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Thank you. Welcome to this episode of Kennedy saves the world.

And there's no saving Elizabeth Holmes from prison. She was the Theranos founder who dressed like Steve Jobs and told everyone that she had a special secret machine that could test your blood and tell you if you had cancer or high cholesterol or thousands of other conditions or diseases, and the whole thing was basically

fake. So you'd get your finger-pricked, and then it would go in the machine, and instead of the

machine actually doing something, it would just throw the blood tests on the back side of the machine,

and then a guy would pick them up and take them to a lab. Her little machine Edison, it never worked. It was never going to work.

It was a really great idea, like an environmentalist going, I know, why don't we have a car that

runs on unicorn farts? It's great. It's easy. It's abundant. Unicorns are very gassy. Hard to find. They don't exist.

And no such technology will ever reach the marketplace. Great idea, though. But the problem is

she defrauded so many investors by saying that her great idea was a reality. And she's not

alone. Like Stephen Bankman-Fried and Billy McFarlane.

The whole thing is a fire festival.

It's an entire generation of people who were told they were special and wonderful their whole

lives.

And then they come up with an idea and no one pushes back. That's the problem with society

and the turn that we're making right now. No one wants to be critiqued. No one wants to be judged.

No one wants to be told no. Everyone has to be special and amazing. And their amazing special

secret is worth so much money that they just have to

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