Bill Gates, God of Corn
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about corn and how it became a viral sensation, and why we should all be eating corn. We are joined by actor, comedian, and filmmaker Julian Shapiro Barnum ( ) to discuss corn, corn syrup, and corn on the cob.
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something weird for you here kind of bizarre saw this the other day on bill gates uh youtube channel
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where apparently now you can you can axe him about uh about corn he's the corn king right
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he bought all this farmland all over the u.s and stuff he's one of the biggest landowners now
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uh and here's the by the way just show you here here's the the actual youtube uh clip here it has
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the juice and it's at risk let me just play this first to see what happened and then we'll break
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down the chronology of this like how did we get here but this is what he uploaded look at this
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for me i really like corn what do you like about corn
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okay all right so what's happening here um well first of all uh there's this youtube channel
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uh that's called the recess therapy that had a uh an interview with it with the black kid right and
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they're including him in that video here too let me play just a little bit from i think this is part
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of the uh it went viral right this is just from like four weeks ago listen let's hear me i really like
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corn what do you like about corn ever since i and i was told that corn is real it tasted good did you
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think corn wasn't real but when i tried a bit better everything changed i love corn
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do you think everyone should be eating corn no not everyone has to like it to be the best
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yeah just has to try it have a bake what else are your favorite things i play a variety of games
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hide in sea keg never love a monster yeah mostly cone i mean then look at this then
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i can't imagine a more beautiful thing it's cone
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look at this it's corn all right so so all right but let me check out this first here first of all
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like so so bill gates picked up on this because he's he has something to sell you as usual obviously
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he's got to use a black kid of course yeah but he's not him doing it that's my point here too
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recess therapy is a is a this is the person who's interviewed he he this guy is going around i guess so
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i mean i don't know but whatever uh that's what i call it it's a guy um going around
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at schools during recess to interview kids see what's going on here about i'm julian
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transsexual shapiro barnum i'm an actor comedian and filmmaker by the way i'm gay
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brooklyn i will i was raised by my five gay parents what three moms and the two dads and due to this
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unique upbringing i was gifted with a check this out chaotic beautiful and complex if you
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there's nothing complex about it you're just another shit lid that's all you are that's all
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you are buddy as an artist i strive to create work that pushes its audience to engage question
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and think critically i'm sure a lot of critical thinking happening here eat some more gmo corn
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buddy sandwich so this is like wait a minute what's happening here and so this is that now
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we're kind of far removed from bill gates but this is just one of these rabbit hole you go down right
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so he's talking with this kid and it's funny too because it's like this became viral and stuff and
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it's like you know look the kid is like probably he's obviously he's lost his front teeth here so
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slow he's probably six seven maybe even eight years old how do i put this there's always like
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this fascination with as kind of baseline lower look you can it's not that you can't have
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appreciation for corn but it's not one of the most like incredible you can live without it okay i mean
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it's not it's really not like for me i can't eat corn it's not good i mean it's it's really sweet
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and sugary and it's all gmo crap now like you can live without it you should live without it in fact
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but then it's like that becomes the vibe not not like the you won't see a video going this viral when
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it comes to like a white kid who's like inventing something incredible at age four or something like
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like you black kid saying how much he loves this sweet gmo corn on the cob it's cone you know
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oh it's so and then of course then so so so someone took that interview video and created this video
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a big lump of knobs anyway so this is an incredible incredible viral sensation 11 million views here
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not even a month ago right the gay guy just makes it extra special oh yeah extra special right so
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anyway so long story short there but that's so then bill gates jump on that right i'm the corn guy
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ask me about corn i'll answer all your questions right in fact even if you look at the uh uh the
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high fructose corn syrup that's one of the issues right saving humanity and saving the planet yeah sure
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uh if you look at just one of the uh uh the the text lines let's let's play it again here let me show
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you for me i really like corn and he has pictures of himself here cone i really like corn
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okay corn is let me pause there aka mace is a really important crop it accounts for 30 percent
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of the food consumed in africa they love that sweet stuff don't they but it is at risk of course it's
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always a problem right and here i come in the savior corn is being impacted by climate change
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but there is hope gmos yep african crop researchers are creating a new africans i don't think africans
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resilient white people in africa are creating uh gmo corn it's corn a big glump of logs and you put
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butter on it so of course so here's the kicker right gates foundation on fighting the food crisis
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magic seeds and drought resistant chickens we know yeah and that's the corn issue here right
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corn prices spiked early this year as russian invasion blah blah there's the excuse for you
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by 2030 according to a new report from the bill and melinda gates foundation one third of
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southern africans corn will be vulnerable to extreme heat that could slash yields so we're gonna go in
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and genetically alter the corn in order to offer like a better product right imagine something else
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happens here where it goes in the opposite direction where like it's actually starts getting
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cooler as opposed to warmer or wetter as opposed to drier or drier as opposed to wetter whatever they
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develop it for uh that corn will go out the window because the genetic diversity of this corn will be so
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limited that he won't have spontaneous uh or adaptive mutations happening well they'll just
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modify it again oh yeah exactly it's just an endless we'll make things better it's magic we'll do it with
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magic you know well i'm gonna solve hunger so it's always some trick up his sleeve it's always africa too
