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🗓️ 5 January 2021
⏱️ 175 minutes
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This week, we explore a man with a life like almost no other. He received a Purple Heart from WWII, was a champion wrestler, all over the country, then did what any war hero, pro wrestler does... become an enforcer & bodyguard for the Columbo crime family. He particular exploits were insane, beating a murder conspiracy rap, and it all led to a lucky break, and him playing one of the most memorable parts, in "The Godfather", and more!!
Valiantly help defeat Hitler, have your leg broken by Verne Gagne, and get a film role because your boss threatened a Hollywood director with Lenny Montana!!
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0:06.0 | Hello and welcome to Crime and Sports! |
0:12.0 | Hey, indeed Jimmy. Hey indeed. My name is James Petrogallo. I'm here at the Go-Ain |
0:35.0 | and you are excited today. You jump the game and that's how jack you are. For good reason too, because we have a crazy ass story in front of us. |
0:45.0 | Kind of a non-traditional story. Normally it's just like kind of a certain pattern but this is kind of weird. This is a weird one and it's wild. It's a famous guy who you know for not his sports, which is we hardly ever have that thing. |
1:01.0 | Most everyone has seen this man. It's one of those things. Everybody knows him but you don't know any of his past or anything about him which is amazing. We'll get into that in just a second. |
1:12.0 | But before we do, we have to thank everyone for the reviews this week and please if you haven't done it yet, 5 stars on Apple Podcast helps a lot. Why? Who the hell knows? But they help a lot. |
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1:32.0 | We can't fix it. Yeah, words can't fix us. Head over to shut up and give me murder.com today right now for your tickets to the virtual live show January 29th 2021 coming up very soon. |
1:44.0 | It is a full small town murder episode real episode like we would do on the road in a theater with the visuals and the microphones. It'll sound great. It'll look great. |
1:55.0 | And it's available for 72 hours afterwards as well. So get on that. Shut up and give me murder.com January 29th. I am so excited for that. Also, you can get all of your merch there. And if you haven't listened to small town murder by the way, I should mention that. You should probably do that. |
2:10.0 | Yeah, if you like this, you'll like that. Trust me. It's less sports, obviously, but definitely the mayhem and the opportunity. You haven't heard it. Listen to last week. Yeah, it's absurd. You really? Yeah, that's a great place to start. |
2:24.0 | I don't believe that that's real. Absolutely. Check that. I also listen to PSI hate this movie where I had to listen. I had to watch the second twilight this week and my head almost exploded. |
2:33.0 | It's a storm and two werewolves and their shirts exploded off of its insane. So watch that check all that out. It's. That's real. Yeah. Also Patreon. You are going to get good stuff on Patreon this week. It's patreon.com slash crime and sports. By the way, on crime and sports is Patreon this week will be. We are going to look into just a comical look into a mess. |
2:57.0 | We're going to look into the UWF and her babrums. The this the wrestling organization that this guy tried to start and he was just a disaster of a mess of a human being. Where was he? |
3:10.0 | And he died in all over the place. It's a Florida and every it's a disaster though basically. It was on it was on television. And it was on ESPN classic a few years ago too. |
3:22.0 | He would get like all the old kind of not old but guys who just got released from WWF at the time and then he would hire them. Smart business. And it yeah didn't work at all. Yeah, no, it didn't work at all. And didn't work. He was a terrible business man. Love drugs and sex and weird stuff and died in one of the craziest ways we'll ever talk. Absolutely nuts. |
3:44.0 | And then on small town murders which you'll get access to if you're a patron here as well. We are going to do the worst small town reviews in America that I can find which is people just trashing places which will be hilarious. That's going to be good stuff likely residents so stoic. That's what's great Patreon dot com slash crime and sports. You can get all of that right there. And also you'll be a producer Jimmy. I'll mispronounce your name at the end of the show. And if you just want to be a producer and have good karma and be an excellent person. |
4:13.0 | You can go to PayPal use our email address crime and sports are yeah sports of Gmail dot com. That's the one. And you can do that. So thank you so much. That said, let's get into this right now. Okay. Let's do it. Yeah. With. |
4:28.0 | Let's get into this Leonardo Pesifaro. Oh, you know who that is. Oh, no, absolutely not Leonardo Pesifaro is the turtles real last name. That's this maybe blue bandana this better known as Lenny Montana in his life. That's his screen name and also his ring name because he's a wrestler and an actor. And you know him as an actor. You don't know him as a wrestler. Probably unless you're at least 70 to 580. |
4:57.0 | Just up 580 years old because he wrestled in the 50s. Oh, back then or unless you're like Jim Cornett some kind of crazy wrestling historian that knows like everybody from every era. |
5:06.0 | Every time. Yeah. So most people though don't know this guy from wrestling. They do know him from his movie appearance, which was one of the most famous in the history of film that we'll talk about. Well, I'm not going to spoil it now. If you're not some people have to like Google everything and ruin the whole episode for themselves. |
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