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Hey Q Crew! We have been waiting for years!  So of course we had to record a quick reaction to the Elizabeth Holmes sentencing. Plus, we should have seen it coming but didn't...she had one more surprise for us, of course! Enjoy! Love your faces, Lara Social Media Links: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LaraMackPodcasts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QasinCucumber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qaic_lara/?hl=en       https://www.instagram.com/qaic_tanya/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/qaic_lara  https://twitter.com/qaic_tanya Podbean: https://qasincucumber.podbean.com/ Links from the episode: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/elizabeth-holmes-sentencing-theranos-trial   Theranos Part 1 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-q8s49-b987da Theranos Part 2 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-2nics-ba77f3 Theranos Part 3 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-dzpt4-bbd87f Updates https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-vg6gd-ff1067 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-247ei-104edbc https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ghjpb-1088877 https://www.pod

Hey Q Crew! We finally got together to chat about Sunny Balwani’s conviction and what happens next! Don’t forget to like and subscribe and all that jazz on iTunes or your favorite podcasting platform! Enjoy! Love your faces, Lara Social Media Links: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LaraMackPodcasts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QasinCucumber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qaic_lara/?hl=en       https://www.instagram.com/qaic_tanya/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/qaic_lara  https://twitter.com/qaic_tanya Podbean: https://qasincucumber.podbean.com/ Links from the episode: https://abcnews.go.com/US/theranos-trials-led-outcomes-elizabeth-holmes-sunny-balwani/story?id=86442467   Theranos Part 1 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-q8s49-b987da Theranos Part 2 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-2nics-ba77f3 Theranos Part 3 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-dzpt4-bbd87f Updates https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-vg6gd-ff1067 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-247ei-104edbc https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ghjpb-1088877 https://

Hey Q Crew! Sorry We’ve been AWOL for so long! We are plotting a return, but Tanya and I just HAD to record our recap of the January 6th House Committee hearings SO FAR. I am managing to get this out minutes before the primetime finale on 7/21. We will have another episode to recap that so stay tuned! I didn’t do much cleaning up on this. I just let us rant. If you are a MAGA supporter that happens to listen to our show, this episode is not for you. Hopefully we will see you back for our normal episodes. WARNING: We can’t help but curse even more than normal. Since we are talking about the attempted illegal overthrow of our government, it seems justified. Enjoy! Links referenced in episode: Who is Cassidy Hutchinson? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/10/us/politics/cassidy-hutchinson-jan-6-testimony.html   Social Media Links: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LaraMackPodcasts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QasinCucumber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qaic_lara/?hl=en       https://www.instagram.com/q

Hey Q Crew! This week we conclude our deep dive into the company called “Worse Than Theranos” by New York Magazine. Insys Therapeutics. Our main sources are the fabulous book by Evan Hughes called “The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup” and The New York Magazine article linked below. In this final episode we cover the “whales” that double, triple, and quadruple dipped in this whole scheme, the downfall of the company, and the arrogance of its leadership. Links referenced in this episode: New York Magazine: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/worse-than-theranos.html Theranos Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx_q6cCrV0AEdl3IQuybQafKU2WIwwNql Enron Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx_q6cCrV0AEhGk-GqyMytEcwNpFHQ6_k Money & Murder w/ Lara Mack-Downfall: The Case Against Boeing: https://youtu.be/_bt2vs3tmfI Keep sending you stories, deep dive topics, and questions to qasincucumber@yahoo.com. Don’t forget to like and subscribe and all that jazz on iTunes or your fa

Hey Q Crew! This week we continue with our deep dive into the company called “Worse Than Theranos” by New York Magazine. Insys Therapeutics. Our main sources are the fabulous book by Evan Hughes called “The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup” and The New York Magazine article linked below. In this second episode we cover how the 4 Horseman finally come together and begin their criminal journey. They launched Subsys into the market and created addicts by bribing doctors and scamming insurance companies. Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss the conclusion! Links referenced in this episode: New York Magazine: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/worse-than-theranos.html Theranos Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx_q6cCrV0AEdl3IQuybQafKU2WIwwNql Money & Murder w/ Lara Mack-Downfall: The Case Against Boeing: https://youtu.be/_bt2vs3tmfI Keep sending you stories, deep dive topics, and questions to qasincucumber@yahoo.com. Don’t forget to like and subscribe and all that jazz

