Speaker 1: It's like my father says, no matter what you're doing
Speaker 1: this world, you're gonna pay a price.
Speaker 2: Anthony Ramundi wants to make peace with God.
Speaker 1: I'll probably drop there to either cancer or a heart attack.
Speaker 1: There's nothing I can do that's gonna stop it.
Speaker 2: Recent health problems have Anthony reflecting on his thirty years
Speaker 2: in the Brooklyn mafia.
Speaker 3: On the street, you got a problem with a guy,
Speaker 3: the guy gets whacked. Who gives a shit, you know?
Speaker 2: But there's one murder from his past that Anthony Ramundi
Speaker 2: worries might get him turned away at the Pearly Gates.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to heaven.
Speaker 3: God, I'm gonna say, now, fuck you, you killed one of
Speaker 3: my popes.
Speaker 4: A shocking update here from the Vatican.
Speaker 2: Pope John Paul the First has died.
Speaker 4: The honest polpe to die in four hundred years. Yes
Speaker 4: said he died of a heart attack, but he had
Speaker 4: no heart problems.
Speaker 2: I'm Mark Smirling, filmmaker and podcaster, but for the past
Speaker 2: year I felt like a priest taking dizzy and confessions
Speaker 2: from I'm a brutal mafia and forcer.
Speaker 3: He says, I want to be like you guys. My
Speaker 3: cousin mac Ploda gun and put it bright in my
Speaker 3: mouth from.
Speaker 2: His baptism into the family business at just sixteen.
Speaker 3: He says, you think you got the boss to do this?
Speaker 3: Just welcome something and bought that fucking range.
Speaker 2: Right now to committing international stock fraud.
Speaker 3: I mean we had fucking two three or four hundred
Speaker 3: thousand shares at and T Coca Cola IBM.
Speaker 2: With an unlikely partner.
Speaker 3: Paul Jacob Marsinkus. This was the head of the Vatican Bank.
Speaker 2: Whoa and how this unholy union may have led to
Speaker 2: paper side.
Speaker 1: My grandfather because we got to give it to the pope.
Speaker 3: We got to kill him last.
Speaker 1: I'm not killing no fucking pop. Papa.
Speaker 2: Anthony's written his own book of biblical proportions.
Speaker 3: This is the guy who likes supposedly directly talks to God.
Speaker 2: They might just be too biblical to be gospel.
Speaker 3: Anthony doesn't Pernelia to me at all.
Speaker 2: So he's a fabulous You know, some of it's true,
Speaker 2: some of it there's a fabulous, and then there's it.
Speaker 3: Goes beyond fabulous.
Speaker 2: All great lines are based truths. See now we will
Speaker 2: hear no, we will speak no evil, not asking questions.
Speaker 3: So this is that I'm not a curious person. I
Speaker 3: never known him to be a schlaffe. But again, again
Speaker 3: that's just me.
Speaker 4: When we were completing the research, I thought something really grave,
Speaker 4: possibly even that the Pope had been murdered.
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Speaker 3: And I'm saying to myself, how I get into this mess?