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Infrastructure: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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infrastructure it's our roads bridges
dams levees airports power grids
basically anything that can be destroyed
in an action movie
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we if an alien species judged
humanity by our most popular movies
they'd think we were furious with
asphalt all the time the problem is
though when our infrastructure is not
being destroyed by robots and or saved
by Bruce Willis we tend to find it a bit
boring as you know infrastructure is not
a sexy or glamorous topic as much as I'd
like to think otherwise infrastructure
is not sexy infrastructure is not very
sexy
yes infrastructure like those men we
just heard from is important but not
sexy although to be fair that may just
be because Hollywood promotes
unrealistic standards of infrastructure
beauty that's not what a real Road looks
like real roads had curves so most most
people think infrastructure for I think
it's boring but but is it because I'd
argue that it's actually pretty
fascinating and I know that in saying
that I've basically become the rad youth
counselor trying to convince you that
Jesus was the Taylor Swift of his time
revelations is a breakup song to the
Romans guys who want another Mountain
Dew catch so let's talk about
infrastructure tonight and let's begin
with dams because dams are amazing
they're the most powerful device we have
for holding back liquid aside from the
idea of using a porta potti oh wait I'll
just wait forever
I cannot go in there America used to
love dams Grand Coulee Dam in Washington
State
biggest concrete structure Boulder Dam
stands today a modern Colossus the walls
of the new dam tower into the sky like
mighty modern pyramid yes and we built
those dams with ingenuity and brawn and
of course piles and piles of dead Irish
that of course we did they're good
workers and their corpses make a solid
foundation material that's an
architectural fact but these days
America's wants great dam system is in a
state of serious disrepair the average
age of the country's 84,000 dams is 52
years and many of them have problems
that stem from when they were first
built yes much like most Botox
recipients and competitive cloggers the
average Dam is 52 years old and probably
has something deeply broken inside of it
you would think a statistic like that
would terrify people into action but
amazingly many states are paying
virtually no attention to their dam
problems in 2007 the last year for which
statistics are available Texas had just
seven inspectors responsible for seventy
four hundred dams that's over 1,050 dams
per inspector the state was only able to
look at 239 dams Alabama doesn't even
have an Inspection Agency to monitor its
2,000 plus dams zero inspectors that
means that the state of Alabama has
exactly the same number of damaged
Spector's as the banned Alabama and it's
not just dams we're currently doing a
terrible job of maintaining all of our
infrastructure the nation's
infrastructure and bridges roads and
pipelines is sorely in need of
renovation collectively they get nothing
more than a d+ a d+ think about that
America got the same grade that a 10th
grade teacher gives a nightmare kid so
she doesn't have to deal with him for
another year
no no London we're not calculating the
surface area of our penises just give
him a d+ and say has family troubles I
cannot even deal with that again
and look to be fair that deep last grade
came from the American Society of Civil
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