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Speaker 4: I'm dylighted. We've got so much to talk about Tonight.
Speaker 4: The military tries to teach another jet to swim, the
Speaker 4: Vatican turns into the world's holiest man cave, and Trump
Speaker 4: is keeping a huge secret. So everybody check your signal chats.
Speaker 4: Let's get right into it.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: It's been a rough few weeks for Donald Trump, mostly
Speaker 4: because Donald Trump. So he's been looking for a way
Speaker 4: to change the narrative. And yesterday he made a big announcement.
Speaker 6: We're gonna have a very very big announcement to make
Speaker 6: like as big as it gets, and I won't tell
Speaker 6: you on what.
Speaker 4: So the announcement is that he's got an announcement. Cool.
Speaker 4: It's great to have a president who does teaser trailers
Speaker 4: for world events, like when FDR said, we only have
Speaker 4: one thing to fear and I'll tell you what it
Speaker 4: is after the break. But okay, Donald, can you at
Speaker 4: least give us a hint.
Speaker 6: It'll be one of the most important announcements that have
Speaker 6: been made in many years about a certain.
Speaker 4: Subject, a certain subject that narrows it down to literally anything.
Speaker 4: This is Donald Trump, so his big announcement could be
Speaker 4: anything from I've achieved peace in the Middle East. I
Speaker 4: just tried bucatini, and I'm never going back to regular spaghetti.
Speaker 4: At least tell us if it's good or bad. Should
Speaker 4: I be stalking up on champagne or toilet paper?
Speaker 3: It's very positive.
Speaker 6: Also, I tell you if it was negative or positive.
Speaker 6: I can't keep data.
Speaker 3: It is really really positive.
Speaker 4: Okay, that sounds really positive, But I want to temper
Speaker 4: my expectations here because the last time you had a
Speaker 4: positive announcement to make, it was that you were destroying
Speaker 4: the economy. So I just want to make sure is
Speaker 4: it really good news.
Speaker 1: It's going to be.
Speaker 6: A truly earth shattering and positive development for this country
Speaker 6: and for the people of this country.
Speaker 4: Earth shattering.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 4: Okay, as long as I don't have to clean it up,
Speaker 4: I guess I'm in. Just tell me when exactly to
Speaker 4: tune in, and I will clear my schedule.
Speaker 6: And that announcement will be made either Thursday or Friday
Speaker 6: or Monday before we leave.
Speaker 4: All right. You have no idea what you're announcing, do
Speaker 4: you You're just gonna go into the next room and
Speaker 4: be like, guys, I promise them something big. Does anyone
Speaker 4: have anything good? I have two to five days and
Speaker 4: don't say jell o shots pete next time. Just come
Speaker 4: out when you're ready to say the announcement. We don't
Speaker 4: need a pre announcement. This is worse than my cousin
Speaker 4: announcing that they're trying for the third child. Great, so
Speaker 4: you're telling me that you're fucking a lot. Call me
Speaker 4: when there's a jimboree registry. And by the way, it's
Speaker 4: totally possible that we never get an announcement. Remember him
Speaker 4: teasing his big replacement for Obamacare.
Speaker 6: Where do you see the plans we have coming out
Speaker 6: literally over the next four weeks.
Speaker 3: We have great healthcare plans coming out. The plan is
Speaker 3: coming out over the next four weeks.
Speaker 8: We'll be announcing that in about two months.
Speaker 4: And that two months was up sixty nine months ago.
Speaker 2: Very nice.
Speaker 4: But while we're waiting for Trump's earth shattering, mind blowing,
Speaker 4: orgasm inducing announcement, there's already a much stupider announcement in
Speaker 4: the works.
Speaker 9: We know we have the Golf of America formerly the
Speaker 9: Golf of Mexico, and next week President Trump plans to
Speaker 9: announce the US will refer to the Persian Golf as
Speaker 9: the Golf of Arabia or the Arabian Golf.
Speaker 4: What is it with this guy and renaming golfs. At
Speaker 4: least the Gulf of Mexico is on our border, but
Speaker 4: now we're just going around renaming other countries water. The
Speaker 4: Gulf of Thailand is now the Gulf of White Lotus,
Speaker 4: the Indian Ocean is now the Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas Ocean,
Speaker 4: and the Black Sea We're just getting rid of no
Speaker 4: more dei.
