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🗓️ 26 May 2020
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0:00.0 | A heads up before we get started. Mobbed up contains explicit content such as adult language and |
0:06.4 | depictions of violence including murder. Please be advised that this podcast might not be suitable |
0:11.7 | for all audiences. If you ever cross paths with Frank Kalata, the mob hitman we spent some time with in part one of this series. |
0:35.2 | A couple things become immediately clear. |
0:38.2 | This is someone who speaks his mind. |
0:41.3 | And this is a guy who loves cars. In a memoir published in 2014, Frank writes, |
0:47.0 | I love cars. I loved him growing up while I was a criminal, and I love him today. I got my first car in 1954. It was a 1950 old 98. My mother bought it for $500. |
1:00.0 | But back then I didn't have the money to keep the car properly maintained and drove it until the tires fell off. |
1:06.0 | Although you'd think there were times I didn't have a car. That's not true. I always had a car. |
1:12.0 | Whether it was mine legitimately or somebody else's that I stole. |
1:16.4 | Frank was 16 when his mom bought him that old 98. |
1:20.0 | But even before then, he was attracted to cars, and he liked to drive. |
1:24.4 | So I'd sneak out. |
1:26.4 | When she'd go to sleep, I'd sneak out. |
1:28.6 | And for a while there I was able to get her keys and drive her car around. |
1:35.0 | And then one day I said, I can't take her keys. |
1:38.0 | When is this day she's going to wake up and I'm going to be out and them keys are going to be gone. |
1:42.0 | They should look for a car. |
1:43.2 | They got to do it another way. |
1:45.0 | So one night, Frank waited for his mom to go to bed and snuck out to the car with an idea. |
1:52.0 | So I got underneath the dashboard and I looked at the |
1:56.6 | ignition and I had there's aluminum wrappers that they put the cigarettes in the bag with. |
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