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Morgan White Filled In On NightSide with Dan ReaFrom author Bill Friedman comes the inside story about America's most powerful gangland leaders. Learn about the roles these men played which eventually led to the creation of the Las Vegas Strip. Morgan and Friedman, author of 30 Illegal Years To The Strip: The Untold Stories of the Gangsters Who Built The Early Las Vegas Strip discussed them.Ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio and listen to NightSide with Dan Rea Weeknights From 8PM-12AM!
Morgan White Jr. filled in on NightSide:There were three dominating Prohibition gangs and inside those gangs were seven leaders who upheld traditional business values and rejected the key tools of organized crime. Through various dealings, they earned every criminal's respect, and eventually became the most powerful gangland leaders in American history. Bill Friedman, author of 30 Illegal Years To The Strip: The Untold Stories of the Gangsters Who Built The Early Las Vegas Strip, joined Morgan to talk about the roles of these gang leaders who eventually came together to build the Las Vegas Strip.
Listen to real inside stories of Las Vegas by an author who knew many of the mob founders and the inside stories. – Don't miss this interview with Bill Friedman who has written 30 Illegal Years to The Strip. Learn who Ben “Bugsy” Siegel, Meyer Lansky, “Lucky” Luciano, Frank Costello, Moe Dalitz, and Benny Binion really were, the code they followed, and how Vegas came to be. The truth may surprise you. #LasVegas, #BillFreidman, #TheHistoryofLasVegas www.tncradio.live http://www.billfriedmanauthor.com/ https://amzn.to/2YHomqH
All our lives are ruled by time and it's a fundamental part of our daily routines but what if we could make time go more slowly - or quickly? Adrian Bejan, a professor in thermodynamics at Duke University says that this is possible if we just open our minds to how we perceive change. And if we could make time last longer, what would be the most efficient way of using it? We get some tips from Laura Vanderkam a writer and speaker on time management. Plus, research scientist Christian Clot tells us about an experiment where all markers of time were taken away, including clocks, watches and sunlight - and what that could mean for how we live in the future. And casino designer and consultant, Bill Friedman explains how the idea of timelessness is put to practical use in casinos where professional gamblers want to feel that they're always in the moment. Picture: antique clocks, Picture credit: Getty Images Presenter: Elizabeth Hotson Producer: Sarah Treanor
George Noory and author Bill Friedman discuss the mafia's connections to the creation of Las Vegas, how casinos dealt with people with massive gambling debts, and how entertainers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Don Rickles attracted gamblers to the casinos. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Bill Friedman Bill's career for years as a Vegas casino manager has always fascinated me. Delve into that aspect of his colorful background
Our guest this week is Jim Kilby. Jim was a professor at UNLV, has written books on casino management, casino marketing, and casino operations. His career as both a blackjack player, and dealer goes back 50 years.We welcome your questions - send them to us at gamblingwithanedge@gmail.com, or you can find me at @RWM21 on Twitter or https://www.facebook.com/GamblingWithAnEdge.podcastClick to listen - Alt click to downloadShow Notes[00:00] Introduction of Jim Kilby, UNLV professor and former blackjack player and dealer[00:36] Dealing blackjack at 19 years old[03:36] Identifying card counters in the late 1960s and early 1970s[09:07] Playing Blackjack as a Business by Lawrence Revere[13:14] Playing blackjack while dealing, playing conditions[17:35] Private lessons with Lawrence Revere[22:39] Engraved Zippo lighters[25:27] Counting in Panama[26:20] Bob Griffin, playing in Puerto Rico, cruises[30:48] Returning to the casino industry after college, teaching[36:50] South Point Casino January Promotions - $400k Spin to Win [37:20] Predictit.org/promo/edge - place small wagers on various political events, $20 deposit match for GWAE listeners[38:29] BlackjackApprenticeship.com - card counting training site and community[39:08] VideoPoker.com/gwae - Gold Membership offers correction on most games[40:34] Casino Operations Management by Jim Kilby and Jim Fox[44:19] Ace location team at The Dunes[49:56] Team manuals picked up by surveillance[54:06] Recommended - unclaimed money, Veggie GrillSponsored Links:SouthPointCasino.comPredictit.org/promo/edgeBlackjackApprenticeship.comVideoPoker.com/gwae Jim Kilby's Links:Principlesofcasinomarketing.comIntroductiontocasinomanagement.com Books by Jim Kilby https://amzn.to/39GbKShBooks Referenced:Playing Blackjack as a Business by Lawrence Revere https://amzn.to/3qFT7EJCasino Management by Bill Friedman https://amzn.to/35YkrX6Recommended:Usa.gov/unclaimed-moneyVeggieGrill.com
