Half-Asian Lawyer Bill Richman is here to give us an update on our Dr. Trump video, and to talk about the latest in the half-Asian controversy with the BBC and Harvard Law School. Also, a new episode of Half-Asian Gold.
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00:06:46.000What's been your experience here with the recent abortion bills discussing it?
00:06:49.000Seems like people just want to, their minds are exploding on social media, but I want to know what it's been like for you in the day-to-day, and what do you think about the Alabama and Georgia abortion laws?
00:07:31.000Instead she's doing more low-key town halls like this random clip you see on a bus That literally you don't have to be yes, that's Geraldus looking embarrassed for her She's just like you Yeah Her Instagram is my wife's favorite thing.
00:07:51.000If ever I walk by the living room, my wife is going, like this, watching.
00:07:56.000Oh, is it Elizabeth Warren's Instagram?
00:07:58.000She goes, yeah, and the Hodgetwins just commented on it, and this is rough.
00:09:32.000free bikes are being given out to fat people by the NHS.
00:09:35.000This comes from the Mirror in the UK there.
00:09:36.000Regular cycling is more effective at cutting the risk of heart disease than many drugs, so the NHS is giving out bike rides based on a prescription basis.
00:09:45.000A lot of people are praising the move, Fitness, though there are actually some detractors claiming that this quote further stigmatizes fat people, with others complaining that quote, these bikes taste like shit.
00:09:58.000I kind of think we're too stupid to live at some point.
00:10:01.000Like, all these, like, salt regulations and sugar regulations, like, they're doing everything they can to make us not die.
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00:10:49.000According to Vice, by the way, it's problematic that medical textbooks overwhelmingly use pictures of young white men since the latest.
00:10:57.000So, according to the author, depicting the same body over and over again as white, male, and athletic isn't the best way to teach future doctors.
00:11:04.000She pointed to renowned medical journals that have been published, such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Aging and Health, and the DSM 14 words, which seems like that's not the guy who's there to help you.
00:11:16.000No wonder they have a problem with this.
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00:14:29.000So we want to hear from you, and I'm really glad that half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman is here because we'll be talking about the abortion laws.
00:14:34.000This has been trending for two days now.
00:15:27.000Every woman who's had a fertilized egg pass through her?
00:15:30.000I don't know, Mr. Mechanical Engineer Guy.
00:15:35.000But specifically because they've kind of thrown in Georgia and Alabama, but they both specifically criminalize the act of performing the abortion outside of the listed parameters.
00:15:47.000They're just actually calling abortion what it is, right?
00:15:50.000They're calling abortion something that is ending a human life now and saying that there might be a penalty for performing that.
00:15:55.000Well, they very clearly express banning the person who's performing the abortion, which brings us actually to their subsequent claim that the Georgia bill, they claim, has loose language that could maybe lead to the prosecution of women who take an abortion pill or who travel to other states or who even miscarry.
00:16:14.000I've been doing a lot of research since four in the morning, so I'm not that sharp today.
00:16:19.000But even in the scary old pseudo handmade tale days, and I know it's this post-apocalyptic future, but I don't, I stopped watching after episode two, okay?
00:17:01.000Unless I'm wrong about this, throughout the entire history of Anglo-American Western law, only one woman was ever charged with the crime of self-abortion.
00:17:14.000No woman ever in the history of modern Western law, as far as I know, let me know if I'm wrong, has been charged with a crime for miscarrying.
00:18:49.000But I'm right there with you in the terms of if you have a legitimate concern about people performing self-abortions, let's say that you see abortion as one of those options so that they can do it in a safe, clean environment, but you should also be in favor of the other ways to prevent abortions from happening or being necessary, such as abstinence.
00:19:23.000But that's the point is that, you know, but it's not okay to be in favor of abstinence or to say that abstinence is a legitimate way to not have to have an abortion.
00:19:38.000I think you're confusing, you're moving the words around.
00:19:40.000Now I'm not saying we only teach people about abstinence, but if you do want to teach them, the only way to avoid an STD, STI, or unplanned pregnancy, the only way is abstinence!
