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B1 中級 英語 21:14 Educational

Infrastructure: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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infrastructure it's our roads bridges

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dams levees airports power grids

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basically anything that can be destroyed

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in an action movie

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[Applause]

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[Applause]

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we if an alien species judged

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humanity by our most popular movies

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they'd think we were furious with

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asphalt all the time the problem is

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though when our infrastructure is not

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being destroyed by robots and or saved

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by Bruce Willis we tend to find it a bit

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boring as you know infrastructure is not

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a sexy or glamorous topic as much as I'd

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like to think otherwise infrastructure

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is not sexy infrastructure is not very

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sexy

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yes infrastructure like those men we

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just heard from is important but not

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sexy although to be fair that may just

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be because Hollywood promotes

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unrealistic standards of infrastructure

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beauty that's not what a real Road looks

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like real roads had curves so most most

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people think infrastructure for I think

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it's boring but but is it because I'd

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argue that it's actually pretty

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fascinating and I know that in saying

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that I've basically become the rad youth

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counselor trying to convince you that

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Jesus was the Taylor Swift of his time

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revelations is a breakup song to the

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Romans guys who want another Mountain

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Dew catch so let's talk about

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infrastructure tonight and let's begin

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with dams because dams are amazing

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they're the most powerful device we have

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for holding back liquid aside from the

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idea of using a porta potti oh wait I'll

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just wait forever

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I cannot go in there America used to

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love dams Grand Coulee Dam in Washington

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State

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biggest concrete structure Boulder Dam

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stands today a modern Colossus the walls

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of the new dam tower into the sky like

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mighty modern pyramid yes and we built

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those dams with ingenuity and brawn and

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of course piles and piles of dead Irish

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that of course we did they're good

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workers and their corpses make a solid

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foundation material that's an

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architectural fact but these days

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America's wants great dam system is in a

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state of serious disrepair the average

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age of the country's 84,000 dams is 52

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years and many of them have problems

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that stem from when they were first

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built yes much like most Botox

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recipients and competitive cloggers the

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average Dam is 52 years old and probably

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has something deeply broken inside of it

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you would think a statistic like that

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would terrify people into action but

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amazingly many states are paying

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virtually no attention to their dam

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problems in 2007 the last year for which

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statistics are available Texas had just

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seven inspectors responsible for seventy

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four hundred dams that's over 1,050 dams

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per inspector the state was only able to

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look at 239 dams Alabama doesn't even

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have an Inspection Agency to monitor its

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2,000 plus dams zero inspectors that

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means that the state of Alabama has

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exactly the same number of damaged

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Spector's as the banned Alabama and it's

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not just dams we're currently doing a

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terrible job of maintaining all of our

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infrastructure the nation's

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infrastructure and bridges roads and

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pipelines is sorely in need of

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renovation collectively they get nothing

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more than a d+ a d+ think about that

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America got the same grade that a 10th

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grade teacher gives a nightmare kid so

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she doesn't have to deal with him for

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another year

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no no London we're not calculating the

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surface area of our penises just give

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him a d+ and say has family troubles I

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cannot even deal with that again

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and look to be fair that deep last grade

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came from the American Society of Civil

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