Bill Gates Wants to Reinvent the Toilet

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🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Why has Bill Gates been carrying around a jar of poop? Ronny Chieng investigates the philanthropist’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, which funds scientists’ efforts to create toilets that don’t need a sewer system and can create clean water and energy. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.5	BANG!
0:05.0	Bill Gates. He's rich, he's brilliant, and apparently he's out of his mind.
0:10.6	This is a...
0:12.8	container of human feces.
0:15.3	Why is one of the richest men in the world carrying a jaw of his own shit?
0:19.7	I went to Seattle to find out what's wrong with Bill Gates.
0:25.9	Mr. Gates, it's a huge honor to meet you.
0:29.0	It's just a quick question.
0:31.0	What the fuck is wrong with you?
0:34.0	I mean, are you okay?
0:36.0	Yeah, I'm great.
0:37.0	Love what I'm doing.
0:38.0	Okay, so why are you carrying around your own poop in a jaw?
0:42.0	I did have a beaker of human feces when I was explaining why we need a reinvented toilet.
0:50.0	You don't need to reinvent a toilet.
0:52.0	We shit in it, then we push a button, then the shit disappears.
0:55.0	It's perfect.
0:56.0	We don't have to fix this or something we take for granted, but billions of people don't have them.
1:00.0	Even in these growing cities and poor countries, they can't afford to build sewers.
1:05.0	And that causes diseases.
1:07.0	And so we have to come up with a very different way of taking care of that waste.
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