Oscar Goodman
This week, we're talking about the universe's happiest mayor, Oscar Goodman! Take this one personally. For real, look upon this guy, ye mighty:
Municipal meeting minutes include: Indicted in battle. Walkin’ on the Son, A new immortal precept, B’nai brith for Las Vegas, d=Doing the hora with Lefty Rosenthal, Spaghetti mission, The strip is a Line, Another hooping mayor, Dry martinis and wet cigars, and No Nose’s Mob Meatballs.
Point of order: Mattie rewatched Casino today and "the new strip" was extant in 1995 so the year was a little off when she said that. Sorry!
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If you're pro union but anti homeless people, you're in the mob. EDIT: Going from the KJB episode on The Irishman that was all "crime doesn't pay and will ruin your life" to this story of a mob guy who just wins forever and is apparently the only truly happy person in history is... interesting, lol.
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May mere mortals become your portals to success in life
Please do not turn mortals into portals, their flesh burns and warps under heavy thaumic strain and it is generally seen as quite rude.
"you will never attend a '60s vegas mobbed-up bat mitzvah" why live
Microsoft has actually held several of their major conventions in Las Vegas in the last decade, and the consensus from everyone is "It's hot and there's nothing to do but gamble. I wanna go back to Seattle next year."
You guys should do a Frank Rizzo episode on the subject of Mayor + Statue
All-timer, so good
Genuinely surprised it took to nearly halfway to get a Fallout NV reference
Don't stop now! You're doing awesome 🔥 By the way, today is my birthday! I wanted to share it with everyone who reads this 🥰🌸
no gods, no-merta: the mob spin-off podcast
i have several questions including ‘Did Saul Goodman pick the name Goodman in honour of this guy?’
also idk i don’t wanna defend violent mobsters but between mob lawyer and corporate lawyer for fossil fuel/tobacco/finance, i think the karma for the former is better
Congrats Nova!!!!
Francis Suarez can’t be the bitcoin mayor because he cheated on bitcoin with miamicoin. You wouldn’t call someone the goldbug mayor if he also shilled silver or platinum, now would you?!? (“He” because let’s be real about the demographic here: he’s probably also cheating on juul with zyn.) Eric Adams, though, is probably most accurately the Turkish Airlines mayor, considering his preferred form of compensation.
We all know the only reason to go to the Old Mormon fort is to recruit Beatrix for the Wang Dang Atomic Tango quest
Listening to this and I’m having to remember this is not an episode of Kill James Bond and this stuff actually happened
Pls tell me the follow up of this will discuss how the porn industry moved to Vegas in the last decade bc that’s a whole wild thing and I hated going to that city for work tbh.
He didn't completely fail at attracting pro sports teams, they did get the XFL's Las Vegas Outlaws in 2001.
Congrats on the degree November!
You come to me on the day of my lawyer’s daughter’s bat mitzvah
“Obama you sick son of a bitch you oughta INVEST the whole country’s kids’ college fund in Las Vegas” -hopefully a verbatim Oscar Goodman quote
This is a man who is cashing out all his karma in one lifetime
This guy sounds like a Penn Central Railroad executive.
I’m thinking this is all a far fetched movie synopsis- going for a cross over of all November’s podcasts
The Oversized Martini is realy Fume Chalice of Chocolates coded
I like how that first electoral result might as well be from “guys he has personally gotten out of jail” Voting for him
I have been to the Mob Museum and frankly it’s a pretty good museum. The bar in the basement now makes more sense
I have too! A weird but well-curated experience.
Jimmy Chagra/Chakra riffs have caused a coughing fit from laughing so damn hard.
"YWNGTA1964MUBM" copy pasta flowing through the channels of my mind at this time
It’s Nev-AD-uh not Nev-ahd-a (spent two cursed years in law school there and the DMV has a giant sign that says this). Locals are often deeply offended by the mispronunciation. Also Las Vegas as a place to live is kind of like if a city were a big pyramid scheme
Keep the name in a foreign language, get mad when people pronounce it correctly. \n On related news, you can inflict 2-8 sanity damage by pronouncing Detroit in the correct french pronunciation .
Police chief is a type of mayor, right? I offer, James Davis as an interesting/depressing study on how the L.A.P.D got like this.
Congratulations November ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is vintage NGNM
As a fan of 60s Vegas mob bullshit, I just want to recommend Michael Mann's followup to Miami Vice, the 1980s TV series Crime Story. The Ray Luca character is based in part on Tony Spilotro, who Mann went to high school with.
That show slaps. The second season gets a little silly, but it has such style and Dennis Goddamn Farina.
Due to recent events I am looking forward to NGNM covering Hometown mayor Carol Holiday
What happens in unincorporated Clark County land stays in unincorporated Clark County land
been playing skyrim and I find myself filled with a desire to know whether the mayortaculus would deem jarls to be mayors
God, remember sports before sports betting apps? Now I'm watching professional wrestling (notably SCRIPTED) and even THEY have Draft Kings sponsorships.
Turkish oil wrestling is the last refuge of the true sports aficionado.
eyyy, boss, i don't like dis guy's aura
Release the Crunch Cut
Reluctantly said Dudes Rock when you went through the office inventory
Black n white pinstripes: Deseret (sic) camo? Was the deseret one of the big casinos on the strip? Or did I mishear the hosts?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
Yes! As a Vegas bartender who had to clean up after him I'm so excited for this episode
Also a few notes: the brain center is a Frank Ghery building which I feel is a bit cruel, I have worked in the Mob Museum but actually have never taken the tour (but it does seem really good), and eternally fuck Adelson.
The picture of him with a big Martini and two woman on both sides of him has big "Grandpa in Vegas" vibes.
I'm not gonna lie, I didn't even read the disrupting to see that he was, indeed, the Mayor of Las Vegas. He's perfect, I can see why he's the happiest mayor.