Yes, if you look at the "Old Episodes" you will realize he can see the future. Just like most of us that keep quite or unmotivated to do anything about it. Come on people let's get upset and fight back. Justice is supposed to be just, and fair for everyone even the ones who think they are above it!
I lived there early in my career and got bored to death. I could understand doing anything to get any sort of excitement in this city that has the sightseeing and cultural life best described as "Meh". That being said, now that I have a child, I can appreciate the good school, tranquility, and many parks of our national capital. A bit.
Welcome to North America...otherwise known as the U.S. of A. Featuring our northern neighbors...I'm sorry that we are bleeding into your country as well. I truly am sorry.
I left my suburb in Ottawa for uni bcs that city was so boring. I’m close to graduating now and the only reason I go to Ottawa is to visit my parents to run away from the stress of living in the city. I literally go there to be bored 😂
Yeah… It was shocking to hear those words… I myself was washing the dishes and I felt like that weird woman in the library book ban when she heard her child asking something about sex… utensils dropped dramatically…
It doesn't feel different. It feels like the conflict was openly under our noses for over a decade and noone really paid attention until it actually grew to a possible-WW3-spark proportions.
There was never a real conflict at Crimea or the east of Ukraine. It was solely a onesided instigation of aggression for trying to occupy and annex regions of another bordering country, like during WWII via Shelling of Mainila.
I got a well deserved DUI well over a decade ago, and I ended up as essentially the cell block lawyer. This is still one of the most impactful times of my life, not because I was in jail, but because although I was not actually qualified I somehow ended up being able to provide basic advice to people who really needed it. We really screw poor defendants, and I'm sure not much has changed.
55 years for weed. Incredible. Affluenza guy got 720 days in jail for violating his probation in 2016 after drunk driving and killing 4 people. Probation. But since the drug guy isn't rich enough to know better, he got 55 yrs.
Literally. It’s wild how drugs were and are criminalized, especially since we KNOW it’s usually in part or addiction which is an illness, yet actual violent crimes that ruin lives or end them are given basically a slap on the wrist. Personally I am anti prison and prison industrial complex, but I am Def not anti consequences. What we have is just so SOOO inhumane and just surges to criminalize being poor, uneducated, mentally ill, neurodivergent, disabled, POC, and/or being abused and trying to save yourself. We need to fucking start over, what our society does is so appalling.
the joke about AM being entirely dudes is actually true 😅 that was the reason they were hacked. only 5% of their user base were female profiles, but they were caught spamming their sight with bots. i think it was something like 98% of that 5% were not real accounts, but AM was still charging men by the message or through a subscription. the hacker group gave them an ultimatum to shut down the site or they’d make all of that public info. obviously AM didn’t back down until it was already too late 😅
That is fascinating! Also something about the way that "other than my wife" commercial was set up made me think for a split second that the first guy was catfishing as the woman on his computer screen which would have made sense with it being entirely dudes.
I remember my former neighbor was on that list. I live in a town with fewer than 2500 people, so the rumor mill was _fierce._ I didn't even care, so I didn't look. A family member in town told me. Frankly, the existence of that site never surprised me, nor that it was also a scam.
"All research and successful drug policy shows that treatment should be increased. And law enforcement decreased while eliminating mandatory mnimum sentences" - Worked in to track 1 on System of a Down's 2001 "Toxicity" , Prison Song edit , its abolishing not eliminating.. i recited it off the top of my head
I've heard that song countless times and never knew that's what the lyrics were. Actually, _is_ that what the lyrics say, or is it one of those "hidden messages" worked into the song in some obscure way?
@@moogle68 no it comes after the second chorus, the bridge between that and the interlude "utilizing drugs to pay for secret wars around the world, drugs are now your global policy and you police the globe" - its not "sung" its screamed basically, twice over. you cant miss it if youre listening :)
@@zerokombatant3310 I remember hearing that cd the day before september 11th I think, I had been a casual fan of them but I only knew basically Sugar and Chop Suey. I was in 11th grade and one of my new older friends with a car popped in the toxicity album and played it through, and i was instantly hooked.
@@moogle68 I actually didnt understand all the words until recently - "Following the rights movement you clamped down with your iron fist, drugs became conveniently available for all the kids" I had no idea what that first part said until. recently. SOAD lyrics are super deep.
17:10 "Did I ever tell you the time I sold crack to the president of the US?" -- This one hits differently when you remember the whole cocaine incident at the white house last year.
@@goroakechi6126 This sounds like a reason to check the past President's pardons; it's entirely possible that one of the Presidents of the past couple years "Knows a guy".
