Notorious Mafia Hitman Greg Scarpa: w/guest Greg Scarpa III 🔥⚠️‼️

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All right, let's go. Let's go. What does show we have for you guys today? Again, a friend of mine who is made of something different. Now, there was a lot of, listen, we also have his father here, Greg Scopper, Jr., which is unbelievable, Mr. Scopper. You know, it's a pleasure to meet you and to have you on. You know, I knew your son for a while and your son has been nothing but a gentleman. He's made of something different. You know, in the South Shore of Staten Island we have a lot of mob kids running around and they're, they're yo-goles. You know, they act like wannabes, but Greg was nothing but just a gentleman and just really made of something different. With all the shit that your family has gone through, this kid has been just a rock. And you know, it's fun to tell you guys a funny story. You know, my mother, you knew your grandfather. You know, she was friends with Barbara Beale and, and they would say, oh, Greg are we going? Adam, Greg are we going to your school? Make sure you take care of Gregory. His grandfather was very, very nice to us. It did a lot for us. I was like, I think Greg could handle himself, but it's just, we're going to talk about one of the most fascinating figures in mob history. This is not like a, we're going to get into the, the psychology of this individual. This individual was able to wrap everybody around his fingers and make people do things for him that nobody else could do. He was able to wrap the FBI around his fingers. He was a ladies man, as they say. And what an interesting character. And again, I want to introduce some other people up here. And again, these are my friends from my hometown. I know them. I don't know these little circles I talked to here. I think May's, she's probably a Saudi spy if you ask me. She's got to be Rachel right out of Quantico CIA. We got to all of definitely CIA down there. But be it as it may, we're all here. We're going to have a great, great show. And it's an honor to have you here, Greg and Mr. Scarper, because there's a movie coming out next week by any means. The character is Mark Wahlberg is playing Greg Scarper's senior. That's how interesting this story is. I think it's going to be one of the best movies out there. I can't wait to see it. I know Greg and your father are going to the movie premiere with Mark. And it's just an honor to have you guys on here and speak about this life a little bit. We could get into the idea of your grandfather and how tough the guy was, how physically tough he was, how mentally tough he was. We're going to get into the idea of the civil rights activists and how he was used in that capacity. We're also going to get into the Colombo crime wars. And I told you guys, well, everyone's around sucking that thumb in the early 90s including me, my friend Greg and his family had to watch everywhere they went. Could you imagine that? And I didn't know the game at that time. I was very young. So just to see Greg just be able to handle that and handle that like a warrior. It's like he's definitely made of something different. And I've been lucky enough to be around some of the greatest people on this planet. And Greg knows that my best friend was Matt Colwell. Matt Colwell is the number one president and CEO in all of sports. So I got trapped off in the universe where I'm learning from all these great individuals. But boy, your boy Greg, it's an honor. Welcome my man. What's going on? Hey, what's up, Adam? How's it going? How's my connection? Can you hear me? Yes, pretty good. My good, everything good. Man, it's an honor to have you up here. Yes, good to talk to you, Adam. So my dad is here as well. Mr. Scopa, how you doing, my man? It's, listen, again, it's an honor to meet you for the first time. You guys are the senior. Is that Greg senior? It's Greg Scopa senior. One of the toughest mobs that's out there. Not only a fighter, but just a street guy who just like, honestly, you hear about, whoa, this guy's a street guy. This guy's a street guy. These are the toughest street guys in almost like mob history. I guess you could say they were very, very respected. They were gentlemen and they were business. And really what Greg told me was that Greg senior, Greg Jr. Mr. Scopa, I'll call you Mr. Scopa. You held that family together while you sat in prison after prison and you were able to just hold. That's an amazing accomplishment. You know, while he was in prison, he held that family together and Greg always respected that. And it's just an honor to have you both up here. Now Greg, you got the movie coming out next week and Mr. Scopa, you were an advisor to Mark Wolberg. Can we talk about that? Dad, you got to put your mic on. He definitely doesn't know how to do that, right? Yeah, he'll figure it out. I mean, we could start with me if you want. Yeah, yeah, kicking. All right, yeah, so I mean, we could start like when I was young growing up before my dad, had to go on the run and went away. Oh, there you are, dad, I hear you. There he is. We got Mr. Scopa, we got Greg Jr. and Greg the third here. I don't even believe it. I can't even believe it. What a space. But yeah, guys, you guys are both. You got the third, too. Let's fucking go. Older king in the house. What's up, dad? Hey, I don't know how I got on over here. I was listening and I got on. I don't know. Greg, Greg, take over. But I got nothing to do with this here right now. All right, so he has any questions. He will ask you and I'm going to continue with my story. So when I was young, before my dad had gone on the run and had been locked up for 32 years, things were great. It was just a normal Italian family that we would go up to Jersey when my grandma had a horse farm. Every Sunday, like clockwork, we had family dinner up there on Sundays with my grandpa, all my uncles and cousins and my dad as well. And when I was really young, my mom would be there, but that