1 00:00:16,027 --> 00:00:24,010 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:24,012 --> 00:00:32,018 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:32,020 --> 00:00:33,023 >> John: HI THERE! 4 00:00:33,025 --> 00:00:34,026 WELCOME TO THE SHOW, STILL 5 00:00:34,028 --> 00:00:36,023 TAKING PLACE IN THIS BLANK VOID. 6 00:00:36,025 --> 00:00:37,025 THINK OF IT LIKE THE MOON, 7 00:00:37,027 --> 00:00:39,028 IN THAT IT'S FRIGID, COLORLESS, 8 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:40,017 AND OCCASIONALLY OCCUPIED BY ONE 9 00:00:40,019 --> 00:00:41,023 VERY LONELY, MALNOURISHED MAN 10 00:00:41,025 --> 00:00:42,023 WHO HAS DEFINITELY URINATED 11 00:00:42,025 --> 00:00:44,009 IN HIS SUIT. 12 00:00:44,011 --> 00:00:45,018 AND WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO DIVE 13 00:00:45,020 --> 00:00:47,002 STRAIGHT IN WITH OUR MAIN STORY 14 00:00:47,004 --> 00:00:48,022 THIS WEEK, WHICH -- UNUSUALLY 15 00:00:48,024 --> 00:00:49,009 FOR US -- CONCERNS THE WEEK 16 00:00:49,011 --> 00:00:50,011 THAT WE'VE JUST HAD. 17 00:00:50,013 --> 00:00:51,018 IT'S ONE OF THE RARE TIMES WE'RE 18 00:00:51,020 --> 00:00:53,004 ACTUALLY LIVING UP TO OUR SHOW'S 19 00:00:53,006 --> 00:00:54,023 TITLE, UNLIKE WHAT IT PROBABLY 20 00:00:54,025 --> 00:00:55,021 SHOULD BE CALLED, "28 MINUTES 21 00:00:55,023 --> 00:00:57,001 ON THE CORN TAX OR WHATEVER 22 00:00:57,003 --> 00:00:59,025 THE FUCK WITH JOHN OLIVER." 23 00:00:59,027 --> 00:01:03,006 AND THE REASON WE ARE DOING THAT 24 00:01:03,008 --> 00:01:04,002 IS THAT THIS HAS BEEN ONE 25 00:01:04,004 --> 00:01:04,024 HELL OF A WEEK. 26 00:01:04,026 --> 00:01:05,029 SO TONIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO TALK 27 00:01:06,001 --> 00:01:07,002 ABOUT TWO THINGS: THE REPUBLICAN 28 00:01:07,004 --> 00:01:09,001 NATIONAL CONVENTION, AND THE 29 00:01:09,003 --> 00:01:09,029 HORRIFIC EVENTS IN KENOSHA, 30 00:01:10,001 --> 00:01:11,020 WISCONSIN, WHERE JACOB BLAKE WAS 31 00:01:11,022 --> 00:01:12,023 SHOT IN THE BACK BY POLICE, AND 32 00:01:12,025 --> 00:01:14,005 A VIGILANTE KILLED TWO PEOPLE. 33 00:01:14,007 --> 00:01:15,025 AND WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT 34 00:01:15,027 --> 00:01:17,021 KENOSHA IN A BIT, BUT LET'S 35 00:01:17,023 --> 00:01:19,024 START WITH THE RNC, AN EVENT TO 36 00:01:19,026 --> 00:01:21,007 CELEBRATE THE STEWARDSHIP OF 37 00:01:21,009 --> 00:01:22,023 DONALD TRUMP -- A TOUGH SELL AT 38 00:01:22,025 --> 00:01:24,020 THE BEST OF TIMES, BUT SOMETHING 39 00:01:24,022 --> 00:01:26,003 THAT FELT PARTICULARLY OUT OF 40 00:01:26,005 --> 00:01:27,021 STEP CONSIDERING WE HAVE A 41 00:01:27,023 --> 00:01:29,013 PANDEMIC ON THE RAMPAGE, AN 42 00:01:29,015 --> 00:01:30,020 ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE UNFOLDING, 43 00:01:30,022 --> 00:01:31,024 AND WILDFIRES AND HURRICANES 44 00:01:31,026 --> 00:01:33,008 BATTERING THE COUNTRY. 45 00:01:33,010 --> 00:01:34,019 ALL OF WHICH MADE IT A LITTLE 46 00:01:34,021 --> 00:01:37,000 JARRING THAT THE REPUBLICANS' 47 00:01:37,002 --> 00:01:38,000 OPENING ARGUMENT SEEMED TO BE 48 00:01:38,002 --> 00:01:38,027 ESSENTIALLY THIS: 49 00:01:38,029 --> 00:01:40,025 >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! 50 00:01:40,027 --> 00:01:42,027 LEADERS AND FIGHTERS FOR FREEDOM 51 00:01:42,029 --> 00:01:44,015 AND LIBERTY AND THE AMERICAN 52 00:01:44,017 --> 00:01:44,028 DREAM! 53 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:45,021 THE BEST! 54 00:01:45,023 --> 00:01:47,001 IS YET! 55 00:01:47,003 --> 00:01:49,013 TO COME! 56 00:01:49,015 --> 00:01:51,008 >> John: OKAY, THEN! 57 00:01:51,010 --> 00:01:52,022 THAT'S KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE, 58 00:01:52,024 --> 00:01:53,028 BRINGING AN ENERGY TO THE RNC 59 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:55,016 THAT CAN REALLY ONLY BE 60 00:01:55,018 --> 00:01:56,021 DESCRIBED AS "SORRY, I THOUGHT 61 00:01:56,023 --> 00:01:57,015 DOVES WERE GOING TO SHOOT OUT 62 00:01:57,017 --> 00:01:58,026 OF MY HANDS." 63 00:01:58,028 --> 00:02:01,010 AND THAT VERY MUCH SET THE TONE. 64 00:02:01,012 --> 00:02:03,002 THE MAIN THEME OF THE CONVENTION 65 00:02:03,004 --> 00:02:04,014 SEEMED TO BE "TELLING LIES 66 00:02:04,016 --> 00:02:05,023 IN FRONT OF FLAGS." 67 00:02:05,025 --> 00:02:07,009 BECAUSE IT WAS FOUR DAYS OF 68 00:02:07,011 --> 00:02:08,001 A FULL-THROATED DENIAL OF 69 00:02:08,003 --> 00:02:09,007 OBJECTIVE REALITY. 70 00:02:09,009 --> 00:02:11,005 FOR ONE THING, THERE WAS THE 71 00:02:11,007 --> 00:02:11,027 MISLEADING PORTRAIT THEY PAINTED 72 00:02:11,029 --> 00:02:13,011 OF TRUMP'S OPPONENT. 73 00:02:13,013 --> 00:02:15,005 >> IF BIDEN WINS, HE'LL BE 74 00:02:15,007 --> 00:02:16,002 CONTROLLED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL 75 00:02:16,004 --> 00:02:17,019 EXTREMISTS. 76 00:02:17,021 --> 00:02:18,025 >> WE'D BE ONE STEP CLOSER TO 77 00:02:18,027 --> 00:02:20,001 GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE. 78 00:02:20,003 --> 00:02:21,003 >> BIDEN HAS PLEDGED TO DEFUND 79 00:02:21,005 --> 00:02:22,013 THE POLICE. 80 00:02:22,015 --> 00:02:24,011 >> AND HE'S EVEN TALKING ABOUT 81 00:02:24,013 --> 00:02:25,000 TAKING THE WALL DOWN, HOW ABOUT 82 00:02:25,002 --> 00:02:26,011 THAT? 83 00:02:26,013 --> 00:02:27,003 >> John: HONESTLY, THAT SOUNDS 84 00:02:27,005 --> 00:02:28,029 GREAT! 85 00:02:29,001 --> 00:02:30,009 UNFORTUNATELY BIDEN HAS PROMISED 86 00:02:30,011 --> 00:02:31,009 TO DO EXACTLY NONE OF THOSE 87 00:02:31,011 --> 00:02:32,013 THINGS. 88 00:02:32,015 --> 00:02:33,019 BIDEN IS A RADICAL 89 00:02:33,021 --> 00:02:34,017 ENVIRONMENTALIST 90 00:02:34,019 --> 00:02:36,024 POLICE-DEFUNDING SOCIALIST 91 00:02:36,026 --> 00:02:38,000 IN THE SAME WAY I'M HISTORY'S 92 00:02:38,002 --> 00:02:39,025 GREATEST ZAZU. 93 00:02:39,027 --> 00:02:41,018 YOU CAN SAY I AM ALL YOU WANT 94 00:02:41,020 --> 00:02:43,004 TO, AND I WISH I WERE, BUT THE 95 00:02:43,006 --> 00:02:44,026 FACT IS, IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE TO 96 00:02:44,028 --> 00:02:46,006 BEING TRUE. 97 00:02:46,008 --> 00:02:47,009 AND THE LIES TOLD ABOUT BIDEN 98 00:02:47,011 --> 00:02:50,020 WERE JUST THE BEGINNING. 99 00:02:50,022 --> 00:02:51,021 CONVENTION SPEAKERS ALSO CLAIMED 100 00:02:51,023 --> 00:02:52,014 THAT TRUMP NEVER CALLED WHITE 101 00:02:52,016 --> 00:02:53,016 SUPREMACISTS "VERY FINE PEOPLE," 102 00:02:53,018 --> 00:02:54,011 WHICH HE DID; THAT HE PASSED THE 103 00:02:54,013 --> 00:02:55,012 VETERAN'S CHOICE ACT, WHICH HE 104 00:02:55,014 --> 00:02:56,010 DIDN'T; AND THAT HE'S TRYING TO 105 00:02:56,012 --> 00:02:57,004 PROTECT PATIENTS WITH 106 00:02:57,006 --> 00:02:58,007 PREEXISTING CONDITIONS, 107 00:02:58,009 --> 00:03:00,027 WHICH HE VERY MUCH ISN'T. 108 00:03:00,029 --> 00:03:01,025 I'M HONESTLY SURPRISED A SPEAKER 109 00:03:01,027 --> 00:03:03,002 DIDN'T AT ONE POINT CLAIM THAT 110 00:03:03,004 --> 00:03:04,003 TRUMP INVENTED PARAKEETS, 111 00:03:04,005 --> 00:03:05,000 OR THAT HE STOPPED 112 00:03:05,002 --> 00:03:06,020 THE MURDER HORNETS BY SUCKING 113 00:03:06,022 --> 00:03:08,017 THEM STRAIGHT OUT OF THE AIR. 114 00:03:08,019 --> 00:03:10,021 AND YET, EVEN IN THE MIDST OF 115 00:03:10,023 --> 00:03:12,024 A BLIZZARD OF LIES, SOME STILL 116 00:03:12,026 --> 00:03:13,024 MANAGED TO STAND OUT -- LIKE 117 00:03:13,026 --> 00:03:15,001 WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER 118 00:03:15,003 --> 00:03:16,004 LARRY KUDLOW REFERRING TO THE 119 00:03:16,006 --> 00:03:17,004 CORONAVIRUS WITH AN ODD CHOICE 120 00:03:17,006 --> 00:03:19,008 OF VERB TENSE. 121 00:03:19,010 --> 00:03:20,024 >> THEN, CAME A ONCE-IN-100-YEAR 122 00:03:20,026 --> 00:03:21,020 PANDEMIC. 123 00:03:21,022 --> 00:03:23,012 IT WAS AWFUL. 124 00:03:23,014 --> 00:03:24,027 HEALTH AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS WERE 125 00:03:24,029 --> 00:03:26,023 TRAGIC. 126 00:03:26,025 --> 00:03:27,016 HARDSHIP AND HEARTBREAK WERE 127 00:03:27,018 --> 00:03:29,016 EVERYWHERE. 128 00:03:29,018 --> 00:03:31,012 BUT PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP CAME 129 00:03:31,014 --> 00:03:33,023 SWIFTLY AND EFFECTIVELY, WITH AN 130 00:03:33,025 --> 00:03:35,000 EXTRAORDINARY RESCUE FOR HEALTH 131 00:03:35,002 --> 00:03:36,021 AND SAFETY TO SUCCESSFULLY FIGHT 132 00:03:36,023 --> 00:03:39,001 THE COVID VIRUS. 133 00:03:39,003 --> 00:03:40,011 >> John: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 134 00:03:40,013 --> 00:03:42,001 YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT THE 135 00:03:42,003 --> 00:03:43,001 CORONAVIRUS IN THE PAST TENSE, 136 00:03:43,003 --> 00:03:44,003 WHEN IT IS, IN A VERY REAL 137 00:03:44,005 --> 00:03:45,025 SENSE, STILL RAGING. 