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Speaker 1: Wondering.

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Speaker 2: Meet Sam. Sam is thirty years old.

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Speaker 3: He typically wore T shirts and shorts and samples.

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Speaker 2: He likes to play computer games.

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Speaker 4: He is commanding this army of fairies and elves in

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Speaker 4: this online game.

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Speaker 2: He talks a lot about doing good and helping people.

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Speaker 5: There really was this idea that he was going to

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Speaker 5: change the world.

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Speaker 2: Sam may not act the part, but he's a billionaire.

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Speaker 3: Say for Mark Zuckerberg.

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Speaker 2: No one in history has ever gotten so rich so young.

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Speaker 2: But on December twelfth, twenty twenty two, everything changes for

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Speaker 2: Sam and what he calls a screw up.

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Speaker 3: The US government calls one of the largest frauds in history.

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Speaker 2: They had lost a very significant amount of money. Lots

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Speaker 2: of people were hurt badly, which left everyone wondering who

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Speaker 2: is Sam Bankman freed from Bloomberg and wondering the makers

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Speaker 2: of the shrank next Door comes a new series, Spellcaster,

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Speaker 2: The Fall of Sam Bankman Freed a story of incredible wealth.

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Speaker 2: There was a sense of awe when he walked in.

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Speaker 2: It was like a celebrity betrayal.

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Speaker 1: He would flip a switch with regards to a given person,

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Speaker 1: he would delete them from his reality.

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Speaker 2: And what happens when that talk of doing good goes

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Speaker 2: really really bad.

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Speaker 5: It was basically just everyone racing out the door of

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Speaker 5: the burning building for the same exit. Right, you realize

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Speaker 5: that it was just a big smoking crater.

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Speaker 2: Of a company. So that's when I started saying, don't

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Speaker 2: trust Sam Bankman Freed.

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Speaker 3: I'm Hannah Miller, a reporter for Bloomberg. Follow Spellcaster The

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Speaker 3: Fall of Sam Bankman Freed on Amazon Music or wherever

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Speaker 3: you get your podcasts. You can start listening to Spellcaster

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Speaker 3: early and add free by subscribing to Wondery Plus an

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Speaker 3: Apple Podcasts or the Wondery App. I asked him what

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Speaker 3: I should ask Sam, and he was just like us,

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Speaker 3: where my money is