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Business Movers

The King of Booze | Rumrunner or Rockefeller? | 2

Business Movers

Wondery

History, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

George begins to grow his bootlegging empire, gathering an army of loyal soldiers to protect his investments and crush his rivals.

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0:31.0

It's late at night in 1920 on the Ohio Kentucky border.

0:35.0

Bootlegger George Remus is tense as he sits in the passenger seat of a slow moving truck crossing a bridge over the Ohio River.

0:43.0

The truck is carrying thousands of dollars worth of whiskey and George knows the police are always on the lookout for illegal booze crossing state lines.

0:52.0

George wants to get to his destination as fast as possible, but suddenly his armed driver hits the brakes.

0:59.0

George snaps at him.

1:01.0

What the hell are you doing?

1:03.0

The driver nods toward the road ahead.

1:05.0

George looks out the windshield and sees that a large sedan has stopped in front of them.

1:10.0

I'll go around it.

1:11.0

George is driver nods, but before he can move forward, four armed men hop out of the park sedan and rush towards George's truck.

1:20.0

George's driver panics, opens his door and runs away, fleeing into the underbrush alongside the road.

1:27.0

Just as the armed men reach the truck and point a pistol in George's face, hands up and get out of the truck.

1:34.0

George does as he's told.

1:37.0

When he steps out of the vehicle, the gunman grabs him and throws him into the road.

1:42.0

The other men form a circle around George, as the leader cocks his weapon and takes aim.

1:48.0

Fearing for his life, George knows he needs to come up with a persuasive argument and fast.

1:53.0

And thankfully, though George may be a rum runner now, he's also been an expert lawyer.

1:58.0

Hey gentlemen, I wouldn't do that if I were you.

2:01.0

Yeah, why is that?

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