Hey Q Crew! This week we start our deep dive into the company called “Worse Than Theranos” by New York Magazine. Insys Therapeutics. Our main sources are the fabulous book by Evan Hughes called “The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup” and The New York Magazine article linked below. In this first episode we cover a little history of the drug at the center of all this- Subsys. Which is an under the tongue fentanyl spray designed for “break through cancer pain”. However, it was mostly used by pain management doctors who were bribed by Insys to push it to their patients and turn them into addicts. We close out by getting to know the main players: John Kapoor, Michael Babich, Matthew Napoletano, and Alec Burlakoff. The 4 Horseman of the Apocalypse. Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss parts 2 and 3! Links referenced in this episode: New York Magazine: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/worse-than-theranos.html Theranos Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx_q6cCrV0AEdl3IQuybQafK

Hey Q Crew! Tanya’s back! This week we are joined by Jessica James from our sister show, The Parent Memoirs, to make us a throuple! First, we catch up on what Tanya has been up to. Then we chat about a bunch of shows we have been obsessing over. We chat Doctor Death, Joe vs Carole, Pam and Tommy, Inventing Anna, and The Dropout. Finally, before we get into or deep dive that will be coming out over the next few weeks, we discuss a listener email about a woman who mistook a pet store as a butcher shop. Buckle up! Links referenced in this episode: Theranos Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx_q6cCrV0AEdl3IQuybQafKU2WIwwNql Money & Murder w/ Lara Mack-Downfall: The Case Against Boeing: https://youtu.be/_bt2vs3tmfI Keep sending you stories, deep dive topics, and questions to qasincucumber@yahoo.com. Don’t forget to like and subscribe and all that jazz on iTunes or your favorite podcasting platform! Enjoy! Love your faces, Lara Social Media Links: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LaraMac

Hey Q Crew! Tanya is still off on her new adventure, so the delightful Ms. Jessica James stepped in this week! We chat about my first YouTube video…with my face and everything. It’s about the Boeing Max 737 crashes from 2018 & 2019 and the documentary Downfall: The Case Against Boeing. I linked down below if you haven’t checked it out yet. We also chat about Elizabeth Holmes and her sentencing schedule along with the documentary series Dr Death on Peacock. Finally, we start catching up on emails from y’all! Thanks for patiently waiting during the Elizabeth Holmes / Theranos trial!  We have stories on stupid customer confessions, customers who just want to be angry, warning label confusion and more! https://youtu.be/_bt2vs3tmfI   I refer to our Theranos coverage in this video, so if anyone has not checked those out, the playlist is here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx_q6cCrV0AEdl3IQuybQafKU2WIwwNql My Social Media Links: https://qasincucumber.podbean.com/ https://www.facebook.com/QasinCucumber

Hey Q Crew! Tanya is still off on her new adventure! In the meantime, I’m trying new things, and I made my first Youtube video. I didn’t want to leave our podcast peeps hangin’ so here is the audio version! If you want to check out the video on Youtube the link is below: https://youtu.be/_bt2vs3tmfI This is another episode in my Money & Murder series. I deep dive on the Netflix documentary, Downfall: The Case Against Boeing, that covers the 737 Max plane crashes from 2018 and 2019. I refer to our Theranos coverage in this video, so if anyone has not checked those out, the playlist is here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx_q6cCrV0AEdl3IQuybQafKU2WIwwNql I also have the playlist linked below to the queen that is Emily D Baker and her coverage on what happened to the settlement money and that ongoing saga. @EmilyDBaker Erika Jayen & Tom Girardi playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsbUyvZas7gIvaPnEfilr35PrLPfq01qz My Social Media Links: https://qasincucumber.podbean.com/ https://www.f

