The Outfit

• Willie Bioff: Labor Racketeering in Hollywood's Golden Age

  This week on the Outfit, we head to La La Land, hot on the trail of a Chicago Outfit thug with stars in his eyes. Amidst the palm trees and swimming pools, Dan and Alana journey to the dark side of 1940s Hollywood, rife with tyrannical studio heads, corrupted unions, and the stark threat of mob violence. Plus, what happens when Mickey Mouse goes union busting.SourcesThe Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age by Jake S. FriedmanThe Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus RussoShadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor by David WitwerThe Hollywood Connection : The True Story of Organized Crime in Hollywood by Michael MunnTime Magazine, Reader's Digest, Omaha World-Herald, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Kansas City Times, Associated Press, The Birmingham News, Tulsa World, San Francisco Examiner, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Worker, Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, U.P., Los Angeles Daily News, Long Beach Independent, Los Angeles Mirror.---The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope LevinsonExecutive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope LevinsonProduced by Julia MurrayProduction Assistance by CJ Archerd and Franchesca DiazSound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew EapenShow theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTELike the show? Rate The Outfit on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review.Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on The Outfit via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• The Kray Twins: London's Master Blackmailers

  This week on The Outfit, a fateful exploration into the UK’s most infamous gangster twins and how the web of blackmail they weaved through the country’s political sphere has shocking resonance to current events. Join Dan and Alana as they delve into a British tale so English it could be parody.Sources:John Pearson, The Profession of Violence, The Cult of Violence, NotoriousJohn Dickson, Murder Without ConvictionDaniel Smith, The Peer and the Gangster: A Very British Cover-UpThe Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The Times (London), The Guardian, Daily Express, The Independent, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, GQ, Politico, BBC, Channel 4.---The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope LevinsonExecutive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope LevinsonProduced by Julia MurrayProduction Assistance by CJ Archerd and Franchesca DiazSound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew EapenManaging Producer is Tiffany HammondShow theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTELike the show? Rate The Outfit on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review.Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on The Outfit via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• William Handhardt: The Celebrity Cop

  This week, Dan and Alana discuss William Hanhardt, who rose to become chief of Detectives in the Chicago Police Department. Subject of the hit television series, "Crime Story" and technical advisor on Michael Mann's "Thief," Handhardt was a cop's cop gone Hollywood: a no-nonsense tough guy whose squad inspired the cops in crime classic, "Heat." But behind the badge was a far more sobering reality, uncomfortably intertwined with the Outfit.Sources:Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob by Jeff CoenMob Cop: My Life of Crime in the Chicago Police Department by Fred Pascente with Sam ReavesA Gun in My Gucci: Two Outsiders Take Down the Chicago Mob by E.C. SmithNewspapers and magazines including The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Reader, and The Atlantic.---The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope LevinsonExecutive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope LevinsonProduced by Julia MurrayProduction Assistance by Franchesca Diaz and CJ ArcherdSound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew EapenManaging Producer is Tiffany HammondShow theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTELike the show? Rate The Outfit on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review.Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on The Outfit via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• The Mafia & Gay Bars: The Raid on Louie's Fun Lounge

  This week, what does it mean to make a deal with the devil? Dan and Alana examine Richard Ogilvie and his tumultuous path to governor of Illinois, and whether the moral compromises he made to get there were worth the legacy (or lack of one) he leaves behind. Plus, the shocking history of mafia infiltration of queer nightlife, and how corrupt policing and homophobia continue to resound today. Sources:Newspapers including The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Reader, The Windy City Times, Arlington Heights Daily Herald, The Daily Calumet, Columbia Journalism Review, Chicago American, Chicago Daily News.PBS SoCal---The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope LevinsonExecutive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope LevinsonProduced by Julia MurrayProduction Assistance by CJ Archerd and Franchesca DiazSound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew EapenManaging Producer is Tiffany HammondShow theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTELike the show? Rate The Outfit on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review.Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on The Outfit via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• World Trade Center: The Towers the Mob Built

  On the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Dan and Alana dig into a shockingly under-examined story: how the mafia profited from the World Trade Center. From its inception to collapse in Lower Manhattan, the center’s construction was fraught with incompetence and political corruption.SourcesGrand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11 by Wayne Barrett and Dan CollinsThe Unthinkable Happened: The Fall of the World Trade Center Towers by Charlie ThorntonManufacturing Discontent: The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society by Michael PerelmanNever Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success by Michael D'AntonioThe Gotti Tapes: The Sensational FBI Tapes That Convicted America's Most Powerful Mobster by Ralph BlumenthalMob Star: The Story of John Gotti by Gene Mustain and Jerry CapeciCrime Scene: World Trade Center by J. R. de SzigethyWorld Trade Center Building Performance Study, FEMA, May 2002World Trade Center Investigation, NISTRecord Briefs, New York State Appellate CourtPrint sources include UPI, CBS News, PBS, Washington Post, The New York Times, the New York Daily News, Newsday, The Village Voice, Spy, New York Magazine, New York Post, The Conversation, The Militant, Wikipedia.---The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope LevinsonExecutive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope LevinsonProduced by Julia MurrayProduction Assistance by Franchesca Diaz and CJ ArcherdSound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew EapenManaging Producer is Tiffany HammondShow theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTELike the show? Rate The Outfit on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review.Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on The Outfit via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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