Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-12-07
Books mentioned on Part Two: The Last Sam Bankman-Fried Episodes (secretly about Michael Lewis)
Robert and Jamie conclude the thrilling tale of Sam Bankman-Fried and his biographer, Michael Lewis. See omnystudio.
Robert Evans recommended Number Go Up by Zeke Faux, and discussed The big short by Michael Lewis and Going Infinite by Michael Lewis. Jamie Loftus discussed The Blind Side by Michael Lewis.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The big short
The Big Short by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction book examining the accumulation of risk and the bursting of the housing bubble that led to the 2008 financial crisis.
Discussed“How How are you feeling on our technically not a Behind the Bastards on Michael Lewis, but basically a Behind the Bastards on Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short?”
Where to get it
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The Blind Side
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction narrative exploring the evolution of football strategy and the remarkable life of Michael Oher, which later became a blockbuster film.
Discussed“So, in the in the intervening days, I've talked about the Michael Lewis of it all with a couple different people just to see if I was like if if if I had just missed something, but every single person I talked to, I found had a similar experience to me where they did not know that he wrote The”
Where to get it
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Going Infinite
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction book that chronicles the meteoric rise and subsequent dramatic collapse of cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried and his company, FTX.
Discussed“and in fact and this is why that's weird the actual villain of his book going infinite the one person that Lewis is super critical of and like a really uncharitable way is the CEO brought in to take over the FTX after Sam like leaves and declares bankruptcy a guy named John Ray the third.”
Where to get it
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Number Go Up
Zeke Faux's Number Go Up is an investigative non-fiction book that chronicles the chaotic, fraudulent underbelly of the cryptocurrency boom and meme-stock mania.
Recommended“If you do want to get something valuable and a a deeper understanding about like how grifty this whole was and also how grifty Sam was, there's a book called Number Go Up by Zeke Faux, Zeke Faux, um really good book, Number Go Up, which I do recommend to people curious for the dark side of crypto.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Well, cuz yeah, they were like, yeah, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, The Big Short.”
“You butt chugging the contents of Infinite Jest was a Parthenon-level work of art.”
“Buy a copy of Raw Dog. It's my book about hot dogs. And if you don't like hot dogs, the title's funny and I think that's, you know, about 60% of the purchases I've gotten have been off that alone.”