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🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, I'm journalist and presenter Ritala Shah. I want to let you know about an event |
0:05.1 | I'm hosting for Intelligent Squared on the 9th of October in London. I'll be talking |
0:10.0 | to Michael Lewis, the renowned author of best-selling books, including Moneyball, The Big Short, |
0:15.8 | Flash Boys and Liars Poca. We're going to be discussing his most anticipated work to |
0:21.4 | date, going infinite the rise and fall of a new tycoon. It's a gripping real-time narrative |
0:28.2 | telling the story of Sam Bankman Fried, who became the world's youngest billionaire |
0:33.2 | before his 30th birthday and was behind one of the most catastrophic financial meltdowns |
0:38.9 | of the 21st century. Lewis was granted unprecedented access to his subject, allowing him to |
0:45.0 | witness Bankman Fried's entire tumultuous journey. We'll learn all about this unconventional |
0:50.6 | figure who nonchalantly wore cargo shorts and played video games while giving interviews, |
0:56.5 | but remained a mystery even to his investors. What gave him such an outstanding ability to |
1:02.6 | make money and what led to the spectacular collapse of his empire? To hear the tale of |
1:08.4 | an extraordinary individual and a 21st century epic encompassing high frequency trading |
1:14.6 | insane amounts of money, hubris and downfall. Join us at 7pm on the 9th of October in London |
1:22.2 | or online, just visit IntelligentSquared.com to find out more. |
1:27.5 | The Climate Crisis is something many of us feel pretty anxious about, and it's already |
1:31.4 | hitting some of the world's poorest hardest. The practical action is a global development |
1:35.5 | charity, with 60 years of experience in tackling how to alleviate poverty for those on the |
1:39.9 | front line of turbulent change. People like Pauline from Kenya, dry out as killed nearly |
1:44.8 | all the animals that she and her husband have spent a lifetime looking after, and the |
1:48.6 | climate crisis doesn't just impact nature, it's decimated her income, her savings, |
1:53.9 | and is changing a wider community's way of life. But practical action believes that |
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