138 00:03:45,027 --> 00:03:48,003 IF YOU'RE A CHARACTER IN A "SAW" 139 00:03:48,005 --> 00:03:49,025 MOVIE, YOU DON'T SAY, "PHEW, 140 00:03:49,027 --> 00:03:51,003 THAT WAS A CLOSE ONE" WHILE THE 141 00:03:51,005 --> 00:03:53,008 BEAR TRAP IS STILL ON YOUR HEAD. 142 00:03:53,010 --> 00:03:54,020 BUT MAYBE THE BIGGEST GULF 143 00:03:54,022 --> 00:03:55,016 BETWEEN THE RNC AND OBJECTIVE 144 00:03:55,018 --> 00:03:57,000 REALITY CONCERNED RACE. 145 00:03:57,002 --> 00:03:59,005 AGAIN AND AGAIN, RNC SPEAKERS 146 00:03:59,007 --> 00:04:01,002 WERE AT PAINS TO REASSURE 147 00:04:01,004 --> 00:04:02,025 VIEWERS THAT RACISM IN AMERICA 148 00:04:02,027 --> 00:04:04,005 IS MOSTLY A RELIC OF THE PAST, 149 00:04:04,007 --> 00:04:05,013 AND WHATEVER REMAINS CAN BE 150 00:04:05,015 --> 00:04:06,028 EASILY OVERCOME. 151 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,013 TAKE NIKKI HALEY'S SPEECH, 152 00:04:08,015 --> 00:04:10,003 IN WHICH SHE FLATLY INSISTED 153 00:04:10,005 --> 00:04:11,029 AMERICA IS NOT A RACIST COUNTRY, 154 00:04:12,001 --> 00:04:13,021 AND THEN TOLD THE INSPIRATIONAL 155 00:04:13,023 --> 00:04:15,004 STORY OF HOW THE CONFEDERATE 156 00:04:15,006 --> 00:04:16,008 FLAG AT HER STATE'S CAPITOL 157 00:04:16,010 --> 00:04:17,020 WAS TAKEN DOWN IN 2015 158 00:04:17,022 --> 00:04:18,023 AFTER THE MASSACRE AT 159 00:04:18,025 --> 00:04:21,005 MOTHER EMMANUEL CHURCH. 160 00:04:21,007 --> 00:04:22,015 >> AFTER THAT HORRIFIC TRAGEDY, 161 00:04:22,017 --> 00:04:23,015 WE DIDN'T TURN AGAINST 162 00:04:23,017 --> 00:04:25,015 EACH OTHER. 163 00:04:25,017 --> 00:04:26,018 WE CAME TOGETHER, BLACK AND 164 00:04:26,020 --> 00:04:28,028 WHITE, DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN. 165 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,022 TOGETHER, WE MADE THE HARD 166 00:04:32,024 --> 00:04:33,027 CHOICES NEEDED TO HEAL, AND 167 00:04:33,029 --> 00:04:35,006 REMOVED A DIVISIVE SYMBOL 168 00:04:35,008 --> 00:04:37,014 PEACEFULLY AND RESPECTFULLY. 169 00:04:37,016 --> 00:04:38,016 >> John: OH, THAT'S WHAT 170 00:04:38,018 --> 00:04:39,014 HAPPENED, IS IT? 171 00:04:39,016 --> 00:04:41,028 THAT SOUNDS NICE. 172 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,000 JUST A FEW THINGS THERE -- IT'S 173 00:04:44,002 --> 00:04:45,027 A PEACEFUL STORY OF UNITY AND 174 00:04:45,029 --> 00:04:47,010 HOPE AS LONG AS YOU START THE 175 00:04:47,012 --> 00:04:48,013 STORY IMMEDIATELY AFTER 176 00:04:48,015 --> 00:04:49,000 A WHITE SUPREMACIST KILLED 177 00:04:49,002 --> 00:04:49,016 NINE PEOPLE AT A HISTORIC 178 00:04:49,018 --> 00:04:51,010 BLACK CHURCH. 179 00:04:51,012 --> 00:04:52,029 ALSO, HALEY'S VERSION OF THAT 180 00:04:53,001 --> 00:04:54,019 STORY IGNORES THE FACT THAT 181 00:04:54,021 --> 00:04:55,016 THE EVENTUAL REMOVAL OF THE 182 00:04:55,018 --> 00:04:59,018 CONFEDERATE FLAG WAS 183 00:04:59,020 --> 00:05:00,028 JUMP-STARTED BY ARTIST AND 184 00:05:01,001 --> 00:05:01,029 ACTIVIST BREE NEWSOME BASS, 185 00:05:02,001 --> 00:05:03,018 CLIMBING THE FLAGPOLE IN FRONT 186 00:05:03,020 --> 00:05:04,011 OF THE STATE HOUSE LIKE SHE WAS 187 00:05:04,013 --> 00:05:05,011 ON AN ANTI-RACIST VERSION OF 188 00:05:05,013 --> 00:05:06,019 AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR, AND THAT 189 00:05:06,021 --> 00:05:08,001 SHE WAS THEN ARRESTED, AND THAT 190 00:05:08,003 --> 00:05:08,025 THE FLAG WAS THEN RERAISED 191 00:05:08,027 --> 00:05:11,003 45 MINUTES LATER. 192 00:05:11,005 --> 00:05:13,006 HALEY ALSO CONVENIENTLY LEAVES 193 00:05:13,008 --> 00:05:14,028 OUT THE PART WHERE THE CANDIDATE 194 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,001 SHE'S ENDORSING HAS DEFENDED 195 00:05:16,003 --> 00:05:21,014 THOSE WHO PROUDLY FLY THE FLAG 196 00:05:21,016 --> 00:05:22,008 IT REPRESENTS THE SOUTH. 197 00:05:22,010 --> 00:05:23,014 SO HALEY TURNING WHAT 198 00:05:23,016 --> 00:05:24,023 HAPPENED IN SOUTH CAROLINA INTO 199 00:05:24,025 --> 00:05:25,014 A SMOOTH, HOPEFUL STORY OF 200 00:05:25,016 --> 00:05:26,024 RACIAL RECONCILIATION IS A BIT 201 00:05:26,026 --> 00:05:27,015 LIKE IF SOMEONE ASKED HER WHAT 202 00:05:27,017 --> 00:05:30,018 THE FILM "DO THE RIGHT THING" IS 203 00:05:30,020 --> 00:05:31,012 ABOUT AND SHE SAID, "A BROOKLYN 204 00:05:31,014 --> 00:05:32,008 NEIGHBORHOOD COMES TOGETHER TO 205 00:05:32,010 --> 00:05:34,024 HELP REDECORATE A PIZZA PLACE." 206 00:05:34,026 --> 00:05:39,026 I MEAN, SURE, NIKKI, I GUESS 207 00:05:39,028 --> 00:05:42,009 THAT'S TECHNICALLY TRUE, BUT 208 00:05:42,011 --> 00:05:42,027 SOME PRETTY IMPORTANT PARTS 209 00:05:42,029 --> 00:05:43,017 THERE. 210 00:05:43,019 --> 00:05:44,026 AND A LOT OF THE RNC'S MESSAGING 211 00:05:44,028 --> 00:05:46,001 ON RACE SEEMED INTENDED NOT SO 212 00:05:46,003 --> 00:05:47,004 MUCH TO WIN OVER BLACK VOTERS 213 00:05:47,006 --> 00:05:48,025 AS TO REASSURE WHITE PEOPLE 214 00:05:48,027 --> 00:05:49,016 THAT THEY COULD VOTE REPUBLICAN 215 00:05:49,018 --> 00:05:50,025 WITHOUT BEING RACIST. 216 00:05:50,027 --> 00:05:51,021 THE AUDIENCE THEY WERE TALKING 217 00:05:51,023 --> 00:05:53,004 TO WAS PRETTY CLEAR, EVEN IN 218 00:05:53,006 --> 00:05:54,018 SMALL MOMENTS LIKE THIS: 219 00:05:54,020 --> 00:05:57,003 >> THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNOW 220 00:05:57,005 --> 00:05:58,025 WE DON'T HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN 221 00:05:58,027 --> 00:06:00,022 SUPPORTING LAW ENFORCEMENT AND 222 00:06:00,024 --> 00:06:02,007 STANDING WITH OUR 223 00:06:02,009 --> 00:06:04,018 AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEIGHBORS. 224 00:06:04,020 --> 00:06:07,016 >> John: WELL, HOLD ON, MIKE. 225 00:06:07,018 --> 00:06:08,014 WHO IS THE "WE" IN THAT 226 00:06:08,016 --> 00:06:09,013 SENTENCE? 227 00:06:09,015 --> 00:06:10,022 BECAUSE IT SEEMS YOU'RE MAKING 228 00:06:10,024 --> 00:06:12,002 A DISTINCTION BETWEEN 229 00:06:12,004 --> 00:06:12,021 "WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE" AND 230 00:06:12,023 --> 00:06:13,006 "OUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN 231 00:06:13,008 --> 00:06:13,021 NEIGHBORS," WHO I GUESS, 232 00:06:13,023 --> 00:06:14,029 BY EXTENSION, ARE SOMEHOW 233 00:06:15,001 --> 00:06:16,017 A DIFFERENT GROUP ENTIRELY. 234 00:06:16,019 --> 00:06:19,003 BUT I GUESS THAT SENTIMENT 235 00:06:19,005 --> 00:06:20,004 SHOULDN'T BE REALLY SURPRISING, 236 00:06:20,006 --> 00:06:21,005 COMING FROM MIKE PENCE, 237 00:06:21,007 --> 00:06:21,028 A MAN WHO PERMANENTLY LOOKS LIKE 238 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:22,015 HE SHOULD BE LIVING IN 239 00:06:22,017 --> 00:06:23,016 "KEN'S WHITE FLIGHT 240 00:06:23,018 --> 00:06:24,026 DREAM HOUSE." 241 00:06:24,028 --> 00:06:26,020 AND ALL OF THIS OVERT TALK OF 242 00:06:26,022 --> 00:06:28,016 RACIAL HARMONY WAS VERY MUCH IN 243 00:06:28,018 --> 00:06:30,004 CONFLICT WITH THE STEADY DIET OF 244 00:06:30,006 --> 00:06:33,020 BARELY-DISGUISED RACIAL PANIC 245 00:06:33,022 --> 00:06:34,014 THAT VIEWERS WERE ALSO BEING 246 00:06:34,016 --> 00:06:35,021 FED. 247 00:06:35,023 --> 00:06:38,001 PERHAPS THE MOST FLAGRANT 248 00:06:38,003 --> 00:06:38,028 EXAMPLE OF THIS CAME ON MONDAY 249 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:40,026 NIGHT, WHEN THE RNC CHOSE TO 250 00:06:40,028 --> 00:06:42,013 FEATURE THE ST. LOUIS COUPLE 251 00:06:42,015 --> 00:06:43,007 WHO WAS CHARGED WITH THREATENING 252 00:06:43,009 --> 00:06:44,009 BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTORS 253 00:06:44,011 --> 00:06:44,029 AT GUNPOINT LAST MONTH. 254 00:06:45,001 --> 00:06:46,011 AND THE MESSAGE THEY WERE THERE 255 00:06:46,013 --> 00:06:47,027 TO SEND WAS PRETTY CLEAR. 256 00:06:47,029 --> 00:06:49,012 >> IT SEEMS AS IF THE DEMOCRATS 257 00:06:49,014 --> 00:06:52,006 NO LONGER VIEW THE GOVERNMENT'S 258 00:06:52,008 --> 00:06:54,012 JOB AS PROTECTING HONEST 259 00:06:54,014 --> 00:06:55,017 CITIZENS FROM CRIMINALS, BUT 260 00:06:55,019 --> 00:06:56,008 RATHER PROTECTING CRIMINALS FROM 261 00:06:56,010 --> 00:06:57,009 HONEST CITIZENS. 262 00:06:57,011 --> 00:06:59,009 >> THEY'RE NOT SATISFIED WITH 263 00:06:59,011 --> 00:07:00,000 SPREADING THE CHAOS AND VIOLENCE 264 00:07:00,002 --> 00:07:02,003 INTO OUR COMMUNITIES. 265 00:07:02,005 --> 00:07:03,026 THEY WANT TO ABOLISH THE SUBURBS 266 00:07:03,028 --> 00:07:05,013 ALL TOGETHER BY ENDING 267 00:07:05,015 --> 00:07:07,021 SINGLE-FAMILY HOME ZONING. 268 00:07:07,023 --> 00:07:08,025 THIS FORCED REZONING WOULD BRING 269 00:07:08,027 --> 00:07:11,004 CRIME, LAWLESSNESS, AND 270 00:07:11,006 --> 00:07:12,019 LOW-QUALITY APARTMENTS INTO 271 00:07:12,021 --> 00:07:13,003 NOW-THRIVING SUBURBAN 272 00:07:13,005 --> 00:07:14,016 NEIGHBORHOODS. 273 00:07:14,018 --> 00:07:16,017 SO MAKE NO MISTAKE. 