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In this episode of Gangland Wire, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective Gary Jenkins sits down with author Frank Hayde to explore his latest book, Hoffa's Connection. Hayde, a Kansas City native and noted mob historian, brings forward a largely overlooked figure in organized crime history—Sylvia Pagano. The conversation centers on Pagano's rise from Kansas City to Detroit, where she operated at the intersection of organized crime and labor unions under Jimmy Hoffa. Known for her effectiveness as a union organizer, Pagano infiltrated workplaces, signed up members, and quietly maintained ties to powerful mob figures. Her ability to navigate both worlds made her a key behind-the-scenes operator during a volatile era in American labor history. Hayde details Pagano's role in helping broker alliances between the Mafia and the Teamsters during a turbulent strike, marking a turning point in the relationship between organized crime and labor. Drawing from FBI wiretaps, he reveals candid conversations that shed light on her relationships with influential mob leaders like Tony Giacalone and Moe Dalitz, emphasizing her strategic importance across multiple crime families. The episode also explores the life of Chucky O’Brien, who grew up surrounded by Hoffa and organized crime figures. Through Hayde's research and interviews, listeners gain insight into the generational impact of mob ties, as well as the strict code of silence that governed both mother and son. Beyond individual stories, the discussion expands to the broader national network connecting crime families and labor unions. Pagano's reach extended well beyond regional boundaries, illustrating how organized crime leveraged union influence across the country. This episode offers a fresh perspective on the enduring mystery surrounding Hoffa's disappearance by examining the deeper historical context—and the overlooked players like Sylvia Pagano who helped shape it. It's a detailed look at power, loyalty, and survival within the American Mafia. The book is Hoffa’s Connections:The Story of Sylvia Pagano: the Kansas City Girl at the Center of the Mafia’s Alliance with the Teamsters Union  xxx [0:00] Hey, all you wiretappers out there, good to be back here in the studio of Gangland [0:03] Wire. This is Gary Jenkins. I’m a retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective, later sergeant. I have this podcast, Gangland Wire. I’ve got a website. If you want to go check my website out, I’ve got a few things for sale on there. And you can go rent the documentaries I’ve done about the Kansas City mob on Amazon. Just search my name. I’m all over the internet. Just search my name and mafia and you’ll find more you ever wanted to know about me and the mob and what I’ve done. And today I have a really a former Kansas City boy, a Kansas City native who has done several books on the mob, particularly the Kansas City mob. And he’s got a most recent one that I find just really fascinating. It’s a little known story that will help shed the light on Jimmy Hoffa, a little bit more light than most of you ever knew. There’s some questions that I had myself that’s not really in the in the popular culture about Jimmy Hoffa. It’s Frank Hayde. Welcome, Frank. Thanks, Gary. Great to be with you again. All right, Frank. We’ve done Mafia Dreams and Mafia and the Machine. So tell the guys a little bit about yourself and your books. [1:13] I grew up in Kansas City. My family stretches way back in Kansas City, and they were involved in the political machine under Pendergast, and so I heard a lot of stories about those days growing up. Later in my career with the National Park Service, I worked a short stint at the Harry Truman National Historic Site, where I learned more about local history, more about the political machine and the mob in Kansas City. So that’s where my interest started. [1:39] And then many years later, I wrote The Mafia and the Machine, and then followed that up with some of these other books, including this most recent one, Hoffa’s Connection, the story of Sylvia Pagano, the Kansas City girl at the center of the Mafia’s alliance with the Teamsters. You know, that’s the mouthful, I know. You know how it is with the subtitle. You can try to get the, summarize the entire book in your subtitle. So, that’s what that is. Yeah. When you look up a book or you see it online or whatever, you want to know quickly what it’s about. So I see that title, Hoffa. Oh, that’s interesting. I thought everything was done about Hoffa. Then you got this subtitle in here and you say, oh, that’s interesting. I didn’t know about this. And I didn’t myself, this Sylvia Pagano. And the story starts in Kansas City. It’s a fascinating story, guys. I want to tell you, it is a fascinating story. [2:31] But before we get started, Frank was a park ranger, a law enforcement park ranger for the National Park Service for 20 years. And he has a really interesting mob interaction when he was in, I believe you run a temporary assignment out in California. Tell the guys about your mafia interaction as a law enforcement officer. [2:53] Yeah. So I was actually at the park service 32 years. 20 of those were law enforcement and just retired. But in the summer of 2024, I got to go out to Redwood National Park on what we call a detail, which is a temporary assignment. They were shorthanded and needed a little extra help. And I knew the place pretty well because I had worked there earlier in my career. So I went out there and it’s a beautiful place. And I was on patrol and I came upon a campsite and there was some violations going on. Nothing major, just the typical stuff that we see as park rangers. And I contacted the occupants of this campsite and I got their licenses and I was back in my vehicle running the licenses. There was a male and a female and the female, I noticed it was a New York license and Brooklyn address and last name is Scarpa. I said, no, that can’t be. That’d be too much of a coincidence. And ran the information, recontacted the subject. And I asked the female, I said, by any chance, are you related to Greg Scarpa? She said, oh, yeah, that was my grandfather. And Greg Jr. was my father. [4:02] And I guess I had to laugh. And by then, I had already written a ticket or two, I think, for just petty offenses. And so I handed her ticket and then asked her if she’d take a picture with me. But she was real nice. She understood that people don’t mind, and she was great. She took a picture with me, and she was more than happy to talk about her father and her grandfather. And it was all very interesting and just quite the coincidence. Yeah, really. That was quite a coincidence. Not only the main coincidence was that you knew her. And then a lot of people might know the name. You really knew the name. Yeah, no. And you had this whole interest in it to talk about. Yeah, I can tell you that 99% of park rangers, you have no idea. Now, if you’re a Brooklyn cop, that’s different. But I was probably the only park ranger alive that would have made that connection because of my interest in the topic. I’ve been trying to get Greg Scarlett Jr. to come on. He’s made some intimations to somebody else. He followed my Facebook group, and I followed his. And so I don’t know. I reached out indirectly. I don’t know exactly how to get a hold of him. Maybe I’ll package this little story up and I’ll send that to him. Maybe that’ll get him to come on the show. Except you wrote the tickets, damn it. That’s the problem. I hope he won’t come after me to write in his daughter’s tickets. Yeah. [5:25] All right, Frank. So let’s go in this most recent book, Hoffa’s Connection. How did you, Sylvia Pagano, how did you even get onto that name other than, did you start, she’s Chucky O’Brien’s mother, who most guys know if you’re really into Hoffa at all, or even on the little bit, Chucky O’Brien was, everybody thought he was like his illegitimate son a lot of times or his surrogate son. And he was really close to Hoffa and drove him around. I was going through your book. He was a guy that Hoffa could send around to other mob people because he was half Italian himself and both sides trusted him to carry messages and do meetings and things like that. So how did you get onto this originally? So I got a call from Jack Goldsmith, who’s a very interesting man because he is the learned hand professor of law at Harvard University, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, former assistant attorney general under President Bush. But for me, the most interesting thing about him was that he is Chucky O’Brien’s stepson. [6:29] And he was working on his book, Inhofe’s Shadow, when he contacted me. It’s a great book. I would recommend it to all the wiretappers. But it’s about Chucky. And he wanted to know if I had come across any information on Chucky O’Brien in my research for the Mafia and the Machine, because Chucky was from Kansas City. I said, what? Chucky O’Brien was from Kansas City? Because I knew all about Chucky O’Brien, but I had no idea he was from Kansas City. So that shocked me. And I don’t think very few people knew that. His Kansas City roots were scarcely known. Everybody just thought of Chucky as a Detroit guy. But when I finally read Goldsmith’s book, it’s about Chucky, but he touches on Sylvia. And I found what he wrote about Sylvia to be completely fascinating, especially because she was Kansas City. And so I thought, shoot, she’s in my wheelhouse. I thought, wow, she would make a great subject for a book. But I balked at it because she was so secretive that she left hardly anything information, hardly any documents exist about Sylvia. It’s just she wasn’t like the men that she associated with who were so extensively documented. There was just very little known about her, not even very many photographs in existence. [7:44] But fortunately, I got together with Pat Faisal in Kansas City. He’s a terrific researcher. You’ve worked with him a lot, Gary. You’ve had him on your show, I think. I think he’s written a couple of really important books on local history, and he had come across her independently of me, and through his own research, he had stumbled on just a brief mention or two of Sylvia Pagano in various FBI documents. [8:09] And so we decided to put our heads together, and Pat helped me with the research, did the lion’s share of the research, fed it to me, and then I would write the story. And that’s how it came together. [8:21] Interesting. And Frank, one of the coolest things, the research that Pat found was those wiretaps or bugs that the illegal bugs the FBI had in her house. And so they got a lot of really great conversations and they’re all transcribed and out there for somebody to find. So to me, that was fascinating. [8:45] Yes, that was probably our best source are these transcripts from the illegal microphones that the FBI placed in homes and businesses of organized crime associates all over the country back in the 60s. Got some great information from those. Sylvia talking freely in her apartment. Candidly, because she doesn’t know anybody’s list. And they had him in Tony Giacalone’s home juice company in Detroit also. And Sylvia was often a topic of conversation over there as well. By the way, Tony Giacalone was Sylvia’s paramour for many years. They had a long affair. People who think that Sylvia had an affair with Hoffa that produced Chucky O’Brien, [9:28] And that is not accurate. Chucky, we know who Chucky’s father was. He was a criminal out of St. Louis from the time he was a boy and went to prison when he was a young guy, was recruited from prison to come to Kansas City and work as a driver, for none other than Charlie Banagio. And so that put him right at the center of the action. [9:53] And Sylvia, having married the young man that put her right, she was already at the center of the action because she knew all the movers and shakers in the North End at that time already from the time she was a girl. But they became very much a part of Banagio’s network. And this was one fact that really blew me away that I didn’t know. And I don’t think you know it or Owsley or O’Malley or really anybody in Kansas City that Charlie Banagio was Chuckie O’Brien’s godfather. Yeah, I didn’t know that. Yeah. That is interesting. So Sylvia Pagano, she lives down there in the North End, what we call the North End folks, which is our little Italy. There’s a big church that anchors that neighborhood. And that’s where all the people came from Southern Italy and Sicily, moved into Kansas City and were associated with the church down there. After them, the Vietnamese came in and the church sponsored a lot of the Vietnamese and settled in that same neighborhood as it became a shifting neighborhood. So she’s down over there in Little Italy or the North End. And she meets a guy named Michael. Was it Three Fingers? [11:03] Oh, yeah. Frankie. Frankie Three Fingers. Coppola. Coppola, yeah. So tell us about that relationship. Yeah, that’s really interesting because Frankie Three Fingers… Hasn’t really been chronicled much as part of the Kansas City family. Because he was a roving guy, he had a lot of clout in both Italy and the U.S., and he had memberships in multiple families, and he was a high-ranking status too. So wherever he went, whether it was Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis, New York, New Orleans, he was all over the place, and he was well-respected wherever he went. But he was in Kansas City for quite a long time. He was strongly associated with Padagio. And it appears from all the evidence, as well as testimony from organized crime experts in Detroit, that Frankie Three Fingers escorted Sylvia to Detroit after her marriage with Charles O’Brien ended in about 1941 in Kansas City. [12:13] So Sylvia arrives in Detroit on the arm of Frank Coppola, and that put her on the fast track to getting to know the upper echelon of the Detroit family and mobsters, top mobsters beyond Detroit. Coppola was associated with Costello in his slot machine racket down in New Orleans. [12:36] And later, after he got deported back to Italy, He worked with Lucky Luciano to put together the whole narcotics syndicate network that included the French Connection. So tremendously influential as a mobster. Sylvia could really not have picked a more influential and well-connected guy as a boyfriend. That really put her on the fast track to getting to know a lot of the most powerful guys in the country. Really interesting guy. Frank Copeland. I’ll just say it and maybe someone else can run with it. I don’t know if it’ll be me or not, but he would make a great subject for a book. Yeah, he’s not very well known. And the mob used to have this guy, Nikolai Gentile. He traveled around to different families and brokered different deals. I think back before communication was so fast and you didn’t fly from one city to the other, you had to take a train. That’s a whole day on the train to get one city to the other. Telephone communication wasn’t that good. You didn’t hardly make long distance phone calls back there in the 20s and 30s. I don’t think they were hard. So you have guys like this that then travel around and take messages that are trusted by the different cities. And so he had to be one of those guys. [13:52] You’re exactly right. In fact, he knew Nicola Gentile. [13:58] Gentile is also, I speak about him in this book also. He plays a role, a pretty important one, and he describes some events that are really fascinating. This story actually doesn’t begin in Kansas City. It begins in Pueblo, Colorado. There’s three geographic areas that are really emphasized in this story. Pueblo, Colorado, Kansas City, and Detroit. But Nicola Gentili and Frank Coppola knew each other in the United States, and they knew each other in Italy. And you’re exactly right, they had a similar role as traveling diplomats within the mafia. Very interesting. Not too many other guys, especially later on. They had Johnny Roselli, who was really well-traveled, and some others. But in those early days, a couple of these guys, Coppola, Gentile, I don’t know if there was any others or not, but that was what they did. They were all over the place, and they were so well-connected, and they really had memberships in multiple families. And that seems to have faded away later. You didn’t hear too much about guys that had more than one member. So occasionally somebody would switch families, but yeah, they were really interesting, [15:11] real, what you would call international mystery men, I think. Interesting. So she had an affair with him, and he brought her up to Detroit and started making connections in Detroit, if I remember the story right, with the Jackalones. And so what. [15:27] Take us on from there. How does she then move in with Hoffa? And she’s like in the middle between the Peckerwood truck drivers and the Italian mob, which they both needed each other and they worked well together for a long time. So how does she end up in the center of that? Yeah, she’s still quite young when she gets to Detroit. She’s just early 20s, maybe mid 20s at that point. But and here she is she’s immediately meeting all of the wise guys but she was still she needed a job she needed work i’m sure coppola helped her out to some extent but he had his own wife he had his own he probably had another mistress or two as well i mean she needed to make a she needed to make a living and raise her son chucky and um she got a job with the teamsters at that time in In Detroit, unions were strong. There was a lot of unions, and it was the capital of industrial unionism at that time. And so that just became a natural choice. She ended up meeting Burke Brennan initially, actually, even before Hoffa. Brennan was Hoffa’s right-hand guy. [16:36] And he gave her a job with the Teamsters as a salter. She was an organizer, and a good one, and a legit organizer. But her specialty was salting. Now, what’s that? So she was a union representative, and she would get a job in a factory or a warehouse, just an ordinary job. And she would go to work, just like everybody else, punch the clock. But while she was there, her real objective was signing other people up to join the union. So she’s like a secret agent in a way, buried into the normal workforce, but with a real different agenda. And she was real good at it. And the union guys noticed that she worked really hard and she was loyal and that she would keep her mouth shut. And so those were the same qualities that the mob guys admired. So this was at the time, though, and this is very important, when most of the unions and the mob were still at odds with each other. Back then, the gangsters were getting hired by companies to break strikes and to oppose unions. [17:47] And there was a particularly bad strike going on. It lasted a long time. The Teamsters were striking the Detroit Lumber Company. This was at about 42. And it was violent. And Hoffa could see the writing on the wall that the Teamsters were losing the battle. It went on and on. It was violent. And that’s where Sylvia Pagano stepped in. Burt Brennan told Jimmy Hoffa he should talk to Facci. Facci was Italian for face. And that was Sylvia’s nickname that she got when she was young back in Kansas City. Had a very pretty face. And so they called her the face. So Hoffa talked to Fauci and she set up a basically like a summit meeting peace conference, more or less. And they brokered a deal where the mob switched sides and became allies with the Teamsters against the Detroit Lumber Company. So that was really the moment that changed history, brought the mafia into the Teamsters orbit and vice versa. And that’s all traceable right back to Sylvia Pagano. [18:55] Wow. That’s interesting. I always wondered what the genesis of that was with Hoffa and the mob. And of course, we can see how it developed, but what that actual birth of that was. I think you’ve stumbled across the birth of it. You also… [19:11] We’re able to stumble across the birth of the Eastern families and New York families connection to Hoffa, which that that gets even bigger. Tell us a little bit about that. She was involved in that, believe it or not, guys. And just like in Detroit, back in New York, there’s Johnny Dio. He was busting up labor union strikes for the companies. Yeah, I think that to some degree in New York, New Jersey, that some Teamsters locals had already been infiltrated by the mafia independently and maybe unbeknownst to Hoffa in Detroit. But it really became a big thing with Hoffa and with Sylvia’s brokering that alliance. Little isolated examples of mob infiltration, I think, were already happening in Detroit. But once again, as Hoffa’s progressing in his career, moving up the ranks, he always had his eye on the top job. He wanted to be the president of the IBT. And of course, he knew he needed help in the Northeast for that, to realize that goal. And so with Sylvia helped set up meetings with Tony Ducks Corral Johnny Diagordi Tony Provenzano and Sylvia had gotten to know Provenzano in Detroit because he had strong connections to Detroit let’s see his cousin was married to. [20:39] Tony Giacalone’s cousin was married to Tony Pro, I believe, or vice versa. That’s your book. Yeah. I’d have to go back and read my own book. Yeah, it’s hard to keep up. Hard to remember all the details. All these players. Giacalone’s cousin was married to Provenzano. And so Sylvia had already met Provenzano in Detroit. And Chucky, her son, had already started calling him Uncle Tony. And so she had this great connection to Provenzano. And so she helped facilitate the Teamsters Mob Alliance in New York and New Jersey, just as she had in Detroit. And then it goes on from there. Then she later, we’re moving forward now, but she would later become the link between Hoffa and his closest contact in Cleveland, which was Moe Daylitz. She became the link between Hoffa and Alan Dorfman in Chicago. And she became the link between Hoffa and the Sevilla brothers in Kansas City. So she really was, and this is all, they taught, there’s a, from those FBI tapes, those illegal FBI tapes, we have Tony Zarelli and Nick Sevilla in Florida speaking about Sylvia Pagano and her relationship as a liaison between the Detroit family and between the Kansas City family. Like, there’s your proof right there. Not that you need it. She was really… [22:09] The guys, a lot of them really liked, adored her in the sense of she did have an affair with a couple of them, and she was a good-looking woman. A lot of them had, Moe Dalitz was known to have a crush on Sylvia, possibly an affair with Sylvia. But she was more than your mob mole, right? She was a dealmaker. She was an advisor. She was a liaison. She brought money to the table. She did deals with the guys. She helped broker some pension fund loans, all these things. So what I like to say about Sylvia is that we all know that the mob never inducted women into their ranks. But if they had, Sylvia Pagana would have been their first choice because she worked hard. She was loyal. [22:56] She kept her mouth shut. And she really lived truer to the code than some of the men did. She was 100% omerta. She really was. and she learned that in the north end of Kansas City, where Umerta was extremely strong even up into this century after it wasn’t so strong in other places and so she passed that on to Chucky O’Brien. He was also a real strong adherent to the code of silence. Yeah, I think we have to remember Chucky O’Brien was half Italian. His father was Italian. No. [23:33] So his mother, Sylvia, was the Italian. Mother, Sylvia, yeah. Yeah, his dad was Irish. Yeah, I got that mixed up. Exactly, asked backwards. But yeah, he was half Italian. And so he really talked the talk, and he moved right in. All these guys were like his uncle, Uncle Nick, Uncle Quirk, and that kind of thing. So he came back to Kansas City. Tell a little bit about Chuckie O’Brien and Kansas City. Yeah, so in 1950, he’d been in Detroit for about nine years by that point. 1950, he’s getting into high school age, and Sylvia sent him back to Kansas City to live on Independence Avenue with his grandparents, and he went to Cardinal Glennon High School. [24:13] And became a good athlete, started dating a gal from the old neighborhood who was a lot like Sylvia. I think that’s really interesting because Chucky really idolized his mother, but he never really, when he was young at least, got to spend as much time with her as he wanted. He spent a lot of time back in Kansas City. He spent a lot of time at his uncle’s house in Detroit because Sylvia was so busy with Hoffa and with the mob. So here’s Chucky in Kansas City. He meets a gal from Sylvia’s old neighborhood who has other things in common with Sylvia and who even looks, in my opinion, quite a lot like Sylvia. And he would eventually take her back to Detroit and marry her and have a family together. But his main objective, it really in Kansas City wasn’t so much going to school. It was becoming a truck driver. He wanted to become a truck driver so that he could put himself on the path to becoming a union organizer like his hero and surrogate father, Jimmy Hoffa. And according to Chucky, Uncle Nick and Uncle Cork got him his first job as a driver and got him his first union card with local 541. [25:23] And this was right at the time when Local 541 was becoming ground zero for labor strife and union corruption in the United States. And Gary, you said a key word earlier, which was Peckerwood. And that’s who was running the Kansas City Teamsters at the time. It was dominated by Peckerwood guys, country boys, basically, and like Hoffa. And these guys were just as bad as the Italian gangsters who were more famous. They ran those locals with intimidation and terror, and they were violent, and they were very ambitious. They had political power. [26:08] Make a long story short, in 1953 in Kansas City, we had an inter-union labor war. And it was the Teamsters versus almost every other union in town. And Teamsters were trying to dominate a lot of these other unions is what it was. And so you had a complete paralysis of the entire construction industry for three months. Imagine just all construction stopping for three months in any metro area and how devastating that is to the economy. 23,000 Kansas Citians were out of work. The Teamsters were refusing to pick up or deliver supplies. And that eventually morphed into violence and sabotage. You had guys going into battle at construction sites. People were getting badly injured. People were getting kidnapped. It was, and then furthermore, we had four military defense projects centered in the Kansas City area, and this is right at the height of the Korean War. So these military installations were suffering work stoppages also. So this was unacceptable in Washington. And Congress swooped in with hearings and an investigation. [27:17] And they called this, basically, it was, I think the exact language was something like the most forbidding chapter in the history of American unions, something like that. It was a big deal. This history has been mostly forgotten. But Kansas City was [27:32] completely paralyzed for about three months. And that was the union that was the local mainly primarily local 541 which chucky was a young member of he was too young at that time to get drawn into the politics of the union i don’t believe that he was on the front lines of these these battles and violence that was happening he was just a brand new truck driver at the time but he was part of that in the sense that he was a local a member of the local at the time this stuff was happening so yeah that’s that’s what happened when Chucky came back to Kansas City. [28:07] Interesting. And that must have been the time when Roy Williams started moving up the ladder and the mob was moving in and they moved this auto ring and some of his people out. And Roy Lee Williams must have, with the support of Nick Civella and the local mob, must have moved right on in. Yeah, that’s exactly what happened. The main guy behind all the strife and violence I was just talking about was Orville Ring, classic quintessential Peckerwood guy and then after all this happened Hoffa swooped in and helped negotiate an end to these conflicts in 1953 and, And Nick Civella and his crime family, they were all watching all this from the wings, planning and scheming. Wow, there’s a lot going on here. How can we capitalize on this? [28:50] So in the aftermath of it all, the Savellas basically intimidated Orville Ring out of the Union. He went back to his farm. Later, he was killed in an accident on his farm, which a lot of people thought was the mob, that the mob did it. But it looked probably just an accident. And I think a tractor rolled over on him or something like that. But yeah, Roy Williams. So at this time, just basically the Italians were taken over from the Peckerwoods. There were still some useful Peckerwoods, and they worked together. And Roy Williams was the key guy there. This is when Nick Civella and he started working together to take over the Teamsters in Kansas City. You’re exactly right. And the rest is history. Really? really. Roy Williams is an interesting guy. He was a war hero from World War II. He had several bronze stars and he was a huge war hero, but he knew which side of the bread got the butter. And so he went with that and he went with Nick Civella. And he did, he bucked up to him a few times, but Nick Civella, actually in a famous scene, Nick Civella had him picked up and driven somewhere and shined a bright light in his eyes and said, you will go along with this scheme. [30:05] So it’s, but he kept going along to almost, he almost, he did become the president of the union for a short period of time, almost right there at the end of his life and when everybody was going to jail. But he was Nick Civella’s protege and Nick Civella’s puppet for his whole life and the whole Teamsters union was. [30:24] Yeah and that story you mentioned with the white spotlight shining in his eyes they kidnapped him and took him into this empty warehouse and i always point to that as just one of those. [30:34] Terrifying stories about how the mob used to work and yeah man and that wasn’t the only time that they intimidated roy williams in that manner so he like you said he was this tough guy war hero He was a big guy, and yet even a guy like that can get intimidated into doing whatever these guys tell him to do because his tactics that they used were just terrifying. Yeah. I read one thing where he later on, he claimed when he turned and gave evidence and talked to the Bureau that he claimed that they also threatened his wife and children during one of these sit downs with him. I mean, they did the same thing to Alan Glick out in Las Vegas. Tuffy DeLuna was out there, and he read off Alan Glick’s name of his wife and his children. He said, you may find yourself expendable, but I don’t think you’re going to find your family expendable and read off their names. So there’s two good examples of them. Say that Bob never messes with your family. There’s two good examples of them using the family and family as threats. Yeah. [31:40] It’s very tough. Yeah, it is. I heard knowing Mo Dalitz, to me, that was key because he was such a mover and an operator. Talk a little more about that. He had been in Cleveland. He had to set her up with Bill Presser. And that was primarily Jewish mobsters in Cleveland, seemed to me like. And then he also had all those connections to Chicago to get to Red Dorfman, his son, Alan Dorfman. Talk a little more about that relationship with Mo Dalitz. In Mo Dalitz’s biography, I can’t think of the name of the author at the moment, but that author states that Sylvia was one of Mo Dalitz’s lovers. I’m not sure if that’s true or not. I do think that Mo Dalitz, at the very least, had a crush on Sylvia, but also respected her very much. And she, just as she had with the Detroit family before, she brokered an alliance with Daylitz. What happened was Daylitz had a laundry empire, was a rum runner and a racketeer and a leader in the Jewish mob. But he also had a lot of legitimate businesses, including a laundry empire in Detroit and Cleveland. [32:53] And while he was still in Detroit, before he really made his move to Cleveland, his permanent move to Cleveland, his laundries, along with other laundry owners, they bonded together in an association. And they were very anti-union. And they were basically at odds with the Teamsters. And until Sylvia swooped in. And Sylvia had her own connections by now to the Laundry Workers Union also. So she’s working for the Teamsters, and she’s very close to Hoffa, but she then married a guy named John Paris, who was the head of the Laundry Workers Union. [33:32] So Sylvia knows Hoffa, and she knows the head of the Laundry Workers Union very closely, and she knows Dalitz. So she’s the one who’s positioned to bring these people together, sit them down at the same table, and start working together, start negotiating. And that’s what she did with Daylitz. And so that led to Daylitz paying off Hoffa, basically, to settle this contract on terms that were favorable to Daylitz and the other laundry owners. [34:07] But you could say that Hoffa, in that case, sold out his members, at least at that time. Now, I do want to make it clear that most rank-and-file teamsters for many decades loved Hoffa because he definitely did negotiate some great contracts that brought truck drivers into the middle class, got them very good pay and benefits. And it’s only fair, it’s only right to give him credit because as somebody once said about Hoffa. [34:33] He was always a criminal, but also always a teamster. And he worked very hard for his membership. He never stopped working. And it was sincere, I do believe. But there were times when he, the ends justified the means and he did whatever he had to do to keep the union alive, but also to serve himself and enrich himself. And that was one of those cases where the membership lost out a little bit when Hoffa and Daylitz formed their alliance with the initiation and the help of Sylvia Pagano. Interesting. So let’s go back to Chucky O’Brien for a minute. He goes back up from Kansas City. He ends up back up in Detroit and working very closely with Jimmy Hoffa. And you talked to his son. Yeah. And to make that, and he was probably a huge help and some insight into what his father was like. So talk about Chucky O’Brien when he got back with Hoffa. Yeah, so he goes back to Detroit. [35:31] And he steps right back into the Hoffa family circle because Sylvia became part of the Hoffa family. She was Josephine Hoffa’s best friend. Jimmy Hoffa relied on her not only for important work in the union and for important connections to the mob, but he also relied on her heavily as Josephine’s personal assistant and caretaker. Sylvia worked extremely hard serving other people. And she was an excellent caretaker to Josephine who needed a lot of care, had very poor health, made worse by severe alcoholism. And Sylvia was a wonderful caretaker. But Chucky stepped right back into that family orbit. Later, when his own kids were small, Chucky and his wife and his kids moved into the Hoffa house. They’d all lived under the same roof for quite a few years. But Sylvia was really the glue that kept it all together and Chucky’s son who’s also named Chuck O’Brien he was a young boy at this time so his memories of his grandmother. [36:42] And Jimmy Hoffa started when he was a young boy and continued up until Sylvia died when he was in his late teens, but he was a great source for the book helped out a lot I really appreciate him And it was interesting to have direct access to someone who actually lived under the same roof with Jimmy Hoffa. So he was not privy, young Chuck was not privy to any inside information or any mob dealings or anything like that. But he later moved to Kansas City and went to work in the River Key for his uncle at the Godfather Lounge, which just a couple of years later was torched in the River Key War. And then young Chuck had worked in professional hockey for a while. And then he became a truck driver and joined Local 41. And so all this history just comes full circle and repeats itself. And I was a little fascinated by these Sylvia’s grandkids who were born and raised in Detroit. They both ended up back in Kansas City in the land of their parents and their grandparents. And they ended up in the same neighborhoods that Sylvia had been born in many years before. [37:57] Interesting. And Chucky O’Brien, then he’s kind of Hoffa’s driver sometimes. And Aaron Renner on up to the end of Hoffa’s life was even implicated at the very end. Some people claim that he helped set Hoffa up because he was the one person that Hoffa trusted. And that one movie, The Irishman or whatever, really threw a lot of shade on Chucky O’Brien. So how did you deal with that. [38:21] Yeah, I think Chucky got a real bad rap, and as I used to study Hoffa and read all the Hoffa books, I always thought, I always had a very low opinion of Chucky O’Brien, and he became the butt of a joke, and he was portrayed as this blundering, not-too-bright guy who either helped kill his surrogate father or was duped into giving him a ride to where he was killed without knowing what was going on and without being able to, realize it to the point where he could have maybe helped Hoffa. I think Jack Goldsmith put all that to rest. He really changed my opinion of Chucky in his book, but I realized that Chucky had been misunderstood in many ways. Was he involved in Hoffa’s disappearance or not? I think Goldsmith basically vindicates Chucky. [39:15] However, I do believe that there’s still some evidence that could strongly suggest that even in light of what Goldsmith wrote, that Chucky could still have known more than he let on. But he was so committed to Emerita that he took a lot of secrets to his grave, I believe. What’s interesting is some of the other co-conspirators in the Hoffa thing ended up dead, like Sally Buggs, and got killed in Little Italy a few years later, and the prevailing wisdom, at least, was to, keep him quiet about the Hoffa case. And they would have probably done the same thing to Chucky if Chucky could have pointed the finger at anybody or implicated anybody. And I’m sure he could have. I’m sure he knew some things about that. He was so close to Giacalone. Chucky was very close to Tony Giacalone and to Tony Provenzano. [40:07] And I think that Chucky survived because Giacalone trusted him 100% just as Sylvia Pagano’s son. Giacalone’s trust in Chucky to not give anybody up was just so rock solid. And he loved Chucky. And I think that he was also honoring Sylvia by allowing Chucky to stay alive. So I know I’m straying from your initial question, Gary. There’s so much going on with the whole Chuck O’Brien thing and his involvement. It gets very interesting. You have to get really down in the weeds with it to understand all of it. But I think that Goldsmith’s book is a great read for anybody who’s interested in Hoffa and the whole case. I definitely would recommend it. So it may come down to Chuck O’Brien. And was he more loyal to the mob, to the mafia and their code? Or more loyal to Hoffa and the Teamsters? as Hoffa as an individual, not to the teams or his union, but Hoffa as an individual. Was he more loyal to Hoffa or more loyal to the union or more loyal to the mob? And giving up those guys, he has to turn his back on everything. [41:21] The union and the mob. And so I can see where he, whatever he knew, [41:25] he was not going to say a word. It would be to his advantage. He has no, they didn’t have a hammer on him. Wasn’t a criminal. They didn’t have a life sentence hanging over his head for anything. They did have, they did prosecute Chucky on a federal case. It was a small time thing. He took some, maybe took some gifts from a, from an employer in his role as a union guy, some small gifts. And then he had also got caught up in a cargo theft case, which is all documented in the book, Office of Connection. But the law enforcement did have a couple of cases that they could apply pressure onto Chucky. But he didn’t say a word, and he just went to prison and served his time. He didn’t have to serve too much time. He was only in for about a year, I think. It was a low-level felony. But he just, he’d never thought once about turning state’s witness. He just went and served his time and got back out and went on with his life. [42:25] Yeah. It’s those 50 and 75-year sentences that’ll make the right attorneys. You get even, I used to say, when they came up, those sentencing guidelines for cocaine dealers, you could make a guy talk about his mother when he’s looking. He’s 40 years old and he’s looking at a 50, 75-year sentence. Yeah. I do have to say, though, if there’s one guy that might, and there was a few of them who went and served a hard time. Yeah, a long time until they’re old. Rather than give anybody else up. And I think Chucky would have been one of those guys. I do. Yeah. [42:57] Having been raised by sylvia pagano he was just so committed to that culture and those traditions and that way of life and and omerta yeah sylvia even had almost a kind of a halfway making ceremony for chucky she arranged for the top guys in detroit when he came back to detroit from kansas city in the early 50s tony giacalone put together a little event where chucky walked into the back room of grecian gardens restaurant in detroit and all the top guys were sitting around a table and he made a pledge of loyalty to them at that time and then he sat down and broke bread with them and he didn’t prick his finger and burn a card and he wasn’t made into the family but it was all halfway a little bit and they did that for sylvia and because they just valued her so much they respected her and they needed her they she was the connection to their most valuable asset, which was Jimmy Hoffa. So that tells you a little bit about how much respect they had for Sylvia and also for Chucky’s unique role. Here he is. [44:05] He’s he’s the son of charlie banagio’s low-level chauffeur yeah and yet he’s sitting down with guys like meyer lansky in florida he’s sitting down with all the top guys in detroit chicago inu acardo rica rosanova all these top guys in chicago then he would sit down with them on behalf of jimmy hoff he was he probably i say in the book that he probably had more chucky o’brien the son of, Banagio’s chauffeur probably had more sit-downs with high-level mobsters than Nick Civella did. As Hoffa’s representative, that was the life. And he knew how to handle that kind of thing because he was raised by Sylvia. So he knew how to say, what not to say, how to behave himself in those types of meetings. So that came naturally to him. And he was Hoffa’s gopher. He drove in places. He took Hoffa’s wife to her medical appointments. He did low-level stuff like that, but he also did more important work, more sensitive stuff, like sitting down with mob bosses and relaying information back and forth, just like as Sylvia had taught him to do. [45:16] That’s fascinating. I tell you what, guys, Frank Hayde, Hoffa’s Connection, the story of Sylvia Pagano, the Ken City girl at the center of the mafia’s alliance with the Teamsters Union. I might have links in here. You better get this book. This is untrod territory. Unplowed ground, as we used to say on the farm. This is fresh stuff that you’ve read. There’s so many books out there about Hoffa and his disappearance that they just want to, come on, we can’t do this. I can’t do this again, Hoffa’s disappearance. You’re never going to find his body. You’re never going to figure out exactly who killed him. Nobody’s going to talk, and anybody that could is dead. But this unearthed some really fresh, interesting information about Hoffa and his connection with the Italian La Cosa Nostra in the United States, the entire United States, really. Yes. Thank you, Gary. That was a very nice little summary of it. And I really appreciate you. You’ve had me on your show before, my other books, and I listened to your podcast. Can’t get enough of it. You do terrific work. All us wire trappers love you, man. And we all appreciate you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Are you still doing the, are we still buying you cups of coffee and that kind of stuff? Yeah, you can always buy me a cup of coffee and hit the donate button. [46:29] I forget about doing that. I’ve been doing this so long and I got a few guys that hit it regularly and some never do. I do this for the pure joy of it anyhow, but it helps to have a little extra money coming in now and then. When you were selling books yesterday, you love writing this book. You love all that research and putting it together and educating people, but it’s nice to get paid for it too. [46:50] It’s a small-time racket, but hey. It’s a small-time racket. Another interesting thing, Frank, we were talking about people doing time, getting so much time, and trying to force them to talk. Yesterday, Frank had a program at the library, and we had a local guy who was a subject of his last book, Mafia Dreams, who was a mob hanger-on guy when he was a young guy. And he got caught up in a murder, an accidental murder in a way. That it’s a long story and you have to get mafia dreams to learn about it. The next generation of the wannabe. [47:25] Italian mafia guys in kansas city and so that guy was there he did 25 years 25 years for what we call felony murder another guy he transported a friend of his to a drug by only the guy killed the man was selling the or tried to kill the man that was selling the drugs and the fbi had it set up and ran in and shot and killed the kid who almanese had carried up to the drug ripoff and And so they charged this driver with felony murder, and he did 25 years, just got out about four or five years ago. He could have talked. He had enough to buy him a lot of grace on that 25-year sentence, and he did every minute of it. He never said a word, and it was hard time. It was state time here in Missouri. Yeah, I think that’s true. I think he is representative of Kansas City in a way, because I do believe that in Kansas City, the Code of Emerita persisted longer than most places. And yeah, when you’re 24 years old, I think he was 24 at the time that he was sentenced. Maybe he was 25 and you get sentenced to 25 and a half years. [48:38] And you have the chance to whittle that down by giving up information on your friends. And you don’t take it, and you choose to do the 25 and a half years, that’s hardcore. And he did, and those are the best years of his life that he’ll never get back. But he is out now, and he’s making a legitimate living and keeping his nose clean and just trying to make up for a lot of lost time. Yeah, he is. 25 years will straighten your mind out, won’t it? Yeah. Man. All right, Frank. Thanks so much for coming on the show. Hey, thanks again, Gary. Don’t forget to donate Bob the Bob Gary cup of coffee, y’all. Thank you. Okay, Gary. Okay, Frank. That was great. Talk to you later.

