Osage County, Oklahoma is getting a lot of attention right now.

It's the setting of Martin Scorsese's latest film,

Killers of the Flower Moon.

The movies based on a book about the 1920s Osage murders,

when white men poured into Osage County

and killed Osage people for their oil wealth.

I'm Rachel Adams Heard, the host of InTrust, a podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Media.

For over a year I was reporting a different story about other ways white people got

Osage, land, land and wealth and how a prominent ranching family in Osage County became one of the biggest landowners here.

Their ranching empire was built on land that at the turn of the century was all owned by the Osage Nation.

So how did they get it?

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We're going to start this episode with a threat. The threat comes from Adam Newman, the CEO of We Work,

and he was talking to Jamie Hodari, a guy who runs a smaller rival co-working space called

industrious. The two CEOs were considering doing a deal together.

This was in 2017. And to talk it out, Adam invited Jamie to spend the day with him. They were going to fly to Atlanta to tour

each other's offices and Adam wanted to fly Jamie out on a private jet.

I got the calendar invite from his assistant and the plane was leaving from the Hamptons.

And I explained that I don't live in the Hamptons. I live very far from the Hamptons in Brooklyn and I was just going to fly

down commercially and meet them there and we'd still have the whole day in

Atlanta and and she explained that Mr. Newman insists that you come out so I had to take a like two hour

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