Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
Episodes
Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister: Elizabeth Plunkett
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a preview of a podcast we think you'll enjoy, Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister, a special limited series from RTÉ. The story of Elizabet...
From The Financial Times: The Broker
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this special bonus episode from The Financial Times, "The Broker" tells the story of how a failed baseball hopeful and disgraced stockbroker reinve...
Listen Now: The Wizard of the Kremlin
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How did a quasi-fictional novel about Vladimir Putin’s spin doctor become an international bestselling sensation and now, a political thriller s...
Introducing Valley of Shadows: Corruption in California’s Mojave Desert
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Valley of Shadows is a new Pushkin true crime podcast that digs into a nearly 30-year old secret buried in the California desert. On June 11, 1998, Lo...
Introducing Deep Cover Presents: Snowball
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re sharing a preview of another podcast we think you’ll enjoy, Deep Cover Presents: Snowball. Snowball follows journalist Ollie Wards a...
Introducing Heavyweight: The Bank Robber
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here's an episode from Heavyweight, a new addition to the Pushkin slate of shows. Heavyweight, hosted by Jonathan Goldstein, creates space for difficu...
Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a preview of a new show from the Financial Times, Untold: Toxic Legacy. How can somewhere that looks so beautiful be so contaminated? Laura Hu...
From Revisionist History: The Alabama Murders
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a preview of a podcast we think you'll enjoy. It's from the new season of Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast, The Alabama Murders. ...
Introducing The Chinatown Sting: Lucky Bird
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a preview of a new Pushkin podcast, The Chinatown Sting. In the late 1980s, a group of women connected through the mahjong parlors in Man...
China’s Race to Dominate: Listen to Global Tech Wars
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a preview of a new audiobook, Global Tech Wars: China’s Race to Dominate. For decades, China’s economic rise has been symboli...
Sam Jones on Jan Marsalek's Secret Life | SpyCast Interview
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're sharing a special episode from SpyCast, the official podcast of the International Spy Museum, featuring Hot Money's Sam Jones. SpyCast host Sash...
Episode 8: Matryoshka
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our season finale, Sam discovers a different narrative about Marsalek’s life in Russia. And a tip from long ago resurfaces. See omnystud...
Episode 7: From Russia With Love
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Marsalek-backed ring of operatives go on trial in the UK for espionage. A treasure trove of text messages reveal their inner workings. Get ad-free ...
Episode 6: Maestro
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back in Vienna, Sam investigates another Marsalek plot. One that nearly toppled Austria’s intelligence agency. Get ad-free access to the entire...
Stay Tuned
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 5: A Different Set of Rules
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does one become a spy? Sam speaks with a former Russian intelligence officer about how Marsalek might have been recruited. And to what ends. Get ...
Episode 4: Backbearings
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the ground in Austria and Germany, Sam digs deep into Marsalek’s past. His odd habits. His strange house. The hypnotic effect he had on forme...
Episode 3: Thrill Seeking
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sam tracks down an old contact in Tunisia. A former UN official living off grid. He reveals how he ended up involved in one of Jan Marsalek&rsqu...
Episode 2: The Friendship Society
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Sam arrives in Vienna, a political bomb explodes. A secretly recorded video exposes ties between the far right and Russia, plunging the Austrian go...
Episode 1: The Bribe
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A series of clandestine lunch meetings leads Sam’s editor to send him off to Vienna, in search of one man. Get ad-free access to the entire sea...
Introducing Hot Money Season 3: Agent of Chaos
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When reporter Sam Jones asks questions about disgraced financial executive Jan Marsalek, he discovers a world of warlords, espionage, and disinformati...
Episode 8 - The Red Notebook
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Law enforcement cuts off the Kinahan cartel, and a little red notebook in the back of a car might finally reveal who killed the electrician in Almere....
Episode 7 - Against the Ropes
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Kinahan is more influential than ever, but law enforcement may finally be catching up. For more from the FT, sign up for the FT Edit App. To...
Episode 6 - Ties with Tehran
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An undercover operation in New York reveals a connection with Tehran. For more from the FT, sign up for the FT Edit App. To listen to Hot Money ad fr...
Episode 5 - Nerds vs Narcos
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Back in the Netherlands, the high-tech unit of the Dutch police works to crack the murder case. For more from the FT, sign up for the FT Edit App. To...
Episode 4 - Gangster's Paradise
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
No longer safe in Europe, the cartel bosses move to a city that is attracting criminals from around the globe. For more from the FT, sign up for the ...
Episode 3 - Sun, Guns & Sangria
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
International law enforcement is after the Kinahan cartel, revealing just how big the operation has grown. For more from the FT, sign up for the FT E...
Episode 2 - Cocaine CEO
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An enterprising Dublin drug dealer makes the most of a revolution sweeping across Europe’s criminal economy. For more from the FT, sign up for the ...
Episode 1 - Murder Brokers
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, a small-town murder case begins to look like an international assassination plot. For mor...
Introducing Hot Money: The New Narcos
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hot Money is back with a new season that begins with a mysterious murder in a small town and leads to a cocaine super cartel and a secret proxy war be...
Episode 8: Inside Porn's Star Chamber
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the season finale, Alex and Patricia discover how Visa and MasterCard became the reluctant rulers of porn. And they figure out what being ruled by ...
Episode 7: Porn Meets OnlyFans
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alex and Patricia track down the family behind OnlyFans, the site that has transformed online porn by shifting power back to performers. But there is ...
Episode 6: Knocking on the Door of a Porn Empire
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest porn companies in the world was forced to radically change its practices. But another porn giant changed almost nothing. Patricia t...
Episode 5: The Billionaire Who Took Down Porn
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A billionaire hedge fund manager reads a scathing column about a popular porn site. He sends an angry text to the CEO of MasterCard. Almost overnight,...
Episode 4: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How is it legal for porn sites to host millions of videos uploaded by users? The answer is in the story of an Ohio family in the early 1990s. In this ...
Episode 3: Mr. Goldman, Mr. Sex
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Fabian Thylmann ran into trouble with the law, a former Goldman Sachs banker swooped in to buy his porn sites. But nobody knew who he was. He man...
Episode 2: The Darth Vader of Porn
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A decade ago, a computer programmer named Fabian Thylmann began to build one of the biggest porn empires in the world. How did Fabian do it? He was go...
Episode 1: Porn Meets the Internet
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stoya is a porn star who saw first-hand how a firehose of free porn online transformed the adult industry. She sends hosts Alex Barker and Patricia Ni...
Hot Money: Who Rules Porn?
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Financial Times reporter Patricia Nilsson started digging into the porn industry, she made a shocking discovery: Nobody knew who controlled the b...