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In this episode of Gangland Wire, Gary Jenkins sits down with Bob Cooley, the once–well-connected Chicago lawyer who lived at the center of the city's most notorious corruption machine. After years out of the public eye, Cooley recently resurfaced to revisit his explosive memoir, When Corruption Was King—and this conversation offers a rare, firsthand look at how organized crime, politics, and the court system intersected in Chicago for decades. Cooley traces his journey from growing up in a police family to serving as a Chicago police officer and ultimately becoming a criminal defense attorney whose real job was quietly fixing cases for the Chicago Outfit. His deep understanding of the judicial system made him indispensable to mob-connected power brokers like Pat Marcy, a political fixer with direct access to judges, prosecutors, and court clerks. Inside the Chicago Corruption Machine Cooley explains how verdicts were bought, cases were steered, and justice was manipulated—what insiders called the “Chicago Method.” He describes his relationships with key figures in organized crime, including gambling bosses like Marco D'Amico and violent enforcers such as Harry Aleman and Tony Spilotro, painting a chilling picture of life inside a world where loyalty was enforced by fear.   As his role deepened, so did the psychological toll. Cooley recounts living under constant threat, including a contract placed on his life after he refused to betray a fellow associate—an event that forced him to confront the cost of the life he was leading. Turning Point: Becoming a Federal Witness The episode covers Cooley's pivotal decision in 1986 to cooperate with federal authorities, a move that helped dismantle powerful corruption networks through FBI Operation Gambat. Cooley breaks down how political connections—not just street-level violence—allowed the Outfit to operate with near-total impunity for so long.   Along the way, Cooley reflects on the moral reckoning that led him to turn on the system that had enriched and protected him, framing his story as one not just of crime and betrayal, but of reckoning and redemption. What Listeners Will Hear How Bob Cooley became the Outfit's go-to case fixer The role of Pat Marcy and political corruption in Chicago courts Firsthand stories involving Marco D'Amico, Harry Aleman, and Tony Spilotro The emotional and psychological strain of living among violent criminals The decision to cooperate and the impact of Operation Gambat Why Cooley believes Chicago's corruption endured for generations Why This Episode Matters Bob Cooley is one of the few people who saw the Chicago Outfit from inside the courtroom and the back rooms of power. His story reveals how deeply organized crime embedded itself into the institutions meant to uphold the law—and what it cost those who tried to escape it.   This episode sets the stage for a deeper follow-up conversation, where Gary and Cooley will continue unpacking the most dangerous and revealing moments of his life. Resources   Book: When Corruption Was King by Bob Cooley Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. 0:03 Prelude to Bob Cooley’s Story 1:57 Bob Cooley’s Background 5:24 The Chicago Outfit Connection 8:24 The Turning Point 15:20 The Rise of a Mob Lawyer 23:54 A Life of Crime and Consequences 26:03 The Incident at the Police Station 50:27 The Count and His Influence 1:19:51 The Murder of a Friend 1:35:26 Contracts and Betrayal 1:40:36 Conclusion and Future Stories Transcript [0:00] Well, hey guys, this is a little prelude to my next story. Bob Cooley was a Chicago lawyer and an outfit associate who had been in, who has been in hiding for many years. I contacted him about six or seven years ago when I first started a podcast, I was able to get a phone number on him and, and got him on the phone. He was, I think it was out in the desert in Las Vegas area at the time. And at the time he was trying to sell his book when corruption was king to a movie producer And he really didn’t want to overexpose himself, and they didn’t really want him to do anything. And eventually, COVID hit, and the movie production was canceled. And it was just all over. There were several movie productions were canceled during COVID, if I remember right. A couple people who I have interviewed and had a movie deal going. Well, Bob recently remembered me, and he contacted me. He just called me out of the clear blue, and he wanted to revive his book and his story. He’s been, you know, way out of the limelight for a long time. And so I thought, well, I always wanted to interview this guy because he’s got a real insider’s knowledge to Chicago Outfit, the one that very few people have. [1:08] You know, here’s what he knows about. And he provides valuable insight into the inner workings of the Outfit. And I don’t mean, you know, scheming up how to kill people and how to do robberies and burglars and all that. But the Chicago court system and Chicago politics, that’s a, that’s a, the, the mob, a mafia family can’t exist unless they have connections into the political system and especially the court system. Otherwise, what good are they? You know, I mean, they, they just take your money where they give you back. They can’t protect you from anybody. [1:42] So I need to give you a little more of the backstory before we go on to the actual interview with Bob, because he kind of rambles a little bit and goes off and comes back and drops [1:54] names that we don’t have time to go into explanation. So here’s a little bit of what he talked about. He went from being, as I said before, Chicago Outfit’s trusted fixer in the court system, and he eventually became the government star witness against them. He’s born, he’s about my age. He was born in 1943. He was an Irish-American police family and came from the Chicago South side. He was a cop himself for a short period of time, but he was going to law school while he was a policeman. And once he started practicing law, he moved right into criminal law and into first ward politics and the judicial world downtown. [2:36] And that’s where the outfit and the old democratic machine intersected. He was in a restaurant called Counselor’s Row, which was right down. Bob had an office downtown. Well, he’s inside that system, and he uses his insider’s knowledge to fix cases. Once an outfit started noticing him that he could fix a case if he wanted to, he immediately became connected to the first ward power broker and outfit political conduit, a guy named Pat Marcy. Pat Marcy knew all the judges He knew all the court clerks And all the police officers And Bob was getting to know him too During this time But Bob was a guy who was out in He was a lawyer And he was working inside the court system Marcy was just a downtown fixer. [3:22] But Bob got to where he could guarantee acquittals or light sentences for whoever came to him with the right amount of money, whether it be a mobster or a bookmaker or a juice loan guy or a crap politician, whoever it was, Bob could fix the case. [3:36] One of the main guys tied to his work he was kind of attached to a crew everybody’s owned by somebody he was attached to the Elmwood Park crew and Marco D’Amico who was under John DeFranco and I can’t remember who was before DeFranco, was kind of his boss and he was a gambling boss and Bob was a huge gambler I mean a huge gambler and Bob will help fix cases for some notorious people Really, one of the most important stories that we’ll go into in the second episode of this is Harry the Hook Aleman. And he also helped fix the case for Tony Spolatro and several others. He’s always paid him in cash. And he lived large. As you’ll see, he lived large. And he moved comfortably between mobsters and politicians and judges. And he was one of the insiders back in the 70s, 60s or 70s mainly. He was an insider. But by the 80s, he’s burned out. He’s disgusted with himself. He sees some things that he doesn’t like. They put a contract out on him once because he wouldn’t give somebody up as an informant, and he tipped one of his clients off that he was going to come out that he was an informant, and the guy was able to escape, I believe. Well, I have to go back and listen to my own story. [4:53] Finally in 1986 he walked unannounced they didn’t have a case on him and he walked unannounced in the U.S. Courthouse and offered himself up to take down this whole Pat Marcy and the whole mobster political clique in Chicago and he wore a wire for FBI an operation called Operation Gambat which is a gambling attorney because he was a huge gambler [5:17] huge huge gambler and they did a sweeping probe and indicted tons of people over this. So let’s go ahead and listen to Robert Cooley. [5:31] Uh, he, he, like I said, he’s a little bit rambling and a little bit hard to follow sometimes, but some of these names and, and, uh, and in the first episode, we’ll really talk about his history and, uh, where he came from and how he came up. He’ll mention somebody called the count and I’ll do that whole count story and a whole nother thing. So when he talks about the count, just disregard that it’ll be a short or something. And I got to tell that count story. It’s an interesting story. Uh, he, he gets involved with the only own, uh, association, uh, and, uh, and the, uh, Chinese Tong gang in, uh, Chicago and Chicago’s Chinatown. Uh, some of the other people he’ll talk about are Marco D’Amico, as I said, and D’Amico’s top aide, Rick Glantini, uh, another, uh, connected guy and worked for the city of Chicago is Robert Abinati. He was a truck driver. [6:25] He was also related to D’Amico and D’Amico’s cousin, former Chicago police officer Ricky Borelli. Those are some of the names that he’ll mention in this. So let’s settle back and listen to Bob Cooley. Hey, all you wiretappers. Good to be back here in studio gangland wire. This is Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective. And, you know, we we deal with the mob here once a week, sometimes twice a week on the podcast. And I have a special guest that hadn’t been heard from for a while. And, you know, to be honest, guys, I’ve kind of gotten away from the outfit. I’ve been doing a lot of New York stuff and Springfield, Massachusetts and all around the country. And I kind of got away from Chicago. And we’re going back to Chicago today. And I’m honored that Bob Cooley got hold of me. Now, you may not know who Bob Cooley was, but Bob Cooley was a guy. He was a mob lawyer in Chicago, and he really probably, he heard him as much as anybody’s ever heard him, and he did it all of his own accord. He was more like an undercover agent that just wasn’t officially designated an FBI agent rather than an informant. But anyhow, welcome, Bob. [7:37] Hello. Nice meeting you. Nice to meet you. And I’ve talked to you before. And you were busy before a few years ago. And you were getting ready to make some movies and stuff. And then COVID hit and a lot of that fell through. And that happened to several people I’ve talked to. You got a lot in common with me. I was a Kansas City policeman. And I ended up becoming a lawyer after I left the police department. And you were a Chicago copper. And then you left the police department a little bit earlier than I did and became a lawyer. And, and Bob, you’re from a Chicago police family, if I remember right. Is that correct? Oh, police, absolute police background, the whole family. Yes. Yeah. Your grandfather, your grandfather was killed in the line of duty. Is that right? [8:25] Both of my grandfathers were killed in the line of duty. Wow. In fact, that’s one of the reasons why I eventually did what I did. I was very, very close with my dad. Yeah, and your dad was a copper. [8:38] He was a policeman, yeah. And in fact, you use that term. I, for many, many years, wouldn’t use that word. It just aggravated me when people would use the word copper. To me, it would show disrespect. Oh, really? I said to us in Kansas City, that’s what we call each other, you know, among coppers. Oh, I know. I know. But I know. But, you know, I just, for whatever reason, one of the things that aggravated me the most, in fact, when I was being cross-examined by this piece of shit, Eddie Jensen, the one I wrote about in my book that was, you know, getting a lot of people killed and whatever. And he made some comment about my father. and I got furious and I had to, you know, my father was unbelievably honest as a policeman. [9:29] Everybody loved him because they didn’t have to share, uh, you know, but he was a detective. He had been written up many times in true and magazines and these magazines for making arrests. He was involved in the cartage detail. He was involved in all kinds of other things, but honest as the day is long. And, and, um, but, uh, again, the, uh, my father’s father was, uh, was a policeman and he was killed by a member of the Capone gang. And, uh, and when he was killed, after he was killed. [10:05] The, uh, well, after he got shot, he got shot during a robbery after he got shot, he was in the hospital for a while. And then he went, then he went back home. He went back home to his, uh, you know, to his house, uh, cause he had seven kids. He had a big family too. And, uh, stayed with his, you know, with his wife and, and, and eventually died. And when he died they had a very mediocre funeral for him. They had a bigger, much bigger funeral when Al Capone’s brother died. But during that time when I was a kid when I was about 13, 12, 13 years old, I worked among other places at a grocery store where I delivered to my grandmother. My grandmother lived in South Park which later became Mark Luther King Drive. She lived a very, very meager life because she basically had nothing. [11:09] What they gave them for the, at that time, what they gave them for the police department was a portion of the husband’s salary when they died, whatever. It was never a big deal like it is now, you know, like it is now when policemen get killed in the line of duty. and I’m thinking at the same time I’m thinking down the road, You know, about certain things from my past did come back to affect me. [11:38] Doing what I was doing, when I got involved, and I got involved absolutely with all these different people. My father hated these people. I didn’t, you know, I didn’t realize how much. I didn’t realize much when I was growing, you know, when I was growing up and whatever. And even when I was practicing law and when I opened up Pratt-Mose, I would have my father and mother come along with other people. And the place was all full of mobsters. I mean, we’re talking about, you know, a lot of Capone’s whole crew. A lot of the gunmen were still alive. In fact, the ones that ran the first award were all gunmen from Capone’s mob. And never said a word, never said a word about it. You know, he met my partner, Johnny Diaco, who was part of the mob, the senator, and whatever colitis could be. My dad, when my dad was dying. [12:38] When my dad was dying, he had what they didn’t call it, but it had to be Alzheimer’s because my dad was a unbelievably, he was a big, strong man, but he was never a fighter, sweet as could be to anybody and everybody. When he started getting bad, he started being mean to my mother and doing certain things. So we finally had to put him into a nursing home. When I went to see him in the nursing, and I had a close relationship with my dad because he saved my life many times when I was a kid. I was involved with stolen cars at school. I should have been thrown out of school. It was Mount Carmel, but he had been a Carmelite, almost a Carmelite priest. [13:25] And whatever, and that’s what kept me from being kicked out of school at Marquette when they were going to throw me out there because I was, again, involved in a lot of fights, and I also had an apartment that we had across the hall from the shorter hall where I was supposed to stay when I was a freshman, and we were throwing huge parties, and they wanted to throw me out of school. My dad came, my dad came and instead of throwing me out, they let me resign and whatever he had done so much, you know, for me. Yeah. [14:00] Now when I, when I meet, when I meet him up in the hospital, I, I came in the first time and it was about maybe 25 miles outside, you know, from where my office was downtown. And when I went in to see him, they had him strapped in a bed because apparently when he initially had two people in the room and when somebody would come in to try to talk to him and whatever, he would be nasty. And one time he punched one of the nurses who was, you know, because he was going in the bed and they wouldn’t, and he wouldn’t let him take him out. You know, I was furious and I had to go, I had to go through all that. And now, just before he died, it was about two or three days before he died, he didn’t recognize anybody except me. Didn’t recognize my mother. Didn’t recognize anybody. Yet when I would come into the room, son, that’s what he always called me, son, when I would come in. So he knew who I basically was. And he would even say, son, don’t let him do this to me when he had to go through or they took out something and he had to wear one. Of those, you know, those decatheters or whatever. Oh, yeah. [15:15] Just before he died, he said to me, he said, son, he said, those are the people that killed my father. He said, and his case was fixed. After, I had never known that. In fact, his father, Star, was there at 11th and State, and I would see it when everyone went in there. Star was up there on the board as if there’s a policeman or a policeman killed in the line of duty. When he told me that it really and I talked to my brother who knew all about all that that’s what happened, the gunman killed him on 22nd street when that happened the case went to trial and he was found not guilty apparently the case was fixed I tell you what talk about poetic justice there your grandson is now in that system of fixing cases. I can’t even imagine what you must have felt like when you learned that at that point in your life. Man, that would be a grief. That would be tough. That’s what eventually made me one day decide that I had to do something to put an end to all that was going on there. [16:25] I’m curious, what neighborhood did you grow up in? Neighborhood identity is pretty strong in Chicago. So what neighborhood do you claim? I grew up in the hood. First place I grew up, my first place when I was born, I was at 7428 South Vernon. Which is the south side, southeast side of the city. I was there until I was in sixth grade. That was St. Columbanus Parish. When I was in sixth grade, we had to move because that’s when they were doing all the blockbusting there in Chicago. That’s when the blacks were coming in. And when the blacks were coming in, and I truly recall, We’ve talked about this many times elsewhere. I remember knocking on the door and ringing the doorbell all hours of the day and night. A black family just moved in down the street. You’ve got to sell now. If you don’t, the values will all go down. And we would not move. My father’s philosophy, we wouldn’t move until somebody got killed in the area. Because he couldn’t afford it. He had nine kids. he’s an honest policeman making less than $5,000 a year. [17:45] Working two, three jobs so we could all survive when he finished up, When he finished up with, when we finally moved, we finally moved, he went to 7646 South Langley. That was, again, further south, further south, and the area was all white at that time. [18:09] We were there for like four years, and about maybe two or three years, and then the blacks started moving in again. The first one moved in, and it was the same pattern all over again. Yeah, same story in Kansas City and every other major city in the United States. They did that blockbusting and those real estate developers. Oh, yeah, blockbusters. They would call and tell you that the values wouldn’t go down. When I was 20, I joined the police department. Okay. That’s who paid my way through college and law school. All right. I joined the police department, and I became a policeman when I was 20. [18:49] As soon as I could. My father was in recruit processing and I became a policeman. During the riots, I had an excuse not to go. They thought I was working. I was in the bar meeting my pals before I went to work. That’s why I couldn’t go to school at that time. But anyhow, I took some time off. I took some time off to, you know, to study, uh, because, you know, I had all C’s in one D in my first, in my first semester. And if you didn’t have a B, if you didn’t have a C average, you couldn’t, you kicked out of school at the end of a quarter. This is law school. You’re going to law school while you’re still an active policeman. Oh yeah, sure. That’s okay. So you work full time and went to law school. You worked full-time and went to law school at the same time. When I was 20, I joined the police department. Okay. That’s who paid my way through college and law school. All right. I joined the police department, and I became a policeman when I was 20, as soon as I could. My father was in recruit processing, and I became a policeman. Yeah, yeah. But anyhow, I went to confession that night. [20:10] And when I went to confession, there was a girl, one of the few white people in the neighborhood, there was a girl who had gone before me into the confessional. And I knew the priest. I knew him because I used to go gambling with him. I knew the priest there at St. Felicis who heard the confessions. And this is the first time I had gone to confession with him even though I knew him. [20:36] And I wanted to get some help from the big guy upstairs. And anyhow, when I leave, I leave about maybe 10 minutes later, and she had been saying her grace, you know, when I left. And when I walked out, I saw she was right across the street from my house, and there’s an alley right there. And she was a bit away from it, and there were about maybe 13, 14, 15 kids. when I say kids, they were anywhere from the age of probably about 15, 16 to about 18, 19. And they’re dragging her. They’re trying to drag her into the alley. And when I see that, when I see that, I head over there. When I get over there, I have my gun out. I have the gun out. And, you know, what the hell is going on? And, you know, and I told her, I told her her car was parked over there. I told her, you know, get out of here. And I’ve got my gun. I’ve got my gun in my hand. And I don’t know what I’m going to do now in terms of doing anything because I’m not going to shoot them. They’re standing there looking at me. And after a little while, I hear sirens going on. [22:00] The Barton family lived across the street in an apartment building, and they saw what was going on. They saw me out there. It was about probably about seven o’clock at night. It was early at night and they put a call in 10-1 and call in 10-1. Assist the officer. Is that a assist the officer? It’s 1031. Police been in trouble. Yeah. And the squad’s from everywhere. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So you can hear, you can hear them coming. And now one of them says to me, and I know they’re pretty close. One of them says to me, you know, put away your gun and we’ll see how tough you are. And I did. [22:42] Because you know they’re close. And I’m busy fighting with a couple of them. And they start running and I grab onto two of them. I’m holding onto them. I could only hold two. I couldn’t hold anymore. And the next thing I know, I wake up in the hospital about four days later. Wow. What had happened was they pushed me. Somebody, there was another one behind who pushed me right in front of a squad car coming down the street. Oh, shit. Yeah, man. And the car ran completely over me. They pulled me off from under the, just under the back wheels, I was told were right next to, were onto me, blood all over the place. Everybody thought I was dead. Right. Because my brothers, my one brother who was a police kid that, you know, heard all the noise and the family came in. I tried to prostrate my house and they all thought I was dead. But anyhow, I wake up in the hospital about three days later. When I wake up in the hospital, I’m like. [23:54] Every bone of my body was broken. I’m up there like a mummy. And the mayor came to see me. All kinds of people came to see me. They made me into an even bigger star in my neighborhood. The Count lives down the street and is seeing all this stuff about me and whatever. Jumping quickly to another thing, which got me furious. Willie Grimes was the cop that was driving this quad. He was a racist. We had some blacks in the job. He was a total racist. When my brother and when some others were doing their best to try to find these people, he was protecting them. Some of them, if they caught, he was protecting them. [24:48] I was off the job for like nine months when I came back to work. I never came to the hospital to see me. I mean, everybody came. Every day, my hospital went. Because one of the nurses that I was dating, in fact, she was one of those killed. That’s when Richard Speck wound up killing her and some of the others at the same time. It was at the South Chicago Hospital. Holy darn. What they did for me, I had buckets in my womb with ice. We were bringing beer and pizzas and whatever. Every day was like a party in there. When I finally came back to work, it was 11 o’clock at night. I worked out in South Chicago, and I’m sitting in the parking lot, and the media is there. The media, they had all kinds of cameras there. Robert Cooley’s coming back to work after like nine months. They wouldn’t let me go back. [25:51] I’m walking by the squads. And Willie was a big guy. He was probably about 220, a big one of these big muscle builders and all that nonsense. [26:04] He’s sitting in the first car. The cars are all lined up because when we would change, when we would change at like 11 30 uh you know the cars would all be waiting we jumped into the cars and off we go as i’m walking by the car i hear aren’t you afraid to walk in front of my car. [26:26] I look over and he had a distinctive voice i walk over to the car and i reach in and i start punching them, and I’m trying to drag them out of the car. The cameras, the cameras are, you know, they’re all basically inside. They’re all inside. You know, as you walk in there, they’re all inside there. When I do, I eventually walk up there. But the other police came, and they dragged me. They dragged me away, and they brought me in, and whatever. We got transferred out the next day out of the district. And the first policeman I meet is Rick, Rick Dorelli, who’s connected with, who’s a monster. He’s connected with them. And, and he’s the one who told me, he said to me, you know, we played cards and he realized I was a gambler, but I had never dealt with bookmakers. And he said, he says, yeah, you want to make some money? You want to make some easy money? Well, yeah, sure. You know, uh, you know, and thinking that’s, you know, working security or something like that, like I had done back in Chicago, you know, like I had done on the south side. And he said, I want you to make some bets for me with somebody who said. [27:43] And I remember him using the term. He said, I want you to be my face. He said, and I want you to make some bets for me. He said, and he said, and if you, if you’ll do it, I’ll give you a hundred dollars a week just to make the bets for me. And then, you know, and then meet with these people and pay these people off. And I said, sure. You know, I said, you know, why? He says, because I can’t play with these. people he said i’m connected with him he said and i’m not allowed to gamble myself he said but he told me he said i’ve got a couple people i take bets from i’ve got my own side deal going so i want you to do it i want you to do it and i’ll give i’ll give you to them as a customer, and you’re gonna be a customer and he’s and he tells people now that i got this other police He’s in law school. He comes from a real wealthy family, and he’s looking for a place to bet. He’s in Gambia. He’s looking for a place to bet. [28:47] So I call this number, and I talk to this guy. He gives me a number. When you bet, you call, and you do this, and you do that. And I’m going to get $100 at the end of the week. Now, I’m making $5,200 a year, and they’re taking money out of my chest. I’m going to double my salary. I’m going to double my salary immediately. Why wouldn’t you do it? That’s fantastic money at the time. So I start doing it. And the first week I’m doing it, it was baseball season. [29:19] And I’m making these bets. He’s betting $500 a game on a number of games. And he’s winning some, he’s losing some. But now, when I’m checking my numbers with the guy there, he owes, at the end of the week, he owes $3,500. [29:38] And now, it’s getting bigger and bigger, he’s losing. I’m getting worried. What have I got myself into? Yeah, because it’s not him losing, it’s you losing to the bookie. That’s what I’m thinking. I’m thinking, holy, holy, Christopher, I’m thinking. But, you know, I’ve already jumped off the building. So anyhow. I’d be thinking, you better come up with a jack, dude. It’s time to pay up, man. Anyhow, so when I come to work the next day, I’m supposed to meet this guy at one of the clubs out there in the western suburbs. [30:21] I’m supposed to meet the bookmaker out there. And Ricky meets me that morning, and he gives me the money. It’s like $3,400, and here’s $100 for you. Bingo. That’s great. So, okay. When I go to make the payment to him, it’s a nightclub, and I got some money in my pocket. Somebody, one of the guys, some guy walks up. I’m sitting at the bar and, you know, I hear you’re a copper. I said, pardon me? He says, I hear you’re a copper. He was a big guy. Yeah. I hear you’re a copper. Because at that time, I still only weighed maybe like, well, maybe 60, 65 pounds. I mean, I was in fantastic shape, but I wasn’t real big. And I said, I’m a policeman. I don’t like policemen. I said, go fuck yourself. or something like that. And before he could do anything, I labeled him. That was my first of about a half a dozen fights in those different bars out there. [31:32] And the fights only lasted a few minutes because I would knock the person down. And if the person was real big, at times I’d get on top and just keep pounding before they could do anything. So I started with a reputation with those people at that time now as I’m, going through my world with these people oh no let’s stay with that one area now after the second week he loses again, this time not as much but he loses again and I’m thinking wow, He’s betting, and I’m contacted by a couple of people there. Yeah. Because these are all bookmakers there, and they see me paying off. So I’m going to be, listen, if you want another place to play, and I say, well, yeah. So my thought is, with baseball, it’s a game where you’re laying a price, laying 160, laying 170, laying 180. So if you lose $500, if you lose, you pay $850, and if you win, you only get $500. [32:52] I’ve got a couple of people now, and they’ve got different lines. And what I can do now is I check with their lines. I check with Ricky’s guy and see what his line is. And I start moving his money elsewhere where I’ve got a 30, 40, sometimes 50 cent difference in the price. So I’d set it up where no matter what, I’m going to make some money, No matter what happens, I’ll make some money. But what I’m also doing is I’m making my own bets in there that will be covered. And as I start early winning, maybe for that week I win maybe $1,000, $1,500. And then as I meet other people and I’m making payments, within about four or five months, I’ve got 10 different bookmakers I’m dealing with. Who I’m dealing with. And it’s become like a business. I’m getting all the business from him, 500 a game, whatever. And I’ve got other people that are betting, you know, are betting big, who are betting through me. And I’m making all kinds of money at that time. [34:14] But anyhow, now I mentioned a number of people, A number of people are, I’ve been with a number of people that got killed after dinner. One of the first ones was Tony Borsellino, a bookmaker. Tony was connected with the Northside people, with DeVarco, the one they called DeVarco. And we had gone to a we had gone to a I knew he was a hit man, we had gone to a basketball game over at DePaul because he had become a good friend of mine he liked hanging with me, because I was because at that time now I’m representing the main madams in Chicago too and they loved being around me they liked going wherever I was going to go so I always had all kinds of We left the ladies around. And we went to the basketball game. Afterwards, we went to a restaurant, a steakhouse on Chicago Avenue. [35:26] Gee, why can’t I think of a name right now? We went to a steakhouse, and we had dinner. And when we finished up, it came over there. And when we finished up, I’d been there probably half a dozen times with him. And he was there with his girlfriend. We had dinner and about, I’d say it was maybe 10, 30, 11 o’clock, he says, you know, Bob, can you do me a favor? What’s that? Can you drop her off? He said, I have to go meet some friends. I have to go meet some friends of ours. And, you know, okay, sure, Tony, not a problem. And, you know, I took her home. [36:09] The next day I wake up, Tony Barcellino was found dead. They killed him. He was found with some bullets in the back of his head. They killed him. Holy Christopher. And that’s my first—I found that I had been killed before that. But, you know, wow, that was—, prior to that, when I was betting, there was i paid off a bookmaker a guy named uh ritten shirt, rittenger yeah john rittenger yeah yeah yeah he was a personal friend yeah was he a personal friend of yours yeah they offed him too well i in fact i he i was paying him i met him to pay him I owed him around $4,500, and I met him at Greco’s at my restaurant he wanted to meet me out there because he wanted to talk to me about something else he had a problem some kind of a problem I can’t remember what that was. [37:19] But he wanted to meet me at the restaurant so I met him at Greco’s, And I paid him the money. We talked for a while. And then he says, you know, I got to go. I got to go meet somebody. I got to go meet somebody else. I got to go straight now with somebody else. And he said, I’ll give you a call. He said, I’ll give you a call later. He said, because, you know, I want to talk to you about a problem that I have. He says, I want to talk to you about a problem that I have. I said, okay, sure. He goes to a pizza place. Up there in the Taylor Street area. That’s where he met Butchie and Harry. In fact, at the time, I knew both of them. Yeah, guys, that’s Butch Petrucelli and Harry Alem and a couple of really well-known mob outfit hitmen. Yeah, and they’re the ones that kill them. I’m thinking afterwards, I mean, But, you know, I wish I hadn’t, I wish I hadn’t, you know, I wish I could save him. I just gave him. Man, you’re cold, man. [38:34] You could have walked with that money. That’s what I’m saying. So now, another situation. Let me cut in here a minute, guys. As I remember this Reitlinger hit, Joe Ferriola was a crew boss, and he was trying to line up all the bookies, as he called it. He wanted to line them up like Al Capone lined up all the speaks, that all the bookies had to fall in line and kick something into the outfit, and Reitlinger wouldn’t do it. He refused to do it no matter. They kept coming to him and asking him his way. I understand that. Is that what you remember? I knew him very well. Yeah. He was not the boss. Oh, the Ferriola? Yeah, he wasn’t the boss, but he was kind of the, he had a crew. He was the boss of the Cicero crew. Right. I saw Joe all the time at the racetrack. In fact, I’m the one who, I’m the one, by the time when I started wearing a wire, I was bringing undercover agents over. I was responsible for all that family secret stuff that happened down the road. Oh, really? You set the stage for all that? I’m the one who put them all in jail. All of them. [39:52] So anyhow, we’re kind of getting ahead of ourselves. Reitlinger’s been killed. Joe Borelli or Ricky Borelli’s been killed. These guys are dropping around you, and you’re getting drawn into it deeper and deeper, it sounds to me like. Now, is this when you – what happens? How do you get drawn into this Chicago outfit even more and more as a bookie? Were you kicking up, too? Well, it started, it started, so many things happened that it just fell into place. It started, like I say, with building a reputation like I had. But the final situation in terms of with all the mobsters thinking that I’m not just a tough guy, I’m a bad guy. [40:35] When I get a call, when Joey Cosella, Joey Cosella was a big, tough Italian kid. And he was involved heavily in bookmaking, and we became real close friends. Joey and I became real close friends. He raised Dobermans, and he’s the one who had the lion over at the car dealership. I get a call from Joey. He says, you’ve got to come over. I said, what’s up? He says, some guys came in, and they’re going to kill the count. They want to kill the count. And I said, And I said, what? This is before the Pewter thing. I said, what do you mean? And so I drive over there, and he says, Sammy Annarino and Pete Cucci. And Pete Cucci came in here, and they came in with shotguns, and they were going to kill them. I said, this was Chicago at the time. It’s hard to believe, but this was Chicago. And I said, who are they? I didn’t know who they were. I said, who are they? I mean, I didn’t know them by name. It turns out I did know them, but I didn’t know them by name. They were people that were always in Greco’s, and everybody in Greco knew me because I’m the owner. [41:49] But anyhow, so I get a hold of Marco, and I said, Marco, and I told him what happened. I said, these guys, a couple of guys come in there looking for the talent. That are going to kill him because apparently he extorted somebody out of his business. And I said, who were they with? And he said, they were with Jimmy the bomber. They were with Jimmy Couture. [42:15] I said, oh, they’re for legit then? I said, yeah. I said, can you call? I said, call Jimmy. I knew who he was. He was at the restaurant all the time. He was at Threatfuls all the time with a lot of these other people. And I met him, but I had no interest in him. He didn’t seem like a very friendly sort of anyone. I could care less about him. I represented a lot of guys that worked for him, that were involved with problems, but never really had a conversation with him other than I. [42:53] I’m the owner. So I met with him. I wrote about that in the book. I met with them and got that straightened out where the count’s going to pay $25,000 and you’ll get a contract to the… He ripped off some guy out of a parlor, one of those massage parlors, not massage parlor, but one of those adult bookstores that were big money deals. Oh, yeah. So when I go to meet these guys, I’m told, go meet them and straighten this thing out. So I took Colin with me over to a motel right down the street from the racetrack, right down from the racetrack, and I met with him. I met with Pete Gucci. He was the boss of, you know, this sort of loop. When I get finished talking with him, I come back, and here’s the count and Sammy, and Sammy’s picking a fork with his finger and saying, you know, I rip out eyes with these. [43:56] And the count says, I rip out eyes with these. And I said, what the fuck is going on here? I said, Pete, I said, you know, get him the fuck out of here. And you all at the count said, what’s the matter with you? You know, these guys are going to kill him. And now the moment I get involved in it, he knows he’s not going to have a problem. You know, he’s pulling this nonsense. [44:23] So anyhow, this is how I meet Pete Gucci and Sammy Annarino. After a while, I stopped hanging around with the count because he was starting to go off the deep end. Yeah. Yeah. [44:39] And we were at a party, a bear party with, I remember Willie Holman was there, and they were mostly black, the black guys up there on the south side. And I had just met this girl a day or two before, and the count says, you know, let’s go up to a party, a bear’s party up there on Lakeshore Drive. If we go up there, we go to this party, it’s going to be about maybe 35, 40 people in there, one or two whites, other than the players. And other than that, we’re the only white people there. When we walk into the place, there’s a couple of guys out there with shotguns. It was in a motel. And you walk through like an area where you go in there, and there’s a couple of guys standing there with shotguns. We go in and we go upstairs and, hey, how are you? And we’re talking with people. And I go in one room. I’m in one room. [45:45] There were two rooms there. I’m in one room with a bunch of people and, you know, just talking and having a good old time. And the count was in the second room. And I hear Spade. He always called me Spade. Spade, Spade, you know. And I go in there, and he’s talking with Willie Holman. I remember it was one of them. He was the tackle, I