274 00:07:16,019 --> 00:07:18,008 NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE, YOUR 275 00:07:18,010 --> 00:07:19,023 FAMILY WILL NOT BE SAFE IN THE 276 00:07:19,025 --> 00:07:22,013 RADICAL DEMOCRATS' AMERICA. 277 00:07:22,015 --> 00:07:26,009 >> John: WOW. 278 00:07:26,011 --> 00:07:27,021 OKAY, FIRST, C-SPAN, YOU REALLY 279 00:07:27,023 --> 00:07:28,011 DIDN'T NEED TO PUT UP THE BANNER 280 00:07:28,013 --> 00:07:28,028 THAT SAYS THEY'RE "PERSONAL 281 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,024 INJURY ATTORNEYS," I VERY MUCH 282 00:07:31,026 --> 00:07:33,006 GOT THAT FROM THE EVERYTHING. 283 00:07:33,008 --> 00:07:34,001 BUT MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY, 284 00:07:34,003 --> 00:07:34,020 THINK ABOUT HOW INCENDIARY THAT 285 00:07:34,022 --> 00:07:36,005 MESSAGE IS. 286 00:07:36,007 --> 00:07:37,022 "VIOLENCE AND CRIMINALS ARE 287 00:07:37,024 --> 00:07:38,028 COMING TO YOUR COMMUNITY IN THE 288 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:39,022 FORM OF "LOW-QUALITY 289 00:07:39,024 --> 00:07:40,023 APARTMENTS," AND YOU MUST DEFEND 290 00:07:40,025 --> 00:07:41,021 YOURSELF. 291 00:07:41,023 --> 00:07:43,005 TAKE IT FROM US, THE COUPLE 292 00:07:43,007 --> 00:07:43,025 WHO POINTED GUNS AT 293 00:07:43,027 --> 00:07:46,009 BLACK LIVES MATTERS PROTESTORS." 294 00:07:46,011 --> 00:07:49,014 AND RHETORIC LIKE THAT HAS 295 00:07:49,016 --> 00:07:51,001 CONSEQUENCES. 296 00:07:51,003 --> 00:07:52,028 WHICH ACTUALLY BRING US TO THE 297 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,024 SECOND PART OF OUR STORY THIS 298 00:07:54,026 --> 00:07:56,005 WEEK: WHAT HAPPENED IN KENOSHA, 299 00:07:56,007 --> 00:07:57,017 WISCONSIN, WHERE -- TO REITERATE 300 00:07:57,019 --> 00:07:59,000 -- JACOB BLAKE WAS SHOT SEVEN 301 00:07:59,002 --> 00:08:00,014 TIMES IN THE BACK BY POLICE, 302 00:08:00,016 --> 00:08:01,002 WITH THREE OF HIS CHILDREN 303 00:08:01,004 --> 00:08:02,001 IN THE CAR. 304 00:08:02,003 --> 00:08:03,013 AND THEN, IN THE PROTESTS THAT 305 00:08:03,015 --> 00:08:05,014 FOLLOWED, KYLE RITTENHOUSE, 306 00:08:05,016 --> 00:08:06,026 A 17-YEAR-OLD WHO HAD TRAVELED 307 00:08:06,028 --> 00:08:08,000 THERE FROM OUT OF STATE, AND WAS 308 00:08:08,002 --> 00:08:09,001 ILLEGALLY CARRYING A WEAPON, 309 00:08:09,003 --> 00:08:10,009 KILLED TWO PEOPLE. 310 00:08:10,011 --> 00:08:12,023 AND LOOK, I DON'T KNOW IF HE SAW 311 00:08:12,025 --> 00:08:13,027 THE McCLOSKEYS SPEAK THE NIGHT 312 00:08:13,029 --> 00:08:15,024 BEFORE HE CHOSE TO DRIVE TO 313 00:08:15,026 --> 00:08:17,004 A CITY HE DIDN'T LIVE IN, TO 314 00:08:17,006 --> 00:08:19,008 DEFEND PROPERTY HE DIDN'T OWN. 315 00:08:19,010 --> 00:08:21,005 WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT HE WAS 316 00:08:21,007 --> 00:08:22,012 AN AVID TRUMP SUPPORTER, EVEN 317 00:08:22,014 --> 00:08:24,020 SITTING FRONT ROW AT A RALLY 318 00:08:24,022 --> 00:08:25,014 BACK IN JANUARY. 319 00:08:25,016 --> 00:08:26,021 AND TRUMP AND HIS MEDIA 320 00:08:26,023 --> 00:08:28,008 ECOSYSTEM HAVE BEEN DELIVERING 321 00:08:28,010 --> 00:08:29,011 ESSENTIALLY THE SAME MESSAGE AS 322 00:08:29,013 --> 00:08:31,010 THE McCLOSKEYS FOR YEARS NOW. 323 00:08:31,012 --> 00:08:33,004 JUST LOOK AT HOW QUICKLY 324 00:08:33,006 --> 00:08:34,001 TUCKER CARLSON MOVED TO TRY AND 325 00:08:34,003 --> 00:08:35,011 EXPLAIN AWAY RITTENHOUSE'S 326 00:08:35,013 --> 00:08:37,015 ACTIONS AS A NATURAL RESPONSE. 327 00:08:37,017 --> 00:08:38,028 >> SO ARE WE REALLY SURPRISED 328 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,018 THAT LOOTING AND ARSON 329 00:08:40,020 --> 00:08:42,022 ACCELERATED TO MURDER? 330 00:08:42,024 --> 00:08:44,009 HOW SHOCKED ARE WE THAT 331 00:08:44,011 --> 00:08:45,021 17-YEAR-OLDS WITH RIFLES DECIDED 332 00:08:45,023 --> 00:08:46,018 THEY HAD TO MAINTAIN ORDER WHEN 333 00:08:46,020 --> 00:08:49,008 NO ONE ELSE WOULD? 334 00:08:49,010 --> 00:08:51,024 >> John: WELL, YOU DON'T SEEM TO 335 00:08:51,026 --> 00:08:52,024 BE SHOCKED, AND THAT ALONE 336 00:08:52,026 --> 00:08:53,010 SHOULD BE PRETTY FUCKING 337 00:08:53,012 --> 00:08:54,025 SHOCKING. 338 00:08:54,027 --> 00:08:56,028 LET'S BE CLEAR: A 17-YEAR-OLD 339 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,018 VIGILANTE WITH A RIFLE CANNOT 340 00:08:58,020 --> 00:09:00,012 MAINTAIN ORDER, BECAUSE 341 00:09:00,014 --> 00:09:01,018 A 17-YEAR-OLD VIGILANTE WITH 342 00:09:01,020 --> 00:09:03,001 A RIFLE TRYING TO MAINTAIN ORDER 343 00:09:03,003 --> 00:09:04,002 IS, HIMSELF, THE DEFINITION OF 344 00:09:04,004 --> 00:09:06,003 DISORDER. 345 00:09:06,005 --> 00:09:08,004 EXCEPT, OF COURSE, IF YOU'RE 346 00:09:08,006 --> 00:09:08,023 A REGULAR VIEWER OF 347 00:09:08,025 --> 00:09:09,021 TUCKER CARLSON, A SHOW THAT 348 00:09:09,023 --> 00:09:10,024 EXISTS TO TEACH ITS VIEWERS 349 00:09:10,026 --> 00:09:11,027 PRECISELY THREE THINGS: 350 00:09:11,029 --> 00:09:13,026 PROPERTY DAMAGE IS VIOLENCE, 351 00:09:13,028 --> 00:09:15,029 HOMICIDE IS ORDER, 352 00:09:16,001 --> 00:09:18,015 AND PILLOWS ARE FOR SALE. 353 00:09:18,017 --> 00:09:20,020 AND THE EVENTS IN KENOSHA REALLY 354 00:09:20,022 --> 00:09:21,019 HAMMER HOME THE FLAGRANT DOUBLE 355 00:09:21,021 --> 00:09:22,018 STANDARD BAKED INTO AMERICAN 356 00:09:22,020 --> 00:09:23,020 SOCIETY. 357 00:09:23,022 --> 00:09:25,011 JUST LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE 358 00:09:25,013 --> 00:09:26,017 IN HOW THE POLICE IN KENOSHA 359 00:09:26,019 --> 00:09:28,001 RESPONDED TO BLAKE, AND HOW THEY 360 00:09:28,003 --> 00:09:29,006 RESPONDED TO RITTENHOUSE. 361 00:09:29,008 --> 00:09:31,006 >> ALLEGED GUNMAN 362 00:09:31,008 --> 00:09:32,017 KYLE RITTENHOUSE WALKING AWAY, 363 00:09:32,019 --> 00:09:34,000 GUN IN TOW, AS PEOPLE SCREAMED 364 00:09:34,002 --> 00:09:36,007 THAT HE JUST SHOT PROTESTERS. 365 00:09:36,009 --> 00:09:38,005 ONE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, 366 00:09:38,007 --> 00:09:40,018 SEEMING TO ASK RITTENHOUSE 367 00:09:40,020 --> 00:09:42,015 IF ANYONE WAS HURT. 368 00:09:42,017 --> 00:09:44,002 TWO INCIDENTS, TWO VIDEOS, 369 00:09:44,004 --> 00:09:45,008 WITH SOME ASKING WHY TWO 370 00:09:45,010 --> 00:09:46,022 DIFFERENT RESPONSES. 371 00:09:46,024 --> 00:09:47,025 >> John: WHY TWO DIFFERENT 372 00:09:47,027 --> 00:09:49,001 RESPONSES? 373 00:09:49,003 --> 00:09:50,000 I THINK THE ANSWER TO THAT IS 374 00:09:50,002 --> 00:09:51,016 PRETTY OBVIOUS. 375 00:09:51,018 --> 00:09:52,024 IT'S THE SAME REASON WHY, AHEAD 376 00:09:52,026 --> 00:09:53,028 OF THE SHOOTING, THERE WAS VIDEO 377 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,023 OF THE POLICE TRYING TO ENFORCE 378 00:09:55,025 --> 00:09:57,014 A CURFEW AGAINST PROTESTORS, 379 00:09:57,016 --> 00:09:59,010 EVEN AS THEY OFFERED WATER TO 380 00:09:59,012 --> 00:10:00,006 RITTENHOUSE AND THE MILITIA, 381 00:10:00,008 --> 00:10:01,013 SAYING, AND I QUOTE, 382 00:10:01,015 --> 00:10:02,008 "WE APPRECIATE YOU GUYS, 383 00:10:02,010 --> 00:10:05,028 WE REALLY DO." 384 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:06,027 IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A BETTER 385 00:10:06,029 --> 00:10:07,017 VISUAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE 386 00:10:07,019 --> 00:10:08,015 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BEING BLACK 387 00:10:08,017 --> 00:10:10,006 AND WHITE IN AMERICA, I DON'T 388 00:10:10,008 --> 00:10:12,008 THINK YOU'RE GOING TO FIND ONE, 389 00:10:12,010 --> 00:10:13,024 EXCEPT MAYBE FOR SEEING EXACTLY 390 00:10:13,026 --> 00:10:15,015 WHO SITS DOWN AND WHO STANDS UP 391 00:10:15,017 --> 00:10:16,011 WHEN "COTTON EYED JOE" COMES ON 392 00:10:16,013 --> 00:10:18,008 AT A WEDDING. 393 00:10:18,010 --> 00:10:19,012 AND THAT DISPARITY IN TREATMENT 394 00:10:19,014 --> 00:10:20,026 CONTINUED EVEN AFTER THE 395 00:10:20,028 --> 00:10:22,019 SHOOTINGS -- JUST WATCH HOW, 396 00:10:22,021 --> 00:10:24,012 THE NEXT DAY, THE KENOSHA POLICE 397 00:10:24,014 --> 00:10:26,015 CHIEF COULDN'T HELP BUT SPREAD 398 00:10:26,017 --> 00:10:27,010 BLAME TO THE PROTESTORS WHO WERE 399 00:10:27,012 --> 00:10:28,029 SHOT AT AND KILLED. 400 00:10:29,001 --> 00:10:30,012 >> EVERYBODY INVOLVED WAS OUT 401 00:10:30,014 --> 00:10:31,029 AFTER THE CURFEW. 402 00:10:32,001 --> 00:10:32,018 I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE 403 00:10:32,020 --> 00:10:34,003 A GREAT DEAL OF IT. 404 00:10:34,005 --> 00:10:35,014 BUT THE POINT IS, THE CURFEW'S 405 00:10:35,016 --> 00:10:36,029 IN PLACE TO PROTECT. 406 00:10:37,001 --> 00:10:39,011 HAD PERSONS NOT BEEN OUT 407 00:10:39,013 --> 00:10:40,017 INVOLVED, IN VIOLATION OF THAT, 408 00:10:40,019 --> 00:10:41,019 PERHAPS THE SITUATION THAT 409 00:10:41,021 --> 00:10:42,013 THAT UNFOLDED WOULD NOT 410 00:10:42,015 --> 00:10:44,010 HAVE HAPPENED. 