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T.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoSeason 2, Episode 5: Who Gets to Tell the Past?Who Gets to Tell the Past?Modern societies are drowning in history—and starving for truth.This episode of the T.O.P. Podcast asks a deceptively simple question: who gets to tell the past, and by what authority? Not as an academic exercise, but as a moral and cultural problem—one that becomes unavoidable when inherited stories collapse.Historiography emerges not as neutral scholarship, but as doubt. The moment we stop asking what happened and begin asking how we know, history loses its voic...
2026-02-0611 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast: Season 2 - Episode 4 - The VoidPART TWO SUMMARY: “THE VOID”Part Two examines what followed the collapse of meaning after World War One. If the artists and writers of the 1920s documented the destruction of God, progress, reason, and authority, the 1930s revealed what happens when nothing replaces them.Modernist literature did not simply experiment with form. Writers like Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner abandoned omniscient narration because the culture itself no longer believed anyone could see the whole truth. Fragmentation, shifting perspectives, and interior consciousness reflected a deeper reality: authority had collapsed. No institution, ideo...
2026-01-2915 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast: Season 2 - Episode 3: The Fracture - Art and Meaning Between the WarsPART ONE: The Fracture — Art and Meaning Between the WarsA T.O.P. Podcast EpisodeWorld War One did not simply devastate Europe physically — it shattered meaning itself. In this episode of the T.O.P. Podcast, Michael DiMatteo explores how writers and artists between the World Wars responded to the same historical catastrophe in radically different ways, and why geography — especially the Atlantic Ocean — mattered so much.The Great War left more than ten million dead and millions more wounded, but its deepest casualty was certainty. Faith in God, progress, empire, and reason...
2026-01-2215 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast: Season 2 - Episode 2Between Two Worlds: How Medieval Writers Saved the Pagan Past While Preaching ChristianityIn early medieval England and Ireland, Christian writers faced a dilemma that feels uncomfortably familiar today. They were charged with spreading the Christian faith, yet they inherited a world saturated with pagan stories—gods, heroes, monster-slaying warriors, and funeral pyres. Church doctrine labeled these traditions false or even demonic. The question was unavoidable: do you erase the past, or do you preserve it—knowing it contradicts your beliefs?This tension shaped some of the most important texts of the early Middle Ages. Thre...
2026-01-1626 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoEpisode 1 - Writing Under the Emperors: When Every Word is WatchedEpisode 2: Writing Under the EmperorsAugustus commissioned Virgil's Aeneid to legitimize empire through mythology. Aeneas's divinely-destined founding of Rome made Augustus's rule seem inevitable and holy. Yet Virgil embedded darkness—Dido's suicide-curse, Turnus's brutal killing—showing empire's cost even while celebrating it. The bargain: write what the emperor wants, preserve complexity, achieve immortality.Ovid learned that under autocracy, even love poetry is political. His Ars Amatoria—a witty seduction guide—contradicted Augustus's moral legislation. Exiled to the Black Sea's frozen edge for "a poem and a mistake," Ovid spent his final decade writing heartbreaking pleas for mercy t...
2026-01-0822 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 21: Pens, Power, and the Roman RepublicThe Roman Republic didn’t fall to an army. It fell to a story. And Julius Caesar wrote it.This is the first episode exploring how Roman writers wielded language as a weapon during the Republic’s collapse. Next week: poets and philosophers navigating imperial Rome. Today: four voices that shaped power itself.CAESAR: THE GENERAL WHO WROTE HIS OWN MYTHPicture Rome, 52 BCE. Rumors swirl about Caesar’s growing power in Gaul. Then his *Commentaries* arrive—not gossip, but Caesar’s own account. Written in third person.“Caesar decided to attack.” “Ca...
