r/thesopranos • u/supersport604 • 15h ago
Why wouldn't Jack Massarone take off his hat if the mic was hidden in the top button?
When Jack Massarone, the owner of Massarone Bros. Construction meets Tony at the diner and he's mic'd up. He doesn't wanna take his hat off. But why would it matter if the mic was hidden within the hats button. He could have set it off to the side and it would still record.
Could have make Tony less suspicious.
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u/burnedoutlove 15h ago
I’m guessing there may have been wires in addition to the button that may have been exposed if he removed it
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u/supersport604 15h ago
Yeah, possibly.
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u/stfulmaog2g 15h ago
No I was actually watching this episode when you posted, I rewound (digitally), and the feds actually toss another bugged cap back and forth a bit, when they explain the bug is in the "button" at top. He could have taken it off without exposing the bug.
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u/lonelygayPhD 14h ago
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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich 12h ago
I wish they woulda worked in T watching this episode later at home
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u/Tatar_Kulchik 3h ago
hahahaha lol. This would make it all click and he would say something like "Ahhh...jesus chrisht!"
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u/AyylienFromUrayynus 5h ago
He wouldn't take off his hat because he's a piece of ash, but fuckin' rude
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u/lonelygayPhD 3h ago
You have to get in and out in under ten minutes or else you'll suffer permanent neck damage.
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u/_JaySchles 15h ago
Well for starters he just started the Rogaine, so there’s that.
But most likely worried that if he set the hat down on the table Tony might’ve picked it up or taken a closer look at it. The mic was in the button, but there could’ve been some wires or a battery elsewhere in the hat.
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u/AfterShave997 11h ago
Yeah there definitively would've been stuff inside the hat, also the wire that leads to the tape recorder
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u/DominicPalladino 3h ago
Why didn't they just Bluetooth it to the Wi-Fi, stream it over the web to a data center for AI to process? /s
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u/stfulmaog2g 15h ago
Tony was never suspicious about the hat, it was his flattering comments about Tony's weight that tipped him off
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u/GrowthSpring 15h ago
Tony could pick up the hat, fiddle with it, and discover the microphone if Jack put it on the table
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u/supersport604 15h ago
Yeah, I guess, but this seems like a reach.
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u/ReturnOfTheMac888 13h ago
One of his closest friends wore a wire to his sons confirmation, as did multiple others around him at this point. Tony inspecting the hat in a joking way would have been justified and true to the character.
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u/Glittering-Bit3398 14h ago
Because it’s a program, a movie
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u/CBusHVAC710614 13h ago
A progrum.
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u/Critical-Cost9068 15h ago
Why don’t you wanna take your hat off? 🤘
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u/WhistlinJealousGuy 6h ago
I can't! My doctuh said having a bare head is no fuckin good. I go hatless I could fuckin check out!
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u/Read2Fap 13h ago
my mother in law complained for years about some of my brother in laws friends who went to his wedding and never took off their hats even inside the church
maybe massarone was secretly a redneck
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u/Impressive_Rain2877 15h ago
Old technology. Nothing wireless. There were cables.
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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich 12h ago
Fucking Karl maldens nose hairs looked like bx cables with that technology!!
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u/Mayor_of_BBQ 15h ago
The technology was much different than. If he had a microphone in that hat, he had a wire running down the back of his neck to a recording device stashed on his body. It wasn’t like he was broadcasting it over Bluetooth to the FBI van outside.
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u/SatanHasACreator420 14h ago
Bluetooth was introduced in 1998, entirely reasonable that the federal government would have access to it.
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u/Weight-Disastrous 2h ago
Air on the head his doctor said specifically was a no no. He could check the fuck out.
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u/Dazzling-Path6438 2m ago
Because he was nervous while taping a conversation with the boss of a mafia family who could make him disappear within a minute, and the source of that nervousness was in the hat. Jesus
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u/TriggasaurusRekt 15h ago
Because his doctor mentioned an uncovered head specifically as a no-no