Meyer Lansky
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Sep 21, 2026
Bruce VilanchHOST
And it was just endlessly fascinating.
Bruce VilanchHOST
And it had Lee Strasberg doing his impression of Meyer Lansky.
Bruce VilanchHOST
Right.
Bruce VilanchHOST
And a whole other thing.
NatHOST
And then one day you're, you've got your, uh, you know, your, your, uh, you, the note to your house and you're cashing it in for, for money, uh, or you're betting, you know, uh, beyond your means.
NatHOST
So, You know, I worry about this stuff because, you know, maybe people are, maybe these kids are drinking less, but they're also gambling like fucking, you know, Meyer Lansky, you know, it's ridiculous.
MikeHOST
Yeah, they're finding that their dopamine options are so far beyond what we had in the 50s or in my case, the 90s and 80s.
NatHOST
Yeah.
Aaron GoodHOST
Yes, and in the case of the US regime, which has sought to pursue global dominion over the capitalist system since World War II, that was the decision that was made.
Aaron GoodHOST
And in World War II, they partnered with organized crime figures, Meyer Lansky specifically, And at his request, they sprang Lucky Luciano from prison.
Aaron GoodHOST
And so they're basically partnered with the heads of the National Crime Syndicate, which has a de facto monopoly on gambling and drug distribution, narcotics traffic in the United States.
Aaron GoodHOST
And the U.S. has partnered with them to the point that Harry Truman gives Meyer Lansky the Medal of Freedom in 1945.
Aaron GoodHOST
And around the same time, Meyer Lansky is setting up a heroin connection.
Aaron GoodHOST
I forgot that.
Aaron GoodHOST
Yeah, he's setting up a heroin connection in Mexico City and to deal because of the disruption in wartime, you know, heroin traffic, right? And then Las Vegas is basically founded to launder the money from his Mexico City drug connection.
Sam HusseiniGUEST
So even in the Godfather, they sort of put out this, I guess, fake story about how Las Vegas basically came to be.
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They can't stop
Jack KruseGUEST
The way MKUltra started was really a discovery from Leslie Gross who ran the Manhattan Project and Meyer Lansky.
Jack KruseGUEST
who was tasked by the federal government during World War II to find some spies in Germany in U-boats in Manhattan Harbor, because they wanted to know why Allen Dulles went to Europe and started Operation Paperclip, basically getting Jewish physicists to come to the United States.
Jack KruseGUEST
So Lansky wound up finding a whole bunch of them, killed most of them, but there was one guy he didn't kill.
Joel DinersteinGUEST
So one of the things that marks a different break that happens in the 90s is the rediscovery of Jewish gangsters.
Joel DinersteinGUEST
And so Rich Cohen writes a book called Tough Jews, and he rediscovers and puts back into discourse Meyer Lansky and Las Vegas and Murder Incorporated and all the Jewish gangs of the impoverished Lower East Side in the early 20th century.
Joel DinersteinGUEST
And so then we have a real new debate and a real new sense of what is the history of American Jewish life on the Lower East Side.
Joel DinersteinGUEST
And it's not just kind of tenements and persecution and poverty in which you sort of move out of it and become a little more secular, which is sort of famously the story of the rise of David Levinsky, one of the great early novels.
Brett RatnerGUEST
And all these characters I grew up around.
Brett RatnerGUEST
In fact, I'm the only, I don't know if Johnny remembers this, I- I'm the only person in my generation who actually personally knew Meyer Lansky.
Gianni RussoHOST
That's right.
Brett RatnerGUEST
So Meyer lived in a, in a building in the Imperial House, which is next to my building, which is the Carriage House.
Brett RatnerGUEST
And every day after school, I would ride my bicycle.
Brett RatnerGUEST
I had a Husky, and I would ride it up and down Collins Avenue.
Brett RatnerGUEST
And Meyer Lansky would, would walk his dog.
Gianni RussoHOST
The famous dog.
Fat BoyHOST
That's the triple auto card.
Fat BoyHOST
You got Meyer Lansky, Al Capone, and Lucky Luciano.
Fat BoyHOST
Yeah, dude, like,
MattmanHOST
that's, like, brilliant.
Fat BoyHOST
That's the, that's the, uh, the triple auto card.
Fat BoyHOST
You got Meyer Lansky, Al Capone, and, uh, Lucky Luciano-
MattmanHOST
Yeah
Fat BoyHOST
... on the same card.
Bárbara BrancoNARRATOR
Esta mensagem não foi escrita em papel de telegrama.
Bárbara BrancoNARRATOR
Vem numa folha com o timbre do Havana Riviera, o hotel cassino inaugurado dois anos antes da Revolução Cubana, no bairro de El Vedado, pelo gângster russo-americano Meyer Lansky.
Bárbara BrancoNARRATOR
Esta mensagem é a primeira indicação que Raymond Candau tem de que a mulher, afinal, talvez estivesse mesmo no avião que aterrou na véspera na capital cubana, vindo da Cidade do México.
Bárbara BrancoNARRATOR
Agora, o diplomata suíço coloca a hipótese de Annie poder ter desembarcado e ter se escondido dele no Havana Riviera, ao que tudo indica, com o objetivo de apanhar depois outro avião rumo à Europa.
Rui FerreiraGUEST
I-i think that in, in eighteen months about we will have free elections.
Bárbara BrancoNARRATOR
E depois, quando meses após o triunfo da Revolução, o líder cubano manda encerrar o cassino e nacionaliza o hotel.
Bárbara BrancoNARRATOR
Meyer Lansky haveria de ficar conhecido como o contabilista da máfia e por inspirar o personagem do principal rival de Don Corleone no segundo filme da saga O Padrinho.
Bárbara BrancoNARRATOR
Em 1965, o gângster já perdeu a participação que tinha no Havana Riviera e noutros dois cassinos em Cuba.
George KnappNARRATOR
Not many people noticed, not until the early 1940s.
George KnappNARRATOR
[upbeat music] That's when Las Vegas caught the eye of these two men, Meyer Lansky and Benjamin Bugsy Siegel.
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Siegel.Siegel had earlier run a race wire service out of Las Vegas catering to illegal bookmakers in the East.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Lansky and Siegel had come up the hard way, in Hell's Kitchen and on New York's Lower East Side, bootlegging, gambling, racketeering.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Lansky had a grand vision, a vision of glittering gambling palaces in the barren desert.
speaker_4NARRATOR
In 1946, the Lansky-Siegel-Costello combine invested $6 million.
speaker_4NARRATOR
The Flamingo Hotel was built, and Meyer Lansky's vision became a glitzy, glamorous reality.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Las Vegas as we know it was born.
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