"Long term deep undercover... everybody can't do." Massive understatement. The self-discipline to do what Joe Pistone did is almost beyond comprehension.
There was a dude that penetrated the Hell's Angels....That is pretty impressive too. (Granted, the Italian mob "wrote the book" on American gangsterism, but given the reputation of the Hell's Angels as a criminal organization, that is nothing to scoff at either. The MOST IMPRESSIVE feat would be a dude with platinum blonde hair and piercing blue eyes penetrating either the Bloods, Crips, or MS-13's higher echelons😂😂)
@@Foenem521 lol not me. I have a temper. Stupid question. Isn't he afraid of getting clipped? Interviews & movie cameo's? He's in the Witness Protection, but he's just "out there." I realize, those guys are Dead, but, still. Lol🤨
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@@frankiepalmisano4272 we can have a second interview how he explains how the mob went silent for 3 decades to overthrow the government with secret agents all to find out rudi Juliana holds the position of a boss for his cintribution to the organization
@Daquan Wilson, Hollywood bollocks. To sell the movie. If the FBI, thought he'd kept 300k he have been locked up. He got 500 dollars because, that's all you get.
@@БабаЯга-п9д unfair and unsustainable ,whats even more ridicules is that an actor playing his act makes big bank ,gets tons of attention and is never even in danger
Joe isn't telling how the Bonanno family trusted him for so long. He must have set them up with scores where the FBI put him in the lead for a break in with recovered stolen shit. He didn't just shy away from crimes. He set them up like a mf.
Joe never lost that mob vernacular and accent. It just shows how embroiled he got into that deep cover operation. In the movie Joe says to his wife: "I am not like them, I am one of them." That speaks volumes. One hell of an agent.
I’ve watched your interviews on RUclips with Sammy Gravano, John Alite and, just now, Joe Pistone. These are by far the best interviews regarding the the mob that I’ve ever seen. And among the best interviews I’ve seen or listened to anywhere on any subject. In my book, you’re among the best in your field.
He was great the one thing that was so weird was all the talking about Giuliani that made no sense. He even said at the end that he would like to talk to him. The only reason anyone ever talks to Rudy is because his drunk ass owes them money and he can't pay them.
Asking Joe if he reunited with Lefty really cracked me up. Joe reuniting with a guy like Lefty after what he did and knowing that he had six weeks to live and nothing to lose is like having a death wish.
Was "Lefty" the character played by Al Pacino in the movie? (I was under the impression he got "whacked"...You know for letting an FBI AGENT get that deep into "That thing of theirs"....Al Pacino certainly played the role as if he knew he was going to "swim with the fishes")
when the joe pistone guy was confronted about his $5500 reward for his 6 years of life risking effort and said "look, you dont do this for money". i think this speaks a lot about why he was so successful in his role and that his mind set was in the right place. someone who was looking forward for a huge money reward probably would have quit in the middle of their 6-year undercover mission
@@angelsantiago8455 Let me correct you, he doesnt want to die, but he rather die for what is right than letting the maffia run the country over, thats a moral code that most of us wish we had but wouldnt dare put in action, you should be damn happy that a guy like Joe Pistone did what he did, cause you sure couldnt.
@@upfrontspeaker77777A snitch is someone who gets caught and rats to save their own ass. This is completely different. If you listened to the whole interview, it’s basically just a grown up game of cops and robbers and Joe has no intention of losing.
You are correct. And the reality is these people are selfish and don't really care about there own family. They are not just doing their job, they are addicted to the thrill and will leave there family behind at any cost. Even if it tears them apart.
@DuchessDiz No comment because it's complicated since I've been a targeted individual for 20 years. However, I do have a percentage of Italian in me but it's not significant or important. Take care?
@@your_belief_vs_everything rofl exactly what I thought. By the way mr. Targeted individual, whom do you think is targeting you? Would it be intelligence agencies or a fucking street gang/crime family? You're all over the place. Take your fucking meds.
@@jamiekelly6851 While Bale is indeed a method actor, I very much doubt he would tout himself as the greatest. I think it's pretty widely accepted that Daniel Day Lewis is far and away the greatest method actor of all time and in argument for just str8 up greatest actor of all time. Bale's not dumb enough to fuck with that shit lol.
This was by far one of the most entertaining interviews you've done. The stories were great, the vibe was perfect, and I felt he was almost always honest with his answers. I'm kinda iffy on how he felt about the compensation, whether or not he ever saw someone get killed, or if he really wasn't emotionally involved. But that in itself made the interview better for me because it left me wondering. Hell of an interview, my man. 👌🏾
He is gets the awarded for $500,000 & development justice gold medal standards to bring undercover agent as the FBI investigation against these guys from the mob. Well done!!!!
Yeah, I don't respect this dude for not being honest about certain things like you mentioned. If I got what he got for his service, I would have flipped the fuck out. This dude has a welcome mat strapped to his ass for the FBI......I can't respect that. Or the fact that he lies about the emotional part. Fuck his movie and fuck his stupid book.
Admitting to being emtionally involved would make him weak and would also make him a target by the FBI themselves. I also agree he must have done some wacky shit with the group like perhaps an orgy or some other vile stuff. Because the mobsters were in such disbelief that he was an agent, even shouting in court that Brasco should be in jail.
I've watched this interview 3 times and each time I am more amazed, impressed and shocked. The Joe Pistone and Michael Franzese interview are fantastically insightful.
Michael Perez ?why the hatred of pistone?M."Franzese"-i dont know the correct spelling-said himself that even tho the power n money u mite gain from that life is naturally attractive,it is filthy and filled with ugly or desparate people.it isnt only their own that are killed,but those that are "associates"or less.mob mentality is a cop out.there r intelligent charismatic guys like Franzese that make it seem impressive but he himself has left despite his respect for his father.Franzese mentioned Brasco but i dont recall any grudge against him.both men highly intelligent and both fit well into and profitted from the mob.mayb u r a wanna be gangster,too simple to live well within the law ,and so u fall for the seeming glamour of gang life
Artificial Intelligence - I watched it with my son a couple days ago. I wanted to watch it before I watched anything about this guy. My son and I didn’t too much care for the movie personally. I think this interview was better
There were so many times this interviewer assumed what Joe was going to answer and answers for him and kept rolling on and rambling instead of letting Joe talk
Because he is a know it all New Yorker. There is one way to handle this type. At the very beginning you state that if they interrupt you, talk over you, etc. the conversation will end immediately and do not ever contact me again. It's amazing how quiet and cordial they get once you confront them.
A great interview to be honest, one of the best I've seen, Had watched it a few years back, and re-watched it a few weeks ago, and what a great context and perspective we get from here, from the iconic Pistone and the Donnie Brasco legend. Really shows how much he had to endure personally, and to get rewarded with almost to nothing, and risk with such a sacrifice. True legend.
Donnie Brasco’s one of my favorite LCN movies, to be undercover in one of the 5 families for 6 years boggles my mind. I can’t imagine living a double life like that.
Joe never lost that mob vernacular and accent. It just shows how embroiled he got into that deep cover operation. In the movie Joe says to his wife: "I am not like them, I am one of them." That speaks volumes. One hell of an agent.
In the beginning he said he grew up in an Italian neighborhood so that’s probably just who he’s always been, maybe the reason the FBI even picked him for this job
@@Jates They picked him exactly because he was an Italian American in touch with the culture, he spoke the dialect and grew up around Italian criminal figures. He was perfect for the job.
