUT 473 00:12:20,573 --> 00:12:21,373 THEY'RE STILL ALL OVER MY SKIN 474 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:22,041 AND GIVE ME A LOT OF HEALTH 475 00:12:22,108 --> 00:12:22,775 COMPLICATIONS, BOTH PHYSICAL AND 476 00:12:22,842 --> 00:12:23,809 MENTAL. 477 00:12:23,876 --> 00:12:24,743 YOU KNOW, I'VE COME A LONG WAY, 478 00:12:24,810 --> 00:12:26,812 AND I LIKE ME. 479 00:12:26,879 --> 00:12:27,613 BUT YOU KNOW, I'M NOT THAT 480 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:29,281 HEALED, AND I'M NOT ABOVE BEING 481 00:12:29,348 --> 00:12:30,015 VENGEFUL. 482 00:12:30,082 --> 00:12:31,517 >> John: YEAH, 5,000 MIDDLE 483 00:12:31,584 --> 00:12:32,651 FINGERS TO THE DUMB FUCK THAT 484 00:12:32,718 --> 00:12:34,019 THOUGHT TAKING AN UNSOLICITED 485 00:12:34,086 --> 00:12:35,554 VIDEO OF A COMPLETE STRANGER AND 486 00:12:35,621 --> 00:12:36,755 STIGMATIZING THEM FOR A MEDICAL 487 00:12:36,822 --> 00:12:39,959 CONDITION WAS A GOOD IDEA. 488 00:12:40,025 --> 00:12:40,593 THAT IS CLEARLY NOT WHAT TIKTOK 489 00:12:40,659 --> 00:12:41,494 IS FOR. 490 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:42,495 TIKTOK IS FOR DISCOVERING YOU'VE 491 00:12:42,561 --> 00:12:43,762 BEEN OPENING FREEZER POPS WRONG 492 00:12:43,829 --> 00:12:45,631 YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. 493 00:12:45,698 --> 00:12:46,398 YEAH, YOU JUST SNAP IT IN THE 494 00:12:46,465 --> 00:12:48,067 MIDDLE! 495 00:12:48,134 --> 00:12:50,102 NO SCISSORS NECESSARY, MY WHOLE 496 00:12:50,169 --> 00:12:53,172 LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE! 497 00:12:53,239 --> 00:12:54,640 [LAUGHTER] 498 00:12:54,707 --> 00:12:55,508 FRUSTRATINGLY, DESPITE THE FACT 499 00:12:55,574 --> 00:12:56,475 WE'RE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 500 00:12:56,542 --> 00:12:57,510 COVID PANDEMIC, WE SEEM TO BE 501 00:12:57,576 --> 00:12:58,811 REPLICATING SOME OF ITS KEY 502 00:12:58,878 --> 00:13:00,379 MISTAKES, FROM PERSECUTING 503 00:13:00,446 --> 00:13:01,413 STRANGERS TO SPREADING 504 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:02,581 MISINFORMATION TO BADLY 505 00:13:02,648 --> 00:13:03,182 MISMANAGING THE PUBLIC-HEALTH 506 00:13:03,249 --> 00:13:04,984 RESPONSE. 507 00:13:05,050 --> 00:13:06,018 SO TONIGHT, WE THOUGHT IT'D BE 508 00:13:06,085 --> 00:13:07,953 WORTH TALKING ABOUT MONKEYPOX: 509 00:13:08,020 --> 00:13:09,755 WHAT IT IS, HOW WE'VE FUMBLED 510 00:13:09,822 --> 00:13:10,723 OUR RESPONSE TO IT, AND WHAT WE 511 00:13:10,789 --> 00:13:12,091 SHOULD DO GOING FORWARD. 512 00:13:12,158 --> 00:13:12,858 AND LET'S START WITH THE BASICS 513 00:13:12,925 --> 00:13:14,326 HERE. 514 00:13:14,393 --> 00:13:15,661 MONKEYPOX IS A POX VIRUS. 515 00:13:15,728 --> 00:13:17,196 IT'S PART OF THE SAME FAMILY 516 00:13:17,263 --> 00:13:18,264 THAT CAUSES SMALLPOX, THOUGH 517 00:13:18,330 --> 00:13:19,832 THANKFULLY, IT'S NOT NEARLY AS 518 00:13:19,899 --> 00:13:21,433 TRANSMISSIBLE OR AS FATAL. 519 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:23,269 IT USUALLY PRESENTS IN HUMANS 520 00:13:23,335 --> 00:13:24,637 WITH FEVER, SWOLLEN LYMPH NODES, 521 00:13:24,703 --> 00:13:25,838 EXHAUSTION, HEADACHE, AND A 522 00:13:25,905 --> 00:13:28,841 RASH, THOUGH IT CAN ALSO CAUSE 523 00:13:28,908 --> 00:13:29,742 COMPLICATIONS LIKE BLINDNESS, IF 524 00:13:29,808 --> 00:13:31,110 THE LESIONS REACH YOUR EYES, AND 525 00:13:31,177 --> 00:13:31,844 IN RARE CASES, CAN RESULT IN 526 00:13:31,911 --> 00:13:33,279 DEATH. 527 00:13:33,345 --> 00:13:35,147 NOW, QUICK NOTE ON THE NAME. 528 00:13:35,214 --> 00:13:35,848 DESPITE BEING CALLED MONKEYPOX, 529 00:13:35,915 --> 00:13:37,016 IT DIDN'T ACTUALLY ORIGINATE IN 530 00:13:37,082 --> 00:13:38,217 MONKEYS. 531 00:13:38,284 --> 00:13:40,519 IT WAS FIRST DISCOVERED IN 1958 532 00:13:40,586 --> 00:13:41,921 IN MONKEYS, IN DENMARK, BUT THEY 533 00:13:41,987 --> 00:13:43,088 LIKELY GOT IT FROM RODENTS, WHO 534 00:13:43,155 --> 00:13:43,689 ARE THOUGHT TO BE THE MAIN 535 00:13:43,756 --> 00:13:46,125 CARRIERS. 536 00:13:46,192 --> 00:13:47,459 IN FACT, IT'S ENDEMIC IN RODENTS 537 00:13:47,526 --> 00:13:48,994 IN CENTRAL AND WEST AFRICA, 538 00:13:49,061 --> 00:13:50,763 WHERE THERE'VE BEEN SPORADIC 539 00:13:50,829 --> 00:13:52,765 OUTBREAKS FOR DECADES NOW, AND 540 00:13:52,831 --> 00:13:53,899 IT'S ACTUALLY BEEN TRANSMITTING 541 00:13:53,966 --> 00:13:54,800 BETWEEN PEOPLE CONTINUOUSLY IN 542 00:13:54,867 --> 00:13:55,634 NIGERIA FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS 543 00:13:55,701 --> 00:13:58,470 NOW. 544 00:13:58,537 --> 00:13:59,738 INTERESTINGLY, THE U.S. EVEN HAD 545 00:13:59,805 --> 00:14:01,473 ITS OWN MONKEYPOX OUTBREAK 546 00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:02,708 NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO, WHICH CAME 547 00:14:02,775 --> 00:14:03,642 ABOUT THANKS TO AN UNEXPECTED 548 00:14:03,709 --> 00:14:06,412 CULPRIT. 549 00:14:06,478 --> 00:14:07,279 >> HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE 550 00:14:07,346 --> 00:14:09,014 INVESTIGATING WHAT APPEARS TO BE 551 00:14:09,081 --> 00:14:09,949 ANOTHER CASE OF AN ANIMAL VIRUS 552 00:14:10,015 --> 00:14:12,718 THAT HAS JUMPED TO HUMAN BEINGS. 553 00:14:12,785 --> 00:14:14,019 IT'S CALLED MONKEYPOX AND IT 554 00:14:14,086 --> 00:14:14,920 MAY BE LINKED TO PET PRAIRIE 555 00:14:14,987 --> 00:14:17,389 DOGS IN THE MIDWEST. 556 00:14:17,456 --> 00:14:19,124 >> THE MIDWESTERN PRAIRIE DOG IS 557 00:14:19,191 --> 00:14:20,526 NOT A COMMON PET, BUT SOME PET 558 00:14:20,593 --> 00:14:22,061 STORES HAVE BEEN SELLING THEM, 559 00:14:22,127 --> 00:14:23,162 ALONG WITH OTHER EXOTIC ANIMALS 560 00:14:23,229 --> 00:14:25,831 FROM AROUND THE WORLD. 561 00:14:25,898 --> 00:14:27,233 AND THAT, SAY INVESTIGATORS, IS 562 00:14:27,299 --> 00:14:29,134 WHY 30 PEOPLE TODAY ARE 563 00:14:29,201 --> 00:14:31,103 SUSPECTED OF HAVING A DISEASE 564 00:14:31,170 --> 00:14:31,770 THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE 565 00:14:31,837 --> 00:14:33,539 IN THIS COUNTRY. 566 00:14:33,606 --> 00:14:40,479 >> John: OKAY, I HAVE ONE MAIN 567 00:14:40,546 --> 00:14:42,848 QUESTION, AND IT'S THIS: WHY THE 568 00:14:42,915 --> 00:14:44,683 FUCK ANYONE WOULD WANT TO OWN A 569 00:14:44,750 --> 00:14:47,119 PRAIRIE DOG? 570 00:14:47,186 --> 00:14:47,987 AND YOU KNOW ME -- I HAVE AN 571 00:14:48,053 --> 00:14:48,587 ABOUNDING LOVE FOR THE RODENT 572 00:14:48,654 --> 00:14:49,121 COMMUNITY. 573 00:14:49,188 --> 00:14:49,989 GUINEA PIGS? 574 00:14:50,055 --> 00:14:50,789 EXCELLENT. 575 00:14:50,856 --> 00:14:51,457 HAMSTERS? 576 00:14:51,523 --> 00:14:52,124 PERFECT. 577 00:14:52,191 --> 00:14:52,925 CAPYBARA? 578 00:14:52,992 --> 00:14:53,626 BIG, PENSIVE SWEETIE. 579 00:14:53,692 --> 00:14:54,393 BUT IT'S GONNA BE A HARD PASS 580 00:14:54,460 --> 00:14:55,160 FROM ME ON THIS LITTLE 581 00:14:55,227 --> 00:15:00,366 PLAGUE-RIDDEN FREDDY KRUGER. 