think, with the Bears and a couple of others. And this whole room, all these black guys. And he goes, that’s Spade Cooley. He says, him and I will take on every one of you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we’re in a room, and he goes, that’s what he says. You know, him and I will take it on every one of you. And Willie did that. He calmed down. He’s telling him, calmed down. What the fuck? It was about a week or so after this. And because I had been out with the county, he’s calling me two or three times a week to go out. And we’re going, a lot of times it was these areas in the south side with a lot of blood. He liked being around Blacks. [47:00] That’s when I met Gail Sayers, and I met some of these others through him. But a lot of the parties and stuff were in the South Side out there, mostly Blacks and all. But we had gone someplace for dinner, and we’re heading back home. We’re heading back to my place, and we’re in his car. He had a brown Cadillac convertible. On the side of it, it had these, you know, the Count Dante press. And he always ran around. He ran around most of the time in these goofy, you know, these goofy outfits with capes and things like that. I’m driving and when we’re talking and I’m like distracted looking at him. And I’m waiting at a stoplight over there right off of Chicago Avenue. And as we’re there. [47:48] I barely touched the car in front of us, you know, as I’m drifting a little bit and barely touch it. There were four guys in the car and, you know, and the one guy jumps out first, one guy jumps out first and then second one, and they start screaming. And when the count gets out, the guy starts calling you, you faggot or something like that, you know, whatever. And as the other one gets out, I get out of the car. And the next thing I know, they jump back in the car, and they run through a red light, and they disappear. Somebody must have recognized them. One of the other people there must have realized who this is that they’re about to get into a little battle with. In fact, they ran the red light. They just ran the red light and disappeared. They come, no, no, no, no, no. And we go off to my apartment and I’m here with this girl, another girl I had just met a day or so before, because I was constantly meeting new people, uh, running around and, uh, we’re sitting on the couch. I’m sitting in the couch next to her and the count, the count was over there. And he suddenly says to her, he says, he says, this is one of the toughest people I’ve ever met. He said, and he says, tell her how tough you are. Tell her how tough you are. [49:10] I said, you know, I said, you know, you know, and he says, tell them how tough you are. And I said, John, you know, and he walks over, And he makes a motion like this towards me. And he barely touched my chin. But I thought he broke it. He then steps back and he goes, I got to cut this hand off. He says, you saved my life. He said, you saved my life. He said, the only two friends I’ve had in the world were my father and you. He says, I wasn’t even that crazy about my mother. That’s when I said then he goes and he stands and I’m looking at it now he stands up against the window I looked up on the 29th floor, he stands by the window he says get your gun he says and I want you to aim it at me, and say now before you pull the trigger and I’ll stop the bullet, I’ll stop the bullet this guy was nuts and I said I said, what? [50:28] He says, before you pull the trigger. [50:36] Tell me before you pull the trigger and I’ll stop the bullet. He wanted me to shoot him. He stopped the bullet. When I got him out of there, Now when he’s calling me, I’m busy. I’m busy. Once in a while, I’d meet him someplace. No more driving or whatever. That was smart. I hadn’t seen him in probably five or six months. And this is, again, after the situation when I had met with Anna Randall and Gooch and the others. I’m up in my office and I get a I get a call from the county, and he said and I hadn’t probably seen him even maybe in a month or two at all and he said, can I come over and talk to you and I was playing cards in fact I had card games up in my office and, we called him Commissioner. [51:41] O’Malley Ray O’Malley, he was the head of the police department at night. On midnights, he got there at 4 to 12. He started at 4 to 12 until midnights. He was the head of them. He was the commissioner. He was in charge of the whole department. He used to play cards up in my office. We had big card games up in my office. And when he’d come up there, we’d have the blue goose parked out in front. We’d have his bodyguard sitting out there by my door. When he was playing in the games. This went on for a couple of years. [52:15] I was at the office, but, you know, I’m at the office playing cards. [52:20] And I had a, it was a big suite. We had, you know, my office was a big office in this suite. We had about six other, you know, big, big suites in there. And so he comes over, he comes over to meet with me. And so I figure he’s in trouble. He’s arrested. He says, I’ve got a situation going. He says, well, you can get a million dollars. And he said, but if I tell you what it is, he says, and you’re in, he said, you got to be in. I’ll tell you what it is. I said, John, if I need money, I said, you get $2 million, then you can loan me if you want, but I don’t want to know what it is. I said, I just don’t want to know what it is. [52:59] It was about a week or two later. It was a pure later, basically. It was a pure later caper. Yeah, guys, this was like the huge, huge. And the one he set it up with was Pete Gucci, the guy that was going to kill him. That was the one who set it up. I knew that. I thought I remembered that name from somewhere. I don’t remember. They ended up getting popped, but everybody got caught, and most of the money got returned. No, no. No bit that the outfit kept, I understand, if I remember right. What was the deal on that? There was more to it than that. Just before that happened, I go up, and Jerry Workman was another lawyer. Actually, he was attorney up in the office, post-rending bank. When I’m going up into the office, I see Pete Gucci there. This is probably a week or so after the situation with the count. Or maybe even a little bit longer than that. I said, Pete, what are you doing? I said, what are you doing here? Jerry Workston’s my lawyer. Oh, okay. [53:55] Okay. He said, I didn’t know you were off here. I said, yeah. I said, Jerry’s a good friend of mine. Okay. And as I’m walking away, he says, you tell your friend the count to stop calling me at two, three in the morning. He says, I got a wife and kids and whatever. And I said to him, I said, Pete, you got no business dealing. I don’t know what it is. I said, but you guys got no business dealing involved in anything. You got no business being involved with him. And I walked away. I see him and I see him as he’s leaving. I see him as he’s leaving and say goodbye to him. Jerry was going to be playing cards. [54:39] It was card night too. Jerry was going to be playing cards in my office because the people would come in usually about 9 o’clock, 9.30 is when the game would usually start. I talked with Jerry. He had been in there for a while. He was arrested a day or two later. The fbi comes in there because he had stashed about 35 000 in jerry’s couch oh really that was his bond money he got that was his bond money if he got to get bailed out to get him bailed out that was his bond money that was there that’s how bizarre so i got involved in so many situations like this but anyhow anyhow now sammy uh, So it’s about maybe a week or two later after this, when I’m in the car driving, I hear they robbed a purulator. The purulator was about a block and a half from my last police station. It was right down the street from the 18th district. That was the place that they robbed. And not long after that, word came out that supposedly a million dollars was dropped off in front of Jimmy the bomber, in front of his place. With Jimmy the bomber, both Sammy Ann Arino and Pete Gucci were under him. They were gunmen from his group. Now I get a call from, I get a count was never, you never heard the count’s name mentioned in there with anybody. [56:07] The guy from Boston, you know, who they indicated, you know, came in to set it up. The count knew him from Boston. The count had some schools in Boston. And this was one of his students. And that’s how he knew this guy from Boston that got caught trying to take a, trying to leave the country with, you know, with a couple thousand, a couple million dollars of the money. Yeah, I read that. It was going down to the Caribbean somewhere and they caught him. And Sammy Ann Arino didn’t get involved in that. He wasn’t involved in that because I think he was back in the prison at the time. [56:44] Now, when he’s out of prison, probably no more than about maybe three or four months after all that toilet stuff had died down, I get a call from Sam, and he wants me to represent him because he was arrested. What happened was he was shot in a car. He was in a car, and he had gotten shot. And when they shot him, he kicked out the window and somehow fought the guys off. When they found him there in the car and in his trunk, they found a hit kit. They said it was a hit kit. How could they know? It was a box that had core form in it, a ski mask, a ski mask, a gun, a gun with tape wrapped around it and the rest of it. Yeah. And he’s an extra time. Mask and tape or little bits of rope and shit like that. I’d say no. So he was charged with it, and he was charged with it in his case, and he had a case coming up. I met him the first time I met him. He came by my office, and he said, you know, and I said, no, that’s not a problem. And he says, but I’ve got to use Eddie Jensen, too. [57:52] And I said, I said, what do you mean? I said, you don’t need Eddie. And he says, I was told I have to use him. Jimmy Couture, his boy, he said, I have to use him. I know why, because Eddie lets these mobsters know whenever anybody’s an informant, or if he’s mad at somebody, he can tell him he’s an informant, they get killed. And so I said, you know, that piece of shit. I said, you know, I want nothing to do with him. I had some interesting run-ins with him before, and I said, I want nothing to do with that worthless piece of shit. You know, he’s a jagoff. And I said, you know, I says, no. He said, please. I said, no. I said, Sammy, you know, you don’t need me. He knows the judge like I know the judge, Sardini. I said, you know, you’re not going to have a problem in there. I get a call from him again, maybe four or five days after that. He’s out of my restaurant and he says, Bob, please. He said, You know, he says, please, can I meet you? He says, I got a problem. I go out to the meeting. And so I thought, there’s something new. I want you to represent me. I want you to represent me, you know, on the case. And I says, did you get rid of that fence? He says, no, I have to use him. But I says, look, I’m not going to, I want, no, Sammy, no, I’m not going to do it. He leaves the restaurant. He gets about a mile and a half away. He gets shotgunned and he gets killed. In fact, I read about that a couple of days ago. [59:22] I know it’s bullshit. They said he was leaving the restaurant. It was Marabelli’s. It was Marabelli’s Furniture Store. They said he was leaving the furniture store. What they did was they stopped traffic out there. They had people on the one side of the street, the other side of the street, and they followed, they chased him. When he got out of his car and was going to the furniture store, They blasted him with shotguns. They made sure he was killed this time. After that happened, it’s about maybe three or four days after that, I’m up in my office and I get a call. All right, when I come out, I always parked in front of City Hall. That was my parking spot. Mike and CM saved my spot. I parked there, or I parked in the bus stop, or in the mayor’s spot. Those were my spots. They saved it for me. I mean, that was it, for three, four, five years. That’s how it was. I didn’t want to wait in line in the parking lot. So my car is parked right in front of the parking lot. And as I go to get in my car, just fast, fast, so walking, because he was at 134 right down the street from my office and he parks like everybody else in the parking lot so he can wait 20 minutes to get his car. [1:00:40] And, and, and Bob, Bob, and, you know, and when I meet up with him, I’m both standing and we’re both standing right there in front of the, in front of the, uh, the parking lot. And he was a big guy. He weighed probably about 280, 290, maybe more. You know, mushy, mushy type, not in good shape at all. In fact, he walked with a gimp or whatever. And he says, you better be careful, he says. Jimmy Couture is furious. He heard what you’ve been saying about me. [1:01:17] You’ve been saying about me. and something’s liable to happen. And I went reserved. I grabbed him, and I threw him up on the wall, and I says, you motherfuckers. I said, my friends are killing your friends. [1:01:34] I said, my friends, because he represented a number of these groups, but I’m with the most powerful group of all. And when I say I’m with him, I’m with him day and night, not like him just as their lawyer. Most of them hated him, too, because most of them knew what he was doing. Yeah most of these and most of these guys hated him and i said you know but i and and i just like you’re kissing his pants and i don’t know if he crapped in his pants too and uh you know because i just turned around i left that same night jimmy katura winds up getting six in the back of the head maybe three miles from where that took place yeah he was uh some kind of trouble been going on for a while. He was a guy who was like in that cop shop racket, and he had been killing some people involved with that. He was kind of like out away from the main crew closer to downtown, is my understanding. Like, you were in who were you in? Who was I talking about? Jimmy Couture? Jimmy Couture, yeah. He was no, Jimmy Couture was Jimmy Couture, in fact, all these killers, we’ll try and stay with this a little bit first. Jimmy Couture was a boss and he had probably about maybe a dozen, maybe more in his crew and, He didn’t get the message, I’m sure. [1:03:01] Eddie Jensen firmly believes, obviously, because it’s the same day and same night when I tell him that my friends are killing your friends. [1:03:14] He’s telling everybody that I had him kill, I’m sure. Yeah, yeah. Because it was about another few days after that when I’m out in Evanston going to a courthouse. And there you had to park down the street because there was no parking lot. Here I hear Eddie, you know, stay. I’m going to say Bob, Bob. And when he gets up, he says, Bob, he says, when I told you, I think you misunderstood. When I told you it was Jimmy Cattrone. it was it was jimmy katron was a lawyer that you know worked in out of his office close friend of mine too he was a good friend of mine it was jimmy it was jimmy katron that you know not because he obviously thought he believed so he’s got all these mobsters too bosses and all the rest thinking that i was involved in that when i when i wasn’t uh when i was when i wasn’t actually But it’s so amazing, Gary. And that’s one of a dozen stories of the same sort. I met unbelievable people. I mean, we’re talking about in New Orleans. We’re talking about in Boston. Now, if you were to say, who were you with? Always somebody’s with somebody. Were you with any particular crew or any particular crew. [1:04:41] Buzz, were you totally independent? [1:04:46] Everybody knew me to be with the Elmwood Park crew. And that was Jackie Cerrone before Michael, I mean, before Johnny DeFranco. That was Jackie Cerrone. Okay. That was Giancana. That was Mo Giancana. Mo was moving at the clubhouse all the time. That was the major people. [1:05:13] And where was their clubhouse? What did they call their clubhouse? Was that the Survivors Clubhouse, or what was the name of their operation? Every group had one, sometimes more clubhouses. Right. That was where they would have card games in there. They’d have all kinds of other things going. the place was full of like in Marcos I call it Marcos but it was actually Jackie Sharon’s when I first got involved Jackie Sharon was the boss who became a good friend of mine, Jackie Sharon was the boss and Johnny DeFranco was, right under him and then a number of others as we go down, our group alone we had. [1:06:04] Minimum, I’d say, a thousand or more people in our group alone. And who knows how many others, because we had control of the sheriff’s office, of the police department, of the sheriff, of the attorney general. We had control of all that through the elections. We controlled all that. So you had 1,000 people. You’re talking about all these different people who we would maybe call associates. It would be in and out of our club all the time. Okay. Yeah. We’re talking a number of policemen, a number of policemen, a number of different politicians of all sorts that we had. I knew dozens of people with no-show jobs there. We had control of all the departments, streets and sanitation, of absolutely urbanizing. We controlled all the way up to the Supreme Court. What about the first ward, Pat Marcy, and the first ward now? Was your crew and Jackie Cerrone’s crew, did that fall into the first ward, or were they totally there? How did that relate, the Pat Marcy and the politicians? And I found out all this over a period of time. [1:07:28] Everything had changed right about the time I first got involved with these people. All these people you’ve read about, no one knows they were still alive. I met just about all of them when I got connected over there with the first word. A lot of the, we were talking about the gunmen themselves. All the Jackie not just Jackie but I’m talking about Milwaukee Phil Milwaukee Phil and all the rest of them they were over there at Councilors Row all the time because when they were to meet Pat Marcy, what they had there in the first war and, It just so happened, when I started in my office, it was with Alan Ackerman, who was at 100 North, where all their offices were upstairs. The first ward office was upstairs. [1:08:22] And below the office, two floors below, I found out on this when I got involved with them, we had an office. looked like it was a vacant office because the windows were all blackened out. That’s where he had all the meetings with people. When Arcado or Yupa, anybody else, any of the other people came in, this is where he met them. When the people from out of town came in, we’re talking about when, what do you think? [1:08:58] But when Alpha, when Fitzgerald, when all these people would come in, this is where they would have their meetings. Or these are the ones who would be out with us on these casino rides. When these people came in, this is where they would do the real talking because we’d go to different restaurants that weren’t bugged. If this office was checked every day, the one that they had down below, and nobody, nobody, their office was, I think it was on the 28th floor, the first ward office. You had the first ward office, and right next to it, you had the insurance office when everybody had to buy their insurance. Obviously at upper rates big office connected to the first ward office when the back there’s a door that goes right into into theirs but the people were told you never get off or you get off you get off at the office floor but then you you walk you you get off it and i’m sorry you get off it at the. [1:10:11] You don’t get off at the first ward office you get off at one of the other offices one of the other offices or the other floors and when you come in there, then you’ll be taken someplace else after that a double shop that’s where they would go and in fact when I had to talk to Petter Cary messages or whatever people like Marco couldn’t talk to Marcy. [1:10:41] Only a few people could. Only people at the very top level could. Marco, he was a major boss. He could not talk to Marco. If he needed, you know, whatever. Marco D’Amico. Marco was, you had, Marco was the one right under Johnny DeFonza. Yeah. Marco’s the one that was in charge. He was the one who was in charge of all the gambling. Not just in Chicago, but around all those areas in Cook County. We had not just Chicago. They were also the ones that were in charge of all the street tax, collecting all the street tax. That’s where the big, big money was also. Everybody paid. What happened was in the 70s, right as I got involved