Domenico ScarpaPrimo Levi: uniform editionEinaudi Editorewww.einaudi.itPrimo Levi: uniform editionMartedì 26 maggio sono usciti negli Einaudi Tascabili i primi quattro titoli di una uniform edition di Primo Levi. In tutto sono previsti sedici volumi, per un'operazione che verrà completata entro la primavera del 2027, quando ricorrerà un doppio anniversario: i 40 anni dalla scomparsa di Levi e i 80 anni dalla prima edizione De Silva di Se questo è un uomo.Tra i quattro volumi appena usciti c'è un inedito assoluto: Mi interessa la gente perché ne faccio parte. Dialoghi con le scuole.Questo libro, curato da Fabio Levi, raccoglie 62 corrispondenze di Primo Levi con studenti e insegnanti di tutta Italia, negli anni tra il 1973 e il 1986. Gli altri tre titoli sono Se questo è un uomo, Il sistema periodico e La chiave a stella, a cura di Domenico Scarpa, ciascuno con un corredo di Documenti e con nuovi apparati storico-critici. Il progetto grafico della uniform edition è di Fabrizio Farina, mentre a Nicola Magrin si devono il lettering del nome d'autore, che caratterizza l'intera serie e che si impone allo sguardo senza essere invasivo, nonché le copertine di Se questo è un uomo, del Sistema periodico e della Chiave a stella.Le opere che Levi pubblicò in vita, da Se questo è un uomo a I sommersi e i salvati, sono curate da Domenico Scarpa; ciascuna di esse contiene una sezione di Documenti e una postfazione che ricostruisce le vicende del libro.Con il suo prezzo di copertina contenuto e con il suo impatto grafico la uniform edition si rivolge innanzitutto a studenti e insegnanti, ma ha il suo punto di forza nella sezione Documenti e nei nuovi apparati storico-critici. L'una e gli altri offrono ai lettori e agli studiosi una quantità di inediti che solo ora emergono dagli archivi: dialoghi epistolari, prime stesure di testi (alcuni dei quali celebri, come il racconto Carbonio del Sistema periodico), retroscena editoriali. Accanto a queste novità si è tenuto a conservare alcuni testi critici tuttora essenziali, come quelli di Cesare Segre su Se questo è un uomo, di Ernesto Ferrero su La tregua, di Walter Barberis su I sommersi e i salvati, e (in appendice al Sistema periodico) l'intervista che Philip Roth realizzò con Levi nel settembre del 1986.Ai primi quattro titoli della uniform edition di Levi che sono usciti ieri si aggiungerà tra poco, in luglio, Storie naturali, la sua prima raccolta di storie di fantatecnologia e di fantabiologia (lo stesso Levi li definì «di quasi fantascienza»), che uscì nel 1966 sotto lo pseudonimo Damiano Malabaila, adottato su richiesta di casa Einaudi per non disorientare i lettori di Se questo è un uomo e La tregua. Solo a partire dal 1979 l'opera sarebbe apparsa con il nome reale dell'autore. Storie naturali verrà riproposto nell'edizione curata nel 2022 da Martina Mengoni e Domenico Scarpa, ma con una copertina appositamente realizzata da Miriam Levi, nipote dello scrittore, il cui segno è congeniale alla vena fantastico-visionaria di suo nonno. Per questa serie Miriam Levi firmerà infatti anche le copertine delle successive raccolte di storie d'invenzione: Vizio di forma (1971) e Lilìt e altri racconti (1981).Domenico Scarpa è il consulente letterario del Centro studi Primo Levi di Torino. Ha pubblicato Italo Calvino (Bruno Mondadori, 1999), Storie avventurose di libri necessari (Gaffi, 2010), Natalia Ginzburg. Pour un portrait de la tribu (Cahiers de l'Hôtel de Galliffet, 2010), Uno. Doppio ritratto di Franco Lucentini (:duepunti, 2011) e, con Ann Goldstein, In un'altra lingua (Lezioni Primo Levi - Einaudi, 2015). Ha curato il terzo volume della Grande Opera Atlante della letteratura italiana. Dal Romanticismo a oggi, edito da Einaudi (2012) e, con Roberta Mori, Album Primo Levi (2017). Inoltre, la raccolta delle Lezioni Primo Levi (Mondadori, 2019) e svariate antologie, cicli teatrali, mostre e documentari televisivi. Nel 2019 ha curato per i «Meridiani» Mondadori le Opere di bottega di Fruttero & Lucentini, mentre per Einaudi cura opere di Natalia Ginzburg e, per Sellerio, i romanzi di Graham Greene. Con Einaudi ha pubblicato anche Bibliografia di Primo Levi (2022).Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

