John Gotti & Gambino Crime Family Biopics

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[00:00:52] Welcome, welcome everybody. Once again, we love doing a themed month. In this case, we're still truckling along through the Godfather themed week. So all kinds of Italian and some Irish, but mostly Italian crime epics. Some that are just semi-related to Godfather. Other stuff that is just by the author Mario Puzo or just some other crime epic starring some of the same actors.

[00:01:20] It's a small world. Some of those actors end up in Scorsese movies as well as Sopranos type edgy crime fair. And in this case, I decided, how about I cover movies related to the Gambino crime family? And as many will know, the most infamous bunch that made a big impression in the crime underworld and later got prosecuted for his just endless mischief would be none other than John Gotti.

[00:01:47] So just a little summary. I'm not going to go for a full thorough history lesson. Gotti is one of five brothers who became made men in the Gambino crime family. First, there was Eugene, also known as just Gene Gotti, who was initiated before John due to the latter's incarceration. Then there was Peter Gotti, who was initiated under John's leadership in 1988. And then Richard V. Gotti was identified as a captain or, shall we say, head of the crew in 2002.

[00:02:18] And yeah, John Gotti died at age 61. And yet people still want to know more about him. He is always interesting just how he just has that shameless look. He is definitely just one of those guys like I want to know more about that asshole. So you will. I'm just gonna, you know, this is going to be subjective. Some of these movies are going to be like, I kind of want to check out even though you didn't give as good a score.

[00:02:46] And that's quite all right. I'm just letting you know, just the overall impressions they're going to leave should you choose to go further. And there's gonna be some winners. Don't get me wrong. There's gonna be plenty of winners. So the first movie on this list that I'm going to cover involving anything to do with the Gambitos or the John Gotti storyline. And as you know, like any biopic, like any movie, there are liberties taken.

[00:03:14] I'm not able to find all kinds of stuff like fact checking on them, but you get the general drift. If you read the more you read about these guys, the more true crime podcasts you listen to. But yeah, one of the first ones to tackle this is getting Gotti a CBS 1994 TV film. Chronicling Diane Giacalone. I think that's how I pronounce it.

[00:03:41] Assistant US attorney played by Lorraine Bracco, who many will know from everything. Goodfellas, Medicine Man, Resoling Isles, the pickup artist. And just plenty of other movies. You've seen her in the dream team. You've seen her in again on the Sopranos is Dr. Malfi. And again, she's a very reliable gal. And just a delight. Because she knows what she's getting into every kind of movie she's doing.

[00:04:12] And. Sometimes you can still it when you're not careful, but yeah. She's been in other stuff to like Radio Flyer and the basketball diaries. Writing cards with boys recently played Marky Marks mother in the union that awesome spy buddy movie with Holly Berry. So yeah, pretty accomplished. But yeah, this is when she's still kind of in her infancy.

[00:04:42] She's like many character actors going between movies and TV and gets away with that because this is even though people were prejudiced and often would tell you, you know, pick a lane. Many character actors could get away with it just because they could still sell your image. And she's acceptable here. This is by TV veteran Roger Young, who's done just about every show you can do. It's another Kusher Locke production, which makes sense. It's on CBS.

[00:05:12] But basically, yeah, it's chronicling the Rico case against Scotty and how this attorney knew him growing up. The poster is pretty cliche and stupid. Just looks like a lifetime movie. And the variety review is more favorable to this. While criticized in the anticlimactic ending. I just never felt like it ever took off.

[00:05:36] So yeah, I have trouble recommending this because this is kind of it's not static, but it just is so cliche and uninterestingly filmed. But yeah. Unfortunately.

[00:05:58] That's what's also kind of dumb is this movie is very dramatized because basically they're doing the whole, you know, when you fact check, you do realize that Diane. And didn't bring got it down her seven year investigation, six month trial resulted in a not guilty verdict and got it was convicted some years later by prosecutors who, despite the court victory, were less successful. Then this attorney did in selling her TV deal. So that's kind of funny.

