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George Martorano on Life, The Mob, Prison & Business · WiseKracks

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, Welcome back to Wisecracks Bill Krackenberger. Today we
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  Speaker 1: have a special guest George Martarano, my buddy for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, and John Orlando unfortunately couldn't be on this
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  Speaker 1: show today. One of his friends, it was in the gym,
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  Speaker 1: had a brain aneurysm, and unfortunately he's doing really, really bad.
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  Speaker 1: So that happened yesterday, so John took off. Really makes
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  Speaker 1: me feel bad. The guy's a young guy, goes to
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  Speaker 1: the gym every day and poor guy. I'm praying for
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  Speaker 1: the best. But John said it's really bad. So his
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  Speaker 1: daughter said it's really bad. So anyway, I got George here.
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  Speaker 1: He was gonna come on, but now I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: have him on the whole show. Georgia and I did
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  Speaker 1: a podcast with John in the studio and George did
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  Speaker 1: thirty two years in jail from marijuana. And you've been
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  Speaker 1: out though for about what ten years?
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  Speaker 2: Ten years October this past nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Ten years is past October, and Georgia now has a
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  Speaker 1: company called the Growfather. As a matter of fact, our
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  Speaker 1: producer Jay, it's gonna put some clip a clip up.
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  Speaker 1: You're on these buses in Philadelphia now you're on the
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  Speaker 1: buses and yeah, his product here, the grow Father, which
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  Speaker 1: there's a there's a convention here in town right now.
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  Speaker 1: This is his product. I'm want I'll show John this
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  Speaker 1: one too. But so this is a legal product that
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  Speaker 1: is put up by we just met the people. Coincidentally,
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  Speaker 1: your people here, the Little Leaf Labs. They produced this
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  Speaker 1: product for the dispensaries. All right. The grow Father is
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  Speaker 1: the brands. But you guys are in one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty two dispensaries where they at George.
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  Speaker 2: All through the state of Jersey, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Now is marijuana legal in Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 2: It is medically, but they're going wreck soon as New York.
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  Speaker 2: New York is going to probably be the state in
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  Speaker 2: the in the industry, okay, because of you know, the
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  Speaker 2: New York City. Yeah, so we're we going into New
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  Speaker 2: York an a month goes by or other states don't
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  Speaker 2: want us. But the question is, it's not about money
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  Speaker 2: with my name attached to grow Father. It's about having
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  Speaker 2: good product product that you pay your money and you
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  Speaker 2: get your results. But it has to be not to
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  Speaker 2: harm anyone. I would not put product out to harm anyone.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not about money. I could have the grow
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  Speaker 2: father in many other states, but I don't know the
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  Speaker 2: product line. I have to actually go into the lab
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  Speaker 2: where they make it and wat's house's done and bring
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  Speaker 2: my specialists in. Because it is a good industry, it's
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  Speaker 2: a lucrative industry. But the most important thing to me
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  Speaker 2: is not hurting anyone and creating jobs. Right now in America,
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  Speaker 2: there's over a million jobs from the cannabis industry. So
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  Speaker 2: it's proud of that. This in my company alone, we
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  Speaker 2: have twenty people working, young people who believe this is
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  Speaker 2: their future. So you can say it's a new industry.
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  Speaker 2: You could say it's an old, an old street wise
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  Speaker 2: industry because marijuana has been around very long time. Like
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  Speaker 2: you said earlier, I did thirty two years, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: five years in solitary. I don't know if you know
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  Speaker 2: what it's easy to say, five years in solitary, but
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and try and do it. And all I
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  Speaker 2: did was for a conspiracy to marijuana. I never got
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  Speaker 2: caught with anything.
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  Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. Conspiracy to marijuana.
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  Speaker 2: Years, no record, no record, never even had a parking ticket.
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  Speaker 1: Now that because they wanted your father.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my father was in the mob.
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  Speaker 1: Father was a name you can look up.
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  Speaker 2: My god my godfather, Andel Bruno was the boss. My
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  Speaker 2: father was the top guy. And all they wanted to
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  Speaker 2: me was to be a rat, and which I never
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  Speaker 2: will be. And non violent. First defending matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: my guidelines from the government were shouldn't have surpassed fifty
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  Speaker 2: two months. I did over three decades. Again, it's if
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  Speaker 2: I did to them what they did to me, that
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  Speaker 2: would be illegal. But it wasn't illegal what they did
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  Speaker 2: to me far as their councern, okay, And it was
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  Speaker 2: his brutality. First of all, when you get built, when
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  Speaker 2: you get life no parole, that means you die in jail.
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  Speaker 2: There's no coming out. So you give me life no parole,
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  Speaker 2: and then you put me in solitary for five years
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  Speaker 2: punishment on top of punishment. And the only way they
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  Speaker 2: got away with it they kept moving me because it
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  Speaker 2: was illegal. You can't give somebody life no parole and
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  Speaker 2: put them in the box. Come on, anyway, they did
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  Speaker 2: that to me, and if other countries did that to
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  Speaker 2: their citizens or their criminals, America would be the first
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  Speaker 2: one intervened. You can't do that, that's wrong. But they
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  Speaker 2: did it to.
