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John: WELCOME, WELCOME TO

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"LAST WEEK TONIGHT!"

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I'M JOHN OLIVER.

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THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.

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IT HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK.

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UKRAINE CONTINUED TO PUSH INTO

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RUSSIAN TERRITORY,

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THE INTERNET TRIED TO FIGURE OUT

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WHAT HAPPENED BEHIND THE SCENES

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ON THIS MOVIE, AND

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THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN TRIED TO

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COUNTER THE ENTHUSIASM FOR THE

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DEMOCRATS' NEW TICKET-- WITH

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J.D. VANCE, A

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MAN WHO PERPETUALLY LOOKS LIKE

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HE GOT STUCK 10% OF THE WAY TO

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TRANSFORMING INTO A WEREWOLF--

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DESPERATELY TRYING TO SPIN THE

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JOY OF HARRIS'S RECENT RALLIES

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AS A NEGATIVE.

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SHE SAYS SHE'S HAVING FUN.

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BUT WHILE SHE'S HAVING FUN,

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AMERICANS ARE SUFFERING UNDER

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HER POLICIES.

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WHEN SHE LAUGHS DURING A SPEECH,

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REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE AMERICAN

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FAMILIES CRYING THIS VERY DAY

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BECAUSE THEY CANNOT AFFORD

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GROCERIES.

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WHEN SHE DOES THESE RALLIES AND

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DOES THESE EVENTS AND DOES THESE

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FAKE DANCES, REMEMBER THAT THERE

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ARE PARENTS WHO LOST THEIR

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CHILDREN TO DRUGS OR VIOLENCE

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WHO WILL NEVER SEE

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THEIR CHILDREN MOVE AGAIN, MUCH

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LESS DANCE AGAIN.

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John: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

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SCOLDING PEOPLE FOR ENJOYING

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STUFF BECAUSE THERE ARE SADDER

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THINGS HAPPENING ELSEWHERE IS A

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SHITTY THING TO DO, ALTHOUGH IT

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DOES MAKE ME CURIOUS WHAT VANCE

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IS LIKE IN OTHER SOCIAL

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SITUATIONS.

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"ALL RIGHT.

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KIDS, ENJOY SEA WORLD, MEET US

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BACK HERE AT 2:00, AND REMEMBER,

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DOLPHINS WILL SOMETIMES KILL

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PORPOISES FOR SPORT!

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HAVE FUN!

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SCIENTISTS CALL IT "PORPICIDE!"

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ALSO, FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH:

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BUMMING EVERYONE OUT WITH

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DEPRESSING FACTS ABOUT THINGS

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YOU LIKE ISN'T HOW YOU BECOME

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VICE PRESIDENT-- IT'S HOW YOU

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PUT PEOPLE TO SLEEP ONCE A WEEK

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WHILE AGING LIKE A WARTIME

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PRESIDENT.

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GET THE FUCK OFF MY CORNER!

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THE TRUMP-VANCE CAMPAIGN HAS

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BEEN TRYING TO DEFLECT CHARGES

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OF REPUBLICANS BEING "WEIRD."

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JUST LAST WEEK, TRUMP TOLD A

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RALLY, "I THINK WE'RE THE

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OPPOSITE OF WEIRD.

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THEY'RE WEIRD."

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AND TOLD A RADIO HOST,

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"NOBODY'S EVER CALLED ME WEIRD.

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I'M A LOT OF THINGS, BUT WEIRD

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I'M NOT."

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SO YOU KNOW IT'S GETTING TO HIM.

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BUT ALSO, NOBODY'S EVER CALLED

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YOU WEIRD?

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BABE, BE SERIOUS.

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YOU TRIED TO BUY GREENLAND, YOU

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STARED AT THE SUN DURING A SOLAR

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ECLIPSE, AND YOU DID THIS.

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THAT'S NOT SOMETHING A NORMAL

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GUY DOES.

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I DON'T KNOW WHAT A NORMAL GUY

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WOULD DO, BECAUSE I'M ALSO NOT

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ONE, BUT I KNOW IT'S NOT THAT.

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THE "WEIRD" LABEL HAS BEEN

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PARTICULARLY HARD TO SHAKE,

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BECAUSE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES

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FURTHER DOWN THE BALLOT KEEP

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COMPOUNDING IT, INCLUDING SOME

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WHO WON PRIMARIES JUST THIS

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WEEK, LIKE ROYCE WHITE.

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HE BECAME MINNESOTA'S REPUBLICAN

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SENATE CANDIDATE, AND HE IS A

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LOT.

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HE'S A FORMER NBA PLAYER,

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FAR-RIGHT PODCASTER, AND A

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DIE-HARD TRUMP SUPPORTER, AS

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HE WILL TELL YOU.

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DONALD TRUMP COULD GET UP ON

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STAGE, PULL HIS PANTS DOWN, TAKE

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A SHIT UP AT THE PODIUM, AND I

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STILL WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR YOU

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FUCKING DEMOCRATS AGAIN.

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LET THAT SINK IN.

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John: OKAY, I'M LETTING IT

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SINK IN.

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ALL RIGHT, IT'S SUNK IN NOW, AND

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I DO STILL HAVE SOME QUESTIONS.

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IS THERE A PLACE WHERE TRUMP

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COULD TAKE A SHIT THAT WOULD

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MAKE YOU VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS

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AGAIN?

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LIKE ON A MERRY-GO-ROUND, WOULD

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THAT MAKE YOU VOTE FOR THEM?

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OR IF HE SHIT INSIDE A GUMBALL

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MACHINE, WOULD YOU VOTE FOR

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DEMOCRATS THEN?

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OR IF HE WENT INTO YOUR

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BATHROOM, PUT THE TOILET LID

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DOWN, AND SHIT ON THE TOILET

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INSTEAD OF IN IT-- WOULD YOU AT

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LEAST CONSIDER VOTING FOR AN

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INDEPENDENT WHO CAUCUSES WITH

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THE DEMOCRATS?

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YOU KNOW WHAT?

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LET THAT SINK IN AND GET BACK TO

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ME.

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WHITE'S BEEN ENDORSED BY

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STEVE BANNON AND ALEX JONES,

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WHOM HE ONCE SUPPORTED BY

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WRITING THIS MESSAGE ON THE SIDE

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OF HIS HEAD.

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HE'S ALSO SAID-- AMONG OTHER

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THINGS-- THAT HE'S NOT SURE IF

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A PLANE HIT THE PENTAGON ON

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9/11, CLAIMING THERE'S NO

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FOOTAGE OF IT, WHICH, OF COURSE,

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THERE VERY MUCH IS.

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AND HE EVEN ONCE TWEETED OUT

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THIS MAP HE CLAIMED SHOWED

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"CRIME IN MINNEAPOLIS" IS "OUT

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OF CONTROL", WHICH TURNED OUT TO

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BE A MAP OF THE CITY'S DRINKING

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FOUNTAINS, WHICH IS

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EMBARRASSING.

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THERE ARE SO MANY REAL CRIME

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MAPS HE COULD'VE USED, LIKE THIS

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ONE-- EXCEPT I'M KIDDING.

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THAT'S NEW YORK'S RAT

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INFORMATION PORTAL, YOU IDIOT!

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YOU JUST GOT SCHOOLED BY THE RAT

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MAP!

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RAT MAP!

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John: BUT WHITE'S JUST ONE OF

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A NUMBER OF ODD GOP SENATE

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CANDIDATES.

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IN VIRGINIA, THERE'S HUNG CAO, A

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RETIRED NAVY CAPTAIN WITH NO

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POLITICAL EXPERIENCE, WHO'S ALSO

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A VERY STRANGE MAN.

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WE CAN'T LET IT TURN LIKE

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THIS.

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THERE'S A PLACE IN MONTEREY,

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CALIFORNIA, CALLED

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"LOVER'S POINT."

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THE ORIGINAL NAME WAS

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"LOVERS OF CHRIST POINT," BUT

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NOW IT'S BECOME-- THEY TOOK OUT

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THE CHRIST, IT'S

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"LOVER'S POINT," AND IT'S

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REALLY-- MONTEREY'S A VERY DARK

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PLACE NOW, A LOT OF WITCHCRAFT,

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AND THE WICCAN COMMUNITY HAS

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REALLY TAKEN OVER.

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WE CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN IN

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VIRGINIA.

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John: OKAY.

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IF MONTEREY IS ACTUALLY OVERRUN

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BY WITCHES-- WHICH IT'S NOT--

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I'M FRANKLY FURIOUS THERE WASN'T

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A WITCHCRAFT STORYLINE ON

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"BIG LITTLE LIES."

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HOW COULD YOU DEPRIVE US OF

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NICOLE KIDMAN, SHOWING UP TO A

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MOONLIT ORGY AND ANNOUNCING,

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"WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR

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MAGIC?"

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EVERYONE'S HEAD WOULD'VE

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EXPLODED!

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AND WHILE CAO AND WHITE ARE

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UNLIKELY TO WIN, OTHER

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REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES LIKE

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ERIC HOVDE-- NED FLANDERS

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WITHOUT THE RAW, SEXUAL CHARISMA

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-- DO HAVE A REAL SHOT.

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THIS WEEK, HE WON WISCONSIN'S

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SENATE PRIMARY IN A LANDSLIDE.

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HE'S THE WEALTHY CEO OF A BANK

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CALLED SUNWEST, SO HE'S

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SELF-FINANCING HIS CAMPAIGN.

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AND HE'S TAKEN SOME FLAK FOR NOT

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JUST OWNING PROPERTY IN

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CALIFORNIA, BUT SPENDING A

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SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME THERE

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-- SOMETHING HE TRIED TO DEFLECT

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WITH THIS VIDEO.

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IT'S GOOD TO GET OUT HERE FOR

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A GOOD COLD PLUNGE.

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SO THE DEMS AND SENATOR BALDWIN

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KEEP SAYING I'M NOT FROM

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WISCONSIN, HA, WHICH IS A

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COMPLETE JOKE.

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ALL RIGHT, SENATOR BALDWIN, WHY

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DON'T YOU GET OUT HERE IN THIS

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FROZEN LAKE AND LET'S REALLY SEE

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WHO'S FROM WISCONSIN?

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I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT DAY.

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TAKE CARE.

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John: WELL, NOW I'M HAVING A

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TERRIBLE DAY, BECAUSE I DID NOT

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WANT TO SEE THAT AT ALL.

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WHY PHYSICALLY TORTURE YOURSELF

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TO PROVE YOU'RE FROM WISCONSIN,

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WHEN YOUR INCREDIBLY STRONG

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ACCENT DOES THAT ON ITS OWN?

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ALSO, CHALLENGING SOMEONE TO

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MEET YOU IN A FROZEN LAKE TO

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SCORE POLITICAL POINTS IS

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PATHETIC.

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I'D SAY IT WAS A DICK-MEASURING

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CONTEST, BUT I'M GUESSING--

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GIVEN THE TEMPERATURE OF THAT

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WATER-- YOURS HAS DISAPPEARED

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INTO YOUR BODY RIGHT NOW.

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HOVDE'S VIEWS ARE WHAT YOU'D

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EXPECT FROM A REPUBLICAN

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CANDIDATE-- FROM SUPPORTING

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REPEALING THE AFFORDABLE CARE

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ACT TO BLAMING IMMIGRANTS FOR

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"ALL THE CRIME THAT HAS

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UNFOLDED."

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BUT HE CAN ALSO BE PRETTY

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AWKWARD WITH VOTERS, LIKE WHEN

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HE SHOWED UP AT A JUNETEENTH

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CELEBRATION AND A RADIO HOST

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TRIED TO FEED HIM SOFTBALL

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QUESTIONS.

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AND I'M GOING TO WARN YOU: THIS

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IS EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE TO

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WATCH.

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WHAT IS A FEW OF YOUR

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TAKEAWAYS FROM BEING DOWN HERE

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AT THE JUNETEENTH PARADE HERE?

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IT'S A HELL OF A GOOD PARTY

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AND I'M REALLY ENJOYING IT, MAN.

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YOU KNOW, ALL THESE LITTLE

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ENTREPRENEURS, SELLING THEIR

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WARES, REALLY FRIENDLY PEOPLE,

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GREAT FOOD.

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IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'RE

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GOING TO TAKE AWAY FROM THIS

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THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT

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BLACK CULTURE BEFORE THAT YOU

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KNOW OF TODAY?

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LOOK, I'VE SPENT A LOT OF

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TIME IN BLACK CULTURE, AND AS

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TOREY KNOWS, I'VE SPENT A LOT OF

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TIME IN PLACES LIKE AFRICA,

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BECAUSE I HAVE HOMELESS SHELTERS

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FOR ABANDONED KIDS AND RESCUING

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KIDS OUT OF THE STREETS.

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AND I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN

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SCHOOLING-- CHARTER SCHOOLS AND

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THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

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John: STOP TALKING!

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STOP TALKING!

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YOU ARE HURTING ME OR TO HEAR

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THAT!

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THERE ARE SO MANY EASY ANSWERS

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TO THE QUESTION "WHAT HAVE YOU

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LEARNED ABOUT BLACK CULTURE

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TODAY" AND AMONG THE WORST IS

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DEFINITELY, "NOT MUCH, BECAUSE

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I'VE ALREADY BEEN TO AFRICA."

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FUN FACT: BLACK AMERICAN CULTURE

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ISN'T ACTUALLY SYNONYMOUS WITH

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AFRICAN CULTURE.

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IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY, JUST

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GOOGLE "JUNETEENTH", OR ASK ONE

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OF THE-- QUOTE-- "LITTLE

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ENTREPRENEURS" YOU JUST MET.

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THEY'LL FILL YOU IN.

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AND LOOK, I GET REPUBLICANS WANT

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TO GET OUT FROM UNDER

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ACCUSATIONS OF WEIRDNESS.

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BUT THE WAY TO DO THAT IS TO

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STOP BEING SO FUCKING WEIRD.

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BECAUSE FANTASIZING ABOUT YOUR

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PARTY'S CANDIDATE SHITTING IN

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FRONT OF YOU?

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THAT'S WEIRD.

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WARNING EVERYONE ABOUT THE

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INFLUENCE OF MONTEREY WITCHES?

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WEIRD!

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INVITING YOUR FEMALE OPPONENT TO

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JOIN YOU IN A FROZEN LAKE?

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THAT IS VERY WEIRD!

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AND I DO APOLOGIZE FOR LAUGHING

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AT THESE PEOPLE.

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PARTLY BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S NOT

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NICE.

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BUT MAINLY, BECAUSE-- AS WE ALL

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NOW KNOW-- J.D. VANCE BELIEVES

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EVERY TIME SOMEONE LAUGHS,

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SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD, A CHILD

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LOSES THEIR GROCERIES FOR SOME

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REASON.