[00:06:27] But yeah, I I'm seeing other user reviews and mentioning how it's pretty much like the untouchables and that's fair. Unfortunately, just like it doesn't lead me with much impression even for TV. I kind of felt like Tony Dennison back when he was just known as Anthony, you know, this is after he was on crime story and before he had some recurring roles on Jag and.

[00:06:53] Later and as playing Lieutenant Flynn on that part of a sub work TNT show, the closer where he was both funny and awesome. But. Yeah, he has a few lines. You were the guys who want all the crap we go through each day to mean something. Well, actually, it's said by her, but yeah, he takes the blunt of the insult. She hurls at him in his in her deposition, but it's just like.

[00:07:22] It attempts a few bit of wit and it's just not all that great unless you're a New Yorker or Canadian. And Ellen Burstyn is reliable here as the mother. But again, I forgot she was in the movie. I really didn't. But yeah, there's plenty of the usual Italian cliches filmed in Toronto. And.

[00:07:47] Yeah, just talking about Italians coming to America and how all they know is crime of life, but yeah, it's just too damn cliched. It doesn't leave you with anything. You can find it on YouTube if you really want to, but or you can put it on Pluto or Roku or to be. But again, didn't come away with any impression. Didn't make me go. I got to see this or that was cool or that acting left above a mark. Now, nothing to write home about.

[00:08:15] Then we get to the most famous one. I had a college friend. We worked at the same audio visual department at our community college. He loved this movie. He. He didn't care what else Armand Ashante had done. He's like, this is what I associate him with. And this, of course, got primetime Emmy. No, when depending on which site you go on. No, Armand Ashante won it.

[00:08:44] So that's pretty much why he's become a TV darling. He also got a Golden Globe nomination for best miniseries or TV movie and the Screen Actors Guild nom for outstanding reform. So that's kind of what we're riding on. And unfortunately, you know, I meant to say how. There was what the other movies are based on. This is based on a book by Jerry Capici and Gene Mustaine, Gaudi Rise and Fall.

[00:09:14] So how appropriate how it's going through this, you know, while the middle of the trials are ongoing is directed by Robert Harmon, who you would know for the Hitcher and nowhere to run. As well as other hit TV movies like the crossing. And he's done a lot of those Jesse Stone films, so he is a reliable action crime director.

[00:09:35] Sure, there's some action, but yeah, despite this having a who's who of B movies that, you know, the has been Anthony Quinn, as well as future Sopranos actors, Frank Vincent and Vincent Pastore. Yeah, this movie has never engaged me. There's some other good actors. There's Alberto Watson, who you would know from La Femme Nikita in 24.

[00:10:02] There's other character actors, Tony DeSantis, Scott Cohen, who's the one crooked cop on NYPD Blue, and others would know from more preachy stuff like Gilmore Girls, as well as the DC Comics adaptation The Penguin. Yeah, there's Dominic Chiannisi, another Sidney LeMay Sopranos guy, also on here is Joe Armone. It was another big partner in crime with the Gambino family and Underboss.

[00:10:31] It just never leaves me with anything. I have tried. I've done this three times now. I don't think I even made it for the second time. I just find it a very flat HBO TV movie, which is a shame because it is also shot in Canada, has some pretty cool scenery, has an involving Mark Isom score.

[00:10:52] It ends with Gotti's conviction in 1992 and how he becomes a witness protection agent, but not agent, just part of the, you know, I testify in exchange for protection. And I think I like William Forsythe's, you know, acting the most as, you know, Sammy the Bull.

[00:11:20] He looks somewhat like the guy. He has a bigger face, but yeah, other than that, I don't get anything from this other than Arman Ashanti being charismatic. He has a few other movies where he's portrayed this character, kind of like Sam Waterson has played Abraham Lincoln or Hall Hallbrook has played Mark Twain in other documentaries and TV movies and feature films.