00:20:20.000They actually wrote about how they will try to put you in jail for misc.
00:20:23.000This actually, this is something I think people don't understand.
00:20:26.000We have pretty liberal laws regarding abortion.
00:20:28.000The majority of European countries actually have abortion bans after 12 weeks, and a lot of them require a waiting period after consulting with a doctor.
00:21:05.000The people that say under certain circumstances, 38% of that group, plus throughout history, back into the early 90s, said in very limited situations.
00:21:15.000If you drill down into the numbers, there are not that many people out there who actually favor under any circumstance abortions.
00:21:57.000So either it's a tragedy, or who cares whether it's rare?
00:22:01.000So I'm glad that at least right now we're having this conversation openly and honestly.
00:22:05.000Another claim, this is a big fear-mongering claim from the left, and it's not entirely, by the way, unfounded, that this is going to 100% lead to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
00:22:14.000Setting up a potential showdown in the highest court of the land.
00:22:17.000Obama's new abortion law, the strictest in our country, is setting up a direct challenge to Roe versus Wade.
00:22:23.000Donald Trump said in the third debate with Hillary Clinton, if I get two or more appointments to the Supreme Court, automatically, that's the word he used, automatically Roe v. Wade will be overturned.
00:22:34.000And I think the president was exactly right.
00:23:39.000I mean, the case itself allows to have different restrictions based on the trimesters.
00:23:44.000That was the kind of fundamental, you know, practical application of it.
00:23:47.000And so we have always, since Roe vs. Wade, had limitations.
00:23:50.000And really, again, I think it goes back to your point, which is where if you really do think it's as easy as clipping a nail and it's as, you know, morally irrelevant as clipping a fingernail then you should just be you're probably more consistent to just say it should be allowed always.
00:24:05.000And in these other states essentially to say oh that Roe versus Wade may be challenged well Roe versus Wade was a is a very complex opinion it sets different types of restrictions at different trimesters and it also has a certain basis in the 14th amendment the right to privacy and so you can you can maybe parse some of those.
00:24:20.000Can you explain that because that's something a lot of people don't No, they think that Roe v. Wade says there's a constitutional right to abortion, and they think that in the Constitution there's some interpreted right to abortion.
00:24:30.000So what the 14th Amendment, which was the basis of the opinion, is saying that yes, here you have the Constitution through the Bill of Rights which says Or rather through an amendment, it wasn't in the Bill of Rights.
00:24:41.000But to say you can have a right of privacy, which that word isn't actually there, but it's interpreted as one of the rights that are broadly enumerated in the 14th Amendment.
00:24:49.000And then from that derivative right, right to privacy, you then have a further derivative, sub-derivative right, that says that your body and being able to do what you were going to do with your body.
00:24:59.000And I think intellectually, at a very high level, a lot of people wouldn't understand.
00:25:02.000I mean, there's a lot of libertarian fans of the show who would say, your right to privacy allows you to put in your body whatever you want, or to be able to do with your body whatever you want.
00:25:10.000So it's not like that entire spectrum of arguments doesn't make sense.
00:25:12.000No, and by the way, I think that's a valid argument.
00:25:14.000I think libertarians, you say, not only do I think pot should be legal, but I think someone should be able to shoot heroin in their house if they want to.
00:25:20.000I think it's very hard to argue against that constitutionally.
00:25:24.000But the difference becomes when, for example, you have a different heartbeat.
00:25:28.000You're hurting someone else in there, and where you draw a line, again, under the libertarian philosophy, you would draw a line where you're hurting someone else and those types of things.
00:25:36.000And that's where, even on the question of what you have a right to privacy for, your right to privacy doesn't extend to what you can do to other people.
00:25:44.000No, it's a really, really loose Not tied there.
00:25:47.000Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who's likely dead, admitted that Roe v. Wade is a byproduct of quote, heavy judicial interventionism.
00:26:22.000Democratic woman in the legislature tried to fight back.
00:26:25.000State Senator Vivian Figures introduced an amendment to make vasectomies a felony, noting that there are no laws regulating what a man can do with his body.
00:27:14.000You can do what you want with your body.
