The Real Eddie: His Scamming Is Insaaaaane!

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The rise and spectacular fall of Eddie Antar, the electronics mogul behind the Crazy Eddie brand. Who scammed his way from the streets of Brooklyn to Wall Street and then vanished without a trace.

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0:00.0	Camp site media
0:02.9	Hello
0:05.7	What is so what do you want me to say?
0:08.7	Oh, it's just my
0:09.8	Camelian.
0:11.2	Camillion weekly.
0:14.7	If you lived in the New York City
0:16.5	Tri-State area in the 70s and 80s,
0:19.1	you might remember turning on the TV
0:20.7	and hearing this.
0:22.2	It's a crazy Eddie blowout blitz. Will that be undersold? We cannot be undersold, and we mean it.
0:27.2	His blowout blitz sale prices are insane. That raving madman was the mascot of an electronics
0:35.6	chain called Crazy Eddie. The commercials were everywhere.
0:40.7	It was sort of a multicultural phenomenon. This is Gary Weiss. He's a New York-based
0:46.3	journalist who wrote the literal book on this infamous Brooklynite. It's called Retail Gangster,
0:52.6	the insane real-life story of Crazy Eddie.
0:56.8	You see, my father was an electronics engineer.
0:59.5	He did not shop at Crazy Eddie.
1:01.2	He didn't like that kind of store.
1:02.9	He never went there.
1:03.8	Never set forth inside a Crazy Eddie store.
1:06.3	And neither did Gary.
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