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AND NOW THIS.

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Announcer: AND NOW...

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NEWSCASTERS COME TO TERMS WITH

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LIFE AFTER THE OLYMPICS.

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AND JUST LIKE THE OUTCOME OF

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THE OLYMPICS ARE ALMOST OVER.

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SPEAK ABOUT MY GOING TO DO WITH

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ALL OF MY TIME NOW THAT THE

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OLYMPICS ARE OVER?

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GOING TO GO BACK TO

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TAYLOR SWIFT.

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I GUESS I HAVE TO.

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I GOT NOTHING TO WATCH.

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I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GOING

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TO DO WITH ALL THOSE TIMES.

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IT JUST TEMPORARILY.

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NOW WE CAN GO BACK TO HATING

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EACH OTHER.

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[LAUGHTER]

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YEAH, I MEAN--

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I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU GUYS,

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I'M KIND OF SAD THE OLYMPICS ARE

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OVER.

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IT WAS SO MUCH FUN.

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THERE WERE SOME PERSONAL

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BENEFITS TO THE OLYMPICS.

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LIKE, WE DIDN'T HAVE A 30 MINUTE

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NEWS PROGRAM FOR TWO STRAIGHT

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WEEKS.

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I MISS THE OLYMPICS.

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DO YOU?

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THEY WILL BE BACK IN FOUR

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YEARS IN L.A.

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HOPEFULLY I WILL BE BACK IN

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FOUR YEARS.

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I AM SO GLAD THE OLYMPICS ARE

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OVER BECAUSE I'M TIRED OF CRYING

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CRYING.

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OKAY, WATCHING--

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HAPPY TEARS.

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TEAM USA ON THE TRACK,

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ESPECIALLY THE WOMEN'S TEAM,

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JUST A SMASHING GOLD AFTER GOLD

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AFTER GOLD.

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I'M TIRED.

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I KNOW.

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I AM TIRED.

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YOU ARE TIRED.

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MORE TIRED THAN I AM.

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BUT YOU KNOW.

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ALL RIGHT, CREWS HAVE REMOVED

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A MASSIVE OIL CARCASS THAT

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WASHED ASHORE ON THE BEACH THIS

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WEEKEND.

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John: MOVING ON.

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OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT CONCERNS

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DEATH.

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THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION:

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"WHAT DOES THE INTERIOR OF AN

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IHOP SMELL LIKE?"

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LOTS OF US HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT

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DEATH.

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AND LUCKILY, THIS NURSE ON

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TIKTOK CAN ANSWER AT LEAST ONE

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OF THEM.

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HEY, GOOD NEWS TO ALL YOU

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SINNERS OUT THERE.

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I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE DYING

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START SEEING SIGNS THAT THEY ARE

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GOING TO HELL, DEMONS, FIRE,

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ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

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SO I THINK WE'RE GOOD.

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John: YEAH,

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ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT, THOUGH?

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BECAUSE MAYBE PATIENTS AREN'T

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TELLING YOU WHAT THEY SEE.

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I GET WHY SOMEONE WOULDN'T WANT

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THEIR LAST WORDS TO BE:

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HITLER,

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JEFFREY EPSTEIN, AND WAIT-- IS

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THAT MY CHILDHOOD DOG, RUSTY?

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WHAT'RE YOU DOING HERE?

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AND WHY DOES CHARLES MANSON LOOK

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LIKE HE RESPECTS YOU?

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WHAT DID YOU DO, RUSTY?

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BAD BOY!"

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THAT NURSE ACTUALLY WORKS FOR

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THE TYPE OF MEDICAL BUSINESS

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WE'LL BE FOCUSING ON TONIGHT:

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HOSPICE.

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AND I REALIZE THAT DOING AN

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EPISODE ABOUT HOSPICE IS AN

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ALMOST OFFENSIVE PARODY OF THIS

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SHOW-- IF SOMEONE ELSE DID

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THAT, IT WOULD GENUINELY BE

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HURTFUL.

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BUT I PROMISE, THIS IS WORTH

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TALKING ABOUT.

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AND YOU'RE PROBABLY AT LEAST

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SOMEWHAT FAMILIAR WITH THE

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CONCEPT OF HOSPICE-- IT'S

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END-OF-LIFE CARE THAT HELPS

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TERMINALLY ILL PEOPLE DIE

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COMFORTABLY.

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YOU MAY EVEN HAVE SEEN ADS FOR

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HOSPICE ON TV-- AND IF YOU LIVE

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IN SOUTHEAST CONNECTICUT, YOU

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MIGHT'VE SEEN THIS WEIRDLY HORNY

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ONE.

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IF THERE WAS ONE THING I

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COULD DO OVER, I WOULD HAVE

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REACHED OUT SOONER TO CENTER FOR

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HOSPICE CARE FOR MY HUSBAND.

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WHEN CENTER FOR HOSPICE CARE

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CAME INTO OUR LIFE, IT ALLOWED

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ME TO BE WITH HIM.

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TO REALLY BE WITH HIM WITHOUT

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HAVING TO COORDINATE ALL HIS

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CARE.

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THEIR NURSES, SOCIAL WORKERS,

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AND OTHER CAREGIVERS GAVE ME THE

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FREEDOM TO BE HIS WIFE AGAIN.

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TO LOVE HIM LIKE A WIFE.

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John: WOW.

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THAT IS-- AND I SAY THIS WITH

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ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY-- THE SINGLE

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HORNIEST HOSPICE AD I'VE EVER

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SEEN, FROM THE FERVID HAND

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HUMPING, TO THIS ABSOLUTE

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MASTERCLASS IN EYE-FUCKING, TO

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THE EROTIC VEGETABLE-THEMED

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FOREPLAY.

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THAT LOOKS LESS LIKE A HOSPICE

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AD AND MORE LIKE A VHS TAPE

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CALLED "TANTRIC SEX FOR COUPLES

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OVER 50."

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HOSPICE IS DESIGNED FOR THOSE

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WITH TERMINAL ILLNESS WHO

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CHOOSE NOT TO GET TREATMENT TO

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CURE OR CONTROL IT, AND IT'S

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MEANT TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE

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PERSON AND THEIR FAMILY,

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INCLUDING RELIEF OF SYMPTOMS AND

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PAIN.

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AND THAT SUPPORT CAN TAKE MANY

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FORMS, EVEN ALLOWING FOR MOMENTS

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LIKE THIS.

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A HOSPICE PATIENT GOT A

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SPECIAL VISITOR.

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PEGGY GARRISON LOVES

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FLAMINGOS.

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SHE PAYS HOMAGE TO THE MAJESTIC

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ANIMAL WITH 158 TRINKETS AND

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DECORATIONS SHE'S COLLECTED

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THROUGHOUT HER LIFE.

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NOW THAT THE 75-YEAR-OLD IS IN

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THE FINAL STAGES OF CANCER, A

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FLAMINGO NAMED MANGO PAID HER A

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VISIT FROM THE SAN ANTONIO ZOO.

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THE SAN ANTONIO ZOO SAID IT WAS

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HAPPY TO ALLOW MANGO TO MEET

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PEGGY TO HONOR THE LIFE SHE

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SPENT LOVING THESE ANIMALS.

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John: THAT IS GREAT!

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I LOVE THAT HAPPENED FOR PEGGY!

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ALTHOUGH, DO SPARE A QUICK

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THOUGHT FOR MANGO THE FLAMINGO

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THERE.

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IMAGINE IF YOU WENT TO THE HOME

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OF SOMEONE YOU DIDN'T KNOW AND

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THEY HAD 158 IMAGES OF YOU

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EVERYWHERE.

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YOU'D DEFINITELY THINK YOU WERE

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ABOUT TO GET MURDERED.

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THAT WOMAN AND HER FAMILY HAD A

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POSITIVE EXPERIENCE WITH THEIR

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HOSPICE PROVIDER.

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AND THE GOOD NEWS IS, MANY, MANY

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PEOPLE DO.

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LOTS OF DEDICATED PEOPLE WORK

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WITH HOSPICES, PROVIDING HUGE

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RELIEF FOR DYING PATIENTS--

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PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO WANT TO

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REMAIN AT HOME, WHERE, IN MOST

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CASES, HOSPICE CARE IS PROVIDED.

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ABOUT 1.8 MILLION MEDICARE

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BENEFICIARIES NOW RECEIVE

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HOSPICE CARE EACH YEAR.

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IN FACT, YOU'LL PROBABLY

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ENCOUNTER HOSPICE AT SOME POINT

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IN YOUR LIFE-- EITHER FOR

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YOURSELF OR FOR A LOVED ONE.

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AND AT ITS BEST, IT'S GREAT.

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UNFORTUNATELY, AT ITS WORST, IT

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IS NOT, AS THE HOSPICE INDUSTRY

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HAS BECOME RIDDLED WITH STORIES

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LIKE THESE.

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A LOCAL COMPANY AGREES TO A

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$75 MILLION SETTLEMENT OVER

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ALLEGED OVERBILLING OF HOSPICE

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00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:20,734
SERVICES.

522
00:13:20,734 --> 00:13:22,969
A CLEVELAND DOCTOR HAS BEEN

523
00:13:22,969 --> 00:13:24,070
SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN

524
00:13:24,070 --> 00:13:25,872
PRISON FOR HEALTHCARE FRAUD

525
00:13:25,872 --> 00:13:28,174
CONNECTED TO HOSPICE OPERATIONS

526
00:13:28,174 --> 00:13:28,742
IN THE STATE'S IMPOVERISHED

527
00:13:28,742 --> 00:13:29,843
DELTA REGION.

528
00:13:29,843 --> 00:13:32,112
CALIFORNIA'S ATTORNEY GENERAL

529
00:13:32,112 --> 00:13:32,912
IS ANNOUNCING THE ARREST OF OVER

530
00:13:32,912 --> 00:13:35,815
A DOZEN PEOPLE ACCUSED OF

531
00:13:35,815 --> 00:13:36,583
RUNNING A HOSPICE SCAM IN THE

532
00:13:36,583 --> 00:13:38,251
INLAND EMPIRE.

533
00:13:38,251 --> 00:13:40,353
John: IT'S TRUE.

534
00:13:40,353 --> 00:13:41,354
THERE IS A LOT OF HOSPICE FRAUD.

535
00:13:41,354 --> 00:13:43,757
A SENTENCE, BY THE WAY, RECENTLY

536
00:13:43,757 --> 00:13:44,391
VOTED "LEAST HOT" BY "THINGS TO

537
00:13:44,391 --> 00:13:45,725
WHISPER INTO YOUR PARTNER'S EAR

538
00:13:45,725 --> 00:13:46,860
DURING SEX" MAGAZINE.

539
00:13:46,860 --> 00:13:47,193
BUT IT'S TRUE:

540
00:13:47,193 --> 00:13:47,927
[WHISPERING]

541
00:13:47,927 --> 00:13:51,631
THERE'S A LOT OF HOSPICE FRAUD.

542
00:13:51,631 --> 00:13:52,132
[SPEAKS IN NORMAL VOICE]

543
00:13:52,132 --> 00:13:53,733
IN FACT, ONE GOVERNMENT REPORT

544
00:13:53,733 --> 00:13:55,735
ESTIMATED THAT HOSPICES'

545
00:13:55,735 --> 00:13:57,303
INAPPROPRIATE BILLING COSTS

546
00:13:57,303 --> 00:13:59,205
MEDICARE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF

547
00:13:59,205 --> 00:14:00,273
DOLLARS A YEAR, AND EXPERTS SAY

548
00:14:00,273 --> 00:14:02,242
THEY BELIEVE THAT FIGURE TO BE

549
00:14:02,242 --> 00:14:03,710
FAR HIGHER.

550
00:14:03,710 --> 00:14:04,344
AND THE FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES

551
00:14:04,344 --> 00:14:04,878
HERE ARE THE LEAST OF THE

552
00:14:04,878 --> 00:14:05,578
PROBLEMS.

553
00:14:05,578 --> 00:14:07,313
SO GIVEN THAT, TONIGHT, LET'S

554
00:14:07,313 --> 00:14:08,481
LOOK AT HOSPICE CARE:

555
00:14:08,481 --> 00:14:09,916
HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO WORK, AND

556
00:14:09,916 --> 00:14:11,217
WHAT, TOO OFTEN, IS HAPPENING

557
00:14:11,217 --> 00:14:11,451
INSTEAD.

558
00:14:11,451 --> 00:14:12,052
AND LET'S START WITH THE FACT

559
00:14:12,052 --> 00:14:14,254
THAT "HOSPICE," AS WE KNOW IT,

560
00:14:14,254 --> 00:14:14,921
IS PRETTY NEW.

561
00:14:14,921 --> 00:14:17,724
HERE'S A TV REPORT FROM 1979,

562
00:14:17,724 --> 00:14:19,292
EXPLAINING IT TO AMERICANS AS IF

563
00:14:19,292 --> 00:14:19,993
FOR THE FIRST TIME.

564
00:14:19,993 --> 00:14:22,595
A NEW CONCEPT FOR TAKING CARE

565
00:14:22,595 --> 00:14:23,196
OF TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS IS

566
00:14:23,196 --> 00:14:23,730
GAINING INTEREST IN THIS

567
00:14:23,730 --> 00:14:28,968
COUNTRY.

568
00:14:28,968 --> 00:14:30,737
IT IS CALLED HOSPICE, AND COMES

569
00:14:30,737 --> 00:14:31,237
TO US BY WAY OF ENGLAND.

570
00:14:31,237 --> 00:14:31,905
THE PHILOSOPHY BEHIND HOSPICE IS

571
00:14:31,905 --> 00:14:33,106
THAT ONCE DEATH HAS BECOME

572
00:14:33,106 --> 00:14:34,374
INEVITABLE, PATIENTS SHOULD BE

573
00:14:34,374 --> 00:14:35,642
TREATED WITH GREAT ATTENTION TO

574
00:14:35,642 --> 00:14:36,743
THEIR COMFORT AND EMOTIONAL

575
00:14:36,743 --> 00:14:37,510
NEEDS.

576
00:14:37,510 --> 00:14:38,144
John: YEAH, HOSPICE ACTUALLY

577
00:14:38,144 --> 00:14:40,213
CAME FROM ENGLAND!

578
00:14:40,213 --> 00:14:41,715
AND I KNOW THE BRITISH EXPORTING

579
00:14:41,715 --> 00:14:44,050
A NEW WAY TO DIE SOUNDS LIKE THE

580
00:14:44,050 --> 00:14:46,553
PERFECT SLOGAN FOR OVER

581
00:14:46,553 --> 00:14:47,187
400 YEARS OF COLONIALISM, BUT IN

582
00:14:47,187 --> 00:14:48,988
THIS CASE, IT WAS GENUINELY A

583
00:14:48,988 --> 00:14:50,156
GOOD THING.

