Howard Hughes in Las Vegas
Stuff You Should Know
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4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
From 1968 to 1972 Howard Hughes holed up in a suite in the Desert Inn casino in Las Vegas. Addicted to morphine and living on candy bars and milk, he was in bad shape. When he was told to leave, he bought the hotel and stayed. Soon he owned half of Vegas.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.1 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too, and this is Stuff You Should Know. |
| 0:21.3 | Root and Tootin Wild West mobbed up Vegas Spectacular. |
| 0:27.0 | That's right. Before we get going though, we want to very quickly just say our friends, Ben Harrison and Adam Pranica, |
| 0:34.3 | who we talk about a lot, genuine friends of ours, the Greatest Generation |
| 0:38.7 | podcast. They have done a very brave thing and got out on their own and left the Max Fund |
| 0:45.9 | Network, which is always kind of a scary thing. And they are, they're looking for people to |
| 0:51.4 | support them. They're loyal fans to support them with Amir at entry level, $6 a month for an ad-free version of not only the greatest generation, but my favorite two podcasts that they do, the Factory Seconds podcast, where they one-by-one eat their way through the cheesecake factory menu and the Santa Monica Mountains podcast, their rewatch of Baywatch. |
| 1:15.6 | That's just, those guys are just a delight. |
| 1:19.0 | As people, as podcasters, all of that. |
| 1:21.8 | So where would they go? |
| 1:23.2 | Where would somebody go and be like, take my $6 and then some? |
| 1:26.9 | They are going, Adam and sending everyone to |
| 1:29.2 | greatest.supercast.com and, you know, |
| 1:33.6 | support these guys, support independent artists. |
| 1:35.5 | It's like I said, it's a very sort of brave thing to do to go out on your own |
| 1:39.4 | these days and try and be an indie artist in any creative |
| 1:42.5 | realm. |
| 1:44.0 | So we love Ben, we love Adam. |
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