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Join the email list to get a FREE private finger training clinic with Dr. Tyler Nelson (normally $15) www.thestruggleclimbingshow.com/strong   Support the Show on Patreon Get access to all Pro Clinics, bonus episodes, and more. https://www.patreon.com/thestruggleclimbingshow   In this episode of the Weekend Warrior series, amateur climber Chris Martin joins to discuss: Early days developing at The Red Bolting some of the most iconic routes FA of my proudest sport send, The Force Quitting climbing due to work and family The struggle of restarting the climbing journey Going from 5.11 to 5.13 in his 40's Training up power in his 50's Endurance training via Tyler Nelson - BIG THANKS TO THE AMAZING SPONSORS OF THE STRUGGLE WHO LOVE ROCK CLIMBING AS MUCH AS YOU DO: PhysiVantage: the official climbing-nutrition sponsor of The Struggle. Use code STRUGGLE15 at checkout for 15% off your full-priced nutrition order. SCARPA: The best climbing shoes, trail runners, and hikers in the game! Score yourself a free SCARPA x STRUGGLE hat when you use code STRUGGLE at checkout at SCARPA.com. SCARPA, No Place Too Far.   And check out ALL the show's awesome sponsors and exclusive deals at thestruggleclimbingshow.com/deals - Here are some AI generated show notes (hopefully the robots got it right) 00:00 Basement Interview Setup 03:33 Meet Chris Martin 04:34 First Climbing Days 06:08 First Red River Epic 09:07 Improvised Gear Era 11:40 Rapid Grade Progression 13:20 Porter Crew Origins 15:30 Motherlode Discovery 17:39 Bolting First Routes 19:32 Undertow Cleaning Battles 20:43 Omaha Beach Beginnings 22:11 Team Wilson and Thirteens 24:17 Flower Power Project 25:39 Sponsor Break 28:29 Ryan's Route Overlap 31:11 Training and All Weather 34:59 Boca and Route Names 36:35 The Force and Dark Side 38:24 Mossy Wall Beta 38:44 The Force Grade Debate 42:42 Sharp Side Route Dev 44:01 Life Break And Triathlon 46:45 Gym Comeback In 2015 49:30 Rebuilding To Thirteens 50:53 Moonboard Power Sessions 55:05 Endurance For Season 58:44 Recovery And Retirement 01:02:33 Project Process Outdoors 01:09:56 Training Takeaways 01:14:17 Wrap Up And Next Goals - Shoutout to Aiden Schlatter, Michael Martin, and Kent Olmstead for supporting at the Hero level on Patreon. So mega! - Follow along on Instagram and YouTube: @thestruggleclimbingshow  - This show is produced and hosted by Ryan Devlin, and edited by Glen Walker. The Struggle is carbon-neutral in partnership with The Honnold Foundation and is a proud member of the Plug Tone Audio Collective, a diverse group of the best, most impactful podcasts in the outdoor industry. And now here are some buzzwords to help the almighty algorithm get this show in front of people who love to climb: rock climbing, rock climber, climbing, climber, bouldering, sport climbing, gym climbing, how to rock climb, donuts are amazing. Okay, whew, that's done. But hey, if you're a human that's actually reading this, and if you love this show (and love to climb) would you think about sharing this episode with a climber friend of yours? And shout it out on your socials? I'll send you a sticker for doing it. Just shoot me a message on IG – thanks so much! 

