Episode 5: A Different Set of Rules
Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
Pushkin Industries & Financial Times
4.6 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
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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