What It Was Like to Be In the Mob

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  • Опубліковано 20 сер 2022
  • Have you ever wondered what it would really be like to be inducted into one of the Five Families? In Hollywood, movies like The Godfather, Casino, Goodfellas, and Scarface make being affiliated with organized crime seem like a lucrative, adventurous, and glamorous endeavor. And while some depictions of La Cosa Nostra ("Our Thing") in these films are accurate, they also include many fallacies for the audience's entertainment.
    In reality, the day-to-day operations of the Mafia are often much duller than the action-filled dramas we see play out on the silver screen.
    #themafia #goodfellas #weirdhistory
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  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Рік тому +299

    Watching a Weird History video is an offer I can't refuse.

    • @tt8807
      @tt8807 Рік тому +7

      Worst dad joke ever!

    • @devinpaul9026
      @devinpaul9026 Рік тому +7

      @@marvj8255 Too late.

    • @Propfaqs
      @Propfaqs Рік тому

      What’s weird’ about the mafia? They’re your doctors, lawyers, accountants, teachers, brokers, politicians. It takes a village!

    • @harrietharlow9929
      @harrietharlow9929 Рік тому +3

      Me,neither, lol

    • @chinese1181
      @chinese1181 Рік тому +1

      @@marvj8255 I won't tell.

  • @georgeedward1226
    @georgeedward1226 Рік тому +1845

    Most depressing thing about mob life is how do you enjoy that easy money if you are constantly looking over your shoulder for not just the law but everybody you know?

    • @sauce961
      @sauce961 Рік тому +140

      Stress, stress and more stress.

    • @Arthurian.
      @Arthurian. Рік тому +55

      @@sauce961 nah, it's exciting. An excitement ya can't understand unless you're around it. And also why so many combat vets self delete when returning home. They can't handle the easy life.

    • @joedwyer3297
      @joedwyer3297 Рік тому +151

      @@Arthurian. were you a mob guy jessica?

    • @Arthurian.
      @Arthurian. Рік тому +23

      @@joedwyer3297 do you see the sun?

    • @rozzer8290
      @rozzer8290 Рік тому +24

      These guys must deal with stress, trials and gettin arrested are normal to them

  • @civicsreview5697
    @civicsreview5697 Рік тому +478

    Am I the only one that watched these movies and thought, "This is not a glamorous life style. You always end up dead."?

    • @devinpaul9026
      @devinpaul9026 Рік тому +25

      I know, huh! Kinda like a moral or somethin'!

    • @Kristenm28
      @Kristenm28 Рік тому +21

      No you're not the only one, obviously.

    • @No-sv6mu
      @No-sv6mu Рік тому +34

      Everyone ends up dead anyways. Might as well live an interesting life!

    • @civicsreview5697
      @civicsreview5697 Рік тому +4

      @@No-sv6mu Lol. Good point!

    • @lamar7bn
      @lamar7bn Рік тому +5

      Killed*

  • @lucariolps277
    @lucariolps277 Рік тому +473

    Do I wanna be in the Mafia? No. Absolutely not. I like my paychecks on time, my cars without bombs underneath and my head lead free.

    • @homie4327
      @homie4327 Рік тому

      Rather have my paychecks late with my cars equipped with bombs and my head full of lead then be a degenerate corporate slave getting ass raped for 30 years on mortgage payments with no hopes of a comfortable retirement

    • @mickey_287
      @mickey_287 Рік тому +15

      AY!
      Fogetta bout it

    • @siddharthshekhar909
      @siddharthshekhar909 Рік тому +4

      Who doesn't, my friend?

    • @vagoeart1262
      @vagoeart1262 Рік тому +3

      American mafia doesn't use bombs it's a rule even though they blew up and killed deccico it was a rare event

    • @PlanetNinetyTwo
      @PlanetNinetyTwo Рік тому +12

      @@vagoeart1262 Yes they did. Like many other Cosa Nostra rules, the no bombs rule was also broken. Phil Testa was bombed many years before the Frankie Decico hit

  • @schizoidboy
    @schizoidboy Рік тому +123

    I remember what Michael Franzee said about the ranks. "You were either the brains or the muscle, rarely is anyone both."

    • @jasonjewell1667
      @jasonjewell1667 Рік тому +4

      Sammy was rarity for sure. He was an earner and a killer.

    • @colinsushiboy745
      @colinsushiboy745 Рік тому +8

      Luciano was both. He's violent and with brains. You don't get that eye cut droop without being involved in violence

    • @schizoidboy
      @schizoidboy Рік тому +7

      @@colinsushiboy745 You can't say that Luciano wasn't rare, the same with Lansky.

    • @heathennation9448
      @heathennation9448 Рік тому +1

      Many of the former dons were both though..

    • @jasonjewell1667
      @jasonjewell1667 Рік тому +3

      @@schizoidboy I don't know it Lansky was violent. He had killers all around him though.

  • @No-sv6mu
    @No-sv6mu Рік тому +734

    My dad as a child heard and saw 2 mob hit victims in the alley behind his house in Chicago. He also played with the son of a mobster (we are not Italian) growing up. My grandmother was always skeptical and afraid for his safety but the boy was a good kid and my grandfather allowed it. My grandfather was in construction and the mobster had a plumbing company and he often hired my grandfather for jobs. Then as my dad became an adult the son he played with took over and made sure my dad's business venture was successful too. No bribs ever needed. He did it cause they were great friends. As a child we would go to Naples Florida to stay at their really nice condo and I would play with the mobsters grandkids who were about my same age. Super nice family, all those grandkids are now very very successful and we are happy for them. None have mob ties. We'll maybe one as he is involved in Chicago politics.

    • @Darth-Claw-Killflex
      @Darth-Claw-Killflex Рік тому +53

      Uh huh...

    • @kevinbooth-
      @kevinbooth- Рік тому

      "I benefited from my familys ties to gangsters" < Thats you
      Everything you have is borne of that. Youre entire life is built on the murder of others.
      If you have any pride in that, youre a monster.