I bet this was very interesting but I couldn't get more than 5 minutes into it because that interviewer was driving me nuts. He's more impressed by his own questions than Joe's answers.
Yea but let's face it, Joe is a reporter, there is no emotion, no personal nuance. It is annoying but, i think "Joe" 's lack of humanity is pathetic....His wife probably wouldn't have been anymore happy if he hadn't chosen this "life".
Great interview. Amazing story. Agent Joe Pistone must be tough as nails. It obviously takes a lot of balls just to be a regular Joe doing what you have to do coming up in organized crime, but to do it while being an undercover agent is absolutely amazing to me.
I mean, I’m sure that not everybody gets to be a “made guy”. They only make the best of the best. Well, Joe Pistone must have been the best of the best since he was about 6 months away from getting made. But he did it as an undercover agent. Then too, look at what Sonny said about him as he was voluntarily going to the sit down where he knew he would be killed. He tells the bartender that he’s going to a sit down that he may not come back from. He calls his girlfriend and tells her that if she sees Donnie: “tell him I loved him and I’m glad it was him, he was just better than us.” That’s not acting. That’s not a front put up by an undercover. That just proves what a great guy Pistone is and what an amazing job he did. 🙏🏻
U call him tough... I call him a great fraud. How he can say he has no remorse for sending many to jail forever and man losing his life who had him in they home around family and viewed him as family. JUST BECAUSE HE FBI AGENT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT JOE PISTONE IS A HEARTLESS SCUMBAG
That was a major problem with the movie them because they made it out like Joe was conflicted there was that scene where he was like no I'm not becoming like them I am them. But if this interview is accurate he truly was acting and playing a part.
I honestly love this channel. The amount of work that goes into making these videos are just awesome. And it makes learning so much better than sitting in a class.
This man is interviewing one of the most interesting and bravest men of our time, and he keep interrupting and trying to correlate the movie with real life. LET THE MAN SPEAK
Patrick please stop interrupting whoever you are interviewing. You can see that they’re going to answer and then you ask another question and it takes the other person in a completely different route and then they never answer the question that you asked originally. Make your questions short sweet to the point and then sit back and let the person who You’re interviewing talk. Remember the people watching your RUclips not for you but for the person who you’re interviewing. No disrespect to you Patrick just trying to make it better.
Exactly it's like he's trying to hard to get everything in but the ppl are answering but a lot of times leaving a lot of stuff out cuz by time they get into the answer he cuts em off and gets em on another ? I agree with you
@@joshoconner7448 yea he just wants to ask everything possible in a short period of time lol but it's before the person who being interviewed can answer fully all in all he's a good interviewer though
Great interview. I love the questions. I also appreciate that you let Joe answer fully. Today it seems that most interviewers do all the talking. Well done!
I used to be fascinated by Mafia movies and shit around that... But after this I gotta say this is the real hero and real guy with guts...People like this change the world for better.
kinda a sucker sad to say he ruined lives off a bunch of dumb guys who were raised in the ghetto that had nothing good going for them but that life style and he did it for free basicly and at the end he wanted to stay in
If you like mafia movies it doesn't mean you support them. Its a great subject for films but that's it. If you liked, for example, "Zodiac" movie, then you like serial killers?
Very well made. Perfect combo, great interviewer who lets JP speak, who is a great teller who gets u right into what he is saying in a blink of a eye. Congrats.
@@Arth950 He asks questions but then answers them himself before giving his interviewees the chance to answer first. Any good interviewer should ask open questions and let the interviewee answer.
Who are you to talk? You dont offer any content for free. Nothing. You offer nothing to world, and criticize someone offering great content for free. Honestly, go fuck yourself you spoiled brat
HEY!!! 😠 As a white Anglo Saxon Protestant, I demand a series be done on BIKERS first sport....Oh, wait....This just in....I have been informed that Sons Of Anarchy has fulfilled that wish....Never mind.😂😂😂😂
Amazing how much psychological warfare you have to master just to be believable and not get found out. The fact that he knew he had to start punching one guy to show he is real and the fact that he still felt to step to mirra to be respected is impressive
The altercation with Mirra HAD TO HAPPEN,but it took BIG BALLS because this guy is either going to treat you differently or treat you to a bullet in the head. Had Joe put it on Mirra in front of other people I guarantee he'd have been killed. This is just like playing chess, for lives with Hannibal lector..lol Very impressive player
Very good interview. I only wish that the interviewer in sunglasses had allowed the tall guest in the blue suit to speak a bit more, it shouldn't have been 50-50, the guest in the blue suit clearly had much more to say all the time.
I read the book shortly after it was published, and loved it. Years later I heard it was a movie with two top notch actors but knew it couldn't compete with the book. Then my wife was watching this on RUclips but I only caught the first part, and she didn't know how to save it. It took 3 days to find it, and I am enjoying every moment. The interviewer is doing an awesome job, asking Joseph Pistone the right questions to get the most details of the story, even more than the book!
While he's not the only instance of a police undercover agents out there this guy really is something special. The stress of living that life for 6 years and surviving to talk about it is simply incomprehensible to most.
@jjosephdubya Well I don't understand the point of hiring an actor who has to change their accent and mannerisms and often can't pull it off, wouldn't it make more sense to give the role to someone who it comes more naturally to? An actual Italian American actor from Brooklyn.
@jjosephdubya Who's going to criticise a well loved A list celebrity? He can play anything and people will say it's good. The only way you can say he nailed it with justification is if you were an Italian American from New York.
Pat, I just want to let you know how much I appreciate your videos, I saw your reasons not to give up video a while ago and it was the most motivating video I've seen. You really put things in perspective for me and I actually have a different mindset now in life. So anyway here I am back here a 90k payday later, so thank you so much Pat. Glad you decided to keep making videos to, they definitely have purpose.
@@VALUETAINMENT why don’t you let the person speak. Was really looking forward to this but you completely ruined it , ffs you always talked over Joe pistone
GUNz THE WEST COAST KING he infiltrated the mob convinced them all he was one of them thats a wiseguy, u better wise up or you will be pickin up ur naby teeth
It was quite sad how he described Sonny Black handing over his possessions to the barman just before his final meeting. He walked into that meeting knowing his fate.
Joe would have them talk about what they ate for lunch the other day. Joe's podcast is mostly a conversation between the guest not so much an interview.
Back in college a dude from the CIA came to speak to a group of student's. Dude str8 up said. Their isn't one guy on this planet that made a billion dollars without breaking the law in some way corporate or street.
Best interview of Pistone I've seen! As a teen I worked for a Gambino guy, a made guy. We actually stole 90 dozen eggs one day. We risked arrest for roughly $90?? Insanity! So I joined the Air Force for 23 years instead.
@Frank Basile We converted a 4 storefront place into a Fruit & Vegetable Market in Massapequa in '73, "Horn of Plenty", specifically for Carlo Gambino. He had a house in Massapequa. He was our first customer. "Don't speak to him unless he speaks to you first!!" Never talked to him. Old ass dude at the time. He died 3 or 4 years later.
@Frank Basile My sister-in-law is a Bilotti, cousin to Thomas Bilotti, killed along with Paul Castallno by Gotti. I was a criminal in my youth. Not proud of it. Our one mile stretch of main street was named as the highest burglary one mile in the US in the 70s. That was me. And I'm not proud of that.