This podcast features the Selling to Health Plans panel discussion at the Digital Health Growth Summit, moderated by our very own Shahid Shah, with panelists Vijay Bhatt, Deputy CTO, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Bill Friedman, Vice President of Sales, Zipari. The panel covers some of the most important digital health technologies that health plans are interested in and how digital health startups can get health plan executives to buy the technologies they're building. One of my favorite points is that you've got to de-risk the decision to buy: Start small and build-up Pilots are not bad when done right Show the IT department that you won't be a pain in their neck Show the finance department a transparent roadmap of the true cost of ownership from implementation thru tangible ROI. Some great advice for anyone trying to sell in healthcare. This panel discussion complements several recent episodes: Episode 145: How Payers Can Master Core Administrative Transactions and Deliver a World-class Experience to their Members and Providers w/ Steve Krupa Episode 148: Partnering with Payers w/ Andrew-Adrian Karlin of Highmark Episode 150: How to Turn the Growth Engine on in your Digital Health Startup with Bryan Loomis – one of the organizers of this event Episode 151: Shifting Healthcare's Culture Toward Openness and Experimentation with Red Hat's Paul Jones where we talk about his experience as a buyer at a health plan and how that helps him in his new role as a seller. We focus on selling a lot because you may have the best solution in the world, but nothing happens until someone sells something. The Digital Health Growth Summit The Digital Health Growth Summit, hosted by Actionable Intelligence Network and Viral Healthcare Founders, is an on-demand virtual event. The Summit was held on October 29-30, 2020. This two-day Summit highlights the marketing, sales, and leadership capabilities and strategies that are necessary for digital health startups to grow and scale. Speakers include nationally recognized growth experts and executives from digital health companies, hospitals, health systems, health plans, investors and accelerators. The Summit is designed to meet the information needs of marketing and sales leaders and other senior executives at digital health startups. The program would also be of interest to digital health accelerators, the investment community, consulting firms, and marketing and sales technology companies. Videos of all presentations from the Digital Health Growth Summit can be accessed by registering on the Summit website: https://ain.events/dhgsummit/ Thank you to Satish Kavirajan, Managing Director at the Actionable Intelligence Network (AIN), and Bryan Loomis, Founder at Viral Healthcare Founders for allowing us to share this content with you The #HCBiz Show! is produced by Glide Health IT, LLC in partnership with Netspective Media.
Former Michigan basketball star and NBA vet Nik Stauskas joined and reflected on his professional basketball career to this point, discussed his favorite moments from his Wolverine career and more. (0:40-33:30) Then, BTN staffers Harold Shelton III and Bill Friedman joined Alex Roux to run through some personal "All-Decade" favorites from the past ten years of Big Ten sports. (35:00-end)
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Bill Friedman has spent his entire adult life working in and around the Las Vegas casino business, alongside the gangsters who built the Las Vegas Strip. He has spent countless hours interviewing members of The Mafia, researching their histories and building a picture of the gambling industry in America. In this fascinating conversation, Bill shares the stories … Continue reading MATE 013 – Bill Friedman reveals the business principles of Las Vegas gangsters The post MATE 013 – Bill Friedman reveals the business principles of Las Vegas gangsters appeared first on MATE podcast.
Still recapping the Packers loss to Atlanta. Plus we talk Badger hoops with assistant coach LaMont Paris. BTN's Bill Friedman on the BTN special on the 2015 Wisconsin Badgers. Plus Marques Pfaff of The Score in Appleton. Drew Olson checks in too!
