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Icahn: The Restless Billionaire

So, somehowI wheedled myself a job on Atlantic Beach, the sort of, in quotes,"wealthy...

So, somehow
I wheedled myself a job on Atlantic Beach, the sort of, in quotes,
"wealthy people" came. So I'm a cabana boy,
figure I'll work for tips. And you could make close
to $100 a week. And these salesmen,
for the most part from Brooklyn, were playing poker. And once they said,
"Kid, how much you make?" I said, "Hey,
I made a hundred bucks." "Okay, you got a hundred bucks,
you wanna lose it, come here, do a game, we'll
show you what life's about." So I said, "Yeah,
I think I could play." And they wiped me out
in about a half an hour

Full Transcript

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So, somehow I wheedled myself a job
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on Atlantic Beach,
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the sort of, in quotes, "wealthy people" came.
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So I'm a cabana boy, figure I'll work for tips.
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And you could make close to $100 a week.
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And these salesmen, for the most part from Brooklyn,
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were playing poker.
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And once they said, "Kid, how much you make?"
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I said, "Hey, I made a hundred bucks."
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"Okay, you got a hundred bucks, you wanna lose it,
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come here, do a game, we'll show you what life's about."
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So I said, "Yeah, I think I could play."
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And they wiped me out in about a half an hour.
Duration
37 seconds
Views
97
Timestamp in Movie
00:23:13
Uploaded
Apr 30, 2025
Production
HBO Documentary Films,Atlas Media Corp.

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Movie Summary

Explores the fascinating contradictions at the heart of the famed financier, Carl Icahn. Amassing close to $20 billion dollars over the last half century and at the forefront of some of the most legendary business deals of our times.