2025-12-1922 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 20: Love as Muse and Eternal DevotionWhat happens when history's greatest minds fall completely, irrevocably in love? When passion meets genius, when devotion transcends death itself?In this episode, we explore four extraordinary love stories that span more than a century of history—from revolutionary Paris to Victorian London, from Regency England to Belle Époque France. These aren't fairy tales. These are real people who loved so deeply that their relationships transformed not just their lives, but literature and history itself.Imagine Napoleon Bonaparte, conqueror of Europe, reduced to a lovesick boy writing desperate letters from the battlefield. Picture a dying you...
2025-12-1122 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 19: The Price of the RebelThe Price of the Rebel: What Happens When Everyone's a RevolutionaryChe Guevara's face on t-shirts at Urban Outfitters. Apple selling computers with images of Gandhi and MLK. Every other Instagram bio: "Rebel." "Disruptor." "Resistance."We worship the rebel. It's become our highest virtue, our most aspirational identity. To be called a conformist is an insult. To be called a rebel is a badge of honor.But here's what we don't talk about: What happens when rebellion stops being a last resort and becomes an identity? When everyone's a rebel, who's actually holding...
2025-12-0430 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 18: The Tyranny of MemoryThe Tyranny of MemoryThere's a photograph from 1937 that captures something unsettling: Joseph Stalin walking beside Nikolai Yezhov along the Moscow-Volga Canal. Three years later, Yezhov was executed—and in the photograph, he simply vanished. Airbrushed out. Replaced by water. As if he had never existed at all.This episode explores one of humanity's most profound paradoxes: memory is both what liberates us and what imprisons us.Milan Kundera wrote that "the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." But he also warned: "We must never allow the fu...
2025-11-2018 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 17: The Excuse EconomyIn every age, there’s a currency that defines the soul of a people.Gold, honor, faith, freedom — once they held weight.Today, our currency is lighter. It costs nothing to make and everything to spend.It’s the excuse.In this episode, The Excuse Economy, we explore the moral and cultural decay that follows when blame becomes a way of life. From the fires of ancient Rome to the excuses of modern politics and education, the pattern is clear: when we stop owning our failures, we lose the ability to grow.The...
2025-11-1314 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast: Episode 16 - The Noise and the SilenceEpisode Summary: “The Noise and the Silence” — The T.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoWhat if the greatest threat to modern life isn’t hatred, ignorance, or greed — but noise?In this episode of The T.O.P. Podcast, Michael DiMatteo explores the quiet catastrophe of the modern age: our inability to sit still, to be alone, and to listen. Drawing from philosophy, history, and literature, The Noise and the Silence journeys from the deserts of the ancients to the digital hum of the present, asking whether humanity has lost the ability to hear itself thi...
2025-11-0614 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast: Episode 15 - What is Life?From clay tablets to quantum equations, every generation has asked the same question: What is life?In this episode of The T.O.P. Podcast, Michael DiMatteo invites you on a journey across civilizations and centuries — from the first storytellers of Mesopotamia to the philosophers of Athens, from Laozi’s calm river of existence to Einstein’s cosmic wonder. It is a conversation that began before philosophy had a name and still echoes in the noise of our digital world.Life, says each voice, carries a different meaning. For Socrates, it was a test o...
2025-10-3019 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 14: The End of HeroismHow courage became content — and why meaning still matters.Once, every culture had its own idea of the hero — a figure who stood against chaos, carried the weight of others, and dared to believe that one life could make a difference. But somewhere along the way, heroism lost its footing. The divine grew quiet. The moral center blurred. And the heroic became something we watched, not something we lived.In this episode of the T.O.P. Podcast, Michael DiMatteo traces the long arc of heroism across the world — from Gilgamesh and Arjuna, to Sundiata Keita of Ma...
2025-10-2312 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 13 - The Ties That HoldIn this episode of the Triple Option Podcast, Michael DiMatteo turns his attention to one of life’s quietest and most enduring mysteries — friendship.Why do some friendships last a lifetime, while others fade into memory?Why does it hurt so much to be forgotten?And what does it really mean to be known by another person?Through literature, history, and lived experience, The Ties That Hold explores the many faces of friendship — its birth in Renaissance humanism, its moral depth in Chinese and African philosophy, its endurance in poe...
