Kevin and Yusong are back on snow day, and they're talking about the gayest thing in the world: Eurovision. They also talk about a video on MTV decoded by a Christian crusader and why Asian-Americans are doing well.
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00:03:10.000Let me just show you the New York Post.
00:03:14.000Don Jr.'s with some trashy broad letting his marriage fall to shit.
00:03:18.000I mean, that's one of the problems, Don, with divorce is you're teaching your kids that there's no need for monogamy, and you end up with some flippant marriages afterwards.
00:03:30.000So I think the boys, probably not Ivanka, but I think the boys are going to tend to stray from the path of monogamy because, like father, like son.
00:03:38.000So downside of divorce, but I don't care as far as presidential qualifications go.
00:03:44.000I don't care about people's personal sex lives.
00:03:46.000And then speaking of sex lives, no one outside of New York would care about this, but Christine Quinn and the chick from Sex in the City are both fighting for what?
00:04:09.000I want to go over, we've got a snow day today here, and there's not a lot of New Yorkers running around.
00:04:14.000Everyone is trying to get back to the burbs before the trains shut down.
00:04:19.000My guests couldn't make it today, and we're going to focus on snow day stuff, which is staying inside and watching TV.
00:04:30.000And also, I want to break down this decoded video that's on MTV that talks about Asian privilege and how it's racist for you to notice that Asians are doing well.
00:04:38.000It's remarkably absurd, and it's going to take a large chunk of the show.
00:04:43.000But before we get to those two super fun things, I want to just go over some of the news that has escaped us as of late because we've had such jam-packed shows.
00:04:54.000College of the Holy Cross has taken down their mascot.
00:05:14.000By the way, by the by, let's just make this clear about the Crusades.
00:05:18.000It was not Christians randomly bullying innocent Muslims.
00:05:22.000It was, as Spencer puts it, a late and small-scale defensive reaction to 450 years of imperialist jihad aggression that had conquered and Islamicized what had been half of the Christian world.
00:05:39.000Why are we embarrassed of the Crusades?
00:06:20.000And this is a common theme of the show, where we are so quick to persecute anyone who might be considered a racist or a Nazi if they're white, even if they've spelled a word wrong.
00:06:29.000Or we got comedians saying, you know, screw Count Dankula for getting arrested.
00:07:08.000So this woman, she's decided that she's unhappy that her boyfriend is leaving her.
00:07:12.000And because kids play so many video games and they think a ninja sword, a samurai sword, is a perfectly reasonable weapon, she taped all these swords and knives to the bed.
00:07:23.000So as he's sleeping, she can stab him.
00:09:13.000They're very informative educational videos.
00:09:16.000Check out, this is briefly, uh, them just talking about the censorship.
00:09:43.000And finally, Elizabeth Holmes stole $700 million.
00:09:49.000And again, it seems like there's a common thread here where white guys are evil and everyone else gets a pass.
00:09:56.000Elizabeth Holmes was a brutal, worse than Bernie Sanders, basically, a brutal fraudster.
00:10:02.000And she created this big company that was going to give everyone a free blood test and that will get all our DNA out there and protect people and you're going to have lung cancer soon.
00:10:11.000And just more of a giant database of potential diseases, which, by the way, almost everyone in biotech is working on right now.
00:11:03.000He didn't lose any investors a dime, and he didn't profit from this.
00:11:07.000But everyone is rejoicing in his persecution.
00:11:10.000But with Elizabeth Holmes, there's a strange tone of her 15-year odyssey to revolutionize the blood testing business began with huge promise, but has been engulfed by ignominy.
00:11:23.000Throw a big word there at the end so people don't realize how evil she is.
00:11:27.000And by the way, I think I'm bringing back the word evil.
00:11:30.000Jim Goad convinced me not to, and he said it's a dumb word.
00:11:34.000It's for fairy tales, and there's just human beings, and human beings are corrupt, and human beings can be inbred, or they can be the result of something.
00:11:42.000But to talk about this sort of evil thing, it's a bunch of religious bullshit and I'm starting to change my mind.
00:11:47.000You know, talking about her, talking about Elizabeth Holmes, and yesterday on the podcast talking about heroin, I'm starting to think there really is such a thing as evil.
00:11:59.000Yes, the fairy tale children's book version of the word evil.
00:12:05.000Anyway, let's watch some TV and then discuss Asian privilege in depth.
00:13:58.000You know, not everything gets screened on this show, and sometimes stuff gets through, and that's very unfortunate, something we have to live with here on live TV.
00:14:07.000But I'm glad that the viewer brought up TV because we've had a multitude of snowstorms here in New York.
00:18:12.000Billy Connolly is a Scottish comedian, and he talks about the pillows you get and crouching, and he says, well, the crouching doesn't do anything.
00:18:18.000And he also says with the pillows, if you're going to hit a mountain, which Ricky Gervais references, you scream, what are you going to do?