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  Speaker 1: Me, and there's no like there's no you couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: a lawsuit against them or not, there's nothing like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, I'm pending. We're waiting for the government to
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  Speaker 2: drop cannabis from a Schedule one to three. That means
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  Speaker 2: Title holds at three. That means that means I'll be
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  Speaker 2: exonerated from any anything illegal attached to my name as
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  Speaker 2: far as the federal indictment, so I should get it.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully when that happens, I'll get a letter in a
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  Speaker 2: mail because I cannot be punished futurely on paper to
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  Speaker 2: be a convicted fella for something it's totally illegal. So
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  Speaker 2: my lawyers will initiate. Of course, do I get a
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  Speaker 2: letter in the mail that I'm exonerator for the federal indictment,
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  Speaker 2: and then I'm contemplating put one hundred million dollars a
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  Speaker 2: lawsuit and some of the biggest law firms in the
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  Speaker 2: country want the case.
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  Speaker 1: Right, George, you look unbelievable, so you look for a
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  Speaker 1: class your age.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be seventy six this month.
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  Speaker 1: You look unbelievable. And George, so you got out when
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  Speaker 1: you were sixty six? You this morning you said you
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  Speaker 1: did a cold plunge, and then you jog.
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  Speaker 2: Did you jog this cold plunge at four point thirty?
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  Speaker 1: We're thirty in the morning, cold plunge.
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  Speaker 2: Then I ran for an hour, okay, Then I went
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  Speaker 2: did some weights, one more cold plunge, and then I
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  Speaker 2: met you eight thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, he did two cold plunges before eight thirty
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. No, you look great. But however, let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you guys at home, guys and girls. I
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  Speaker 1: got a call about a month ago, maybe a little
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  Speaker 1: bit longer, and my friend said, you gotta watch this
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  Speaker 1: on Netflix. It's unbelievable. Mob War Philadelphia Versus to Mafia.
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  Speaker 1: And this guy's a mob historian from scrant He's got
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  Speaker 1: a million books. He got to let you know, we
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  Speaker 1: say a million. We always he's got. He literally has
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of books, he's got thousands of hours. It's always
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  Speaker 1: listens to his podcast and watch his things for him
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  Speaker 1: to call me up and say, this was so good,
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  Speaker 1: this Mob War Philadelphia Verse to Mafia. It's on Netflix,
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  Speaker 1: so I have watched it multiple times already. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was that good. Well, first of all, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know I turned it on. You're in it, You're
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  Speaker 1: on it. I'm like, well, George.
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  Speaker 2: That was filmed by a London production company called Raw.
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  Speaker 2: They were paid by Netflix to do the shoot and
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  Speaker 2: they were affiliated with I think, I'm not one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent sure of fair City in twenty twenty city or
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  Speaker 2: they did fair.
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  Speaker 1: City, got It. They did that.
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  Speaker 2: Word winning fair City, word winning Get Guy. This is
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  Speaker 2: the same production firm. So when I heard they were
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  Speaker 2: coming to Philly to do a show, I introduced myself.
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  Speaker 2: We hooked up. But the mob Ward, the Philly mob
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  Speaker 2: War error was in the nineties, early nineties. I was
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  Speaker 2: already away. I already was away ten twelve years. I
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  Speaker 2: went away nineteen eighty three. I was around the first
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  Speaker 2: two mob wards where a lot of people were killed.
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  Speaker 2: I lost my godfather. I lost my father. But this
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  Speaker 2: current show is doing very well.
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  Speaker 1: It was on a top ten's on the top ten.
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't. I wasn't there. But the reason they wanted
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  Speaker 2: me on the show is that I assisted a lot
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  Speaker 2: with the history of it all most important thing where locations,
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  Speaker 2: things like that. So they offered I said, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be in the show because I wasn't around
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  Speaker 2: when that war went down. I said, but I'd be
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  Speaker 2: nice to be happy if I could have a cameo.
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  Speaker 2: You had a few of them, So they gave me
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  Speaker 2: a cameo in the first hour and the third hour. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I was happy. And the cameo's got an awful
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  Speaker 2: lot of positive reactions.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a ton of views, and it's a great
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  Speaker 1: I learned things. I've seen a lot of specials back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. There's a guy named Bill Curtis that
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  Speaker 1: used to do mafia shows. So I've seen some Philadelphia ones.
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  Speaker 1: This one. I never knew who this guy, John VC was.
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  Speaker 1: I never knew this guy John VC. He was on there.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the star of it, if you want to call
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  Speaker 1: him a star. He's killed many people. He was very
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  Speaker 1: open about his life, very open about the war back
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  Speaker 1: and forth, how he killed people. And and obviously he's
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  Speaker 1: out of he got out of trouble or maybe I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure he did time. I don't. I don't even know.
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  Speaker 1: Really he was at He was always informant.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you when you when a rat goes
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  Speaker 2: to jail, he doesn't go where a regular prisoner goes.
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  Speaker 2: He goes so like a country club. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: heard stories the cells had rugs in their in the cell,
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  Speaker 2: they order food from the street. They have free phone
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  Speaker 2: right in their cell, access to free phone. They have
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  Speaker 2: them conjugal visits and it's my law. It's supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be your wife. They have girlfriends. I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: if you do win sect time. It's a whole different
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  Speaker 2: the places I were killing fields.
