The Sopranos - Hesh Rabkin Story 

one of my favorite quotes because its true. then he starts doing it. lol

It’s just stutter step

And look at the way he treats Davey Scattino "our kids go to the same school together"...Tony seemed to enjoy driving Scattino into bankruptcy....@@ceerious

"Hey remember that time when I paid back that 50 bucks debt? Well now I need you to do ME a favor." - Homer Simpson

Never EVER loan money to friends.

It was crap. No need to sugar coat it It feels like a tribute to mafia movies/stories rather than its own thing Gandolfini is the only thing that gave it life to get to the best seasons

@Cinerary lol... okay, maybe it did kinda feel like if a Tarantino fanboy created a low-budget tv version of Goodfellas 😅

A lot of great shows start off rough. Mad Men for example didn't really find it's legs till the end of S3.

@@Sapp440Star Wars: the clone wars

@@Sapp440 That’s a good example. Took me a while to see why Madmen was so highly rated, glad I stuck with it. The best shows seem to grow in to themselves whereas most fall off trying to squeeze out too many seasons for money

The action is the juice. HEAT!

He wasn't there for the action, he was there for the rent, the rent!

Dude, comments like this are why I love youtube. So many interesting things to read and learn that I would have never put together myself.

In Woody Allen's MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY he's brilliant

Lmfao codify? That ain't even a word man. The word he uses is QUANTIFY. you fekkin shlep

Not even unofficial, if Tom Hagen can be considered Michael’s consigliere in the Godfather than Hesh absolutely can be counted as Tony’s consigliere

@@BirdGang6to bad that was silvios position lol

@@gillydasquid8858not in the first season

Yep. Just like Tom Hagen

​@@BirdGang6Nope. Tom Hagan was pretty much family to the Corleones, Hesh wasn't family to the Sopranos

T, HIMSELF!

one of the most uncomfortable scenes in breaking bad as well lol

@@clamcrewcarclub6017They did that because of the Sopranos episode.

I don't think so at all. She was just an elderly lady imitating that song that Marilyn Monroe sang to JFK which was one of the most well known and famous events to her generation. What I think is even creepier is when Christopher dug up that body and the hair and fingernails had grown or when Christopher and Furio cut up the body in the pork store or when they had Ralph's head in that bag. Those were TONS more creepier.

@@retroguy9494 Different kinds of creepy. But that scene of Tippy singing is widely known as one of the worst/silliest/creepiest scenes in TV. So much so that Breaking Bad copied it. As well as another show but I forgot which.

It shows Tony realizing his dad wasn’t some lost soul craving intellectual companionship like he tries to imagine himself as, but just another greaseball cheating on his wife with bimbos, which is what Tony is in reality too

He would of been the Boss if he was a made man!!

@@Assyrianmikey I feel like he would have been the Consigliere over Sil.

Hesh was the smartest man out of all of them

Seeing how the Jersey crew turned out, he was better off not being made

@@BoxingGOATEdits That's very true. Tbh it's odd that the Lupertazzis didn't looks at taking out Hesh during the war.

Ten years in the can, I wanted manicotti. I compromised. I got a rum ham.

Hey Season 1 is our bread and butter

The best show ever ! Hands down

Fun Fact: Some of the cast, including Jaime Lynn-Sigler thought the show was a musical, because of the name "The Sopranos". Because of this, HBO wanted to change the name to "Made in New Jersey" but David Chase insisted on The Sopranos.

“Made in New Jersey” definitely would’ve been just as good of a name imo

i agree.

I am a bit mixed about the statement alot of people make that he is a sociopath. Based on the with anthony junior he himself in tears holds him and say :"you are allright baby". Complex and violent - Yes. Sociopath - im not sure.

@@morganum87az The show even directly tells you he's a sociopath.

@@natea2247 No his mental health professionels. This is why i say he is complicated person. A sociopath would react with pure anger to his son trying to kill himself. He would disgusted by his "weakness". Tony changes when he notices how sad his son was. He was in love with horse, and was devastated about her burning in pain. A sociopath would be angry the lost money. He felt broken and kicked ralphs ass because of him killing his gf. He even knew he had to hide to the real thruth and instead say he disrespected the bing. Some of the same reasons makes us believe john was also complicated. He loved his wife more than anything in this world.