    • @yankeecarolyn376
      @yankeecarolyn376 Рік тому +40

      They prob are, you just don't know it

    • @No-sv6mu
      @No-sv6mu Рік тому +1

      @@Darth-Claw-Killflex you can believe what you want. To the best of my knowledge the mob ties stopped with the old man. But I don't know everyone's personal business besides what is told to me.
      And if you believe there weren't crazy mob stuff happening in the 50's in Chicago, you would be very wrong.

    • @No-sv6mu
      @No-sv6mu Рік тому +54

      @@yankeecarolyn376 maybe. I only know what is told to our family. The generation that is my age seems to be not interested in the former family business. But we never know what people do in their own home. They have always been extremely nice people to all around them. So I judge them based on the behavior that I have personally seen from them.

  • @nadas9395
    @nadas9395 Рік тому +376

    My Sunday dose of "Don't hate your life!" You guys rock

    • @QuantumLeap89
      @QuantumLeap89 Рік тому +7

      Happy Sunday from California

    • @The1KMnO4
      @The1KMnO4 Рік тому +6

      Yup

    • @iamshango3005
      @iamshango3005 Рік тому

      Nobody cares what you think

    • @iamshango3005
      @iamshango3005 Рік тому

      Those that area 51 in Vegas are part of the same people that have the ultimate big brother and the ultimate quantum leap technology and money and they will play you like a fool.

    • @johnmoreno7664
      @johnmoreno7664 Рік тому

      ...what a bunch of BS...

  • @uservenny84
    @uservenny84 Рік тому +729

    I think Donnie Brasco did a good job of showing how awful mob life could be.

    • @brazilnut8898
      @brazilnut8898 Рік тому +112

      The mob is the ultimate MLM. Always kicking up most of your take to the capo.

    • @KellyMichaelsTV
      @KellyMichaelsTV Рік тому +15

      @@brazilnut8898 Lol Funny way to look at it

    • @mikedawolf95
      @mikedawolf95 Рік тому +40

      @@brazilnut8898 yeah except when you don’t kick up enough money you get kicked out, permanently

    • @jordanhopper4933
      @jordanhopper4933 Рік тому

      America was stronger with the mob embedded

    • @Bsfnelz20
      @Bsfnelz20 Рік тому +14

      Yeah cop life too 500 bucks for all he did

  • @callenga
    @callenga Рік тому +45

    Also when a guy stumbles into your restaurant bleeding from a gunshot wound DO NOT waste any aprons on him.

    • @odeleon24
      @odeleon24 Рік тому +2

      You can’t have that in your restaurant

    • @MarcoLiftz
      @MarcoLiftz Рік тому

      Lmaoooo

    • @thegreencat9947
      @thegreencat9947 Рік тому

      It's acceptable if you run the laundry service.🤣

  • @roscoemuttley
    @roscoemuttley Рік тому +76

    A friend of mine's Dad used to own a bar in Chicago. The mob put in 3 pool tables in the back and would collect that money as the protection payments. One day he is complaining while they are getting the money about how the pool tables are bad news, they cause fights and such. The mobster says "no, the pool tables stay, just tell us who's causing trouble"... His Dad was all "oh, no. I am exaggerating, its fine, yes, we'll keep the tables..."

  • @paradiddle5150
    @paradiddle5150 Рік тому +66

    This guy's subtle humor is impeccable 🤣

  • @coltonlombardo4673
    @coltonlombardo4673 Рік тому +61

    The rule “you had to be full blooded Italian” wasn’t always that way. It became that you had to be Italian on your father’s side.

    • @MarcoLiftz
      @MarcoLiftz Рік тому

      Says who lol

    • @trianglemoebius
      @trianglemoebius Рік тому +18

      @@MarcoLiftz Says the current mob rules. But Weird History is talking about during the "Golden Age", and the rules have changed since then. Y'know, due to lack of full-blooded Italians running around in America making recruiting with that rule rather difficult. Especially when your business has a particularly high employee loss rate.

    • @MarcoLiftz
      @MarcoLiftz Рік тому

      @@trianglemoebius too bad it’s not really a thing anymore like it used to be. It would’ve been fun to me

    • @MarcoLiftz
      @MarcoLiftz Рік тому

      @@trianglemoebius My dad told me my uncle always had different cars all the time lol

    • @TSwizzle777
      @TSwizzle777 Рік тому

      Except that's dumb. Your dad might not be your dad but your mom is def your mom.

  • @mocat1
    @mocat1 Рік тому +228

    My eldest sibling had a classmate who’s father was in the mob. They had a driver who would pick them up and drop them off at school every day.

    • @harrietharlow9929
      @harrietharlow9929 Рік тому +42

      I went to school with a "Mafia princess". She was one of the nicest students at my high school.

    • @edgarsoto2533
      @edgarsoto2533 Рік тому +3

      Cartel capos the same

    • @Arthurian.
      @Arthurian. Рік тому +16

      @@harrietharlow9929 if you went to school with a princess, that means she's the Don's daughter. My grandmother also went to school with a mafia princess.

    • @PrezVeto
      @PrezVeto Рік тому +11

      @@harrietharlow9929 Good for her, since she probably could've gotten away with being a terror

    • @MistiC313
      @MistiC313 Рік тому +25

      No mob relations, but I had the same thing. School bus never missed a pick up or drop off

  • @Sck519
    @Sck519 Рік тому +69

    You don't actually have to be 100% Italian, your father has to be Italian. There was a time when you had to be 100%, but that changed in the late 70s/80s.

    • @misterx6276
      @misterx6276 Рік тому +9

      Basically 75% sufficed.

    • @jaffacalling53
      @jaffacalling53 Рік тому +20

      They're going to have a lot more trouble finding full blooded Italians these days anyways.

