Chris Distefano on Dad Being in The Mob & Family Members Getting Killed

from what I remember I listened to your episode with with uh Rogan your dad was kind of like a like a pretty tough guy right one of those like vintage New York tough guys yes back in the day now he's got you know now he's on dialysis with two fake knees um but but but he's back in the day you know I think a lot of guys in you know he's from the Bronx I think a lot of guys in the 70s 80s even early 90s got mixed up with those guys you know gambling right and and running around and it's just an easy way to make money like hey you know you you work for this family you know go pick up this gambling death that gambling debt so you get to know those guys not that he was ever a maid guy or whatever right but you get to know those guys you get to know those Circle you know those people was that collected money yeah yeah pretty much like uh his job I would call like it was it was like a different work number every week and somebody would just be like accounting and it was always like some guy some different guy you know I I had no idea like so we'd have to go shake down the business owners yeah I I guess yeah because that's the thing with my dad is I never really asked too many questions on what he did but I just like would always get I would always get like because my parents got divorced right when I was very young yeah and I would always get like kind of hints of like oh my mom doesn't like believe my dad or like my dad because like I remember one time like being a little kid and being like Dad like you know like it's career day tomorrow like what do you do for like work what's your job again like my mom being like my mom she was like making dinner she's like I'd love to see what he says now you know like she's like let's see what Tony what [ __ ] accounting well no I remember he said he goes I go I go he works and he said he goes he goes oh oh Chris I work for the banks and I was like oh you oh you worked for the bank somebody was like the banks that just kept like you know making the spaghetti and I was like and I was like yeah she was just you know I don't remember like not like just be like okay is that why your mom divorced him well dude no my mom said they my mom served divorce papers to my dad when she was pregnant with me because he gambled this was 1984 I was I was born in 84. okay so the Jordan year he was drafted in 84. no 1984 there's a book I forgot what I think it's called Glory years it's about how Wild the year 1984 was I haven't read it yet but there's like a lot of [ __ ] that went down in 1994. um but so 84 uh uh my dad um you know bad Gambler whatever took like eight thousand dollars of like my of their like ten thousand dollar savings and betted on like the Montreal Expos like some [ __ ] random thing and they lost and then so and then I think what happened was is my somebody called my dad didn't pay up and somebody called my mom at like whatever it is 10 p.m it was like where's the money I know you're pregnant you don't want to fall down to fly to stairs like [ __ ] like that and then my mom took me to like Lancaster Pennsylvania like we got it we gotta get out of Dodge got out of Dodge came back gave birth but then I think that was like the beginning of the end and then uh but but but my dad always says he's like you know when you were born like that was like that's when I feel like I hit the lotto like that like you and then he started to like slowly get out of it all and now I mean I don't know anything like about I have multiple family members uh on my dad's side who were like murdered and stuff like that's like real on the nose mom and she murdered like shot like shot and killed police never investigated it so it's like you know like sleep with the fishes oh yeah so I'm like so that stuff I'm like oh see that's the thing with like with like organized crime and all that like it's it's cool and romanticized in the movies and it is it is I get why but when it's actually in your family you're like who is like the closest relative to you that you that passed my uh Uncle so my my aunts husband but I was again a little kid but him and his son my cousin would just murdered like shot to death at work in Long Island uh uh New Jersey yeah I do yeah then when you look it up it's like that there was no leads no nothing and then it's crazy my aunt got um and this is like a a mafia thing my aunt got I don't know for the amount of time but like every month behind like one of the plants give me money bag of money because probably the family that killed him are like well we got to take care of the wife if we're gonna yeah take him out see those guys see see that's the thing like the Mafia the Italian mafia I understand the extortion and and the crimes I get it I get why it's bad I really do but there is a little bit there's a little code there's a little bit of like well it's a little bit safer when the mafia's around they're not gonna here's the thing it's yes it sucks I gotta pay this fee this extortion fee that sucks but you know what no one's ever gonna break into my business no one's ever gonna hurt my kids because if they do their [ __ ] dead and they will not mess with you unless you mess with them at least the old guys were the noob people you know I don't know but the old guys my father always say the only people you got to watch out for in this world are Mafia wannabes the wannabes are the guys who will hurt you because they don't live by the code the guys who buy the code you never see it coming you just get one at the back of the head but they would never touch you unless you did something to them and they would you know I remember being in um uh Cross Bay Boulevard the Howard Beach always would have a festival right like a carnival every year and I remember going there once with my dad and John Gotti and his guys were handing out free candy to all the kids I was like this guy's [ __ ] like Jesus did you get any candy from it of course wow yeah no we were with all the kids it gave it to all the kids he was just John Gotti you got some John Gotti's candy somebody Mafia candy yeah it was like a big deal like a kid's what there's a million kids did he say hi to your dad no he's like hey it's been a while good to see you no but you know what's funny it's he didn't say hi to my dad but when John Gotti died his funeral was in Queens and I remember my dad was like you know uh I lived in Queens right and my dad you know I was a teenager by then so it's not like I knew his you know whereabouts every second of the day but but he called me he's like I'm in Queens you want to get a slice of pizza I'll meet you by your mother's house and I was like oh cool and then I I said I was like why are you in Queen's a guy my friend died I went to their funeral and I was like oh because I know that but but I never asked like but it kind of not it could not it could have been coincidence exactly if I'm you I'm like Dad yeah you're on dialysis yeah you got two old knees or new knees whatever yeah let's peel back the onion give me some of these stories I know I know let's do a podcast yeah yeah no he wouldn't that's the thing because he wouldn't say because he's very much like I don't want you near this right you know but it was funny when I remember that day was like I was at a friend's funeral I was like oh John Gotti yeah yeah okay oh man imagine it wasn't it was just like a neighbor yeah you just came up with this coincidence in your head none of it's real he's never in the mafia it's okay no no he actually worked for the banks yeah no he genuinely works for Chase yeah my mother he cheated on my mom yeah that's why she just [ __ ] she just she's just bitter yeah that's all it is

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Length: 7min 3sec (423 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 31 2022