La notizia è che Regno Unito sta provando a costruire una coalizione militare nello stretto di Hormuz, ma il fatto che questa possa creare un nuovo precdente negli accordi internazionali lo è molto di più. Donald Trump ha detto di nuovo che di voler portare gli Stati Uniti fuori dalla Nato. Lo ha fatto in un'intervista in cui si dice non convinto dell'automatismo dell'intervento americano in Ucraina nel 2022, dicendo che lo stesso sarebbe potuto avvenire in Iran. Sul Corriere della Sera, Marco Galluzzo firma un retroscena molto interessante su quello che è successo nel governo prima dei fatti di Sigonella di due giorni fa. Un ritratto di Rachele Scarpa del Partito Democratico, per la rubrica "Giovani che fanno politica". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En el programa de hoy te hablo desde la montaña, de las primeras sensaciones con la Scarpa Golden Gate LT. Una 'door to trail' o 'road to trail' (ahora popularizado como gravel) de 129€. Con este competitivo precio, se suma a la Golden Gate 2 ATR (165€), pero con un tacto más firme de mediasuela.Mantiene eso sí, ese 'carácter SCARPA' gracias a la suela Presa TRN-11 con tacos de 4mm.Tiene un drop de 6mm. y un peso de 310 g en mi número 44.Contacto:juan@ellaboratoriodejuan.com

In this episode, Leonora Scarpa, VP at Procter & Gamble, shares what it really takes to build brands in a world where commerce, technology and human behavior are constantly evolving.From a 20+ year journey across innovation, digital commerce and brand building, Leonora reveals why true growth starts with curiosity and why the future of marketing depends on staying deeply connected to real human needs.A conversation on leadership, mentorship, purpose and how to integrate creativity, data and commerce without losing the human at the center.

