Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. The other day, I have to say, I was reading this article

and I thought, this is crazy, the story about this family, the dad was a firefighter,

and then come to find out after he was injured on the job, and he ends up with a drug addiction

through the pain meds, that he actually had a secret life

as like this main mafia hit guy in Chicago. So he's known as like Kenny the kid in Chicago,

but his kids don't know anything. His wife doesn't know anything. And so I read this and it's

from the perspective of his son.

His son has a podcast called Crook County, because it was done in, I'm assuming, Cook County, Illinois.

And so I'm like, well, I got to reach out to this guy.

His name is Kyle Tequila, and he's here on the show today.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

Appreciate it. Your story is wild. And I think, you know, I'm one of those people that's always

kind of had a fascination with did this really ever happen? Was, heck, how serious is the mafia,

you know, and having grown up, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. So I was there when this was happening, you know,

and I think we think Al Capone happened a million years ago. But this was like the Al Capone

group. Your dad was a part of this. Yeah, the mob was pretty much, you know, at a peak power

through the 60s, 70s, and 80s and started to fall apart

in the 90s. And then Operation Family Secrets was a huge federal investigation and sting that

took down pretty much all the five families in the early 2000s, which, you know, it was 20 years ago,

but still fairly recent, you know. And so yeah, my dad was

deep in the mob during the time that they were still very much power powerhouse in Chicago.

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