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Raymond. 6 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:22,499 [laughs] 7 00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:24,499 Luciano is like, 8 00:00:24,500 --> 00:00:29,499 We're gonna kill this guy Bugsy 'cause he's a pain in the ass. 9 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:31,499 [laughing] Right. 10 00:00:31,500 --> 00:00:34,499 They say, Let's make a casino that black people can come to. 11 00:00:34,500 --> 00:00:36,499 It's called the Moulin Rouge. 12 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:40,499 No, every word is wrong. 13 00:00:40,500 --> 00:00:42,847 [patriotic music] 14 00:00:47,303 --> 00:00:51,183 sync & correction by f1nc0 ~ Addic7ed.com ~ 15 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:58,499 Las Vegas is the most fabulous, over-the-top, insane place. 16 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:00,499 This place is a shared psychosis. 17 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:04,499 There's nobody here who should be here. It's hot as balls. 18 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:07,999 Vegas is amazing, that we can support millions 19 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,908 and millions of people in the midderal... in the middle 20 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:14,499 of one of the driest climates in the entire world. 21 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:15,499 It's beautiful. 22 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:20,499 - Is that good? - Yeah, I mean, if you're a pussy. 23 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:23,499 - To good life, health, and happiness. - Yes. 24 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:24,500 - Yes. - Amen. 25 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:29,500 [plastic cracking] 26 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:34,499 [coughs] 27 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:35,499 Did you get cut? 28 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:37,499 - No. - Me neither. 29 00:01:37,500 --> 00:01:40,499 Hello, my name is Chris Romano, 30 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:44,499 and today we're gonna talk about James T. McWilliams. 31 00:01:44,500 --> 00:01:46,899 Deal with it. 32 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:50,499 So in 1902, a Canadian guy 33 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:54,499 named James T. McWilliams hears, 34 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:57,499 Oh, they're building this [bleep] railroad 35 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:01,499 through Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. 36 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:02,499 So he says to himself, 37 00:02:02,500 --> 00:02:06,499 I can go there, buy some land in the middle, 38 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:07,499 and build a town. 39 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:10,499 He then goes, Holy [bleep], I [bleep] purchased the land. 40 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:11,499 This is amazing. 41 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:14,499 I'm gonna start selling land so I can make some money. 42 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:18,499 I'm gonna start selling land for $100 a plot. 43 00:02:18,500 --> 00:02:21,499 So he starts selling $100 here, $100 there. 44 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:26,277 So then comes 1904. He's got a town full of 2,000 people, 45 00:02:26,325 --> 00:02:28,500 and this is on the west side of the tracks. 46 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:32,499 In comes [bleep]-face William Clark. 47 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:36,499 He used to be a senator from Montana. He was very corrupt. 48 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:40,499 He was delivering bribes. He was taking bribes. 