584
00:14:50,156 --> 00:14:52,692
THE CONCEPT WAS ORIGINALLY

585
00:14:52,692 --> 00:14:53,593
CONCEIVED BY DAME CICELY

586
00:14:53,593 --> 00:14:54,994
SAUNDERS-- SEEN HERE LOOKING

587
00:14:54,994 --> 00:14:56,329
LIKE SHE JUST SLASHED YOUR

588
00:14:56,329 --> 00:14:57,597
TIRES.

589
00:14:57,597 --> 00:14:59,199
SHE WAS AN ENGLISH DOCTOR AND

590
00:14:59,199 --> 00:15:00,667
SOCIAL WORKER, WHO'D BEEN UPSET

591
00:15:00,667 --> 00:15:01,668
BY THE "WRETCHED HABITS OF BIG,

592
00:15:01,668 --> 00:15:03,503
BUSY HOSPITALS WHERE EVERYONE

593
00:15:03,503 --> 00:15:04,437
TIPTOES PAST THE BED AND THE

594
00:15:04,437 --> 00:15:05,372
DYING SOON LEARN TO PRETEND TO

595
00:15:05,372 --> 00:15:06,873
BE ASLEEP."

596
00:15:06,873 --> 00:15:08,708
WHICH SOUNDS BLEAK BUT REMEMBER,

597
00:15:08,708 --> 00:15:10,577
THAT WAS IN THE U.K., HOME OF

598
00:15:10,577 --> 00:15:11,544
THE FAMOUS WAR-TIME POSTER:

599
00:15:11,544 --> 00:15:14,247
"KEEP QUIET AND DIE."

600
00:15:14,247 --> 00:15:15,815
THE IDEA EVENTUALLY MIGRATED

601
00:15:15,815 --> 00:15:17,283
OVER HERE AND THE FIRST AMERICAN

602
00:15:17,283 --> 00:15:18,685
HOSPICE BEGAN CARING FOR

603
00:15:18,685 --> 00:15:20,053
PATIENTS IN 1974.

604
00:15:20,053 --> 00:15:21,554
MORE SOON FOLLOWED, MAINLY

605
00:15:21,554 --> 00:15:22,622
CONSISTING OF "A CONSTELLATION

606
00:15:22,622 --> 00:15:23,256
OF CHARITIES, MOSTLY RELIANT ON

607
00:15:23,256 --> 00:15:25,925
VOLUNTEERS."

608
00:15:25,925 --> 00:15:28,428
BUT IN 1982, REAGAN MADE A BIG

609
00:15:28,428 --> 00:15:30,597
CHANGE, WHEN HE AUTHORIZED

610
00:15:30,597 --> 00:15:32,032
MEDICARE TO COVER THE COST OF

611
00:15:32,032 --> 00:15:33,700
HOSPICE, AFTER ADVOCATES

612
00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:34,968
CONVINCED LAWMAKERS "IT WOULD BE

613
00:15:34,968 --> 00:15:36,369
CHEAPER FOR MEDICARE THAN PAYING

614
00:15:36,369 --> 00:15:38,238
FOR THE AGGRESSIVE TREATMENT

615
00:15:38,238 --> 00:15:39,039
THAT SO MANY PATIENTS RECEIVED

616
00:15:39,039 --> 00:15:40,473
UP UNTIL THEY DIED."

617
00:15:40,473 --> 00:15:41,841
THAT MOVE MEANT THERE WAS NOW A

618
00:15:41,841 --> 00:15:42,475
LOT MORE MONEY TO BE MADE IN THE

619
00:15:42,475 --> 00:15:46,713
HOSPICE BUSINESS.

620
00:15:46,713 --> 00:15:48,248
AND TODAY, OF THE COUNTRY'S

621
00:15:48,248 --> 00:15:50,216
NEARLY 6,000 PROVIDERS,

622
00:15:50,216 --> 00:15:50,817
THREE-QUARTERS ARE FOR-PROFIT.

623
00:15:50,817 --> 00:15:52,719
ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND EARLIEST

624
00:15:52,719 --> 00:15:55,288
WAS VITAS, WHICH WAS FOUNDED BY

625
00:15:55,288 --> 00:15:57,724
TWO TEACHERS AND DON GAETZ, WHO

626
00:15:57,724 --> 00:15:58,925
IS, FUN FACT, MATT GAETZ'S

627
00:15:58,925 --> 00:15:59,092
DAD.

628
00:15:59,092 --> 00:16:00,226
WHICH IS KIND OF SURPRISING.

629
00:16:00,226 --> 00:16:01,995
I DIDN'T THINK GAETZ HAD PARENTS

630
00:16:01,995 --> 00:16:03,596
IN THE TRADITIONAL SENSE.

631
00:16:03,596 --> 00:16:04,230
I JUST ASSUMED SOMEONE JIZZED ON

632
00:16:04,230 --> 00:16:06,833
A "GOODFELLAS" POSTER.

633
00:16:06,833 --> 00:16:07,734
VITAS MADE ITS FOUNDERS

634
00:16:07,734 --> 00:16:14,808
EXTREMELY WEALTHY.

635
00:16:15,775 --> 00:16:17,277
IN 2004, IT SOLD FOR

636
00:16:17,277 --> 00:16:18,712
$406 MILLION TO CHEMED, BEST

637
00:16:18,712 --> 00:16:19,946
KNOWN AS THE OWNER OF

638
00:16:19,946 --> 00:16:20,580
ROTO-ROOTER, A PLUMBING COMPANY.

639
00:16:20,580 --> 00:16:21,081
ON GLASSDOOR, CHEMED IS

640
00:16:21,081 --> 00:16:22,582
DESCRIBED AS BRINGING "A

641
00:16:22,582 --> 00:16:23,216
PROFESSIONAL DIGNITY TO TIMES OF

642
00:16:23,216 --> 00:16:23,750
TRANSITION AND SEWER LINE

643
00:16:23,750 --> 00:16:26,152
CLOGS."

644
00:16:26,152 --> 00:16:28,088
SO NOW YOU KNOW WHO TO CALL IF

645
00:16:28,088 --> 00:16:30,523
YOU'RE FACING YOUR OWN MORTALITY

646
00:16:30,523 --> 00:16:31,991
AND/OR A BACKED-UP SHIT PIPE.

647
00:16:31,991 --> 00:16:32,759
THE POINT IS, HOSPICES CAN BE

648
00:16:32,759 --> 00:16:35,295
BIG BUSINESS.

649
00:16:35,295 --> 00:16:36,930
AND IT'S WORTH TALKING ABOUT

650
00:16:36,930 --> 00:16:37,497
EXACTLY HOW THEY MAKE MONEY.

651
00:16:37,497 --> 00:16:39,366
BASICALLY, ONCE YOU'RE ENROLLED

652
00:16:39,366 --> 00:16:40,533
IN A HOSPICE, THEY GET A FLAT

653
00:16:40,533 --> 00:16:42,702
FEE EVERY DAY.

654
00:16:42,702 --> 00:16:44,671
FOR ROUTINE CARE, IT'S A LITTLE

655
00:16:44,671 --> 00:16:45,972
OVER $200 A DAY FOR THE FIRST 60

656
00:16:45,972 --> 00:16:47,374
DAYS, AND A LITTLE LESS FOR

657
00:16:47,374 --> 00:16:49,342
HOWEVER LONG YOU'RE IN HOSPICE

658
00:16:49,342 --> 00:16:50,343
AFTER THAT.

659
00:16:50,343 --> 00:16:51,945
AND THAT CAN CREATE A CLEAR

660
00:16:51,945 --> 00:16:52,846
INCENTIVE TO SIGN UP AS MANY

661
00:16:52,846 --> 00:16:54,280
PATIENTS AS POSSIBLE.

662
00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:55,715
A MARKETER FOR ONE HOSPICE IN

663
00:16:55,715 --> 00:16:56,716
GEORGIA WAS EVEN RECORDED

664
00:16:56,716 --> 00:16:59,219
TELLING A SALES REP, "HOW DO YOU

665
00:16:59,219 --> 00:16:59,619
SOLICIT PATIENTS?

666
00:16:59,619 --> 00:17:00,253
YOU SEE SOMEBODY SITTING ON THE

667
00:17:00,253 --> 00:17:01,321
FRONT PORCH IN A WHEELCHAIR AND

668
00:17:01,321 --> 00:17:04,691
YOU HIT THE BRAKES."

669
00:17:04,691 --> 00:17:06,226
AND YOU KNOW OUR SYSTEM'S BROKEN

670
00:17:06,226 --> 00:17:08,461
WHEN A HOSPICE PROVIDER'S TARGET

671
00:17:08,461 --> 00:17:10,697
DEMO IS "KIDNAPPED PORCH

672
00:17:10,697 --> 00:17:11,631
GRANDMAS".

673
00:17:11,631 --> 00:17:13,199
ONE BIG WAY HOSPICES CAN GET

674
00:17:13,199 --> 00:17:14,134
REFERRALS, THOUGH, IS BY

675
00:17:14,134 --> 00:17:15,735
BEFRIENDING STAFFS AT NURSING

676
00:17:15,735 --> 00:17:16,302
HOMES AND DOCTOR'S OFFICES.

677
00:17:16,302 --> 00:17:18,104
IN FACT, VITAS HAS BEEN

678
00:17:18,104 --> 00:17:20,273
PARTICULARLY AGGRESSIVE IN ITS

679
00:17:20,273 --> 00:17:21,408
SALES TACTICS, LIKE WHEN THEY

680
00:17:21,408 --> 00:17:22,942
WERE CAUGHT DOING THIS IN THE

681
00:17:22,942 --> 00:17:24,477
MIDDLE OF 2020.

682
00:17:24,477 --> 00:17:27,080
TEXT MESSAGES WE OBTAINED

683
00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:29,749
SHOW VITAS SALES PEOPLE VISITING

684
00:17:29,749 --> 00:17:30,984
MULTIPLE BAY AREA NURSING HOMES

685
00:17:30,984 --> 00:17:31,618
AND DOCTORS' OFFICES DURING THE

686
00:17:31,618 --> 00:17:33,186
PANDEMIC.

687
00:17:33,186 --> 00:17:35,388
THEY TOOK NUMEROUS SELFIES WITH

688
00:17:35,388 --> 00:17:38,191
HEALTH CARE WORKERS, SOME

689
00:17:38,191 --> 00:17:39,259
BRINGING GIFTS OF PIZZA,

690
00:17:39,259 --> 00:17:40,260
CHICKEN, OR DOUGHNUTS.

691
00:17:40,260 --> 00:17:42,095
UNDER ONE PICTURE, A REP EVEN

692
00:17:42,095 --> 00:17:44,864
WROTE, "SIX BOXES OF THESE MADE

693
00:17:44,864 --> 00:17:46,766
THEIR WAY INTO A LOCAL NURSING

694
00:17:46,766 --> 00:17:48,802
HOME THAT ISN'T ALLOWING FOOD IN

695
00:17:48,802 --> 00:17:51,104
FROM THE OUTSIDE."

696
00:17:51,104 --> 00:17:52,172
A FELLOW EMPLOYEE TEXTED BACK,

697
00:17:52,172 --> 00:17:54,507
"SNEAKY, SNEAKY."

698
00:17:54,507 --> 00:17:55,909
ANOTHER EMAIL SHOWS A MANAGER

699
00:17:55,909 --> 00:17:57,610
RUNNING A WEEKEND REFERRAL

700
00:17:57,610 --> 00:18:01,715
CONTEST, SAYING, "WHOEVER GETS

701
00:18:01,715 --> 00:18:02,615
THE MOST SELFIES WITH MEDICAL

702
00:18:02,615 --> 00:18:03,750
PERSONNEL COULD WIN.

703
00:18:03,750 --> 00:18:04,784
PERSONNEL INCLUDING NURSING HOME

704
00:18:04,784 --> 00:18:06,386
STAFF, EMERGENCY ROOM STAFF,

705
00:18:06,386 --> 00:18:08,521
PHYSICIANS, OR NURSES."

706
00:18:08,521 --> 00:18:09,756
John: IT'S TRUE.

707
00:18:09,756 --> 00:18:12,092
TO GET PATIENT REFERRALS, THEY

708
00:18:12,092 --> 00:18:14,361
WERE SENDING SALES REPS INTO

709
00:18:14,361 --> 00:18:15,495
NURSING HOMES, AND ENCOURAGING

710
00:18:15,495 --> 00:18:16,296
THEM TO GET SELFIES WITH HEALTH

711
00:18:16,296 --> 00:18:16,763
CARE WORKERS WHO WERE

712
00:18:16,763 --> 00:18:18,465
INTERACTING WITH HIGH-RISK

713
00:18:18,465 --> 00:18:19,232
POPULATIONS AT THE HEIGHT OF

714
00:18:19,232 --> 00:18:19,733
COVID.

715
00:18:19,733 --> 00:18:21,001
THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN

716
00:18:21,001 --> 00:18:21,668
LITERALLY HATCHED BY THE

717
00:18:21,668 --> 00:18:24,137
CORONAVIRUS ITSELF.

718
00:18:24,137 --> 00:18:26,506
AND INCIDENTALLY, YOU KNOW

719
00:18:26,506 --> 00:18:27,173
WHAT'S NOT "SNEAKY, SNEAKY"?

720
00:18:27,173 --> 00:18:29,542
BRAGGING ABOUT YOUR UNETHICAL

721
00:18:29,542 --> 00:18:31,911
SALES TACTICS IN WRITING--

722
00:18:31,911 --> 00:18:35,382
THAT IS MORE "STUPID, STUPID".

723
00:18:35,382 --> 00:18:36,850
SO THAT IS ONE WAY HOSPICES CAN

724
00:18:36,850 --> 00:18:37,417
MAKE MONEY, GETTING AS MANY

725
00:18:37,417 --> 00:18:38,318
PATIENTS AS POSSIBLE.

726
00:18:38,318 --> 00:18:38,885
ANOTHER IS TO THEN SPEND AS

727
00:18:38,885 --> 00:18:39,519
LITTLE ON THOSE PATIENTS AS YOU

728
00:18:39,519 --> 00:18:41,321
CAN.

729
00:18:41,321 --> 00:18:42,856
UNDERWHELMING CARE IS A

730
00:18:42,856 --> 00:18:43,757
PERSISTENT COMPLAINT ABOUT

731
00:18:43,757 --> 00:18:45,191
HOSPICES, WITH A RECENT SURVEY

732
00:18:45,191 --> 00:18:46,893
FINDING "OVER 1 IN 5 FAMILIES

733
00:18:46,893 --> 00:18:47,894
SAID THEIR HOSPICE AGENCY DID

734
00:18:47,894 --> 00:18:50,497
NOT ALWAYS PROVIDE TIMELY HELP."