@Frank Basile Want a laugh? In the 80s I was in England working on a C-141. It was going to JFK and coming back in 3 days. I asked my boss... "When I fix this, can I take 3 days leave?" "Sure" So I fixed it and went home to pack a bag. "Where are you going?" my wife asked me. "I'm going to New York to get pizza!" "No you're not!!!!!!!!" She wouldn't allow it. Bitch. ~~~~~ Ten years later I'm in Germany. Same exact scenario, except now I have a second wife! Same thing. Had a 141 going to JFK and coming back in 3 days. I went home to pack a bag. "Where are you going?" "To New York, to get pizza!!" "No you're NOT!!" BITCH!!!!! I left all the time to fix aircraft all over the world, but I can't go get a pizza??????,
Donnie Brasco and A Bronx Tale are two really underrated mobster flicks. You always hear Godfather 1 and 2 or Goodfellas, Casino etc. which are great movies, but those two gems don't get enough recognition.
They should re-do it as a Netflix series and truly milk it for everything rather than do a compressed movie version. I liked the film, but I think it could be an even better series.
I wouldn’t doubt if he participated in a murder. What’s the mobsters gonna do? Snitch themselves out so everyone knows an FBI agent was part of a murder😂 they’d do life. They 100% thought Donnie was a gangster. Even lefty said “ he should be in jail”.. Joe defs did some work to have the mobsters soo dumfounded when he came out as an agent.. imo lol
That's just the "bonus", there's still the "salary" + "per diem" pay, etc, and if there's hourly per diem, then it's for example, "6 months of 1,000 hours times X rate" etc... probably beats being a waiter or cook by a long shot... ... Gov. workers will never starve, especially the good ones.
Goldman Sachs had been running the finances of the U.S through Presidential appointments from both parties for decades. Which they usually buy before the Elections. Bank have indirectly case the deaths of millions of people and have financed every war for the last hundred years+. I could go on and on...
Banks are response for overthrown countries.....Libya Iraq Iran .....we only ever go to war with countries that dont have the central banks....check it out... .Libya's dinar would bankrupt the euro/American currency.....bc our money is fiat....not backed up on anything.....Saudis have all the oil....African countries have all the resources and south America as well.....we had to overthrow them to keep our economy
I appreciate the podcast. I wish the interviewer would listen more, especially when it's someone like Joseph Pistone. There is no need to initiate dramatic exchanges repeatedly- listen and let him speak.
The interviewer cuts him off so many times, it's exhausting to watch. There's no way I'm making it through this whole video. I'll just wait for Michael Franzese's upcoming interview with Pistone. It will be 1000 times better.
Do you know why our eyes are in the front of our head and not the back? It’s because we are supposed to look forward and to not keep looking back in our lives... Your turn !!
Hearing this story for the 5th time or so, i still think i would never be able to do this kind of work that Joe did. Very very dangerous work. The dedication that Joe had is nothing short of incredible. We should thank Joe for all his work he did to fight the mafia.
I wish that kind of "classical" mafia was the only problem. They at least had a discipline and things were working good or bad. The real " mafia" is those who wear nice suits and we see them on TV everyday and they are not just criminals but perverted sick minded criminals. Thanks to the election fraud the world ( except the blind libtards ) saw more of real faces of the evil . It is sad to see that the place for which he worked putting his life in danger , turned out very corrupted disgusting partner of demonrats and enemy of the good citizens .
@@БабаЯга-п9д "the election fraud" Alright, that went into a direction where i am not going. Please stick to facts and the right context, it's the adult way.
@@БабаЯга-п9д hahahahahahaha you still believe there was election fraud. It’s been 10 months and those losers are still talking about “when they release there evidence”. Hahahah what are they waiting for Naive lemming you are buddy
@@newerest1 I’m amazed that people like you still exist out there - given the zero proof thing, the 60 court cases that had nothing to show……everything. You’re showing that you get your news from Facebook
Bro, Patrick is one of the coolest guys . I don't look up to people much but I would for sure take advice from him and learn what he knows. Salute to Patrick
The mafia shouldn't hate Pistone, they should admire him. He had his job to do. He beat them at their own game and he never broke any rules. He never fabricated evidence. They should respect and admire him.
I was gonna say ironically he is exactly the kind of guy who they're looking for. Just his morals were dialled differently is the only deviation. Otherwise the dedication, the strength, the respect, holding your own, being infallible to your purpose, it's all qualities they look for lol
@@cm-yu6gu There is no strength in the mafia. If they were mentally strong, they never would have had to resort to a life of crime. They'd have been able to educate themselves, adhere to a STRONG set of morals, and compete with the rest of the law-abiding world for jobs. If they were DEDICATED and RESPECTFUL, they'd be faithful and loyal to their wives. They are the weakest people in the world. That's why they have to cheat. And even within their own sick, immoral murderous society, they can't even adhere to the rules, which is why they end up killing each other all of the time. They are not infallible, they are the most fallible beings on the earth. There is no honor in the mafia, just dishonor. They're like animals. They kill each other, they're too weak to live by the rules that the rest of society has crafted. They're nothing but a bunch of psychopathic, sociopathic degenerates. I don't know why some (stupid) people glamourize them. To say that there is only one difference between Pistone and the mafia thugs is an extremely wacky, off-the-mark statement. He had the moral fiber and the strength to be who he was as a man and be on the right side of the law, PLUS he was smart enough to figure out what makes these mafia degenerates tick. He knew how they thought and he was able to easily outsmart them. So anyone who thinks that the mafia guys are smart is an idiot. They're not smart. If they were smart, they wouldn't need to live lives of crime. It doesn't take intelligence to use guns, knives, threats, bribes, blackmail or intimidation. That's why they resort to those tactics, because they have no brains and no talent to achieve things by the rules.
@@artvandelay8090 dude, I dont think they are strong or smart or any of those things. But in THEIR world by the principles THEY live by, THEIR characteristion of smart and strong, respectful and honourable is what they look for. And if you look at it like that pistone was exactly who they wanted, just on the wrong side of the battlefield. I do not glamorise the Mafia, but I can't help but see pistone was who they wanted if only he were on their side and lived by their principles too
I've never understood how Mafia don's can have massive contracts out on these guys heads, but dudes online can find them and line them up for interviews pretty easy.
They might be able to find them but most likely they have some kind of sercurity or something to stop that from happening. They choose to go too this interview and probably have a spot for them to meet up at.. somewhere safe. Like when Sammy the Bull recently did the Interbiew he said he scoped the place out and did all the resrarch on the interviewer before he went.
Interviewer: so how did you feel about that Joe: well I wa-- Interviewer: WOW hypothetically let's say you know a girl named Marie. Let me tell you about Marie's life story for 5 minutes then not really ask a question
Wow, Patrick! What an amazing interview and you probed him well with some great questions! Joe Pistone is indeed loyal and devoted to the FBI. But not that it isn't impossible, I seem to find it hard to believe that within those 6 years of being Donnie Brosco, and only seeing his wife every 4-6 months during that time, that he didn't have a girlfriend on the side. His wife is an ace and truly deserves a medal! And, it's a shame that the FBI didn't pay Joe more money for his phenomenal loyalty and dedication.
"Long term deep undercover... everybody can't do." Massive understatement. The self-discipline to do what Joe Pistone did is almost beyond comprehension.
There was a dude that penetrated the Hell's Angels....That is pretty impressive too. (Granted, the Italian mob "wrote the book" on American gangsterism, but given the reputation of the Hell's Angels as a criminal organization, that is nothing to scoff at either. The MOST IMPRESSIVE feat would be a dude with platinum blonde hair and piercing blue eyes penetrating either the Bloods, Crips, or MS-13's higher echelons😂😂)
For real its so crazy what he did
Women are great at living double lives. A woman would be great at this.
