S11 E09: UFOs, Gaza Protests & Islamophobia: 4/21/24: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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John Oliver explains why we need honest inquiry into UFO sightings, covers the week’s protests in the US over the war in Gaza, and recaps Adeel Mangi’s confirmation hearing.
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Thanks once again for the full episode for those outside US
@zima2252
11 күн бұрын
Geoblocking was so stupid, I'm surprise these executives have a working brain now
@mainaccount4585
11 күн бұрын
It's been nine weeks since full episodes were released. How about writing an original, insightful comment about the episode itself?
@UnicornsPoopRainbows
11 күн бұрын
@@mainaccount4585 HBO doesn't care. It's engagement
@user-lf8yv6qw6d
11 күн бұрын
@@mainaccount4585how bout u stop bein a dick and let people enjoy shit eh
@mohammadalzaimmohdhassan4923
11 күн бұрын
@@mainaccount4585 We're in KZread comments, not an academic forum, mainaccount4585.
John Oliver seems like somebody you'd meet in passing during an alien abduction
@easytiger78
11 күн бұрын
Nah he's just from Birmingham. We're all like that.
@helvete983
11 күн бұрын
No he'd be the manager you asked to see.
@agonyaunt6325
11 күн бұрын
@@easytiger78 Ozzy Osbourne is a Bruimmie.... theory confirmed!
@aribantala
10 күн бұрын
@@easytiger78 True, a Brummie is the closest we can get of easily observable Extraterrestrials
@dr.davidenglish778
10 күн бұрын
Yes, because he'd be enjoying the free probing.
Correction: You *shouldn't* eat books. But you can, if you're committed.
@0Clewi0
11 күн бұрын
A man once ate a flying machine
@gametheorymedia
11 күн бұрын
Some of those who *are* committed probably do,.occasionally 🧐
@msul78
11 күн бұрын
If you are committed to an insane asylum
@viiranen
11 күн бұрын
anything is possible. once.
@singingsunflower9000
11 күн бұрын
This is the wrong guy for corrections, although thats a fun idea, correcting other hosts?!
Jesus Christ, poor Mangi, I can't imagine trying to stay professional through that kind of "questioning". Like, sirs, I'm a judge and a law scholar, not some kind of cultural ambassador.
@TheKueiJin
11 күн бұрын
The only other "questionings" i know of is the one of Tik Tok and (vaguely) Suckersbergs. So... it's kinda the norm?
@alexandersmith6140
11 күн бұрын
The Republican-nominated judges were nominated precisely because they were some kind of cultural ambassador.
@danilooliveira6580
11 күн бұрын
the saddest part is that you can't even blame the people that believe in those arguments. when you are a fox news watcher and you don't have the context, all that missinformation looks very compelling, and they know those same people won't look for the context because they don't care or don't know that there is any. it's just depressing to think about, how do you even fight that ?
@Drunken_Master
11 күн бұрын
Maybe he could go back to Pakistan and avoid such questions.
@AV-es3cn
11 күн бұрын
@@Drunken_Master He's an American.
In times of ridiculous paywalls, this full free episodes are too nice 😊 you spoil us Juan Oliva 🤩
@aldolazuardy6697
11 күн бұрын
thank you João Oliveira 🎉
@yyyy-uv3po
11 күн бұрын
Merci, Jean Olivier.
@Johndtreadwell
11 күн бұрын
Спасибо, Джон Оливер.
@genethejean1906
11 күн бұрын
Multumesc, Ioan Maslinescu!
@Shin0BixD
10 күн бұрын
Tack, Johan Oliv!
"You're thinking of Religion"-joke starting at @24.10 is such a brilliantly visious and perfectly delivered truth-joke. Something that you simply just have to applaud.
