El Gordo

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.
0:04.0	Today we start out with something a little different.
0:07.0	Love.
0:08.0	The typical, the typical story.
0:11.0	Love story.
0:12.0	Coastis meets a takas says it's a typical love story, but it's not that typical.
0:18.6	It began like this.
0:20.1	In the early 2000s he was living in Greece where he's from when I met a Spanish girl her name was Sandra del Pozo
0:29.2	One thing brought the other and we decided to for me I decided to give up everything and sell everything and
0:36.4	she decided also to give up her job.
0:39.0	The two bought a small RV on eBay and started driving across Europe in the direction of Spain, where Sandra is from.
0:45.4	She told me once, what do you think if we go to see my grandma?
0:50.3	Sandra's grandmother lived in a small farming town in the northeast corner of Spain called
0:54.9	Sodeto.
0:55.9	Sodeto is one of about 300 little farming villages that the dictator Francisco Franco built
1:01.5	in Spain in the 1950s. He wanted to bring people and
1:05.4	agriculture to some of the more desolate parts of the country.
1:08.8	Producer Katie Mingle traveled to Sodeo Spain recently.
1:13.6	All the towns built during this time
1:15.3	looks similar, and Sodeo is no exception.
1:19.0	There's a church in the center of town,
1:20.8	and one bar, which is also the one restaurant, which is also the one place to hang out as far as I can tell.
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