Podcasts about Amato

In this conversation, Lisa D'Amato shares her experiences on America's Next Top Model, discussing the psychological impact of reality TV, her interactions with Tyra Banks, and the scandal surrounding her win. She highlights the manipulative tactics used by production, the cult-like nature of fandom, and the need for reform in reality television. Lisa emphasizes the importance of accountability for those in power and the collective effort of former contestants to advocate for change.Follow Lisa on socials @lisa_damatoTakeawaysTyra Banks is only present when the cameras are rolling.Lisa's win on ANTM was surrounded by controversy and scandal.Production used psychological evaluations for manipulation.The contestants faced psychological warfare during filming.The fandom surrounding reality TV can be cult-like.Lisa believes Tyra and Ken Mock lack empathy.There is a need for reform in reality television.Lisa is working on a class action lawsuit for contestants.The impact of reality TV on mental health is significant.Lisa emphasizes the importance of collective action among former contestants.

In this episode of Book Lover‘s Companion, Edith interviews Carmen Amato, a CIA veteran, crime fiction writer, and dog mom, about her exciting novels. They delve into Carmen's popular Emelia Cruz Mystery series and the Gallo Club historical fiction thrillers. Carmen shares insights about her characters, her experiences in the CIA influencing her writing, the research process behind her books, and the inspiration from her family history. They also discuss the challenges and triumphs of writing about complex themes like corruption, femicide, and Mexican society. Carmen offers valuable advice for aspiring authors and gives a sneak peek into her upcoming releases and audiobooks.00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome00:37 Meet Carmen Amato: Dog Mom and Author01:50 Diving into the Emelia Cruz Mystery Series02:29 Barracuda Bay: Plot and Characters08:38 Exploring Mexican Society and Corruption18:34 Challenges and Realities of Publishing25:52 Carmen's Writing Process30:26 Organized Writing System31:03 Challenges with Character Names32:21 First Person Narration33:32 Femicide in Mexican Society39:39 Historical Fiction Inspiration44:07 Researching for Historical Fiction47:49 Advice for Aspiring Authors53:45 Upcoming Releases and Projects57:25 Audiobooks Announcement59:13 Conclusion and FarewellIf you like what we do, you might consider buying us a coffee.You can do so here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/booklovercom⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://ko-fi.com/bookcompanion⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us: Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://book-lovers-companion.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/book_companion⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/ez.fiction.7/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/book_companion/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6vyAyrh3zzsxNeexfyU0uA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Feedback is always welcome: bookcompanioncontact@gmail.comMusic: English Country Garden by Aaron Kenny Video Link: https://youtu.be/mDcADD4oS5E

When our students face challenges in the classroom, some teachers double down on control and rigor: tighter rules, firmer consequences, higher demands. Others lean toward grace and flexibility: easing up, giving extensions, and softening expectations because they know our students are carrying a lot. But what if the answer isn't either/or? Warm Demander pedagogy is an approach that pairs genuine care and deep relationship-building with unwavering high expectations. It's the belief that students need to feel seen, respected, and valued — and that we honor them most by refusing to lower the bar. In today's episode, I'm joined by educators Marcee Harris and Dr. Wendy Amato. They explain what Warm Demander pedagogy looks like in action, how it supports student agency and productive struggle, and why it's especially relevant for teachers right now. ___________________________ Thanks to Renaissance and SchoolAI for sponsoring the episode. To read Amato and Harris' article about Warm Demander pedagogy, visit cultofpedagogy.com/warm-demanders. To learn more about The Teacher's Guide to Tech, visit teachersguidetotech.com.

Rise and shine, Woodland! It's a spectacular Friday, and we're celebrating a major milestone—our 101st show! Watch out on the sports court, folks; host Amato is rocking spiffy new glasses after his old ones shattered during a high-stakes match against Mark Whitney!As we sail toward March, remember: shoveling is a serious investment. Stick to those metal-edged shovels—avoid those "kooky" ergonomic handles—and make sure to clear a 10x10 grass patch so the "dog-father's" pups can do their business! In world news, teens in Argentina are identifying as animals, while AI is getting a bit too "nuke-happy" in war games—yikes! Plus, a massive media merger is brewing as Paramount overtakes Netflix for Warner Brothers.Our undefeated basketball team hits the semifinals tonight, and the Champions League draw is serving up some "peak dad" soccer viewing! Don't miss the "Dynamic" media showcase on March 12th or the upcoming door decorating contest! Charge those Chromebooks, stay vibrant, and we'll see you back on the airwaves Monday!

When scientists finally learn how to make ceramics that can endure high temperatures and conduct electricity without resistance, they may have to thank the sea urchin for teaching them how to do it.While the ceramics that humans manufacture are fairly strong and resist forces that destroy other materials, they have their imperfections. They are not shatter-resistant. And it takes a lot of heat to create them. On the other hand, mollusks like the nautilus and sea urchin make shatterproof ceramics out of calcium carbonate—which is chalk—using no heat and a little water. And the mollusk‑created ceramics come in intricate shapes, often much more complex than those made by humans.Scientists are now studying how mollusks make their ceramics so that we can also make better ones. The processes they are learning will enable the manufacture of strong ceramic materials that conduct electricity without resistance. They will be cheap and easy to make, yet they will provide us with better building materials and even artificial bones.Scientists are learning that the secret to making superior ceramics uses cheap materials and a very complex series of chemical reactions carried out by special cells in ceramic‑making mollusks. It's definitely not a system that was worked out by no one at all through chance and accident. In effect, science is seeking to learn how the Creator made ceramics, so that we can do it too!Genesis 1:31"And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."Prayer: Father, I often forget that Your wisdom extends to very material things, things which I don't usually associate with the spiritual. Teach me not to separate the spiritual and material, but see them both as coming from Your Hand. Help me to glorify You in spiritual as well as material matters. In Jesus' Name. Amen.REF.: Amato, Ivan. Better ceramics through biology. Science News.  To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

What happens when you're standing at a pivot point — the kind where your next move could shift everything for your business, your team, or your career? In those high-stakes moments, success doesn't come from spreadsheets alone. It requires empathy, emotional intelligence, and even self-compassion.Kasey D'Amato knows this firsthand. A keynote speaker, executive coach, and strategic advisor, Kasey has guided founders and corporate leaders through major transitions with clarity and resilience. In our conversation, we dug into her four pillars of holistic leadership and how self-regulation shapes better decisions. We explored the “decision threshold,” why every choice has three outcomes, and how to balance head, heart, and gut when the numbers don't tell the full story. Kasey also shared why grounding yourself is key to hearing other perspectives without defensiveness — and how empathy and self-compassion aren't soft skills, but strategic advantages when the stakes are high.To access the episode transcript, go to www.TheEmpathyEdge.com, search by episode title.Listen in for…Finding the balance of the decision threshold - that point between gathering information and making the decision. Why does every choice have three outcomes?The Four Pillars of holistic leadership and how self-regulation shapes better decisions.How to balance head, heart, and gut when the numbers don't tell the full story. Utilizing the Two-Minute rule to move out of indecision. "I believe it is the critical moments of decision and how you handle your emotional intelligence in those critical moments and pivots that set you up for success, no matter how big your failures are along the way." — Kasey D'AmatoEpisode References: The Empathy Edge Podcast Episode: Ilana Ben-Ari: How the Empathy Toy is Changing the WorldAbout Kasey D'Amato, Business Leader and Holistic Coach:Kasey D'Amato is a keynote speaker, executive coach, and strategic business advisor who helps business founders and corporate leaders navigate high-stakes decisions and transitions with clarity, confidence, and resilience — without burning out in the process.With over 20 years of experience across healthcare, entrepreneurship, and business consulting, Kasey brings a unique blend of business acumen, human behavior expertise, and emotional intelligence to her work. She is a former Dermatology PA who went on to launch multiple ventures — including a global skincare brand, a healthcare consulting agency, and an executive leadership advisory.She's consulted with Fortune-level companies, led workshops across the healthcare and financial industries, and spoken at major institutions like UCLA, USC, and the University of Miami.Kasey is known for her dynamic, actionable, and emotionally intelligent approach to leadership — guiding ambitious entrepreneurs and executives to think bigger, lead better, and align their next move with both performance and personal fulfillment.From Our Sponsor:Keynote Speakers and Conference Trainers: Get your free Talkadot trial and enjoy this game-changer for your speaking business! www.share.talkadot.com/mariaross Connect with Kasey: Website: https://www.kaseydamato.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaseydamato/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kasey.damato/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaseydamato/?hl=en Connect with Maria:Get Maria's books: Red-Slice.com/booksHire Maria to speak: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossTake the LinkedIn Learning Courses! Leading with Empathy and Balancing Empathy, Accountability, and Results as a Leader LinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaFacebook: Red SliceGet your copy of The Empathy Dilemma here- www.theempathydilemma.com

"L'ora della Vecchia Signora" con Camillo Demichelis. Ospite: Marco Amato (Tuttosport), Miriana Cardinale (InDivisa).

"L'ora della Vecchia Signora" con Camillo Demichelis. Ospite: Marco Amato (Tuttosport), Miriana Cardinale (InDivisa).