@@goroakechi6126 it was found in an area that wasnt a working area, the 24 hour news cycle is a disservice because they do the opposite of what good journalism is, they want to be first to the punch and be the most outrageous (CNN is the number one offender of this imo) , and they overblow stuff that isnt all that big a deal (the cocaine was found in an area that many members of the public frequent iirc, like the press, and honestly, who cares if some random member of the press had coke on them at the white house) , and then the next day its as if none of their reportiung ever happened and they just move on to the next thing. Just like they spent so much time making so much of Michael Cohen's testimony even though it was professional, direct, and respectful. Meanwhile they spent way less time on the facts and the evidence and they were trying to make the one time that Cohen "misremembered" something because when youre making surreptitious payoffs for the trump campaign, and you make a phone call 8 years ago, the trial wasnt about the 14 year old that Cohen texted the secuirty guy about an hour before the phone call. The jury came back in 12 hours with a 34 count conviction, but if you watched CNN's coverage you'd have no idea that it was such an obvious conviction that it toook the jury a relatively short time and its obivious who they assessed as credible and who they didnt. The trumpers will say he cant get a fair trial or they should have been sequestered, which falls flat considering that trump associates have been acquitted on charges related to crimes committed in the trump adminisratation, in NY, and if the jury was getting their information from "liberal" CNN they'd have a totally backwards view of what the facts were. Just a few examples of how god damn broken the press is
Wait. Seeing this episode in the future after a whole documentary was made on AM is making me see this so differently. I know how the story ends hahaha
What was the documentary about? Was there a scandal of some sort on the business end of the website, or was it just an inquisitive look at the type of people that used the site and their reasoning + experiences? Also, (since I'm lazy/dont care enough to look it up myself) how did the whole debacle with the hackers end?
First aired in July 26th, 2015 and still relevant. Glad John Oliver is uploading all his own episodes and owns his own show (?)must google) They make a good record of history too.
I'm an open minded person. Personally, I think polygamy is fine as long as everyone involved gives their consent. Having an affair is still f***ing disgusting, those people singing should all be ashamed of themselves and I frankly think there should be laws against that. Especially if you got married through specifically a religious practice that doesn't support polygamy. The vows imply you will take one wife or husband. Breaking that vow makes you a disgrace. It's "I take thee to be my wedded wife/husband" not "I take thee to be one another one of my spouses." ffs.
Weldon: Weldon Angelos became a “national cause célèbre,” the symbol for justice reform for liberals and conservatives alike. In 2016, after an unprecedented, bipartisan campaign to secure his freedom by elected and appointed government officials, celebrities, advocates, business leaders, and myriad of media outlets like the Washington Post, Angelos was finally released from prison after serving 13 years for a first-time, cannabis-related offense. In December of 2020, he was fully pardoned by the President. 2020 was just a bit ago.
For the record, a Shamrock Shake is not Leprechaun diarrhea, it's Leprechaun semen. That's why it's only available for a limited time every year. If it was diarrhea, they'd just have to feed them McDonald's every day to keep it going all year
1:40 gee i wonder who funded that hmmm which foreign lobbyist group in america has that kinda influence and money but also hates iran hmmm who could it be
Why not advertise yourself as a polyamorous dating site instead of "cheaters R us" ? Like... You can have multiple partners and it be consensual. I don't understand this decision-making.
because that’s not the appeal. polyamorous & swinger dating sites exist, but the people on ashley madison don’t want consensual polyamory-they want to cheat. it’s infinitely less ethical, but ethics aren’t really the point there.
Sorry, I don't feel bad for Kevin Ott. His mandatory minimum sentence wasn't for one simple offense. It was part of a three-strikes law, which means he had two chances to straighten up and fly right before he got caught (that's important) committing a third crime. The government didn't ruin his life, _he_ ruined his _own_ life.
