S2 E21: Food Waste, Iran & El Chapo: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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Season 2, Episode 21, July 19th, 2015. John Oliver discusses the shocking amount of food we don't eat, a historic nuclear arms deal with Iran, and El Chapo's tried and true method for escaping from prison.
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@blackfrost3272 Ай бұрын

Seeing Red Lobster at the beginning of the Food Waste piece makes a bit of sense when you learn that this year, they filed for Bankruptcy

@victoriaeads6126 Ай бұрын

Ironically, the endless shrimp event that was mentioned there was the catalyst for the bankruptcy, too. It's almost too much on the nose.

@wallytorres4090 Ай бұрын

YES the buy in by a Union Seafood company was the downfall of Red Lobster.Union Seafood has never ran a restaurant chain before,That was such a screw job by Union Seafood and made Red Lobster look even worse because the public was never made aware of such bad decisions made by a Union Seafood .Good hard many years on the job working people lost their jobs because of Union Seafood period.

@postmasterspecific Ай бұрын

And is the subject of the final story this sunday

@demeter-the-great Ай бұрын

John truly was ahead of everyone with his perception of Trump even way back then: _“But hold on John’s what if I’m an asshole who couldn’t give a shit about America’s hungry families or the long-term viability of life on Earth?”_ *“Mr. Trump, thank you so much for taking the time to watch this show tonight!”*

@elaineb7065 Ай бұрын

Indeed. I didn't know whether to laugh, cheer, or sigh "too true" in a melancholy fashion...

@prolapse4208 Ай бұрын

I mean trump has always been the same piece of shit. He didn't just pop up out of nowhere in 2016. He ran in 2000 bub

@joerionis5902 Ай бұрын

@@elaineb7065That's satire for you

@saferoundhouse5910 Ай бұрын

Why are so many people mad about the s2 release lmao I'm just happy that I can finally watch the full episodes

@0008loser Ай бұрын

I guess they wish it was more spread out, but then again, it's modern-day internet where people will find anything to be constantly angry

@Koushakur Ай бұрын

Because they dumped and pushed all of them to the subscription feed simultaneously, something they did not do for season 1

@stevenp25100 Ай бұрын

I love when he had topics that werntt partisan hack pieces written by the dnc.

@ishaandw Ай бұрын

@@Koushakur They dumped it for season 1 too

@A-small-amount-of-peas Ай бұрын

@@Koushakurwho cares? Are they available to watch for free? That's all I care about

@5trezip23 Ай бұрын

This is such an important show to have available for all to watch.

@KaleChip793 Ай бұрын

When I visited England, I was dumbfounded by the fact that the end caps at their grocery stores have food pulled that will expire that week and you can get food for pennies basically. I was like “this makes so much more sense than throwing it out!!” My ex’s family was low income and idk how his mom would have fed a family of 4 on single income without that setup.

@beth12svist Ай бұрын

Here in Czechia, I quite often buy the "save the food" items. They're cheaper, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with them, and because they're usually sold in advance I usually still eat them before the "best by" date anyway. Win! Though probably my favourite trick is going to the supermarket in the evening and grabbing a bag of that day's breadrolls bagged up as "stale for breadcrumbs". They're not! They're perfectly fine to eat!

@EmpyreanLightASMR 25 күн бұрын

US here, sometimes we'll have extremely discounted foods at our Kroger stores, not just the breads and goodies that seem to be shoved onto a random portable metal shelf/cage thing, but also products on the shelf like yogurts (which I'll buy if it's the good ones). Yesterday though was a cream cheese cinnamon bun breakfast (more like dessert) discounted to like $3.... but I didn't want to mess with that 😂 you don't *really* know why it's discounted, cause it's packaged in-store, not meant to last more than a couple days anyway.

@katashworth41 23 күн бұрын

The the problem with that is you get ‘the usuals’ I’m in the UK and I witnessed an almost fist fight over a reduced pineapple. I even had people complain that there was nothing good reduced.

@ezerstudio9195 22 күн бұрын

If you have any local grocers in your area this is quite common!

@muraalia 12 күн бұрын

In Finland we have high-vis red stickers on soon-to-expire products, with -30% and "Check the date! Thanks for helping reduce food waste :) " written on them. (Yes, the smiley too.)

@asamlos Ай бұрын

Bro that scene with Charlie Rose did *not* age well lmaoooo

@dubspool Ай бұрын

Tbf a lot of scenes with Charlie Rose have not aged well

@demeter-the-great Ай бұрын

I f*ckn love the old comparisons John used to make. “Mexico.. spicy Canada” and “North Korea… Earth’s Florida.” Too accurate 😂

@dirkjehovah4731 Ай бұрын

My favorite one was, “New Zealand: Australia’s Australia.”

