much like Bill Gates creeping on the girls in the office, we're back with some real

niche content.

It was an island, Andy.

A private island.

Oh, that's a whole other episode.

Well, maybe Bill Gates thought the private island was Africa, and he misunderstood when Jeff told him that they were going to the cradle of life.

Ooh.

It was an underage sex traffic victim, not some vague reference to Mesopotamia.

I mean, I get it. Really, though, we should, we should talk about the Gates Foundation in Africa,

specifically around agriculture. Yeah, he's been involved in some other stuff going on around

vaccines and AIDS, some good and some bad, but I don't think I can do another episode on Bill after this.

I mean, that's fair. I've thought about Bill Gates way too much lately, way too much. So obviously he's involved with Agra, but he's also invested in a bunch of other stuff,

and we've hinted at that in the first half of this episode.

One of the other organizations is called the N2 Africa Project, which started in 2009,

right on the heels of Agra, which is oriented towards a modernization agenda.

So basically, they're selling the benefits of legumes for soil health, which obviously

is a good thing, but a common threat under capitalism is to use the soil health and nutritional

benefits to justify investment for production for, you know, external markets.

Sure.

And I will say while having stuff that people will buy is good for local

economies, I'm guessing that's not the case in this instance. Yeah, when we talk about external

markets, it's usually not local. And in that process, the local legume crops and varieties

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