Exposing The Mob: I Owe Them Money And Have To Pay

Other People’s Lives

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	What are some of their tactics or the things that they've said to you to, I guess, keep you in line in that sense?
0:06.5	Hey, didn't your brother there buy a new house? Didn't your sister just get married?
0:10.6	I wonder what that boost was like.
0:12.5	Throw those little shots out just to remind you that they know what's going on in life,
0:16.4	like to remind you that they can get to you if they wanted to.
0:32.5	Welcome back to other people's lives. I'm Joe Sanigato. I'm Greg Dybeck. For anyone out there that would like to be a guest on our show, hit us up. Our email is OPL podcast at gmail.com.
0:40.9	Today, we are speaking to a man who reached out to us and he is in debt with the Italian mob. I'm sure you can imagine all the things
0:47.5	that come with that. So we're going to kind of dive into how he found himself in this position,
0:53.0	what that interaction is like with the
0:56.0	mob, and thank you so much for coming on today.
1:00.7	Thanks, thanks for having me.
1:02.9	That's happy to finally talk to you guys.
1:06.2	Yeah, for sure.
1:06.9	And can you tell us how does one initially even cross paths and get involved uh with the mafia
1:15.5	yeah so i'm from an area that uh that's heavily italian populated i myself am of southern italian
1:26.6	heritage um so i guess I myself am of southern Italian heritage.
1:28.3	So I guess the easiest way to put it is that when you grow up around these people,
1:37.3	you always know somebody who's involved one way or the other.
1:42.3	And Italians, we have a very tight-knit community
1:48.2	everybody knows each other um you know so you're gonna cross pass with them eventually if you go to
1:55.5	the the social clubs you know they're there and you get to talk and they get to know you.
2:03.1	So it's just one of those things, how you cross paths.
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