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We're just going to talk about John Gotti every week So got he could know it's gonna be Gotti Capone and whitey Bolger. Yeah, so Gotti's gardener One week we'll have Gotti's hairstylist on so anyhow I'm just throwing a little shade it There's some other content producers out there and you know, we don't want to get into a back-and-forth, but I find it You know, I just a lot of it's just mafia 101 So if that's your thing like more power to you know, I'm not trying to be you know a mafia Academic snob or whatever, but I just I can't get over whether we're talking about Content on YouTube or just you know stuff you see on television or the movies that roll out You know a couple times a year, you know the big gangster movies that that come out. It's just how much John Gotti or whitey Bolger can you consume? I mean it's so We I know we play in the margins and sometimes we'll we'll touch those those Those two figures probably whitey Bolger a lot more than John Gotti but try not to Be too Generic and I think well when you know every time that I'm tuning in to some of this stuff And again, it's not just the mafia content producer on YouTube It's like when I'm on the bio channel or the history channel. It's like, okay. Yeah, Sammy the bull and Right Carmine Galante and Paul Castellano and Al Capone and Albert Anastasia being killed in the barbershop It's like oh Yeah, and obviously, you know, we find all that stuff fascinating too, but we when we started this podcast many years ago Scott and I were on the same page that Hey, we didn't want to just hit the same cliched, you know, Italian mafia topics That we wanted to talk about all the different families not just New York But Philly Detroit Boston Chicago and we didn't want to just talk about the Italians We wanted to do episodes on African-American crime groups We just did an episode on the Russian Mafia a few weeks ago Irish gangs Drug cartels so anyhow, I if I may be so bold I think that our show stands out from some of the other shows and even some of those shows were friends with some of those people and We're happy for them But they're very New York centric and and very LCN centric and we try to be a little bit more diverse here Although today's episode will be about LCN, but we're gonna make our way to the windy city Yeah, so we have a Chicago based episode. We've had some requests for Chicago content And we're gonna mix it up a little bit some some current events, but also tied to some historical stuff. So Pretty pretty sensational stuff. So Bernie, you want to start us off with yes We're just gonna do a little bit of news and notes if you will some outfit related headlines that have broken over the last couple weeks and Let's start with the fact that the last Codependent from operation family secrets that historic landmark Case brought against the Chicago outfit back in the mid 2000s That resolved 18 previously unsolved mob murders the last defendant from that case that will see freedom Has now seen freedom Polly the Indian Shiro Was released It's been in prison since oh five. So, you know, we're talking, you know, 17 years behind bars Was one of 14 defendants in that operation family secrets case and I was fortunate enough to be in The court when that when that trial took place as a young buck reporter in Chicago Covering the the case for Chicago magazine as well as writing my second book family affair shameless plug go buy it on Amazon try to give me a royalty. I have yet to see a royalty from that Yeah, that's a great for 10 plus years, but Polly Shiro is home He actually might be Not in Chicago. I believe you might be in a halfway house out of Arizona because Polly the Indian Shiro was Chicago mobs crew boss in Arizona in the 1970s and 80s and Got caught up with the Tony splottero group he was a one of Tony splottero the Tony the ant the guy that you see in the movie casino played by Joe Pesci that was You know one of Polly Shiro's longtime Childhood friends and was part of Tony's regime out on the West Coast and was running things in Arizona for him Got convicted of playing a role in a murder one of those 18 murders and family secrets It was actually the last no the second to last murder to take place, you know timeline wise and those murders ran from 1970 all the way to 1986 and Shiro was was convicted of Being a lookout or getaway driver for the murder of a guy named A meal little vow a meal little now Vachi and he was a Old-timer living out in Phoenix he traces roots to Chicago and was you know running some some travel junkets for them Was he a maid guy and he wasn't a maid guy. He was an associate kind of hanger on Was part of Polly Shiro's Crew in Arizona and there were worries that he was being subpoenaed to testify against Splotrow at that time was Not just in hot water with the mob, but he was in hot water with the feds so this was like I Want to say a week or a week or two before Tony splotrow met his maker and was murdered, you know brutally Him and his brother you see it in the movie casino, but about a week or two before that He orders the murder of Mal little Mal Vachi Polly Shiro's involved in it. He's convicted If family secrets and now he's out 85 years old Is probably the Indian when when little Mal Vachi was killed in 1986 June of 86 He was 74 so he was an old guy Wow So That's that's a move on Then we have the The death unfortunately of one of the Chicago mobs biggest Bookmakers out of the Cicero crew And we're gonna talk a lot about the Cicero crew in this in this episode Greg Polly and Was Armenian that was a was a top Bookmaker under Jimmy I and Dino aka Jimmy I aka Jimmy the ice pick There are some people that that Claim that Jimmy I and Dino is running the outfit now, and he's the top guy And this was one of his closest friends Polo Ian had a number of Gambling bus he was actually under indictment When he died Did some time in the late 90s early 2000s for book but book making loan sharking and racketeering and Was very close to Jimmy I and Dino so he passed away Couple months ago, so the end of the summer so RIP to mr. Polo Ian and I'm trying to get an age on him He was 67 years old so presumably he's he was kicking up directly. Yes, and He had a two-and-a-half year present term that he was got to do for the most recent book making Conviction but the judge let him out of the medical and he died at home So in that case who would take over his book? I have no idea, but somebody someone. Yeah But this guy's been running a big big sports game sports gambling operation for the Cicero regime Dating back to the you know, the 70s 80s and and one of the things you know, this was like This is you know, this is mafia 101 In terms of how the you know the right hand moves in the left hand follows so You know Polo Ian would be this was this was the case that he took in the 90s, but You know guys that that would be betting with him would get into trouble They didn't have the credit to go to a bank So Polo Ian said oh, don't worry.  