Monoskis! Snowblades! Price Drops! Jonathan talks with Luke Koppa and Kristin Sinnott about some big announcements about our upcoming Blister Summit, and Otto Solberg joins us to give an up-to-date conditions report from the Bird. We also talk about the great-looking forecast, and we go through some of the gear we're most excited to get on — and get you on.Note: We Want to Hear From You!Please share with us the questions, topics, or stories you'd like us to cover on GEAR:30. You can email those to us here.RELATED LINKS:Get Yourself Covered with BLISTER+Join Us! Blister Summit 2026BLISTER+ Members: Blister Summit DiscountEnter Our Weekly Gear GiveawaySee Our Blister Recommended ShopsCHECK OUT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELS:Blister Studios (our new channel)Blister Review (our original channel)TOPICS & TIMES:Current Conditions at Snowbird (4:58)The Forecast! (11:18)Important Info (16:05)New Discounted Price (21:51)Companies Attending (24:31)Another Dan Abrams Story (35:58)Salomon QST (41:03)Salomon and Kastle (42:20)Faction (46:34)HEAD and DPS (48:33)Nordica and Scarpa (54:18)ZipFit and Product Purchasing (55:35)Elan (56:57)Zirkel (57:31)Snowboard Brands (58:31)CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCASTS:Blister CinematicCRAFTEDBikes & Big IdeasBlister Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Spotlight time!Yes, it's time to shine a light on some current work that deserves your attention.This time around Josh sat down with writer/director duo Salvatore Scarpa and Max Burgoyne-Moore to discuss their short film, Largo.Give it a listen!· TRIGGER WARNINGThe content of this episode features subject matter some people may find upsetting.If you want to check out more about Largo then click the links below and go them a follow-on social media!· https://slickfilms.co.uk/portfolio-item/largo-film-page/Links to the pod and our social media can be found here.Just select your link of choice!https://linktr.ee/justfilmsandthatpodIf you'd like to get in touch for anything or even suggest a film for us to look at, the email is filmsandthatpod@gmail.comWe're on all the usual social media platforms if just search for Just Films and that and you should find us. Alternatively, all out social media is also linked above!Give us a follow on Letterboxd!https://letterboxd.com/justfilms_that/If you want to support us then you can do so via our Kofi page which is linked below:https://ko-fi.com/justfilmsthatAnything you donate to us will be massively appreciated and will go straight back into the cost of running and growing the podcast!Thank you to Dan and Tom who did our artwork and music! Click the links below to check out more of their fantastic work!Tom (Music)https://www.thomasgeorgemusic.com/Dan (Artwork)https://www.instagram.com/dan_vanguardcomic/Available wherever you get your podcasts. Give it a listen!Cheers!The Just Films & That team Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Atuação contra o América foi melhor que o placar? Atlético será favorito no Independência? Scarpa está na função ideal? Eduardo Domínguez, prestes a ser anunciado como novo técnico, tem bom elenco para trabalhar? Depois de Cuca e Sampaoli, sugeridos pela torcida, diretoria bancou sozinha a escolha do técnico? Faz muita diferença? Com André Ribas, Carol Leandro, Henrique Fernandes e Rogério Corrêa. Edição: Lavínia Aguiar.

Join the email list to get a FREE private finger training clinic with Dr. Tyler Nelson (normally $10) www.thestruggleclimbingshow.com/strong   Support the Show on Patreon Get access to all Pro Clinics, bonus episodes, and more. https://www.patreon.com/thestruggleclimbingshow   Coach Nate Drolet is back for another thoughtful conversation, including: Reflecting on his recent Hueco Tanks trip Climbing while injured  Collecting rejections like Stephen King Are gym boulders too tall? The problem with "easy" classics Advice to his younger self Falling 101 Is Coca-Cola Coffee aid? - BIG THANKS TO THE AMAZING SPONSORS OF THE STRUGGLE WHO LOVE ROCK CLIMBING AS MUCH AS YOU DO: SCARPA: The best climbing shoes, trail runners, and hikers in the game! Score yourself a free SCARPA x STRUGGLE hat when you use code STRUGGLE at checkout at SCARPA.com. SCARPA, No Place Too Far. Kilter: Award winning, adjustable, light-up board. It's what I'm training on at home, and if you're psyched to join me then use code STRUGGLE at checkout when you build your board, and you'll score up to $1000 off plus a free gift pack let's goooo!   And check out ALL the show's awesome sponsors and exclusive deals at thestruggleclimbingshow.com/deals - Here are some AI generated show notes (hopefully the robots got it right) 00:00 Weekend Warrior Life: Busy Schedules & Climbing Ambitions 03:07 Coach Nate Returns: Fresh Off Waco Tanks (and a 16-hour Drive) 05:16 Why Waco Matters: History, Style, and Coming Back After 7 Years 08:02 The Mystery Hand Injury: Rehab, PT Visits, and Still Sending 10:29 Low Dryer Send Story: Deconditioned, Tactical, and ‘Sport Climb' a Boulder 14:05 Mindset Lesson: ‘Collecting Rejections' Between Try Day and Send Day 20:06 Bouldering Trip Strategy: Limited ‘Great Goes,' Rest, and Managing Stoke 25:58 Sponsor Break: Scarpa Veloce L + Kilter Board Training Setup 29:06 Ryan's Vegas Injury & The Big Question: Am I Too Old for Outdoor Bouldering? 33:05 Gyms Are Too Tall: Risk, Training Value, and Smarter Bouldering as We Age 37:04 Indoor vs Outdoor Bouldering: Skills, Safety, and Choosing Lowballs 43:02 Injuries Happen: Low Back Pain, Randomness, and Playing Devil's Advocate 43:59 Rope Climber's Dilemma: Are Outdoor Bouldering Falls Worth It at 46? 45:19 Movement vs Highballs: “British vs French” Boulders & Why Classics Get Tall 47:58 Finding Low-Risk Outdoor Classics: Traverses, Short Gems, and Star Ratings 50:46 Bulldog/Puppy Dog Strategy: Pads, Topouts, and Managing the Mental Crux 54:04 Topout Skills Bootcamp: Mantles, Slabs, and Safe Practice in Chattanooga 56:20 How to Fall Better: Rolling, Tumbling Drills, and Building Confidence تدريجيًا 01:07:55 Keeping Sport Fitness During a Boulder Phase: ARC, 4x4s, and Seasonal Planning 01:16:56 Wrap-Up & Plugs: Coaching, “Affordable Atrocities,” and Supporting the Channel   - Shoutout to Aiden Schlatter for supporting at the Hero level on Patreon. A hero indeed! - Follow along on Instagram and YouTube: @thestruggleclimbingshow  - This show is produced and hosted by Ryan Devlin, and edited by Glen Walker. The Struggle is carbon-neutral in partnership with The Honnold Foundation and is a proud member of the Plug Tone Audio Collective, a diverse group of the best, most impactful podcasts in the outdoor industry.     And now here are some buzzwords to help the almighty algorithm get this show in front of people who love to climb: rock climbing, rock climber, climbing, climber, bouldering, sport climbing, gym climbing, how to rock climb, donuts are amazing. Okay, whew, that's done. But hey, if you're a human that's actually reading this, and if you love this show (and love to climb) would you think about sharing this episode with a climber friend of yours? And shout it out on your socials? I'll send you a sticker for doing it. Just shoot me a message on IG – thanks so much! 

Saída do argentino contribuiu para a vitória? Lucas Gonçalves merece uma chance? Como andam as negociações para a contratação do substituto? Natanael, Vitor Hugo e Scarpa, titulares contra o Itabirito, estavam pedindo passagem? Chances são iguais na semifinal do Mineiro com o América? Em que condições chega Tomás Pérez, o novo volante? Com André Ribas, Henrique Fernandes, Carol Leandro e Rogério Corrêa. Edição: Isabelle Magalhães.

California, 1977. La peggiore siccità del secolo trasforma i giardini privati tra Venice e Santa Monica in distese aride e le piscine in crateri di cemento. Ma dove i proprietari vedono un disastro, un gruppo di surfisti vede un'onda solidificata. Inizia così la rivoluzione dello skateboard moderno: un atto di "hacking" urbano che trasforma l'architettura d'élite in una delle prime riprogrammazioni della città della contemporaneità.In questo episodio esploriamo come una scarpa nata per il ponte di una barca a vela sia diventata la divisa di un gruppo di adolescenti e come il design modernista degli anni '40 abbia involontariamente creato la geometria perfetta per sfidare la gravità. Una storia di siccità, violazione di domicilio e sguardi capaci di vedere possibilità dove gli altri vedono solo limiti.

SummaryIn this engaging conversation, Kurt and Jamie explore a variety of topics ranging from the unpredictable weather patterns affecting their regions to the significance of sketches and diagrams in architecture. They reflect on personal growth through New Year resolutions, delve into the cultural impact of coffee, and discuss the Venice Biennale's architectural exhibits, particularly focusing on the themes of porches and the homage to renowned architect Carlo Scarpa. The dialogue emphasizes the relationship between form and function in design, highlighting how temporary structures can convey deeper meanings and the innovative use of books as structural elements.TakeawaysWeather patterns are becoming increasingly unpredictable.Coffee culture often intertwines with personal and cultural narratives.New Year resolutions can lead to personal growth and reflection.Sketching is a vital tool in the architectural design process.The Venice Biennale showcases innovative architectural ideas.The concept of the porch serves as a cultural and architectural symbol.Carlo Scarpa's influence is evident in contemporary architecture.Temporary structures can have significant cultural implications.The relationship between form and function is crucial in design.Books can serve as integral structural elements in architecture.TitlesWeather and Architecture: A ConversationSketching the Future of DesignSound bites"I want to get to the sketches.""I love talking about diagrams.""It's an homage to Scarpa."Chapters00:00 Weather Whirlwinds: A Winter Discussion02:49 Coffee Conversations: A Toast to David Lynch04:57 Reflections on Self-Care and Creativity07:34 The Art of Diagramming: Insights for Students09:40 Pecha Kucha: Engaging Storytelling Through Sketches12:31 Exploring Venice: Architecture and the Biennale19:29 Exploring the U.S. Pavilion at the Biennale24:01 The Concept of the Porch in Architecture33:21 Homage to Carlo Scarpa: The Sterling Pavilion41:44 The Relationship Between Old and New LibrariesSend Feedback :) Support the showBuy some Coffee! Support the Show!https://ko-fi.com/coffeesketchpodcast/shop Our Links Follow Jamie on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/falloutstudio/ Follow Kurt on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kurtneiswender/ Kurt's Practice - https://www.instagram.com/urbancolabarchitecture/ Coffee Sketch on Twitter - https://twitter.com/coffeesketch Jamie on Twitter - https://twitter.com/falloutstudio Kurt on Twitter - https://twitter.com/kurtneiswender

Partendo da una sneaker iconica, la adidas Superstar, scopriamo come un dettaglio funzionale - quattordici buchi per passarci i lacci - finisce per diventare una dichiarazione politica.Per riuscirci andiamo nella New York del 1986: dalla metro che mescola mondi diversi a Keith Haring e Basquiat, dal Bronx in fiamme alla nascita dell'Hip Hop, fino alla notte in cui ventimila persone alzano le proprie adidas al cielo al Madison Square Garden.È la storia di come una scarpa da basket esce dal campo, perde i lacci e diventa simbolo culturale, bandiera di una comunità e inizio dell'industria streetwear moderna.

Part 2 of our conversation with Sonnie Trotter, author of the new book “Uplifted” and host of the podcast “Stronger Than You Think”. Our sponsors for Season 7: Kilter: http://settercloset.com (email holds@kiltergrips.com for more information) Osprey: https://www.osprey.com/ Scarpa. Use this link to shop Scarpa products, and The Zine will get a portion of the sale: https://alnk.to/ Source

Como has visto en el título, en este programa repaso MI Top 5 de zapatillas para trail running 2025. Si me sigues en instagram, no te vas a llevar ninguna sorpresa ya que hice una infografía con ese Top 5. En este progrrama explico el ‘por qué' de cada elección, como complemento a la publicación de Instagram.Lógicamente, esto es una clasificación totalmente personal, es decir, lo que me ha gustado a MI, por lo que no tiene por qué coincidir con el de otra persona o profesional del sector.Y cómo siempre: todos los modelos de los que hablo, son zapatillas que tengo y que han pasado por mis pies. -5º puesto. Scarpa Spin Ultra 2. 315 g., drop 4, 189€-4º puesto. Altra Olympus 275. 323 g., drop 0 (perfil 33mm.), 195€-3r puesto. Kailas Fuga EX Pro. 299g., drop 5, 250€-2º puesto. Mount To Coast T1. 268g, drop 4, 190€-1er puesto. La Sportiva Prodigio PRO. 287 g., drop 6, 200€Contacto:juan@ellaboratoriodejuan.com

El primer trimestre de 2026, Scarpa lanzará la Golden Gate LT, un modelo de 'acceso' a la marca con un precio de 120€. Un modelo polivalente orientado al 'road o doo to trail' (últimamente también renombrado como gravel).Estas son las características esenciales:-300 g. en versión de hombre, y 240 g en versión mujer-drop 8mm. (24/32)-suela Presa TRN-11 "ATR Gum"Para la segunda mitad de 2026, también estará disponible en versión impermeable "WP".Contacto:juan@ellaboratoriodejuan.com

Jen and Sarah are joined by writer/directors Salvatore Scarpa and Max Burgoyne-Moore, and actor Zack Elsokari to discuss their film, ‘Largo'. They discuss the process of making this film, some of the happy accidents along the way, and how stories can drive change in the world. Follow @largo.film on Instagram and TikTok for the latest news, and follow @_slickfilms on Instagram to learn more about their other projects. Watch the trailer and visit their website to learn more about the film. Remember to leave a rating and review of this episode. Connect with Movies & Us on Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky @moviesanduspod or by email at moviesanduspod@gmail.com. Check out andusmedia.co for the latest on Movies & Us and TV & Us. And subscribe to Movies & Us on YouTube for full video episodes and more. Join the & Us Living Room for early access to ad-free episodes, exclusive bonus content, and more! Movies & Us is part of the Movie Archer Podcast Network. Learn more at moviearcher.com. 

