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Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

Episode 2: The Friendship Society

Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

Pushkin Industries & Financial Times

Technology, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Business, Society & Culture

4.6619 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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