Kalėdų laikotarpiu Lietuvoje noriai valgomi ne tik lietuviški skanėstai, bet ir svečių šalių – pavyzdžiui itališkas pyragas, vadinamas „panettone“. Kodėl jis toks populiarus mūsų šalyje? Ir kaip išsirinkti gerą? Studijoje virtuvės šefas Gian Luca Demarco.Ved. Agnė Skamarakaitė.

Imagina al hombre más poderoso de su tiempo recordándose, en secreto, lo esencial: no controlas lo que pasa, pero sí tu juicio y tu conducta. Este episodio destila Meditaciones en 10 recordatorios que bajan el ruido y suben la claridad: anticipa lo difícil, haz lo que toca ahora, elige la virtud sobre la opinión, abraza el cambio, habita el presente, sé roca ante las olas, sirve al conjunto, recuerda la finitud y entiende la disciplina como libertad. No hay mística: hay práctica.Aquí te llevas imágenes que se quedan pegadas y te cambian el día: la bañera donde nada es personal, el pan que se agrieta y es más bello por ello, el ritual de amanecer para blindar la cabeza y una tarjeta en el bolsillo con una sola pregunta: “¿Qué depende de mí ahora?”. Si convertir WhatsApp en entrenamiento estoico, una reunión tensa en claridad y una semana común en serenidad te intriga, este resumen te va a gustar.Conviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/grandes-aprendizajes--5720587/support.Newsletter Marketing Radical: https://marketingradical.substack.com/welcomeNewsletter Negocios con IA: https://negociosconia.substack.com/welcomeLibro "Libertad Financiera" Gratis: https://borjagiron.com/libertadMis Libros: https://borjagiron.com/librosSysteme Gratis: https://borjagiron.com/systemeSysteme 30% dto: https://borjagiron.com/systeme30Manychat Gratis: https://borjagiron.com/manychatMetricool 30 días Gratis Plan Premium (Usa cupón BORJA30): https://borjagiron.com/metricoolNoticias Redes Sociales: https://redessocialeshoy.comNoticias IA: https://inteligenciaartificialhoy.comClub: https://triunfers.comThis content is under Fair Use: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act in 1976; Allowance is made for "Fair Use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. I do not own the original content. All rights and credit go to its rightful owners. No copyright infringement intended.