@@Foenem521 lol not me. I have a temper. Stupid question. Isn't he afraid of getting clipped? Interviews & movie cameo's? He's in the Witness Protection, but he's just "out there." I realize, those guys are Dead, but, still. Lol🤨
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Plot twist his actually a mobster that infiltrated the FBI
Raeez Pyne that would be amazing
@@frankiepalmisano4272 we can have a second interview how he explains how the mob went silent for 3 decades to overthrow the government with secret agents all to find out rudi Juliana holds the position of a boss for his cintribution to the organization
If only the feds didn’t already bust in and get stand up men on Rico charges. I’d love if this was the reality. Fuck Donnie Brasco.
The Departed starring Leonardo di Caprio
@@raeezpyne5149 What?
You can't tell me he didn't make any money on the side during that six years
Florence Wallis he still rich
He can’t talk about it
First name Last name lmao
FBI gave him $500 dollars after 6 years undercover!
@Daquan Wilson, Hollywood bollocks. To sell the movie. If the FBI, thought he'd kept 300k he have been locked up. He got 500 dollars because, that's all you get.
‘A wiseguy’s always right, even when he’s wrong, he’s right’.
And to that I'd say most if not all wise guys either end up in jail or dead. I'd rather be wrong than dead.
What a ràt
This is the smartest agent ive ever seen, the way he has an understanding of how life is supposed to go is incredible. He's spot on
And got 500 $ and crappy medal as reward for all the danger and excellent work he did . Rubbish . Very unfair .
He isn't quite as cool as school, he enjoyed the Life a little bit too much..
@@БабаЯга-п9д unfair and unsustainable ,whats even more ridicules is that an actor playing his act makes big bank ,gets tons of attention and is never even in danger
Ehhh I don't believe his Tony Mirror story. Saying he checked him with nobody around but yet his story had no substance.
He got more than.500$, under the table!
This guy’s wordplay has to be off the charts to go inside and undetected for 6 years, insane
He’s currently undercover as Stevie Wonder
He alters his appearance for the rare occasions he surfaces, he still has a half million price on his head.
Know that Steven Wonder is Not Blind and Never Was Blind and is Not Blind... It was all for show LIE'S that's what the music industry does!!!
Medicine time deary , take a deep breath everything will be all better soon.....
M S is that what the voices tell you?
Who is going to pay on it?
Joe is ICE COLD. He's definitely one of the most badass feds of all time. Major respect to him, his work, and his wife too!
😂🤦♂️💪🏾🔥🙏🏿🙏🏿
Joe isn't telling how the Bonanno family trusted him for so long. He must have set them up with scores where the FBI put him in the lead for a break in with recovered stolen shit. He didn't just shy away from crimes. He set them up like a mf.
He still things he is in the mob. This guy! He’s a TopG
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Joe never lost that mob vernacular and accent. It just shows how embroiled he got into that deep cover operation.
In the movie Joe says to his wife: "I am not like them, I am one of them." That speaks volumes. One hell of an agent.
This guy is 80 years old, he talks and looks about 60 years old
Nando RIGHT?
Same with Micheal Franzese who is a former mob guy, he looks 40 whilst he is in his seventies.
Csabee hes in his late 60s
Liang - nitpicking
his memory is very sharp for 80 i hope im 1/2 as good at 80 if i make it
This man shows being fearless, intelligent and having no attachment at the same time... how powerful is that
The whole time undercover, he had a wife and 3 kids. His children were born before he went undercover.
There many who show bravado but once you chase them they run for the hills
Total bastard dastards.
I think you have to be at least a little bit crazy to pull that off
Some might say he's a Psychopath. The no attachment part.
I would say he’s just as bad as any gangster to be this much of a ruthless psychopath.
That's a really blue suit.
Crip lmao
Lmao
Salvador Palmerin Sureño hahaha
@@vicortiz5105 😂😂😂😂
The bluest
It's amazing that Pistone is still alive. He's an amazing man.
AMAZING IS THE RIGHT WORD FOR JOE
This guy was undercover so long. He became a wise guy
Balls of steel!
That's why J. Edgar Hoover didn't like undercover work because agents could become corrupted
I’ve watched your interviews on RUclips with Sammy Gravano, John Alite and, just now, Joe Pistone. These are by far the best interviews regarding the the mob that I’ve ever seen. And among the best interviews I’ve seen or listened to anywhere on any subject. In my book, you’re among the best in your field.
I appreciate that there is zero ad while watching this.
He added commercials now. lol
Either jail break your phone or pay YT premium!
Patrick really is a great interviewer asking the best questions everyone wants to know while also being respectful.
He was great the one thing that was so weird was all the talking about Giuliani that made no sense. He even said at the end that he would like to talk to him. The only reason anyone ever talks to Rudy is because his drunk ass owes them money and he can't pay them.
Asking Joe if he reunited with Lefty really cracked me up. Joe reuniting with a guy like Lefty after what he did and knowing that he had six weeks to live and nothing to lose is like having a death wish.
That was such a stupid question.
Was "Lefty" the character played by Al Pacino in the movie? (I was under the impression he got "whacked"...You know for letting an FBI AGENT get that deep into "That thing of theirs"....Al Pacino certainly played the role as if he knew he was going to "swim with the fishes")
@Paul Knowles false! Because deep down in his heart! He loved lefty! If he had one wish!,he would wish lefty was here with him!
@Paul Knowles what about his position?
lefty lived for 2yrs after his release from prison.
when the joe pistone guy was confronted about his $5500 reward for his 6 years of life risking effort and said "look, you dont do this for money". i think this speaks a lot about why he was so successful in his role and that his mind set was in the right place. someone who was looking forward for a huge money reward probably would have quit in the middle of their 6-year undercover mission
You don't think he kept a lot of the money he made? if so your niave .
He got way more than 500$
It is tax payer's money , also gov't workers don't get Christmas bonuses .
$500
@@Jay-vr9ir They also are almost impossible to fire
Man, when he said, I am not dying for a gangster. I am dying for you because your a citizen. @ 57:10. This man is truly remarkable!
He is def lying hes not dying for anyone
@@angelsantiago8455 Let me correct you, he doesnt want to die, but he rather die for what is right than letting the maffia run the country over, thats a moral code that most of us wish we had but wouldnt dare put in action, you should be damn happy that a guy like Joe Pistone did what he did, cause you sure couldnt.
A snitch only looks after itself
@@upfrontspeaker77777A snitch is someone who gets caught and rats to save their own ass. This is completely different. If you listened to the whole interview, it’s basically just a grown up game of cops and robbers and Joe has no intention of losing.
@@upfrontspeaker77777 he ain't no snitch he is a rat, he was a fed not a snitch
show some respect, he was working for your country
An American hero with incredible courage and character. What he did was remarkable.
I agree. People love mob films (myself included) but they're awful people that destroy people's lives. Joe Pistone makes this very clear in his books.
Extraordinary!!!
"I ain't dying for a gangster" this guy's more gangster than gangster's
You are correct. And the reality is these people are selfish and don't really care about there own family. They are not just doing their job, they are addicted to the thrill and will leave there family behind at any cost. Even if it tears them apart.
@DuchessDiz No comment because it's complicated since I've been a targeted individual for 20 years. However, I do have a percentage of Italian in me but it's not significant or important. Take care?
Please.....lmfao. but he'll die for the ultimate shakedown artist, the FBI? What a clownish comment. I feel sorry for your naivete.
