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🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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0:00.0 | They have a pitch for a biopic, and it's sort of like the Michael Lewis thing, like Michael Lewis was trying to write a book about |
0:07.6 | Sam Bankman freed. I read it. You did you read it? Yeah, no |
0:15.2 | What's interesting about it is he's not interested at all in crypto right like he is baseball |
0:22.8 | Yeah, the stock market and |
0:25.4 | And he also is not interested in anyone but Sam Bankman begman freed |
0:32.2 | But he's interested in him in him in like it's like |
0:36.6 | Completely he's like infantalyzing him the entire time. He's like, but he's just a boy |
0:41.8 | Yeah, he didn't know what he's doing |
0:43.8 | Yeah, cuz that dude doesn't seem that compelling to me like everything I read |
0:47.0 | I don't care about this dude. Well to me it read like |
0:51.6 | Michael Lewis has just never met |
0:54.5 | An autistic millennial |
0:59.0 | Where it's like he'd say things like and yes, Sam Bankman freed he wasn't |
1:05.6 | In high school. I couldn't really find anyone he was friends with to talk to |
1:11.1 | But also everyone mentioned the fact that they didn't dislike him or like him |
1:16.7 | But he had a rolling backpack and it's like that is everyone knows that kid everyone |
1:22.2 | Who went to high school knows that that it's not interesting? |
1:28.1 | Now what was interesting the one thing that I liked in the book is |
1:34.5 | And I didn't realize I'd needed this my entire life is there are three pages |
1:39.9 | Where Michael Lewis has to explain to like a normal reading public |
1:45.5 | How magic the gathering works. Yeah, yeah, that is where the presentation is explaining the history of magic |
1:51.9 | The gathering how the game works because apparently that was very important to Sam Bankman free, but it's also weird like |
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