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Hablando de su bioserie, #Marisela confirmó que "tocará algunos botoncitos", porque aunque hablará solamente de su vida, siempre ha estado rodeada de famosos; sin embargo, cree que si uno es inteligente, no le afectará nadaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Patrick and Greg are back to discuss two things: College Football and John Cena's Last Match! It works, because John Cena played college football...Greg and Patrick are together on a Tuesday, and it's time to talk...college football?The committee did their thing and we have the 12-team field set for the College Football Playoff!Let's talk about Miami, Notre Dame, Alabama, and even Vanderbilt, Texas, and BYU!Greg fixes the entire playoff with one truly out-of-the box idea that....well it just makes sense!John Cena's final opponent is Gunther, and boy does the internet have opinions! What do we think?And it's time for THE LIST ...of Final Opponents for John Cena!And much more!Follow the #GDMS crew on Social Media@WrestlngRealist@TheHashtagMiranda (she still counts!)@GregDeMarco44@ChairshotMediaListen on your favorite platform!iTunes | iHeart Radio | Google Play | SpotifyListen, like, subscribe, and share!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/chairshot-radio-network/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

durée : 00:36:05 - Jean Baptiste Jalabert, la belle vie de Marco Perez, étoile qui file Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.

It's time for ...college football! Patrick and Greg delay the wrestling talk and talk about the wild world of college ball on this episode!Greg and Patrick are together on a Tuesday, and it's time to talk...college football?The penultimate (there's that word again) CFP Rankings are out--let's discuss!(No, we didn't use a line about the CFP being more fixed than wrestling, but we should have!)The coaching carousel, the future, and more!WARGAMES! (And why much of the criticism is unwarranted)And much more!Follow the #GDMS crew on Social Media@WrestlngRealist@TheHashtagMiranda (she still counts!)@GregDeMarco44@ChairshotMediaListen on your favorite platform!iTunes | iHeart Radio | Google Play | SpotifyListen, like, subscribe, and share!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/chairshot-radio-network/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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durée : 00:08:35 - Les "Nocturnes Bibliques" de Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti par Élodie Brzustowski - Focus sur la guitare romantique d'Elodie Brzustowski qui dévoile son prochain album "Paris-Bruxelles 1830" à paraître en janvier 2026 (Paraty). Elle nous raconte comment cet instrument singulier révèle une palette sonore oubliée. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.

Former Geneva football coach Geno DeMarco joins the show to talk about his career, what it was like coaching in Division-III, how rewarding his job has been, how he changed as a coach over the years, what's it been like impacting the lives of so many people, and much more!

Hour 2: Jim once threw something at a TV in the newsroom. Jim has a soft spot for Mason Rudolph. And former Geneva football coach Geno DeMarco joins the show to reflect on his career.

Estaba leyendo "Meditaciones" porque también no voy a entender a los bros pseudo estoicos si nada más veo YouTube, me costó trabajo como a la mitad y se me recomendó el libro de Pictoline ilustrado "Meditaciones de Gato Aurelio", para después ver todas las ideas de Marco Aurelio aplicadas al mundo real. Recomiendo que leen estos dos en combo. Conoce más de Mezclas Abruptas: En el DJ booth y en este podcast Susana Medina selecciona temas de manera minuciosa y los pone sobre la mesa abruptamente. En este podcast aprenderás de pizza, perros, música, salud mental, ilustración, alpinismo y una serie de nuevas obsesiones y fascinaciones que en algún momento te servirán de algo. @mezclasabruptas  https://www.instagram.com/mezclasabruptas/ https://twitter.com/mezclasabruptas  https://www.tiktok.com/@mezclasabruptas  YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MezclasAbruptas @suzyain https://www.instagram.com/suzyrain  https://twitter.com/suzyrain  https://www.tiktok.com/@suzyrain  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time for WAR...WARGAMES! Who should win, who will win? Plus, a War Games impromptu List!Greg and Patrick are together on a Tuesday, and it's time to talk wrestling!WARGAMES!It's WWE Survivor Series prediction time - Who Should Win? Who Will Win? We gotta ask Patrick...Hey, Why You Mad, Bro?Plus, The Impromptu List about War Games!And much more!Follow the #GDMS crew on Social Media@WrestlngRealist@TheHashtagMiranda (she still counts!)@GregDeMarco44@ChairshotMediaListen on your favorite platform!iTunes | iHeart Radio | Google Play | SpotifyListen, like, subscribe, and share!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/chairshot-radio-network/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

