S2 E24: Sex Education, GOP debate & Whole Foods: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Season 2, Episode 24, August 9th, 2015. John Oliver explains why sex education varies widely between school districts, covers the first GOP debate of the 2016 election cycle, and talks about the public outcry over Whole Foods selling $6 aspargus water.
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Well deserved round of applause for the teacher with the sock analogy, that's a brilliant way to skirt a stupid rule 👏
Got to Appreciate him for doing what he can to protect his students, even with the legal restrictions.
Pam Stenzel spoke twice at my high school while I was there. She was very screamy and so over the top that literally dozens of kids pretended to be sick so they could leave the auditorium. She definitely made it sound like having any kind of sexual contact would leave you covered with syphilitic lesions while dying of AIDS.
It's been like 25 years and I'm still pissed that my school district paid for that while I sat all day in a classroom full of asbestos.
And yet the Bible tells us to procreate like bunnies. Why can't religious fanatics make up their minds.
That’s horrible. The fact that schools pay her tax funded money to spread that disgusting message horrifies me. May I ask what state this was in??
Tbh the moment she started I would of just got up & left, would happily take detention for it as well.
@@smears6039 Minnesota
its weird that angry Rosie O'Donnell from Wish would start a crusade to normalize getting the bare minimum of people to accept having sex with you...
tbh i feel a little bad for the one goober she berated into taking their pants off for her...
It is so weird seeing the 2016 campaign through 2024 eyes
Those were simpler times
Yay, it's Ancient Man vs. Ancient Man Who Is Also A Convicted Felon rematch!
Edit: Actual yay: it isn't.
Agree
No one thought Trump would win....it's why I didn't vote,what a mistake 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
We were so optimistic back then
"Wouldn't accept a history class that wasn't historically accurate" Oh John..... poor, sweet, John....
I once got a question wrong on a test i knew was right.
Both me and the valedictorian brought it up too the teacher with our lesson books.
The answer book had the wrong founding father as the answer. So the ones who read the study material all got that question wrong.
He didn't care had been teaching that wrong for years and no intention of changing.
@@iamjake99909 Yeah, that's crazy. I've seen far too many examples, myself included, that are clearly teaching history incorrectly, but they like their messaging better. Truly disturbs me to the core.
I'm a historian. I began to study History before I even entered kindergarten - no lie, my mom was such a history buff, she taught me to read on my own by age 3, and I knew I wanted to be historian by age 5 because I saw the power in controlling a nation's narrative.
I would NEVER teach History on a K-12 level, because it's sheer propaganda. I want to make it clear that this isn't limited to the USA, every nation does this. They use their compulsory education History courses as government-sponsored patriotism-building classes with slightly factual information.
Secondly, American teachers are required to Major in EDUCATION and only Minor in the discipline in which they'll teach. A Minor is about 6 courses.
Contrast that with my undergraduate course load as a History Major: I was required to take a total of 34 courses to graduate. Of those 34, 32 counted towards my History Major (my college didn't have a core curriculum the year I started, so I was able to load up on courses in my Major). My Masters degree is in History, not Education, and my PhD courses were all History except one, which was my corollary course, Sociology, because I'm a Social Historian (the only reason I'm not a working professor is that I became disabled while working on my dissertation & was forced to stop).
Your History teachers were bad because they aren't required to be good, because they aren't required to be historians, because real historians aren't willing to teach government-sponsored propaganda. Also, let me guess, your History teacher was also either 1) the P.E. teacher, or 2) the football coach? Many schools advertise for Social Studies/History teachers who are also Football coaches, or Football coaches who can also teach SS/History -- the teaching being the less important part of the job.
As a typical historian, I'm not terribly interested in conspiracy theories, but I do believe in this one: no one in the US government wants children to actually learn US history. They're scared that you'll suddenly ask for stuff, like rights you already possess, or perhaps progress, if you know truths.
That's why your History teachers sucked & will continue to suck.
My niece's 6th grade History teacher actually told her that I, her mother's sister, who was actively pursuing my doctorate in US History at the time, was teaching her, "irrelevant history," as if he was the sole arbiter of relevance, and his little BA was equivalent of my education & knowledge. I told her to tell him I was willing to tutor him any time he wanted to learn US history. I don't think she delivered my message & my sister was afraid I'd jeopardize my niece's grades if I went to the school & confronted him, or I would have.