[00:11:46] He's got an unofficial one in production by some B-movie company that looks crowdfunded. So, hey, he's found a way to stay relevant by this material. And that's okay. I'm happy for him. He is the best thing it's got going for it. Now let's go to my favorite of these. That's right. The best one by far. That is Witness to the Mob.

[00:12:08] This has plenty of the same, like, this is both a homage and an influential one that, like, really does pay its tribute to Godfather by having the same kind of montages while people are executed. This is an electrifying cast. Frankie Valli, Tom Sizemore. We got Debbie Mazur, who you'll know from Beethoven, Power, and L.A. Law. Ava Goda. That's right. From Godfather and Barney Miller. Frank Vincent's back here.

[00:12:39] But the main star to look out for is Nicholas Totoro. Again, many people like to tease him. Hey, he's John Totoro's, you know, younger brother who stars with him as well as in Spike Lee films. You know, he had a big thing going. He was Detective Martinez on NYPD Blue. And which he got, you know, two primetime Emmy noms twice. Well, I already said two, but whatever. You know what I mean. I'm reading from this guy's song. As well as an Independent Spirit Award nom.

[00:13:09] He is excellent here. If you're going to watch anything else he's done outside of, you know, Malcolm X and Jungle Fever and do the right thing, watch him in this TV movie. It is free hours goes by fast. It does not feel like free hours. And trust me, I saw this not too long ago. It was back when I actually got COVID for the first time and I was electrified. I was like, man, that was awesome.

[00:13:37] And yeah, there's some other Godfather guys as well as New York people you've seen on Sopranos, The Law and Order. Just very neat dolly shots by cinematographer Frank Prizzi, director Stanley Weiser, who's done some other crime stuff.

[00:13:54] He originally did comedies, but like Project Act with Matthew Broderick, as well as wrote the screenplay with Oliver Stone for Wall Street, of all things. So I think that's this is the most engaging because he's done some other good stuff like Murdered in Mississippi, Fatherland, some other TNT and HBO movies. He's had some not so great movies.

[00:14:21] He did do W as well as that crappy History Channel. Well, like USA Network, Rudy Giuliani movie. But for the most part. He definitely has an engrossing material to work with here. So I'm mistaken. He's the screenwriter. The director is Stadis O'Sullivan, and he is, believe it or not, an Irish director.

[00:14:50] But so you look at his resume, he's done a lot of episodes of Shetland and a few other UK shows, but hidden assets. But that's the other thing, too. Like there is a huge love. And this is shot. By Tribeca Productions and NBC Studios, so they wanted an awesome two part TV movie. And again, just.

[00:15:21] Depending on which you get some some DVD copies released by Lionsgate, sometimes say PG-13 or on rated, some of them sometimes will say are and it's definitely blurring that line like it was shown late at night to where they could get away with some blood. But there is definitely if you looked at this now, just those two brief violent moments would get an R. That is for sure. So it's definitely an X-Files, Colonel of Mines moments.

[00:15:49] So, yeah, no, a very engrossing movie. Tom Sizemore plays John Gotti. He's OK. I wish he had a little more to work with. But, yeah, Frank Vincent is very good as Frank D. Cushy. Yes. Funny how he's a Frank guy is playing Frank. But.

[00:16:14] Yeah, surprisingly, despite being in Gotti, Vincent did not play him there. He just he plays the character this time. Uh, Chris Mulkey plays the character in the other one, but the last one on this list. But we'll get to that later. But, yeah, we have some other good actors in this. Peter McRobbie, who you've seen be a judge and other stuff. You've seen him in 16 Blocks. The Visit. At the Daredevil TV show, he's the priest.

