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The Nick DiPaolo Show

Best Of NickDip: Michael Dowd

The Nick DiPaolo Show

Acid Tongue Inc.

Comedy, Thenickdipaoloshow, Politics, Nickdipaolo, Rogan, Comedian, Cumia, News

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2017

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Best Of NickDip: Michael Dowd

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0:00.0

You're listening to Nick Depalo on the Riotcast Network, riotcast.com.

0:31.0

Hey, hey kids. This is not Nick Depalo. This is Ralph Sprance from Riotcast.

0:37.0

Nick is on a much deserved vacation. Do not bother him. Because of that, he wanted to give you guys an episode, a best of we should call it, which happens to be one of my favorite episodes that Nick ever did as well.

0:55.0

That's when he interviewed Michael Dowd, the corrupt New York City cop from the 1980s. There was a documentary on him called The 75. It is a fantastic interview.

1:09.0

And definitely one of my favorite shows that Nick has done and he's done a lot of phenomenal shows. So here it is. Nick will be back, but in the meantime, let the guy rest a little. He deserves it.

1:21.0

And enjoy Michael Dowd. Hey, hey kids. Yeah, it's right. It's Monday again.

1:27.0

Fucking will be dead soon. It's flying by, ain't it? Welcome to Nick Depalo podcast. Hey, you know, I mentioned this documentary I watched a couple, I've mentioned it twice now, a couple weeks ago called The 75.

1:41.0

And I brought it up last week and it's about the 75th precinct in East New York in the 80s during the crack epidemic and there are a couple of rogue cops.

1:53.0

And it's a tremendous documentary. Joe Liss brought it to my attention and you know, I've been plugging it here. I'll play the, for those of you who haven't heard me talk about it, let me play the trailer to the documentary. I suggest you check it out.

2:07.0

New York is in the grips of crime wave. It was like that. Hey, day of crap. It was violent, man.

2:17.0

Homicides, robberies, rapes, was a war zone. East New York, Brooklyn 75 precinct. Deadly is precinct in the country.

2:27.0

Who did I burn to get put together? It would scare Clint Eastwood.

2:30.0

When I first went to the precinct, I hear about this guy, Mike Dowd. Mike is just crazy. Michael Dowd was a crook who ended up wearing a cop's uniform. He was criminal.

2:40.0

Once in a generation, corrupt cop.

2:46.0

I considered myself both a cop and a gangster.

2:51.0

I forgot about Beverly Hills and all that other stuff. The ghetto was one of the richest neighborhoods there is.

2:56.0

Maybe there's some way we can make money from this.

2:58.0

Lack of a year. It's a very serious Dominican game. $24,000 in our hands to talk.

3:04.0

Mike was a brain, a central problem. In his business, if you mess up, you got killed.

3:12.0

I'm a New York City cop. I'm taking a risk of going to jail for a long period of time. And you're going to show up me? A dime.

3:18.0

I'm a cop. I'd break a neck if you'd need to break it. I had three machines counting money and it's still not enough time.

3:30.0

There's no becoming a cop again. You're going to have me killed. We knew we were up against a really tough crew.

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