If you learn anything worthwhile in K-12 History class, count yourself lucky, because it was dumb luck.
"The civil war was fought over states rights."
"But teach-"
*"STATES RIGHTS!!!"*
@@spuriouslathos2518 "States rights to what, Mr. Teacher?"
The best safe word is Meatloaf, because I would do anything for love, but I won't do that!
Amazing 😂
You win!
This is one of the best Last Week Tonight shows from 9 years ago. And unlike calculus, it's still very important and relative for a vast amount of people.
The way John Oliver says condom is hilarious.
Corndorm
It made my day.
Condome
I scrolled the comments looking for this.
that's just the british pronunciation. according to wikipedia. i mean, i'm british and most people i know don't pronounce it like that, but whatever.
Even when I was just a little kid I thought that line in Grease the movie was crazy," tell me more, tell me more did she put up a fight?", 😂
Gonna be rough re-watching the 2016 election now that we know the ending
The sad thing is that since this episode came out, more research has revealed that, more than anything else, sexual education protects kids. An accurate knowledge of the parts of the body, even at ages as young as 5 or 6, helps kids to identify if they're being abused and to tell a trusted adult. Parents who deny their children good sex education want their kids to be susceptible to abuse and assault.
When I was 8yo, my parents bought us a 4 volume set of booklets (plus a "parents' answer guide" that I was the only person in our family to read) called, "The Life Cycle Library." It was 100% factual information for children on approaching & getting through puberty - for both sexes - navigating the world around you mentally, physically, and emotionally. My parents were 31 & 32 when I was 8, so I think they felt ill-equipped to handle these conversations with my then-11yo brother, let alone me & my younger sister.
I read all 5 volumes, cover to cover.
The end result is, at 59 now & post-menopausal, I was never pregnant, I contracted one treatable STD in college while in a long-term relationship, and otherwise had no sexual health concerns my entire life. I understood birth control, sexuality, what was fair & not fair in dealing with the opposite sex, and that there may be no such thing as "normal," but there's plenty of, "that's definitely NOT normal!" I also learned that I had agency as a young woman, and that saying No was my right, because my body is MY body.
The most stupendously, ridiculously stupid reason the abstinence only crowd gives for not teaching this is they don't want to give kids, "ideas "
No one needs to teach ANY mammal on this planet about sex. It's a 100% completely natural act. Mankind knew how to have sex before we knew how to create language! We knew how to have sex before we could start fires! We knew how to have sex before we stopped living in trees! It's not a taught subject! What does need to be taught is sexual health & the emotional literacy that should accompany it.
I'm firmly convinced that it's the suppression of all this that creates sexual dysfunction. We might have less sex crimes if they *did* teach more sexual health.
I remember a story where a young girl had been taught alternative names for her body parts by her parents. She was sexually assaulted and told her friend when she was at school (she was too young to understand what had happened). A teacher overheard but because the girl was using different names, the teacher didn't realise what she was talking about and so didn't report it. That's why I'll always advocate for teaching children the proper names for body parts.
You can find stories of women who, upon learning what sex is IN A COLLEGE CLASS for women, broke down because that’s how they learned that what had been done to them as kids was sex. It’s horrifying.
i was with you until the last sentence, way too harsh
Ive never met a parent that wanted their kid susceptible to abuse thats a fucked thing to say just because someone views the topic differently than you
@@Rowsy91 less want and more are willing to let their kids be susceptible to it
God bless the teacher who have the sock demo.
abstinence funding? 75 million for nothing. ill do nothing for half that
still cracks me up that they have the clitoris labeled wrong on the diagram 😂
It's like all those maps, "we made you think this was X", and now you're doubting yourself
I only just now decided to look at the intro, and the descriptions of the images are so good. Avis Raptor, Hostus Mostus, and Divorcium Universalus in particular.
"You can only imagine how talented a lover Donald Trump must be."
Oh, John of Days Past, you ain't seen nothin' yet...
running through Whole Foods putting condoms on everything
The problem with watching these nearly-10-year-old videos is that they can still air today because very little has meaningfully changed, "blue wave" or not.
It's almost like Democrats and Republicans are both two sides of the same coin and neither have our best interests at heart.
I just found out Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are married. That made her comment and his reaction way better.
Megan: "Oh, this is a lot less curvy than I'm use to."