​@@morganum87az Yeah, the show blatantly tells you that he is. Dr. Melfi, reading about sociopaths and dropping him is the writer telling you what Tony Soprano is; there was no hope for him, and he did not improve at all, instead using the therapy for his own gain. All these examples you are giving me about Tony feeling emotion do not change anything as sociopaths can feel emotion too. He is not an extreme case of sociopathy for all these little moments you are listing, I can listen to numerous instances of Tony being sociopathic, including lying to everyone all the time, repeatedly cheating on his wife, killing people, beating people, intimidating union officials, stealing millions of dollars, and killing his family and friends because they were no longer of use.

There’s never a good time to ask about the debt

especially asking a degenerate gambling mob boss

With a guy like Tony? Any time is the wrong time.

How British are you and why is it yes

lmao then he apologized and called him kid 😆

Relax it’s just an expression 😅

​​@@heroic7774well here's an expression for ya. I want my money in five days or else...

Spider was a nobody anyway

"Sorry I yelled at ya kid."

He was paid off & in on it

The truck driving away was sped up or something. Looked surreal, like a dream. One of my favorite shots.

I thought it was meyer lansky.

​@@gregorygermann5975 That Was Hyman Roth

You mean the Baltimore lawyer?

There were a dozen real-life Hesh's.

He was also based on Art Laboe

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Taxing a jew takes away from his shinebox

well said

He’s one of the most pivotal players tho he plays in the back ground he is the smartest “gangster”

I love his back taxes storyline and how it is resolved. It perfectly illustrates so many key character traits (Junior's insecurity and manipulability, Hesh's pragmatism, Tony's loyalty at the time), it organically fills in some of the laws of their world (implications of the boss' absolute power, the importance of perception/saving face, the ritualistic sitdowns). We get a sense of scale of the Jersey operations (revenue wise) that a boss can collect $250k on a whim, we see how tension between different factions plays out, the hidden role of New York's interests, and a worked example of how Junior's reign is being stage-managed by everybody else to placate and nerf him. All flowing naturally from Hesh's unique insider/outsider role in the crew. Easy does it, laddie buck!

You guys might need to research some geopolitical causes, and effects…. AND affects

​​@@calebsliger4997in a profession where people die young, beware of the elderly.

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Well I uh think it’s…not good

Wann be a little more specific?​@@gregbradshaw7220

That meow shit was teeth gritting. Ugh

And the way it was put together, a song that sounded like a legitimate effort yet was cringingly awful - that takes considerable talent. It's like a trained musician deliberately playing or singing off key - counterintuitive and subsequently not easy.

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Antisemitism.. Fuc k you too ma man

I interpret it as whores or am I wrong in my thinking? Seems like an insult and logical explanation for a guy who ended up penniless due to drug addiction. Plus really tied in later that when Tony killed Ralph over the horse, it was really over the whore.

You should've seen the pricks face when he seen the *gyatt* 👴

Who ever heard of Jews riding horses?

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brother it's "interlockin' her"

@@chefcorinthLol, no.

@@JordonBeal fucker what? that is the quote, you're helplessly stupid

@@JordonBeal Interlocutar isn't even an english word you illiterate clown

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it is crazy especially in that era

Eh it’s a lot of money, but like all these situations it’s getting spread out down the chain. Tony already remarks that Junior broke down the payout 5 ways. It’s more like $10-20k Junior is giving up on for himself

@Pantsinabucket for sure man, I guess it's alot of money for civilians, these friends of ours make that in a few days lol fuhgetaboutit

its a jew scene

@willorn hasidim but I don't believe him!

Tony rubbing the two coins together was too funny. Hesh goes way back w Tony's dad but tony being boss he cld do that and def got laughs. If that was a regular person disrespecting hesh like that I am sure he wld not let that slide, hesh is not mobbed up but still gangster af imo

@@theramplocal lmao yea

@@theramplocalHe’s a major bookie. With millions of dollars. He could simply pay someone to kill you.

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He complains, he talks about me. She didn’t do this. She did that. I gave my life to my children on a silver plattah. And this is how he repays me.

seasons 4 and 6 are amazing for me, it's the beginning and later the end of tony, 5 is a little weak tho

Opposite for me I found 5 to be the best season.@@yungpableezy69

@@yungpableezy69the entire tony b storyline is great though

Wrong! It was just a different flavor. Plus the family is way too small! The Jersey DeCavalcante Family had at least 40-50 made guys. The Demeo's (Sopranos) in the early show really is just a "glorified" crew.

