And you know, if the mob just left these guys alone and let them leave, they wouldn't have had to turn to the Government for protection and give them all this information. But they won't let people leave, people who made a mistake joining when they were young and they grow up and don't want to be involved. If they just actually let them leave, the guys wouldn't be giving all this information to the Government. Yes, a lot more would be leaving if they were allowed to go on their way, but don't they want people who really have their hearts in it and aren't looking to get out by the only means possible which is to inform and make Government deals to get out? They have no choice but to inform because the mob doesn't leave them a choice. And like this guy said, the whole perception of all this great honor and such is not really how it goes. That's Hollywood. These are criminals who snitch out each other all the time and have very little honor, it's about money and greed and getting away with what you can get away with. Not just in society, but within their mafia system as well. Still, I'd rather it be the mob we know, the Italian Mafia, rather than other kinds of mobs from various countries that try to get a piece here. While I don't think the Italian Mafia have that much respect and honor and it's more about what you can get away with, I do think they still have more honor than a lot of mob groups from other countries that have tried to get seeded here. And so as long as we're forced to have these kind or organizations around, I still kind of hope the Italian Mafia remains the dominant criminal organization in the US, as ridiculous as that may sound.
@@MewmewGrrl that’s not true at all that’s not why him and franzese ratted Michael told because he didn’t wanna face jail time that’s a fact and John pennisi told because he was paranoid and scared because of crap that he did he even said his dead grandma told him to rat pennisi is a known liar the guys he told on in put in jail actually have a chance to come home because penisi contradicted himself saying one thing when he testified but saying another in one of his videos one of those men’s family members caught him in a bunch of lies in his videos and it’s helping get those guys out of prison.
this is based on real life, the nj family didnt follow protocol during ceremonies, when Gotti found out, he told them to do it over again with their guys or the gambinos wouldnt recognize them as made.
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@@usmantariq7997 There were multiple scenes from The Godfather. At 3:43 he gives it a 0/10. He gave a lot more of the Futurama scenes a lot of serious nods towards the aspects it was portraying, which I found to be kind of funny.
My favorite was the last breakdown. I've heard very little about how many people turn to ratting when they get pinched. I like how he said people in the mafia are not honorable as portrayed in the movies, but selfish and greedy. Makes sense.
The sopranos, as usual, is perfect. One of the major themes is that Tony "came late". It's the opening monologue of the series. They're trying to be the five families in the seventies, but they're the new Jersey mob in the late 90s early 00's. The fact that they mess up the ceremony fits perfectly. It's one of the reasons the show is so great. We can all relate to the feeling of coming late to the party and feeling like we're just pretending. At to that the themes of precarious class status and it fits in nicely with a declining middle class that many can identify with.
Haha yea I think a lot of the mob guys don’t understand what the Sopranos is really all about like you were saying and you know it’s really a show about society and life and social commentary through the lens of mobsters
The Sopranos also sacrifices realism for artistic freedom on multiple occasions. That’s just the kind of show it was, it didn’t try to hide it. Take the episode “Pine Barrens” for example. The surface level plot of that episode makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. That dude got shot in the head and got back up, then he straight up disappeared, and Chris and Paulie’s tracks didn’t lead back to the car for some reason. But all that stuff symbolically constructs a story with a functional narrative and it’s easily one of the best episodes of the series. If a work of fiction makes no attempt to make sense, then I give it a pass. If everything had to be realistic then it would automatically make any science fiction or fantasy movies bad by default. Plus, The Sopranos utilizes absurdity and unrealistic scenes for comedic purposes. The show is honestly hilarious.
@@sprawlz6466 LMFAO Dude I don't think the Pine Barrens episode was that deep. First off the Russians head got grazed by the bullet. A small caliber bullet from at least 30YDS away. That fact that Paulie even hit him with a hand gun from that distance is pure luck. I've been shooting guns for a long time, and I can't hit anything that accurately from that distance. Secondly Valery "the Russian" was a member of the Spetsnaz or Special Forces. So surviving a flesh wound, even in the head, and than running a decent distance in the cold in New Jersey and later dying (if he did) isn't really a stretch. Years ago I watched and interview with a former mob member who's crew thought he was snitching, and they actually shot him in the back of the head twice with a .22 from point blank range and the bullets didn't even penetrate his skull. He survived and though he was not snitching before he immediately went to the Feds. Granted he was a big boy and more than likely had a pretty thick skull but still. Anyways I think Valery climbed a tree, as they do show a downward view looking at Chrissy and Paulie. At the very least he ran off and died somewhere else. Third I would trust Chrissy and Paulie to find their way out of the woods about as much as I would trust a daycare ran by Jerry Sandusky and Jeffrey Epstein. Those two guys probably walked in circles a couple times, also it was probably hunting season and the tracks got confused for older ones. It wasn't super fresh snow either so the tracks could have been hard to pick up. Not to mention the snow covered woods in the winter time is an easy place to get lost. I lived in Michigan for a long time and had a cabin up north. In the summer I knew my way around the woods very well, but I went up there during the winter one time and after a snow fall was a different story. I think that episode was more about Paulie and Chrissy being friends but under the surface of their friendship there wasn't much holding them together. They would turn on each other real quick. Also did Valery survive? From the first time I saw that episode I always was weary of the Russians coming back for revenge.
