Big Technology Podcast
00:55:09 · Alex Kantrowitz, Ranjan Roy
[00:55:09] S0: Oh, that's true. Okay, you got me. You got me there. Do you want to spend a couple minutes on you can see everything? [00:55:17] S1: I haven't seen it yet. I have not seen it yet, and I really wanna see it. I was like, I read... How do you say John Carreyrou? [00:55:27] S0: John Kerry. [00:55:27] S1: The book, Bad Blood? [00:55:29] S0: Yep. [00:55:29] S1: Carreyrou? Yes. Incredible. I was definitely a bit obsessed with the idea of Sunny Balwani back in the day and the whole Theranos story. [00:55:37] S0: I agree. Why Sunny Balwani? [00:55:39] S1: I... He was the most fascinating character in the entire story to me just because, like, he was mysterious. There's almost nothing on the Internet about him even though he was a cofounder of the company. And I don't know, just their relationship, it was just so weird and odd. So I I still am... I think Sunny Sunny... The evil of Sunny is not commonly recognized. Is he in the movie? [00:56:07] S0: He's not in the movie. I I won't do any spoilers. [00:56:09] S1: Alright. [00:56:10] S0: But We I... It's know It's a crazy one. I have to say it is a crazy one. I enjoyed it very much. [00:56:17] S1: Is... Okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna challenge you explain what makes it so good without spoiling. Go.
00:56:17 · Ranjan Roy, Alex Kantrowitz
[00:56:17] S1: Is... Okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna challenge you explain what makes it so good without spoiling. Go. [00:56:25] S0: Well, if you have watched anything from Nathan Fielder, you just know that the guy's mind works differently. And part of it is him and them trying to figure out why they brought him in in specific. Then, of course, he takes it on Nathan Fielder style divergences from the main story. I don't know. Just really... I quite enjoyed it. I'll say this: It's the least absurd of anything Nathan Fielder has ever made. [00:56:55] S1: It's crazy. That's, like, what makes [00:56:57] S0: it truly [00:57:01] S1: different or why everyone's reacting so strongly in some Also, like, way that [00:57:05] S0: Yeah. Well, another thing is that Elizabeth Holmes is this... She is... This... I'll try... Really, it's hard for me to say much more than this without spoiling it. But she is, by her own doing or by society's and probably a little bit both, a media creation, right? And how often do you get to see someone who is a media caricature effectively, basically, with given complete access to cameras, even with the weird [00:57:35] S1: Alright. I gotta I gotta... I have not been able to [00:57:38] S0: That's interesting to me. [00:57:39] S1: Convince my wife and Amazon obsessed seven year old son to go watch Nathan Fielder yet, but [00:57:47] S0: I know you texted me big techno... We should do a big technology private showing of the movie. We really should have. That's that's my... That's on me.
00:57:47 · Alex Kantrowitz, Ranjan Roy
[00:57:47] S0: I know you texted me big techno... We should do a big technology private showing of the movie. We really should have. That's that's my... That's on me. [00:57:54] S1: Well, actually, that's what I heard that there's, like, VCs out there doing kinda like private portfolio company showings, which I don't know how I feel about that anyways. That's kinda weird in that there are no context, but... [00:58:09] S0: I would feel good about it. Those are fun. Yeah. I don't know if you ever been to one of those, but I've been to one. I enjoyed it very much. [00:58:16] S1: So Okay. Okay. [00:58:19] S0: Alright, man. Well, I know I... You know, though, I plan to take it easy tomorrow, I now have an idea for my Halloween costume. And for those of you who are thinking that I'm gonna be part of this Elizabeth Holmes Nathan Fielder costume thing, no. I'm not. I'm gonna be the golden egg. So if you see a golden egg when it past you in New York on on the first, just say hi and be like, listen to the show. [00:58:45] S1: I love it. The first Guinness Book of World Records, first golden egg to ever complete a marathon. I... [00:58:53] S0: But you know what? There is... Sorry. I don't really wanna go go... Belabor this, and I know you need to go. But there is a saying, you don't kill the goose. [00:59:02] S1: That lays the golden eggs. Let's end there. Let's end there. Let's end
00:59:02 · Ranjan Roy, Alex Kantrowitz
[00:59:02] S1: That lays the golden eggs. Let's end there. Let's end there. Let's end [00:59:08] S0: Great to see you, Ranjan. Thanks everybody for listening. We'll have Tristan Harris on the show on Wednesday to talk about AIRisk. Thank you, Ranjan. Thanks to all of you. We'll see you next time on Big Technology Podcast.