O que é um animal exótico? Um mesmo animal pode ser exótico em algum lugar mas noutro não? E o que seria um animal selvagem? E silvestre? Essa semana conversamos sobre essas definições todas e como esses animais podem estar presentes no nosso dia a dia. Além disso, quais os impactos de termos esses animais à disposição em nosso país? Como acontece o mercado e quais as consequências para os animais, para o meio ambiente e para nós, humanos? Patronato do SciCast: 1. Patreon SciCast 2. Apoia.se/Scicast 3. Nos ajude via Pix também, chave: contato@scicast.com.br ou acesse o QRcode: Sua pequena contribuição ajuda o Portal Deviante a continuar divulgando Ciência! Contatos: contato@scicast.com.br https://twitter.com/scicastpodcast https://www.facebook.com/scicastpodcast https://www.instagram.com/PortalDeviante/ Fale conosco! E não esqueça de deixar o seu comentário na postagem desse episódio! Expediente: Produção Geral: Tarik Fernandes e André Trapani Equipe de Gravação: Tarik Fernandes, Marcelo Pedraz, Rita Kujawski e Caio Ferreira Citação ABNT: Scicast #680: Animais Exóticos. Locução: Tarik Fernandes, Marcelo Pedraz, Rita Kujawski e Caio Ferreira. [S.l.] Portal Deviante, 23/02/2026. Podcast. Disponível em: https://www.deviante.com.br/podcasts/scicast-680 Imagem de capa: Unsplash Perguntas do Episódio Abdalla, A. V. D. (2007). A proteção da fauna e o tráfico de animais silvestres (Dissertação de mestrado). Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba. http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/teste/arqs/cp055586.pdf Albuquerque, U. P., Araújo, E. L., Souto, A., Bezerra, B., Freire, E. M. X., Sampaio, E., Casas, F. L., Moura, G., Pereira, G., Melo, J. G., Alves, M., Rodal, M., Schiel, M., Neves, R. L., Alves, R. R. N., Azevedo-Júnior, S., & Telino Júnior, W. (2012). Caatinga revisited: Ecology and conservation of an important seasonal dry forest. The Scientific World Journal, 2012, 205182. https://doi.org/10.1100/2012/205182 Anderson, C. (2014). Wildlife poaching: Causes, consequences and solutions. Araújo, V. C. de. (2019). Um retrato do tráfico de animais silvestres em São Paulo e alternativas para combatê-lo. Segurança Ambiental On-line, 5(1), 1–10. https://www.policiamilitar.sp.gov.br/unidades/ambiental/SegAmb/ed5/ed5art6.pdf Araújo, V. C. de. (2021). O tráfico de animais silvestres no estado de São Paulo: aspectos legais, sociais e econômicos do traficante (Dissertação de mestrado). Universidade de São Paulo. https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/100/100136/tde-19112021-225828/pt-br.php Borges, R. C., Oliveira, A., Bernardo, N., & da Costa, R. (2006). Diagnóstico da fauna silvestre apreendida e recolhida pela Polícia Militar de Meio Ambiente de Juiz de Fora, MG (1998 e 1999). Revista Brasileira de Zoociências, 8(1), 23–33. Brasil. (1998). Portaria n° 93, de 7 de julho de 1998. Ministério do Meio Ambiente. http://www.ibama.gov.br Brasil. (2008). Decreto nº 6.514, de 22 de julho de 2008. Presidência da República. https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2007-2010/2008/decreto/d6514.htm Brasil. Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil de 1988. https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/constituicao/constituicao.htm Chavan, A. S., & Muley, E. D. (2023). Animal trafficking and poaching: A global concern. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 11(5), 45–49. https://www.entomoljournal.com/archives/2023/vol11issue5/PartA/11-5-45-197.pdf Cunha, G. B., et al. (2022). Fauna silvestre recebida pelo Centro de Triagem de Animais Silvestres e encaminhada para o hospital veterinário da Universidade de Brasília. Ciência Animal Brasileira, 23, e-72818. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-6891v23e72818 Destro, G. F. G., et al. (2012). Efforts to combat wild animals trafficking in Brazil. In Biodiversity (Vol. 1, Cap. XX). ISBN 980-953-307-201-7. Duffus, A. L. J., Waltzek, T. B., Stöhr, A. C., Allender, M. C., Gotesman, M., Whittington, R. J., Hick, P., Hines, M. K., & Marschang, R. E. (2015). Distribution and host range of ranaviruses. In M. J. Gray & V. G. Chinchar (Eds.), Ranaviruses: Lethal pathogens of ectothermic vertebrates (pp. 9–57). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20928-9_2 Doukakis, P., Pikitch, E. K., Rothschild, A., DeSalle, R., Amato, G., & Kolokotronis, S.-O. (2012). Testing the effectiveness of an international conservation agreement: Marketplace forensics and CITES caviar trade regulation. PLoS ONE, 7(7), e40907. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040907 Duffy, R. (2016). Security and conservation: The politics of the illegal wildlife trade. Routledge. Financial Action Task Force (FATF). (2020). Money laundering and the illegal wildlife trade. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264313565-en Fischer, M. C., & Garner, T. W. J. (2007). 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A., & Brito, M. T. (2005). Diversidade de aves silvestres brasileiras comercializadas nas feiras livres da Região Metropolitana do Recife, Pernambuco. Atualidades Ornitológicas, 126, 14. Rehbein, K. D. S. (2023). Tráfico de animais silvestres: Limites e possibilidades de atuação dos órgãos competentes (Dissertação de mestrado). Universidade de Passo Fundo. Rehbein, K. D. S., Martinez, G., & Prestes, N. C. (2023). O combate ao comércio ilegal de animais silvestres no Brasil. Planeta Amazônia: Revista Internacional de Direito Ambiental e Políticas Públicas, 15, 282–301. https://periodicos.unifap.br/index.php/planeta Ribeiro, L. B., & Silva, M. G. (2007). O comércio ilegal põe em risco a diversidade das aves no Brasil. Ciência e Cultura, 59(4), 20–23. http://cienciaecultura.bvs.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0009-67252007000400002 Ruggeri, J., Ribeiro, L. P., Pontes, M. R., Toffolo, C., Candido, M., Carriero, M. M., Zanella, N., Sousa, R. L. M., & Toledo, L. F. (2019). 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O que é um animal exótico? Um mesmo animal pode ser exótico em algum lugar mas noutro não? E o que seria um animal selvagem? E silvestre? Essa semana conversamos sobre essas definições todas e como esses animais podem estar presentes no nosso dia a dia. Além disso, quais os impactos de termos esses animais à disposição em nosso país? Como acontece o mercado e quais as consequências para os animais, para o meio ambiente e para nós, humanos? Patronato do SciCast: 1. Patreon SciCast 2. Apoia.se/Scicast 3. Nos ajude via Pix também, chave: contato@scicast.com.br ou acesse o QRcode: Sua pequena contribuição ajuda o Portal Deviante a continuar divulgando Ciência! Contatos: contato@scicast.com.br https://twitter.com/scicastpodcast https://www.facebook.com/scicastpodcast https://www.instagram.com/PortalDeviante/ Fale conosco! E não esqueça de deixar o seu comentário na postagem desse episódio! Expediente: Produção Geral: Tarik Fernandes e André Trapani Equipe de Gravação: Tarik Fernandes, Marcelo Pedraz, Rita Kujawski e Caio Ferreira Citação ABNT: Scicast #680: Animais Exóticos. Locução: Tarik Fernandes, Marcelo Pedraz, Rita Kujawski e Caio Ferreira. [S.l.] Portal Deviante, 23/02/2026. Podcast. Disponível em: https://www.deviante.com.br/podcasts/scicast-680 Imagem de capa: Unsplash Perguntas do Episódio Abdalla, A. V. D. (2007). A proteção da fauna e o tráfico de animais silvestres (Dissertação de mestrado). Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba. http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/teste/arqs/cp055586.pdf Albuquerque, U. P., Araújo, E. L., Souto, A., Bezerra, B., Freire, E. M. X., Sampaio, E., Casas, F. L., Moura, G., Pereira, G., Melo, J. G., Alves, M., Rodal, M., Schiel, M., Neves, R. L., Alves, R. R. N., Azevedo-Júnior, S., & Telino Júnior, W. (2012). Caatinga revisited: Ecology and conservation of an important seasonal dry forest. The Scientific World Journal, 2012, 205182. https://doi.org/10.1100/2012/205182 Anderson, C. (2014). Wildlife poaching: Causes, consequences and solutions.  Araújo, V. C. de. (2019). Um retrato do tráfico de animais silvestres em São Paulo e alternativas para combatê-lo. Segurança Ambiental On-line, 5(1), 1–10. https://www.policiamilitar.sp.gov.br/unidades/ambiental/SegAmb/ed5/ed5art6.pdf Araújo, V. C. de. (2021). O tráfico de animais silvestres no estado de São Paulo: aspectos legais, sociais e econômicos do traficante (Dissertação de mestrado). Universidade de São Paulo. https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/100/100136/tde-19112021-225828/pt-br.php Borges, R. C., Oliveira, A., Bernardo, N., & da Costa, R. (2006). Diagnóstico da fauna silvestre apreendida e recolhida pela Polícia Militar de Meio Ambiente de Juiz de Fora, MG (1998 e 1999). Revista Brasileira de Zoociências, 8(1), 23–33. Brasil. (1998). Portaria n° 93, de 7 de julho de 1998. Ministério do Meio Ambiente. http://www.ibama.gov.br Brasil. (2008). Decreto nº 6.514, de 22 de julho de 2008. Presidência da República. https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2007-2010/2008/decreto/d6514.htm Brasil. Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil de 1988. https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/constituicao/constituicao.htm Chavan, A. S., & Muley, E. D. (2023). Animal trafficking and poaching: A global concern. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 11(5), 45–49. https://www.entomoljournal.com/archives/2023/vol11issue5/PartA/11-5-45-197.pdf Cunha, G. B., et al. (2022). Fauna silvestre recebida pelo Centro de Triagem de Animais Silvestres e encaminhada para o hospital veterinário da Universidade de Brasília. Ciência Animal Brasileira, 23, e-72818. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-6891v23e72818 Destro, G. F. G., et al. (2012). Efforts to combat wild animals trafficking in Brazil. In Biodiversity (Vol. 1, Cap. XX). ISBN 980-953-307-201-7. Duffus, A. L. J., Waltzek, T. B., Stöhr, A. C., Allender, M. C., Gotesman, M., Whittington, R. J., Hick, P., Hines, M. K., & Marschang, R. E. (2015). Distribution and host range of ranaviruses. In M. J. Gray & V. G. Chinchar (Eds.), Ranaviruses: Lethal pathogens of ectothermic vertebrates (pp. 9–57). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20928-9_2 Doukakis, P., Pikitch, E. K., Rothschild, A., DeSalle, R., Amato, G., & Kolokotronis, S.-O. (2012). Testing the effectiveness of an international conservation agreement: Marketplace forensics and CITES caviar trade regulation. PLoS ONE, 7(7), e40907. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040907 Duffy, R. (2016). Security and conservation: The politics of the illegal wildlife trade. Routledge. Financial Action Task Force (FATF). (2020). Money laundering and the illegal wildlife trade. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264313565-en Fischer, M. C., & Garner, T. W. J. (2007). 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Welcome to Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can't not tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and '30s. I didn’t have time to make the correction on this week’s show, but on last week’s show I completely left out the details on the first record in the segment about cake, “Cut Yourself A Piece Of Cake (And Make Yourself At Home.)” It was Joseph Samuels’ Orchestra with the vocal by Arthur Hall on Grey Gull 1172 recorded in June of 1923. It was also issued on the Banner, Regal, Broadway and Triangle labels. On this week’s show, as you might guess from the photo above, we’ll play some records about Odocoileus hemionus, the scientific name for the Mule Deer. There’s a huge controversy taking place on Catalina Island over the approximately 2,000 deer on the island, first introduced for hunting in the 1930s and you’ll find out a little bit about it. In other segments, Johnny Dunn, Jack Jackson and Victor Vorzanger all have birthday segments. And we’ll take a musical trip to Harlem. There's lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and prepare to be transported back to a different–and we think better–musical era. Just click the link above to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience. THANKS FOR LISTENING! ENJOY THE SHOW! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Johnny Dunn You Need Some Loving – Johnny Dunn and His BandDunn’s Cornet Blues – Johnny DunnSilver Rose – The Plantation Orchestra Segment 2: Victor Vorzanger It All Depends On You – Victor Vorzanger’s Famous Dance BandCrazy Words-Crazy Tune – Victor Vorzanger’s Famous Dance Band / John Thorne, v.Who Threw The Water On The Tom Cat’s Back – Victor Vorzanger’s Broadway Band Segment 3: Jack Jackson Gretchen – Jack Jackson AHO at the Dorchester Hotel, London / Jack Jackson, v.I Always Keep My Girl Out Late – Jack Jackson AHO at the Dorchester Hotel, London / Jack Jackson , Chappie D’Amato +1, v.My Young Man Is Ever So Nice – Jack Jackson AHO at the Dorchester Hotel, London Segment 4: Catalina Island Mule Deer Forked Deer – Jilson Setters (J. W. Day)Snow Deer – Buell Kazee & Sookie Hobbs (Carson Robison)Moon Deer (Indian Love Song) – Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra / Joe Sanders, v. Segment 5: Harlem Underneath The Harlem Moon – Peter DeRose Orchestra (Tom Berwick AHO) / The Marshall Sisters, v.Drop Me Off In Harlem – Mills Blue Rhythm Bacd / Adelaide Hall, v.Gravel Pit Stomp – Harlem House Rent Stompers The post A “Dear Deer” Edition of RRR # 1,336 Feb. 22, 2026 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

Wake up, Woodland! Join Tomlin, Decker, and Amato for Morning Mayhem—the morning broadcast designed for both the carpool and the classroom.Students: Get the inside scoop on the A-day schedule, the latest puzzle challenges, and how to snag the best swag at the upcoming College Fair. Plus, see if you can beat the hosts at mascot trivia.Parents: Stay weather-ready with our real-time snow updates and never miss a beat on half-days or parent-teacher meetings. From the latest Lady Hawks basketball victories to relatable banter about the "Home Depot husband" and slow gas pumps, it's the perfect mix of essential info and, well, frankly, other stuff.Whether you're reminded to charge your Chromebook or learning about the future of universal vaccines, we're taking over Woodland Regional every morning at 7 a.m.

We catch up with Dr. Chris Amato and Dr. Sean Fox from the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Assembly about some of the hot topics and practice changing updates.

Giani Amato pasò por el aire de Radio 5 y habló sobre todas promociones que tienen vigentes de cara al mes de mayo, para poder disfrutar de unas vacaciones soñadas.

Rise and shine, Woodland! It's Thursday, February 19th, and your favorite trio—Amato, Tomlin, and Decker—is back with the high-quality "dulcet sounds" you crave now that those pesky audio issues are fixed.In the local groove, big props to Colby Marsan, our new NVL wrestling champ! And don't miss the boys' basketball squad; they've grabbed the #1 seed in what's becoming a historic season. Feeling hungry? Grab some pizza at Antonio's for the girls' basketball fundraiser.Over at the news desk, Tomlin's digging up the past! They found a 400-year-old Swedish shipwreck and a hidden cannon in England. Plus, Skokie, Illinois is getting a groovy flag makeover, and the sitcom Scrubs is finally making a comeback.Tech-heads, Microsoft's got glass data storage that lasts 10,000 years. And for the trivia buffs, the Jonathan Law mascot is "The Law".Keep those Chromebooks charged and stay classy, Woodland. We're knocking down the door every morning at 7:00! Peace and love

Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link!Looking for a Lent that actually forms you, not just a box to check? We sit down with Fr. Amato—pastor of a single parish spread across three churches—for a frank, hopeful look at priestly life, spiritual fatherhood, and the kind of habits that turn belief into muscle. He doesn't sell shortcuts. He shares the daily grind: preaching every Mass like it's the first, earning trust in new assignments, and crafting penances that fit the person, not the template.We dive into a classic but timely distinction: marriage as a natural good elevated by grace versus priesthood as a supernatural vocation. Far from downgrading marriage, that clarity helps men choose with eyes open, accepting the crosses built into any faithful life. Discernment here is concrete—twenty minutes of silent prayer, the Divine Office, honest attention to what stirs when you picture hearing confessions or leading a home. If peace grows, walk toward it. If fear shouts, ask which loves you must mourn to make room for a greater one.Along the way, we get practical about Lent. Forget vague sacrifices. Identify one vice to mortify and one virtue to build. Fast for a person you love to anchor effort in charity. Write a simple rule of life and let the rule keep you when zeal fades. We also confront the drip catechesis of culture—shows that mock fathers, language that profanes, and feeds that numb. The remedy isn't panic; it's formation. Make your home a place of reverence and better stories. Shut off the noise, open the Gospels, and reclaim attention.The surprise thread tying it all together is stability. Young men are showing up, hungry for challenge, and conversions are deep because they are chosen. Parish life flourishes when we stop doomscrolling and build what's in front of us: family, friends, and the church down the street. That's where grace grips, and where Lent becomes less about restriction and more about freedom. If you're ready to trade performative penance for practices that change you, press play—and then tell us the one habit you're owning for the next 40 days. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs the challenge, and leave a review to help others find the show.Support the showGoFundMe for Catholic couple in need: https://gofund.me/314382e0dCheck out our new sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off!Want the best potato chips in the world? Head over to fatthins.com and use code AB10 for 10% off!********************************************************Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1https://www.avoidingbabylon.comMerchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.comLocals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.comFull Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribeRSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rssRumble: https://rumble.com/c/AvoidingBabylon

