Bobby shares a humorous story from his youth about navigating connections to organized crime while growing up in an Italian American family in New York City.Show Notes:

• Bobby moved from Hell's Kitchen in NYC to Santa Barbara, CA 27 years ago
• He went to an all-boys high school in NYC where many kids had mob connections
• In senior year, a mobster's son asked Bobby to help him cheat on a history exam
• This led to Bobby's father being offered a union job with the mob, which he turned down
• Bobby later became a film assistant director and ran into the mobster's son again

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:23 - Moving from NYC to California
3:12 - High school mob connections
5:34 - Cheating on a history exam
7:51 - Offered a job with the mob
10:12 - Father's decision to decline mob job
12:45 - Encounter with mob 10 years later
14:32 - Conclusion


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