2025-10-1615 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 12: The Myth of the Noble RebelEvery generation celebrates its rebels. They fill our pages, our art, and our imaginations—men and women who stand alone against the world and call it courage. But beneath the romance of rebellion lies a haunting question: When does defiance serve truth, and when does it become its own kind of tyranny?In this episode of The Triple Option Podcast, author and historian Michael DiMatteo explores the timeless allure—and the danger—of the noble rebel. Drawing on literature, history, and moral philosophy, he traces the figure of the rebel from myth to modernity: from Prometheus, who stole fire f...
2025-10-0913 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 11: What is Truth?Episode 11 – On the Search for Truth“What is truth?” Pilate’s question to Jesus still lingers. In this episode of the T.O.P. Podcast, we follow humanity’s search for truth across time and cultures — from Socrates in Athens to Augustine in North Africa, from Confucius and Laozi in China to Solzhenitsyn in the gulag.The ancients believed truth was worth dying for. Socrates declared, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Plato warned that most of us mistake shadows for reality. In Egypt, truth was personified as Ma’at, the godde...
2025-10-0216 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 10: The Dignity of Aging: From Cicero to SinatraAging. It’s universal, it’s relentless, and it’s something that every culture and every era has had to reckon with. From the philosophers of ancient Rome to modern-day music legends, the question remains: what does it really mean to grow old? Is it decline, wisdom, endurance, or something else entirely?In this episode of the TOP Podcast, Michael DiMatteo takes you on a journey through the history, literature, and culture of aging. We begin with Cicero’s De Senectute (On Old Age), where the Roman statesman argued that while the body weakens, the mind and memory ca...
2025-09-2514 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 9 - DemonsEpisode: Dostoevsky’s Demons — The Warning We Still NeedWhen Fyodor Dostoevsky published Demons in 1872, he wasn’t just writing a novel—he was writing a prophecy. What begins as the story of a revolutionary conspiracy in a provincial Russian town becomes a chilling diagnosis of what happens when ideas break loose from faith, morality, and tradition.Demons gives us unforgettable characters:Nikolai Stavrogin, the aristocrat whose charm conceals a hollow soul.Alexei Kirillov, the engineer who reasons that if God does not exist, man must prove his freedom by suicide.Pyotr Ve...
2025-09-1818 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 8 - Harry ButtersIn this episode of the Triple Option Podcast, we turn our attention to a forgotten name from the First World War—Harry Butters, an American who chose to fight and die for a cause larger than himself before his own country had even entered the conflict. Butters was not a soldier of fortune, nor a thrill-seeker looking for adventure. He was a man of conviction, shaped by faith, family, and an acute sense of duty. His life and death raise questions that echo forward to us today: what do we stand for, and what are we willing to sacrifice for...
2025-09-1113 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast Episode 7 - The Weight of LegacyWe all inherit something. A name, a story, a dream left unfinished by those before us. Sometimes that inheritance feels like a gift, but often it becomes a burden. That’s what I’m calling today: the weight of legacy.In my Flavius Fettotempi novels, this theme is front and center. Flavius lives under the shadow of his father Honorius, chasing a vision that was never truly his own. It’s a tragedy not only of ambition but of inheritance—the cost of living someone else’s story.History echoes wit...
2025-09-0412 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 6 - Missed OpportunitiesIn this week’s episode of The T.O.P. Podcast, we explore the quiet force that shapes history, literature, and our personal lives—missed opportunities.We often imagine turning points as moments of bold action and decisive clarity. But just as often, the real hinge of history is what doesn’t happen. What isn’t said. What we hesitate to do. And what we can never get back once the moment passes.We begin in literature, where stories are built on what could have been:• Jay Gatsby, reaching for a dream already gone.• Hamlet...
