S11 E02: Pig Butchering, Book Bans & Frozen Embryos: 02/25/24: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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- Опубликовано: 24 фев 2024
- John Oliver discusses a massive new internet scam, West Virginia’s attempt to ban books in schools, and the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision that frozen embryos are people.
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As a viewer from Hong Kong, thank you for finally posting the full episodes for us!
jinx
Errrrrr what’s the over/under on how many days it takes for Last Week Tonight to be deemed a “threat” to “national security” 🤐🫣
Maybe start binge watching those 300+ episodes soon our HKonger friend 🫡🙏
I too am a viewer in HK. completely agree 💗
A pity that we never be able to get a main story about Hong Kong since the premier of the show (not even in 2014 and 2019).
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So confused why John didn't get straight to the topic, turns out this is the actual full show😂 Never knew it had other parts.
True. I pay for HBO, but I watch him on RUclips most of the time
The pacing seems off, this is sooo weird 😂😂😂
Haha what did you think he meant when he said "Moving on, our main story tonight..." at the beginning of every clip?
They are now giving it for free to countries, where no one has exclusive rights.😊
Nobody did except that one guy who watched this by paying for HBO.
The rest of world can finally enjoy the segment "And now this..." Praise be!
'And now this' is lowkey the best segment
Legally
Too bad the last one shows the massive hypocrisy of mainstream media, isn't it?
Never knew that segment existed until now 😄
A laikum-salaam ♥️🖤💚
FROM EVERYONE WHO WATCHES YOUR SHOW IN ASIA,
THANK YOU.
And Europe
And South America
Ah yes I'm definitely in Asia as well
Me too thank you
I dont know where Turkey is placed today as it changes everyday but just in case *thumbs up.
Love the fact that we're getting the full episodes simultaneously with areas where the show has exclusive licensing.
Exclusive licensing?
@@mannysikario Places like the US, UK etc...
It's a news show. It doesn't make sense to make it exclusive, since people are not gonna buy the show later on in large enough numbers to justify the infrastructure and whatnot.
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@@dr.victorvs It's not a news show, it's a comedy one, but I do get your point.
as a czech viewer, thank you for finally posting the full episodes for everyone.
Souhlas! :)
Na hbo max ich máme, sa divím že ich púšťajú aj u nás von.
@@BossBast1 11 season is not on max in pl and that is the same licensing region
@@von1glik i have the 25th of February episode in my hbo max app here in Slovakia.
Except the Americans.
The parents need to receive tax breaks for all those embryos, you can't have it both ways.
The pig butchering scheme is a new scam that was discussed by many scambaiters recently. Thank you John for covering this
I got my first one around 2019 on Telegram I think. I responded with the polite 'I'm sorry, you appear to have the wrong number' only to get the person trying to further engage me in conversation with a photo of an attractive lady attached. I stopped replying. No one wants to be my friend that badly. 🤣
I got one around 2020 through reddit. But I'm that friend's weird husband who knows about crypto and sucks to talk to, so I knew to tell the "friend" to f off as soon as "investment opportunity" came up. I was also expecting it to be some kind of scam from the start, as just like mentioned in the video: I suck to talk to, no one would befriend me at random like that.
Also, I used to get those a lot by Telegram, but way less refined and rushed to the "great opportunity" part. I just started having fun and calling for the scam bait before they came up with it, like "so, when are you going to tell me about your great scam opportunity?". Some would call me names and block me, others would actually go through with it. They stopped a while ago, maybe my profile is marked as useless by now.
I got messages like these from three separate senders last year. All had profile pictures of beautiful Asian women and asked if I was a tour guide. I replied to the first one, saying it was the wrong number and then another saying ”enjoy your tour”. I got suspicious about the response times and didn’t reply again. The other two messages came over a couple of weeks and went unanswered
Jim Browning, a RUclipsr who specializes in infiltrating and dismantling scam operations, also recently did a very good episode on it.
People should be forced to have IT litteracy education. And the gourverment should just hire people who have basic know-how of IT to do it. Just give people a job that can really help a lot. I would never fall for a scame but I also grew up being online, especially in games you learn about scamming before your 12.
Thank you for putting the entire episode for those of us out here in Asia, the HBO app doesn't give us access to this so cheers!
so... how many of these disturbingly sexy books that these parents read were ACTUALLY ever in our school libraries? Cause.. I don't remember ANY of these. What a bunch of liars.
Yesss I was wondering, are these books really in US schools libraries?