411 00:10:44,012 --> 00:10:45,024 >> John: OKAY, FIRST OF ALL, 412 00:10:45,026 --> 00:10:46,016 THANKS SO MUCH FOR NOT MAKING 413 00:10:46,018 --> 00:10:48,010 A GREAT DEAL OUT OF THAT. 414 00:10:48,012 --> 00:10:49,019 THE PEOPLE WHO GOT MURDERED 415 00:10:49,021 --> 00:10:51,003 WERE UP WAY PAST THEIR 416 00:10:51,005 --> 00:10:52,017 GOVERNMENT-IMPOSED BEDTIME AND 417 00:10:52,019 --> 00:10:54,029 YOU WERE NICE ENOUGH NOT TO EVEN 418 00:10:55,001 --> 00:10:55,018 MENTION IT EXCEPT TO IMPLY THAT 419 00:10:55,020 --> 00:10:56,007 MAYBE IT WAS A REASON THEY KIND 420 00:10:56,009 --> 00:10:58,021 OF HAD IT COMING. 421 00:10:58,023 --> 00:11:00,001 THAT IS THE KIND OF RESTRAINT 422 00:11:00,003 --> 00:11:00,022 WE'VE ALL COME TO EXPECT FROM 423 00:11:00,024 --> 00:11:01,017 THE KENOSHA POLICE DEPARTMENT. 424 00:11:01,019 --> 00:11:05,012 AND YOU MIGHT THINK, 425 00:11:05,014 --> 00:11:06,002 "WELL, HOLD ON, THAT'S JUST ONE 426 00:11:06,004 --> 00:11:06,019 GUY. 427 00:11:06,021 --> 00:11:07,007 SURELY NOT ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT 428 00:11:07,009 --> 00:11:08,015 THERE THINKS THAT WAY." 429 00:11:08,017 --> 00:11:09,029 ALTHOUGH, I WILL POINT OUT THAT 430 00:11:10,001 --> 00:11:11,001 THE GUY STANDING NEXT TO HIM IS 431 00:11:11,003 --> 00:11:12,023 THE KENOSHA SHERIFF, WHO, JUST 432 00:11:12,025 --> 00:11:13,027 TWO YEARS AGO, GAVE A PRETTY 433 00:11:13,029 --> 00:11:16,007 STRIKING PRESS CONFERENCE. 434 00:11:16,009 --> 00:11:18,001 A GROUP OF FIVE YOUNG BLACK 435 00:11:18,003 --> 00:11:19,019 PEOPLE HAD ALLEGEDLY STOLEN SOME 436 00:11:19,021 --> 00:11:20,019 CLOTHING FROM AN OUTLET MALL AND 437 00:11:20,021 --> 00:11:21,014 HAD LED POLICE ON A CHASE THAT 438 00:11:21,016 --> 00:11:23,010 ENDED IN A MINOR CAR ACCIDENT. 439 00:11:23,012 --> 00:11:25,014 AND IN THAT PRESS CONFERENCE, 440 00:11:25,016 --> 00:11:26,008 HE EXPRESSED SOME VIEWS THAT ARE 441 00:11:26,010 --> 00:11:27,008 PRETTY EXPLICIT. 442 00:11:27,010 --> 00:11:29,012 >> LET'S PUT THEM IN JAIL. 443 00:11:29,014 --> 00:11:33,010 LET'S -- LET'S STOP THEM FROM 444 00:11:33,012 --> 00:11:34,017 TRULY -- AT LEAST SOME OF THESE 445 00:11:34,019 --> 00:11:36,015 MALES GOING OUT AND GETTING 446 00:11:36,017 --> 00:11:37,002 TEN OTHER WOMEN PREGNANT AND 447 00:11:37,004 --> 00:11:38,019 HAVING SMALL CHILDREN. 448 00:11:38,021 --> 00:11:42,011 LET'S PUT THEM AWAY. 449 00:11:42,013 --> 00:11:43,021 AT SOME POINT, WE HAVE TO STOP 450 00:11:43,023 --> 00:11:47,003 BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT. 451 00:11:47,005 --> 00:11:48,015 >> John: SORRY, CAN I QUICKLY 452 00:11:48,017 --> 00:11:48,029 INTERRUPT YOU THERE? 453 00:11:49,001 --> 00:11:49,017 BECAUSE CALLING FOR AMERICAN 454 00:11:49,019 --> 00:11:51,012 CITIZENS TO BE STOPPED FROM 455 00:11:51,014 --> 00:11:52,018 "HAVING SMALL CHILDREN" ISN'T 456 00:11:52,020 --> 00:11:53,021 "POLITICALLY INCORRECT," SO MUCH 457 00:11:53,023 --> 00:11:55,024 AS "POLITICALLY 1940s GERMANY." 458 00:11:55,026 --> 00:11:58,002 AND HE WASN'T JUST IDLY SAYING 459 00:11:58,004 --> 00:11:58,026 THAT -- HE HAD REALLY THOUGHT 460 00:11:58,028 --> 00:12:02,020 THROUGH A WHOLE PLAN. 461 00:12:02,022 --> 00:12:04,001 I KNOW IT IS DEEPLY UNPLEASANT, 462 00:12:04,003 --> 00:12:05,006 BUT IT'S WORTH LISTENING TO JUST 463 00:12:05,008 --> 00:12:06,019 HOW DETAILED HIS SOLUTION WAS. 464 00:12:06,021 --> 00:12:09,009 >> IF THERE'S A THRESHOLD THAT 465 00:12:09,011 --> 00:12:10,001 THEY CROSS, THESE PEOPLE HAVE 466 00:12:10,003 --> 00:12:13,015 TO BE WAREHOUSED. 467 00:12:13,017 --> 00:12:14,025 NO RECREATIONAL TIME IN THE 468 00:12:14,027 --> 00:12:18,001 JAILS, WE PUT THEM AWAY. 469 00:12:18,003 --> 00:12:21,002 AND MAYBE WE'VE GOT TO DO IS 470 00:12:21,004 --> 00:12:22,007 BUILD WAREHOUSES THAT, AFTER 471 00:12:22,009 --> 00:12:22,022 THIS GENERATION IS GONE, 472 00:12:22,024 --> 00:12:23,027 THEY'VE PERISHED IN THESE 473 00:12:23,029 --> 00:12:24,024 BUILDINGS, WE CAN TURN THEM 474 00:12:24,026 --> 00:12:25,020 INTO SOMETHING ELSE. 475 00:12:25,022 --> 00:12:29,008 MAYBE IT'LL BE MALLS. 476 00:12:29,010 --> 00:12:30,013 MAYBE, MAYBE AMAZON WILL BUY 'EM 477 00:12:30,015 --> 00:12:34,004 AS -- AS WAREHOUSES LATER. 478 00:12:34,006 --> 00:12:37,004 BUT AT SOME POINT, WE HAVE TO 479 00:12:37,006 --> 00:12:38,002 GET RID OF THIS GROUP OF -- 480 00:12:38,004 --> 00:12:39,008 WE HAVE TO LOCK THEM UP. 481 00:12:39,010 --> 00:12:40,017 I DON'T THINK I'M SAYING 482 00:12:40,019 --> 00:12:42,021 ANYTHING DIFFERENT THAN MOST 483 00:12:42,023 --> 00:12:44,006 PEOPLE IN SOCIETY AREN'T 484 00:12:44,008 --> 00:12:45,016 THINKING, BUT THEY'RE AFRAID TO 485 00:12:45,018 --> 00:12:47,014 SAY IT AND I'M JUST TO THE POINT 486 00:12:47,016 --> 00:12:51,017 THAT I'M -- I'M SAYING IT. 487 00:12:51,019 --> 00:12:52,011 >> John: OKAY, IF THAT IS WHAT 488 00:12:52,013 --> 00:12:53,007 MOST PEOPLE IN SOCIETY ARE 489 00:12:53,009 --> 00:12:54,010 THINKING, WE ARE, AND THIS IS 490 00:12:54,012 --> 00:12:57,015 TRUE, A TERRIBLE SOCIETY. 491 00:12:57,017 --> 00:12:58,015 AND I HONESTLY CANNOT BELIEVE 492 00:12:58,017 --> 00:12:59,000 THAT WAS AN IDEA FROM A 493 00:12:59,002 --> 00:12:59,018 STILL-EMPLOYED SHERIFF, 494 00:12:59,020 --> 00:13:00,023 AND NOT A PITCH FROM 495 00:13:00,025 --> 00:13:01,017 "SHARK TANK: 496 00:13:01,019 --> 00:13:04,012 LIGHT GENOCIDE EDITION." 497 00:13:04,014 --> 00:13:05,026 "GOOD QUESTION, MARK CUBAN. 498 00:13:05,028 --> 00:13:06,024 THE ANSWER IS, THESE 499 00:13:06,026 --> 00:13:07,014 CONCENTRATION CAMPS COULD EASILY 500 00:13:07,016 --> 00:13:08,004 BE CONVERTED INTO 501 00:13:08,006 --> 00:13:09,002 AMAZON WAREHOUSES. 502 00:13:09,004 --> 00:13:10,007 OOH! 503 00:13:10,009 --> 00:13:11,009 LOOKS LIKE I'VE GOT A BIDDING 504 00:13:11,011 --> 00:13:13,019 WAR ON MY HANDS!" 505 00:13:13,021 --> 00:13:14,019 AND LOOK, THE EVENTS IN KENOSHA 506 00:13:14,021 --> 00:13:15,005 WOULD BE INFURIATING 507 00:13:15,007 --> 00:13:16,016 AT ANY TIME. 508 00:13:16,018 --> 00:13:18,007 BUT IT'S SOMEHOW ESPECIALLY 509 00:13:18,009 --> 00:13:20,027 INFURIATING THAT THEY TOOK PLACE 510 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,015 IN THE SAME WEEK WHERE THE RNC 511 00:13:25,017 --> 00:13:27,015 DESPERATE TO REASSURE THE 512 00:13:27,017 --> 00:13:28,007 COUNTRY THAT AMERICA ISN'T 513 00:13:28,009 --> 00:13:28,014 RACIST, 514 00:13:28,016 --> 00:13:29,016 WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY 515 00:13:29,018 --> 00:13:30,015 FEARMONGERING ABOUT VIOLENT 516 00:13:30,017 --> 00:13:32,002 CRIME THREATENING LAW-ABIDING 517 00:13:32,004 --> 00:13:34,003 CITIZENS. 518 00:13:34,005 --> 00:13:34,029 IT'S A DISCONNECT THAT WAS 519 00:13:35,001 --> 00:13:36,004 PRETTY WELL SUMMED UP BY NBA 520 00:13:36,006 --> 00:13:38,010 COACH DOC RIVERS IN AN EMOTIONAL 521 00:13:38,012 --> 00:13:41,019 POSTGAME PRESS CONFERENCE 522 00:13:41,021 --> 00:13:42,019 ON TUESDAY. 523 00:13:42,021 --> 00:13:44,000 >> WHAT STANDS OUT TO ME IS 524 00:13:44,002 --> 00:13:49,025 JUST -- JUST WATCHING THE 525 00:13:49,027 --> 00:13:50,017 REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, 526 00:13:50,019 --> 00:13:51,024 AND THEY'RE -- THEY'RE SPEWING 527 00:13:51,026 --> 00:13:52,025 THIS FEAR. 528 00:13:52,027 --> 00:13:54,015 RIGHT? 529 00:13:54,017 --> 00:13:55,023 LIKE, ALL YOU HEAR IS 530 00:13:55,025 --> 00:13:56,019 DONALD TRUMP AND ALL OF THEM 531 00:13:56,021 --> 00:13:57,018 TALKING ABOUT FEAR. 532 00:13:57,020 --> 00:13:58,015 WE'RE THE ONES GETTING KILLED. 533 00:13:58,017 --> 00:13:59,017 WE'RE THE ONES GETTING SHOT. 534 00:13:59,019 --> 00:14:01,011 WE'RE THE ONES THAT -- 535 00:14:01,013 --> 00:14:02,004 WE'RE DENIED TO LIVE 536 00:14:02,006 --> 00:14:04,023 IN CERTAIN COMMUNITIES. 537 00:14:04,025 --> 00:14:06,018 WE'VE BEEN HUNG. 538 00:14:06,020 --> 00:14:12,008 WE'VE BEEN SHOT. 539 00:14:12,010 --> 00:14:13,017 AND ALL YOU DO IS KEEP HEARING 540 00:14:13,019 --> 00:14:19,011 ABOUT FEAR. 541 00:14:19,013 --> 00:14:22,018 IT'S -- IT'S AMAZING TO ME WHY 542 00:14:22,020 --> 00:14:26,015 WE KEEP LOVING THIS COUNTRY AND 543 00:14:26,017 --> 00:14:27,016 THIS COUNTRY DOES NOT LOVE US 544 00:14:27,018 --> 00:14:28,022 BACK. 545 00:14:28,024 --> 00:14:30,028 >> John: YEAH, EXACTLY. 546 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,023 IT'S ALL EXHAUSTINGLY 547 00:14:32,025 --> 00:14:34,002 DEPRESSING. 548 00:14:34,004 --> 00:14:35,014 ALTHOUGH IN A WEEK OF INCREDIBLE 549 00:14:35,016 --> 00:14:37,026 DARKNESS, THERE WAS ACTUALLY 550 00:14:37,028 --> 00:14:39,020 A BRIGHT SPOT, BECAUSE SHORTLY 551 00:14:39,022 --> 00:14:40,028 AFTER DOC RIVERS SPOKE, 552 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,001 SOMETHING GENUINELY 553 00:14:42,003 --> 00:14:43,001 EXTRAORDINARY STARTED 554 00:14:43,003 --> 00:14:44,010 TO HAPPEN IN HIS SPORT. 