The laugh of that woman when he says "Deep Mouths" is both hilarious and disturbing! 😂😂
@airplanes_aren.t_real
11 күн бұрын
She was imagining several distressing scenarios
@nahuelma97
10 күн бұрын
I absolutely adore the fact that that joke is exactly, precisely, accurately at the 50% mark of the video. Just hit 5 on your keyboard and you'll be at John saying "mouths"
Physicist here. While many of the more recent UFO videos are not very clear (as in the 1990s), they are certainly different, as their sources are more respectable: videos from military sources. However, e.g. the case of triangular craft on night vision cameras can indeed be drones, I use infrared scopes at work and it's hard to know where to focus the image if you don't quite know the distance to the object. And yes, some diffraction patterns can distort the image. Beyond that I couldn't say anything, as you need more data. Usually an image is not enough to say that something is something. On the other hand the videos coming from military aircraft are still from night vision cameras and also moving at hundreds of kilometers per hour! If you have seen NASA videos taken from airplanes, you will see that it is difficult to assume what is the position and speed of the object. And this is because of problems with parallax, that is, the relative velocity of the object according to its background, and it can be confusing. This 4-hour video deals precisely with these interpretation failures due to parallax. It is similar to when from a car we see an airplane, about to land, stop in the air. It is not that the plane is stopped, what happens is that the relative movements of both (the plane and the car) are such that they make the plane seem motionless. And yes, we need a lot more boring explanations. And in turn, we need ordinary people to look at the sky again, in an educated way at typical atmospheric phenomena and astronomical objects, so that they do not fall into easy ways out. And if it is necessary to say, I don't know, not to feel ashamed for looking for a boring explanation, which if we apply Ockam's razor, surely is the most plausible one.
@Per_TP
11 күн бұрын
Thanks for the input. I have been pretty interested in the subject since 2017 after the New York Times article. But I'm like you looking for a simple explanation. I don't believe but also have a opened mind. I don't even know if I want it to be true because what would that even mean for the future?
@Zett76
11 күн бұрын
I have a master's degree in psychology. I have seen ghosts. I know that they don't exist, that there is no solid evidence of their existence at all, and that there are PLENTY of good explanations why some of us see them... but I've seen them. ;)
@cannadodry7022
11 күн бұрын
Alien here. No its us, trust me.
@kilppa
11 күн бұрын
Thank you. The goose flying in the "ufo" feed is a good example of that. We should all remember what UFO is short for.
@FelipeKana1
11 күн бұрын
Great comment! I just want to add that I hope the scientists that get to study this phenomena really don't get there with pre existing assumptions. Like, for real. Way too many scientists have mottos like "it's never aliens", even for weird astronomical and astrophysical phenomena, and just kicking out an hypothesis beforehand is not scientific.
That title drew me here faster than a Horse on Crack
@causti9744
11 күн бұрын
What are you doing with your horse, ma? Is it you, Bojack?
@aserta
11 күн бұрын
You mean Bear... right? Cocaine Bear?
@TalkAsSoftAsChalk
11 күн бұрын
Bojack ???
@miauzure3960
11 күн бұрын
that was intentional, add a title that nobody can resist (UFO) but also inject a lot of pathetic propaganda at the beginning, so that as much people as possible will be regularly brainwashed before incoming elections
@marturb2581
11 күн бұрын
@@TalkAsSoftAsChalk A cartoon, Bojack Horseman
John brought the geography guesing game of which is the real country into space, and as an astronomy nerd, I'm all in for it!
@SetiSupreme
11 күн бұрын
I was bamboozled for a second by the second picture because it had the same green hue that Venus has on it's surface under the clouds. Those russian probes are to blame/thank that we got actual images of that hellscape!
@hundredfireify
11 күн бұрын
@@SetiSupreme Venus doesn't look green at all though..
@Awoken_Remmuz
11 күн бұрын
Funny enough I'm not super into Astronomy but even I knew he was doing the fake outs, that's because as a gamer, I played games where those moons are playable locations X3
@SetiSupreme
11 күн бұрын
@@hundredfireify I know it doesn't but when you're on the surface, everything has this green/yellow tinge. That's why the image of Venus is greenish in my mind.
@danilooliveira6580
11 күн бұрын
@@SetiSupreme for me if they had shown titan with the clouds I would have been banboozled, but they used the infrared image showing titan's surface, and it's very distinct from Venus. but Io is impossible to confuse.
