The Castellammarese War: The Real-Life Rise of the Godfathers 

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Simon made us an offer we can't refuse

A point about safety with rings: if you are around anything that can move unexpectedly at high speeds (for example, the ropes holding a sail on any sailing vessel), please take the ring off and carry it in your pocket. The concern is not for the durability of your ring, but for the durability of the finger it is attached to. I studied engineering, and many of my friends wear the Iron Ring of Engineers everywhere they go. Some of their friends now wear those rings on their ringfinger instead of the pinky because it is customary to wear the Iron Ring on the last finger of the right hand...and due to ring-and-sporting related mishaps, that is no longer their pinky finger. I'm sure Ridge makes very stylish and durable rings, and I encourage you to wear them as often as you want in most circumstances. But if you are around moving things that might catch on the ring...put the ring away, because you lose more than just the ring when something goes wrong.

Lucky Luciano really was a criminal genius.

Please do the yakuza civil war in the 80s

Just finished watching BoardwalkEmpire and it’s great hoe many characters represented from that show are included here, I keep thinking “Hey! I know who that guy is!”

The Moustache Pete in the photo was Giuseppe "the old fox" Morello who was Masseria's official Don turned under boss during the Castellmamare War...He won the previous Mafia - Camorra War 1915 - 1917 against Morano and his Napoletano Camorra from Napoli cementing the Siciliano Cosa Nostra as the dominate Mafia in America....great book by Nigel Cawthorne "History of the Mob" if anyone is interested

"We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers." -- Don Vito Corleone

1:45 - Chapter 1 - Masseria, maranzano & mafioso factionalism 3:55 - Mid roll ads 5:10 - Back to the video 7:20 - Chapter 2 - Masseria vs maranzano 10:55 - Chapter 3 - Mustache petes vs young turks 14:20 - Chapter 4 - Rise of the 5 families

Love you guys! Unfortunately, the photo of Maranzano at 6:23 is a popular error. This man is Salvatore Messina, another mobster. There are no known photos of Maranzano other than his bloody corpse. A fascinating video explanation of this common error can be found here > ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kEzEAkMIkBs.html (Yes, i called the explanation fascinating.)

Reportedly when questioned about the killing of Joe the Boss, Lucky said he heard a commotion in the restaurant, and said as soon as he was done washing his hands he went to find out what happened. Nice touch

Thank you for telling the true story behind "Olive oil war" in the Goodfarher. Brilliant and well reaserched! A true pleasure to watch!

I live in the town neighboring Castellammare del Golfo lol where the term castellamarese war comes from

I love American Mafia history. And listening to Simon tell us about it, just puts a smile on my face because he's so far removed from it.

This is gonna be good. Mafia on Warographics. Outstanding! Cheers

On THIS, the day of my daughters wedding. I once heard a British guy say how every American is OBSESSED with the Godfather and act like theres something wrong with you if you havent seen it a hundred times.. and hes right. Everyone should see it at least 100 times.

This was very fun. Much smaller in scope than the usual fare we get here, but no less impactful.

The Godfather is a n easy read. I recommend it and Fools Die by Puzzo.

Video 12 of asking Simon and team to do a Syrian civil war video or perhaps more, as well as a Rise and Fall of ISIS Would appreciate it a lot

8:02 Gaetani Reina's daughter later married Joe Valachi, the first major Mafiosi to turn informant and break _omerta_ , the code of silence.

id love to see episodes on the 1st and 2nd 'Ndrangeta wars in Calabria. between the two they where responasble for well over 800 dears

Awesome Video!!!! This was definitely as instrumental as other conflicts between countries!

Outstanding video. Just entertaining and informative.

As great as that movie was, it sanitized the mafia too much. Movies like "Casino" and "Goodfellas" give a more accurate portrayal.

That bit within the first minute, there's a reference to that in the movie Zootopia

Simon, excellent interpretation of those lines from the Godfather!

Whats up with all of warographics videos going private for some reason! Thats a shame to see! Hopefully nothing too bad happening, i was looking forward to a couple that were available like 2 days ago but now a huge amount of them have been delisted! Hope alls good simon!

I'm gonna give you a redbull you can't refuse

10:36 That team consisted of Vito Genovese, Joey Adonis, Benjamin Siegel and Albert Anastasia.

Today, I would trust a Mob member with my life over a politician any day of the week.

Love the video...something different real nice !!!

The best part of this is the red bull on the desk. (Writing and presentation were great as always.)

I don't know why, but when I first saw the title, I thought it said 'Castlevainia Wars'

Can you do the Barbary Wars?

