Episode 2: The Friendship Society
Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
Pushkin Industries & Financial Times
4.6 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
As Sam arrives in Vienna, a political bomb explodes. A secretly recorded video exposes ties between the far right and Russia, plunging the Austrian government into crisis and revealing a world where people like Jan Marsalek can thrive.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:07.3 | Previously on Hot Money. |
| 0:09.6 | I felt I'd met somebody who was very controlled and confident, who was almost certainly corrupt. |
| 0:18.0 | I basically said, can we do that again? |
| 0:26.6 | My first thing is I sort of go home and obsessively change every single one of my passwords. Start checking all the security on my house. |
| 0:31.6 | You do start to worry what you've sort of brought down on your family. |
| 0:34.6 | We already knew that there was a big Vienna angle to all this. |
| 0:40.9 | We just didn't know what the angle was. |
| 0:43.5 | I remember thinking you were mad. |
| 0:45.3 | I just thought, okay, all right, |
| 0:46.8 | and just going to go to Austria and start talking to people about, you know, |
| 0:51.1 | Marcellac, but, you know, you were right. |
| 0:56.9 | Julian Hesentala, yeah, I'm Arslect, but you know, you were right. Julian Hesentala races from one supermarket to another. |
| 1:00.8 | He's sweating. |
| 1:01.9 | It's not just the heat. |
| 1:03.5 | He's nervous. |
| 1:04.8 | He's hosting an important gathering tonight and everything needs to be just right, |
| 1:09.7 | including the drinks. |
| 1:11.3 | Which everybody thinks super easy, but just go to the supermarket, buy drinks. |
| 1:14.8 | I was expecting Zibisa, and I mean, you can get anything, any high-class drink you want. |
| 1:19.4 | It was actually quite difficult. |
| 1:22.4 | Julian's from Austria, but right now he's on the Spanish island, Vibitha. |
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