i havent watched the episode yet but are all strikes created equal ? Considering the disincentives to take a case to trial and the fact that its way easier to pick up some poor schmuck who encounters a cop and gets arrested on the spot for drug possession, mandatory minimums make no sense especially when they do so little to help people who have addiction problems, which is a health condition whether you believe it or not. Especially considering whos actually getting rich off the drug trade. I dont know what this Kevin Ott guy did but mandatory minimums take all the humanity and subjectivity out of a system that already disfavors people who cant afford to pay legal counsel. Meanwhile Donald Trump just got convicted of 34 felony counts and he might not even see the inside of a prison cell even though he absolutely should. As a former drug addict myself who was lucky enough to get out before I killed myself or someone else, mandatory minimums for non violent crimes are ludicrous. But I dont know what the dude did, and I dont know when life became a game of baseball that we decided to apply those rules to it. It's not like you can draw a walk in the legal system
@@littlejerryseinfeld4168 According to the NBC News website: "In 1996, police caught Ott with meth and a handgun in his trailer. He had two prior felonies for drug possession, one for having marijuana plants, the other for a bag of meth police found in his pocket as he left a bar." In Oklahoma, possession of a handgun by a felon is considered a violent crime. And on The Guardian's website, it says that in 2018, Oklahoma's then-governor Mary Fallin "commuted his sentence after the state’s pardon and parole board recommended commuting his sentence to 30 years," and he was paroled. Yes, I believe drug addiction is a medical problem. But this isn't about drug addiction. It's about committing crimes. Being addicted to drugs doesn't mean you have no choice but to sell drugs, and that's what Kevin Ott admitted to doing. "He says he started using and selling meth after he got laid off. His addiction fueled one bad choice after another," says NBC News. I say he started selling meth because it was fast, tax-free money and beat working for a living. His mom was upset because the state of Oklahoma wouldn't help him with his addiction. But that's not the state of Oklahoma's job. If you know you have a problem with substances, then it's up to you to seek help for it. It's not anyone else's job but yours to fix your life for you. It's a shame that Ott figured "the only way to solve my problems is by breaking the law." Now maybe, just maybe, Oklahoma's three-strikes law shouldn't be applied to nonviolent drug offenses. But that's not for me to say, and I'm not going to proclaim that the reason drug trafficking is illegal is because the citizens of Oklahoma have been duped by their evil government. See, that's what Breaking Bad won't show you, the everyday victims. It won't show you that meth destroys people, and I'm not being a drama queen when I say that. It ruins people's lives, mainly kids. That's why we have to do something to tackle this problem. Could we do a better job? Absolutely! There's always a better solution to everything which we just haven't found yet. And to quote Dirty Harry, "Goddammit, I hate the system. But until something comes along that makes more sense, I'm gonna stick with it." The solution that makes more sense is for better minds than mine, and I leave it to them. Meanwhile, I won't be breaking the law just because it makes things easier for me. That's the decision Kevin Ott found himself faced with, and he made the wrong choice for himself, knowing the consequences. His life was up to him, and he failed.
Like it is started in the show, there are tons of far worse crimes that have a lower mandatory minimum. And the reason Kevin turned to crime was because he was laid off and so desperate for money that he turned to selling drugs. While selling them he had some himself and became addicted. If he had committed the crimes in Portugal, which has decriminalized drug possession, he would have to fulfill community service and be given state sponsored treatment for his addiction. He could have been a functioning member of society again in a year or two. And that would be considerably cheaper for tax payers then having him spend life in prison. So the mandatory minimums screw us all over.
@@takeru3159 "...far worse crimes that have a lower mandatory minimum." That's called the fallacy of relative privation. "What Ott did isn't as bad as what some other dudes did, so shouldn't have been punished like that." Give me a break. "And the reason Kevin turned to crime was because he was laid off and so desperate for money that he turned to selling drugs." Uh-huh. Desperation is no excuse for becoming a drug dealer. The law doesn't (and shouldn't) take your circumstances into account when you get caught committing a crime. Otherwise, people could claim desperation as a justification for committing _any_ crime. "If he had committed the crimes in Portugal, which has decriminalized drug possession...." Drug trafficking is not the same thing as drug possession; the two crimes are not equal. And who gives a crap about Portugal, or Zanzibar, or East Timor, or the Federated States of Micronesia, or wherever? Ott committed his crimes in Oklahoma and nowhere else. Oklahoma doesn't take its cues on law enforcement from the country of Portugal. Why should it? Stay focused. "He could have been a functioning member of society again in a year or two." Right. Give him a slap on the wrist and hope he doesn't get "desperate" again. Then when he goes back to selling drugs, give him another slap. And another. And another. Aaaaand one more, no matter how many times he peddles drugs to kids. Sorry, that's a no for me. And I'm tired of hearing the "cheaper for the taxpayers" argument. This isn't about money. It's about fighting crime. We've decided it's not acceptable to traffic drugs in our society. We've made drug trafficking illegal in our society. To enforce that standard, we've put this policy in place. "Commit this crime once, and we're willing to give you a chance to clean up your act, after you pay your debt to the people of Oklahoma. Commit this crime again, and the penalty will be more severe; however, we're willing to give you a _second_ chance, although you arguably don't deserve it. Commit this crime a _third_ time (not to mention committing an additional violent felony), that's it. You have proven yourself to be an unreformed, hardened criminal, and you are going to prison, for life. In there, you will have no further opportunity to offend against the people of the state of Oklahoma. We will be safe from you." Anybody who thinks what Ott did wasn't that bad and he shouldn't have been punished that severely, needs a reality check. They need to ask themselves, "How would I feel if Kevin Ott had sold meth to a member of my family, and that person ended up hospitalized or dead as a result?" I'll tell you how you'd feel. You'd want Ott prosecuted and sentenced to the maximum term possible under the law, and you can't tell me any different.