735
00:18:50,497 --> 00:18:52,899
AND RECENT INVESTIGATIONS BY HHS

736
00:18:52,899 --> 00:18:54,968
HAVE FOUND SOME ALARMING

737
00:18:54,968 --> 00:18:56,336
EXAMPLES OF NEGLECT-- LIKE A

738
00:18:56,336 --> 00:18:57,871
HOSPICE THAT BILLED MEDICARE FOR

739
00:18:57,871 --> 00:18:58,872
17 DAYS OF CARE FOR A 70 YEAR

740
00:18:58,872 --> 00:18:59,973
OLD PATIENT THAT THEY NEVER

741
00:18:59,973 --> 00:19:00,440
VISITED.

742
00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,175
INSTEAD, THEY JUST CALLED HIS

743
00:19:02,175 --> 00:19:02,942
FAMILY TO INQUIRE HOW HE WAS

744
00:19:02,942 --> 00:19:06,246
DOING.

745
00:19:06,246 --> 00:19:07,280
AND IT IS HARD TO DEFEND THE

746
00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:07,814
QUALITY OF THAT COMPANY'S

747
00:19:07,814 --> 00:19:08,448
SERVICE WHEN THEY WERE-- QUITE

748
00:19:08,448 --> 00:19:11,184
LITERALLY-- PHONING IT IN.

749
00:19:11,184 --> 00:19:12,786
BUT IT GETS WORSE, BECAUSE THEY

750
00:19:12,786 --> 00:19:14,888
ALSO FOUND MULTIPLE CASES OF

751
00:19:14,888 --> 00:19:16,122
SEVERE NEGLECT, LIKE WHEN A

752
00:19:16,122 --> 00:19:17,791
HOSPICE "SKIPPED HOME VISITS AND

753
00:19:17,791 --> 00:19:19,359
FAILED TO ASSESS THE AMOUNT OF

754
00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:19,993
PAIN ONE PATIENT ENDURED," WITH

755
00:19:19,993 --> 00:19:20,493
THAT PATIENT EVENTUALLY

756
00:19:20,493 --> 00:19:22,062
SUFFERING "A MAGGOT INFESTATION

757
00:19:22,062 --> 00:19:22,929
IN HIS FEEDING TUBE" THAT

758
00:19:22,929 --> 00:19:25,432
REQUIRED A TRIP TO THE EMERGENCY

759
00:19:25,432 --> 00:19:26,332
ROOM.

760
00:19:26,332 --> 00:19:27,500
WHICH IS HORRIFYING!

761
00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:32,339
TREATMENT FOR DYING PEOPLE

762
00:19:32,339 --> 00:19:35,041
IDEALLY SHOULD NOT SOUND LIKE A

763
00:19:35,041 --> 00:19:35,575
SCENE FROM A FUCKING "SAW"

764
00:19:35,575 --> 00:19:35,875
MOVIE.

765
00:19:35,875 --> 00:19:36,743
AND PROVIDING SUBPAR CARE IS BAD

766
00:19:36,743 --> 00:19:37,477
ENOUGH.

767
00:19:37,477 --> 00:19:38,712
BUT SOME HOSPICES ENGAGE IN

768
00:19:38,712 --> 00:19:39,245
OUTRIGHT FRAUD TO OVERBILL

769
00:19:39,245 --> 00:19:40,547
MEDICARE.

770
00:19:40,547 --> 00:19:41,981
BECAUSE IF PATIENTS REQUIRE A

771
00:19:41,981 --> 00:19:45,218
HIGHER LEVEL OF CARE, HOSPICES

772
00:19:45,218 --> 00:19:46,986
CAN BILL THE GOVERNMENT AT A

773
00:19:46,986 --> 00:19:48,321
MUCH HIGHER RATE-- AS MUCH AS

774
00:19:48,321 --> 00:19:50,924
$1500 A DAY FOR "CONTINUOUS HOME

775
00:19:50,924 --> 00:19:51,725
CARE," SOMETIMES CALLED "CRISIS

776
00:19:51,725 --> 00:19:55,362
CARE."

777
00:19:55,362 --> 00:19:56,196
VITAS WAS EVEN SUED BY THE DOJ

778
00:19:56,196 --> 00:19:57,163
IN 2013 FOR "BILLING MEDICARE

779
00:19:57,163 --> 00:19:58,531
FOR MORE COSTLY CRISIS CARE

780
00:19:58,531 --> 00:19:59,132
SERVICES WHEN CERTAIN PATIENTS

781
00:19:59,132 --> 00:20:01,067
DID NOT NEED" THEM.

782
00:20:01,067 --> 00:20:02,569
OVER EIGHT YEARS, THE GOVERNMENT

783
00:20:02,569 --> 00:20:03,970
SAYS THAT VITAS GENERATED NEARLY

784
00:20:03,970 --> 00:20:05,238
$1 BILLION IN REVENUE FROM

785
00:20:05,238 --> 00:20:06,706
CRISIS CARE, AND WHILE THE

786
00:20:06,706 --> 00:20:08,775
COMPANY DIDN'T ADMIT WRONGDOING,

787
00:20:08,775 --> 00:20:09,776
IT DID PAY $75 MILLION TO SETTLE

788
00:20:09,776 --> 00:20:10,810
THAT CASE.

789
00:20:10,810 --> 00:20:13,513
YOU KNOW, THE KIND OF THING WE

790
00:20:13,513 --> 00:20:14,347
ALL DO WHEN WE HAVEN'T DONE

791
00:20:14,347 --> 00:20:15,081
ANYTHING WRONG.

792
00:20:15,081 --> 00:20:16,583
AND VITAS IS BY NO MEANS THE

793
00:20:16,583 --> 00:20:17,484
ONLY COMPANY ACCUSED OF DOING

794
00:20:17,484 --> 00:20:19,753
THIS.

795
00:20:19,753 --> 00:20:21,888
PASSAGES HOSPICE USED TO BE THE

796
00:20:21,888 --> 00:20:22,689
BIGGEST HOSPICE COMPANY IN

797
00:20:22,689 --> 00:20:24,724
ILLINOIS UNTIL THIS HAPPENED.

798
00:20:24,724 --> 00:20:26,192
PASSAGES HOSPICE IN MOLINE

799
00:20:26,192 --> 00:20:28,628
FORCED OUT OF BUSINESS TODAY

800
00:20:28,628 --> 00:20:30,597
AFTER THE INDICTMENT OF ONE OF

801
00:20:30,597 --> 00:20:31,164
ITS OWNERS ON FEDERAL FRAUD

802
00:20:31,164 --> 00:20:33,233
CHARGES.

803
00:20:33,233 --> 00:20:34,868
LAWYER SETH GILLMAN OF

804
00:20:34,868 --> 00:20:35,769
LINCOLNWOOD WAS CHARGED BY THE

805
00:20:35,769 --> 00:20:38,371
FEDS LAST MONTH FOR ALLEGEDLY

806
00:20:38,371 --> 00:20:39,105
OVERCHARGING MEDICARE AND

807
00:20:39,105 --> 00:20:41,307
MEDICAID.

808
00:20:41,307 --> 00:20:43,109
THE COMPANY AND ITS 300

809
00:20:43,109 --> 00:20:44,377
WORKERS STATEWIDE, HISTORY.

810
00:20:44,377 --> 00:20:45,245
GILLMAN FACES UP TO 15 YEARS IF

811
00:20:45,245 --> 00:20:47,480
CONVICTED.

812
00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:51,251
I WOULD DESCRIBE HIM AS THE

813
00:20:51,251 --> 00:20:52,919
LOWEST FORM OF LIFE.

814
00:20:52,919 --> 00:20:53,720
HE DESERVES WHAT'S COMING TO

815
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:55,522
HIM.

816
00:20:55,522 --> 00:20:57,223
John: WOW.

817
00:20:57,223 --> 00:20:58,858
YOU KNOW HOW WRETCHED YOU HAVE

818
00:20:58,858 --> 00:20:59,993
TO BE FOR A MIDDLE AGED

819
00:20:59,993 --> 00:21:01,061
MIDWESTERN WOMAN TO CALL YOU

820
00:21:01,061 --> 00:21:03,463
"THE LOWEST FORM OF LIFE"?

821
00:21:03,463 --> 00:21:04,931
SHE DIDN'T EVEN DRESS IT UP WITH

822
00:21:04,931 --> 00:21:05,732
A "HE'S NOT MY CUP OF TEA" OR "I

823
00:21:05,732 --> 00:21:07,233
THINK HE HAS A LOT TO ANSWER

824
00:21:07,233 --> 00:21:08,401
FOR."

825
00:21:08,401 --> 00:21:10,704
THAT IS MIDWESTERN FOR, "I HOPE

826
00:21:10,704 --> 00:21:11,671
HE DIES IN PAIN, AND I'LL

827
00:21:11,671 --> 00:21:12,238
PERSONALLY BLOCK TRAFFIC TO

828
00:21:12,238 --> 00:21:16,109
ENSURE AN EMPTY FUNERAL HOME."

829
00:21:16,109 --> 00:21:18,178
GILLMAN WAS EVENTUALLY SENTENCED

830
00:21:18,178 --> 00:21:19,813
TO SIX AND A HALF YEARS IN

831
00:21:19,813 --> 00:21:20,880
FEDERAL PRISON FOR MASTERMINDING

832
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,482
A $20 MILLION FRAUD SCHEME THAT

833
00:21:22,482 --> 00:21:23,416
INCLUDED ENROLLING PATIENTS IN

834
00:21:23,416 --> 00:21:24,017
EXPENSIVE IN-PATIENT CARE THEY

835
00:21:24,017 --> 00:21:25,251
DIDN'T NEED.

836
00:21:25,251 --> 00:21:26,686
FAMILIES TOLD REPORTERS THAT

837
00:21:26,686 --> 00:21:29,022
PASSAGES EMPLOYEES EVEN MISLED

838
00:21:29,022 --> 00:21:29,656
THEM INTO BELIEVING THEIR LOVED

839
00:21:29,656 --> 00:21:30,857
ONES HAD SERIOUS OR TERMINAL

840
00:21:30,857 --> 00:21:32,892
ILLNESSES WHEN THEY DIDN'T.

841
00:21:32,892 --> 00:21:35,862
A FEDERAL COURT FOUND GILLMAN

842
00:21:35,862 --> 00:21:37,163
POCKETED MILLIONS ANNUALLY, AND

843
00:21:37,163 --> 00:21:39,766
ENJOYED A LAVISH LIFESTYLE THAT

844
00:21:39,766 --> 00:21:40,367
INCLUDED CORPORATE AIRPLANES,

845
00:21:40,367 --> 00:21:41,434
AND LUXURY SPORTS CARS, BEHAVIOR

846
00:21:41,434 --> 00:21:43,203
HIS OWN LAWYER, IN A COURT

847
00:21:43,203 --> 00:21:44,204
FILING, PARTLY ATTRIBUTED TO THE

848
00:21:44,204 --> 00:21:44,804
FACT HE WAS "INGESTING COCAINE

849
00:21:44,804 --> 00:21:48,375
ON A DAILY BASIS."

850
00:21:48,375 --> 00:21:50,143
THAT WAS HIS DEFENSE.

851
00:21:50,143 --> 00:21:51,644
IMAGINE HOW GUILTY YOU HAVE TO

852
00:21:51,644 --> 00:21:53,279
BE FOR YOUR OWN LAWYERS TO SAY:

853
00:21:53,279 --> 00:21:55,015
"YOUR HONOR, MY CLIENT MIGHT AS

854
00:21:55,015 --> 00:21:57,484
WELL BE SHAUN WHITE THE WAY HE

855
00:21:57,484 --> 00:21:58,918
WAS SHREDDING DOWN MOUNTAINS OF

856
00:21:58,918 --> 00:21:59,319
PURE WHITE POWDER.

857
00:21:59,319 --> 00:21:59,953
I'M TALKING IN HIS DEFENSE, YOU

858
00:21:59,953 --> 00:22:02,188
UNDERSTAND."

859
00:22:02,188 --> 00:22:04,357
BUT IT'S NOT JUST EXAGGERATING

860
00:22:04,357 --> 00:22:05,492
THE AMOUNT OF CARE PATIENTS ARE

861
00:22:05,492 --> 00:22:06,793
GETTING.

862
00:22:06,793 --> 00:22:08,194
HOSPICES CAN ALSO ENROLL

863
00:22:08,194 --> 00:22:10,230
PATIENTS WHO SHOULDN'T EVEN BE

864
00:22:10,230 --> 00:22:10,764
THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

865
00:22:10,764 --> 00:22:11,297
BECAUSE WHILE THERE IS A

866
00:22:11,297 --> 00:22:12,332
REQUIREMENT PATIENTS HAVE A LIFE

867
00:22:12,332 --> 00:22:14,401
EXPECTANCY OF SIX MONTHS OR

868
00:22:14,401 --> 00:22:16,036
LESS, MOST OF THE MEDICARE

869
00:22:16,036 --> 00:22:17,570
SPENDING ON HOSPICE IS NOW FOR

870
00:22:17,570 --> 00:22:18,772
PATIENTS WHOSE STAYS EXCEED SIX

871
00:22:18,772 --> 00:22:22,175
MONTHS.

872
00:22:22,175 --> 00:22:23,009
AND LOOK, OBVIOUSLY, IT'S A GOOD

873
00:22:23,009 --> 00:22:23,643
THING WHEN SOMEONE LIVES LONGER

874
00:22:23,643 --> 00:22:24,444
THAN THEIR PROGNOSIS.

875
00:22:24,444 --> 00:22:25,612
THIS SHOW IS NOT PRO-DEATH.

876
00:22:25,612 --> 00:22:26,413
WELL, TO BE HONEST, SOMETIMES WE

877
00:22:26,413 --> 00:22:29,149
ARE.

878
00:22:29,149 --> 00:22:30,550
BUT MOST OF THE TIME, WE'RE NOT.

879
00:22:30,550 --> 00:22:34,554
BUT THERE ARE WORRYING SIGNS

880
00:22:34,554 --> 00:22:35,121
SOME HOSPICES ARE ENROLLING

881
00:22:35,121 --> 00:22:35,722
PATIENTS WHO DON'T NEED THEIR

882
00:22:35,722 --> 00:22:36,156
CARE.

883
00:22:36,156 --> 00:22:38,425
AND ONE INDICATOR OF THIS IS THE

884
00:22:38,425 --> 00:22:38,925
"LIVE DISCHARGE RATE"--

885
00:22:38,925 --> 00:22:39,559
BASICALLY, HOW MANY PEOPLE LEAVE

886
00:22:39,559 --> 00:22:40,627
HOSPICE ALIVE.

