S2 E29: Mental Health, Russia & The UN: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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  • Season 2, Episode 29, October 4th, 2015. John Oliver explains how our national system of treating mental health does and does not work, Russia begins air strikes in Syria, and the UN hosts a general debate.
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  • @sassafrassiest
    @sassafrassiest หลายเดือนก่อน +286

    Sometimes it’s nice to watch old episodes and be like “Well, we didn’t solve the problem highlighted by the main piece, but on the bright side… the awful world leader from the clip at the beginning is dead now!”

    • @JeanneEdelman-gr5ox
      @JeanneEdelman-gr5ox หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      I'm willing to bet 95% of his material has not changed in the 10 years since it aired.

    • @DaDunge
      @DaDunge หลายเดือนก่อน

      Who is dead now? Putin, Lukashenko, and al'assad are all alive as I recall.

    • @magicianstuff
      @magicianstuff หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Putin? He's still alive

    • @sassafrassiest
      @sassafrassiest หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@magicianstuff I was talking about Mugabe

    • @TheUltimateYouTuberyay
      @TheUltimateYouTuberyay หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JeanneEdelman-gr5ox Yeah, because 95% of the world hasn't fucking changed in 10 years.

  • @angelabennett8245
    @angelabennett8245 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

    I'm really enjoying going through all these episodes. I'm binge watching the hell out of Last Week Tonight. Thank you.

  • @asamlos
    @asamlos หลายเดือนก่อน +96

    As a severely mentally ill person who has been intimately involved in mental healthcare since before I was in preschool, I've seen so many of the cracks - and they're still there. I'm honestly terrified of what will happen to me in the future because I can't live independently and my grip on reality can go from rock-solid to tenuous really quickly. We desperately need to fund the mental health safety net; there are so many people like me who fear what the future will bring because as we walk this tightrope we are deeply aware that only cobwebs will try to catch us should we fall.

    • @freshnorthwest6756
      @freshnorthwest6756 หลายเดือนก่อน

      vote for republicans and they they will GLADLY strip away your health care... read 2025.... actually read it, their plan is to make you into a total outcast and force you out of society... NOBODY should want that for themselves. Everything im saying is DIRECTLY in the plan, i hope you choose to not deny it and vote for who actually cares about your health.

    • @glenjennett
      @glenjennett หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Trust me, you are not alone feeling that way. It is my opinion that most of us have mental health issues and some don't even know it. I don't like to say mental illness because that makes it sound like there is something wrong with a person and I don't feel that way. Everyone is different and some of us just have issues that help us stand apart from everyone else. You managed to make a coherent and self-acknowledging comment on here and that tells me that there is nothing wrong with you. You are aware of your own intricacies and that's something that many people do not realize about themselves. I have suffered with depression and other issues my entire life, but never seen a doctor or been diagnosed, yet I have managed to survive. I struggle with some things, but I don't let anything get to me. I am not comparing my own situation to you or anyone else, but I do believe that you can survive even if everything feels hopeless sometimes. I don't trust doctors because I have had some bad experiences with them and I do believe that many of them will diagnose patients with conditions and label them with mental health conditions that don't exist just to get more money out of them. I've seen this happen. Slap a label onto someone as an excuse to get them out of their hair, prescribe them drugs they don't need to charge them more money and send them on their way. They become dependent on the doctor and keep going back for the same "advice" and more useless drugs. It's an endless cycle that doesn't actually address or help the issue. I'm not saying this is your situation, but I have heard this scenario from a lot of people who have tried to seek help. I just learn to deal with my issues on my own and I do fine. I don't like taking their drugs because they often do more harm than good and as I said, they don't actually do anything to help in many cases. Anyway, I hope you are well and able to find the help you need.

    • @RakanAljuaid
      @RakanAljuaid หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      18:01 that’s not by coincidence nor is it surprising that the US has more Mentally ill individuals in jail/prison than they do in treatment facilities.
      It’s by design.
      Law enforcement have become so enthralled in raising the number of laborers…uhh I mean “inmates” to keep all the prisons (most notably the private prisons) stocked at capacity. Increasingly, as of late, we observe People suffering with mental health conditions, especially those deemed SMI are unjustly targeted by LE, seemingly due to them perceiving SMI individuals as easy prey, prey that are easier to acquiesce and manipulate during an interrogation.
      Absolutely horrendous behavior by LE but that’s what LE does unfortunately😤🙃🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