00:27:15.000Just as, by the way, no one out there cares about you getting your tubes tied.
00:27:19.000No one out there cares about getting a pap smear.
00:27:20.000This one leftist was tweeting on Twitter, like, oh, so now we're going to have laws about men are going to decide what we do with our pap smears, how often?
00:27:28.000Why do you think it is that none of us care about any of those things?
00:28:30.000As opposed to just one gender over the other, or flipping the script so that one is taking advantage of the other.
00:28:36.000Again, if you even assume that the opposite is true, would that mean that a man has an equal right to say, hey, we had sex, you definitely have to take Plan B?
00:28:45.000And if you have a face in you, you definitely have to get rid of it.
00:28:48.000I mean, that extension, that right, has to extend to a man if you're gonna follow that track.
00:29:07.000Well, look, it's a great point to talk about the heartbeat and saying that it's a separate heartbeat, right?
00:29:11.000Because what we're dealing with here is somebody who is saying, Every part of my body is under my control, and this thing that is inside of me is not a person.
00:29:33.000But now with these heartbeat bills, what you're saying is they're making a very fine point and saying, that's a second heartbeat that you can't stop and think that it's just a clump of cells.
00:29:51.000Here's something else that I genuinely am curious to hear people's opinions on, because I asked my wife this the other night.
00:29:57.000Women out there, can you think of... I mean, I'm sure women from a long time ago can say, sure, because if I spoke out, my husband gave me a fresh one.
00:30:49.000She said, I'm honestly, I'm never told that I can't have an opinion on any issues.
00:30:53.000She said rape, economics, men's health, any issues, like all of it.
00:30:58.000Well, and this was the thing that she did at the end where she was kind of crying and pointing into the camera saying, it's my body, it's not yours.
00:31:04.000You could have used that for slaves and people did.
00:31:31.000What if these states, to people here who are upset about these bills, particularly like the Elizabeth Warrens of the world, Kamala Harris, the entire DNC platform.
00:31:39.000There's no intellectual diversity there at all.
00:31:42.000What if these states, let's say Georgia, Alabama, had passed an abortion bill that made exceptions for rape and incest and the life of the mother, they already make that exception, and they banned abortion at only 12 weeks, requiring a five-day waiting period?
00:32:47.000By the way, these are the same people who don't believe in the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, which actually is a constitutional right.
00:32:54.000When we're talking about amendments, it's number two, right next to number one, which includes, by the way, freedom of speech, which you also don't believe in.
00:33:04.000You've heard of stepping over dollars to pick up pennies?
00:33:06.000You're stepping over rights to grab ones that don't exist.
00:33:10.000Freedom of speech, let's move that over here.
00:33:12.000Right to bear arms, I don't really like it because David Hogg was in a Michael Moore film.
00:33:15.00014th Amendment, right to privacy, therefore you can have an abortion at 32 weeks, says Elizabeth Warren.
00:33:23.000It really is absolutely remarkable to me.
00:33:24.000And by the way, I want to make sure that I'm clear.
00:33:25.000That context of the first Elizabeth Warren clip, she was talking about parents who had a late-term abortion because the baby was going to have a congenital, I believe, a heart defect.
00:33:33.000So I don't want to be accused of taking her out of context.
00:33:51.000Would you only extend the abortion beyond 20 weeks in cases of rape, incest, or, for example, a congenital heart defect, serious birth defects, the health of the mother?
00:34:01.000That's not what Elizabeth Warren proposed.
00:35:01.000If you ban abortion, you're going to be jailed for miscarrying.
00:35:04.000So, whereas the right fearmongers gives you a heads up based on things that have actually happened and are currently happening across the world, the left fearmongers Fear mongers on things that can't be proven, never happen, and they move on to the next thing.
00:35:14.000No one in this country has been regularly arrested for having abortions or for miscarrying.
00:35:20.000If you accept that wholesale, you have bought false fear mongering.
00:35:33.000If I haven't, then I've just wasted a lot of your time and you're probably waiting for Ben Shapiro anyways because it's going to be a barn burn.