The bird in the window is also symbolic in irish superstition as well. A bird from a western facing wondow symbolized the sluagh, the wild hunt. It was a representation that death was coming for someone inside. It would in this scene symbolize Chris' impending doom for chosing this life path
Well, don't. He's a murderer who only switched sides because his own life was in danger. He's never done a single thing in his life that should be respected.
For me, the most crazy thing about that scene with the helicopter from Godfather 3, was the guy with his 'lucky coat'. He's just holding the coat and screaming "My lucky coat!! My lucky coat!!" without taking his so-called lucky coat off the rack. That was just incredibly RIDICULOUS!!! 🤦♂️
It’s great to see John doing one of these. He’s really well spoken and extremely knowledgeable about the mob. Plus he’s the real deal. You can’t beat that.
I’m glad this guy ACTUALLY doesn’t self aggrandise and glorify the mob the way that Michael Franzese does, whilst saying “I never glorify the mob” but constantly talking about how honorable and great the guys he knew in the life were.
This comment is very accurate and after seeing lots of his content, I agree. It seems he may be a little concerned about "stepping on toes" still, which is understandable.
My guess is that mobsters used to be loyal and honorable when they were all known family members and very close associates, when it started to expand all that went out the window very quickly.
@@EresirThe1st Somewhat untrue. As in, the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, the current world's biggest mafia (making 60+ bilion a year) is known for maintaining actual familial blood ties. Meaning, it gets passed down from father to son. It's actually kept in the family. This has led the 'ndrangheta to both become the biggest mafia in Italy (alongside their near monopoly on European coke) and the most wide-spread and wealthy organized crime syndicate in the world. Their members barely snitch, because it's much more rare for an Italian to snitch on an actual blood relative. And the so called "'ndrangheta kids'' (kids who grow up with mafiosi families) are trained from a young age to follow in their family's footsteps. It's a rather sad thing, especially because the Italian mafias bleed our country dry.
I’d say 90% of viewers never understood godfather III because they never studied particularly what was going on in italy at that historical time, Vatican banks, casinos, mafia, masonry ecc
@@FreePalestineJahRastafariit not about understanding it’s about the appalling acting, irrelevant characters, bizarre character changes and poor overall product.
@@rilasolo113nope I don’t agree sorry, I study history as a ho by and that time of Italian history was one of the darkest in history for us, and it was very well reflected in the movie
I agree with the Hollywood comment. If someone is actually hit with a group around, they'd spend hours just trying to figure out where the shot came from. They'd probably never know who did it and actually rely on law enforcement to give them clues as to who was responsible.
I find it quite interesting that movies like The Godfather series and a show like The Sopranos aren't nearly as accurate about the mafia as people would like to think. I'd love to know what helped this man and others leave the mafia behind. I love videos like this where various experts on all kinds of topics share their knowledge so that we can learn from them. :)
Well the Sopranos was less accurate than others, because the family Tony ran did things wrong, which was even brought up in the show and caused the New York family to go to war with the Jersey family.
Actually, everything he pointed out was brought up in another part of the same episode. Yeah Sil cracked a joke at the beginning before the ceremony started, but the bird being a bad omen, being made being one of the lowest points in that character's life, and it taking 10+ years for Chris to be made were all discussed. I kinda feel like this scene needs more context.
@@Mason-iy4cxthe sopranos is actually very accurate, so accurate that agents told creator David Chase that they had wire taps on mafia members and they were talking about the sopranos, wondering if they had a rat cuz sopranos was so accurate
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Somebody mentioned this already but it appears that the sopranos went over John’s head. It’s stated in the show how the mafia has lost its way, specifically Tony’s crew. Phil leotardo basically started a war over it. Maybe rewatch the show and you’ll see
I disagree with that take. Yes, one theme is it’s about the decline of the mob (though tbh, it starts like that, but it kind of jettisons that a bit). But that doesn’t explain every mistake they made about how it operates. A lot of that is just that there was a lot less info out there on how the mob worked at the time that The Sopranos was made. In the last 20 years, and particularly in the last five years, the number of former members who have written books, done interviews, and now started TH-cam channels, is huge. There is vastly more knowledge about how the mob functioned/functions now than there was in the late 90s. Plus, I think they changed some things up for dramatic/comedic effect, as movies and tv shows always do. Having the two guys getting made together could be a genuine mistake (personally I don’t think it was some statement about declining standards in the mob), or, it could be that when you are making a tv show, you have a limited number of scenes to get your story across, and it would just be boring to have them go in one at a time and repeat the same thing, so they ran them together. And I definitely think that they inserted jokes and verbal conflict into a lot of situations where it wouldn’t have happened in real life, because it’s a tv show, and it has to entertain and engage the audience.
I wanna know how this man managed to get out of the mob and now sitting calm and talk about mob things and names without any hesitation.or should I say fear.There's no 'former' when it comes to mafia.
