Tales From The Crypto: The Rise and Fall of FTX

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Transcribed - Published: 12 December 2023

Looking back on Sam Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall, Anthony Scaramucci walks us through what we can learn from his stumbles.

Transcribed - Published: 21 November 2023

The Mooch is in the front row as the legend of Sam Bankman-Fried comes crumbling down in a matter of days including spending the day in SBF’s Bahamas war room the day where FTX’s fate became clear.

Transcribed - Published: 14 November 2023

As crypto stumbles, SBF and his FTX step in as the savior of an industry. Amidst that glow, SBF and The Mooch partner with Sam Bankman-Fried purchasing a piece of Scaramucci’s firm. Now business partners, their first stop is the guided halls of the Middle East where The Mooch will help SBF raise more money for FTX.

Transcribed - Published: 7 November 2023

The Mooch explains what he saw in SBF - why he liked him and was excited to be in business with him. The halcyon days of the now infamous Crypto Bahamas conference - with guests like Bill Clinton and Katy Perry - give way to crypto’s bruising spring and summer with the fall of several high profile projects.

Transcribed - Published: 31 October 2023

Belly’s childhood demon,  French Montana brings an evil spirit home from Morocco and JaVale McGee described a mysterious stranger who broke into his bedroom and watched him sleep.

Transcribed - Published: 31 October 2023

The Mooch and SBF meet in person for the first time. A fast friendship will eventually lead to a partnership. Scaramucci liked and admired the young visionary.

Transcribed - Published: 24 October 2023

Bloodied but not defeated from his very public White House firing, Anthony Scaramucci dusts himself off and looks to bring his firm into what he sees as the future: cryptocurrency - it’s during this pivot that he’s introduced to wunderkind crypto founder Sam Bankman-Fried - aka “SBF”.

Transcribed - Published: 17 October 2023

Wall Street veteran turned crypto evangelist Anthony Scaramucci - aka “The Mooch” - runs us through his crypto origin story - his rise from blue collar Long Island to Wall Street and on to the White House.

Transcribed - Published: 10 October 2023

The Mooch ascends to Donald Trump's White House where a stint with the Import-Export Bank of the US exposes him to the future: cryptocurrencies before he is called into the game as the new White House Communications Director. Eleven days later, he’s fired.

Transcribed - Published: 10 October 2023

Anthony Scaramucci and Sam Bankman-Fried were the unlikeliest of business partners. “The Mooch” is a nearly sixty-year-old son of a Long Island crane operator who sprung from Harvard Law to fight his way up the ranks of traditional finance with an infamous eleven-day stint in the White House along the way. “SBF” is a newly-thirty-year-old son of two law professors raised on an elite campus who aimed to revolutionize all that people like the Mooch represented and he’d already become a multi-billionaire on the way. But partner they did – on a series of conferences and with SBF closing a deal that could have led to his owning the Mooch’s Skybridge Partners outright - but they became something more than that and before the story ends with SBF in handcuffs, their friendship would take them everywhere from the Bahamas to Riyadh – with  rumors of polycules, plentiful cups of noodles, and the Mooch toting a bag of suits he bought SBF out of instance that he could not meet the rules of Saudi Arabia in a worn out t-shirt and dirty white socks.

Transcribed - Published: 28 September 2023

Bill and Jack look over Jack's handwritten notes taken at the time of his month's long interview with Berkowitz.

Transcribed - Published: 5 September 2023

Bill and Jack examine letters Berkowitz and Jack exchanged after the interview concluded.

Transcribed - Published: 29 August 2023

Bill and Jack examine letters Berkowitz mailed Jack asking him to come to the prison and interview him in his official capacity as a reporter.

Transcribed - Published: 22 August 2023

Bill and Jack look over a collection of documents put together in order to pass the "Son of Sam Law", which Berkowitz asked Jack to get him a copy of.

Transcribed - Published: 15 August 2023

As David Berkowitz joins a short list of infamous killers, a movie is being made on his life, a movie, he fears, will encourage others to do what he did.

Transcribed - Published: 8 August 2023

David struggles with the way in which those close to him deal with the attention afforded them due to their association with him, namely his birth mother, Betty Falco.

Transcribed - Published: 1 August 2023

Adjusting to life in prison, David Berkowitz’s conscious weighs heavy as he looks for someone to tell his story to.

Transcribed - Published: 25 July 2023

Ahead of court proceedings, David Berkowitz tells a group of psychologists a very bizarre story about a 6,000 year old demon named “Sam” who ordered him to kill through a talking dog named “Harvey”.

Transcribed - Published: 18 July 2023

As a result of a string of near misses and circuitous events, David Berkowitz is arrested.

Transcribed - Published: 11 July 2023

As press coverage reaches a boiling point, David watches the funeral of one his victims on television, exposing a lifelong curiosity about death.

Transcribed - Published: 4 July 2023

David Berkowitz taunts police and press alike through a series of deranged letters dubbing himself, “The Son of Sam”.

Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2023

Not being arrested as quickly as he suspected, David Berkowitz decides he’s going to need a story.

Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2023

The duality of Berkowitz explored, David patrols New York City with homemade emergency rescue equipment hoping to be a hero, while at the same time, looking for a woman to kill.

Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2023

New York City press begins to put together the idea that the recent string of attacks terrorizing the city, may be connected, dubbing the assailant the “.44 Caliber Killer”.

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2023

After murdering a young woman named Donna Lauria, David Berkowitz second attempt to take a women’s life is “unsuccessful”, sending him into a tailspin.

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2023

On a trip to visit an old Army buddy in Texas, David Berkowitz sees the film that will change his life forever, picking up the gun featured in the film, the very next morning, the infamous .44 revolver.

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2023

As David’s destructive nature continues to turn outward, he looks for a killer to model himself after, and believing his has found one, embarks on his first attempt to murder a woman.

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2023

David Berkowitz launches an exuberant effort to locate his birth mother, the encounter with whom, does not go according to plan.

Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2023

Back in the Bronx following an honorable discharge from the Army, David Berkowitz shakily attempts to settle into civilian life when he finds out his birth mother, Betty Falco, is still very much alive.

Transcribed - Published: 2 May 2023

David Berkowitz joins the military, and picks up, along the way, the fundamental tenets of what, would eventually become the “Son of Sam Story”.

Transcribed - Published: 25 April 2023

A high school age David Berkowitz begins to attempt to navigate the world of dating.

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2023

Pearl Berkowitz, David Berkowitz’s adoptive mother, and the only person to whom he is close, receives a terminal cancer diagnosis just as David is about to enter high school.

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2023

David Berkowitz terrorizes his adoptive mother, Pearl Berkowitz, amidst a secretive, one boy attempt to burn down The Bronx in an arson spree that would become legendary.

Transcribed - Published: 4 April 2023

Investigative reporter Jack Jones is summoned to Attica Prison to conduct an interview by, and with, the world’s most infamous killer.

Transcribed - Published: 27 March 2023

As the interview begins, David divulges the interworking of his nuclear family, as well as the news of the adoption that will serve to derail his fragile psyche.

Transcribed - Published: 27 March 2023

KILLER TAPE is a biographical true crime podcast where killers, and hard core criminals, tell their own story, in their own words. In season one, David Berkowitz, AKA The Son of Sam, tells his own life story, from birth to arrest through an extensive audio archive recorded inside Attica Prison in March of 1980 by investigative reporter Jack Jones. This exclusive archive represents, not only the most extensive interview ever conducted with Berkowitz, but it is, also his first in depth interview following his arrest, and it is being released here, for the first time.

Transcribed - Published: 14 March 2023