The Mob, The Mafia, And The Man Podcast (John Alite & Kevin Donaldson): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-alite-the-mob-the-mafia-and-the-man/id1608464955 

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0:00 - Intro; An executive murder; The Scarfo Daysw in Philly were wild; Cops & Criminals; John Alite story; the Iceman

25:08 - How Kevin became a cop; Stopping a tragedy; George Floyd - Derek Chauvin; Debating the state of police; the problem of “being what you do”

59:35 - Kevin tells the story of the day he almost died in the line of duty

1:21:22 - The aftermath of the shooting and the downward spiral that happened; Kevin recalls not wanting to be here anymore

1:47:28 - Kevin talks about the drinking that consumed his life after the shooting; Kevin’s retirement from the force

2:05:17 - Figuring out what to do with life after being a cop; “Dented”; kevin talks about his partnership with John Alite and tells stories about John; Kevin’s buddy Mike Dowd (of 75th Precinct infamy in NYC)

2:29:04 - Cannabis and Psychedelics; Kevin’s cousin who had to clean up the USS Cole Aftermath; Kevin tells autopsy stories; The importance of humor in darkness

2:41:48 - Political extremes and state of discourse; Julian gives his 2010s political theory; Everybody turns a blind eye to something; Helping yourself in order to be able to be capable to help others

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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Andrew Bustamante is a former CIA Undercover Spy & Air Force Nuclear Operator. From 2007 to 2014, Bustamante and his wife, Jihi (also a CIA Agent) lived abroad as undercover agents for the US Government. While he cannot reveal his precise locations during his time as a spy, Andy operated primarily out of Asia –– and completed missions on 6 of the 7 continents over the course of his career. As a result of his actions in the line of duty, Bustamante is forever very unwelcome in many countries around the world.

Guy’s life is a movie and his hair is also real.

You can check out Andy’s Podcast, Everyday Espionage, here: http

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***TIMESTAMPS***

0:00 - Intro; Paramilitary; CIA Theory on 3 Types of People in the World; Good vs Bad; Maslow’s Hierarchy; Information Warfare

30:45 - Andy’s Work At CIA; “Real Spies”; Dark Thoughts; Types of Traits CIA wants in recruits; Undercover Agents in US; Rigging the game

52:32 - Where Andy went undercover; How CIA Agents approach Spying; How Andy cultivated assets; How Spies assess people; Tech & Intelligence

1:10:56 - Spotting mistakes to catch spies;false flags; The Girl In Red; Inglourious Basterds & The CIA

1:22:42 - The Story of How The CIA Recruited Andy; The CIA’s Testing Procedures; CIA Agents are above the law; Never staying where you’re targeting; Andy’s undercover experience with his wife; Reverse Psychology

1:40:11 - Andy tells the story about the time his cover was blown; Why The CIA never wants to lose an officer; The 3 different types of surveillance; Julian and Andy debate CIA Torture

1:55:15 - Other countries using the United States’ freedom of democracy against it; Andy explains why the Pilgrims are a myth; Andy reveals CIA’s opinion on voting rights; Nobody ever hears about the W’s

2:10:16 - Julian and Andy have an intense debate on privacy rights, Snowden / Stellar Wind, and everything in between; Andy explains why it might be time to leave America; The CIA, groupthink, and why they pick very specific people; Military Industrial Complex discussion

2:47:28 - Why Andy is closely watching Russian Debt right now; Andy breaks down the Russia Ukraine War and where Putin’s initial objectives stand; Why Andy thinks Nuclear Bombs aren’t off the table; Can you stop a nuke?

3:05:54 - Andy provides intel on Taiwan and their impending China problem; Why CIA loves anxiety; Andy’s opinion of the CIA today

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Cox’s bibliography includes “War Dogs” subject Efraim Diveroli’s Memoir, “Once a Gun Runner.” You can subscribe to his terrific podcast (“Inside True Crime with Matt Cox”) here: https://youtube.com/c/InsideTrueCrime 

***TIMESTAMPS***

0:00 - Intro; The story behind Matt’s first fraud; The Mom Who Was A Really Bad Criminal; Did you ever consider if this was not good person stuff?

