"Hooked" episode 1: The Fatal Funnel

About this episode

<p><em>Apple News Today: In Conversation</em> is bringing you a special episode &mdash; the first installment of <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hooked/id1592401710"><em>Hooked</em></a>, a new podcast series from Apple TV+.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>When Tony Hathaway was arrested outside of a KeyBank in Seattle, police and the FBI had been looking for him for months. Hathaway had robbed 30 banks in a single year. Before he became a notorious bank robber, Hathaway was a top design engineer at Boeing; he fit the profile of a loving family man, he made six figures, and flew around the world in business class. That all unraveled when he was prescribed OxyContin for a back injury and developed an addiction to opioids.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Journalist Josh Dean wrote an article for <a href="https://apple.news/Ai8o1blKaSBuWweKJ9xYVrQ"><em>Bloomberg Businessweek</em></a> about Hathaway in 2019. His reporting is the basis of <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hooked/id1592401710"><em>Hooked</em></a><em>. </em>Host Shumita Basu spoke with Dean about Hathaway&rsquo;s story on <a href="https://apple.news/A9_W0FtB8SI-450cWaQvsUQ"><em>Apple News Today: In Conversation</em></a><em>.</em></p>