Por que os resultados não correspondem ao nível do elenco? Sampaoli é o técnico certo para o Galo-2026? Hulk está jogando na posição errada? Por que Scarpa virou reserva? Com Laura Rezende, Henrique Fernandes, Carol Leandro e Rogério Corrêa. Edição: Lavínia Aguiar.

Luke Mehall reads his essay “Creeksgiving” originally published in The Alpinist, issue 48. Our sponsors for Season 7:  Kilter: http://settercloset.com (email holds@kiltergrips.com for more information) Osprey: https://www.osprey.com/ Scarpa. Use this link to shop Scarpa products, and The Zine will get a portion of the sale: https://alnk.to/3ye6GT2 Subscribe/ score some books/clothes/stickers: https://shop.climbingzine.com/ Photo of Uncle Samson and Tim Foulkes…

Mesmo longe do que consegue render, Scarpa merece mais minutos no Galo? Sem perder tempo, Sampaoli já traçou o perfil de reforços para 2026. Vai ter reformulação no elenco? Ainda dá para sonhar com a chamada "pré-Libertadores"?Carol Leandro, Laura Rezende e Ricardo Gonzalez respondem essas e muitas outras perguntas no episódio de número 500. Dá o play!

Send us a textIn today's episode, I interview Salvatore Scarpa, Max Burgoyne-Moore, and Rachid Sabitri, the directors and producer of the short film "Largo," a look at the refugee experience through the eyes of a young child.Listen to hear about knowing that they had the right actor to play their young lead, a very ambitious script which turned out to be easier to write than to film, and one sure fire way to test and see if a boat actually floats.Books mentioned in this episode include:Big Swiss by Jen BeaginThe Complete Cosmicomics by Italo CalvinoShit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy WestThe Prophet by Kahlil GibranFilms and TV shows mentioned in this episode include:"Largo" directed by Salvatore Scarpa and Max Burgoyne-MooreBicycle Thieves directed by Vittorio De SicaThe Battle of Algiers directed by Gillo PotecorvoPan's Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del ToroLooney TunesThe Godfather directed by Francis Ford CoppolaBack to the Future directed by Robert ZemeckisLove Actually directed by Richard CurtisBarbie directed by Greta Gerwig"Yellow" directed by Elham EhsasFollow the film on Instagram @largo.film.Support the show

In this episode of the Out of State Hunter Podcast, Chad shares some of his favorite items on sale at the GOHUNT Black Friday Sale. He breaks down the best deals with a practical, hunter-focused approach. He highlights top picks across every budget, under $50, $50-$100, $100-$250 and beyond, from must-have essentials like sleeping pads, headlamps, and medical kits to premium optics, bow sights, and high-end gear worth the investment. Chad shares honest insights, real-world experience, and smart recommendations to help you get the most value for your money. He also covers discount codes, insider savings, and a few standout items you won't want to miss. Whether you're gearing up for next season or shopping for the hunter in your life, this episode is your guide to making the most of the GOHUNT Black Friday sale.Christmas List EpisodeTHE LIST!!!Under $501. GOHUNT Sleeping Pad Pump - 20% Off - https://shop.gohunt.com/products/gohunt-sleeping-pad-pump?variant=448719856600982. Therm A Rest Z Seat - https://shop.gohunt.com/products/therm-a-rest-z-seat?variant=426462892853143. Black Diamond Storm 450 headlamp – 25% Off - https://shop.gohunt.com/products/black-diamond-storm-450-headlamp?variant=413904459204504. Adventure Medical Kit Ultralight .5 Med Kit - https://shop.gohunt.com/products/adventure-medical-kits-ultralight-watertight-5-medical-kit5. Saxx Quest Long Boxer Brief - 25% Off - https://shop.gohunt.com/products/saxx-quest-long-boxer-brief-1?variant=39687362543810HM - Various Food items (Meals - Pinnacle Foods, Heathers Choice, Peak) (Snacks – Honey Stingers, Packaroons, ProBars) $50-$1001. GOHUNT Mid-Weight Leather Hunting Glove - $80 Not on Sale - https://shop.gohunt.com/products/gohunt-mid-weight-leather-glove?variant=451740962654102. GOHUNT Pack Out Game Bags Set – 20% Off - https://shop.gohunt.com/products/gohunt-pack-out-game-bag-set?variant=427226792920983. 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MSR Reactor 1.0L Stove System – 25% Off - https://shop.gohunt.com/products/msr-reactor-1-0l-stove-system-v2HM- Footwear – Lots of boot options showing up in this price range and some good hiking/train running shoes You've been very good this year category…1. Revic BR10 – Not on Sale but totally worth the money - https://shop.gohunt.com/products/revic-acura-br10-ballistic-rangefinding-binocular-10x422. HHA Tetra Tournament 4 Pin – 20% off - https://shop.gohunt.com/products/hha-tetra-tournament-bow-sight?variant=429598892689303. Kowa Spotting Scopes 55 – 99 Angled and Straight - https://shop.gohunt.com/collections/black-friday#/filter:ss_price:250:7499/filter:vendor:Kowa4. Sig Sauer KILO4K Rangefinder – 10% Off - https://shop.gohunt.com/products/sig-sauer-kilo4k-6x22mm-bdx-lrf-rangerfinder5. 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Galo jogou pelo Brasileirão pensando na Sula? Scarpa foi poupado ou virou reserva? Sampaoli terá dificuldade para fazer o time recuperar a confiança? Final da Sula tem favorito? Ou é disputa equilibrada? Com Fábio Jr, Laura Rezende, Carol Leandro e Rogério Corrêa. Edição: Lavínia Aguiar. Dá o play!

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the first route at Cave Wall, a story read by Luke Mehall Our sponsors for Season 7:  Kilter: http://settercloset.com (email holds@kiltergrips.com for more information) Osprey: https://www.osprey.com/ Scarpa. Use this link to shop Scarpa products, and The Zine will get a portion of the sale: https://alnk.to/3ye6GT2 Subscribe/ score some books/clothes/stickers: https://shop.climbingzine.com/ Photo…

For years, Voices.com has been one of the most polarizing platforms in the voice over industry. Some voice actors swear by it. Others swear at it. In this episode of Everyday VOpreneur, Marc Scott sits down with voice actor, coach, and Top Talent on Voices.com, Gina Scarpa, for an honest, no-holds-barred conversation about what the platform is really like in 2025. They dig into the controversial history, talk transparently about commissions and “managed services,” and explore what's changed—plus what still needs work. Gina also shares actionable strategies for optimizing your profile, mastering the algorithm, and landing more auditions. If you've written off Voices.com in the past… it might be time to take another look. You'll learn: The truth behind the “managed services” controversy How Voices.com's current algorithm actually works Why optimization matters more than luck How to stand out in search and book direct invites What really drives success (and failure) on P2P sites Check out Gina's Courses Here - https://courses.ginascarpa.com/ref/marcscott CONNECT WITH GINA SCARPA Gina Scarpa Website - https://ginascarpa.com Gina Scarpa on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ginascarpa Gina Scarpa on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/voiceoversbygina Gina Scarpa on X - https://x.com/ginascarpa Gina Scarpa on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbw8eOVVA_H0_zb4VHZlAWw   Marc Scott on Instagram - https://instagram.com/marcscott VOpreneur® on YouTube - https://youtube.com/@vopreneur RESOURCES FOR VOICE ACTORS * Voice Over Marketing Playbook ➡️ Visit https://voiceovermarketingplaybook.com * 10 Common Marketing Mistakes VO's Make ➡️ Visit https://vopreneur.com/10mistakes * Get an instant $25 credit when you sign up for VoiceZam ➡️ Visit https://voicezam.com/marcscott * For voice over services: ➡️ Visit https://marcscottvoiceover.com * Want VOpreneur Swag? ➡️ Visit https://teespring.com/stores/vopreneur * Join the VOpreneur Facebook Group ➡️ Visit https://facebook.com/groups/vopreneur If you need guidance with your voice over business or learning how to more effectively market, I can help. Book a 15 minute free consultation with me to discuss your specific needs. https://vopreneur.com/free

Join The Struggle's Patreon community to get 100+ hours of Bonus Episodes, Pro Clinics, Uncut Videos, and Submit Questions for Future Guests. FREE TRIAL available!  https://www.patreon.com/thestruggleclimbingshow   In this episode of the Weekend Warrior series, busy-dad climber Joey Churchman joins to discuss: How he broke into new grades on just 3 hours per week at the gym Tall-climber struggles (he's 6' 6.5") Big gains using a training app to stay focused and efficient  From avoiding system boards to training almost exclusively on them How he programs his gym sessions and home training for optimal results  Picking the right project to break into V7 and 5.12a Top-roping tactics for faster sends  Using video to accelerate progress  - BIG THANKS TO THE AMAZING SPONSORS OF THE STRUGGLE WHO LOVE ROCK CLIMBING AS MUCH AS YOU DO: PhysiVantage: the official climbing-nutrition sponsor of The Struggle. Use code STRUGGLE15 at checkout for 15% off your full-priced nutrition order. Rúngne: Soft threads and high performing chalk! Use Code STRUGGLE for 10% Off Bags, Buckets, Chalk & Apparel from Rúngne! SCARPA: The best climbing shoes, trail runners, and hikers in the game! Score yourself a free SCARPA x STRUGGLE hat when you use code STRUGGLE at checkout at SCARPA.com. SCARPA, No Place Too Far. Petzl: The best and most reliable helmets, harnesses, draws, and gear that'll help you to Access the Inaccessible. Find Petzl at your local gear shop, and learn more at Petzl.com   And check out ALL the show's awesome sponsors and exclusive deals at thestruggleclimbingshow.com/deals - Here are some AI generated show notes (hopefully the robots got it right) 00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:25 Meet Joey Churchman: The Weekend Warrior 01:45 Balancing Climbing with Family and Work 03:03 Ryan's Personal Climbing Update 03:56 Joey's Climbing Background and Challenges 06:59 Training and Progression 14:44 Board Climbing Journey 20:27 Efficient Training Strategies 34:28 The Benefits of Running for Climbers 35:59 Balancing Fitness and Family 36:12 Running and Strength Conditioning Routine 37:38 Translating Training to Rock Climbing 39:38 Breaking into 5.12 Grades 47:16 Mental Strategies and Visualization 55:06 Bouldering with Family 59:06 Efficient Training and Video Analysis 01:04:07 Future Goals and Reflections 01:07:24 Host's Personal Climbing Update   - Shoutout to Matt Waltereese for being a Victory Whip supporter on Patreon! So mega. - Follow along on Instagram and YouTube: @thestruggleclimbingshow  - This show is produced and hosted by Ryan Devlin, and edited by Glen Walker. The Struggle is carbon-neutral in partnership with The Honnold Foundation and is a proud member of the Plug Tone Audio Collective, a diverse group of the best, most impactful podcasts in the outdoor industry. And now here are some buzzwords to help the almighty algorithm get this show in front of people who love to climb: rock climbing, rock climber, climbing, climber, bouldering, sport climbing, gym climbing, how to rock climb, donuts are amazing. Okay, whew, that's done. But hey, if you're a human that's actually reading this, and if you love this show (and love to climb) would you think about sharing this episode with a climber friend of yours? And shout it out on your socials? I'll send you a sticker for doing it. Just shoot me a message on IG – thanks so much! 

