Sam Bankman-Fried
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105 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Sam Bankman-Fried’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I know I just poured them in. Yeah. Yeah. I don't actually eat them. I mostly rice and beans and ramen.
I have not. I know some people who have, but I have not gotten any prison tattoos. Okay. Have you thought about it? So, you know, there's a part of me that's always, like, thought about getting a tattoo. But talking with the inmates about their, you know, sanitization procedures or lack thereof for the needles, sort of, you know, that cured that idea in my mind. No interest anymore.
It's not worth the hep C. It's not worth the hep C. It's, you know, I would say, like, maybe they go through, like, four people or so before bothering to sanitize. A needle.
Yeah.
Right when the collapse hit, like in the immediate wake of it, I got a number of really nice messages from a lot of people, including some in D.C. By six months later, none. And so by the time trial happened, where I was put in prison, nothing. And it became too politically toxic. It became the incentives were too skewed against people, you know, risking their necks. I even heard, frankly, about
people saying third hand, like nice things about me, but no one wanted to be in contact with me directly.
Yes, but very, very few. I was surprised. It makes sense in retrospect. Yeah. anyone who was close to me ended up with a gun to their head, you know, being told that they had two options, and one of them involved decades in prison. And, I mean, I think Ryan Salem is sort of
the saddest example of that and the most disgusting example from the government's perspective where you know they charged him of totally bogus crimes um he he said no i'll see you in court this so they went back and said all right well how about your pregnant wife um what if we put her in prison
And so he pleads guilty because they're his wife in prison, which no sane legal system would make that a permissible thing for a prosecution to do. And then he wasn't even charged with most of what the other people who pled guilty were charged with. You know, Ryan, he doesn't testify at trial because he doesn't want to lie. He doesn't want to say what the government wants him to say.
And he ends up getting four times as much prison time as the other three guilty pleas combined. And, like, he couldn't send a clear message. Is it because he was a Republican or is it because he refused to power the government's lies at trial? Like, those are the only things I can imagine why they give him seven and a half years in prison.
Totally. They went back on their promise and charged his wife anyway, like, you know, just just to sort of disabuse any notion of them sort of like operating in good faith. It's it's disgusting. He's he's a good guy. I, you know, he didn't serve any of that.
Yeah. Yeah. I feel it pretty acutely. And it's, you know, the sort of feeling of the world moving on without you.
No, different people in the community have different views on it. And at the end of the day, I mean, for five years, I felt like I had about 300 children most days, my employees. Like it was, obviously I couldn't be a father in the same way to all of them, but I felt responsible for them. I mean, feel terrible about all their work being tossed down the drain.
But I didn't have time for my personal life at all, basically, when I was running FTX. And I mean, I certainly am not in a position to have kids from in-person, so.
No. I think the answer is no to that. You know, there's one or two.
You know, it's got me thinking about what it means to have real friends. And about the amount of... How are that some systems in our country end up having and the amount of intimidation that can be achieved implicitly, but also about having people I know I can count on.
I will absolutely do that. I can't believe you're in jail with Diddy. You know, someone told me three years ago, like, you'll be hanging out with Diddy, you know, every day. Be like, oh, that's interesting. I wonder how that's going to happen. I guess he gets into crypto or something.
Thank you.
It's really cool. I mean, just seeing everything from the courtside logo and the logos ever, the flames coming out, being right next to the players, it's really exciting.
I mean, it's unbelievably cool and exciting. Just the enthusiasm and support that we've gotten from the team, from the club, from the fans and from the city here has been has just been great. And we're really excited to work with him.
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