00:39:32.000And any time that happens, especially with someone like you where a lot of it is read through tone, I thought, ooh, they could make that a hatchet job.
00:39:38.000But I actually thought it came out pretty well.
00:39:40.000But it's not something I would do when I know it's just in print.
00:39:42.000Yeah, no, I mean, honestly, I'd rather do live video typically, not even tape, as with the BBC.
00:39:47.000But in any case, You know, so it was a lazy decision on my part.
00:39:51.000I didn't know anything about the guy who was interviewing me.
00:39:56.000I don't follow British politics all that closely, truthfully.
00:39:59.000So we sit down and we start the interview and his opening question is really antagonistic.
00:40:06.000He starts asking about the barbarity of pro-life positions and he starts asking, Isn't this Georgia policy bringing us back to the dark ages?
00:40:12.000He mischaracterizes the Georgia law itself.
00:40:14.000And I figure, OK, I know who this guy is, obviously.
00:40:55.000But I know who he is a little bit, because, you know, obviously in Canada, we're a little bit more closely tied with the parliamentary system.
00:43:04.000I've said this a thousand times in my speeches.
00:43:06.000My basic rule is, when someone is intent on defaming your character, you have no obligation to continue with the conversation.
00:43:12.000That's what he was doing, and so I was out.
00:43:14.000And by the way, this idea that this was just an honest line of questioning, his own producer tweeted out after this whole thing was over that this is why you should have people like Shapiro on so that you can Basically attack their character.
00:43:27.000Isn't it kind of funny that they're... I don't regret getting up and walking out because, again, it was an ambush, so he gets a win for the ambush.
00:43:33.000Can I offer, while I have you in a mode here, while I have you in a mode talking about, like, the breaking down of Ego, if I may, I may offer a little word of it.
00:43:39.000The only thing I would say about your walkout, this is the performance art of it.
00:43:43.000In my opinion, if you're gonna walk out, walk out.
00:43:46.000Like, light off a big ol' mouth cannon and walk away laughing.
00:43:49.000Because at that point, you were trying to walk out respectfully.
00:43:51.000You know, you were pissed, but you'd just be like, ah, you know what, dude?
00:44:26.000I just think that people are so, listen, everyone, people who don't enter the arena, they're always looking to fault someone who does, right?
00:44:31.000They're always looking for you to fault.
00:44:33.000And I would say it's certainly not your best performance, but I don't really think it was.
00:44:37.000And I don't think the left can have it both ways where they say, well, in the BBC, in the UK, or they talk about Canada.
00:44:41.000I go, oh, oh, you're talking about unbiased journalism in Canada, where it's funded by the government, where our prime minister literally promised $150 million to the CBC if he won.
00:44:50.000No, no, you can't say that they're unbiased, that it's true journalism, that they ask tough questions, and then have an interview where he spends 14 minutes on your Twitter and not on the book.
00:45:00.000Listen, I agree with all that, but, you know, I figure that, listen, I hold myself to a higher standard, and so if I don't live up to that standard, then that's the way that it goes, right?
00:45:14.000And so you get shown up if you don't research the person you're debating.
00:45:17.000That's a mistake, and, you know, hopefully it doesn't happen again.
00:45:18.000Well, people do this all the time, you know, when it's like Cenk Uygur, like, oh, this is what you know about, but I'm like, hold on, Cenk, you were on stage with him, and your own audience started booing you when Ben was debating you.
00:45:27.000This is what bothers me, is the dog is the pig pile on people.
00:45:30.000Or people have said this about me, because we do change my mind, which isn't a debate.
00:45:32.000They go, well, when you're not debating high school kids, like, well, hold on a second.
00:45:35.000We've debated professors, scientists on the show.
00:45:38.000Naomi Wolf has come on this show, and I know that you have, if people can run a search.
00:45:43.000Yeah, now you're hitting on a pet peeve of mine, which is all the media coverage, which was, you know, he'll debate college students, but as soon as he gets in the ring... Okay, I've had on the Sunday special, Andrew Yang, we discussed UBI.
00:45:54.000We were adversarial about it, but friendly.