20:17 - Matt explains the threshold of crime that lives inside everyone; Why pride was Matt’s downfall; Matt’s relationship with a father and how it molded him

31:47 - Matt graduates to bigger fraud; The Legend of Eddie LaFuente; Liar Loans

51:44 - Matt  explains how he invented fake banks; How Matt would sell clients to commit fraud; The Great Christian Mortgage Fraud; Matt’s criminal band of appraisers

1:17:43 - Gretchen, Pete, And The Diner Downfall; Taking the FBI on a date; Matt explains why he was “a gangster”; Matt recalls his ex-wife and his divorce post-downfall number 1 

1:42:38 - The house flipping fraud racket begins; The client who taught Matt Social Security fraud; How Matt would trick the Social Security Administration; “Baby Becca” And The Wife That Never Was; The Reservoir Dogs Who Built Matt’s Empire; The Great Eddie LaFuente Returns; Forbes Magazine loved Matt Cox; The Tragic Car Accident Epidemic in Tampa during Real Estate Mogul Matt Cox’s Reign

2:11:23 - Matt’s 50-60 Credit Card System; That time An Ex-FBI Agent Caught Matt And Took An L; The grind that is being a full time Con Artist; How Matt spent his money

2:30:17 - An Idiot Named Travis And The Bank Sting That Ended The Empire; Matt’s emergency meeting with a Sheriff’s Deputy; Matt got massive plastic surgery to disguise himself and go on the run

2:51:08 - The Match.com Stage-5 Clinger; Matt explains the one thing above all else he knows about his mentality; The Last Supper At Olive Garden; Stage-5 Clinger rears her ugly head

3:13:52 - Matt explains how he would get a fake passport or Driver’s License; The Cheapest, Dumbest Criminal In America; How Matt set up shop in Atlanta

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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Bek Lover is a New York City nightlife legend, podcaster, and proud Albanian. Both his mother and father immigrated to America from the oppressive regimes in Albania and Kosovo, respectively. Unfortunately, other members of Bek’s family were not so lucky. In the Kosovo War of 1999, many of his relatives were victims of the Serbian Army’s Genocide against Albanian Kosovars.

***TIMESTAMPS***

0:00 - Intro; The current state of New York City; Bek tells stories about the corporate world; Why Bek is a New York City nightlife legend

24:02 - Beck’s Albanian background and ties to the 1999 Kosovo War; Albanians aren’t Slavic; The Ancient Illyrians & their ties to Albanians; Why Albanians are spread out among countries; Albania’s political system and language

38:26 - Americans have a different relationship with the land inside our borders; Bek talks about racism; Bek tells a story about a Muslim woman and a Jewish woman in a park; Bek’s encounter with a Serbian

1:03:08 - Background of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s; Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic; Comparing Slavic and Albanian origins and languages; Kosovo’s first leader, Ibrahim Rugova; Albanian desire to unite in one country; The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA); The Serbian Police state rule of Kosovo in the 1990s; The current Russia Ukraine crisis

1:27:27 - America and Venezuela?; We don’t make anything in America; The related problems of political extremes; The family unit in America; Many people somehow deny climate change

1:44:11 - The story behind Bek’s parent’s decision to leave Kosovo; Bek recalls summers in Kosovo growing up; Why Bek values America

1:59:17 - Bek lays out the genocide of his family members in the 1999 Kosovo War; KLA Leader Adem Jashari and the massacre that laid the foundation of War with Serbia; The Serbian and Albanian arguments over Kosovo’s history; The religion vs language conflict in the Serbian / Albanian argument; Bek recalls having the register at the police station in Kosovo as a kid and paying of police; What Bek’s parents think of the US today

2:17:57 - Bek was present at the twin towers in Sept. ‘01; The “Death Cloud” of smoke; Afghanistan’s recent fall to the Taliban

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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Giovanni Gussen is a founder and innovator. In 2021, Gio and prominent artist, Waheed Zai, co-founded Smilesss, one of the most successful NFT companies on the planet called earth. Zai’s incredible portfolio includes collaborations with Supreme, Complex, and the great Pooh Shiesty (among others).

