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Welcome back to the blog where we discuss the podcast elements in “The Drop Out”, about a Stanford dropout, Elizabeth Holmes, who took the world by storm by becoming the youngest, female, self-made billionaire through her company, Theranos. However, life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows anymore for Holmes after her so called therapeutic blood test company was found to be a fraud. Last episode, we uncovered a huge bombshell, finding out that Elizabeth Holmes was in a romantic relationship with the man that wrote a 13 million dollar check to her company. This changed Elizabeth’s whole situation with her company because without it, she most likely was not able to move forward due to financial limitations but now that she found her knight in shining armor, its full steam ahead for Theranos. Because of this, they were able to strike a huge huge deal with Walgreens that put them in thousands of stores nationwide. However, we see the major repercussions of implementing something that doesn’t even work in these upcoming episodes of the Dropout. Theranos received major backlash after multiple people came to Walgreens to use their centers only to find out they wouldn’t receive their results right away and many of their results came out false. As a result, Theranos was eventually brought to court and Elizabeth was somewhat exposed by going from being able to answer anything on multiple talk shows and meetings to having almost no answers at all. Theranos’s court case is continued in the next episode.
\nBecause we are now a couple episodes in, many of the podcast elements used by the narrator were repeating itself, from conducting interviews and moving one from one story to the next. Therefore, I had to listen to a couple more episodes this time to try to make up for the lack of new and fresh content. It became apparent that the interviewing and storyline style each episodes of the podcast, one after another, made it more like a news story rather than a classic “narrative” podcast. I kind of saw this coming, however, because his is based on a true story that went on a couple years ago from the writing of this blog. This is real news about a real person being prosecuted for fraud and affecting the lives of real patients. I feel like I’m listening to nightly news on KIRO 7, only difference being this is +10 years condensed in 6 30-minute episodes. The narrator has been very comical throughout her podcasts. She would always remark on Holmes’s cringe, fake manly voice and how she wears a turtleneck literally everywhere, depicting her as if she was an actual dude. The use of some humor is good at times because it provides some comic relief in what is a serious new story. And she’s only cracking jokes at the appearance of Holmes, not anything serious about the issue. Some criticism I have for the podcast after listening to a couple episodes now is how the repetitive the narrator is. She constantly restates who Holmes is, how she is “the youngest female self-made billionaire” in every episode I’ve heard. The narrator also repeats many basic details of what happened in previous episodes and seems to re-introduce each person every time. I get that she wants to refresh the listener but some of the things she says are things the listeners have already picked up on by now. Other than that, I have enjoyed listening to the Dropout thus far and look to continue listening in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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