The Mafia has recognized its better to reform their image to the public. Than to continue the old way of things. Just like lucky Luciano rewrote the book back then, these guys are doing it now.
he mentions it in the other insider video but he has to plan whatever he does and wherever he goes. He can't visit his family that much. He's gonna be looking over his shoulder his entire life. He's just being cautious and smart about it but it must be so draining to do this day in and out.
The Mafia isn't what it was. Henry Hill snitched and still went to NY and wasn't touched. The Mafia used to be everywhere in America and the only way for someone to generally escape was snitch and enter witness protection but these days you could just leave your area and you'd be mostly fine. Rico decimated the mafia in America and while they're still about, they don't hold the power they used to and most families are really small.
As a kid living in Ozone Park i would go into restaurants and i can see wise guys in the back playing cards, there was this one time i went into a pizzeria with my friends after playing baseball at Pals oval right off Cross Bay Blvd and they had a guy( i guess a snitch) on the table confronting him and choking him and then when we walked in they told us it was closed and they escorted us out. I grew up all over NYC, in brooklyn, Astoria, Washington heights, Etc. But Ozone Park was the "Badest" of them all. There were Real gangsters/wise guys walking them streets not them other gangters with toys shooting random people in the projects.
@@Guillermo_Carratero It may be authentic, but that doesn't make it a good movie. It was trying to portray reality in the life so accurately that it failed as a work of art and it was rather dull.
@@micro11. u are killing the suspense for after life. Only then we are about to find if he exists or not. If he does we would ask him to make a youtube for afterlife and.... Eeh getting long im out
But the "Christopher situation" worked out just as you said it did for you. It was, in reality, a step down and a humiliation, where he had to became even more servile to the bosses. I thought from the way you explained your experience this would be rated high for reality. The reality of false expectations.
These were awesome and interesting to watch. When John mentions about my great grandfather Carlo Gambino, it's true it went to Paul Castellano then to John Gotti. Gotti not being of the bloodline relative to Gambino. Although, the Castellano's are Carlo's cousins. Carlo married into the Castellano family. (Sicilian crime families tried to keep pure bloodline in the family, so it's not uncommon to have a person marry another relative). So in a way the Gambino family stayed true to it's family line, but once Gotti took over it kinda went all over the place. My dad looks a lot like Carlo Gambino though and I find it awesome. ^^ My dad is the coolest.
@@jacksonchontos2910 Not to an already made Italian crime family. You could possibly make your own. If you hypothetically started to work for an already made family, there's only so high up in rank you would go. You "might" get lucky with the right knowledge and skills to be a families concierge, but you will Never be a Don. Unless you create your own crime family. I just know these things from lots of research about the Italian families.
@@jacksonchontos2910They can always get involved, they just won't be made members of a family, they'll just be an associate. Doesn't mean an associate can't hold power though, Joe watts, Jimmy Burke and many others were extremely powerful associates. The Chicago outfit is different and non Italians have been allowed to join.
i suspect most of us had hunches mob territories weren't that disputed aka everyone staying within theirs. always made sense to me: if each family is making good money, stepping out of bounds looks very unattractive in real life.
So Luccheses have Pannisi. Colombos have Franzese. Gambinos have Sammy Gravano. Now we just need a Bonanno and Genovese guy to do TH-cam videos. Maybe even a guy from that pygmy thing over in Jersey.
He says only one person would be ‘made’ at a time, but I believe Michael Franzese has publicly stated that he was made at the same time as at least one other guy.
They're not long gone they stay out of social clubs,streets and try to stay off the FBI's radar. And they've figured there's lots of money to be earned in white collar crime than the streets.
I always thought the jewelry being returned to the commission members was meant to show how they all needed to go through a metal detector to get into the venue 🤔
That is definitely not true. If they can’t trust someone, he definitely wouldn’t be at a Commission Meeting...wouldn’t even know the location. For security purposes, the venues may be selected last minute, how the heck would they quickly set up a metal detector at a random place and who would do it? Ridiculous!
@@jimmymcgill8412 it’s a movie, Jimmy. And an awful movie filled with bullsh|t that would never happen. I’m not saying something like this could happen. I’m saying that’s what the writers were trying to convey.
I'm sure he still has to be wary of where he goes to a degree, but the mafia's nowhere near what it once was. Smartphones, street cams & drones, and the surveillance state have changed the game. Not tryna be dramatic, they can't always just randomly spy on people & they don't always know who to spy on. But it's so much easier to get busted for organized crime now in the US with new technology & post-9/11 laws and policies
Let this guy see the Mafia 1 & 2 games. I remember that in the second game is the "straightened out" situation portraited how he says - that being one behind door than called in
I’m glad to see a former mobster who is actually regretful and recognizes how bad that world is. I love hearing all of the guys on YT now talking about it honestly, but a few of them do sort of give me some discomfort because it’s obvious that they don’t regret the people they victimized and the bad things they did. A lot of them give the impression that they simply aged out and their new grift is just talking about it.
Today I learned that Futurama is a more accurate depiction of the mob than Godfather Part 3
A concise comment indeed sir
Considering how part 3 was im not surprised
I mean...Godfather III sets the bar about as low as can be. What an absolute fuckin travesty of a "movie"...
@@Larry_Sportello Honestly just watched 1 which was a masterpiece and stopped there.
