true or false. the pinnacle of reality tv jersey shore and north america s largest marsupials have something in common with each other and with fiber glass illuminated peeps. true. totally and literally true. all three turned up in our nation s nuttier new year s eve celebrations. because who needs to watch a giant glittering ball dropped in times square when you can head down shore and watch them dropping snooki? who? you tell me. go ahead. seriously. tell me. and america loves its possums. they dropped a possum in brass town, north carolina. it s in that box there. and a stuffed one in talapoosa, georgia because snooki is not going to talapoosa on new year s eve. she is at the shore, silly. make do with the possum. while other american towns settle for dropping a giant pickle or bag of potato chips or stick of bologna, not making
that i can report. and the world is not ending i don t think. that s more of an educated guess. next question, true or false. health reform which passed last year and goes into effect in parts this year is dead on arrival. false. seriously, can we hit the buzzer again for emphasis? thank you. health reform is not dead on arrival. that s not to say the republicans in the house aren t trying to kill it. they are. the house will vote on repealing what they are calling the job killing health care law next wednesday, january 12th. seriously the sky will fall before senate democrats let that vote mean anything. in fact, a whole new round of health reform benefits kicked in on january first including a requirement that your insurance company spend at least 80% of your premiums on actually, you know, caring for you. okay. last question. true or false. the pinnacle of reality tv jersey shore and north america s largest marsupials
how amazing how often they do it and still survive. and one day they get killed. reporter: the koalas have an very vocal advocate in the form of this woman, deborah tabert. they call you the koala woman? yes. you are okay with that? yeah, i am. often i can be on a plane and people will say you are the koala woman, aren t you. a very lovely moniker. reporter: absolutely. you could be the platypus woman, that could be worse. she took us here to a koala sanctuary, one place where the animals are genuinely safe. these animals here are living a cushy life? in the waldorf here. koalas in the wild are just doing it really rough. reporter: here you can see the lazy creatures living in complete comfort they look like living teddy bears except they are not as many people think, bears, they re in the same family as kangaroos. so these are marsupials? they are marsupials they have their babies in a pouch. then they stay there for six
how amazing how often they do it and still survive. and one day they get killed. reporter: the koalas have an very vocal advocate in the form of this woman, deborah tabert. they call you the koala woman? yes. you are okay with that? yeah, i am. often i can be on a plane and people will say you are the koala woman, aren t you. a very lovely moniker. reporter: absolutely. you could be the platypus woman, that could be worse. she took us here to a koala sanctuary, one place where the animals are genuinely safe. these animals here are living a very cushy, comfortable life? in the waldorf here. koalas in the wild are just doing it really rough. reporter: here you can see the lazy creatures living in complete comfort they look like living teddy bears except they are not as many people think, bears, they re in the same family as kangaroos. so these are marsupials? they are marsupials they have their babies in a pouch. then they stay there for six
available for kids to know this stuff? no. what is wrong with the who of you? greg, you can t say let s go out and kill as many as we can. no, we play kill. play kill? after 9/11, a lot of directors met with the government to come up with ways to think about attacks because they thought, be creative. a lot of people didn t know that. we don t want to give ideas to teenagers to sloter as many people. they are good at video games. maybe it was dumb to go that young. maybe go a little older. but they have people who lost lives there. they don t want to loose more lives. they can practice on marsupials. nobody likes marsupials. your couches are weird. i am against the pouch.