This is the only interview James ever recorded that wasn't released on the podcast…until today. In July 2019, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined James for an interview at Stand Up New York, where the pair discussed RFK Jr's book "American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family" amidst a wide-ranging conversation on the Kennedy Family, the role money plays in American politics, and the cost of fossil fuel-based energy compared to renewable energy sources. Following a divisive turn in the conversation regarding vaccines, the show decided against airing this interview. However, on April 6, 2023, Kennedy announced his plans to run for President in the 2024 election. Due to its topical relevance, The James Altucher Show has decided to air the previously unreleased 2019 interview in full.
This is the only interview James ever recorded that wasn't released on the podcast…until today.
In July 2019, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined James for an interview at Stand Up New York, where the pair discussed RFK Jr's book American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family amidst a wide-ranging conversation on the Kennedy Family, the role money plays in American politics, and the cost of fossil fuel-based energy compared to renewable energy sources.
Around the 50-minute mark in the conversation, the topic pivots, following a discussion on the post-WW2 tax rates and the rise of billionaires such as Bill Gates. James questions Kennedy's view on Gates - given the Microsoft founder's pledge to donate large sums of money to charity and his vaccine efforts to eradicate malaria in Africa - to which Kennedy responds, "Bill Gates has done more harm to the planet than arguably anybody in history." Kennedy believes that many vaccines are ineffective and harmful to the populace and that Gates' efforts in Africa have caused the deaths of "millions and millions of children".
Kennedy continues to discuss The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986, which limited the potential financial liability of vaccine manufacturers due to vaccine injury claims, and how three years later, "There was a 'gold rush' and it went from the three vaccines that [Kennedy] had, to the seventy-two vaccines kids have to get today. And suddenly, beginning in 1989, [America] saw this explosion of chronic disease in this country."
Following the divisive turn in the conversation, the show decided against airing this interview. However, on April 6, 2023, Kennedy announced his plans to run for President in the 2024 election and will formally declare his candidacy at an event on April 19, 2023. Due to its topical relevance, The James Altucher Show has decided to air the previously unreleased 2019 interview in full.
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