582 00:15:00,432 --> 00:15:01,433 LOOK AT THOSE FUCKING HANDS! 583 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:02,534 ALSO, QUICK SHOUT OUT TO THE 584 00:15:02,601 --> 00:15:03,269 ABSOLUTE DIPSHIT THAT CAME UP 585 00:15:03,335 --> 00:15:04,103 WITH THAT NAME. 586 00:15:04,169 --> 00:15:05,104 POUR ONE OUT FOR THE STUPIDEST 587 00:15:05,170 --> 00:15:05,838 FRIEND OF LAURA INGALLS WILDER, 588 00:15:05,904 --> 00:15:06,739 WHO SAW AN ANIMAL THAT IS, 589 00:15:06,805 --> 00:15:07,606 GENEROUSLY, A BIG HAMSTER THAT 590 00:15:07,673 --> 00:15:09,642 FUCKED A MEERKAT WITH GARDEN 591 00:15:09,708 --> 00:15:10,909 RAKES FOR HANDS, AND WENT "DOG," 592 00:15:10,976 --> 00:15:12,144 AND IT SOMEHOW STUCK. 593 00:15:12,211 --> 00:15:13,112 NOW, THANKFULLY, WE MANAGED TO 594 00:15:13,178 --> 00:15:14,179 CONTAIN THAT PARTICULAR 595 00:15:14,246 --> 00:15:15,214 OUTBREAK, AND PUT A STOP TO THE 596 00:15:15,281 --> 00:15:16,115 SALE OF PRAIRIE DOGS BEFORE 597 00:15:16,181 --> 00:15:17,082 PERSON-TO-PERSON CONTACT COULD 598 00:15:17,149 --> 00:15:19,251 BEGIN. 599 00:15:19,318 --> 00:15:19,952 BUT NOW, THINGS ARE CLEARLY 600 00:15:20,019 --> 00:15:24,523 DIFFERENT. 601 00:15:24,590 --> 00:15:29,495 AND LOOK, THERE'S STILL A LOT WE 602 00:15:29,561 --> 00:15:30,095 DON'T KNOW, AND INFORMATION WE 603 00:15:30,162 --> 00:15:30,763 HAVE IS STILL VERY MUCH SUBJECT 604 00:15:30,829 --> 00:15:31,397 TO CHANGE. 605 00:15:31,463 --> 00:15:32,231 BUT AS IT STANDS, AS OF THIS 606 00:15:32,298 --> 00:15:32,831 TAPING, THE VAST MAJORITY OF 607 00:15:32,898 --> 00:15:33,632 CASES HAVE BEEN AMONG GAY AND 608 00:15:33,699 --> 00:15:34,400 BISEXUAL MEN AND THEIR SEXUAL 609 00:15:34,466 --> 00:15:35,301 NETWORKS. 610 00:15:35,367 --> 00:15:36,135 THE VIRUS SPREADS THROUGH 611 00:15:36,201 --> 00:15:37,069 SUSTAINED SKIN-TO-SKIN CONTACT. 612 00:15:37,136 --> 00:15:37,936 AND IT'S CURRENTLY BELIEVED TO 613 00:15:38,003 --> 00:15:38,837 BE SPREADING MOST COMMONLY 614 00:15:38,904 --> 00:15:40,906 DURING SEX. 615 00:15:40,973 --> 00:15:41,774 THOUGH IN RARER CASES, IT CAN 616 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:42,875 SPREAD THROUGH RESPIRATORY 617 00:15:42,941 --> 00:15:44,243 DROPLETS DURING PROLONGED 618 00:15:44,310 --> 00:15:46,045 FACE-TO-FACE CONTACT, OR THROUGH 619 00:15:46,111 --> 00:15:47,246 BEDDING OR TOWELS USED BY 620 00:15:47,313 --> 00:15:49,181 SOMEONE WITH MONKEYPOX. 621 00:15:49,248 --> 00:15:50,683 AND THE THING IS, NOT LONG AGO, 622 00:15:50,749 --> 00:15:52,051 THERE WAS AN EXPECTATION THAT 623 00:15:52,117 --> 00:15:52,551 THIS OUTBREAK MIGHT BE 624 00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:54,853 CONTAINABLE. 625 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:56,955 AT THE END OF MAY, WHEN THERE 626 00:15:57,022 --> 00:15:58,123 WERE ROUGHLY 130 CONFIRMED CASES 627 00:15:58,190 --> 00:16:01,560 OUTSIDE OF AFRICA, ONE W.H.O. 628 00:16:01,627 --> 00:16:02,695 OFFICIAL SAID THIS: 629 00:16:02,761 --> 00:16:04,163 >> THIS OUTBREAK CAN STILL BE 630 00:16:04,229 --> 00:16:05,698 CONTAINED, AND IT IS THE 631 00:16:05,764 --> 00:16:07,132 OBJECTIVE OF THE WORLD HEALTH 632 00:16:07,199 --> 00:16:08,967 ORGANIZATION AND MEMBER STATES 633 00:16:09,034 --> 00:16:09,601 TO CONTAIN THIS OUTBREAK AND TO 634 00:16:09,668 --> 00:16:11,403 STOP IT. 635 00:16:11,470 --> 00:16:17,810 >> John: YEAH, THAT SOUNDED 636 00:16:17,876 --> 00:16:18,911 PRETTY REASSURING, DIDN'T IT? 637 00:16:18,977 --> 00:16:19,745 AND I, FOR ONE, WANT TO BELIEVE 638 00:16:19,812 --> 00:16:25,351 THE WORDS OF THE HEAD OF THE 639 00:16:25,417 --> 00:16:26,585 "SMALLPOX SECRETARIAT," WHICH IS 640 00:16:26,652 --> 00:16:27,619 A VERY IMPRESSIVE-SOUNDING JOB, 641 00:16:27,686 --> 00:16:28,320 WHILE ALSO SOUNDING LIKE THE 642 00:16:28,387 --> 00:16:29,288 MOST DEPRESSING MOVIE SEQUEL OF 643 00:16:29,355 --> 00:16:31,390 ALL TIME. 644 00:16:31,457 --> 00:16:32,224 [LAUGHTER] 645 00:16:32,291 --> 00:16:33,459 AND TO BE FAIR, THAT OPTIMISM 646 00:16:33,525 --> 00:16:33,892 WASN'T UNWARRANTED. 647 00:16:33,959 --> 00:16:34,860 THERE WERE MANY REASONS TO THINK 648 00:16:34,927 --> 00:16:35,427 THAT WE COULD, AND INDEED 649 00:16:35,494 --> 00:16:36,362 SHOULD, QUICKLY GET THIS UNDER 650 00:16:36,428 --> 00:16:37,196 CONTROL. 651 00:16:37,262 --> 00:16:37,996 FIRST, BECAUSE MONKEYPOX HAS 652 00:16:38,063 --> 00:16:38,831 BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE, WE'RE 653 00:16:38,897 --> 00:16:39,598 AT LEAST SOMEWHAT FAMILIAR WITH 654 00:16:39,665 --> 00:16:40,833 IT. 655 00:16:40,899 --> 00:16:42,434 ALSO, BECAUSE IT'S SIMILAR TO 656 00:16:42,501 --> 00:16:44,703 SMALLPOX, THERE'S GOOD REASON TO 657 00:16:44,770 --> 00:16:45,571 BELIEVE THE TOOLS WE ALREADY 658 00:16:45,637 --> 00:16:46,605 HAVE TO FIGHT THAT, WORK ON 659 00:16:46,672 --> 00:16:48,073 MONKEYPOX, TOO. 660 00:16:48,140 --> 00:16:49,508 SO THIS WASN'T LIKE THE EARLY 661 00:16:49,575 --> 00:16:51,443 DAYS OF COVID, WHEN WE DIDN'T 662 00:16:51,510 --> 00:16:53,212 KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING. 663 00:16:53,278 --> 00:16:55,147 REMEMBER MARCH 2020? 664 00:16:55,214 --> 00:16:57,149 WE WERE LYSOLING OUR GROCERIES 665 00:16:57,216 --> 00:16:59,118 LIKE THEY CAME OUT OF THE SEWER, 666 00:16:59,184 --> 00:17:00,853 GERALDO WAS ON TV CLAIMING YOU 667 00:17:00,919 --> 00:17:02,454 COULD TEST FOR COVID BY HOLDING 668 00:17:02,521 --> 00:17:07,493 YOUR BREATH, AND WE DID A SHOW 669 00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:08,827 ON THE CORONAVIRUS ON MARCH 1st, 670 00:17:08,894 --> 00:17:10,462 2020, IN WHICH THE MAIN ADVICE 671 00:17:10,529 --> 00:17:11,697 THAT WE GAVE OUR FULL, UNMASKED, 672 00:17:11,764 --> 00:17:12,331 STUDIO AUDIENCE WAS TO WASH 673 00:17:12,398 --> 00:17:13,165 THEIR HANDS. 674 00:17:13,232 --> 00:17:13,966 I EVEN DID A LITTLE DANCE ABOUT 675 00:17:14,032 --> 00:17:14,967 IT. 676 00:17:15,033 --> 00:17:16,602 AND WHILE I WAS CLEARLY WRONG 677 00:17:16,668 --> 00:17:20,139 ABOUT COVID, I WAS RIGHT ABOUT 678 00:17:20,205 --> 00:17:21,006 THOSE MOVES. 679 00:17:21,073 --> 00:17:21,940 I LOOK LIKE JULIA STILES IN 680 00:17:22,007 --> 00:17:23,909 "SAVE THE LAST DANCE." 681 00:17:23,976 --> 00:17:25,043 VERY WHITE AND UNNECESSARILY 682 00:17:25,110 --> 00:17:27,813 HYPED UP BY THE CROWD. 683 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:28,480 [LAUGHTER] 684 00:17:28,547 --> 00:17:29,748 BUT WITH MONKEYPOX WE WERE IN 685 00:17:29,815 --> 00:17:30,916 THE FORTUNATE POSITION OF HAVING 686 00:17:30,983 --> 00:17:31,817 PRE-EXISTING TESTS, VACCINES, 687 00:17:31,884 --> 00:17:33,452 AND TREATMENTS. 688 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:35,053 UNFORTUNATELY, THE ROLLOUT OF 689 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:35,988 EACH OF THEM HAS BEEN PAINFULLY 690 00:17:36,054 --> 00:17:36,922 FLAWED. 