Get Gotti
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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In this episode we discuss the Netflix documentary "Get Gotti" about the iconic New York mobster and head of the Gambino crime family John Gotti. Known as Dapper Don and The Teflon Don because he evaded prosecution by both the State of New York and the Department of Justice for decades. Dubbed "the Trump of mobsters" by Rolling Stone Magazine, Gotti achieved celebrity status in the 80's.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the psych legal pop podcast. This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. And I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. So today we are covering Get Gotti. This is a new three-part documentary on Netflix. |
| 0:31.3 | And I have to say, I thought I knew things about Godi and, you know, mafia and crime in the 80s. But I really didn't. |
| 0:32.2 | I had no idea that he was able to beat the rap three times. |
| 0:38.2 | And then, you know, it really, it took a lot to get Gotti. |
| 0:41.5 | And I thought this was really well done. |
| 0:43.8 | What do you, the thing is, is that I don't, I'm wondering, what do you remember about |
| 0:48.1 | Godi and that time? |
| 0:51.2 | Because I do remember vaguely hearing about the Teflon Dawn. I remember hearing |
| 0:55.6 | about, you know, this person. But we, we grew up in California and he's very much a New York, |
| 1:02.5 | New York Post. Like, he was written about a lot more there. So I don't, he was covered nationally, |
| 1:07.4 | but he wasn't covered as much as he was covered in New York. Yeah, well, I mean, |
| 1:10.8 | definitely John Gotti was part of the cultural zeitgeist of the 80s. You know, everyone knew who he was, |
| 1:17.9 | and, you know, I was, I was looking online about, you know, some reaction to this documentary |
| 1:26.6 | and in this Rolling Stone article, they called |
| 1:29.8 | Godi, they said he was the Trump of mobsters. And I felt like that really, because that was also |
| 1:36.5 | the era of Trump. Yes, big Trump era. In 1980s in New York. And it's kind of true. Like he was, |
| 1:43.3 | you know, most, most mobsters, you know, they wore |
| 1:46.7 | sweat suits and, you know, think the sopranos. Yes. You know. Track suits. And, you know, |
| 1:53.0 | they're not real glamorous. Goddy, you know, he was wearing these very, very expensive suits. They |
| 1:58.9 | call them the dapper dawn. $2,000 suits, which in the 80s and a lot of money back then. |
| 2:04.7 | Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, he was much more into the, the flashiness, and he really liked |
| 2:12.6 | the attention, you know, just like Trump. |
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