"If a protest doesn't inconvenience, it's not a protest; it's a picnic"
@iglidor
11 күн бұрын
Protest should inconvenience those who are in charge of the thing you are protesting against. if you are inconvenience to regular people who have nothing to do with whatever grief you have, you are just asshole.
@germangru
11 күн бұрын
but doesn't it makes ir harder to get support? if you get out or your way to make random people feel worse you won't get sympathy for the cause, just more people saying fuck palestine
@AloisMahdal
11 күн бұрын
@@germangru when is the last time you supported views of someone who had a picnic in a park? The way I see it a protest will split the undecided mass, so certainly some (sometimes most) of them will turn against the protesters, but I doubt there's another way. But I think it's interesting to think about how exactly the people will make their decision. Often times when I talk to people about protests, they seem to be concerned mostly about the form of the protest. Like if that was the main point. For example, it often goes like this: people are concerned about safety and environmental (both local and global) impact of SUV's in cities. They feel that this issue is urgent. They go out and block some streets. Later I talk to people and even though some will acknowledge problems with SUV's, they seem to fall back on "but those protesters did that thing" and fail to see how "that thing" is negligible when compared to all the problems they are trying to prevent from happening. Ultimately everyone has to make their own decision but when it comes to protests we must learn to separate the form from the content (investigating *both* with critical thinking). If we to make that separation and process the information -- and ultimately make the decision -- in a healthy way we are doomed to shoot ourselves in the foot. Thing is, that separation and the processing of the information is crucial to our decision making and there's no way to avoid that. Protests are not actually causing this, they are merely escalating it.
@perplexed8880
10 күн бұрын
@@germangru how do you think you got every single right you enjoy?
@alalalala57
9 күн бұрын
@@germangru Nothing and no one is random.
The "You're thinking of religion" bit is among the most brilliant, as well as funniest, bits I've seen on this show since S01! 😂
@Ramsey276one
8 күн бұрын
24:12
“You’re thinking of religion!”😮😂 You know…John is so inoffensive that he’s the perfect man to deliver these harsh truths.
@perplexed8880
10 күн бұрын
John Oliver inoffensive?? wtf are you talking about?
@Ramsey276one
8 күн бұрын
24:12 XD
@smajl2
8 күн бұрын
That was savage! 😂
@alexjordanofficial1116
6 күн бұрын
@@perplexed8880 I mean…he’s saying things that will offend but his face/countenance…accent. He’s the man for the job!
A sincere thank you for full version every Monday morning in Asia
@dr.davidenglish778
10 күн бұрын
I'm in Asia as well. It's great they are putting them on KZread.
@mhewwariya2395
10 күн бұрын
Yes! 🙌 A great way to start our weeks.
@SantiagoGarza-bg9wp
10 күн бұрын
Ditto for Mexico
@idreamtiwasbackatmanderley414
8 күн бұрын
Ditto for France
Awesome call and response joke there, John. Top class delivery. "...A vegetable platter."
I'm only here for John Oliver to said "nightmare blunt rotation" 🤣
@dr.davidenglish778
10 күн бұрын
I'm only here to see how many people said he was an idiot. And then beat the living *** out of them. And now this.....
The most frustrating thing about America is that every 20 years or so they'll declassify something that just says "Yes, we lied. What the fuck are you going to do about it?"
@MckieDs595
8 күн бұрын
I’m truly curious about what they’ll declassify in 2041.
@magicvibrations5180
8 күн бұрын
@@MckieDs595 Probably that the Afghan war took so long for no other reason than to keep Lockheed Martin profitable.
@MckieDs595
8 күн бұрын
@@magicvibrations5180 I’m pretty sure they’ll talk about a lot of companies the government lied to get profits. Namely the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. Or maybe the real reason why they locked down the whole country for a virus with a 2% mortality rate. Or the experimental concoction that they gave to over 5 billion people across the world. That didn’t go through the extensive trials to make sure it is safe like they’ve done with all the others before it. These are the things that need to be declassified. But that’s just crazy talk, the government doesn’t experiment on its own citizens. There’s no examples of that in our history whatsoever.🤔 Everyone knows the government goes to war for profit already.