Speaker 5: He was.
Speaker 4: You know, why shouldn't we be allowed to rename the
Speaker 4: world's oceans? After all, we have the world's most competent, powerful,
Speaker 4: competent navy, full of competence, operating right now at the
Speaker 4: top of their competence.
Speaker 10: For the second time in just over a week, US
Speaker 10: fighter jet falling off an aircraft carrier and sinking in
Speaker 10: the Red Sea, The sixty seven million dollar F eighteen
Speaker 10: Super Hornet crashed into the Red Sea last night and
Speaker 10: was lost. The pilots managed to eject safely just over
Speaker 10: a week ago, another super Hornet fell from the same ship.
Speaker 4: Not to get all doze over here, but I think
Speaker 4: we could save some money if we stopped dropping fighter
Speaker 4: jets into the red scene. At some point, we're giving
Speaker 4: more military aid to puffer fish than we already. You print,
Speaker 4: the landscape should just be following behind our aircraft carriers
Speaker 4: with a net. And I know this is all a
Speaker 4: little concerning, but don't worry. Pete Heggsith has ordered a
Speaker 4: top to bottom review to determine if there were any
Speaker 4: rainbow flags on board that might be to blend whatever
Speaker 4: the cause is, we have got to stop dropping seventy
Speaker 4: million dollar fighter jets into the ocean people, Otherwise it's
Speaker 4: going to change the reputation of America's fighter pilots. And
Speaker 4: then the top gun sequels are just going to start
Speaker 4: getting real weird.
Speaker 3: Another sunk jet.
Speaker 1: Damn it, top Gun, Maverick, Why do you keep trying
Speaker 1: to see if planes can fly underwater?
Speaker 3: It's born of life's mystery, sir, No, it's not. Jets
Speaker 3: don't belong in the ocean.
Speaker 1: I would fire you, but you're white, so Pete haig
Speaker 1: Seth won't let them.
Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna bear.
Speaker 1: Please stop sinking jets, maybe, sir, but not today, not today.
Speaker 3: That sounds like you're gonna crash another jet into the ocean.
Speaker 1: Don't you eave it the.
Speaker 3: Top, Gord.
Speaker 4: He truly feels the need for speed. And finally, an
Speaker 4: update on tariffs. They're the reason your Magot family stopped
Speaker 4: talking about the economy. Just mine, just my family. Ever
Speaker 4: since they kicked in, Trump has been telling Americans that
Speaker 4: they're going to have to tighten their belts a little.
Speaker 4: And there's one example in particular that he keeps fixating on.
Speaker 6: Maybe the children will have two dollars instead of thirty dollars.
Speaker 6: You know, I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs
Speaker 6: at eleven years old, needs to have thirty dollars.
Speaker 5: I think they can have three.
Speaker 3: Dollars or four dollars. Fifteen year ago doesn't need thirty
Speaker 3: seven dollars.
Speaker 11: You don't need to have this.
Speaker 3: I said, thirty five dollars. You can have two, three, four.
Speaker 3: You can be very happy with two or three or
Speaker 3: four or five.
Speaker 2: What what do I feel like?
Speaker 4: Last week Trump walked in on Eric kissing a doll
Speaker 4: and now he's like, sorry, America, we're banning dolls banning
Speaker 4: either way, it turns out that the whole expensive doll
Speaker 4: example was not hypothetical.
Speaker 11: Mattel, the company that makes Barbie dolls, is raising prices
Speaker 11: to offset President Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports.
Speaker 4: Yes, they're raising prices on Barbie. Even she has to
Speaker 4: cut back. She had to move out of Barbie's dream
Speaker 4: house and into Barbie's dream studio apartment with two roommates.
Speaker 4: Her pink convertible is now a two thousand and seven
Speaker 4: toyota to yourself, it's.
Speaker 2: Been very sad.
Speaker 4: Come on, don't make Barbie tightener belt even more. She
Speaker 4: only has a one inch waist. And Trump's not the
Speaker 4: only one answering doll based questions. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessont,
Speaker 4: seen here watching a bulldozer demolish a local community center,
Speaker 4: also had some thoughts. Secretary Bessett, what would you say
Speaker 4: to a sweet little girl who wonders why she can't
Speaker 4: have a new Barbie this year?