691 00:17:36,989 --> 00:17:39,191 AND LET'S START WITH TESTS. 692 00:17:39,258 --> 00:17:41,026 TESTING FOR MONKEYPOX WAS 693 00:17:41,093 --> 00:17:42,761 INITIALLY SILOED WITHIN THE CDC 694 00:17:42,828 --> 00:17:43,996 AND ITS NETWORK OF PUBLIC-HEALTH 695 00:17:44,062 --> 00:17:44,630 LABS, OF WHICH THERE ARE AROUND 696 00:17:44,696 --> 00:17:46,498 70. 697 00:17:46,565 --> 00:17:49,401 PEOPLE ALSO HAD TO MEET CERTAIN 698 00:17:49,468 --> 00:17:50,536 ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA TO QUALIFY 699 00:17:50,602 --> 00:17:52,371 FOR TESTING, MAKING THE WHOLE 700 00:17:52,438 --> 00:17:55,073 PROCESS SLOW AND CUMBERSOME. 701 00:17:55,140 --> 00:17:56,275 AND "SLOW AND CUMBERSOME" ARE 702 00:17:56,341 --> 00:17:58,043 THE LAST WORDS YOU WANT TO HEAR 703 00:17:58,110 --> 00:17:59,378 IN THE EARLY DAYS OF A DISEASE 704 00:17:59,445 --> 00:18:01,280 OUTBREAK, APART FROM, OF COURSE, 705 00:18:01,346 --> 00:18:02,648 THE OPENING LINES OF "IMAGINE" 706 00:18:02,714 --> 00:18:05,584 SUNG A CAPPELLA. 707 00:18:05,651 --> 00:18:07,453 [LAUGHTER] 708 00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:08,520 AS OF EARLY JUNE, WE WERE ONLY 709 00:18:08,587 --> 00:18:10,489 CONDUCTING TEN TESTS PER DAY, IN 710 00:18:10,556 --> 00:18:13,058 TOTAL, ACROSS THE COUNTRY, 711 00:18:13,125 --> 00:18:13,692 INCREASING TO JUST 60 BY THE END 712 00:18:13,759 --> 00:18:16,061 OF THE MONTH. 713 00:18:16,128 --> 00:18:17,262 THANKFULLY, TESTING HAS RAMPED 714 00:18:17,329 --> 00:18:18,997 UP SINCE THEN, WITH THE BIDEN 715 00:18:19,064 --> 00:18:20,432 ADMINISTRATION FINALLY ALLOWING 716 00:18:20,499 --> 00:18:21,934 COMMERCIAL LABS TO TEST AS WELL, 717 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:22,835 BUT BARRIERS STILL VERY MUCH 718 00:18:22,901 --> 00:18:32,544 REMAIN. 719 00:18:32,611 --> 00:18:36,615 FOR ONE THING, THERE IS ONLY ONE 720 00:18:36,682 --> 00:18:41,620 FDA APPROVED TEST, REQUIRING YOU 721 00:18:41,687 --> 00:18:42,621 TO SWAB LESIONS. 722 00:18:42,688 --> 00:18:43,422 WHICH, ASIDE FROM BEING PAINFUL, 723 00:18:43,489 --> 00:18:44,189 MEANS YOU HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL 724 00:18:44,256 --> 00:18:44,890 THEY APPEAR TO EVEN RUN A TEST, 725 00:18:44,957 --> 00:18:45,891 AND THEY MAY NOT BE THE FIRST 726 00:18:45,958 --> 00:18:46,692 SYMPTOM. 727 00:18:46,758 --> 00:18:47,626 SO UNTIL WE GET NEW TESTS, LIKE 728 00:18:47,693 --> 00:18:48,627 THE SALIVA ONES ALREADY BEING 729 00:18:48,694 --> 00:18:49,361 USED IN EUROPE, OUR CASE NUMBERS 730 00:18:49,428 --> 00:18:50,362 ARE ALWAYS GOING TO LAG. 731 00:18:50,429 --> 00:18:51,163 BUT WHAT'S MORE, WE, 732 00:18:51,230 --> 00:18:51,997 RIDICULOUSLY, DON'T HAVE A 733 00:18:52,064 --> 00:18:52,931 SYSTEM FOR GATHERING AND SHARING 734 00:18:52,998 --> 00:18:53,999 DATA. 735 00:18:54,066 --> 00:18:55,100 MONKEYPOX WAS SPREADING FOR MORE 736 00:18:55,167 --> 00:18:56,101 THAN TWO MONTHS BEFORE STATES 737 00:18:56,168 --> 00:18:57,436 WERE EVEN REQUIRED TO SHARE DATA 738 00:18:57,503 --> 00:18:58,770 WITH THE CDC, MAKING TRACKING 739 00:18:58,837 --> 00:19:00,072 CASES ACROSS THE COUNTRY 740 00:19:00,138 --> 00:19:02,040 INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT. 741 00:19:02,107 --> 00:19:03,509 AND THE TRUTH IS, EVEN 742 00:19:03,575 --> 00:19:05,444 COMMUNICATION WITHIN STATES CAN 743 00:19:05,511 --> 00:19:07,212 BE ABSURDLY ANTIQUATED. 744 00:19:07,279 --> 00:19:08,680 >> YOU KNOW, I TALKED TO 745 00:19:08,747 --> 00:19:10,282 OFFICIALS IN MISSOURI AND 746 00:19:10,349 --> 00:19:11,817 FLORIDA WHO ARE COUNTING 747 00:19:11,884 --> 00:19:13,519 MONKEYPOX CASES VIA FAX. 748 00:19:13,585 --> 00:19:14,686 I THINK WE ALL, IN THE UNITED 749 00:19:14,753 --> 00:19:15,587 STATES, KIND OF EXPECT PUBLIC 750 00:19:15,654 --> 00:19:16,455 HEALTH TO WORK LIKE AMAZON 751 00:19:16,522 --> 00:19:17,589 PRIME. 752 00:19:17,656 --> 00:19:18,657 YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA GET OUR 753 00:19:18,724 --> 00:19:19,391 PACKAGES IN TWO DAYS AND 754 00:19:19,458 --> 00:19:21,226 EVERYTHING WILL BE FIXED. 755 00:19:21,293 --> 00:19:23,295 BUT, UNFORTUNATELY, YOU KNOW, 756 00:19:23,362 --> 00:19:24,096 PUBLIC HEALTH IN THIS COUNTRY 757 00:19:24,162 --> 00:19:24,763 HAS BEEN UNDERFUNDED FOR 758 00:19:24,830 --> 00:19:26,398 DECADES. 759 00:19:26,465 --> 00:19:28,000 >> John: OKAY, FIRST, THE ONLY 760 00:19:28,066 --> 00:19:29,334 WAY WE THINK PUBLIC HEALTH IS 761 00:19:29,401 --> 00:19:30,569 LIKE AMAZON PRIME IS THAT THEY 762 00:19:30,636 --> 00:19:31,203 BOTH FORCE PEOPLE TO PEE IN 763 00:19:31,270 --> 00:19:34,239 PLASTIC CONTAINERS. 764 00:19:34,306 --> 00:19:35,173 [LAUGHTER] 765 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:36,942 BUT SECOND, FAX MACHINES? 766 00:19:37,009 --> 00:19:38,076 THE ONLY THING FAX MACHINES 767 00:19:38,143 --> 00:19:39,211 SHOULD BE USED FOR NOWADAYS IS 768 00:19:39,278 --> 00:19:40,345 FOR ENDING THE SENTENCE, "HEY, 769 00:19:40,412 --> 00:19:43,749 REMEMBER FAX MACHINES?" 770 00:19:43,815 --> 00:19:44,449 [LAUGHTER] 771 00:19:44,516 --> 00:19:46,618 AND THAT IS IT. 772 00:19:46,685 --> 00:19:47,886 SO, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THE 773 00:19:47,953 --> 00:19:49,021 CASES WERE OR HOW MANY THERE 774 00:19:49,087 --> 00:19:49,888 WERE, AND WHATEVER NUMBERS WE 775 00:19:49,955 --> 00:19:51,223 DID HAVE WERE LIKELY DRASTIC 776 00:19:51,290 --> 00:19:51,957 UNDERCOUNTS, BECAUSE WE WEREN'T 777 00:19:52,024 --> 00:19:53,025 TESTING ENOUGH. 778 00:19:53,091 --> 00:19:54,960 WHICH IS ALREADY VERY BAD. 779 00:19:55,027 --> 00:19:56,595 THEN, THERE'S THE VACCINES. 780 00:19:56,662 --> 00:19:57,529 WHERE, AGAIN, WE SHOULD'VE BEEN 781 00:19:57,596 --> 00:19:59,498 IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE. 782 00:19:59,565 --> 00:20:01,033 THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S ACTUALLY 783 00:20:01,099 --> 00:20:02,401 BEEN DEVELOPING AND STOCKPILING 784 00:20:02,467 --> 00:20:04,503 NEW SMALLPOX VACCINES SINCE 785 00:20:04,570 --> 00:20:05,571 9/11, WHEN THERE WERE FEARS THAT 786 00:20:05,637 --> 00:20:07,539 IT WOULD BE USED AS A BIOWEAPON. 787 00:20:07,606 --> 00:20:08,640 JUST WATCH THIS SEGMENT FROM 788 00:20:08,707 --> 00:20:09,575 2002, WHICH FEATURES A FAMILIAR 789 00:20:09,641 --> 00:20:11,610 FACE. 790 00:20:11,677 --> 00:20:13,345 >> THE U.S. GOVERNMENT BEGAN 791 00:20:13,412 --> 00:20:15,480 STOCKPILING SMALLPOX VACCINE 792 00:20:15,547 --> 00:20:17,215 LAST YEAR AND HAS PLACED ORDERS 793 00:20:17,282 --> 00:20:19,985 FOR TENS OF MILLIONS MORE DOSES. 