Nick: nods
Do you watch Parks and Rec?! If not, go watch now. It makes the show that much better knowing that they're married IRL.
@@katesweeney9101 I haven't watched it. I'll have to give a look. Thanks!
@@katesweeney9101I thought that was a Parks and Rec reference, I didn't know they were actually married IRL
What I've always loved SO MUCH about "abstinence only" education is the ASSUMPTION that the preferred state of adulthood MUST BE MARRIAGE.
I am 59 years old. My mom told me that I announced to her when I was *8* that I never wanted to get married, and 51 years later, I want to go back in time and ask 8yo me for more words of wisdom!
I do not even use the term, "pre-marital sex." IT'S JUST SEX. Unless at least one of the people involved is already married, then it's marital sex, extra-marital sex, or a migraine.
I've been happily single all my life & definitely not a virgin, and couldn't care less how people judge me. I've also never been divorced, never cheated on a spouse or even a boyfriend, and I took birth control seriously because I knew my limitations. I do not believe in double-standards, and I refuse to feel badly about my path in life just because it didn't meet some imaginary & arbitrary standard used to shame people for doing human things. The same people who shame others over sex also glorify: state-sponsored murder; guerilla warfare against the ob/gyn profession; hatred of non-conformists; persecution of self-expression; independence of more than half the population. Why would they matter to me????
this was the episode that made me fall in love with LWT
It is sad that some states still get less sex education than they would by watching the TV show Sex Education
Wish that show was around when I was a kid. Would have saved me a lot of grief. And saved my partners grief, too
As much as I appreciate that show, there's still so much that show has left to actually teach. It is a drama so I know that's not the point but it's literally called that so shouldn't it? They still have a lot of biased views and fearmongering about STIs in general which disappointed me.
8:00 scrolled through the comments but I guess no one recognized Fred Armisen 😂
Omg, the asparagus water! What a throwback XD
Whole Foods ... I worked for them a long time ago. I can tell you first hand, a lot of the stuff they sell is CON JOB STUFF!
I remember we were asked to listen to a "PITCH" about how this "SPECIAL WATER" gave you more energy. I asked for the science behind it and she asked me to push her hands. I did, then she told me to take a sip and do it again, I did and she purposely gave me less resistance with her hands. My crew walked away from that lady thinking, "THAT SHIT IS INSANE!"
A lot of the stuff they sell is basically BULL SHIT sold from SNAKE SALESMAN!
I grew up on a small farm, and live in the same area again. Lots of farms here. Lots of farm-fresh produce, fresh eggs from chickens you can actually meet walking around the farmer's property, fresh milk from cows you can drive past laying in a pasture, letting you know either it's going to rain or they're tired.
There are zero Whole Foods stores in my county.
Planned Parenthood is excellent on this subject
Mike wasn't ready. It's tough being a 25 year old teen
“Monogamy does not mean one at a time.”
Now you tell me.
Shame on her for insinuating that it’s the girl who’s throwing herself on guys. This biddy is straight out of the Handmaids Tale.
Lol, I worked at Whole Foods during that debacle and honestly, people were buying so many things that made no sense to me. DC had also started adding a 5 cent fee for plastic bags and people would lose their minds over it. Just ridiculous in every aspect.
As a woman who's been stealthed more than once, I have to say that sex ed should include detailed information on consent.
Looking back I’m a little bummed this show didn’t find more scenarios to get John Oliver to say “condome” lol
My safe word is "sorry"
The funniest safe word I've ever heard was Mushu because if you did anything without your partner's consent, you brought dishonor. Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your cow! 😂
This is so depressing knowing what comes with the election.
Gotta love that celebrity sex ed video!
Litteral demonstration in the 2000s made students eat oatmeal on stage... first kid got the "good oatmeal" then "seasoning" was added to the bowl for every student it passed through. THE SEASONING WAS DIRT AND SOME POOR KID THREW UP ON STAGE!
Sorry for the poor explanation: this was an abstinence-only demonstration.
Besides the horrifying message, that’s a lawsuit right there
Dirt can kill. 😮
I discovered this show when my 5th grade teacher in private school showed the Sex Education clip on the school's TV. Luckily I was previously raised in a very blue state so I had had pretty good sex ed at the point and would continue to be shown. But I think this was shown in that [really strange] school to get me to ask more questions and it's worked very well. That teacher I remember bringing up this show in other conversations because he thought it was funny. Since then I've watched this show pretty consistently, now I'm in high school, and I am very happy to have this episode in full so I can see that awesome fake Whole Foods commercial. Thank you John Oliver for luring me into left-leaning politics and the LWT Team for being so funny!
the sex ed segment is the first john oliver segment i ever watched, crazy to see it again almost a decade later.
