Boardwalk Empire - George Remus Sitdown With Johnny Torrio And Al Capone

Geroge Remus sits down with Johnny Torrio and Al Capone and offers them a deal to start buying alcohol from him instead of Nucky Thompson.
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[@mysterytrain3]

"We aughta be in business wit' him" "The fuck you talkin' about?? He's Remus!" "I know. I'm just..." I LOVE that part!

[@jkholtgreve]

Don’t troll a troll…haha

[@funhole26]

🤣😭🤣

[@alfaroqamminu]

@Ben Cooper remus dosnt find it very funny

[@immad8817]

oh u found me funny like a clown

[@immad8817]

how am i funny do i amuse u this is maybe really fucked

[@andyb1336]

Remus is a quality troll.

[@KashNation]

Fuck you talking about He’s Remus

[@brutustantheiii8477]

@@KashNation yeah, I know. I was just doing what he was...oh never mind

[@davidkite7529]

Talking in the third person is the biggest flex no matter how ridiculous it sounds

[@patrick4662]

I thought it was kinda stupid. I could take him seriously.

[@leondelvechioramirez8529]

I love it when Hoover gets him to stop referring to himself in third person.

[@susieq360]

He inadvertently did it twice on his own in this scene. 😅

[@mackredroseifg5923]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@user-no5uq4mc1o]

"and ill have you send to leavenworth!"

[@jaybeswick9062]

You were probably hoping hoover asked him out on a date too 🤣

[@CoreyT127]

@@jaybeswick9062 stop projecting ladyboy.

[@traildoggy]

When Remus talks, Remus listens.

[@NinjaPokerParty]

Time is a 300 mile flat circle. I'm on to you, Yellow King.

[@leeroyjenkins6061]

Yellow King shuns gambling.

[@joshuadow8563]

Yellow king has the good stuff

[@rickyray2794]

Holy shit.. that IS him

[@JD-dt7py]

@@leeroyjenkins6061 hahahaha

[@matthewgabbard6415]

@@joshuadow8563 I think you mean Yella Kang

[@blja]

Remus looks more like real Capone than Capon in the series

[@blitzy3244]

Remus agrees.

[@theoryrhino]

Al: "We oughta be in business with him" Torrio: "The fuck you talkin' about HE IS remus" Al: "I know! i just!"

[@TheFiresloth]

"Who's on first ? Remus."

[@willpowr416]

the whole "trick" about owning the distilleries and pharmacies and then hijacking his own trucks was 100% true.. Reemus dont play

[@jeremybuchanan318]

then went to jail and double crossed by fed agent and his wife gets out and sees her chases her down kills her in public broad day light then co council's his own defense. temporary insanity he claimed. the jury was out 19 minutes. came back not guilty! all true stone cold facts lol. heard tales he was out partying with some jurors later after the verdict. wild story.

[@JohnnyDeur]

@@jeremybuchanan318 WOW i never read about that shit! i need to look this up. When you think about the number of mini series and spinoffs this could have made its amazing

[@Oakland510]

@@jeremybuchanan318 no wonder remus spoke in 3rd person, as person said above REMUS dont play

[@eadghe]

*doesn't play

[@rowdyravingraven]

Why would he hijack his own trucks?

[@xYouthAttackx]

ain't you GEORGE REMUS?!

[@rohamtavakkoli7562]

Who'd you think I was?

[@forcemajeur.5138]

Al: I thought you was Remus. Remus: You're in Carcosa now little priest.

[@sananto6896]

Remus is a freaking trip, man. He is funny just by the way he talks. He should have had a bigger role.

[@titobrozzi7425]

Agree

[@guyb6665]

Would've been funnier if there was never any confusion or even acknowledgement that it was strange that he spoke about himself in the 3rd person

[@sananto6896]

@@guyb6665 .....that did happen in a conversation with Capone, and Capone said "aren't you Remus?". It was funny stuff.

[@jkholtgreve]

He does in Ken Burns’ Prohibition. Solid half hour at least. Boardwalk Empire only scratched the surface with him.

[@allaboutthemurzic]

@@sananto6896But you just said it like it was someone else

[@wiseass2149]

George Remus was the Kanye West before Kanye West.

[@imcallingjapan2178]

Steady on, he's not that crazy.