    • @andylintott9339
      @andylintott9339 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Post COVID, the safety net of the UK was strained almost to breaking point, and it wasn't in a great place to start with. Mental health is a global issue that we are only now realising has very real consequences from mishandling/mis-diagnosing. I've watched friends struggle with multiple diagnoses, failed appointment infrastructure, poor admin, overworked staff, and overzealous prescribing. I tip my hat to your poetic cobwebs, and desperately hope that systems everywhere improve significantly. Too often, the invisible problems are overlooked: nobody looks for spiders if they can't see cobwebs

    • @Spencer-F0x
      @Spencer-F0x 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      If the government won’t be there to catch us from the tightrope, know that those who have made the decision to stay and fight for ourselves and each other are beneath the line with open arms. Thousands of souls who has crossed the chasm alone now stand below on our own terms to make sure no one else falls as we nearly did. You’re not alone, friend

  • @thecjsmediafamily6529
    @thecjsmediafamily6529 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    It may sound cliche but it is ok to not be ok. I got help and it’s been a blessing. You can too. There is no shame. There are people who do care. ❤

  • @karencarrascosalinas8536
    @karencarrascosalinas8536 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    These episodes have been helping me on my morning commute to work, but between the pig head episode and the people rating app I’m convinced black mirror just ripped off last week tonight

  • @Drjos
    @Drjos หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    This episode was from before that black mirror episode about people rating each other, right?

    • @bobbyharden3486
      @bobbyharden3486 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      But after the Community episode with rating people

    • @csurname
      @csurname หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bobbyharden3486 and the Recess episode

  • @Wildfire201X_LIVE
    @Wildfire201X_LIVE 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    27:15 what!! I saw this website a couple of years ago and I had no idea the team of Last Week Tonight were the people behind that!! Oh that’s so cool and fun

  • @carlairving
    @carlairving หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    Mental Health, Russia & the UN is an freaking amazing title.

  • @azzemojo
    @azzemojo หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Business Daddy is being real good to us.

  • @williamjustus2677
    @williamjustus2677 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I was working on an ACT team, and it is a wonderful idea that works very well. The problem is that most agencies do not properly staff or fund them. Medicaid does make it difficult because of the hoops that the billing staff has to jump through to get payment. It is so complicated that it becomes untenable. Ours was not properly staffed, to deal with the number of clients that we served in the community. It is one of the only real effective healthy way to meet the needs of clients.

  • @SoOthersMayLiveandStuff
    @SoOthersMayLiveandStuff หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Great show on mental health. TY John!

  • @stephaniehendricks3537
    @stephaniehendricks3537 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    And now mental health is a top issue that people now want to talk about. Good job john oliver and his staff, and i appreciate this segment more now.

  • @visatuovinen5915
    @visatuovinen5915 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Thank you so much for the realesnake agent joke. God bless this bird man!

  • @alexasinclair8603
    @alexasinclair8603 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    We “used to” lock up people in mental health institutions has me laughing

  • @RakanAljuaid
    @RakanAljuaid หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    18:01 that’s not by coincidence nor is it surprising that the US has more Mentally ill individuals in jail/prison than they do in treatment facilities.
    It’s by design.
    Law enforcement have become so enthralled in raising the number of laborers…uhh I mean “inmates” to keep all the prisons (most notably the private prisons) stocked at capacity. Increasingly, as of late, we observe People suffering with mental health conditions, especially those deemed SMI are unjustly targeted by LE, seemingly due to them perceiving SMI individuals as easy prey, prey that are easier to acquiesce and manipulate during an interrogation.
    Absolutely horrendous behavior by LE but that’s what LE does unfortunately😤🙃🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

  • @dk240996
    @dk240996 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    So Peeple was literally just MeowMeowBeanz from Community.

    • @iamscythed
      @iamscythed หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Awww my MeowMeowBeanz :(

    • @graciespaceycakes3714
      @graciespaceycakes3714 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah but they're new beanz

  • @Onslowfilms
    @Onslowfilms หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    “On Fleek” in 2024 is crazy

  • @andreaparker1595
    @andreaparker1595 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've been binge watching all of these old episodes as quickly as I can get them and I love them! John just tickles me to death

  • @andresmolarespalmero100
    @andresmolarespalmero100 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    15:50 Hall of Fame of Puns 🤣🙌🏼

  • @michelleaneous
    @michelleaneous หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    9:31 The points about #MentalHealth-Louder!! 🗣️