Speaker 5: I would tell that young girl that you will have
Speaker 5: a better life than your parents, That you and your family,
Speaker 5: thanks to President Trump, can now be confident again that
Speaker 5: you will have a better life than your parents. You
Speaker 5: will be able to the advance. You will have a
Speaker 5: good education, you will have economic freedom.
Speaker 4: Yes. If there's one thing children love, it's the concept
Speaker 4: of economic freedom. It's very clear that you were never
Speaker 4: a little girl. They would never be on board with this.
Speaker 4: I don't want that stuff. I want barbies. You can't
Speaker 4: make economic freedom, sisor each other.
Speaker 7: The points.
Speaker 4: Also, kids today are going to have a better life
Speaker 4: than their parents. Honey, I had twenty five barbies, plus
Speaker 4: the dream house. We knew how to live in this
Speaker 4: country back when I was a kid during the Obama years.
Speaker 4: Don't google it. I knew Bessett was a shitty Treasury secretary,
Speaker 4: but I think there's one job he'd be even worse at.
Speaker 5: You and your family. Thanks to President Trump, can now
Speaker 5: be confident again that you will have a better life
Speaker 5: than your parents.
Speaker 4: But don't worry too much. If you really can only
Speaker 4: buy one doll, there's a new one that's just right
Speaker 4: for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6: Ten year old girl, nine year old girl, fifteen year
Speaker 6: old girl.
Speaker 3: Doesn't need thirty seven.
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Speaker 4: When a news story falls through the cracks, Lewis Black
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Speaker 11: It's been three weeks since Pope Francis went to that
Speaker 11: great Sunday Mass in the sky, and we're all still
Speaker 11: thinking why Pope Francis got Why not every other world later?
Speaker 11: But now the Vatican has to elect a new pope,
Speaker 11: and you know what that means. Conclave.
Speaker 8: The conclave is now underway.
Speaker 14: One hundred and thirty three cardinals filing into the Sistine
Speaker 14: Chapel where.
Speaker 2: They will vote on the next Pope.
Speaker 14: The candidate must win two thirds majority, which could take
Speaker 14: multiple votes twice a day. Ballots will be burned and
Speaker 14: smoke released from the Vatican's chimney, black meaning no winner,
Speaker 14: white signals a new pope.
Speaker 11: And red smoke means an altar boy fell in the incinerator.
Speaker 11: Oopsie should have kept his mouth shut. Why of all
Speaker 11: these endless rounds of voting, just keep it simple. Let
Speaker 11: a gorilla loosen the Vatican, and whoever survives is the winner.
Speaker 11: And if it's the gorilla, so be it all. Hell
Speaker 11: pump Coco. Now, I'd love to tell you more about
Speaker 11: the conclave, but it's a lot like masturbating. You don't
Speaker 11: talk about it.
Speaker 15: One hundred Vatican staff and clergy took a solemn oath today,
Speaker 15: swearing that what happens inside the secret Conclave stays secret forever.
Speaker 10: Cardinals walked away inside the Cystine Chapel with no electronics, no.
Speaker 14: Phones, no computers, no televisions, completely isolated from the outside world.
Speaker 3: I believe the kids call it raw dogging.
Speaker 13: It if you're going to go through a long period
Speaker 13: of time with no electronic device.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm pretty sure when Cardinals involved, the kids call
Speaker 11: it something other than raw dogging. Plus their phones. How
Speaker 11: these guys follow the Getty trial. They're huge fans of
Speaker 11: his work.
Speaker 13: Oh stop.
Speaker 2: You might be wondering why all.
Speaker 11: This secrecy is needed. Here's the secret, because it's boring
Speaker 11: one hundred old guys sitting around talking about which old
Speaker 11: guy will lead all the other old guys kill me now.
Speaker 11: But with all the secrecy, many people don't know what
Speaker 11: to expect at a conclave. Don't worry, though, the Cardinals
Speaker 11: don't either.
Speaker 16: Viewers have been streaming Conclave the film in record numbers
Speaker 16: since Francis's death.
Speaker 4: Rancis appointed so many cardinals who therefore have never sat
Speaker 4: through a conclave themselves.
Speaker 13: Many of them have been watching the movie to get
Speaker 13: tips on how the process works.
Speaker 3: That's funny.