Hey Q Crew! Tanya is currently busy with a big new life change! It’s a good thing, I swear, but I want to let her share the details. So, since she’s going to be busy for a little bit I have decided to move forward with an idea I have been kicking around for a while and put out a few solo episodes. Like many people, I am true crime OBSESSED. And I come across stories while looking for deep dive topics that don’t quite fit into our Q as in Cucumber lane. So while Tanya is out I am going to share those stories that I find super fascinating. Stories about people who make the worst choices in the name of greed. Hence, this is the first episode of Money & Murder w/ Lara Mack! If you guys like this series, please make sure to like comment share etc! But if this is not what you guys are into, feel free to let me know! On this first episode we dive headfirst into the tale of the 2009 Novack Murders. Ben Novack Jr and his mother Bernice were murdered just a few months apart-though one was written off as an acci

Hey Q Crew! Well…. here we are. FINALLY. We have a verdict in the Elizabeth Holmes / Theranos trial! It has been a long road and the results are the epitome of a mixed bag. We do not feel as satisfied as we would have liked, but considering we thought she was going to get off completely, we are satisfied enough…I guess. If you need to get caught up, we have the links to the individual episodes further below. However, here is the link to our playlist of all those episodes on YouTube! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx_q6cCrV0AEdl3IQuybQafKU2WIwwNql We discuss the charges, the verdicts for each, why we are ticked off, and what happens next…Good lord there is still at least one more trial to go. Ugh. Special thanks to all who have been on this journey with us! We started covering this shortly before Tanya was diagnosed with breast cancer. So, as time went on, this story repeatedly hit a nerve harder and harder for us. All the people who have kept up with the every detail, even when we couldn’t, and sent

See? I told you! Chickens!... Hey Q Crew and Parent Peeps! Welcome to another very special ménage a trois episode of Q as in Cucumber and The Parent Memoirs! Jess, Tanya, and I celebrate the holidays by discussing the fame whoring strangeness of Tiger King 2 and lose our minds a little with a dive into Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story…buckle up for Ferret Forest. It's a crazy ride! We will be back in the 2022 with more of our nonsense! So Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!   Love your faces! Keep sending you stories, deep dive topics, and questions to theparentmemoirs@yahoo.com. Don’t forget to like and subscribe and all that jazz on iTunes or your favorite podcasting platform! Also follow us on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/theparentmemoirs   Keep sending you stories, deep dive topics, and questions to qasincucumber@yahoo.com. Don’t forget to like and subscribe and all that jazz on iTunes or your favorite podcasting platform! Also follow us on our Facebook page https://

Hey Q Crew! Welcome to another (partial) Ménage à Trois with Ms. Jessica James joining us about half way through. We break down the testimony and cross examination of Elizabeth Holmes and what is expected to be next in the never ending trial. We also begin our coverage of Better.com and it’s CEO Vishal Garg firing 900 people via Zoom. Some of our listeners were part of his “unlucky group” to get chewed up and spit out by this raggedy company right before the holidays. They have been emailing us since it happened. We will go into more details on that later. However, for now, I guess you could say we are starting to roast his chestnuts on an open fire! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Next week we will have our Tiger King 2 and Doc Antle review and then we will talk to you guys after the new year! Love your faces! Lara Check out our Theranos series and some of our Theranos update episodes! Theranos Part 1 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-q8s49-b987da Theranos Part 2 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-2nics-

Hey Q Crew! Drumroll please….WE HAVE A GRANDBABY! Baby AJ is here! But because we know y’all want us to get to the Elizabeth Holmes of it all I have put timestamps below of our different topics, although I’m not fancy enough to know how to make it so you click on the time and it takes you to that spot. So, if that doesn’t work, my bad. I didn’t go to Stanford. I put the convo on Baby AJ at the end (even though we had that first). We also chat about our newest trash obsession, Netflix show Selling Sunset, Sharon’s Pumpkin pie roast, Sophia’s new car, and of course…Elizabeth Holmes, who I now will call the Christine Quinn of Silicon Valley. TRIGGER WARNING: I CANNOT stress enough…when we are talking about Elizabeth Holmes’ allegations of abuse against Sunny Balwani, I want to make it 1000000% clear that we are talking about HER. If you are a survivor of any kind of abuse, we are NOT talking about you. We are survivors and we have talked about that openly over the years. I hope we do not hurt anyone with this