***TIMESTAMPS***

0:00 - Intro; Gio tries to remember SXSW, Gio was a Clubhouse fiend; Smilesss Co-Founder Waheed Zai’s backstory; Gio & Julian talk Bored Ape Yacht Club

25:10 - NFTs and use-case in the metaverse; The concept of value in NFTs; Smilesss’ partnership with eFuse; How many metaverses can there be?

36:07 - The Pooh Shiesty Album Cover that got Waheed on the map; Why Smilesss launched a collection (Smilesssvrs); Reflecting on where we are since the last time Gio was in for a podcast (Ep 34); Everything that goes into an NFT Collection launch

1:03:40 - What Smilesss did post-launch to get rolling; The Verifried Drop; Gas problems; UI, UX, and simplicity in crypto; Smilesss partnership with Coinbase; Why fashion is ubiquitous

1:24:00 - Dealing with different cultures around the world in the modern internet business world; Biden’s executive order on Crypto; The problems with CBDC’s and centralization; The metaverse vs the Physical world; Haptics; Gio brings up Elon Musk & Neuralink; Shaan Puri’s theory on the metaverse; How Gio sees Smilesss in the Web3 world; Gio recalls the Discord hack; The earliest effects of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

1:49:10 - Gio’s recent trip to Miami to meet with the big VC’s; Remembering the Great ICO Crisis of 2018; The balance of building in front of the community vs. innovating; Gio talks more about South BY Southwest;  the shooting that was not Smilesss fault; Who is Smilesss looking to partner with  right now?

2:08:24 - Smilesss the next Supreme in the metaverse?; Fashion and the IG era; Gio and Julian bring up the Metaverse vs Physical world conundrum again; “You have to have bad to know what good is”; Twitter hacks are a disaster right now

2:28:13 - The problem with over-anonymity in crypto; Gio talks about other projects he likes; Smilesss’ TV Show Development deal with Time; Gio & Waheed’s creative relationship; What makes Smilesss different

2:46:24 - Has Gio pinched himself yet?; Leverage; Tai Lopez’s rug

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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Dan “Big Dan” Thayer is a former convict, businessman, and mentor. Despite entering prison by age 15, spending the next two decades involved in crime, and being labeled  “incorrigible” by the state of Florida –– Dan successfully turned his life around, became an owner of multiple businesses, a community leader, and a mentor to people of all backgrounds.

***TIMESTAMPS***

0:00 - Intro; Dan’s Childhood in Newark; The plant explosion that changed his father’s life; Buying a piece at age 8; Mom took in kids; Working for mobsters and a tuna sandwich disagreement

28:35 - Environments and how they shape you; Dan’s first arrest & prison stint at age 15 (story); Dan’s Nurse girlfriend in Prison; Prison was Dan’s college

51:38 - Breaking a guard’s jaw; The odd thing that made his friend turn himself in to the authorities; Why Dan preferred robberies to burglaries; Dan’s first experiences with drgs; How Dan figured out if you were a snitch; Dan ran his own crew; Dan’s various relationships

1:10:58 - Dan’s first run in rehab; A mix up in a school zone; Picking up Georgia college girls off the highway for the weekend story; Dan’s very odd source for drgs in prison; The curious reason Dan read the Bible as a kid

1:32:00 - Why Dan  robbed drg dealers like a real life Omar from “The Wire”; A dustup with the DEA; What Dan did to people he forgot he robbed; An unfortunate confidential information sharing story; Why Dan was addicted; Filling the void of a  lost childhood; Why Dan’s ex ran off with his daughter; Dan’s detox and post detox (stories); Getting “permission” to screw you over