[@tinapeittway892]

not even

[@bostonBorn25]

“Cheaper lawyer more time in jail” Facts

[@astoldbyaja3010]

Al: You just said it like it was someone else. me: hahaah oh Al

[@Gootothesecond]

Al: We oughta be in business wit' him. Torrio: Thafuck you talkin' about? He's Remus. That was hilarious.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

According to a Ken Burns documentary on Prohibition, he really did frequently talk in third person. He's also referred to THE bootlegger, and his exploits are so legendary he could have a TV show of his own.

[@jackdaone6469]

Yup. Only guy who became a bigger bootlegger than him was Al Capone some years later.

[@tacticalpossum7090]

The way he wound up destitute at the hands of an agent who resigned and married his wife is a plot twist that rarely gets equaled in my opinion.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

@@tacticalpossum7090 There could be two seasons worth of content just based on his arrest and release. For one the prohibition agent who arrested him, also shot him during the arrest before marrying Remus's wife. Then there's the fact that upon release, Remus killed said ex-wife by running her over with his car only to be acquitted for her murder. The jury foreman was quoted as saying "I felt sorry for the guy...he had such a bad Christmas last year."

[@Oakland510]

@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassiveagent must have been chasing Remus wife for a while during the case

[@richardp3572]

Remus likesto kill people in true detective. Remus mows lawns.

[@shiz777]

You in Carcosa now boy

[@GodsSon987]

Remus also likes to be a judge in The Night Of

[@bryceheyden]

Time is a flat circle.

[@Nls-nj5yw]

Remus also got brutally killed in Joker

[@FromTheAlderGrove]

@@Nls-nj5yw Remus shuns gambling

[@Capodecamper]

my families been here along time

[@jiggleykrowzer8768]

I love Torrio LMFAO.. He's hilarious. "It's a load from da gag shop!" "I"M IN DA MIDDLE OF A FUCKIN MEETIN!!" lmfao... "I got a cracked molar that's how I'm doin!" LOL

[@Soil_Bound]

"I got a planters wart on my foot, hurts like a son of a bitch!"

[@ifedhimspaghetti]

“They got redundant upper management, bleeds off half the kick!”

[@dionruffin3996]

When they arrested Remus I laughed so hard my neighbor came to make sure I was ok 😂 😂😂

[@TheAfterHoursLV]

The psychology behind this scene is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on television...Love it...

[@thesunris]

the humor is subtle you can't even explain it lol

[@therewillbecocaine]

i literally came to this video to see if anyone else noticed remus' uncanny resemblance to the real capone.. he looks just like capone!!!

[@luckyday465768]

I KNOW RIGHT!!!! He looks a lot more like Al Capone than Stephen Graham does. But Graham does a great job, he's so convincing.

[@Ghostfacekevon]

luckyday465768 No his not. He was a horrible Al Capone. There is a reason why he never got any big rewards for his acting. For you to say Stephen Graham did a great job is like saying Tony Montana played a great cuban. Stephen Graham all he did was be loud. Never once he could pull off an Italian

[@luckyday465768]

Ghostfacekevon you are entitled to your own opinion but, seeing as how Graham DID pull off the Italian thing, and the proof is everywhere, he did stay true to the real al Capone, which was violent and loud, hell even historians say how very close he was to the real thing. The only things that were deviating away from the real capone was some of the events that happened in Boardwalk, and the height of Stephan Graham. "Tony Montana played a great Cuban" Um Tony Montana is not a real person but nice try. "There is a reason why he never got any big rewards for his acting" Really, and is that also the reason why he DID win big awards and was nominated for more like the BAFTA? So yeah, you tried pointing out parts, but you just end up being wrong. In reality Graham did great as al capone.and of course he's not the greatest but he's definitely not the worst. He definitely had a lot more charisma than Robert De Niro did, and I should be damned for saying that because I LOVE Robert de niro, but maybe that's because Robert De Niro only played for just that movie, and played a villainous Al Capone whereas Graham did more than just being villainous. Granted this show didn't show all the good things Al Capone did in real life, but the capone in here was definitely more interesting and more I dare say relatable. If you think he's only good at yelling then clearly you weren't paying attention to all the capone scenes.

[@Ghostfacekevon]

Nah Graham sucked. Has anybody heard from Graham lately? The thing about Tony Montana not being real. You know 90 percent of this show is fiction right? There not telling a true story.

[@Kruppt808]

Yah I didn't see Capone from that actor, he's just a supporting character so it's not a big deal but it was abit disappointing.

[@prplhze2000]

Remus was already making $500K a year as a lawyer. Probably $7 million a year today.

[@nodirironov293]

remus actor should have been cast as capone!

