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Failure To Stop

165. LAST CALL: The Rise And Fall of Eddie Antar

Failure To Stop

C Minus Media

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Last Call of The Day! The show that gets you ready for the weekend giving you something else to talk about other than the job. This episode Tansey sits down with Author of Retail Gangster, Gary Weiss, to talk about the raise and fall of Crazy Eddie and how he went from a simple electronic salesman to a master fraud retail gangster. Gary is a great story teller and this book is a must have in your go bag!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The growing calls across the nation to defund the police.

0:03.4

To end policing as we know off the charts violence in New York City.

0:08.0

11 people shot in just eight hours on Sunday.

0:11.0

This is about the police officers, officers who every single day put on that uniform

0:15.4

and they run towards danger when we run away from it.

0:30.0

You were born and raised in the 12th precinct, I think is what you said, correct?

0:42.0

52nd precinct.

0:43.0

52nd.

0:44.0

God, I was way out.

0:45.0

53rd precinct, which was in car 54.

0:47.0

Where are you?

0:48.0

But in the with men on existence, 53rd precinct.

0:50.0

And I was in 52nd precinct.

0:53.0

And we were talking about journalism.

0:55.0

I mean, you kind of like had like a cringe in your voice about journalism.

0:58.0

And I wanted to ask you about that.

1:00.0

Do you have an opinion on journalism today versus when you were into journalism, you know, back in the old days?

1:08.0

Well, you know, you know how it is.

1:11.0

Things change.

1:12.0

Journalism has changed, you know, in my youth.

1:16.0

Journalism has changed since my parents and grandparents generation journalism has changed now.

1:21.0

It's become very consumer driven, politically driven.

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