[00:16:42] And we have Lenny Veneto, who plays Murmur on The Sopranos. He's been in other stuff. Philip Baker Hall was the biggest standout of Salvatore. Oliver, Arello. Rest in peace. I miss that dude a lot. He was great. And but, yeah, Nicholas Totoro is fucking awesomest. Sammy the Bull. Like he is easily William Forsyth might be the better actor, but this is the best movie. I am sorry.

[00:17:08] Like this is back when NBC and even Fox and ABC would have some very edgy TV movies. They're trying to get that same edgy audience that. You know, you would typically see for an audience like Millennium or The Practice. Pretty good stuff. It goes by so fast. In my notes, I noted how there's a great opening line.

[00:17:37] One week link in the chain and the chain breaks. But mainly, I also dug how we see Michael Imperiali in here. I think he gets killed off of, if I'm not mistaken. Peter Apple. He's another supporting actor. You've seen him in Leon the Professional and HBO's Luck. But, yeah, Arthur J. Nassarello was the biggest one here. He got to play the head FBI boss for once. Bruce Mal.

[00:18:08] Kirk Acevedo from Oz. The Thin Red Line. Donna Planet of the Apes. He was good. Drina De Niro is the girl in the beauty shop. So, yeah, that's right. Rob De Niro's adopted daughter. She's beautiful as always, but very snappy. Very awesome. Tony Cerurico plays Thomas Gambino. That's right. Another. He's the son of Carlo, who's the second cousin.

[00:18:35] His son-in-law, Paul Castello and Tommy Cheese. And so he is related. Yeah, he's just a big part of that Gambino. But they do a good job of jumping from the courtroom scenes to all the executions of the various guys who pronged them and the snitches. And the directors are inspired. And while on the ATs, cameras, lighting, gaffing,

[00:19:04] it does look like something that if you've remastered it, you would probably watch it in a theater class or a film appreciation class. You know, if there was ever best TV movies, it's definitely pretty solid. Like, it's very gripping. And, you know, you guys might also recognize Debbie Mazur from Entourage and other movies like Singles and Batman Forever. But, yeah, I really dug her here as Deborah,

[00:19:33] you know, Sammy's wife. There was just plenty of utter suspense. And we even got to see pre-Sicario burn notice actor himself, Jeffrey Donovan, as one of the FBI agents. He had a cool arresting scene for Sammy and his thugs. But I like that, too, how they just illustrate just the bull, Sammy the bull's ruthlessness, how everyone is disposable to him,

[00:20:01] and how later he hates himself, how, you know, he has to confess to 19 murders as well as just being the biggest snitch in prosecuting John Gotti for the feds. And, yeah, just the New York locations are great, and it does a good job of helping you keep track of all the five families. So, really, an absolute delight. It really is a good movie. Let's go on to the next one.

[00:20:29] So, the first one I ever saw out of all of these was Boss of Bosses. I love Chaz Palminteri. This is directed by Dwight H. Little, who many will know for his many horror and action movies. He's done everything from various episodes of Millennium, Prison Break, Nikita, Bones. But the movies that got him on the map were Halloween 4, Marked for Death, Rapid Fire, Free Willy 2, and Murder at 1600.

[00:20:59] He's really good with getting the drama and frills that his audience seeks for his brief knack doing genre pictures. You know, everything else. He's done other episodes of The Practice, as well as other movies like Talking, you know, the video game adaptation, Anacondas 2, which was way better than it had any right to be. And he's done some other comedies

[00:21:28] and even horror comedies. Did the video game Ground Zero Texas. I don't know why this movie is so flat. It has a great cast. So, I was going to see it anyway because it just had that huge a cast. Everyone from J.O. Sanders to Clancy Brown, Dayton Cali. Got to get some Deadwood pals in there. Stephen Bauer. A freaking Stephen Bauer from Breaking Bad

[00:21:57] and Scarface is in this. Yeah, it's disposable. It talks about how Paul Castellano was a member of the Gambino family and got to be a crime boss and dealing with both his wife and his mistress. Chaz Palmentara, let's be honest,

[00:22:25] he got typecast, but he is a legit good actor. You've seen him in Rosalia Niles. You've seen him on, oh gosh, all kinds of other stuff. Everything from Lady and the Tramp 2, A Bronx Tale, Woody Allen's Bullets Under Broadway, funny roles like Modern Family. He's the main interrogator, the usual suspects. He is legit good, but man, this movie does him dirty.