Speaker 11: Ha ha, pisit incompetency hilarious? Turns out the only qualification
Speaker 11: you need to vote for the most powerful religious leader
Speaker 11: in the world as a peacock account. Look, if you
Speaker 11: need to watch a movie to learn about a job
Speaker 11: you already have, you shouldn't have that job in the
Speaker 11: first place.
Speaker 2: If I hire a prostitute.
Speaker 11: I'm not gonna wait two hours while she watches Anora.
Speaker 11: But it's but it's not just incompetent cardinals traveling to
Speaker 11: Rome for the conclave. It's also incompetent tourists.
Speaker 8: Rome locals know the death of the Pope guarantees new
Speaker 8: life for tourism. There's the souvenirs, calendars and keyrings, fridge
Speaker 8: magnets and mugs, and even gelato in Francisca's flavor.
Speaker 11: Wow, his own ice cream. That's the kind of honor
Speaker 11: they only give to Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 7: Let's hope I.
Speaker 11: Don't spill any of it on my The Pope died
Speaker 11: and all I got was this lousy T shirt. But
Speaker 11: if you don't want a shitty pope Keychain, don't worry,
Speaker 11: because there are other ways to flush your money down
Speaker 11: his holy toilet.
Speaker 15: Global betting sites now taking in a collective nineteen million
Speaker 15: dollars from the thousands of people gambling on the future
Speaker 15: of the church. The Vatican Secretary of State is the
Speaker 15: two to one favorite, with Carnel Luis Taglay of the
Speaker 15: Philippines three to one.
Speaker 4: Taglay would make history if he were elected as the
Speaker 4: first Asian Pope.
Speaker 3: Let me get this straight.
Speaker 11: You want me to bet money on the first Asian
Speaker 11: pope and you won't even let me parlay it with
Speaker 11: the knicks.
Speaker 2: That's disgusting. Shame on you.
Speaker 11: I know I'm picking the knicks, but tell me more
Speaker 11: about this Lewis Taglay guy.
Speaker 8: There's a karaoke king in the conclave Philippines, Cardinal Lewis Toglay. I.
Speaker 11: I don't know if this guy will be the first
Speaker 11: Pope from Asia, but he makes my ears beg for
Speaker 11: youth in Asia. This is what my career has come
Speaker 11: to assisted suicide puns.
Speaker 7: But here's a question.
Speaker 11: Why is the front runner for pope singing a song
Speaker 11: about imagining there's no religion? I mean, without religion, you're
Speaker 11: just a guy going to.
Speaker 2: Work in a nightgown.
Speaker 11: Look, if this conclave wants to make history. There's another
Speaker 11: group they've been overlooking a Jewish pope.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 11: I've already got my pope, Yamica. Oh all I gotta
Speaker 11: do now is glue my foreskin back on and I'll
Speaker 11: fit right in.
Speaker 7: Luckily, I keep it in my wallet.
Speaker 2: Jessie lock Black.
Speaker 7: Everyone welcome next week, John I guess.
Speaker 4: I Award winning author and local healthcare ref advocates. Lingen's
Speaker 4: coking is called Everything Blueberculos Lea's welcome.
Speaker 2: John Green, Hi, Hie, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 4: What a joy, What a joy, What a joy it
Speaker 4: is to be here with you with all this insane
Speaker 4: news happening in the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Fun, fun day for you, so much fun.
Speaker 4: Every day is a fun days here at the Daily Show.
Speaker 3: Yeah yea.
Speaker 4: But you were the bright light.
Speaker 3: Oh you're very kind.
Speaker 4: You have had massive success with your young adult novels
Speaker 4: of Walton, Our Stars Looking for Alaska. You and your
Speaker 4: brother have had h were kind of early pioneers, so
Speaker 4: to speak, in the with your YouTube channel billions of views,
Speaker 4: and now you have this number one New York Times bestseller,
Speaker 4: Everything Is Tuberculosis. You're like a modern day renaissance man.
Speaker 4: It's very kind who's also trying to eradicate a deadly disease.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm super opposed to tuberculosis. It's true.
Speaker 16: I'm a little confused why everyone else isn't. It feels
Speaker 16: like a should be kind of a universally held opinion.
Speaker 16: But yeah, I was traveling sier Leone in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 16: I didn't even know that tuberculosis was still a thing,
Speaker 16: to be honest with me, when I was in Sierre
Speaker 16: Leone in twenty nineteen and I was asked to go
Speaker 16: to a TV hospital there, And when I was there,
Speaker 16: I met a kid named Henry, which is also my
Speaker 16: son's name.
