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Criminal

Crazy Eddie

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In the 1980s, the discount electronics chain store Crazy Eddie was so famous, its commercials were parodied on "Saturday Night Live." So when the family business began selling its company shares on Wall Street — making millions — nobody questioned its success. Gary Weiss’ book is Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie.  Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast.  We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:30.0

Is your bank at home in three markets or 53?

0:35.0

With on the ground specialists in over 50 markets,

0:39.0

H.S.B.C. UK has been voted the leading bank for trade for the last seven years.

0:43.6

So let us help you navigate international business like a local.

0:47.5

Search H.S.B.C. International Bank to find out more.

0:50.9

HSB.C. UK, opening up a world of opportunity.

0:54.6

Voted the UK's Best Trade Finance Bank for seven consecutive years by Euromoney UK Trade

0:58.8

Finance Survey 2023.

1:07.0

It's not the 4th of July. It's not Thanksgiving. It's not even Christmas. It's better than all those. It's crazy any day. Say big, big bucks during crazy andies, crazy any

1:12.1

sale. Crazy anydy his prices are insane

1:17.6

the crazy eddy commercials were forever blasting 24 hours a day, particularly at night.

1:25.0

And if you were an insomnia, maybe you'd see 14 crazy

1:30.0

commercial in the course of any evening, because they were, they were constant, they were everywhere.

1:35.1

Crazy Eddie was a chain store that sold discount electronics.

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