They are probably books that were in the to review list and they were conflating that since its in a review list it has a good chance of showing up in schools
Fr they sounded scrapped from some shady and obscure forum post
I suspect astro turfing. So basically a well funded group pretends to be grass roots and actually provides excerpts they can read of real books but that most likely are NOT in a school library or otherwise clearly marked for certain ages.
That is disgusting! Where are these books? What shelf exactly are they on?!
I work in Vietnam and there are a lot of new stories here about young Vietnamese folks being tricked, or in some cases outright kidnapped or sold by family members, and forced to work in these Chinese casino/online scam centers based in Cambodia.
A couple of years ago there was a big uptick in these new reports because a few young men managed to escape from one and make it back to Vietnam.
There's a charity called Blue Dragon in Vietnam that deals with trafficking victims. About 10 years ago, it was often Vietnamese women trafficked to China to be a wife. Now increasingly, it's both men and women being trafficked to work abroad.
Cambodia probably has the most corrupt police force in the world. I remember watching a documentary where they were actually with the police doing a raid on a child brothel, and when they got there, it was obvious that someone in the police had tipped them off and they found nothing. The whole thing was just a show for the cameras.
Recently, China managed to shut down a bunch of scammers in Myanmar by pressuring the Myanmar regime (who are basically propped up by Chinese money at this point), because they were scamming Chinese citizens, but they're unlikely to care if they're scamming people from anywhere else.
Kid:We want gender equality in Vietnam.
Mom:We have gender equality in Vietnam.
Gender equality in Vietnam:
P.S. Sorry for meming, but sometimes comedy is needed to keep sanity in this world.
Sure Jan
@@simasgraliauskas6986 Why do you think wars exist? If not to distract populace from inner problems with outer crisis, by levereging inner-outer group bias? Great example - Bush and war in Iraq in 2003. In crisis people are looking for "strong" leader, due evolutionary wiring.
@@jegerslvjegers5380 They're used to distract but they exist to make the rich richer
Finally a legal way to support and watch the show
Pig butchering explains some weird emails and WhatsApp messages I have been receiving. I have been lucky until now, but it's better been warned.
Here in Japan, saying thank you for finally posting full episodes in places we couldn’t see them even if we wanted to pay!
Are they blocked through VPNs
I’m so glad somebody else is talking about Comstock. Look at the horrible damage the Comstock laws did in U.S. history. Why are they still there!
A) Thanks for actually posting the full episodes. B) Pig Butchering scams are rampant here in Asia as well, pretty much to the point where going on dating apps is just pretty much avoiding all scammers all day. I would wager than 2.2 billion USD lost to pig butchering scams is the lowest of low estimates. Anyway, stay safe on the internet, gents. It's the wild wild west out here.
Omg! A full episode? Less than a hour after it aired in the US? OMFG!
"That's for another conversation" That's exactly the conversation you're currently having.
Another conversation: if each of the embryos is a child, aren't they supposed to be given a social security numbers? Birth records? Parents should also be eligible for welfare, right? They did say "... despite their develompental state" meaning there should be no exclusion for children under 18! That is hundreds of thousands of extra kids that they created for the system to handle!
@@alaric_ Also, the IVF providing institutions should give the "children" to be handled by the state, since they are now orphans.
Thank you for the lovely facts about how smart pigs are, John!
Compared to the U.S citizens, their first Homunculus draft were genius.
Oops, I spill the secret about their origin...
Finally, we don't need to see the picture zoom rapidly and have a weird piano background to watch the full show
Thank You John Oliver
This show is truly one of the best thing on TV. I'm so glad I can watch the whole show now ! (Hello from France)
Ya gotta love the mentally of "Children should not be exposed to this erotic literature, so I will go on television and read it aloud."
Especially loved that one woman who was REALLY getting into it 😂 This is definitely some kind of psychological defense from them.
thank you from Vietnam! I always mention this show as the final boss in English comprehension when a friend seeks learning ENglish advice
try Stephen Colbert's Meanwhile openings to test your English comprehension
@@nth.aurora that's just a minor boss. Topical format like LWT is a helpful leisure for ielts trainees.
As a non-native speaker of English, I think the real Final Boss of English comprehension is anything spoken by a Scottish person and anything spoken by an Australian. 😅
@@beth12svist Scottish English is so much harder than Australian English that even native Scottish people don't understand what some other Scottish person is saying. But I agree with you.