  • @Jcewazhere
    @Jcewazhere หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Jason E. Chaffetz is an American retired politician who served as the U.S. representative for Utah's 3rd congressional district from 2009 until his resignation in 2017. He chaired the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from 2015 until 2017

  • @JustAGun_
    @JustAGun_ หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I forgot craycray was ever a thing, also I don't know how to type it lol

  • @paulcordwell610
    @paulcordwell610 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I wonder if the last week tonight team have looked back on the reports on NetanYahoooo and Israel etc I think there are signs here and also you have documented history and the repetitiveness of it

  • @CatThatLostHisHat
    @CatThatLostHisHat หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Wait, are we not supposed to be flipping Darren's mom like a spatula? I thought we were doing that.

  • @jackster9775
    @jackster9775 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    16:43 you could’ve landed a huge joke about the Judge Rotenberg center here.

  • @nanyubusnis9397
    @nanyubusnis9397 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I feel so bad for that taxi driver. He's just sitting there, trying to be a good driver, doesn't want to be mean to potential future clients. Then they pitch this awful idea to him, and his reaction is basically: "Dear God."

  • @whiskylover1973
    @whiskylover1973 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The People app made me think of an episode of Black Mirror lol

  • @Snailsgale
    @Snailsgale หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Currently screaming into the void. I’ll be a while.

  • @forgiveman
    @forgiveman หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dark Brandon can also pull off Aviator glasses.

  • @Antnee659
    @Antnee659 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Are they going to put every season on yt? I rewatched most of s1. Are they leaving them up??

    • @aljen181
      @aljen181 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Yes, and yes.

    • @seandanielsshow1980
      @seandanielsshow1980 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i literally watched it like 20 times

    • @FallenOne669
      @FallenOne669 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Every week that the show is off, they will upload one full season of Last Week Tonight.

  • @rhymeswithsomethingy4766
    @rhymeswithsomethingy4766 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And Now.. at 6:21, someone knew what they were doing, and said ".. exclusive MORNING interview. It IS TRUE that while they were doing their interview, nobody else was interviewing Rand Pall (SIC)..😏

  • @elaineb7065
    @elaineb7065 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    2 star looks, 5 star showmanship, 4 star puns. There, I rated John Oliver (with a little help)

  • @YellinInMyEar
    @YellinInMyEar หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The only thing crazy about mental health in America, land of the free and plenty, is the lack of consistent and comprehensive treatment. What IS consistent is it being used as a scapegoat .

  • @3191bob
    @3191bob หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    First I saw the donkey then I saw a seal, I have no idea which side of my brain is in control. I hope this isn’t one of those psychopath tests.

  • @The987654321andy
    @The987654321andy หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    this is hitting hard in 2024

  • @LoyalFriend62
    @LoyalFriend62 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    15:22 Although the company Chobani chooses to use 'Greek Yogurt' on their containers, the founder of the company is Kurdish, and yogurt was (arguably) introduced into the region by unnamed Turkish women (from Central Asia). No credit or blame should go to Greece.

  • @BittaSweetJP
    @BittaSweetJP หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanking some where between torture and canada episodes

  • @rojak225
    @rojak225 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    watching these is like getting a snapshot of the TIMES

  • @Satsujinki1973
    @Satsujinki1973 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did that people rating app story come out before or after the Black Mirror episode with Bryce Dallas Howard?

  • @elijahfilmsthings
    @elijahfilmsthings หลายเดือนก่อน

    yes

  • @ryandronsfield6177
    @ryandronsfield6177 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awww but I love Quiznos

  • @v0lny886
    @v0lny886 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    7:50
    Damaged slide

  • @jonm259
    @jonm259 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    So, I check Max but no new LWT but Dune 2 is there already... but i knew season 2 was dropping so im watching most of these for the 3rd time.

  • @user-df3jq5tr8c
    @user-df3jq5tr8c หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Yelp for people just another way to keep everyone fighting against each other so the rich can keep going to the bank

  • @tracynonumbers
    @tracynonumbers หลายเดือนก่อน

    the app from Black Mirror
    Rickdiculous

  • @phoenixnoire2435
    @phoenixnoire2435 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As someone who has been in both jails and in "mental hospitals" (concentration camps for political and social dissidents), I speak from authority when I say jails are infinitely more humane. Sure, both suck, but given the choice, I'd rather go to jail.