The big point that everyone always miss is the that the U in U.F.O doesn't mean alien from outer space
@DaDunge
11 күн бұрын
Probably better that they think that, what's the alternative? thinking these things are Chinese? Now that would go down great... If people are going to be paranoid about these things it probably better they are paranoid about aliens. At the moment the chance are smaller they will go out and commit hate crimes agaisnt extraterrestrials.
@yyyy-uv3po
11 күн бұрын
It could mean that squids are actually way smarter than we thought.
@thinkingaboutreligion2645
11 күн бұрын
@@yyyy-uv3po maybe Uter space? 😂
@asdfghyter
10 күн бұрын
@@thinkingaboutreligion2645 perhaps it's Utter space?
@Hedning1390
9 күн бұрын
If I take a picture of a football game, then what the people on the other side of the stadium are tossing in the air is unidentified. It might be a football, a paper plane, or a drink, but we need to spend 10000000 of NASA budget to investigate to make sure.
'You use Euros in Ireland? I'd use the pound?" Clearly, he doesn't see the troubles with that proposal.
@ViraMotorko
10 күн бұрын
The Irish pound was the currency of Ireland until 2002. There is a chance he was thinking about that one (though I won't argue)
@helenokeeffe1823
9 күн бұрын
@@ViraMotorko you are thinking of the punt. It wasn't the same value as the Brit pound.
@idreamtiwasbackatmanderley414
8 күн бұрын
Love the way you used « troubles » and I’m French… Doubt very much that Americans will notice, history is not their strongpoint. @RandroidPrime
@Di7manya
6 күн бұрын
@@ViraMotorkohe is an american tv host, there is a 0% chance he was thinking of anything but the british pound
Mangi just seems like a great choice for the role. These people are the worst as usual.
It’s annoying that “UFO” came to mean “there’s little extraterrestrials there!” when the stands for “Unidentified”…
@DaDunge
11 күн бұрын
I think it's best if we always read out the entire phrase, unidentified flying objct, rather than use the acronym UFO.
@rumble1925
10 күн бұрын
Except that if its craft not built by us and intelligently controlled, the conclusion is still mindblowing.
@anthosm
9 күн бұрын
@@rumble1925 well tough shit, they are built by us...
@EustaH
9 күн бұрын
you know how it is, " I don't know, therefore aliens" ;)
@LegendaryGauntlet
8 күн бұрын
@@anthosm Or on many cases, just a bird, or a refractive image of the moon or venus, etc..
Thanks for the full episode business daddy
Mangi looks like an off brand John Oliver... who himself seems to be an off brand... but of who I can't quite tell.
@aribantala
11 күн бұрын
Oliver seems to be an Off brand of Steven Mnuchin... Who's also seems to be an off brand of someone else as well... It's all Off brands all the way down
@slickrick2420
11 күн бұрын
@@aribantala Oliver looks like the human off brand Zuzu... Who knows where it ends
@Knickerson
11 күн бұрын
John Oliver is an off brand impression of Patrick Stewart doing an impression of John Oliver.
@Digibo
11 күн бұрын
@@slickrick2420Zazu. It's Zazu, for back-flipping Christ's sake! You can't make such amateur mistakes under a serious John Oliver video.
@NewMessage
11 күн бұрын
@@Digibo Ok, but admittedly, Seeing John cosplaying Zuzu Petals from Ford Fairlane would be a gas.
"You are thinking of religion" 😂 love you and yours writers, John 😂❤
There’s something very toddler-like about John smacking the desk to the rhythm at the beginning 🇬🇧👶👵🏼
@Triplemother
11 күн бұрын
I absolutely love it!
Tom Cotton is the most plantation owner name ever.
Thunderfoot did a pretty convincing deduction that the not so fast object in the last video is a bird.
@DrWhom
10 күн бұрын
Quack quack
the bipartisanship thing... if you want the two parties to vote equally, why have two parties? you're supposed to vote differently a lot of times, the middle ground will be achieved when there is a middle ground to be achieved. sometimes there are not, and it's these times that justify all the party's things to exist. if not, everyone should be independent or just one party.
@aserta
11 күн бұрын
Because US' political field is 150% broken and devoid of functionality.