More to thank... it feels good...
God, Nick Offerman with that shit-eating grin killed me.
16:44 I'd never run from a cute girl saying take me now!
Omg that ending was so good 😂
any millenials a little miffed that things like the show big mouth, and all the books avaliable about sexuality now were being prevented from being accessible to us during our formative years? and that even today theres places where people fight open and honest talk about sex tooth and nail because of their centuries old fan fiction book is still a major cause for alarm.
I grew up as a closed trans gal in a catholic school.
I wasn't big mouths biggest fan, but. Yeah. I'm mad that all the effort to make sure kids didn't go through the bs we did is being undone.
It's really infuriating, tbh
Kind of. Like most millennials, I learned about sexuality and sex online. So, it is kind of frustrating though, that's life in North America.
Uhh, did you grow up without internet access or something?
@@zap_collection6511Up until 20, or so, years ago, not many people had access!
@@zap_collection6511 Keep in mind that widespread internet access is a pretty new thing. Back in the ancient days cellphones just made calls and sent texts, and owning a full computer was a luxury for the wealthy and upper middle class. If you were an average kid and wanted to hop onto the internet you went to your school or local library.
Keep in mind too that information you see on the internet isn't always correct (shocker, I know). If you were curious about sex and body health you usually found yourself at some porn site.
How many people use Donald Trump or Ted Cruz as a safe phrase, simply for its ability to turn people off???
“If you have an erection that lasts more than 4 hours first, high five ✋, then think of Trump, if it continues seek professional help, medical and physiological.”
I taught high school social studies and I remember finding out that one of my students found out about the birds and the bees through Wattpad fanfiction.
"water is free and a bunch of asparagus is like $4" it hurts because I saw the asparagus water and genuinely thought "6 dollars? that's so cheap!" even tho it's literally asparagus in water. oh how the times change.
Can we get some Breaking Bad memes featuring young Mike?
Sex Education at my High School: "If you have premarital sex, you'll die of AIDS."
Watching this during my sex ed class
Which taught you best? I think I know, at least if you're in a red area. It's effing crazy.
"You wouldn't accept a history class that wasn't historically accurate."
I mean, I'd like to think I wouldn't, but then again your points about the daughters of the confederacy (and several other things) seem to indicate that I already have. And modern politics seems to indicate that many, many people would like to have classes that are even less accurate...
I feel guilty for laughing so hard at that statement, knowing full well that my laughter is akin to gallows humor and that it's only funny because there is literally nothing funny about the reality of it.
Some governors (*cough* DeSatan *cough*) straight up don't want historically accurate history classes if it doesn't fit their agenda I'm pretty sure.
Shoe activities. Nice.
Isn't home schooling sex education standard in Arkansas ?!?!!!
#1 😂 fabulous segment 😂
I love artisinal asparagus water 💧 😍 ❤️ ♥️ 💕
Regarding consent, I will point out that if you're a guy and your partner hands you a condom, that is consent. The other two aren't the same as consent but if your partner hands you one, they are definitely giving you consent there LOL
I got handed a condom by a sex ed teacher once, is that consent?
Awwww the jon stewart at the start because his last show was on august 6th 2015
was not prepared to hear louise explain sex
Good Evening From England, I Was In A Science Class In The 80s The Teacher Put on A Video And Left the Room
12:14 Oh John, you sweet summer child.
It makes me great at bowling.
At 11:02 he says "teaching sex addict in school is really important" lol
3:32
Counterargument to the man saying “what I do in my room…”
It actually is 😂
What makes this sex ed video weird is that I was watching Umbrella Academy right before I watched this.
Florida would definitely allow ( I mean actually does allow) history. Be taught without being historically correct.
Not so much allows it but demands it. As deSatan said, slaves learned skills... 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤬
Poor sweet Josh 😂
Seeing Tammy 2 and Ron being nice feels weird
I can confirm that that video indeed did not form the basis for the BCS prequel, it totally should have though that prequel was utter shite.
I rarely comment, but I had to say something here.
