445: Sons of Ecstasy

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

After testifying against John Gotti and the Gambino crime family of New York, former underboss Sammy "The Bull" Gravano and his family headed to Arizona. But instead of retiring into a life of ease and normalcy, he and his family became entangled in the drug trade of the Southwest. Patrick and Gillian have had their coffee for this one, and are ready to cover all the crazy twists and turns!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, this is going to be a wild ride. Okay. Because I've had more caffeine today than I think I've had in my entire life.
0:06.4	You don't like a caffeine person. I'm not coffee doesn't really do anything to me for my neurodivergent brain, but espresso sure does. And so Mike made really good iced coffee today. And I was like sent into outer space and then I had a second one. Oh my God. Even the discord was like, girl, don't do the second one.
0:02.6	Oh my God, really?
0:03.5	And I was like, I did it.
0:04.3	You got to listen to the disc game.
0:05.4	And then when I came in, you was like, girl, don't do the second one. Oh my God, really? And I was like, I did it. You got to listen to
0:22.9	the disc game. And then when I came in, you were like, you haven't blinked in like five minutes. You
0:25.4	literally were like, I'm so high on coffee. I was like, you haven't blinked in an hour. So good luck to all of us, me included. I'm talking so fast in ads. I'm skipping words. My brain is like, oh, man, she's in for it. Hi, Julie Benzavali. Hello, Patrick Hines. Please join us in the Facebook group. It is so much fun. The True Crime Obsessed podcast discussion group. Yes. We got like 55,000 people in there, whatever.
0:54.4	It's so fun.
0:55.1	Whatever.
0:55.7	Whatever it is.
0:56.4	Come talk about the Epps.
0:57.5	Come, like, share your dog picture.
0:58.9	Do you get married? Show us a picture. Yeah. Prove it. Pixar it didn't happen. And join us over with the Patreon. Tell about the Pates, girl. We have so many episodes on Patreon.
0:52.1	So these episodes add free.
0:53.7	Then we do all of those series like we're doing Lady of the Dunes.
0:56.3	Yes.
0:56.7	We did The Body in the Snow, the Karen Reed thing. many episodes on Patreon. So these episodes add free. Then we do all of those series like we're
1:11.0	doing Lady of the Dunes. We did the body in the snow, the Canter Reed thing. So that's like all our multi-part episodes. Also, depending on the tier, well, all tiers have drag bingo. Yes. At the $5, you get drag bingo once a month with Schwartz. Yeah. We love. And then And us.
1:07.5	Yeah.
1:07.8	Is that what you said?
1:08.2	Yeah.
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