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  Speaker 1: But Joey Melino was one of the guys that this
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  Speaker 1: was focused around. Every episode said he was never arrested
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  Speaker 1: for any mafia crime, but he did do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time in jail. Joey, who you know very well,
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  Speaker 1: and I actually got to meet him and talk to
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  Speaker 1: him a few times, very open, very open, and we
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  Speaker 1: talked pretty openly, him and I. Well, but these cheese
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  Speaker 1: steak places are doing great. Oh yeah, it's a cheesesteak place,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't get in. You cannot get in.
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  Speaker 2: It's about Joey's skinny Joey's she steaks on Broad Street,
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  Speaker 2: South broad Street, right off of Packard Avenue, and which
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  Speaker 2: good about that place? It's two blocks away from all
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  Speaker 2: the major sports arenas. When the Eagles play, the Phillies play,
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  Speaker 2: the Flyers play, the Sixers play. I mean, these they
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  Speaker 2: hold tens of thousands of people and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people coming from South Philly downtown area. They walk right
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  Speaker 2: past the cheese steak and they get a cheese steak
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  Speaker 2: and they can get beer now wow. And they get
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  Speaker 2: beer and they goe a beer, got.
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  Speaker 1: Beer now they have a beer a beer license, right, Wow.
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  Speaker 1: They're killing it.
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  Speaker 2: You buy beer theirs a few dollars, but if you
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  Speaker 2: go buy a beer in one of them the stadiums,
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  Speaker 2: it could be twenty bucks.
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  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable what it is. So we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about it a couple of different subjects here, one
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  Speaker 1: of which I have to be blunt. I am shocked.
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  Speaker 1: I know there was. There was protesters there yesterday when
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  Speaker 1: this was passed so New York they the gaming facilities
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  Speaker 1: of Board said it carefully reviewed each bid. They kept
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  Speaker 1: on turning down casinos, they turned down the wind they
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  Speaker 1: turned down well, they granted free licenses yesterday. It's almost
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  Speaker 1: this kind of shocks me. There's a five person unpaid
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  Speaker 1: New York Gaming Board was tasked with the siding where
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  Speaker 1: these licenses will go. Three licenses have passed, one to
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  Speaker 1: Steve Cohen, the owner of the New York Mets. He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna put a casino right in the old Chase Stadium
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  Speaker 1: parking lot which is now it's called City Field, which
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  Speaker 1: I went to a lot when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: When I was a kid, everyone in the house was
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  Speaker 1: was a Yankee fan, and my uncle had the season
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  Speaker 1: tickets for the Mets, so h and he was friends.
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  Speaker 1: I think I told in this spot before I told
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  Speaker 1: you guys. He was friends with Dave King and the
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  Speaker 1: right fielder and I used to go all the time.
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  Speaker 1: I got to meet some of the players there. It
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  Speaker 1: was really really cool, and I just can't believe, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I like to think that I'm a I'm kind of
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  Speaker 1: a man of the people because I know what it
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  Speaker 1: is to gamble. I think this is gonna hurt. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be the first person to say this. Probably I was
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  Speaker 1: probably against this. I think it's gonna hurt so many people.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's gonna bring plenty of jobs. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they always say it's going to bring billions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: in tax dollar and be okay, and plenty of jobs.
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  Speaker 1: What about the families that it's gonna hurt. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: three casinos in New York. I be blunt me. I'm
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  Speaker 1: actually absolutely shocked. Now, listen, you got a casino over there.
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  Speaker 1: You can jog from the cheese take place to the casino.
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  Speaker 2: We got we got in South Philly. We have uh
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  Speaker 2: two casinos in Philly. The city of Philly has two
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  Speaker 2: casinos Outside of Philly. I think they have another three uh.
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  Speaker 1: Right in South Philly.
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  Speaker 2: Right, well, got live right in South Philly. We have
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  Speaker 2: rivers rivers North Philly, and then you have all the outskirts.
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  Speaker 2: You got three, three or four casinos?
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  Speaker 1: George, what has it done to like, I gotta be
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  Speaker 1: blunt those people that are living in Philly that they'll
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  Speaker 1: struggle in month to month. I just it has to
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  Speaker 1: hurt the community. I don't mean to sound so negative.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it does raise money for certain things, and it's
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  Speaker 1: people are gonna gamble anyway, right, But so what's your opinion?
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  Speaker 1: I don't have no idea what your opinion is.
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  Speaker 2: I think you know gambling?
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Well, takeaway if they open up three casinos in New
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  Speaker 2: York City, naturally is, why should you get in your
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  Speaker 2: car if you're a New Yorker, why should you get
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  Speaker 2: in your car and drive home with three hours Atlantic city?
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  Speaker 2: That's right when you can gamble right there. So I
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  Speaker 2: believe they're going to lose business that way.
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  Speaker 1: But they had a heart South Philly had a hurt
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  Speaker 1: Atlantic City.
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  Speaker 2: I think absolutely. Yeah. People don't listen. People don't want
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  Speaker 2: to well, they don't want to wait to lose their money,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they want to lose as fast as they can.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, this is what these casinos do. I heard.
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  Speaker 2: I heard stories that, uh, kids were coming home from
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  Speaker 2: school for dinner and their mothers, their mother's at the
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  Speaker 2: casino gambling there, not cooking. I heard stories like that.
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  Speaker 1: And you're in that environment, you're gonna gamble when you
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  Speaker 1: get older. I know me, My mother and father both gambled.