2:01:40 - Dan talks about the first time he experienced  empathy on death row; Dan’s last stand in court and the moment he was labeled “incorrigible” by the state of Florida

2:13:36 - Working on death row in Florida Prison; The Cannibal; “Life Plus 5”; Death row organ transplants fun fact; Dan was later hired to demolish the prison he was in; That time the governor visited and did an odd thing; What people think about before death

2:34:09 - Health > Freedom; Dan’s experience with death (and a funny story); The fake nurse who broke Dan out of the hospital for no reason; The power of memories

2:54:23 - Dan’s life after prison; The business Dan opened; How Dan turned his life around

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Over the past 2 decades, David has authored 5 books on Russia / The Soviet Union. Furthermore, he is also a Senior Fellow at both the Foreign Policy Research Institute & The Hudson Institute –– as well as a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins.

***TIMESTAMPS***

0:00 - Intro; The story behind Putin’s government banning David from Russia in 2013; David’s backstory working as a Moscow correspondent; Recounting the fallout of post-Soviet Russia

16:19 - David was the first reporter to blow the whistle on Putin; the 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings; The Boris Yeltsin years in Russia; Chechnya Background and the First Chechen War; Putin’s rise to the Russian Presidency

36:04 - David breaks down the timeline and full details of the 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings; “Soldiers Guarding Sugar”; The Chechen Dagestan Invasion Inside Job; Putin’s popularity ratings post-bombing and 2000 Election; Does Putin look at himself as a Soviet?; David talks about his earliest suspicions on the bombing

59:13 - The brutal story behind the 2002 Nord-Ost Siege (Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis); The 2004 Beslan School Massacre; Putin to stay in power for life?

1:09:56 - What happened in Ukraine in 2014 (Maidan and Putin’s annexation of Crimea); Malaysia Airlines Flight 17; Did David see the Ukraine Invasion coming?; Russian Government Murders: Boris Nemtsov, Alexander Litvinenko (in London), Ana Politkovskaya; Bill Browder’s book, Red Notice

1:24:03 - Barack Obama’s Reset Policy with Russia; David recalls a meeting he and Boris Nemtsov had with the Obama administration; What the US strategy towards Putin should be; The Julian Assange CIA report from Yahoo; The murder of Ana Politkovskaya’s Chechen source

1:41:46 - David and Julian discuss the public comparisons between Putin and the most notorious leader of all time; Back to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 aftermath; The Ukraine Invasion’s Effects on NATO; Many Russian people are victims of the regime

2:02:34 - Discussing the ominous calls in the media for a “No Fly Zone” in Ukraine (which could effectively cause WWIII); We need to find ways to get proper information to the Russian people

2:12:29 - David lays out the history of Propaganda in Russia; Analyzing the psychology of the Russian peopl...

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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) Dr. Joseph Sambataro is a doctor. He specializes in internal medicine and also works as an Emergency Room Doctor.

***TIMESTAMPS***

0:00 - Intro; Doc was a late bloomer; Cocaine Residency Theory; Legionnaires D1S3ASE backstory is a horror movie; Doc explains a common ailment

25:43 - Doc addresses the problems with the extremes and c0nsp1racy theories floating around out there; Doc is a huge “why” guy; The difference between medicine and gravity; Reverse psychology in media; Doctors love you

51:52 - How doctors readjusted at the beginning; the problems encountered with the vents; The documentary that cam. out right before disaster struck; Sitting down is very bad for you

1:13:23 - The science behind intermittent fasting; Julian talks about his own experience with Intermittent fasting; Glucose and sugar processing in the body; Doc explains the sociological changes in anxiety from our earliest ancestors to humanity modern times; Doc is screwed in the zombie apocalypse

1:31:48 - Mental health and the thing; David Sinclair and animal testing; Breaking down our metabolisms; Michael Phelps, LeBron James, & Tom Brady’s genetics, dieting, and training habits analysis; Future health assessment capabilities to diagnose all problems in real time