00:18:23.000Go, go away, nasty mountain, and throw the pillows at the mountain as you crash into it.
00:18:29.000It's been done, but it might not have been stolen.
00:18:31.000I mean, this is a 70s comedian, and I'm a comedy expert.
00:18:34.000So every time you say a joke, I can sift through my massive Rolodex and go, that's been said.
00:18:39.000But oftentimes people will say things that have already come up.
00:18:45.000I'm starting with all the bad first, by the way.
00:18:47.000He also talked about Brexit a little bit in it.
00:18:50.000And he said, Brexit was just the average person.
00:18:53.000And we think, you know, in media and in politics, we have to talk to the average person.
00:18:57.000No, the average person is a fucking moron.
00:19:04.000And I just thought, what an elitist ponce.
00:19:08.000And that's really the worst thing about Britain is this classism where they look down at the blue collars and everyone claps when you call them dumb.
00:20:02.000If you want to fight for free speech in 2018, it's probably the least fashionable it's ever been because it's immediately associated with the alt-right and being evil.
00:20:13.000Another thing that bothered me about it, I'm telling you how great this was and then listing all the horrible things about it.
00:20:18.000He talked about the Fujin province, what's it called?
00:20:21.000Yulin Dog Festival, how they eat dogs and they torture them in China.
00:20:27.000I've seen a lot of people in LA get really mad about this.
00:20:49.000Go to any bona fide restaurant, even in Beijing and Shanghai and nice cities, and you can go order a dog.
00:20:55.000And that dog was raised in a cage and that dog was tortured.
00:20:58.000So it's funny how the West will hear about the non-West and they'll just sort of sample a little piece, like bring our girls home with Boko Haram.
00:21:41.000But he said, rape jokes are not about rape.
00:21:45.000No one jokes about the actual act, not even rapists.
00:21:50.000And I found, remember Donna Hilton, the woman who was at the Women's March telling you about equality and how important it is to be fair?
00:22:00.000Well, her accomplice, she kidnapped a guy for, I think, a week and tortured him, a gay guy, kept him in a closet, and eventually they raped him to death with a pole, a steel pole.
00:22:11.000And the woman who did it, Donna's accomplice, said, I knew he was gay.
00:22:30.000And of course, it shows up in the far-left, socialist, crazy person world of the Woman's March and all these bizarre people we have to fight with.
00:22:51.000And he talks about Caitlin Jenner and says she's a terrible driver.
00:22:55.000She's not doing anything for women drivers.
00:22:57.000And he talks about the obvious thing that no one's talking about, where he goes, kills someone in a car and then goes home and puts a dress on, and we all forget about it.
00:23:06.000I mean, it was so refreshing seeing a comedian be ballsy and rude and crass and offensive and talk to a massive audience.
00:23:15.000There must have been 80,000 people there.
00:23:16.000To talk to a massive audience the way we all talk in bars.
00:23:19.000It's so rare in stand-up comedy these days.
00:24:44.000Well, I'm happy to tell you the answer to all of those questions.
00:24:48.000Blacks are doing badly, generally, in America, because of welfare.
00:24:54.000The state, and this goes back to the New Deal, the state decided that it would take over the family, the black family, the poor family, and it incentivized single moms.
00:25:09.000Now we have these kids with idle hands who get into trouble, get into drug dealing, get into crime, they go to jail.
00:25:14.000They don't have a, now that dad is in prison, and we have an entire culture without dads.
00:25:21.000Three in four black children are born out of wedlock.
00:25:25.000In areas here in New York and the Bronx, it can go up to 80%, especially with Puerto Ricans on third generation welfare.
00:25:33.000That is why black people are doing badly.
00:25:38.000And to say that that is an example of racism is to put the carriage before the horse.
00:25:45.000You know, black people back in the 50s and 60s, before welfare was so popular, they committed crimes about the same that white people committed crimes.
00:25:56.000So it's not an inherent black thing to end up In prison, but it's also not racism.
00:26:04.000And I love using the example of Asians because these people who bitch about racism all the time are left having to explain it.
00:26:11.000Like, if America is so racist and it's so, there's so much white privilege, why are whites something like sixth as far as successful ethnic groups?
00:26:20.000I believe they're below, not African Americans, but American Africans.
00:26:52.000And then they started analyzing it and going on social media and they realized, wait a minute, it seems like Asians and blacks and Indians and Hispanics, they're the ones saying the most racist stuff.
00:27:44.000From books like Crazy Rich Asians to characters like London Tipton from The Sweet Life of Zach and Cody, the archetype of the super wealthy, educated Asian American is a common.
00:28:00.000So now her and the guy from Humar and Komei or whatever it's called, where they go to White Castle, those are all people who are constantly portrayed as rich people.
00:28:12.000So I believe she's going to do that whole see it to be it thing and claim that Asians are rich because they're portrayed as rich on TV.