Thank you whoever took the decision to post the entire episode! Thank you very much sir/lady
This show makes it so much more enjoyable to cook my eggs
@u3u_o3o
11 күн бұрын
It makes mondays so much more bearable
@destituteanddecadent9106
11 күн бұрын
@@u3u_o3oyou in Asia? If it's already Monday.
@no3namesalike
11 күн бұрын
@@destituteanddecadent9106 It's been Monday here in central Europe for nearly 10 hours already 😅
@destituteanddecadent9106
11 күн бұрын
@@no3namesalike I guess, maybe I assumed that people weren't watching this at 8 am before going into work 😅 I know some people have night shifts etc but the way they said Monday had me thinking they worked 9-5.
@irinore
11 күн бұрын
This show is 40 minutes for how long do you cook your eggs?!?
this episode will help my fever go down 😂
@asteractor2348
11 күн бұрын
Get well soon!
@aserta
11 күн бұрын
Drink hot tea. Lots. Passing fluids through you helps, also regulates temp.
@kureo-liam
11 күн бұрын
I recommend soup for fevers. Sleep well!
When Human protesting has much less worth for the people in traffic than Cows in the street for Indian people says what you needed to hear about the society. Protesting is a function of a democracy and is needed so democracy can work as intended yet some people believe it's not worth their inconvenience and time, meanwhile cows are sacred in India..
@aserta
11 күн бұрын
Yup. Governments who don't allow protests are not democratic.
@coffekihlberg
11 күн бұрын
those protesters are worth less than cows.
@MarcusAurelius-uc4tu
11 күн бұрын
Ngl, as a student that's struggling on a lot of things. If I miss my flight back to uni because some people decided to block my way to the airport. I would probably be suicidal from the enormous stress that would cause on me. (Especially when the airline has the clause of not refunding or smthn). P.S. I am not against protesting nor protesting by blocking roads. I just think that a lot of these types of protests don't have things well thought out and usually have a high nosed "IDGAF because other people are suffering more" type of attitude which is irritating regardless what cause they are fighting for.
@karthikmukund9526
11 күн бұрын
Cows don't block entire roads, are found mostly solitary even in the middle of the road (they don't block the road in big groups), and its easy to go around a stationary cow.
@hanifarroisimukhlis5989
11 күн бұрын
@@karthikmukund9526 Yeah, that's 1 singular cow. Try an entire herd though. Bonus point: cows can't understand human language nor reasoned with.
- "While there is nothing fundamentally wrong with civility and compromise, it does depend on who your are being civil to and what are you compromising with." John Oliver
Honestly, if your protest has the goal to inconvenience normal people, you are doing something wrong. Inconvenience those in power who can actually stop the crisis, not people rushing to work who just want to make a living.
Imagine America calling terrorism "war"... how the turn tables...
Tom Cotton is it the same guy who said if singapore is in china?
@aribantala
11 күн бұрын
Yep, the same Tom Cotton
@HowToChangeName
11 күн бұрын
The same Tom Cotton who scores 0 in geography and history
@-handala-
11 күн бұрын
Guy has a very very smooth brain
@hanifarroisimukhlis5989
11 күн бұрын
@@-handala- That's somehow feels like an insult to fishes. Dude has cotton instead of brain.
@rajabuta
11 күн бұрын
@@-handala-he has a brain?
Can we take a moment to appreciate the bird mascot? Not for the joke or the performance, though those were good too, but just for the sheer quality work on the costume? According to cosplayers and fursuit enthusiasts, suits like that can take weeks to create and cost tens of thousands of dollars in material and potentially labor costs. Please, can we give props to the costuming department that made that suit? Because it looked amazing.
Am i the only one that find racists "fighting against anti- semitism" a bit oxymoronic?
@Julia-lk8jn
10 күн бұрын
Does it help that they are putting up a bad pretense of fighting against it?