Ain’t nun gangster about being undercover
@@your_belief_vs_everything rofl exactly what I thought. By the way mr. Targeted individual, whom do you think is targeting you? Would it be intelligence agencies or a fucking street gang/crime family? You're all over the place. Take your fucking meds.
Christian Bale - “I’m the greatest method actor of all time.”
Joe Pistone - “Hold my beer.”
Haha exactly
He don't drink tho and he's in so deep he would say: Hold my jewelry
Christian Bale isn't really method, nor would be say that lol.
Jamie kelly Oh, are you Christian Bale?
@@jamiekelly6851 While Bale is indeed a method actor, I very much doubt he would tout himself as the greatest. I think it's pretty widely accepted that Daniel Day Lewis is far and away the greatest method actor of all time and in argument for just str8 up greatest actor of all time. Bale's not dumb enough to fuck with that shit lol.
This was by far one of the most entertaining interviews you've done. The stories were great, the vibe was perfect, and I felt he was almost always honest with his answers. I'm kinda iffy on how he felt about the compensation, whether or not he ever saw someone get killed, or if he really wasn't emotionally involved. But that in itself made the interview better for me because it left me wondering. Hell of an interview, my man. 👌🏾
Well said. All of my thoughts without me having to write it!
“Almost always honest” 🤣
He is gets the awarded for $500,000 & development justice gold medal standards to bring undercover agent as the FBI investigation against these guys from the mob. Well done!!!!
Yeah, I don't respect this dude for not being honest about certain things like you mentioned. If I got what he got for his service, I would have flipped the fuck out. This dude has a welcome mat strapped to his ass for the FBI......I can't respect that. Or the fact that he lies about the emotional part. Fuck his movie and fuck his stupid book.
Admitting to being emtionally involved would make him weak and would also make him a target by the FBI themselves. I also agree he must have done some wacky shit with the group like perhaps an orgy or some other vile stuff. Because the mobsters were in such disbelief that he was an agent, even shouting in court that Brasco should be in jail.
"You can't commit acts of violence if you're undercover". How times have changed.
In what way?
I've watched this interview 3 times and each time I am more amazed, impressed and shocked.
The Joe Pistone and Michael Franzese interview are fantastically insightful.
Would love to see michael f. Meet joe piece of shit pistone
Michael Perez ?why the hatred of pistone?M."Franzese"-i dont know the correct spelling-said himself that even tho the power n money u mite gain from that life is naturally attractive,it is filthy and filled with ugly or desparate people.it isnt only their own that are killed,but those that are "associates"or less.mob mentality is a cop out.there r intelligent charismatic guys like Franzese that make it seem impressive but he himself has left despite his respect for his father.Franzese mentioned Brasco but i dont recall any grudge against him.both men highly intelligent and both fit well into and profitted from the mob.mayb u r a wanna be gangster,too simple to live well within the law ,and so u fall for the seeming glamour of gang life
Jose Molina so the goverment Made money using the Maria (vending machine) with the two FBI’s
Who is rewatching Donnie Brasco after this? 👍
Artificial Intelligence - I watched it with my son a couple days ago. I wanted to watch it before I watched anything about this guy. My son and I didn’t too much care for the movie personally. I think this interview was better
Before this 😂
Every month what a fucking douche!
Forgetabouit!
I watch for the first time yesterday
Lucky he's wearing those sun glasses otherwise people would recognize him
Cyril Sneer 🤣🤣
He loves wearing them
He loves wearing them
LOL...they recognize him even with them on
Like the undercover boss.
All honour and respect Joe. You are one of the truest unsung heros in the US.
Waiting for Pistone, Franzese, Gravano and Giuliani in the same room. That would be interesting.
without the interviewer tho pls
Thomas Liberti Add Cullota to that list and it would be epic.
@@norbywalters Now that would be something!
Assuming a fight didn't break out, that'd be mighty interesting.
..... and both Bill & Hillary
There were so many times this interviewer assumed what Joe was going to answer and answers for him and kept rolling on and rambling instead of letting Joe talk
Phew baby, this has become one of my top 3 favourite channels
Listening to him speak makes you realise how much Johnny Depp nailed the role
Lefty would have killed the interviewer just because he is not letting joe pistone talk..
Complete opposite.
Lefty thought Joe Pistone talked too much already.
Fart in ur mouth
Gatt it
Maybe..this interview has recorded?..don’t need letting?
In 6 yrs he made a lot of mob money and kept it.he just won’t say it.
Bloody hell will you let him speak instead of keep interrupting.
Amen Samurai!
Foreal, fuckin annoying
He didnt pull that with Sammy The Bull and he was sitting ALOT Farther from Sammy compared to this Interview.
Because he is a know it all New Yorker. There is one way to handle this type. At the very beginning you state that if they interrupt you, talk over you, etc. the conversation will end immediately and do not ever contact me again. It's amazing how quiet and cordial they get once you confront them.
@@americanbobtail1 you sound like a know it all yourself.. what us New Yorkers call a fucking douche bag.
A great interview to be honest, one of the best I've seen, Had watched it a few years back, and re-watched it a few weeks ago, and what a great context and perspective we get from here, from the iconic Pistone and the Donnie Brasco legend. Really shows how much he had to endure personally, and to get rewarded with almost to nothing, and risk with such a sacrifice. True legend.
I watched this a few years ago or one like it - amazing story
Donnie Brassco is a brilliant film. Sort of film you can watch multiple times
Donnie Brasco’s one of my favorite LCN movies, to be undercover in one of the 5 families for 6 years boggles my mind. I can’t imagine living a double life like that.
This interview is so good I’ve watched it like 10 times over the past 3 years
This like my 3rd time
Ive never seen it before! Im looking forward to watching it !
Dustin.. your still going? Surprised Fabrisio hasn't seen to you..
I just spanked one out to it! Nice
Me 2nd but yeahh
Joe never lost that mob vernacular and accent. It just shows how embroiled he got into that deep cover operation.
In the movie Joe says to his wife: "I am not like them, I am one of them." That speaks volumes. One hell of an agent.
In the beginning he said he grew up in an Italian neighborhood so that’s probably just who he’s always been, maybe the reason the FBI even picked him for this job
Lol , grew up in the same neighborhood.
@@Jates They picked him exactly because he was an Italian American in touch with the culture, he spoke the dialect and grew up around Italian criminal figures. He was perfect for the job.
how can this guy be alive. mad respect.
the fbi is most likely involved in his yearly security somehow.
I bet this was very interesting but I couldn't get more than 5 minutes into it because that interviewer was driving me nuts. He's more impressed by his own questions than Joe's answers.
Agree a little bit
Yea but let's face it, Joe is a reporter, there is no emotion, no personal nuance. It is annoying but, i think "Joe" 's lack of humanity is pathetic....His wife probably wouldn't have been anymore happy if he hadn't chosen this "life".
I got 7min in. Thought it was just me, but the comment section agrees.
@@ryanb1874 huh?
it annoyed me too. I just focused on joe's stories instead. His answers were very interesting to me.
This was the best interview with Joe Pistone I have ever seen. Very detailed. Great stuff!
Joe Pistone should got at least 55 grand and an Oscar for keeping that character for 6 years not 55 hundred. What a story. Great stuff.
Movie said he got $500 not 5500
I hope he’s made more public speaking and consulting since.
@@GOdi-fw1zr He said he got the 5k for winning an award
Could somebody tell that interviewer to stop interrupting all the time.
Ok...Got it
It’s an interview not a speech
It's too late, the interview's over.
@@dfazo6186
Haha!!👍
Using it!
