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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

ICYMI - Bill Gates on Improving the Human Condition via Goalkeepers

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates talks about his efforts to tackle daunting global problems through his philanthropic Goalkeepers event and discusses the value of foreign aid. Originally aired July 11, 2019. 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

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0:02.3

Please welcome, Bill Gates.

0:05.6

Welcome, Bill Gates.

0:19.7

Welcome back to the show. Great to be here. First things first, when the interview ends, don't get up and leave immediately because people think, like, we're fighting and we're not. I don't want to overstay my welcome. Yeah, you're just like, I know that you have places to be, but everyone was like, Trevor, did Bill Gates? Did you offend him? I was like, no. That's what Bill Gates does. When he's done, he's done. He gets up and he leaves. Everyone else is like, hello cry, and Bill Gates is like, I'm out, I'm done.

0:38.5

That's how you become a billionaire.

0:39.7

Welcome back to the show.

0:41.3

Congratulations. He's done, he's done. He gets up and he leaves. Everyone else is like, hello, cry. And Bill Gates is like, I'm out. I'm done. That's how you become a billionaire. Welcome back to the show. Congratulations on another successful year of the goalkeepers event. Talk to us a little bit about goalkeepers because people know that you're involved in philanthropy. People have heard of you and goalkeepers. We see fantastic names like Yara Shahidi being involved. But what is your intention with the goalkeepers

0:54.9

event? What are you trying to inspire on people? Well, all the countries in the United Nations

0:59.8

made a set of commitments to improve the state of life, to get rid of disease, to fix climate change.

1:06.6

And those goals, sustainable development goals, we need every year to sit down and look at are we making progress.

1:14.0

We need to celebrate the heroes who are inventing new tools or doing work in the field.

1:19.1

And we need to see if people are falling behind, how do we double down on that?

1:23.9

And this is the one week of the year because the UN is coming together, that we focus attention on these super important long-term issues.

1:33.7

What I enjoy as well is I was lucky to be part of the event last year.

1:36.5

And what I enjoyed was it's not an event that's focused solely on the leaders of the countries, but it's on the people in the countries who are leading themselves.

1:45.0

So you have an event where I think this year was over 400 people, predominantly below the age of 40,

1:50.9

and more than 50% of them are young women who are doing amazing things in their countries.

1:56.0

What are some of the projects that they're undertaking that really impress you?

1:59.5

Well, on the ground, the idea

2:01.4

of getting new seeds to farmers, educating them so they can deal with climate change and have more

2:07.6

productivity. Women farmers are educating other women farmers. Women are creating women's groups

2:14.6

where they come together, educate each other about avoiding

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