#121 Pain Funnel

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

An ambitious plan to help people goes off the rails, and a man from Florida tries to fix things the only way he knows how: with prank phone calls. Further reading: Cat Ferguson's reporting on Google and Rehab (The Verge) - Part I Cat Ferguson's reporting on Google and Rehab (The Verge) - Part II David Segal's series on the business around addiction (New York Times) Ryan Hampton's American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis Palm Beach Post's Reporting on the Sober Home Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, before we start the show, if you listen to Repile, it is very unlikely that we need
0:05.7	to tell you about startup, give them what's first podcast.
0:09.0	But we're doing it anyway because they're back with a new season and if you haven't been
0:12.9	listening, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
0:15.1	It's great.
0:16.1	They are profiling the most unlikely power broker in Silicon Valley, Arlen Hamilton.
0:20.4	It's the story of Arlen breaking into the biggest, whitest boys club in the Valley,
0:25.4	venture capital.
0:26.8	It's awesome not just because you learn about her, but because you actually learn about
0:30.1	this world that I feel like people think they know, but have no idea about the details
0:33.9	of.
0:34.9	You should check it out.
0:35.9	It's out now.
0:36.9	Go listen.
0:37.9	Here's our show.
0:46.0	From Gamlet, this is Repile.
0:47.7	I'm strictly penaminating.
0:54.2	So here's an idea that is so good and so agreeable that it's almost boring for me to say it out
1:00.8	loud.
1:02.3	People who are addicted to drugs should be able to go to rehab.
1:06.2	And when they do, health insurance should cover it.
1:09.9	Today, after almost a century of trying, today, after over a year of debate, today, after
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