@@gspendlove "The law doesn't (and shouldn't) take your circumstances into account". Except that it absolutely does. The circumstances of a crime can almost always either upgrade or downgrade the offense. For example, manslaughter vs murder. The problem is that mandatory minimums throws that out of the window, and forces the judge to hand out a specific sentence. "people could claim desperation as a justification for committing any crime. ". They already do. There are cases where desperation to exit an abusive relationship has lead to murder. The desperation being the need to exit, but also the fear that if they do, the abusive partner will come kill them. And we know that happens, there are cases of abusers being locked up, only for them to murder their abusee as soon as they get out. "It's about fighting crime". Did you watch the episode? It's literally been proven that it doesn't work because THE OFFENDERS DON'T EVEN KNOW THE RISKS INVOLVED. A deterrent only works if whoever it's aimed at is aware of its existence. "You'd want Ott prosecuted and sentenced to the maximum term possible under the law, and you can't tell me any different.". I will tell you different, then. I would want the man in prison, and while in that prison, I would want him to have access to resources to educate and better himself, so that once he is out, he will no longer need to continue doing that, making the risk of any future victims zero, while benefitting society at large, Ott himself, and his family. You cannot resurrect the dead, so the best we can do is move on.
"Ukraine, you've had a rough year." John yet again being painfully clairvoyant.
Yes, if you look at the "Old Episodes" you will realize he can see the future. Just like most of us that keep quite or unmotivated to do anything about it. Come on people let's get upset and fight back. Justice is supposed to be just, and fair for everyone even the ones who think they are above it!
@@fwfultonor just that shit is depressingly predictable if you follow the trends and right variables lol
@@stoodmuffinpersonal3144 i think that was what he was saying
Thank you for these shows being posted in their entirety. They are still important, and still funny.
As a Canadian, the Ottawa bit is too real.
i mean it makes sense: ottawa has lots of money, and bored ppl in powerful jobs. thats the perfect recipe for mattress surfing
I lived there early in my career and got bored to death. I could understand doing anything to get any sort of excitement in this city that has the sightseeing and cultural life best described as "Meh".
That being said, now that I have a child, I can appreciate the good school, tranquility, and many parks of our national capital. A bit.
LOL! I live Ottawa adjacent. Can confirm, all true 😂
Welcome to North America...otherwise known as the U.S. of A. Featuring our northern neighbors...I'm sorry that we are bleeding into your country as well. I truly am sorry.
I left my suburb in Ottawa for uni bcs that city was so boring. I’m close to graduating now and the only reason I go to Ottawa is to visit my parents to run away from the stress of living in the city. I literally go there to be bored 😂
26:32 that Ukraine joke feels a bit different now
Phase 1.1 - Try Hard
Phase 1.2 - Try HARDER
Phase 1.3 - KEEP TRYING
Phase 1.3.1 - Why isn't this workinggggg???? 😭
Yeah… It was shocking to hear those words… I myself was washing the dishes and I felt like that weird woman in the library book ban when she heard her child asking something about sex… utensils dropped dramatically…
It doesn't feel different. It feels like the conflict was openly under our noses for over a decade and noone really paid attention until it actually grew to a possible-WW3-spark proportions.
There was never a real conflict at Crimea or the east of Ukraine. It was solely a onesided instigation of aggression for trying to occupy and annex regions of another bordering country, like during WWII via Shelling of Mainila.
I got a well deserved DUI well over a decade ago, and I ended up as essentially the cell block lawyer. This is still one of the most impactful times of my life, not because I was in jail, but because although I was not actually qualified I somehow ended up being able to provide basic advice to people who really needed it. We really screw poor defendants, and I'm sure not much has changed.
Def not much has changed. Glad you were able to help some people tho.
55 years for weed. Incredible. Affluenza guy got 720 days in jail for violating his probation in 2016 after drunk driving and killing 4 people. Probation. But since the drug guy isn't rich enough to know better, he got 55 yrs.
Literally. It’s wild how drugs were and are criminalized, especially since we KNOW it’s usually in part or addiction which is an illness, yet actual violent crimes that ruin lives or end them are given basically a slap on the wrist.
