Hey, it's Max. I've got a podcast recommendation for you before we start. It's a new show,

five-part series. It's called Suspicious Activity. Inside the FinCEN files,

and it's a co-production of Buzzfeed News and Pineapple Street, which is where I work when I'm not working on long form.

In this series, it's an investigation. It's an investigation into how money works in the world but particularly illegal money and it's about how the world's

most powerful banks facilitate the worst of humanity, terrorism, human trafficking, the drug trade, and how the powers that be, know about it.

The show is hosted by Aazine Gourachee and the investigation has been led by two BuzzFeed journalists Anthony

Cormier and Jason Leopold who's done long form before that episode is

fantastic if you have not listened and also speaking of long form suspicious activity is produced in part by Janelle Pfeiffer who's the editor of this show so you know it's got to be good because Janelle worked on it.

Go check it out it's got to be good because Janelle worked on it. Go check it out.

It's suspicious activity inside the FinCEN files.

It's a five episode series.

Episode 1 is out right now.

Episode 2 will be out on Thursday.

You can hear it wherever you are listening to this podcast, which starts right now. Hello and welcome to the long form podcast. I'm Evan Ratliff here with Max and Aaron my co-hosts.

Hey everyone, Evan, you hosted this week's episode with whom did you speak? I did indeed. Whom I spoke to was

Elizabeth Weyl who I have been a huge fan of for a really long time.

Liz was a contributing, she was like writer at large or contributing writer at the New York Times magazine for years.

She did an incredibly wide range of stories, amazing stories.

She more recently moved to ProPublica,

where she's a staff writer covering climate.

And she just started that sort of right before this fire season took off

and immediately jumped in and started writing about that.

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