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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

494 - Christina and Owen Dargatz (The Giving Experiment)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Owen and Christina Dargatz and their brood are pushing the boundaries of what people see as possible with a large family. (Their kids range from under 1 to 11 years old.) They traded their comfortable house in Canada for a two room shack in Guatemala with a leaky roof, but to them, this seems an upgrade (most of the time).

Instead of seeing how much they could take from the world, Christina and Owen decided to see how much they and their kids could give. Hence, "The Giving Experiment."

One of the current projects is "Children for a better San Juan," an environmental/educational club that focuses on teaching children to take the initiative of cleaning up their neighborhood along the shores of Lake Atitlan. They're setting up public trash cans in the areas cleaned, and feeding the children involved a full, nutritional weekly lunch at the end of the program.

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Intro music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. "Rapunzel," by Harley Barton; "Smoke Alarm," by Carsie Blanton.



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0:00.0

Radi ho mano papackedango

0:02.2

music

0:25.6

Hey Chris and fellow tangentially speaking listeners my name is Sam I'm coming to you

0:35.5

from a slung hammock it's about 11 o'clock on a Saturday night I am right between Kendrick

0:43.7

Mountain and Mount Humphreys right near Flagstaff Arizona and I'm laying here in Chris I just

0:51.7

want to say the things that you've written and the words that you speak have done a lot

0:56.9

for me and a very interesting time in my life let's call it it's kind of where everybody's

1:03.7

at but you know given the circumstances of recent history but regardless I just want

1:10.5

to say thank you for what you do and keep doing what you're doing everybody else out

1:15.6

there stay cool. Hello Chris and fellow tangent analysts this is Josh and Michigan here I'm

1:24.1

calling him with a sort of a COVID PSA for all you travelers out there I think one thing

1:30.2

that you know it's most of the tangent at least speaking listeners as we all like to travel

1:34.9

I've had travel plans put off by COVID for a long time now and it looks like the restrictions

1:41.1

are probably going to come back in some way at least and other countries definitely have

1:46.9

stronger restrictions for getting into the countries and such so this summer I decided

1:51.5

to try to find interesting places around where I live to kind of get that sense of adventure

1:59.8

but places that I would never have heard of and that led me down a rabbit hole of finding

2:05.5

out my state in Michigan had been basically entirely logged to build Detroit and Chicago

2:11.1

and Milwaukee and these other cities and it was until the CCC replanted I replanted

2:19.3

the trees it was basically you know an apocalypse and what I found interesting is that there's

2:25.8

probably about 200 acres of old growth forests spread out across the state and it's pretty

2:30.5

hard to find so I've been spending my weekends getting lost in the country driving to dirt

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