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Merlino New Podcast #1072603
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This one is good, the first 15 minutes alone contain more information and tidbits than alll his previous ones combined. He discusses an old case, a cop with a grudge, his attorney, and even Chris Christie's name comes up, Kleenex tissue and golf are key to a story.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hxY1UCq2uQ&t=60s

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No opinions?

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Yea I'm enjoying it, the side cracks make me laugh. For no reason whatsoever I'm really excited to see Al the Lid's wig come off lol

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Who's Al the Lid?

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Originally Posted by Liggio
Who's Al the Lid?


No idea, they bring him on to pick football winners and they're making him take his wig off this Sunday at the Eagles game

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I think Al the Lid is a neighborhood person they know. Not a mobster as far as I can gather. I finished watching it on a tv set, it was great. The part with the co host's father was funny, did anyone catch that food his mother had cooking? I got hungry looking at it.

Merlino's idea of how to raise funds for raising medical funds "I'll rob another armored truck" was funny, The case with the cop in the beginning was very interesting. The cop lied, got caught, and got away without being charged. He really had an obsession with Merlino.

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Did any of you see Joey at the Eagles game, it seems as though he is running for mayor. The guy stopped and took pics with dozens of people and he is hanging out with his neighborhood friends as well as Hollywood actors last night during the tailgate and they all look to be having a great time. I am guessing he will be doing the same at the Phillies game tonight. The way he is out front and doing the podcast, which is the best and very entertaining, seems that he is out of the game now. There are legal ways to make WAY more money through the podcasts, etc to possibly helping with a movie to tv series. And with this exposure he is getting more power and access to different vessels to make $$. The European and Asian organized crime people are so more far advanced in terms of making money with the various white collar crimes they are involved with than the US Mafia, Joey has a successful enterprise in this genre with his podcast and the way he delivers it in a Crazy Joe Gallo kind of way

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Originally Posted by merlino
Did any of you see Joey at the Eagles game, it seems as though he is running for mayor. The guy stopped and took pics with dozens of people and he is hanging out with his neighborhood friends as well as Hollywood actors last night during the tailgate and they all look to be having a great time. I am guessing he will be doing the same at the Phillies game tonight. The way he is out front and doing the podcast, which is the best and very entertaining, seems that he is out of the game now. There are legal ways to make WAY more money through the podcasts, etc to possibly helping with a movie to tv series. And with this exposure he is getting more power and access to different vessels to make $$. The European and Asian organized crime people are so more far advanced in terms of making money with the various white collar crimes they are involved with than the US Mafia, Joey has a successful enterprise in this genre with his podcast and the way he delivers it in a Crazy Joe Gallo kind of way



You are right about him making money legally., one difference on the crime is that Asian and most European groups get no where near the scrutiny and effort against them than a person like Merlino. I know he said he would put the tailgate on his channel, I have not seen it yet.

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Originally Posted by jace
Originally Posted by merlino
Did any of you see Joey at the Eagles game, it seems as though he is running for mayor. The guy stopped and took pics with dozens of people and he is hanging out with his neighborhood friends as well as Hollywood actors last night during the tailgate and they all look to be having a great time. I am guessing he will be doing the same at the Phillies game tonight. The way he is out front and doing the podcast, which is the best and very entertaining, seems that he is out of the game now. There are legal ways to make WAY more money through the podcasts, etc to possibly helping with a movie to tv series. And with this exposure he is getting more power and access to different vessels to make $$. The European and Asian organized crime people are so more far advanced in terms of making money with the various white collar crimes they are involved with than the US Mafia, Joey has a successful enterprise in this genre with his podcast and the way he delivers it in a Crazy Joe Gallo kind of way



You are right about him making money legally., one difference on the crime is that Asian and most European groups get no where near the scrutiny and effort against them than a person like Merlino. I know he said he would put the tailgate on his channel, I have not seen it yet.


Absolutely agree on the Foreign organized groups & they basically go around silently, stealing credit card numbers, property theft, identity theft, stocks, etc, they are silent assassins, and they can get the big $$ from white collar crimes to then use the internet for drugs, trafficking's whatever

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Contrary to what some say or hope, Merlino is done with the life. He can now make money legitimately.
Of course Cicale is jealous as a mother fucker.
Borello actually said Merlino was’nt a true gangater? What !!! Borello is borderline retarded so his 12 year old antics shouldn’t be a surprise.

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Originally Posted by jace
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It’s brilliant. Joey doesn’t give a fuck what a bunch of people on an Internet forum or in YouTube comments think of him. He’s got a path to live a great lifestyle. Everybody already knows what he is and that life is on its deathbed. If he’s lucky nobody flips on stuff where the statute of limitations isn’t up and he won’t waste another minute of his life in a cell.

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i agree with Lenox....i do like Borrello tho hes a go getter...but that short trigger he has can be a liability......way more people to talk about then Merlino tho....the way he talked about Philly as a whole tjo kills me....goin after Joey to me your goin after Dom, Stevie, Georgie, Mousie, guys whose history sure far passes Borrello....but again hes rite about Mancuso and Spirito together....nobody is gonna take anything from them.

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Originally Posted by Lenox
Contrary to what some say or hope, Merlino is done with the life. He can now make money legitimately.
Of course Cicale is jealous as a mother fucker.
Borello actually said Merlino was’nt a true gangater? What !!! Borello is borderline retarded so his 12 year old antics shouldn’t be a surprise.


