Hot Money: The New Narcos
Hosted by Sam · Pushkin Industries & Financial Times
4.8from 1,426 ratings
- 52
- Episodes
- 39
- Transcribed
- 1,426
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 609M
- YouTube views
About Hot Money: The New Narcos
In 2020, the Financial Times exposed a €2 billion fraud at Wirecard, a high-flying German fintech. Many thought that was the end of the story. But for reporter Sam Jones, it was just the beginning. This season on Hot Money: Agent of Chaos, Jones investigates Wirecard’s chief operating officer, who vanished just as Wirecard collapsed. And turned out to also be a Russian spy. From an Ibizan sting operation to an attempted takeover of the Austrian intelligence service, his reporting spirals into a world of warlords, espionage, and disinformation. All in an attempt to answer one question: Who is the real Jan Marsalek? And what does his secret life reveal about the powerful forces he serves?
- Publisher
- Pushkin Industries & Financial Times
- Category
- business · health & fitness · society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 May 2022
- Latest episode
- 14 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
39 of 52 episodes have a transcript.
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Published 14 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But the idea survives because it points at something real and much older than the term. Rational human behavior is not the same thing as predictable human behavior. If we were purely rational, our beliefs would shift slightly in accordance with new data. Calculators are rational. Humans are not. That's one of the most beautiful things about being human. Our irrationality, our hopes, our perceptions, our convictions are the prism through which we often function. We do not hold our deepest beliefs the way I calculate our processes' numbers. We hold them the way we hold the people we love in the picture we have of ourselves, as things that would cost us something to give up. […]
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- Ollie Wards
- former bank robber
- Laura Hughes
- James Kynge
- Sam Jones
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- YouTube views
- 609,441,122
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 399 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 1,027 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100
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- Quality
- 46
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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