Personally I am anti prison and prison industrial complex, but I am Def not anti consequences. What we have is just so SOOO inhumane and just surges to criminalize being poor, uneducated, mentally ill, neurodivergent, disabled, POC, and/or being abused and trying to save yourself. We need to fucking start over, what our society does is so appalling.
You all are spreading so much love. It’s truly heartwarming. Thank you!
the joke about AM being entirely dudes is actually true 😅 that was the reason they were hacked. only 5% of their user base were female profiles, but they were caught spamming their sight with bots. i think it was something like 98% of that 5% were not real accounts, but AM was still charging men by the message or through a subscription.
the hacker group gave them an ultimatum to shut down the site or they’d make all of that public info. obviously AM didn’t back down until it was already too late 😅
That is fascinating! Also something about the way that "other than my wife" commercial was set up made me think for a split second that the first guy was catfishing as the woman on his computer screen which would have made sense with it being entirely dudes.
I remember my former neighbor was on that list. I live in a town with fewer than 2500 people, so the rumor mill was _fierce._ I didn't even care, so I didn't look. A family member in town told me. Frankly, the existence of that site never surprised me, nor that it was also a scam.
“Who gives a shit about what he says?” is perhaps the most longing question about Drumpf in the past decade. 😒
"All research and successful drug policy shows that treatment should be increased. And law enforcement decreased while eliminating mandatory mnimum sentences" - Worked in to track 1 on System of a Down's 2001 "Toxicity" , Prison Song
edit , its abolishing not eliminating.. i recited it off the top of my head
Yeah I took a break part way through the episode to listen to the song :D
I've heard that song countless times and never knew that's what the lyrics were. Actually, _is_ that what the lyrics say, or is it one of those "hidden messages" worked into the song in some obscure way?
@@moogle68 no it comes after the second chorus, the bridge between that and the interlude "utilizing drugs to pay for secret wars around the world, drugs are now your global policy and you police the globe" -
its not "sung" its screamed basically, twice over. you cant miss it if youre listening :)
@@zerokombatant3310 I remember hearing that cd the day before september 11th I think, I had been a casual fan of them but I only knew basically Sugar and Chop Suey. I was in 11th grade and one of my new older friends with a car popped in the toxicity album and played it through, and i was instantly hooked.
@@moogle68 I actually didnt understand all the words until recently - "Following the rights movement you clamped down with your iron fist, drugs became conveniently available for all the kids" I had no idea what that first part said until. recently.
SOAD lyrics are super deep.
I know its an ad with a horrible message, but that AM jingle is damn catchy XD
Ugh, I know. I have a feeling I'm gonna find myself humming it at some point.
How awkward would it be to find your spouse's profile on that site - while browsing for people to have an affair with?
@@LadyDoomsinger do you like pina coladas?
Weldon Angelos has since been pardoned by Trump of all people Dec 2020 and is now a music producer
"who gives a fuck about what trump has to say" oh john i wish i lived in a pre-trump-presidency world
“Last week the Obama administration . . . “
Oh what temporary comfort those words bring to my soul.
>Best hope for a pardon is dressing up as a turkey and hanging around the White House
Literally the plot of a Rick and Morty episode
Remember those halcyon days when we could just ignore that rotten sewage outlet that is Donald Trump's "rhetoric?"
Is this Last Week 9 Years Ago, or 9 Years Ago Tonight?
i think theyre just dumping full old seasons, which is great cause they only have the latest 2 or 3 on HBO max or whatever the hell it is now
17:10 "Did I ever tell you the time I sold crack to the president of the US?" -- This one hits differently when you remember the whole cocaine incident at the white house last year.
Best part is that the Secret Service never found who put that cocaine there.
@@goroakechi6126 it was the kid from the DEA's sting, he finally found the white house and delivered Bush's order over 30 years late.
@@goroakechi6126 This sounds like a reason to check the past President's pardons; it's entirely possible that one of the Presidents of the past couple years "Knows a guy".
@@ZT1STyou mean that President who used the white house pharmacy like a drug dealer? Yeah, it was probably that guy.
@@goroakechi6126 it was found in an area that wasnt a working area, the 24 hour news cycle is a disservice because they do the opposite of what good journalism is, they want to be first to the punch and be the most outrageous (CNN is the number one offender of this imo) , and they overblow stuff that isnt all that big a deal (the cocaine was found in an area that many members of the public frequent iirc, like the press, and honestly, who cares if some random member of the press had coke on them at the white house) , and then the next day its as if none of their reportiung ever happened and they just move on to the next thing.