Two condom demonstrations in the sex ed videos, the one with the sock and yours, have made a BIG mistake. When you put on a condom, you have to grab the tip and keep holding it while you unroll the condom. Not doing it (you) or letting go of the tip (sock guy) increases the chances that sperm would spill out of the condom or the contom would break. Also, one should always check the expiration date on the package and properly take the condom out.
Please consult a sex ed instructor if you make another video :)
so the thing about whole foods is... if u can just get the bare essentials and do food prep at home with the fresh ingredients, it's actually well worth the money. dont buy the gimmicky shit. more importantly, here in CT, whole foods is cheaper than any store. my avg bill at M32, big y, or s&s is $200+ a week for 2 people, whole foods is $110 a week
...And so it begins!
is our children learning
27:49 priceless
I never thought I'd live to see Prismo adventure time and Mabel gravity falls telling me to put on a condom holy shit made my day
Is the Whole Foods ad narrator Fred Armisen? Or just doing an impression of him?
I think it’s Fred. Sounds just like him
No one thought Trump would win....it's why I didn't vote,what a mistake 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
So that whole Just say no routine, never works, NOT on Drugs, NOT on sex, Not on anything. We need real honest discussions with our tweens & teens about these real issues. They are way smarter than anyone gives them credit for and that woman who screams at youth try to scare them out of sex. Young women should not be looked as used up or in any way dirty, used up, or anything other than a normal human being doing what nature calls us to do.
We (the US) really got lucky with stealing John Oliver from the british.
Unfortunately we never appreciated him while we had him, it’s okay, we have an abundance. It’s why we can loan out Hugh Laurie from time to time.
14:25 well that explains a lot about foot fettishes
May also explain why I wear sock “in bed”, all those years of women asking if I have protection and I pointed down and said absolutely. I think I have some apologies to make and some child support cheques to write.
I went to a public university in the same town as YALE. We all knew that most of the student body were no better than the rest of us. They just got more student dept, or had their parents pay for school. Yes they have 6% acceptance, but honestly that 6% is no better than the rest of us. Their diploma just seas that theey went to an expcive school.
28:06 "Here's a bunch of other forms of birth control. Google them!" Oh, this one didn't age well, because if you ask Google about any of these now it will probably try to tell you how to use them in constructing a chimney...
27:00 Did the writers not know that some people are really into that?
We had health class in middle school that had some slight Sex Ed I guess? But we definitely had a speaker come from Wait 4 Your Mate and they made us do the scotch tape exercise. 🙄 This was in the Chicago suburbs in 2005.
My junior high Sex Ed health class in the early 80's had full colored graphic photos of just about every sexually transmitted disease out there as well as some nudity in the films.
I'm sorry but everyone knows that the best safe word is meatloaf. Because " I would do anything for love, but I won't do that"
I wonder how these parents would react to my 4th grade teacher introducing Sex Ed by playing the song "Candy Shop" by 50 Cent and then asking us what we thought the song was about
In regards to the asparagus water. It takes hours to simmer about a pound of asparagus to make that amount. The single stock in the container, I presume, was added for decorative purposes. Considering a pound of asparagus is five dollars - six dollars seems fair. The comparatives don’t line up. Right?
Stalk?
@@Tonyhouse1168 Got autocorrected. Yes, stalk. Well, a rib, technically.
Lana?…….
LANA!!!!!!
Now we start with one of the worst partsof US History. The beginning of the clown.
Nick Offerman 😂🤣👍
Very weird to look back at a time when fox didn’t worship trump
Well only one isn't a convicted felon
Children fifty years from now may start by watching the GOP debate and having a discussion about where the “whatever” is in which blood comes out of according to Mr Ex Prez Trump
That Pam person don't get touched. That is her problem 😅
Watching these in 2024 is kinda depressing... We were all so convinced he was just a joke back then...
GAY GRAPES! 😂
Fun fact I got *significantly* worse at bowling once I got my period 🥲
Would've been nice to see the sex ed clip from Monty Pythons in this episode.
No seriously.. run
I went to school in the late 90s early 2000s in Kentucky and we didn’t receive any type of sex ed at all not in middle school not in high school not at all
19:41 Lady talking about a topic she’s never experienced.
This is a “VULVA”
Sex Ed is inaccurate since they don't teach you the how to do it correctly. Lmao I had a kid at 15 so there's that too haha