EPISODE · Aug 26, 2025 · 2 MIN

#0031 - Elliot S

$500 gets 70 Kenyan kids to school. This is 'The $500,000 Answering Machine' — a raw, unfiltered feed of real-time voicemails being left by 1,000 grantees of a crazy, weird social experiment called Drop Dead Generous. No interviews. No scripts. Just true stories from all over the world, told by people given $500USD to pay-it-forward as outrageously as they can. > Apply to become a grantee at www.dropdeadgenerous.org. This is 'The $500,000 Answering Machine' — a raw, unfiltered feed of real-time voicemails being left by 1,000 grantees of a crazy, weird social experiment called Drop Dead Generous. No interviews. No scripts. Just true stories from all over the world, told by people given $500USD to pay-it-forward as outrageously as they can. > Apply to become a grantee at www.dropdeadgenerous.org. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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