[@teddyroth1514]

fuck no

[@RFJersey]

Nodir Ironov He would have been better as Nucky

[@SantomPh]

This is a younger Capone, the pictures we have are usually before he went to jail for good

[@tempo869]

Nodir Ironov he also looks like George Remus, lol

[@danielsmith608]

Always thought that too.... he's a dead ringer from Capone. It's really uncanny.

[@mysterytrain3]

When I was a young guy in the early to mid '70s, I worked with a pharmacist who, many years prior, owned 3 drug stores in a major city during prohibition. He said the booze got delivered and went out the back door as soon as it was checked off the invoice. My friend made a lot of buddies among the organized crime "boys", as he called them. I wish he were alive today. I'd have a lot more questions for him now than I did then. He was one smart fellow. He didn't care much for television (except he liked to watch the Cubs lose--our only point of dissension), but he probably would have liked Boardwalk Empire. It probably would have brought back the "old days". He taught me a few things like: don't get mad; get even. I watched him put that into practice, one day, and he earned my respect for a lifetime. We worked the overnight shift together. He always walked around with a wad of dough in one pocket (for fast deals, he told me) and a "biscuit" in the other. Glad he liked me.

[@trillgates2452]

mysterytrain3 by biscuit, you mean gun.

[@mysterytrain3]

He liked to refer to his little snub nosed .38 as "the biscuit". He called it a "heater" occasionally, too. Old words from the '20s and '30s.

[@chrisdawson1776]

@@mysterytrain3 Yeah, and I’m playing shortstop for the Mets.

[@mysterytrain3]

@@chrisdawson1776 Nah. True story. Who do you think I am? Gianni Russo? LOL (I Like your Sopranos quote, though)

[@strelok9078]

Ok, boomer

[@alanrasch9511]

Thumbs up if you got Al's joke at 1:48

[@chozenknight260]

I think everybody got the joke except Torrio.

[@NYCentralSpotter1070]

Remus knows all the loopholes left and right.

[@mikeantell533]

Well reason why is cause Torrio wasn't there yet for the initial exchange... it's funny cause you could see Al was genuinely confused at first... ("You said it like it was somebody else.." that had me dying!! ) And this is still in Capones early days so you can't say it was the syphillis... the writers really never made him into much of a genius..

[@suicide_king6804]

The fuck you talkin about? HE'S Remus!

[@yawgmoth5662]

Because Remus talks about himself in third person? Yeah if you have a brain you got that bit of humor.

[@mrneutral8423]

'The fuck you talking about HE IS Remus'

[@jefffromjersey52]

I heard George Remus read the Volstead Act ... Top notch.. Top Notch Constitutional this morning... George Rums has very important work to do, his ascension removes him from the disk and the loop. George Remus is near final stage. Some mornings, George Remus can see the infernal plane..

[@johnnymaximum3828]

George "Who'd You Think I Was" Remus

[@JoeM-tx5pm]

I like how torrio says "why the fuck did you move to cincinatti" then nucky says later in his call with remus "why the fuck would anyone ever go to cincinatti"

[@julsmul7164]

1:01 "Draw a circle 300 miles around." A flat circle.... black star....ledoux and dewall; acolytes.... o.0 calm down there Remus geez

[@ViceCityVacation]

I love Remus. Remus is awesome, it's like Remus is comic relief. Ahhhh...Remus is funny, ViceCity likes :)

[@tillerman7272]

Mickey was the best comic relief imo

[@nervousnorvus1944]

@@tillerman7272 he just accepted that he was a joke among the rest and rolled with the punches, literally.

[@ProjectMathesar]

I'll admit I was confused about this scene at first because I didn't think anyone was actually arrogant enough to talk about themselves in the 3rd person. Took me a second scene with Remus to figure it out. Well done.

[@kalstonii]

Why is it arrogant?

[@kolbeinngauti3971]

I always thought that the referring to himself in the third person bit, was something just in the show, but then. I looked it up and the real George Remus actually did that !

[@getzata96]

I feel like the third person thing makes him sound like a brand, establishment of some sorts

[@petemcintire4339]

Also helps if he gets questioned, the detectives/agents will get confused.

[@warriorgirl6649]

I always have to giggle when people question Remus, on the third party stuff....

[@ragnarbluechip8795]

Remus was really pissed off about that bill from Nucky

[@Stevie.C]

It's been weeks since I left my mark...