#realconversations #divorce #trauma #BackStreetBoys#certifiedlifecoach #resilience #narcissisticabuse #jerseyshoreCONVERSATIONS WITH CALVIN WE THE SPECIESMeet SAMANTHA (SAMMIE) DE MARCO: “Just flashed in front. Ascene from Forest Gump. “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know whatyou're going to get.” Relevancy? Sammie De Marco. I didn't really know what toexpect. I did my journalistic diligence. What I found is an amazing, grounded,poignant woman, warmly, broadly smiling, but having lived through narcissisticabuse, sexual assault, trauma, divorce, and the difficult loss of her mom.Sammie took this interview on a resilience journey. I learned a lot from andabout her. She's writing a book and is poised to become a certified life coachin practice. Her message resonated like her engaging persona. And carefully woveninto our interview is nostalgia and 90's boyband concerts (Backstreet Boys).This nostalgia helps her balance the weight of trauma and grief. Commonalityabounds. Jersey shore. Dogs. Divorce. Powerful stuff as is Sammie and her wayof inspiring.” Calvinhttps://www.youtube.com/c/ConversationswithCalvinWetheSpecIEs644 Interviews/Videos  9200 SUBSCRIBERSGLOBAL Reach. Earth Life. Amazing People.  PLEASE SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT**SAMANTHA (SAMMIE) DE MARCO; Certified Life Coach; Nostalgia,Resilience, Power of Self Love, Trauma to Transformation; LIVE from Florida.YouTube:BIO: At 40 years old, I still feel like a teenager atheart—especially when I'm front row at a 90s boyband concert, VIP pass in hand,reliving the music and memories that shaped me. Nostalgia isn't just a hobbyfor me; it's healing. Whether I'm at a Backstreet Boys show or a 90sconvention, I find joy in reconnecting with the best parts of my childhood andbringing that positivity into my adult life.But my story isn't just about concerts and meet-and-greets.I've faced my share of hardships—trauma at different stages; betweennarcissistic abuse, sexual assault, religious trauma, the devastating loss ofmy mom 5 years ago, and now, navigating a painful divorce from the person Ionce considered my forever, I have had to learn how to be resilient. Losing mymom was a defining moment that split my life in two: before and after. She wasmy rock, my best friend, and the person who taught me that strength isn't aboutavoiding pain—it's about finding joy despite it.I wasn't always that person. Anxiety ruled my life foryears, but through loss, I've learned how to hold space for both grief and joy.I now live by the belief that while we can't control the hardships life throwsour way, we can absolutely choose to create more of the good. For me, thatmeans dancing, cheering, soaking in all things 90s, and sharing my story in thehopes that it helps someone else feel less alone.I'm passionate about normalizing conversations around mentalhealth and personal resilience. As a certified life coach with training inmindset shifting techniques, I know firsthand how powerful it is to reframe ourstruggles and take ownership of our happiness. While I'm not currently runninga coaching business, it's a dream I plan to build—because our stories, nomatter how messy, have the power to inspire.No matter what it is that I do, I bring my full self:nostalgic fangirl, survivor, and someone who believes in turning pain intopurpose.**LINKS  https://www.instagram.com/sammierose1010https://www.tiktok.com/sammierose1010**WE ARE ALSO ON AUDIOAUDIO “Conversations with Calvin; WE the SpecIEs”ANCHOR https://lnkd.in/g4jcUPqSPOTIFY https://lnkd.in/ghuMFeCAPPLE PODCASTSBREAKER https://lnkd.in/g62StzJGOOGLE PODCASTS https://lnkd.in/gpd3XfMPOCKET CASTS https://pca.st/bmjmzaitRADIO PUBLIC https://lnkd.in/gxueFZw 

Episodio 850 de Contralínea En Vivo conducido por Aníbal García: -Ofensiva de Trump: estrategia del caos limitado y “lista de Marco”- Transmisión 23 de mayo de 2025 CONTRALÍNEA EN VIVO se transmite de lunes a viernes a partir de las 10:00hrs (hora del centro de México) a través de Facebook live, YouTube y Telegram. La MESA DE ECONOMÍA POLÍTICA se trasmite todos los lunes a partir de las 14:00hrs. Nuestro programa de análisis, AMÉRICA INSUMISA, se trasmite los martes a partir de las 14hrs. AGENDA DE SEGURIDAD NACIONAL es los miércoles a partir de las 14:00hrs Estamos en Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Whatsapp y Telegram como Contralínea. Escúchanos en Spotify, Apple Podcast e Ivoox como Contralínea Audio.

Bob DeMarco digs into his collection and pulls out 11 of his biggest Cold Steel fixed blade knives in Episode 642 of The Knife Junkie Podcast. From the 30-year-old Trailmaster that remains his number one recommendation to the Cinquedea that he shadow boxes with, each knife gets the spotlight it deserves.The episode kicks off with a stacked pocket check featuring the North Mountain BBMN, Jack Wolf Knives Gateway Barlow, TKell Agent 001, and APOC Survival Waning Moon Yatagan. DeMarco also reveals the Gentleman Junkie giveaway knives for November (a TKell Agent 001) and December (a Gunfighter Customs Gunfighter).Knife Life News covers the RoseCraft Blades Cumberland River Coke Bottle Jack, the Kizer Topsail collaboration with Jonathan Styles, a limited Winkler and Dead Air Silencers battle axe, and a sobering look at knife turn-in boxes in the UK. The First Tool segment tells the story of the Randall Model #1, the handmade fighting knife that soldiers carried through World War II and Vietnam.State of the Collection highlights include the new Jack Wolf Knives Gateway Equal End slip joint, a Fenix LD30 flashlight, and an Opinel folding vegetable peeler that DeMarco could not resist. Then came the big Cold Steel fixed blades: Trailmaster Bowie, Laredo Bowie, Tanto XII, Jimmy Slash Competition Chopper, Wild West Bowie, Rondel Dagger, 1917 Frontier Bowie, Chieftain's Seax, Natchez Bowie, Chaos Kukri, and Cinquedea.Find the list of all the knives shown in the show and links to the Knife Life news stories at https://theknifejunkie.com/642. Support the Knife Junkie channel with your next knife purchase. Find our affiliate links at https://theknifejunkie.com/knives. You can also support The Knife Junkie and get in on the perks of being a patron, including early access to the podcast and exclusive bonus content. Visit https://www.theknifejunkie.com/patreon for details. Let us know what you thought about this episode and leave a rating and/or a review. Your feedback is appreciated. You can also email theknifejunkie@gmail.com with any comments, feedback, or suggestions. To watch or listen to past episodes of the podcast, visit https://theknifejunkie.com/listen. And for professional podcast hosting, use our podcast platform of choice: https://theknifejunkie.com/podhost.

Bestselling author and award-winning podcaster Barbara DeMarco-Barrett spoke with me about producing 20+ years of Writers on Writing, why writers don't retire, and her debut noir short story collection POOL FISHING. Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's first book Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within, was an Los Angeles Times bestseller and honored with an American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Book Award. Her latest book of short stories, Pool Fishing, is “... centered around deviant women …. in a world with characters who live on the fringes of society-physically, psychologically, or financially”.  Barbara DeMarco-Barrett is creator, executive producer, and host of the award-winning podcast, Writers on Writing, where she interviews authors, agents, and poets. She taught at the UC-Irvine Extension, where she received a Distinguished Instructors award, and is professor of creative writing at Saddleback College's Emeritus Institute and lecturer at Chapman University. Her fiction and poetry have been published in Coolest American Stories 2022, CrimeReads, Dark City Crime & Magazine, Serial Magazine, Beach Reads, among others. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her short story, “Rowboat,” in Kelp Journal (Dec. 2023). Her essays and articles have also been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Orange Coast Magazine, Westways, The Los Angeles Times, Writer's Digest, and Poets & Writers and many others. [Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and I discussed: Writing Pen on Fire early in her career Why she feeds off of the energy of the writing community How to write a noir short story Hanging out with Raymond Chandler in Beverly Hills Why you need to quit the negative self talk and be a good literary citizen And a lot more! Show Notes: barbarademarcobarrett.com  Writers on Writing podcast Pool Fishing: Stories by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett (Amazon)  Barbara DeMarco-Barrett on Facebook Barbara DeMarco-Barrett on Instagram Barbara DeMarco-Barrett on Twitter Kelton Reid Instagram Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Episode 639 of The Knife Junkie Podcast, host Bob DeMarco sits down with martial artist and media producer Paulo Rubio to discuss practical training methods, knife design philosophy, and the reality of self-defense situations. Rubio, formerly known for his work with Funker Tactical, shares his transformation from documenting martial arts masters around the world to becoming a dedicated instructor himself.The conversation covers Rubio's approach to creating training drills, including his innovative reverse blink drill that tests reactions in fractions of a second. Based on research showing that knife thrusts occur in just 0.14 seconds, this drill reveals what your body actually does under extreme pressure, rather than what you think it should do. Rubio explains his philosophy of creating hundreds of drills and discarding most of them, encouraging students to develop their own training methods based on honest self-assessment of their weaknesses.DeMarco and Rubio discuss the complexity of real defensive scenarios, including split-second decision-making when multiple people might enter a violent situation. Rubio shares insights from his years of learning from masters across every fighting discipline, explaining how he alchemized that knowledge into teachable skills. The episode also explores knife selection and design, with Rubio advocating for simple, functional tools rather than Frankenstein blades trying to solve every problem at once.Whether you train in Filipino martial arts, study knife techniques, or want to understand practical self-defense from someone who has learned from the best and tested it all himself, this episode offers valuable perspectives on training, teaching, and the honest assessment of what actually works when it matters most.Listen to Episode 639 at www.theknifejunkie.com/639. Find Paulo Rubio online at www.paulorubio.com and follow him on Instagram at @gn_funkertactical for training videos, drills, and honest commentary on martial arts.Be sure to support The Knife Junkie and get in on the perks of being a patron, including early access to the podcast and exclusive bonus content. Visit https://www.theknifejunkie.com/patreon for details. You can also support The Knife Junkie channel with your next knife purchase. Find our affiliate links at https://theknifejunkie.com/knives.Let us know what you thought about this episode, and leave a rating and a review. We value your feedback. You can also email theknifejunkie@gmail.com with any comments, feedback, or suggestions.To watch or listen to past episodes of the podcast, visit https://theknifejunkie.com/listen. And for professional podcast hosting, use our podcast platform of choice: https://theknifejunkie.com/podhost.

Old Dominion Hall of Famer Thomas DeMarco joins The Monarchists Podcast to take a trip down memory lane — from his recruitment to ODU's first-ever football team, to that unforgettable first touchdown, comeback wins, the bond among the original Monarchs, and his post-football life.DeMarco opens up about the challenges of starting a brand-new program, his time in the CFL, lessons learned as a student-athlete, and how those experiences shaped his life and career today. It's a funny, heartfelt, and inspiring conversation about leadership, loyalty, and the early days of Old Dominion football.

Two women. Two cities. Two tragedies that never made national headlines. Rosetta Jean-Baptiste was found dead in Ramsey in 1993; Michelle Lynn Howard's body was discovered in Atlantic City almost a decade later. Today, I shed light on their stories, the mysterious circumstances of their deaths, and why their unsolved murders still matter.If anyone has any information about Rosetta Jean-Baptiste's murder, you are urged to call the Bergen County Cold Case Unit at 201-646-2300 or at 201-642-5962. You can also email them at coldcaseunit@bcpo.net.Anyone with information about the murder of Michelle Howard is asked to call the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office at 609-909-7800, or you can submit a tip at their website www.acpo.org/tips. You can also call Crime Stoppers at 609-652-1234 or 1-800-658-8477 or go to their website www.crimestoppersatlantic.comConnect with us on Social Media!You can find us at:Instagram: @bookofthedeadpodX: @bkofthedeadpodFacebook: The Book of the Dead PodcastTikTok: BookofthedeadpodOr visit our website at www.botdpod.comFeaturing a promo for Autumn's Oddities:If it's creepy and weird, you'll find it here! This is a podcast for the strange and unusual, made by the strange and unusual.Accept no substitutes!Listen hereDavis, E. (2020, November 30). Atlantic County prosecutor asks for help with 19-year old murder case. WPG Talk Radio 95.5 FM. https://wpgtalkradio.com/atlantic-county-prosecutor-asks-for-help-with-19-year-old-murder-case/DeMarco, J. (2021, August 7). COLD CASE: Killer Of Rockland Teen In Notorious Bergen Motel Got Away, Is He Around Today? Daily Voice. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/mahwah/news/cold-case-killer-of-rockland-teen-in-notorious-bergen-motel-got-away-is-he-around-today/814120/McAleer, P. (2001a, November 29). “I just want them. . . caught,” victim's brother says. Press of Atlantic City, C1–C6.McAleer, P. (2001b, December 28). A.C. woman's slaying remains a mystery. Press of Atlantic City, C1.Miranda, C. O. (n.d.). Haiti and the United States during the 1980s and 1990s: refugees, immigration, and foreign policy. Digital USD. https://digital.sandiego.edu/sdlr/vol32/iss3/2/Murdered: Michelle Howard | Atlantic City, NJ | Uncovered. (n.d.). https://uncovered.com/cases/michelle-howard#timelineNew Jersey officials issue new plea for information in 2001 murder of Michelle Howard. (2020, November 30). NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/daughter-fights-justice-19-years-after-mother-was-murdered-body-n1249187Press Staff Reports. (2001, November 28). Police ID woman found dead in Mizpah. Press of Atlantic City, C4.ROSETTA JEAN-BAPTISTE HOMICIDE. (n.d.). In Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. https://www.bcpo.net/rosetta-jean-baptiste/Rosette Jean-Baptiste (1975-1993) - Find a grave. . . (1975, June 22). https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158700874/rosette-jean-baptisteSamuels, M. (2021, August 6). Surveillance Video Released In 'Cold Blooded' Teaneck Killing. Teaneck, NJ Patch. https://patch.com/new-jersey/teaneck/surveillance-video-released-cold-blooded-2010-teaneck-murderTowner, C., & Towner, C. (2025, February 25). Rosette Jean-Baptiste killed in Ramsey New Jersey - City Towner. City Towner - Travel, History & True Crime Blog. https://citytowner.com/rosette-jean-baptiste-ramsey-nj/If you enjoyed the episode, consider leaving a review or rating! It helps more than you know! If you have a case suggestion, or want attention brought to a loved one's case, email me at bookofthedeadpod@gmail.com with Case Suggestion in the subject line.Stay safe, stay curious, and stay vigilant.

