If you read about us in The New York Times, or heard a segment from The Giant Pool of Money on your local station's fundraising drive, you can check out the full episode here. You can listen for free at your computer, or download a copy of the show for 95 cents.

We also recommend:

• Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson (the guys who did that program) have a new daily, free podcast and blog applying that same explanatory power to each day's breaking news on the financial crisis—Planet Money.
• Enforcers, Act II "Now You SEC Me, Now You Don't"
• Next week on TAL: "Another Frightening Show About the Economy" (promo available here)
• A great episode of Fresh Air, in which Terry Gross interviews Michael Greenberger, a former director at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He gives a very helpful, lucid primer on the current financial picture.
• A follow-up Terry did with Greenberger, just as good, when the government bailed out AIG in mid-September.

Understand the current bailout!  Regale dinner parties with your take on credit default swaps!  Amaze your friends!