794 00:20:20,052 --> 00:20:21,420 >> WE HAVE ENOUGH MATERIAL THAT 795 00:20:21,486 --> 00:20:23,722 IF WE NEEDED TO, GOD FORBID, A 796 00:20:23,789 --> 00:20:25,757 CATASTROPHE OF A MASSIVE ATTACK, 797 00:20:25,824 --> 00:20:26,925 WE WOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE A 798 00:20:26,992 --> 00:20:27,759 VACCINE FOR EVERYONE IN THE 799 00:20:27,826 --> 00:20:28,994 COUNTRY. 800 00:20:29,061 --> 00:20:31,063 >> John: YEAH, THERE HE IS! 801 00:20:31,129 --> 00:20:32,397 ANTHONY FAUCI, THE FORREST GUMP 802 00:20:32,464 --> 00:20:35,367 OF CATASTROPHIC CONTAGION. 803 00:20:35,434 --> 00:20:36,535 [LAUGHTER] 804 00:20:36,602 --> 00:20:38,337 BUT THE POINT IS, THE GOVERNMENT 805 00:20:38,403 --> 00:20:39,471 VERY SMARTLY BUILT UP MASSIVE 806 00:20:39,538 --> 00:20:42,474 RESERVES OF SMALLPOX VACCINE. 807 00:20:42,541 --> 00:20:43,675 IT IS JUST ONE OF THE ONE WAYS 808 00:20:43,742 --> 00:20:44,276 THAT THE WAR ON TERROR MADE US 809 00:20:44,343 --> 00:20:47,779 SAFER. 810 00:20:47,846 --> 00:20:48,914 [LAUGHTER] 811 00:20:48,981 --> 00:20:49,748 BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THOSE HUGE 812 00:20:49,815 --> 00:20:50,515 STOCKPILES WEREN'T AVAILABLE AT 813 00:20:50,582 --> 00:20:51,516 THE START OF THIS MONKEYPOX 814 00:20:51,583 --> 00:20:52,351 OUTBREAK, THANKS TO A NUMBER OF 815 00:20:52,417 --> 00:20:53,952 KEY STRATEGIC ERRORS. 816 00:20:54,019 --> 00:20:56,188 FOR A START, INCREDIBLY, WE LET 817 00:20:56,254 --> 00:20:58,590 20 MILLION DOSES EXPIRE. 818 00:20:58,657 --> 00:21:01,893 WE JUST... DID THAT. 819 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:02,861 [LAUGHTER] 820 00:21:02,928 --> 00:21:03,929 WHICH SEEMS ESPECIALLY 821 00:21:03,996 --> 00:21:04,997 UNCONSCIONABLE GIVEN, AS I 822 00:21:05,063 --> 00:21:06,231 MENTIONED EARLIER, MULTIPLE 823 00:21:06,298 --> 00:21:07,332 AFRICAN COUNTRIES HAVE HAD 824 00:21:07,399 --> 00:21:08,700 OUTBREAKS OF MONKEYPOX FOR 825 00:21:08,767 --> 00:21:09,701 DECADES NOW, AND MIGHT'VE 826 00:21:09,768 --> 00:21:11,903 APPRECIATED A SHOT OR TWO. 827 00:21:11,970 --> 00:21:13,271 SHARING VACCINES WOULD'VE SERVED 828 00:21:13,338 --> 00:21:15,307 TWO PURPOSES: BASIC HUMAN 829 00:21:15,374 --> 00:21:17,376 DECENCY, BUT ALSO, ABJECT 830 00:21:17,442 --> 00:21:19,111 SELFISHNESS, IN THAT STOPPING 831 00:21:19,177 --> 00:21:20,312 OUTBREAKS OVER THERE MIGHT WELL 832 00:21:20,379 --> 00:21:21,780 HAVE PREVENTED THE CURRENT 833 00:21:21,847 --> 00:21:23,815 OUTBREAK OVER HERE. 834 00:21:23,882 --> 00:21:25,450 AND YET, FOR SOME REASON, WE LET 835 00:21:25,517 --> 00:21:27,019 THE VACCINE SIT UNUSED ON A 836 00:21:27,085 --> 00:21:29,388 SHELF IN OUR RESERVES LIKE 837 00:21:29,454 --> 00:21:31,657 AN EXPIRED CHOBANI, OR A 838 00:21:31,723 --> 00:21:32,591 $90 MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE ON HBO 839 00:21:32,658 --> 00:21:34,526 MAX. 840 00:21:34,593 --> 00:21:35,360 [LAUGHTER] 841 00:21:35,427 --> 00:21:36,495 BY THE WAY -- HI THERE, NEW 842 00:21:36,561 --> 00:21:37,663 BUSINESS DADDY. 843 00:21:37,729 --> 00:21:38,330 SEEMS LIKE YOU'RE DOING A REALLY 844 00:21:38,397 --> 00:21:41,533 GREAT JOB! 845 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:42,467 [LAUGHTER] 846 00:21:42,534 --> 00:21:43,935 I DO GET THE VAGUE SENSE YOU'RE 847 00:21:44,002 --> 00:21:44,569 BURNING DOWN MY NETWORK FOR THE 848 00:21:44,636 --> 00:21:46,772 INSURANCE MONEY, BUT I'M SURE 849 00:21:46,838 --> 00:21:48,874 THAT'LL ALL PASS. 850 00:21:48,940 --> 00:21:50,776 [LAUGHTER] 851 00:21:50,842 --> 00:21:52,044 [APPLAUSE] 852 00:21:52,110 --> 00:21:53,278 SO, AT ONE TIME, WE HAD MORE 853 00:21:53,345 --> 00:21:53,979 THAN 20 MILLION VACCINES 854 00:21:54,046 --> 00:21:55,147 AVAILABLE. 855 00:21:55,213 --> 00:21:57,816 BUT WHEN THIS OUTBREAK BEGAN, WE 856 00:21:57,883 --> 00:21:59,518 WERE DOWN TO JUST 2,400 USABLE 857 00:21:59,584 --> 00:22:01,420 DOSES, WHICH IS ENOUGH TO FULLY 858 00:22:01,486 --> 00:22:04,322 VACCINATE JUST 1,200 PEOPLE. 859 00:22:04,389 --> 00:22:05,457 NOW, WE DID HAVE 300,000 DOSES 860 00:22:05,524 --> 00:22:06,591 SITTING IN A WAREHOUSE IN 861 00:22:06,658 --> 00:22:08,060 DENMARK, BUT FOR SOME REASON, 862 00:22:08,126 --> 00:22:09,695 OFFICIALS WAITED WEEKS AS THE 863 00:22:09,761 --> 00:22:10,929 VIRUS SPREAD, BEFORE FINALLY 864 00:22:10,996 --> 00:22:11,530 DECIDING TO SHIP THEM TO THE 865 00:22:11,596 --> 00:22:13,331 U.S. 866 00:22:13,398 --> 00:22:14,633 AND THAT SEQUENCE OF BAD 867 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:17,202 DECISIONS IS WHY WE'VE BEEN 868 00:22:17,269 --> 00:22:18,403 SEEING SCENES LIKE THESE. 869 00:22:18,470 --> 00:22:19,871 >> HUNDREDS LINED UP FOR THE 870 00:22:19,938 --> 00:22:21,206 MONKEYPOX VACCINE LAST WEEK AT 871 00:22:21,273 --> 00:22:22,274 THIS CLINIC IN MANHATTAN, BUT 872 00:22:22,340 --> 00:22:24,376 SUPPLIES QUICKLY RAN OUT. 873 00:22:24,443 --> 00:22:25,377 >> I CAME HERE FOR LIKE A FEW 874 00:22:25,444 --> 00:22:25,944 DAYS ALREADY BECAUSE I DON'T 875 00:22:26,011 --> 00:22:27,579 HAVE APPOINTMENT. 876 00:22:27,646 --> 00:22:29,214 I WENT TO THE WEBSITE AND THE -- 877 00:22:29,281 --> 00:22:30,982 THE WEBSITE CRASHED. 878 00:22:31,049 --> 00:22:32,384 >> BEEN TRYING TO GET A VACCINE 879 00:22:32,451 --> 00:22:33,051 FOR THE LAST ALMOST TWO AND A 880 00:22:33,118 --> 00:22:36,855 HALF, THREE WEEKS. 881 00:22:36,922 --> 00:22:37,622 TRIED AT MULTIPLE VACCINE 882 00:22:37,689 --> 00:22:38,223 CENTERS AND EVERYONE'S OUT OF 883 00:22:38,290 --> 00:22:39,925 VACCINES. 884 00:22:39,991 --> 00:22:41,526 SO HERE I AM. 885 00:22:41,593 --> 00:22:42,527 >> John: YEAH, VACCINES ARE 886 00:22:42,594 --> 00:22:43,161 APPARENTLY THE BEYONCE CONCERT 887 00:22:43,228 --> 00:22:43,995 TICKETS OF HEALTHCARE. 888 00:22:44,062 --> 00:22:44,930 ANNOUNCED WITH LITTLE WARNING, 889 00:22:44,996 --> 00:22:45,831 GONE IN 30 MINUTES, AND WILL 890 00:22:45,897 --> 00:22:47,065 LIKELY HAVE YOU SCREAMING 891 00:22:47,132 --> 00:22:47,899 "YOU WON'T BREAK MY SOUL" AT THE 892 00:22:47,966 --> 00:22:51,169 TOP OF YOUR LUNGS. 893 00:22:51,236 --> 00:22:52,070 [LAUGHTER] 894 00:22:52,137 --> 00:22:52,871 SO, TESTS? 895 00:22:52,938 --> 00:22:54,072 HAMPERED BY RED TAPE. 896 00:22:54,139 --> 00:22:55,307 VACCINES? 897 00:22:55,373 --> 00:22:56,241 EXPIRED BY THE MILLIONS. 898 00:22:56,308 --> 00:22:57,375 AND FINALLY, THERE'S TREATMENTS. 899 00:22:57,442 --> 00:22:58,777 REMEMBER, MONKEYPOX CAN BE 900 00:22:58,844 --> 00:23:00,378 INCREDIBLY PAINFUL. 901 00:23:00,445 --> 00:23:01,613 AND THERE IS A DRUG THAT SHOWS 902 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:02,147 PROMISE IN REDUCING THOSE 903 00:23:02,214 --> 00:23:04,249 SYMPTOMS. 904 00:23:04,316 --> 00:23:05,550 BUT IT, TOO, IS WAY HARDER TO 905 00:23:05,617 --> 00:23:07,586 GET THAN IT SHOULD BE. 906 00:23:07,652 --> 00:23:08,854 >> AN EXPERIMENTAL DRUG THAT 907 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:10,355 COULD HELP SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE 908 00:23:10,422 --> 00:23:11,823 MONKEYPOX IS AVAILABLE, BUT THE 909 00:23:11,890 --> 00:23:13,291 QUESTION IS, CAN THEY GET IT? 910 00:23:13,358 --> 00:23:15,594 >> THE MEDICATION IS CALLED 911 00:23:15,660 --> 00:23:18,063 TECOVIRIMAT, BRAND NAME TPOXX. 