49 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:45,499 They bri... He bribed them to the bone. 50 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:46,499 [laughing] To the bone. 51 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:49,500 [laughter] 52 00:02:50,500 --> 00:02:53,499 - To the what? - To the bone. 53 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:55,499 To the bone! 54 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:59,499 So William Clark buys 1,800 [bleep] acres of this stuff 55 00:02:59,500 --> 00:03:02,499 on the east side, the opposite side of the railroad, 56 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:04,499 where McWilliams has his property. 57 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:09,499 William Clark gets... So Lilliam... 58 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:11,499 God damn it. 59 00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:14,499 So William Clark gets flooded with requests 60 00:03:14,500 --> 00:03:17,197 from so many people that want to buy plots of his land, 61 00:03:17,255 --> 00:03:21,499 then he realizes, Oh, [bleep], I'm an idiot. 62 00:03:21,500 --> 00:03:24,345 I should just [bleep] auction this off. 63 00:03:24,371 --> 00:03:26,499 I'm gonna rescind all of the properties that I've sold. 64 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:27,499 People are like, What the [bleep]? 65 00:03:27,500 --> 00:03:30,499 And he goes, I'm doing an auction. 66 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:32,499 McWilliams goes, Good! 67 00:03:32,500 --> 00:03:35,499 In the meantime, I'm gonna do a smear campaign. 68 00:03:35,500 --> 00:03:39,499 Hey! My town's got meat markets. 69 00:03:39,500 --> 00:03:43,499 My town's got hotels. My town's got restaurants. 70 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:47,499 My town's got meat markets. My town's got restaurants. 71 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:50,499 And he goes, [bleep] you, that's not a smear campaign. 72 00:03:50,500 --> 00:03:54,499 I'm gonna have a [bleep] gala event. 73 00:03:54,500 --> 00:03:58,499 - So "Everybody Loves Ray"... - Raymond. [laughs] 74 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:01,499 It's true, everybody does. 75 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:04,499 So in 1905, May 15th, 76 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:07,499 William Clark throws this giant event. 77 00:04:07,500 --> 00:04:13,499 They end up buying the land, not for $100 but for $3,000 a plot of land. 78 00:04:13,500 --> 00:04:16,820 This civic... silva... [laughing] 79 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:21,499 This is my favorite part of it, [laughter] 80 00:04:21,500 --> 00:04:24,499 when you guys look like idiots 81 00:04:24,500 --> 00:04:27,499 and I'm the one who knows the [bleep] most. 82 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:31,499 Okay, the west side of the tracks is the ramshackle town. 83 00:04:31,500 --> 00:04:35,499 It has really [bleep] shanty little [bleep] goddamn 84 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:39,499 little wooden shacks with tarps over the top. 85 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:42,499 The east side is thriving. The rich people are getting rich. 86 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:45,499 The [bleep] poor people are getting poor over on the west side. 87 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:51,499 So James T. McWilliams says, [bleep] A. You [bleep] destroyed me. 88 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:54,499 You beat me. You got all these [bleep] people 89 00:04:54,500 --> 00:04:56,499 to move to your [bleep] west side... 90 00:04:56,500 --> 00:04:58,499 I mean east side of [bleep] town. 91 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:05,499 [bleep] you. And [bleep] west... east side, 92 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:07,499 [bleep]... 93 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:12,499 William Clark was like, He's a [bleep] sore in my side. 94 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:13,499 That's right, yeah. 95 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:16,499 A sore in my... a sore in my side. 96 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:18,500 - Does that sound right? - Mm-hmm. 97 00:05:20,500 --> 00:05:23,499 What happens, one mysterious night, 98 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:26,499 James T. McWilliams looks out and says, 99 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:31,499 Oh, you...[bleep]. My [bleep] God damn town's on fire. 100 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:33,499 His town has been burnt to the ground. 