    • @GORILLA_PIMP
      @GORILLA_PIMP Рік тому

      @@jaffacalling53 🤣🤣

    • @Alvison1999O
      @Alvison1999O Рік тому

      Even grandfathers but I think thats ats high as it can go, if you aint italian you can still be an associate btw but you want move up ths ranks

    • @Sck519
      @Sck519 Рік тому +4

      @@Alvison1999O - your grandfather wouldn't matter if he was Italian on your mom's side, you have to have an Italian last name.

  • @Vivacior
    @Vivacior Рік тому +9

    Sadly...when I was 16...unknowingly I became an “associate”...
    How, you ask?
    By taking a job at a Mafia-owned restaurant. After several weeks of very low paychecks...I was like...WHAT THE F?!!
    Turns out, they were docking my pay for taking an hour lunch (which I never did...working the evening shift) and no pay for working past midnight (which I always did). 1981... I was literally bringing home $2/hr less than minimum wage....grrrr!
    Thanks for the video...awesome!
    Cheers,
    JerBear
    Charlotte USA

    • @Vivacior
      @Vivacior Рік тому +1

      And...it should be said...the mafia is a pyramid scheme...
      All the money a member makes...skimming employee wages (my case), skimming Union funds, running sports bets, tittie-bars, “protection” rackets, robbing 18-wheelers....(and so much more...ha!)...much of your money goes uphill...and so on...at the top, the boss has 3-4+ degrees of separation from the crimes committed. That said, if you aren’t earning...regardless of your method of ripping off the public...you are in serious trouble...Earn or [oh no....no..I have a wife and kids!.....noooo!]

    • @MarcoLiftz
      @MarcoLiftz Рік тому

      You worked at their restaurant not an associate at all

  • @CatBuchanan
    @CatBuchanan Рік тому +38

    I was once married to a man whose father and uncles (and grandfather) were "connected". I have dark reddish-blonde/brown hair and green eyes. I was advised to NEVER tell my FIL about anyone who hurt my feelings or physically touched me in an aggressive way because that person would "disappear". When the grandfather passed away, we were told some of his friends couldn't come to the funeral mass ... "you know why". While my husband wasn't himself "connected" he knew which branch the elders were connected to. He confirmed that connection and it scared the Dickenson out of me and made me very careful of what I said - even after the divorce. I read an article years later about mob arrests in one family and called my ex to make sure his kin weren't arrested or involved in the arrest.
    Yes, I essentially was married to the mob for a time in my life. At least once (my second husband's family was from the next town over in Sicily). I am STILL very guarded about what I say regarding those American families.
    I also for a time was a Junior Underwriter for mortgages on houses on Staten Island. I did very well with those gentlemen and met a great many at a Christmas Party for the loan officer and myself (the loan specialist who handled the other mortgages was not invited). I wound up with VERY good tickets to see Cats in the Winter Garden Theater before it closed. We're talking fourth or fifth row from the stage.

    • @MarcoLiftz
      @MarcoLiftz Рік тому +2

      Cool story lol

    • @thewhitedoncheadle8345
      @thewhitedoncheadle8345 Рік тому +5

      and on tonights episode of ' things that didnt happen'

    • @DoomFinger511
      @DoomFinger511 Рік тому +1

      You sure do talk a lot for someone who just wrote " I am STILL very guarded about what I say regarding those American families."

  • @freshpressedify
    @freshpressedify Рік тому +203

    If you think Goodfellas paints a glamorous picture of the mafia, watch it again.

    • @johnlane5704
      @johnlane5704 Рік тому +35

      The Soprano series didn't make the life all that appealing to me anyway. Both are still good as watching but not making me wish I was in the mob

    • @harrietharlow9929
      @harrietharlow9929 Рік тому +10

      Not at all. Didn't look very appealing to me, either.

    • @HabrenOdinsdottir
      @HabrenOdinsdottir Рік тому +3

      @@harrietharlow9929 Are you a niqabi? I can't really tell from the tiny photo. I got excited because I am and I never see any in my area.

    • @roscoemuttley
      @roscoemuttley Рік тому +22

      Yes, the real Tommy DeVito character was WORSE than Pesci depicted. One day Henry Hill and Tommy were walking in NYC, Tommy had just got a new gun, he murdered some stranger in a crosswalk because he wanted to try it out.

    • @citizenstranger
      @citizenstranger Рік тому +20

      @@roscoemuttley *Tommy Desimone

  • @mrs.g.9816
    @mrs.g.9816 Рік тому +98

    I watched the Godfather trilogy several times. I appreciated the films as tragedy stories, just as good as any tragic play Shakespeare wrote. I knew all along that mob life is a life nobody should aspire to. I also observe that when anything is scary or tragic (horror films, films about the mob), there are always comedic parodies. I've enjoyed films such as "Analyze This" and "The Freshman".

    • @YuddhaVeera
      @YuddhaVeera Рік тому +1

      Godfather is a joke

    • @trianglemoebius
      @trianglemoebius Рік тому +3

      They *are* tragedies. The characters have convinced themselves their lives are glamorous because they have money, but you're supposed to juxtapose that with what they do with their lives and realise not everything is as it seems. People who view the Godfather as a film other than a tragedy have ironically fallen for the same lies as the characters in it.

    • @PolishGod1234
      @PolishGod1234 Рік тому +1

      @@YuddhaVeera no it's not, it's a masterpiece

    • @YuddhaVeera
      @YuddhaVeera Рік тому +1

      @@PolishGod1234 joke with respect to reality of mafia

    • @felipeaguena5289
      @felipeaguena5289 Рік тому +2

      The Godfather is a VERY romanticized version of mob life, I think Goodfellas or Casino portrays the awfulness of mob life way better

  • @N_0968
    @N_0968 Рік тому +26

    Goodfellas is my favourite mob film. Gotta rewatch it soon.

    • @crazyelf3839
      @crazyelf3839 Рік тому +4

      I'm more partial to *"The Godfather" part 2!*
      It shows how Don Vito Corleone, Marlon Brando and Robert Deniro playing the same character AND both winning an Academy Award, became the "head of the family"!

