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"The Dropout" Nails Y2K, From Angry Birds to Katy Perry's "Firework"
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"The Dropout" Episode 4: "Old White Men"

  • Music: "Firework" by Katy Perry plays in episode four of "The Dropout."
  • Technology: Someone plays Angry Birds, which came out in 2009, in the elevator.
  • Education: A commercial plays on the car radio for the Common Core, which was introduced in schools in 2010.
  • Politics: An elevator TV shows then-president Barack Obama speaking about the war in Afghanistan. Another scene depicts a meeting between Holmes and former US Secretary of State George Shultz, who would later become a Theranos board member.
  • Movies: The lead lab investigator for Walgreens asks a pharmacy executive if they'd finished the 2009 film "The Blind Side."
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