101 00:05:33,500 --> 00:05:34,499 [bleep] William Clark's like... 102 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:37,499 [whistles] I didn't [bleep] have anything to do with that. 103 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:39,499 Everybody knows, west side and east side, 104 00:05:39,500 --> 00:05:41,499 that's what [bleep] happened. 105 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:42,499 He's a shady [bleep] rich [bleep] character 106 00:05:42,500 --> 00:05:45,499 who [bleep] his way into this [bleep] town anyway. 107 00:05:45,500 --> 00:05:47,499 - Oh, all right. - Shoot. 108 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:49,199 - Let's finish the story. - Oh, damn, wait. 109 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:52,773 Oh, damn, I got a spill. [bleep], I got a spill. 110 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:56,499 - [bleep]. - What did you... pick it up. 111 00:05:56,500 --> 00:05:58,499 [farts] 112 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:00,500 [laughter] 113 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:06,499 James T. McWilliams is destroyed at this point. 114 00:06:06,500 --> 00:06:08,499 Leaves [bleep] town. He's like, I'm [bleep] done. 115 00:06:08,500 --> 00:06:10,310 I [bleep]... I moved here from Canada, 116 00:06:10,345 --> 00:06:12,499 thinking I was gonna strike it rich. I did for a second. 117 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:15,222 [bleep]-face comes through here, William Clark, 118 00:06:15,231 --> 00:06:18,132 and destroys my whole [bleep] life. 119 00:06:20,300 --> 00:06:24,299 Years later... months later... 120 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:28,299 decades later, the county that Las Vegas is in 121 00:06:28,300 --> 00:06:30,300 is not named after the guy who founded it. 122 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:34,299 It is named after the [bleep] asshole briber, 123 00:06:34,300 --> 00:06:36,299 [bleep] copper baron guy. 124 00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:40,299 Clark County, that's where Las Vegas is. 125 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:42,299 See, do you shake your penis when you're done? 126 00:06:42,300 --> 00:06:44,299 Or do you shake your balls? 127 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:47,299 - See what I do when I'm done? - I just piss until I'm done. 128 00:06:47,300 --> 00:06:49,299 But when you're done, do you shake your penis or your 129 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:51,299 - balls when you're done? - Not neither. 130 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:55,299 See, when I'm done, I do this. I'm done. 131 00:06:55,300 --> 00:06:56,800 [laughter] 132 00:06:57,649 --> 00:07:00,548 [whistle tooting] [upbeat rock music] 133 00:07:00,549 --> 00:07:02,548 [cheering] 134 00:07:02,549 --> 00:07:04,548 [whistle blowing] 135 00:07:04,549 --> 00:07:06,583 I want to do what you guys do. 136 00:07:06,618 --> 00:07:10,549 - And you just double flip, back. - Ah! 137 00:07:12,549 --> 00:07:15,548 - Ah! - Oh! 138 00:07:15,549 --> 00:07:18,548 [upbeat rock music] 139 00:07:19,549 --> 00:07:22,549 Vegas! [cheering] 140 00:07:24,216 --> 00:07:27,548 - That's it. We killed it. - All right, well... 141 00:07:27,549 --> 00:07:29,549 We drank that whole bottle. 142 00:07:29,550 --> 00:07:32,548 - Cheers. - Cheers, my brother. 143 00:07:32,549 --> 00:07:35,548 Oh, hey. I'm Brendon Walsh, 144 00:07:35,549 --> 00:07:39,950 and today we're gonna talk about Bugsy Siegel. 145 00:07:40,549 --> 00:07:42,225 Yea-ah. 146 00:07:44,549 --> 00:07:46,548 [coughing] 147 00:07:46,649 --> 00:07:50,648 All right, so there's this craps game going on. 148 00:07:50,649 --> 00:07:51,648 These two Jewish kids, 149 00:07:51,649 --> 00:07:56,285 Benjamin Siegel and Meyer Lansky. 150 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,648 A scuffle broke out, and a loose gun fell out. 151 00:07:58,649 --> 00:08:00,649 Bugsy picked it up, and he's gonna shoot the guy. 152 00:08:01,649 --> 00:08:04,648 Meyer Lansky's like, The cops are coming, get out of here. 153 00:08:04,649 --> 00:08:07,648 Knocks the gun out of his hand. Got him out of the [bleep] situation. 154 00:08:07,649 --> 00:08:09,648 Started a friendship right there. 