Send us a textThis week on Here's What We Know, we welcome voiceover artist and creative powerhouse Gina Scarpa. You may not recognize her face, but you've definitely heard her voice, from radio airwaves to major video games and promos for brands you know by heart.Gina opens up about her journey from hand-delivering cassette tapes to radio stations in Connecticut to becoming a full-time voice actor and respected coach. We'll explore the evolution of media, the realities of creative reinvention, and why finding your authentic voice, literally and figuratively, matters more than ever.In This Episode:The grit and heart behind building a voiceover career from scratchHow rejection can fuel resilience instead of fearWhy authenticity beats perfection every single timeThe parallels between gaming, storytelling, and self-discoveryThis episode is sponsored by:Reed Animal Hospital (Be sure to tell them Gary sent you!)Bio:Gina Scarpa is an accomplished professional voiceover artist and coach. She is currently available to appear as a guest on podcasts and can speak on a number of engaging topics. With a wide array of interests, Gina is a great podcast guest for a variety of programs.Gina has spent decades in radio broadcasting and voice acting. She is proud to have voiced national TV and radio commercials. Additionally, Gina has voiced video games and corporate content for some of the biggest brands in the country. Some of Gina's happy clients include VistaPrint, Burger King, Xfinity, L'Oreal, and Invesco. Gina also has a passion for both voicing and playing video games. She is a competitive gamer and is accomplished in Valorant, League of Legends, and other competitive games.Before taking her VO career full-time, Gina spent many years as an on-air radio DJ. She has also worked as a reality television journalist. As a potential podcast guest, she is able to speak on many topics that may grow your audience. With humor and warmth, she would be a good fit for your list of interested guests.Gina is also an award-winning teacher and director. She was named the 2019 ACE Educator of the Year by the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County in CT. She is also the founder, owner, and Creative Director of Positive Voices Studio. This program provides coaching and educational programming for children, teens, and rising adult voice actors.Website: https://ginascarpa.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginascarpa/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginascarpa/Connect with Gary: Gary's Website Follow Gary on Instagram Gary's Tiktok Gary's Facebook Watch the episodes on YouTube Advertise on the Podcast Thank you for listening. Let us know what you think about this episode. Leave us a review!

Part 1 of our conversation with Sonnie Trotter, author of the new book “Uplifted”. Our sponsors for Season 7:  Kilter: http://settercloset.com (email holds@kiltergrips.com for more information) Osprey: https://www.osprey.com/ Scarpa. Use this link to shop Scarpa products, and The Zine will get a portion of the sale: https://alnk.to/3ye6GT2 Subscribe/ score some books/clothes/stickers: https://shop.climbingzine.com/ Photo of Sonnie on Cobra Crack…

Join The Struggle's Patreon community to get 100+ hours of Bonus Episodes, Pro Clinics, Uncut Videos, and Submit Questions for Future Guests. FREE TRIAL available!  https://www.patreon.com/thestruggleclimbingshow - Emily Harrington, Kai Lightner, and Anna Hazelnutt team up for a live podcast from iconic Miguel's Pizza to kick off Rocktoberfest! We grab a slice and a beer, then dive into: Memories from first trip to the Red How to work through the mental discomfort of pump Fear of falling and how the pros handle it What solidified climbing as their passion in life USA Climbing's ban on trans athlete competitors How becoming a parent impacts climbing performance and adventures How to become a professional climber Climbing pet peeves - BIG THANKS TO THESE SPONSORS FOR SUPPORTING ROCKTOBERFEST AND BRINGING YOU THIS EPISODE AD-FREE: PhysiVantage: the official climbing-nutrition sponsor of The Struggle. Use code STRUGGLE15 at checkout for 15% off your full-priced nutrition order. SCARPA: The best climbing shoes, trail runners, and hikers in the game! Score yourself a free SCARPA x STRUGGLE hat when you use code STRUGGLE at checkout at SCARPA.com. SCARPA, No Place Too Far. Petzl: The best and most reliable helmets, harnesses, draws, and gear that'll help you to Access the Inaccessible. Find Petzl at your local gear shop, and learn more at Petzl.com Rhino Skin Solutions: Perform, Cleanse, Repair… repeat! Amazing skin care products crafted specifically for climbers, whether you're pulling hard indoors or out. Use code STRUGGLE to score a whopping 20% off your purchase!    And a huge shoutout to the RRGCC for making Rocktoberfest happen. Please support their work with a monthly donation like I do, if you can! - Shoutout to Matt Waltereese for being a Victory Whip supporter on Patreon! So mega. - Follow along on Instagram @thestruggleclimbingshow and YouTube /@thestruggleclimbingshow - The Struggle is carbon-neutral in partnership with The Honnold Foundation, whose mission is to promote solar energy for a more equitable world. - This show is produced and hosted by Ryan Devlin, and edited by Glen Walker. The Struggle is a proud member of the Plug Tone Audio Collective, a diverse group of the best, most impactful podcasts in the outdoor industry. - The struggle makes us stronger! I hope your training and climbing are going great.  - And now here are some buzzwords to help the almighty algorithm get this show in front of people who love to climb: rock climbing, rock climber, climbing, climber, bouldering, sport climbing, gym climbing, how to rock climb, donuts are amazing. Okay, whew, that's done. But hey, if you're a human that's actually reading this, and if you love this show (and love to climb) would you think about sharing this episode with a climber friend of yours? And shout it out on your socials? I'll send you a sticker for doing it. Just shoot me a message on IG – thanks so much! 

NOTE: Originally published Nov 25, 2024 for YouTube Members  In this engaging conversation, Josh Madsen and Craig Dostie delve into the world of Telemark skiing, discussing their unique experiences, the evolution of Telemark gear, and the recent release of the TX Pro boot. They explore the nuances of boot flex, the importance of subtlety in Telemark technique, and the challenges faced by skiers transitioning to new equipment. The discussion highlights the balance between performance and comfort, as well as the need for diverse options in telemark gear to cater to different skiing styles and preferences. Check out my website and online store: https://www.freeheellife.com/ My weekly e-mail newsletter is a great way to stay in contact with all of my content, events, product launches, etc. You can sign up on the front page of my website: www.freeheellife.com #telemark #spreadtelemark #freeheellife #skiing

A rerun of our conversation with Jimmie Dunn from 2022. Our sponsors for Season 7:  Kilter: http://settercloset.com (email holds@kiltergrips.com for more information) Osprey: https://www.osprey.com/ Scarpa. Use this link to shop Scarpa products, and The Zine will get a portion of the sale: https://alnk.to/3ye6GT2 Subscribe/ score some books/clothes/stickers: https://shop.climbingzine.com/

Goodfellow, capo, killer, thief. A man so diabolically evil that he ordered his eldest son to murder his closest associate, and his youngest son to murder his best friend.When Greg Scarpa was in his early twenties he became a goodfellow in the Profaci family by swearing a blood oath to the Mafia, at the time the country's largest organized-crime syndicate. And for 25 years he betrayed that oath and the men closest to him by acting as a paid informant for the FBI. He fed America's premier law enforcement agency a steady stream of self-serving information accusing the men who trusted him with their lives of every crime he was himself committing. During those 25 years of treachery, Scarpa was a one-man crime wave who spent only 30 days behind bars thanks to his status as the FBI's ultimate Mafia insider. His standing as a prized informant freed him to engage in mayhem and murder knowing he had a virtual license to kill with reckless abandon.Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil is a deep dive that provides fresh insight into Scarpa's malignant personality. Dyer peels back the layers of myth and misdirection to paint as complete and accurate a picture as possible of a man who murdered his enemies and betrayed his friends, of a bigamist who loved only money, of a feared and reviled man whose destructive appetites knew no bounds. GREG SCARPA, LEGENDARY EVIL: The Many Faces of a Mafia Killer—Jonathan Dye

In this gripping episode of Gangland Wire, retired intelligence detective Gary Jenkins sits down with author Jonathan Dyer to explore one of the most complex and dangerous figures in Mafia history—Greg Scarpa, the Colombo family enforcer known as The Grim Reaper. Dyer, whose career spans military intelligence, law, and education, brings deep insight into Scarpa's remarkable—and chilling—dual role as both a ruthless mob killer and a prized FBI top echelon informant. Together, Gary and Jonathan unpack the moral ambiguities, betrayals, and calculated violence that defined Scarpa's career in the turbulent world of organized crime. Listeners will hear: How Scarpa balanced loyalty to the mob with his covert cooperation with the FBI.   The structured, almost corporate way his crew operated—and how he enforced discipline with fear and bloodshed. The darker corners of his personal life, including family ties, marriages, and the impact of his choices on his children. The violent episodes, such as the murder of Mary Bari, underscore his brutality and the Mafia's code of protection. From Cold War–era law enforcement collusion to the inner workings of New York's underworld, this episode reveals how Scarpa manipulated both sides of the law to maintain power. Jonathan Dyer's latest book, Greg Scarpa: Legendary Evil, offers the foundation for a conversation that will leave you questioning where law enforcement ends and organized crime begins. Subscribe to Gangland Wire wherever you get your podcasts, and join us each week as we uncover the stories buried beneath the headlines—and the bodies. Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. 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, the documentary, click here.  To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here Transcript [0:00] Well, hey, welcome all you wiretappers. Good to be back here in the studio of [0:03] Gangland Wire. This is Gary Jenkins, an entire Kansas City, Missouri police detective. Worked at the Organized Crime Unit or the Intelligence Unit for many years. And now I've got a podcast and we're all about the organized crime. As you guys know, all you regular guys and for new people, it's all about organized crime, particularly the Italian mafia in the United States. Now, I have an author here today, Jonathan Dyer. And Jonathan, I really am excited about having you on here because you have a different take about a much cussed and discussed subject or person, Gregory the Grim Reaper Scarpa. So welcome, Jonathan. Thanks, Gary. Thanks for having me. So tell the guys a little bit about yourself, a little bit about your background. Where'd you come from other than Marshall? We found out we have similar backgrounds, Marshall, Missouri, rural Missouri, farm life and Kansas City. So tell the guys a little bit about yourself. Well, in 1981, Gary, I joined the Army and spent about a year and a half in Monterey Defense Language Institute learning Russian. [1:10] After that, I went to Goodfellow Air Force Base for some cryptologic training. And then after that, I went to the National Security Agency in Fort Meade for some more training and then shipped overseas to Berlin for three years trying to keep tabs on the Soviet Army during the Cold War. After the Army, I entered law school at UC Davis in California. And after law school, I practiced law for about 10 years as a civil litigator. And then in 1999, I switched careers and became a teacher and taught government and U.S. History and criminal law and retired during the pandemic. And now I live in central Texas. Interesting. [1:52] This is off the subject a little bit, but I've always been curious about that language school.

A rerun of our conversation with Tommy Caldwell from 2022, recorded in his van in Estes Park, Colorado. Big thanks to Shaun Matusewicz for joining on the adventure and helping with the interview! Our sponsors for Season 7:  Kilter: http://settercloset.com (email holds@kiltergrips.com for more information) Osprey: https://www.osprey.com/ Scarpa. Use this link to shop Scarpa products, and The…

Welcome to Cryptic Chronicles. Today I am joined by legendary author Jonathan Dyer (links below). In this episode, we're stepping into the violent, shadowy world of Gregory Scarpa Sr.—the Colombo family enforcer known as The Grim Reaper. Scarpa was a man who lived a double life: a ruthless Mafia killer who also served as a longtime FBI informant, blurring the line between crime and justice for nearly three decades. To help unravel this paradox, I'm joined by Jonathan Dyer, author of the new book Greg Scarpa: Legendary Evil, which dives deep into the chilling story of one of organized crime's most dangerous figures and the corruption that shielded him. BUY MERCH! https://httpscrypticchroniclescom.creator-spring.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/crypticchronicles Magic Mind: https://magicmind.com/CRYPTICCR20 Use code: CRYPTICC20 SOURCES: Website: https://jonathandyerauthor.com/2025/08/13/a-mobster-and-his-gumar/ Book: https://a.co/d/blJ69F5

Gregory Scarpa, known as “The Grim Reaper,” was a feared capo in the Colombo crime family and one of the most violent figures in the American Mafia. Rising to prominence in Brooklyn during the 1950s, Scarpa became infamous for his ruthless efficiency as a hitman—credited with dozens, if not hundreds, of murders. He ran rackets involving extortion, loan sharking, gambling, and narcotics, while maintaining a reputation as a stylish and brazen enforcer. His willingness to use extreme violence made him indispensable during the Colombo family's bloody internal wars, where he played a decisive role in eliminating rivals and consolidating power for his faction.Scarpa's criminal empire, however, was shadowed by his double life as a longtime FBI informant. Beginning in the early 1960s, he secretly collaborated with federal agents, reportedly even participating in the search for missing civil rights workers in Mississippi during the “Mississippi Burning” case. His relationship with the Bureau deepened in the 1980s under FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio, a partnership that sparked controversy amid claims the FBI allowed Scarpa to operate with impunity in exchange for intelligence. In 1986, he contracted HIV through a tainted blood transfusion, and by the early 1990s, he was terminally ill. Scarpa pleaded guilty to multiple murders in 1993 and died in prison in 1994 from AIDS-related complications—leaving behind a legacy as both one of the Mafia's deadliest killers and one of the FBI's most compromised informants.to contact  me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/31/usa.international

