Only John Oliver (iamjohnoliver) could turn a notorious small-talk topic, the weather, into this funny and compelling LastWeekTonight deep dive:
towards a subject best known for constituting 99.9% of small talk: the weather.
Unlike “two colleagues in an elevator,” Oliver doesn’t really discuss the weather itself—which, as we all know, consists of “the hots, the wets, the whooshes, the brrrs and of course, the flashy-flashy boom-booms”—so much as the business of its prediction, a system that, like so much else under our terrible president, is “under serious threat.
Being the United States, we can’t just enjoy a nice thing—we have to squeeze every possible dollar out of it. Enter AccuWeather founder and current CEO Joel Myers, and his brother, former CEO Barry Myers, whom Oliver identifies as the leading proponents of weather prediction as a for-profit industry, rather than a public safety resource.
Still, Joel and Barry Myers stand opposed to the NWS providing that value, and you’ll never guess who stands with them. Yes, Barry Myers is Trump’s nominee to head up NOAA , yet another of the myriad ways in which this utterly corrupt president has signed his name on the wrong side of history.
In closing, Oliver renders the “abstract threat” of the attack on the NWS as an ‘80s-tastic weather graphics package, warning viewers to brace themselves for Superstorm Barry.
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