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True Crimecast

Teflon Don - John Gotti

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, Personal Journals

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the 1980s, John Gotti wasn't just the boss of the Gambino crime family—illegally, he was the face of New York City. With his $2,000 Brioni suits, silver hair, and a smirk that defied the FBI, he became a folk hero to some and a nightmare to the Department of Justice. But behind the "Dapper Don" persona was a man who clawed his way to the top through a bloody coup outside a Manhattan steakhouse.

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0:00.0

Stoveleg Media, joined by John.

0:28.1

For the first time in weeks, neither of us are coughing up a lung.

0:31.7

I thought you were going to say, not snowed in.

0:34.2

Well, I mean, also that.

0:35.8

Yeah, no longer snowed in.

0:37.2

At least not today, knock on something. Thank God. Nobody's sick anymore. It has been, man, we were like so far ahead. And now we're not. Yeah. We're getting there. We'll get back to it. Yeah. Being snowed in helped our podcasting lives. But then we shared germs and that hurt it. I think we both hosted an event at church.

0:55.9

And I think maybe that was ground zero of what was the man cold turned almost deadly.

1:02.0

Yeah, I got the man flu and it was not pretty, especially if you ask my wife how I, how I react to that kind of thing.

1:09.4

Before we get going with today's episode,

1:12.8

I want to give a thank you to a couple five-star reviews that have come in over on Apple Podcast.

1:15.6

This is from Katie Houston.

1:17.8

Says, my new favorite.

1:19.1

I really enjoy these guys.

1:20.9

I love how they communicate the story and with each other.

1:24.5

This one comes from S. Dot Stick 91. Great show. They do their research and I listen while

1:31.0

at work. Keep up the great work guys. We included a wrong name in the O'Pair episode and that was

1:38.4

all me. So it happens. I mean, we've done 800 episodes. I'm sure we've mistakenly made some, you know,

1:45.5

errors along the way. But hey, we, if we saw the message, we admit our mistake. It was not on purpose.

1:52.7

And thanks for correcting us. We appreciate that. And we do try to do full research. So thanks for

1:57.5

those reviews. If you have a five-star review, you want to send in on Apple Podcasts, social media. We will read it on the show. I do want to mention that we

2:06.0

released a new Patreon episode this weekend, and that is called The Lipstick Killer.

2:11.2

Oh, buddy. That was a really, really good case. So I don't want to give you too many details here.

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