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Last Podcast On The Left

Episode 326: Richard Kuklinski Part I - Origins of the Iceman

Last Podcast On The Left

The Last Podcast Network

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.653.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2018

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

On the first of our three part series, we cover one of the most successful hitmen (serial killers?) of our age: Richard Kuklinski. Join us as we discuss his terrible upbringing, his early years as the head of the Coming Up Roses gang, and the possibly dozens of men he murdered in New York City in the fifties just for the practice. Save 30% on your 23andMe Health + Ancestry service kit through August 9th at http://23andme.com/left

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0:00.0

There's no place to escape to.

0:03.0

This is the last talk on the left.

0:06.0

That's when the cannonball is started.

0:11.0

What was that?

0:14.0

So I remember growing up with the mob, right?

0:19.0

And it was it, like, good fellas kind of mob.

0:22.0

Right. I always felt like, I think I grew up with CT mob.

0:25.0

Yeah, like the potato mafia.

0:27.0

Who was the mob of your little Polish neighborhood?

0:29.0

It was the Gambino family, it was the goddies during Goddie's reign.

0:33.0

And I remember it was just a big fat guy.

0:35.0

He'd be like, hey, come over here.

0:37.0

He chubby little kid, come over here.

0:39.0

And I'm like, missed the only thing I want to do was entertain.

0:42.0

And he's like, okay, okay.

0:44.0

How about this?

0:45.0

Me and my boys is it over in his couch.

0:47.0

And you jiggle around like, you're my wife and I'll give you a free Pepsi.

0:50.0

Hey, those like the potato mafia.

0:51.0

And so I would go, and I would make yucks at the mob guys.

0:56.0

And then they'd give me a free soda from the soda machine.

0:59.0

And the whole time I was like, wow.

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