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  Speaker 1: My mother was an old school Italian, so her whole
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  Speaker 1: family in the Bronx, they all gambled, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: it hurt everyone in the end. It was fun, but
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  Speaker 1: everyone no one has money today.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a lot of these restaurant people work in restaurants,
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  Speaker 2: which I know, I'm well known in the restaurants seen
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  Speaker 2: in Philly and New York. You know, they get done
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  Speaker 2: work and then we go sometimes I'm there, you go
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  Speaker 2: to a lesser high end restaurant, You go to a
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  Speaker 2: lesser place, hang around, listen to music, get a drink.
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  Speaker 2: And when I'm noticing the last year, all these restaurant workers,
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  Speaker 2: waitresses and the bartenders, they're all on their phone gambling.
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  Speaker 1: There you go on their phone gambling on the apps.
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  Speaker 1: I never that the apps.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about and jumping up and down. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: one one kid friend of mine, just before you went
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  Speaker 2: through two beers. He won seventy some hundred. When I
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  Speaker 2: seen him a couple of days later he lost triple
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  Speaker 2: that amount.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that this is a serfic example of
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  Speaker 1: what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: This is what they're doing. I mean these phone apps.
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  Speaker 1: And I never thought about the apps, the apps. And
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  Speaker 1: you took me to a good place to eat when
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  Speaker 1: I was down there. We went to the saloon.
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  Speaker 2: Saloon over there.
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  Speaker 1: It's like walking into the sixties or something. The place
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  Speaker 1: is unbelievable. The upstairs area I was really impressed with. Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Went to the bar upstairs, the Big Eagle, all the
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  Speaker 1: memorabilia that he has, and uh, you took me over
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  Speaker 1: to the photo of Abe Link.
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  Speaker 2: It was an Abe Link, a pitcher of a million
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  Speaker 2: dollar original.
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  Speaker 1: Photo he's gotten in short for a million dollars hanging
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  Speaker 1: on the wall. Hanging on the wall original photo of
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  Speaker 1: Abe Lincoln. And by the way, it's nice to see
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  Speaker 1: all the history. The food was great. The food was
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  Speaker 1: great at the saloon. That's yet that your friend owns this.
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  Speaker 2: My did good buddy Richie. He's been there fifty nine
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  Speaker 2: years November fifty nine years.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, And uh wow, what's the location, George, What's.
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  Speaker 2: Right down the seventh and Fincher Order, Seventh and Fishing
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  Speaker 2: in Bellavista, which is a part of South Philly.
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  Speaker 1: But and there was a little cafe next door you
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  Speaker 1: owned too.
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  Speaker 2: I had a Fincher Order cafe. Anybody, anybody in Anybody's
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  Speaker 2: anybody in Philly has been at the salon.
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  Speaker 1: No for sure, for sure. So anyway, this is going
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  Speaker 1: back to this thing. Valley's in Bronx, the Metropolitan Park
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  Speaker 1: which is going to be in the Shase Stadium, the
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  Speaker 1: old parking lot there, and Resorts World. They're the ones
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  Speaker 1: that are that are getting this gaming license. I was
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  Speaker 1: just pretty surprised. I just thought that wasn't gonna happen. So, George,
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  Speaker 1: there's this new tax that everyone including myself, as a
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  Speaker 1: little more concerned about this year twenty twenty six, especially
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  Speaker 1: professional poker players. So your deductions for gambling losses against
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: your wins are gonna be reduced next year. So in
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: other words, yet's say you lose one hundred thousand in
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: poker tournaments, Well you can only write off ninety thousand.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: You're still gonna pay tax on the ten thousand. This
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: was this was snuck in on this one big, beautiful bill,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: and it really upsets everybody that's that gambles. This couldn't
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: even hurt a larger player that socially has fun and
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: he comes into casino and you know, he hits a
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: couple of jackpass throughout the year on slot machines, and
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: he goes to write it off, and now he can't
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: write off He can only write off ninety percent. So
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: we have a US Rep. Dina Titis. She's introduced this
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Fair Bet Act bill, but I don't know how much success.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: She has not been successful right now to get this overturned.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: It's only a month month left here to get this
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: what's going to go into effect. This is unbelievable.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: They try to raise my opinion, and I could be wrong.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: They when they start taxing, taxing, taxing, even with the
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: cannabis industry, people go back to the black market. Now,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: the black market in the cannabis industry in California has
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: surpassed legal sales five years running, has surpassed legal sales.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: And now it's becoming a domino effect in these states
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: where if you want, why you want to walk in
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: the dispensary in Nevada and pay three hundred and something
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: dollars for announcer weed where you can buy it on
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: the street shame quality for one hundred and fifty, right,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: So that's just going to be happening with the gambling.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Why go and go through all this red tape and
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: pay all these taxes where you can go to anaborhood
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: plays and gamble. Yeah, you go to your bookmaker, you
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: go to your speakeasy in which they have I could
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: take you to speakas in Philadelphia. Think you're in a
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: mini casino. Wow, And that's where it's going to go
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: my opinion. Now, you want to keep taxing, tax and taxing.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: You want to keep people red tape foot on that
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: forms they're going to go through the street.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: George, what I was surprised was I knew some old
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: school bms in Pennsylvania, and I knew some old school
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: bookmakers by the way, and they're out of business. And
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I was shocked, and I was like, what do you
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: mean you're out of business? You have to big instead.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: The books put me out of business, said, what do
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: you mean the books? I cannot believe that there's two
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: guys I know that haven't booked a Betton over six years.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: He said, yeah. When that bill was reversed that people
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: went to the DraftKings, the Fanduls, the big sports books,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and they both don't book anymore. I cannot believe how
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: much it's hurt the bookmakers. I thought the opposite. I
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: thought it was going to be big for the book
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: makers down the line. It actually hurt the book makers.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I'm opening up a place in Philly soon where I'm
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: going to have I'm going to have gambling in it.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, have psyche of gambling, and we're going to
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: try to work some kind of agreement with the city.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: But you know, people, I believe people don't mind spending