00:46:10.000And I have discussions with people on the left so frequently that literally the day that this interview was taped, that interview with Vox came out, right?
00:46:16.000And again, Sean Illing disagrees with me, but it was a perfectly nice, cordial conversation.
00:46:20.000in which we decided to get to the issues at the heart of the book.
00:46:22.000And I think, by the way, if you want an informative back-and-forth on the book, that's a good place to start.
00:46:26.000So, you know, the interview... Now I feel bad, because I haven't asked a whole lot about the book.
00:46:33.000I'm not a journalist, but I haven't asked about the book.
00:46:35.000Tell us about the book, because the book, obviously, is about kind of how to have these conversations.
00:46:42.000For people who don't know, I think we have an overlay here of your book.
00:46:44.000Yes, I mean, the book is basically asking the question, why is it that we live in the most prosperous, freest time in world history, And yet we're sort of beating each other up.
00:46:51.000And the answer is that we don't have shared fundamental universal beliefs anymore.
00:46:56.000What were those shared fundamental universal beliefs at the heart of Western civilization?
00:47:00.000Why did they produce this good, free, prosperous world?
00:47:03.000And what are those beliefs that we should be reacquainted with?
00:47:05.000And why did we lose those universal principles?
00:47:07.000So it really is sort of a pop history of philosophy in 250 pages or less.
00:47:11.000It's not the world's easiest read, but I think it's pretty informative and pretty And pretty useful, and I think it answers some important questions.
00:47:18.000More important questions than, how about this crappy tweet you sent in 20 times?
00:47:21.000Though those questions can be funny, and if they ever pull mine up, I'll just have to, my response will just have to be, did I write that?
00:47:26.000That sounds like something I would say.
00:47:33.000They'll hold a standard of a joke of comedy against me.
00:47:36.000And that's happened before, too, where people have taken statements.
00:47:38.000And I go, well, you can't take that statement, literally, just like you can't take a statement I made as a drunk Nick Nolte dressed as Rosa Parks in a sketch, seriously.
00:47:44.000There's a difference between the commentary and the bits.
00:47:48.000It's a little bit alarming that you just used the word Western civilization, because as we were reading on Salon, that's a dog whistle for white supremacy.
00:48:08.000The week before, the FBI arrested somebody for threatening to kill me and my family, and it got five stories, none of them from national publications.
00:48:15.000That's pretty, you know, just worth noting.
00:48:17.000Yeah, I remember when we did the Crowder Confronts of someone who threatened to, I think, was it the one who firebombed?
00:48:22.000Oh, wanted to slash our tires or firebomb our van.
00:48:24.000And we confronted this person, like, hey, by the way, really quickly, we're not advocating violence.
00:48:27.000I just would really like it if you take down this call to bomb my team in my van.
00:48:31.000And the Austin Chronicle, the lady wrote, like, the taller, intimidating, muscular Steven Crowder intimidates this poor, small transgender.
00:48:38.000Why didn't you mention that this person tried to bomb my van?
00:48:41.000Or she's like, well, I did mention that you alleged that.
00:48:56.000We have Brett Kavanaugh as a rapist, the Russia conspiracy hoax, Jussie Smollett, and then all these other hate crimes.
00:49:02.000Hey, speaking of hate crimes, uh, Tlaib, obviously from my wonderful home state of Michigan, what's your- this went back and forth this week where she talked about her, uh, was it set- was it calming feeling?
00:49:14.000Uh, when she thinks about the Holocaust, and people said you took- people were saying conservatives had taken this out of context.
00:49:19.000When I read it, In its entirety, I thought, well, that only makes it worse.
00:49:23.000Because she said, I get a sense, I get a calming feeling because I think of how we provided a safe haven, even though it was against our will.
00:49:30.000And obviously it restricts us of our humanity.
00:49:31.000So hold on a second, you don't sound like a willing party here.
00:49:34.000Um, what do you think is the accurate read on that when we remove the political ping pong?
00:49:38.000So I don't think that her saying that the Holocaust gave her a calming feeling was her saying, yeah, I feel calm about the murder of 6 million Jews.
00:49:44.000That's obviously not what she's saying.