887
00:22:40,627 --> 00:22:42,762
NOW, A SMALL AMOUNT OF "LIVE

888
00:22:42,762 --> 00:22:44,130
DISCHARGES" ARE TO BE EXPECTED.

889
00:22:44,130 --> 00:22:46,666
SOMEONE MIGHT BE CHOOSING A

890
00:22:46,666 --> 00:22:47,200
DIFFERENT HOSPICE, OR EVEN

891
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:48,335
OPTING TO PURSUE CURATIVE CARE

892
00:22:48,335 --> 00:22:49,469
AGAIN.

893
00:22:49,469 --> 00:22:52,038
BUT EXPERTS TOLD US A LIVE

894
00:22:52,038 --> 00:22:54,708
DISCHARGE RATE OF MORE THAN 30%

895
00:22:54,708 --> 00:22:55,775
IS HIGH, AND ANYTHING OVER 50 IS

896
00:22:55,775 --> 00:22:56,543
A SERIOUS RED FLAG FOR POSSIBLE

897
00:22:56,543 --> 00:22:58,712
FRAUD.

898
00:22:58,712 --> 00:22:59,846
AND YET, AN ANALYSIS IN

899
00:22:59,846 --> 00:23:01,781
CALIFORNIA FOUND THAT LAST YEAR,

900
00:23:01,781 --> 00:23:03,783
MORE THAN 500 HOSPICES THERE HAD

901
00:23:03,783 --> 00:23:10,457
A LIVE DISCHARGE RATE GREATER

902
00:23:10,457 --> 00:23:13,660
70% WITH 135 HAVING A 100%

903
00:23:13,660 --> 00:23:14,627
LIVE DISCHARGE RATE.

904
00:23:14,627 --> 00:23:15,729
WHICH IS WILD.

905
00:23:15,729 --> 00:23:16,363
ONCE 100% OF PEOPLE IN YOUR CARE

906
00:23:16,363 --> 00:23:18,732
ARE LEAVING ALIVE, YOU'RE NOT A

907
00:23:18,732 --> 00:23:19,899
HOSPICE, YOU'RE A HOTEL.

908
00:23:19,899 --> 00:23:20,567
AND STATISTICALLY, AN INCREDIBLY

909
00:23:20,567 --> 00:23:22,168
SAFE ONE.

910
00:23:22,168 --> 00:23:24,204
AND THERE ARE HORROR STORIES

911
00:23:24,204 --> 00:23:25,805
WHERE PATIENTS HAVE BEEN KEPT IN

912
00:23:25,805 --> 00:23:26,473
HOSPICE WHEN THEY CLEARLY DIDN'T

913
00:23:26,473 --> 00:23:27,340
NEED TO BE.

914
00:23:27,340 --> 00:23:28,108
TAKE WHAT HAPPENED TO

915
00:23:28,108 --> 00:23:29,175
PATRICIA MARBLE.

916
00:23:29,175 --> 00:23:32,178
AFTER HER DOCTOR RECOMMENDED

917
00:23:32,178 --> 00:23:33,346
HOSPICE FOR HER, SHE SIGNED ON

918
00:23:33,346 --> 00:23:34,247
WITH A COMPANY CALLED AMEDISYS.

919
00:23:34,247 --> 00:23:35,148
BUT AS THE YEARS WENT BY, HER

920
00:23:35,148 --> 00:23:35,715
DAUGHTER REALIZED SOMETHING

921
00:23:35,715 --> 00:23:36,916
MIGHT BE UP.

922
00:23:36,916 --> 00:23:39,652
MY MOM TRUSTED HER NURSE.

923
00:23:39,652 --> 00:23:43,123
MY MOM TRUSTED THESE PEOPLE.

924
00:23:43,123 --> 00:23:44,457
TRUSTING THEM SO MUCH, MARBLE

925
00:23:44,457 --> 00:23:46,960
SAYS SHE DIDN'T QUESTION THE

926
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:48,695
LONG LIST OF DRUGS, INCLUDING

927
00:23:48,695 --> 00:23:50,230
FENTANYL AND MORPHINE, TO MAKE

928
00:23:50,230 --> 00:23:50,597
HER COMFORTABLE.

929
00:23:50,597 --> 00:23:52,332
THE HYDROCODONE, THEY WOULD

930
00:23:52,332 --> 00:23:53,700
SIT-- THEY SAT NEXT TO HER AND

931
00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:54,868
TOLD HER SHE COULD TAKE IT

932
00:23:54,868 --> 00:23:55,402
WHENEVER SHE WAS IN PAIN.

933
00:23:55,402 --> 00:23:57,337
MEDICAL RECORDS SHARED WITH

934
00:23:57,337 --> 00:23:59,539
FOX 25 INVESTIGATES SHOW MARBLE

935
00:23:59,539 --> 00:24:00,106
REMAINED IN HOSPICE CARE FOR

936
00:24:00,106 --> 00:24:03,443
FIVE YEARS.

937
00:24:03,443 --> 00:24:04,244
THEN, EARLIER THIS YEAR, BRAGGS

938
00:24:04,244 --> 00:24:05,545
SAID SHE WENT AGAINST THE

939
00:24:05,545 --> 00:24:06,880
HOSPICE NURSE'S ORDERS AND

940
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,314
FINALLY TOOK HER MOM TO AN

941
00:24:08,314 --> 00:24:09,416
OUTSIDE DOCTOR.

942
00:24:09,416 --> 00:24:10,784
THE DOCTORS WERE TELLING ME

943
00:24:10,784 --> 00:24:11,851
THAT THERE'S A PROBLEM, THAT

944
00:24:11,851 --> 00:24:13,586
THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH HER BEING

945
00:24:13,586 --> 00:24:14,954
ON HOSPICE FOR FIVE YEARS.

946
00:24:14,954 --> 00:24:17,590
MEANWHILE, 76-YEAR-OLD

947
00:24:17,590 --> 00:24:19,826
PATRICIA MARBLE IS STILL VERY

948
00:24:19,826 --> 00:24:20,126
MUCH ALIVE.

949
00:24:20,126 --> 00:24:20,794
HOW ARE YOU FEELING NOW?

950
00:24:20,794 --> 00:24:23,096
I'M FEELING A WHOLE LOT

951
00:24:23,096 --> 00:24:23,463
BETTER.

952
00:24:23,463 --> 00:24:26,700
THEY JUST FED ME THE MEDICATION,

953
00:24:26,700 --> 00:24:27,334
AND I JUST TOOK IT MYSELF, LIKE

954
00:24:27,334 --> 00:24:28,535
SHE TOLD ME.

955
00:24:28,535 --> 00:24:30,136
IT WAS SURREAL.

956
00:24:30,136 --> 00:24:34,574
IT JUST-- ALL OF A SUDDEN, THIS

957
00:24:34,574 --> 00:24:35,675
NURSE TURNS INTO RUNNING MY

958
00:24:35,675 --> 00:24:38,912
HOUSEHOLD.

959
00:24:38,912 --> 00:24:40,547
John: THAT IS AWFUL.

960
00:24:40,547 --> 00:24:41,881
SHE WAS IN HOSPICE UNNECESSARILY

961
00:24:41,881 --> 00:24:43,216
FOR FIVE YEARS, WITH THE COMPANY

962
00:24:43,216 --> 00:24:44,584
BILLING MEDICARE ALMOST HALF A

963
00:24:44,584 --> 00:24:45,485
MILLION DOLLARS FOR HER CARE.

964
00:24:45,485 --> 00:24:48,955
THAT SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN.

965
00:24:48,955 --> 00:24:50,423
THERE IS A REASON YOU'VE NEVER

966
00:24:50,423 --> 00:24:50,957
SEEN A LAWN SIGN THAT SAYS

967
00:24:50,957 --> 00:24:51,891
"IN THIS HOUSE, LOVE IS LOVE,

968
00:24:51,891 --> 00:24:53,026
SCIENCE IS REAL, AND WE'RE BEING

969
00:24:53,026 --> 00:24:53,693
HELD PRISONER BY HOSPICE NURSES,

970
00:24:53,693 --> 00:24:55,929
PLEASE SEND HELP."

971
00:24:55,929 --> 00:24:56,896
NOW, I DO HAVE TO TELL YOU,

972
00:24:56,896 --> 00:24:58,398
AMEDISYS INSISTED AT THE TIME

973
00:24:58,398 --> 00:25:00,166
THAT ALLEGATIONS SHE WAS

974
00:25:00,166 --> 00:25:02,402
DISCOURAGED FROM SEEING AN

975
00:25:02,402 --> 00:25:03,737
OUTSIDE PHYSICIAN WERE

976
00:25:03,737 --> 00:25:04,371
"COMPLETELY FALSE," THOUGH THEY

977
00:25:04,371 --> 00:25:07,707
DID LATER ENTER A CONFIDENTIAL

978
00:25:07,707 --> 00:25:08,375
SETTLEMENT WITH THE FAMILY,

979
00:25:08,375 --> 00:25:09,175
WHICH HOPEFULLY THAT WOMAN GOT

980
00:25:09,175 --> 00:25:09,909
TO ENJOY, BECAUSE SHE LIVED FOR

981
00:25:09,909 --> 00:25:10,977
SEVEN MORE YEARS AFTER THAT

982
00:25:10,977 --> 00:25:12,245
SEGMENT AIRED.

983
00:25:12,245 --> 00:25:14,114
AND IT CAN BE EVEN EASIER THAN

984
00:25:14,114 --> 00:25:14,647
THAT TO END UP IN HOSPICE

985
00:25:14,647 --> 00:25:16,649
UNNECESSARILY.

986
00:25:16,649 --> 00:25:18,518
BECAUSE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO

987
00:25:18,518 --> 00:25:20,053
ADMIT A PATIENT ON THE

988
00:25:20,053 --> 00:25:21,054
RECOMMENDATION OF THEIR MEDICAL

989
00:25:21,054 --> 00:25:23,656
DIRECTOR, IN CONSULTATION WITH

990
00:25:23,656 --> 00:25:24,858
THE PATIENT'S OWN PHYSICIAN, "IF

991
00:25:24,858 --> 00:25:25,859
ANY."

992
00:25:25,859 --> 00:25:27,994
BUT IF THAT "ANY" DOESN'T EXIST,

993
00:25:27,994 --> 00:25:29,329
OR ISN'T AVAILABLE, THEN THE

994
00:25:29,329 --> 00:25:31,064
WHOLE DECISION MIGHT COME DOWN

995
00:25:31,064 --> 00:25:31,765
TO A DOCTOR ON THE HOSPICE'S

996
00:25:31,765 --> 00:25:32,766
PAYROLL.

997
00:25:32,766 --> 00:25:34,401
WHAT'S MORE, THERE'VE BEEN

998
00:25:34,401 --> 00:25:35,268
MULTIPLE CASES WHERE DOCTORS

999
00:25:35,268 --> 00:25:37,037
HAVE ACCEPTED BRIBES OR

1000
00:25:37,037 --> 00:25:38,738
KICKBACKS TO REFER AND RECERTIFY

1001
00:25:38,738 --> 00:25:40,874
PATIENTS WHO DIDN'T NEED CARE--

1002
00:25:40,874 --> 00:25:42,308
INCLUDING IN THIS INCREDIBLE

1003
00:25:42,308 --> 00:25:43,176
VIDEO.

1004
00:25:43,176 --> 00:25:45,378
YOU ARE LOOKING AT UNDERCOVER

1005
00:25:45,378 --> 00:25:46,780
VIDEO OF A DOCTOR ACCEPTING

1006
00:25:46,780 --> 00:25:49,115
KICKBACKS FOR REFERRING PATIENTS

1007
00:25:49,115 --> 00:25:50,550
TO HOSPICE CARE, PATIENTS WHO

1008
00:25:50,550 --> 00:25:51,785
DON'T NEED IT

1009
00:25:51,785 --> 00:25:52,819
WE WERE EXPECTING A LOT MORE

1010
00:25:52,819 --> 00:25:55,822
THAN THAT.

1011
00:25:55,822 --> 00:25:57,257
BUT DOC, YOU NEED TO HELP ME

1012
00:25:57,257 --> 00:25:57,891
GET SOME PATIENTS IN THE DOOR.

1013
00:25:57,891 --> 00:25:58,491
BUT WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?

1014
00:25:58,491 --> 00:25:59,626
I JUST GAVE YOU NINE PATIENTS,

1015
00:25:59,626 --> 00:26:00,360
WHAT THE [...] DO YOU WANT?

1016
00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:02,262
YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I CAN GET FROM

1017
00:26:02,262 --> 00:26:02,896
SOMEBODY ELSE FOR 25-- FOR NINE

1018
00:26:02,896 --> 00:26:03,396
PATIENTS?

1019
00:26:03,396 --> 00:26:06,066
[...] 250 BUCKS A PIECE.

1020
00:26:06,066 --> 00:26:07,834
John: YEAH, THAT'S A DOCTOR

1021
00:26:07,834 --> 00:26:08,768
ESSENTIALLY SELLING HIS PATIENTS

1022
00:26:08,768 --> 00:26:10,704
TO A HOSPICE AGENCY.

1023
00:26:10,704 --> 00:26:14,341
AND-- AND I KNOW THIS IS NOT

1024
00:26:14,341 --> 00:26:15,442
REMOTELY THE POINT-- BUT

1025
00:26:15,442 --> 00:26:16,776
HONESTLY, KIND OF LOWBALLING IT.

1026
00:26:16,776 --> 00:26:17,110
BECAUSE $250?

1027
00:26:17,110 --> 00:26:18,712
THAT'S IT?

1028
00:26:18,712 --> 00:26:19,946
YOU'RE SELLING HUMAN BEINGS, NOT

1029
00:26:19,946 --> 00:26:21,815
A PAIR OF FUCKING AIRPODS.

1030
00:26:21,815 --> 00:26:25,485
THAT SAME DOCTOR SERVED AS A

1031
00:26:25,485 --> 00:26:26,886
MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR A DIFFERENT

1032
00:26:26,886 --> 00:26:27,587
HOSPICE GROUP WHERE SEVERAL

1033
00:26:27,587 --> 00:26:29,789
NURSES TESTIFIED THAT THE VAST

1034
00:26:29,789 --> 00:26:30,623
MAJORITY OF HOSPICE PATIENTS

1035
00:26:30,623 --> 00:26:31,991
WERE NOT TERMINALLY ILL,

1036
00:26:31,991 --> 00:26:32,625
INCLUDING ONE WHO HAD A REGULAR

1037
00:26:32,625 --> 00:26:36,463
JOB AT WALMART.

