Hot Money: Agent of Chaos - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Others have already lamented the repetitive ads. But on the episode “ties with Tehran”, your editing was sooo sloppy I got a headache and had to put it down. The beginning of every other sentence was cut off so you barely know what they’re talking about! Seriously, hire a new editor. This was an embarrassment.

Hot Money is a fascinating podcast. Patricia and Alex are very good journalists who record facts in a compelling way. Highly recommending Hot Money to anyone in need of a good podcast that will open eyes to a subject that should be talked about more openly.

Their voices carry a tone that never interferes and supports their authority on the subject. It is about pornography the way a steak is about a cow. I binged on this the way I binged on “The Queen’s Gambit”. Oddly, with both it is women who were driving the plots.

I have recommended it to 3 people. All 3 have thanked me, asked what I was listening to now. LOL Writing my own series

Super cool, in depth reporting. I knew part of this story, but definitely not all of it. Absolutely blazed through the episodes. Really great listen!

While i have enjoyed the first season of this podcast, season 2 surprised me with an investigation of the murder of an MEK TERRORIST on Dutch soil. Mohammad-Reza Kolahi was responsible for an explosion that killed 70 persons in Iran. The narrator acknowledges the man was a TERRORIST, and then proceeds to minimize that very important fact by neglecting to mention this from that point on. I’m sure the writers prefer to avoid calling him a terrorist, as it would doubtless make the audience less interested in getting him justice, but it is an uncontested fact that the man earned the epithet.
The writers seem far more interested in smearing the Iranian GOVERNMENT (not “regime” as the narrator uses), than in telling a story in a balanced manner. Sure, Iran may have resorted to contacting the killing on organized crime, but was the alternative? Sending in a couple of Blackhawk helicopters full of special operations soldiers to kill him? Would that feel better to the writers? Only the most powerful nation in the world can act with such impunity.
While the story is certainly newsworthy and podcast-worthy, i feel the writers twisted it into a propaganda piece. The proper use of language is fundamental to relate a balanced story. And balanced is the only way a story should be related.
The fact that Mohammad-Reza Kolahi, aka Ali Motamed, was a cold-blooded terrorist is an extremely important element of the story. Do not minimize it.

I can’t take the digital background sound effects. They don’t add to the story. It’s not like traffic sounds during an interview, it just annoying digital sounds that distract from the storytelling.
Had to stop listening.