Aug 24, 2023

Verified Labs co-founder Jon Heder, who is also an actor known for the smash hit comedy “Napoleon Dynamite," reflects on the FTX implosion after being cast in the animated parody inspired by the crypto exchange's collapse.

Video transcript

What from the FTX implosion strikes you as most funny. Um I think what's most funny is, it's pretty much Greeks Me II, I think, uh you know, there's some interesting looking characters but no, I, I mean, I, when I was approached about doing this project, I was like, wait, what, what, what is this? So I got on and I started, you know, reading up on kind of the story and just learning a bit about each of the players involved. Um And um I just think, uh you know, at the heart of so much of this is all this talk of the um this altruistic uh uh philosophy that they fall uh follow, um which, you know, is kind of like, you know, they're all following some kind of like this new, like helping the world by how, you know, like tearing down other things. But, you know, here they are all in uh hot water right now and uh kind of facing these serious things. So, I don't know, I, I think um there's some um interesting uh uh you know, Karma happening right now, I'm not sure, you know, I'm not sure, but I Yeah. I, I'm trying to make sense of it all as we go along.

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