155 00:08:09,649 --> 00:08:13,648 And they became the Bugs-Meyer Mob. 156 00:08:13,649 --> 00:08:17,648 The mob's, like, being awesome, like they were back then. 157 00:08:17,649 --> 00:08:18,648 [laughs] 158 00:08:18,649 --> 00:08:24,648 So they're doing murders, and that caught the attention... 159 00:08:24,649 --> 00:08:27,648 [laughing] of Lucky Luciano. 160 00:08:27,649 --> 00:08:30,648 And Lucky Luciano is like, 161 00:08:30,649 --> 00:08:34,648 Why don't you go out West... [giggling] 162 00:08:34,649 --> 00:08:37,648 and expand our enterprise. 163 00:08:37,649 --> 00:08:41,610 So he goes out there, makes a bunch of Hollywood friends. 164 00:08:41,629 --> 00:08:44,230 He found out Billy Wilkerson 165 00:08:44,349 --> 00:08:48,648 is building this resort casino on the outskirts of Vegas. 166 00:08:48,649 --> 00:08:50,648 Ben Siegel's like, 167 00:08:50,649 --> 00:08:53,648 Well, that would be great, for me to be a part of that. 168 00:08:53,649 --> 00:08:59,118 So him and some of his mob buddies go to Vegas, and they're like, 169 00:08:59,153 --> 00:09:05,435 Hey, we're mob guys, so hit the bricks, or get beat up? 170 00:09:05,649 --> 00:09:11,648 Either way, go on and... wait. 171 00:09:11,649 --> 00:09:16,648 So [bleep] Bugsy goes to his buddy Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano. 172 00:09:16,649 --> 00:09:20,648 You know, he's like, It's gonna be called the Flamingo. 173 00:09:20,649 --> 00:09:24,352 I'm buddies with all these [bleep] movie stars and [bleep]. 174 00:09:24,649 --> 00:09:25,648 I'll fly them out. 175 00:09:25,649 --> 00:09:28,648 And they're like, All right, fine. Here's a million bucks. 176 00:09:28,649 --> 00:09:31,648 Bugsy Siegel's in charge. He doesn't know what he's doing. 177 00:09:31,649 --> 00:09:34,648 It's going way over budget. 178 00:09:34,649 --> 00:09:39,648 He's a crazy bed bug, Bug-sy. 179 00:09:39,649 --> 00:09:42,648 [chuckles] So at this point, 180 00:09:42,649 --> 00:09:45,648 Bugsy's got to go and ask for more money. 181 00:09:45,649 --> 00:09:47,648 And they're like, 182 00:09:47,649 --> 00:09:54,648 Let's, uh, maybe pull back on the money-asking situation. 183 00:09:54,649 --> 00:09:59,648 We also think you're stealing money, so watch your back. 184 00:09:59,649 --> 00:10:03,648 He's like, Ah! [bleep] you, man! 185 00:10:03,649 --> 00:10:07,648 Fine! I'll go get it done. 186 00:10:07,649 --> 00:10:11,648 And so after he bails, they're like, 187 00:10:11,649 --> 00:10:15,648 Let's kill him. And everyone's on board. 188 00:10:15,649 --> 00:10:18,648 But Lansky steps up, and he's like, 189 00:10:18,649 --> 00:10:22,648 Let's not kill this guy 190 00:10:22,649 --> 00:10:26,648 and see how it all turns out after the grand opening. 191 00:10:26,649 --> 00:10:30,648 And they're like, All right, fine. That's your boy, so... 192 00:10:30,649 --> 00:10:32,648 He saved his friend twice 193 00:10:32,649 --> 00:10:35,648 - so far in this story. - Right. 194 00:10:35,649 --> 00:10:39,648 They have the opening December 26, 1946. 195 00:10:39,649 --> 00:10:43,648 But the hotel room construction is still not done. 196 00:10:43,649 --> 00:10:45,648 People couldn't stay there. 197 00:10:45,649 --> 00:10:49,648 Bugsy's like, Everybody listen up! 198 00:10:49,649 --> 00:10:53,648 Now, I got planes full of movie stars coming here tonight, 199 00:10:53,649 --> 00:10:58,648 so everything's gonna get more glitzy and glamour-y 200 00:10:58,649 --> 00:11:02,648 than you could even understand. You won't even... 201 00:11:02,649 --> 00:11:04,648 what are you talking about? What? 202 00:11:04,649 --> 00:11:07,648 Wait-wait-wait-wait. What? 203 00:11:07,649 --> 00:11:10,330 Oh, the planes are grounded? 204 00:11:10,649 --> 00:11:13,648 It's [bleep] raining. So the planes are grounded. 205 00:11:13,649 --> 00:11:16,648 He can't all of his fancy buddies come there 206 00:11:16,649 --> 00:11:19,648 for the opening. They lose 300 grand. 207 00:11:19,649 --> 00:11:23,648 So it's a bust all around. 208 00:11:23,649 --> 00:11:25,493 All the mobsters, they're like, 209 00:11:25,649 --> 00:11:26,648 What the [bleep] is this [bleep]? 210 00:11:26,649 --> 00:11:29,492 Like, we're already kind of pissed at you. 211 00:11:29,649 --> 00:11:33,648 Bugsy decides to close the Flamingo down, 212 00:11:33,649 --> 00:11:38,648 finish the construction. So Benjamin Siegel... 213 00:11:38,649 --> 00:11:41,648 [laughing] 214 00:11:41,649 --> 00:11:44,649 [laughter] 215 00:11:46,649 --> 00:11:48,648 - Okay, so... - All right, all right. 