    • @kanyebreast6072
      @kanyebreast6072 Рік тому +3

      Me too! 100%. I think The Godfather is somewhat overrated

    • @timothyzakaria7397
      @timothyzakaria7397 Рік тому

      @@crazyelf3839 Gypsies are not the same that's for sure they are all over Europe and Sean Connery was a great actor. In Eastern Europe like Bosnia they aren't Mobsters like in Italy. I didn't know anything about the Gypsy race when I was in High school. In Asia Gypsies are different also very similar to people from the Middle East. I know that I have South Indian ancestry and they have Pacific Islander heritage. Pacific Islander folks are very traditional tribal people but it's interesting studying world history I don't like American History that much. Asian history in particular

    • @crazyelf3839
      @crazyelf3839 Рік тому

      @@timothyzakaria7397
      Where did I mention "gypsies" in my comment? My comment was about my preference over the best mafia film, NOT GYPSIES!

    • @timothyzakaria7397
      @timothyzakaria7397 Рік тому

      @@crazyelf3839 sorry no offense I just studying World History and cultures in the world

  • @fettyguapo
    @fettyguapo Рік тому +14

    You forgot to mention that once in the mob, you can only eat gabagool exclusively

  • @joeymanson2222
    @joeymanson2222 Рік тому +34

    The Godfather film turned 50 years old this year.
    Greatest film of all time.

  • @bettysmith4641
    @bettysmith4641 Рік тому +378

    I love listening to Michael Franzese talk about being an ex mobster. He has some great stories .

    • @brantleyhester6641
      @brantleyhester6641 Рік тому +25

      Yes! Don't forget about Sammy

    • @tigernotwoods914
      @tigernotwoods914 Рік тому +1

      @@brantleyhester6641 true but Sammy is limited because of that. Example Larry Lawton was an associate but won’t talk to him because he’s still technically a rat.

    • @adamsackfield589
      @adamsackfield589 Рік тому +17

      It’s interesting to me how someone like Franzese has someone of a following and could be called a somewhat of a celebrity, yet other people who have committed equally abhorrent crimes are vilified.
      Point being certain crimes are glamorised.

    • @Klipschrf35
      @Klipschrf35 Рік тому +4

      And sammy the bull

    • @brandonrickbornponyexpress6574
      @brandonrickbornponyexpress6574 Рік тому +5

      @@Klipschrf35 I was about to say that and damn I want that watch he wears in the vlad interview so bad 😁

  • @johngarcia8827
    @johngarcia8827 Рік тому +42

    My father was an associate. We'd have lots of money, then no money, then money again..etc. It gave me a skewered view of money management. He went to prison , came out, late night phone calls, guns, some violence but few and far between. I'd pick up envelopes from his friends, nice guys, There was one older gentleman who'd come to the house. Always brought cake or pastries and drove an old beat up station wagon. Short slightly built. I came later to know that he was a fearsome killer. You'd never think it he was a nice guy too. For the most part it is a crappy life and it made me think that that's what life is all about I never had a normal life and I can't fathom going to work and getting married and having a normal life so to speak and I'm not knocking it it's just not in me even though I wish at times it was. Anyway I'm rambling it actually was pretty boring I just wanted to say that

    • @ryanmanning5348
      @ryanmanning5348 Рік тому +7

      Pretty boring is right. Could’ve lived my whole life without reading that wall of garbage.

    • @boostergold20
      @boostergold20 Рік тому +17

      @@ryanmanning5348 I enjoyed reading it, maybe don't be so salty

    • @Bri-nc8yp
      @Bri-nc8yp Рік тому +3

      So you don’t want a steady income? You wanna be broke then flush with cash then broke again?

    • @pagodebregaeforro2803
      @pagodebregaeforro2803 Рік тому

      peace has no price man...

  • @sdrob6374
    @sdrob6374 Рік тому +15

    Mob refers to the NY area. The Outfit from Chicago had control of Vegas as seen in the movie "Casino. Mafioso refers to the southern US , New Orleans and Florida.

    • @angelsunlight
      @angelsunlight Рік тому +1

      Wow that’s cool I never knew that

    • @smellsuperb1
      @smellsuperb1 Рік тому

      Vegas had gangsters from every major city in Vegas, Chicago and Kansas City being the highest amount. NY and LA had made men there also.

  • @robynsharninghouse5558
    @robynsharninghouse5558 Рік тому +8

    Thank you! You made my Sunday a bit better. 😊

    • @nadas9395
      @nadas9395 Рік тому +2

      Weekend antidepressant

  • @Uzair_Of_Babylon465
    @Uzair_Of_Babylon465 Рік тому +11

    Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job

  • @seancharlie8476
    @seancharlie8476 Рік тому +5

    Another interesting and informative video. Keep them coming 🙂

  • @leoleague6053
    @leoleague6053 Рік тому +29

    The life of a mobster is something I could never live. You gain it all at the beginning just to lose it all at the end, I couldn’t take it.
    Heading to The Food Channel Next!! Keep it up.

  • @safiiiyyyaaa
    @safiiiyyyaaa Рік тому +83

    I read way too many mafia romance books without actually knowing much about them. The disappointment I felt when I did my research and found out all mafia bosses are old men. 💀💀

  • @nightshadehelis9821
    @nightshadehelis9821 Рік тому +10

    Fun fact, to join a mob you do NOT have to have the makings of a varsity athlete.

  • @dr.barrycohn5461
    @dr.barrycohn5461 Рік тому

    Since all of these segments are top notch with the best narration, so I check thumbs up right after I press play.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 24 дні тому

    A+ video!
    Fascinating topic and history, a very complicated social network!

  • @BuildinWings
    @BuildinWings Рік тому +35

    I'd like to hear weird stories from the immediate aftermath of WW2. My high school basically skipped 1945-1952 except to say the Iron Curtain went up.

    • @jalapeno1119
      @jalapeno1119 Рік тому +10

      Baby boom, rise of consumerism and suburbia, Truman was president.

