S1 E12: Nuclear Weapons, Russian Geckos & Thailand: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 

You look like such a adorable princess...

I was soooo confused

I thought this was.

Ukraine is sliding into anarchy, the Gaza ceasefire is tenuous... oof.

I only realized this was a decade-old episode when the segment about nuclear weapons started to feel like I've seen it already.

Yessssss I looked so hard for that and it was nowhere!! gah!

Hi, IMDB says it aired on Sun.,July 27,2014. So, almost 10 years ago.

I Googled it....season 1 started in 2014 I noticed there have been several Donald trump jokes and this is long before the he came to power.

​@@southsirenThat's because he's always been an attention whore.

I thought he looked young

Not really, no. All this took off in 1948

Today in the news: tensions in the Middle East

Only if human history began in 1948, sure.

@@TheGreatAtariono that region has been in war and turmoil every decade for 3500 years

@@TheGreatAtarioyou obviously don’t know your history that region has been having wars every decade for thousands of years

I just have HBO for house of dragon. Johnny Ollie lives on my yt feed for free lol

As a professional gastrointestinal professional.. I can't afford HBO Max.. nor food.. please help me..

Your mom

Me

Yea, why do we do this?

Gaza is never out of the headlines😂😂

Hahahaha!

It does, John never talks about Ukraine now. Western leftists are no longer interested, because they can't blame it on the west.

War. War never changes.

This video was from nearly 10 years ago!

I was just thinking to myself.... "wait.... why does he look... so young..... "

Thank you! I thought I was seeing things lol

So is it old?

This has to be old -- look at his teeth. He had those points-and-gaps fixed years ago.

​@satyamsingh4653 Yes. They announced they're releasing season 1 on RU-vid, with more years coming.

lol here on YT.

Idk if it’s so much repeating itself as much as it’s always been like that.

I just hope we do not have the same fate as those geckos. RIP geckos.

A bit like my grandma then

@@AjarnSpencerand even worse

It could be any point in the last decade and it would still be 100% accurate. 😊

@@D64nz Any point since 2010; I don't know history before that but I suspect that the Ukraine has been in trouble for decades, pulled by Western money and Russian loyalty.

Intimidation, bribing and eventually military invasion is not loyalty. 2014 is the year russia invaded Ukraine for the first time if you forgot @@daledewar

The point isn't "are we better than Russia" we all know Russia is the bottom of the barrel. If you're being compared to RUSSIA of all places about anything, things are seriously wrong!

​@myfaceismyshield5963 I feel that he meant the scary part is that Russia has more nuclear weapons, and is doing a worse job with maintaining their stuff.

@@myfaceismyshield5963 The United State’s nuclear arsenal is your shield. Not your face. And it works. Not quite as well as your face preventing you from getting laid, but it does work… ~ former Global Strike Airman Thank you @dougmackenzie5976

I hope they don't misfire as do your neurons when trying to formulate arguments.

100% I'm not sure why lukilladog is so negative, but I appreciate you sharing your opinion as a nuclear weapons tech.

The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades Timbuk 3 I study nuclear science I love my classes I got a crazy teacher He wears dark glasses Things are goin' great And they're only gettin' better I'm doin' all right Gettin' good grades The future's so bright I gotta wear shades I gotta wear shades I got a job waitin' For my graduation Fifty thou a year Will buy a lotta beer Things are goin' great And they're only gettin' better I'm doin' all right Gettin' good grades The future's so bright I gotta wear shades I gotta wear shades Well I'm heavenly blessed And worldly wise I'm a peeping Tom techie With x-ray eyes Things are goin' great And they're only gettin' better I'm doin' all right Gettin' good grades The future's so bright I gotta wear shades I gotta wear shades I study nuclear science I love my classes I got a crazy teacher He wears dark glasses Things are goin' great And they're only gettin' better I'm doin' all right Gettin' good grades The future's so bright I gotta wear shades I gotta wear shades I gotta wear shades I gotta wear shades

I STUDY NUCLEAR SCIENCE I LOVE MY CLASSES I GOT A CRAZY TEACHER HE WEARS DARK GLASSES

@@user-te7tx1wf8i Things are going bad, and they`re only getting worse.

