My Dad Secretly Worked For The Mob!

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Actor and comedian Barry Rothbart talks about his new limited series podcast, Searching For Allan Rothbart. It’s the incredible true story of his father’s secret double life as a mid-level mobster for the Gambino crime family, and the shocking twists Barry uncovered through deathbed confession tapes his dad left behind. Barry shares what it was like discovering the truth about his dad’s crimes, running mob errands as a teenager, and even finding out about possible sibling he never knew he had. He details the family secrets, FBI heat, the Bon Jovi lie, and the wild interviews he recorded with his mom and his dad’s old associates while creating the series. Barry also opens up about confronting who his father really was, how it changed his own life, and why telling this story in a serialized audio doc became both cathartic and devastating. Searching For Allan Rothbart is available now on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Searching-for-Allan-Rothbart-Audiobook/B0FH5LVKYC?ipRedirectOverride=true&overrideBaseCountry=true 📸 Follow Barry on Instagram @BarryRothbart Talk Is Jericho is available on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/ChrisJerichoFozzy 👍 Don’t forget to Like, Subscribe, and hit the 🔔 to stay updated on new episodes! More from Talk Is Jericho: 📸 Instagram: @chrisjerichofozzy | @talkisjericho 🐦 Twitter/X: @IAmJericho | @TalkIsJericho 🌐 Website: https://www.webisjericho.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Talk is Jericho, baby.
0:05.4	Talk is Jericho.
0:08.6	Talk is Jericho, Mama, talk is me.
0:13.4	All right, welcome to Talk is Jericho.
0:14.8	It's the pot of thunder and rock and roll.
0:16.2	Let's see what Duff McCaghan's got for us,
0:18.1	but there's always iconic, much-anticipated joke for the week. Chris Jericho, Duff McCaghan's got for us, but there's always iconic, much-anticipated joke
0:21.1	for the week.
0:22.9	Chris Jericho, Duff McCagan calling you.
0:25.3	I'm out in the veranda of our hotel here in Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, starting our tour
0:33.2	of Central and South America, you know.
0:36.5	But listen this morning, I was walking down the street,
0:39.3	and I was hit by a clarinet, then a violin, and then a flute.
0:44.9	I think it was an orchestrated attack.
0:48.1	Thank you very much. Goodbye.
0:51.3	Oh, I like that one. That's good.
0:53.7	Duff is on a roll. That's two in a row that made me laugh out loud. So it must be something in the Agua in Costa Rica. That's exactly what I said to Duff, actually, yesterday. And that's where Duff and Guz and Rose has just kicked off their fall tour. They never stop. They're doing all of Latin America. It's a killer show. If you're in Latin America or Brazil, go see them
1:11.1	if and when you can. And come see quarantine this fall as well. We've got some big gigs coming
1:15.2	up. We're doing the Kiss crews landlocked in Vegas, November 14th to the 16th. We're basically
1:19.9	opening up for Kiss on Saturday the 15th. And the quarantine unholy night, 2025 tour actually
1:26.0	starts November 13th in San Juan Capistrano, California,
1:29.7	before we head to Vegas for the Kiss Cruise landlocked in Vegas. And then December 3rd, Angel City
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