@goldenburger836 Ай бұрын

As a dairy clerk at a grocery store I can say confidently that most damages are due to dates. Sometimes I let things sell out and the shelf go empty just so i don't have to toss it out due to it being expired. One the biggest issues is when the shelf is low and you put more out, depending on the date, people will over look the ones up front and go straight to the back. When that happens people tend to think that there is something wrong with the ones in the front. People will keep picking around it until it goes out of date and i have to pull it. Another problem is while the food itself might be good the package may be damaged. So long as any seals arent broken I'll keep it out. So again people will pick around it until it needs to be pulled. I usually pull things if its within 3 days of the expiration date.

@EDoyl Ай бұрын

Scrolling quickly through my sub feed like watching a flipbook of John Oliver aging

@Lyndanet Ай бұрын

Nah his hair went from grey to brown !

@skycaptain3344 Ай бұрын

These are all bringing back so many memories of watching these in college.

@TheHemphogChronic Ай бұрын

“Our main story tonight; your KZfaq Subscription timeline, and the massive dump that I’m about to take on it.”

@VirtousStoic Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@nicnaknoc Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 exactly

@DominoPivot Ай бұрын

Yeah, sounds like someone didn't realize they could and should untick the "notify subscribers" box when they do that. Nothing worth crying over, but you know, something to keep in mind for next time.

@_Panic Ай бұрын

I forgot I was even subscribed to this channel ‘til I got a assload of notifications at once.

@deimosvoralius2988 Ай бұрын

Someone is oddly salty. I feel it's a mandatory to inquire if you were oddly busy on jan 6th or did putin have you scheduled for an annexation?

@elyajoyjoy Ай бұрын

The next "And now this" segment should be Americans using Football Fields as a unit of measurement lol Anything but the metric system amirite guys? 😂

@JJ-xj9xq Ай бұрын

Watching these seasons again makes me feel like a time traveler of sorts

@ToddBlackToddTalk Ай бұрын

I remember when i first started watching Last Week Tonight finding this episode and being horrified by food waste. I do all I can to not waste food, and if I were to ever be President, I would make this one of my top priorities, because it's ridiculous.

@sirgoatofcheese Ай бұрын

I have watched John Oliver since his appearances on Mock The Week in 2005, and even now, almost 2 decades later, John STILL talks over the audience laugh breaks. Holy Shit.

@New.Beginnings88 Ай бұрын

This aged well 😂

@kevinfoster1138 Ай бұрын

LMAO I love "OOPS All Berries" sure the shit aint breakfast though, perfect stonie munchys!!!! Hahaha.

@LunaryxDiarmait Ай бұрын

Pssh.. I'm not even a stoner and think those are good.

@andrewf6111 Ай бұрын

The mexican military put chapo in a room that already has a secret staircase under the tub? Yooo WHAT?

@joaquinmarichal Ай бұрын

No, they were looking for him, that was his room

@andrewf6111 Ай бұрын

@@joaquinmarichal I'm not understanding. It said he escaped from custody?

@JackLalane-yt4iu Ай бұрын

@@andrewf6111 i believe he escaped from the prison through a tunnel that was previously dug from his bathroom to a barn outside the prison fence.

@errorcrj110 Ай бұрын

Those were separate incidents. Before he was in prison, the military hunted him down and he escaped through the bathtub tunnel. After he was put in prison, he tunneled under his cell and escaped from prison through the newly dug tunnel

@BlakieTT Ай бұрын

Subscribers: How many eps you giving us, LastWeekTonight? LWT: *YES!!*

@likebot. Ай бұрын

I read the "reply" in John Oliver's voice

@zacrusk5274 Ай бұрын

S2 lets go

@fnvfan0145 Ай бұрын

That's a lot of John Oliver, not that it's a problem

@samuelfcross Ай бұрын

7:56 Looks like no one appreciated this joke, but c'mon, that was *gold*

@bAd12cheZ Ай бұрын

Girlie you're crazy for this I love you.

@Bigredmoon007 Ай бұрын

Did El Chapo dig a tunnel to Iran???

@I.amthatrealJuan Ай бұрын

The subscription feed has been spammed. The binge-watching marathon has begun.

@victoriaeads6126 Ай бұрын

Have you put this comment on every episode? 😂😂❤

@I.amthatrealJuan Ай бұрын

@@victoriaeads6126 Only in four. I don't want to be tagged and mistakenly reported as a bot.

