S16 Ep115: TCT:Giovanni's Ring: My Life Inside the Real Sopranos w/Giovanni Rocco
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🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
True Crime Tuesday presents Giovanni's Ring: My Life Inside the Real Sopranos with guest Giovanni Rocco
Giovanni Rocco, a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as “Giovanni Gatto,” was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately brought down ten members and associates of New Jersey’s DeCavalcante Mafia family, the criminal organization known as “the real Sopranos.”
Giovanni spent nearly three years working his way into the DeCavalcante hierarchy. That lethal assignment brought the undercover operation to an end in March 2015, and the resulting string of high-profile arrests eviscerated the criminal organization.
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| 0:58.0 | Hello and welcome. You're tuned into the best and true crime talk radio. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host Dave Shredder along with me. |
| 1:20.0 | Tim Dennis Tim. We got some dumb crime stupid criminals coming up a little later for the premium stitcher subscribers. |
| 1:29.0 | And we've got crazy ass stories plus international pop sensation. Shakira has been robbed him and it's going to take the darkness nation to help find these perpetrators. |
| 1:39.0 | So stay tuned for that a little later. Yeah, crazy stuff. And we've got them all been. They came out swinging this week with stupidity for us. So we're lucky. |
| 1:47.0 | Before we get diving in with our guest, you know, I feel like this is a really good opportunity to tie in a quick little movie review. |
| 1:57.0 | Okay. The brand new soprano story, right? The many saints of Newark has been released. If you were soprano's family, Tim and I, you've probably seen it. |
| 2:06.0 | If you have not yet, you know, it's an interesting element to the story. I thought that it was fun. It felt a lot more to me like an episode of the sopranos than it did. |
| 2:16.0 | The movie I've been waiting to see that doesn't mean it's bad. It doesn't mean that it didn't drive, but it just it had a pacing to it that felt more like a back door pilot for a TV show that it did for the movie that we've been waiting, you know, a decade to get into. |
| 2:32.0 | It was fun to watch the characters appear. This movie is definitely more about to keep multi-santi than it is anything to do with the soprano family. |
| 2:43.0 | I should say they're all in it and they all make, you know, I don't want to say cameos because their parts are bigger than that, but there's a lot going on with the characters and there's a lot of great little moments that they allude to throughout the sopranos TV series as we watch Tony kind of in the background. |
| 3:02.0 | I was making his way, so I thought it was a fun movie, but honestly, I get to tell you, man, well, one out of five stars, I'm going to only go with three stars on this simply for the fact that it wasn't. I just didn't feel that kind of. Oh shit. Yeah, this was the movie I've been waiting to see. |
| 3:16.0 | But as a back door TV pilot, I'll give it a five because that was a great opening and introduction and I hope that they continue either as a new TV series or continue as a movie series, but I do hope they start to punch it up and give you a little bit more gravitas in the series. What was your take away on the sort of time? |
| 3:34.0 | You know, I've seen a multitude of different interviews with David Chase, including one last night, where he said everything from I just wanted to do a movie that reflected the 1967 riots in New Jersey to. |
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