[00:22:53] It's written by Joseph F. O'Brien, the boss of bosses book. It was cool seeing Clancy Brown do a different kind of role, but yeah, man, this movie sucked ass. It was very unpleasant. And TNT has had some good original movies, but this is definitely the bottom of the barrel. It does not engage. It just really uninitiates. It doesn't ever land.

[00:23:20] The various dispatches just feel very restricted by the TV budget. It kind of reminds me of David Mamet's... Oh, what's that one? He did this good, well, good cast, but average movie on Lansky. And that left a lot to be desired.

[00:23:47] And despite being an HBO movie, and that's kind of how I feel with this. Like, this is... This doesn't matter how many boobs or gore you put in it. It's just... And the performances are muted by the underwritten characters. They just felt like they just needed to get it done, and they'd done it to death. They're trying to make it interesting, but the style never comes to life.

[00:24:13] Let's see who the screenplay writer was. Yeah, he's got some okay books. Jerick Cunningham, but as well as just other movies like... TV movies like The Big Heist that just look very mediocre or average. You've seen him do other cop movies or action films like Judgment Died and The Last of the Finest, but... Yeah, it's just...

[00:24:42] It's tough to say where it just doesn't come to life, but there might have been just too many cooks in the kitchen, but... Yeah, and it ends with Castellano's murder. That's the only thing I remember about it, and it just sucks. You're like, why did I waste my time? And... Even though 1996's Gotti focused on the events before, during and after said murder, like, this just ends with that. And... I don't know. Like, the actor they chose to play Gotti

[00:25:11] was pretty forgettable. He's a solid... character actor who does all those gangster roles, but... Yeah, this one... It blurred the line between, like, a Scorsese, you know, Goodfellas wannabe, as well as just a Who's Care movie. Like, the only way you're gonna like this is if you are a gangster movie completist, or you've lived a life of crime and that's all you relate to. Those are the only movies that validate you and you watch. You know, that is that kind of movie. It just is... That's so

[00:25:42] generic. Let's talk about 2018's Gotti. We briefly reflected this in the bad John Travolta movie special with Nick Cage. And... Yeah. This is noteworthy. It's getting 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and 24% on Metacritic.

[00:26:11] And... I remember having a former co-worker who thought this was okay but just got annoyed by the language. And I was like, it's a gangster movie. You're gonna hear language. Then... Yeah, Kevin Connolly from Entourage got into the director's chair and even did some overview of the script. This is noteworthy of being... just getting more negative attention before it was even out. Like most movies. And that's for a reason.

[00:26:41] And like... basically vertical entertainment and movie pass desperately tried to gather attention for this film. You know, it was made for Lionsgate. And... it was just one of those that's like, why are like 70% of people for a limited showing all of a sudden interested? It was definitely done by bots. No one's fessing up to it. But... many other sites like this Forbes article or noting how

[00:27:10] by Scott Middleton who I definitely trust. It just... it doesn't add up. And so, it's... like many of these movies, available on both video on demand and in theaters the same day. And... yeah, you know... it's not... video on demand isn't always a bad thing. It's just... it's hard to tell if it's a good movie or not because it'll often only have five reviews and if three of those are bad, then guess what?