@@surprisecat7401 good for quitting while you were ahead
I'm glad we have both this guy and Franzese doing this. I like the idea that we get both a capo and a soldiers perspective on these things.
And you know, if the mob just left these guys alone and let them leave, they wouldn't have had to turn to the Government for protection and give them all this information. But they won't let people leave, people who made a mistake joining when they were young and they grow up and don't want to be involved. If they just actually let them leave, the guys wouldn't be giving all this information to the Government. Yes, a lot more would be leaving if they were allowed to go on their way, but don't they want people who really have their hearts in it and aren't looking to get out by the only means possible which is to inform and make Government deals to get out? They have no choice but to inform because the mob doesn't leave them a choice.
And like this guy said, the whole perception of all this great honor and such is not really how it goes. That's Hollywood. These are criminals who snitch out each other all the time and have very little honor, it's about money and greed and getting away with what you can get away with. Not just in society, but within their mafia system as well.
Still, I'd rather it be the mob we know, the Italian Mafia, rather than other kinds of mobs from various countries that try to get a piece here. While I don't think the Italian Mafia have that much respect and honor and it's more about what you can get away with, I do think they still have more honor than a lot of mob groups from other countries that have tried to get seeded here. And so as long as we're forced to have these kind or organizations around, I still kind of hope the Italian Mafia remains the dominant criminal organization in the US, as ridiculous as that may sound.
MF never gave any information on anyone
@@MewmewGrrlHey I hear you man. It's as they say. Better a devil you know, than the one you don't.
@@tobe1207 That's what he says - he is the master of the narrative. But he can be quite loose with the truth
@@MewmewGrrl that’s not true at all that’s not why him and franzese ratted Michael told because he didn’t wanna face jail time that’s a fact and John pennisi told because he was paranoid and scared because of crap that he did he even said his dead grandma told him to rat pennisi is a known liar the guys he told on in put in jail actually have a chance to come home because penisi contradicted himself saying one thing when he testified but saying another in one of his videos one of those men’s family members caught him in a bunch of lies in his videos and it’s helping get those guys out of prison.
In The Sopranos' defense, Phil said the way they make guys in Jersey is all messed up.
They're a glorified crew
There's no sword and gun on table, guys don't get there finger picked 🤌
🤣🤣
this is based on real life, the nj family didnt follow protocol during ceremonies, when Gotti found out, he told them to do it over again with their guys or the gambinos wouldnt recognize them as made.
@@eurobubble7068 Bravo once again, Chase. Untouchable writing.
This guy did 17 years in prison, now I want to see him rate prison movies.
No heroes in goals
Check out larry Lawton he was in prison for a decade and does a lot of prison movie reviews
Good point.
He looks good for 17 years
17 years in the can.
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Non Mafia don't like Godfather III either, so basically, everybody hates it.
Yup. The two kinds of folk in this world. Mafia. And non mafia.
it’s not as a bad of a movie as people make it out to be
@@louis8487 To be fair, that *does* describe everyone on Earth.
He looks and talks exactly like I imagined an Italian mafia guy 😂
He looks and talks like all my cousins!! 😬
We ( all italians) speak like this in NYC, Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania
@@jfg1104 not Connecticut or Pennsylvania, I’m from nyc whenever I leave and go to pa or ct or upstate everyone sounds like a damn canadian
What’s so funny
So, you discovered the Italian accent. Congrats for u kiddo
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Too soon
Somehow filmed from beyond the grave.
Not even remotely funny
@@rafael2499 it's pretty funny
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I love how the Godfather scene gets a 0/10 whereas Futurama gets a higher rating.
He gave Godfather a 7
@@usmantariq7997 There were multiple scenes from The Godfather. At 3:43 he gives it a 0/10. He gave a lot more of the Futurama scenes a lot of serious nods towards the aspects it was portraying, which I found to be kind of funny.
@@ttanizawa901 Yeah that's funny
* Godfather 3
@@ttanizawa901 godfather 3 was quite unrealistic compared to the first one
They chose some strange films and shows. There's so many mafia movies, but Kickass and Futurama made the list.
Because they mostly do things the right way and if they dont it’d just be a dry fuckin rating
You are so right-l’m surprised they didn’t show a scene from “Goodfellas”.
My favorite was the last breakdown. I've heard very little about how many people turn to ratting when they get pinched. I like how he said people in the mafia are not honorable as portrayed in the movies, but selfish and greedy. Makes sense.
The sopranos, as usual, is perfect. One of the major themes is that Tony "came late". It's the opening monologue of the series. They're trying to be the five families in the seventies, but they're the new Jersey mob in the late 90s early 00's. The fact that they mess up the ceremony fits perfectly. It's one of the reasons the show is so great. We can all relate to the feeling of coming late to the party and feeling like we're just pretending. At to that the themes of precarious class status and it fits in nicely with a declining middle class that many can identify with.
Like Carmine said "they're a glorified crew".
