This episode follows a story I had not been tracking closely before coming to Romania: the Romanian hacker Guccifer and Robert Mueller's investigation of "Guccifer 2.0." This story has everything: the Illuminati, election hacking, and an unnecessary reference to John Mulaney. I hope you like it!
 
Also, because this is more of an explainer episode (or trying to be), I try that cold open thing where I have a clip of the audio before the music. V spicy.
 
 Articles that helped me:
 - NYT Guccifer interview: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/world/europe/for-guccifer-hacking-was-easy-prison-is-hard-.html
- New Yorker article on Mueller's indictment: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-the-latest-mueller-indictment-reveals-about-wikileaks-ties-to-russia-and-what-it-doesnt
- Motherboard's reporting on Guccifer: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npvd/guccifer-2-playboy-robbin-young-twitter-sexting
- Motherboard's reporting on Guccifer 2.0: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnxgwq/guccifer-20-is-likely-a-russian-government-attempt-to-cover-up-their-own-hack
- Vox's election hacking piece: https://www.vox.com/2018/10/25/18001684/2018-midterms-hacked-russia-election-security-voting

Amazing theme music: Romanian Hora by The Underscore Orkestrais licensed under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.