You're listening to Comedy Central. Bill Gates, he's rich, he's brilliant, and apparently he's out of his mind. This is a container of human feces. Why is one of the richest men in the world carrying a jaw of his own ship? I went to Seattle to find out what's wrong with Bill Gates? Mr Gates, It's a huge honor to meet you. It's just a quick question, what the fund is wrong with you? I mean, are you okay? Yeah, I'm great. I love what I'm doing. Okay, So why are you
carrying around your own poop in a jaw? Well? I did uh have a beaker of human feces when I was explaining why we need a reinvented toilet. You don't need to reinvented toilet. We ship in it and then we push a button, then the ship disappears. It's perfect. Well. Toilets are something we take for granted, but billions of people don't have them, even in these growing cities in
poor countries. They can't afford to build sewers, and that causes diseases, and so we have to come up with a very different way of taking care of that waste. And because so much of the world lacks a sanitary place to poop, Bill launched the Reinvented Toilet Challenge. It fun scientists to redesign toilets that don't need a sewer system. We put seven hundred million into this to show that it can be done with Sorry, hang on, you put
several hundred million dollars into toilets giving it away? You bet? Oh my god, is Bill Gates literally flushing his fortune down the toilet? To find out? I flew all the way to University of South Florida, where Professor L. Daniel Yea and his team are using Gates funding to make some sort of magic poop box. So what we have here essentially is a miniature version of the wastewater treatment plant,
and we can put this anywhere in the world. In the botto reactor, we have microorganisms stay eat the poop and turn into clean water. Okay, why do the microbes eat the wop? The microbes eat to poop because that's what they do. You ask them if they want to do that, well, yeah, why don't you give him a mufflin or something? Maybe they're like a muffin. Okay, I'll make a note of that, but when you show them the poop, they love it. Despite his crazy talk. There's
just something about this guy. I don't know what it is, but I trust him, so I decided to give his machine a try. So normally we will have a block of toilets, all right, and then the waste. When the toilets will come here, they'll go into the machine. And then using solar power, we can turn the poppy water into clean water. So you stand by this, or I'll prove it. Okay, they work? Yeah, well, how many times
did not work and you end up drinking on ship. Well, it's worked so well that we're actually worked with NANSA. Astronauts have to poop, and we can turn that poop into clean water and nutrients and even energy. Wait do you say energy? The microbes and the bottle reactor make nothing. That's the same stuff. That's a natural gas and you can burn it. Bill Gates, you sneaky bastard. You just found a filthy little back door into the most profitable
industry in the world. Energy. You didn't say anything about energy. Yeah, it's one way to make it cheap to process the sewage is to sell these outputs. You should open with that. Next time to open with the saving the world kids and disease, they open with, Yo, what making toilets that can convert ship into energy? We need to make these toilets as expensive as possible because, based on my research,
everyone poops, I mean everybody. Well, unless we make them super cheap, they're not going to get out to the poorest who need them the most. Look, I know you've made your money. Some of us he are still trying to in this game. Well, if you have an idea, let us know. I've got nothing but ideas for this. So this is an iPad, great device. I love using it. So what's the worst seat on the plane next to the toilet? But what if every seat was a toilet? Poop power planes? To keep the plane in motion. We
have to keep shipping high pressure. I know, but it gives the airlines incentive to feel this. I'm not sure the numbers work. How about this, It's a toilet that you shipped in and it powers a cannon that shoots the ship out through my neighbor's house. While you laughing, that's not legal. Listen, man, I'm up here just trying to come up with ideas. Here to save the world. Okay, what are you doing? Um, that's what I'm doing. No, that's what I'm doing. I'm here giving you ideas. Are
you doing shing on that? Well, I don't those ideas are already yet, but we do have a lot of ideas that are in the field being tested in Durban. Let's try to cover of their residents that don't have a great sewage processing. We are going to completely change the future. Everybody's going to have a great toilet. Well, here's to everyone having a great toilet. Jeers not bad. Now, guess where that came from. And you just drink my ship. How does it taste. That's a very successful process. There.
It tasted like normal water. Good job, thank you, Bill. There's more way that keep from What's the Daily Show weeknights Central on Comedy Central, in stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast.