Weeds in the Wild: Free Money... For Everyone!
Explain It to Me
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Weeds in the Wild, our podcast about how policy |
| 0:11.2 | affects real people's lives. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Sarah Cliff and today I am lucky to be here with my colleague and frequent Weeds guest, |
| 0:19.1 | Dylan Matthews. |
| 0:20.1 | What's up? |
| 0:21.1 | And Dylan, you are here to tell us a story about what happens when you try to fix poverty |
| 0:26.8 | in a radically new way. |
| 0:28.7 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 0:30.5 | And we're specifically going to talk about a trip I took a little while ago to a tiny |
| 0:33.9 | village in Kenya where this international NGO is doing a really clever and weird experiment |
| 0:41.4 | that's kind of going to change the village forever. |
| 0:44.5 | I talked to this guy. |
| 0:46.3 | I am Michael Fade. |
| 0:47.9 | He's one of the researchers who's writing this experiment and he told me about the moment |
| 0:51.4 | that his organization brought together everyone in this village and told them what was |
| 0:55.5 | about to happen. |
| 0:56.5 | So we're all sitting under a white tent. |
| 0:59.7 | There's no stage. |
| 1:00.7 | There's no carpet. |
| 1:02.3 | This is a dirt floor. |
| 1:04.5 | This is just the village with everybody sitting in whatever plastic chairs they can gather. |
| 1:10.4 | So the guy who's talking here works for the same group as Michael that's doing this |
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