Consigliere

Production assistant, Lexus Bradley Banks.

Consigliere, Roy Seacoff.

WGCU general manager is Corey Lewis.

Associate general manager in charge of content is Amy Shoemaker.

So, so my point is, you know, things like, um, being conversant with labor law practice or with, uh, recruiting or talent, all of those things are still important, and they need to exist somewhere within the organization, but those are skill- you can hire those skillsets.

We're talking here in the Consigliere about a honed skillset.

Mm-hmm.

Um, so just setting the foundation that this doesn't say you throw everything out of the window, but this is how you embellish, this is how you, um, serve the organization in a way that perhaps the traditional path of serving, uh, hi- is not provided by being able to get and hold the ear not only of the CEO, but of the other lieutenants within the organization.

gotten this draft paid for by Super Chats if you'd taken P-Watch.

I'm going to pull up Consigliere's

chat.

$200 for P-Watch.

Yeah.

All right, one more question from, or a question from Consigliere, and then I'll jump into some of these rank stuff.

But he said, are we keeping this simple early goalkeeper, fullback, and winger on the same side and just hope the offense runs through that side? I mean, that is something you mentioned, right, of making sure you're paying attention to the formations.

And I know Dave said, David said this when he came, or Gamby said this when he came on.

You just straight up bought it.

Yeah.

Consigliere saying he sold a Paul George for $3,500 and then bought a different one the next day for $1,300, now worth $150.

This Bogdanovich is still $700.

This city does its dying over checked tablecloths.

The Consigliere was almost kind in the Greco way, the way the truly dangerous ones are kind, because cruelty is inefficient.

He brought me coffee.

He told me my wife was clever and would make the smart choice, and I'd be home by the weekend, and he believed it, because men like him believe everyone breaks the way they themselves would break.

I'd had a lot of time in that back room to think about the two people who'd made me into a man who could be sitting there, and the third who'd made me into a man who didn't break the way the Consigliere expected.

My father taught me everyone has a price and a fear and an angle.

Nico taught me which of my father's lessons to let pass through me like water.

And Lena had taught me the last thing, the thing the Consigliere couldn't price: that you can be the most calculating creature in the city and still have one thing you won't trade, a thing under the arithmetic that the arithmetic serves instead of the other way around.

The thing in my head.

"You can't shoot me," I said fast before the fear could get into my voice because the Consigliere's men had Dario against the counter with a gun in his ribs, and a frightened man does frightened things, and I needed this man thinking, not frightened.

"You know you can't.

I'm the map.

And then you go back to old Costa and explain that you found the one person alive who could recover the Costa fortune, and you shot her in a kitchen.

So lower the guns enough to think.

Thinking is the only thing in this room that gets you what you came for." The Consigliere, I'd grieved beside this man three days ago.

I kept circling back to it.

Maybe the snow's melting.

"You have the ability to keep and ship refrigerated items if needed." That's from Father Biondi's Consigliore.

Uh, it was a hassle.

We did it one year.