@rawihago4965
9 күн бұрын
Hypocritical is probably the better word. They do this all the time, and usually wha5ever they accuse others of, they are far worse transgressors. MTG lead8ng censure of Rashia Tlaib for antisemitism was ic8ng on cake, recall Greene was the one who publicly tweeted that Jews were using Space Lasers to start wildfires and destroy America. That wad 1 year ago btw now she's the self appointed defender of Jews 😅
@HastyElderHaman
8 күн бұрын
They don't actually care about anti-Semitism. They care about Israel, and many of the politicians in the US care about Israel because of the evangelical vote. The people that conflate anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment are disingenuous fools.
Very few things make me happier than seeing this show popping up, thanks!
I’m glad to get this episode free. Used to have to go on weird sites to watch last week tonight
@rerikm
10 күн бұрын
just pirate it like a normal broken person 🙄
Love that we're getting full episodes on KZread. Thank you!!
Hello person who reads the comments. I know that in the season finale John is gonna mention these videos being uploaded in full for people outside the USA in order to prove a point about how foreigners are overinformed about the USA or something like that. Wouldn't it be funny then to show that a foreigner was able to tell this was your plan from the very beginning?
@equasimilione6493
11 күн бұрын
I suppose it would, yes.
12:12 I always love clips of middle-aged Americans not understanding British insults.
I like how John said that the UFO believers vs deniers would be fighting on these comment section, but this is the Non-US video and there is no discussion, just regular well minded comments. Let's see how the US video does for that, I sure hope that John or someone from his crew takes a look in the difference between this comment section and the other one.
@sourouklemes4444
10 күн бұрын
I came to the comments 'cause of that bit too, but if this is the official US account I guess it's the US comment section as well. It goes to show that oliveheads, even in the US, are a proper community. Albeit we're also an echo chamber.
I can’t take John seriously anymore when he completely ignores the elephant in the room - the rampant antisemitism and violence (especially against Jews) at these protests
Hey John, I love your videos even if they make me a little depressed. I love that story too did with jack waner. I'm from trinidad and tobago 🇹🇹
@RR42636
11 күн бұрын
868
I apparently had a good timing with my nostalgia trip trough x-files😂
The real question is: Why Americans are the only ones in the world to be so obessed by UFOs? Because they would do anything to be on TV!
@MckieDs595
8 күн бұрын
I don’t think it’s only that. Some will do anything to get on TV. However my grandfather was a high ranking official for the navy. He’s told me that not only has he seen these objects in the sky and water. But the government across the world are actively suppressing it by any means. They had to sign a NDA once they saw them. This was on multiple occasions. I think the reason why America seems obsessed. Is because in America you can look like a fool with little shame, while people in other countries try to avoid that shame.
the only man i always expect to hear bad news from and yet i'm always happy to see him
@2:25 Brilliant Looked like Robert Webb in a costume doing a skit lol
@mjak993
11 күн бұрын
Absolutely, it's like " The Man Who Had A Cough And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine" or the other gem "Sometimes Fires Go Out"
I KNEW as soon as the joke started that there would be a real snake in the end 😂
@JeddtheJedi
8 күн бұрын
John Oliver has, after all, described his show as "basically a petting zoo with a desk".
Upvote for John terrorizing us with universal geography now, the Earth was never the limit. :D
So asking a potential future justice whether he believes if Israel has a right to exist in wrong? Shouldn't that be an incredibly easy answer, unless he is extremely racist? And if he is extremely racist, why does John want him as a judge?
Thank you John for finally touching upon the UAP subject, I hope it'll help to decrease the stigma and ridicule of it. Although I wish he also brought up last year's congressional hearings and David Grusch testimony.
@DaDunge
11 күн бұрын
Certainly the natural explanation that will arise from styduing these phenomon is clearly something as of yet unknown to us and should as such be studied. I will however only beleive it is aliens when someone proves that.
Im one of those that don't believe in UFO'S but during a trip to a small town in Mexico (population 800) my wife and I got to experience seen a white bright light as big as town block and the shape of a cake up on the hills. And as we stared at it in awe it just faded away..till this day im confused as to what it was.
Saagar from Breaking Points is going to go crazy after this and say ''I don't really like John Oliver but he talks about UFOs so he is good in my books.''
Out of the three topics mentioned in the title, UFOs wasn't the one I thought would be the main topic, tbh.