    • @BuildinWings
      @BuildinWings Рік тому +3

      @@jalapeno1119
      That's woefully inadequate if you think that's it.

    • @themaninblack7503
      @themaninblack7503 Рік тому +1

      Conformity was the order of the day

    • @sampsonroofing7377
      @sampsonroofing7377 Рік тому +1

      Berlin blockade, beginning of television, occupation of Japan,

    • @jalapeno1119
      @jalapeno1119 Рік тому

      @@BuildinWings well if you already knew all of it then why complain?

  • @dvdv8197
    @dvdv8197 Рік тому +116

    Harry Potter could be a great mafia boss
    He always catches the snitch

    • @gabe_s_videos
      @gabe_s_videos Рік тому +5

      Ba dum psht!

    • @KageNoTora74
      @KageNoTora74 Рік тому +3

      Did you hear about the Mafia boss who evaded the cops in an ice cream parlour?
      They almost caught Joe, but Banano split!

    • @pgalmightydan2511
      @pgalmightydan2511 Рік тому +2

      Ironic you view it that way. I’ve just come to realize recently that Harry is the Boss and gdumbledoor was the underboss, and everyone else just played a part in protecting the boss(Harry) . from all angles he was protected ..

  • @fergusonfluffington777
    @fergusonfluffington777 Рік тому +72

    How about a video on the history of face hair? The story of Beards, mustaches, goatee, sideburns, ect. The styles worn and the story behind it all.

    • @lachlanmclennan2188
      @lachlanmclennan2188 Рік тому

      You'd go all the way back to Rome.
      Facial hair was a cultural sign of rebellion for many gaulic tribes that didn't want to assimilate into roman society.

    • @trianglemoebius
      @trianglemoebius Рік тому +3

      It's all based on war, or rather the uniforms standards of soldiers.
      Originally, officers were the nobility, and they maintained their mustaches on the front line to show they had the money to do so and separate themselves from the enlisted, so mustaches were in style to look like "an officer and a gentleman". Then people started liking the enlisted more, as they were seen as rugged heroes, so the beards they had (as that was all they could maintain on the front lines) came in style. Then the Great War happened, and chemical weapons meant you couldn't have facial hair as to make it possible to quickly put on a gasmask, and as soldiers came back home and were seen as heroes, facial hair entirely went out of style. Then chemical weapons were still a thing but less frequent as people weren't in trenches, so light facial hair (that would still allow one to put on a gasmask, but not as quickly) came in style.
      You know how the Amish all have bereded jaws but clean-shaven lips? They keep the beards themselves because of their religious requirements, but specifically shave their face because mustaches were in vogue with the Dutch army (and the Amish were pacifists).
      Case-and-point, the entire history of facial hair is just "What are people able to maintain while fighting wars".

  • @mamapoch1915
    @mamapoch1915 Рік тому

    I thoroughly enjoyed your video!

  • @lilj4818
    @lilj4818 Рік тому +185

    We’re pretty sure one of my grandpa’s ex girlfriends was connected to the mob somehow. There were a lot of odd things about her. Money that seemed to come from no where, her mysterious son that was never around, the hush-hush nature about the rest of her family. It was all really odd.

    • @nightshadehelis9821
      @nightshadehelis9821 Рік тому

      Mysterious money.
      Mysterious son who's never around.
      Why would you immediately think mobster and not "prostitute"?

    • @trianglemoebius
      @trianglemoebius Рік тому +7

      From that alone, I suspect her son was in the mob, and probably her late husband had been.

    • @pab1381
      @pab1381 Рік тому +1

      What city do or did you live in? Was she connected to NY commission? Chicago Outfit? Jersey?

    • @TSwizzle777
      @TSwizzle777 Рік тому

      Maybe she was just a stripper.

    • @BrightResultsMedia
      @BrightResultsMedia Рік тому +16

      Prosti… nevermind.

  • @NASCARFAN93100
    @NASCARFAN93100 Рік тому +7

    I love Weird History Sunday

  • @misterx6276
    @misterx6276 Рік тому +28

    I've got 2 famous mobsters in my extended family... one was killed at 50, one died of alcohol related liver issues in his late 50s. My ol man was an associate who moved lots of yayo in the 80s/90s.

    • @averagejoe9642
      @averagejoe9642 Рік тому +12

      Well done?🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @thatman4853
      @thatman4853 Рік тому

      Well I hope your not in The mob.geez😂😂😂

  • @Zzzzalazar
    @Zzzzalazar Рік тому +24

    I worked for a lawyer in my 20s and one day a guy came over(dressed like a typical mob, and he was a real one) and made a proposal (I don't remember what) but the lawyer refused, two days later in the afternoon we saw 4/5 guys coming in the office and started to make noise and being aggressive, my friend the lawyer told them to f. o. and after smashing a few things they left and never came back, I suppose they had a offer it could be refused 😂😅

    • @yankeecarolyn376
      @yankeecarolyn376 Рік тому +3

      Uh oh. That prob wasn't the end of that

    • @Zzzzalazar
      @Zzzzalazar Рік тому +1

      @@yankeecarolyn376 You"re right,after 3 days they came back this time the capo and 12 man, we had a shoot out and we killed all of them, the lawyer left all,practice,social status,friends etc) to became a BIG mafia BOSS,and I as Mini Me,every sunday evening we meet with the other families,the Spaghettis,the Suchis,the Kilts and the Samysrais,we want to conquer the world but hey,we are mafia so we have to think BIG,so...we decided to still the MOON! and until this day every saturday evening we sit around a round table and discuss how to do it.If you still see her it is because we haven't succeed...yet

    • @yankeecarolyn376
      @yankeecarolyn376 Рік тому

      @@Zzzzalazar 😂

    • @Zzzzalazar
      @Zzzzalazar Рік тому

      @@yankeecarolyn376 I am happy to tell you, you have a beautiful sense of humor, I appreciate that, don't change, wish you all of good in life. 😊

    • @trianglemoebius
      @trianglemoebius Рік тому +3

      As a defense attorney myself, I've never dealt directly with the mob, but I've dealt with gangs and stuff. Most criminal elements consider it bad form to fuck with lawyers, as lawyers are obviously the kind of people gangs want to be on the good side of. Kind of a symbiosis: organized crime groups are our best clients), we keep them out of jail.
      My guess is they were pissed (obviously), but didn't want to actually do anything harsh and upset the balance, especially since their Family probably wouldn't like losing the favour of a man who could very easily be a useful asset in keeping some of their best men out of jail.