00:28:19.000Lady, you cannot turn on the TV or a movie without seeing a black brain surgeon.
00:28:25.000Every head of surgery in every show is a black dude.
00:29:58.00014 study found that while Asian Americans generally earn more than white people, they also have a much higher rate of poverty.
00:30:05.000Plus the what about Asians, I guess they'll call it an argument, hides huge disparities amongst different Asian ethnic groups.
00:30:12.000Indian Americans earn twice the national average in median income, while Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Bangladeshi families are at the very bottom of the list.
00:31:46.000But maybe not the type you usually hear about, because it's couched in very positive terms.
00:31:51.000What we're dealing with more specifically is the myth of the model minority, a fairy tale of white supremacy designed to draw a wedge between Asian Americans and other people of color.
00:32:03.000The myth came to prominence in the wake of World War II.
00:32:06.000You know, after Japanese Americans were literally sent to internment camps by the U.S. government, it worked right out the idea that by being hardworking, education-focused, and family-oriented, Asian Americans found success and overcame the massive amount of discrimination and institutionalized racism they faced since the 1800s.
00:32:25.000The goal of the model minority myth was twofold.
00:32:27.000One, which is kind of legitimate, was to explain why Asian families were doing so well economically.
00:32:34.000The much more insidious part was to also reinforce damaging stereotypes about blacks and Hispanics as lazy and uneducated.
00:32:41.000Basically, the model minority myth is.
00:32:45.000So the reason that we noticed that Asian Americans do well, and by the way, you can't just be juggling around Indians and Chinese like they're the same people.
00:32:55.000But the reason that we noticed that these people work hard, treasure their families, stay together, and tend to innovate and do well is because we wanted to insult blacks.
00:33:51.000And if Chinese people are making so much more money than us, then everything bad you can say about white privilege, you can say more to Chinese and Japanese and Asians when it comes to Asian privilege.
00:35:04.000It wasn't hard work, education, or assimilation that helped some Asian Americans find more success than other people of color.
00:35:10.000It was opportunity brought on by, wait for it, less racism.
00:35:15.000New research has found that what actually helped Asian Americans was American society simply becoming a tiny bit less racist towards them.
00:35:23.000In 2016, researcher Nathaniel Hilger found that between 1940 and 1970, Asian Americans, regardless of education levels, started being paid like white people.
00:35:33.000What happened was that both college-educated Asians and Asian high school dropouts began to make the same as college-educated white people.
00:37:01.000But he basically pointed out that when women don't have kids and they don't have families, like when they're young, they make more money than men.
00:37:09.000Then they tend to put family above work and they end up making less money.
00:37:13.000That's clearly not proof that sexism is a problem.
00:37:17.000And to say Chinese people are doing well because we're less racist puts so much onus on racism.
00:37:24.000If I was black and everyone talked about how racism is crippling blacks and it's so evil, I would be embarrassed because you're making them sound totally weak.
00:37:34.000I'm fat and ugly and I live in New York City where I get insulted and told to f off every city block.
00:37:41.000You know how many hours a night I spend crying about it?
00:37:59.000Whites and white high school dropouts, which prior to that time period was not the case.
00:38:04.000Plus, in 1965, the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act eliminated a huge bias in favor of European immigrants and drove in a new group of highly selected, highly educated Asian immigrants.
00:38:16.000For example, 51% of Chinese immigrants to the U.S. are college graduates compared to only 4% of adults in China.
00:38:23.000Now, you may be thinking, but Lily, what's wrong with believing all Asian Americans are hardworking, highly educated, and flush weak cash?
00:38:45.000Well, certain stereotypes may not seem all that bad on the surface, but the rich Asian American myth actually erases the experiences of a large part of the Asian American community.
00:39:25.000No one takes that stereotype and enforces it on everything.
00:39:28.000I don't know where you got this idea that we notice that the Irish tend to get grumpy on whiskey and we think 100% of Irish, no possible exceptions, get grumpy and violent when they have whiskey.
00:40:16.000So with the help of the model minority myth, it becomes easy to ignore the fact that in New York City alone, more Asian Americans live below the poverty line than any other minority at 27%.
00:40:27.000Oh God, you f โ ers are so bad at facts.
00:41:24.000All Chinatown, all the lower Manhattan is becoming Chinese.
00:41:27.000We only really have Wall Street left, and it's being pushed out by the yellow gentrification of New York.
00:41:34.000And then these people generate income, and they move out to Queens, they move out to the suburbs, they move out to Long Island.
00:41:40.000And that 27% is about to become middle class and upper middle class.
00:41:45.000So you're taking a strange little sample of new immigrants and pretending that the stats on Asian Americans aren't true because you found some poor ones.
00:41:54.000I thought you Chinese people were supposed to be smart.
00:42:06.000Poor Asian Americans are being seriously overlooked when it comes to things like government funding and aid for seniors, which is a double tragedy since we all know that Asian grandmas are stylish as f โ .