Special - The US Military’s On-Base Slot Machine Racket w/ Molly Longman (Preview)
American Prestige
Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:42.3 | Hello, prestige heads and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson. |
| 0:47.3 | And we're very excited to welcome to the podcast today. Molly Longman, Molly is a freelance journalist, |
| 0:52.3 | and we've invited her to talk about her piece |
| 0:55.8 | that she recently wrote for Wired, the big money and high cost of the U.S. military's on-based |
| 1:02.4 | slot machine. So, Molly, thank you very much for joining us. |
| 1:06.5 | Thanks for having me. Excited to be here. |
| 1:09.9 | The pleasure is all ours. |
| 1:11.9 | But before we get into it, why don't we talk about it? |
| 1:14.5 | I'm mostly interested in this because I want to put a slot machine in the American prestige break room. |
| 1:18.8 | Yeah, just basically force Jake to go into debt. |
| 1:21.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.8 | With incredibly usurious terms. |
| 1:26.4 | This is a wild story. Yeah. Go, go, go. Oh, I was going to say, yeah, you should think about it. You know, they're in some interesting places. Like, one time I was on a road trip to Missouri, I'm from Iowa, so I was close by. And there were just like, yeah, slot machines and like the gas station for like while you're waiting for your tire to fill up. |
| 1:46.5 | So they're everywhere. |
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