@arcticwulf5796 Ай бұрын

Its a feed frenzy of episodes

@gailaltschwager7377 Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Indigooey Ай бұрын

Oh hell yeah full episode

@Olhado256 Ай бұрын

John Oliver roasting Laibach is not something I expected to see but I'm not complaining.

@Thorium_Th Ай бұрын

22:29 Is it really like that in the US? The companies can just slap any date on a product? A friend of mine is a food chemist and she told me how best-before-dates or use-by-dates are evaluated for each product group. I live in a European country but I thought that's the same in any industrial country.

@EndPoliticalCorruption 24 күн бұрын

The companies themselves determine those dates, probably through a combo of customer satisfaction and profit motives.

@Thorium_Th 24 күн бұрын

@@EndPoliticalCorruption Scary 😳

@whydoineedahandle1058 18 күн бұрын

I'll defer to the earlier commenter on their answer but I will add, I have eggs with a best by date of a month ago (because in the US we wash our eggs before selling requiring them to be refrigerated) and they are still good. (You can test if your eggs are still good by submerging them in water, if they float to the top they're bad, if they sink but stand up they're still good but time is running out, and if the sink on their side they're good)

@Thorium_Th 18 күн бұрын

@@whydoineedahandle1058 We don't wash our eggs. They are always fresh from the "chicken butt".

@greatclantoni Ай бұрын

The most awesome dump. Thank you. 👍

@nikandthepartz Ай бұрын

This episode is fantastic

@jamoore2581 27 күн бұрын

Crazy how relevant this still is in 2024. Add in the corporate greed on top of the inflation families are worse off than ever. The hoops people have to go through for assistance is ridiculous and self defeating

@Feszy_ Ай бұрын

16:57 Best joke of MANY qualifiers.

@themadengineer1050 Ай бұрын

Carl's Jr really makes a great burger... No denominal relations needed xD

@ignatzmuskrat3000 Ай бұрын

Wow. What a massive dump. I can now delete my copies on the dvr!

@13loodLust Ай бұрын

bro just dumped the entire season like it's nothing wow.

@User12347ejdj Ай бұрын

1:37 I miss that Biden

@nicnaknoc Ай бұрын

Johnny boy just decided it was gonna be ALL about him today! This is JOHNNY'S DAY and you're gonna like it 🦤

@TheLadyEve Ай бұрын

As a fan of Laibach, I appreciated this.

@Tukaro 18 күн бұрын

22:21 I volunteer at a cat rescue, and on a recent DepAg inspection we were told we couldn't keep/use cat food that has a "sell by" date in the past. Previously, we would keep and use them for up to six months past that date--although the only time we would normally have such is if someone donated food already past its "sell by" date--without any issue. We would still do such if we didn't risk getting fined/shut down for it. So dumb.

@BittaSweetJP Ай бұрын

Thank you, starting from the other side now

@jnielsen90 22 күн бұрын

The band playing for North Korea reminds me of Rammstein of Germany

@mythbustersfan3456 Ай бұрын

In Australia, for years we had law where every produce had to be sold regardless of how it looks to prevent food waste, we have become a shit tone more strict with our foods after 90s, I can’t remember the exact reason why but it was something to do with political concerns. I feel bad for Americas when this has gone on for over 2 decades, I honestly do. 🐋

@kateq7212 16 күн бұрын

It is depressing how things take so long to change. My daughter gets food from the bins behind Waitrose. Apparently it is unlawful to take items that are thrown away out of bins or skips in the UK (I assume because the bins are on private land?), but the food she gets is amazing. The waste is outrageous. Waitrose has high quality produce and she finds loads of fruit, veg and even chilled items such as trifles, yoghurts, etc. You could feed the homeless from supermarket "waste". I love the 'Wonky" range in Morrisons though.

@LunaryxDiarmait Ай бұрын

Great. Will now be thinking 'Spicy Canada' from now on. Thanks for that.

@archiefromuno 25 күн бұрын

wow, the fact the senate can just take a bill from the house and completely change it and then pass it is insane

@chillmadude 22 күн бұрын

arguably just as baffling as america having such a hunger problem, that journalist asking a mother why she's been brought to tears after she just told them she has a hard time keeping everyone in the family alive

@Rude_i_Wredne Ай бұрын

Well, and just like "Star Wars" US-Iranian relations went 100% to shit as executive decisions started being made by businessmen instead of competent people.

@AloisMahdal Ай бұрын

god it's the end of may and i'm still not used to new year in dates. i thought it was still 2014

@AdamRoxby Ай бұрын

Seen Laibach many times and they are awesome!

@EmpyreanLightASMR 25 күн бұрын

26:25 this whole bit about replacing the text of a bill, isn't that what caused that representative to explode a few months ago? he almost looks like the same rep (Erik Paulsen) but now I can't find it in a google search. point is, someone was clearly fed up with this tactic.

