Welcome back everybody to part two of episode four with Lou Velosi. If you're

just coming into this now, make sure you listen to part one that came out Monday.

As we promised, we're going to get right into this. We're not going to waste any

time. So here we go. Episode four, part two, Lou Velosi.

Everybody's got it when I was a detective, when I was a state trooper, there's

always the people more worried about where their next break is rather than where

their next case, you know. Let's talk a little bit about that because you

started getting into what now we're called storefront operations. So let's set

the stage for everybody because this is really one of the interesting things.

This comes out of your book proposal, but I did some research on it too on some

of the things, you know, that you were involved in and it's what's really

fascinating. This is a great, this is a magnet. This is a shit magnet. This is

getting people to come to you. So talk about when you started doing this, what

was the problems you were trying to solve and why a storefront operation? What

was so unique about them that you because it's not cheap to do a front

operation? Well, I can tell you exactly why Morgan, because of cases that I had

been doing and like, you know, I got my first big break kind of on the

national scale when two guys who were legendary, my mentor Chris Bayless out of

Chicago and Jay Dobbins out of Arizona. They gave me the call. I want to say it was

maybe 99, 1999 or something to go out to do my first big case with them. You

know, I've been doing everything locally up to that point. And then, you know,

they had heard a little bit about me and through my partner who vouched for me,

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