Just like they spent so much time making so much of Michael Cohen's testimony even though it was professional, direct, and respectful. Meanwhile they spent way less time on the facts and the evidence and they were trying to make the one time that Cohen "misremembered" something because when youre making surreptitious payoffs for the trump campaign, and you make a phone call 8 years ago, the trial wasnt about the 14 year old that Cohen texted the secuirty guy about an hour before the phone call.
The jury came back in 12 hours with a 34 count conviction, but if you watched CNN's coverage you'd have no idea that it was such an obvious conviction that it toook the jury a relatively short time and its obivious who they assessed as credible and who they didnt.
The trumpers will say he cant get a fair trial or they should have been sequestered, which falls flat considering that trump associates have been acquitted on charges related to crimes committed in the trump adminisratation, in NY, and if the jury was getting their information from "liberal" CNN they'd have a totally backwards view of what the facts were.
Just a few examples of how god damn broken the press is
Only John could predict the turkey pardon episode of R&M before it existed
i was completely floored when i heard it
Coverage of the Iran deal didn’t age too well
Man, it didn't even last changing president's. Yeesh.
Wait. Seeing this episode in the future after a whole documentary was made on AM is making me see this so differently. I know how the story ends hahaha
What was the documentary about? Was there a scandal of some sort on the business end of the website, or was it just an inquisitive look at the type of people that used the site and their reasoning + experiences? Also, (since I'm lazy/dont care enough to look it up myself) how did the whole debacle with the hackers end?
First aired in July 26th, 2015 and still relevant. Glad John Oliver is uploading all his own episodes and owns his own show (?)must google) They make a good record of history too.
Exactly ! The drug laws are archaic, needs to be updated
TEN YEARS WAS MORE THAN ZERO, GUYS!
Exactly. It's 1 more than 0.
@@korbindallas4552lol
Ukraine and Trump? Holy shit
somethings change, some really don't
12:02 even rick and morty mad fun of it
i find it hilariously ironic that Peewee Herman went on to play Derek Forreal in Blow
Wait forreal?
@@dangeroustoothpaste forreal! though It may not be officially spelled that way
That vortex did happen, and we are living in it right now...
I'm an open minded person. Personally, I think polygamy is fine as long as everyone involved gives their consent.
Having an affair is still f***ing disgusting, those people singing should all be ashamed of themselves and I frankly think there should be laws against that. Especially if you got married through specifically a religious practice that doesn't support polygamy. The vows imply you will take one wife or husband. Breaking that vow makes you a disgrace. It's "I take thee to be my wedded wife/husband" not "I take thee to be one another one of my spouses." ffs.
3:26 most accurate description ever.
12:34 John Wilkes booths brother saved the life of Lincoln’s son by pulling him out of the way of a moving train. that’s actually true look it up.
It’s fucking insane that people selling weed get harsher punishments than rapists
The other good Aussie export - Steve Irwin! So not too bad for a penal colony hahaha
Oooh the Depardieu bit didn't age well, and not just because of the war.
Came here to say just this
i mean. tbh people have known about depardieu since the late 70s. just got a LOT more attention a couple years ago
Always entertained 🎸
14:54 Somehow I just knew that was going to be the video.
Hugh Jackman and Chris Hemsworth. 2 things. Mel Gibson -1. Shit...i guess John's right.
That ‘we’re a diverse group’ thing is straight out of Yes, Minister. It’s supposed to be comedy…
Learned something new about my home city! The cheating capital of canada
29:07 Why is this giving Little Jack from the newer Puss n’ Boots movie?
10:53 :(
Did not age well. At all.
@@Princess_Premier Or perhaps it aged a bit too well
Minimun thank you right here
Weldon:
Weldon Angelos became a “national cause célèbre,” the symbol for justice reform for liberals and conservatives alike. In 2016, after an unprecedented, bipartisan campaign to secure his freedom by elected and appointed government officials, celebrities, advocates, business leaders, and myriad of media outlets like the Washington Post, Angelos was finally released from prison after serving 13 years for a first-time, cannabis-related offense. In December of 2020, he was fully pardoned by the President.
2020 was just a bit ago.
Excellent.
Now how many more thousands of prisoners like him still need to be freed?
For the record, a Shamrock Shake is not Leprechaun diarrhea, it's Leprechaun semen. That's why it's only available for a limited time every year. If it was diarrhea, they'd just have to feed them McDonald's every day to keep it going all year
Steve Irwin & his work and family ALSO came out of Australia, so that's another good thing outta Australia
6:18 Josh Duggar exposed!