Facts
Is Mr pistone wearing those glasses due to the interviewers suit lol.
Hahaha BRIGHT lol
Like really... what the hell is doing with that suit
He still has a contract on his head for $500,000 I think
Vito 99 6.25 MILLION DOLLARS NOW
So you can't see his eyes and know he's lying.
Who's here after watching The Bull interview?
First stop after The Bull interview.
Can’t get enough of these stories.
I've been binge watching after Sammy
I could listen to The Bull stories for Hrs. Seems he's come to terms with his past ,also interesting points he makes on today's , issues.
Meeeee 😂
Great interview. Amazing story. Agent Joe Pistone must be tough as nails. It obviously takes a lot of balls just to be a regular Joe doing what you have to do coming up in organized crime, but to do it while being an undercover agent is absolutely amazing to me.
I mean, I’m sure that not everybody gets to be a “made guy”. They only make the best of the best. Well, Joe Pistone must have been the best of the best since he was about 6 months away from getting made. But he did it as an undercover agent.
Then too, look at what Sonny said about him as he was voluntarily going to the sit down where he knew he would be killed. He tells the bartender that he’s going to a sit down that he may not come back from. He calls his girlfriend and tells her that if she sees Donnie: “tell him I loved him and I’m glad it was him, he was just better than us.”
That’s not acting. That’s not a front put up by an undercover. That just proves what a great guy Pistone is and what an amazing job he did. 🙏🏻
U call him tough... I call him a great fraud. How he can say he has no remorse for sending many to jail forever and man losing his life who had him in they home around family and viewed him as family. JUST BECAUSE HE FBI AGENT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT JOE PISTONE IS A HEARTLESS SCUMBAG
That was a major problem with the movie them because they made it out like Joe was conflicted there was that scene where he was like no I'm not becoming like them I am them. But if this interview is accurate he truly was acting and playing a part.
I honestly love this channel. The amount of work that goes into making these videos are just awesome. And it makes learning so much better than sitting in a class.
This man is interviewing one of the most interesting and bravest men of our time, and he keep interrupting and trying to correlate the movie with real life. LET THE MAN SPEAK
Exactly. I was thinking the same.
Pretty annoying - let the guy complete a phase.
Patrick please stop interrupting whoever you are interviewing. You can see that they’re going to answer and then you ask another question and it takes the other person in a completely different route and then they never answer the question that you asked originally. Make your questions short sweet to the point and then sit back and let the person who You’re interviewing talk. Remember the people watching your RUclips not for you but for the person who you’re interviewing. No disrespect to you Patrick just trying to make it better.
Exactly it's like he's trying to hard to get everything in but the ppl are answering but a lot of times leaving a lot of stuff out cuz by time they get into the answer he cuts em off and gets em on another ? I agree with you
He just gets excited
@@joshoconner7448 yea he just wants to ask everything possible in a short period of time lol but it's before the person who being interviewed can answer fully all in all he's a good interviewer though
William Madison great interviewer really enjoy the content hope he keeps it up
He’s a fuckn helmet 😡
Great interview. I love the questions. I also appreciate that you let Joe answer fully. Today it seems that most interviewers do all the talking. Well done!
You're kidding. PBD did all the talking.
I used to be fascinated by Mafia movies and shit around that... But after this I gotta say this is the real hero and real guy with guts...People like this change the world for better.
yup massive balls this guy had
well said
kinda a sucker sad to say he ruined lives off a bunch of dumb guys who were raised in the ghetto that had nothing good going for them but that life style and he did it for free basicly and at the end he wanted to stay in
If you like mafia movies it doesn't mean you support them. Its a great subject for films but that's it. If you liked, for example, "Zodiac" movie, then you like serial killers?
I'm out a fan of FBI. The mob yeah. Well the Italian mob.
This guy loved every minute of playing the role of gangster back in the day! Who wouldn't?
Charles Moore I agree! Well, at least some of it. I mean: money, beautiful women, & power
Johnny Depp nailed his voice and speech in donnie brasco
Good observation @jack604
Never saw the first one
This was a great interview. As a father and husband, thank you for asking more questions about his family life.
Very well made. Perfect combo, great interviewer who lets JP speak, who is a great teller who gets u right into what he is saying in a blink of a eye. Congrats.
I agree and strange how so many on here write that he butted in and talked too much as I just didn't see that *
Sadly, we live in times where hosts think they're more important than interviewees.
tries to talk like a gangster to
I don't really see what you're saying I thi k he's fine
@@Arth950 He asks questions but then answers them himself before giving his interviewees the chance to answer first.
Any good interviewer should ask open questions and let the interviewee answer.
Who are you to talk? You dont offer any content for free. Nothing. You offer nothing to world, and criticize someone offering great content for free. Honestly, go fuck yourself you spoiled brat
@@MrAhuraMazda what is free RUclips is not free idiot
Why has Netflix not produced a Donnie Brasco series? Like they did with Narcos & El Chapo? What about the 5 Families?
It costs money, why don’t you do it
HEY!!! 😠 As a white Anglo Saxon Protestant, I demand a series be done on BIKERS first sport....Oh, wait....This just in....I have been informed that Sons Of Anarchy has fulfilled that wish....Never mind.😂😂😂😂
Stellar interview on both energy & content. Many thanks to Joe Pistone & PBD for getting it done.
*_TRUST !!_*
Amazing how much psychological warfare you have to master just to be believable and not get found out. The fact that he knew he had to start punching one guy to show he is real and the fact that he still felt to step to mirra to be respected is impressive
And he went in there with the knowledge that once he’s caught he’s dead
It's called street smarts. Growing up on the streets is psychological warfare every day.
The altercation with Mirra HAD TO HAPPEN,but it took BIG BALLS because this guy is either going to treat you differently or treat you to a bullet in the head. Had Joe put it on Mirra in front of other people I guarantee he'd have been killed. This is just like playing chess, for lives with Hannibal lector..lol
Very impressive player
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Incredible amount of mental toughness from his wife. To add taking care of 3 kids amidst the tension and the car accident. I mean, wow.
@Mark Sesum Absolutely!
@Mark Sesum Men were men back then how it should be
Max R ok gramps.
Yeah, very surprising for women, the same women that cry like toddlers over a small bruise. Very rare.
@@dimebag2102 You're only proving Max right with your punk attitude. Someday, you'll be a grown up too.
Very good interview. I only wish that the interviewer in sunglasses had allowed the tall guest in the blue suit to speak a bit more, it shouldn't have been 50-50, the guest in the blue suit clearly had much more to say all the time.
I'd says hes pretty good at letting them talk and finish their point before he asks another question or comments.
I think they are swimming goggles.
HAHAHA, I lol'd
Lmao
PATRICK IS NOT PERFECT, BUT HE HAS DONE AMAZING INTERVIEWS!!! CHECK OUT THE SAMMY BULL INTERVIEW.
I read the book shortly after it was published, and loved it. Years later I heard it was a movie with two top notch actors but knew it couldn't compete with the book.
Then my wife was watching this on RUclips but I only caught the first part, and she didn't know how to save it. It took 3 days to find it, and I am enjoying every moment.
The interviewer is doing an awesome job, asking Joseph Pistone the right questions to get the most details of the story, even more than the book!
While he's not the only instance of a police undercover agents out there this guy really is something special. The stress of living that life for 6 years and surviving to talk about it is simply incomprehensible to most.
Johnny Depp was brilliant in Donnie Brasco
Couldn't quite nail the brooklyn accent!!!
I thought he sucked, because he isn't from that background himself it came across as unrealistic.
