Gallo: Godfathers of Wine | Violence in the Vineyard | 2

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It’s the roaring twenties and Joe Gallo Sr.’s two teenage sons, Ernest and Julio, help run the family’s extensive vineyards and bootlegging operations. Young Ernest plays a tricky game, dealing with Al Capone in Chicago and dodging G-men. But the stock market crash of ’29 pitches the family into a financial free fall, and drives their volatile father to become increasingly violent. Until, one fateful day, their parent’s lives come to a sudden, horrific and mysterious end.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to business wars at free on Amazon music.
0:04.6	Download the app today.
0:07.0	It's September 1927 in Chicago.
0:23.7	A city fog blankets the yards of the Santa Fe railroad.
0:27.6	Great growers from all over the country are hawking carloads of their harbors to distributors.
0:33.8	Ernest Gallo arranges deep purple bunches on the top layer of his sample crate.
0:38.7	His father's out of jail and back to farming grapes.
0:41.6	Gallo grapes here, get him now.
0:43.6	Alacante and Zinfandel fresh from California's Central Valley.
0:47.9	A horse drawn wagon piled high with crate stops in front of Bernice.
0:52.0	The driver jumps down and shakes a whip in the boy's face.
0:55.2	Hey you little rat.
0:56.4	These boxes you sold me two days ago were light.
0:58.9	I want ten cents back for every box.
1:02.0	Ernest is eighteen just over five feet, but his five o'clock shadow makes him seem much
1:07.0	older.
1:08.0	No, no, no, no, I'm positive those boxes met weight.
1:11.4	But tell you what, instead of a refund I'll give you a deal on your next carload.
1:15.7	Let's say $1.30 a box.
1:18.0	What do you think?
1:19.2	The man bristles at Ernest's gall.
1:21.5	Do you think I'm stupid kid?
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