1038
00:26:36,463 --> 00:26:37,430
THE GROUP EVEN ENROLLED PATIENTS

1039
00:26:37,430 --> 00:26:38,765
WITH ILLNESSES SUCH AS

1040
00:26:38,765 --> 00:26:39,332
ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA BY

1041
00:26:39,332 --> 00:26:40,233
FALSELY TELLING THEM THEY HAD

1042
00:26:40,233 --> 00:26:41,601
LESS THAN SIX MONTHS TO LIVE,

1043
00:26:41,601 --> 00:26:42,235
AND SENT CHAPLAINS TO LIE TO THE

1044
00:26:42,235 --> 00:26:44,037
PATIENTS AND DISCUSS LAST RITES

1045
00:26:44,037 --> 00:26:45,805
AND PREPARATIONS FOR THEIR

1046
00:26:45,805 --> 00:26:46,172
IMMINENT DEATH.

1047
00:26:46,172 --> 00:26:47,440
WHICH IS HORRENDOUS.

1048
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,175
FRANKLY, ANYONE WHO KNOWINGLY

1049
00:26:49,175 --> 00:26:49,776
TOOK PART IN THAT DESERVES TO

1050
00:26:49,776 --> 00:26:51,778
ROT IN HELL.

1051
00:26:51,778 --> 00:26:52,412
EXCEPT, SADLY, WE NOW KNOW THAT

1052
00:26:52,412 --> 00:26:55,181
DOESN'T EXIST.

1053
00:26:55,181 --> 00:26:56,683
SO WHERE'S THE NEXT WORST PLACE?

1054
00:26:56,683 --> 00:26:57,417
TAMPA, I GUESS?

1055
00:26:57,417 --> 00:27:00,820
THEY DESERVE TO ROT IN TAMPA!

1056
00:27:00,820 --> 00:27:03,957
AND SOME HOSPICES DON'T EVEN

1057
00:27:03,957 --> 00:27:05,558
BOTHER LYING TO PATIENTS ABOUT

1058
00:27:05,558 --> 00:27:05,959
THEIR DIAGNOSIS--

1059
00:27:05,959 --> 00:27:08,261
THEY JUST ENROLL PEOPLE ANYWAY.

1060
00:27:08,261 --> 00:27:08,828
HOSPICES HAVE BEEN FOUND TO

1061
00:27:08,828 --> 00:27:10,230
ENLIST FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO ACT

1062
00:27:10,230 --> 00:27:11,464
AS MAKE BELIEVE CLIENTS, LURE

1063
00:27:11,464 --> 00:27:12,966
ADDICTS TO ENROLL WITH THE

1064
00:27:12,966 --> 00:27:14,534
PROMISE OF FREE PAINKILLERS,

1065
00:27:14,534 --> 00:27:15,935
DUPE PEOPLE INTO THE PROGRAM BY

1066
00:27:15,935 --> 00:27:17,237
CLAIMING IT'S FREE HOME HEALTH

1067
00:27:17,237 --> 00:27:18,405
CARE, AND HAVE EVEN STOLEN

1068
00:27:18,405 --> 00:27:19,706
PERSONAL INFORMATION TO ENROLL

1069
00:27:19,706 --> 00:27:20,140
"PHANTOM PATIENTS."

1070
00:27:20,140 --> 00:27:21,074
ESSENTIALLY ENGAGING IN IDENTITY

1071
00:27:21,074 --> 00:27:26,880
THEFT.

1072
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,048
THAT IS HOW PEOPLE HAVE BEEN

1073
00:27:28,048 --> 00:27:29,382
ENROLLED IN HOSPICE WITHOUT EVEN

1074
00:27:29,382 --> 00:27:29,849
KNOWING IT.

1075
00:27:29,849 --> 00:27:31,718
IN MISSISSIPPI, A 29-YEAR-OLD

1076
00:27:31,718 --> 00:27:33,019
PREGNANT WOMAN LEARNED SHE'D

1077
00:27:33,019 --> 00:27:34,387
BEEN ENROLLED IN SOMETHING

1078
00:27:34,387 --> 00:27:34,954
CALLED "REVELATION HOSPICE,"

1079
00:27:34,954 --> 00:27:35,588
ONLY WHEN SHE VISITED HER DOCTOR

1080
00:27:35,588 --> 00:27:37,190
FOR A BLOOD TEST.

1081
00:27:37,190 --> 00:27:38,591
AND I WILL SAY, IF YOU'RE GOING

1082
00:27:38,591 --> 00:27:40,226
TO UNEXPECTEDLY DISCOVER YOU'RE

1083
00:27:40,226 --> 00:27:41,428
A HOSPICE PATIENT, THERE'S NO

1084
00:27:41,428 --> 00:27:45,131
MORE FITTING NAME THAN

1085
00:27:45,131 --> 00:27:46,433
"REVELATION HOSPICE."

1086
00:27:46,433 --> 00:27:47,467
THE ONLY WAY IT COULD'VE BEEN

1087
00:27:47,467 --> 00:27:48,368
MORE ON THE NOSE IS IF IT WERE

1088
00:27:48,368 --> 00:27:48,968
CALLED THE "SURPRISE, BITCH!

1089
00:27:48,968 --> 00:27:51,871
YOU'RE IN HOSPICE!" HOSPICE.

1090
00:27:51,871 --> 00:27:53,073
AND WHILE THAT'S CLEARLY

1091
00:27:53,073 --> 00:27:54,708
RIDICULOUS, IT CAN ALSO BE

1092
00:27:54,708 --> 00:27:55,542
DANGEROUS, BECAUSE-- AS THIS

1093
00:27:55,542 --> 00:27:56,776
JOURNALIST POINTS OUT-- WHILE

1094
00:27:56,776 --> 00:27:58,545
ENROLLING IN A HOSPICE DOES GIVE

1095
00:27:58,545 --> 00:27:59,145
YOU ACCESS TO CERTAIN TYPES OF

1096
00:27:59,145 --> 00:28:00,013
CARE, IT ALSO PROHIBITS YOU FROM

1097
00:28:00,013 --> 00:28:01,948
OTHERS.

1098
00:28:01,948 --> 00:28:04,884
HOSPICE, IT PROVIDES ONLY

1099
00:28:04,884 --> 00:28:05,618
PALLIATIVE CARE, NOT CURATIVE

1100
00:28:05,618 --> 00:28:06,553
CARE.

1101
00:28:06,553 --> 00:28:10,457
SO IF YOU SIGN UP FOR HOSPICE,

1102
00:28:10,457 --> 00:28:11,825
YOU LOSE, YOU KNOW, YOUR REGULAR

1103
00:28:11,825 --> 00:28:14,494
MEDICAL COVERAGE.

1104
00:28:14,494 --> 00:28:15,395
AND IN ONE CASE,

1105
00:28:15,395 --> 00:28:17,097
A WOMAN LOST HER PLACE ON A

1106
00:28:17,097 --> 00:28:17,764
TRANSPLANT WAITING LIST.

1107
00:28:17,764 --> 00:28:21,201
SO IT HAS REAL RAMIFICATIONS.

1108
00:28:21,201 --> 00:28:22,635
John: YEAH, YOU CAN LOSE YOUR

1109
00:28:22,635 --> 00:28:27,407
ACCESS TO LIFESAVING TREATMENT

1110
00:28:27,407 --> 00:28:27,874
IF YOU ENTER HOSPICE,

1111
00:28:27,874 --> 00:28:30,076
WHICH MAKES IT EXTRA BRUTAL WHEN

1112
00:28:30,076 --> 00:28:30,643
YOU CONSIDER THAT, AS YOU'VE

1113
00:28:30,643 --> 00:28:31,244
SEEN, PEOPLE CAN BE SIGNED UP

1114
00:28:31,244 --> 00:28:32,045
WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE.

1115
00:28:32,045 --> 00:28:33,680
A CANCER PATIENT LOST ACCESS TO

1116
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,215
CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT AFTER

1117
00:28:35,215 --> 00:28:36,449
BEING PUT IN HOSPICE WITHOUT HIS

1118
00:28:36,449 --> 00:28:37,884
KNOWLEDGE, AND OTHERS WERE

1119
00:28:37,884 --> 00:28:39,719
DENIED KIDNEY DIALYSIS,

1120
00:28:39,719 --> 00:28:40,286
MAMMOGRAMS, AND COVERAGE FOR

1121
00:28:40,286 --> 00:28:42,422
LIFE-SAVING MEDICATIONS.

1122
00:28:42,422 --> 00:28:43,857
AND THOSE JUST AREN'T THINGS YOU

1123
00:28:43,857 --> 00:28:44,457
SHOULD BE ABLE TO LOSE WITHOUT

1124
00:28:44,457 --> 00:28:46,026
REALIZING.

1125
00:28:46,026 --> 00:28:48,395
CHEMOTHERAPY ISN'T LIKE

1126
00:28:48,395 --> 00:28:49,863
A SET OF KEYS OR THE WIFE OF THE

1127
00:28:49,863 --> 00:28:50,730
HEAD OF THE CHURCH OF

1128
00:28:50,730 --> 00:28:51,564
SCIENTOLOGY.

1129
00:28:51,564 --> 00:28:54,100
WHERE'S SHELLY, DAVID?

1130
00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:55,168
WHERE'S SHELLY?

1131
00:28:55,168 --> 00:28:55,702
IT'S BEEN 17 YEARS.

1132
00:28:55,702 --> 00:28:56,503
I'M STARTING TO THINK SOMETHING

1133
00:28:56,503 --> 00:28:59,372
BAD'S HAPPENED.

1134
00:28:59,372 --> 00:29:01,641
NOW THE GOVERNMENT HAS TRIED TO

1135
00:29:01,641 --> 00:29:02,642
PUT SOME CONTROLS IN PLACE.

1136
00:29:02,642 --> 00:29:03,710
FOR INSTANCE, TO DISCOURAGE

1137
00:29:03,710 --> 00:29:06,713
HOSPICES FROM ENROLLING HEALTHY

1138
00:29:06,713 --> 00:29:08,381
PEOPLE INDEFINITELY, IT

1139
00:29:08,381 --> 00:29:09,215
PENALIZES ONES WHERE THE

1140
00:29:09,215 --> 00:29:11,151
AVERAGE STAY OF PATIENTS EXCEEDS

1141
00:29:11,151 --> 00:29:13,720
SIX MONTHS.

1142
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:18,391
IT'S NOT A BAD IDEA IN THEORY.

1143
00:29:18,391 --> 00:29:19,826
UNFORTUNATELY, IN PRACTICE,

1144
00:29:19,826 --> 00:29:21,528
HOSPICES HAVE FOUND WAYS TO GET

1145
00:29:21,528 --> 00:29:22,395
THAT AVERAGE DOWN, LIKE PADDING

1146
00:29:22,395 --> 00:29:23,363
OUT THEIR ROSTER WITH NEW

1147
00:29:23,363 --> 00:29:24,397
PATIENTS, OR EVEN WORSE,

1148
00:29:24,397 --> 00:29:25,465
DUMPING OR DISCHARGING THOSE WHO

1149
00:29:25,465 --> 00:29:26,633
ARE STAYING TOO LONG, EVEN IF

1150
00:29:26,633 --> 00:29:27,167
THEY GENUINELY NEED CARE.

1151
00:29:27,167 --> 00:29:27,767
THE CEO OF ONE COMPANY, NOVUS

1152
00:29:27,767 --> 00:29:28,601
HEALTH SERVICES IN FRISCO,

1153
00:29:28,601 --> 00:29:30,937
TEXAS, WASN'T SHY ABOUT

1154
00:29:30,937 --> 00:29:32,372
ENCOURAGING HIS EMPLOYEES TO GET

1155
00:29:32,372 --> 00:29:34,808
PATIENTS OUT THE DOOR TO REDUCE

1156
00:29:34,808 --> 00:29:35,608
THAT AVERAGE LENGTH OF STAY.

1157
00:29:35,608 --> 00:29:37,744
THESE ARE THE OFFICES OF

1158
00:29:37,744 --> 00:29:38,845
NOVUS HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN

1159
00:29:38,845 --> 00:29:39,579
FRISCO.

1160
00:29:39,579 --> 00:29:41,114
ITS WEBSITE SAYS IT OFFERS

1161
00:29:41,114 --> 00:29:41,815
HOSPICE AND HOME HEALTH CARE

1162
00:29:41,815 --> 00:29:44,818
SERVICES ALL OVER NORTH TEXAS.

1163
00:29:44,818 --> 00:29:46,853
BRAD HARRIS FOUNDED THE COMPANY.

1164
00:29:46,853 --> 00:29:47,420
THIS IS HIS PUBLIC PROFILE

1165
00:29:47,420 --> 00:29:49,456
PICTURE ON FACEBOOK.

1166
00:29:49,456 --> 00:29:52,025
THE FBI QUOTES HARRIS AS TELLING

1167
00:29:52,025 --> 00:29:53,093
ONE WORKER, "YOU NEED TO MAKE

1168
00:29:53,093 --> 00:29:55,595
THIS PATIENT GO BYE-BYE."

1169
00:29:55,595 --> 00:29:56,096
IN ANOTHER CASE, ASKING

1170
00:29:56,096 --> 00:29:57,831
HEALTHCARE EXECUTIVES TO "FIND

1171
00:29:57,831 --> 00:29:59,666
PATIENTS WHO WOULD DIE WITHIN 24

1172
00:29:59,666 --> 00:30:01,067
HOURS," SAYING OF ONE OF HIS

1173
00:30:01,067 --> 00:30:02,502
PATIENTS, "IF THIS EXPLETIVE

1174
00:30:02,502 --> 00:30:05,105
WOULD JUST DIE."

1175
00:30:05,105 --> 00:30:05,972
John: HOLY SHIT.

1176
00:30:05,972 --> 00:30:08,141
LOOK, YOU COULD SAY THAT

1177
00:30:08,141 --> 00:30:09,142
BRAD HARRIS IS A GREEDY,

1178
00:30:09,142 --> 00:30:10,477
HEARTLESS MONSTER, BUT NOTHING

1179
00:30:10,477 --> 00:30:11,544
YOU COULD CALL HIM WILL EVER BE

1180
00:30:11,544 --> 00:30:14,014
AS INSULTING AS FEATURING THIS

1181
00:30:14,014 --> 00:30:15,582
PHOTO IN THAT NEWS REPORT-- A

1182
00:30:15,582 --> 00:30:17,050
PHOTO IN WHICH HE SOMEHOW

1183
00:30:17,050 --> 00:30:18,451
APPEARS TO BE DRUNK, HIGH, AND

1184
00:30:18,451 --> 00:30:20,220
SHITTING HIMSELF ALL AT THE SAME

1185
00:30:20,220 --> 00:30:20,420
TIME.