2025-08-2812 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 5: The Hats We InheritWhat does it mean to inherit a hat? Not just the fabric or brim, but the memory and identity sewn into it. In this week’s episode of the TOP Podcast, I explore the hat we inherit—the objects, values, and burdens passed down through generations.A hat can identify us, protect us, and connect us to a story larger than ourselves. I see it every time I glance at my grandfather’s old paperboy cap. It’s not just cloth—it’s a reminder of the man he was.Literature is full of these inheritances...
2025-08-2209 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoT.O.P. Podcast - Episode 4 - The Literary CanonWhat keeps a culture from drifting into amnesia? In this episode, we make the case for the literary canon as one of civilization’s most reliable anchors. From Homer to Shakespeare to Twain—and from Confucius to Achebe—these works carry the collective memory of entire peoples, binding past and present through shared language, moral debate, and enduring stories.Drawing on David Christian’s Big History and a historian’s eye for shifting reputations, we show how both history and literature are selective memories—what we choose to keep says as much about us as it does about the past...
2025-08-1416 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoTOP Podcast - Episode 3 - GenerationsIn this episode of the TOP Podcast, Michael DiMatteo exploreswhwat it means to honor those how came before us, and what we lost when we don't. From the wisdom of ancient councils of elders to the quiet reflections of a grandfather in 1920s America, we examine how generations voices shape our understanding of life and resilience. This episode also reflects on intergenerational loneliness, the fading connection between young and old, and the lessons waiting for us in our own family histories.
2025-08-0613 minT.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoTOP Podcast - episode 2 - Harry CrewsIn this episode of the TOP podcast, we'll take a look at the great Southern Gothic writer - Harry Crews. We'll also find out what Southern Gothic is, along with what makes it special. I'll also read some excerpts from Harry Crews' A Childhood, along with a short selection from A Feast of Snakes. It's a genre that's a little out of the ordinary today, but one that is fascinating and interesting all at the same time.
2025-07-3116 min
T.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoTOP Podcast - Episode 1The T.O.P. Podcast with Michael DiMatteoWelcome to The T.O.P. Podcast—where stories meet the human condition. Hosted by Michael DiMatteo, author, writer, and thinker of things, this podcast dives into the art and craft of writing, the lessons found in history, and the stories that shape who we are. From reading chapters of his own works to exploring the “why” behind each page, Michael invites you into the creative process—unfiltered, thoughtful, and grounded in real experience.Whether you’re a fellow writer, a lover of good storytelling, or simply someone curious abo...
2025-07-2319 min
Severed | True Crime PodcastTrue Crime: Murder on Mulberry St.We discuss the infamous murder of “Crazy” Joe Gallo on Mulberry Street in Little Italy. Gallo, a captain in the Colombo crime family, put out a hit on then-Boss Joe Colombo. Gallo’s charisma and hob-nobbing with Hollywood elite were no match for a Godfather-esque ending outside Umberto’s Clam House in April 1971.
CW | TW: This episode discusses the mob, murder, and mozzarella. Listener discretion is advised.
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2025-06-231h 00
Gangland WireWho Killed Superman? The Hollywood MogulsGary welcomes back Michael Benson, an author known for his insightful explorations of organized crime and Hollywood history. Benson has collaborated with Frank DiMatteo on several mob-related books, including The Cigar: Carmine Galante and Mafia Hitman, illustrating the intricate ties between criminal enterprises and key figures’ personal stories. In Hollywood Moguls: The Lives and Times of Hollywood Film Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck, Michael documents stories of corruption and mob infiltration and reveals that Craig Reeves, Superman, was murdered and did not commit suicide.
As the conversation unfolds, the host and Benson delve into the Skank brothers’ enco...