A lot of women are stuck in a cycle of eating less, pushing harder, and starting over every Monday, only to feel more frustrated each time. The surprising part is that this isn't a lack of discipline, but a predictable outcome of years of under-eating and following advice that was never built for women's physiology.We dive deeper into this in the Broads podcast with Finley. We talk about why intermittent fasting often backfires for women, how sugar cravings are usually a fueling issue, what chronic under-eating does to your metabolism, and what sustainable nutrition actually looks like without diet culture noise.Finley Amato Funsten is a nutrition and strength coach, the founder of Unfuck Your Diet, and the owner of MADabolic Charlotte. Her work focuses on evidence-based nutrition, behavior change, and sustainable training practices.What's Discussed:(05:53) Diet Coke, aspartame safety, and why fear-based nutrition science still sticks(07:12) Why intermittent fasting often backfires for active women hormonally(09:04) How hunger hormones adapt when breakfast is skipped for years(11:04) Why named diets fail women by ignoring physiology and skill building(14:32) Skinny culture's return and how wellness marketing keeps women shrinking(19:20) Sugar cravings explained through protein and fiber deficiencies(24:39) Why detoxes and cleanses don't work the way people think(32:03) Chronic under eating signs including low energy, poor recovery, and cycle disruptionCheck out more from Broads:Website: www.broads.appInstagram: @broads.podcast @broads.appCheck out more from Tara LaFerrara:Website: http://taralaferrara.com  Instagram: @taralaferraraYoutube: https://youtube.com/@TaraLaferraraCheck out more from Finley Amato Funsten:Website: https://unfuckyourdiet.coInstagram: @unfuckyourdiet Check out some of Finley's favorite accounts for nutrition, fitness, and real talk:Tara LaFerrara: https://instagram.com/taralaferraraSheridan Skye, MSc: http://instagram.com/sheridanskyefitBeth Wilkas Feraco: http://instagram.com/bethferacofitnessAmanda Howell, MPH: http://instagram.com/amandahowellhealthJessica Knurick, PhD: http://instagram.com/drjessicaknurickDr. Stacy T. Sims: http://instagram.com/drstacysimsKate Lyman, MPH: http://instagram.com/klnutritionJordan Syatt: http://instagram.com/syattfitnessLayne Norton, PhD: https://www.instagram.com/biolayne

Mauro Amato. Exfutbolista. Jugaba de delantero y su primer club fue Estudiantes de La Plata. “El Inmortal” fue ídolo de Atlético Tucumán. Ahora, encabeza “Fútbol y Valores”, un taller que dicta en el Instituto de Menores Francisco Legarra, en la ciudad de La Plata. “Quería involucrarme socialmente”, “El objetivo es no solo promover lo futbolístico, sino también dar mensajes sobre la vida”.

In this episode of Trauma Rewired, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof welcome author, speaker, and embodiment coach Preston Smiles for a powerful conversation on the Father Wound — and how paternal presence or absence shapes the nervous system. Together, they explore how a father's regulation, emotional availability, and play patterns influence brain development, stress physiology, attachment, intimacy, and leadership. Drawing from both lived experience and developmental research, this episode examines the real impact of masculine containment — not through blame, but through understanding. From childhood patterning to adult relationships, parenting, and community repair, this conversation offers grounded insight, somatic depth, and a hopeful path toward nervous system healing. Timestamps: 00:00 –  Intro/The Good Boy Pattern 08:00 – The Father Wound 17:30 – Play and Masculine Energy 33:30 – Shame and Reclaiming the Masculine 52:30 – Capacity and Embodied Partnership Key Takeaways: The fatherwound isn't just emotional, it's neurological and somatic, shaping how we regulate stress, relate, and play. Healthy masculine presence supports brain development through movement, physical play, safety, and co-regulation. Many relational patterns come from what was never modeled, not from personal failure. Healing happens through embodied experience, safe relationships, and repeated nervous system repair, not just insight. Resources Mentioned: The Bridge Method – Workshops led by Preston Smiles: https://www.thebridgemethod.org/ Spiritual Millionaire, by Preston Smiles: https://preston-davis.mykajabi.com/book Instagram: @PrestonSmiles: https://www.instagram.com/prestonsmiles/ Call to Action: Neurosomatic Intelligence is now enrolling : https://neurosomaticintelligence.com/nsi-certification Learn to work with Boundaries at the level of the body and nervous system at https://www.boundaryrewire.com Get a two-week free trial of neurosomatic training at https://rewiretrial.com Sacred Synapse: an educational YouTube channel founded by Jennifer Wallace that explores nervous system regulation, applied neuroscience, consciousness, and psychedelic preparation and integration through Neurosomatic Intelligence.  Wayfinder Journal: Track nervous system patterns and support preparation and integration through Neurosomatic Intelligence. FREE 1 Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens when you use my exclusive offer: https://www.drinkag1.com/rewired Sources: Flinn, M. V. & England, B. G. (2003). Social economics of childhood glucocorticoid stress response and health. Laurent, H. K. et al. (2013). Synchrony of hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis activity in parents and infants. Feldman, R. et al. (2010). Parent–infant synchrony and the construction of shared timing. Amato, P. R. & Gilbreth, J. G. (1999). Nonresident fathers and children's well-being. Ellis, B. J. et al. (1999). Quality of early family relationships and timing of puberty. Meaney, M. J. & Szyf, M. (2005). Environmental programming of stress responses through DNA methylation.   Disclaimer: Trauma Rewired podcast is intended to educate and inform but does not constitute medical, psychological or other professional advice or services. Always consult a qualified medical professional about your specific circumstances before making any decisions based on what you hear. We share our experiences, explore trauma, physical reactions, mental health and disease. If you become distressed by our content, please stop listening and seek professional support when needed. Do not continue to listen if the conversations are having a negative impact on your health and well-being. If you or someone you know is struggling with their mental health, or in mental health crisis and you are in the United States you can 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. If someone's life is in danger, immediately call 911. We do our best to stay current in research, but older episodes are always available. We don't warrant or guarantee that this podcast contains complete, accurate or up-to-date information. It's very important to talk to a medical professional about your individual needs, as we aren't responsible for any actions you take based on the information you hear in this podcast. We invite guests onto the podcast. Please note that we don't verify the accuracy of their statements. Our organization does not endorse third-party content and the views of our guests do not necessarily represent the views of our organization. We talk about general neuro-science and nervous system health, but you are unique. These are conversations for a wide audience. They are general recommendations and you are always advised to seek personal care for your unique outputs, trauma and needs. We are not doctors or licensed medical professionals. We are certified neuro-somatic practitioners and nervous system health/embodiment coaches. We are not your doctor or medical professional and do not know you and your unique nervous system. This podcast is not a replacement for working with a professional. The BrainBased.com site and RewireTrial.com is a membership site for general nervous system health, somatic processing and stress processing. It is not a substitute for medical care or the appropriate solution for anyone in mental health crisis. Any examples mentioned in this podcast are for illustration purposes only. If they are based on real events, names have been changed to protect the identities of those involved. We've done our best to ensure our podcast respects the intellectual property rights of others, however if you have an issue with our content, please let us know by emailing us at traumarewired@gmail.com. All rights in our content are reserved.  

Just how important is networking in the age of AI - and what's the business case for environmental investing? Two business thinkers weigh in on these timely themes in this week’s episode. First, Roxanne Calder of EST10 Recruitment explains why genuine human connection matters more than ever in an AI-driven hiring landscape. She shares practical tips for building authentic relationships through curiosity, generosity and “micro touches” - and the biggest networking mistakes to avoid. Then, Elio D’Amato, co-founder and executive director of EnviroInvest, outlines why environmentally conscious investing is no longer just ethical, but a compelling long-term investment case. Business Essentials is produced by: SoundCartelsoundcartel.com.au+61 3 9882 8333See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On January 25th, 2019, police arrived at a home in Chuluota, Florida, for a wellness check. Cody Amato, a thirty-one-year-old nurse anaesthetist, hadn't shown up for work—something he'd never done in five years.Inside, they found a scene of horror: Chad Amato, Margaret Amato, and Cody Amato. All three shot execution-style in their own home.One family member was missing: twenty-nine-year-old Grant Amato.As investigators pieced together the case, a disturbing picture emerged. Grant had been fired from his nursing job for stealing drugs. He'd become obsessed with a Bulgarian webcam model named Silvie. He'd stolen over two hundred thousand dollars from his family to pay for her attention.His family tried to help him. They sent him to rehab. They gave him rules. But when his father discovered Grant was still contacting Silvie, he told Grant to leave.Grant's response? He murdered his entire family.Tonight, a story of obsession, deception, and a virtual relationship that turned deadly.Become a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now for ealry and ad free access from as little as $1.69 a week. All the details hereSubscribe to Crime at Bedtimes Youtube channel HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The local airwaves sizzled this morning as the "Morning Mayhem" crew took listeners on a wild ride through color theory and international headlines.In a segment that felt like a "Deep Thoughts" revival, host Amato sparked a hilarious debate over the true identity of a grape. While grapes are technically green or red, the team pondered why "grape-colored" jelly is always purple—specifically "Grimace purple". They even explored the etymology of "orange," noting that the fruit actually named the color.The conversation turned nostalgic when discussing the death of Saturday morning cartoons, replaced by kids staring at tablets waiting for parental locks to click. Meanwhile, Tomlin's news desk delivered global gems, from Somalia's first modern bowling alley to the high cost of Maine potentially changing its state flag.Sports guru Decker rounded out the hour, celebrating the Woodland boys' basketball victory over Ansonia. With an undefeated showdown against North Haven on the horizon, the energy is electric. The hosts' final advice? Go see what color your grapes are and stay tuned for more Woodland updates

What is “greenwashing” - and how can businesses avoid it? And what does it take to build a future-ready, people-first workplace culture? In this episode, Elio D’Amato, founder of EnviroInvest, explains what greenwashing is, why it matters, and why regulators are cracking down. He outlines the risks for business leaders and shares practical guidance on communicating environmental claims clearly, credibly and legally. Next, leadership expert Mirjana Boznovska, founder and CEO of One Beyond Success, shares insights from her book Future of Work: A Blueprint, explaining why people-first cultures, sustainable leadership and intrinsic motivation are now business imperatives. Mirjana also shares her thoughts on what the next decade of work looks like for businesses and leaders alike. Business Essentials is produced by: SoundCartelsoundcartel.com.au+61 3 9882 8333See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey all! We had a bit of a glitch with this weeks episode. It will be coming soon, but until it does I wanted to take a walk down memory lane and highlight an episode that has stayed with me ever since we recorded it.This one is powerful and such a great listen, and even if you have listened before I think there would be whole new takeaways from a second liusten.And if you haven't listened. enjoy!Trigger warning: Domestic violence, sexual assault, mental healthWhile abuse within the family is something we have discussed on this podcast, one topic we have not covered as much, which often goes hand in hand, is the abandonment many children go through in this experience.Dante Amato is renowned in the Personal Development space for the deeply nurturing and transformational spaces she holds. She is a Business Mentor, Transformational Life Coach, Spiritual Guide and Energy Practitioner. But besides being a coach, Dante is a woman who has walked the path of trauma and triumph, gaining valuable insights that fuel her mission to help others.From an early age she experienced abandonment, abuse, manipulation and trauma which extended far into her life. As an adult she has done a loooot of healing and work, but her story is one that I think will resonate with a lot of people.In this episode she shares:Her experience of being abandoned by her mum as a childThe experience of spending time with her unstable mother as a childHer experience with domestic abuse in her mother's homeHow her brother was manipulated and let down by their motherHow her relationship with her husband helped herWhat happened when she was diagnosed with infertilityWhat her journey to heal was likeThe thing that kept her going through recovery when things got really hardHow she developed her voice in adulthoodThe way she was able to work through her angerWhat she is doing now to help othersKey Quotes“I had to completely cut my mother off. Really intentionally and energetically remove her from my life.”“The constant thought that I had was that I just need to do everything that I can to make her love me.”“When bad things happened, we would never ever speak about them.”More about DanteDante's website: https://www.danteamato.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedanteamato/?hl=enMinibook: https://www.danteamato.com/mini-book-of-self-discoveryYou can get involved with the podcast onlineOn facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeusOr on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeusIf you want to contact the podcast, email us here: support@challengesthatchangeus.comOr check out our website: www.Challengesthatchangeus.comIf you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website: http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.auFor her other business you can find it through the websites: www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CAIO AMATO é empresário e presidente da Oakley. Ele vai bater um papo sobre sua trajetória até chegar na presidência de uma das marcas de óculos mais famosas do mundo. O Vilela adora óculos de sol, e acha que fica invisível quando está usando um par.