1186
00:30:20,420 --> 00:30:21,621
I'VE SEEN NEWSCASTS USE NICER

1187
00:30:21,621 --> 00:30:24,491
PHOTOS FOR SCHOOL SHOOTERS.

1188
00:30:24,491 --> 00:30:25,458
NBC 5 LOCAL NEWS IS FUCKING

1189
00:30:25,458 --> 00:30:27,861
VICIOUS.

1190
00:30:27,861 --> 00:30:28,828
BUT ONE OF THE KEY PROBLEMS HERE

1191
00:30:28,828 --> 00:30:31,197
IS, OUTSIDE OF MAJOR FRAUD CASES

1192
00:30:31,197 --> 00:30:32,899
LIKE THAT, THERE ARE SHOCKINGLY

1193
00:30:32,899 --> 00:30:34,701
FEW CONSEQUENCES FOR BAD

1194
00:30:34,701 --> 00:30:36,269
BEHAVIOR-- AND THE BARRIERS TO

1195
00:30:36,269 --> 00:30:37,771
OPERATING A HOSPICE CAN BE MUCH

1196
00:30:37,771 --> 00:30:39,506
LOWER THAN YOU'D THINK.

1197
00:30:39,506 --> 00:30:40,974
FOR INSTANCE, A MEDICAL

1198
00:30:40,974 --> 00:30:41,541
BACKGROUND ISN'T REQUIRED TO

1199
00:30:41,541 --> 00:30:42,676
ENTER THE BUSINESS.

1200
00:30:42,676 --> 00:30:44,277
AND MEDICARE ONLY REQUIRES THAT

1201
00:30:44,277 --> 00:30:45,345
HOSPICES BE INSPECTED ONCE EVERY

1202
00:30:45,345 --> 00:30:47,013
THREE YEARS.

1203
00:30:47,013 --> 00:30:48,281
AND SOME APPEAR TO SKIRT EVEN

1204
00:30:48,281 --> 00:30:51,184
THE MOST BASIC REQUIREMENTS.

1205
00:30:51,184 --> 00:30:52,185
FOR INSTANCE, STATE LICENSING

1206
00:30:52,185 --> 00:30:55,588
LAWS REQUIRE THAT HOSPICES AT

1207
00:30:55,588 --> 00:30:58,792
LEAST HAVE A PHYSICAL OFFICE,

1208
00:30:58,792 --> 00:31:00,960
WHICH DOESN'T FEEL LIKE TOO MUCH

1209
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,062
TO ASK.

1210
00:31:02,062 --> 00:31:02,696
BUT A RECENT AUDIT IN CALIFORNIA

1211
00:31:02,696 --> 00:31:03,296
FOUND 112 HOSPICES ALL SHARED

1212
00:31:03,296 --> 00:31:03,930
THE ADDRESS OF THIS BUILDING IN

1213
00:31:03,930 --> 00:31:04,431
VAN NUYS.

1214
00:31:04,431 --> 00:31:05,465
WHICH IS RIDICULOUS.

1215
00:31:05,465 --> 00:31:06,066
THAT BUILDING CANNOT HOLD 112

1216
00:31:06,066 --> 00:31:08,335
OFFICES.

1217
00:31:08,335 --> 00:31:08,968
UNLESS, OF COURSE, THEY'RE OWNED

1218
00:31:08,968 --> 00:31:11,237
AND OPERATED BY MICE WORKING

1219
00:31:11,237 --> 00:31:12,439
WITHIN THE WALLS.

1220
00:31:12,439 --> 00:31:14,574
THAT'S RIGHT: MOUSE HOSPICE--

1221
00:31:14,574 --> 00:31:15,208
YOU CAN HAVE THAT IDEA FOR FREE,

1222
00:31:15,208 --> 00:31:15,742
PIXAR!

1223
00:31:15,742 --> 00:31:17,577
IT'S LIKE "RATATOUILLE" MEETS

1224
00:31:17,577 --> 00:31:19,212
THE FIRST TEN MINUTES OF "UP"!

1225
00:31:19,212 --> 00:31:20,280
WHY AREN'T YOU ALREADY MAKING IT

1226
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,450
NOW?

1227
00:31:23,450 --> 00:31:26,019
AND BY THIS POINT, I THINK IT'S

1228
00:31:26,019 --> 00:31:28,521
PRETTY CLEAR, WE'VE STRAYED A

1229
00:31:28,521 --> 00:31:29,289
LONG WAY FROM THE IDEAL WITH

1230
00:31:29,289 --> 00:31:32,359
WHICH THIS TIRE-SLASHER STARTED.

1231
00:31:32,359 --> 00:31:33,393
SO WHAT CAN WE DO?

1232
00:31:33,393 --> 00:31:35,128
WELL, SOME STATES ARE TRYING TO

1233
00:31:35,128 --> 00:31:37,430
FIX THINGS-- THOUGH THOSE PLANS

1234
00:31:37,430 --> 00:31:39,466
CAN OFTEN RUN INTO OPPOSITION.

1235
00:31:39,466 --> 00:31:40,600
IN CONNECTICUT, A BILL THAT

1236
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:41,668
WOULD'VE MERELY REQUIRED A STUDY

1237
00:31:41,668 --> 00:31:43,236
ABOUT BANNING PRIVATE EQUITY

1238
00:31:43,236 --> 00:31:44,504
OWNERSHIP OF HOSPICES STALLED

1239
00:31:44,504 --> 00:31:46,506
OUT LAST YEAR, AFTER OPPOSITION

1240
00:31:46,506 --> 00:31:47,574
FROM REPUBLICANS LIKE THIS MAN.

1241
00:31:47,574 --> 00:31:49,709
THE SUGGESTION THAT SOMEHOW

1242
00:31:49,709 --> 00:31:54,414
THE PROFIT MOTIVE IS SOMEHOW

1243
00:31:54,414 --> 00:31:55,315
ADVERSELY IMPACTS THE QUALITY OF

1244
00:31:55,315 --> 00:31:56,349
A BUSINESS IS A VERY DANGEROUS

1245
00:31:56,349 --> 00:31:57,650
THING TO DO IN AMERICA.

1246
00:31:57,650 --> 00:31:59,486
IF PEOPLE DIDN'T INVENT THINGS,

1247
00:31:59,486 --> 00:32:00,787
IF PEOPLE DIDN'T COME UP WITH

1248
00:32:00,787 --> 00:32:02,355
NEW CURES, THEN THEY WOULD NOT

1249
00:32:02,355 --> 00:32:03,023
EXIST.

1250
00:32:03,023 --> 00:32:04,591
AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE A REASON

1251
00:32:04,591 --> 00:32:05,558
TO CREATE THOSE THINGS, THEN YOU

1252
00:32:05,558 --> 00:32:05,925
WON'T.

1253
00:32:05,925 --> 00:32:10,163
THIS IS AMERICA.

1254
00:32:10,163 --> 00:32:11,564
THIS IS A FREE MARKET COUNTRY.

1255
00:32:11,564 --> 00:32:13,166
THIS IS A CAPITALIST COUNTRY.

1256
00:32:13,166 --> 00:32:14,801
THIS IS NOT A SOCIALIST COUNTRY,

1257
00:32:14,801 --> 00:32:15,435
AND IT WILL NOT BE IF I CAN HELP

1258
00:32:15,435 --> 00:32:15,902
IT.

1259
00:32:15,902 --> 00:32:17,737
John: RIGHT.

1260
00:32:17,737 --> 00:32:19,305
HE VOTED NO BECAUSE HE BELIEVES

1261
00:32:19,305 --> 00:32:21,908
IN THE IDEALS OF AMERICA, WHICH

1262
00:32:21,908 --> 00:32:22,709
IS ALSO WHY-- AND THIS IS

1263
00:32:22,709 --> 00:32:24,511
TRUE-- LAST YEAR, HE WAS THE

1264
00:32:24,511 --> 00:32:26,212
LONE "NO" VOTE ON A RESOLUTION

1265
00:32:26,212 --> 00:32:27,814
EXONERATING THE VICTIMS OF THE

1266
00:32:27,814 --> 00:32:30,183
17TH CENTURY CONNECTICUT WITCH

1267
00:32:30,183 --> 00:32:31,484
TRIALS, PARTLY BECAUSE, AND I

1268
00:32:31,484 --> 00:32:32,252
QUOTE, HE DIDN'T WANT TO PAINT

1269
00:32:32,252 --> 00:32:32,852
"AMERICA AS A BAD PLACE WITH A

1270
00:32:32,852 --> 00:32:35,355
BAD HISTORY."

1271
00:32:35,355 --> 00:32:37,524
AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WEIRDER:

1272
00:32:37,524 --> 00:32:38,625
THE FACT HE DID THAT, OR THE

1273
00:32:38,625 --> 00:32:39,626
FACT THAT CONNECTICUT DIDN'T

1274
00:32:39,626 --> 00:32:41,127
BOTHER TO EXONERATE VICTIMS OF

1275
00:32:41,127 --> 00:32:44,731
WITCH TRIALS UNTIL LAST YEAR.

1276
00:32:44,731 --> 00:32:46,966
WHAT HAPPENED THAT MADE THEM

1277
00:32:46,966 --> 00:32:47,600
SUDDENLY DECIDE TO ADDRESS THIS?

1278
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:48,902
"YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS ASSUMED THE

1279
00:32:48,902 --> 00:32:50,737
WOMEN WE MURDERED IN THE 1600s

1280
00:32:50,737 --> 00:32:52,272
WERE GUILTY OF WITCHCRAFT, BUT

1281
00:32:52,272 --> 00:32:54,808
THEN I SAW "BARBIE", AND ABOUT

1282
00:32:54,808 --> 00:32:56,476
HALFWAY THROUGH THAT

1283
00:32:56,476 --> 00:32:57,544
AMERICA FERRERA SPEECH, I

1284
00:32:57,544 --> 00:32:57,944
THOUGHT, "OH SHIT!

1285
00:32:57,944 --> 00:32:58,878
THE WITCHES!

1286
00:32:58,878 --> 00:33:01,815
WE SHOULD REALLY GET ON THAT!"

1287
00:33:01,815 --> 00:33:02,716
BUT THANKFULLY, THERE HAS BEEN

1288
00:33:02,716 --> 00:33:03,883
SOME PROGRESS.

1289
00:33:03,883 --> 00:33:06,519
AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, CMS

1290
00:33:06,519 --> 00:33:07,120
EMBARKED ON A PROJECT TO MAKE

1291
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,856
UNANNOUNCED SITE VISITS TO EVERY

1292
00:33:09,856 --> 00:33:10,457
MEDICARE-ENROLLED HOSPICE, AND

1293
00:33:10,457 --> 00:33:11,691
AS A RESULT, IT'S SINCE REVOKED

1294
00:33:11,691 --> 00:33:13,426
THE MEDICARE ENROLLMENT OF 48 OF

1295
00:33:13,426 --> 00:33:15,161
THEM, WITH NEARLY 500 MORE

1296
00:33:15,161 --> 00:33:17,397
HAVING THEIR MEDICARE BILLING

1297
00:33:17,397 --> 00:33:18,131
PRIVILEGES DEACTIVATED, AND

1298
00:33:18,131 --> 00:33:20,967
REQUIRING ANOTHER INSPECTION

1299
00:33:20,967 --> 00:33:24,037
BEFORE THEY CAN BILL AGAIN.

1300
00:33:24,037 --> 00:33:24,771
WHICH IS A GOOD START.

1301
00:33:24,771 --> 00:33:25,305
CALIFORNIA'S ALSO PLACED A

1302
00:33:25,305 --> 00:33:28,475
MORATORIUM ON NEW HOSPICE

1303
00:33:28,475 --> 00:33:29,075
LICENSES-- ALTHOUGH THERE IS

1304
00:33:29,075 --> 00:33:30,243
CONCERN THAT BAD ACTORS ARE

1305
00:33:30,243 --> 00:33:30,710
SIMPLY EXPANDING INTO

1306
00:33:30,710 --> 00:33:31,745
LESS-REGULATED STATES LIKE

1307
00:33:31,745 --> 00:33:32,278
ARIZONA, NEVADA, AND TEXAS

1308
00:33:32,278 --> 00:33:34,714
INSTEAD.

1309
00:33:34,714 --> 00:33:35,749
AND EXPERTS SAY THERE'S STILL SO

1310
00:33:35,749 --> 00:33:36,649
MUCH MORE THAT WE SHOULD BE

1311
00:33:36,649 --> 00:33:38,518
DOING, INCLUDING TARGETING

1312
00:33:38,518 --> 00:33:40,253
HOSPICES WITH ESPECIALLY HIGH

1313
00:33:40,253 --> 00:33:40,754
LIVE-DISCHARGE RATES FOR

1314
00:33:40,754 --> 00:33:42,922
PARTICULAR SCRUTINY.

1315
00:33:42,922 --> 00:33:45,225
AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THESE

1316
00:33:45,225 --> 00:33:47,560
CHANGES ARE MADE, BECAUSE TO

1317
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:48,194
REITERATE, HOSPICE CARE-- WHEN

1318
00:33:48,194 --> 00:33:50,597
DONE WELL-- IS HUGELY

1319
00:33:50,597 --> 00:33:51,898
BENEFICIAL TO THOSE WHO ARE

1320
00:33:51,898 --> 00:33:53,700
DYING, AND THEIR FAMILIES.

1321
00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:54,334
IT IS TOO IMPORTANT TO JUST HOPE

1322
00:33:54,334 --> 00:33:57,303
THE FREE MARKET FIXES IT.

1323
00:33:57,303 --> 00:33:59,372
AND IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW

1324
00:33:59,372 --> 00:34:00,674
IS LOOKING FOR HOSPICE CARE, I'M

1325
00:34:00,674 --> 00:34:02,609
AFRAID THAT RIGHT NOW, YOUR BEST

1326
00:34:02,609 --> 00:34:03,443
BET MIGHT BE TO RELY ON WORD OF

1327
00:34:03,443 --> 00:34:05,945
MOUTH RECOMMENDATIONS.

1328
00:34:05,945 --> 00:34:07,280
AND IF THOSE AREN'T AVAILABLE,

1329
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:08,281
YOU CAN CONSULT THIS GOVERNMENT

1330
00:34:08,281 --> 00:34:09,215
WEBSITE.

1331
00:34:09,215 --> 00:34:11,351
IT'S NOT PERFECT, BUT IT CAN AT

1332
00:34:11,351 --> 00:34:12,252
LEAST GIVE YOU SOME INFO ON THE

1333
00:34:12,252 --> 00:34:14,754
HOSPICE YOU'RE CONSIDERING.