Well said, Joey will always carry the respect he has earned from his life and what he has allegedly done and proven to have done and serving his time in the feds hotels. It will be super funny and sad if the feds come after Joey, while he is doing legitimate things that he is involved in for not reporting a venmo transaction or some really petty just so they can try and take him down, similar to what states and prosecutors are doing to 45 now. Borello seems like he needs to get off the meth and stop taking selfies of himself; really think that Joey is going to get some type of streaming reality show in the future, the guy is pretty entertaining

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Gene Borello looks like Murr from that one show.

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Merlino could literally get his ass kicked by every YouTube rat, and I would still consider him to be tougher because he's not a rat like them lol.

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I listened to the podcast where Borello says that Joey and Philly are nothing; Borello better keep his head on a swivel, those philly guys are loyal neighborhood soldiers and will pull some of borrellos finger nails out their sockets if he keeps up his crap

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The new one is out. It starts with footage of their tailgate party at the Eagles game. Then it gets -----him and Angelo Lutz are showing how they cooked in prison. Merlino has one construction boot with an upside down iron in it, one white he is cooking a grilled cheese sandwich. On the side he is using a tuna can lid, bent in half, to cut garlic. No, I am not kidding. Angelo Lutz is instruction him what to do, Merlino is calling him fat. Lutz explains that in prison you cannot have a knife, so you use a tuna lid. He then demonstrates how to bend the lid for use as a cutting utensil. Merlino is trying to slip the garlic, Lutz keeps telling him to hurry up, and I look at Merlino as I think of him a s the Philly mob boss.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVSZqaVf6Lk&t=1s

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He seems to b e mixed up on who the rats are. He does not seem to know all their names, I can't blame him. He talks of one being locked up again for abusing a girl, then seems to say it was Cicale. I have to look at it again, it gets a little sloppy after the first half. The 90 year old lady as a guest was unusual to put it mildly. She was a character, but too hyped up. Good for her at her age to have all that energy.

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If he can't tell you who all the rats are, especially after getting into podcasting, then he REALLY REALLY needs to stay out of the business of crime.

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Originally Posted by Liggio
If he can't tell you who all the rats are, especially after getting into podcasting, then he REALLY REALLY needs to stay out of the business of crime.



As I said, he seemed to be mixed up, he may have had them right, What threw me off besides the sound quality (They need help there) was his seeming to say Cicale was the one arrested, not Borello. I can't blame anyone for getting confused with so many rats out there, doing podcasts and the ones keeping low profiles. Did you watch it?

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I'm watching it now. Joey's awesome though.

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So I just finished it. Yeah Merlino has Gene Borrello and Dom Cicale mixed up. I take it he never met those two. Now I'm wondering if Philly ever had much dealings with the Bonannos the way they have with some of the other 5 Families.

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I don't think hey had many dealings with each other, a few here and there. Merlino is bringing out very strange guests, that lady Dolly! I did not get her at all, but quite a few people in the comments section under his video liked her.

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In a lot of ways Joey carries himself like a regular guy from South Philly. I think that’s one of the things people find so endearing about him. I don’t know if he was always like that or if it came with age and a lot of time in the can. I never met him but know people who are close to him and EVERYBODY I know loves him. His biggest mistakes seem to be when he brings people around that aren’t from Philly. As far as I know nobody from Philly ever ratted on him other than Natale and that was different (I don’t follow this stuff as close as most of youse so I might be wrong there). I think that says a lot about how liked and respected he actually is. I take what Phil said about him with a big grain of salt too. The guy allegedly almost killed his first cousin and they obvious dislike each other a lot. Joey has got really lucky throughout the years and I’m rooting for him to hang it up and live out his life selling merch and getting paid for appearances and stuff. He put in work, took over a borgata before he was even a friend, did his time like a man, and however he wants to end his story should be up to him. Watching him make grilled cheese on an iron doesn’t take anything away from that.

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PS I can’t wait for the 7 fishes. Angelo’s smelts remind me of my grandmothers when I was a kid.

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I think Merlino's video's are awesome. I loved when he and Angelo were cooking " prison style'. He has every right to make legitimate money. I think the old lady named Dolly is a fixture at eagles games or someone well known in the old neighborhhod. I like the guy they call " the lid'. He is entertaining and seems like a harmless guy.
While Joey is making great video content you have the rats in NYC constantly talking about how tough they were and how everyone else are also rats. Its embarrassing.

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Originally Posted by Lenox
I think Merlino's video's are awesome. I loved when he and Angelo were cooking " prison style'. He has every right to make legitimate money. I think the old lady named Dolly is a fixture at eagles games or someone well known in the old neighborhhod. I like the guy they call " the lid'. He is entertaining and seems like a harmless guy.
While Joey is making great video content you have the rats in NYC constantly talking about how tough they were and how everyone else are also rats. Its embarrassing.


It’s a crossover. She has her own social media fanbase. “Snuff” isn’t an idiot. He’s a successful business minded guy himself before any of this. Angelo too. They know exactly what they are doing here.

https://www.inquirer.com/life/dolly...hiladelphia-20200408.html?outputType=amp

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And as far as the NY ratcasters go, they are a bigger embarrassment to that life in my opinion. They focus on proving how tough they were but they all turned on their friends when facing more prison time. Joey was looking at the death penalty and 99% he would have taken the time and kept his mouth shut. John Pennisi seems like the only one who isn’t out there talking about how fuckin tough he was. Like him or not he seems to be different than the others.

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I have liked what I’ve seen so far. Seems pretty straightforward kind of guy

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Southshorekid, thanks on Dolly. I didn't know who she was. I watched it in full tonite, I had only browsed through it previously. Dolly got Merlino to laugh twice, he had never laughed once in 6 previous episodes. The first time is when she is yanking on his shirt and saying something, the second a little later as she is drinking. It was a good show, stye need some work on the sound quality.

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