@@maeannengo4908 Honestly, upon further reflection I thought there may be other British accents I have even more trouble with - so much so I could not say which ones they are. 😅 Basically, though... John Oliver and Last Week Tonight's vocabulary and thought is tame in comparison to trying to decode wild accents (and dialects / English-adjacent languages). But that's so much the Final Boss it would be discouraging to learners! You have to get to the John Oliver level before attempting it.
That the book banning laws aren’t immediately struck down the moment of its inception due to First Amendment violation is insane
It took the US 100 years to uphold the 14th Amendment. Don't underestimate American capacity to ignore constitutional rights if it suits them. Just look at the Sedition Act of 1800: that law was crafted by some of the very Founding Fathers to restrict the freedom of speech of other Founding Fathers and it was never repealed (only lapsed)...
Because they claim it's not harming the 1 amendment as all are free to write, buy and read books, they are just remowing them from spaces when youngsters may find them ,so no infringement on the right, just a removal from public eyes...And they are gets away with and dangerous asf
Long time mexican viewer, LWT is already on hbo max here, but it takes a week to catch up. Nice to finally have it fully and exactly when it airs! Thanks John and team!
Saying an embryo is a child is like claiming that a seed is a tree
My first LWT full episode... *tears up* It's so beautiful...
French viewer here, thank you from us as well for the full episode, keep up the good work!
as an Iranian, thank you for putting the whole show here. finally i can watch whole episode on youtube instead of... somewhere else. although given that RUclips is banned in my country i'm still watching it here "illegally".
Yes, Mr. Oliver, I’m hooked. Nobody explains pig butchering the way you do! 😍
I have heard students and friends who are into Korean dramas/idol groups tell me excitedly that a Korean account started messaging them, and it has been difficult to tell (specially teens) that they're most definitely falling for a scam. Thank you for the episode Dr John!
I am so, so glad that you started posting the full episodes.
Thanks from France :)
Idem !
@@Ah_BeMoi aussi !
Pareil pour moi ☝️
This is terrifying. I could have EASILY fallen for this. I'm so starved for human connection
"Hi. Is this Beth? What time are you picking up the dog?"
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Hey, you've got us here. 🤗Please be careful and stay in the safer spots like this.
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Much much love from an American in TAIWAN!! ❤
Directly going after 2% of your country's population growth is a bold move. Nothing says "family values" like "no family for you".
I got misty eyed at 26 minutes, when Dad was so understanding towards his daughter. But from 28 minutes on what can I do but cry? There are so many dark, sinister, painful, layers to this issue.
She has broken him... he did forgive her and am glad for that as they are equilly to blame for falling for it. Most of the blame is on scammers but some tiny fault is on the fooled also. But he is a broken man now, close to retirement and lost all he and his wife worked for.
Deep in his mind, he think maybe I should've get a dog.
Business Daddy came through for us in a big way!
Watching this from Indonesia, definitely my favorite part of monday
Hello, fellow Indonesian. Senin nonton yang bikin depresi tapi bikin happy di waktu bersamaan 😂
@@adrianpragiwaksana4245 Depresi karena tahu ada masalah kayak gini, senang karena terjadi di negara lain 😂😂
Haha same 😁 It's quite nice in an not-so-exclusive club.
Wow fellow Indonesians hiiiii
I can't believe I lived long enough to see full episodes uploaded by the official channel. There is some hope for America!
As a longtime viewer from Uruguay, thank you for this gift of full episodes!
Absolutely gloriously overjoyed that the full episode is being posted and shown to the whole world. Thank you so much!
Thank you for thinking about us without HBO access. To even consider us enough to have the full episode available, just wow
As a viewer from Malaysia and Singapore, huge thanks for making full episodes finally available on RUclips!!
John is fighting for us! Thank you, John!
Thank you, HBO.
Everytime I'm torn between feeling anxious about the issue you investigate, and grateful or happy that you exist.
As a viewer from Brasil and a subscriber for more than 2 years, Thank you very much for uploading the whole episode
This man is on different level . So much respect . Please don’t change
My god finally, a full episode of this show many thanks from the Philippines 🇵🇭
The joy of being able to watch the full episode on RUclips. This indescribable joy. Thank you!!!
I'm so stoked that I can finally watch this in Peru! 🎉🎉🎉
"...Every obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy, vile article, matter, thing, device of substance."
Heck... That's my whole Amazon cart right there.
But I was thinking: why not use this against them? Like, if they can ban abortion and IVF because some old-timey wanker said so (and "It's in the books!") - then they also have to ban all the porn, viagra, alcohol etc that THEY like. "Sorry, it's in the books."🤷♀
The anti-abortion red pillers won't be happy when they can't have their fleshlights, s*x dolls, and other stuff delivered anymore via mail/UPS/Fedex etc.
