Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee Page #2
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- 2016
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jungle plants
that he hopes will be
the building blocks
for medicines of the future.
I was doing my
postdoc, I was at Harvard,
but I always heard
about Belize.
Just how amazing
the jungles were
and the local healers.
Decided to go to Belize
and just see
what it was
all about, you know?
But anyway, we'll talk about
that, then.
I ended up
meeting John McAfee.
Yeah, I didn't know him
from Adam,
but I told him about
my research,
and he seemed engaged.
He seemed interested,
and within, you know,
minutes of conversation,
and within, you know,
minutes of conversation,
He said, "You can continue
your research,
and we'll make
a business out of it."
And I thought,
"Oh, my God."
I mean, this is
this is it.
This is, like,
my big break.
There was not a space
for the lab,
and he had me stay with him,
um, which made me
very uncomfortable.
I saw a lot of stuff
when I was living in his place.
He had armed guards.
I'm not a huge fan of guns.
Um, he had meetings
with people that were
also armed.
With people that were
also armed.
Um
At one point he said
that he was working on a book
with two heavily armed,
very built men
from the Ukraine.
I mean, I don't know, this is
probably not relevant.
I'm sorry, this is
That's okay.
This is the tangent that I told
you I would go on.
Yeah, that's okay.
That's part of interviewing.
It's just, there's
There's a lot
of tangents.
Peoplewe all do it.
Oh, f***, there's just
there's so much crazy sh*t.
There's so much crazy sh*t
that I don't even know
that I don't even know
You know, it's hard to know
where to start.
I wanted to start
with John's past.
In emails he was evasive.
But I managed to dig up
some of his records.
He was born in England,
and grew up
an only child in Virginia.
According to John, his father
was an abusive alcoholic
and committed suicide
when John was young.
Eventually, John graduated
college and became
Eventually, John graduated
college and became
a computer engineer.
In the 1980s, he tried his luck
in Silicon Valley.
McAfee, may I help you?
Speaking.
It's one of those
strange days.
antivirus were in late '86.
And, uh, he was
always playing
There was this new problem
with computers,
that was ayour computer
could catch a cold.
Okay, there it goes.
In Budapest, uh,
we have a hospital
that lost 25 systems.
Uh, including
all patient recordshello?
When John came up
with antiviral software,
90 % of the people
that were running computers
weren't even aware of viruses.
And then viruses started
getting names.
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