Or we can just assume the date based on the amount of grey hair on John’s head

someone should make an algorithm to derive that! 😅

LOL. No, a USB stick will do the same dude... it also requires physical interaction with the actual pc. LOL

@@Jinkypigs A floppy disk is made with 7 very basic simple components. Its consists of a magnetic disk, shutter, spring, hub, paper rings, write-protect tab and a plastic flap. A USB drive consists of a motherboard, memory chips, controller chip, capacitors, resistors, crystal oscillators and however many other components a manufacturer decides to put on it. A floppy disk can easily be repaired without losing any of the stored data. A USB drive can easily have one of many components fail which would result in all data being lost. He was also referring to obsolete tech in general and that was just one example. I think the main point he was getting at is modern day hackers are born into the world of high speed internet and probably have not even used a operating system as old as Windows XP let alone the operating systems our nuclear silos are using from the 70s. Using old tech is a safety features because there is not many people in todays world that would know how to hack it or even use it for that matter. Those old systems are strictly offline and locally networked whereas modern military systems are networked through military satellites etc and are vulnerable to potential attacks. Older systems are also way more reliable and simple which makes them easier to maintain and keep running. The reason they still use a computer thats 50 years old is in contrast by the fact its 50 years old and it still works. Go buy a modern laptop from best buy and tell me if it still works 50 years later. As the old saying goes if its not broke dont fix it. Its just like how the USA was using Russian Soyuz capsules to get to and from the international space station for decades and only up until recently did they start using spacex etc to shuttle astronauts to the space station. They did that for the exact same reason, The Soyuz ran off of computers from the 70s and they never updated it because why update something and make it more complicated and unreliable when it works perfectly fine and has had nearly a 100% success rate. Its been through all the testing, they know how it works and how to fix any issues. Why slap in a modern computer system that has 100x more components that can fail and a less likely chance that the average technician can fix it?

So they never got the geckos?😔😢

​@@STSWB5SG1FANSadly, no. But at least they didn't starve to death-they froze.

I'm assuming they realized they could get AdSense revenue for basically no cost, it's easier to find it here than on DailyMotion or Vimeo or whatever (and better SEO) ETA: heck they've made ten bucks from this video already, pays for itself

This is the release of the season 1 playlist; they’re archiving the episodes

I think they're doing this because John is now in jail in Thailand. Or Denmark. Or the Netherlands. Or in some other country where he said something bad about them. Basically, this is a new version of "Where in the World is Waldo?" starring John. ;)

They never upload full episodes that are recent which sucks

@@ThePCExpertAmateur We know it's not Japan: ChiiJohn is a Beloved Icon!

Its the clone 😅

Who is this British puffin?

THIS WAS 2014?!?!?

Hate to break it to you, but I was born in the year of the Arab-Isreali war and it hasn't stopped since.

M83 MIDNIGHT. CITY

OFFICIAL VIDEO

This episode aired on July 27, 2014.

The entire list is here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Last_Week_Tonight_with_John_Oliver_episodes

It said season 1 ep 12

@@stinga_ that's the ep number not an air date. This was dropped in Summer of 2014 I had to google it to find out. too many steps, most people wont bother.

If you watch stuff on 2x speed what the fuck is the point?

​@@perrywcliftonto save half the time! I usually put most American content on 1.25x at least, gets the yanks to their point

​@@perrywclifton Efficiency

Also because of ISIS

Yes, and yet, the nuclear stuff probably still hasn't been fixed because we're sending DoD money to countries like Israel and Ukraine.

And Obama was president.

I thought so too but he kept mentioning 2023 statistics and '24 events. The hair and the constant use of Obama pics had me thinking one way but the Gaza mentions and the...nevermind just googled russian space geckos and on another show in January 2015 Oliver's Eulogizing the now dead Russian Space Geckos. I guess Gaza being a religiously inspired and maintained geo-canker on the Earth's face is a perennial thing.

@@SmallSpoonBrigade Ukraine is being invaded by Russia, The US military's entire raison detre is to counter Russian military expansion, I wouldn't compare that to helping Israel perpetrating its genocide.

I suspect the geckos turned off the cameras and took the satellite back to their home planet. 😉⭐️

you only almost got taken off the map (was it twice now? I forgot what that missing fighter jet was carrying) Anyways, how bout that NFL Draft?

It doesn't help that it's in the middle of a cow pasture. People know more about the Tybee incident in Georgia because it was on a beach.

I live 20 minutes away and I’ve been by the area the broken arrow happened at!

Damn shame really

Unfortunately the entire region of North Africa and the Middle East has terrible women’s rights

@@jaquanpowell4605hey now, Tunisia and Morocco have women’s rights in their constitution. Especially Tunisia is quite decent. It’s sadly very much and Egyptian, Somalia, Eritrea situation

@@MrJimheeren Oh ok that’s good I was wrong about something bad

@@jaquanpowell4605that shows good character and strength, when admitting you were wrong.

Haha, ya it always makes me cringe but you know like most of the U.S. pronounces it that way... unfortunately 😂

@@violetlove3580 I missed it… Time code?

Right!? It's "Or-reg-gun" people!

See yourself out.😅

My favorite is seeing how quickly those videos they made became out of date because we figured out how to slap them on rockets.