There’s Something About Martin | Part I | 29

Scamfluencers

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Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

With his uncanny gift for shorting stocks and predicting the market, Martin Shkreli becomes a finance wunderkind almost right out of college. He experiments with hedge funds and eventually starts his own Pharma company, raising millions of dollars from high-profile investors. But when his Twitter antics and social media trolling begin to raise red flags, Martin’s reputation tanks. And after he price-gouges a life-saving drug, he goes from finance bro to the most hated man in America.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Scamfluencer's fans.
0:02.0	Want to be the first to know how these wild scams unfold.
0:05.0	Join us on Patreon to get early access to episodes, add free listening, and exclusive content that reveals even more of the drama.
0:13.0	Just search for scamfluencers on Patreon and dive deeper into the scandal.
0:30.0	Aggie? scandal. Agi. Hey, baby. Okay, so who do you think is someone that everyone everywhere,
0:36.8	no matter what their political affiliation or moral alignment, can agree, sucks? I don't know.
0:38.9	This is a very random answer,
0:41.9	but I feel like everyone hates Amorosa.
0:43.5	She was on The Apprentice,
0:46.8	like a very early season of Donald Trump's old show.
0:48.4	I didn't come here to make friends.
0:49.8	I said that from day one.
0:52.2	And if you all stop being so freaking sensitive,
0:53.0	you know what?
0:54.1	What's about the thing? She was so ruthless. And then she kind of joined him when he started his political career. And then everyone hated her even more. Yeah. And then she bailed on him too. Yeah. And he hates her. And yeah. All right. that's a pretty good answer. I will say I was half
1:11.6	expecting you to say me or even us based on our Apple podcast reviews, some of which are
1:17.9	very rude. Yeah, I mean, I do think a lot of people can unite over disliking us. Don't forget
1:25.1	to leave us a review. Okay, well, anyway, I want to talk to you about one super rich, cartoonishly evil entrepreneur
1:32.7	who is so notoriously and unilaterally loath that I'm pretty sure he's actually the great
1:38.9	equalizer across the globe.
1:41.4	Yeah, that is a very powerful position to be in when everyone hates you.
1:46.9	Everyone loves a supervillain until they don't.
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