Martin Bell
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474 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 20 Aug
Martin Bell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Um
As the room goes dark.
And the opening credits roll.
I just imagine
And hope.
That a number of the Mongolian audience
We'll whisper to each other.
I thought he was white.
studio.
It's been an honor, man.
Thanks for having me.
oh gosh, I did debate for the same high school program. I covered the baseball team in college that you would eventually cover for the school newspaper. I did the Sports Illustrated internship, I think, that you would eventually do. you might have been sitting in this chair. I think about this all the time, honestly.
I really think that, like, I've tried to describe my relationship with you, and somebody once sort of furrowed their brow and said, "'Protege?' And I'm like, "'No.'" Sort of just like an alternate sliding doors type scenario. If I had your talent, which I don't, to be clear.
It's an interesting sort of thing where we had the same trajectory for a while, and then one of us went through with law school and the other one didn't.
Somebody's got to have the tough job of separating the innocent rooms full of baby oil cases from the more suspect ones. And that's where the good people of my old workplace fit in.
I remember pretty vividly. Just a few weeks earlier, I walked into work and the chief of the forfeiture unit was sitting in my chair, a woman named Sharon Cohen-Levin. She looked up at me and smiled. I was not expecting a visit from her. And she's somebody who, by that time, had already come to be known as the Babe Ruth of forfeiture.
So-called because I think at that point in her career, her unit was responsible for something like 95% of the forfeited assets in the federal system in the United States as measured by value. Billion-dollar judgments from banks, finance,
forfeiting stolen Nazi looted art worth millions and millions of dollars and doing things within the sort of art and craft of forfeiture that nobody else was doing. Sharon suggested that I give some thought to joining her unit. She knew I was into white collar stuff. She had already detected a little bit of whimsy in me.
And she said, we've got the beginnings of something that I think you may like. And so this is how that story begins, I guess. And that made the news the next day because it's not the sort of thing that happens all the time.
Good Lord. Look, I don't want to be gendered about this, but it's particularly true if you're a boy who grew up playing with plastic dinosaurs or who took, you know, the sort of field guide to dinosaurs out of the Brooklyn Public Library's central branch, as I did no fewer than 15 times as a kid.
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