Dave Landau
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And they'd be like, thanks.
And then a guy would just like cut the dude's finger off and he would take his ring.
Like they were like the level of cruelty these guys would inflict on people to take over a city was next level.
Even Capone wouldn't mess with them because he was over in Chicago and needed some of these guys to supply the liquor.
They did a mob museum thing on it I went and saw in Vegas.
Like that book right there, The Organized Crime in Detroit, that's a great book.
And it's got a lot of fun photos.
But, yeah, they were as ruthless as you could absolutely get.
Yeah, none of them are happy.
Those are hard-looking dudes.
Yeah, they had a rough, rough life.
So a lot of them were just, like, stray kids that were Irish that were just abandoned by their parents.
And then the rest were these Jewish kids whose parents owned a shoe store.
And, I mean, eventually they dismantled.
But, you know, during Prohibition, they reigned.
It's a really cool story that I've always wanted to see in a movie, and nobody's been able to execute it, and I would love to see it.
I hope people do, because it's such a cool story.