To Russia With Love: The Robert Hanssen Story
Ridiculous Crime
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Inspired by boyhood dreams of wanting to be James Bond, real life FBI guy Robert Hanssen joined the bureau to become a secret agent. But when no one liked him and bosses overlooked him, Hanssen decided to do the next best thing: become a double-agent and spy for the Soviet Union. Larry King, Mother Theresa, secret messages hidden in used car ads, this spy story has a bit of everything!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | Ridiculous crime is a production of IHeart Radio. Elizabeth Dunn. Zern Burnett. Got a question for you, my friend. Yeah. Okay, you know the answer to this. I'm hoping. I think you do. Do you know it's ridiculous? No. Damn. Oh, I do. I was so betting on you. Oh, I'm just yanking your chain. |
| 0:22.8 | Valentine's Day. |
| 0:24.2 | Straight up ridiculous. No. Damn. Oh, I do. I was so betting on you. Oh, I'm just yanking your chain. |
| 0:22.7 | Valentine's Day. |
| 0:24.1 | Straight up ridiculous. |
| 0:25.3 | Is this going to be a mash-out? |
| 0:26.8 | Well, let's talk about Valentine's Day quickly. |
| 0:29.3 | Okay, please. |
| 0:30.1 | It's gone. |
| 0:30.8 | It's over. |
| 0:31.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.2 | You know, but I just think it's like garbage. |
| 0:35.8 | Why do you not like Valentine's Day? What's the point? Is there a holiday you do like? Because we've gone for a few of them and you're like, that's garbage. Total waste of time. Arbor Day. I like Thanksgiving. I like Halloween. So you like the autumnal? I like the 4th of July. Okay. So summer and autumn holidays. Yeah. Do you like secretaries? It doesn't have anything to do with the time of year. I just think Valentine's Day is like commercial garbage. Is there a wintertime holiday you do like? Winter solstice. Okay. Not technically a holiday. Yeah, for my people. The spookies.ies good one so what do you got for valentine's day |
| 1:15.7 | did you do anything for valentine's day uh for valentine's day i got myself a bunch of boxes of |
| 1:22.0 | chocolate the day after valentine's day so now i got like eat them real quick before they go bad that's the |
| 1:26.9 | time to do it. |
| 1:27.5 | I do this for Halloween and Valentine's Day. Right after Easter. Easter doesn't have as many |
| 1:31.3 | that I like. I'm not like a peeps person. There's a lot of chocolate, so I just buy the chocolate. |
| 1:35.6 | So there you go. My day, late, dollar short chocolate supply. Well, see, I have this huge backlog of potential what's ridiculouses that are sent to us |
| 1:48.8 | and that I co-olate. And there was one that I've been really wanted to use and I couldn't find it |
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