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: their money, is when you abuse the spending of it,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: you know, Like I said, the cannabis industry, I'm in
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: it up to my eyebawls. But I'm a little worried
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: because these governors every time they need money, they want
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: to tax the cannabis industry. Wow, a lot of the
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: big players that've been in Nevada, right here in the
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: city for over ten years, their businesses are up for
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: sale because they see it coming.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I see places here up for sale, so I do
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: see that. So the tax is that high here? George,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: what are you doing with the Mob Museum here? I
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: went and seen you give give a show at the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Mob Museum.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I do shows, ladies in gentlemen, I'm book year round.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I do shows. I just stand up. I'm a stand
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: up storyteller. I'm affiliated with the Mob Museum for a
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: few years now. That's the only Mob museum existing in
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: the world, and they do They do millions and millions
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: of dollars. So matter of fact, I got a meeting today.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Hopefully I'm trying to go on tour sponsored by them,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: the Mob Museum tour with my shows. So Mob cells
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: us listening it.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: This proves it. This show on Netflix, the three shows,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the Get Gottie, what was the other one? Their City,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Fierce City, both great. It showed you the FBI talking
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: about how they actually bugged phones and the homes and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the guys actually went on a film to talk about it.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: And then this latest one, the mob Birth the phild
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: up first of the month, that was so good. I
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: learned things I did not know that Joey wasn't involved
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: in it. But on Joey's podcast he's talking about things
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: that were maybe even wrong and making them right and
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: talking about them, which is which is good. He has
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: a great podcast. Eventually he's got to have you on there.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I'm sure. As a matter of fact, I guess where
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I'm going in a week or so. I'm going to
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Martin Ronald's and uh in Fort Lauderfield. That's where I'm going.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I actually, cousin, I actually got a reservation, went out.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: You I can't believe it. That's why I believe no.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I went on. I went on. You know the people
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: know by the way, it's one of the best restaurants.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Let me let me tell you something. The guys I
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: went with last time, they got it. They got in.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: But you know, Paul, Paul got any. He texts Steve,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: that's your nephew, my cousin, that's your cousin. He texted
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: him and got us in and the guys we went with.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I go to order because I've never been there before.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: But I've been to some of Steve's other restaurants. He
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: had here in Harris, in Atlantic City, at Paris. Here
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: they're not there in the hard Rock. I've been to
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: three different ones, and I never and never got to
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: meet Steve. Finally I did. But so now I go
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: to order. I don't even know who was with us
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: at dinner. This guy grabbed my arm. No, no, no, no,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: he don't want that. He wants this distant He changed
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: my whole meal. This guy, I don't know who he was.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: He goes, he wants chicken watarron. It was. He was
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: spot on correct. The guy I still don't know his name.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: That guy next to me, all right, well that's just
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: a good guy, that's all I say. Guy next to
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: me grab my arm. He said, no, no, no, he
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: don't want that. I just met him. He goes, he
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: ordered for me, and it was absolutely fantastic. So I
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: look forward to going there.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Well he's there. He's there going on thirty three years.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: At that location, hard to get in.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: He had another place in Philly called Macaroni's that he
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: sold the two twin brothers. Real good guys. They've been
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: existing with his legacy for thirty something years. And also
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: he just came out to the public market. He just
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: released meat bulls and sagas in the supermarket. Oh wow,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: so mar Toronto's meatballing sales.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: You know, it's not just because of the history of him.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: The food's great. The food is absolutely great there.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: So I tell you, I tell you I eat a
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: lot of places. I travel a lot, and believe me,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: the places I really like. I had them on money.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Then. Now, now that is that? Is that his mother's
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: recipes or something for this.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: When he was a little boy, I'm older than him.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I'm nine years older than him. When he was a
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: little boy, he used to come for the weekend and
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: my grandmother's my my father's mother, which is his dad's mom.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: They lived around the corner, and my grandfather was to
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: cook on the weekend because he worked on the week
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: and actually my grandmother and my aunts would cook, but
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: on the weekend the kitchen was my grandfather and Stephen
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: was a little boy, eight or nine years old. He
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: would come for the weekend and he take his own
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: pails and he hanged with my grandfather and my grandfather
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: took him to the time market. It's the movie Rocky
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: the First Rockey when he running down the tame market.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: My grandfather used to take him Saturday and Sunday morning,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: rarely start cooking the food for Saturday and Sunday. And
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: he taught him. And he's a little boy up until
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: like he was twelve thirteen years old. And that's why
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: you can go to the best culinary schools in the world.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: But if you don't have the taste bud, if you
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: don't have what a shit taste like, you're never going
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to be a great chef. And my cousin as a
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: little boy, he learned to taste bud. That's the most
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: important thing, how it shit tastes.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: And he just basically at that young age, learned how
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to cook from real Italians. That's your grandmother, my grandfather,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and your grandfather was the cook.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Was on the weekend, he was the cook. And that's
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: that little boy would stay with my grandfather. That was
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: such a cute thing because the little boy be on
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: a chair right stand there on a chair and n
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: my grandfather be there to stove wow. And then when
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: he would leave Sunday night because he would have to
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: go to school Monday morning. He would take his gravy
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: for the week. He take his meat, bulls take hisside
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: is this? And I used to teasing because I was
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: older and I'm on the street. I'm on a teenager
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: and I'm chasing girls. I'm so smoking weed and having
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: ICs to come. Go go out of the pork wool bark,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: go go play ball, go do something, get out of
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: the kitchen. And my grandfather, you say, shat does he eat? Now?