2025-03-1732 min
Gangland WireWho Killed Superman? The Hollywood MogulsGary welcomes back Michael Benson, an author known for his insightful explorations of organized crime and Hollywood history. Benson has collaborated with Frank DiMatteo on several mob-related books, including The Cigar: Carmine Galante and Mafia Hitman, illustrating the intricate ties between criminal enterprises and key figures’ personal stories. In Hollywood Moguls: The Lives and Times of Hollywood Film Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck, Michael documents stories of corruption and mob infiltration and reveals that Craig Reeves, Superman, was murdered and did not commit suicide.
As the conversation unfolds, the host and Benson delve into the Skank brothers’ enco...
2025-03-1732 minGangland WireRed Hook: Brooklyn MafiaIn this episode of Gangland Wire, Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City police Intelligence Detective, is joined by Frank DiMatteo, a man deeply rooted in the Brooklyn mob scene, and his co-author, Michael Benson, a seasoned true crime writer. Frank brings a unique perspective, shaped by his years growing up under the mentorship of mob legends like the Gallo brothers. Together, we dive into the evolution of organized crime in New York, focusing on the rivalry between the Irish and Italian communities as they vied for control of Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood. Frank recounts his early days in the mo...
2024-12-0936 minGangland WireRed Hook: Brooklyn MafiaIn this episode of Gangland Wire, Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City police Intelligence Detective, is joined by Frank DiMatteo, a man deeply rooted in the Brooklyn mob scene, and his co-author, Michael Benson, a seasoned true crime writer. Frank brings a unique perspective, shaped by his years growing up under the mentorship of mob legends like the Gallo brothers. Together, we dive into the evolution of organized crime in New York, focusing on the rivalry between the Irish and Italian communities as they vied for control of Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood. Frank recounts his early days in the mo...
2024-12-0936 min
Start Your Day With A Heart-Pounding Full Audiobook.Red Hook by Frank Dimatteo, Michael BensonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/93101to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Red Hook
Author: Frank Dimatteo, Michael Benson
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
Release date: 11-26-24
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 23 ratings
Genres: Organized Crime
Publisher's Summary:
Packed with jaw-dropping stories of public violence and personal vengeance, vivid insights into the Mafia's way of life, and shocking portraits of America's most wanted crime families, Red Hook is a must-listen for anyone fascinated by the history of organized crime in America.
2024-11-2610h 59
True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime HistoryRED HOOK-Frank Dimatteo and Michael BensonLong before Brooklyn was known as the world’s hippest neighborhood, it was the deadliest - the seedy, dangerous underbelly of New York City, where mobsters and gangs could commit murder and dump dead bodies without getting caught.For more than a hundred years, the Red Hook section of Brooklyn was Ground Zero for organized crime. Whoever controlled the piers controlled everything. From the infamous Irish gang known as The White Hand at the turn of the century, to the notorious Italian Gallo brothers who ran President Street—and everything else—generations later, the blood-soaked history of Red Hook is the s...
2024-11-2559 min
The Oscar Project Podcast2.33 Author Interview with Craig Singer and Michael BensonSend us a textIn today's interview, I speak with Craig Singer and Michael Benson, authors of the upcoming book Moguls: The Lives and Times of Hollywood Film Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck.Listen to hear about some of the famous Hollywood stars that rubbed elbows with the Schencks, how Nick Schenck preferred running his amusement park over the movies, and how generous Joe Schenck was to those in Hollywood who may have been down and out. Books mentioned in this episode include:Moguls: The Lives and Times of Hollywood Film Pioneers N...
2024-09-1724 minTrue Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime HistoryTHE CIGAR-Frank Dimatteo and Michael BensonFrom real-life "Mafia Survivor" Frank Dimatteo, the gripping account of the life and crimes of the most feared mafia boss of all time: Carmine “Lilo” Galante, the prime mover behind the legendary French Connection.The brutal and blood-stained true story of one of the most feared bosses in American Mafia history, who rose from tenement street thug to notorious hit man to a prime mover behind the legendary French Connection. And the bodies piled up.The son of Sicilian immigrants, Camillo Carmine Galante was raised in Manhattan’s Little Italy and by all accounts born bad. At age ten hi...
