The Many Lives of Michael Malloy

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 39.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in Prohibition-era New York City hatched a plan — to take out life insurance on a loner named Michael Malloy, and make his death look like an accident. They thought it would be easy money. But Michael Malloy would become known as the man who just wouldn’t die. Simon Read’s book is On the House: The Bizarre Killing of Michael Malloy. 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. 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.
0:30.7	If you're in one of the upper-class speak-akeasy joints in Harlem, you're going to get sort of a high quality liquor.
0:37.0	If you're in a sort of hole in the wall dive like in the Bronx, you're going gonna get bathtub gin and rock gut whiskey and stuff that really isn't fit for human consumption
0:49.3	But gets you drunk but it gets you drunk and it eases the pain and probably gets you drunk and it eases the pain.
0:54.0	And probably gets you drunk quick too.
0:56.4	It gets you drunk very quick and it can also kill you.
1:01.8	Simon Reed is the author of the book on the house.
1:05.0	Like, Payton Thin or so.
1:06.0	And we're talking about that type of...
1:08.0	Exactly, exactly.
1:10.0	Methanol is used in in some of these concocions. Methanol, otherwise known as wood alcohol.
1:17.0	It's very toxic. It's used like you said in paint thinner. It's used in antifreeze, and a lot of other industrial products, but it was cheap, it was easy to come by, and so a lot of drinks were laced with this stuff.
1:30.0	By 1932, prohibition had been going on for 12 years.
1:35.0	There were tens of thousands of underground speakeeses all over New York City,
1:40.0	selling this cheap and dangerous type of alcohol.
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