Billionaire Boys Club | Boy Genius | 1
Death of a Starlet
Wondery
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
It’s the 1980s-- the “decade of greed”. Capitalism is king, and young upwardly mobile professionals are on the rise. In Los Angeles a small group of college grads band together to form an elite investment group called The Billionaire Boys Club. They have a simple mission, get to the top no matter what it takes. Their leader, Joe Hunt, is a master of mind games who will stop at nothing on the road to success. But when one of their clients vanishes, Joe and the boys need to scramble to cover their tracks.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the first episode of Billionaire Boys Club. |
| 0:04.0 | To continue the journey, you can binge episodes 2 through 7 exclusively with Wondery Plus. |
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| 0:14.1 | A quick warning. This series contains adult language and content. It's a warm evening in Los Angeles on June 6, 1984. |
| 0:30.3 | The tall windows in Ron Levin's impressive Beverly Hills duplex are wide open, |
| 0:35.0 | welcoming any breeze Los Angeles has to offer on this balmy summer night. |
| 0:40.0 | It's around 7 PM when the doorbell rings. |
| 0:44.5 | Levin clocks the time. |
| 0:46.2 | The kids early, he thinks. |
| 0:48.2 | But then again, Joe was never one to follow directions. |
| 0:52.1 | As Levin crosses his sunken living room, he |
| 0:55.5 | readies himself. He should be the hospitable host when he greets Joe at the door. |
| 1:02.1 | Ron Levin is used to stalling angry business associates. |
| 1:06.0 | But Joe is relentless. |
| 1:09.0 | Joe reminds Levin of a young version of himself, confident, arrogant, able to talk anyone into anything. |
| 1:18.5 | But lately, Joe's been a pain in the ass. He hasn't stopped phoning and coming over |
| 1:24.8 | unannounced since Levin told him he made $10 million off a bogus trading account. |
| 1:30.1 | But Levin's aware that Joe is skeptical about whether the money ever existed at all. |
| 1:36.0 | Smart kid. He can smell a liar. Of course he can. He's a liar too. Now Joe's at his door. |
| 1:49.0 | You're early. |
| 1:50.0 | Joe holds up a bag from Laskalas. |
| 1:52.0 | I brought dinner. You packed? Joe holds up a bag from Laskalas. |
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