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Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

Judging Sam: Opening Statements

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

Pushkin Industries

Business, Society & Culture, Sports

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

SBF’s trial has been on for three days, and a lot has happened: jury selection, opening statements, and the first witnesses. Pushkin co-founder Jacob Weisberg sits down with reporter Lidia Jean Kott and Rebecca Mermelstein, a partner at the law firm O’Melveny and Myers, to talk about what’s happened in court so far.

This conversation was recorded on October 5 at 3 pm ET.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, it's Jane Marie, back with a brand new season of the dream.

0:15.7

And after the gnarly couple of years we've all had, have you noticed that suddenly everyone's

0:20.0

an expert in like fixing your life?

0:22.5

Half of all podcasts and books and tiktoks could be like, I'll make your dreams come true,

0:27.3

just give me some money.

0:28.5

So this season we're going to try that by talking to the experts, those gurus, those

0:33.0

guides.

0:34.0

Yes, I'm talking about life coaches and I'm talking to one about my messed up life.

0:40.2

We're going to see what all the hype is about and if it's worth it.

0:43.5

Listen wherever you get your podcasts and if you want to binge this entire season of

0:47.6

the dream, add free right now, like right this second, sign up for Pushkin Plus on the

0:53.3

Dream Show page and Apple Podcasts or you can go to pushkin.fm slash plus your membership

0:59.7

unlocks access to other ad free benches from Malcolm Gladwell and Paul McCartney and

1:04.0

Dr. Laurie Santos and tons of other top hosts just go become a premium plus member right

1:09.2

now.

1:10.2

I'll see you over there.

1:13.6

Hey there, it's Michael Lewis.

1:18.2

Before we get to this episode, I want to let you know that you can listen to each episode

1:21.9

of Judging Sam, the trial of Sam Batman Fried, ad free by becoming a Pushkin Plus subscriber.

1:29.1

And with your subscription, you'll also get exclusive access to ad free and early binge

1:33.5

able podcasts like Paul McCartney's new podcast McCartney, a life in lyrics.

1:39.4

Malcolm Gladwell's revisionist history, the happiness lab from Dr. Laurie Santos and tons

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