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🗓️ 10 May 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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From 1973-76, Dr. Larry Brilliant was part of the World Health Organization team that eradicated smallpox and is Chairman of the Board of Ending Pandemics. He discusses how we go forward on Covid-19 after blowing it in the first six months.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, we've got a great one today, for a change, for a change. |
0:11.7 | Larry Brilliant, who is an epidemiologist, world famous epidemiologist, who has a very, very interesting backstory. |
0:23.6 | In the 70s, he was at an ashram. |
0:27.6 | At a certain point, the guru there said to him, |
0:32.6 | you should leave and eradicate smallpox. |
0:36.6 | And he did. So that's interesting. He did that. |
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1:02.1 | Another piece of business. New York Times ran an article this week. One in five, nearly one in five |
1:08.6 | children in the United States doesn't have enough to eat. And we had, |
1:13.8 | my guests a couple of weeks ago were Billy and Debbie Shore from No Kid Hungry. And I hope you |
1:21.4 | can help them. You go to no kid hungry.org. They have been at this for 30-some years, making sure the kids get enough to eat. |
1:30.4 | And I hope you can help them out. |
1:32.8 | And that was our podcast a couple weeks ago. |
1:34.5 | And if you subscribe, you'll see the whole list of our previous podcasts. |
1:39.7 | Now I got something I got to bring up. |
1:42.8 | On my podcast with Mark Elias, this was last week, |
1:47.8 | I had a fake interview with Kurt Schilling. Kurt Schilling was a major league pitcher for years, |
1:57.3 | and he has a radio show on Breitbart, which gives you some idea about his politics. |
2:04.0 | So I did a fake interview with him, but a number of people thought that it was really Kurt Schilling. |
2:10.6 | And one of those people was my college roommate. |
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