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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:07.0 | When I first met Robert Matthews, he was lying on a black reclining bed in a room full of black reclining beds, |
| 0:14.0 | about to have a phlebotomist stick a very large metal needle into his arm. |
| 0:19.0 | Can you put it on my face? |
| 0:21.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:22.0 | Okay, good to come down. |
| 0:24.0 | Robert with the good vein. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah, yes. |
| 0:30.0 | Can't miss that one. |
| 0:33.0 | Robert was here in Sherry Hill, New Jersey to donate his blood plasma. |
| 0:37.0 | Inside his right elbow on the skin above his good vein was a small black circular scar, |
| 0:42.0 | from all the times before today that the needle had gone in. |
| 0:45.0 | Okay, you go for the pinch, don't make it first and just rub it. |
| 0:48.0 | It's not that bad. |
| 0:51.0 | It's because you weren't scared of needles. |
| 0:54.0 | Nah. |
| 0:55.0 | Plastic tubing leads from the needle in Robert's arm to a white machine, a little larger than a case of beer. |
| 1:02.0 | As Robert clenches and unclenches his fist over and over, his dark red blood flows through the tube into a centrifuge hidden inside the box. |
| 1:11.0 | Does it seem strange that your blood is going into the white machine next to you? |
| 1:14.0 | Nah. |
| 1:15.0 | Nah. |
| 1:16.0 | It's not bad. |
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