Episode 5: A Different Set of Rules

Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

Pushkin Industries & Financial Times

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

4.6 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:16.0	previously on Hot Money.
0:19.0	I don't know, it's almost like of almost like a Sharon Stone moment from basic instinct,
0:25.3	you know, the plot of basic instinct where she murders her husband, but that's also the
0:32.7	plot of the book she's written.
0:34.0	So it couldn't possibly be true.
0:36.2	Do you know about this life-sized Trump figure in the office?
0:41.6	In Marshal's office?
0:42.7	In Marshal's office and his altar of Russian officers' caps.
0:49.2	Agaushanka kind of.
0:50.4	Yeah, those heads, yeah.
0:52.8	I think the biggest tragedy of Jan Maserik
0:55.6	is he probably
0:57.7	could have
0:58.4	earned millions,
0:59.6	gazillions with his charm
1:01.7	and his wit
1:02.7	and his business acumen
1:04.8	and his skills
1:06.1	that he didn't need to be
1:08.3	what he turned out to be.
1:11.6	This is Port-Arcule, which is the kind of marina in the center of Monaco,
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