A good follow up video to watch after this one would be Count Dankulas video on Murder Incorporated .

their big family is really awesome there, I think is the point that needs to be emphasized here!

Good episode as usual Simon, my favorite channel of yours. But did you or Spotify remove this from its platform? I really liked listening to the podcast on Spotify while working and I cannot watch youtube while at the office. Please add it back to the Spotify platform if you are able to do so, gracias.

Simon probably hearing those words for the first time as he reads them there 😂

Frankly I’m shocked you had not done this one yet.

You did it! You actually did it!

I didn’t know about this channel I clicked on it and got flashbanged by Simon on yet another one of his 10,000 channels lmao.

What app helps me keep up with all of Simon's channels!!!🤔🤔🤔

Yes!

Cool ring 😎

That's not a pic of maranzano. OCshorts did a video on the pissed I'd.

Hey Simon and co., Why have so many of your videos been 'privatised' recently. I was look for the video on 'El Salvador's War on gangs' but I can't find it now. Could you explain what's happened?

There was a very interesting video about the gangs in El Salvador that I saw earlier today... what happened to it?

Teflon Don lives on.

It was between the Italians, real greaseball shit. -Ray Liotta

Don Simon.

Bofia - "Mafia" with a head-cold.

I love the little history references that mobsters make in their mob history. The night of Sicilian vespers was a real thing in history where a buncha Sicilians murdered every Frenchmen they could find.

Wait how have you not done jimmy hoffa yet

What Simons mafia be called?

Ok now do The Browser Wars

Don’t you have an Italian writer on your team? Can’t believe they’d let you say Cam”PAIN”ia and Ca”LAY”bria. It’s like the battle of “SHILL-loh” again. Quick tip, if it’s not an English name or word, assume “a” makes the sound it’s supposed to “ah”. Still one of my favorite RU-vidrs Simon

Hey this is Rudolph Valentino's photo not Maranzano 😂

Sure, now most of the crooks just work in boardrooms and all their rackets are legal

At 15:33….The Commission poster. Top center is Stefano Maggadino, the Buffalo area Don. His cover business, to this day, is, wait for it…. Maggadino Funeral Home. You can’t make this up. Good friend of mine , he went to a suburban HS with his g’kids. He recently stopped by to look in on the g’son who now ran the show. Just old time stuff between buddies, then…. A hood from Central Casting, thick neck, bad tie, flies in the door. Hey, what do I do with the body? he says…..it’s in the trunk. Turns to look at Sam. Awkward silence ensues. Sam asks where’s the bathroom at? Goon points down the hallway…..Sam comes back and resumes the conversation….. There have been burial ceremonies with eight pallbearers. Heavier than usual dear departed, I guess……😉

Oh Simon! That photo of “Maranzano” has long been debunked. Poor research I’m afaid.

The man you show is NOT Maranzano. 😎

Simon need his energy or he get angry

Why'd they yank your El Salvador video?

Lucky

Talk about the subject, Not commercials. .

Excuse me if I'm explaining this simply, but making drugs doesn't make the black market turn legit. It just moves on to whatever it believes will make them money next, be it other drugs, sex, construction, govt, etc.

Simon I'm not gonna lie the pre rolled Ads have been really awkwardly placed in every video. Like fuck wait for a pause or something. You just have them interrupt you mid sentence xD

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The Mafia still exist today? I thought they died out.

somewhere an Italian died listening to those pronunciations Simon... Profaci was downright offensive

rings? seriously? 😂 this is getting ridiculous...or even ringdicilous 🤭

I would never want to be a boss. Or underboss. I would prefer to be a consigliere. Brings less heat on you.

whaaat?

First time a war NOT faught between counties this time It's a gang war, 1920s/30s this time! 😅 🇮🇹 ⚔ 🏙 ⚔ 🇮🇹 NYC

The only thing assassinated here was the Italian language, as "spoken" by Simon. Talk about a hit job.

oh please, Simon dont try to fool us... we OGBB know you never watched Godfather and given how much you hate classics, probably hate it as well... so you are not gonna fool us, thats for sure

fifth!

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where can I buy that crap???????????????????

3:54 nice advertisement in your video. Greatly appreciate it after I have already paid for RU-vid premium, for the exact reason of escaping these shitty ads trying to get me to buy stupid things I don’t need. Super classy. 🙄

First Pls pin 📌 mine😍🥰

Sounds a bit like Trump. When is going down?

This should be on biographics Rusty Venture 😂