555 00:14:44,012 --> 00:14:45,024 THE MILWAUKEE BUCKS HAD 556 00:14:45,026 --> 00:14:47,022 A PLAYOFF GAME, BUT DIDN'T TAKE 557 00:14:47,024 --> 00:14:48,027 THE COURT, WITH RUMORS FLYING 558 00:14:48,029 --> 00:14:49,018 AROUND THAT THEY WERE ABOUT TO 559 00:14:49,020 --> 00:14:50,026 REFUSE TO PLAY. 560 00:14:50,028 --> 00:14:52,006 THEN, WNBA PLAYERS -- WHO, 561 00:14:52,008 --> 00:14:53,009 INCIDENTALLY, HAVE LED FROM THE 562 00:14:53,011 --> 00:14:54,028 START ON THE BLACK LIVES MATTER 563 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,024 MOVEMENT -- ALSO REFUSED TO 564 00:14:56,026 --> 00:14:57,024 PLAY, AFTER ARRIVING AT 565 00:14:57,026 --> 00:14:59,005 A SCHEDULED GAME WITH SHIRTS 566 00:14:59,007 --> 00:15:00,006 WITH SEVEN BULLET HOLES DRAWN 567 00:15:00,008 --> 00:15:02,022 ON THEIR BACK. 568 00:15:02,024 --> 00:15:04,015 AND EVENTUALLY, WILDCAT STRIKES 569 00:15:04,017 --> 00:15:05,021 SPREAD THROUGHOUT BOTH LEAGUES, 570 00:15:05,023 --> 00:15:07,019 IN AN UNPRECEDENTED, GENUINELY 571 00:15:07,021 --> 00:15:08,011 INSPIRING SHOW OF COLLECTIVE 572 00:15:08,013 --> 00:15:09,016 ACTION. 573 00:15:09,018 --> 00:15:11,007 AND THEY DID THIS WITHOUT UNION 574 00:15:11,009 --> 00:15:13,014 APPROVAL, SO THEY WERE PUTTING 575 00:15:13,016 --> 00:15:14,023 A LOT ON THE LINE -- THEIR 576 00:15:14,025 --> 00:15:15,014 INCOME, AND MAYBE EVEN 577 00:15:15,016 --> 00:15:16,018 THEIR CAREERS. 578 00:15:16,020 --> 00:15:18,010 WHICH IS WHAT MAKES IT SO 579 00:15:18,012 --> 00:15:19,015 INFURIATING THAT WHEN 580 00:15:19,017 --> 00:15:21,008 JARED KUSHNER WAS ASKED FOR HIS 581 00:15:21,010 --> 00:15:22,017 RESPONSE TO THE STRIKE, THIS WAS 582 00:15:22,019 --> 00:15:24,023 WHAT FELL OUT OF HIS MOUTH. 583 00:15:24,025 --> 00:15:26,007 >> LOOK, I THINK THAT THE NBA 584 00:15:26,009 --> 00:15:28,007 PLAYERS ARE VERY FORTUNATE THAT 585 00:15:28,009 --> 00:15:29,004 THEY HAVE THE FINANCIAL POSITION 586 00:15:29,006 --> 00:15:30,011 WHERE THEY'RE ABLE TO TAKE 587 00:15:30,013 --> 00:15:31,023 A NIGHT OFF FROM WORK WITHOUT 588 00:15:31,025 --> 00:15:33,004 HAVING TO -- TO HAVE THE 589 00:15:33,006 --> 00:15:34,000 CONSEQUENCES TO THEMSELVES 590 00:15:34,002 --> 00:15:34,019 FINANCIALLY. 591 00:15:34,021 --> 00:15:35,015 SO THEY HAVE THAT LUXURY, 592 00:15:35,017 --> 00:15:37,005 WHICH IS GREAT. 593 00:15:37,007 --> 00:15:41,014 >> John: OKAY, FIRST, GET 594 00:15:41,016 --> 00:15:43,012 FUCKED, JARED, YOU "WELCOME TO 595 00:15:43,014 --> 00:15:44,000 MARWEN" REJECT. 596 00:15:44,002 --> 00:15:45,003 FOR A START, THEY'RE NOT TAKING 597 00:15:45,005 --> 00:15:45,017 A NIGHT OFF FROM WORK. 598 00:15:45,019 --> 00:15:46,022 THE EMOTIONAL TOLL OF BEING 599 00:15:46,024 --> 00:15:48,004 BLACK IN AMERICA COMBINED 600 00:15:48,006 --> 00:15:48,023 WITH THE PRESSURE T PERFORM AT 601 00:15:48,025 --> 00:15:50,013 AN ELITE LEVEL DURING A 602 00:15:50,015 --> 00:15:51,012 GLOBAL PANDEMIC IS, I'M 603 00:15:51,014 --> 00:15:53,005 GUESSING, PRETTY TAXING. 604 00:15:53,007 --> 00:15:55,002 SO BY NOT PLAYING, THEY'RE 605 00:15:55,004 --> 00:15:57,020 NOT EXACTLY TAKING A SPA DAY. 606 00:15:57,022 --> 00:15:59,006 AND IF NBA PLAYERS ARE TOO RICH 607 00:15:59,008 --> 00:16:01,005 TO TAKE MEANINGFUL ACTION, 608 00:16:01,007 --> 00:16:01,027 THEN WHO EXACTLY IS IN THE RIGHT 609 00:16:01,029 --> 00:16:03,012 TAX BRACKET TO HAVE THEIR 610 00:16:03,014 --> 00:16:05,002 PROTEST APPROVED BY AMERICA'S 611 00:16:05,004 --> 00:16:07,002 MOST LAMINATED PRINCE? 612 00:16:07,004 --> 00:16:09,014 BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN TIME AND TIME 613 00:16:09,016 --> 00:16:11,003 AGAIN THAT WEALTH AND FAME 614 00:16:11,005 --> 00:16:12,002 ABSOLUTELY DO NOT PROTECT YOU 615 00:16:12,004 --> 00:16:14,013 AS A BLACK ATHLETE. 616 00:16:14,015 --> 00:16:16,000 IT DIDN'T PROTECT STERLING BROWN 617 00:16:16,002 --> 00:16:17,001 FROM GETTING TASED BY THE POLICE 618 00:16:17,003 --> 00:16:18,008 AFTER BEING STOPPED FOR 619 00:16:18,010 --> 00:16:19,020 A PARKING VIOLATION IN 620 00:16:19,022 --> 00:16:21,006 MILWAUKEE, AND IT DIDN'T PROTECT 621 00:16:21,008 --> 00:16:23,013 THABO SEFOLOSHA FROM HAVING HIS 622 00:16:23,015 --> 00:16:25,008 LEG BROKEN BY NYPD OFFICERS IN 623 00:16:25,010 --> 00:16:26,026 AN INCIDENT THAT FORCED HIM TO 624 00:16:26,028 --> 00:16:28,010 MISS THE 2015 PLAYOFFS AND PUT 625 00:16:28,012 --> 00:16:30,000 HIS WHOLE CAREER IN JEOPARDY. 626 00:16:30,002 --> 00:16:32,003 AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO STRAP IN, 627 00:16:32,005 --> 00:16:33,009 JARED, BECAUSE THIS PROBABLY 628 00:16:33,011 --> 00:16:34,008 ISN'T THE LAST DISRUPTIVE ACTION 629 00:16:34,010 --> 00:16:35,005 LIKE THIS WE'RE GOING TO SEE 630 00:16:35,007 --> 00:16:36,005 GOING FORWARD -- NOR SHOULD IT 631 00:16:36,007 --> 00:16:38,005 BE. 632 00:16:38,007 --> 00:16:39,005 BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE SICK OF 633 00:16:39,007 --> 00:16:40,013 WAITING. 634 00:16:40,015 --> 00:16:42,004 JUST LISTEN TO JACOB BLAKE'S 635 00:16:42,006 --> 00:16:43,007 SISTER, LETETRA WIDMAN, MAKING 636 00:16:43,009 --> 00:16:44,027 THAT VERY CLEAR. 637 00:16:44,029 --> 00:16:46,007 >> I'M NOT SAD. 638 00:16:46,009 --> 00:16:47,012 I'M NOT SORRY. 639 00:16:47,014 --> 00:16:49,007 I'M ANGRY. 640 00:16:49,009 --> 00:16:52,011 AND I'M TIRED. 641 00:16:52,013 --> 00:16:54,008 I HAVEN'T CRIED ONE TIME. 642 00:16:54,010 --> 00:16:56,027 I STOPPED CRYING YEARS AGO. 643 00:16:56,029 --> 00:16:59,020 I AM NUMB. 644 00:16:59,022 --> 00:17:01,019 I HAVE BEEN WATCHING POLICE 645 00:17:01,021 --> 00:17:02,027 MURDER PEOPLE THAT LOOK LIKE 646 00:17:02,029 --> 00:17:04,012 ME FOR YEARS. 647 00:17:04,014 --> 00:17:05,004 I'M NOT SAD. 648 00:17:05,006 --> 00:17:06,015 I DON'T WANT YOUR PITY. 649 00:17:06,017 --> 00:17:10,002 I WANT CHANGE. 650 00:17:10,004 --> 00:17:11,014 >> John: RIGHT. 651 00:17:11,016 --> 00:17:12,025 THIS CAN'T BE ABOUT PITY. 652 00:17:12,027 --> 00:17:17,015 IT CAN'T BE ABOUT SYMPATHY. 653 00:17:17,017 --> 00:17:19,007 THAT IS WHY THERE IS NO SECTION 654 00:17:19,009 --> 00:17:20,003 IN THE GREETING CARDS STORE 655 00:17:20,005 --> 00:17:20,026 LABELED "CENTURIES OF 656 00:17:20,028 --> 00:17:21,012 OPPRESSION." 657 00:17:21,014 --> 00:17:22,003 THIS ISN'T ABOUT WHAT 658 00:17:22,005 --> 00:17:22,027 WHITE PEOPLE FEEL OR SAY. 659 00:17:22,029 --> 00:17:24,005 THIS HAS TO BE ABOUT CREATING 660 00:17:24,007 --> 00:17:24,029 REAL CHANGE IN A SYSTEM THAT HAS 661 00:17:25,001 --> 00:17:27,011 BEEN BUILT TO BE NON-RESPONSIVE. 662 00:17:27,013 --> 00:17:28,023 BECAUSE HISTORY HAS REPEATEDLY 663 00:17:28,025 --> 00:17:32,018 SHOWN THE SYSTEM DOESN'T RESPOND 664 00:17:32,020 --> 00:17:33,027 UNTIL IT IS FORCED TO. 665 00:17:33,029 --> 00:17:35,017 SO IT'S EASY FOR RNC SPEAKERS 666 00:17:35,019 --> 00:17:36,026 TO INSIST THE ONLY APPROPRIATE 667 00:17:36,028 --> 00:17:37,024 ACTION IS PEACEFUL AND 668 00:17:37,026 --> 00:17:38,028 UNOBTRUSIVE. 669 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,013 BUT THE FACT IS, THAT'S NOT HOW 670 00:17:40,015 --> 00:17:42,024 IT WORKS. 671 00:17:42,026 --> 00:17:44,008 THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE MARCHED 672 00:17:44,010 --> 00:17:45,013 IN THE WAKE OF GEORGE FLOYD'S 673 00:17:45,015 --> 00:17:47,005 DEATH, AND HAVE CONTINUED 674 00:17:47,007 --> 00:17:48,013 MARCHING, EVEN AS MEDIA COVERAGE 675 00:17:48,015 --> 00:17:50,005 HAS STEADILY DRIFTED AWAY. 676 00:17:50,007 --> 00:17:51,020 MEANWHILE, THE NBA HAS MADE 677 00:17:51,022 --> 00:17:53,014 A LOT OF SYMBOLIC GESTURES OF 678 00:17:53,016 --> 00:17:55,005 SUPPORT FOR THE MOVEMENT, LIKE 679 00:17:55,007 --> 00:17:56,000 PAINTING "BLACK LIVES MATTER" 680 00:17:56,002 --> 00:17:57,011 ON THE COURT AND ALLOWING 681 00:17:57,013 --> 00:17:58,016 PLAYERS TO WEAR A SOCIAL JUSTICE 682 00:17:58,018 --> 00:18:01,010 MESSAGE ON THEIR JERSEYS, 683 00:18:01,012 --> 00:18:02,015 SELECTED FROM A LIST OF 684 00:18:02,017 --> 00:18:04,009 29 AGREED-UPON OPTIONS. 