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Welcome to The Outfit — where each week, a fascinating (and often hilarious) Mafia story reveals something deeper about the way our society works. Hosted by Alana Hope Levinson and Dan O'Sullivan. From Higher Ground and Headgum
Headgum hosts The Outfit, a history show with 28 episodes published.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW HOME OF THE OUTFIT ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/TheOutfitPod Parting is such sweet sorrow, and never more-so than in the season one finale of The Outfit. In the final episode of “Al Capone: Al
When a popular crime reporter for the Chicago Tribune is executed in broad daylight, all eyes turn to Capone. In the penultimate episode of "Al Capone All American," the heat is on, and Dan and Alana find not all is what
This week, Dan and Alana are joined by Demi Adejuyigbe — writer, comedian, and internet personality — to talk Martin Scorsese’s Casino. From lavish costumes to Oscar snubs, the crew breaks down this classic 1995 film to
February 14th, 1929: a routine police raid on a Chicago garage turns out to be anything but, as seven men are machine-gunned to death; an event colloquially known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. In this episode of “
As a wave of political unrest sweeps 1923 Chicago, along comes the rise of a progressive mayoral candidate who vows to take down the bootleggers, effectively driving Al Capone’s operation to the suburb of Cicero, Illinoi
It’s prohibition-era Chicago, and Al Capone and his gang boss, John Torrio, stand to make millions off of bootlegging. As long as crime can be organized along professional boundaries, there should be no need for violence
Description: This week, on the next installment of "Al Capone All-American," Dan and Alana turn to the greatest gift Al Capone could have asked for on his 21st birthday: the national prohibition on the sale and manufactu
In this, the second episode of Outfit’s limited series "Al Capone All-American," Dan and Alana learn how the young Scarface, now on the cusp of adulthood, found himself drifting westward toward the city of destiny: Chica
Before he was Al Capone — the Scarface of popular myth — he was Alphonse Capone. In this inaugural episode of The Outfit’s first ever limited series, Dan and Alana take a trip back in time to dissect the man that made th
It's a Very Outfit Christmas this holiday season, as Dan and Alana bring you their own version of yuletide cheer: 'twas (not quite) the night before Christmas 1977, when a crew of burglars, stung over their own gift-givi
This week, Dan and Alana take on an age-old mystery: why are straight men so obsessed with Goodfellas? They’re joined by Allie Kahan, content manager at Headgum, for a deep-dive into their favorite scenes, classic Scorse
This week, Dan travels back to the land of his birth--Long Island, New York--for a fragrant stroll past one of the Mafia's biggest moneymakers: garbage. As he and Alana find out, the garbage industry was a critical sourc
On this week's episode of The Outfit, Dan and Alana are joined by Misha Brown, podcaster and author of upcoming new book, Be Your Own Bestie, to dish on A&E's Growing Up Gotti: The 2004 reality hit following Victoria Got
On this episode, Dan travels back to the auld sod to regale Alana with the story of a vicious crime lord with two wives and a weakness for desserts: Martin "The General" Cahill. A product of the Dublin slums and upwardly
1912, Ragtime-era New York. NYPD Lieutenant Charles Becker, celebrity cop, stands accused of a shocking crime: orchestrating the murder of gambler Herman Rosenthal, whose squealing to the press threatened to expose syste
Happy Halloween! This week on a spooktacular edition of The Outfit, Dan is joined by longtime friend, host of Your Kickstarter Sucks, Jesse Farrar, for a Sopranos-style therapy session with Dr. Alana. After failing to ma
For the Outfit’s very first guest episode, Dan and Alana are joined by Rachel Fisher, co-host of Hollywood Crime Scene, to dive deep into the 2010s reality TV scene. They talk, of course, of VH1’s Mob Wives. In a podcast
After ratting out the Gambino Family and skating away on 19 murders, Sammy “The Bull” Gravano takes a cushy deal and settles down with his family in Arizona. But as Dan and Alana learn in this episode, for a mob snitch o
This week on the Outfit, we head to La La Land, hot on the trail of a Chicago Outfit thug with stars in his eyes. Amidst the palm trees and swimming pools, Dan and Alana journey to the dark side of 1940s Hollywood, rife
This week on The Outfit, a fateful exploration into the UK’s most infamous gangster twins and how the web of blackmail they weaved through the country’s political sphere has shocking resonance to current events. Join Dan
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