Haha yea I think a lot of the mob guys don’t understand what the Sopranos is really all about like you were saying and you know it’s really a show about society and life and social commentary through the lens of mobsters
The Sopranos also sacrifices realism for artistic freedom on multiple occasions. That’s just the kind of show it was, it didn’t try to hide it. Take the episode “Pine Barrens” for example. The surface level plot of that episode makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. That dude got shot in the head and got back up, then he straight up disappeared, and Chris and Paulie’s tracks didn’t lead back to the car for some reason. But all that stuff symbolically constructs a story with a functional narrative and it’s easily one of the best episodes of the series. If a work of fiction makes no attempt to make sense, then I give it a pass. If everything had to be realistic then it would automatically make any science fiction or fantasy movies bad by default. Plus, The Sopranos utilizes absurdity and unrealistic scenes for comedic purposes. The show is honestly hilarious.
@@sprawlz6466 LMFAO Dude I don't think the Pine Barrens episode was that deep. First off the Russians head got grazed by the bullet. A small caliber bullet from at least 30YDS away. That fact that Paulie even hit him with a hand gun from that distance is pure luck. I've been shooting guns for a long time, and I can't hit anything that accurately from that distance. Secondly Valery "the Russian" was a member of the Spetsnaz or Special Forces. So surviving a flesh wound, even in the head, and than running a decent distance in the cold in New Jersey and later dying (if he did) isn't really a stretch. Years ago I watched and interview with a former mob member who's crew thought he was snitching, and they actually shot him in the back of the head twice with a .22 from point blank range and the bullets didn't even penetrate his skull. He survived and though he was not snitching before he immediately went to the Feds. Granted he was a big boy and more than likely had a pretty thick skull but still. Anyways I think Valery climbed a tree, as they do show a downward view looking at Chrissy and Paulie. At the very least he ran off and died somewhere else.
Third I would trust Chrissy and Paulie to find their way out of the woods about as much as I would trust a daycare ran by Jerry Sandusky and Jeffrey Epstein. Those two guys probably walked in circles a couple times, also it was probably hunting season and the tracks got confused for older ones. It wasn't super fresh snow either so the tracks could have been hard to pick up. Not to mention the snow covered woods in the winter time is an easy place to get lost. I lived in Michigan for a long time and had a cabin up north. In the summer I knew my way around the woods very well, but I went up there during the winter one time and after a snow fall was a different story. I think that episode was more about Paulie and Chrissy being friends but under the surface of their friendship there wasn't much holding them together. They would turn on each other real quick.
Also did Valery survive? From the first time I saw that episode I always was weary of the Russians coming back for revenge.
@@jayr3381 I think John said that right?
The bird in the window is also symbolic in irish superstition as well. A bird from a western facing wondow symbolized the sluagh, the wild hunt. It was a representation that death was coming for someone inside. It would in this scene symbolize Chris' impending doom for chosing this life path
Good to know.
Respect to this man for getting out and showing us this.🤘
Thank you- John Pennisi ( Sitdownnews Podcast)
A rat
Well, don't.
He's a murderer who only switched sides because his own life was in danger.
He's never done a single thing in his life that should be respected.
Absolutely 100% correct; the amount of people glorifying this fickle murdering turncoat is disturbing
For me, the most crazy thing about that scene with the helicopter from Godfather 3, was the guy with his 'lucky coat'. He's just holding the coat and screaming "My lucky coat!! My lucky coat!!" without taking his so-called lucky coat off the rack. That was just incredibly RIDICULOUS!!! 🤦♂️
I think he just had a breakdown. That why he was acting like that.
For me, it was the casting of Janet Reno as Michael Corleone. Disgraceful.
To be fair, in the Sopranos, Phil Leotardo hated that Tony did a lot of mob stuff loosy goosy and not by the book.
It’s great to see John doing one of these. He’s really well spoken and extremely knowledgeable about the mob. Plus he’s the real deal. You can’t beat that.
The Sopranos does it, though. That last statement. If one watches the whole series not one illusion remains intact.
On my first ever visit to New York from the UK, I walked through Little Italy and just listened to people speaking. It was fantastic.
I’m glad this guy ACTUALLY doesn’t self aggrandise and glorify the mob the way that Michael Franzese does, whilst saying “I never glorify the mob” but constantly talking about how honorable and great the guys he knew in the life were.
Yeah, I'm so tired of him.
Franzes is a stunad of the highest magnitude.
This comment is very accurate and after seeing lots of his content, I agree. It seems he may be a little concerned about "stepping on toes" still, which is understandable.
Since when did Franzese glorified the mob? He's literally the antithesis of one.
If there's someone that glorifies the mob, it's Sammy Gravano.
give me some examples.
My guess is that mobsters used to be loyal and honorable when they were all known family members and very close associates, when it started to expand all that went out the window very quickly.
The RICO statute made guys flip
@@EresirThe1st Somewhat untrue. As in, the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, the current world's biggest mafia (making 60+ bilion a year) is known for maintaining actual familial blood ties. Meaning, it gets passed down from father to son. It's actually kept in the family. This has led the 'ndrangheta to both become the biggest mafia in Italy (alongside their near monopoly on European coke) and the most wide-spread and wealthy organized crime syndicate in the world. Their members barely snitch, because it's much more rare for an Italian to snitch on an actual blood relative. And the so called "'ndrangheta kids'' (kids who grow up with mafiosi families) are trained from a young age to follow in their family's footsteps. It's a rather sad thing, especially because the Italian mafias bleed our country dry.