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i know right but that partially why it's africa is of course not because he's generally kind of concerned
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with it it's because it's so much guilt associated with africa so you can squeeze an endless amount of
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money out of the west in order to save africa or help africa or all that kind of stuff right
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but i think it's an interesting flow of things there and it kind of reminds me i remember that
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movie we watched a while back uh it's called i i mother exactly as i was thinking always reminds me
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of some dystopian sci-fi movie or something the corn the crops yeah drying up they show this like
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collapsed environment something has happened it's all robots and ai now controlling things but in the
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middle of the movie this is the one of the scenes here the the robots are building this like massive
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corn farms is i guess it's like yes what is it called sightings and what was it called again
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signs right the signs like robot yeah i don't know if it's aliens or robots i think i guess it's the
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robots right but look at these farms they're building here massive corn farms and it's like the whole thing
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is being run on corn they're converting it into some like biofuel and the whole electric uh you know
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they just inject uh corn syrup right into their veins i guess so right and it's symbolically in
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there all the oil that's over no one's getting oil anymore okay we get it next scene all the supply
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chains have shut down here's all the ships no nothing is being shipped anymore it's corn it's corn
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that's what i'll always be there robots are running the whole the whole new wonderful uh era that we're
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entering into after the collapse on corn right and robots are raising some kid that they are that
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that's the story right there it's the totally programming this kid for like uh right think
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writing their own um their own uh their own humans right isn't that what it is yeah kind of an
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interesting movie so i'm not gonna say that but yeah they definitely drop those little uh hints and
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and uh seeds to make it fun um so the other one i want to talk about here too yeah here's another
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one by the way bill gates here uh pessimistic message from gates we are in a worse place than
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i expected and he talked he's talking about malnutrition hunger poverty development exports
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pandemic vaccines and of course again he's been part of creating this world that we now live in right
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so he's but he's going to come in as the fixer and there was this one piece on his website gates
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notes this is actually back from 2020 um but let me read a couple of passages from here it's called
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covet 19 is awful but climate change here is and the headline says could be worse but in
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even you read the story says it is going to be worse as awful as this pandemic is climate change
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could be worse and the only way to avoid the worst possible climate outcomes is to accelerate our
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efforts now give me more money now and i'll save you right even as the world works to stop the novel
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coronavirus and begin recovering from it we also need to act now to stop uh sorry to avoid a climate
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disaster by building and deploying innovations that will let us eliminate our greenhouse gas emissions
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this this obsession with greenhouse gas emissions is insane water vapor is one of the number one
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greenhouse gases right like you're not going to take that out of the atmosphere they're not doing
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anything about the volcanoes if you want to understand the kind of damage that climate change
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will inflict and like these are like high priest predictions you have no idea that this is actually
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going to happen but they're driving policy and asking for billions and asking us to reshape our
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entire society up and basically western civilization the progress you know what i mean technologically and
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so forth that we've made just to just because on on a whim of these uh you know predictors
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uh look at cover 19 and the spread uh and spread the pain out over a much longer period of time
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the loss of life and economy misery caused by this pandemic are on par with what will happen how do you
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know this regularly if we do not eliminate the world's carbon emissions in other words by 2060 climate
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change could be just as deadly as covid 19 and by 2100 it could be five times as deadly
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they have no idea where are you getting these numbers it's always like it like this with this
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guy it's always some new threat some new fear he's predicting it's gonna happen like that's all he does
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anymore i mean do you remember him talking like this really before covid like when did he really get
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on the scene pushing this stuff was it around the time of covid i mean when he kind of started uh winding
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down as the main guy behind microsoft you you saw some of this stuff he started but he's been
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i mean again it's kind of like a world economic forum they were always there doing their stuff but
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after and during the pandemic they became like super engaged in the spotlights to drive this
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narrative right anyway you know he goes through the numbers here but like all this is bull like we know
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the inflated numbers from covid we've been over and over and over this now now of course they're
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downplaying the ex's death because of the vaccine but you know we'll get to that continues here
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but it doesn't okay how do you know that these many people will die oh if there's a race of
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temperatures in 40 years this many people will die then of it okay how how do you even know that
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remember we were supposed to be underwater by now right and we were supposed to be died that's you know
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2008 they said we're going to die in 12 years you know um in the next decade or two the con
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the economic damage caused by climate change will likely be as bad as having covid sized
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a covid sized pandemic every 10 years and by the end of that century it'll be much worse if the
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world remains on its current emissions path if we learn the lesson of covid 19 we can approach
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climate change more informed about the consequences of inaction and more prepared to save lives and
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prevent the worst possible outcome the current global crisis can inform our response to the next
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one and of course it says let science and innovation lead the way because that's totally not what got
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us into this position to begin with but anyway interesting piece scare tactic always back down
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saying if you don't if you don't do this you're going to die that's basically what we've reached
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now when it comes to the propaganda and then it just pulls out some number
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