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Bad People

10. Bad Blood: Should you fake it till you make it?

Bad People

BBC

True Crime

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Holmes is the world’s youngest self made female billionaire. But her nine billion dollar startup disintegrated when the truth came out. On this episode of Bad People, presenters Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen discuss how to tell if someone is trustworthy or not. Also, why we are so easily fooled by a pretty face and false promises. Warning: This episode contains strong language and references to sexual violence and child abuse. Presenters: Dr. Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen Producer: Caroline Steel Assistant Producer: Simona Rata Music: Matt Chandler Series Editor: Rami Tzabar Commissioning Producer: Hannah Rose Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Editor: Jason Phipps Bad People is a BBC Audio Science Production for BBC Sounds #BadPeople_BBC

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0:05.6

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0:07.6

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0:12.4

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0:14.4

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0:18.0

We sometimes literally run around the BBC building to grab the very best guests.

0:23.4

Join us for daily news chats to get you ready for today's conversations.

0:28.3

Newscast, listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.4

BBC Sounds. Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:37.0

Sophie, have you ever been in a situation where you've promised something and then you've realized that you can't deliver it.

0:43.6

Yes.

0:44.6

Go on.

0:45.6

I mean, there's hardly a situation where that doesn't happen.

0:49.5

Whether we're talking homework or emails that I responded to or deadlines or social interacting stuff.

0:58.6

Like anything, don't be friends with me Julia.

1:01.2

I'm a bad friend or and employee and part of

1:04.8

full of lies I'm I'm but well-intentioned lies and what about you yeah I mean I

1:10.8

lie most days but definitely in terms of not delivering things time.

1:17.3

I pretend I'm going to be places on time.

1:19.0

I'll say, yeah, let's meet at 5 o'clock, especially when we met, you know, in real real life online it's a bit easier to be punctual but in real life I mean do not expect me there

1:27.8

10 to 15 minutes late that's usually when I arrive I quite like it when people are late because then I feel really good about being there on time.

1:35.0

I agree. So the few times that it happens to me that people are even later than me, I feel

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