All social media should put huge warning on any new user to avoid falling for this.
My Monday routine was watching the main story. Now, it's watching the whole thing. Thank you!
Much love from Colombia 🇨🇴
WOAH the lady reading it with such feel and intent 😂😂
Thank you for the release of full episodes. That will be a service to lots of people who truly need hear those messages.
From Brazil ✌️
Is that a Mr. Bean joke in our year of the lord 2024? Fuck yeeeeeeeeeeeeees!
I can't believe I'm watching the entire episode in normal quality on RUclips
Wow... Just can't believe it...
My Mondays are saved now!
Thank you John and the team of "Last Week Tonight" for this gift!
After 28 Emmys you can do whatever you want now!
I lost it at the uber joke 😂 thank you for the full episodes, it's such a blessing 🥲
What a great show. Best show on TV for a decade. Keep going john don't ever stop.
Thank you John for giving us the gift of the entire episodes on RUclips! Cheers from Brazil!
Sending love from St. Vincent and the Grenadines! Thank you for the full episode ❤
So happy we are getting the full episodes from now on! Greetings from Greece!
I am originally from South Africa. Thank you for freeing me from piracy's iron yet user-friendly grip. I will now only watch this show here.
THANK GOD.. FULL EPISODES.. ITS TAKEN EONS, BUT FINALLY!! Coming from Taiwan this is great.
I love this show: it's funny, it's informative, it changes the world. Keep it up!
Thanks to John Oliver (and many more of those of you who are behind the scenes) I can contemplate the absurdity of our outlandish reality in almost real-time. I love all of you.
Watching from Malaysia/Singapore and loving every minute of it!!
That reminds of a time when a SMS scammer posed as my mom asking for money. Despite the fact that my mom was sitting next to me XD.
Two full episodes in two days consecutively, thank you John Oliver for making my week! 🎉❤
As a Singaporean viewer, this is a godsend.
From a New Yorker living in Mexico, thank you and keep up the excellent work, you are the best Mister John Oliver.
Many huge thanks from Korea!!
The woman in the sandy-coloured hoodie was way too into that reading. Definitely auditioning for the audiobook.
Thank you very much for the full episode! Couldn’t be more thankful as a viewer from S.E.A.😭
Finally the full episode! Thank you from Italy! 🤩
Thanks from Europe for showing the entire program
Thank you from putting the entire episode, much love from brazil
Dear HBO, thank you for raising awareness.
Team GASO
Lots of love of love from Nicaragua, I can't imagine how much of a fight it must have to get HBO to greenlight this move, so grateful to John Oliver and the whole team
Great show, excellent information. People need to heed the signs.Thank you for a full show here in Bangkok, Thailand!
I mean when Statham's latest movie involves pig butchering you know its serious ;p
Thank you for making this available for Brazil! 😊 ❤️
I was so mad hbo brasil won't make available the episodes here, so thanks for this 😊😂
Watching from the Philippines. Thank you so much for putting the whole episode!!
thank you so much for putting the entire episode online. no wonder any of the other shows can hold a candle to this show
nothing beats a lego accountant harry potter from under the stairs!!!
Just being able to here the opening before it starts, my life is complete. Loving that I can watch this here in Japan
“Moving on, our main story tonight” has never made more sense to me! Viewer from India 😀
Expat fan from SE Asia. Thank you for this!! Finally get to watch the show from an official channel, rather than another method.
Wow! That is basically a life-saving information for some people out there!
as a fan from Zimbabwe, thanks for posting
Thank you from Brazil!
Thank you so much from France ! I hope no company ever buys the rights from HBO.
Seriously thank you for making the episode available!
Thank You.
May no one get conned by internet scams and may the victims who were forced to work for scammers go home safely.
And finally Fk the scam syndicates.
HBO is very smart to invest and indulge such a show, not just for the moral benefits affecting the world but for the image of the company. They lose nothing by doing it
thanks for posting the whole episode. HBO is unavailable in many countries, and there were no legal ways to watch the show.
The joy I felt when the full episodes were announced! I still can't believe it as I have been watching for a long time. Thank you so much from Costa Rica! 🇨🇷
Just want to say again, thank you, from Cyprus!
Thanks for the full episode - especially on such an important topic applicable across countries. Stay safe everyone! ❤
Finally watching your full episode from France ! (Legally)