  • @kanyebreast6072
    @kanyebreast6072 Рік тому +43

    How do you live with the daily fear that you could be killed at any time?? Couldnt live that way im anxious enough lol

    • @Kristenm28
      @Kristenm28 Рік тому

      You could die at anytime regardless.

    • @Krahamus
      @Krahamus Рік тому +4

      During the mafia gold age period life was easier and less stressful, more simpler.

    • @williamdonnelly224
      @williamdonnelly224 Рік тому +1

      Agree. Hard to not be anxious in these times.

    • @MCart1215
      @MCart1215 Рік тому +3

      @@Krahamus No it most defintely wasn't lmfaooo

    • @tr5947
      @tr5947 Рік тому

      @Kanye Breast member are almost always killed for breaking rules. I've heard it said that today's Cosa Nostra has a "no killing" rule simply because the vast number of cameras in every day life makes it harder to get away with murders. According to John Penisi (a very good storyteller and social media presence) when guys break rules today they're "shelved", which is like being excommunicated. They can no longer be involved in mob business, interact with members of their Cosa Nostra family, or do crime in a family's territory. Going against the rules of being shelved will get you killed regardless of the risks of getting caught.

  • @zach7193
    @zach7193 Рік тому +6

    Man, that's something. Interesting. It's like in Goodfellas, The Irishman, Casino, and other mob films.

  • @douglasmacomber2277
    @douglasmacomber2277 Рік тому

    Just subscribed to your channel!!
    I enjoyed the content and the sarcasm spin when narrating!!🇺🇸🇮🇹👉💥💥💥💥😳

  • @peepaw_of_9
    @peepaw_of_9 Рік тому +2

    Wow, i have never watched a video so close to the upload. 7 minutes! Great video!

    • @ARedMotorcycle
      @ARedMotorcycle Рік тому

      Good for you. What an achievement. You must be proud.

  • @DongBags9319
    @DongBags9319 Рік тому +4

    I love that "Analyze This" reference. Analyze That was funnier in my opinion.

  • @KageNoTora74
    @KageNoTora74 Рік тому +11

    Another car bomb hit was Danny Green, who proved to be a pain in the neck for the Cleveland Mob. Two bombing attempts and a failed shooting later, they brought a New York specialist in and bombed someone else's car to get Green.

  • @GustavoRamirez-jn2hy
    @GustavoRamirez-jn2hy Рік тому

    I subscribed because you seem so
    Intelligent on the topic thank you
    For information...

  • @liubron4435
    @liubron4435 Рік тому

    I was waiting for this video to come out

  • @thewhitewolf58
    @thewhitewolf58 Рік тому +9

    Honestly do like the slower paced plotless ones like good fellas, the irish man or godfather where it seems like we follow peoples lives and crime just makes it interesting.

    • @ryanmanning5348
      @ryanmanning5348 Рік тому

      Don’t remember anyone asking for your opinion Matt “Carnes”

    • @MovieManiacTalks
      @MovieManiacTalks Рік тому

      Explain how Goodfellas, The Irishman, or The Godfather are plotless, and explain how Goodfellas is slow-paced.

  • @DanTarrant1
    @DanTarrant1 Рік тому +3

    I forget where I read this, but it has been said that the Godfather films were about how mobsters saw themselves, while Goodfellas was about what they were really like...

  • @albashir7140
    @albashir7140 Рік тому

    That was brilliant thank you

  • @Bigstarrocker9
    @Bigstarrocker9 Рік тому

    Weird History did it again and has given an upload we can't refuse

  • @OptimusMaximusNero
    @OptimusMaximusNero Рік тому +150

    “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster...”
    "...Until I accidentally cut my finger and saw a drop of blood. Since then, I've been terrified of violence and I'm now a priest who helps those most in need. May God bless you all"

  • @bcab7955
    @bcab7955 Рік тому +6

    Oh to be a good fella....

  • @ProudCanadian1959
    @ProudCanadian1959 Рік тому

    No thanks. The stress with that job... I'd have an ulcer my first day.
    Great episode, love the channel!

  • @DizzyDaDon
    @DizzyDaDon Рік тому +1

    2:41 “A wise guy Uber” lmaoooo 😭

  • @gabriel0742
    @gabriel0742 Рік тому +7

    4:20 I think Chazz Palminteri's story would've been worth bringing up for a second, even though we wasn't a gangster

  • @Rawker101
    @Rawker101 Рік тому +32

    I don't think it's worth it at all. You'd always have to be looking over your shoulder, live in secrecy, have no real relationship to your kids and live with the guilt or shame of the things you've done in life. You'd have to be a fool, cold blooded sociopath or criminally insane to desire that kind of life. Only the highest ranking members make good money and the lower down the food chain you are, the less you make. Maybe that's why it's usually the bosses who get assassinated by their own members who then assume power.

    • @tonyjones1560
      @tonyjones1560 Рік тому +9

      There was a guy in my neighborhood (African American, FTR) who was a bit of a “player” in the drug trade back in the 70s and early 80s. Always had plenty of money, fancy cars and even fancier women. Years later, after getting out of prison, he talked to me about his experiences. The thing that struck me was how *scared* he was. Not of the police…his associates were his issue. The only way to really move up in the “crew” was to bump off the guy over you so, he said, “I always carried a gun or had one in arm’s reach. I had a pistol stashed in the refrigerator. I had pistols in airtight bags in water tanks of the toilets in the bathrooms. I had a pistol stuffed in the seat cushions of my favorite living room chair, which nobody else could sit in. Every day, I was worried about being assassinated. I was actually relieved to go to prison, because it gave me an acceptable reason to retire…”

    • @joeyjamison5772
      @joeyjamison5772 Рік тому +3

      If you ever go near any gangster for any reason, you will regret it. If you live that long.

