True Anon Truth Feed - [PREVIEW] Episode 269: Cosa Nostra Part 1
Aired: 2023-02-15
Duration: 04:57


=== Why Not a Mafia Splainer? (04:57) ===

[00:00:00]  You know what I always think about, Brace?
[00:00:02]  What?
[00:00:03]  Do you remember, like, it must have been the second or third episode that we did.
[00:00:10]  I know exactly what you're referring to, yes.
[00:00:13]  And it was, I think it was the opening.
[00:00:16]  We were sitting in Jung Chomsky's little studio on the very couch that Brace would soon lose his phone inside of.
[00:00:26]  Yeah, that's not my fault that couch was made like that.
[00:00:29]  Which we then could not get it out of because we couldn't lift the cushions out of it.
[00:00:33]  Anyway, that's a separate.
[00:00:33]  That's a separate couple.
[00:00:34]  The cushions were attached to, it was not.
[00:00:36]  It was a psycho couch.
[00:00:37]  I've never seen a couch like that.
[00:00:38]  Very comfortable.
[00:00:40]  However, we were sitting on that couch, that very couch.
[00:00:46]  And you were like, I know how we're going to start the episode.
[00:00:50]  And you proceeded to, well, do you want to do it?
[00:00:53]  You come to me.
[00:00:55]  You come to me on the day of my daughter's molesting.
[00:00:59]  You really want me to do?
[00:01:00]  You come to me on the day of my daughter's molesting when I offer her up to this older gentleman.
[00:01:05]  You come to me and you ask me to do a podcast episode.
[00:01:10]  Well, what are you a fukazoo?
[00:01:13]  What are you smoking some sopransetta?
[00:01:17]  And so on and so on.
[00:01:19]  Unfortunately, I've had jowl removal surgery since then and can no longer do it.
[00:01:24]  But that's right.
[00:01:26]  Ladies and gentlemen, we're taking a trip to Italy.
[00:01:54]  Buongiorno, cocksuckers.
[00:01:56]  My name is Brace Belden.
[00:01:59]  Hello, everyone.
[00:02:00]  Dawn of Yawns.
[00:02:03]  And I am joined by my beautiful princess.
[00:02:07]  No, don't ever call me that.
[00:02:08]  Hi, everyone.
[00:02:09]  I'm Liz.
[00:02:10]  And we're joined by my darling young son, Young Chomsky.
[00:02:16]  And together we make a family called.
[00:02:18]  This is True Adon.
[00:02:19]  Hello, everyone.
[00:02:20]  Hi.
[00:02:24]  We have.
[00:02:26]  You're acting a little shy today.
[00:02:28]  I'm the shy Dawn.
[00:02:30]  I don't want to extort him.
[00:02:31]  He would be yelling at me.
[00:02:32]  I don't want to be the boss of all bosses.
[00:02:35]  Do I have to hit him in the kneecaps?
[00:02:36]  What if he's taller than me?
[00:02:38]  Actually, I guess that would make it easier.
[00:02:41]  We're so excited because we're having on Matt from Ghost Stories from the End of the World, which is a podcast we both really love, to talk about something that, okay, we have in many, many episodes Referred to the mafia in the past, the Italian mafia.
[00:03:02]  We've talked about their relationship with the U.S., we've talked about their relationship with the CIA.
[00:03:08]  What other intelligence agencies have we done with MI6?
[00:03:11]  We've talked about how deeply embedded the mafia is in intelligence agencies.
[00:03:17]  We've talked about the intelligence agencies embedding themselves in Italian politics with the help of the mob, right?
[00:03:24]  Yeah.
[00:03:26]  In our episodes about the years of lead, in our episodes about the history of NATO.
[00:03:30]  I'm just like thinking off the top of my head, but we have never ever.
[00:03:34]  JFK.
[00:03:35]  Of course, JFK.
[00:03:36]  How could I forget?
[00:03:39]  But we've never ever talked about the mafia itself.
[00:03:43]  We've never given them their own episodes.
[00:03:45]  Would that be Mafia Quo Mafia?
[00:03:49]  Is that would that be?
[00:03:50]  Qua, I think.
[00:03:51]  Qua.
[00:03:52]  It'd be Mafia Qua Mafia.
[00:03:54]  Yeah.
[00:03:56]  That's the name of, should that be the episode name?
[00:03:58]  Mafia Qua Mafia.
[00:03:59]  Yeah.
[00:03:59]  That's a horrible episode name.
[00:04:01]  Really bad episode name.
[00:04:02]  Yeah.
[00:04:02]  Let's, we can, we can workshop that a little bit.
[00:04:05]  Okay.
[00:04:05]  But we've never really done it.
[00:04:08]  And so we thought we should have Matt on because this is a huge fucking topic.
[00:04:13]  We're doing a kind of 101 style, right?
[00:04:15]  Brace, can you explain?
[00:04:17]  So sometimes on the little podcast we like to call True Anon, we do, we're a sort of general audience podcast.
[00:04:25]  And we like to do a little, like, you know, we did a little deep state 101.
[00:04:29]  We do like sort of, I guess, these Vox style explainer episodes, but to really explainer.
[00:04:36]  This is actually literally what Liz calls these behind the scenes.
[00:04:39]  They were called that, Splaners.
[00:04:41]  We do a little Splainer episode and we figured, why not?
[00:04:45]  Let's do a motherfucking Cosa Nostra Splainer, but also not just a Splaner, a little bit of a case study for how mafias writ large tend to operate in relation to the state.