#NHRA #DragRacing #NHRAschedule NHRA Legend Joe Amato joins Joe Castello for a conversation about his extraordinary life, career, and his participation in the 75th season of NHRA Drag Racing beginning at the Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals. Amato is considered one of the greatest of all time with 5 Top Fuel world championships including 3 in a row (1990,91,92) and 52 wins. He also broke the 260 mph and 280 mph barriers in his Hall of Fame career. Joe Amato is making his first WFO appearance. Jasmine Salinas and Maddi Gordon were on Miami Beach with the Unrivaled Basketball League, WFO caught up with the Top Fuel stars to discuss Chasing Speed, the VICETV NHRA show, and the upcoming NHRA season. 🚨 Don't miss out! Subscribe to WFO Radio for weekly NHRA updates, driver interviews, and exclusive motorsport content. Hit the bell 🔔 for notifications! MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/wfo-radio?ref_id=24678 PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/WFORadio APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wfo-radio-podcast/id449870843?ls=1 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0oo5mn0E3VmfhRCTHyLQIS

No novo episódio do Invite, programa oficial do MKTEsportivo, entrevistamos Caio Amato, presidente global da Oakley, em um momento simbólico para a marca, que celebra 50 anos de história enquanto avança em frentes estratégicas ligadas a inovação, cultura e esporte.A conversa percorre a visão da Oakley sobre construção de marca no longo prazo, passando por parcerias com nomes como Travis Scott, Patrick Mahomes, Kylian Mbappé, Gabriel Medina, além de plataformas como Podpah, FURIA e Meta. Caio detalha como essas relações são estruturadas a partir de afinidade criativa, propósito e conexão com comunidades, e não por modelos tradicionais de patrocínio.O episódio também aprofunda o papel do futuro como pilar estratégico da Oakley, explorando o conceito do Future Genesis, a atualização constante de uma narrativa criada nos anos 1990 e o desafio de manter inovação e relevância cultural de forma consistente e atemporal.Outro eixo central da entrevista é o desenvolvimento de produto. Caio explica como atletas participam diretamente do processo de engenharia, levando o conhecimento do uso real para além do ambiente controlado.

Welcome to Fertility & Sterility Roundtable! Each week, we will host a discussion with the authors of "Views and Reviews" and "Fertile Battle" articles published in a recent issue of Fertility & Sterility.  This week, we welcome Dr. Paula Amato and Professor Glenn Cohen to discuss the legal and ethical implications of in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) - the creation of human eggs and sperm in a laboratory setting using non-reproductive cells, such as skin or blood cells. Through our discussion, we will explore several issues raised by this nacent technology, including safety, Food and Drug Administration review, embryo destruction, eugenics, enhancement, unauthorized parenthood, inequitable access, and evolving conceptions of parenthood. Dr. Paula Amato is Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility at Oregon Health & Science University. She received her medical degree from the University of Toronto in Canada, where she also completed her Residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology, followed by a Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Amato is past-president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Her research focuses on innovative assisted reproductive technologies for the treatment of infertility and ovarian aging. Professor Glenn Cohen is the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he directs the Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. A member of the National Academy of Medicine, his work focuses on the intersection of bioethics and the law. He has advised policymakers and global organizations on topics such as genetic privacy, medical AI, and reproductive rights, and his work has been featured by several prominent news outlets, including PBS, NPR, CNN, and The New York Times. View Fertility and Sterility at https://www.fertstert.org/  

In this urgent episode of Empowered With Gina, Gina Zapanta sits down with Gina Amato, Director of the Immigrants' Rights Project at Public Counsel, for a necessary conversation about immigration, due process, and the state of the law in 2026.Gina Amato is on the front lines of litigation against the federal government, fighting to protect immigrants' constitutional rights, including access to legal counsel and protection from unlawful detention and racial profiling. She explains what many Americans misunderstand about immigration law, why immigrants are entitled to due process under the Constitution, and how denying access to attorneys threatens democracy itself.Drawing from her upbringing as the daughter of an immigrant mother, Amato shares what led her to civil rights work, the emotional weight of representing vulnerable communities, and how trauma and systemic injustice intersect with the criminal and immigration systems.The conversation breaks down what is actually happening inside detention facilities, why family separations continue, and how policies are being enforced without regard for long-standing constitutional protections. Amato also addresses the common argument that undocumented immigrants are “not entitled” to rights and explains why that belief is legally and historically wrong.This episode is about law, humanity, and the consequences of abandoning due process. It offers clarity amid misinformation and speaks directly to women doing difficult, high-stakes work who are trying to stay grounded while fighting for something bigger than themselves.

In this episode, Paula Amato joins Rhonda for an honest conversation about career reinvention, non-linear paths, and trusting long-term evolution over quick wins. Paula Amato, a seasoned PR and communications professional, shares how she transitioned from the music industry into wellness, storytelling, and ultimately transformational travel. Together, they explore career pivots, identity shifts, and what it really takes to build a meaningful professional life rooted in purpose, curiosity, and personal growth.Key Takeaways:Why career pivots often unfold over years, not months, and why patience mattersHow transferable skills like storytelling and communication unlock new industriesThe power of staying in a beginner's mindset during career transitionsWhy financial planning and timing are critical when leaving corporate rolesHow authentic brand building starts with self-trust, not external validationWhat transformational travel teaches us about growth, leadership, and perspectiveMeet Paula AmatoPaula Amato is a seasoned PR and communications professional whose career spans music and the arts, wellbeing, social impact, and transformational travel. She is the founder of PAI/Life, a creative communications consultancy based in New York City. Throughout her career, Paula has led strategic storytelling, brand positioning, event curation, and partnership development for iconic artists and musicians, award-winning producers, CEOs, authors, and forward-thinking brands.Before founding PAI/Life, Paula Amato served as National Publicity Director at Atlantic Records and later as an adjunct professor at New York University's Steinhardt School, where she taught public relations at the undergraduate level. Her work today bridges narrative strategy with purpose-driven impact, helping organizations communicate with clarity, depth, and intention.Visit her website | Follow her on LinkedInHow She PivotedPaula Amato's career has never followed a straight line—and that's exactly what made her evolution possible. After launching her career in the music industry at a young age, Paula later moved into independent consulting, where she explored wellness, functional medicine, and personal development. Over time, those interests naturally intersected with her communications expertise, opening the door to transformational travel and purpose-driven work.“My trajectory has not been linear, but every phase taught me something I needed for the next one.”Rather than forcing a fast transition, Paula allowed her pivot to unfold gradually. She spent years learning a new industry, building relationships, and redefining her role—proving that sustainable reinvention often requires curiosity, humility, and the willingness to sit in uncertainty.Insights for Ambitious WomenOne of Paula's most powerful lessons is that career transitions don't require abandoning your past, they require reframing it. She encourages women to recognize their transferable skills and trust that experience gained in one industry often becomes the foundation for success in another.“We all underestimate ourselves. Sometimes what feels likeWant More Like This?Be sure to subscribe to the podcast on your favourite platform so you never miss an episode. And if you're ready for even more honest stories, career inspiration, and powerful insights, join Rhonda's monthly newsletter. It's where ambitious women get the encouragement, tools, and behind-the-scenes wisdom to thrive—straight to your inbox. Subscribe to the newsletter and catch more episodes at RhondaColemanWandel.com

Embryo donation is an incredible path to parenthood, offering hope to those who may not have other options. In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Paula Amato, a reproductive endocrinologist and professor at Oregon Health & Science University, to discuss her personal and professional experiences with embryo donation. Dr. Amato shares her unique perspective as both a fertility doctor and someone who has gone through the process herself. We talk about the medical and ethical considerations of embryo donation, who it can benefit, and how families can navigate this journey. Dr. Amato also discusses the emotional aspects of embryo donation, including what it means for donors and recipients, and how transparency can play a role in shaping the future of donor-conceived children. In this episode, we cover: Dr. Paula Amato's professional background and personal connection to embryo donation The medical, ethical, and legal aspects of embryo donation Who embryo donation can help and what the process involves Emotional considerations for both donors and recipients The role of transparency and disclosure in donor-conceived families The future of embryo donation in reproductive medicine Read the full show notes on my website. You can read her article here: https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(21)02289-5/fulltext IVF Class: Do you have questions about IVF? Click here to join me for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, February 9, 2026, at 4pm PST, where I'll explain IVF and Egg Freezing, and there will be time to ask your questions live on Zoom. Other ways to reach me: Visit my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates. Join Egg Whisperer School. Request a Consultation with me. Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America's most well-known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org. key words: embryo donation, creative family building, IVF, IVF doctor, fertility treatment, infertility treatment, trying to conceive

John Amato of Crooks and Liars discusses his journey from music to political blogging, including his early experiences with video content creation and sharing during the 2000s. Our convo covers the evolution of digital media in politics, with particular focus on the early days of blogging and the collaborative spirit among left-leaning bloggers who shared content through blog roundups. We conclude with reflections on media credibility and misinformation, as well as discussions about favorite TV shows and movies from 2025.Stay in Touch! Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.comWebsite: proleftpod.comSupport via Patreon: patreon.com/proleftpodor Donate in the Venmo App @proleftpodMail: The Professional Left, PO Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791Support the show

In this episode, the hosts welcome elite runner Keira D'Amato (11:29), who shares her inspiring journey in the world of running. From her first race to her transition from JV to Varsity, Keira discusses the competitive spirit that drives her and the importance of community support in sports. She reflects on the lessons learned throughout her experiences, emphasizing the significance of perseverance and maintaining a positive attitude. The conversation highlights the challenges and triumphs of being a runner, as well as the joy of finding one's passion in the sport. In this engaging conversation, Kira DeMato shares her journey from a passionate college runner to becoming a record-breaking marathoner and author. She discusses the importance of community support, the challenges of balancing motherhood with competitive running, and the unexpected twists in her career. Kira reflects on her writing process for her memoir, the lessons learned from her experiences, and the joy of running. The conversation also touches on the humorous aspects of life as a runner, including the significance of a 'bananas' code with her children during races.During the Tros Eric and Six Star Erika catch up sharing running updates, killing a live stream and discuses Erika's drunk Strava post and much more.Chapters00:00 203 Intro04:24 The Poland Spring Team and Redemption Stories09:42 Excitement for the Guest Appearance11:29 Keira D'Amato42:06 The Process of Writing a Book49:13 Reflections on Competition and Growth51:05 Packing for Adventures: The Quirks of Travel51:58 The Power of Music in Running52:43 Finding Joy in the Journey of Running53:39 The Connection Between Fun and Success58:08 Mom Guilt and Running: The Bananas Analogy01:03:36 Future Aspirations: Running Beyond Competition01:09:28 The Car Accident Experience01:11:26 Reflections on Racing and Career Changes01:12:44 The Impact of a Life-Changing Event01:14:49 A Family's Cinematic Adventure01:18:54 Music and Motivation in Running01:27:36 The Outro01:32:12 Running Updates and Personal Stories01:35:11 Tech Troubles and Parenting Challenges01:38:14 Podcasting Adventures and Live Streaming Mishaps01:41:10 Upcoming Events and Personal Goals01:43:54 Community Engagement and Listener InteractionStrava GroupLinktree - Find everything hereInstagram - Follow us on the gram YouTube - Subscribe to our channel Patreon - Support usThreadsEmail us at OnTheRunsPod@gmail.com Don't Fear The Code Brown and Don't Forget To Stretch!

In this episode, co-hosts Mark Gustavson and Jessica DuPont sit down with Kyle Lyles & Ed DuPont to catch up on everything that is happening at Cus D'Amato's KO Boxing Gym on Main Street in Catskill. Formerly the Catskill Boxing Club, this is where Mike Tyson & Floyd Patterson got their start!