1:58:57 - Doc talks about when the Eureka moment happened a couple years ago; HOSP1TALS looked like warzones; Doc gives his reasons why we didn't repeat NYC; Encouraging people to act better

2:18:15 - The tradeoff of ailments/problems conundrum; More on mental health; Doc explains The falling people fallacy; Docs who get sued

2:26:52 - Why Docs tell their kids not to be Docs these days; Administration vs. Docs problem; The problems with the business behind healthcare; Doc’s special system

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***TIMESTAMPS***

0:00 - Intro; Charlie’s father’s criminal past; That time his parents picked up a hippie on the way to Woodstock; Stories of his father’s anger issues; NY & Cadillacs; The Vietnam vet who turned on Charlie; That time Charlie was thrown out of his house at age 8

28:27 - Trying to survive as a child; One time when Charlie’s father stuck up for him; How CHarlie got addicted to painkillers; Charlie’s history with the 75th Precinct of the NYPD (As made famous by the Netflix Documentary “The Seven-Five”); Charlie’s car chase story; The criminal who turned on him

55:36 - The power of addiction over the body, mind, and spirit; Living off of salad dressing; Charlie’s breaking point on the subway; The man Charlie met in the train station who changed his life; A run-in at a restaurant

1:17:06 - Charlie remembers his father picking him up from the train station to take him to the monastery to get clean; “We’re human beings –– not human doings”; Charlie tries to talk his way out of staying at monastery; Charlie remembers getting clean and what happened at rehab afterwards

1:41:49 - Charlie moves to Nebraska with his new wife and becomes a prison guard on death row; Charlie explains what prisons really are; The problem with the death penalty; Charlie recalls his last conversation with child-killer, John Joubert; That time Charlie testified on behalf of death row inmates; Charlie talks about recidivism and the problem with criminal records in the criminal justice system

2:10:15 - Charlie tells the story behind building his trash business in Nebraska and selling it; The fly in Charlie’s house and the chase for happiness

2:25:05 - Charlie talks about when he first saw the video of Star the dog’s shooting at the hands of the NYPD; The movement Charlie started online to track down the dog; How Charlie found and adopted the dog

2:50:02 - The legacy Star created through her life; Charlie tells the story about how Star died in 2021; Charlie found the childhood he never had in the dog who never should’ve lived; Charlie talks about reconnecting with the infamous former head of the Seven-FIve, Mike Dowd, years later; What John Gotti hitman John Alite said to Charlie recently; Why we need to show the same love to other humans that we seem to show to dogs today

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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) Nahscha is a singer, songwriter, and former member of the Orthodox Jewish community. Her music is available on Apple & Spotify.

***TIMESTAMPS***

0:00 - Intro; A War outside right now; Hecklers in crowd

14:41 - Background on Orthodox Judaism; Nahscha’s grandfather was in a Concentration Camp during the Holocaust; People who deny the Holocaust are nuts; Jewish identity as an ethnicity/race vs. a religion

37:20 - Nahscha’s family; How Nahscha’s older brothers influenced her decision to go to public school outside the Orthodox community; The tribal nature of religion; Staring at people; Gender roles in Orthodox Judaism

58:15 - TV and pop Culture exposure growing up in an Orthodox Jewish Household; How Nahscha went about making friends outside the community; “Balance” vs. An “All-Consuming religious system; No religion actually *knows* about the afterlife; The necessity of good and bad in the world

1:21:48 - Religion has duplicated in things like politics; Finding “truth” in any news outlet is difficult; the Ukraine video of a father saying goodbye to his daughter; The Butterfly Effect

1:45:33 - How Nahscha got into singing while growing up; The 10,000 hours theory

2:05:35 - The power of human imagination; Bob Dylan & pitch; Nahscha’s writing process

2:25:22 - Sad vibe music / writing; The sad artist creative curse; The problem with saying “I’ll be happy when ___”

2:39:52 - Busking; Nahscha and Julian remember NYC during the height of the P@nd3mic

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