912 00:23:18,130 --> 00:23:20,432 THERE'S NO SHORTAGE OF TPOXX, 913 00:23:20,499 --> 00:23:21,466 BUT IT'S ONLY FDA APPROVED FOR 914 00:23:21,533 --> 00:23:23,368 SMALLPOX. 915 00:23:23,435 --> 00:23:24,369 FOR MONKEYPOX, IT'S STILL 916 00:23:24,436 --> 00:23:25,003 CONSIDERED AN INVESTIGATIONAL 917 00:23:25,070 --> 00:23:26,772 DRUG. 918 00:23:26,838 --> 00:23:28,473 THE CDC HAS LIFTED SOME 919 00:23:28,540 --> 00:23:29,841 REQUIREMENTS SO DOCTORS CAN 920 00:23:29,908 --> 00:23:32,244 PRESCRIBE IT UNDER SOMETHING 921 00:23:32,310 --> 00:23:33,411 CALLED EXPANDED ACCESS, BUT THAT 922 00:23:33,478 --> 00:23:34,579 INVOLVES HOURS OF FORMS AND 923 00:23:34,646 --> 00:23:36,248 EXTRA APPOINTMENTS. 924 00:23:36,314 --> 00:23:37,449 >> John: YEAH, AND EVEN IF YOU 925 00:23:37,516 --> 00:23:43,522 FOUND A DOCTOR WILLING TO DO ALL 926 00:23:43,588 --> 00:23:49,394 OF THAT, SOME PATIENTS ARE THEN 927 00:23:49,461 --> 00:23:50,295 FINDING THEMSELVES WAITING DAYS 928 00:23:50,362 --> 00:23:51,196 FOR SHIPMENTS OF THE DRUG TO 929 00:23:51,263 --> 00:23:51,963 ARRIVE FROM THE STRATEGIC 930 00:23:52,030 --> 00:23:52,697 NATIONAL STOCKPILE. 931 00:23:52,764 --> 00:23:53,365 WHICH JUST ISN'T GREAT, 932 00:23:53,431 --> 00:23:54,199 CONSIDERING, REMEMBER, THIS CAN 933 00:23:54,266 --> 00:23:55,333 FEEL LIKE SITTING ON SHARDS OF 934 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:55,801 GLASS. 935 00:23:55,867 --> 00:23:56,701 IT IS NOT A CONDITION YOU CAN 936 00:23:56,768 --> 00:23:57,536 JUST PUT OFF DEALING WITH FOR A 937 00:23:57,602 --> 00:23:58,837 FEW DAYS, LIKE A COLD, OR A UTI 938 00:23:58,904 --> 00:24:00,205 IF YOU'RE SUPER TIRED. 939 00:24:00,272 --> 00:24:01,907 [LAUGHTER] 940 00:24:01,973 --> 00:24:03,642 BASICALLY, EVERY PART OF OUR 941 00:24:03,708 --> 00:24:04,643 EARLY RESPONSE TO THIS MADE 942 00:24:04,709 --> 00:24:05,310 THINGS HARDER THAN THEY NEEDED 943 00:24:05,377 --> 00:24:06,511 TO BE. 944 00:24:06,578 --> 00:24:08,146 AND I WILL SAY, THERE HAVE BEEN 945 00:24:08,213 --> 00:24:09,548 SOME IMPROVEMENTS RECENTLY. 946 00:24:09,614 --> 00:24:10,148 WE'VE SEEN SOME PROGRESS ON 947 00:24:10,215 --> 00:24:11,883 TESTING. 948 00:24:11,950 --> 00:24:13,351 MORE VACCINES ARE FINALLY 949 00:24:13,418 --> 00:24:14,286 COMING, WITH LARGE NUMBERS SET 950 00:24:14,352 --> 00:24:16,655 TO START ARRIVING IN OCTOBER. 951 00:24:16,721 --> 00:24:17,689 AND THE PAPERWORK FOR TPOXX HAS 952 00:24:17,756 --> 00:24:20,492 BEEN STREAMLINED SOMEWHAT. 953 00:24:20,559 --> 00:24:21,626 SO IF YOU THINK YOU NEED ANY OF 954 00:24:21,693 --> 00:24:23,628 THOSE, YOU SHOULD STILL, 955 00:24:23,695 --> 00:24:25,163 ABSOLUTELY, BE SEEKING THEM OUT. 956 00:24:25,230 --> 00:24:30,101 BUT THE DELAYS WE'VE SEEN IN 957 00:24:30,168 --> 00:24:30,969 FIXING THESE PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN 958 00:24:31,036 --> 00:24:31,837 ABSOLUTELY MADDENING. 959 00:24:31,903 --> 00:24:32,604 AND IT HAS BEEN HARD NOT TO 960 00:24:32,671 --> 00:24:33,572 WONDER WHETHER THE LACK OF 961 00:24:33,638 --> 00:24:34,673 URGENCY HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH 962 00:24:34,739 --> 00:24:35,207 WHO'S BEEN GETTING HIT THE 963 00:24:35,273 --> 00:24:37,075 HARDEST. 964 00:24:37,142 --> 00:24:37,709 >> YOU KNOW, THIS IS OBVIOUSLY 965 00:24:37,776 --> 00:24:39,744 SPREADING. 966 00:24:39,811 --> 00:24:40,312 IT'S SOMETHING THAT WARRANTS 967 00:24:40,378 --> 00:24:41,646 CONCERN. 968 00:24:41,713 --> 00:24:45,050 WHAT I DON'T WANT TO SEE FOR 969 00:24:45,116 --> 00:24:45,784 OUR COMMUNITY IS THE 1980s, HIV 970 00:24:45,851 --> 00:24:47,319 ALL OVER AGAIN. 971 00:24:47,385 --> 00:24:52,023 WHERE IT WASN'T TALKED ABOUT, IT 972 00:24:52,090 --> 00:24:57,462 WAS KNOWN THAT IT WAS OUT THERE 973 00:24:57,529 --> 00:25:01,366 BUT THERE WAS NO PRESSURE TO DO 974 00:25:01,433 --> 00:25:05,170 ANYTHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE, "OH, 975 00:25:05,237 --> 00:25:05,770 IT'S JUST THE GAYS. 976 00:25:05,837 --> 00:25:07,305 IT'S FINE." 977 00:25:07,372 --> 00:25:08,139 >> John: RIGHT. 978 00:25:08,206 --> 00:25:08,974 YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT IF 979 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:09,808 MONKEYPOX WERE SPREADING THROUGH 980 00:25:09,875 --> 00:25:10,542 HETEROSEXUAL SEX, THINGS WOULD 981 00:25:10,609 --> 00:25:11,376 BE DIFFERENT. 982 00:25:11,443 --> 00:25:12,277 BY NOW, YOU'D PROBABLY BE ABLE 983 00:25:12,344 --> 00:25:13,378 TO GET A FREE VAX WITH PURCHASE 984 00:25:13,445 --> 00:25:14,346 AT EVERY J.CREW IN THE COUNTRY. 985 00:25:14,412 --> 00:25:15,213 BECAUSE, LISTEN, IT IS NOT 986 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:15,947 HOMOPHOBIC TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHO'S 987 00:25:16,014 --> 00:25:16,715 CURRENTLY MOST AFFECTED, WHICH 988 00:25:16,781 --> 00:25:17,616 IS GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN, SEX 989 00:25:17,682 --> 00:25:18,383 WORKERS, AND PEOPLE WHO 990 00:25:18,450 --> 00:25:19,584 PARTICIPATE IN SEX WITH MULTIPLE 991 00:25:19,651 --> 00:25:20,952 PARTNERS. 992 00:25:21,019 --> 00:25:22,320 WHAT IS HOMOPHOBIC IS WHEN YOU 993 00:25:22,387 --> 00:25:23,655 BLAME OR SHAME THE PEOPLE WHO 994 00:25:23,722 --> 00:25:24,623 ARE SUFFERING, OR WHEN YOU 995 00:25:24,689 --> 00:25:26,091 DECIDE YOU DON'T NEED TO CARE 996 00:25:26,157 --> 00:25:27,092 ABOUT THIS, BECAUSE YOU DON'T 997 00:25:27,158 --> 00:25:28,360 SEE THEIR LIVES AS VALUABLE OR 998 00:25:28,426 --> 00:25:29,294 THEIR SUFFERING AS 999 00:25:29,361 --> 00:25:31,296 CONSEQUENTIAL. 1000 00:25:31,363 --> 00:25:33,098 AND THAT IS WHERE THERE ARE 1001 00:25:33,164 --> 00:25:34,499 STRONG ECHOES OF THE AIDS CRISIS 1002 00:25:34,566 --> 00:25:35,233 IN SOME OF THE DISCUSSION AROUND 1003 00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:37,002 MONKEYPOX. 1004 00:25:37,068 --> 00:25:38,370 JUST LISTEN TO MARJORIE TAYLOR 1005 00:25:38,436 --> 00:25:40,605 GREENE, ELECTED OFFICIAL AND 1006 00:25:40,672 --> 00:25:42,707 ONE-STAR UBER PASSENGER, WHO 1007 00:25:42,774 --> 00:25:44,442 DISMISSED IT LIKE THIS: 1008 00:25:44,509 --> 00:25:45,710 >> OF COURSE, MONKEYPOX IS A 1009 00:25:45,777 --> 00:25:46,278 THREAT TO SOME PEOPLE IN OUR 1010 00:25:46,344 --> 00:25:49,648 POPULATION. 1011 00:25:49,714 --> 00:25:51,216 BUT WE KNOW WHAT CAUSES IT AND 1012 00:25:51,283 --> 00:25:52,751 THAT'S PRETTY MUCH -- IT'S 1013 00:25:52,817 --> 00:25:53,351 BASICALLY A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED 1014 00:25:53,418 --> 00:25:55,487 DISEASE. 1015 00:25:55,553 --> 00:25:57,055 SO IT'S NOT A THREAT TO MOST OF 1016 00:25:57,122 --> 00:25:59,524 THE POPULATION. 