For anyone curious, Sharanda received clemency and went home 6 months after this
Man those Ukraine predictions sure hit different 10 years later. 😮
13:07 oh I don't know if you are on the phone to someone who is asking where you are/when you will be with them, I would say it's ok once on the bus.
Nicole Kidman is really pissed
She was born in Hawaii so we get to claim her as an American.
"That's not right"
Yeah I guess it just isn't not right enough for you to quit instead.
1:40 gee i wonder who funded that hmmm which foreign lobbyist group in america has that kinda influence and money but also hates iran hmmm who could it be
Ah, John Oliver, always there when i need something to laugh at...while also wondering how our world is still so screwed up.
Turkey pardon, dress as a turkey..... looks like Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland watched this epiosde.
Just watched the netlix ashley madison doc lol
Why not advertise yourself as a polyamorous dating site instead of "cheaters R us" ? Like... You can have multiple partners and it be consensual. I don't understand this decision-making.
because that’s not the appeal.
polyamorous & swinger dating sites exist, but the people on ashley madison don’t want consensual polyamory-they want to cheat.
it’s infinitely less ethical, but ethics aren’t really the point there.
25:55 this part really hits different now that Rick from Rick and Morty did this.
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I wonder how many people in his audience that day had to hold back their vomit and diarrhea because they have Ashley Madison accounts😂
I would imagine not many because it's not that big of a site.
America has a police 👮♂️ problem.. always has
Sure,
that guy went to prison for fraud then he was in front of congress again WTF
Israel as of this comment still hasn’t been kicked out of FIFA.
That's the gayest Ashley Madison ad they could've ever produced
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...I don't like these jokes anymore. 😅
Legalize and tax all drugs.
Trust Darwinism
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Heyy he missed Margot Robbie, Hugh Jackman and Margot Robbie…
come on man… be better :(
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This was from 9 years ago.
Who cares what Trump says now?)
Sorry, I don't feel bad for Kevin Ott. His mandatory minimum sentence wasn't for one simple offense. It was part of a three-strikes law, which means he had two chances to straighten up and fly right before he got caught (that's important) committing a third crime. The government didn't ruin his life, _he_ ruined his _own_ life.
i havent watched the episode yet but are all strikes created equal ? Considering the disincentives to take a case to trial and the fact that its way easier to pick up some poor schmuck who encounters a cop and gets arrested on the spot for drug possession, mandatory minimums make no sense especially when they do so little to help people who have addiction problems, which is a health condition whether you believe it or not.
Especially considering whos actually getting rich off the drug trade.
I dont know what this Kevin Ott guy did but mandatory minimums take all the humanity and subjectivity out of a system that already disfavors people who cant afford to pay legal counsel. Meanwhile Donald Trump just got convicted of 34 felony counts and he might not even see the inside of a prison cell even though he absolutely should.
As a former drug addict myself who was lucky enough to get out before I killed myself or someone else, mandatory minimums for non violent crimes are ludicrous. But I dont know what the dude did, and I dont know when life became a game of baseball that we decided to apply those rules to it. It's not like you can draw a walk in the legal system
@@littlejerryseinfeld4168 According to the NBC News website: "In 1996, police caught Ott with meth and a handgun in his trailer. He had two prior felonies for drug possession, one for having marijuana plants, the other for a bag of meth police found in his pocket as he left a bar." In Oklahoma, possession of a handgun by a felon is considered a violent crime. And on The Guardian's website, it says that in 2018, Oklahoma's then-governor Mary Fallin "commuted his sentence after the state’s pardon and parole board recommended commuting his sentence to 30 years," and he was paroled. Yes, I believe drug addiction is a medical problem. But this isn't about drug addiction. It's about committing crimes. Being addicted to drugs doesn't mean you have no choice but to sell drugs, and that's what Kevin Ott admitted to doing. "He says he started using and selling meth after he got laid off. His addiction fueled one bad choice after another," says NBC News. I say he started selling meth because it was fast, tax-free money and beat working for a living. His mom was upset because the state of Oklahoma wouldn't help him with his addiction. But that's not the state of Oklahoma's job. If you know you have a problem with substances, then it's up to you to seek help for it. It's not anyone else's job but yours to fix your life for you. It's a shame that Ott figured "the only way to solve my problems is by breaking the law." Now maybe, just maybe, Oklahoma's three-strikes law shouldn't be applied to nonviolent drug offenses. But that's not for me to say, and I'm not going to proclaim that the reason drug trafficking is illegal is because the citizens of Oklahoma have been duped by their evil government. See, that's what Breaking Bad won't show you, the everyday victims. It won't show you that meth destroys people, and I'm not being a drama queen when I say that. It ruins people's lives, mainly kids. That's why we have to do something to tackle this problem. Could we do a better job? Absolutely! There's always a better solution to everything which we just haven't found yet. And to quote Dirty Harry, "Goddammit, I hate the system. But until something comes along that makes more sense, I'm gonna stick with it." The solution that makes more sense is for better minds than mine, and I leave it to them. Meanwhile, I won't be breaking the law just because it makes things easier for me. That's the decision Kevin Ott found himself faced with, and he made the wrong choice for himself, knowing the consequences. His life was up to him, and he failed.