  • @r2witco
    @r2witco Рік тому +1

    What artist painted the surreal images you shared at about the 6:20 mark? Those are amazing!

  • @ajc558
    @ajc558 Рік тому +2

    Have you guys ever done a motorcycle club episode? I was in that world for a while, I think it would be a good video!

  • @tombruner9634
    @tombruner9634 Рік тому +22

    If those on the bottom rung, the subhuman class, in the Mob are called "associates" it certainly explains much about all of the "associates" that you see in retail - low pay, hard work, and no chance for advancement.
    Speaking of linguistic tricks, is it really necessary to distinguish politicians from other criminal specialties? It has been said that the Italian Mob modeled its structure on that of the Roman Empire. So too, the government of virtually every modern nation borrows much from imperial Rome. Coincidence? Probably, I'm very cynical.

    • @Philip_Taylor
      @Philip_Taylor Рік тому +7

      I think the mafia borrowed "associate" from the business world (for credibility), not the other way around. A bad day at work in retail doesn't get you whacked.

    • @trianglemoebius
      @trianglemoebius Рік тому

      Except the Roman Empire thing was the actual Italian Mafia, while the system you're talking about was made by Maranzano in the 1930's specifically for the Italian-American one. Maranzano's system was also far simpler than the Italian one (which did resemble Roman bureaucracy), because while the Italian Mafia had been around for centuries, the Italian one was just getting started at that point, and didn't have enough trustworthy, made people to implement the entire Italian system. Not to mention creating that level of organisation would take a lot of time and effort, which the fledgling "American Mafia" did not have to spare.

  • @Bunnyinthebasement
    @Bunnyinthebasement Рік тому +49

    How about doing an episode for Victorian inventions that we still “use” today?
    Candidates include:
    Shaved ice/snow cones (1850 - at least in America; Japan already had kakigōri for centuries, I think)
    Jelly candies (UK Jelly Babies, which the Doctor likes, was invented in 1864 and originally called “Unclaimed Babies”)
    Espresso machine (1884)
    Milkshake machine (1884)
    Pizza Margherita (1889)

  • @auntvesuvi3872
    @auntvesuvi3872 Рік тому

    Thanks for this! 🚓

  • @lsjionredlinesupercharged2049
    @lsjionredlinesupercharged2049 Рік тому +4

    I think in my younger years I would’ve absolutely did it but I’m 36 now and I can’t imagine I would’ve lasted that long there.

  • @andrewbarker2422
    @andrewbarker2422 Рік тому +3

    On a side note: the Mob Museum in Vegas is a great place to visit!

  • @neoasura
    @neoasura Рік тому +19

    A low level "mob" guy tried to intimidate me once years back, claiming that I owed him some money which I really didn't, it was the girl I was dating at the time and her drug problem, a few of them pulled up to my property once, I went outside and fired off several rounds with my AR-15 in their direction. I never seen a car reverse that fast in my life! I never heard from them again after that. I broke up with her after, Idk what became of her though. It's not like the movies, most try to intimidate you, but if you fight back, they leave you alone. Not worth the risk.

    • @Philip_Taylor
      @Philip_Taylor Рік тому +18

      Cool story bro

    • @agentmueller
      @agentmueller Рік тому +11

      Sure you did buddy, sure you did

    • @tommyhaynes9157
      @tommyhaynes9157 Рік тому

      NO the real mob doesn't leave you alone if you fight back. In your case that may have happened because you didn't actually owe money or these guys were bluffing about being in the mob . If you have actually owed the real mob money they would NOT leave you alone if you fired at them with and AR15. They would be back

    • @giorgiogazzola5972
      @giorgiogazzola5972 Рік тому

      @@agentmueller I was there and he's being modest. After he shot at them, he chased after the car, picked it up with one hand and flung it miles away where it crashed into the mob's local social club, killing everyone inside.

    • @MCart1215
      @MCart1215 Рік тому +8

      Yeah I did something similar. Some wise guys tried to rob blackmail me into doing something for them so I simply sent a missile into their headquarters, and 360 no scoped the survivors.

  • @ApocalypseWow
    @ApocalypseWow Рік тому

    Nice! Yakuza episode next please!

  • @chrisjames4998
    @chrisjames4998 Рік тому +2

    Who's the artist that painted the men working. There amazing, and I would love to see more of their work. Something about them

  • @dvdv8197
    @dvdv8197 Рік тому +28

    I'm making my way up in the Housekeeping Mafia.
    Soon i'll be a maid man.

  • @cabooseabs6864
    @cabooseabs6864 Рік тому +13

    The mafia in Italy actually banned its member from wearing those track suits because it made law enforcement easily tell who is who.

  • @stelladonaconfredobutler9459

    beautiful illustration style

  • @stephanieoregan
    @stephanieoregan Рік тому

    Last night I was scrolling Netflix and came across Goodfellas, I haven't seen it in a while so on it went, funny your video today is on mobsters lol

  • @claywilson6149
    @claywilson6149 Рік тому +27

    "being in the business aint nothing like it used to be" . Damn right! Now you got to attend congress , fundraise campaigns , kiss babies and do TV interviews with CNN justifying your future crimes while denying your past crimes . 😆

  • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
    @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 Рік тому +3

    Mafia. Once you're in, you're dead if you get out.
    Ask Tommy Angelo.

  • @amberlopez7477
    @amberlopez7477 Рік тому +1

    This video made me an offer I couldn't refuse. So, I had to watch it.

  • @Ali-wd7kc
    @Ali-wd7kc Рік тому

    New sub over here.