That's why it's called "acting".
@jjosephdubya Well I don't understand the point of hiring an actor who has to change their accent and mannerisms and often can't pull it off, wouldn't it make more sense to give the role to someone who it comes more naturally to? An actual Italian American actor from Brooklyn.
@jjosephdubya Who's going to criticise a well loved A list celebrity? He can play anything and people will say it's good.
The only way you can say he nailed it with justification is if you were an Italian American from New York.
Pat, I just want to let you know how much I appreciate your videos, I saw your reasons not to give up video a while ago and it was the most motivating video I've seen. You really put things in perspective for me and I actually have a different mindset now in life. So anyway here I am back here a 90k payday later, so thank you so much Pat. Glad you decided to keep making videos to, they definitely have purpose.
Love it. Can’t wait to hear your progress at our first Valuetainment conference.
@@VALUETAINMENT you talk to much over the host and it’s bastard annoying, ffs let them talk will ya
@@VALUETAINMENT why don’t you let the person speak. Was really looking forward to this but you completely ruined it , ffs you always talked over Joe pistone
@@Realist-2506 bro ur tweaking
@@anjsjaafffjs be quiet ya melt
Wow this is incredible. I love these Mafia interviews
GUNz THE WEST COAST KING . I say your not tough enough to pull the trigger
Jimmy Burke probably true
he was fbi and very succesfull in putting criminal scum in jail. so he's no snitch he's a hero
GUNz THE WEST COAST KING he infiltrated the mob convinced them all he was one of them thats a wiseguy, u better wise up or you will be pickin up ur naby teeth
GUNz THE WEST COAST KING No dumbass he was not a snitch nor an informant. He was a police . FBI .
Wow!!!, What an Awesome Interview Patrick with Joe Pistone!!. I'm glad He is still Alive!!, What a very Brave Man!!
Pat, how do you get people like this to sit down and talk with you? Once again, amazing.
It takes work and a level of consistency for the guests to trust to be on Valuetainment. At this point, it’s just a request.
Valuetainment f@$cking boss moves
Still gotta get Kris Jenner and put her under the fire I want to see her have to give up the strategies lol
Valuetainment did the 500000 bounty on his life cross ur mind
These interviews cost money just look at his suit
This interviewer thinks the movie was really based on how he felt this guy was 100% an agent
Nobody:
Absolutely Nobody:
Patrick Bet-David: Got it.
It was quite sad how he described Sonny Black handing over his possessions to the barman just before his final meeting.
He walked into that meeting knowing his fate.
Yes. We heard as well
Oh he knew. My father knew him personally when ue was a kid
That's the life and he knew it
They got what they deserved
Donnie " Me and Sonny go to the meeting and no one else"
Interrupting Interviewer " So, Lefty wasn't there"?
He is so fucking annoying and it's painful.
Ok, now tell me about your dad... and how you got in the FBI.... and truck driving. Jesus.
“And your underwear? What color”
Lol
🤣🤣🤣
Omg! Enough with the cut in questions let him tell the story. Whenever he's on a roll he gets interrupted so darn annoying
That's call a conversation, it just happened to be taped (recorded). Just listen to it and be happy.
@@nachito5841 we want a proper interview not some loud mouthed twat talking over his geust repeatedly
Joe would have them talk about what they ate for lunch the other day. Joe's podcast is mostly a conversation between the guest not so much an interview.
Usually, Patrick is an excellent IVer. Just got a bit excited, I s'pose
This dude is still in character!!
"DONNIE YOU WANNA KILL ME WITH THAT DRAFT!?"
“I’ll die for you” I love that. This man has my respect. Well played Joe.
YA HE WILL DIE. 4 YOU. I THINK. BULLSHIT. HE DIE 4 FAMLY KIDS. WIFE. THATS. IT..
Back in college a dude from the CIA came to speak to a group of student's. Dude str8 up said. Their isn't one guy on this planet that made a billion dollars without breaking the law in some way corporate or street.
Best interview of Pistone I've seen!
As a teen I worked for a Gambino guy, a made guy. We actually stole 90 dozen eggs one day. We risked arrest for roughly $90?? Insanity! So I joined the Air Force for 23 years instead.
@Frank Basile Born in Queens Village, grew up in Bay Shore.
@Frank Basile I miss NY pizza like a m-fer!!!!!!!
@Frank Basile We converted a 4 storefront place into a Fruit & Vegetable Market in Massapequa in '73, "Horn of Plenty", specifically for Carlo Gambino. He had a house in Massapequa. He was our first customer.
"Don't speak to him unless he speaks to you first!!"
Never talked to him. Old ass dude at the time. He died 3 or 4 years later.
@Frank Basile My sister-in-law is a Bilotti, cousin to Thomas Bilotti, killed along with Paul Castallno by Gotti.
I was a criminal in my youth. Not proud of it. Our one mile stretch of main street was named as the highest burglary one mile in the US in the 70s.
That was me.
And I'm not proud of that.
@Frank Basile Want a laugh? In the 80s I was in England working on a C-141. It was going to JFK and coming back in 3 days. I asked my boss...
"When I fix this, can I take 3 days leave?"
"Sure"
So I fixed it and went home to pack a bag.
"Where are you going?" my wife asked me.
"I'm going to New York to get pizza!"
"No you're not!!!!!!!!"
She wouldn't allow it. Bitch.
~~~~~
Ten years later I'm in Germany. Same exact scenario, except now I have a second wife!
Same thing. Had a 141 going to JFK and coming back in 3 days. I went home to pack a bag.
"Where are you going?"
"To New York, to get pizza!!"
"No you're NOT!!"
BITCH!!!!!
I left all the time to fix aircraft all over the world, but I can't go get a pizza??????,
i absolutly love this interview! great job PBD!
No, he talks over joe constantly and does shut up. I love Joe and bet Davis ruins this
Can’t believe how much Pacino looks like Lefty!
Except the hat and sunglasses. Lefty was dapper as hell and would never wear stuff like that.
And sounds like him too
I noticed that too. Isn’t Al lucky?
This is by far the best show I've ever seen. Thank you & your family for all of your service Mr. Pistone. This is truly an amazing story.
Donnie Brasco is already planning a hit on the interviewer Patrick Bet-David
@KillaCrossover318 is he?
ohhhhhhh what I fucking say! he's a made guy. Patrick Bet-David's a made guy!
The way he dresses, would be easy to find.
😂😂
One of the best Mafia movies ever made, and yet a lot of people haven't watched it.
Donnie Brasco and A Bronx Tale are two really underrated mobster flicks. You always hear Godfather 1 and 2 or Goodfellas, Casino etc. which are great movies, but those two gems don't get enough recognition.
What movie
They should re-do it as a Netflix series and truly milk it for everything rather than do a compressed movie version. I liked the film, but I think it could be an even better series.
@@ForeverBennettagree and have it more closer to reality
@@conversationstranglersteve9873I'd say it's better than Casino. I still need to see Bronx
I wonder if in the 6 years that he was in the mob if he ever did anything so bad that he still hasn't told anyone. Insane story.
I wouldn’t doubt if he participated in a murder. What’s the mobsters gonna do? Snitch themselves out so everyone knows an FBI agent was part of a murder😂 they’d do life. They 100% thought Donnie was a gangster. Even lefty said “ he should be in jail”.. Joe defs did some work to have the mobsters soo dumfounded when he came out as an agent.. imo lol
Im addictive to mob documentaries...