[@C.O-EDITS]

Remus looks more like the real life Al Capone

[@b22chris]

just found out george remus lived like 3 blocks away from me back in the day haha

[@AMJuventus67]

lol remus scenes are the best

[@cflo1386]

I believe Stephen Graham is British he does a great job portraying Capone.

[@ShadowSonic2]

He is British, he's also about twice as old as Capone is supposed to be at this point in time too. But the guy playing Lansky is also way older than he should be.

[@Ghostfacekevon]

In other words he sucked at playing Al Capone. Do your homework on the real Al Capone and then pay attention to the short older dwarf playing Al Capone

[@ShadowSonic2]

Ghostfacekevon He did a good job playing him, he just didn't look like him. I don't think Buscemi looked like Nucky Johnson either, he was older than him too.

[@stuckonautomatic]

Ghostfacekevon The real Capone looked waaay older than he actually was, so regarding the age Graham wasn't a bad choice.

[@cflo1386]

Graham was also in Band of Brothers (Easter egg).

[@shapiroshekelberg604]

Arthur Fleck ends up stabbing Remus in the eye and neck…

[@dominicmadrid3539]

Remus wants Hotcakes.

[@blitzy3244]

Remus wanted Hotcakes. Remus compromised and got Johnny cakes instead.

[@nervousnorvus1944]

@@blitzy3244 You can go.

[@Kblog777]

The resemblence is uncanny, hes a deadspit for Capone. Funny too, that his first scene is with Capone too. Having said that, I do think Stephen Graham is brilliant and defo resembles the younger Capone. I think they could do a scene set several years later and get Remus to do the older Capone. Surprised that the Remus actor has'nt already played Capone in some other film, it would be a crime not to, given the resemblence.

[@nycot107]

Lol, Al isn't someone you troll lightly, although, he's better at taking a joke than Rosetti is

[@stephendavis6267]

Glenn Fleshler's Remus and Stephen Root's Gaston Means were two characters who deserved whole spinoffs of their own, considering the exploits and escapades they got up to in life.

[@lobsterdfw1]

"fuck you talkin about, he's remus" lmao

[@bcrichrob]

Remus asked for hotcakes.

[@czure94]

@@bcrichrob They stopped by the Mayflower later

[@benyang2427]

What I love about this show over Sopranos....you get to see the "art of the deal" taking place much more frequently on Boardwalk....Cincy makes sense. You don't just have the "lake issue" with liquor coming in from Canada...but always the prospect that North Side gangs can hijack liquor (O'Bannion great at this) heading to the South Side as well.

[@uppercutgrandma4425]

They're different views on the same topic. Sopranos did it with a main character as the interaction point so it's less about the deals themselves, boardwalk does it with various main characters and their interaction point is the goods they sell.

[@michaeldiekmann6494]

"STAY WHERE YOU ARE, REMUS!" ".... NOO!" *runs away*

[@lobsterdfw1]

- And who really likes Nucky Thompson anyway? - I take it Remus doesn't - Fuck you talkin about? I'm Remus!

[@expressoric]

I change my opinion on he who plays Johnny Torrio.He's very convincing in the role,of the way I would have thought him to be. He was the real fireball who created modern organised crime.

[@yoloswaggins1579]

Lol George Remus was really messing up Capones flow.

[@rickrose5377]

Evidently, the historical George Remus really did speak about himself in the third person. What kind of nut job does that?

[@rickrose5377]

Caivs Ivlivs Caesar Yep, Caivs. I can't wait to hear Trump's next public address. ("Trump's inauguration had the biggest crowds in history. Huuuge. Trump's got an enormous I.Q. as opposed to low-I.Q. individuals like Maxine Waters...and the Pope. Trump knows lots of words (many of them in Russian)."

[@rickrose5377]

Caivs Ivlivs Caesar Said the man with a Latin avatar. I understand that you're off your medication, but how can you invoke 'megalomania', and then not expect that someone would bring up the most conspicuous public example of it? Have a nice morning.

[@jacktheripoff1888]

jacktheripoff1888 likes scenes with Remus in them.

[@rileycoyote8275]

Riley Stephens enjoys them, too. Indeed Riley Stephens does my boy.

[@GeneralGrievous18]

Imagine a conversation between George Remus and Jaquen H'ghar

[@ddraper1995]

Can't believe Remus is the inspiration for Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby

[@johnlewisbrooks]

Butchy keeping two eyes on everything from the 1920s till 2006!

[@MrBlack1968]

This scene is fucking hysterical.

[@armandwilliamgreenjr.8949]

These guys would be a great vaudeville act.