1017 00:25:59,591 --> 00:26:00,692 AND SO, IT'S NOT A GLOBAL 1018 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:03,662 PANDEMIC, IT'S REALLY NOT. 1019 00:26:03,728 --> 00:26:05,730 AND PEOPLE JUST HAVE TO LAUGH AT 1020 00:26:05,797 --> 00:26:09,067 IT, MOCK IT, AND REJECT IT. 1021 00:26:09,134 --> 00:26:09,701 SO, I THINK IT'S -- IT'S ANOTHER 1022 00:26:09,768 --> 00:26:11,303 SCAM. 1023 00:26:11,369 --> 00:26:11,937 >> John: OKAY, OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S 1024 00:26:12,003 --> 00:26:12,804 RIDICULOUS. 1025 00:26:12,871 --> 00:26:13,672 IF THE WAY TO GET RID OF 1026 00:26:13,738 --> 00:26:15,106 SOMETHING AWFUL WAS FOR PEOPLE 1027 00:26:15,173 --> 00:26:16,274 TO LAUGH AT IT AND MOCK IT, THAT 1028 00:26:16,341 --> 00:26:22,380 WOMAN CLEARLY WOULDN'T BE IN 1029 00:26:22,447 --> 00:26:22,981 CONGRESS AND YET, HERE WE ALL 1030 00:26:23,048 --> 00:26:26,084 ARE. 1031 00:26:26,151 --> 00:26:27,519 [APPLAUSE] 1032 00:26:27,585 --> 00:26:28,253 GREENE ALSO TWEETED, "IF 1033 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:29,054 MONKEYPOX IS A SEXUALLY 1034 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:30,221 TRANSMITTED DISEASE, WHY ARE 1035 00:26:30,288 --> 00:26:32,190 KIDS GETTING IT?" IN AN ACT OF 1036 00:26:32,257 --> 00:26:32,991 OBVIOUS DOG WHISTLE BIGOTRY, 1037 00:26:33,058 --> 00:26:33,792 SUGGESTING GAY PEOPLE ARE A 1038 00:26:33,858 --> 00:26:35,060 DANGER TO CHILDREN. 1039 00:26:35,126 --> 00:26:35,760 WHEN WHAT'S CLEARLY AN ACTUAL 1040 00:26:35,827 --> 00:26:37,062 DANGER TO CHILDREN IS THE QANON 1041 00:26:37,128 --> 00:26:38,630 CONGRESSWOMAN WHO ONCE TWEETED 1042 00:26:38,697 --> 00:26:39,431 "THE KIDS AT UVALDE NEEDED 1043 00:26:39,497 --> 00:26:42,367 JR-15s" 1044 00:26:42,434 --> 00:26:44,135 AND I KNOW THERE'S A TEMPTATION, 1045 00:26:44,202 --> 00:26:44,769 WHEN YOU SEE HOMOPHOBIA LIKE 1046 00:26:44,836 --> 00:26:47,973 THAT, TO PUSH BACK AND SAY, 1047 00:26:48,039 --> 00:26:49,507 "HEY! 1048 00:26:49,574 --> 00:26:50,842 IT'S NOT JUST GAY PEOPLE, ANYONE 1049 00:26:50,909 --> 00:26:51,576 CAN GET MONKEYPOX," WHICH IS 1050 00:26:51,643 --> 00:26:53,912 TRUE. 1051 00:26:53,979 --> 00:26:55,080 BUT IT'S ALSO TRUE THAT, WHILE 1052 00:26:55,146 --> 00:26:56,548 ANYONE CAN GET IT, RIGHT NOW, 1053 00:26:56,614 --> 00:26:57,148 CERTAIN PEOPLE ARE GETTING IT 1054 00:26:57,215 --> 00:26:58,817 MORE. 1055 00:26:58,883 --> 00:27:00,251 AND CRUCIALLY, THEY ARE THE ONES 1056 00:27:00,318 --> 00:27:02,020 WHO SHOULD BE RECEIVING THE 1057 00:27:02,087 --> 00:27:03,588 LION'S SHARE OF THE RESOURCES 1058 00:27:03,655 --> 00:27:05,357 RIGHT NOW, AND SPECIFIC, 1059 00:27:05,423 --> 00:27:07,359 TARGETED PUBLIC-HEALTH GUIDANCE. 1060 00:27:07,425 --> 00:27:08,760 AND THE MESSAGING HERE CAN 1061 00:27:08,827 --> 00:27:09,394 ADMITTEDLY BE A BIT OF A 1062 00:27:09,461 --> 00:27:11,463 MINEFIELD. 1063 00:27:11,529 --> 00:27:12,864 THE QUEER COMMUNITY MAY BE 1064 00:27:12,931 --> 00:27:14,332 UNDERSTANDABLY RELUCTANT TO HEAR 1065 00:27:14,399 --> 00:27:15,934 SOME STRAIGHT PERSON LECTURING 1066 00:27:16,001 --> 00:27:17,702 THEM ABOUT THEIR SEX LIVES, 1067 00:27:17,769 --> 00:27:19,371 ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT ADVICE, 1068 00:27:19,437 --> 00:27:20,872 HISTORICALLY, HAS SO OFTEN COME 1069 00:27:20,939 --> 00:27:22,107 WITH AN AIR OF DISAPPROVAL ABOUT 1070 00:27:22,173 --> 00:27:23,274 IT. 1071 00:27:23,341 --> 00:27:25,076 AND SOME, IN THIS CURRENT 1072 00:27:25,143 --> 00:27:26,578 CRISIS, HAVE BEEN TONE DEAF. 1073 00:27:26,644 --> 00:27:28,580 ONE PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIAL HERE 1074 00:27:28,646 --> 00:27:29,781 IN NEW YORK PUSHED FOR A MORE 1075 00:27:29,848 --> 00:27:31,583 ABSTINENCE-BASED APPROACH, 1076 00:27:31,649 --> 00:27:32,884 POSTING ON HIS WEBSITE, "IF WE 1077 00:27:32,951 --> 00:27:34,419 HAD AN OUTBREAK ASSOCIATED WITH 1078 00:27:34,486 --> 00:27:35,420 BOWLING, WOULD WE NOT WARN 1079 00:27:35,487 --> 00:27:37,989 PEOPLE TO STOP BOWLING?" 1080 00:27:38,056 --> 00:27:38,623 WHICH ISN'T A GREAT WAY TO PUT 1081 00:27:38,690 --> 00:27:40,358 IT. 1082 00:27:40,425 --> 00:27:41,659 IN FACT, AN OPENLY GAY HEALTH 1083 00:27:41,726 --> 00:27:43,795 OFFICIAL RESPONDED BY TWEETING 1084 00:27:43,862 --> 00:27:45,196 "A WHITE STRAIGHT CIS MAN 1085 00:27:45,263 --> 00:27:47,265 COMPARING SEX TO BOWLING TELLS 1086 00:27:47,332 --> 00:27:50,201 ME SO MUCH ABOUT STRAIGHT SEX." 1087 00:27:50,268 --> 00:27:51,536 [LAUGHTER] 1088 00:27:51,603 --> 00:27:52,737 WHICH, HONESTLY? 1089 00:27:52,804 --> 00:27:53,972 THAT'S A FAIR HIT. 1090 00:27:54,039 --> 00:27:56,007 THAT'S A FAIR HIT, RIGHT THERE. 1091 00:27:56,074 --> 00:27:56,641 THE OFFICIAL WHO WROTE THAT 1092 00:27:56,708 --> 00:27:57,709 TWEET IS ACTUALLY NOW THE DEPUTY 1093 00:27:57,776 --> 00:27:58,843 COORDINATOR OF THE FEDERAL 1094 00:27:58,910 --> 00:28:00,145 MONKEYPOX RESPONSE, AND HE'S 1095 00:28:00,211 --> 00:28:01,546 BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS WITH A 1096 00:28:01,613 --> 00:28:03,081 REFRESHING FRANKNESS. 1097 00:28:03,148 --> 00:28:04,449 LIKE IN THIS OFFICIAL VIDEO, 1098 00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:06,217 WHERE HE WALKS THROUGH PRACTICAL 1099 00:28:06,284 --> 00:28:07,585 STEPS TO AVOID EXPOSURE, THEN 1100 00:28:07,652 --> 00:28:10,922 OFFERS THIS ADVICE TO PEOPLE WHO 1101 00:28:10,989 --> 00:28:11,656 THINK THEY, OR THEIR PARTNER, 1102 00:28:11,723 --> 00:28:12,891 MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED. 1103 00:28:12,957 --> 00:28:13,958 >> CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING WAYS 1104 00:28:14,025 --> 00:28:14,526 TO REDUCE THE CHANCE OF 1105 00:28:14,592 --> 00:28:17,028 SPREADING THE VIRUS. 1106 00:28:17,095 --> 00:28:17,829 HAVE VIRTUAL SEX WITH NO 1107 00:28:17,896 --> 00:28:20,465 IN-PERSON CONTACT. 1108 00:28:20,532 --> 00:28:21,599 MASTURBATE TOGETHER AT A 1109 00:28:21,666 --> 00:28:22,867 DISTANCE WITHOUT TOUCHING EACH 1110 00:28:22,934 --> 00:28:23,935 OTHER AND WITHOUT TOUCHING ANY 1111 00:28:24,002 --> 00:28:25,737 RASH OR SORES. 1112 00:28:25,804 --> 00:28:27,172 REMEMBER TO WASH YOUR HANDS 1113 00:28:27,238 --> 00:28:29,040 WITH SOAP AND WATER AND 1114 00:28:29,107 --> 00:28:31,042 DISINFECT FETISH GEAR, SEX TOYS, 1115 00:28:31,109 --> 00:28:33,411 AND ANY FABRICS SUCH AS BEDDING, 1116 00:28:33,478 --> 00:28:34,145 TOWELS, CLOTHING AFTER HAVING 1117 00:28:34,212 --> 00:28:35,914 SEX. 1118 00:28:35,980 --> 00:28:37,816 >> John: THAT'S GREAT! 1119 00:28:37,882 --> 00:28:38,716 THAT IS HONESTLY SOME OF THE 1120 00:28:38,783 --> 00:28:42,887 BEST COMMUNICATION OF PUBLIC 1121 00:28:42,954 --> 00:28:45,557 HEALTH GUIDANCE I'VE EVER SEEN. 1122 00:28:45,623 --> 00:28:46,124 IT'S HELPFUL, SPECIFIC, AND 1123 00:28:46,191 --> 00:28:49,894 NON-JUDGMENTAL. 