Jamie Loftus

Anyway, Sam Bankman Freed is one of these guys.

We're going to get into that.

But we did this episode on It Could Happen Here.

where he was kind of a tangential character in this very unsettling and insidious movement that is behind guys like Elon Musk who are claiming to be saving the world while just fucking over people.

And then like four days after it came out, his entire life unraveled and his fortune disappeared overnight because he was a giant con artist.

What a treat.

It's very funny.

So that's why we're talking about him right now.

Look, I shouldn't call anyone a schlub, but he looks like a schlub.

Yeah.

Anyway, so I yeah, Sam Bankman Freed was born in 1992 on the campus of Stanford University, continuing a long and proud tradition of absolutely nothing good ever coming from that hellhole.

His parents are both extremely prominent Stanford professors.

His mother, Barbara, is a lawyer who clerked for the Second Circuit Court and graduated from Harvard.

She founded Mind the Gap, a somewhat shady and mysterious democratic fundraising group.

I think it's shady in that people don't exactly know where all the money comes from or, like, what their goals are.

Yeah, yeah.

She also pinned an essay in 2013 that the right wing is going nuts about because she was basically arguing that, like,

It good and evil are less a factor in what people do than environmental factors and all that stuff.

Like when people do things that are bad, it's more often a product of their invite.

It was kind of a oh, God, what's that fucking psychoanalysis?