A conversation with actor, writer, and producer Sal Amato about his upcoming debut science fiction novel, Hidden Powers. Websitesalamato.com Facebook@hiddenpowersofficial X@HiddenPowersUSA Instagram@hiddenpowersnovel TikTok@hiddenpowersofficial About Hidden Powers Investigative journalist Sarah Moore has exposed government corruption for years. Still, nothing prepared her for what killed her father: $47 trillion in unaccounted federal spending hidden across seventy years … Continue reading "Episode 207: Sal Amato – Hidden Powers" Source

Ned sits down with his former high school Bible teacher, Mr. Tom Amato, who has dedicated 54 years to working with youth. At 78 years old, Mr. Amato shares profound wisdom about unconditional love, the power of presence, and what it truly means to be a father. He reveals how he emerged from six years of total darkness and bitterness to discover God's infinite love, and how that transformation shaped his approach to loving others—especially children. This conversation challenges fathers to move beyond transactional relationships with their kids, to see themselves through God's eyes, and to understand that showing up with authentic, selfless love is one of the most powerful things we can do. Mr. Amato's insights on human needs, love languages, and walking beside others rather than controlling them offer practical wisdom for any father wanting to create deeper connections with their children. This isn't just another parenting conversation—it's a masterclass in what it means to love like God loves.---------Transform Your Body with Ned & RUK Fitness: RUK FitnessThis episode is sponsored by The Adventure of FatherhoodOrder The Adventure of Fatherhood children's book hereCheck out the TEDx----------Want to learn more about The Adventure of Fatherhood?https://www.adventureoffatherhood.com/https://www.rebelandcreate.com/Each week Ned sits down with a dad and asks him to open up his field notes and share with other men who find themselves on the Adventure of Fatherhood. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review!Follow us:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fatherhoodfieldnotesYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FatherhoodfieldnotesFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/rebelandcreate

Welcome to the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast! In today's episode, we're talking about how to find joy when life feels busy, overwhelming, and nonstop.Dr. Susan Amato-Henderson retired in 2023 from her first career with over 25 years of experience as a Psychology faculty member at an institution of higher education. She holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology. She loved mentoring students, so opted to pursue certification as a life coach upon retirement.  She has now been coaching for 2+ years, and is loving every minute of it!  Very generally, her mission is to assist clients in finding their true joy!  Susie states “I was close to 50 when I finally found my true joy in life, and life now is unbelievably different from my “pre-joy” life!” As she looks back, it is with clarity that she recognizes that people often don't know what they are missing, or that they have never experienced. As she reports, “My normal was normal, I never questioned it until things fell apart!” Therefore, her coaching goal is to let clients know that a joyful life is theirs to have with some hard work and resiliency skills!Susie guides individuals toward personal and professional success. As the Founder of Sisuzy Coaching, she specializes in career transitions, mindset shifts, and adaptive capacity.  Adaptive capacity is a relatively new term used in this context, and is, essentially, one step beyond the notion of resilience. Adaptive capacity is the ability to transcend adversity and emerge stronger than before, whereas resiliency is getting through the challenges unscathed. Life demands resilience, the ability to survive even the most negative experiences, but those who adapt based upon those experiences have the upper edge. This is what she hopes to share with clients, the ability to persevere and adapt. To achieve this goal, she infuses mindfulness skills throughout most of her coaching experiences, as learning how to effectively regulate emotions and anxiety is a skill that, unfortunately, is often missing in people. Connect with Susan Here: https://www.instagram.com/susie_ah/https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558690847434www.linkedin.com/in/susanamatohendersonwww.sisuzy.comGrab the freebie here:Newsletter sign up: https://forms.gle/oSxzDDmv4p7xLVDv5Free mindfulness workshop sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEETiZEZZwJvMfC0QfUAImvZXo-D6Tc4mNUjH6XfsfKSMptQ/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=115781956269457685892===================================If you enjoyed this episode, remember to hit the like button and subscribe. Then share this episode with your friends.Thanks for watching the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast. This podcast is part of the Digital Trailblazer family of podcasts. To learn more about Digital Trailblazer and what we do to help entrepreneurs, go to DigitalTrailblazer.com.Are you a coach, consultant, expert, or online course creator? Then we'd love to invite you to our FREE Facebook Group where you can learn the best strategies to land more high-ticket clients and customers. QUICK LINKS: APPLY TO BE FEATURED: https://app.digitaltrailblazer.com/podcast-guest-applicationDIGITAL TRAILBLAZER: https://digitaltrailblazer.com/

Rosanna D’Amato and Arlena D’Amato, 3rd generation owners of D’Amato’s Bakery on the Near West Side of Chicago joins David Hochberg, in for Bob Sirott, to share the history of D’Amato’s Bakery. Listen in while Rosanna and Arlena talk about their mouthwatering bakery staples such as their sandwich bread, focaccia, Sicilian pan “bakery” pizza and […]

Rosanna D’Amato and Arlena D’Amato, 3rd generation owners of D’Amato’s Bakery on the Near West Side of Chicago joins David Hochberg, in for Bob Sirott, to share the history of D’Amato’s Bakery. Listen in while Rosanna and Arlena talk about their mouthwatering bakery staples such as their sandwich bread, focaccia, Sicilian pan “bakery” pizza and […]

Wendy and Rob talk with Carmen Amato, author of the Galliano Club book series. This series takes place in upstate New York (Rome, NY is the inspiration) during prohibition. Beginning as a murder mystery and continuing as a power struggle for different factions related to the distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages (such as beer, of course!). We ask Carmen about her research into this series and learn a few things about bootlegging during prohibition.You can learn more about the Galliano Club books and Carmen Amato at her website.Better on Draft is an independent production. If you or someone you know would like to be a guest on the show you can reach out to us at https://betterondraft.com

Fr. Anthony Amato is the Pastor of St. Peter's Parish in Clifton Springs, New York. He was ordained as a priest in June of 2017 by Bishop Salvatore Matano of the Diocese of Rochester, New York. In Today's Show: Should Catholics attend Thanksgiving Mass? Are we in the end times? Why is the Catholic church seen as conservative when Jesus was progressive for his time? Is it wrong to lie about Santa Claus? Fr. Amato's favorite holiday How do we forgive those who don't regret their actions? Was Saint Joseph celibate?  How can we help our community during the holidays? What happens to the bodies and souls of people when they pass? Is it sinful to spread the ashes of a pet? Should we take our young children up for a communion blessing? Visit the show page at thestationofthecross.com/askapriest to listen live, check out the weekly lineup, listen to podcasts of past episodes, watch live video, find show resources, sign up for our mailing list of upcoming shows, and submit your question for Father!

1. The "Black Government" or Control Group (MJ-12):    ◦ A primary suppressor is the rumored MJ-12 (Majestic 12) or a subsequent control group. This group allegedly began in 1947 to oversee all aspects of UFO-related activities.    ◦ Senator D'Amato confirmed the existence of a "black government" or control group that has control over the debris, answers to no one, is not elected, and has unlimited funds to spend.    ◦ This entity has been described as a "shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism".    ◦ The group controlling these operations is said to be non-responsive to congressional or executive branch security and to constitutional democracy.2. Military Contractors and Private Aerospace Corporations:    ◦ Military contractors are identified as key players in suppressing disclosure to protect proprietary rights, patents, and profits stemming from recovered or reverse-engineered UAP technology.    ◦ The resistance stems from the fear of losing industrial secrecy, as advanced technologies could collapse existing power structures like the fossil fuel economy.    ◦ Entities such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Radiance Technologies are specifically named as having pressured congressional members to kill disclosure efforts.    ◦ These contractors reportedly obtained the crafts through some form of legal deal or contract with government officials, possibly facilitated by an executive order or Top-Secret plan, granting them access to UFO hardware for research.3. The Invisible College, Cosmic Club, and Aviary:    ◦ The "Cosmic Club" consists of over 50 individuals, including scientists and academics, who can discreetly discuss UFOs and paranormal topics without risking their careers. This group, along with the Invisible College, acts as a second layer of secrecy, preventing the public from discovering the truth.    ◦ The Aviary, a group of insiders identified in the 1980s, has been implicated in disinformation campaigns, such as using fabricated UFO narratives to conceal classified military projects. Figures like Ron Pandolfi are sometimes seen as a "gatekeeper" who orchestrates elaborate psychological operations or provides disinformation to confuse the public.Secrecy is also maintained to preserve "plausible deniability" and to protect military prototypes (black-budget aircraft) which may be mistaken for UAPs.In summary, full disclosure is suppressed by a confluence of unelected corporate and intelligence entities (contractors, MJ-12/Black Government) driven by profit and power, combined with deep-seated institutional resistance (compartmentalization, ideological fear, and the desire to conceal decades of systemic lies and ignorance).The suppression of UAP disclosure acts like a fortress of secrecy, where the walls are built not only from classified documents (classification culture) but also from the economic interests of powerful tenants (military contractors) and the psychological defenses (fear and ideological bias) of its bureaucratic guards.

Esse é nosso quadro chamado Executive Talks, focado no Igor conversar com executivos fodas de grandes empresas pra que ele se torne um CEO melhor. Nesse episódio, recebemos Caio Amato, que é presidente global da Oakley. Uma das maiores referências de óculos e moda no geral.