  • @Jimjim-r9j
    @Jimjim-r9j หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi

  • @VVeiQuek
    @VVeiQuek หลายเดือนก่อน

    How is this not on the internet previously?

  • @JinxTheLooneyToon915
    @JinxTheLooneyToon915 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    0:41

  • @The987654321andy
    @The987654321andy หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    sure JFK, we know what happened to your cousin Rosemary. don't pat yourself on your back about what you did with asylums

    • @91YEHNAH
      @91YEHNAH หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's been dead for how many years?🤣

    • @elliot-sowdon
      @elliot-sowdon หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Wasn’t she his sister?

    • @Onigirli
      @Onigirli หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@91YEHNAH Neverthefuckingless

  • @heymkbrownlee
    @heymkbrownlee หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is not how charts work 📈😂

  • @Mesterick
    @Mesterick หลายเดือนก่อน

    Watching this episode reminds me of and opinion I occasionally spout that a lot of people have a negative, knee jerk reaction to. The gun violence problem in the US is very much an issue of mental health.
    It is not, however, an issue of the mental health of the shooter. Instead it is a problem of the mental health of our legislators. We have people in office who are so used to power and the trappings of power that they can be, and likely are, victim of a form of brain damage caused by having or believing you have power over those around you. This can lead to reduced function in the centers of the brain associated with abilities like empathy.
    Even without that issue in play there are still a number of legislators and public officials who events a host of other mental health concerns ranging from homophobia to religious extremism.
    If society in the US had adequate mental health care, and if society in the US as a whole had a rational view of the world around them then we would have legislators and acting proper gun control laws. We would not have as many issues with violent or mass shootings in the country either, both as a result of those laws and of pairing for those people who engage in that behavior for reasons that actually are related to mental health care.
    This message was done through Google's speech to text function so if there are any issues with it please take it up with Google.

    • @Onigirli
      @Onigirli หลายเดือนก่อน

      Regarding your last paragraph, it seems fine but do they not let you preview/edit the text before posting or did you just go ahead immediately on your own?

    • @Mesterick
      @Mesterick หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Onigirli Oh, I go ahead and just post without bothering to proofread. Trying to proofread TH-cam posts on phones is a pain in the ass, and not just because it's almost impossible to put the cursor at the end of what I'm typing to continue your work.
      That last paragraph is more of a, "I'm using flawed tools and so I am placing the onus of flaws on the tools" disclaimer. I've already done everything I can with the software to make it adequate. Hell, after 5 years of using it the software still *constantly* has problems when I say "vaults," often confusing it with "volts," "bolts," and other words even though I say, and type, "vault" and "vaults" a couple orders of magnitude more often than those other words.
      Please understand, I'm not being hyperbolic there either. I'm the warehouse supervisor for a household goods moving company, and our long-term storage shipments go into containers called "vaults." At the same time we deal in nails almost exclusively with the occasional screw, and I rarely if ever have to talk about the voltage of electrical equipment. It's... Stupid.
      In any case, I just add that disclaimer to be a bit cheeky and to throw crap back at Google because of how asinine the software can be at times.

    • @TheRealEvilkitten3
      @TheRealEvilkitten3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i'm sure this is well-intentioned, but framing the people making our lives hell as "the REAL mentally ill ones" is frankly unhelpful at best and counterproductive at worst. bigotry is not mental illness, it's just bigotry. attempting to separate "good" traits from "bad" ones in this manner only stigmatizes mentally ill people further. homophobia is not a mental illness. religious extremism is a mental illness. ableism is not a mental illness. a power trip is not a mental illness. it's undeniably true that these things all tie into one another, because everything ties into everything, but the idea that the mentally ill are the cause of the oppressive laws and systems that so often bring us harm is not only completely untrue but in and of itself deeply ableist. i hope you reconsider your stance on this.
      (also, just because this happens to be an issue that affects me personally - the conflation of empathy with morality is one of the many, many harmful tropes seen very frequently in ableist rhetoric. empathy is not a requirement to be a good person, and lack of empathy is not a trait guaranteed in every shitty person.)

  • @MultiBilly420
    @MultiBilly420 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He brings his kid with them because his kid is the one who is going to take over his throne and that will be him in that s you might as well start getting him the experience young because because that kid is the next dictator of belarus

  • @CrAck-MoNey
    @CrAck-MoNey หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    A fitted bedsheet is easy to fold. 😁

  • @Horatius333
    @Horatius333 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Yelp for People = MeowMeowBeanz

  • @micheleploeser7720
    @micheleploeser7720 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wasn’t being a peeping Tom against the law

  • @warrenharding103
    @warrenharding103 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    *_Hey America! You can't be "Great Again" unless you've been Great at least ONCE!_*

    • @deimosvoralius2988
      @deimosvoralius2988 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Will forward to right-wing nutjobs for you. Got a country of origin you want the subsequent sanctions to aim at?