[@rickyray2794]

Remus shuns gambling

[@TM-uy4jg]

Remus kinda looks like the real Al Capone

[@RaidersRock]

Was a pretty big giveaway when I saw Remus' actor in True Detective that he would have a pretty huge part in the story

[@mitchmac9287]

Reemus wasn't getting upset

[@1badjesus]

"JIMMY likes Elaine and wants to know if she wants to go out with Jimmy"

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

George Remus resembled Shrek, but then after a second look I think he looks more like Michael Eisner

[@enterthebruce91]

Remus approves this scene 👍🏽

[@wishmart]

this scene is amazing

[@headecache]

One of my favorite scenes

[@Mike-pb6lw]

Reamus worked his way up the ranks to make millions representing Bobby Axelrod

[@busterhikney6936]

Wish they showed how quickly that lady dry up after his "George Remus wants to meet you" speil.

[@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102]

0:35 Remus had a verbal slip-up in his Remus-speak.

[@leedummett6054]

remus was said to be the real jay Gatsby, but there were many liquor barons who could have been compared to Gatsby, torrio included.

[@kamabokogonpachiro6099]

remus had the makings of a varsity shinebox

[@DonDaBomb89]

Idk if it’s only me but does anyone else feel like George Remus’s actor should of played Capone?! He look just like the real al Capone!

[@susieq360]

You know it's not only you. You wrote it because you saw that many other people have written it. 😆

[@susieq360]

@@avae5343 You see, the downside of sarcasm is that it makes an unfunny attempt at humor egregiously unfunny.

[@Oakland510]

@@susieq360 you got Snapchat Susie ?

[@tmcdowell7977]

Remus loves you

[@carolinagoldbug983]

Confession time. I NEVER heard of George Remus before this show. Probably a reflection of how good a kingpin bootlegger he really was. 👍

[@dianegehrum9758]

We love you Uncle Georgie! Don't worry the new book The Bourbon King fixes your history. For better or worse, it's the truth the best it can be told!

[@Schrodinger_]

Read the wikipedia page on George Remus. Imagine Remus is narrating the whole thing.

[@patrickliddle140]

I do a module on Organized Crime at University; I looked this up because my lecturer was saying the other week "And bootleggers like George Remus - God, George Remus, he was a very strange man. Always talked about himself in the third person. "Remus will get it for you. Remus is gonna go outside. Remus feels like getting a drink". Very bizarre."

[@Revolver_Ocelot16]

Remus likes this video

[@meridian_james5]

Remus never did let those phone bills go.

[@lowboy1one1]

“Ya like dags”

[@foresight87]

George Remus; The "Jimmy" of Boardwalk Empire. Jimmy's down! Jimmy has a compound fracture! Jimmy's gonna get you for this Kramer!

[@malleymyster]

you can't say that to george remus, george remus would say

[@PharoahsKingdom]

He played Tommy in the movie snatch. His name is Stephen Graham.

[@kevingomez-johnson140]

This in itself reminds me of a rockstar cut scene from a game they would do in this time period, If they ever did do it, i know they'd do it justice.

[@kikayei]

Glenn Fleshler should’ve played as Al Capone.

[@garymcderp1146]

The actor that plays Remus looks like the real life Al Capone. Glenn Fleshler is his name.

[@brianquattro]

I feel like Al still didn’t know who Remus was at the end of this

[@sethcopeland4362]

You know what they did to Remus? What Remus will do to all the sons and daughters of man.

[@kb4903]

Say hello to Odets - grrrr. Haha

[@carlitodefriko6641]

Reminded me of that seinfield episode with the guy who spoke of himself in the 3rd person...jimmy or wateva his friggin name was.

[@titobrozzi7425]

LOL .. What do you think George Remus spent 5 years doing ? Glenn Fleshler is a great actor

[@Oakland510]

had me crying tears, i forgot how funny he was

[@orale_]

George "George Remus" Remus

[@laughsxgiggles]

George likes his chicken spicy

[@DuncanUdaho67]

George Remus likes his chicken spicy!!!!

[@MeRcYimRichBitch]

When torroi says what the fuck you talking about that is remus i can't help but laugh :D

[@MikeBayhamforStBernard]

Remus never called Klondike 5678!

[@stoneharper7038]

I genuinely thought he was talking about another person the first time he was on screen he used his name in the first person so much lol

[@ringkunmori]

Funny thing is you can read all the comments here talking about Remus as if it was spoken by the man himself.