Hour 2 of The Plank Show with Chris Plank and Blake Gamble includes audio from DeMarco Murray - OU Running Backs coach on the status of his position group as the Sooners get ready to face the Tennessee Volunteers.

On The Kenny & JT Show we're joined by Northwest head football coach John Demarco. The Indians begin their playoff run at home against the Salem Quakers. We'll stream the game live on whbcsports.com

Seth Rollins has to forfeit another championship, The List is back, a soundbite returns, and a brand new segment debuts!Greg and Patrick are together on a Tuesday, and it's time to talk wrestling!Seth Rollins has to vacate the world championship--again!WWE did what they did, and apparently Greg doesn't love it.It's time to ask...Hey, Why You Mad, Bro?Do we just blindly believe that Dave Meltzer can randomly get sources inside ESPN?Injury Riddled Wrestlers--You Just Made The List!And much more!Follow the #GDMS crew on Social Media@WrestlngRealist@TheHashtagMiranda (she still counts!)@GregDeMarco44@ChairshotMediaListen on your favorite platform!iTunes | iHeart Radio | Google Play | SpotifyListen, like, subscribe, and share!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/chairshot-radio-network/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Patrick and Greg are back to talk about the shocking turn on Raw as The Bron Breakker Experiment is in full effect in WWE!Greg and Patrick are together on a Tuesday, and it's time to talk wrestling!WWE Crown Jewel from Perth exceeds expectations--and follows our predictions!The Vision marches on without Seth Rollins!The Bron Breakker Experiment is in full swing in WWE!What would Greg do if the World Heavyweight Championship is vacated?TNA Bound For Glory sets records!No, TNA is not the #2 promotion in America...yet.And much more!Follow the #GDMS crew on Social Media@WrestlngRealist@TheHashtagMiranda (she still counts!)@GregDeMarco44@ChairshotMediaListen on your favorite platform!iTunes | iHeart Radio | Google Play | SpotifyListen, like, subscribe, and share!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/chairshot-radio-network/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Host Richie Tevlin and Co-Host Evan Blum talk with Dane DeMarco, James Beard Award semi-finalist and owner of Gass & Main. Dane began their career at American Sardine Bar and Second District Brewing, where they paired exceptional food with great beer as Executive Chef. They are now launching Hank's Sandwich Co. & Snack Shack, a new concept in Fishtown, PA, in partnership with the legendary Forest & Main Brewing.   @SnackShack Details - New Space Fishtown @GassandMain https://gassandmain.com/ _____________________________________________ THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR:   The Beer Accountant: https://www.paddymaccpa.com/brewerysolutions Email: pmcdonald@paddymaccpa.com 267-566-4077 - Patrick McDonald - Licensed CPA _______________________________________ EPISODE NOTES: Mentioned Breweries Second District Brewing - Philadelphia, PA Forest & Main Brewing - Epi 17 - Ambler, PA Mentioned People Tim Kirkland - Chef at Second District Brewing Anne Marie "Ree" Drummond - American Author & Chef Martha Stewart - American Chef Daniel Endicott - Epi 17 - Co-Owner of Forest & Main Brewing Jared Olson - Co-Owner of Forest & Main Ben Potts - Former Brewer at Second District Brewing Steph Gable Guy Fieri Peter Breslow - Philadelphia PR  Mentioned Businesses Snack Shack - New Forest & Main / Gass & Main Fishtown Concept Cheu Fishtown & Bing Bing Dim Sum - Closed 2024 Gass & Main - James Beard Restaurant in New Jersey  American Sardine Bar - Craft Beer Bar Katano's - Big Cheesesteak Place Snake River Farms - Waygu Producer Bad Nina's Hotdogs - Philly Hot Dog Truck Portillo's - Hot dog in Chicago The International Bar - Philly Bar _______________________________________ What We Drank? Alegator NEIPA | 6.4%  Space Cadet Brewing Co _______________________________________ STAY CONNECTED: Instagram: ⁠⁠@brewedat⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠@thebrewedatpodcast⁠⁠ Tik Tok: ⁠⁠@brewedat ⁠⁠/ ⁠⁠@thebrewedatpodcast⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠@brewedat⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠@thebrewedatpodcast⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠BrewedAt Website: ⁠⁠www.brewedat.com  

Neste episódio do PodDelas, Tata recebe De Marco, Laura Furlan e Aldo Luiz para um papo sobre o dia a dia da Receita Federal nos aeroportos, os bastidores da série “Aeroporto: Área Restrita” e os casos mais curiosos e virais que você viu na TV e nas redes sociais! Uma conversa de histórias surpreendentes de apreensões e operações que marcaram a série e que viralizaram na internet. E, claro, mostrando como os profissionais enfrentam situações inusitadas e desafiadoras e que se tornaram queridos na internet. Se inscreva no canal para não perder nenhum episódio do PodDelas! #PodDelas #AeroportoÁreaRestrita #ReceitaFederal #Viral #Curiosidades #DeMarco #LauraFreitas #LauraFurlan #AldoLuiz

Get your WWE Crown Jewel predictions, but first we talk about WWE-to-AEW moves, gloves in wrestling, Greg Valentine, and more!Greg and Patrick are together on a Tuesday, and it's time to talk wrestling!Patrick is podcasting from the moon!Andrade went back to AEW, and boy did people have opinions!A trade to allow Edge to wrestle John Cena in December?And, of course - WWE Crown Jewel - Who Should Win? Who Will Win?And much more!Follow the #GDMS crew on Social Media@WrestlngRealist@TheHashtagMiranda (she still counts!)@GregDeMarco44@ChairshotMediaListen on your favorite platform!iTunes | iHeart Radio | Google Play | SpotifyListen, like, subscribe, and share!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/chairshot-radio-network/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On The Kenny & JT Show we're joined by Northwest head football coach John Demarco. The Indians will host the Tuslaw Mustangs Friday night on 1480 WHBC and Mix 94.1.

What would change in your business if you treated time as your most valuable commodity and priced every hour accordingly? In this episode of the Real Estate Excellence Podcast, Tracy Hayes sits down with luxury agent and team leader Gail DeMarco. Gail drops the polite filter and lays out how she built a near billion in lifetime sales by staying lean, obsessing over data, and designing a brand that shows up everywhere. From four open houses every weekend to hyper-focused farming and YouTube consistency, she explains exactly how she creates momentum in new markets and turns listings into market share. The conversation digs into hiring for coachability, running a tight listing operation, delegating fast, and engineering deals with assumable loans and lender-powered rate buydowns. It is an unvarnished masterclass on standards, time discipline, and creative structure in a tough market, capped with faith-driven leadership and straight talk on saying no to bad fits. If this episode pushed you to tighten your standards and reclaim your calendar, share it with one agent who needs a wake-up call and DM us the one change you will make this week.   Highlights: 0:00-5:59 Numbers that make you sit up Why she is in the business of real estate not just a realtor Team goal: everyone should out-earn the leader 2023 production 389M team, 80M personal Lean teams beat big teams, people get lost Expect scar tissue and weekly tears on the climb 10:00-13:00 Branding that actually moves property Name recognition as the north star, top of mind wins listings Premium signage and consistent open house experience Compliance first, even with team branding Treat 450k and multi-million the same, remove ego Hospitality touches: Fiji water, booklets, consistency 15:51-19:59 Mailers metrics and momentum Four-page data-driven mailers co-op with lender Pull the plug when the farm does not pencil, like a stock Proof of everywhere affects community recognition Give to the community and spend to make money YouTube surge from 400 to 67k with consistency 20:20-22:20 Hyper-focus and the price of time Farm a few micro-markets deeply Co-list luxury so you can be everywhere the listing needs Signs concentrate perception: you sell everything here Time is the most valuable commodity, price your hours If it is not on calendar, it is a no, including Pilates conflicts 52:20-1:00:37 Delegate to elevate and operational excellence If it is not income producing, do not do it Pay a premium TC to keep you out of real estate jail Contact sport: get off the modules and host more opens Role play Breakfast Club for objections When to spend three hundred monthly or get a part-time job 1:01:48-1:07:14 Creative deals, lenders, and the close Advertise payment, not price: buydowns beat reductions Assumable loans open doors with patience on closing Competing with builders: incentives and differentiation Say no to listings that cannot appraise or perform Closeout lender love and episode wrap   Quotes: “I am not a realtor I am in the business of real estate.” – Gail DeMarco “I want everyone on my team to make more money than me that is my goal.” – Gail DeMarco “Your most valuable commodity is your time.” – Gail DeMarco “You have to delegate to elevate.” – Gail DeMarco   To contact Gail DeMarco, learn more about her business, and make her a part of your network, make sure to follow her on her Website, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, and LinkedIn.   Connect with Gail DeMarco! Website: https://www.movetostjohnsfl.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/relentlessrealtor/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gail.d.demarco/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LivinginStJohnsStJohnsCountyFL LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaildemarco/   Connect with me! Website: toprealtorjacksonville.com   Website: toprealtorstaugustine.com    SUBSCRIBE & LEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW as we discuss real estate excellence with the best of the best.   #RealEstateExcellence #GailDeMarco #LuxuryRealEstate #ListingAgent #RealEstateBranding #OpenHouses #YouTubeForAgents #RealEstateCoach #TimeManagement #DelegateToElevate #AssumableLoans #RateBuydown #LenderPartner #FarmingStrategy #MailersThatWork #PonteVedra #Rivertown #Over55Communities #eXpRealty #RealEstateMindset

