{"id":3008,"date":"2025-01-25T18:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T18:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2025-01-25T18:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T18:15:44","slug":"jesse-michels-ufo-guy-and-sam-bankman-fried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/25\/jesse-michels-ufo-guy-and-sam-bankman-fried\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Michels (UFO Guy) and Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX Crypto Scam)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello everyone! Today, rather than writing some nonsense about The Outhere Brothers (which I will do soon, don&#8217;t panic), I&#8217;m moonlighting as an investigative journalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years ago I watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@JesseMichels\">Jesse Michels YouTube<\/a> channel. He&#8217;s a young go-getter, whippersnapper with seemingly endless money and contacts. I was fascinated in his focus on  utter-nonsense and bullshit, and I generally found it quite entertaining to watch &#8211; not having a vested interest in the alien \/ UFO \/ conspiracy theory rubbish he pedals. It was like seeing people converse from an alternate universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;d spin tails of alien visitors, all while interviewing curly-haired men who could speak for three hours without solidifying a single concept or observation, rambled on endlessly, all while Jesse encouragingly nodded along and interjected with congratulatory phrases and &#8220;supporting&#8221; information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was utter bullshit &#8211; <em>but I know what I like<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one episode, breaking from the norm, he interviewed yet another curly-haired rambling gentleman called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam_Bankman-Fried\">Sam Bankman-Fried<\/a>. Jesse regaled us of tails about growing up with Sam Bankman-Fried, how their fathers went to law school together and had been friends ever since. It stuck in my mind because Sam Bankman-Fried was such a strange, unpleasant man (&#8220;man&#8221;) who was making money seemingly from thin air (at his peak he was worth $16 Billion, <em>with a &#8216;B&#8217;<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah, it was crypto currency. He&#8217;s a scam artist then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I moved on, as did Jesse. Years passed, and I remained subscribed to his channel lapping up as much nonsense as anyone could reasonably stand. Aliens this, Government conspiracy that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then it happened. All over the news, Sam Bankman-Fried was going to jail for running what was the largest Ponzi scam of my life time. It was everywhere. An international scandal of massive scale. It wasn&#8217;t perpetrated by some evil genius with grand illusion, it was simple &#8211; unchecked lies by a fat, smelly, greedy little man. He&#8217;d taken peoples money, pretended it had magically shot up in quantity, all while secretly having no such mechanism in his business. It also didn&#8217;t help that Sam had been spending like a drunken sailor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His messy hair and dirty clothes had fooled everyone. He wasn&#8217;t a crypto investor genius, he was a greedy, dirty little man who had stolen a lot of peoples life savings, investments, and likely ruined a huge number of lives. All helped by his family and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I remembered&#8230; I remembered how Jesse had gleefully told us about his relationship with Sam. About how is family were involved with his. Little buddies, all caught up in a hustle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I went looking on Youtube for the video, wondering what Jesse&#8217;s reaction would be in the comments. Would he be distancing himself from Sam? Would he be supporting his life long friend? How would he back peddle this whole relationship?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;d deleted the video. He&#8217;d deleted the podcast. He&#8217;d deleted the TikTok promos. It was all gone. Thrown into a black hole (or beamed up by the Aliens, huh, Jesse?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well me, I&#8217;m not a man who easily forgets. And I&#8217;m not a man who calls it quits so easily. Everyone, say it with me &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When you put something on the Internet, it is there FOREVER.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the long deleted podcast that ties Jesse Michels to Sam Bankman-Fried. Please download this and distribute it as you wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why am I doing this? Because I&#8217;m sick of weasels helping others steal money. I&#8217;m sick of horrible little people like Jesse thinking he can do as he pleases, even to the detriment of thousands of others. Fuck him and Sam Bankman-Fried. Fuck Sam&#8217;s parents who helped him, fuck Jesse&#8217;s parents who think they can distance themselves from this whole scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These people disgust me, and I host this video as evidence of their involvement in the theft of Billions of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesse &#8211; the only conspiracy theory you should be interested in is what did your parents do with the SBF money?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-videopress jetpack-videopress-player\" style=\"\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jetpack-videopress-player__wrapper\"> <iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='627' height='353' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/oL9WTYPQ?cover=1&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;loop=0&amp;muted=0&amp;persistVolume=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;useAverageColor=1&amp;hd=0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1725245713'><\/script><\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! 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