The New FTX Series - What's Wrong: Live with David Z. Morris

Um, but I was, I was excited about this one because, as you know, there, uh, has been a lot of writing about FTX.

And there were two different film projects that-- Oh, thank you for, uh, posting that link to my book.

Um, there are, there were two film projects that were film or TV projects that were, uh, commissioned around FTX.

Um, and one was the five million that Apple TV paid to Michael Lewis for his book, uh, "Going Infinite," which was written before Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal trial, um, and, and has some virtues.

Uh, I maybe I don't emphasize that enough.

There is some content in that book that's worth it.

Um, but broadly, unfortunately, it seems that Michael Lewis was basically conned by Sam Bankman-Fried as well and wrote a book that reflected his state of mind as the victim of a con, um, to a certain extent.

I don't wanna, I don't wanna be too harsh on Michael Lewis.

I mean, uh, it's a sad story.

But point being, Apple TV commissioned or paid $5 million for the rights to Michael Lewis's book, and then, uh, also for a while, Lena Dunham was attached to that project, which maybe that could have been good.

I like Lena Dunham.

I think she's a very talented, uh, writer, and I think that maybe she could have found, uh, something.

You know, it, it feels like the Netflix thing is maybe going a little bit for, like, awkward, um, flailing young people, and, you know, Lena Dunham writes that really well.

I don't think the match was there with the material.

I don't think you could have gotten, uh, an honest version of events out of Michael Lewis's book as source material.

So that's why I was excited for this Netflix project, which is based on a different set of reporting.

Um, I'm not exactly sure, but it's basically from New York Magazine reporting.

I don't know which precise stories or, or, or writers it was pegged to.

Um, but I have two, uh, my, you know, friends at, at New York Magazine.

One, Jen Vietz, who I used to work with at Fortune, uh, who's very talented and writes very cool crypto crime features for them, um, about every six months now.

Um, and she, she didn't write about FTX, but, um, just to say that I respect New York.

Um, and, uh, Kevin Duggan, D-U-G-G-A-N, his reporting on FTX and even on effective altruism afterwards-- Okay, now he's clawing me when I try and take him off my lap, so this is the stage where he gets locked out.

Sorry.

You hate to see it, but sometimes cats have to be kicked out.

So this New, this New York Magazine reporting, uh, by Kevin Duggan and others, I thought was quite good at the time.