Way back, in this area, they were almost all related or at least intermarried, and from the same village or at least the same province
RICO played a big part however the mob ended up killing itself off
That moment when you realize that Futurama is more realistic than The Godfather Part III
Well its a comedy and we all know every joke has a hidden truth
I have a Haitian transgender servobot living next door. 100% accurate show
I’d say 90% of viewers never understood godfather III because they never studied particularly what was going on in italy at that historical time, Vatican banks, casinos, mafia, masonry ecc
@@FreePalestineJahRastafariit not about understanding it’s about the appalling acting, irrelevant characters, bizarre character changes and poor overall product.
@@rilasolo113nope I don’t agree sorry, I study history as a ho by and that time of Italian history was one of the darkest in history for us, and it was very well reflected in the movie
I agree with the Hollywood comment. If someone is actually hit with a group around, they'd spend hours just trying to figure out where the shot came from. They'd probably never know who did it and actually rely on law enforcement to give them clues as to who was responsible.
I find it quite interesting that movies like The Godfather series and a show like The Sopranos aren't nearly as accurate about the mafia as people would like to think.
I'd love to know what helped this man and others leave the mafia behind.
I love videos like this where various experts on all kinds of topics share their knowledge so that we can learn from them. :)
Well the Sopranos was less accurate than others, because the family Tony ran did things wrong, which was even brought up in the show and caused the New York family to go to war with the Jersey family.
Actually, everything he pointed out was brought up in another part of the same episode. Yeah Sil cracked a joke at the beginning before the ceremony started, but the bird being a bad omen, being made being one of the lowest points in that character's life, and it taking 10+ years for Chris to be made were all discussed. I kinda feel like this scene needs more context.
@@Mason-iy4cxthe sopranos is actually very accurate, so accurate that agents told creator David Chase that they had wire taps on mafia members and they were talking about the sopranos, wondering if they had a rat cuz sopranos was so accurate
Sopranos is accurate, nobody told rat boy it's the Jersey crew
@landenmann3436 What, like a mob boss seeing a psychiatrist? What about raising your hand to not only a made man but the boss? Yeah, real accurate.
That’s kinda wild that he got accused of being a snitch so he ends up having no choice but to actually snitch.
Ikr
A captain was clapping his girl . Don’t believe the hype
@@chuchorodriguez1893
Clapping his girl? What does that even mean? Having sex?
@@Guillermo_Carratero yes
@@Guillermo_Carratero making her cheeks clap, yes.
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Somebody mentioned this already but it appears that the sopranos went over John’s head. It’s stated in the show how the mafia has lost its way, specifically Tony’s crew. Phil leotardo basically started a war over it.
Maybe rewatch the show and you’ll see
He hadn’t fully watched it at the time of this video.
John never had the makings of a varsity athlete
Listen to him, he knows everything.
I disagree with that take. Yes, one theme is it’s about the decline of the mob (though tbh, it starts like that, but it kind of jettisons that a bit). But that doesn’t explain every mistake they made about how it operates. A lot of that is just that there was a lot less info out there on how the mob worked at the time that The Sopranos was made. In the last 20 years, and particularly in the last five years, the number of former members who have written books, done interviews, and now started TH-cam channels, is huge. There is vastly more knowledge about how the mob functioned/functions now than there was in the late 90s.
Plus, I think they changed some things up for dramatic/comedic effect, as movies and tv shows always do. Having the two guys getting made together could be a genuine mistake (personally I don’t think it was some statement about declining standards in the mob), or, it could be that when you are making a tv show, you have a limited number of scenes to get your story across, and it would just be boring to have them go in one at a time and repeat the same thing, so they ran them together. And I definitely think that they inserted jokes and verbal conflict into a lot of situations where it wouldn’t have happened in real life, because it’s a tv show, and it has to entertain and engage the audience.
I wanna know how this man managed to get out of the mob and now sitting calm and talk about mob things and names without any hesitation.or should I say fear.There's no 'former' when it comes to mafia.
The Mafia has recognized its better to reform their image to the public. Than to continue the old way of things. Just like lucky Luciano rewrote the book back then, these guys are doing it now.
@@ericbrown-yq2ey reform in the front but 'backstage' same old story.
@@thesaints-7-andrew. most likely but it's still a smart move
he mentions it in the other insider video but he has to plan whatever he does and wherever he goes. He can't visit his family that much. He's gonna be looking over his shoulder his entire life. He's just being cautious and smart about it but it must be so draining to do this day in and out.
The Mafia isn't what it was. Henry Hill snitched and still went to NY and wasn't touched. The Mafia used to be everywhere in America and the only way for someone to generally escape was snitch and enter witness protection but these days you could just leave your area and you'd be mostly fine. Rico decimated the mafia in America and while they're still about, they don't hold the power they used to and most families are really small.
This guy is a class act. His channel is great also Sitdownnews.
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what's his channel?
@@Sitdownnews thanks
@@Sitdownnews subscribed
@@jackjackson39 thank you
Armand Assante did a good job in portraying John Gotti.
Such a great guy John Penissi, I'm so happy for him that he's becomming so succesful..