There used to be a flying saucer McDonald's outside of Alconbury , in the UK, on the A14. It started out as a Megatron restaurant selling fast food in space themed shapes.
thank you very much! so awesome! keep up the great work
21:21 correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure there was a ufo themed mcdonalds in the east of England somewhere, I remember going there growing up! I think it closed down in the 2000s though...
@cronobactersakazakii5133
11 күн бұрын
There never was, it was an intergalactic UFO service & repair workshop. Don’t you remember a flashing light when leaving ? 👽
Thank you for uploading entire episodes for the rest of the world, I never knew how the big intro for the show consisted of John banging on the glass table like a toddler for every episode
Tackling UFOs on this show was quite a surprise. I'm very much on board with everything Oliver said. It's not about whether it's aliens or not; it's about the fact people *do* see things they don't understand and we shouldn't shame each other for looking for answers and coming up with hypothesis. Even the aliens explanation is a valid hypothesis, since we really don't know for sure. Or do you think explaining polymers and stoms to a 14th century layman would have sounded more reasonable than men from outer space?
That's a California kingsnake. So non-venomous indeed
@haqvor
11 күн бұрын
And very pretty!
John did u cover the 400 drones sent by Iran on Israel?
Have you ever heard about the pratos operation? Was a military operation of the Brazilian army who was investigating and also documented sittings of UFOs that looked like flying ships.
Considering the US never seems to get that Ireland is not England, I'm fine with them constantly mixing up Sweden and Switzerland as we have a lot less historic baggage.
Maybe if the hemmes terrorists would surrender,this war have been over. But sure blame the victims
Jesus backflipping Krist, Ted Cruz rambles like he smoked all my stash
I vote John Oliver for the next Dr. Who! That would be hilarious! 😍🤣
Thank you for the full episode, my HBO subscription still continues! 🧡💛🧡
Full episode FTW!
The truth is out there...in the heavens of this show . Best show of the year so far
When money and meetings are more important than human lives, I think we need to take time out to review where our values are at!
8:09 is a perfect example of a perfect joke. RUle of three, set the expectation, then break it while staying on theme.
So an intelligent species would come from wherever they are ALL THE WAY to earth and not try to communicate with us but rather fly around at night?
@Julia-lk8jn
10 күн бұрын
Makes more sense than you think. If we finally manage to sent human beings to another planet, we'll certainly ... okay, almost certainly, but I hope very much we'll make sure the planet is safe before we actuall have humans land on it. Like: toxins, or worse, potentially harmful germs in the atmosphere. Any intelligent life form who managed to develop to the point of interstellar flight would have to be at last as careful & rational as human beings, or more so, to avoid killing itself off once it has the technology to do so. (We've amply proven that getting to that point of technology is a lot easier than getting to the point of interstellar travel.) And then of course there's the ever popular theory that alien life is still in two minds of wether making contact with homo sapiens sapiens is _really_ a good idea. You never know how catching exactly madness is.
@Gillsing
9 күн бұрын
If they can make it here, we're primitives to them. Interesting to study, preferably while kept in the dark, so as to not affect our natural behavior too much. Don't think so highly of yourself, great ape.
Some really good jokes this time around hahaha
As a French, it's funny to witness Americans express mixed feelings about protests. It's just a normal news report to me 😁
This has to be one of the funniest episodes, jokes were actually funny
Thank you, John Oliver. Love this show!!!
Lmaooo....the snake bit really was funny
The government doesn't profit if theres no war. Sadly, thats why they don't help. Even though Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan were most profitable so they dug their fingers in the honey pot.
Good point from someone who's face I can only discribe as "books". Love the show ! Great team !
The guy at the airport didn't say they shouldn't protest, just that shouldn't block airports and make people miss flights. You can't get a ticket refunded if you miss your flight due to traffic. Plane tickets are expensive. WTF
@pauldickman4379
9 күн бұрын
Maybe not refunded but they will easily rebook you. We recently missed our flight cuz we got there late, not even due to traffic just poor planning, and got rebooked for free.
@felixxtcat
8 күн бұрын
@@pauldickman4379 If your sole reason for flying to attend a specific event like a wedding or funeral, and missing the flight causes you to miss the event, getting rebooked would not be helpful.
