Tony, welcome to Lockton, man. Thanks for coming on the show. Glad we can make this happen. Thank you for having me, man. I appreciate it. Yeah, we always love former law enforcement on the show, and I saw you on Johnny Mitchell's show, and you have an interesting story. Yeah, definitely. Shout out to Johnny Mitchell, like, connect, man. I appreciate him having me on, too. You know, that kind of gave me my entrance into this whole thing, you know,

like I'm a mob historian by choice now, whatever, you know, I have a channel called Corruption

connection. But on that channel, I kind of discussed different mob stories, history. It's almost

like a crime noir series, you know. Those old school, like gum shoe detectives walking around, like a

huge inspiration of mine was Bill Curtis, watching those A&E documentaries and stuff.

And then, you know, me growing up in New York City, you know, kind of just surrounded by the mob life, you know what I mean?

And I chose a different path.

We wound up going to the NYPD.

And, you know, that kind of just leads me back to, I guess, my beginning of the story, you know that kind of just leads me back to I guess my beginning of the story you know

I'm from Queens born and raised there it's a section that's called we called it the hill

it's called Queensboro Hill on the map it borders the LIE in Main Street so where I grew actually, I could walk to Shea Stadium as a kid right through the park. It was like maybe a five-minute walk. So, of course, I was a Mets fan growing up, you know what I mean? And the neighborhood was a lot different back then. You know, I think New York City in general was a lot different back then. You know, it's gone through so many changes recently. And, you know,

growing up was pretty normal for the most part or whatever. It was a little cut out of suburbia

in a big city, you know, five minutes anyway, and you're dealing with big city problems. But you

kind of lived on tree-line streets. That's the neighborhood it was back then growing up.

So, you know, so you know in that neighborhood, just like everybody else, you run around the streets, you get to know the kids, you get into a little trouble, but you know, you're kind

of okay. And in that neighborhood was always like, it was a generational neighborhood, you know,

so it was like the early European immigrants, Italian, Irish, German, that kind of makeup. And they were there for about three, four generations. Like my grandmother's family got there in the 40s. They actually were from Corona, which was across the park as well. And that was a heavy Italian-American neighborhood as well. My grandma was Italian. So when they moved over

to the hill, you know, they kind of just moved from those apartments or whatever and they got into like,

you know, house, streetline street, backyard, you know, like who would want to move there,

away from there, you know, who would want to move away from there after they got there? So it quickly

became a generational neighborhood. And in that generational neighborhood like most other italian-american

neighborhoods you know the mafia was present there was undertones of organized crime you know

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