  • @LonzCantiLife
    @LonzCantiLife Рік тому +3

    went to school with the grandson of the head one of one of the 5 families.. i found out years later.. we got along really well lol he was funny as hell and just a cool guy

  • @lauraland9311
    @lauraland9311 Рік тому +3

    This sounds pretty much like every job I’ve ever had, and to my knowledge, I wasn’t in the mob.

  • @janayarroyo22
    @janayarroyo22 Рік тому

    Amazing MOB History 🤌🏾☺️

  • @joegarofalo1638
    @joegarofalo1638 Рік тому

    Got a lot to learn about how things are/were done.

  • @unchained3502
    @unchained3502 Рік тому +23

    go watch former mob capo Micheal Francese. he'll tell you all about it.

    • @doyoubelieve2117
      @doyoubelieve2117 Рік тому +4

      Yep he’s amazing he gave me a shout out of insta

    • @doyoubelieve2117
      @doyoubelieve2117 Рік тому

      On

    • @harrietharlow9929
      @harrietharlow9929 Рік тому +1

      He's great. Glad to see he's out of the life.

    • @MrTech226
      @MrTech226 Рік тому +1

      I am a subscriber to Michael's channel. He talks about his former life. tells stories without giving details. Michael talks about Mob movies. He has his "sitdowns" with actors who had portrayed Mobsters such as Chazz Palminteri of Bronx Tale. Chazz knew mobsters where he grew up in the Bronx.

  • @maryaltshuller885
    @maryaltshuller885 Рік тому +3

    It's not just Italians who have organized crime. Nearly every country and nationality is involved: Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Irish, and Mexicans, to name a few.

    • @Alvison1999O
      @Alvison1999O Рік тому

      Mexicans are very lezs organised same wigh irish, but yeah your right but the italian one is the most powerful of all time

  • @jamesstuart3346
    @jamesstuart3346 Рік тому

    Those paintings of the hijackings are awesome. Who did them??

  • @pandamaste2161
    @pandamaste2161 Рік тому

    Nice

  • @gravewaxxsupercoven1980
    @gravewaxxsupercoven1980 Рік тому +28

    You don't get paid if your a member..the boss doesn't "pay you when the job is done". You have to make your own money and a percentage always gets kicked up to your captain who kicks it up to the boss

    • @dejanrakic77
      @dejanrakic77 Рік тому

      offcourse

    • @johnmoreno7664
      @johnmoreno7664 Рік тому

      ...again??...

    • @onetruekeeper
      @onetruekeeper Рік тому

      If you did all the work why give a percentage to the captain and boss who did nothing to earn it? I would give them hot lead instead.

  • @45doctors27
    @45doctors27 Рік тому +7

    You hear the one about the Chinese godfather, he made em an offer they couldn't understand.
    Yes I stole that from uncle june

    • @notsureiL
      @notsureiL Рік тому

      I heard you 4/5 never had the makings of a varsity athletes. Yeah you.

    • @45doctors27
      @45doctors27 Рік тому

      @@notsureiL at least I know better than to use gatorade to water crops

  • @celestialink
    @celestialink Рік тому

    Dangerously glamorous🥂

  • @christophersanders5007
    @christophersanders5007 Рік тому +2

    Back in the early 70's I lived in the New Orleans French Quarter close to Bourbon Street. I went to a Catholic School, and was good friends with a kid who's dad was somewhat high up in the mafia. Like this video says everyday was not some exciting hit or pile of money come in like in a Hollywood movie. There was an every day grind like most people.
    My friends dad never came up to me and said he was in the mafia, but his name was mentioned more than once in the Times Picayune as "allegedly" being associated with the mafia. He liked me because any friend of his son was a friend of him. Other than the FBI trying to get him on Rico statutes his day was pretty much the same grind as all other people with nothing too crazy happening most of the time.

  • @chinmoybiswas8257
    @chinmoybiswas8257 Рік тому +4

    i heard from my mother his grandfather was in the mob. He had to go to jail

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena Рік тому +4

    Gotta say for these goons...whether good or bad, you reap what you earn and deserve what you get in the end

  • @user-cv8qe9ru8c
    @user-cv8qe9ru8c Рік тому +1

    I'm happy an analyze this reference made it in

  • @BennyParrot05
    @BennyParrot05 Рік тому +3

    You guys should reach out to Michael Franzese. His some of his direct experience as a capo is a bit different. He’s a great storyteller

  • @presley7771
    @presley7771 Рік тому +2

    WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE ARTIST WHOSE WORK IS FEATURED THROUGHOUT THIS EPISODE? Their work is fantastic! 🤩🤩🤩

  • @vault_3_props907
    @vault_3_props907 Рік тому +3

    A lot of the "paintings" look like art generated by AI. Most likely Midjourney, DallE or Stablefusion

  • @hopelessloser0073
    @hopelessloser0073 Рік тому +3

    Can you do a what was it like to live in Mexico during the revolution as a civilian or the rebels

    • @tonis5140
      @tonis5140 Рік тому

      That sounds really interesting!

  • @BlackyBrownDestruction9337
    @BlackyBrownDestruction9337 Рік тому

    Can you do a video on mob dumping sites like lake mead or car compactor

  • @sircrocodile2106
    @sircrocodile2106 Рік тому +1

    Looking at the thumbnail and seeing the plaza and was like oh that’s from that one video called diamond jack

  • @Casey5693
    @Casey5693 Рік тому +9

    I'm writing a story about a young man whose family forces him to be part of their gang due to his bookkeeping skills. He's miserable the whole time. This is not a life anyone rational would want.

    • @Monkeypole
      @Monkeypole Рік тому

      Sounds interesting. What sort of gang? I'd like that narrative within a 60's IRA plot.

  • @zovalentine7305
    @zovalentine7305 Рік тому +4

    Would love to see a vid for every state in the U.S.
    Start with Detroit's Purple Gang perhaps

  • @jrcat2258
    @jrcat2258 Рік тому +1

    Who is the painter of the pictures you used at for example 6:33? Thank you