Bill Friedman is president of the Friedman Management Group. The firm specializes in solving management, design, marketing, operations, and internal controls problems for the hospitality industry on a worldwide basis. He became the only person who has ever managed two Las Vegas Strip casinos simultaneously even though many companies have owned multiple casinos. He was president and general manager of the Castaways Hotel and Casino (now the site of the Mirage Hotel and Casino) and the Silver Slipper Casino in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip for the Howard Hughes empire which was the world’s largest privately-owned company. He quickly transformed them from long-term losers into top profit makers. Bill has consulted for thirty-eight years to casinos throughout the United States, Caribbean, England, Russia, Asia, South Africa, Australia, Canada, and South America. As a long-term advisor to the S.B.M. (Societe des Bains de Mer), directed by the principality of Monaco, Bill advised Monte Carlo’s most prestigious hotels, exclusive high limit casinos, and slot operations. Joining #BGEPresents with host @jiggyjaguar , Bill speaks about his award nominated title "All Against the Law".
Have you ever wondered how the Godfathers personal lives and business activities created celebrity-like personalities who ran certain cities such as Chicago, New York, and Vegas without fear of being arrested or indicted by law enforcement for many years, but how they must have lived each day as if it could be their last? Join us in Author's Corner at 9:30am pst and 12:30pm est - grab a cup o' coffee and sit back and relax as our dynamic guest, Bill Friedman, the expert with an impressive background shares his books with the world. Enter into the Justice Club and get commentary and opinions on the legal abuses that are being used against the entire nation as the Y,S, constitution under the current regime is declared "meaningless." Join Rose every MWF, 9am-10:30am pst and 12-1:30pm est at Freedomizer Radio at BTR as all shows are archived. Listen to your favorite authors and experts at Rose4Justice Blogs N Radio Shows at www.rose4justice.com - Bookmark! Share! Follow and LIke - if you enjoy thinking outside of the box.
For Beyond 50's "History" talks, listen to an interview with Bill Friedman. He'll talk about his 48 years of research and experiences hanging out with famous gangsters who built the early Las Vegas Strip gambling resorts. After Prohibition ended, the leaders of the country's four biggest gangs began operating elegant, high-rolling casinos across America, until local reformers closed them. Then these four gang's leaders built 80% of the Las Vegas Strip gambling resorts from the Flamingo in 1946 to Caesars Palace in 1966. Exposed for the first time are the roles actually played by gang leaders Ben Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Al Capone, Frank Nitti, and Moe Dalitz. Tune in to Beyond 50: America's Variety Talk Radio Show on the natural, holistic, green and sustainable lifestyle. Visit www.Beyond50Radio.com and sign up for our Exclusive Updates.
For Beyond 50's "History" talks, listen to an interview with Bill Friedman. He'll talk about his 48 years of research and experiences hanging out with famous gangsters who built the early Las Vegas Strip gambling resorts. After Prohibition ended, the leaders of the country's four biggest gangs began operating elegant, high-rolling casinos across America, until local reformers closed them. Then these four gang's leaders built 80% of the Las Vegas Strip gambling resorts from the Flamingo in 1946 to Caesars Palace in 1966. Exposed for the first time are the roles actually played by gang leaders Ben Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Al Capone, Frank Nitti, and Moe Dalitz. Tune in to Beyond 50: America's Variety Talk Radio Show on the natural, holistic, green and spiritual lifestyle. Visit www.Beyond50Radio.com and sign up for our Exclusive Updates.
For Beyond 50's "History" talks, listen to an interview with Bill Friedman. He'll talk about his 48 years of research and experiences hanging out with famous gangsters who built the early Las Vegas Strip gambling resorts. After Prohibition ended, the leaders of the country's four biggest gangs began operating elegant, high-rolling casinos across America, until local reformers closed them. Then these four gang's leaders built 80% of the Las Vegas Strip gambling resorts from the Flamingo in 1946 to Caesars Palace in 1966. Exposed for the first time are the roles actually played by gang leaders Ben Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Charlie Luciano, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Al Capone, Frank Nitti, and Moe Dalitz. Tune in to Beyond 50: America's Variety Talk Radio Show on the natural, holistic, green and sustainable lifestyle. Visit www.Beyond50Radio.com and sign up for our Exclusive Updates.
