#45 Gangs (Part 2)

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday! This week on the we’re discussing Gangs ie. proper mean ones so not the Scouts (Chris) or the Boys Brigade (Elis). We’ll be taking a look at some of the razor gangs of Glasgow, the infamous American mafia and going back in time to see what gangland was like in Medieval Britain. Have you ever landed on a rhubarb patch? Would you like to live on Cockney Island? And want to hear what Welsh sounds like in another accent? You know what to do, drop us an email at: [email protected] If you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER? In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get: - two bonus episodes every month! - ad-free listening - episodes a week ahead of everyone else - And first dibs on any live show tickets Subscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.com You can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepod And Instagram at @ohwhatatimepod Aaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice? Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk). Chris, Elis and Tom x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to part two of gangs part one was yesterday do check the feed but let's crack on here it is part two gangs So today I'm going to talk to you about the
0:13.0	son.
0:14.0	O'nol it wind is glass and
0:20.0	today I'm going to talk to you about the early growth of the Italian mafia in America
0:26.9	and how weirdly it led to the death of John Dillinger who's kind of one of the most
0:30.5	famous bank robbers in American history.
0:33.8	Now I'm really into those sort of American mafia movies,
0:37.4	like Goodfellas and stuff like that.
0:38.6	Is it a thing you guys are interested?
0:40.3	Do you like those sort of movies?
0:41.4	Yeah, I'd say Goodfellas is possibly my
0:43.6	favorite ever film and like you I've read so many mafia books. Yeah I love Goodfellas as
0:49.2	well. I read the Godfather book having left the film and the thing with the Italian mafia I was
0:57.4	so unreasonably scared of it as a child.
1:00.3	It was never going to have an impact on my life.
1:05.0	And yet...
1:06.0	What was the threat of that coming across to Kamarthan?
1:08.0	Do they have a Kamarthan outposts?
1:10.0	Every now and then, someone would say, oh, we're, we're going on holiday to Italy and I think you
1:14.7	idiots you absolute maniacs I remember you know my first World Cup I remember
1:21.1	was Italian 90 remember watching the England games, asking Dad why Wales weren't there.
1:26.0	Dad said, Wales haven't qualified.
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