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Our Thing with Sammy The Bull

Fireside with the Underboss - "He Pulled a Gun From a Secret Compartment in His Camera"

Our Thing with Sammy The Bull

Sammy "The Bull" Gravano

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

During the second Colombo war, Sammy gets assigned to whack Crazy Joe Gallo. Before he can even get close to Joe, Sammy realizes he's surrounded by made guys and tons of weapons.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello Superkins here, and I've teamed up once again with the LEGO Group to bring you series

0:04.4

two of my podcast at your leisure. Join me as I chat to chart toppers, catch up with comics

0:11.0

and yak with YouTube legends, finding out what they get up to when they're not busy being famous.

0:16.8

Expect more excellent guests, sharing more unusual hobbies.

0:22.0

So why not join us on the journey? Listen to the at your leisure podcast with me,

0:26.5

Superkins on Global Player.

0:45.2

Hey guys, I got a story, you know, people have been asking when I went into the Colombo family.

0:53.3

I wasn't there a long time and I got right into a war.

1:05.2

Shorty told me, go pack your clothes, come here, forget about everything.

1:10.8

You're going to hit the mattress as well. I said this in another video, so I'm not going to

1:16.4

repeat every word that was said. But I was on the team, Carmine Percichot's team, was against

1:26.1

the Gallows. It was the second war. The first one started very early in the 60s, I believe,

1:36.5

between the Gallows and Percichot and it wasn't Colombo. Second war, Colombo was the boss,

1:44.5

and it started again. So I was on their side, Joe Colombo Percichot.

1:52.7

Now, he was very flamboyant when he came out. He was going out with movie actresses and

2:01.0

models and he didn't want to come in and all kinds of things were going on and they were going to kill him.

2:14.5

One night they came to me and they said, Sammy, the Gallows don't know you.

2:18.4

So you're going to do this hit. We got information that he was living in a fancy hotel in Manhattan.

2:31.9

And it was a door man there and everything like that. I was supposed to get dressed up. My

2:37.8

hair was a little long. I would mess it up a little bit and dress up like a hippie, pair of ripped

2:43.7

jeans, psychedelic shirt and I'd ever got. And when they, I would make believe that I was

2:53.9

stoned and I was dribbling and I was just bouncing off the cars.

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