In this episode of Gangland Wire, host Gary Jenkins sits down with former FBI agent Séamus McElearney, author of Flipping Capo, for a deep dive into one of the most remarkable Mafia investigations and how he took down the DeCavalcante Family. McElearney recounts his unlikely path from the world of banking to the FBI, driven by a lifelong fascination with law enforcement. Despite being told he didn't have the “right background,” he pushed forward—eventually landing in New York's Organized Crime Squad C-10, where he investigated both the Bonanno and DeCavalcante crime families. He describes the rare and demanding experience of working two Mafia families at once, and the teamwork required to dismantle them from the inside out. As the conversation turns to his book, Flipping Capo, McElearney explains the years-long process of writing it and the rigorous FBI review needed to ensure no sensitive investigative techniques were revealed. He shares early memories of notorious boss Joe Massino, and the high-stakes surveillance and arrests that defined his career. A major focus of the episode is the arrest and flipping of Anthony Capo, a feared DeCavalcante soldier—and the first made member of that family ever to cooperate with the government. McElearney walks listeners through the tension of that operation, his calculated approach to treating Capo with respect, and the psychological tightrope that ultimately persuaded Capo to talk. That single decision triggered a domino effect of cooperation that helped bring down the New Jersey mob family many believe inspired The Sopranos. Gary and Séamus dive into the proffer process, cooperation agreements, and the behind-the-scenes strategies used to turn high-level mobsters. McElearney also draws comparisons between real mob figures and the fictional world of The Sopranos, revealing how much of the hit series was grounded in the actual cases he worked. The interview closes with McElearney's reflections on how organized crime continues to evolve. While today's mob may look different from the one he battled in the '90s, he stresses that the methods—and the money—still flow. His candid insights offer a rare look into the changing face of the American Mafia and the ongoing fight to contain it. Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. 2:26 Seamus’ FBI Journey 6:26 Inside the DeCavalcante Family 9:05 The Process of Flipping 10:27 Comparing Families 12:30 The First Cooperation 17:43 The Proffer Process 25:03 Protecting Cooperators 27:44 The Murder of Joseph Canigliaro 29:42 Life on Trial 30:28 The Real Sopranos 39:43 Leading the Columbo Squad 44:15 Major Arrests and Cases 50:57 Final Thoughts and Stories Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. Transcript [0:00]Well, hey, welcome all you wiretappers. Good to be back here in studio of Gangland Wire. This is Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective. [0:07]Welcome to Gangland Wire [0:07]I have a former FBI agent as my guest today. And, you know, I love having these FBI agents on. I’ve had a lot of them on and I worked with a lot of the guys and they’re really good guy. Everyone I ever met and worked with was a really good guy. Now they got their deadhead just like we did. But these aggressive guys are the ones that write books and I’ve got one on today. Seamus McElherney. Welcome, Seamus. Thank you. It’s great to be here. All right. Well, an Irish name now working on the Italian mob, huh? How come you weren’t working on the Westie? So they were maybe gone by the time you came around. There’s no such thing. [0:47]Oh, yeah. You got your code. You Irish guys got your code, too. All right, Seamus, you got a book, Killing, or Killing, Flipping Capo. I want to see it back up over your shoulder there. Really interesting book, guys. He flipped a guy named Anthony Capo. And he really took down the real Sopranos, if you will. So Seamus, tell us a little about how you got started with the FBI, your early career. Okay. When I got out of school, I really didn’t know what to do. And I got into banking and I just decided that was really not for me. And I got lucky where I got to meet an FBI agent. and I was just so fascinated by the work. It seemed like every day was different. You know, one day you could meet a CEO and another day you could be doing surveillance. It just, the job just seemed really interesting. [1:38]Like fascinating to me. So I decided to try to become an agent. And I was constantly told, Shane, you should never become an agent. You didn’t have the background for it. And one, one, a motto in life to me is persistence beats resistance. And I was just determined to become an agent. And back then in the late 1990s, it was a long process and it took me close to two years to actually become an agent. And I was selected to go down to training and I was very fortunate to be selected to go down to training. Now it was your first office back up in New York and the, one of the organized crime squads, or did you go out into boonies and then come back? I actually was born and raised in New York, and I was fortunate to be selected to be sent back to New York. So my first squad, I was sent back to the city, back to 26 Federal Plaza, [2:26]Seamus’ FBI Journey [2:24]and I was assigned to a squad called C-10. And C-10 was an organized crime squad, which was responsible for the Bonanno family, and then later became the DeCavocanti family as well, which I can explain to you yeah yeah we’ll get we’ll get deep into that now now let’s let me ask you a little bit about the book tell the guys a little bit about the process of writing a book from your fbi experiences. [2:47]It’s a long process. First of all, I was contacted by someone who was interested [2:55]Writing a Book [2:53]in writing a book based upon my career. People had encouraged me to write a book because I had a very successful career. And when you work organized crime, it’s never just about you. It’s about the people that you work with, right? It’s definitely a team. It’s never just one person. I had great supervisors. I had great teammates. I had a great partner. And so I was approached to write a book. So then I had no idea. So there was an agent, a famous agent, an undercover agent named Jack Garcia. So I kind of really leaned on him to kind of learn how to write a book. And it’s a long process. You have to get an agent, the publisher, a co-author I had. And then when you finally have all that, and you do have the manuscript ready to be written, you have to send it down to the FBI. And that is a long process. The FBI, in this instance, probably took over a year for them to review the book because what they want to make sure is you’re not revealing any investigative techniques. Fortunately for me, a lot of the information that is in the book is public information because of all the trials that I did. Interesting. Yeah, it is. It is quite a I know it was quite a process. [4:00]Now, the banana squad, you work in a banana squad. You know, we know a little bit about the banana squad. [4:07]Was Joe Pacino the boss when you first came in? Yes, he was. And I actually had the pleasure of arresting Joe as well. Ah, interesting. I did a show on Joe. He’s a really interesting guy. I know my friend, who was at the banana squad, I think just before you were, and he talked a lot of, to me personally, he won’t go on the show, but he talked a lot about Joe Massino. He said, actually, saw him in the courtroom one time later on, he hadn’t seen him in several years. And, and Joe looked across the courtroom. He said, Doug, how are you doing? He said, Joe was that kind of guy. He was real personal. He was. [4:44]Yeah, so when I first got to the squad, the supervisor at the time was a gentleman named Jack Steubing, and he had the thought process to go after Joe and his money. So there was two accountants that were assigned to a squad at that time. It was Kimberly McCaffrey and Jeff Solette, and they were targeted to go after Joe and his money. And it was a very successful case. And when we arrested Joe, I think it was in January of 2003, I believe it was, I was assigned to be part of that arrest team. Interesting. You know, McCaffrey and Sled are going to be talking about that case out at the Mob Museum sometime in the near future. I can’t remember exactly when it is. And it was a hell of a case. I think it just happened, actually. Oh, did it? Okay. I actually just spoke to Jeff, so I think it just happened about a week or two ago. Okay. Yeah, I tried to get him to come on the show, and I think maybe he was committed to doing something else, and I didn’t keep after him. And I don’t like to pester people, you know. [5:44]And Fensell was the one that said, you got to get Jeff Sillett. You got to get Jeff Sillett. When I looked into that money angle of it, that was pretty interesting about how they were laundering their money through the parking lots and just millions. And when he gave up, like $10 million or something? I mean, it’s unbelievable. Yes. And that’s that’s one of the reasons why I wrote the book is because I don’t think the public or the press really put this together where that squad, C-10, is a very unique squad where we were dismantling the two families at the same time. Half the family was working the Bonanno family and half the family was working the Cavalcanti family. So it’s a very unique squad during that six or seven year time period where we were dismantling two families at the same time. [6:26]Inside the DeCavalcanti Family [6:26]Interesting and and that gets us into the dekavocante family i could always struggle with that name for some reason but that’s all right guys know i butcher these names all the time. [6:37]Forgive me guys anyhow so you ended up working on the dekavocante family down in new jersey now that you know that’s unusual how did that come about we got we got a new jersey branch of the fbi down there too, Yes, we do. So what happened was I went to training in February of 1998. The case actually starts in January of 1998, where an individual named Ralph Guarino was the mastermind behind this, but he had the idea of robbing the World Trade Center. So he had three people that actually tried to execute that plan. They did rob the World Trade Center, but when they came out, they took their mask off and they were identified by the cameras that were actually there. So those individuals were actually arrested pretty quickly. I think two were arrested that day. The third person, I think, fled to New Mexico and was found pretty quickly. Ralph was smart enough to know that he was going to be apprehended pretty quickly. So he reached out to an agent named George Hanna, a legendary agent within the office, and George was able to convince him to become a proactive witness, meaning he would make consensual recordings. That was in January of 1998. I think it was January 14th. [7:51]Approximately nine days later, there was a murder of an individual named Joseph Canigliaro. Who was a ruthless DeKalocanti associate assigned to a wheelchair. How he got in a wheelchair was back in the 70s, a DeKalocanti soldier and him went to go collect money from a loan shark victim. And the story goes that Jim Gallo, James Gallo, actually shot Joseph Canigliaro by accident and paralyzed him. No hard feelings. It was just the course of doing their business back then. But he was paralyzed from the 70s to the 90s. He was a ruthless individual. though. And the reason that they killed him is his crew around him had him killed. They actually killed him because he was such a ruthless person and who would extort people and just really was a bad person. There were stories that he would call people over to him in his wheelchair and shoot them. So a ruthless guy. And he was killed in, I think, January 23rd of 1998. [8:50]So that’s how this case starts. Ralph Guarino, as I said, became a proactive witness. When you have a proactive witness. You just don’t know where they’re going to go. What I mean by that is you would direct him through mob associates and many guys, and you’re trying to gather evidence on tape. [9:05]The Process of Flipping [9:06]Where Ralph Guarino led us was the Brooklyn faction of the DeCavalcanti family, namely Anthony Capo, Anthony Rotondo, Vincent Palermo. [9:17]Joseph Scalfani, a whole host of DeCavalcanti people that were located in Brooklyn. And that’s how we start to build this case. Now, granted, I was just in training at that time in February of 1998. I don’t get sent back to New York until May of 1998. And from May of 1998 until December of 1998, they put you through a rotation, meaning I go through the operations center, I go through surveillance, and then I finally get assigned to C-10 in December of 1998. At that point in time, Jeff and Kim are already on the squad, so they’re operating the case against Messino. I come to the squad, and the Decalvo Canty case has now started. So I’m assigned to the Decalvo Canty portion of the squad to work them. And as I said, that’s why we’re working two parallel cases at the time. One is against the Bananos, the other is against the Jersey family. And we operate, Ralph, proactively from January 1998 up until the first set of indictments, which was in December of 1999. So compare and contrast the Banano family structure and how they operated in [10:27]Comparing Families [10:24]a DeCavocante family structure and how they operate. Were they exactly the same or were there some differences? [10:31]They’re into the same types of the rackets that the Waldemar people are into, but I would say related to the Decalvo Canty family, since they’re based in Jersey, they really had a control of the unions out there. There was two unions that they basically controlled, Local 394, which was the labor union, and they also started their own union, which was the asbestos union, which was Local 1030. [10:53]And those were controlled by the Decalvo Canty family, so that was the bread and butter of the Decalvo Canty family. So, as I said, the first set, you know, we operated Ralph proactively for almost close to two years. And then in December of 1999, we executed our first set of arrests because there was whispers that Ralph, why wasn’t he arrested yet? Where he was the mastermind behind the World Trade Center being robbed, but he hasn’t been picked up yet. So there was whispers that he might be cooperating with the government. And for his safety, that’s why we took him off off the street and we executed our first round of arrest in December of 1999. [11:33]I’m a relatively new agent. I’d only been on the squad now for a year and we arrested 39 people that day. I get assigned to arrest Anthony Capo, who’s a soldier within the Decavacanti family based out of Staten Island. And I was really surprised by that because, as I said, I was just an agent for about a year. Usually when you’re a new agent, you’re assigned to the back, you know, like we are security. I was even surprised that I was going to be on a team. And I was fortunate enough to be the team leader, which is very surprising to me. And the case was out of the Southern District of New York. And in New York, just for the public, there is two districts. There’s a Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of New York. And the Eastern District of New York also had charges on Anthony Capo as well. So for my arrest team, I had members from the Eastern District of New York as well. There was a separate squad that was looking into Anthony Capo there. [12:30]The First Cooperation [12:27]So I got the ticket to arrest Anthony Capo in December of 1999. And that’s how this case starts. [12:33]Interesting. Now, nobody’s ever flipped out of the DeCavocante family before, I believe. It’s been a pretty tight family, really rigidly controlled by this Richie the Boot. I mean, he’s a fearsome, fearsome guy. I mean, you did not want to get crossways with him. And a smaller, tighter family, it seems to me like, than the New York families. That was right. Well, like up and up until that point, up until that point and unbeknownst to me that no made member in the DeKalbacanti family had ever cooperated with the government before. [13:08]So I had watched George Hanna, how he operated Ralph Guarino for those two years, and he always treated him with respect. And prior to going to arrest Anthony Capo, Anthony Capo had had a reputation of being an extremely violent person, hated by law enforcement and even hated by a lot of people within the mob. But I was going I wasn’t going to let that, you know, use that against him. I was going to treat him with respect regardless. Right. I didn’t know I didn’t know him. I never dealt with him before. And I would basically before I went to go arrest him, I was going to study everything about him, learn everything about him. And I was going to use the approach of treating him with respect and using some mind chess when I was going to arrest him. What I mean by that is I was going to learn everything charges about him, everything about his family. I wanted him to know that I knew him like the back of my hand from head to toe, the start of the book to the end of the book. [14:02]And when I went to arrest him, I remember when we went to his house, he wasn’t there. So all the planning that you do related to going into an arrest, the checks that you do, he’s at the house, you knock on his door, and guess what? He’s not there. So his wife basically tells us that he’s at his mom’s house. So then that throws all the planning out the window, and now we go to his mom’s house. And when I met him, you know, I saw that he had a relationship with his parents, which, you know, it gives me a different perspective from what I heard from him. Interesting. And that says something about him, that’s for sure. So everything that I heard of this violent person and hated person, the way he treated law enforcement, he wasn’t that way with me. [14:49]So when I get him in the car and I start to read him his rights and start to ask him questions, every question that I would ask him, I already had the answer to, like, your date of birth, social security number. And then he would invoke his right to counsel, and then you’re not allowed to ask him any more questions. So what I would do is I would let the mind game start then. And I would ask him, you know, tell him about the charges that he had at that