I’m addicted to brown sugar
KillaCrossover318 you kiss your mother with that mouth? You don’t talk to a beautiful lady like that.
im addictive to you :)
Do you think I'm funny? Funny how?
@@lloyddias9278 "Didn' mean nothin' by it"
The Mafia got nothing on Goldman Sachs.
@@swimlaps1 I wonder if they ever had anyone whacked...
That's just the "bonus", there's still the "salary" + "per diem" pay, etc, and if there's hourly per diem, then it's for example, "6 months of 1,000 hours times X rate" etc... probably beats being a waiter or cook by a long shot... ... Gov. workers will never starve, especially the good ones.
Banks are the true evil
Goldman Sachs had been running the finances of the U.S through Presidential appointments from both parties for decades. Which they usually buy before the Elections. Bank have indirectly case the deaths of millions of people and have financed every war for the last hundred years+. I could go on and on...
Banks are response for overthrown countries.....Libya Iraq Iran .....we only ever go to war with countries that dont have the central banks....check it out... .Libya's dinar would bankrupt the euro/American currency.....bc our money is fiat....not backed up on anything.....Saudis have all the oil....African countries have all the resources and south America as well.....we had to overthrow them to keep our economy
What an amazing interview. This was a lesson on how to interview someone. He had so much insight.
What? Bet Davis doesn't stfu. He speaks at least 50 % of the interview. I kept forwarding when BP was talking and I'd forward a minute a time at least
I appreciate the podcast. I wish the interviewer would listen more, especially when it's someone like Joseph Pistone. There is no need to initiate dramatic exchanges repeatedly- listen and let him speak.
@ausproud Yes. What an idiotic interviewer.
Patrick is really attentive to everything Joe says. It makes for a great interview.
Amazing how some of those pictures of Lefty look like Pacino's character, I thought it was Pacino
I noticed that too, they nailed it choosing Pacino.
@@amandahallman1091 They have similar voices too, Pacino nailed Lefty Rugerrio's personality.
Like WOW!!!!!!
that was a wonderful interview 👏👏 thank you Mr. Pistone🇺🇸
The interviewer cuts him off so many times, it's exhausting to watch. There's no way I'm making it through this whole video. I'll just wait for Michael Franzese's upcoming interview with Pistone. It will be 1000 times better.
Ever wonder why we have two ears but only one mouth? It's more important to listen than it is to be heard.
No, it’s so you get directions from sound.
But its a good quote
Do you know why our eyes are in the front of our head and not the back?
It’s because we are supposed to look forward and to not keep looking back in our lives...
Your turn !!
@@toddgagner1114 It so you can see where you’re walking. Most people don’t walk backwards, it’s inefficient.
Hearing this story for the 5th time or so, i still think i would never be able to do this kind of work that Joe did.
Very very dangerous work.
The dedication that Joe had is nothing short of incredible. We should thank Joe for all his work he did to fight the mafia.
I wish that kind of "classical" mafia was the only problem. They at least had a discipline and things were working good or bad. The real " mafia" is those who wear nice suits and we see them on TV everyday and they are not just criminals but perverted sick minded criminals. Thanks to the election fraud the world ( except the blind libtards ) saw more of real faces of the evil . It is sad to see that the place for which he worked putting his life in danger , turned out very corrupted disgusting partner of demonrats and enemy of the good citizens .
He loved it, he genuinely didn't want to leave it after 4 whole years..
@@БабаЯга-п9д "the election fraud"
Alright, that went into a direction where i am not going.
Please stick to facts and the right context, it's the adult way.
@@БабаЯга-п9д hahahahahahaha you still believe there was election fraud.
It’s been 10 months and those losers are still talking about “when they release there evidence”. Hahahah what are they waiting for
Naive lemming you are buddy
@@newerest1 I’m amazed that people like you still exist out there - given the zero proof thing, the 60 court cases that had nothing to show……everything.
You’re showing that you get your news from Facebook
Bro, Patrick is one of the coolest guys . I don't look up to people much but I would for sure take advice from him and learn what he knows. Salute to Patrick
The mafia shouldn't hate Pistone, they should admire him. He had his job to do. He beat them at their own game and he never broke any rules. He never fabricated evidence. They should respect and admire him.
They didn’t even after they found out he was the feds some of them admitted they weren’t even mad just heart broken
I was gonna say ironically he is exactly the kind of guy who they're looking for. Just his morals were dialled differently is the only deviation. Otherwise the dedication, the strength, the respect, holding your own, being infallible to your purpose, it's all qualities they look for lol
@@cm-yu6gu There is no strength in the mafia. If they were mentally strong, they never would have had to resort to a life of crime. They'd have been able to educate themselves, adhere to a STRONG set of morals, and compete with the rest of the law-abiding world for jobs. If they were DEDICATED and RESPECTFUL, they'd be faithful and loyal to their wives. They are the weakest people in the world. That's why they have to cheat. And even within their own sick, immoral murderous society, they can't even adhere to the rules, which is why they end up killing each other all of the time. They are not infallible, they are the most fallible beings on the earth. There is no honor in the mafia, just dishonor. They're like animals. They kill each other, they're too weak to live by the rules that the rest of society has crafted. They're nothing but a bunch of psychopathic, sociopathic degenerates. I don't know why some (stupid) people glamourize them. To say that there is only one difference between Pistone and the mafia thugs is an extremely wacky, off-the-mark statement. He had the moral fiber and the strength to be who he was as a man and be on the right side of the law, PLUS he was smart enough to figure out what makes these mafia degenerates tick. He knew how they thought and he was able to easily outsmart them. So anyone who thinks that the mafia guys are smart is an idiot. They're not smart. If they were smart, they wouldn't need to live lives of crime. It doesn't take intelligence to use guns, knives, threats, bribes, blackmail or intimidation. That's why they resort to those tactics, because they have no brains and no talent to achieve things by the rules.
@@artvandelay8090 dude, I dont think they are strong or smart or any of those things. But in THEIR world by the principles THEY live by, THEIR characteristion of smart and strong, respectful and honourable is what they look for. And if you look at it like that pistone was exactly who they wanted, just on the wrong side of the battlefield. I do not glamorise the Mafia, but I can't help but see pistone was who they wanted if only he were on their side and lived by their principles too
@@cm-yu6gu They can't even hold to their own standards. Pistone was more disciplined than they were. That's why he prevailed over them. Buncha thugs.
I've never understood how Mafia don's can have massive contracts out on these guys heads, but dudes online can find them and line them up for interviews pretty easy.
there was no internet back in a day, that is why today, it is not possible.
They might be able to find them but most likely they have some kind of sercurity or something to stop that from happening. They choose to go too this interview and probably have a spot for them to meet up at.. somewhere safe. Like when Sammy the Bull recently did the Interbiew he said he scoped the place out and did all the resrarch on the interviewer before he went.
They have to take precautions. It's a dangerous way to live.
Interviewer: so how did you feel about that
Joe: well I wa--
Interviewer: WOW hypothetically let's say you know a girl named Marie. Let me tell you about Marie's life story for 5 minutes then not really ask a question
Lmfao!!!!!
ARE WE WATCHING THE SAME POD?
Wow, Patrick! What an amazing interview and you probed him well with some great questions! Joe Pistone is indeed loyal and devoted to the FBI. But not that it isn't impossible, I seem to find it hard to believe that within those 6 years of being Donnie Brosco, and only seeing his wife every 4-6 months during that time, that he didn't have a girlfriend on the side. His wife is an ace and truly deserves a medal! And, it's a shame that the FBI didn't pay Joe more money for his phenomenal loyalty and dedication.
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