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Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco

Breaking Down a Lost ‘Lefty’ Tape

Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco

Jam Street Media

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, True Crime

4.8566 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Never before heard tapes! The year is 1978 as we listen to original recorded conversations between Joe “Donnie Brasco” Pistone, infamous Lefty “Two Guns” Ruggiero and another undercover agent known on the street as “Tony Conte”. Leo and Joe break down what they hear and analyze what is really being said all those years ago. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:16 - ‘Lefty’ Tape Follow us on social media: Deep Cover (@twitter) (@instagram) (@facebook) Jam Street Media (@twitter) (@instagram) (@facebook) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

We all love mob movies.

0:09.0

Scarface, The Godfather, the list goes on and on.

0:13.0

But there's one movie that speaks to me above all of us.

0:16.0

Donnie Brascoe starred Johnny Depp.

0:18.0

In season one of Deep Cover, we discovered the real story behind Donnie's time undercover with the New York Mafia.

0:25.7

And what it was like spending six years with some of the wildest wise guys you'll ever come across.

0:31.3

I'm your host, Leo Rossi, and I've spent my life behind and in front of the cameras creating stories about the mom.

0:38.1

This season, we're going even deeper into the Donnie Brasco story.

0:42.6

We'll learn more about the man behind the persona, Joe Pistone, and his time is the most

0:47.9

decorated undercover agent in FBI history.

0:51.3

This week on Deep Cover, the real Donnie Brasco, we take listen to another never-before-heard tape from Joe's undercover days.

1:04.3

This time, it's a conversation from 1978 between him, Lefty Two Guns, Ruggiero, and fellow undercover agent Tony Conti.

1:16.9

Hello, everybody.

1:18.6

All the listeners out there, this is Leo Rossi of Deep Cover, the real Donnie Brasco.

1:25.4

And I am here with Joe Postone, The Living legend. How you like that, huh, Joe? How you doing? Hey, Lil. I'm doing fine. How about you? Good, good, good. I may be living, but I don't know about being a legend, but I'll live in. That's half the battle, Jill. Now, I will tell the listeners out there, you've been asking, requesting the original

1:49.5

recorded tapes, whether Joe was wearing a wire or wiretaps, they call them overhears,

1:57.1

and we are going to devote this whole show to taped conversations with Joe Pistone,

2:05.1

aka Donny Brasco, Lefty, Two Guns Ruggiero, and another undercover agent whose name on the street

2:14.7

was Tony Conti, and Joe will explain more of that. But just as a little levity,

2:20.9

I was out jogging today, and the people from Manscape were kind enough to, you know, give me

2:26.3

t-shirts and shirts. And I had the t-shirt on today, and I am getting all these looks and I'm going what the heck well I had

2:37.0

negated to really look what it said on the back and it says something to the effect of yes

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