Speaker 3: And through knowing Henry and.
Speaker 16: Following his story trying to recover from drug resistant tuberculosis
Speaker 16: over the next five years, I really I wouldn't say
Speaker 16: I fell in love with the disease. I guess I
Speaker 16: fell in hate with it, you know, yes, And so
Speaker 16: that's where this book came from, was from wanting to
Speaker 16: tell Henry's story of this ultimate story of survival, and
Speaker 16: also wanting to tell the story of the fact that
Speaker 16: this disease is not history, it's present.
Speaker 4: Right, and part of what I loved so much about
Speaker 4: your book, it was fascinating, But it doesn't just go
Speaker 4: through the history of tuberculosis and the gravity of the
Speaker 4: disease itself, but you tell all of these personal stories
Speaker 4: along the way, like Henry and many others. When most Americans,
Speaker 4: like you said, think about tuberculosis, they think of it
Speaker 4: as a thing of the past. But just in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty three, over a million people died globally from tuberculosis.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 16: It's the deadly stone axious disease in the world. And unfortunately,
Speaker 16: as a direct result of decisions made by our government,
Speaker 16: that number is going to go up instead of going down.
Speaker 16: It's been going down for the last twenty years, which
Speaker 16: is something we can be really proud of.
Speaker 3: The US has long been.
Speaker 16: The most generous funder of TV response, but that's changing
Speaker 16: with the dismantling of USAID and as a direct result,
Speaker 16: I think the estimates are that within two years we
Speaker 16: might see two million people dying instead of over a million.
Speaker 4: You say in your book, we know how to live
Speaker 4: in a world without tuberculosis, but we choose not to
Speaker 4: live in that world. Yeah, and that the problem is us.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Ultimately, we've known how to cure this disease since the
Speaker 16: nineteen fifties, and so the problem can't be a bacterium
Speaker 16: called M. Tuberculosis, right, Like I mean, the bacteria is
Speaker 16: hard to kill. It's a tough disease to treat. But
Speaker 16: my brother had cancer a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 16: that's also a hard disease to treat, and nobody at
Speaker 16: any point said to my brother, I'm sorry, but it
Speaker 16: just doesn't make sense. It's not cost effective to treat
Speaker 16: your cancer. They treated his cancer, they cured his cancer.
Speaker 16: He's here with us today, and that should be the
Speaker 16: story of everybody who lives with a disease like tuberculos.
Speaker 16: So it's hard to cure, but it's not impossible to cure.
Speaker 16: We can achieve curates of over ninety five percent. We
Speaker 16: do that in the United States, and we should be
Speaker 16: doing it globally, and the fact that we aren't really
Speaker 16: is kind of a mark of shame on humanity. I think.
Speaker 4: You mentioned all the doge cuts. You wrote this book
Speaker 4: before all of that happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wish I could run an extra chapter now,
Speaker 3: well you can, I will, I will for the paper.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you might have a sequel on your hands with
Speaker 4: apparently measles are back now too. Are you concerned that
Speaker 4: tuberculosis has found out that measles is having a moment
Speaker 4: and it's come in and want to teach us all
Speaker 4: which disease is boss?
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, I mean measles is an interesting case because
Speaker 16: of course it's completely vaccine preventable, right, Tuberculosis hasn't had
Speaker 16: a new vaccine in over one hundred years, So like,
Speaker 16: at least when people get tuberculosis, you know, you can say, like, well,
Speaker 16: this isn't a direct result of misinformation, but in the
Speaker 16: case of measles, it really is.
Speaker 3: So I am a good worried that measles. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's a bum that measles is making a comeback, does
Speaker 3: he Yes, it is definitely. It's definitely upsetting.
Speaker 16: Yeah, but you know, tuberculosis, measles has a long way
Speaker 16: to go before it captures Tuberculosis's spot is the.
Speaker 3: World's deadliest infection. Okay, Okay, so don't worry yet.
Speaker 4: All right, Well we'll worried for other reasons.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 15: You.
Speaker 4: Part of what was so interesting about your book is
Speaker 4: you also go through all of the history and how
Speaker 4: the disease impacted everything culturally, poetry, literature, The Cowboy.