Hey Q Crew! Well we are back after our little Lularoe Vacay. Unfortunately, we have no grandbaby yet☹ But, the good news is that means we could get together and do some shit talking. First we congratulate Brit on being FREE!!! Then we respond to the meltdown of Dave Hollis and Hollisville. Finally we get into the last few weeks of Elizabeth Holmes / Theranos trial and the last few episodes of Bad Blood The Final Chapter.   Links we covered in this episode: Brit celebration! https://youtu.be/hFGI2jyTEc0   Rachel and Dave Buzz Feed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/rachel-hollis-dave-hollis-instagram-rant Stephanie McNeal https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/26/22747918/theranos-devos-due-diligence-fraud-trial by Nicole Wetsman   Bad Blood The Final Chapter https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-blood-the-final-chapter/id1575738174   Check out our Theranos series and some of our Theranos update episodes! Theranos Part 1 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-q8s49-b987da Theranos

Hey Q Crew! This week we have a special deep dive that will be on both of our shows-Q as in Cucumber and The Parent Memoirs. We examine they Lularoe documentary on Amazon Prime, called Lularich. In our first episode we cover the origin stories of Lularoe and it’s founders. We also touched on the slow progression of the company that morphed into a cult. Part 2 coming next week so buckle up! Keep sending you stories, deep dive topics, and questions to qasincucumber@yahoo.com. Don’t forget to like and subscribe and all that jazz on iTunes or your favorite podcasting platform! Also follow us on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/QasinCucumber Enjoy! Love your faces, Lara Thank you to the amazing DVS NME for the use of his music in our intro and outro! Check him out here! https://dvsnme.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/dvsnme #lularoe #lularich #markanddeanne #comedy #comedypodcast

Hey Q Crew! Tanya is off this week so the lovely Miss Jessica James stepped in! We just do a super quick breakdown of this week in the trial. Don’t worry. I will cover all this with Tanya because I know y’all come for her reactions and not my story telling

Hey Q Crew! Right off the top we had some audio quality challenges this week. We had a new set up with the fabulous Miss Jessica James joining us for some shenanigans and tomfoolery! We were just going to do a deep dive only, but the stuff in the Elizabeth Holmes / Theranos trial started poppin’ off a little and we just could wait. So we catch up on what happened this last week with the invisible lab director, petty actions against journalists, and the existence of an “innovation fee” perplexes us! Then Tanya slipped with some information on her personal life and Jess and I flipped out! Next week will be a deep dive and then we will get back to the Lizzie Caper. We are on baby watch for Tanya’s grandbaby Amaru who should be here any day now! So we might be a little delayed coming back. Ill keep you guys updated on our Facebook page with what’s going on! Love your faces! Lara Links we covered in this episode: New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/technology/elizabeth-holmes-trial-theranos-t

Hey Q Crew! This week we kick things off with the telling of the “Barnes and Noble Incident” story. Then we dive into week 5 of the Elizabeth Holmes trial (and go back a little bit to cover some things that we missed from earlier in the trial). We discuss the fraudulent Pfizer endorsement, more texts between Sunny and Elizabeth, the brutal cross examination of Rosendorff (the head of the lab below Sunny), and Buddhist juror #4 who got excused. Links we covered in this episode: https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-trial-judge-rebukes-theranos-founder-defense-2021-10 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/theranos-missed-deadlines-without-explanation-safeway-ceo-tells-jury/ https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2021/09/23/elizabeth-holmes-trial-nurse-practitioner-describes-alarming-inaccurate-theranos-test-results Check out our Theranos series and some of our Theranos update episodes! Theranos Part 1 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-q8s49-b987da Theranos Part 2 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-2