rant · moment 11 of 14
Mob Wives, Family Killers, and the Decline of the Mafia
from Bring Back The Mob · #62
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
5 minThe conversation shifts to Mob Wives, Staten Island's remaining mafia culture, Tim's childhood memories of connected guys on Long Island, his dad's FBI-agent friend, and speculation about the mob's decline versus new organized crime groups.
- 35:31Mob Wives reminded Long Islanders of people who think they're in the mob but aren't quite connected.
- 35:53Staten Island is the last holdover of mob culture; Long Island's version is mostly done.
- 36:39People born in Staten Island never leave; they stay in the borough and date within it.
- 37:25Connected guys at nightlife venues are identifiable by how they separate from women to smoke cigars and talk business.
- 38:13Long Island has so many counterfeit guys pretending to be connected.
- 39:04Tim visited a compound in Quogue owned by guys in the carding business and was offered unlimited ribs.
- 39:37A family friend's ex-husband was a very fat man with compression boots whose knees would bleed and who was a killer for some family.
- 40:05The fat killer liked eating caffeine pills.