1124 00:28:49,961 --> 00:28:50,895 AND HONESTLY, IT'S PRETTY GOOD 1125 00:28:50,962 --> 00:28:51,763 ADVICE FOR EVERYONE. 1126 00:28:51,830 --> 00:28:52,630 FAR MORE PEOPLE SHOULD BE 1127 00:28:52,697 --> 00:28:53,398 EXPLORING VIRTUAL SEX WITH NO 1128 00:28:53,465 --> 00:28:54,265 IN-PERSON CONTACT, JUST MAKE 1129 00:28:54,332 --> 00:28:54,833 SURE YOU AREN'T DOING IT IN 1130 00:28:54,899 --> 00:28:55,700 THE MIDDLE OF A WORK MEETING, 1131 00:28:55,767 --> 00:28:57,068 JEFFREY. 1132 00:28:57,135 --> 00:28:57,702 ALTHOUGH, THAT REALLY SHOULD NOT 1133 00:28:57,769 --> 00:29:01,773 BE THAT HARD. 1134 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:02,340 AND IT IS NOT JUST THE 1135 00:29:02,407 --> 00:29:03,374 GOVERNMENT. 1136 00:29:03,441 --> 00:29:04,242 COMMUNITY GROUPS HAVE BEEN 1137 00:29:04,309 --> 00:29:05,110 TRYING TO FRAME HEALTH ADVICE IN 1138 00:29:05,176 --> 00:29:08,546 A WAY THAT'S MUCH MORE 1139 00:29:08,613 --> 00:29:10,682 SEX-POSITIVE, MAKING IT MORE 1140 00:29:10,748 --> 00:29:11,683 LIKELY TO BE WELL-RECEIVED. 1141 00:29:11,749 --> 00:29:12,283 LIKE THIS FLYER FROM AN L.A. 1142 00:29:12,350 --> 00:29:13,351 LGBT CENTER WITH THE VERY 1143 00:29:13,418 --> 00:29:14,219 PRACTICAL TIP: "FORGET SLUTTY 1144 00:29:14,285 --> 00:29:15,053 SUMMER, HOLD OFF FOR ANAL 1145 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,521 AUTUMN! 1146 00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:18,623 DO IT IN CIDER DONUT SEASON." 1147 00:29:18,690 --> 00:29:20,892 WHICH, AGAIN, IS EXCELLENT. 1148 00:29:20,959 --> 00:29:22,293 IT'S GOOD ADVICE FOR NOW, IT'S 1149 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:23,595 GOOD ADVICE FOR THE FALL, AND 1150 00:29:23,661 --> 00:29:24,596 IT'S ALSO A PRETTY GOOD SLOGAN 1151 00:29:24,662 --> 00:29:27,832 FOR DUNKIN'. 1152 00:29:27,899 --> 00:29:29,234 [LAUGHTER] 1153 00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:30,668 AND WHILE GOOD MESSAGING IS 1154 00:29:30,735 --> 00:29:32,637 CERTAINLY WELCOME HERE, IT IS 1155 00:29:32,704 --> 00:29:33,671 DEPRESSING THAT WE HAVE TO RELY 1156 00:29:33,738 --> 00:29:35,206 SO HEAVILY ON IT IN THE FIRST 1157 00:29:35,273 --> 00:29:36,708 PLACE, GIVEN THE MANY SYSTEMIC 1158 00:29:36,774 --> 00:29:37,375 FAILURES THAT HAVE BROUGHT US TO 1159 00:29:37,442 --> 00:29:39,777 THIS POINT. 1160 00:29:39,844 --> 00:29:41,379 SO, WHAT CAN WE DO NOW? 1161 00:29:41,446 --> 00:29:42,881 WELL, IN THE SHORT TERM, THE 1162 00:29:42,947 --> 00:29:43,448 NEXT SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS ARE 1163 00:29:43,515 --> 00:29:44,949 GOING TO BE CRUCIAL. 1164 00:29:45,016 --> 00:29:46,351 SO WE NEED TO BE RAMPING UP 1165 00:29:46,417 --> 00:29:48,086 TESTING AND DATA COLLECTION, AND 1166 00:29:48,153 --> 00:29:49,354 GETTING VACCINES AND ANTIVIRALS 1167 00:29:49,420 --> 00:29:51,322 TO THOSE WHO NEED THEM MOST. 1168 00:29:51,389 --> 00:29:52,891 WE ALSO NEED TO MAKE 1169 00:29:52,957 --> 00:29:54,159 QUARANTINING MORE LOGISTICALLY 1170 00:29:54,225 --> 00:29:55,660 POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE, BECAUSE 1171 00:29:55,727 --> 00:29:56,895 MONKEYPOX CAN REQUIRE AS LONG AS 1172 00:29:56,961 --> 00:29:59,197 FOUR WEEKS OF ISOLATION. 1173 00:29:59,264 --> 00:30:00,498 AND FOR MANY, THAT'S GOING TO BE 1174 00:30:00,565 --> 00:30:01,599 DIFFICULT TO MANAGE WITHOUT 1175 00:30:01,666 --> 00:30:04,135 EXTRA SUPPORT. 1176 00:30:04,202 --> 00:30:05,570 BUT IN THE LONGER TERM, AS IF 1177 00:30:05,637 --> 00:30:07,739 COVID HAD NOT ALREADY MADE THIS 1178 00:30:07,805 --> 00:30:09,807 ABUNDANTLY CLEAR, WE BADLY NEED 1179 00:30:09,874 --> 00:30:12,410 TO RESTRUCTURE OUR PUBLIC HEALTH 1180 00:30:12,477 --> 00:30:13,278 SYSTEM SO IT'S BETTER ABLE TO 1181 00:30:13,344 --> 00:30:15,380 RESPOND TO A VIRAL OUTBREAK. 1182 00:30:15,446 --> 00:30:16,014 AND I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE SAYING 1183 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:17,148 THAT. 1184 00:30:17,215 --> 00:30:17,749 JUST LISTEN TO NEW YORK CITY'S 1185 00:30:17,815 --> 00:30:18,883 HEALTH COMMISSIONER. 1186 00:30:18,950 --> 00:30:20,618 >> IT IS FRUSTRATING. 1187 00:30:20,685 --> 00:30:22,754 WE HAD A VACCINE, WE HAD A 1188 00:30:22,820 --> 00:30:25,123 TREATMENT, WE HAD A TEST. 1189 00:30:25,190 --> 00:30:27,458 AND ALL OF IT WAS KIND OF ROLLED 1190 00:30:27,525 --> 00:30:29,994 OUT MORE SLOWLY THAN WE WOULD 1191 00:30:30,061 --> 00:30:31,829 HAVE LIKED, BECAUSE OF THE FACT 1192 00:30:31,896 --> 00:30:33,398 THAT OUR PERMANENT PUBLIC HEALTH 1193 00:30:33,464 --> 00:30:34,399 INFRASTRUCTURE HAS NOT BEEN 1194 00:30:34,465 --> 00:30:36,434 INVESTED IN FOR DECADES. 1195 00:30:36,501 --> 00:30:37,569 >> John: YEAH, HE'S ABSOLUTELY 1196 00:30:37,635 --> 00:30:40,004 RIGHT, AND HE IS NOT ALONE. 1197 00:30:40,071 --> 00:30:41,172 AGAIN AND AGAIN, WHEN WE TALKED 1198 00:30:41,239 --> 00:30:41,973 TO PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS 1199 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,675 THIS WEEK, THERE HAS BEEN A 1200 00:30:43,741 --> 00:30:44,542 SENSE THAT THIS WAS A GIGANTIC 1201 00:30:44,609 --> 00:30:46,744 FUCK UP. 1202 00:30:46,811 --> 00:30:51,349 JAY VARMA, AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST WHO 1203 00:30:51,416 --> 00:30:52,217 PREVIOUSLY WORKED AT THE CDC, 1204 00:30:52,283 --> 00:30:53,084 TOLD US THIS WAS A REAL, PERFECT 1205 00:30:53,151 --> 00:30:53,918 STRESS TEST FOR US. 1206 00:30:53,985 --> 00:30:54,652 IN THIS SITUATION, WE WERE 1207 00:30:54,719 --> 00:30:55,920 UNIQUELY PREPARED. 1208 00:30:55,987 --> 00:30:56,754 WE KIND OF HAD THE QUESTIONS 1209 00:30:56,821 --> 00:30:58,456 AHEAD OF TIME. 1210 00:30:58,523 --> 00:31:01,292 WE'RE GOING TO THROW YOU A 1211 00:31:01,359 --> 00:31:01,893 VIRUS YOU ALREADY HAVE A TEST 1212 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:02,694 FOR, ALREADY HAVE VACCINE FOR, 1213 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:03,995 ALREADY HAVE A DRUG YOUR 1214 00:31:04,062 --> 00:31:05,129 GOVERNMENT PAID FOR AND 1215 00:31:05,196 --> 00:31:06,831 DEVELOPED AND DISCOVERED AND 1216 00:31:06,898 --> 00:31:07,765 STOCKPILED, LET'S SEE HOW YOU 1217 00:31:07,832 --> 00:31:10,001 RESPOND TO THAT. 1218 00:31:10,068 --> 00:31:12,370 AND WE SCREWED IT UP. 1219 00:31:12,437 --> 00:31:14,172 WHICH IS HUMILIATINGLY BAD. 1220 00:31:14,239 --> 00:31:16,307 BASICALLY, ON A SCALE FROM 1221 00:31:16,374 --> 00:31:18,243 1-100, WE SCORED A "NO." 1222 00:31:18,309 --> 00:31:20,111 [LAUGHTER] 1223 00:31:20,178 --> 00:31:22,080 BUT THE THING IS, EVEN IF WE DO 1224 00:31:22,146 --> 00:31:23,481 CONTAIN THIS OUTBREAK, AND EVEN 1225 00:31:23,548 --> 00:31:25,550 IF WE BUILD UP OUR PUBLIC HEALTH 1226 00:31:25,617 --> 00:31:26,351 INFRASTRUCTURE, THERE'S A BIGGER 1227 00:31:26,417 --> 00:31:28,486 CONVERSATION WORTH HAVING HERE. 1228 00:31:28,553 --> 00:31:29,787 BECAUSE FOR FAR TOO LONG, WE'VE 1229 00:31:29,854 --> 00:31:31,789 INDULGED IN THE MAGICAL THINKING 1230 00:31:31,856 --> 00:31:33,558 THAT VIRUSES THAT EXIST 1231 00:31:33,625 --> 00:31:34,659 SOMEWHERE ELSE, A, DON'T MATTER, 1232 00:31:34,726 --> 00:31:37,629 AND B, WILL STAY THERE. 