Mark Baum
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Sep 15, 2026
Andrew FarisHOST
tired of being exploited.
Andrew FarisHOST
This is the Mark Baum speech in the big short at the end when he says the problem with fraud is that in the history of the world, it's never worked, basically.
Andrew FarisHOST
And what he means is eventually it gets found out.
Andrew FarisHOST
And
Andrew FarisHOST
going to get tired of being exploited.
Andrew FarisHOST
This is the Mark Baum speech in the big short at the end when he says, the problem with fraud is that in the history of the world, it's never worked, basically.
Andrew FarisHOST
And what he means is eventually it gets found out.
Andrew FarisHOST
And creators
Nick NiemannGUEST
So you're talking about growing up, you're kind of like reading that stuff.
Nick NiemannGUEST
And Steve Eisman via the character Mark Baum was particularly one.
Nick NiemannGUEST
All of them were And it's almost too cliche, right? And that's, I think, the problem.
Nick NiemannGUEST
It's the fact that some of these things are so similar on the rating side, for example, the lethargy side, the bad incentives that are so obvious that you... want to be like, guys, we're doing this again.
VinceHOST
So it's, it's kind of a catch 22 of uh ...
VinceHOST
You know, you see, you see, um, what's his name in The Big Short? Like Mark, Mark Baum at the very end when he's like, "All right," you know, "Sell my position." It's like dude, you just made like $3 billion.
JoelGUEST
Yeah.
VinceHOST
Like you're, you're the wealthiest you'll ever be.
Richard CoffinHOST
And it actually looks at the errors and the biases that we exhibit when we deal with money.
Richard CoffinHOST
Now, this scene comes right after Steve Carell's character, who's Mark Baum, right after he discovers that there's roughly 20 times more money insuring mortgages than there are actually mortgages.
Richard CoffinHOST
And we'll explain that more in a second.
Richard CoffinHOST
Interesting fact though, Mark Baum is not the real name of the person that character is based off.
Richard CoffinHOST
His real name is Steve Eisman.
Richard CoffinHOST
I don't know why they changed the name.
Isaac PoundHOST
Yeah
Ed ZitronGUEST
... why not? Why, why go so low? So let's talk to Steve Eisman, who's, uh, the bloke, the bloke who played, uh, Mark Baum.
Ed ZitronGUEST
So Mark Baum, Steve Carell's character in "The Big Short," that bloke who's...
Ed ZitronGUEST
That's who it's based on.
Ed ZitronGUEST
And he was saying that it's the middle point between the entire US economy and SpaceX's $28 bill- uh, trillion TAM.
David LinHOST
Steve was made famous by Michael Lewis's book, The Big Short, and subsequently the Hollywood blockbuster of the same name, where Steve Carell played Steve Eisman's character.
David LinHOST
In the book and in the movie they changed the name to Mark Baum.
David LinHOST
You'll recall that Mark Baum, or Steve Eisman, ran FrontPoint Partners back during the financial crisis.
David LinHOST
They were on the right side of the subprime mortgage crisis.
David LinHOST
FrontPoint Partners' position doubled from $700 million to $1.5 billion from being right during the fin- financial crisis of 2008.
David LinHOST
Thanks for being here.
Steve EismanGUEST
Thank you for having me.
David LinHOST
I know you've been asked this a million times, but, uh, it's your first time here, and before we talk about markets, I have to ask you, when, um, the, the movie The Big Short, the Hollywood blockbuster, was based on the book, they named, they changed the name to Mark Baum, but it was really your character, uh, was in there.