685 00:18:04,011 --> 00:18:05,027 BUT TO UNDERSCORE JUST HOW 686 00:18:05,029 --> 00:18:07,024 LIMITING THAT KIND OF 687 00:18:07,026 --> 00:18:09,012 "PREAPPROVED" PROTEST CAN BE, 688 00:18:09,014 --> 00:18:11,024 "SAY HER NAME" WAS ON THE LIST, 689 00:18:11,026 --> 00:18:13,013 BUT "BREONNA TAYLOR" WAS NOT. 690 00:18:13,015 --> 00:18:15,008 AND I GUESS THE ONLY POSITIVE 691 00:18:15,010 --> 00:18:16,010 THING THERE IS, IF PLAYERS 692 00:18:16,012 --> 00:18:18,002 WANTED TO PROTEST THAT 693 00:18:18,004 --> 00:18:18,029 RESTRICTION, THE NBA HAD 694 00:18:19,001 --> 00:18:21,005 A JERSEY READY MADE FOR THEM. 695 00:18:21,007 --> 00:18:23,004 THE PROBLEM WITH PURELY SYMBOLIC 696 00:18:23,006 --> 00:18:24,022 PROTEST IS THAT IT'S FAR TOO 697 00:18:24,024 --> 00:18:26,012 EASY TO CO-OPT. 698 00:18:26,014 --> 00:18:28,018 THERE MIGHT BE NO MORE VISCERAL 699 00:18:28,020 --> 00:18:29,025 EXAMPLE OF THAT THAN THE FACT 700 00:18:29,027 --> 00:18:32,003 THAT THAT KENOSHA SHERIFF AND 701 00:18:32,005 --> 00:18:34,001 HUMAN WAREHOUSING INNOVATOR GOT 702 00:18:34,003 --> 00:18:35,011 POSITIVE ATTENTION EARLIER THIS 703 00:18:35,013 --> 00:18:37,001 YEAR WHEN HE KNEELED FOR NINE 704 00:18:37,003 --> 00:18:38,007 MINUTES IN SOLIDARITY WITH 705 00:18:38,009 --> 00:18:41,021 THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT. 706 00:18:41,023 --> 00:18:43,000 SO IS IT ANY WONDER THAT 707 00:18:43,002 --> 00:18:44,021 BASKETBALL PLAYERS FELT THEY HAD 708 00:18:44,023 --> 00:18:46,026 TO ESCALATE THEIR PROTEST BY NOT 709 00:18:46,028 --> 00:18:49,026 JUST WEARING A JERSEY, BUT 710 00:18:49,028 --> 00:18:54,008 BY STRIKING -- 711 00:18:54,010 --> 00:18:57,012 AND IN DOING SO, PUTTING TEAM 712 00:18:57,014 --> 00:18:58,021 OWNERS MONEY AT JEOPARDY. 713 00:18:58,023 --> 00:18:59,019 BECAUSE REAL DISCOMFORT IS THE 714 00:18:59,021 --> 00:19:00,025 ONLY THING THAT'S GOING TO BRING 715 00:19:00,027 --> 00:19:01,024 REAL CHANGE HERE. 716 00:19:01,026 --> 00:19:02,023 AND IT'S WORTH NOTING THAT 717 00:19:02,025 --> 00:19:04,028 ALREADY, THE STRIKE HAS HAD SOME 718 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:05,005 EFFECT. 719 00:19:05,007 --> 00:19:06,026 NOT ONLY DID THE STRIKE SPREAD 720 00:19:06,028 --> 00:19:07,028 TO OTHER SPORTS AND OTHER 721 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:08,023 ATHLETES, BUT THE NBA PLAYERS 722 00:19:08,025 --> 00:19:09,028 NOW HAVE A PROMISE FROM OWNERS 723 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:10,025 TO CONVERT AS MANY OF THEIR 724 00:19:10,027 --> 00:19:11,020 ARENAS AS POSSIBLE INTO 725 00:19:11,022 --> 00:19:13,000 POLLING PLACES THIS NOVEMBER. 726 00:19:13,002 --> 00:19:14,010 WHICH IS GREAT, ALTHOUGH IT ALSO 727 00:19:14,012 --> 00:19:15,024 BRINGS US TO THE FACT THAT 728 00:19:15,026 --> 00:19:17,015 SIMPLY VOTING THIS NOVEMBER IS 729 00:19:17,017 --> 00:19:18,021 CLEARLY NOT GOING TO BE NEARLY 730 00:19:18,023 --> 00:19:20,005 ENOUGH. 731 00:19:20,007 --> 00:19:21,008 BECAUSE AS MUCH AS I OR THE RNC 732 00:19:21,010 --> 00:19:22,023 WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE THAT 733 00:19:22,025 --> 00:19:25,010 JOE BIDEN WILL BE AN AGENT OF 734 00:19:25,012 --> 00:19:27,014 RADICAL CHANGE, THERE IS JUST 735 00:19:27,016 --> 00:19:28,028 NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT. 736 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:30,016 TO THE EXTENT THAT REAL CHANGE 737 00:19:30,018 --> 00:19:32,013 IS POSSIBLE THROUGH THE BALLOT 738 00:19:32,015 --> 00:19:33,014 BOX THIS YEAR, IT WILL BE IF 739 00:19:33,016 --> 00:19:36,007 BIDEN IS ELECTED ALONGSIDE 740 00:19:36,009 --> 00:19:37,012 PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES ALL DOWN 741 00:19:37,014 --> 00:19:38,018 THE BALLOT, FROM THE SENATE 742 00:19:38,020 --> 00:19:39,022 TO STATE LEGISLATURES TO CITY 743 00:19:39,024 --> 00:19:41,015 COUNCILS TO SHERIFFS. 744 00:19:41,017 --> 00:19:45,002 AND EVEN THAT WILL BE VERY MUCH 745 00:19:45,004 --> 00:19:46,016 A BEGINNING AND NOT AN END. 746 00:19:46,018 --> 00:19:49,006 NONE OF THIS IS EASY. 747 00:19:49,008 --> 00:19:50,028 BUT IT HAS TO BEGIN, AND NOW. 748 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,008 BECAUSE OUR CURRENT SITUATION IS 749 00:19:52,010 --> 00:19:52,026 COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. 750 00:19:52,028 --> 00:19:55,008 AND THE RNC THIS WEEK ACTUALLY 751 00:19:55,010 --> 00:19:57,003 ENDED UP BEING A PRETTY GOOD 752 00:19:57,005 --> 00:19:59,018 REMINDER THAT WHERE WE STILL 753 00:19:59,020 --> 00:20:00,019 MIGHT END UP GOING IS GENUINELY 754 00:20:00,021 --> 00:20:01,010 TERRIFYING. 755 00:20:01,012 --> 00:20:03,003 BECAUSE IF IT SHOWED US ONE 756 00:20:03,005 --> 00:20:04,014 THING THIS WEEK, IT'S THE DANGER 757 00:20:04,016 --> 00:20:05,025 IN CONTINUING TO BE GOVERNED 758 00:20:05,027 --> 00:20:07,020 BY AN ADMINISTRATION THAT 759 00:20:07,022 --> 00:20:08,026 ENCOURAGES THE UGLIEST FORCES IN 760 00:20:08,028 --> 00:20:10,021 AMERICAN SOCIETY, THAT LIONIZES 761 00:20:10,023 --> 00:20:11,029 THREATS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST 762 00:20:12,001 --> 00:20:13,012 PEACEFUL PROTEST, THAT TELLS US 763 00:20:13,014 --> 00:20:15,003 THERE IS NO CONFLICT BETWEEN 764 00:20:15,005 --> 00:20:17,017 SUPPORTING LAW ENFORCEMENT AND 765 00:20:17,019 --> 00:20:18,029 "OUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN 766 00:20:19,001 --> 00:20:20,002 NEIGHBORS," AND THAT INSISTS 767 00:20:20,004 --> 00:20:20,025 THAT THE "BEST IS YET TO COME," 768 00:20:20,027 --> 00:20:23,001 WHICH, GIVEN EVERYTHING WE'VE 769 00:20:23,003 --> 00:20:24,014 SEEN IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS, IS 770 00:20:24,016 --> 00:20:26,002 SOUNDING LESS LIKE A PROMISE AND 771 00:20:26,004 --> 00:20:27,018 MORE LIKE A FUCKING THREAT. 772 00:20:27,020 --> 00:20:28,018 AND NOW THIS. 773 00:20:28,020 --> 00:20:29,011 ♪ ♪ 774 00:20:29,013 --> 00:20:34,001 >> Announcer: AND NOW... 775 00:20:34,003 --> 00:20:36,015 THE RNC GETS OFF TO A GREAT 776 00:20:36,017 --> 00:20:37,003 START. 777 00:20:37,005 --> 00:20:38,028 >> IN THE STATE OF UTAH, WE 778 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,005 INTRODUCED THE WORLD TO THE 779 00:20:41,007 --> 00:20:41,012 FRISBEE. 780 00:20:41,014 --> 00:20:45,002 >> WE BRING YOU MICROCHIPS. 781 00:20:45,004 --> 00:20:45,009 CHEESES. 782 00:20:45,011 --> 00:20:47,010 AND MICROBREWERIES. 783 00:20:47,012 --> 00:20:50,020 WE ARE ALSO THE STATE OF THE 784 00:20:50,022 --> 00:20:52,027 HOME OF 785 00:20:52,029 --> 00:20:54,020 PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE. 786 00:20:54,022 --> 00:20:55,009 THANK YOU. 787 00:20:55,011 --> 00:20:56,026 >> THAT FREEDOM IS NOT AVAILABLE 788 00:20:56,028 --> 00:20:59,015 TO YOU IF YOU CAN'T GO TO YOUR 789 00:20:59,017 --> 00:21:00,026 PLACE OF BUSINESS OR DRIVE DOWN 790 00:21:00,028 --> 00:21:03,010 THE STREET WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING 791 00:21:03,012 --> 00:21:05,002 BITTEN -- BEATEN. 792 00:21:05,004 --> 00:21:06,020 MARYLAND IS HOME OF THE 793 00:21:06,022 --> 00:21:08,015 UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, AND TOO, 794 00:21:08,017 --> 00:21:11,011 OF OUR GREATEST SEGREGATION -- 795 00:21:11,013 --> 00:21:13,010 OF ABOLITIONISTS. 796 00:21:13,012 --> 00:21:15,020 >> MONTANA, AFFECTIONATELY AND 797 00:21:15,022 --> 00:21:19,004 ENTHUSIASTICALLY, GIVES ITS 798 00:21:19,006 --> 00:21:24,009 40 -- 27 VOTES TO THE NEXT -- 799 00:21:24,011 --> 00:21:24,029 THE PRESIDENT. 800 00:21:25,001 --> 00:21:29,001 >> I AM THE SON OF ANTHONY AND 801 00:21:29,003 --> 00:21:31,012 JUDY, AND I CAST OHIO'S 82 VOTES 802 00:21:31,014 --> 00:21:33,019 FOR DONALD DRAWN PRESIDENT. 803 00:21:33,021 --> 00:21:36,027 >> TODAY, WE PROUDLY AND HAPPILY 804 00:21:36,029 --> 00:21:38,022 CAST ALL 50 OF OUR VOTES FOR THE 805 00:21:38,024 --> 00:21:44,020 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 806 00:21:44,022 --> 00:21:46,003 JOHN TRUMP. 807 00:21:46,005 --> 00:21:46,016 >> DONALD J. TRUMP. 808 00:21:46,018 --> 00:21:47,020 >> MR. PRESIDENT AND 809 00:21:47,022 --> 00:21:49,024 MR. VICE PRESIDENT, YOU ARE 810 00:21:49,026 --> 00:21:52,012 REHIRED. 811 00:21:52,014 --> 00:21:53,015 >> John: MOVING ON. 812 00:21:53,017 --> 00:21:55,010 FINALLY TONIGHT, A QUICK UPDATE 813 00:21:55,012 --> 00:21:56,013 ABOUT DANBURY, CONNECTICUT. 814 00:21:56,015 --> 00:21:57,000 ALSO KNOWN AS THE HAT CITY, 815 00:21:57,002 --> 00:21:57,026 WHICH IS APPROPRIATE, BECAUSE 816 00:21:57,028 --> 00:21:58,021 MUCH LIKE THE BOWLER HAT, 817 00:21:58,023 --> 00:21:59,025 DANBURY IS A SUPERFLUOUS 818 00:21:59,027 --> 00:22:00,017 ACCESSORY WITH NO PRACTICAL 819 00:22:00,019 --> 00:22:01,009 PURPOSE THAT WENT OUT OF STYLE 820 00:22:01,011 --> 00:22:03,005 IN THE 1930s. 821 00:22:03,007 --> 00:22:06,000 NOW YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED, I'VE 822 00:22:06,002 --> 00:22:07,019 TAKEN A FEW CHEAP SHOTS LIKE 823 00:22:07,021 --> 00:22:08,015 THAT AT THE CITY OF DANBURY OVER 824 00:22:08,017 --> 00:22:09,007 THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. 825 00:22:09,009 --> 00:22:10,008 AND PERHAPS UNSURPRISINGLY, THE 826 00:22:10,010 --> 00:22:11,000 PEOPLE THERE HAVE TAKEN NOTICE. 827 00:22:11,002 --> 00:22:13,016 >> OLIVER DELIVERED A SCATHING 828 00:22:13,018 --> 00:22:16,020 SIDEBAR SMACKDOWN ABOUT DANBURY. 829 00:22:16,022 --> 00:22:17,009 AND THIS IS THE CLOSEST SNIPPET 830 00:22:17,011 --> 00:22:17,026 THAT WE COULD AIR WITHOUT 831 00:22:17,028 --> 00:22:18,023 GETTING OUR FCC LICENSE PULLED. 