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Shut up? Shat does heat? Leave him alone? Sat does heat? Now?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: You want? I'm teasing him? And now he went on
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: there's a multi millionaire. Dang god, Yeah there's a little boy.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Oh it's great. Now I'm looking forward to you know,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: right across the street from that on the side street.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: The ticket's right on Ocean River. There's a great Greek
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: restaurant too full Greek isles. Have ever been down the corner?
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: That's it's so good like mom and pop Greek food.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's two spots. I'm I'm looking forward to. Go. Guys,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do a weekly Wager Wire segment. So this
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: is it's amazing that this kid Drake May Drake May
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: m VP over on wager Wire, wager wire dot com,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: windgwar app Drake May MVP. He bet five hundred dollars
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: to win fifteen thousand, thirty to one shot. The current
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: odds he's a favorite. He's the odds on favorite minus
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: one thirty five. So the current bet value on this
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: is eighty nine hundred and four dollars. It's eighty four
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars profit. However, I was just text from Matt,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: one of the guys at wager Warre. He texted me
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: and said, one of the inns, the one of the
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: one of the ound, and offer today one of wager
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: wires power users for looking for a potential sales somewhere
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: between five and six kvy may settle at and you
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: know for six thousand dollars it's worth nine thousand, so
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: it's fifty. I'll tell you if you can get it
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: for five thousand, that's a steal. I would like to
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: be part of that. On Matt, by the way, I'll
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: be happy to put up twenty five hundred because this
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: kid's probably gonna be the MVP. This New England Patriots
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: have just been rolling and he's part of it. I
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: can't even believe you do you follow the NFL, George,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you follow.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not a fanatic a little bit, you know.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Not well, I mean, if you look at the NFL standings,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: it's not the teams that you would think are on
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: top of the chart. You think the Lions and the Chiefs,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: and no, the Patriots are eleven and two. The Patriots,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: like this was one of the worst teams the last
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: couple of years, eleven and two. And then you have,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: of course our buddy John Orlando, his his Broncos are
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: ten and two. The Bears are nine and three. I
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: am shocked. How can the Bears beat the Eagles? That
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: would be a did were I mean, were you home
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: or people talking about this? How much of a discussing
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: they think.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: The word around Philly is there's locker room trouble.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Oh really, that's the.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Word around Philly. Yeah, No, it's trouble in the locker rooms. No,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: it's it's football players.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable that that the Eagles. I thought, with the
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Eagles with the best team in football, the Chiefs started losing.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Lions by the way, they only pick them to make
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: their playoffs teams this year. Georgie, you never were into sports?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: How about the side and in the can? Was that
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: a big thing that guys?
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I didn't This what you got to understand. I was
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: raising the Mob family. Was born in the Mob family,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: and there was always my father controlled in my neighborhood.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: He controlled over the number business. Number business was very lucrative,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: very big street street. Yeah, the street them the lottery,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, people don't know. Tell them what that is.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: That were your better number? It's a three digit number.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: You better two digit, you better parlay you better three
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: digit number. And the number came out. The last number
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: came out at five o'clock. The first number came out
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: at three, and then four, then five andrew the number.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: How do you know if they came from the racetrack
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: and our area came from Garden.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: State, Gordon Street Park and Cherry Hill, Right, So that
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: was the attendance or something? Was that what it was
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: of the handle?
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Oh no, they did it off of the maybe the
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: payout the payout out of the horse, say one anyway, Okay,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: So when you're raised around that, uh, it was I
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: seemed like on the weekend, just from my father and
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: his mob associates. They took in a million dollars maybe more. Wow,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean you win. If you lose Tuesday,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: you got to give the million plus back. And with
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: the numbers, so we would. My father was always adamant
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: and having the family around the dinner table, me and
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: my three sisters and my mother. He's very adamant. And
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: when he was in a good mood, it was a
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: good dinner. But then when he would get a hit
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: with a bad number, you know personal, yeah, and then
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: this the dinner was off. So it made me grow
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: up with I just didn't like gamblers, right, I just
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: didn't like gambler.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: So you didn't. You didn't. You didn't really bet, And
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I know you still don't better, you know I still don't.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I still I still don't bet. I never was a gambler.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: See the other side of it, where you know, my
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: mother being a nice move my sill of a sudden,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: my father come home in a bad move, and it
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: destroyed it.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Not that he was abusive, right, he's just you know
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: that determined the day if he won or lost, determined that.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: I just never liked the gambler, never liked it.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: And your dad was away a long time too.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Did eighteen years on the murder case. He had the
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: longest murder trial ever in the history of Philly, six
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: months murder trial, seventeen miss trials called. They completely framed him.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: And if you if anybody else, they've even been out
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: of jail in two years. The appeal process, he did
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: eighteen years because of his last name. A last name,
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: that's what I want to do. And it's still going
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: on today. You could see just turn on the news.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: They're fighting. They're fighting in Washington and uh in politics,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: they're fighting in state politics, they're fighting in city politics.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's just never ending, just never ending.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Your your godfather was Angelo Bruno.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Joel Bruno was my godfud. He was the boss
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: for twenty two years. He taught me an awful lot
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: of the proper philosophies about the street. And he was
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: killed the count of gambling. The war started over Atlantic
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: City and a lot of guys.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Did he live right rite in the neighborhood.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: He lived out tenthis Schneydersh not too far from where
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I lived.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: He was killed right outside his house, wasn't he.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah? He killed outside his house.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, that's and then that that twenty two years
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: like he, like George said, that started everything. When he died,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: there was total chaos. How many bosses they went through?