@kelownatechkid Ай бұрын

Holy youtube uploads, batman!

@jag_g Ай бұрын

I think my feed welcomes this change

@quailmantc3918 Ай бұрын

They're HERE!!!!

@dracaroni.n.cheese Ай бұрын

Was that louis ck at the end?

@mixiekins Ай бұрын

Damn, son, this aired the same year Too Good To Go launched? I'd like to see how stuff has/hasn't changed since all of these first aired.

@anjelitamalik9763 Ай бұрын

As someone from a developing country, we see that american tv and movies often show how easy they throw away food. I have always been wondering why is there such behavior.

@EndPoliticalCorruption 24 күн бұрын

When something is plentiful, it is not valued

@tenpoundsterlingtn7756 Ай бұрын

Throwback

@SteinhauerNews Ай бұрын

JOHN! NO! NO YOU CAN'T TAKE OVER MY SUBSCRIPTION TIMELINE LIKE THIS!

@WhichDoctor1 Ай бұрын

there is only Last Week Tonight now. There is no other youtube. it's all gone. this is our future. And i for one welcome our new short British overlord

@mixiekins Ай бұрын

DOES CONSENT MEAN NOTHING TO YOU, JOHN?! I'M SCREAMING OUR SAFE WORD, JOHN.

@shakilarossi2150 Ай бұрын

Was “That Peach scene” in the film “Call Me By Your Name” inspired by what John Oliver wanted to do to that No.1 peach? Would explain why one of the characters in the film was called Oliver!!

@meganjohnson9540 Ай бұрын

For real, you gotta turn the compost pile…especially if there meat in there.

@victoriaeads6126 Ай бұрын

Generally composting meat is tricky because of the chance of pathogens that can either colonize the soil or lie dormant, then pass on to the produce grown using that compost. Not _impossible,_ just not recommended.

@ThisOldSkater Ай бұрын

WTF have you done John!

@garfoonga1 Ай бұрын

holy shit guys

@DaniTheNachoPirate Ай бұрын

Luckily, I'm too poor to waste my food. I shop at dollar tree, usually I've got about $10 to spend, gets me 2 decent meals with no waste.

@GrannyTheftAuto 12 күн бұрын

10 years after - you was wrong mr been from the past

@jasony25 Ай бұрын

Make the container smaller so it seems fuller.

@onlyme219 Ай бұрын

33 videos in one hour, leave me alone John, that's too much

@kpp8349 Ай бұрын

Wow, I just got absolutely dumped on by John Oliver and I’m not even mad

@ricktherock Ай бұрын

I'm old, never tried broccoli or cauliflower. I know I hate them, and don't want any in my hat.

@napalmholocaust9093 Ай бұрын

Well done putting a 💩 load of episodes up at once 👍

@bd673 Ай бұрын

I thought this was going to be about stores throwing away food to keep prices profitable but instead you say it is the induvial Americans and not also the corporations

@brassbrass8278 Ай бұрын

Biden making facial expressions that aren't 'utter confusion'.... what a time!

@spencerpearson1321 Ай бұрын

I definitely forgot about Jon Boner.

@stie5108 Ай бұрын

I crack up in a lunatic utopian chuckle every time Mr Trump gets mentioned in unexpected moments 😮

@helenstockman3499 20 сағат бұрын

Donating food is not as simple as it sounds. We tried to donate bakery items and day old fried chicken to low income apartment buildings. There were a handful of people that would be waiting with grocery carts and taking the items and selling them to other tenants in same building. That means we had to stay and pass out things. When we did that the same people would enlist their kids and other family members to get their “share” and again, sell it yo other tenants. You know what. It goes in trash. I’m not going to play those games just to do something helpful for you. If you can’t control your own greed, you get nothing.

@MikeSmith-bn1qr Ай бұрын

I love broccoli.

@BuckyOhYeah 17 күн бұрын

It's the sellers... - The producers want to sell everything they have, so aren't wasting it because they want to. - The consumers will buy things misshapen or slightly blemished (if large food producers won't). - The sellers tell the producers that consumers won't buy the lesser quality food (which is a lie), and the producers aren't in a position to fight back. Sure I waste a bit of food, but no where near 20 pounds a month... I don't think I even buy 20 pounds of food a month!

@NewMessage Ай бұрын

I'll snack after this, I think... yeah, better wait for after. * crunch *

@shampoo4273 Ай бұрын

Pathetic

@VirtousStoic Ай бұрын

2 episodes at the same time interesting lol why not lol ❤ u bro

@Ginko200 Ай бұрын

Try 34. All of Season 2.