2023-04-1045 min
Download High-Quality Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Law & PoliticsThe Cigar: Carmine Galante, Mafia Terror by Michael Benson, Frank DimatteoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cigar: Carmine Galante, Mafia Terror Author: Michael Benson, Frank Dimatteo Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: The son of Sicilian immigrants, Camillo Carmine Galante was raised in Manhattan's Little Italy and by all accounts born bad. By fifteen he was terrorizing the streets of New York's Lower East Side, scoring high marks for the 'errands' he was running for his La Cosa Nostra elders...
2023-03-2830 min
Stream Popular Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, True CrimeThe Cigar: Carmine Galante, Mafia Terror by Frank Dimatteo, Michael BensonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cigar: Carmine Galante, Mafia Terror Author: Frank Dimatteo, Michael Benson Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: The son of Sicilian immigrants, Camillo Carmine Galante was raised in Manhattan's Little Italy and by all accounts born bad. By fifteen he was terrorizing the streets of New York's Lower East Side, scoring high marks for the 'errands' he was running for his La Cosa Nostra elders...
2023-03-2830 min
Invest In Yourself PodcastSit Down With Frank DiMatteo & Anthony Deluca ( Michael Franzese, Joey Gallo, Joe Colombo, Mob Wars)Send us a textToday’s podcast features Frank Dimatteo and Anthony Deluca; they were both members of the mafia. They were part of the Gallo crime family and their boss was Joey Gallo. Anthony and Frank talk about what they did as soldiers for this family. There were 3 wars that went on during their time. They both have been shot at and arrested but never did any serious time. Another thing we talk about is their relationship with Joey Gallo and the night he got killed. This Episode 101 please subscribe and leave a comment on wh...
2022-08-161h 18
Dark and Stormy Book ClubTrue Crime Round up 2021Mafia Hitman Lib/E: Carmine Dibiase, the Wiseguy Who Really Killed Joey Galloby Michael Benson, Frank DiMatteo, Eric Jason MartinPublished September 28th 2021 by Citadel PressWho really killed Crazy Joe Gallo? It wasn't Frank The Irishman Sheeran as he claimed. Sober, he was nothing, but drunk he would blow your head off. That's how Pete the Greek described Carmine Sonny DiBiase, the Colombo crime family hitman who'd been terrorizing Manhattan's Little Italy since he was a kid. After beating and robbing a local tailor and doing time in reformatory, Sonny set up operations at...
2021-11-2323 min
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, True CrimeMafia Hit Man: Carmine DiBiase, The Wiseguy Who Really Killed Joey Gallo by Frank Dimatteo, Michael BensonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mafia Hit Man: Carmine DiBiase, The Wiseguy Who Really Killed Joey Gallo Author: Frank Dimatteo, Michael Benson Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: Who really killed 'Crazy Joe' Gallo? It wasn't Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran as he claimed. 'Sober, he was nothing, but drunk he would blow your head off.' That's how Pete the Greek described Carmine 'Sonny' DiBiase, the Colombo crime family hitman...
2021-09-2830 min
Power-Up With The Spellbinding Full Audiobook Now, Knowledge Hunters!Mafia Hit Man by Frank Dimatteo, Michael BensonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/92423to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Mafia Hit Man
Author: Frank Dimatteo, Michael Benson
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
Release date: 09-28-21
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 82 ratings
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Joey "Crazy Joe" Gallo and his President Street mob waged a deadly Mafia civil war with the Colombo crime family, and in particular, Carmine "the Snake" Persico. And on that fateful night of April 7, 1972, in a Little Italy restaurant, Gallo was assassinated...by Carmine "Sonny" DiBiasi. This is the true story of who really whacked "Crazy Joe" Gallo...