point in time. He was only charged with a conspiracy to murder Charlie Maggiore, who was an acting panel boss of the Decalvo Canty family. At that time, that point in time, they had three panel bosses. It was Charlie Maggiore, Jimmy Palermo and Vincent Palermo. Vincent Palermo was known as the stronger personality and really known as the acting boss. And they wanted to kill Charlie Maggiore. So he was charged with that. conspiracy to murder. And he was also charged with, I believe, stock fraud or it was mail fraud that would lead to stock fraud. So when I would question him, I would tell him, since he already invoked his right to counsel, don’t say anything, just listen to me. For an example, I would say your plan was to murder Charles Majuri. Your plan was to ring his doorbell and shoot him right there with James Gallo, Joe Macella. But you guys didn’t do that because there was a cop on the block. So instead of just doing a ring and run, you guys were going to ring and shoot him, right? [16:17]And now you’ve got to think, I told him, don’t say anything. Just listen to what I just said, right? Because I can’t have him answer any questions. And this wasn’t a question. This was a statement. Yeah. So that gives him food for thought, because you got to think, how would I know that? He doesn’t know at that point in time, this is an indictment. How do I know that? He doesn’t know who the cooperator is. He doesn’t know who made a recording. So I’m just throwing this at him. And this is the first time he’s hearing this. So it’s got to make him think, like, what else does this agent know? And I did this with the other charges as well. And then I would just throw these little tidbits at him. And then I would speak to the driver. How are you doing this? just give him food for thought. And then we just developed a bond that day, just talking sports back and forth. He actually was a cowboy fan. I’m a Steeler fan. So we have that little intensity going back and forth about that. And then we just developed a bond that day. I think that was the first time that he had an interaction with law enforcement, where it was more of a respect thing, as opposed to someone yelling at him or being contentious with him. I don’t think he’s ever or experienced that before. [17:27]Also because of his delivery as well, right? You know, it works both ways where you can, he can have his delivery really angry and that could, you know, provoke law enforcement to be angry towards him too. [17:43]The Proffer Process [17:40]So I think that helped it that way that day. And then just throughout the whole day. And I think one of the things that I do talk about within the book is just explaining processes to people, which is generally, I haven’t seen that done in a book before about how pretrial works. So what is pretrial? How cooperation works? How trial works? So I think there’s a lot of tidbits within the book that kind of explain things like that. Even some crimes, too. Like everyone hears what loan sharking is. I go into detail as to what loan sharking is and how it really works, because it’s a very profitable way to make money. So we have our day together. And, you know, then I had to meet his stepfather. I think he had heard that I treated his stepfather with respect. And then approximately a week later, I get a call from his lawyer and I basically almost fell out of my chair when his lawyer said he wanted to cooperate. [18:37]I bet. And then, yeah. And, you know, keep in mind, I’ve only been on the job for a year and I immediately call the assistant who is a seasoned assistant. Maria Barton, what was her name? And she’s really concerned, like, what did I say? Right. So I told her in these situations, less is more. I just told her I was going to call you. That’s all I said. I didn’t say anything else. Didn’t promise anything at all. I said I was going to call you. So, you know, that started with the process and then you go through a proffer. So I explained what the proffer is and how that process works. Interesting. Yeah. A proffer, guys is is like a kind of agreement you know and you you have to be totally open and admit to every crime you ever did and and we’ll cover you but to a certain point the basis you’ll lie down the basics. [19:31]Right. So what, you know, what we kind of like call it is queen for a day, right? Where you come in, we can’t use your words against you unless you lie to us, right? If you were, if you were to lie to us and then go, go to trial and, you know, we could, if you were to take the stand, we could, we could use it against you. But as long as you come in and you tell us the truth and you tell us everything, all the crimes that you’ve done. And the beauty of the mob is when they do a crime, they never do a crime alone, right? They involve a lot of people within a crime. So that’s the beauty of that. So when we have our first proffer, you know, in time, you only have a short amount of time to actually speak about this because you can only be away from jail for a certain amount of time right before the bad guys start to realize that something might be up. Right. So he comes in. And even even before that, on his on his way back, when we’re taking him back to 26 Federal Plaza, one of the things that he tells us is and it makes sense when we went to his house, he wasn’t there. He was at his mom’s house in the car ride back. He throws a little shot at me and he goes, we knew you were coming. [20:33]Meaning that there was a leak. They got a leak. Yeah. Right. So then when we have the first proffer, he explains the leak to us. And it appears allegedly there was a court reporter within the Southern District that was feeding them information. So that’s not good. And then in the proffer, he tells us about two murders. So, and there might be the bodies, a body might be buried up in Phil Lamella, who was a DeCalvo County soldier, up in Marlboro, New York. So that’s the first thing that he tells us. So these are jewels to us, right? He tells us about a leak. He tells us about two murders. Bodies might be buried. So we have to huddle and we have to decide, is he telling us the truth or not? We all decide that he’s telling us the truth. The proper takes place with George Hanna, as I mentioned him before. Kenny McCabe, a legendary Southern District investigator, and me. And in these situations, again, I’m a new agent. Less is more. I don’t want to say something stupid. So I kind of keep my mouth shut, right? And just listen. So that went really well. And that kind of started this whole process. So now, as we said before, you have… No one cooperated in 100 plus years of this family. And now we have the first [21:49]A Spiral of Cooperation [21:48]made member to cooperate. And basically, Anthony starts a spiral effect of cooperation. [21:56]After he where he reported to in the family at that particular time, since he was such a violent person and hard to control within the family himself. Well, he reported to Vincent Palermo, who was the acting panel boss out of that panel that I talked about, but viewed as the acting boss because of his strong personality. So you have Anthony cooperating. He reports to the acting boss. So from our perspective, our perspective, that’s golden, right? Because now Vinny is going to have to make a decision. Is he going to cooperate or not? And then about three months later, guess what? Vinny decides to cooperate. So now we have a soldier and we have the acting boss who’s going to cooperate. So we go from no one in a hundred years to basically two people in three months. [22:45]Then we have an associate, Victor DiChiro, decides to cooperate. So we go and we arrest him. So now we have three people in four months. So we take all their information, and they have to plead guilty, and they get a cooperation agreement. I explain all that. And when you have a cooperation agreement, as I mentioned before, Anthony was initially arrested for conspiracy to murder, and I believe it was stock fraud. When he pleads guilty, he has to plead guilty to all his crimes that he committed throughout his entire life. Off the top of my head, I remember he pled guilty to two murders. [23:23]11 murder conspiracies, boatload of extortions, and basically every other crime you could think of. And then the same thing with Vinny and Victor. We take all their information, and then we have our next series of indictments. So the first series was 39 indictments. And then the second series of indictments is in October of 2000, October 19th, which we just we just passed the 25th anniversary of that. And that was known as the hierarchy arrest, where we arrested the official boss, John Riggi. We arrested the two other panel bosses, Charlie Maggiore and Jimmy Palermo. We arrested the consigliere, Steve Vitabli, a bunch of captains and soldiers. So that’s a significant arrest, right? So now, as you know, when you have an arrest, there’s trials, there’s plea negotiations. So now we arrested 39 people plus another 13. We’re already up to like 50 something like something people out of that arrest. We get a little shockwave in the sense is that there’s an associate named Frank Scarabino. Frank Scarabino comes forward one day and tells us that there’s a contract on Anthony Capo’s family and Anthony Capo. [24:43]And also, there’s a contract on law enforcement. They want to go back to the old Sicilian ways and basically send a message. So, you know, that’s basically a little bit of a jolt where now we have to try to move Capo’s family. [25:03]Protecting Cooperators [24:59]And Capo’s in prison. He’s defenseless. And I explain all that. People have this sense of you go into the witness security program, you get a whole new life and you’re off and having a great time. They don’t realize that there are prisons within the United States that you have to go to prison. So I can’t say where the prisons are, but I kind of explain that process of how the WITSEC program works, which is run by the marshals. So that’s in that’s in the book as well. Yeah, they have a whole prisons that are just for people in WITSEC. I heard about a guy that said he was in one out west somewhere. Yeah. So and, you know, for those prisons, it’s not like you have to prove yourself. They’re all doing the same time. So they’re basically just trying to do their time and try to get out and get into the next phase of the WoodSec program. So that was kind of a jolt, right? So now we have Frank Scarabino cooperate. So now we have another person. So it’s the list is just getting more and more now. You got to stop taking cooperators and start putting people in jail for the rest of their life, man. [26:03]So it got to after that, we had like two more people cooperate. So we went from having nobody to having seven people cooperate in this period. And it’s interesting. And I know we’re going to go back and forth, but we went from 100 years of having no one to having seven people during this three year period. And since that time period, no other members have cooperated since. So we’ve started the clock again. I think we’re at 25 years plus again since no one cooperated during that period. And I mentioned the murder that we started this case, Joseph Canigliaro. So he was the guy that was in the wheelchair. So as I said, they wanted to kill him because he just tortured his crew. We were able, one of the guys who was initially arrested as part of the December 1999 arrest, he sees everybody’s, he is deciding to cooperate with the government. So he decides to cooperate. His name is Tommy DeTora. So Tommy DeTora decides to cooperate. He’s out on bail. So since he’s out on bail, we decide, let’s make him make a consensual recording. And he makes one of the best consensual recordings the Bureau has ever made. He gets everyone involved in that murder together. [27:28]And they talk about the murder from A to Z. It’s a priceless consensual recording that we used at trial. And it just, you know, one of the things that does stick in my mind is the shooter was Marty Lewis, who got a life sentence. [27:44]The Murder of Joseph Canigliaro [27:45]Marty Lewis is describing when he shot him. And he’s like, I shot him like five or six times in his car. Right. And then Marty Lewis gets out of the car. Joseph Canigliaro drives away, gets to the top of the block in Brooklyn, puts a signal on, put a signal on. And drove the traffic laws, drives to Joseph Wrightson’s house. A guy who was part of the murder conspiracy honks his horn for Joseph Wrightson to come downstairs. So can you imagine Joseph Wrightson looking down the window seeing the guy that’s supposed to be dead right now and telling him to get in the car to go to the hospital with him? [28:32]Unfortunately, when they go to the hospital one of the things that does happen is joseph brightson has uh unfortunately an nyp detective cop who’s a cousin and involves him in this as well and the cop takes shells from the car and he becomes he gets locked up by us as well they all go to trial they get convicted and. [28:55]You know, we also arrested a Genevieve’s captain related to the leak. So in total, I think the numbers were 71 defendants were convicted, 11 murders were solved, seven trials transpired. You know, as everyone knows, you have the arrest, but then you have the trials, right? And I know that from December 2002 up until November of 2003 was the year that I was on trial. There was three trials that I had, and then there was another trial. There was two trials that one was a mistrial. Then we had another trial. So during that one year, we had a year of trials, and the biggest trial I had went on for two months. [29:42]Life on Trial [29:38]So I basically had a year of no life where it was just trials. And as you know yourself, when you have trial, it’s not just you just show up at trial. You have trial prep beforehand. And then when you’re actually on trial every day, it’s 20, it’s 24, seven, you have a trial, you have trial, then at night you have to prep a witness. So there’s just constant stuff throughout the day. Yeah, really? It’s a, it’s a long, boring process for you guys. [30:05]You know, these are like what we would say the real Sopranos, you know, the Sopranos, Tom Soprano, and that’s kind of based on this New Jersey family. I tell you, that Soprano, so much of it was ripped from real life. I don’t know. They interviewed you for details. They interviewed some agents and looked some court cases in order to write those scripts. I know that. And in particular, I think of the gay member that was killed. [30:28]The Real Sopranos [30:27]You know, you guys had that down there. So there’s a lot of references in your book or things in the book that the guys will say, oh, yeah, they did that in the Sopranos. Can you tell us about some of them? [30:37]Well, the thing that was great, especially for trial, is in March of 1999, the show starts in January of 1999. And we have a consensual recording in March where we have DeCavocanti members talking about the show and them saying, saying, this is you, this is you, and this is you, which was priceless for trial. Right. It’s like a jury’s going to hear that. And even during the trial, the judge had to give the jury instructions about the show to make sure that it wouldn’t sway their decision. Then if you watch the show, the first season, the official boss in the show dies of stomach cancer. In real life, that’s happened in real life. In June of 1997, Jake Amari was the acting boss of the Decaval Canty family. He dies of stomach cancer. So that’s a… [31:40]It’s a part of the show right there. Then I know everyone sees the strip club, right? Well, the acting boss, as I told you at the time, Vincent Palermo, he had a strip club in Queens, Wiggles. [31:53]So there’s a similarity there. Then they have the meat market that they go to, right, back and forth in the show. That’s a real meat market. I don’t want to say the name of the real meat market here, but there is a real type of meat market there. We discussed the union angle, the two unions that they have. So there’s so many scams related to the unions. There’s the no show job, right, where you don’t have to show up to work. There’s the no work job where you come, but you don’t have to do any work at all. [32:26]Back then, what it was called was they had union halls, right, where you actually had to show up early in the morning. There’d be a line of people, and you would show up. It was called the shape up. and you would wait online and hopefully that you would get work that day. Well, the DeCable Cante members, they wouldn’t show up early and wait online. They would show up whenever they want and they would cut the line and they would get work. So these were their types of unions that they had. Then, as you mentioned, there was the gay angle too. So on the DeCable Cante real side, there was a guy named John D’Amato. And John D’Amato basically made himself the acting boss when John Riggie went to jail in the early 1990s. John D’Amato was part, was very close to John Gotti. There was a murder. It’s probably the most indictable murder in mob history called the murder of Fred Weiss. John Gotti wanted Fred Weiss killed because John Gotti thought that Fred Weiss was cooperating with the government. all because Fred Weiss switched lawyers. [33:35]He was paranoid that Fred Weiss was cooperating. So it became a race to kill Fred Weiss. So you had two mob families trying to kill him, the Decalvo Canty family and the Gambino family. So in total, I think either 15 people at least have either pled guilty or have been convicted of that murder. That murder happened on 9-11-1989, a horrible day, right? So, where I’m going is that happened in 89. In 1990, 1991, John D’Amato becomes the acting boss of the family. So, now he’s the acting boss of the DeKalb Alcanti family. John D’Amato had a girlfriend. His girlfriend starts to tell Anthony Capo that John D’Amato is going to sex clubs with her and they’re having sex with men. So this is this is brought to Anthony Capo’s attention. And he has to tell his superiors that we have a gay acting boss representing our family. And in his eyes, this cannot happen. Right. So he brings it to Vincent Palermo, brings it to Rudy Ferron, and the superiors that this is what’s happening. And they decide that he has to be killed. Now, also what he was doing was, and you speak to