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Welcome back to The Connect.

My name is Johnny Mitchell.

And today's guest is a man named Al Lindblum.

He is a former enforcer for the Detroit Mafia.

He's from Gross Point, Michigan.

And he grew up, connected, and related to all the wise guys that ran the mafia in Detroit.

And I saw the whole picture very clearly growing up, and I was around it all my life.

On like the third day of school, I beat up a dude with a building block.

And I'm first grade.

They're all looking at me.

He's like, you know, he's going to be one of the thoughts one of these days pretty much.

His uncle was Tony Jackaloney, who was involved in the hit on Jimmy Hoffa and who ran Detroit for decades. It's 7 o'clock in the morning. He says, you think you can handle this? I said, yeah. And he's like, you sure you can handle us? I said, yeah, Tony. I laughed. I laughed. I said, yeah, Tony, I got this, no problem. He's like, all right, no, let me know how it goes.

Al was involved in extortion. I said, yeah, Tony. I laughed. I laughed. I said, yeah, Tony, I got this. No problem.

He's like, all right, no, let me know how it goes. Al was involved in extortion, larceny, drug dealing. He ran a steroid ring, a heroin ring. He was a pot kingpin by the time he was 17 years old. I had an NFL guy buying juice from me, too, and he was great. For the Lions? Yeah. He was also a bank robber.

And during the course of one also a bank robber.

And during the course of one of these bank robberies, he took the cops on a wild high-speed chase that eventually got him locked up for 13 years.

So I stomp on the gas and go, they actually called off the chase that was going so fast.

While he was locked up, he became a writer, and he's written over 10 novels. He's also a motivational speaker, and he runs a great YouTube channel. Look him up. It's called Gunner Detroit. He also has a clothing brand, Arthing Apparel. He has an amazing story, and he's here to tell us all about it. I said, you have a bomb in the counter, right? If I don't get $75,000 in next 90 seconds, it's here to tell us all about it. And he said, you have a bomb in the counter, right?

If I don't get 75 grand in the next 90 seconds, it's going to go boom with everybody in it. Clock's ticking. Tick. That's when I see the lights behind me start to flash. I didn't even think. I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on it. And then I parked the car, hopped out, closed the door, and I started running.

And he pulls out a burner, shank, like six inches. And he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. Don't ever leave the cell block without this. He was the reason I made it out of that place alive. Ow, what's going on, brother? I'm listening. Thanks to get you out to Big Bad L.A., dude. Yeah, man. It looks like Detroit around here. No, still doesn't look like Detroit. But it's definitely out of my comfort zone, that's for sure. It's so weird, you know? Right. I live in the sticks, the boonies in the middle of nowhere.

Yeah.

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