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The Drop Out
Dear Ann,
You know who’s a good source of long-form podcasts to knit to? Artists. Artists spend days and nights in the studio, and lots of them listen to audiobooks, classical music, and podcasts while they work.
So when an artist I follow posted on Instagram that she had binged rapidly through a podcast by ABC called The Dropout, I was intrigued.
In short, it’s a chronicle of the rise and fall of a young woman named Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos.
It’s pretty dark. It’s a tale of greed, ambition, privilege, wealth, and most of all, how gullible smart people can be. How easily they can fall for something that on its face is too good to be true. Alarm bells ringing and red flags flying all over the place. While the business context is different, it’s reminiscent of the Bernie Madoff scandal.
I’m only a couple of episodes in, and I have to pause it sometimes to work a stitch pattern repeat.
This podcast is rated 2 needles up, stockinette recommended.
Love,
Kay
So, if I spend alot of time listening to podcast, music, audiobooks while knitting, does that make me an artist? This is really just a rhetorical question, haha.
You do all that while knitting and your “seat” gets wider and wider
If you like academic discussions on a huge range of subjects, history, culture, science, archaeology etc etc, with knowledgeable academics who talk in terms the rest of us can get, check out In Our Time, a multipart series, hundreds to choose from.
And rachel Maddow’s Bagman series about Spiro Agnew. And TBOOK, To The Best of Our Knowledge.
Weighing in as an artist who needs the left brain engaged so that the right brain can operate more freely. Before podcasts happened, it was public radio discussions.
I knit while st meetings or workshops or other informational rich events to enhance my metaprocessing of data, create connections between ideas, open my deep databank in my brain. Essential
The book about Theranos is also excellent, BAD BLOOD. Lots of familiar names from government, politics, venture capital were caught up in this.
Loved it!!
Thank you !!
Listened to it while on a train from Ottawa to Toronto and knitting !!!
Read that book earlier…..Just amazing all the deceive…thank-god…nobody was harm
I saw a 20/20 on her. The only 20/20 I’ve ever watched. It was good. It made me unable to watch the documentary on HBO, sadly? It’s an amazing story on so many levels.
Tho I think it’s interesting how when it’s a woman who pulls a scam there are all kinds of renditions of the story, unlike when most men do the same.