My name is Ian Bick, and you are tuned in to Locked In with Ian Bick.

On today's episode, I'm interviewing my father, Michael Bick, to get a parent's perspective

of what it was like to have a child go through the American justice system.

I owned one of the biggest music venues in Connecticut. I got out of prison

in 2019, and since then I've been featured on HBO and vice. I quit my job to start making

content, and I've amassed over 70 million views. Incredibly crazy stuff happened. Reflection on what

put you into prison in the first place. So basically, you know, my story starts with me throwing these parties at our house in high school.

And I'm doing like these three or 400 people parties at our lake house.

And that would basically foreshadow and launch this domino effect of

me getting into the concert business and owning a nightclub and then eventually going to federal

prison why did you allow those parties it started out uh first of all, I like parties.

That's the first thing.

So I spent my life making parties.

So for you to start doing parties at the house was kind of exciting to me, except that you lied.

You always lied about them.

And you would say 25, and I would say, who's on the guest list,

and you would look at me and give me 25 names,

and several hundred would show up.

I wrote it off to myself saying, at least I know where you are.

At least I could supervise that no one's getting hurt.

So that was okay with me.

And that's why I allowed it.

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