00:49:45.000The part of it that's bad is when she completely recasts the history in a way that is not only ahistorical, but anti-historical.
00:49:51.000The Palestinian Arabs were the original inhabitants of the land.
00:49:54.000The Jews have no connection with the land.
00:49:55.000The only reason the state of Israel was created was because of the Holocaust.
00:49:58.000And then we Palestinian Arabs, we worked to integrate them and bring them in.
00:50:02.000Every aspect of this is just sheer crap.
00:50:04.000And the problem is that it does back the anti-Semitic narrative that the Jews have no place in Israel, that they are a European colonialist implant, and that the Palestinian Arabs are the true victims When it comes to the foundation of the state of Israel, despite the fact that the Palestinian Arab leadership sought to work with Hitler to impose a final solution in the Middle East, despite the fact that the Palestinian Arabs worked with the British mandate to prevent Jewish immigration to Israel, to British mandate Palestine.
00:50:29.000And there she is proclaiming that the real victims in all of this were the Palestinian Arabs.
00:50:34.000I mean, again, it plays into an anti-Semitic narrative because she's an anti-Semite, but anybody who's reading the calming Holocaust thing in the way that I spoke about earlier, that obviously is a misread.
00:50:43.000It's a misread, but I also don't understand why she said it.
00:50:47.000What does she mean by calming feeling?
00:50:48.000I think that John Podhoretz had a great piece on this at commentary.
00:50:51.000He basically said she thought she was saying something nice.
00:50:57.000So when she says that she had a calming feeling, she means the Holocaust is bad, but it makes me feel better about all of the evils that you did to me when I think about the evils that were done to you and how we were the victims of you healing from that.
00:51:12.000Well, I always thought too, going back to the tweets, if someone were to pull out one of my old tweets, I think I had a tweet that was a joke, like a modern Islamic, it was about Islamic governments.
00:51:20.000Islam in 20, this might have been 2016, basically Nazis who beat their wives.
00:51:25.000And people were like, how dare you make that comparison?
00:51:29.000They believe, you don't think if they could exterminate Jews right now, if they had the ability to wage a new Holocaust, of course they would.
00:56:04.000By the way, Cultural Appropriation, oh, I should let you know, next week, this whole show is going to be hosted by none other than Bernie Sanders.
00:58:03.000You know, we do the Life Advice to Love, Tough Love segments here for those who are Mug Club members.
00:58:07.000We don't really upload them to YouTube.
00:58:09.000But as a good rule of thumb, and I was talking with Manny and Tim about this, there's kind of a rule.
00:58:16.000If you cannot describe your concept, your business, or your point of view, if you cannot give someone that pitch in a couple of phrases, you really maybe haven't thought about it so well.
00:58:33.000You'll find yourself invaluable to someone else.
00:58:38.000When you make yourself invaluable to someone else, let me put it really simply, you want to find yourself, this is a term we hear a lot, get really, really good at something.
00:58:48.000My friend Brian Callan has talked about that.
00:58:49.000You want to figure out what you're about, get excellent at something.
00:58:56.000And by the way, it doesn't have to be big.
00:58:57.000It doesn't have to be irreplaceable to a ton of people.
00:59:00.000You can make yourself invaluable to your boss, to your kids, to your employees, to your church, Little League because you're the best damn coach they ever saw.
00:59:27.000It'll feel great, but you'll also be in the hot seat.
00:59:31.000And there are these sound bites that we hear all the time.
00:59:33.000You know, you hear a lot of athletes say this, or like Oprah, you know, it's not what you do when you win that defines you, but how you come back from a loss.
00:59:41.000Or sometimes, I've heard it the other way, too, where they say, well, losing is easy, winning is hard.
00:59:45.000Staying on top, you figure out what you're made of.
01:00:38.000These were people in positions which carried great intrinsic trust because of their expertise, because of their excellency, and because they could be counted on to do their best.
01:00:49.000You know who never gets entrusted with a whole lot?
01:00:54.000So if you can't explain it to me right now, in one phrase, two phrases, I'll give you at most two phrases, you haven't thought about it hard enough.