​@@yungpableezy69season 5 is legit my favorite and I watched this show as it aired every year.

You’re way outta-line kid!!! Why don’t you get some cold fizzy-water on your head!!!

Whoever heard of a 🇮🇱 riding horses?!?

yea most conversations never involve him

That's how he is! Like a dog wit two bones

Just like his mutha

Kind of is an understatement. He's a fucking murderous baby. Pretty much everyone in the show is better at controlling their emotions than he is. Chrissy being probably the only exception and Tony hated that part about him too.

Tony was a violent sociopath. Hesh knew this, but was intelligent enough to have Tony as an ally, until the loan came up.................

i'll never lend a friend i like a large sum of money. doesn't mix well

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be..for loan oft looses itself and friend"-William Shakespeare@@ceerious

@@genekelly8467 great quote

Loan the guy money? Suddenly I'm the schmuck.

With jews u loose

Amazing, because Heshs people were huge slave runners over the Atlantic.

The change rubbing was unbelievably shitty lol, friends for years, and then He’s treating Hesh like a donkey.

A hit is a hit , THAYS not a hit

I think the song was better than that, and how would that guy understand what would appeal to the youth anyway?

@@TheZenithphoenix I was 20 when that episode aired. And the entire youth thought it sucked then!🎉

I liked it: Meow!

Were they singing "Meow?"

and the song Hesh said was a hit i love listening to. Dori Hartley "Nobody loves me"

And loves his bagels 🥯 topped with lox 😅

He was a Jew

Happened to NWA

😆🤣@@MikeGervasi

@@MikeGervasi except if Jerry had tony and Paulie, Suge woulda went for a boat ride.

​@@pinkpotatozJimmy Iovine is way more gangster then Suge

@@BradyJoelGibsonyeah I mean he moves like that in the industry but gangsters stay in the trenches. Jimmys just an ice cold brilliant Executive/producers

indeed....sigh...I hope some of the writers get together again some time with a perfect cast again 😔

@@ceerious ...yeeeah - it would be nice ...NICE THOUGHT, but we both know what the reality is today..."marvel-superhero movies" and politically correct CR@P on both the "Big Screen" and TV as well... virtue signalling seems to have overtaken everything... INCLUDING quality! Sad but true.

We will but none of them will be white & it'll be mostly women

Boardwalk Empire was every bit as great.

@@StepUpMedia039 "Boardwalk Empire" was great! - very true. I'm guessing the main difference is that "Boardwalk" started as a major project from HBO from the get-go, with a multi-million dollars budget. "The Sopranos" was "the hit of the century" but it started as low-budget project, and few were expecting it to score big. I still rank this one little "higher", but there's no denying that the early 2000 had some of the finest series ever! PS. I've always thought that two actors from "B.E." would have been great in the "Sopranos" aswell (even though the "Soprnos" came earlier!). Vincent Piazza ("Lucky" Luciano in the "Boardwalk") and that other guy who played "Gyp" Rosetti (I always forget the actor's name! - he played a minor role in "The Irishman") - they were just f**ng BRILLIANT! - THEN - Michael Shannon, Michael Pitt and Ivo Nandi were also great. SOME of them were in both series like the guy who plays "Butchie" here (Johhny Torrio in "B.E.") ...or "that f**ng animal Blundetto"! - he makes me hyperventilate and feel like I'm closing to a heart-attack each time I try to say his name!... 😄 PS. If you look at the "Sopranos" cast - almost all of them within the first two seasons were "cheaper" or "B-series Actors". Michael Imperioli and "Paulie" Sirico were known (but not "big") for minor roles in some "mob"-movies ("Goodfellas", HBO's "Gotti" & others) - but NONE OF THEM - NOT ONE! - was any "superstar"! They even took guys like Steve Van Zandt, who was - basically - a musician, trying to do "something different" - all because they couldn't cast any "estabilished" actors for FINANCIAL REASONS. Then! - ALL OF THEM! - after just 3 seasons - were so well known, that you if you wanted to cast them in a movie, you'd have to spend millions. Look at Vincent Pastore, whom they killed in the - as far as I recall - second (?) season, but (in one way or the other) he always "loomed over" them all, in the later episodes (each time they watched the sea ...there he "was"! ). "Sopranos" was such a hit & it made such a "splash", that when it landed, they had to phone him (Vince Pastore) back and pay him additional fees, JUST TO PREVENT HIM for asking more money from the studio, later on in the years, even though he wasn't even actively playing any role no more! 😂 ...and THEY WERE RIGHT! - he could have done it easily! They scored a return with a 30 or 40 x "factor, on the intial budget, for Heaven's Sake! Within a few years Vince Chase - a guy almost no one knew - became "a huge name", and when they proposed a MOVIE - they gave him the steering wheel and "carte blanche" for any money-cheque! He could have written ANY number he wanted for the "Saints Of Newark"! ...IMAGINE THAT! ...AND ...for one reason or another ...I just didn't like the movie!... Watched it TWICE and STILL cannot bring myself to like it.

