'Who's getting rich from this stuff?': JD Vance urges skepticism at those like Bill Gates making millions 'in the name of health or in the name of climate'

Vice presidential candidate JD Vance sat for a wide-ranging, over three-hour-long interview with Joe Rogan on an episode of his podcast that aired on Thursday afternoon. The appearance comes hot on the heels of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump sitting for an interview with the famed podcaster, while Kamala Harris has refused to sit for the vastly popular show.

Among the topics discussed were Bill Gates and global health, and how people like Gates make millions of dollars off this work. "The lack of ability to interrogate — I mean, Bill Gates, you know, like maybe he’s a good guy. I’m highly skeptical, I don’t know him very well, but he’s getting rich off of all of this stuff that he’s supporting in the name of health or in the name of climate," Vance said.

"Our inability to just ask ourselves, who's getting rich from this stuff? Maybe we should be skeptical of the people getting rich from this stuff is one of our big failures as a political society," he added. 

Rogan chimed in, "it’s a sheep costume. You put on a sheep costume when you’re a wolf and you make a lot of money with global health. And who doesn't want global health?" Rogan later added, "And then you find out, like, wait a minute, how much money did you make doing that? You paid him $500 million?"

"It's a very sneaky move, but he's, he's a smart guy. He’s a lot of very sneaky moves, like the donating all the money to the media companies, which is why they never criticize him. He's donated like, $350 million to all these different companies," Rogan added.

Vance also spoke during the conversation about getting "distracted by the fake stuff instead of focusing on the real stuff," noting how "the only thing" that the environmental movement in the US talks about is "the carbon footprint, and it never talks about like, Oh, why do we have the highest rates of obesity in the world right now? Right? Why is it that American kids spend less time outdoors in nature than they ever have in the history of our 250-year civilization." 

Rogan later added, "it's disturbing to me that there's also a profit being made off the green movement. There's a lot of people who have, like Bill Gates, making a lot of money off of these environmentally conscious things, all for this bullsh*t fake food, that fake meat, which is not good for anybody."