Kal Penn travels across the globe to discover how to turn a suitcase full of dirty money into cash that can actually be spent. He learns from former cops and criminals about how to gain access to a worldwide underground money-laundering system.
Exploring if there is a correlation between wealth and a snobby attitude, Kal meets with unapologetic one-percenters and travels to a country that has rigged the financial game in favour of its citizens.
Without rubber, the economy as it is currently known ceases to exist. Kal traces the path of rubber, from trees to tires and the tip of his pencil, and he uncovers a fundamental blind spot in the free market economy that's putting people at risk.
Kal meets artificial intelligence face-to-interface and gets a glimpse of how A.I. is learning, on its own, how to self-drive the global economy straight into the next industrial revolution.
A counterfeit $100 bill might ruin one's weekend, but it could also disrupt a nation's economy. Kal meets the folks in the fight against fakes, trying to save industries from the threat of bogus goods and terrorism.
Death is everyone's final destination, and a real moneymaker. Kal takes a deep dive into the death economy to learn the true value of a human life, hit men and judges, funeral directors and football fans all help him lay his questions to rest.
Kal Penn
Host
Will Ferrell
Producer
Adam McKay
Kevin J. Messick
Eli Holzman
