3 Cops Talk - Rebuilding Community Trust
Nov 6, 2026 · 38 min · 7 segments
We kick off the month of Thanksgiving with a veritable cornucopia of topics, serving up a little something for everyone. First, some fan mail about Chris’ audio quality, followed by the long-awaited…
Anyway, so we left off with a mob story last week.
We got to hear it, right? Oh, yeah, yeah.
You somehow had mob time.
Poor man's good fellow.
And this guy's saying, what do you want from me?
Listen, if you grew up in New Jersey where I grew up, everybody was kind of in some way, shape or form impacted by the mafia.
I'm not being a proponent of the mob and saying the mob, but we definitely have glamorized that in our society to the level.
There are some things that have changed since the mob has been stepped on.
I personally believe that only the mob messed with each other, just like cops that we talk about all the time.
You're really only going to get fucked by your own kind.
But when I was a kid, my first job was in a restaurant in the town that I lived in.
We talked about this on a previous show of my association with the mob.
It's loose, very loose.
But I was a busboy at this restaurant that never had anybody in it.
You know, like, what are you people? Yeah.
Certain guys would show up and they were like pinky rings and, you know, open shirts.
Peters and Paulies and Marie's and stuff like that was all the people's name.
People that worked in there were not necessarily Italian.
I think the guy that ran it was.
But it clearly now that I've got some hindsight and plenty of good fellows under my belt and Godfather, it was a front for the mob.
Absolutely a front for the mob because we would do weddings there and, you know.
And one of the weddings that I was at was particularly hair-raising.
Like, I thought, this might be it for me.
They come in with the cake, the wedding cake for the family.
Anyway, so we left off with a mob story last week.
We got to hear it, right? Oh, yeah, yeah.
You somehow had mob time.
Poor man's good fellow.
And this guy's saying, what do you want from me?
Listen, if you grew up in New Jersey where I grew up, everybody was kind of in some way, shape or form impacted by the mafia.
I'm not being a proponent of the mob and saying the mob, but we definitely have glamorized that in our society to the level.
There are some things that have changed since the mob has been stepped on.
I personally believe that only the mob messed with each other, just like cops that we talk about all the time.
You're really only going to get fucked by your own kind.
But when I was a kid, my first job was in a restaurant in the town that I lived in.
We talked about this on a previous show of my association with the mob.
It's loose, very loose.
But I was a busboy at this restaurant that never had anybody in it.
You know, like, what are you people? Yeah.
Certain guys would show up and they were like pinky rings and, you know, open shirts.
Peters and Paulies and Marie's and stuff like that was all the people's name.
People that worked in there were not necessarily Italian.
I think the guy that ran it was.
But it clearly now that I've got some hindsight and plenty of good fellows under my belt and Godfather, it was a front for the mob.
Absolutely a front for the mob because we would do weddings there and, you know.
And one of the weddings that I was at was particularly hair-raising.
Like, I thought, this might be it for me.
They come in with the cake, the wedding cake for the family.
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