What Chuck Bryant has said about Desert Inn
1 quote · 1 episode · May 28, 2026
Chuck Bryant, Co-host of Stuff You Should Know, has been quoted on Desert Inn once in 1 episode of Stuff You Should Know, most recently on May 28, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Bryant recounted that when management threatened eviction for New Year's Eve, Hughes bought the Desert Inn for $13.25 million.
“he bought it for 13.25 million and was all of a sudden in the hotel and casino business”
Stuff You Should Know: Howard Hughes in Las Vegas (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 30:40
Episodes
Howard Hughes in Las VegasStuff You Should Know · May 28, 2026 · 49 min
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant recount Howard Hughes's reclusive, drug-addled years at the Desert Inn and his buying spree that reshaped Las Vegas.
Chuck Bryant on other topics
- Horatio Nelson Jackson's 1903 transcontinental drive · 3 quotes
- Howard Hughes · 3 quotes
- Plant migration · 2 quotes
- Melanoma · 2 quotes
- Racial bias in 911 calls and policing · 2 quotes
- Shakespeare authorship question · 2 quotes
- Organized crime in Las Vegas · 2 quotes
- 1924 British Mount Everest expedition · 2 quotes