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I am your host Scott fernstein quick hitter edition breaking news out of South Philly slash South Florida Please like subscribe and share the og pod link and we'll keep on giving you a great podcast content But today we're going to talk about Joey Marlino's dive into the social media landscape He has launched or is in the process of launching the The skinny which is going to be a gambling app slash youtube channel So the alleged don of the Philadelphia mafia who I have Coined the nickname for the instagram don I coined that sometime in the last decade Is now fully embracing social media you know coordinated joey and you know joey is The joey camp says that he is no longer involved in Philadelphia organized crime activities that he's retired down in south florida living his best life Um, and he's trying to I think prove that by doing a legitimate endeavor like this It should be very interesting a lot of buzz Is circulating uh throughout the east coast right now this uh, this is something that's been in the work Works for a while. I I'd heard some things um But it it was officially announced and launched Today I'll give you some details of what I know um, so it's called the skinny And joy marlino is going to be giving gambling picks for football season I hear that he's going to be interacting with a guest star on each week's episode a very high profile former athletes wrappers actors Uh and so forth This endeavor that i'm told is backed by kevin connelly who you might know from entourage fame Played e in the hit hbo show entourage tried to get into the Directing space did a great job on a 30 for 30 called big shot about the uh This guy that tried to buy the new york islanders And was actually like didn't have the money to buy it, but he took control of the team It was it was he was like defrauding the nhl great great 30 for 30 and then um You know, he went into the major motion pictures and got involved in the gaudi project Not not the greatest uh Performance on that from a you know overall point of view that that movie didn't really resonate um But uh, I hear that he is behind this Joey is going to have a co-host little joe snuff Uh, his real name is joe perry perri And uh him and his dad are kind of fixtures in south philly big joe snuff and little joe snuff So little joe snuff is going to be The co-host with joy marlino Is in his 20s big joe snuff uh a guy that owned uh a diner in south philly for a while everybody knows these guys so You know, it should be Very interesting to see how this develops how this evolves um And i'm gonna kind of just quick minute or two breakdown what I think are the positives And the negatives so the positives are this is a way for him to have a legitimate paycheck It's a way to really leverage his brand because you know He is a bonafide You know gangster icon A guy that you don't even have to know his name. You just know the nickname and it elicits This vision of a of a baller, you know of a guy that has a lot of swagger A guy that is very Savvy and stealth and and what he's been able to do, you know, uh, I'm sure luck plays plays a part in it But you know, he's a guy that's survived in this world for the last 30 years You know, we can debate about whether joe is a mob boss now But we know for sure that he took over the philadelphia mob as a young guy, you know early thirties fought a war um against sicilian don john stan from the nineties Lost his best friend mikey chang died in his arms summer of 93 But by mid mid nineties, he had taken over the family Went to prison in the 2000s and came out in around 2011 uh and relocated to south florida Had a couple run-ins with the law had to go do Pearl violation or supervised release violation sentence and then had to go do a year in a gambling case but uh, you know, I think this is The direction he's going in for trying to legitimize is is a good move and and to put it out there so people can see it um And he's got something to sell He's a very marketable individual People gravitate towards him, you know, there's a reason that he is the most intriguing compelling riveting, you know organized crime figure of our generation, you know outside of maybe john goddy uh, it doesn't get more intriguing than skinny joey marlino now the negatives Uh, I don't know how this is going to play in new york city And if you're going to go on the theory that joey is still involved um, my belief is that that joey is Kind of like a figurehead, uh, not involved in the day-to-day Affairs of what's going on in philadelphia. He has his guys doing that for him um, and kind of doing his old thing in south florida, but I'd be remiss to tell you that I don't believe that he sat that he has some type of oversight whether it be in an advisory role um Chiming in on on policy or or stuff that need that needs to be, you know Decided the top levels of of the bruno scarfo group out in philly um But I don't think he's chiming in day-to-day. I do think he's probably taking an envelope that gets sent sent his way But other than that, I don't think he has a lot of hands on A hands-on role with with the philadelphia crime family, but the philadelphia crime family has a lot of business relationships in new york city lukez's Campinos and so forth I don't know if this is going to go over well there You know, it makes me think to what happened about 10 years ago with the mob wives tv show and you know, anthony grasiano tg The conciliary for the bananos, uh, you know, he got demoted because his daughters were behind that show And this is actually joey. This isn't a relative of joey. This is joey jumping on camera. It makes me kind of think of um The scene in the sopranos when You know carmen lupitasi tells 20 sopranos, you know a don doesn't wear shorts Well, I'm guessing there's a lot of dons in new york city that want to send word to joey that you know a don doesn't do a podcast so I don't know what the reverberations will be the fall will be from that But I think it's something to watch and I think it's also something to note about how this is going to be received um by some people in south philly that might feel like they'll be getting, you know, maybe some collateral damage from this in terms of heat or in terms of You know, if he's making all this money in With his gambling picks, you know, maybe We shouldn't be sending him so much money Uh up up to florida in envelopes and again, that's all speculation. We don't know if that's that's true That's what my source would say but uh has never been charged We're taking envelopes from south philly, but um joey is joey and he's gonna be joey It's gonna be joey top to bottom on this thing. You got skinny joey marlino little joe snuff. I'm really excited about it It's gonna be on youtube and then on a on an app called fan basis. So go check it out if you get a chance I'm wishing joey the best of luck All of his team are really excited about this and I think it should just be something really fun to follow And I wish him nothing but the best of luck and go out there and make a lot of money and show it to the government and say yeah, you can't come after me anymore because My money's as real as real can be right now. It's legit as as clean as a You know as a baby coming out of his baptism. So uh for og pod. I'm scott burnstein out