@pauldickman4379
8 күн бұрын
@@felixxtcat true but that wasnt your original point at all…
I believe John Oliver is the alien
The saddest (and scariest) part about aliens is that there's basically only two theories about it and none of them are very promising: 1) We really are completely alone in the universe, or at least we are the only planet that scientists know about (from all the can tell with today's technology, which is a lot) that has the perfect conditions for life 2) We are NOT alone, but whatever else is out there is so, SO far away that it's practically impossible for us to even know of each others existence, because even IF we could travel at the speed of light, it would still take billions of years to get there, and that's a time our own sun doesn't have, and he'll still be here after we go extinct (which will happen in a few hundred years if we keep treating the planet the way we are).
@nyanuwu4209
10 күн бұрын
Even if aliens existed and had the tech to travel here, there are so many variables that have to line up flawlessly to make that even begin to happen. It's like a lottery. Also the observable universe is expanding away from us and slipping forever from out reach day by day so if they are too far away, they will never not be. So that's...Unsatisfying. And the very idea of "perfect conditions for life" is a silly one. The conditions for life down here have never been perfect. They've _been_ but that's not at all the same.
@medealkemy
7 күн бұрын
Maybe that's why people are so fascinated by UFOs
Thank you john for speaking about Gaza
The UFO craze holds all the hallmarks of social contagion. It exploded out of nowhere (relatively speaking) in 1947, grew under the paranoid Cold War, and then diminished during the 80s and 90s. And is on the rise again with heightened would tension. And in 2024 everyone has a smartphone with a video camera and yet there are precious few videos and those that exists are of very poor quality. If the encounters were as frequent as some suggest, KZread would be flooded with high quality videos.
@gran-roan
11 күн бұрын
Only the term and specific figure. Aliens had been a topic for decades already in literature and even movies, but mainly as 'cigar' or sphere shapes. The TWISTER movie ushered a craze of storm chasers, just like Indiana Jones for Archeologists, but obviously it didn't materialize out of nothing. It just wasn't mainstream enough.
@spaceforcemonkey7674
9 күн бұрын
Do you have zoom in these smart phones? try film something in the sky and put it in your laptop and see the quality of it. very poor
I trusted John Oliver until he started vaping Also that's a really cute snake
@aserta
11 күн бұрын
He did it for the lulz but yeah, that's a really cute snek.
Damn You John Oliver, I had to Google how Venus looks 😅
21:04 about lester holt vaping, i agree with john oliver on 2005 mock the week about equestrian events at the winter olympics "they could, but they don't, and if they did, it'd be great"
The UFO public hearing was last year
Thanks John
For people who know photography, many of the examples of UFOs shown are actually problems with either the camera sensor or the lens. When you point a camera at something, it does not stay in the same position in the frame throughout the whole panning motion, unless it is something stuck on the camera's sensor or lens. Could be dead pixels or just dust stuck on the sensor or lens.
Ohhhh, running snake gag is beautifully done.
Using Hamas' casualty numbers is a new low even for this channel.
@nddragoon
9 күн бұрын
what do you propose? believing israel? do you also think only 31 people died at chernobyl?
@AFFoC
9 күн бұрын
@@nddragoon Almost anything is better than believing a group who's ideology advocates lying to non-believers. Plus there's also the part that they're a terrorist organisation. Even if all of the above weren't real, they also advocate for the total conquest of the world. Sorry, not the most credible source out there.
@slasherfun
9 күн бұрын
@@AFFoCUN currently reports that 33000 Palestinians have been killed in the last 6 months.
@nddragoon
9 күн бұрын
@@slasherfun no you see the UN is hamas actually. anyone who disagrees with me is hamas. you should know this already
It's a pity Islam breads terror, all this suffering could've been avoided if terror organizations weren't using civilians as human shields
The audience seems much more involved this time, that's kinda fun
I regularly travel between France and Belgium. I'm not sure why I can watch the full show in France but cannot in Belgium. I've never seen the show aired there.
Another brilliant episode
Been WAITING on the UFO topic more than we’re waiting on actual UFO’s 🛸