588: Sammy "The Bull" Gravano | Mafia Underboss Part Two
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Sammy "The Bull" Gravano (@gravanothebull) is the host of the Our Thing podcast, former second-in-command of the Gambino organized-crime family who played a major role in prosecuting "Teflon Don" John Gotti, and subject of Peter Maas' Underboss: Sammy "The Bull" Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia. [This is part two of a two-part episode. Make sure to catch part one here!]
What We Discuss with Sammy "The Bull" Gravano:- How does someone growing up in a relatively "normal" family get involved in a life of crime?
- What compels someone entrenched in the comforts of the gangster lifestyle to reject it?
- How has the code by which the mafia lives changed over time?
- What kinds of people do you meet when you spend half a decade behind bars?
- How true does on-screen gangster life ring to reality?
- And much more...
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| 0:08.0 | Shoot guys, rob guys, rob, do whatever the fuck you want. |
| 0:12.0 | But I will tell you, I got 22 years of my life in prison. |
| 0:15.0 | You're going to shoot 20 of your friends, maybe your best friend, they're going to shoot you. |
| 0:19.0 | You're going to do ugly fucking things. |
| 0:21.0 | You're going to have the government on your back 24 hours a day, seven days a week. |
| 0:25.0 | I'll tell you racism in prison. |
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| 1:23.0 | Today, part two with Sammy the Bull, Gravano, if you haven't heard part one yet, go back and listen to that. |
| 1:28.0 | Part two, even more crazy tales from one of them off-ias, well, most famous ex-Hitman. |
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