Hello, listeners. It's your host, Pete Davis here. Two things. First, thank you for listening to Current Affairs throughout our summer season. By the end of it, in a few weeks, we will have released 10 main episodes and 15 bonus episodes.

So thank you for supporting us as we have gotten this off the ground.

In the fall season, it's going to get even better.

We're aiming to do a lot more interviews like we did with Lena Kahn and Matt Brunig and Ian Samuel,

a lot more special series in the bonus episodes like

Oren and Vanessa's legal bonuses, and a lot more dispatches from the front like Nathan's

trip to cover the Abdul al-Sayad campaign in Michigan. So keep listening, and thanks again.

Second, I'm here to share that we just released a new episode over at the Bird Feed,

in which our finance editor, Sparky Abraham,

and editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson, discuss the Theranos scandal,

which has been thoroughly documented in John Kerry Rue's recent book,

Bad Blood, Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley

startup. Nathan and Sparky both read it for the episode, and they had a great conversation

about corporate chicanery and Silicon Valley boosterism. If you want to listen, just become a

patron at patreon.com slash current affairs. You give us $5 a month

and then you gain access to the bird feed, which has all of our

bonus episodes like this one. If not, no worries. We'll be back next week

with a main episode on this feed. But for now, here's an excerpt from Nathan

and Sparky's conversation. But it's also one of the most interesting stories of the last few

years. And it's a story that tells us a lot about a lot of different aspects of the economic

world and our culture and the

financial and political elites of the country, I'd say. A lot. Yes, a lot about a lot of financial

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