Bill Friedman wrote the award-winning, Depression era, true-crime All Against The Law. He wrote the groundbreaking research work Designing Casinos to Dominate the Competition, published by the University of Nevada Reno. He is also author of the seminal book for succeeding in the casino business, Casino Management. He taught the pioneer course in casino management for UNLV’s College of Hotel Administration during the decade of the 1970s. Friedman was president of the Castaways Hotel and Casino and the Silver Slipper Casino in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip for thirteen years. He transformed them from perennial losers into super successes, consistently in the top of Nevada’s highest profit-per-square-foot performers. Friedman is president of the Friedman Management Group, which specializes in solving casino marketing, design, and operations problems. He has consulted for forty years to casinos in the U.S. and in England, Monaco, Russia, South Africa, Australia, Canada, and several Caribbean Islands. www.BillFriedmanAuthor.com30 Illegal Years To The Strip is the inside story of Prohibition’s most powerful leaders, who later ran elegant, illegal casinos across America, before moving on to build the glamorous Las Vegas Strip gambling resorts.The seven leaders of the three dominating Prohibition gangs imported the world’s finest liquors on a massive scale. Although in an illegal and dangerous business, these seven espoused traditional business values and rejected the key tools of organized crime - monopoly, violence, and vendetta. This made them the most unlikely gangsters to rise to underworld leadership. But they earned every criminal’s respect, and fate made them the most powerful gangland leaders in American history.In the mid 1900s, these seven leaders stood up to, and restrained, America’s worst villains. The seven prevented many gangland wars and killings. Unbelievably, the most murderous and most psychopathic gang leaders not only admired them but supported them in gangland conflicts.These were the first gangs to work closely together in mutual interest. Joining these three dominating liquor-importers was the violent Chicago Capone gang, as they partnered in both illegal and legal businesses during and after Prohibition. They were also close allies in the complexities, treachery, and violence of underworld politics. Exposed for the first time are the roles actually played by gang leaders Ben Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Charlie Luciano, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Al Capone, John Torrio, Frank Nitti, and Moe Dalitz.Some of these seven leaders became powerful over world political kingmakers. Allied with them in New York City politics was Arnold Rothstein, the ultimate gambler. His murder is one of several major gangland killings finally solved here.The biggest-drawing entertainer in these gang leaders’ illegal-casino and Strip-resort showrooms was comedian Joe E. Lewis. He single-highhandedly saved the Copacabana from bankruptcy and turned it into America’s most famous and glamorous nightclub.The careers and relationships of the gang leaders, who together would go on to build the Las Vegas Strip, are presented for the first time in this thoroughly documented, in-depth, authentic history of how organized crime developed. It contains 546 source notes, and many addendum’s that expose the serious fallacies and outright fictions of previous books about early organized crime.This book is based on 48 years of research that began, when Friedman was drafted during the Vietnam War. A conscientious objector, he was ordered to spend his alternative service in Las Vegas hanging out with gangsters to study the history and operation of organized crime.
Ever wonder what some of the most notorious gangsters were like in real life? Sure, some movies have been made about them, like the classic Bugsy, but, today's guest, Bill Friedman, debunks these myths. He's spent almost his whole life befriending gangsters - and those who loved and hated them - while researching his new book, 30 Illegal Years to the Strip. Bill became fascinated with gambling from the time he was 7 years old and his parents took him to a casino. It led him to become a casino dealer, shill, casino manager, speaker at Vegas conventions, researcher and author. Find out how he pulled himself back from the brink of becoming a compulsive gambler, and sit back as he takes us on a fascinating journey into the shadowy gambling world.
Bill Friedman is author of "All Against The Law: The Criminal Activities of the Depression Era Bank Robbers, Mafia, FBI, Politicians, & Cops", the fast-action crime story with shocking political exposes. He also wrote the groundbreaking research work Designing Casinos to Dominate the Competition published by the University of Nevada Reno. He is author of the seminal book for succeeding in the casino business Casino Management. He taught the pioneer course in casino management for the University of Nevada Las Vegas's College of Hotel Administration in the early years during the decade of the 1970s.Friedman is president of the Friedman Management Group, which specializes in solving casino marketing, design, and operations problems. He has consulted for forty years to casinos throughout the United States and in England, South Africa, Monaco, Australia, Russia, Canada, and several Caribbean Islands.Friedman was president and general manager of the Castaways Hotel and Casino and the Silver Slipper Casino in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip for thirteen years. He transformed them from perennial losers into super successes, consistently in the top of Nevada's highest profit-per-square-foot performers.Casino Management explores all the aspects of the business and economic analysis of the gaming industry. It evaluates marketing, hosting, comps, junkets, entertainment and the value of groups. Credit is explained, verification, authorization and collection. The operation of the games, tables, slots, keno, poker and sports book is explained.