344: Sammy "The Bull" Gravano - Made Men, Made Right

The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler

Larson, Sickler, Ryan, Comedy, Feast, Crabfeast, Jay, Comedy Interviews, Crab, Storytelling, Honeydew, Podcast

4.9 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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My HoneyDew this week is American former mobster, Sammy “The Bull” Gravano! Sammy joins me this week to Highlight the Lowlights of rising to the position of underboss in the Gambino crime family of New York City before ultimately becoming a government witness. Sammy talks about becoming a made-man and shares one of the best mafia love stories you’ll ever hear!

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0:00.0	The Honeydue with Ryan Sickler.
0:13.1	Welcome back to the honey do y'all.
0:16.6	We're over here doing it in the Nightpans Studios.
0:19.3	I'm Ryan Sickler, Ryan Sickler.com. Ryan Sickler on all your social media. Starting this episode like I start them all by saying thank you. Thank you for supporting this show. Thank you for supporting this channel. If you've got to have more and you've got to have the Patreon, it's this show. It's the honeydew with you all and you all have the wildest stories on the internet. I promise you it's the craziest show on Patreon. It's five bucks a month. And if you or someone you know has a story that has to be heard, please submit it to Honeydew Podcast at gmail.com. All right. As to biz, you guys know what we do here. We highlight the low lights. I always say that these are the stories behind the storytellers.
0:55.3	I'm very excited to have this guest here with me today.
0:57.9	Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome.
0:59.5	Sammy the Bougarvado!
1:03.5	Salvatore, let me say Salvatore.
1:05.4	Salvatore, Sammy the Bougars.
1:06.5	Thank you very much for being here.
1:08.3	My pleasure.
1:09.3	Let me promote your stuff here real quick.
1:12.4	You can follow your good going by Sammy.
1:15.6	Yeah, sure.
1:16.3	Follow Sammy at official Sammy the Bull on Instagram and YouTube.
1:21.5	That's where you can follow them, keep up with them.
1:24.3	So, as I said, you know, I do my little research online and you never know what's true, but your son's here. And he came over and he said, no, this is accurate. So you're born Salvatore Gravano, March 12th, 1945 on March 8th here, Pisces. And you're an American former mobster who rose to the position of underboss in the Gambino
1:44.3	crime family of New York City before becoming a government witness. And as the underboss,
1:50.0	you played a major role in prosecuting John Gotti, the crime family's boss by agreeing to
1:55.0	testify as a government witness against them and other mobsters in a deal. And as part of the
1:59.4	agreement, you confess to your involvement in at least 19 murders. It's true. It's all true. And you're 80 now. I'm 80. Yes. You look fantastic. For the life you've led, too, I mean. I'm 80 going on 60. You got, you got fire. Mentally, I feel 60. Good for you. All right.
2:17.8	I sat down last night and I came up with some questions I'd like to ask you.
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