1233 00:31:37,695 --> 00:31:39,831 AND MONKEYPOX IS SUCH A CLEAR 1234 00:31:39,897 --> 00:31:41,266 EXAMPLE OF HOW FLAWED AND RACIST 1235 00:31:41,332 --> 00:31:44,202 THAT THINKING IS. 1236 00:31:44,269 --> 00:31:45,737 WE HAD 20 MILLION DOSES OF A 1237 00:31:45,803 --> 00:31:47,105 VACCINE THAT COULD'VE HELPED 1238 00:31:47,171 --> 00:31:49,374 COUNTRIES IN AFRICA THAT WERE 1239 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,511 KNOWN TO BE HIGH-RISK FOR 1240 00:31:53,578 --> 00:31:54,178 OUTBREAKS, AND WE DIDN'T HELP 1241 00:31:54,245 --> 00:31:55,213 THEM. 1242 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:55,780 AND WE'RE STILL NOT HELPING 1243 00:31:55,847 --> 00:31:56,881 THEM. 1244 00:31:56,948 --> 00:31:57,548 THE SUDDEN GLOBAL DEMAND FOR 1245 00:31:57,615 --> 00:31:59,250 VACCINES MEANS THAT CURRENTLY, 1246 00:31:59,317 --> 00:32:00,385 ZERO DOSES ARE GOING TO NIGERIA 1247 00:32:00,451 --> 00:32:02,620 AND OTHER COUNTRIES IN AFRICA. 1248 00:32:02,687 --> 00:32:04,322 WHICH I KNOW SOUNDS AWFUL, BUT 1249 00:32:04,389 --> 00:32:05,690 TO BE FAIR, INDIFFERENCE TO 1250 00:32:05,757 --> 00:32:10,395 THOSE SUFFERING FROM POX-BASED 1251 00:32:10,461 --> 00:32:12,030 VIRUSES HAS BEEN THE STORY OF 1252 00:32:12,096 --> 00:32:14,098 AMERICA FROM DAY ONE. 1253 00:32:14,165 --> 00:32:15,600 AND I KNOW FIXING ALL OF THIS 1254 00:32:15,667 --> 00:32:16,200 MAY FEEL DAUNTING. 1255 00:32:16,267 --> 00:32:16,868 BUT WE'RE LIVING THROUGH THE 1256 00:32:16,934 --> 00:32:17,702 ALTERNATIVE RIGHT NOW, AND IT'S 1257 00:32:17,769 --> 00:32:20,305 NOT GREAT. 1258 00:32:20,371 --> 00:32:21,039 AND THINK OF IT THIS WAY, IF WE 1259 00:32:21,105 --> 00:32:21,939 CAN ACTUALLY GET OUR ACT 1260 00:32:22,006 --> 00:32:23,675 TOGETHER, MAYBE FINALLY THIS 1261 00:32:23,741 --> 00:32:25,209 COUNTRY, AND INDEED THE WHOLE 1262 00:32:25,276 --> 00:32:26,477 WORLD, CAN HAVE THE ANAL AUTUMN 1263 00:32:26,544 --> 00:32:29,380 THAT WE'VE ALL BEEN PROMISED. 1264 00:32:29,447 --> 00:32:29,647 [LAUGHTER] 1265 00:32:29,714 --> 00:32:31,649 AND NOW THIS. 1266 00:32:31,716 --> 00:32:33,651 >> Announcer: AND NOW, WALTER 1267 00:32:33,718 --> 00:32:35,586 FROM BUTLER, INDIANA, HAS SOME 1268 00:32:35,653 --> 00:32:37,755 THOUGHTS ON MORTALITY. 1269 00:32:37,822 --> 00:32:39,023 >> LET'S TALK TO WALTER WHO IS 1270 00:32:39,090 --> 00:32:40,758 CALLING FROM BUTLER, INDIANA. 1271 00:32:40,825 --> 00:32:42,493 WALTER, GOOD MORNING. 1272 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:43,394 >> GOOD MORNING, THANKS FOR 1273 00:32:43,461 --> 00:32:45,396 TAKING MY CALL. 1274 00:32:45,463 --> 00:32:46,698 I'M CONFUSED AND I DON'T MEAN TO 1275 00:32:46,764 --> 00:32:47,465 BE SNARKY BUT SO WHAT? 1276 00:32:47,532 --> 00:32:48,433 THEY DIE. 1277 00:32:48,499 --> 00:32:49,033 WHEN YOU'RE GONNA DIE, YOU'RE 1278 00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:50,635 GONNA DIE. 1279 00:32:50,702 --> 00:32:56,474 I HAVEN'T BEEN TO A DOCTOR 1280 00:32:56,541 --> 00:32:57,375 SINCE -- I'M 65, 41 YEARS. 1281 00:32:57,442 --> 00:32:58,276 I DON'T TAKE ANY VITAMINS, I 1282 00:32:58,343 --> 00:32:59,010 DON'T TRY TO EAT WELL, AND I DO 1283 00:32:59,077 --> 00:32:59,544 WHAT I WANT. 1284 00:32:59,610 --> 00:33:00,411 WHEN YOU'RE GONNA GO, YOU'RE 1285 00:33:00,478 --> 00:33:01,379 GONNA GO. 1286 00:33:01,446 --> 00:33:02,246 I'VE NEVER TAKEN A MEDICATION IN 1287 00:33:02,313 --> 00:33:03,915 MY LIFE, I'VE NEVER TAKEN 1288 00:33:03,981 --> 00:33:11,656 ANYTHING EXCEPT A VITAMIN. 1289 00:33:11,723 --> 00:33:12,690 AND I GOT ALL SORTS OF HITCHES 1290 00:33:12,757 --> 00:33:13,358 AND PROBLEMS AND THIS AND THAT. 1291 00:33:13,424 --> 00:33:14,192 I DON'T GO TO A DOCTOR, AND I 1292 00:33:14,258 --> 00:33:14,859 FEEL LIKE WHENEVER THE GOOD LORD 1293 00:33:14,926 --> 00:33:15,560 IS READY TO TAKE ME HOME, I'M 1294 00:33:15,626 --> 00:33:18,596 GOING TO BE TAKEN HOME. 1295 00:33:18,663 --> 00:33:19,230 IN THE END, WE ALL DIE ANYWAY SO 1296 00:33:19,297 --> 00:33:19,831 WHAT DOES IT MATTER WHICH WAY 1297 00:33:19,897 --> 00:33:20,631 YOU GO? 1298 00:33:20,698 --> 00:33:21,432 JUST SHUT UP AND DEAL WITH LIFE 1299 00:33:21,499 --> 00:33:22,233 THE BEST YOU CAN. 1300 00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:23,101 MY FRIENDS AND I WOULD GET OUT 1301 00:33:23,167 --> 00:33:24,135 OF THE HOUSE EARLY IN THE 1302 00:33:24,202 --> 00:33:25,002 MORNING, WE'D GET ON OUR 1303 00:33:25,069 --> 00:33:27,171 BICYCLES, AND WE'D PLAY 1304 00:33:27,238 --> 00:33:31,776 STICKBALL IN THE STREETS, AND IF 1305 00:33:31,843 --> 00:33:35,113 WE WANTED TO GO UP TO SEARS WE'D 1306 00:33:35,179 --> 00:33:35,713 ACTUALLY HANG ON THE BACK OF A 1307 00:33:35,780 --> 00:33:36,447 BUS AND DRIVE UP OVER -- 1308 00:33:36,514 --> 00:33:37,448 >> DON'T DO THAT. 1309 00:33:37,515 --> 00:33:38,549 >> IT WAS JUST INSANE. 1310 00:33:38,616 --> 00:33:40,685 NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE. 1311 00:33:40,752 --> 00:33:44,055 WHATEVER, THE MYSTERY OF LIFE. 1312 00:33:44,122 --> 00:33:45,356 WHAT'S MY END GAME? 1313 00:33:45,423 --> 00:33:46,057 TO BE IN A NURSING HOME? 1314 00:33:46,124 --> 00:33:46,791 NOT KNOW WHAT I'M DOING, WITH 1315 00:33:46,858 --> 00:33:47,592 DROOL COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH, 1316 00:33:47,658 --> 00:33:48,393 AND EVERYONE AROUND ME IS DEAD? 1317 00:33:48,459 --> 00:33:49,293 NOT ON MY WATCH. 1318 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:50,094 >> ALL RIGHT. 1319 00:33:50,161 --> 00:33:50,895 >> YOU DON'T WIN STAYING AROUND 1320 00:33:50,962 --> 00:33:52,397 LONGER. 1321 00:33:52,463 --> 00:33:52,997 EVERYBODY PASSES AWAY AND YOU 1322 00:33:53,064 --> 00:33:53,664 HAVE NOBODY TO CARE FOR YOU 1323 00:33:53,731 --> 00:33:56,100 ANYWAY. 1324 00:33:56,167 --> 00:33:57,135 I THINK YOU SHOULD JUST THROW 1325 00:33:57,201 --> 00:33:58,069 OUT ALL YOUR MEDICATIONS, GET UP 1326 00:33:58,136 --> 00:33:59,036 EVERY DAY, THANK THE LORD FOR 1327 00:33:59,103 --> 00:34:04,442 THE DAY YOU HAVE. 1328 00:34:04,509 --> 00:34:05,143 WHEN YOU'RE GONNA GO, GO. 1329 00:34:05,209 --> 00:34:05,710 NOTHING IS PROMISED TO YOU. 1330 00:34:05,777 --> 00:34:06,677 WHEN YOU WANT TO DIE, JUST DROP 1331 00:34:06,744 --> 00:34:10,114 DEAD. 1332 00:34:10,181 --> 00:34:11,115 [APPLAUSE] 1333 00:34:11,182 --> 00:34:12,183 >> JOHN: THAT'S OUR SHOW. 1334 00:34:12,250 --> 00:34:13,251 SEE YOU NEXT WEEK. 1335 00:34:13,317 --> 00:34:17,321 THANKS FOR WATCHING, GOOD NIGHT! 1336 00:34:17,388 --> 00:34:34,372 ♪ ♪