By recent, you mean since the beginning of time?
No. Rambling idiots were historically judged.
The quick-talking stream-of-consciousness bullshitter relies on rapid technological change to suspend listeners' disbelief. Because ex ante, you can't know if you've got someone brilliant but nervous (or simply neurodivergent), or one of these.
SBF is the same classic huckster, but wrapped up in a hoodie.
Who were widespread in the industrial era. Less so before. (In part because peasants didn't have the disposable income to scam.)
Two years later.
"How it's going?" "Making progress, not quite there yet. I'm going to need more funding."
And so on.