Sherry and Max have placed true weird stuff on hiatus as we enter the chaotic crunch time of the Christmas season.

In their stead, we present to you one of their award-winning episodes.

Winner of a W3 Award for Best History episode,

Koki and Lucky explores the rise and fall of the architect of the modern mafia.

The stock market crash of October 1929 plunged the U.S. into the Great Depression.

But there was at least one business that didn't suffer at all.

Prostitution.

A hardworking girl still had plenty of customers.

At the going rate of $2 for 15 minutes,

that'd be like picking up about $45 for a quarter hour's work today.

Even then, prostitution was a mob racket. And one of the biggest gangsters in the game at the time was a man named Charles Luciano. You might know him better by his nickname.

Lucky, lucky Luciano. Luciano was the most powerful mob boss in America. He made his fortune during prohibition.

It was his idea to create a commission to oversee organized crime in the United States.

He had his hands in everything dirty, from bootleg liquor to gambling to prostitution.

And then the law came calling.

This is the story of how Lucky Luciano's luck ran out,

and the woman who helped bring him down.

I just told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

No, no, no. No. No. No.

The poor. She was a weird. She was a prostitute and a madam. She was a liar sometimes, like any of us, and a heroin, and a heroin addict who became a grifter.

She was a liar sometimes, like any of us,

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