And your grandfather is... right in the middle of it there ain't no two ways about it what got you here because i know you had talked to me about maybe doing a book maybe doing some documentaries some different things but what motivated you now to go ahead and get this done

well it was time you know all this started with me around 10 years old and it progressed all the way up to the book and we had a uh James Abate, who lives here in Las Vegas from New York, got a hold of us on social media and said, would you like to write a book? And we said, yes, we would.

And everything just fell in place.

It was really interesting.

And I had, I wanted, I've read every book just about that's been written about my grandfather particularly.

And, you know, they miss a lot of things.

Their FBI files are redacted and everything.

But didn't he also, like when he retired from being a mobster, he stayed there through the 70s, correct? Yeah.

Sure.

The Godfather Part II, Lee Strasberg, I would say number one, you know? Uh, Lee looked a lot like him except the age difference.

He was only in his...

My grandfather was in his 50s, so Lee was a little older, but still same size, kind of the same look.

Uh, he had his speech down and his, the way he, you know, he, his mannerisms very well.

Um, but, uh, some of the other movies that we...

The recent one with Harvey Keitel on Amazon Prime a few years ago-

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