You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective Gary Jenkins.

Well, welcome all you wiretappers out there back here in the studio of Gangland Wire.

I have on the Zoom call, Lou Romano, Lewis Romano. I got on to him. I was trying to research

John A light and then I ran in a book about him and one about Gene Borrello. And then I looked at the author and I thought,

well, heck, he's a pretty interesting guy himself. I always like people that have the same

kind of a story that I do. You know, I was a policeman all my life. And then I went to law school.

And then I started doing the podcast and I've written a few, three books and done

some documentary movies about the Kansas City mob. And Lou did the same thing. He had a whole other

career. And then later in life, he got into writing. And believe me, he's been a prolific

writer. That's a $25 word there, prolific writer. He's got $25 word there. Prolific writer. He's got the Detective

Vick Ben Ginella series, the Gino-Rano series. He's got these true crime books. He's got a series of

short story, short story collections. Lou, welcome.

Thank you, Gary.

Thank you for having me on.

I appreciate it.

Tell us a little bit about,

I think everybody's interested in this transition story because a lot of my readers or listeners are kind of our age, I think, and, you know,

and maybe even aspire to do some things like what you've done.

And so tell us how do you get into that and what did you do for a living before?

Well, I was in the oil industry.

I was a salesman and a sales manager and a vice president of a couple of oil companies in New York City.

Oil meaning selling to the end user, the big apartment buildings that you see in New York,

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