  • @ErutaniaRose
    @ErutaniaRose หลายเดือนก่อน

    24:50 This would literally just make things so much worse for autistic people and all disabled people in general.
    Edit: And obviously even worse for POC autistics and also queer autistics. It’s just gonna spread racism, ableism, queer phobia, and all kinds of bigotry.

  • @reprovedcandy
    @reprovedcandy หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm so glad peeple failed. I would've had HORRIBLE ratings. lol

  • @alexandrnoskov5437
    @alexandrnoskov5437 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The sale of antidepressants and drugs without prescriptions from a doctor is to blame for everything. Americans do not want to live sober and in a sober world.

    • @meganjones3427
      @meganjones3427 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Bold of you to call this a "sober world"

    • @asamlos
      @asamlos หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You are aware that they aren't actually "happy pills" so much as they are "i am not actively becoming a slug pills", right? Most antidepressants are SSRIs, which literally just keep more serotonin in your system to make up for your body not producing enough. In fact, if your body is already producing enough serotonin, SSRIs will actually make you *less* happy because you'll get serotonin syndrome and become increasingly sick. It doesn't have happiness as a side effect, nor will just taking those pills make you happy. It's not like alcohol or nicotine, it's like insulin.

    • @asamlos
      @asamlos หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I feel like you don't understand SSRIs... They aren't like alcohol, and taking them if you aren't depressed will actually just straight up make you sick - not just mentally (though not even in a fun way, it'll just make you agitated and confused), like physically ill. It won't make someone happier/less sober any more than giving a healthy person insulin will make them healthier.

    • @dinahmyte3749
      @dinahmyte3749 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ...My prozac doesn't do anything but make me less likely to spiral out of control... I also take CBD for chronic pain...

    • @alexandrnoskov5437
      @alexandrnoskov5437 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dinahmyte3749 In all civilized countries, Prozac is prohibited as a narcotic drug.

  • @GuitarSlayer136
    @GuitarSlayer136 หลายเดือนก่อน

    mean

  • @htimsxam
    @htimsxam หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    First

  • @sagus9396
    @sagus9396 หลายเดือนก่อน

    just a correction: Russia's economy goes up in last 2 years, there are statistics for that.. (last time I checked it was 3,5% increase in GDP), and the only bad news from Ukraine are that in a war that was already lost (by Ukraine), one increasingly authoritarian TV comedian still dreams about victory (how? shhh, not important, as long as money and blood are flowing), is ready to sacrifice every last Ukrainian to achieve it, and if needed, drag the whole world into a mess his own administration and illegal coup, had caused. I mean, it is tough when your opponet is a maniac ready to smash his head against the wall any time and refuses to talk. Other than that, Ukraine is pretty much destroyed, totaly dependant economicaly and militarily from the US, half of their land gone, half milion people dead, army decimated. Russians are distracting themselves with family trips to red square, where all sorts of captured and labeled NATO equipment are presented for show... or admiring the only real cathedral anyone built anywwhere in last century at least :) . And what a cathedral it is, pretty good for sad poor country of terrible soldiers run by Hitler without moustache :))
    It is all pretty sad really, and jokes are not funny if they are based and spinned of absolutely false assumptions. Even less if those false assumptions and american storytelling destroys a whole country as we speak... did I say country? I mean, whole bunch of them..

    • @E2O10
      @E2O10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What does this have to do with 2015?

    • @Onigirli
      @Onigirli หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hate watching is a mental illness. Please restrain yourself if you can... that's all moon man talk you just typed out

  • @azraelsparadox1119
    @azraelsparadox1119 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh fuck you for letting conservative political infomercials interrupt this video, not cool

    • @Onigirli
      @Onigirli หลายเดือนก่อน

      What did it entail?

  • @AbiyBattleSpell
    @AbiyBattleSpell หลายเดือนก่อน

    spam 😾

    • @Onigirli
      @Onigirli หลายเดือนก่อน

      sneed

    • @AbiyBattleSpell
      @AbiyBattleSpell หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Onigirli Que 🐱