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What's up QAA listeners?

The fun games have begun. I found a way to connect to the internet. I'm sorry

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Welcome, listener, to the

to the 254th chapter of the QA podcast the busy Bill Gates episode.

As always we are your hosts Julian Field and Travis View. The check has cleared folks and we are finally

philanthropists. That's why this week we've gathered to cover the beautiful billionaire who

grants us breath each and every day we were lucky enough to spend on this increasingly equitable earth.

I am speaking of course about William Henry Gates the third, also known as Bill Gates.

But some are a little more critical of Bill.

They claim there may be a problem with relying on billionaires

to solve every problem faced by mankind.

One of these critics is journalist Tim Schwab, whose fantastic reporting we've relied on in the past.

His new book is the Bill Gates Problem, Reckoning with the myth of the good billionaire,

you can go and purchase it right now by following the link in the episode

description. Welcome to the show, Tim. Thank you so much for having me.

So before we get into it, I just wanted to ask, did you write this book to get the heat off of your uncle Klaus Schwab?

It's a really good question but Klaus has asked me not to talk about that

so I'm going to have to take the fifth.

I am kind of glad that I was able to focus again on Bill Gates because I do feel like he was the focus for a little while and now I do feel like Schwab is kind of stealing his thunder. Gates gets so many less mentions now that people basically don't have to wear masks and not really anyone's pressuring them to get the vaccine.

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