It's Greg's least favorite day of the year! Listen for the PWI500, WWE WrestlePalooza, AEW All Out, Mickie James, and more!Greg and Patrick are together on a Tuesday, and it's time to talk wrestling!WrestlePalooza is in the books as WWE debuts on ESPN!AEW stars don't care about "counter programming," and they shouldn't!It's Greg's least favorite day, the PWI500!WWE Crown Jewel is shaping up nicely!WrestleMania 42 ticket prices are out, and you should watch it from home anyway!Welcome to the (TNA) Hall Of Fame, Mickie James!And much more!Follow the #GDMS crew on Social Media@WrestlngRealist@TheHashtagMiranda (she still counts!)@GregDeMarco44@ChairshotMediaListen on your favorite platform!iTunes | iHeart Radio | Google Play | SpotifyListen, like, subscribe, and share!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/chairshot-radio-network/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Patrick O'Dowd goes to WWE Raw, and Greg wants to talk about it! Plus WrestleMania heads to Saudi Arabia???Greg and Patrick are together on a Tuesday, and it's time to talk wrestling!RAW IS PAT! Patrick O'Dowd went to WWE Raw in Springfield, and it's time to talk about it!Greg worries about the dumbest things, lol...Patrick also notices some nuances about being at a live Raw.Plus, WWE is taking WrestleMania to Saudi Arabia!And much more!Follow the #GDMS crew on Social Media@WrestlngRealist@TheHashtagMiranda (she still counts!)@GregDeMarco44@ChairshotMediaListen on your favorite platform!iTunes | iHeart Radio | Google Play | SpotifyListen, like, subscribe, and share!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/chairshot-radio-network/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join Bob DeMarco for an in-depth look at the fixed blade knives of Hogtooth Knives in Episode 626 of The Knife Junkie Podcast. This comprehensive episode covers everything from daily carry tantos to custom Damascus fighters, showing why Matt Chase has become one of America's most respected knife makers.DeMarco shares personal stories about each knife in his Hogtooth collection, including a commissioned Bowie that pays homage to Bill Bagwell's fighting knives and a sub-hilt fighter inspired by Bob Loveless designs. Learn about the NoVA collaboration series that brought limited edition knives to Knife Junkie fans, and hear the incredible story of how one of these designs saved an American serviceman's life in combat.The episode also covers the latest knife releases from Demko, Sencut, Bestech, and We Knife Company, plus a fascinating history of the balisong butterfly knife in "The First Tool" section.Whether you're interested in production knives or custom pieces, this episode shows why quality fixed blades deserve a place in every collection.Bob's passion for these knives shines through as he explains the craftsmanship, materials, and design philosophy that makes Hogtooth Knives special. From 154CM steel work knives to Damascus heirloom pieces, this episode covers the full range of what's possible when a master craftsman combines traditional skills with modern techniques.Find the list of all the knives shown in the show and links to the Knife Life news stories at https://theknifejunkie.com/626.Support the Knife Junkie channel with your next knife purchase. Find our affiliate links at https://theknifejunkie.com/knives. You can also support The Knife Junkie and get in on the perks of being a patron, including early access to the podcast and exclusive bonus content. Visit https://www.theknifejunkie.com/patreon for details.Let us know what you thought about this episode and leave a rating and/or a review. Your feedback is appreciated. You can also email theknifejunkie@gmail.com with any comments, feedback, or suggestions.To watch or listen to past episodes of the podcast, visit https://theknifejunkie.com/listen. And for professional podcast hosting, use our podcast platform of choice: https://theknifejunkie.com/podhost.

Today, the microphone turns on Writers on Writing founder and host Barbara DeMarco-Barrett. She joins Marrie Stone to talk about her latest story collection, Pool Fishing. Barbara's venture into noir fiction began with the short story, “Crazy for You,” originally published in Akashic Book's, Orange County Noir, later included in USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series. She's also the editor and contributor to Palm Springs Noir (Akashic) and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her short story, “Rowboat,” in Kelp Journal (Dec. 2023). Both “Crazy for You” and “Rowboat” appear in her latest collection. Barbara's fiction and poetry have been published extensively, including in Coolest American Stories 2022, CrimeReads, Dark City Crime & Magazine and elsewhere. Her first book, Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within, was a Los Angeles Times best-seller and honored with an American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Book Award. She's taught creative writing at various colleges for decades. All that means she has much to teach us, and tell us, about the creative process. She joins Marrie to talk about the creative germ for many of these 15 stories, why setting is so critical in noir, the attributes she believes necessary to make a successful writer, why she's such an advocate for small presses, and so much more. Barbara will be appearing at Arvida Books in Tustin on Friday, September 19th, at 6pm (with Maddie Margarita) and Knoll's in Laguna Niguel on Sunday, September 21, at 7pm (with Marrie Stone). For more information, check out her website here. For more information on Writers on Writing and to become a supporter, visit our Patreon page. For a one-time donation, visit Ko-fi. You can find hundreds of past interviews on our website. You can help out the show and indie bookstores by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. It's stocked with titles by our guest authors, as well as our personal favorites. And on Spotify, you'll find an album's worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. It's perfect for writing. Look for the artist, Just My Type. Email the show at writersonwritingpodcast@gmail.com. We love to hear from our listeners! (Recorded on September 1, 2025) Host: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Host: Marrie Stone Music: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.)

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Barbara DeMarco-Barrett is an author, creative-writing teacher, and host of the podcast Writers on Writing. Her latest book "Pool Fishing" is a collection of noir short stories and releases Sept 16. We talk about her book Pool Fishing, the genre Noir, breaking the law, making bad decisions, creating characters, setting and how it affects story, eliciting an emotional response, Stephen King, her father's secret other family, bad relationships, first sentences, writing and emotions, poetry, endings, collecting typewriters, ways of dealing with sadness, when writing surprises us, writing novels, writing in third person and first person, past tense and present tense, mistakes new authors commonly make, the importance of reading, practice, journaling, sailing, the Panama Canal, and more.  links are on the shownotes page support the show through Patreon

Pastor Antonia teaches from Exodus 34 on what worship is all about.

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En el episodio de hoy de El Brieff, el Secretario de Estado de EE.UU., Marco Rubio, pide a la Presidenta Sheinbaum resolver las barreras comerciales que afectan la relación bilateral. Mientras tanto, las autoridades estadounidenses anuncian la incautación masiva de precursores de metanfetamina con destino a México. En EE.UU., el gobernador de Florida anuncia el fin de los mandatos de vacunación, y la Universidad de Harvard consigue una victoria legal contra la administración Trump. Además, te contamos sobre el millonario robo que sufrió la Selección Mexicana de fútbol en California.STRTGY es una firma de consultoría que te guía en la implementación de la IA. Te ayuda a eliminar fricciones y a potenciar tu negocio, convirtiendo el potencial de la tecnología en resultados reales. Conócelos en www.strtgy.ai o contáctalos en arturo@strtgy.aiRecibe gratis nuestro newsletter con las noticias más importantes del día.Si te interesa una mención en El Brieff, escríbenos vía DM en @Brieffy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Patrick and Greg are reunited after a busy month, and the entire conversation is recorded just for you!Greg and Patrick are all the way back (again), and it's time to play catch-up!Greg literally starts the show, THEN calls Patrick onto the line.What the hell has been going on???Greg details his big announcement of Samoa Joe coming to IZW!Becky Lynch is in The Vision--it's about time!An amazing performance for John Cena and Logan Paul!AJ Styles is indeed Phenomenal...And much more!Follow the #GDMS crew on Social Media@WrestlngRealist@TheHashtagMiranda (she still counts!)@GregDeMarco44@ChairshotMediaListen on your favorite platform!iTunes | iHeart Radio | Google Play | SpotifyListen, like, subscribe, and share!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/chairshot-radio-network/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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En las noticias de hoy, el gobierno de México suspendió la importación temporal de calzado para proteger a la industria nacional, medida respaldada por la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum. En la política, Morena propuso por unanimidad a Laura Itzel Castillo para presidir el Senado. En el plano internacional, el Secretario de Estado de EE.UU., Marco Rubio, visitará México. Mientras tanto, un ataque ruso en Kiev dejó 18 muertos, y la directora de los CDC fue destituida en EE.UU. Un estudio del Inegi reveló que las mujeres mexicanas dedican el doble de tiempo al trabajo no remunerado.Este episodio es presentado por STRTGY. El servicio de análisis estratégico que te da visibilidad del mercado del mañana. Su sistema de IA multiagente analiza millones de fuentes y genera insights predictivos para que tomes decisiones con certeza. Deja de adivinar el futuro, anticípate. Conoce más en www.strtgy.ai o escríbenos a arturo@strtgy.aiRecibe gratis nuestro newsletter con las noticias más importantes del día.Si te interesa una mención en El Brieff, escríbenos a arturo@brieffy.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to prevent infighting, mitigate status races, and keep your people focused. Cross-posted from my Substack. Organizational culture changes rapidly at scale. When you add new people to an org, they'll bring in their own priors about how to operate, how to communicate, and what sort of behavior is looked-up to. Despite rapid changes, in this post I explain how you can implement anti-fragile cultural principles—principles that help your team fix their own problems, often arising from growth and scale, and help the org continue to do what made it successful in the first place. This is based partially on my experience at Wave, which grew to 2000+ people, but also tons of other reading (top recommendations: Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister, Swarmwise by Rick Falkvinge, High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil, The Secret of Our Success by Henrich, Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, as well as Brian [...] ---Outline:(01:13) Common Problems(05:00) Write down your culture(06:25) That said, you don't have to write everything down(08:37) Anti-fragile values I recommend(09:02) Mission First(10:51) Focus(11:32) Fire Fast(12:58) Feedback for everything(13:50) Mutual Trust(15:48) Work sustainably and avoid burnout(17:42) Write only what's new & helpful--- First published: August 21st, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mLonxtAiuvvkjXiwq/the-anti-fragile-culture --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

ISLAND VIBES FEATURING CHUNES FROM GYPTIAN, VYBZ KARTEL, MAVADO, TEEJAY, VALIANT, BUJU BANTON, ROMAIN VIRGO, KABAKA PYRAMID, CHRIS MARTIN, KHALIA, SHUGA, LADY SAW, DEXTA DAPS, VERSHON, SEAN PAUL, SHAGGY, SPICE, MACKA DIAMOND, KONSHENS, BABY CHAM, BUSY SIGNAL, AIDONIA, BOUNTY KILLER, 450, BEENIE MAN, DEMARCO, MACHEL MONTANO, LADY LAVA, SALTY, TIFA, MASICKA, CHARLY BLACK, PTERNSKY, KES, GBM NEUTRON, MARZVILLE, DEV, ZEKEDON, KLASSIK FRESCOBAR, NIGY BOY, KRANIUM, CHRONIC LAW, ELEPHANT MAN, JAMAL, MORTIMER, ARMANII, MALIE DON & MOREREGGAEBOYZ SOUND IS THE #1 PODCAST GLOBALLY. @REGGAEBOYZSOUND

THIS EPIODE FEATURES CHUNES FROM TEMS, BURNA BOY, NINIOLA, MARIAH CAREY, MASICKA, KEHLANI, SHENSEEA, ELEPHANT MAN, MAVADO, VYBZ KARTEL, MAD COBRA, AYETIAN, SKILLIBENG, INTENCE, GOVANA, AIDONIA, DEMARCO, NIGY BOY, TEEJAY, POPCAAN, VALIANT, SPICE, BAYKA, MORTIMER, JAH IZRHEL, KABAKA PYRAMID, CHRIS MARTIN, ROMAIN VIRGO, ALKALINE, STYLO G, DEXTA DAPS, TARRUS RILEY, BUJU BANTON, BABY CHAM, AGENT SASCO, SHUGA, ALAINE, JADA KINGDOM, DEEP JAHI & MORE... REGGAEBOYZ SOUND HAS THE #1 REGGAE PODCAST GLOBALLY. FOLLOW US @REGGAEBOYZ

This Episode features music from - ,450, Agent Aasco, Aidonia, Alaine, Alkaline, Anthony B, Ayetian, Bounty Killer, Bugle, Buju Banton, Busy Signal, Byron Messiah, Chris Martin, Chronic Law, Chuck Fenda, Ding Dong, Govana, Intence, Kabaka Pyramid, Kehlani, Kiprich, Kranium, Lila Ike, Mariah Carey, Masicka, Nigy Boy, Patex, Popcaan, Romain  Virgo, Shenseea, Shuga, Skeng, Skillibeng, Slashe, Spice, Squash, Tarrus Riley, Teejay, Tommy Lee, Valiant, Vybz Kartel & More... New Riddims like Cheating & Lying Riddim, Story Book Riddim, Pon Di Island Riddim, Pain Cure Riddim & More... This is the #1 Podcast for Reggae Globally!!! @REGGAEBOYZSOUND