What does it take to keep running strong from your teens into your 90s? Welcome to The Aging Athlete, a new Trail Runner Nation mini-series co-hosted by ultrarunning icon Krissy Moehl. Every 5 to 6 weeks, we'll dive into what it looks like to grow older in this sport we love—exploring how to train smarter, fuel better, recover more intentionally, and stay motivated through the decades. In this fourth episode of The Aging Athlete series, we sit down with Selene Yeager, a leading voice in reshaping how we think about performance, aging, and the female athlete. In this episode, she shares her personal journey from elite triathlete and gravel cyclist to trail runner, navigating midlife hormonal shifts. As the host of Hit Play Not Pause and coauthor of ROAR and Next Level, Selene opens up about redefining success, adjusting training and nutrition, and managing the mental side of aging. She offers practical, empowering insights drawn from science, storytelling, and her own lived experience. We also talk about the changes she's noticed in her own training and mindset while preparing for an ultra. Whether you're in your 30s, 40s, 50s or beyond, Selene's message is clear: your best athletic years might still be ahead. Check out her new book, "Next Level: Your Guide to Kicking Ass, Feeling Great, and Crushing Goals Through Menopause and Beyond" Her Live Feisty Website Episode Sponsors Janji, Use code TRAILRUNNER for 10% off Scarpa, Find your perfect show for the problems that lie ahead Amazfit - T-Rex 3: Get 15% off JAMBAR: 20% off with code TRN20 Oikos Triple Zero Get the NEW "1 > 0" running hat HERE.  Limited supply

Join The Struggle's Patreon community to get 100+ hours of Bonus Episodes, Pro Clinics, Uncut Videos, and Submit Questions for Future Guests. FREE TRIAL available!  https://www.patreon.com/thestruggleclimbingshow - Elite climber Chris Sharma explores: A wild idea to offer cash incentives for sending hard outdoor climbs What happens when comp climbers get psyched on rock Why being a busy dad has improved certain aspects of his climbing Details on his super steep next level 5.16 (??) project Knowing when to walk away from a project Being motivated by grades can be good sometimes The art of not giving a f*ck How he alleviates send pressure The intensely beautiful and unique experience of DWS How YOU can climb with him and Magnus Midtbø - BIG THANKS TO THE AMAZING SPONSORS OF THE STRUGGLE WHO LOVE ROCK CLIMBING AS MUCH AS YOU DO: PhysiVantage: the official climbing-nutrition sponsor of The Struggle. Use code STRUGGLE15 at checkout for 15% off your full-priced nutrition order. Rúngne: Soft threads and high performing chalk! Use Code STRUGGLE for 10% Off Bags, Buckets, Chalk & Apparel from Rúngne! Rungne.com SCARPA: The best climbing shoes, trail runners, and hikers in the game! Score yourself a free SCARPA x STRUGGLE hat when you use code STRUGGLE at checkout at SCARPA.com. SCARPA, No Place Too Far.  Altitude Climbing: Join legends Chris Sharma and Magnus Midtbø for an unforgettable deep water soloing retreat in Mallorca, where all of the logistics (food, lodging, boat guides, etc.) are taken care of for you. Dream trip! Visit altitudeclimbing.com/events to learn more and apply today. And check out ALL the show's awesome sponsors and exclusive deals at thestruggleclimbingshow.com/deals   - Shoutout to Matt Waltereese for being a Victory Whip supporter on Patreon! So mega. - Here are some AI generated show notes (hopefully the robots got it right)   00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:45 Guest Introduction: Chris Sharma 01:17 Chris Sharma's Current Projects 01:42 Deep Water Soloing and Retreats 02:27 Host's Personal Update 03:35 Chris Sharma's Climbing History 04:19 Discussion on Climbing Routes and Challenges 08:52 Competitive Climbing vs. Rock Climbing 20:06 Balancing Climbing and Family Life 27:03 Maintaining Climbing Fitness and Strength 31:12 Exploring the Appeal of Bouldering 31:36 The Steep Cave Project 32:15 Inspiration and Progression in Climbing 33:51 Switching Gears and New Challenges 35:34 The Physicality of Santa Ana 37:14 Balancing Fun and Hard Work 39:08 The Role of Inspiration in Climbing 40:29 Fizzy Vantage Nutrition 41:53 Personal Climbing Goals and Reflections 51:03 Climbing as a Profession 54:51 The Joy of Deep Water Soloing 01:02:49 Conclusion and Final Thoughts - Follow along on Instagram @thestruggleclimbingshow and YouTube /@thestruggleclimbingshow - The Struggle is carbon-neutral in partnership with The Honnold Foundation, whose mission is to promote solar energy for a more equitable world. - This show is produced and hosted by Ryan Devlin, and edited by Glen Walker. The Struggle is a proud member of the Plug Tone Audio Collective, a diverse group of the best, most impactful podcasts in the outdoor industry. - The struggle makes us stronger! I hope your training and climbing are going great.  - And now here are some buzzwords to help the almighty algorithm get this show in front of people who love to climb: rock climbing, rock climber, climbing, climber, bouldering, sport climbing, gym climbing, how to rock climb, donuts are amazing. Okay, whew, that's done. But hey, if you're a human that's actually reading this, and if you love this show (and love to climb) would you think about sharing this episode with a climber friend of yours? And shout it out on your socials? I'll send you a sticker for doing it. Just shoot me a message on IG – thanks so much!   

Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil: The Many Faces Of A Mafia KillerGoodfellow, capo, killer, thief. A man so diabolically evil that he ordered his eldest son to murder his closest associate, and his youngest son to murder his best friend.When Greg Scarpa was in his early twenties he became a goodfellow in the Profaci family by swearing a blood oath to the Mafia, at the time the country's largest organized-crime syndicate. And for 25 years he betrayed that oath and the men closest to him by acting as a paid informant for the FBI. He fed America's premier law enforcement agency a steady stream of self-serving information accusing the men who trusted him with their lives of every crime he was himself committing. During those 25 years of treachery, Scarpa was a one-man crime wave who spent only 30 days behind bars thanks to his status as the FBI's ultimate Mafia insider. His standing as a prized informant freed him to engage in mayhem and murder knowing he had a virtual license to kill with reckless abandon.https://amzn.to/4mfkdQgBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Goodfellow, capo, killer, thief. A man so diabolically evil that he ordered his eldest son to murder his closest associate, and his youngest son to murder his best friend. When Greg Scarpa was in his early twenties, he became a goodfellow in the Profaci family by swearing a blood oath to the Mafia, at the time the country's largest organized-crime syndicate. And for 25 years, he betrayed that oath and the men closest to him by acting as a paid informant for the FBI. He fed America's premier law enforcement agency a steady stream of self-serving information accusing the men who trusted him with their lives of every crime he was himself committing. During those 25 years of treachery, Scarpa was a one-man crime wave who spent only 30 days behind bars thanks to his status as the FBI's ultimate Mafia insider. His standing as a prized informant freed him to engage in mayhem and murder knowing he had a virtual license to kill with reckless abandon. Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil is a deep dive that provides fresh insight into Scarpa's malignant personality. Dyer peels back the layers of myth and misdirection to paint as complete and accurate a picture as possible of a man who murdered his enemies and betrayed his friends, of a bigamist who loved only money, of a feared and reviled man whose destructive appetites knew no bounds.https://amzn.to/4micvouBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

True Crime Tuesday presents: Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil: The Many Faces of a Mafia Killer with Lawyer/Historian/Researcher/Author, Jonathan Dyer! Goodfellow, capo, killer, thief. A man so diabolically evil that he ordered his eldest son to murder his closest associate, and his youngest son to murder his best friend. When Greg Scarpa was in his early twenties he became a goodfellow in the Profaci family by swearing a blood oath to the Mafia, at the time the country's largest organized-crime syndicate. And for 25 years he betrayed that oath and the men closest to him by acting as a paid informant for the FBI. He fed America's premier law enforcement agency a steady stream of self-serving information accusing the men who trusted him with their lives of every crime he was himself committing. During those 25 years of treachery, Scarpa was a one-man crime wave who spent only 30 days behind bars thanks to his status as the FBI's ultimate Mafia insider. His standing as a prized informant freed him to engage in mayhem and murder knowing he had a virtual license to kill with reckless abandon. Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil is a deep dive that provides fresh insight into Scarpa's malignant personality. Dyer peels back the layers of myth and misdirection to paint as complete and accurate a picture as possible of a man who murdered his enemies and betrayed his friends, of a bigamist who loved only money, of a feared and reviled man whose destructive appetites knew no bounds. On today's TCT, Jonathan Dyer sits down with us to talk about the complexities and dualities of the killer known as Greg Scarpa! Why did he treat he friends like family? His family like hired help? and why were his loyalties split down the middle between the Mafia and the FBI? How could a cold blooded, psychopathic killer still believe in doing the right thing?! Get your copy of "Greg Scarpa: Legendary Evil" here:  https://wildbluepress.com/greg-scarpa-legendary-evil-the-many-faces-of-a-mafia-killer/ PLUS: DUMB  CRIMES AND STUPID CRIMINALS WITH JESSICA FREEBURG! Check out Jessica Freeburg's website and order her new books:  https://jessicafreeburg.com/books/ and check out Jess on Tik Tok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@jessicafreeburgwrites Sign up to go with Dacre Stoker and Mysterious Universe Tours to Romania here:  https://mysteriousadventurestours.com/tour-item/draculas-haunted-halloween-romania-tour/ Want to attend JUST Dracula's Vampire Ball at Bran Castle? Click this link to find out how: https://mysteriousadventurestours.com/tour-item/draculas-vampire-ball-at-bran-castle-a-private-halloween-experience/ Make sure you update your Darkness Radio Apple Apps! and subscribe to the Darkness Radio You Tube page:  https://www.youtube.com/@DRTimDennis There are VERY FEW tickets remaining for the Pawtographs For Pooches event at the Palmer House Hotel in Sauk Centre. MN..  Get your Tickets NOW and help us raise money for the Tri-County Humane Society of St. Cloud!  Get your Tix HERE:  http://pawtographsforpooches.com/ #crime #truecrime #truecrimepodcasts #truecrimetuesday #jonathandyer #gregscarpalegendaryevil #themanyfacesofamafiakiller #wildbluepress #gregscarpa #gregscarpajr #mafia #FBI #colombofamily #gangwar #larrymazza #joeyscarpa #gangster #joebrewster #joecolombo #mississippi #medgarevers #civilrightsworkers   #RICO #dumbcrimesstupidcriminals #TimDennis #jessicafreeburg #paranormalauthor #floridaman #drugcrimes #foodcrimes #stupidcrimes #funnycrimes #sexcrimes #dumbcrimes

Retired agent Bryan Travers reviews his investigation of Alfred Scarpa, for illegally selling anabolic steroids, which he manufactured and stored in the basement of his residence. The case was part of Operation Raw Deal, a nationwide DEA led investigation and take-down of individuals illegally manufacturing and trafficking anabolic steroids and its raw materials, mainly from China, along with the human growth hormone (HGH) and the insulin growth factor (IGF). Scarpa was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to 33 months in federal prison. The entire international Operation Raw Deal investigation resulted in more than 124 arrests in the United States on federal charges. Bryan Travers served in the FBI for 25 years. Five as a latent print examiner and 20 as a special agent. Check out episode show notes, photos, and related articles: https://jerriwilliams.com/358-bryan-travers-anabolic-steroids-operation-raw-deal/   Buy me a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JerriWilliams   Join my Reader Team to get the FBI Reading Resource - Books about the FBI, written by FBI agents, the 20 clichés about the FBI Reality Checklist, and keep up to date on the FBI in books, TV, and movies via my monthly email. Join here. http://eepurl.com/dzCCmL    Check out my FBI books, non-fiction and crime fiction, available as audiobooks, ebooks and paperbacks wherever books are sold. https://jerriwilliams.com/books/

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