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hey it's Nick from true-crime garage and we'll be back with a regular episode tomorrow but right now we are bringing
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you a little something extra this week something we are both very excited about our good friends over at stitcher they
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have a new podcast that you're gonna want to check out called mob Queens and since you love our show and you love
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stitcher we know you'll love this one mob Queens is the story of Ana Genovese who was a New York drag Club maven
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entrepreneur and a badass mob wife and he probably never heard of her because she's been written out of history you've
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got to listen to the show to find out what happens but we're bringing you the first five minutes here so you can hear
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it for yourself but search for mob Queens in your podcasts app and check out their first episode it's out right
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now and be sure to hit subscribe okay here is the preview the mob the Mafia the syndicate the family good-looking
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guys inexpensive tailored suits and fedoras carrying pistols and machine guns they live and die by the code of
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omerta the first rule of the mob which is there is no mob these murderous Mad Men have been glorified in stories like
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The Godfather Goodfellas and The Sopranos keep your friends close but your enemies closer
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and even the titles make one thing glaringly obvious it's all about the guys women are usually accessories in
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these stories seen and not heard either the mistress the long-suffering wife or more likely the widow but
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there's another side of the mobs game in the 20th century with players like Mussolini
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J Edgar Hoover and the Kennedy brothers politicians are paid off to look the other way
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nightclub dollars pour into the hands of mobsters dirty cops and gay performers you're talking about New York City's
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very first drag clubs and the woman that's right a woman who ran them a woman named Anna Genovese
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and a crash through a sea of male chauvinism to become a rule-breaker and ship disturb her this woman did
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something no other mob wife has done before or since she stood up to her husband in the most courageous way
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possible [Music] who was this mop queen with the insight and ability to write her own ticket in a
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man's world that's what we want to know who is Ana Genovese [Music] I'm Jessica bending her on Michael
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Seligmann this is Mark Queens [Music] Anna was the goddess you looked right at her I knew she was a force to be
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reckoned with any decent guy would never let their wife or girl for know their business I think in the village of truth
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in fiction there's just no story - outrageous what's she much more complicit than the
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family legend I just felt like maybe other people we're watching her wait a minute wait a minute before we get
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started who are you I'm Jessica bending girl I wrote a little cheerleading satire called bring
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it on I recently learned is in the gay Canon which made me a very happy by the way it is officially in there yeah what
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about you Michael who are you Oh Who am I well I am also a writer I work on a TV
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show called RuPaul's Drag Race and I've written four shows like mysteries and scandals an e true Hollywood story so to
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be clear there isn't a book that's been written about Anna Genovese there isn't a magazine article a miniseries a
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biography on the History Channel we couldn't even find an obituary or a grave marker
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yeah I mean in fact if you take what almost five years of research or what 18 out of print books smore dozens of
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newspaper articles and a handful of court records that we've collected and put them all together the information in
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all of that material specific to any genevese fills about maybe a dozen pages yeah I mean people don't realize that
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the drag we know today it goes back to the mob to Anna Genovese and a whole lot of Queens in the first half of the 20th
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century in New York City and that's why we're here yeah that's why we're here because we are gonna tell
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the story of Anna Pattillo bring the Chico Genovese March 1953 mrs. Genovese pulls the rug
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from under her gangster husband Vito Genovese and began putting on the record the
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inside story of the Costello crime syndicates the fashionably dressed 48 year old mr. Genovese charged that her
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husband has quote his sticky fingers in almost all the rackets this is the New York Daily News article that first draws
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our attention to Anna Genovese way back at the beginning of our research and the
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articles from 1953 so of course the woman doesn't even get her own name she's just mrs. Vito Genovese Vito who
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by the way is one of the most murderous madmen in mop history so this is Anna testifying against her husband in open
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court I mean this is so unprecedented and she is talking she has given up the goods the locations the codes she's not
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holding back all right that was the super exciting sneak peek from mob Queens listen now on the stitcher app
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apple podcast or your favorite podcast app thank you for listening [Music] [Applause]