Like it is started in the show, there are tons of far worse crimes that have a lower mandatory minimum. And the reason Kevin turned to crime was because he was laid off and so desperate for money that he turned to selling drugs. While selling them he had some himself and became addicted.
If he had committed the crimes in Portugal, which has decriminalized drug possession, he would have to fulfill community service and be given state sponsored treatment for his addiction. He could have been a functioning member of society again in a year or two. And that would be considerably cheaper for tax payers then having him spend life in prison. So the mandatory minimums screw us all over.
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"...far worse crimes that have a lower mandatory minimum." That's called the fallacy of relative privation. "What Ott did isn't as bad as what some other dudes did, so shouldn't have been punished like that." Give me a break.
"And the reason Kevin turned to crime was because he was laid off and so desperate for money that he turned to selling drugs." Uh-huh. Desperation is no excuse for becoming a drug dealer. The law doesn't (and shouldn't) take your circumstances into account when you get caught committing a crime. Otherwise, people could claim desperation as a justification for committing _any_ crime.
"If he had committed the crimes in Portugal, which has decriminalized drug possession...." Drug trafficking is not the same thing as drug possession; the two crimes are not equal. And who gives a crap about Portugal, or Zanzibar, or East Timor, or the Federated States of Micronesia, or wherever? Ott committed his crimes in Oklahoma and nowhere else. Oklahoma doesn't take its cues on law enforcement from the country of Portugal. Why should it? Stay focused.
"He could have been a functioning member of society again in a year or two." Right. Give him a slap on the wrist and hope he doesn't get "desperate" again. Then when he goes back to selling drugs, give him another slap. And another. And another. Aaaaand one more, no matter how many times he peddles drugs to kids. Sorry, that's a no for me. And I'm tired of hearing the "cheaper for the taxpayers" argument. This isn't about money. It's about fighting crime. We've decided it's not acceptable to traffic drugs in our society. We've made drug trafficking illegal in our society. To enforce that standard, we've put this policy in place. "Commit this crime once, and we're willing to give you a chance to clean up your act, after you pay your debt to the people of Oklahoma. Commit this crime again, and the penalty will be more severe; however, we're willing to give you a _second_ chance, although you arguably don't deserve it. Commit this crime a _third_ time (not to mention committing an additional violent felony), that's it. You have proven yourself to be an unreformed, hardened criminal, and you are going to prison, for life. In there, you will have no further opportunity to offend against the people of the state of Oklahoma. We will be safe from you." Anybody who thinks what Ott did wasn't that bad and he shouldn't have been punished that severely, needs a reality check. They need to ask themselves, "How would I feel if Kevin Ott had sold meth to a member of my family, and that person ended up hospitalized or dead as a result?" I'll tell you how you'd feel. You'd want Ott prosecuted and sentenced to the maximum term possible under the law, and you can't tell me any different.
@@gspendlove "The law doesn't (and shouldn't) take your circumstances into account". Except that it absolutely does. The circumstances of a crime can almost always either upgrade or downgrade the offense. For example, manslaughter vs murder. The problem is that mandatory minimums throws that out of the window, and forces the judge to hand out a specific sentence.
"people could claim desperation as a justification for committing any crime. ". They already do. There are cases where desperation to exit an abusive relationship has lead to murder. The desperation being the need to exit, but also the fear that if they do, the abusive partner will come kill them. And we know that happens, there are cases of abusers being locked up, only for them to murder their abusee as soon as they get out.
"It's about fighting crime". Did you watch the episode? It's literally been proven that it doesn't work because THE OFFENDERS DON'T EVEN KNOW THE RISKS INVOLVED. A deterrent only works if whoever it's aimed at is aware of its existence.
"You'd want Ott prosecuted and sentenced to the maximum term possible under the law, and you can't tell me any different.". I will tell you different, then. I would want the man in prison, and while in that prison, I would want him to have access to resources to educate and better himself, so that once he is out, he will no longer need to continue doing that, making the risk of any future victims zero, while benefitting society at large, Ott himself, and his family. You cannot resurrect the dead, so the best we can do is move on.
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this isnt 2009
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