216 00:11:48,649 --> 00:11:52,648 I'm ten times redder than I was when we started. 217 00:11:52,649 --> 00:11:55,648 - You're ten times what? - Redder. 218 00:11:55,649 --> 00:12:01,648 So, in March, he re-opens. It starts doing okay. 219 00:12:01,649 --> 00:12:04,287 It seems like things might be all right. 220 00:12:04,380 --> 00:12:06,648 Siegel goes to the mob guys, and he's like, 221 00:12:06,649 --> 00:12:12,648 Hey, it's a profit-turner, positive situation. 222 00:12:12,649 --> 00:12:14,648 That's great it's doing fine now, 223 00:12:14,649 --> 00:12:19,648 but pay us the money back that we put into this. 224 00:12:19,649 --> 00:12:22,648 He's like, I can't start paying you now, 225 00:12:22,649 --> 00:12:25,648 but we'll get it together. You know, whatever. 226 00:12:25,649 --> 00:12:30,648 He bails, and they were like, Unanimous vote! 227 00:12:30,649 --> 00:12:35,648 We're gonna kill this guy Ben that we call Bugsy, 228 00:12:35,649 --> 00:12:37,648 'cause he's a pain in the ass. 229 00:12:37,649 --> 00:12:39,648 And Lansky was like, 230 00:12:39,649 --> 00:12:46,648 Guys... I have no argument this time. 231 00:12:46,649 --> 00:12:49,648 It's a bummer. 232 00:12:49,649 --> 00:12:52,648 All right. Go ahead. 233 00:12:52,649 --> 00:12:57,648 Kill my buddy. I can't defend him anymore. 234 00:12:57,649 --> 00:13:00,648 So Bugsy goes back to L.A. 235 00:13:00,649 --> 00:13:02,346 Bugsy's sitting there reading the paper 236 00:13:02,384 --> 00:13:04,648 at, like, you know, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. 237 00:13:04,649 --> 00:13:08,648 And nine bullets come raining through the window. 238 00:13:08,649 --> 00:13:11,649 Two hit him, but one blew his left eye ball 239 00:13:12,649 --> 00:13:16,648 right out of his head. Like, [bleep] ten minutes later, 240 00:13:16,649 --> 00:13:21,648 Lansky's associates walk into the Flamingo, and they're like, 241 00:13:21,649 --> 00:13:27,426 Hey, we got this covered now. Bugsy's dead. 242 00:13:27,649 --> 00:13:33,648 Lansky and the Flamingo start making money hand over fist. 243 00:13:33,649 --> 00:13:38,648 Mobsters from all over the country flood into Las Vegas. 244 00:13:38,649 --> 00:13:43,161 And that's the story of the Vegas strip. 245 00:13:43,649 --> 00:13:48,648 What happens in Vegas sometimes follows you home, 246 00:13:48,649 --> 00:13:52,648 and it gets your eye ball shot out of your head. 247 00:13:52,649 --> 00:13:53,649 That's a good moral. 248 00:13:54,649 --> 00:13:56,793 [laughing] Right. 249 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:07,799 - Here's to the Civil Rights Movement. - Amen. 250 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,799 - Jim Crow, I heard you. - No, I'm not drinking to... 251 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,294 You almost made me drink to Jim Crow. [laughter] 252 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:15,799 - No, do it again, do it again, sorry. - [bleep] 253 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,799 you tried to sneak Jim Crow in at the end. 254 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:24,799 Hello. I'm Paul F. Tompkins. 255 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:29,299 And today we're going to talk about the Moulin Rouge 256 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:33,799 - Casino in Las Vegas. - Cheers. 257 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:38,519 At the time, like every... most city, 258 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,573 Jim Crow laws are in full effect! 259 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:42,799 Somebody like Nat "King" Cole, 260 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:44,799 He would do a show, and then he would 261 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:46,799 want to go inside with a friend of his. 262 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,800 It's like, Oh, we can't let you in here. 263 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:52,800 You know you're a black dude, right? 264 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,799 It's insane. Like, it's insane white people stuff. 265 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:58,799 Then comes these guys. 266 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,799 They say, Let's make a casino that black people can come to. 267 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:04,799 It's called the Moulin Rouge. 