@VirtousStoic Ай бұрын

@@Ginko200I mean youtube app internal notifications showed 2 only. Guess youtube doesn't like oliver But ya when I go to his youtbe page I see all season 2 odd

@emiliskog Ай бұрын

@@VirtousStoicKZfaq only lets channels send so many notifications in a day

@EumelaninKnight Ай бұрын

The fuck you doin'?

@likebot. Ай бұрын

Well it's about time they took the geo-lock off.

@silverXnoise Ай бұрын

You really should hire a thumbnail person. My feed is a litany of bookish, bird-like, contemplative nerd. Thanks for putting all these out!

@victoriaeads6126 Ай бұрын

I thought "bookish, bird-like, contemplative nerd" was the show's entire aesthetic anyway 😂😂

@michaelrobson3460 Ай бұрын

2015?

@MatthewPalanca Ай бұрын

Jesus Christ there has to be a way you can publish this many videos without spamming subscribers’ feeds

@emiliskog Ай бұрын

Nope the sub feed will always show everything in chronological order of uploading

@VirtousStoic Ай бұрын

Timestampls plz brother its 2024

@nikandthepartz Ай бұрын

Uhm food as the afterlife is really fucking with my head

@RaylanS535 Ай бұрын

Binge watching time I don't mind the dump of a full season but is there a better way to do it bc spamming this many videos is definitely gonna piss off a lot of subscribers

@koderalove1303 Ай бұрын

Business Daddy will not approve!

@Dreadnaught1Aw Ай бұрын

DON'T UPLOAD SO MANY AT ONCE! ALSO, THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING SO MUCH TODAY!

@Zak_How Ай бұрын

Psssh not me, i don't waste like that.

@_Panic Ай бұрын

Don’t do that again!

@emiliskog Ай бұрын

Assuming you're talking about the mass release of the full old season they're gonna do it at least 6 more times over the next 6 weeks off they're taking

@hollylewis5302 Ай бұрын

Great! The Iran deal will be up next year. Oh goodie.

@Satsujinki1973 Ай бұрын

Not sure if this is sarcasm or just unawareness of the fact trump killed it during his term.

@Chomp-Rock Ай бұрын

@@Satsujinki1973that comment is from when this first aired.

@Satsujinki1973 Ай бұрын

@@Chomp-Rock what are you talking about?

@Chomp-Rock Ай бұрын

@@Satsujinki1973 this episode came out on 2015

@Satsujinki1973 Ай бұрын

@@Chomp-Rock Yes, but the episode was uploaded to KZfaq 3 -4 days ago and the original comment was made 3 days ago. So what are you talking about?

@sownheard Ай бұрын

My hole KZfaq timeline is filled with john Oliver why?

@Arldavis Ай бұрын

Your hole is filled with John Oliver? Eeeeeewwwwwww

@weirdy8 Ай бұрын

How long till this one goes private

@Pseudo___ Ай бұрын

they are staying up. Not the new episode

@Ginko200 Ай бұрын

Not a new episode. LWT is gonna be uploading all of the old seasons up to season 8 anytime they don't have a new episode lined up. So never.

@Balc0ra Ай бұрын

As long as John feels like it, as he bought the rights to the show so he can do with it what he wants now as far as old content goes.

@cloudbrooks Ай бұрын

im obsessed with this old clip showing biden back in 2015. everyone seems to forget who he was pre-trump (in both good and bad ways)

@Bern_il_Cinq Ай бұрын

Dump a whole season on youtube whydoncha

@jakeherter Ай бұрын

It's actually better to know somebody had great sex because of the enthusiasm that they exude in regards to it, and if you have facilitated that enthusiasm by great effort into your aesthetics and sexual ability that's the absolute best.

@Satsujinki1973 Ай бұрын

It would be nice if whoever runs this channel fixed season 2's playlist so that it was not in reverse order. Rookie mistake setting it up like that.

@victoriaeads6126 Ай бұрын

It's completely out of order for me. I think that it's a KZfaq issue, not an upload issue. Maybe they are just having an algorithm tantrum.

@Satsujinki1973 Ай бұрын

@@victoriaeads6126 If you're looking at the Videos page it is all over the place but the season 2 library playlist has it in reverse order to how they should be.

@user-yq6xy5gd8p 13 күн бұрын

I remember this. Obama got Iran to agree not to build an atomic bomb, and every conservative political cartoonist drew a picture of Obama handing an atom bomb to an ayatollah. When Trump broke the deal and actually gave Iran the go ahead to build atomic bombs, no conservative cartoonist drew a picture of Trump handing an atom bomb to an ayatollah.