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: How many?
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Well, people don't know a lot of My godfather controlled
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: more territory than any mild boss at that time. He
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: actually controlled from Newark all through Jersey, North Jersey, No Newark,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: all through Jersey. I didn't know that Atlantic City Philly.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: You knew Atlantic City, boring, Atlantic.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: City, Philly, Pittsburgh all the way to Bullymore.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Sorge, is it true that Meyer Lansky had something to
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: do with resorts in Atlantic City. I read that somewhere.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I was like, you gotta be Kidney.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Probably back in the day Meyer. I knew Meyer. I
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: used to see Meyer back in the seventh I used
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: to see Meyer about seventy seven, seven or eight. Yeah. Well,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: he his crew, his old Jewish guys. They were all gangsters.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: He looked like a bunch of little old guys, but
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: they were gangsters. They all hung out in the Eden
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Rock in Miami, Oh wow, eating rock and uh. I
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: used to go now and then to go see them.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Joe Zanka was one of his guys.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: He's actually been with Meyer multiple times.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Meyer one time one time, okay, he owns he had
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: interest in a Forge restaurant, which was very prominent back
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: in Miami, to Forge, and he had a nephew or
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: a great nephew that worked there. There was a kid,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: I'm in my twenties. He was a kid. He got
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: on he when something happened from shooting and they shot
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: the kid or something shouted out of stupidity, and the
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: next thing I know, I get called down to the
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  Speaker 2: Eating Rock and Myer's there. Meers says, I need I
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: might want you to do me a favor. H I
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: don't know what I'm looking do everything right now? Are
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: you available to do me a favor? I said, of course,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I'm available. But he never I think he got strained
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: out where you never call him out? What kind of favorite?
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Kind of favorite? One of all those? I could tell you.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of water around Miami, right.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Right, right, Okay, Well, we appreciate George on here. He's
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: going down to today to work out something with the
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: MO Museum and stuff, and it's always great to have
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: him on. And we'll see you back next week with
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: johnal Landol on wiscread.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Always your pleasure to be It is my second or
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: third show. Yeah, no more than that. We have out
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: a filming. I film a lot around the country, but
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: when I do a show with you, it just makes
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: me feel good. I got up this morning dying to
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: do the show.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, appreciate that. Thank you, George, Thank you. All right, guys,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: we'll see next Hey Randy McKay, what's going on, buddy?
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: You're in Jackpot, Nevada.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: I am your little casino trip here up to northern Nevada.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: You give me a pretty good offer, and I gotta
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: represent the master's head and getting a little snow up here.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Oh nice, nice nice.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: We're giving some units back in the NFL, holding on
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: to a slight win for the year, and so the
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: fans are starting to get honest a little bit. I
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: have to put a couple of guys in check, but
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: it's okay, still still showing a small profit.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: NFL.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Man, see what's going on the carnage everywhere. What do
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: you got for this?
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: I got three uh, I think outright dogs, actually three underdogs.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: I think I'll have a decent shot to win.
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  Speaker 4: So start us out.
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  Speaker 3: Thursday night football game in the week. I think a
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: good match up here, playoff you know style match up here.