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Really great guy. Woman beater
More of these, please. Love them.
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No more of this, Butchie, no more of this.
To be fair to The Sopranos, they make anybody and everybody over there.
And the way they do it is all fucked up.
Historically, Carmine always said the Sopranos are nothing more than a glorified crew.
It’s five fucken families and that Pygmy thing over in jersey
@@ShitinWithNoBathroom Guys don’t get their finger pricked. There's no sword and gun on the table...
Welp......looks like you've told us a couple of three thing.
This guy is the real deal. He’s just dropping zeroes left and right
I think Gamology should get him on his view on Mafia Definitive Edition
*YESS*
why the definite edition though and not the old one?
As a 70s NYorker, this is wild. Associates were all around. Even a brown half hispanic like me could have been an associate.
Knew a guy that moved to NYC in late 1970s. Within a couple weeks he was working for them and running around with them.
4:38, So not the first time Rudi has been involved with the FBI!
I guess he's lvl 30 hitman
Lvl 30 in a IOI Hitman game is very low.
@@die_buecher7090 i'm talking about real games
Mafia city
@@pghwhpffw9051 Oh I see,you mean the best mobile game in the world.
@@die_buecher7090 the best game in the world
Why on Earth did you ask him to rate the Gotto film with Travolta and not the superior film with Armand Assante from 1996?
As a kid living in Ozone Park i would go into restaurants and i can see wise guys in the back playing cards, there was this one time i went into a pizzeria with my friends after playing baseball at Pals oval right off Cross Bay Blvd and they had a guy( i guess a snitch) on the table confronting him and choking him and then when we walked in they told us it was closed and they escorted us out. I grew up all over NYC, in brooklyn, Astoria, Washington heights, Etc. But Ozone Park was the "Badest" of them all. There were Real gangsters/wise guys walking them streets not them other gangters with toys shooting random people in the projects.
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I mean that's possible to make 😁
📌📍 this legendary comment 🔥🔥😂😂
Was almost in tears of laughter when Futurama came on. Wasn't expecting that at all!!
so...what brand of shirt are you wearing, sir?
i love the block pattern
Armande Assante and HBO made a great Gotti movie back in the 90’s
ye tbf that movie was awesome
The movie wasn't that good. But Assante did a great job portraying Gotti.
Thanks Franzese
@@richardsantanna5398
You're crazy, that was one of the most authentic mob movies of all time..
@@Guillermo_Carratero
It may be authentic, but that doesn't make it a good movie. It was trying to portray reality in the life so accurately that it failed as a work of art and it was rather dull.
Suprised he never rated A Bronx Tale.
This former mobster doesn’t understand that Jersey is just a glorified crew. Of course they didn’t do it right.
There's no sword and gun on the table.
The way they make guys over there is all fucked up!
Let me tell ya one of tree things
Great video 😎😎 John did a good job breaking down these shows
Thank you, Michael
LUV Christopher Walken and King of New York was an underrated mob gem!
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@@micro11. u are killing the suspense for after life. Only then we are about to find if he exists or not. If he does we would ask him to make a youtube for afterlife and....
Eeh getting long im out
I appreciate your serious truthfulness.
Really good upload here. I hope we'll see former Biker member rates Biker scenes in Movies and TV.
But the "Christopher situation" worked out just as you said it did for you. It was, in reality, a step down and a humiliation, where he had to became even more servile to the bosses.
I thought from the way you explained your experience this would be rated high for reality. The reality of false expectations.
Cool to see John from Sitdownnews on this channel 👍
I believe all the loyalty and honor is more old school than new school
Appreciate the honesty. Good review
I would have been curious about his opinion on "good fellas".
These were awesome and interesting to watch. When John mentions about my great grandfather Carlo Gambino, it's true it went to Paul Castellano then to John Gotti. Gotti not being of the bloodline relative to Gambino. Although, the Castellano's are Carlo's cousins. Carlo married into the Castellano family. (Sicilian crime families tried to keep pure bloodline in the family, so it's not uncommon to have a person marry another relative). So in a way the Gambino family stayed true to it's family line, but once Gotti took over it kinda went all over the place. My dad looks a lot like Carlo Gambino though and I find it awesome. ^^ My dad is the coolest.
Could someone that’s half Italian and half black get involved if they wanted to
@@jacksonchontos2910 Not to an already made Italian crime family. You could possibly make your own. If you hypothetically started to work for an already made family, there's only so high up in rank you would go. You "might" get lucky with the right knowledge and skills to be a families concierge, but you will Never be a Don. Unless you create your own crime family. I just know these things from lots of research about the Italian families.
@@mandolyngambino9327 ty just curious lol
@@jacksonchontos2910They can always get involved, they just won't be made members of a family, they'll just be an associate. Doesn't mean an associate can't hold power though, Joe watts, Jimmy Burke and many others were extremely powerful associates. The Chicago outfit is different and non Italians have been allowed to join.
I thought it was strange they inducted Gene at the same time.
The Robot mob! This guy is a tough critic.
John needs to help in the filming business to get these mafia movies better.