[00:27:40] It still gets... you know, a bad rating. And... Lionsgate premiere has had some pretty solid movies in the past, but... yeah, basically, Randall Emmett is a scandal-ridden guy who's still working with Travolta and these other geezers, as they're called, and is best known for exploiting Bruce Willis, doing some other cheapies for Morgan Freeman, Pacino, De Niro, the works. And... it just... he basically did the whole

[00:28:10] attack the critics marketing strategy and... you know, guess what, guys? Scott Middleston's article on Forbes is really worth a read. Just look up, you know, Gaudi critics and it'll come up. And... it does sound like a mixture of Trump-type, you know, reverse polarization versus click-baity articles, but it's like, yeah, that has not... if you have to

[00:28:39] attack people's character just to explain why your movie sucked, then guess what? It's pretty ridiculous. If you want some utter amusement, you can listen to a friend of the show, Adam Spiegelman's probably resents. One of his final episodes he did was talking about why Gaudi sucked. It might even be the worst movie of the 2010s. So, yeah,

[00:29:10] this movie sucks. It's not unwatchable. I definitely wouldn't rank it at 0%, but, yeah, Travolta had his head so far up his ass to be like, this is a must-see movie, you gotta see this. I don't know what Richard Roper was doing with his positive view, saying, entertaining, well-acted, but uneven B-movie. It's definitely a B-movie, and uneven's just putting it too nicely. It's not well-written. People were saying, going into way more detail

[00:29:40] than this movie deserves. The problem is, it really is just messy. There's good performances by Stacey Keech as Neil De La Croix. Yeah, William DeMaio as Sammy the Bull. He doesn't stand out. Kelly Preston isn't here in one of her final roles. You know, Victoria, gotta be in a movie with her husband, John. Yeah, there's all kinds of other actors, Pruitt Taylor Vance, Chris Mulkey. The cast

[00:30:09] isn't used at all well. The camera work is way too darkly lit. That's how cheap it is. He did some filming at Butler County Jail, and John Romualter ranges from having a toupee to being bald, depending on what scene he's in confessing, but the jumping back and forth is just one of many other movies just trying to imitate the Pulp Fiction, usual suspects told out of

[00:30:39] chronological sequence. It just makes it more frustrating. It doesn't add anything to the movie, and that's when you know you've got a hack made script. So, from a script writing standpoint, point, yes. I do agree and totally with screen junkies getting in on it, selling the disparity. Audience makes no sense, and it was definitely a suspicious vote manipulation on behalf of the studio. So, yeah, it is way more interesting just for John Travolta

[00:31:08] struggling to make another good movie, and just the behind-the-scenes just scandal. That has, of course, won many Razzie nominations, including just worst-screen combo, worst-screen play, worst-supporting actress, worst-director, and worst-picture. But I think the bigger fish to fry is just, I don't know why it's so hard to do a movie about the subject matter. It is complex, but it is

[00:31:38] not impossible. Like, you could easily cover some big ground, many other podcasts that I listen to have done it way more justice. I will just say this, like, even if you've had any fun with it, just, it's not going to be anything memorable. You're just not going to remember it. Like, it just speeds through all the stuff.

[00:32:07] It's very disinterested. The production might have been an okay A&E, movie. There is music by Pitbull. That sucks, as you would expect from anything by Pitbull. The budget claims it was $10 million. The box office was only $6.4. I don't buy that at all. It's, I don't think John Travolta was the wrong part for this. Just, yeah, it just was another, much like he did with Battlefield, that franchise picture. It was a pet project

[00:32:36] he wanted to do, and they just didn't have a screenplay worthy of that. Leo Rossi, best known as the B-movie actor you've seen in everything from Halloween 2 to the Relentless movies to River's Edge and The Accused analyze this. The works. Co-wrote the script with Lem Dodds, who is a British-American writer who's done stuff like Dark City and the Limey. Knowing how Randall Emmett works, I'm sure he

[00:33:06] brushed it up, he pulled a John Ford, but instead of doing it just to get the movie done, he pulled out pages that were relevant. And so, yeah, much like these crappy Bruce Willis movies, it's just very, and some of the Mel Gibson films he's done at Emmett Furla and Lionsgate, it's just one of those, ah, it just doesn't leave you with anything, it doesn't have much to chomp onto, it's too busy speeding through the process, very uninterested. Stacey Keech