268 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:09,799 One of the investors is boxing great Joe Louis. 269 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,799 He's gonna be, like, the public face of the Moulin Rouge. 270 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:15,799 So, like, he's... 271 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:17,799 Every once in a while, the press checks in with him. 272 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,799 Joe Louis is like, We're doing a nationwide search 273 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:26,799 for all of these African-American, uh... 274 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:31,799 entertainers, uh... dealers, um, chefs. 275 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,799 Black people are gonna be, like, in the front of the house. 276 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,799 You're gonna see black people when you walk in there. 277 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,799 Like, really hyping it up. The Moulin Rouge opens. 278 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:44,799 There are lines around the block, people waiting to get in. 279 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,799 And they say, Oh, this is a new thing. 280 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,799 An integrated casino, I've never heard of such a thing, 281 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,799 because I'm a racist from the time in which I live. 282 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,799 Joe Louis is there. He's greeting everybody, Hi, come on in. 283 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,799 Come into the Moulin Rouge. It's French-themed. 284 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:01,799 I'm dressed as a cowboy. 285 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,799 Why? Who knows? 286 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,799 All these people, tons of people. Everybody's excited. 287 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,799 People are loving it. 288 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,799 A 9-year-old Gregory Hines is tap-dancing. 289 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,799 They have this thing called the Tropi Can Can. 290 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,799 Joe Louis, at the end of the show, says, 291 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,799 We have... this is not just the opening of a casino. 292 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,799 We have made history here tonight. 293 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,799 "Life" magazine does a story on it. 294 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,799 After that, white celebrities are showing up. 295 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,799 It's, like, Frank Sinatra with Louis Armstrong. 296 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:39,675 It's Billie Holiday with Judy Garland. 297 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,799 Nat "King" Cole and Dean Martin. 298 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,799 Everybody has a good time. Everybody! 299 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:50,799 Jack Benny! Who... Who thought Jack Benny 300 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:52,799 would have a good time there? 301 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:54,799 [hiccup-laughs] 302 00:16:54,800 --> 00:17:00,031 Look, I may be... hiccup. [laughing] 303 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,799 They're all having a [bleep] great time. 304 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:06,799 Cary Grant says to Frank Sinatra, 305 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:12,799 Hey, why are you, like... this is a good thing, right? 306 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:14,396 Like, we have fun, right? 