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The Outfit

The Outfit

By: Headgum
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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

© Higher Ground
Social Sciences True Crime World
Episodes
  • Mob Wives: Behind Every Great Mobster...
    Oct 23 2025

    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 rife with men in the mob, this week Alana takes the reins for this specialty detour into the lives of the mobsters' wives.


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    The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.

    Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson

    Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson

    Produced by Julia Murray

    Production Assistance by CJ Archerd and Franchesca Diaz

    Sound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew Eapen

    Show theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTE


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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Sammy Gravano: The Rat King
    Oct 16 2025

    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 on the run, a new lease on life is its own purgatory—and the desert rave scene, an unlikely new kingdom.


    Sources:

    The Arizona Republic, Arizona Daily Sun, Phoenix New Times, Tucson Citizen, The New York Times, UPI, Arizona State Press, CBN, The Smoking Gun, Cosa Nostra News, Crime Library, Arizona Daily Star, Midland Daily News, Reddit, New York Post, New York Daily News, Newsday.

    National Geographic's Narco Wars -- Season 2, Episode 4, "The Mob: How E Busted the Bull"

    Underboss: Sammy "The Bull" Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia by Peter Maas

    OfficialSammyTheBull on YouTube

    ShaunAttwoodOFFICIAL on YouTube

    MOBFAX on YouTube

    Dateline NBC, April 8, 1997 -- "Raging Bull"

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    The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.

    Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson

    Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson

    Produced by Julia Murray

    Production Assistance by CJ Archerd and Franchesca Diaz

    Sound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew Eapen

    Show theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTE


    Like the show? Rate The Outfit on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review.

    Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok.

    Advertise on The Outfit via Gumball.fm

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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    55 mins
  • Willie Bioff: Labor Racketeering in Hollywood's Golden Age
    Oct 9 2025

    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 with tyrannical studio heads, corrupted unions, and the stark threat of mob violence. Plus, what happens when Mickey Mouse goes union busting.


    Sources

    The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age by Jake S. Friedman

    The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo

    Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor by David Witwer

    The Hollywood Connection : The True Story of Organized Crime in Hollywood by Michael Munn


    Time Magazine, Reader's Digest, Omaha World-Herald, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Kansas City Times, Associated Press, The Birmingham News, Tulsa World, San Francisco Examiner, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Worker, Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, U.P., Los Angeles Daily News, Long Beach Independent, Los Angeles Mirror.

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    The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.

    Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson

    Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson

    Produced by Julia Murray

    Production Assistance by CJ Archerd and Franchesca Diaz

    Sound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew Eapen

    Show theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTE


    Like the show? Rate The Outfit on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review.

    Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok.

    Advertise on The Outfit via Gumball.fm

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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    58 mins
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