Episode 3 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance"

Talking Sopranos

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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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It’s tough to be a mobster. You have to worry about getting whacked, getting pinched, your wife, your family, your goomah…Who would want the job! In this episode Steve and Michael talk about the gangster lifestyle and all the complicated problems that come with being a wiseguy. Steve reveals some fascinating real life stories about the mob as Michael begins to unfold the shades and tones of Christopher’s character. Then they unpack the episode weaving in stories of drunken parties with the Soprano’s cast and Paulie’s quirky obsessions. The deviations are the destinations as scene by scene Steve and Michael take us through “Denial, Anger, Acceptance” and the inside story of the Sopranos. Make sure submit your Ask Me Anything questions at Talking Sopranos.com.

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0:00.0	It's a bit of a rough day. Today is April 3, 2020. And my cousin passed away yesterday
0:15.7	from coronavirus. So I'd like to dedicate today's show to Ralph Laracela, who was a native
0:24.1	New Yorker grew up in Mount Vernon in Eastchester and was a teacher for 30 years. Mount Vernon
0:30.1	Public School District was a great family man and good son and a good brother. Mike
0:35.0	Condole says that's terrible. I didn't know he was a school teacher. Yeah, public school
0:40.6	in Mount Vernon. And he's been in the hospital for a while. A couple weeks. Yeah, a couple
0:47.6	weeks. Yeah, I got here in New York in upstate Poughkeepsie. He moved there after he retired,
0:54.4	he retired a few years ago. And this is reality for a lot of people right now. This is what
1:00.3	we do. So I mean here in New York, it's a lot, a lot of people that my heart goes out to them.
1:06.5	And all the workers, the doctors and the nurses and all the hospital workers and all the
1:10.9	people working in the grocery stores and the pharmacies. I mean, it's just incredible
1:16.9	that they're taking the train. They're going to work and they I hope they are rewarded
1:21.9	somewhere along the line. They are the heroes. That's for sure. That's for sure. So, you know,
1:28.6	you know, I was thinking, you know, the so we're doing today is episode three season one. It's
1:36.5	denial, anger and acceptance and we'll get into what that means later. But I was thinking,
1:45.7	you know, it's a pretty hard fucking job to be a mobster for real. I mean, it's it's not a nine to
1:53.2	five, you know, you're working to post office, you're delivered a mail, you're going home,
1:58.2	you have a couple of beers. You then I mean, this is 24 hours a day. No, and not everybody lives like
2:04.2	John Gotti like a like a movie star, right? Seven days a week, 365 days a year. I mean, let's
2:12.6	think about it. You got a hustle to make money. You've got to worry about getting whacked,
2:20.4	worry about getting pinched, worried about another family cutting in on your business or your own.
2:29.5	Or your own somebody below you wants to take over trying to take the top. You got to worry about
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