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Crime Writers On...True Crime Review

The Dropout

Crime Writers On...True Crime Review

Partners in Crime Media

True Crime, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Performing Arts, Panel, Writer, Crime, Author, Review, Arts

4.43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

She raised millions of dollars to build a machine that could conduct dozens of diagnostic tests from a single drop of blood…but it was all a lie. We’ll return to our 2019 review of the biotech-con podcast “The Dropout.”

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0:00.0

To get the Crime Writers on After Show right now, go to patreon.com slash Partners in Crime Media.

0:06.6

I'm Rebecca Levoy, and this is Crime Writers On.

0:26.8

Crime Riders On. Crime Riders On is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime, pop culture, other podcasts.

0:28.8

And on this episode, she raised millions of dollars to build a machine that could conduct

0:33.3

dozens of diagnostic tests from a single drop of blood.

0:37.2

But it was all a lie.

0:39.6

We'll return to our 2019 review of the BiotechCon podcast, The Dropout.

0:45.3

Joining me to get that done and more is true crime author, TV journalist, and host of,

0:49.6

these are their stories podcast, my husband and love of my life, Kevin Flynn.

0:52.5

Hello, Kevin.

0:53.2

Hello, Rebecca.

1:11.3

So, Kevin, what are we going to hear in today's CWO Classic Rewind. Okay, this was requested by Veronica O'Shea. It goes out to her husband. Okay, I don't know why. Long distance dedication. At least this wasn't Tiger King. Maybe he helped her do a scam too. Now, I doubt it.

1:11.9

Sorry, Veronica.

1:13.4

I know you didn't have any of the scam.

1:25.8

Yeah, Veronica wants to hear our February 11th, 2019 discussion of the podcast, the dropout from ABC News, which we refer to as a slow burn with a green juice chaser.

1:27.1

Oh, all right. So, shall we have a listen? Yeah, green juice chaser. Oh, all right.

1:29.3

So, shall we have a listen?

1:30.0

Yeah, let's do it.

1:46.0

For our first review of the show, we are talking about The Dropout, the podcast that focuses on the con perpetuated by the founder of a biotech company that made big promises around the business of blood tests. Please begin.

1:47.0

This is the testimony of Elizabeth Holmes going on the record in San Francisco, California, at 9 o'clock.

1:54.0

This is the story of the rise and fall of the world's youngest self-made female billionaire.

2:00.0

Did it concern you that a number of tests weren't working on Theranus' devices?

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