Hello, weeds listeners. This is Sarah Cliff. I am in the studio by myself. I am not doing a solo

episode of the weeds. Instead, I'm here to introduce my new podcast, The Impact, a show about how

policy affects real people. I am so excited about this show because it is finally a chance to

take all those white paper ideas we talk about on the weeds and see what happens when they actually

get implemented. If you remember, weeds in the wild, this pop-up show we were doing last year,

it's pretty similar to those episodes. Our first season is going to run for eight weeks and we are

looking at healthcare policy. We are going to look at everything from $629 band-aids to why doctors'

offices are super reliant on fax machines. There is actually a policy story there. We are going

to play you part of the first episode so you can get a taste of the podcast. If you enjoy it,

it's super easy to subscribe. Apple podcasts, ditch your overcast wherever you get your shows.

Leave us a rating, send us an email at impactadvox.com. We would love to hear from you. And with that,

I'll turn it over to the first episode.

Collette would have been about one years old and my wife Sarah was cussing her fingernails.

This is Malcolm Bird. He's got a British accent, but he's lived here in the US for the past two

decades. He's talking about a fingernail incident that happened back in 2015.

On the pinky right at the end, she snipped too far and cut the end of the finger.

And there was an enormously large amount of blood. She was reading her book at the time and the

blood was all over the book and all over the Sarah and all over Collette and it was like, oh my god,

what have you done here? Malcolm and Sarah were really worried they had injured their daughter.

It was the weekend and the emergency room was the only place that was open.

So they bundled Collette up. They wrapped up her finger in this big wad of toilet paper and they

took her to Danbury Hospital in Connecticut. We were brand new parents. We were freaked out.

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