2021-09-287h 58
New Books in Italian StudiesFrank Dimatteo, "Lord High Executioner: The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia" (Citadel, 2020)Though not as well known today as many of his contemporaries, few American mob bosses were as feared as Albert Anastasia. As head of “Murder Inc.”, Anastasia presided over the contract killing of hundreds of people, some of whom he murdered with his own hands. In Lord High Executioner: The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia (Citadel, 2020), Frank DiMatteo and Michael Benson draw upon DiMatteo’s firsthand experiences with several of Anastasia’s contemporaries to recount the tale of Anastasia’s bloody career. Born Umberto Anastasio, the young Anastasia went AWOL from the Italian Navy in order to start his life in Am...
2020-07-1042 min
Download High-Quality Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, True CrimeLord High Executioner: The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia by Michael Benson, Frank DimatteoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/398069 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lord High Executioner: The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia Author: Michael Benson, Frank Dimatteo Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 26, 2020 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: Umberto 'Albert' Anastasia was born in Italy at the turn of the century. Five decades later, he would be gunned down in a barber shop in New York City. What happened in the years in between—and why every crime family had reason to want him dead—is one of the most brutal and fascinating stories in t...
2020-05-2630 min
Embark On Your Day With A Next-Level Full Audiobook.Lord High Executioner by Frank Dimatteo, Michael BensonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/93018to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Lord High Executioner
Author: Frank Dimatteo, Michael Benson
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
Release date: 05-26-20
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 151 ratings
Genres: Organized Crime
Publisher's Summary:
Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was born in Italy at the turn of the century. Five decades later, he would be gunned down in a barber shop in New York City. What happened in the years in between is one of the most brutal and fascinating stories in the history of American organized crime. This in-depth account of the...
2020-05-268h 52
Minutes on MasteryRetired Navy Captain Jim DiMatteo - Trust Your TrainingThis is retired Navy Captain Jim DiMatteo - on the Finding Mastery podcast with Michael Gervais - sharing what he would say to himself when facing challenging and sometimes life-threatening situations.Full podcast available at smarturl.it/Jim-DiMatteo
2018-10-2500 min
Unlock The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Inspiring!Carmine the Snake by Frank DiMatteo, Michael BensonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/92910to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Carmine the Snake
Author: Frank DiMatteo, Michael Benson
Narrator: Johnny Heller
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
Release date: 08-28-18
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 560 ratings
Genres: Organized Crime
Publisher's Summary:
In this blistering street-level account, "Mafia survivor" Frank DiMatteo teams up with true-crime master Michael Benson to take down one of the most notorious figures in the American La Cosa Nostra. This is the real inside story of Carmine "The Snake" Persico, from his crime-filled childhood on the streets of Brooklyn to the long-term jail sentences that didn't...
2018-08-288h 28Minutes on MasteryRetired Navy Captain Jim DiMatteo - Why Pilots Fail Without Mental FortitudeThis is retired US Navy Captain Jim DiMatteo - on the Finding Mastery podcast with Michael Gervais - explaining the importance of the mental aspect of training.
Full podcast available at smarturl.it/jim-dimatteo
2018-04-2300 minMinutes on MasteryRetired Navy Captain Jim DiMatteo - Managing High Pressure SituationsThis is retired US Navy Captain Jim DiMatteo - on the Finding Mastery podcast with Michael Gervais - sharing how he manages high pressure situations.
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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael GervaisJim DiMatteo, Retired US Navy CaptainThis week’s podcast is with Jim DiMatteo.After graduating from the University of California Berkeley in 1986, Jim followed in his father’s and brother’s footsteps and joined the US Navy where he began an unprecedented Naval Aviation career.He retired as a Captain and has amassed nearly 5,000 hours in 5 different fighter aircraft (F/A-18, F-16, F-14, F-5, A-4) in over twenty-five years of service.After extensive combat flight time in Desert Storm, Jim was recruited into the prestigious TOPGUN Adversary squadron. It was there that he accumulated more TOPGUN Adversary flight time t...
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