[00:33:35] gave 100%, but that's because he's Stacey fucking Keech, you know, he just never phones it in, he is a Shakespeareanly trained actor for a reason, and Travolta tried, but they didn't frame him well, they didn't give anything that made you go, that's an inspired performance, and they speed through all his other tragedies, very disinterested, it's literally a cliff notes, and then they sped through it to where you don't have time to comprehend it,

[00:34:05] it never gets your attention, it's not, you become unintentionally bored because they're not giving you any moment to just reflect on this stuff or actually show that they have a vision, so that's the main deal, and they use so many Dutch angles and over-the-shoulder views, but it's more just we want to get it done, it's not because we wanted to film it that way, cinematographer released by Michael Barnett who's done stuff like Bobby, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,

[00:34:35] and Ted, I don't know what he's doing on a poor production like this, edited by Jim Flynn, produced by some other partners of Emmett, yeah, I don't know what the fuck happened here other than you can't trust these guys, it was filmed in Ohio, parts of New York, just so they could resemble New York City, but they did all the tax credits and yet still couldn't pull it off, it premiered at the 2018

[00:35:04] Cannes Film Festival, but I doubt anyone went to see it there, that is so weird though, Richard Roper of all people who is often very hard on anything, thought this was okay, I cannot believe that, that is blasphemy. Yeah, I don't know what to say other than that, you should check it out if you want people to leave, or if you just want to know why just, and just scratch your head at just bizarre movies getting some kind of attention,

[00:35:34] somehow getting a theatrical release, like, unfortunately, I'm surprised, I guess the only reason it didn't get a directed video is just, it didn't bore anyone, I don't, I don't know, it was pretty dull to me, but just because it just didn't make use of anything, it just was very cheap, there's some other actors attached to this, but it would honestly be a huge waste of time, most of them are just investors who are trying to become actors, and they've only worked on any of these Randall Emmett movies,

[00:36:04] so they need to cut ties fast. Anyway, hope you enjoyed listening, I hope I gave you some recommendations to watch, even the disappointments might be worth seeing, but that is it for the movies that John Gotti and his associates were featured in for the Gambinos, so if you like the show, please give us a follow of the Jackdip Review Show podcast on Insta, Twitter, Blue Sky, anywhere that you use social

[00:36:34] media, and enjoy the rest of Godfather-themed week, we're going to cover other people, both true crime and just gangster movie and TV epics that owe much to Mario Puzo style, so check back with us, there'll be probably something else that you might enjoy listening to, so take care. We'll return after these messages.

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[00:39:02] just like I did. She's got a son that is not only just like me, but it's just like her. I'm your host, Rina Friedman-Watt. Invite your friends, subscribe, and I'm excited to take this journey with you. Let's dive in. She was teasing this guy with the sword and she accidentally cut his dick. Oh my god, I'm dying. And then he started to enjoy it. I started going down the phone sex rabbit hole. You've got the wankers and you jerk off in five seconds and then they're done because A, they don't want to spend money and B, they're quick.

[00:39:31] My stepfather had mania. If I'm yelling at one of my kids, that fear, that rigid fear. Mom even said to me, I hope you have a kid just like you. There are lots of people that are being bought and sold right now for profit. If you think you're going to kill yourself, shut up and kill yourself. If you're not going to kill yourself, then shut up, smarten up, and it's all on you. The bullshit ass dad. Wow. When I was 11 years old, I was raped and molested over the course of a year.

[00:39:57] What Jeffrey Epstein had was a sickness inside of him. I am Evan Castrilli Carmichael. I could do anything that I believe that I can. I'm so excited too. Let's go. Next on Better Call Daddy with my mom and my grandpa. Stay tuned. Follow us on the web on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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