REPLAY: The Inventor (Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos doc)
True Story
Headgum
4.7 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
REPLAY! Tig and Cheryl discuss The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley, a doc about the rise and fall of blood-testing company Theranos, operated by the one-time rising star of the startup world, Elizabeth Holmes. Talk of fax machines, kazoos, and certain venereal diseases send Tig and Cheryl into the hardest fit of laughter on the pod to date-- test results indicate you're guaranteed to find this episode hilarious!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Snirkels, while True Story takes a hiatus, Tegan Cheryl wants to share with you some |
| 0:10.2 | of their favorite episodes from the True Story Vault. |
| 0:13.5 | What you're about to hear is a replay of a 2021 episode about the inventor out for blood |
| 0:18.4 | and silicon valley, an HBO documentary about Elizabeth Holmes and her tech startup Thera |
| 0:24.1 | News. |
| 0:25.1 | It's one of the funniest episodes of the podcast, but I can't tell you why. |
| 0:29.1 | So just have to listen. |
| 0:30.4 | So enjoy. |
| 0:31.4 | Cheryl, this episode finds me laughing. |
| 0:39.3 | I think the hardest I've laughed in a long time. |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah, same. |
| 0:43.1 | I mean, I have some good laughs in my life, but this was, you know, those thoughts that |
| 0:48.4 | you get in your head and you can't move on from? |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, yeah, we really got stuck in a bad, bad place. |
| 0:55.3 | There was a fun place. |
| 0:56.7 | Yeah, but it was, it was an unprofessional place. |
| 1:00.4 | Right. |
| 1:01.4 | That's the only unprofessional moment of this entire lesson. |
| 1:06.8 | So we want to apologize ahead of time. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah, I think you guys are going to like it. |
| 1:11.0 | By the way, this documentary is not funny. |
| 1:17.2 | But for some reason, this podcast, you'll see. |
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