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  Speaker 3: We got the six and five and one Dallas versus
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: the seven to five Detroit Detroit team, and I gotta
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: I gotta stick with these cowboys. I mean, hot team,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: you know, playing great offense adjusted to the defense here
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  Speaker 3: with Ibra Flus like we talked about last week, you know.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: And I like this aggressiveness of Shot Schottenheimer. His dad
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: was a coach. His dad was very, very conservative coach.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: If you remember his playoff debacles, and you know, I
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: had some bad breaks. There are a couple of fumbles
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: with the Browns, and then he had a really good
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: team with San Diego back in the day, but just
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: could never get through. This Detroit injury report is big
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: concern here with offensive line injuries and their best wide receiver,
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Saint Brown, probably not gonna play. So I think that
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: favors Dallas in this matchup. I think they can pick apart,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: you know, the d backs of you know, Detroit's defense
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: probably won't get a great pass rush, and then the
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: d backs are hurting the back field. So I see
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: a little mismatch here with a hot Dallas team. I'm
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: gonna jump on it, even though they're probably a little
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: bit public this week. I'm gonna get on that Thursday
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: night matchup. No rest advantage for either team. They both
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: played last Thanksgiving.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: All right, what else you got the barrier everyone.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: With another hopefully outright money line dog. Here, we'll go
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: to Buffalo. We're gonna take the hot Cincinnati team with
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Joe Burrow back unfortunately and knock me out a survivor.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: An ugly game. It was more Baltimore than knock me
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: out of the game. Then Joe Burrow is some really
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: bad turnovers, you know, unfortunate fumble at the goal and
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: I think pretty much turn the game. And that's a
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: big swing of points right there. Frustrating to be out
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: of that survivor and not have a shot at that
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: big pile of money. You know. We every year, you know, tournaments,
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: and we want to win that. It's all about that
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: big check. You know, we want a big check, you know,
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: So that very frustrating. The Cincinnati team very hot against
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Buffalo last four meetings. They beat him outright and covered.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: You know, Joe Burrow kind of owns this team and
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: he gets you know, his other good wide receiver back Higgins,
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: so he should have some success here on offense. You know,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Cincinnati doesn't have very good defense, but the Bills are
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: still missing a couple offensive tackles here, you know, so
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: I see this being a close game, could go back
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: and forth. Hopefully Joey Bosa doesn't plant Burrow into the
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: sid like he dead with Rogers last week. I think
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: they're still digging Aaron Rodgers on that sod last week
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: he took on that one. So hopefully that doesn't happen.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: This should be a close, exciting game and hopefully we
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: get the cover of the outright victory here.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: All right, what's your third dog?
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: All Right, We're gonna go Sunday night football and then
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: another big match. A lot of good matchups this week.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: This is a really good week if you like to.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: You know, a lot of you know, a lot of
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: close you know, big matchups, big teams, playoff implications and
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: everything else. I'm gonna go with a seven and five
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Houston team against the six and six Chiefs team. You know,
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: this might be you know, loser out, might not make
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: the playoffs.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: And MGM super book south Point.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Yep, that's what I got to three and a half
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: you know, Houston Stroud offense is improving every week, and
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: the injury report's gotten a lot better for this team,
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: you know. And then you got the number one defense
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: in the league here with Houston against a Casey team
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: that has an offensive line injuries. Mahomes is still playing
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: pretty well, but it's mounting up the hits on him.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: I think this Kansas City Chief team has just just
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: played too many games the last two three years.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: They just can't get no momentum going this year and
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: not winning those close games, you know. So you know
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: that Houston also had a tough playoff loss versus them
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: last year, so they they match up pretty well and
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: have confidence in this game. This could be another outright
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: underdog I'm predicting hopefully get all three of these outright
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: underdogs Houston plus three and a half.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Here we are, week fourteen. Would you ever see would
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: you ever think you were going to say something like this?
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: So just think about this.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: We have, Yes, all three teams you're going against were
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: the favorites to win the Super Bowl.
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: Just think about that.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Amazing going against Kansas City Buffalo and uh, what's it
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Kansasy Buffalo And then tomorrow night.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Right Detroit, Yeah, Detroit was pretty much NFC one of.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: The favorites pick the win the Super Bowl.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: We're going against all of them this week, predicting even
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: outright wins. But of course we're going we grade the
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: games against the spread.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: Here, what a year, year parody, What a different year.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: I'm interested to know.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Here you have a FCS game, which historically have done
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: very well. Now would you bet more on the FCS
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: game than you would these NFL sides?
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: If I could get down more, I would, yes, But
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: it's hard, harder to get down. You kind of got
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: to wait till the day of the game, and you
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: gotta have a lot.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: I see four different spots that have lines on at least.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: So and you gotta have a lot of outser's you know.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Of course, a lot of other places you can get
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: down on these. You know, I followed the Missouri Valley
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: Conference and the Big Sky pretty well. Of course, you
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: got the North Dakota teams, the Montana teams, and the
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: South Dakota teams. You know, the teams I'm real familiar with,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: even though some of the kids, even even one of
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: the coaches from Montana State I used to coach them.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: Movie easy, easy though. If the team wins, they'll say
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: you did something.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, even the coach from Montana State. I used
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: to coach them in baseball in high school. So wow,
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: that's another story there.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: What do you that Get's funny that Montana State game
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: move from twenty two and a half to twenty.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: Nine and a half right now on that game? What's
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: the game you have?
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: I like the Montana Grizzlies from Bozeman or not from Missoula, Montana.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: The South Dkota State team's got to travel all the
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: way there. You know, it's tough travel spot in altitude.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: The South Kota State team not as strong as they've
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: been in the last few years. They got a new
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: coach this year. This Montana team, you know short number here,
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: I see them dominating the game in Missoula. You know,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: for the grizz Bobby Hauk's been around the lad long time.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: You know, the House brothers are well known in college football,
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: back coach at UNLV for a while. So I see
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: them in victory here.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Montana State. I'm sorry, Montana, I'm sorry Montana. It is
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Montana minus two and a half. Minus one and a
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: half will grade the two and a half under three points,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: so Montana over South Dakota State. All right, Randy, good deal.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna actually bet that one myself. Like I said,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: four books I see up right now. Uh so people
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: will be able to get that. Caesars is one and
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: a half I'm looking at so all right, guys, we
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: appreciate you tuning into Randy, and Randy's gonna have a
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: good week here.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: We're just no more brooms, don't bring any more rooms,
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: definite broom.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: No more brooms, and no more rinsing.
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we need that.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Keep that lucky Masters have to get us in here.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: All right, Thanks, guys, appreciate it.