Criminal

Crazy Eddie

Mar 17, 2023

39:47

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Episode guests

Gary Weiss

Highlights

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Episode notes

Sammy Antar's Crazy Eddie

01:37

Sammy Antar and the FBI

01:50

Crazy Eddie, Light Up Your Life With Prices That Are Insane

02:50

Introduction

2min

Crazy Eddie, Light Up Your Life With Prices That Are Insane

3min

Sammy Antart: Crazy Eddie Antart

4min

Crazy Eddie - The Three Musketeers

2min

Crazy Eddie - A History of the Business

2min

Crazy Eddie's Not Playing With a Full Deck

2min

How to Break the Loop in New York City

2min

Crazy Eddie - The Story of Sami Antar

2min

How to Take Crazy Eddie Off the Stock Market

2min

10.

Crazy Eddie, Inc. - What Was the Day of the IPO?

2min

11.

Sammy Antar's Crazy Eddie

2min

12.

Sammy Zinn's Crazy Eddie

3min

13.

Crazy Eddie - Is There a Fraud?

2min

14.

Sammy Antar and the FBI

2min

15.

What Was It Like When You Finally Had to Face Eddie in Court?

2min

16.

Were You Angrily at Him?

4min

In the 1980s, the discount electronics chain store Crazy Eddie was so famous, its commercials were parodied on "Saturday Night Live." So when the family business began selling its company shares on Wall Street — making millions — nobody questioned its success.

Gary Weiss’ book is Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie.

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