1334
00:34:14,754 --> 00:34:15,321
AND IF THERE'S LITTLE TO NO

1335
00:34:15,321 --> 00:34:18,324
INFORMATION ABOUT IT, THAT MIGHT

1336
00:34:18,324 --> 00:34:19,893
BE A SIGN THEY'RE NOT REPORTING

1337
00:34:19,893 --> 00:34:20,960
THEIR QUALITY DATA TO MEDICARE,

1338
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,529
SO I'D STRONGLY CONSIDER

1339
00:34:22,529 --> 00:34:23,463
SOMEWHERE ELSE.

1340
00:34:23,463 --> 00:34:24,097
LOOK, THIS INDUSTRY BADLY NEEDS

1341
00:34:24,097 --> 00:34:26,399
REFORM.

1342
00:34:26,399 --> 00:34:30,203
AND UNTIL THAT HAPPENS, AT THE

1343
00:34:30,203 --> 00:34:32,305
VERY LEAST, HOSPICE ADS SHOULD

1344
00:34:32,305 --> 00:34:33,673
BE REQUIRED TO PAINT A MUCH MORE

1345
00:34:33,673 --> 00:34:34,908
ACCURATE PICTURE-- EVEN IF

1346
00:34:34,908 --> 00:34:40,280
THAT ENDS UP LOOKING LIKE THIS.

1347
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:41,348
♪ ♪

1348
00:34:41,348 --> 00:34:42,582
IF THERE WAS ONE THING I

1349
00:34:42,582 --> 00:34:43,717
COULD DO OVER, I WOULD HAVE

1350
00:34:43,717 --> 00:34:47,253
REACHED OUT SOONER FOR MY

1351
00:34:47,253 --> 00:34:47,487
HUSBAND.

1352
00:34:47,487 --> 00:34:50,657
I WANTED TO BE WITH HIM AGAIN.

1353
00:34:50,657 --> 00:34:53,259
TO REALLY BE WITH HIM.

1354
00:34:53,259 --> 00:34:54,794
TO SIT WITH HIM.

1355
00:34:54,794 --> 00:34:55,995
TO HOLD HIS HANDS.

1356
00:34:55,995 --> 00:34:57,430
TO INTRODUCE SOME SLICED

1357
00:34:57,430 --> 00:34:59,432
VEGETABLES INTO OUR ROUTINE.

1358
00:34:59,432 --> 00:35:00,433
THAT'S RIGHT.

1359
00:35:00,433 --> 00:35:03,403
RETURN TO HEART ENHANCE HOSPICE

1360
00:35:03,403 --> 00:35:04,237
CARE AND SEWAGE SOLUTIONS.

1361
00:35:04,237 --> 00:35:06,840
HERE AT HEARTS AND HANDS

1362
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,041
HOSPICE CARE AND SEWAGE

1363
00:35:08,041 --> 00:35:09,042
SOLUTIONS, WE ARE PROUD TO BE

1364
00:35:09,042 --> 00:35:11,444
WITH YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

1365
00:35:11,444 --> 00:35:13,246
WELL, NOT ALWAYS LITERALLY

1366
00:35:13,246 --> 00:35:14,614
THERE.

1367
00:35:14,614 --> 00:35:15,181
[LAUGHS]

1368
00:35:15,181 --> 00:35:17,283
WE MIGHT CALL YOU ONCE IN A

1369
00:35:17,283 --> 00:35:17,684
WHILE TO CHECK IN.

1370
00:35:17,684 --> 00:35:20,687
BUT THAT'S NOT A GUARANTEE.

1371
00:35:20,687 --> 00:35:23,189
WE LOVE OUR PATIENTS SO MUCH.

1372
00:35:23,189 --> 00:35:23,790
IT IS TRULY HEARTBREAKING WHEN

1373
00:35:23,790 --> 00:35:26,393
THEY PASS AWAY.

1374
00:35:26,393 --> 00:35:27,694
I ASSUME.

1375
00:35:27,694 --> 00:35:29,229
I'VE NEVER ACTUALLY SEEN THAT

1376
00:35:29,229 --> 00:35:31,464
HAPPEN BECAUSE LAST YEAR, WE HAD

1377
00:35:31,464 --> 00:35:33,867
A 100% LIVE DISCHARGE RATE.

1378
00:35:33,867 --> 00:35:35,502
WHICH, THE MORE I THINK ABOUT

1379
00:35:35,502 --> 00:35:36,836
IT, IS A LITTLE BEER.

1380
00:35:36,836 --> 00:35:39,205
IT'S NOT THAT WEIRD.

1381
00:35:39,205 --> 00:35:41,307
AND ONCE YOU ARE ENROLLED WITH

1382
00:35:41,307 --> 00:35:42,375
THOSE, YOU WILL RECEIVE

1383
00:35:42,375 --> 00:35:43,076
EXCELLENT CARE.

1384
00:35:43,076 --> 00:35:44,344
DON'T JUST TAKE THAT FROM ME.

1385
00:35:44,344 --> 00:35:47,847
TAKE IT FROM SOME OF OUR

1386
00:35:47,847 --> 00:35:48,114
PATIENTS.

1387
00:35:48,114 --> 00:35:48,314
♪ ♪

1388
00:35:48,314 --> 00:35:50,050
HEARTS AND HANDS IT IS

1389
00:35:50,050 --> 00:35:50,283
AMAZING.

1390
00:35:50,283 --> 00:35:52,452
GRANDMA WAS JUST SITTING ON HER

1391
00:35:52,452 --> 00:35:54,421
PORCH, MINDING HER OWN BUSINESS,

1392
00:35:54,421 --> 00:35:55,188
WHEN THIS MAN CAME UP AND

1393
00:35:55,188 --> 00:35:56,456
ENROLLED HER.

1394
00:35:56,456 --> 00:35:58,058
IT WAS THAT FAST.

1395
00:35:58,058 --> 00:36:00,160
WE ALMOST DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WE

1396
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:00,493
WERE SIGNING.

1397
00:36:00,493 --> 00:36:02,495
THEY HAVE BEEN MAKING SURE MY

1398
00:36:02,495 --> 00:36:04,130
FINAL SIX MONTHS WERE

1399
00:36:04,130 --> 00:36:05,198
COMFORTABLE FOR THE LAST EIGHT

1400
00:36:05,198 --> 00:36:05,398
YEARS.

1401
00:36:05,398 --> 00:36:07,033
AND TO BE HONEST, I DON'T

1402
00:36:07,033 --> 00:36:08,101
THINK I WOULD HAVE EVEN NOTICED

1403
00:36:08,101 --> 00:36:10,136
IF ANY SOCIAL WORKERS OR NURSES

1404
00:36:10,136 --> 00:36:10,470
HAD SHOWN UP.

1405
00:36:10,470 --> 00:36:14,407
WE HAVE BEEN TOO BUSY

1406
00:36:14,407 --> 00:36:15,141
FUCKING.

1407
00:36:15,141 --> 00:36:17,010
MY BODY IS DYING BUT MY PENIS IS

1408
00:36:17,010 --> 00:36:17,344
NOT.

1409
00:36:17,344 --> 00:36:18,478
E.

1410
00:36:18,478 --> 00:36:19,512
FUCKING EVERYWHERE.

1411
00:36:19,512 --> 00:36:20,680
ON THE COUCH, IN THE KITCHEN.

1412
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,215
IN THE MINIVAN.

1413
00:36:22,215 --> 00:36:23,116
IN THE FOYER.

1414
00:36:23,116 --> 00:36:24,584
BY THE TRASH CANS.

1415
00:36:24,584 --> 00:36:26,386
THAT'S IT YOU ARE SITTING

1416
00:36:26,386 --> 00:36:26,853
IN--

1417
00:36:26,853 --> 00:36:27,721
DON'T SIT THERE.

1418
00:36:27,721 --> 00:36:29,689
ESPECIALLY WALKS BY BY THE LAKE.

1419
00:36:29,689 --> 00:36:31,224
WE LIKE TO GET CAUGHT BY

1420
00:36:31,224 --> 00:36:31,891
JOGGERS.

1421
00:36:31,891 --> 00:36:33,093
BACK LIKE WE ARE MAD.

1422
00:36:33,093 --> 00:36:35,161
"HEY, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT!

1423
00:36:35,161 --> 00:36:36,196
STOP IT.

1424
00:36:36,196 --> 00:36:39,632
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT,

1425
00:36:39,632 --> 00:36:39,866
PERVERT?

1426
00:36:39,866 --> 00:36:41,434
WE GO ABOVE AND BEYOND TO

1427
00:36:41,434 --> 00:36:42,335
BRING JOY AND COMFORT TO OUR

1428
00:36:42,335 --> 00:36:42,602
PATIENTS.

1429
00:36:42,602 --> 00:36:44,671
WE CAN EVEN HOOK YOU UP WITH AN

1430
00:36:44,671 --> 00:36:47,841
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FLAMINGO.

1431
00:36:47,841 --> 00:36:49,242
IS FLAMINGO!

1432
00:36:49,242 --> 00:36:50,810
I NEVER WANTED TO SEE YOU

1433
00:36:50,810 --> 00:36:51,378
FLAMINGO UP CLOSE.

1434
00:36:51,378 --> 00:36:54,147
THAT FEELS CLEAR TO ME NOW.

1435
00:36:54,147 --> 00:36:55,882
THE FLAMINGO WAS FINE.

1436
00:36:55,882 --> 00:36:58,385
I THINK SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN

1437
00:36:58,385 --> 00:37:00,253
HAPPIER IF THE HOSPICE HAD

1438
00:37:00,253 --> 00:37:01,855
PROVIDED DRUGS OR NURSES OR

1439
00:37:01,855 --> 00:37:02,088
DOCTORS.

1440
00:37:02,088 --> 00:37:02,455
BUT NO.

1441
00:37:02,455 --> 00:37:05,325
IT WAS JUST COCONUT THE

1442
00:37:05,325 --> 00:37:06,760
FLAMINGO.

1443
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,828
AND HONESTLY, COCONUT WAS PRETTY

1444
00:37:08,828 --> 00:37:11,031
USELESS WHEN GRANDMA HAD A

1445
00:37:11,031 --> 00:37:13,266
SEIZURE.

1446
00:37:13,266 --> 00:37:14,367
OH, MY OH, MY GOD!

1447
00:37:14,367 --> 00:37:17,804
GRANDMA!

1448
00:37:17,804 --> 00:37:23,777
COCONUT, DO SOMETHING!

1449
00:37:23,777 --> 00:37:24,744
WHY ARE YOU HERE?

1450
00:37:24,744 --> 00:37:25,845
♪ ♪

1451
00:37:25,845 --> 00:37:27,080
OUR BUSINESS IS MAKING SURE

1452
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,282
YOU GET TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR

1453
00:37:29,282 --> 00:37:31,017
FINAL DAYS.

1454
00:37:31,017 --> 00:37:32,252
OR MORE SPECIFICALLY, THAT WE

1455
00:37:32,252 --> 00:37:33,687
GET TO MAKE THE MOST OUT OF YOUR

1456
00:37:33,687 --> 00:37:37,824
FINAL DAYS.

1457
00:37:37,824 --> 00:37:38,958
YOU ARE GOING TO HELL.

1458
00:37:38,958 --> 00:37:41,061
HELL DOESN'T EXIST, FELLA.

1459
00:37:41,061 --> 00:37:43,863
I GOT THAT FROM A RELIABLE

1460
00:37:43,863 --> 00:37:44,564
SOURCE.

1461
00:37:44,564 --> 00:37:46,533
FUNNY STORY, I WASN'T EVEN

1462
00:37:46,533 --> 00:37:48,001
SUPPOSED TO BE IN HOSPICE.

1463
00:37:48,001 --> 00:37:50,170
TURNED OUT, MY DOCTOR TOOK A

1464
00:37:50,170 --> 00:37:50,603
BRIBE TO SIGN ME UP.

1465
00:37:50,603 --> 00:37:54,007
THAT MAKES SENSE.

1466
00:37:54,007 --> 00:37:56,242
A SICK MAN COULDN'T COME THIS

1467
00:37:56,242 --> 00:37:56,643
MANY TIMES A DAY.

1468
00:37:56,643 --> 00:37:58,011
HE WOULD DIE OF DEHYDRATION.

1469
00:37:58,011 --> 00:37:58,712
I COME SO MUCH.

1470
00:37:58,712 --> 00:38:00,246
SO YOU ARE NOT DYING?

1471
00:38:00,246 --> 00:38:00,447
NO.

1472
00:38:00,447 --> 00:38:03,116
I'M FINE.

1473
00:38:03,116 --> 00:38:04,818
YOU WANT TO DO IT AGAIN?

1474
00:38:04,818 --> 00:38:07,654
NO.

1475
00:38:07,654 --> 00:38:08,054
I'M FUCKING TIRED.

1476
00:38:08,054 --> 00:38:08,288
WHAT?

1477
00:38:08,288 --> 00:38:11,024
♪ ♪

1478
00:38:11,024 --> 00:38:13,326
HEARTS AND HANDS HOSPICE CARE

1479
00:38:13,326 --> 00:38:15,962
AND SEWAGE SOLUTIONS.

1480
00:38:15,962 --> 00:38:18,398
HONESTLY, WE ARE BETTER AT THE

1481
00:38:18,398 --> 00:38:18,698
SEWAGE PART.

1482
00:38:18,698 --> 00:38:19,899
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

1483
00:38:19,899 --> 00:38:20,433
John: THAT'S OUR SHOW.

1484
00:38:20,433 --> 00:38:21,001
THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING!

1485
00:38:21,001 --> 00:38:21,568
WE'RE OFF FOR THE NEXT TWO

1486
00:38:21,568 --> 00:38:22,802
WEEKS, BACK SEPTEMBER 8TH!

1487
00:38:22,802 --> 00:38:24,738
GOOD NIGHT!

1488
00:38:24,738 --> 00:38:26,606
♪ ♪

1489
00:38:26,606 --> 00:38:27,540
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

1490
00:38:27,540 --> 00:38:28,641
ARE YOU THIRSTY?

1491
00:38:28,641 --> 00:38:31,411
I AM SO THIRSTY.

1492
00:38:31,411 --> 00:38:33,613
LET ME GET SOME OF THAT.

1493
00:38:33,613 --> 00:38:34,414
GET YOUR OWN.

1494
00:38:34,414 --> 00:38:38,018
OKAY.

1495
00:38:38,018 --> 00:38:38,518
♪ ♪

1496
00:38:38,518 --> 00:38:39,652
OH, MY GOD.

1497
00:38:39,652 --> 00:38:45,792
OH, THAT'S GOOD.

1498
00:38:45,792 --> 00:38:48,561
SO MANY FLUIDS IN MY MOUTH.

1499
00:38:48,561 --> 00:38:48,828
LET'S GO!

1500
00:38:48,828 --> 00:38:51,798
OKAY!