Can yall use the Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia scenes from the episodes "The Gang Gets Whacked" next time. "Oh, Ohh, OOHHH.... ENOUGH WIT DA OHS"
i suspect most of us had hunches mob territories weren't that disputed aka everyone staying within theirs. always made sense to me: if each family is making good money, stepping out of bounds looks very unattractive in real life.
Great work John.
Thank you and a big shout out to OC Shortz
Good to see John Pennisi on other platforms.
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"Former mafia reacts to mafias in Wattpad." I want to see that one hahahahaha
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So Luccheses have Pannisi.
Colombos have Franzese.
Gambinos have Sammy Gravano.
Now we just need a Bonanno and Genovese guy to do TH-cam videos. Maybe even a guy from that pygmy thing over in Jersey.
Pigmy thing lol 🤣🤣🤣
Bonannos have Dom Cicale
Interesting subject. Thanks for sharing
Asking him a bunch of questions about Futurama.
That’s insider for you lol
He says only one person would be ‘made’ at a time, but I believe Michael Franzese has publicly stated that he was made at the same time as at least one other guy.
These guys were trained to lie... Michael likes to exaggerate.... They all do
He says the same night. That doesn’t mean they were all in the room at the same time
Yeah there were multiple people being made but it was one after the other. They had to wait their turn
Always shocked to hear that professional criminals fail to follow rules.
LOL!!! I live in Ozone Park. The remnants of the Italian Mob are long gone. Howard Beach on the other hand, quite possibly, but I ain't talkin'...
They're not long gone they stay out of social clubs,streets and try to stay off the FBI's radar. And they've figured there's lots of money to be earned in white collar crime than the streets.
Along withmost the Italian ethnic enclave neighborhoods around the country,that never saw or heard or said anything
I always thought the jewelry being returned to the commission members was meant to show how they all needed to go through a metal detector to get into the venue 🤔
That is definitely not true. If they can’t trust someone, he definitely wouldn’t be at a Commission Meeting...wouldn’t even know the location. For security purposes, the venues may be selected last minute, how the heck would they quickly set up a metal detector at a random place and who would do it? Ridiculous!
@@jimmymcgill8412 it’s a movie, Jimmy. And an awful movie filled with bullsh|t that would never happen. I’m not saying something like this could happen. I’m saying that’s what the writers were trying to convey.
I'm here thinking that you were gonna get Michael Franzese here but I was pleasantly surprised
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I'm here from Sitdown News. 👍
Thank you
'Self Preservation'. I too have this. 👀
4:37 Even though that picture of Rudy Guiliani is taken in the mid 80's it sure looks like something straight out of the 60's.
I always have one question. Isnt it very dangerous for EX .... to make such videos?
I was wondering too
I'm sure he still has to be wary of where he goes to a degree, but the mafia's nowhere near what it once was. Smartphones, street cams & drones, and the surveillance state have changed the game. Not tryna be dramatic, they can't always just randomly spy on people & they don't always know who to spy on. But it's so much easier to get busted for organized crime now in the US with new technology & post-9/11 laws and policies
Let this guy see the Mafia 1 & 2 games. I remember that in the second game is the "straightened out" situation portraited how he says - that being one behind door than called in
Ayy I’m walking hereee, Gabagool!
LOL, that FBI picture had Giuliani. Boy did he fall far.
I'm gonna need a rating on mafia romance books (like the sm*tty ones) because oh lord do the authors take creative liberties ASHJGD
I would imagine they would 💀👀
Spent more time reviewing Futurama than The Godfather. Futurama got the better score. Didn’t see that coming. I believe this man.
Some stereotypes are simply on point!
What stereotype are you even referring to
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I would love to see Johns reaction to Godfather of Harlem
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I have to watch it and review it on my podcast- Sitdownnews- John Pennisi
@@Sitdownnews It's over the top nonesense
I was really hoping he'd do the clips from John Wick
My grandfather was in the Mob (not the Mafia). They are in a lot of places you wouldn't think they'd work in especially small rural towns.
@acooknamed_Rishi No. Dixie Mafia. The Italians mainly stayed in New Orleans and some in Atlanta.
Should’ve played the HBO Gotti movie with Armand Asante. Not only the best Gotti film but one of the best mob movies period.
Come on guys you put futurama and super bad in but don't include goodfellas and casino 😒
Great show
I'm sure I've got quite some lessons today for my future career..
Be careful hun
@@loveinthematrix he's not very discreet 😂
That was really good John lots of luck. Looking forward to the next Sitdown News podcast as well so please keep them coming !!
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The fact that a scene from "the office" is in the video is just pretty funny to me. That's all.
Love the Futurama thrown in there
He didn't answer the biggest question.
How is he still alive to tell all those thinks!
He's under federal protection and also, like he said, the mob isn't as powerfull as it used to be back in the day.
these scores are brutal
I’m glad to see a former mobster who is actually regretful and recognizes how bad that world is. I love hearing all of the guys on YT now talking about it honestly, but a few of them do sort of give me some discomfort because it’s obvious that they don’t regret the people they victimized and the bad things they did. A lot of them give the impression that they simply aged out and their new grift is just talking about it.
John PENNISI... Hehehe...
(This is why I don't have friends)
damn if you can't open 6 jars by opening just 1 jar.... this man will give you a zero