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welcome to locked in man dude thank you ian my guy this all possible because of johnny johnny

you know what johnny bot i was What a great podcast with you and him. But I noticed like your thumbnails it says like, you know, Hell's Angel and Force. So you got to do something for me like Irish mob hit me in, you know, from Boston. Even though I'm from Lull, we're going to say, you know, just something to get them to click on. Then we'll just talk about, you know, whatever I did for the last fucking hundred years. Yeah. I will come up with something good. I'm the king of Salacious. Yeah. Can you tell us where we're sitting right now, you know, and why we're here? We're in Chris Salerno's restaurant valet in revere on uh broadway it's uh best

food around here the fucking filaminia with the blueberry sauces out of this world but yeah chris is the

best he always takes care of us and uh and johnny and you know he's a he's a neighborhood guy from east

boston who uh you know everybody I mean, there might be a couple

people out there who don't like them, but I haven't, I haven't met them yet. Yeah, and this is my second time here. Hospitality is amazing. I told him this is the only restaurant I got to go to in Boston now. Yeah. Unless you and the enforcer dragged me somewhere. Yeah, you have to take it out of the North 10, you know. So did you grow up here in Massachusetts? Yeah, I grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts,

which is north of Boston, about a... to take it out of the north end, you know? So did you grow up here in Massachusetts?

Yeah, I grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, which is north of Boston, about a half an hour outside of Boston.

It's an industrial city, a mill city, actually.

What was that like?

Did you have family, siblings, mom and dad?

You know, it's funny.

I don't talk about my sibling too often, but I do have a sister

who we haven't spoken in a long time. She actually wrote a book about me and had it published

and paints me in a bad light. But my father was a bartender and a bookie. He worked for a

Massachusetts electric company and he used to take action and

take action meaning he would take bets down at the bar at night and he was a bartender and my parents

my parents divorced when I was young and I bounced around and I'd always try to go to my fathers

but he was a he was a single, you know, he always

had girls over one-bedroom apartment.

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