Anthony Rotondo, who also cooperated with the government. [34:58]John DeMotta was also stealing money from the family. He was borrowing money from the other families, telling him that it was for the DeCalbacanti family, but it was really to cover his game of the gambling losses that he was incurring. So those are two things that he was doing. Right. He was he was if you ask Anthony Rotondo, he says he was killed because of the gambling that he was incurring the losses. And if he asks Anthony Capo, he was killed because it was looking bad for our family, for their family, that he was a gay acting boss. And at that time, it wasn’t acceptable. Times have changed. But back then, it wasn’t an acceptable thing. And that’s similar to the show. There’s a gay angle within the show as well. [35:41]The Gay Angle in the Mob [35:42]Interesting. It’s the real Sopranos. I remember I watched that show, even going back and watch some of them every once in a while. And I just think, wow, that’s real. So, so even though the director says no one was speaking to them, it’s kind of ironic that there are a lot of like similarities between the show and real life. Yeah. And especially down there in New Jersey and, and, and their connection to the Bonanno family or to a New York, the New York families. And then also, and then also within the show is, is, is the stock stood. There’s also stocks. Oh yeah, the stock fraud. Yeah. They did a boiler room or something. And they were pumping and dumping stocks and Tony was making money out of that. So, yeah, that’s I’d forget. And then from and in real life, Bill Abrama was like the wizard of Wall Street. [36:37]So interesting. Well, you’ve had quite, quite a career. What do you think about New York organized crime now that today, you know, we just had quack, quack, Ruggiero, Ruggiero’s son and some other guys that were connected to families indicted for gambling. He’s got my gambling fraud. I haven’t really studied it yet. It is like they had some rig gambling games, which is common. Like in Kansas city, when I was working this, they would have, they would bring in guys who would love to gamble and had money businessmen. And then they’d, they’d play them for sure. They would cheat them and take a bunch of money from them. This was much more sophisticated, but that’s a, that’s a story that’s been going on a long time. You think that Bob is on a comeback from that? Ha, ha, ha, ha. [37:24]The mob has been around for 125 years. They’re not going to go away. Okay. They get smarter and they adapt. And it’s like, I haven’t read the indictment from head to toe, but they’ve used some, you know, sophisticated investigative techniques just to kind of con people. So they’re getting better, right? So some of the techniques that they use when you hear, it’s like some of the things that I saw where the poker tables that they use, the tables that they use were able to see the card. So they use some pretty, you know, slick techniques, you know, and then like some of the glasses or the contact lenses. So, you know, they’re not going to go away. They’re just going to keep on trying to rebuild. That’s why you have to continue to put resources towards them. Yeah. I think what people don’t understand for these mob guys, it’s if they don’t get out and go into legitimate business selling real estate or something like that. It’s it’s a constant scam a constant hustle every day to figure out another way to make money because they don’t have a paycheck coming in and so they got to figure out a way to make money and they got to make it fast and they got to make it big and in a short period of time it’s just constant every day every time they walk by knew a drug addict one time as a professional burglar and he said every time he’s in recovery he said every time i’ll buy a pharmacy he said in my mind I’m figuring out how to take that pharmacy off. So that’s the way these mob guys are. [38:52]And sports betting has been a staple of theirs forever. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And the apps are getting into them a little bit, but I see what’s going on now. Also, we had these players, Trailblazers coach and a couple, three players, are now helping people rig the bets. And you go to the apps, and you bet a bunch of money on some guy who’s going to have a bad day. And then he just doesn’t show up to work. You end up being the supervisor of the Columbo squad, I see. Same as after that DeCavoconte case, and you spent all that time, you ended up getting promoted to a supervisor and you must’ve been good because they kept you right there in New York and gave you another mob squad. I know one agent here in Kansas City that was promoted and he kept the one squad here, as they called it. [39:43]Leading the Columbo Squad [39:40]And that was really unusual. Usually it’d be somebody in from out of town. So that says something about you. So tell us about your experiences doing that. [39:48]Well, after we did this case, which was about six years, I was requested to go down to run the Columbo squad. And at that time, I think the Columbo squad had eight supervisors in eight years. I really thought I was too young to be a supervisor because I only had six years on. So I was basically voluntold, I would say, to go down there. And guys, that is young. I want to tell you something. I’ve seen a lot of different Bob squad supervisors come through here in Kansas City. And and they were all you know like 20 year agents 15 18 year agents that came from somewhere else so yeah so you know again I thought I was just way too young to be a supervisor as I said I was just on the job for about six years and I was voluntold to go down there yeah and I said if I’m going to go down there there’s a couple of things just based upon what I saw a I’m not a yes man and two the squad needs some sort of stability so I went down there and I was able to stay there I was there from actually December of 2004 all the way up until June of 2013. [40:51]So we at that time when I first got there we really didn’t have a lot of cases going trying to go on so I was able to change the tactics right because I think juries had changed at that point in time where instead of having a historical witness just go on to stand and tell things, now we had shows out there, right? You had NCIS where the whole DNA-type stuff came in, so I had to change our approach, and proactive witnesses making consensual recordings were the way to go. And I think during a seven-year time period, our squad. [41:24]Did an amazing job. Now it went from C10. I went, the squad went down to, it became C38. And we made probably 1,800 recordings in a seven and a half year time period. So, which is an amazing amount of recordings. So, a lot of transcriptions too. A lot of transcriptions. And I, you know, a three-hour tape could take you a day to listen to because you’re just trying to find that little piece of information. Yeah. Because a lot of it is just talk, right? Yeah. So I think our first big case was in June of 2008. And we took down the acting boss, a bunch of captains. And that’s when things really started to take off. We had a violent soldier cooperate named Joseph Compatiello. And, you know, we talk about proffers. His first proffer, he comes in and he basically tells us that there are three bodies buried right next to each other. So the layman would think, OK, they’re right next to each other. They weren’t right next to each other they were about 1.1 miles apart from each other. [42:28]And you could be in your your room there and we’re trying to find a body it’s really hard to find so we were actually able to find two of the bodies one of the bodies was a guy named while Bill Cattullo he was the under boss of the Colombo family we found him in Formingdale Long Island he was behind a berm we were out there for about eight days and each day you know I’m getting pressure from my superiors. We’re going to find something because there’s a lot of press out there. There was another victim named Cormone Gargano who was buried. He was killed in 1994 and buried out there. Unfortunately, there was a new building built. [43:06]And we could not find him there, but he was initially killed at a body shop in Brooklyn, and they buried him in Brooklyn, and then they decided to dig him up and bring him out to Long Island. So we went back to the body shop. What the Colombo family used to do, though, is they used to kill you, bury you, and put lime on top of the body. What lime does is it kills the smell, but preserves the body. Oh, I didn’t realize that. I thought it was supposed to deteriorate the body too. I think most people bought that. So good information. So, so when we found wall of bill, basically from his, from his hips up were intact. Oh, And when related to Cormier Gargano, because they had killed him in the body shop and then dug him up and brought him out to Long Island. We went back to the shop and figuring, let’s see if we can actually see if there’s any parts of him there. And there actually were. And we’re able to get DNA and tie it back and confirm it was him. [44:15]Major Arrests and Cases [44:12]So that’s how that dismantling of the Colombo family started. And then just to fast forward a little bit in January 2011, we have I spearhead the largest FBI mob arrest where we arrested 127 people that day across the states and also went to Italy, too, to take down people. [44:32]And after that, the Bureau decides to reduce the resources dedicated to organized crime. And I then get the Bonanno family back. So C-10 merges back into my squad. And then I have the Bananos, the Columbos, and the Decafacanthes as well. So now I have all three families back. And I basically run that for another two years. And I guess my last official act as a supervisor is related to Goodfellas, where Jimmy Burke had buried a body in his basement. We saw a 43-year-old cold case murder where he killed an individual named Paul Katz, buried him in his basement. And when he went away for the point shaving, the Boston College point shaving case, well, he killed him in 1969, buried him in his basement. Then he goes to jail in the 80s. He gets fearful that the cops that he had on his payroll back in the 60s were going to talk. So he decides to have our witness at the time, Gaspar Valenti, who came forward back in the 80s, moved the body with Vincent S. Our son so they move the body but again they’re not professional so pieces are going to be back there so in 2013 we go back and we dig and we actually find pieces of paul cats and we tie that to dna to his son to his son and we confirm that it was him. [45:57]So that was my last official act as a supervisor. Talk about art, art, imitating life again, you know, in the Goodfellas, they dug up a body. In the Sopranos, they dug up a body. I think I saw another show where they dug up a body. One of them, they were like, man, this smells. [46:13]I mean, can you imagine that going back and having to dig up a body? And then, you know, and, you know, they’re just wearing t-shirts and jeans and maybe leather gloves. And they’d have to deal with all that stuff and put it in some kind of a bag can take it somewhere else oh my god you know i have a question while bill cutello that this guy was part of the the hit team that took him out do you remember anything about right i’m trying to remember i’ve read this story once he was kind of like more of a peacemaker and and if i remember right you remember what the deal was with him well back like what happens is in the early 1990s there’s a colombo war right you have the persicos versus the arena faction and one thing about the Colombos and the Persicos, they never forget. So in the early 1990s, while Bill Cotullo was on the arena side, and as I said, there was a war where approximately 13 people were killed. In the late 1990s, Ali Persico was going to be going to jail, and while Bill Cotullo thought that Ali was going to go to jail and that he would take over the family, Ali didn’t want that to happen. So basically while Vilcunzulo thought he was getting the keys to the kingdom and they were going to kill him. [47:28]And what they did is they lured him to Dino Saraceno’s house in Brooklyn and Dino Calabro lured him into the basement and shot him in the back of the head. And we had all these guys then decide to cooperate. As I said, Joe Caves was the first person to cooperate. Dino Calabro cooperated. [47:48]Sebi Saraceno cooperated. So we had a whole host of people cooperate and we were able to dismantle the Colombo family. And I’ve been extremely blessed to be part of teams that have dismantled three families, Bananos, the Columbos, and the D. Calacanti family. So, you know, as I said, and it’s never just one person. It’s always teammates, partners, and also other supervisors that I’ve had. Yeah, interesting. Yeah, it does take a lot of people to take those down. When you’re writing books, you try to make sure everybody gets a little bit of credit. Yeah. And, you know, I think, you know, the thing that was that was, you know, crazy when related to the recovery of Wild Bill is we had our evidence response team out there. And, you know, the witness takes us out there to show us where he thinks the bodies are buried. And related to Wild Bill, it was in the back of a field. And he kept on saying it was behind a berm. So we took him back there and he showed us where he thought it was. So we had our evidence response team dig. And they basically dug us an Olympic-sized pool. [48:57]We could not find him. So there was two other sites that we were trying to look at because Richie Greaves was supposed to be next to the train tracks. And as I mentioned, Cormac Gargano was next to a building that had been replaced. So my squad, actually our squad, C-38, decides, Seamus, do you mind if we get some shovels? So I was like, sure. So there was, because we were just looking at each other at the time. So my team, Vincent D’Agostino, they’re pretty close by. He got some shovels and came back. And there was like six of us. And we just started digging ourselves. So we dug in one area, nothing. Then another agent basically said, let’s dig over here. [49:38]And sure enough, like talk about, you know, I always say hard work leads to good luck. We started digging and then we found the white stuff. We found the line and jackpot. It was while Bill, he was hogtied face down with his feet up. And as soon as I saw the white stuff and then I saw, you know, like his foot, then we stopped and I said, let me go get the professionals. I ran over, I drove over, and I got the team leader from ERT. She got in the car. And, you know, of course, she’s very excited. I was like, you know, we F.M. got him, you know. And so I drove her back over there. And that’s when you kind of contain the crime scene. And we were able to find him. But, you know, it was our squad that found him. And then, as I said before, then, you know, our squad decides to go back to the body shop. And we found remnants of Carmine Gargano there. So the squad just did an amazing job but really we basically found two bodies ourselves you know and i think in my career i’ve been extremely blessed to find five you know which is just crazy well that’s not something those accountants and lawyers and stuff were trained for you need to get those former cops out there on those shovels and digging for bodies. [50:57]Final Thoughts and Stories [50:57]Well interesting this this has really been fun seamus any any other stories you can think of You want to you want to just want to tell just busting to make sure people know that’s in this book. I tell you what, guys, this is an interesting book. It’s it’s, you know, as I said, those kinds of stories and the procedures and how FBI works. There’s there’s a lot of stories in there. I don’t want to give to give the book away. You know, there’s a lot of stories even. Yeah. You know, there’s an even during that year of trials. There’s plenty of stories there. There was a blackout that that year, too. So there’s a lot of stories related to that. You know, even even the trials, there’s a lot of things that came up at trial. So I don’t want to give to give those stories away. But I think it’s a good read. As I said, I think it’s one of the few books that actually explains things because, you know, I think the public hears these words, but they don’t know what these words mean. And I just think it’s important that they do know what it means, because there’s a lot of things that go on behind the scenes, especially with the jury. Right. You know, the jury only sees what they see. There’s a lot of things that go on when the jury leaves the room between the government, the judge and also the defense attorney. So I try to bring to shed some light related to that as well. [52:13]Interesting. Well, Seamus McElherney. And the book is Flipping Capo. That’s Anthony Capo. The first guy to be flipped in the Cavalcante family ever, which led to a cascade of other mob guys flipping, didn’t it? [52:32]Sure did. Just like in a Bonanno family, you know, they start flipping there. And it just, I didn’t know where it was ever going to end. Finally, it ended. [52:41]It sure did. Well, I have to say, it’s been great to meet you. I wish you continued success. And this has been a lot of fun. All right. Yeah, it’s been great to have you on Seamus. Thanks a lot. Don’t forget, I like to ride motorcycles. So when you’re out on the streets there and you’re a big F-150, watch out for those little motorcycles when you’re out. If you have a problem with PTSD and you’ve been in the service, be sure and go to the VA website. They’ll help with your drugs and alcohol problem if you’ve got that problem or gambling. If not, you can go to Anthony Ruggiano. He’s a counselor down in Florida. He’s got a hotline on his website. If you’ve got a problem with gambling, most states will have, if you have gambling, most states will have a hotline number to call. Just have to search around for it. You know, I’ve always got stuff to sell. I got my books. I got my movies. They’re all on Amazon. I got links down below in the show notes and just go to my Amazon sales page and you can figure out what to do. I really appreciate y’all tuning in and we’ll keep coming back and doing this. Thanks guys.

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