Speak softly loud and hold me up against your heart.

I hear your words, the tender trembling.

Welcome everybody.

Here we are again.

Another podcast, Hollywood Godfatherfather podcast the one we love

my good compadre partner in crime and in writing and everything else in life

Patrick Fitzgerley good evening everybody glad you're here to listen to us.

Okay. We're going to talk about something different tonight.

Johnny and I had a little tragedy in our lives. It's just coincidental.

And we'd like to share it with you. We're going to talk about Johnny first.

He's going to talk about a dear friend of his, who I know, but not as good as Johnny did.

And then later on in the show, I'm going to talk about after being in the PI business for over 30 years, I lost the client to violence.

And I think it's worth talking about.

It's a lesson in how to be careful, even if you live in small town America.

So Johnny, oh, and at the end of all, this doom and gloom, we're going to talk about the progress of our book, which is just about to be released, but we will bring you up on that.

So, Johnny, let's start with you. Tell us what you have to say. Well, I have a lot to say about this one guy because he was like, anytime I had a problem serious or just talk to him because he's been a mutual friend of mind for many, many years. And he also was very heavily

involved in organized crime. And not, I shouldn't say also. I was was indirectly involved but he was in it but his his humor and

his personality he overrode it all i mean one of the things just i recollect many years ago in

86 during one of the big investigations of crime, they accused him of being an

underboss of the Lou crazy crime family. And he corrected them and said, wait a minute,

I'm not with that family. I'm with the Camvino. I'm with the Genovese family. That's how

crazy he is.

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