didnt know. thanks!

He looks familiar. I was an extra on Law for a few years. The amount of work that goes into that set is remarkable.

@@XanderShiller wow awesome!

Is that Mariska Hargitays husband

the best days

Gotti and his crew met at the Ravenite Social Club..all importnt discussions were conducted outsde (hands covering mouths).

agreed

and sparks steakhouse

yeah but they're mob guys themselves who eat there so i dont imagine they'd want to be outed or anything

every one knew the mob ate at the best places So yes, Artie would benefit from the hit at his place@@fooman530

Yea. Better than destroying the place.

always

What I'd tell ya? Hold on to your cock when you are negotiating w these Serbian people.

Suits? Pleurisy?

he owns a horse farm!

@@MaxSchmooze lmao i heard "he owns lionel" tonys voice

@@ceerious tell that midget don't be shy w the whip!

great choice. im gonna rewatch soon as well 😃

Have you not seen Kung Fury? You can shoot people through the phone!!!

Lol yup. Always the victim

he was the "bank"

It’s called an associate. He has some money and they have the muscle to collect. That vig just carries the interest. It does jack shit on the principal. And 1.5% a week is still 78% apr. Which is why hesh wasn’t worried about the vig. Tony had made him far more through the years.

yep. If Jerry Adler had a contract would of been awesome to have him in more than he was.

I feel the same...Consigliere

lmao me too

😂😂. Follows up with I told you he was a prick!

They’re only playing it Elvis Country I guess.

Where is that ?@@SaunKrystian

@@jkg7297 anywhere where there aint no "" or italians

Charles Schwab over here.

Yeah well…….Varsity Athlete……so there!

i love that scene.

Shows how dangerous Tony had become-stiffing Hesh would cause big problems for the Capos who were out loansharking money-if Hesh shut them off, that would impact Tony's take. A bad situation.

What a prick Tony was for acting like that. Because Hesh has money it means Tony shouldn't have to pay him back? What a jagoff

yea i saw that. Adler was great but the only bad thing was he didnt have a contract. so im assuming Hesh would of been a bigger role if Stiller played it

he borrowed money because he became a degenerate gambler

@@marshallb5210 yeah but 200k is change if 500k was back taxes. hesh probably paid 350k a yr to tony as tax. tony probably made 6m+ a year. he should have borrowed 2m

He may have already signed a contract with someone else when Hesh saw him

@@davidmellish3295nope, Jimi famously played there and a few people saw him and said he was good, but it was Chas Chandler who saw him, took him to London, and signed him. Once he was picked up he was not there selling himself at Cafe Wha anymore. Hesh was a lucky hack who knew how to sign a good deal.

@@alexanders562Hack I wouldn’t say. He could’ve been making the story up.

Hesh is full of it

zilch

its still not imo... lol

both hypocritical. it took me getting older and wiser to appreciate that scene. and the scene with Hesh and Massive G. It's a shame that everyone fights over the history, My family came here from italy, got pushed out by germany and italy. wanted a better life, we had nothing to do with any of the history but we get blamed by it through ignorant people who don't want to know or care, they just want to fight.

ugh yea lol

It's kind of a depressing thing to see that the ideals, as inhumane as they were, that the mob was built on became nothing more than guidelines paid by lip service. It was just a bunch of old men clinging to something that was already dead.

the creator said it was more about the girl Tracee than the horse. the horse was the last straw

alright but you gotta get over it

The greatest comedy in television history masquerading as a gangster show!