Hey, everybody, it's Ryan.

We'll be back with a new episode of The Journal on Monday.

But in the meantime, we wanted to share something with you that our colleagues here have been

working on for months.

It's a show called Bad Bets.

It's actually the second season of the show.

And in this season, reporter Ben Foldy, who you've heard on our show before, unpacks the

rags-to-richest story of Trevor Milton, who founded an electric truck company called

Nikola.

It's a pretty wild tale, and we wanted you to hear it.

And if you like it, be sure to check out the entire season.

All six episodes are available right now in the Bad Bets feed.

All right, here's Ben with episode one.

Oh, that thing is so awesome.

Oh, we've been waiting so long to show this to the world, even though ideas decide it's

hard to even contain my emotion about this.

I was watching this video recently sitting in a courtroom in Manhattan.

It was being presented as evidence in one of the biggest white collar fraud trials in

recent years.

The video is from 2016.

The man, Trevor Milton, he's young, fit, jowled up hair.

And the thing he's getting so emotional about in front of hundreds of people is a semi-truck.

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