Speaker 3: Hat, the cowboy hat. Yeah, there was a guy named
Speaker 3: John B.
Speaker 16: Stenson who was living as a hat maker in New
Speaker 16: Jersey who got TV and was told by his doctor
Speaker 16: the only way to survive is to go west, which
Speaker 16: lots of people heard. He went west, and as he
Speaker 16: recovered from his tuberculosis for reasons we don't understand, some
Speaker 16: people just recover, and he was one of the lucky few.
Speaker 16: He also noticed that the hats out west kind of
Speaker 16: sucked right, like they had the coonskin cat. There was
Speaker 16: all bug infested. They had these straw hats that folks
Speaker 16: from Mexico and Texas had brought up, but there was
Speaker 16: no hat for the America and West. And he invented
Speaker 16: the stetson. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 4: That's how we got our hound.
Speaker 3: We're at Everything is tuberculosis.
Speaker 2: It seemed that way.
Speaker 4: You say everything is tuberculosis. Can you connect tuberculosis to
Speaker 4: why fighter jets are falling into the water?
Speaker 3: Can I give me a second?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 16: Yes, so that that if I'm not mistaken, I heard
Speaker 16: you say I believe that that aircraft carrier is the
Speaker 16: Harry Truman.
Speaker 3: Sure does that sound right? Anybody?
Speaker 4: We'll go with it.
Speaker 2: We'll go with it.
Speaker 3: I think Harry.
Speaker 16: Truman, this was in a different age in American history.
Speaker 16: Harry Truman sent a budget ask to the federal government
Speaker 16: for two hundred thousand dollars to fund the development of
Speaker 16: the most critical or one of the most critical TV drugs,
Speaker 16: IONIZI it. So if it weren't for Harry Truman sending
Speaker 16: federal money, federal government taxpayer mone to fund the treatment
Speaker 16: of tuberculosis, we wouldn't have that amazing drug.
Speaker 4: Hot Dan, everything is.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 4: Can you connect to tuberculosis to why my algorithm keeps
Speaker 4: feeding me weighted best?
Speaker 16: Absolutely, not even a challenge. It's trying to shrink your body.
Speaker 16: It's trying to make you smaller. And that is a
Speaker 16: result partly of this tubercular beauty standard when we romanticize tuberculosis.
Speaker 3: I know, when we were romanticized tuberculosis.
Speaker 16: In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we began to associate
Speaker 16: beauty with very frail, small bodies, and so attempts to
Speaker 16: shrink the female body, or at least in part a
Speaker 16: response to this tuberculosis beauty standard that goes back to
Speaker 16: the nineteenth century.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'll give you that. I will give you that.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: All right, So how do we go about curing this
Speaker 4: disease of injustice? What needs to happen in a perfect world?
Speaker 4: What are the steps that need to be implemented.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we know how to live in a world
Speaker 3: without TV.
Speaker 16: You search for cases, you treat every case you find,
Speaker 16: and you offer preventive therapy to folks who are near
Speaker 16: those cases. And that's how we eliminated TV in the US,
Speaker 16: or nearly eliminated it. That's how we've nearly eliminated TV
Speaker 16: in many countries around the world.
Speaker 3: But that takes funding.
Speaker 16: And right now, if you think of the history of
Speaker 16: tuberculosis as a long staircase where we learn more and
Speaker 16: learn better tools, have better tools to fight the disease.
Speaker 16: Right now we have the tools, we just don't have
Speaker 16: the political will. And so right now, unfortunately we've fallen
Speaker 16: down the staircase. But it's easy to feel like this
Speaker 16: is the end of history. Like I mean, I feel
Speaker 16: that way all the time, to be honest with you,
Speaker 16: But of course it's not the end of history. This
Speaker 16: is the middle of the story, not the end of
Speaker 16: the story. And it falls to us to write a
Speaker 16: better end and I really believe we can do that together.
Speaker 16: I really believe that I will live to see a
Speaker 16: world without tuberculosis. I may need to live a little
Speaker 16: bit longer than I had originally expected, but I still think.
Speaker 3: I still think that it's possible.
Speaker 4: From your lips to God's ears, thank you. Thank you
Speaker 4: for making the world suck a little bit less. Thank
Speaker 4: you for educating and engaging your viewers, and for all
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