832 00:22:18,025 --> 00:22:22,015 WATCH THIS. 833 00:22:22,017 --> 00:22:23,021 >> John: 'CAUSE IF YOU'RE GOING 834 00:22:23,023 --> 00:22:24,022 TO FORGET A TOWN IN CONNECTICUT, 835 00:22:24,024 --> 00:22:25,022 WHY NOT FORGET DANBURY? 836 00:22:25,024 --> 00:22:29,022 BECAUSE, AND THIS IS TRUE, 837 00:22:29,024 --> 00:22:30,016 [BLEEP] DANBURY. 838 00:22:30,018 --> 00:22:31,012 I KNOW EXACTLY THREE THINGS 839 00:22:31,014 --> 00:22:32,012 ABOUT DANBURY: "USA TODAY" 840 00:22:32,014 --> 00:22:33,012 RANKED IT THE SECOND-BEST CITY 841 00:22:33,014 --> 00:22:35,009 TO LIVE IN IN 2015, IT WAS ONCE 842 00:22:35,011 --> 00:22:36,017 THE CENTER OF THE AMERICAN HAT 843 00:22:36,019 --> 00:22:37,026 INDUSTRY -- AND IF YOU'RE FROM 844 00:22:37,028 --> 00:22:39,005 THERE, YOU'VE GOT A STANDING 845 00:22:39,007 --> 00:22:39,028 INVITE TO COME GET A THRASHING 846 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:40,018 FROM JOHN OLIVER. 847 00:22:40,020 --> 00:22:43,015 CHILDREN INCLUDED. 848 00:22:43,017 --> 00:22:45,001 >> YEAH, THERE WAS -- YOU SHOULD 849 00:22:45,003 --> 00:22:49,004 WATCH THE CLIP, THERE'S NOT, 850 00:22:49,006 --> 00:22:50,029 LIKE I SAID, AS -- AS MY 851 00:22:51,001 --> 00:22:52,007 PRODUCER JOHN SAYS, THERE'S NOT 852 00:22:52,009 --> 00:22:53,001 A LOT -- THERE'S A LOT OF BLEEPS 853 00:22:53,003 --> 00:22:53,028 IN THAT ONE. 854 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:54,025 >> John: OKAY, DID I TELL 855 00:22:54,027 --> 00:22:55,029 DANBURY, A SEEMINGLY CHARMING, 856 00:22:56,001 --> 00:22:56,016 RANDOM CITY IN CONNECTICUT, 857 00:22:56,018 --> 00:22:59,001 TO GO FUCK ITSELF? 858 00:22:59,003 --> 00:23:00,009 YEAH, YEAH, I DID. 859 00:23:00,011 --> 00:23:01,007 DID I INVITE EVERYONE WHO LIVED 860 00:23:01,009 --> 00:23:01,028 THERE TO COME GET A THRASHING 861 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:02,025 FROM ME? 862 00:23:02,027 --> 00:23:03,026 I CAN'T DENY THAT. 863 00:23:03,028 --> 00:23:04,020 THE ONLY THING HE'S TECHNICALLY 864 00:23:04,022 --> 00:23:05,010 WRONG ABOUT IS WHEN HE SAYS 865 00:23:05,012 --> 00:23:06,006 THERE WERE A LOT OF BLEEPS IN 866 00:23:06,008 --> 00:23:12,004 THAT CLIP. 867 00:23:12,006 --> 00:23:13,017 BECAUSE I ONLY HEARD ONE BLEEP. 868 00:23:13,019 --> 00:23:14,016 THE SECOND TIME I SAID 869 00:23:14,018 --> 00:23:15,010 "FUCK DANBURY" THE AUDIO SEEMED 870 00:23:15,012 --> 00:23:16,003 TO CUT OUT. 871 00:23:16,005 --> 00:23:16,025 AND I'M WILLING TO ASSUME THAT 872 00:23:16,027 --> 00:23:17,029 WAS OUR FAULT. 873 00:23:18,001 --> 00:23:18,024 YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER: THIS 874 00:23:18,026 --> 00:23:19,025 NETWORK IS OPERATED BY AT&T. 875 00:23:19,027 --> 00:23:21,000 THAT'S RIGHT, BUSINESS DADDY! 876 00:23:21,002 --> 00:23:21,017 GUESS WHO'S SWINGING AGAIN! 877 00:23:21,019 --> 00:23:24,021 IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE 878 00:23:24,023 --> 00:23:25,011 WE'VE SPOKEN, HASN'T IT? 879 00:23:25,013 --> 00:23:26,004 HOW ARE THINGS WITH YOU? 880 00:23:26,006 --> 00:23:27,007 ME, I'M JUST SHELTERING IN A 881 00:23:27,009 --> 00:23:27,023 VOID, FIGHTING WITH SOME 882 00:23:27,025 --> 00:23:28,015 ZIP CODES IN CONNECTICUT AND 883 00:23:28,017 --> 00:23:29,010 MAY OR MAY NOT WISH TO 884 00:23:29,012 --> 00:23:30,025 BE MURDERED BY THE COSTAR OF 885 00:23:30,027 --> 00:23:31,007 "MARRIAGE STORY." 886 00:23:31,009 --> 00:23:32,003 IT'S BEEN A WEIRD FEW MONTHS. 887 00:23:32,005 --> 00:23:33,001 WE'VE GOT LOTS TO CATCH UP ON -- 888 00:23:33,003 --> 00:23:33,026 WE SHOULD PROBABLY TALK ON THE 889 00:23:33,028 --> 00:23:35,008 PHONE MORE, BUT I DO REALIZE 890 00:23:35,010 --> 00:23:38,007 THAT'S A BIG ASK FOR YOU. 891 00:23:38,009 --> 00:23:39,021 AND LOOK, I DID THINK THE PEOPLE 892 00:23:39,023 --> 00:23:40,021 OF DANBURY WOULD TAKE ISSUE WITH 893 00:23:40,023 --> 00:23:42,017 WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING. 894 00:23:42,019 --> 00:23:44,016 I DIDN'T EXPECT THEM TO SIMPLY 895 00:23:44,018 --> 00:23:46,001 SIT THERE AND COWER IN FEAR OF 896 00:23:46,003 --> 00:23:46,028 MY FISTS, PAUL HOLLYWOOD AND 897 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,006 MARY BERRY. 898 00:23:49,008 --> 00:23:50,012 WHAT I DIDN'T EXPECT WAS JUST 899 00:23:50,014 --> 00:23:51,000 HOW GREAT THEIR RESPONSE WOULD 900 00:23:51,002 --> 00:23:51,026 BE. 901 00:23:51,028 --> 00:23:53,010 BECAUSE DANBURY, AS ONE, 902 00:23:53,012 --> 00:23:54,018 HAS RISEN UP AND FOUGHT BACK 903 00:23:54,020 --> 00:23:56,027 MAGNIFICENTLY. 904 00:23:56,029 --> 00:23:57,023 TAKE THIS SURPRISINGLY 905 00:23:57,025 --> 00:23:59,001 WELL-PRODUCED RESPONSE FROM A 906 00:23:59,003 --> 00:24:02,011 CHILD WHO LIVES THERE: 907 00:24:02,013 --> 00:24:05,020 >> SO ACCORDING TO MY MOM, HBO'S 908 00:24:05,022 --> 00:24:10,003 COMEDIAN JOHN OLIVER -- 909 00:24:10,005 --> 00:24:12,008 JOHN OLIVER THREW SOME SHADE ON 910 00:24:12,010 --> 00:24:17,005 WHAT DANBURY HAS TO OFFER. 911 00:24:17,007 --> 00:24:21,007 THE THINGS YOU MENTIONED ABOUT 912 00:24:21,009 --> 00:24:23,012 DANBURY ARE SO YESTERDAY, LIKE 913 00:24:23,014 --> 00:24:25,027 AN ARTICLE FROM 2015. 914 00:24:25,029 --> 00:24:28,005 I WAS, LIKE, THREE-YEARS-OLD 915 00:24:28,007 --> 00:24:28,027 WHEN THAT CAME OUT! 916 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:29,023 THREE! 917 00:24:29,025 --> 00:24:31,009 >> John: WOW! 918 00:24:31,011 --> 00:24:36,008 THAT KID CAME IN HOT! 919 00:24:36,010 --> 00:24:37,009 AND THAT IS ALL GOOD. 920 00:24:37,011 --> 00:24:38,006 THE ONLY THING I OBJECT 921 00:24:38,008 --> 00:24:38,026 TO WAS HIM PUTTING MY NAME 922 00:24:38,028 --> 00:24:39,021 IN AIR QUOTES. 923 00:24:39,023 --> 00:24:40,013 BECAUSE, COME ON, KID! 924 00:24:40,015 --> 00:24:41,021 THIS IS MY ACTUAL NAME! 925 00:24:41,023 --> 00:24:42,025 IF I WAS GOING TO MAKE ONE UP, 926 00:24:42,027 --> 00:24:43,029 I WOULDN'T CHOOSE SOMETHING THAT 927 00:24:44,001 --> 00:24:44,018 MAKES ME SOUND LIKE A DICKENSIAN 928 00:24:44,020 --> 00:24:46,010 CARICATURE. 929 00:24:46,012 --> 00:24:47,012 I'D PICK SOMETHING INCREDIBLE 930 00:24:47,014 --> 00:24:48,028 LIKE J-SUAVE OR 931 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:53,004 BIG JOHNNY TWO-SOUPS. 932 00:24:53,006 --> 00:24:53,029 ALSO, FOR THE RECORD, THAT IS 933 00:24:54,001 --> 00:24:55,006 THE FIRST TIME ANYONE'S EVER 934 00:24:55,008 --> 00:24:57,011 LANDED A SUCCESSFUL BURN THAT 935 00:24:57,013 --> 00:24:57,027 STARTED WITH THE PHRASE, 936 00:24:57,029 --> 00:24:59,019 "ACCORDING TO MY MOM." 937 00:24:59,021 --> 00:25:01,011 KUDOS, KID. 938 00:25:01,013 --> 00:25:02,015 BUT THAT BOY WASN'T DANBURY'S 939 00:25:02,017 --> 00:25:02,025 ONLY DEFENDER. 940 00:25:02,027 --> 00:25:03,028 THERE WAS ALSO THIS OFFICIAL 941 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:04,022 RESPONSE FROM THE DANBURY HAT 942 00:25:04,024 --> 00:25:05,010 TRICKS, THEIR LOCAL PRO HOCKEY 943 00:25:05,012 --> 00:25:06,007 TEAM. 944 00:25:06,009 --> 00:25:07,013 >> JOHN MAKES SEVERAL VALID 945 00:25:07,015 --> 00:25:08,027 POINTS. 946 00:25:08,029 --> 00:25:10,001 OUR RAILWAY MUSEUM IS QUITE 947 00:25:10,003 --> 00:25:10,029 CHARMING, AND WE DO WEAR OUR 948 00:25:11,001 --> 00:25:13,026 "HAT CITY" MONIKER PROUDLY. 949 00:25:13,028 --> 00:25:15,000 HE DID HIS RESEARCH LIKE ANY 950 00:25:15,002 --> 00:25:15,020 INTREPID REPORTER SHOULD, WHICH 951 00:25:15,022 --> 00:25:16,017 HE IS. 952 00:25:16,019 --> 00:25:18,005 THAT IS, WHEN HE'S NOT TAKING 953 00:25:18,007 --> 00:25:20,008 BREAKS TO FILM SUCH CINEMATIC 954 00:25:20,010 --> 00:25:22,003 CLASSICS AS "THE SMURFS," 955 00:25:22,005 --> 00:25:26,010 "WONDER PARK," OR MY PERSONAL 956 00:25:26,012 --> 00:25:28,001 FAVORITE, AND THIS IS TRUE, HIS 957 00:25:28,003 --> 00:25:28,022 ICONIC ROLE AS DICK PANTS IN THE 958 00:25:28,024 --> 00:25:29,016 "LOVE GURU." 959 00:25:29,018 --> 00:25:31,012 THERE IS ONE AREA, THOUGH, WHERE 960 00:25:31,014 --> 00:25:32,013 JOHN DID NOT DO HIS HOMEWORK, 961 00:25:32,015 --> 00:25:33,019 AND THAT IS, OF COURSE, THE IDEA 962 00:25:33,021 --> 00:25:34,028 THAT HE COULD GIVE ANYONE IN 963 00:25:35,001 --> 00:25:36,008 DANBURY A "THRASHING." 964 00:25:36,010 --> 00:25:38,013 >> John: AGAIN, VERY GOOD. 965 00:25:38,015 --> 00:25:39,029 HONESTLY, DANBURY MIGHT WANT TO 966 00:25:40,001 --> 00:25:41,004 SERIOUSLY CONSIDER CHANGING ITS 967 00:25:41,006 --> 00:25:42,011 NICKNAME FROM "THE HAT CITY," TO 968 00:25:42,013 --> 00:25:44,004 "THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO SEEM MORE 969 00:25:44,006 --> 00:25:45,009 THAN CAPABLE OF TAKING OVER MY 970 00:25:45,011 --> 00:25:46,025 JOB" CITY. 971 00:25:46,027 --> 00:25:47,014 ALTHOUGH I'M NOT SURE WHY THEY'D 972 00:25:47,016 --> 00:25:50,006 WANT IT. 973 00:25:50,008 --> 00:25:51,003 YES, WE BOTH LIVE IN SAD, EMPTY 974 00:25:51,005 --> 00:25:51,024 VOIDS WHERE HOPE GOES TO DIE, 975 00:25:51,026 --> 00:25:52,022 BUT AT LEAST DANBURY HAS 976 00:25:52,024 --> 00:25:53,021 A RAILWAY MUSEUM. 977 00:25:53,023 --> 00:25:55,008 WE HAVEN'T HAD ONE OF THOSE 978 00:25:55,010 --> 00:25:57,005 SINCE SEASON FOUR. 979 00:25:57,007 --> 00:25:58,019 BUT THE STRONGEST RESPONSE BY 980 00:25:58,021 --> 00:25:59,023 FAR ACTUALLY CAME FROM THE MAYOR 981 00:25:59,025 --> 00:26:02,011 OF DANBURY HIMSELF. 982 00:26:02,013 --> 00:26:05,003 >> BEHIND ME, YOU'LL SEE THE 983 00:26:05,005 --> 00:26:07,009 CITY OF DANBURY SEWER PLANT, AND 984 00:26:07,011 --> 00:26:08,018 WE ARE GONNA RENAME IT THE 985 00:26:08,020 --> 00:26:09,006 "JOHN OLIVER MEMORIAL SEWER 986 00:26:09,008 --> 00:26:09,024 PLANT." 987 00:26:09,026 --> 00:26:16,019 WHY? 988 00:26:16,021 --> 00:26:18,018 BECAUSE IT'S FULL OF [BLEEP] 989 00:26:18,020 --> 00:26:19,011 JUST LIKE YOU, JOHN. 990 00:26:19,013 --> 00:26:20,007 >> John:EXCELLENT. 991 00:26:20,009 --> 00:26:21,020 SIMPLY EXCELLENT. 992 00:26:21,022 --> 00:26:22,028 JUST CALLING IT THE "JOHN OLIVER 993 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:23,024 SEWER PLANT" WOULD HAVE 994 00:26:23,026 --> 00:26:25,001 COMFORTABLY BEEN ENOUGH. 995 00:26:25,003 --> 00:26:25,023 THEY WENT A STEP FARTHER AND 996 00:26:25,025 --> 00:26:27,006 WENT WITH THE "JOHN OLIVER 997 00:26:27,008 --> 00:26:28,002 "MEMORIAL" SEWER PLANT," WHICH 998 00:26:28,004 --> 00:26:29,000 IS COMPLETELY APPROPRIATE, 999 00:26:29,002 --> 00:26:30,012 BECAUSE IT DOES SEEM THAT I'VE 1000 00:26:30,014 --> 00:26:31,014 JUST BEEN MURDERED BY THE CITY 1001 00:26:31,016 --> 00:26:32,027 OF DANBURY. 1002 00:26:32,029 --> 00:26:33,025 AND I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT 1003 00:26:33,027 --> 00:26:34,025 THIS, NOT JUST BECAUSE THAT'S 1004 00:26:34,027 --> 00:26:36,000 A SUPERB JOKE, BUT BECAUSE I 1005 00:26:36,002 --> 00:26:37,013 KNOW JUST HOW VALUABLE THAT 1006 00:26:37,015 --> 00:26:40,013 POOP FACTORY IS TO DANBURY. 1007 00:26:40,015 --> 00:26:43,015 WE DUG INTO THEIR 2019-2020 1008 00:26:43,017 --> 00:26:44,016 ADOPTED BUDGET AND FOUND THAT 1009 00:26:44,018 --> 00:26:45,011 DANBURY'S SEWER SYSTEM WAS BY 1010 00:26:45,013 --> 00:26:46,007 FAR THE MOST EXPENSIVE PUBLIC 1011 00:26:46,009 --> 00:26:47,002 UTILITY PROJECT FOR THAT 1012 00:26:47,004 --> 00:26:48,019 FISCAL YEAR. 1013 00:26:48,021 --> 00:26:51,001 THEY SPENT $103 MILLION DOLLARS 1014 00:26:51,003 --> 00:26:54,019 UPGRADING IT, MORE THAN 20 TIMES 1015 00:26:54,021 --> 00:26:55,027 THEIR NEXT BUDGET ITEM. 1016 00:26:55,029 --> 00:26:56,020 AND NORMALLY, I'D MAKE SOME EASY 1017 00:26:56,022 --> 00:26:57,022 JOKE ABOUT DANBURY BEING A TOWN 1018 00:26:57,024 --> 00:26:58,026 SO BACKED UP WITH SHIT THAT IT 1019 00:26:58,028 --> 00:27:00,028 HAD TO SPEND NINE FIGURES ON 1020 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,015 FIXING THEIR SEWAGE SYSTEM, BUT 1021 00:27:02,017 --> 00:27:04,006 THE TRUTH IS, MY OPINION OF THE 1022 00:27:04,008 --> 00:27:05,021 CITY HAS NOW CHANGED. 1023 00:27:05,023 --> 00:27:07,004 PREVIOUSLY, I'D HAVE SEEN THIS 1024 00:27:07,006 --> 00:27:09,010 IMAGE OF A MINK ABOUT TO DIVE 1025 00:27:09,012 --> 00:27:10,019 INTO CANDLEWOOD LAKE, AND 1026 00:27:10,021 --> 00:27:11,008 ASSUMED IT WAS UNDERSTANDABLY 1027 00:27:11,010 --> 00:27:12,018 TRYING TO DROWN ITSELF BECAUSE 1028 00:27:12,020 --> 00:27:18,005 OF ITS PROXIMITY TO DANBURY. 1029 00:27:18,007 --> 00:27:20,006 BUT NOW I KNOW THAT'S SIMPLY 1030 00:27:20,008 --> 00:27:20,012 WRONG. 1031 00:27:20,014 --> 00:27:21,003 THAT MINK'S PROBABLY GOT A 1032 00:27:21,005 --> 00:27:22,004 DECENT YOUTUBE SHOW -- 1033 00:27:22,006 --> 00:27:23,002 EVERYONE IN DANBURY SEEMS TO. 1034 00:27:23,004 --> 00:27:24,003 IT'S AN INCREDIBLE PLACE. 1035 00:27:24,005 --> 00:27:25,000 AND THE TRUTH IS, THINGS HAVE 1036 00:27:25,002 --> 00:27:26,022 BEEN SO BLEAK RECENTLY, I NEEDED 1037 00:27:26,024 --> 00:27:27,023 SOMETHING LIKE THIS. 1038 00:27:27,025 --> 00:27:28,021 SOMETHING TO RESTORE MY FAITH 1039 00:27:28,023 --> 00:27:33,024 IN HUMAN NATURE. 1040 00:27:33,026 --> 00:27:34,021 AND THAT IS WHY I WAS SO 1041 00:27:34,023 --> 00:27:36,000 INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTED TO 1042 00:27:36,002 --> 00:27:36,022 THEN SEE THIS. 1043 00:27:36,024 --> 00:27:38,013 >> OUR VIDEO IS IN JEST. 1044 00:27:38,015 --> 00:27:40,000 WE'RE NOT REALLY GONNA NAME THE 1045 00:27:40,002 --> 00:27:41,018 SEWER PLANT AFTER JOHN OLIVER. 1046 00:27:41,020 --> 00:27:43,027 HOWEVER, HE STILL IS FULL OF 1047 00:27:43,029 --> 00:27:46,029 [BLEEP], SO I'LL STICK BY THAT. 1048 00:27:47,001 --> 00:27:47,029 >> John: WAIT, SO YOU'RE NOT 1049 00:27:48,001 --> 00:27:49,002 DOING IT? 1050 00:27:49,004 --> 00:27:50,002 OH, FUCK YOU, DANBURY! 1051 00:27:50,004 --> 00:27:51,000 YOU HAD THE FIRST GOOD IDEA 1052 00:27:51,002 --> 00:27:53,005 IN YOUR CITY'S HISTORY AND 1053 00:27:53,007 --> 00:27:53,029 YOU CHICKENED OUT ON THE 1054 00:27:54,001 --> 00:27:55,008 FOLLOW THROUGH? 1055 00:27:55,010 --> 00:27:57,001 WHAT A CLASSIC DANBURY MOVE. 1056 00:27:57,003 --> 00:27:57,008 LISTEN. 1057 00:27:57,010 --> 00:27:58,029 I DIDN'T KNOW I WANTED MY NAME 1058 00:27:59,001 --> 00:27:59,028 ON YOUR SHIT FACTORY, BUT NOW 1059 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,001 THAT YOU'VE FLOATED IT AS AN 1060 00:28:04,003 --> 00:28:05,000 OPTION, IT IS ALL I WANT. 1061 00:28:05,002 --> 00:28:06,002 SO LET'S GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS 1062 00:28:06,004 --> 00:28:07,003 HERE, BECAUSE I'VE GOT A VERY 1063 00:28:07,005 --> 00:28:09,021 SERIOUS PROPOSITION. 1064 00:28:09,023 --> 00:28:10,025 I WILL DONATE $55,000 TO 1065 00:28:10,027 --> 00:28:12,004 CHARITIES IN YOUR AREA -- 1066 00:28:12,006 --> 00:28:13,028 $25,000 TO THIS FOOD BANK, 1067 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,024 ANOTHER $25,000 TO FILL ALL 1068 00:28:15,026 --> 00:28:16,022 THE REQUESTS, AS OF THIS TAPING, 1069 00:28:16,024 --> 00:28:19,000 FROM DANBURY SCHOOLTEACHERS ON 1070 00:28:19,002 --> 00:28:21,012 DONORS CHOOSE, AND $5,000 TO ALS 1071 00:28:21,014 --> 00:28:22,017 CONNECTICUT -- APPARENTLY A 1072 00:28:22,019 --> 00:28:23,023 CAUSE CLOSE TO THE HOST OF 1073 00:28:23,025 --> 00:28:24,021 THE DANBURY HAT TRICK'S VIDEO. 1074 00:28:24,023 --> 00:28:26,001 AND I WILL HAPPILY DO ALL OF 1075 00:28:26,003 --> 00:28:27,024 THAT IF, AND ONLY IF, YOUR 1076 00:28:27,026 --> 00:28:29,002 MAYOR MAKES GOOD ON HIS PROMISE 1077 00:28:29,004 --> 00:28:29,024 TO OFFICIALLY NAME THAT SEWAGE 1078 00:28:29,026 --> 00:28:30,016 PLANT AFTER ME. 1079 00:28:30,018 --> 00:28:31,024 BECAUSE I WANT THIS. 1080 00:28:31,026 --> 00:28:36,000 I NEED THIS. 1081 00:28:36,002 --> 00:28:37,009 AND IF YOUR MAYOR IS THINKING, 1082 00:28:37,011 --> 00:28:38,007 "HOLD ON -- THAT SIGN WAS JUST A 1083 00:28:38,009 --> 00:28:38,023 PHOTOSHOP. 1084 00:28:38,025 --> 00:28:39,029 I'M NOT GOING TO SPEND PUBLIC 1085 00:28:40,001 --> 00:28:43,006 MONEY TO MAKE A REAL ONE" -- 1086 00:28:43,008 --> 00:28:47,002 DON'T WORRY, THAT HAS BEEN TAKEN 1087 00:28:47,004 --> 00:28:47,023 CARE OF FOR YOU. 1088 00:28:47,025 --> 00:28:48,024 SO TO YOU, MR. MAYOR, I SAY 1089 00:28:48,026 --> 00:28:49,013 THIS, YOU HAVE EXACTLY ONE WEEK 1090 00:28:49,015 --> 00:28:51,000 TO RESPOND TO THIS OFFER. 1091 00:28:51,002 --> 00:28:52,008 AND PLEASE, I BEG OF YOU, DON'T 1092 00:28:52,010 --> 00:28:53,017 DANBURY THIS ONE UP. 1093 00:28:53,019 --> 00:28:56,011 BECAUSE IF I DON'T HEAR FROM YOU 1094 00:28:56,013 --> 00:28:57,028 IN ONE WEEK, THIS WHOLE OFFER 1095 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:58,027 -- CHARITY DONATION, THE SIGN, 1096 00:28:58,029 --> 00:28:59,019 EVERYTHING -- OPENS UP TO YOUR 1097 00:28:59,021 --> 00:29:00,029 RIVAL TOWNS. 1098 00:29:01,001 --> 00:29:01,022 YEAH, I'M TALKING ABOUT 1099 00:29:01,024 --> 00:29:02,009 WATERBURY. 1100 00:29:02,011 --> 00:29:04,025 I'M TALKING ABOUT MILFORD. 1101 00:29:04,027 --> 00:29:05,010 I'M EVEN TALKING ABOUT 1102 00:29:05,012 --> 00:29:07,022 TORRINGTON. 1103 00:29:07,024 --> 00:29:12,027 YEAH, DANBURY, TORRINGTON! 1104 00:29:12,029 --> 00:29:13,015 I AWAIT YOUR RESPONSE WITH 1105 00:29:13,017 --> 00:29:14,013 INTEREST! 1106 00:29:14,015 --> 00:29:15,005 THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. 1107 00:29:15,007 --> 00:29:16,001 WE'RE OFF THE NEXT COUPLE OF 1108 00:29:16,003 --> 00:29:16,018 WEEKS, BACK SEPTEMBER 27th. 1109 00:29:16,020 --> 00:29:19,022 SEE YOU THEN, GOOD NIGHT! 1110 00:29:19,024 --> 00:29:21,003 YOUR MOVE, DANBURY. 1111 00:29:21,005 --> 00:29:22,001 YOUR MOVE. 1112 00:29:22,003 --> 00:29:24,003 I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. 1113 00:29:24,005 --> 00:29:26,017 I WANT MY SEWAGE PLANT! 1114 00:29:26,019 --> 00:29:35,008 ♪ ♪