was before. I could remember, but I do remember my time there as I had gotten older. And then things were great with school. I didn't really know that my dad was a mobster, gangster. I didn't think like that. I was before I really knew anything about crime, the crime life. So I grew up around a very loving family. And I started seeing things were a little different before my dad had gone away. My dad had came up to a field day at school when I was about, I would say the third grade, the third or fourth grade. And he stayed by the gate while my class would single file walk by to get back into the building after our field day was over. And the way my teacher had reacted just by seeing him and his friends stand and off to the side. She was like, oh, it tells my dad, it tells all the kids, don't go near them. Like stay on single file, we're going back into the building. So I says, oh, that's my dad. I'm just trying to say hello and my dad started to walk over and she points to him and says, no, you stay there. You can't come over here or whatever. So I was like, that was strange. Because I didn't look at my dad as like this gangster looking guy, but he was sharp, jumpsuit, sunglasses and so was his friend. And I guess it gave her a mob gangster vibe, just by the look of him. And so then I got into like fourth or fifth grade now and he has to run. So he goes on the limb, long story short. Now everything is coming out that who they are, who my grandpa is and my dad is getting in a lot of trouble. So my dad goes on America's most wanted while I'm in school. And sorry, I need to take a drink. Yeah, so it goes on America's most wanted and I had to deal with that and trying to go to school. And I thought I was a pretty good student leading up to that. I was able to understand and do my school work with no problem. But then once it hit America's most wanted and the other kids and their parents saw it, there was just a lot of a lot of negative attention towards me. And because I didn't have my dad around anymore, I mean, my dad, I looked up to like a god, you know? And you know, for him to be on the run and me not able, you know, to be at the house every weekend. Like I was, you know, my dad and mom had divorced, but my dad had me every weekend along with my sisters as well, no matter what. And all of a sudden like, you know, he's on the run and nobody's at the house anymore. You know, so it was weird for me because I would get dropped off in Princess Bay because my mom had to continue to work and make money for us and she needed a babysitter. So in the neighborhood that my dad had his house was Princess Bay in Staten Island. And there was a lot of family around that neighborhood and people that knew us for many years. And the family was the foraces. You know, I say I pronounce it as forace after everything happened with my cousin Gus, who I'll get into. The government and FBI came up with this forarchy name that I never even really heard before because, you know, it was forace to me, but I guess they needed something to sound more, you know, more gangster mobbed up so they used forarchy. So like, you know, I would get dropped off in Princess Bay even after my dad was on the run to get babysat by some members of the forace family, my cousins and my great grandma, I believe, was still there. But yeah, she had died not long after that. So like, it was weird for me being in Princess Bay without my sisters, you know, because we had different moms. So, you know, they were with their mom. And I was with my mom and my mom was working now in Princess Bay pretty much by myself. Still doing the same things I would go into my dad's yard, grab my quad, you know, we all had quads for wheels, stuff like that, snowmobiles. So, you know, I would always go and check to see if I had gas, you know, to drive the quad. But, you know, things weren't the same anymore. So the gas had run out and I wasn't taking my quad much anymore. So I would walk around, you know, a lot of a long time. At that time, you know, trying to figure out like what is going on? How is all of this, you know, like ending and changing? And like, you know, I was never good with change, I guess. You know, now I'm terrible with change. But I guess I had started then. So yeah, so he runs for a good two years. And during this time, we would actually, we would meet out wherever he was, we would get driven to him by either a friend of theirs or even my grandpa. Like, for instance, with my grandfather, I remember, it was early on, while my dad was on the lamb, he, we had met my grandpa, got dropped off with him in Brooklyn. So he, you know, he was trying to get us into a car of a friend of theirs to drive me and my sister's up to visit my dad wherever he was at that time. But they were being watched because of him being on the lamb and running, you know, the indictment was pet, you know, he was getting arrested. So, you know, he was either, he turned himself in or ran, so he was running. And so they would be watched. And so my grandfather was very careful. And I remember this, like I was pretty excited about it because I'm like seven years old at the time, six, seven years old. And, you know, I would hop fences and stuff with my friends and, you know, just kind of running around, you know. And all this now I'm in Brooklyn with my grandpa and I'm hopping fences to get into different alleyways with my grandfather. And it was funny to me because I remember, like he wanted to get to this other side of the block like the Rinali or something, but, you know, there was a fence. So he asked, you know, me and my sisters, you know, can you hop a fence? I said, sure, I can, you know, because that's what I did as a kid. You know, I love hop and fences and stuff with my friends running around. So I said, yeah, sure, I can. And, you know, my sisters, you know, they, it was a big fence, you know, so they said, you know, and like they didn't know if they can be.

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