307 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:15,799 And Frank Sinatra says, 308 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:19,799 Absolutely, we do. We have a great time. 309 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,499 [hiccups] 310 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:23,499 [hiccups] 311 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:25,599 [hiccups] 312 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:27,800 [hiccups] 313 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:33,800 [hiccups] 314 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,799 So the other casinos... um... 315 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:47,799 they're like, It's weird that a lot of people 316 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:52,799 don't care about racism, and they're just going ahead 317 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,799 and having fun at the Moulin Rouge. 318 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,799 What can we do now? 319 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:02,100 So, like, the casinos, 320 00:18:02,300 --> 00:18:05,799 they say, Look, if you want to sell liquor to us, 321 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,799 you don't sell liquor to the Moulin Rouge anymore. 322 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:10,799 Then the Sahara, same thing. 323 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,799 The Sahara says, We will not buy food from you 324 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,799 if you give food to the Moulin Rouge. 325 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:18,799 So, then, after 3 1/2 months, 326 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:24,200 the Moulin Rouge mysteriously has its liker... 327 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,431 liquor suspended. 328 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,799 I mean liquor license suspended. 329 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,799 There's... it's not hard to figure out, if you do the math yourself. 330 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:41,799 A month later, and the Moulin Rouge is closed. 331 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,799 It was closed and toesed, man. 332 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,799 Closed and toesed. [laughing] 333 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:50,799 [snorts] 334 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:55,800 The expression everyone knows: "closed and toesed." 335 00:18:58,734 --> 00:19:03,095 [music] 336 00:19:03,096 --> 00:19:04,095 What is going on, guys? 337 00:19:04,096 --> 00:19:07,095 - Come on. [laughs] - Nothing. 338 00:19:07,096 --> 00:19:11,095 - Nothing. - We want you to take a nap. 339 00:19:11,096 --> 00:19:13,095 [sighs] 340 00:19:13,096 --> 00:19:18,095 So the black folks that had been hired to work there, 341 00:19:18,096 --> 00:19:21,095 of course they can't get jobs anywhere else on the strip. 342 00:19:21,096 --> 00:19:25,095 Las Vegas is [bleep] up. 343 00:19:25,096 --> 00:19:29,095 Five years after the Moulin Rouge has closed, 344 00:19:29,096 --> 00:19:34,095 the NAACP, the mafia, the local government, 345 00:19:34,096 --> 00:19:39,095 they all get together, and they meet inside the closes... [laughs] 346 00:19:39,096 --> 00:19:45,994 and they meet inside the closed Lu-mon Rouge. 347 00:19:46,029 --> 00:19:49,095 No, every word is wrong. 348 00:19:49,096 --> 00:19:52,095 So the agreement they sign that day 349 00:19:52,096 --> 00:19:55,095 is the Moulin Rouge Agreement, 350 00:19:55,096 --> 00:20:01,095 and this says that there's no such thing as segregation 351 00:20:01,096 --> 00:20:07,095 anymore in hotels in Las Vegas. It's an historic thing. 352 00:20:07,096 --> 00:20:11,095 The Moulin Rouge, it was a fun party time. 353 00:20:11,096 --> 00:20:16,095 Who-gives-a-[bleep] atmosphere. 354 00:20:16,096 --> 00:20:21,095 You know, you got to... 355 00:20:21,096 --> 00:20:24,096 you gotta have people... Hmm. 356 00:20:27,096 --> 00:20:32,849 You gotta have people... put a show on for the people. 357 00:20:35,096 --> 00:20:37,096 You gotta do that. 358 00:20:37,519 --> 00:20:40,763 [patriotic music] 359 00:20:59,586 --> 00:21:02,689 sync & correction by f1nc0 ~ Addic7ed.com ~ 360 00:21:10,223 --> 00:21:13,223 [both shouting] Yeaaaah! 361 00:21:15,223 --> 00:21:17,523 - Vegas, bro. - Right. 362 00:21:17,524 --> 00:21:20,004 [blows] 363 00:21:20,054 --> 00:21:24,604 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 28321

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