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Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco

Close Calls and Untold Stories, Part 1

Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco

Jam Street Media

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, True Crime

4.8566 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this two-part episode, Leo and Joe reveal close calls and other untold stories from Joe’s time deep undercover, as Donnie Brasco. From the dangers of wearing a wire, to meeting a doctor that wanted to sell drugs to the mob, and other curious occurrences that will have you wondering how he did it all and made it out unscathed. What was it like to share an apartment with Sonny Black, a caporegime in the Bonanno crime family? Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco, will tell you. Follow us on social media Facebook Instagram Twitter Watch on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKeT_Ic27g59iGfh23QoP0xG-6aLodMWg A Jam Street Media Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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, Scarface, The Godfather, the

0:10.9

list goes on and on.

0:12.5

But there's one movie that speaks to me more than all the others,

0:16.3

Johnny Brasco.

0:17.7

It starred Johnny Depp as an FBI agent who went deep undercover in the New York Mafia.

0:22.7

And unlike Scarface or The Godfather, it's actually based on a true story.

0:26.8

And you know what they say.

0:27.9

Truth is stranger than fiction.

0:29.7

I'm Leo Rossi.

0:30.8

I've spent my life behind and in front of the camera creating stories about the mob.

0:36.2

We're going to go off the page and talk to the real life Donnie Brasco.

0:44.2

This is Deep Cover, The Real Donnie Brasco, with Joe Stone and Leo Rossi. Welcome, everybody.

1:00.6

We want to continue where we left off, where Joe was going down memory lane,

1:07.9

reminiscing about all the things that occurred in his undercover and deep cover

1:14.6

career and um i think you're going to be uh blown away with you show you're there my man yes i am

1:24.4

liao how you doing ah. Couldn't be better.

1:28.7

You know, everybody's trying to be tough here on COVID-19, and that's what we're doing.

1:36.4

All right, Joe, there's something that I would create fear in me, And that's wearing a wire when I am around.

1:48.4

Mafia guys, killers.

1:51.7

It's how did you do it?

1:54.5

What was the procedure?

1:57.4

And then tell us some of the close calls.

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