When Financial Times reporter Patricia Nilsson started digging into the porn industry, she made a shocking discovery: Nobody knew who controlled the biggest porn company in the world. Now, Nilsson and her editor, Alex Barker, have figured out who the guy was, and much more. Their reporting reveals a shadowy power structure that includes billionaires, tech geniuses and the most powerful finance companies in the world.
Introducing Against the Rules: Fans
Introducing Against the Rules: Fans, a new season from journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis. Michael Lewis bets high and low to find out how Americans, and their state governments, got addicted to a new form of legalized gambling. This season, we’ll meet bookies, lobbyists, lawyers and professional sharps. All in their own ways trying to figure out why fans might hitch their life savings to their favorite team’s performance. Listen to the series wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
9/24/2024 • 2 minutes, 53 seconds
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The Hot Money team is hard at work on another season–so stay tuned.Until then, we'd love to hear about you and what you think about the show. We are running a short survey and anyone who takes part before August 29th will be entered into a prize draw for a pair of Bose QuietComfort 35 Wireless Headphones. Take the survey here: https://www.feedback.ft.com/c/r/pods?title=hot You can read our T&Cs for the prize draw here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
8/2/2024 • 29 seconds
Introducing: Where’s Dia?
In the beautiful mountain town of Idyllwild, a wealthy widow named Dia Abrams suddenly vanishes from her home. She leaves behind her idyllic ranch, estranged children and a messy legal battle. Two men in her life, her son and a man who claims to be her fiance, launch public campaigns to find her. But soon, their efforts – and stories – begin to unravel. Enjoy this preview from Where's Dia? A new podcast from Pushkin Industries and iHeartPodcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
8/1/2024 • 7 minutes, 51 seconds
Introducing Lost Hills: Dark Canyon
The disappearance and death of Mitrice Richardson remains Malibu, CA’s most baffling unsolved case. It’s been nearly 14 years since her remains were discovered in a remote canyon, and still, no one has been held accountable for her demise.
To this day, her death remains an unsolved mystery.
The truth lies in the remote Malibu community where Mitrice was last seen. And now, finally, people are starting to talk.
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6/10/2024 • 37 minutes, 7 seconds
Introducing Untold: Power For Sale
Introducing Power for Sale, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. In Untold: Power for Sale, host Valentina Pop and a team of FT correspondents from all over Europe investigate what happened in the Qatargate scandal, where EU lawmakers were accused of accepting payments from Qatar to whitewash its image.Subscribe and listen on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
5/27/2024 • 2 minutes, 34 seconds
Introducing Deep Cover: The Nameless Man
Introducing Deep Cover: The Nameless Man, a new podcast season from Pushkin Industries.
This season tells the epic tale of two federal agents who investigate a rumor about a murder that supposedly took place 15 years prior. It is also the story of a family searching for answers about why their brother was killed. These two storylines collide in a courtroom in Philadelphia, where murder, memory, and morality go on trial. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
4/29/2024 • 40 minutes, 38 seconds
Introducing Untold: The Retreat
Introducing Untold, a new podcast from the Financial Times's special investigations team. In its first series, The Retreat, host Madison Marriage examines the world of the Goenka network, which promotes a type of intensive meditation known as Vipassana. Thousands of people go on Goenka retreats every year; people rave about them. But some who go to these meditation retreats suffer. They might feel a deep sense of terror, or a break with reality – and afterwards, they’re not themselves anymore.
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2/12/2024 • 2 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 8 - The Red Notebook
Law enforcement cuts off the Kinahan cartel, and a little red notebook in the back of a car might finally reveal who killed the electrician in Almere.
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12/26/2023 • 33 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 7 - Against the Ropes
Daniel Kinahan is more influential than ever, but law enforcement may finally be catching up.
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12/21/2023 • 35 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 6 - Ties with Tehran
An undercover operation in New York reveals a connection with Tehran.
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12/19/2023 • 32 minutes, 46 seconds
Episode 5 - Nerds vs Narcos
Back in the Netherlands, the high-tech unit of the Dutch police works to crack the murder case.
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12/14/2023 • 24 minutes, 39 seconds
Episode 4 - Gangster's Paradise
No longer safe in Europe, the cartel bosses move to a city that is attracting criminals from around the globe.
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12/12/2023 • 34 minutes, 17 seconds
Episode 3 - Sun, Guns & Sangria
International law enforcement is after the Kinahan cartel, revealing just how big the operation has grown.
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12/7/2023 • 35 minutes, 41 seconds
Episode 2 - Cocaine CEO
An enterprising Dublin drug dealer makes the most of a revolution sweeping across Europe’s criminal economy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
12/5/2023 • 31 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 1 - Murder Brokers
When a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, a small-town murder case begins to look like an international assassination plot.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
12/5/2023 • 29 minutes, 45 seconds
Introducing Hot Money: The New Narcos
Hot Money is back with a new season that begins with a mysterious murder in a small town and leads to a cocaine super cartel and a secret proxy war between democracies and dictatorships.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.