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Episode 12: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 4 - A Different Kind of Epstein Brain

ALAB Series

All Lawyers Are Bad

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4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Andy, Tarik, and Tim discuss NYU law professor Richard Epstein's one-man crusade to defeat COVID-19 using the powers of logic and debate, and the frightening things the resulting debacle says about the American legal academy.

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0:00.0

Well, I mean, it's interesting that like Richard appears to believe that the title of Worst Epstein is pretty much a lock.

0:08.0

So now he's just teeing off.

0:11.0

I think he's gunning for the worst Epstein title. I mean by body count I don't know I think he might be a good point.

0:16.5

He might be a little higher. Say what you will about Jeffrey Epstein.

0:22.3

It's unclear how many people he killed.

0:24.0

Yeah.

0:25.0

Seems like only one or zero depending on who you ask. You're listening to A-Lap. My name is Tariq, and in our third installment in our lawyer brain series,

0:45.2

Andy, Tim, and I show you how to get a different type of Epstein-Brain. in the brain. All right, so we are of course talking about Richard Epstein.

0:57.0

All right, so we are of course talking about Richard Epstein.

1:05.0

He's a, uh, he's an NYU professor, the Tish professor.

1:10.0

I noticed also, um, he is the director of the classical liberal institute at NYU law

1:16.5

so this puts him shoulder to shoulder with intellectual titans like sargon of a cod

1:21.6

yeah it's like Sargon of a Cod. Yeah.

1:24.0

It's the intellectual dark courts.

1:26.0

That's the only bar association he's a member of is the Dark Courts Association.

1:31.0

Well, in my opinion, he is equal to a number of other intellectual disciplines such as

1:38.3

prominent epidemiologists and medical scientists.

1:42.1

Epstein is proof that there's literally no specialty in the world that's a match for a good lawyer.

1:49.3

Right. So here's the story. I was going to

1:57.0

So here's the story. I was gave this thing to an interviewee from I think it was either time in Newsweek magazine and they

2:04.4

called me back the next day and I said Professor Epstein you have to be a doctor or

2:08.2

an epidemiologist aren't you? I said no I'm just a plain old law professor well I

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