Anthony Scaramucci Jr. to Serve His ‘Protégé’, Fallen Bitcoin King Sam Bankman-Fried on Audio Up’s ‘Tales From The Crypto’ Podcast Series
EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood set its sights on the wild story of fallen crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX empire last year with the likes of Apple, Amazon and Vice all getting in on the action.
Now Bankman-Fried’s mentor, Anthony Scaramucci Jr, the investment banker best known as President Donald Trump’s short-lived press secretary, will open up about his experiences with SBF in a new podcast series.
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Audio Up, the company behind Stephen King’s Strawberry spring and The Playboy Interviewslaunches podcast series Tales from Crypto.
The six-episode series will explore Scaramucci’s work with SBF and FTX before transitioning into a twice-weekly podcast series on the world of crypto.
The story will explain how, just a few months ago, Bankman-Fried and Scaramucci were on top of the world, trekking through the Middle East on a grand fundraising tour after SBF bought 30% of Scaramucci’s Skybridge Capital.
The plan was for SBF to raise $2B at a $32B valuation for FTX to buy distressed crypto assets to stabilize the sector with the help of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.
However, it all turned out to be a lie and three weeks after their trip the company would implode in spectacular fashion with SBF charged with eight criminal counts of fraud and money laundering for defrauding some 90 US investors out of more than 1.1 billion dollar cryptocurrency platform.
The series will explore how SBF, an MIT mathematician who originally made money through hedge fund Jane Capital, got into crypto and ended up hanging out with the likes of President Bill Clinton Gisele Bündchen, despite dressing like a teenager.
Scaramucci, otherwise known as The Mooch, tried to salvage his reputation after the mockery of the Trump years and the disgrace of the 11 days he spent as Donald Trump’s press secretary. The Mooch spent time in the Bahamas, where he courted SBF at its lavish $40 million headquarters, where the founder lived with his girlfriend and ten roommates sinning a so-called “Chinese harem” that included all-night amphetamine-fueled orgies.
The series will explore the high points as SBF rode a wave of public adoration and political power before crashing and burning with the company forced into bankruptcy.
Scaramucci will serve as the unreliable narrator and story motif.
After the release of the limited series, Tales from Crypto will swing to an always-on, twice-weekly format with Mooch as host. The series will then focus on the world of crypto, fintech, blockchain and other complicated financial concepts, but explained to everyone.
Launching April 1, the podcast joins a long list of SBF and FTX projects, including Apple’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’ upcoming book on the subject, Joe and Anthony Russo’s series with David Weil for Amazon.
“I was as shocked as anybody,” Scaramucci said. “Find out what happened and how you can prevent this from happening to you.”
“This is jaw-dropping, head-slapping audio entertainment at its best,” added Jimmy Jellinek, Audio Up’s Chief Creative Officer. “The Mooch is a born storyteller with a suitcase full of secrets that have never been opened. You have no idea what’s coming.”
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