I could just wipe the books clean with this and that's not how I'm sure whether he's still kicking up to Jimmy I or not and that remains to be seen I think the case that he Just took in the last couple years I and Dino was not Implicated as a conspirator as an undated co-conspirator, but I've been told by people in Chicago on the street that that Operated that that that sports gambling operation that Greg was running was still kicking up to Jimmy I so yeah If you I would say that if if you were someone in these last couple months Since Greg died if you thought that your tab was being wiped clear, right? I would say you know go to Cicero go to the currency exchange that Jimmy I spends his Afternoons at and I'm pretty sure you would tell you that you're you're sadly mistaken if you think that debt Is wiped clear just because Greg is no longer with us, right? And then the last kind of small Headline that I'll touch on before we kind of get into the the meat of the episode Also tying back to family secrets one of the co-defendants in the operation family secrets case Mickey Marcello big Mickey Just copped a plea in a case with the feds where he's gonna do about four months For stealing he admitted to stealing twenty five thousand dollars in social security benefits just got sentenced this week the week before Thanksgiving and He will report to federal prison in January and we'll spend the winner of 2023 as a guest of the federal government. He's 71 years old right now. I believe his brother was the number one Defendant in family secrets little Jimmy Jimmy the man Marcello was the boss of the outfit and And You know, it's I think it's It's a it's a job hazard. I mean in that world whether you're you're 2555 or 75 If you're living your life making your living Racketeering or trying to cut corners or trying to cheat the government, you know It's gonna catch up with you and it and when you're someone like Mickey Marcello and you got a giant spotlight on you and your family Especially after, you know, I think he did six years and family secrets or six or seven years and family secrets It's been free now for I know about ten years Something that stood out to me when I read your article on gangsta report and see what you think about this is First of all, well two things first of all This is becoming a big racket for organized crime groups Yeah, so this is especially with this group these like baby boomer Mobsters that are now getting into their 70s from yeah, and they they're finding ways Yet it to short chains of government or We just I just wrote about something that wasn't related to Italians but was related to Armenians in Los Angeles where they found loopholes bigger than they found they found well they found loopholes in Government tax benefits for using biofuel instead of traditional gasoline. Oh, oh, right, right? Just finding different ways to cut into the government. Yeah kind of more white collar, right? But I know the Eurasian crime groups like the Russians Armenians are big into like insurance fraud Against Medicare Medicaid Social Security So that's what I was gonna ask you the second thing that stood out to me was when you look at the scale of some of those operations I thought $20,000. That's that's nothing. Yeah These groups are ripping off the taxpayers the indictment that came down in 2019 So it's been in the court system now for three years The indictment was for 45,000 but even so Cases yeah millions right.  Yeah, that That you can make cases against the Italians easier So the guy may go down for something that's really only a fraction of what some of these other crime groups are doing But and so what and I'm sorry, what was his sentence again four months? Okay, let's slap on the rest Yeah, but I could be mistaken But I'm pretty certain this is the first Codependent from family secrets to get in trouble with the law Yeah, after his family after his role in family secrets was adjudicated and he did this time For the family secrets case, I don't think any of those 14 defendants some are dead But some are but some of them are are still alive and some of them are allegedly still active and Mickey Marcello was the first guy Post family secrets to be back in trouble with the law and and in fairness to the to the criminality of mr. Marcello That may be all that they were able to account for in terms of forensic accounting Presumably they probably took more than than $20,000, but that's that's what they were able to get them on and maybe there's there's some parts of the Marcello story that I am unaware with unaware of but Knowing that Jimmy Marcello right now who's you know, 70 years old Was convicted in family secrets convicted for playing a role in the murder of the splotcher Brothers that that brutal Strangulation beating stomping That that that you see in the movie casino. That's a very brutal brutal heinous scene Marcello was the guy that drove the splotchos to The slaughter the kill house. Yeah, it wasn't isn't was never alleged to be involved in the murder itself Again, that's not to say that Jimmy Marcello never got his hands dirty I know he was a suspect and a number of murders including murdering the The two men that he held responsible for the killing of his dad and that's how Jimmy Marcello actually Allegedly was made his bones His dad was an outfit lieutenant who got murdered an unsanctioned murdered an unsanctioned murder in the early 70s And and Jimmy allegedly by Italians other yeah, yeah avenged it No, I mean who killed the old man who? Another Italian guy that was unsanctioned. Okay a loan shark victim of his I see Marcello was going to collect a loan sharking I see that and the loan shark killed him And then that loan shark and that loan sharks bodyguard ended up being killed in the months after and Jimmy Marcello was alleged to have done that to avenge his dad's murder. So I'm not trying to paint him as as a As someone that isn't dangerous because he he is but I don't agree with having someone like Jimmy Marcello having to serve his time and Florence, which is the super max. Yeah along with You know terrorists. Oh, yeah, and guys like Vinny Bassiano who I'm not You know, that's not where I'll chop. I'll chop was it is I think I'll chop was it. Oh, yeah He was in New York, right? I'm pretty sure he's an adx now But Vinny Bassiano's in there Because he was trying to put out murder contracts on judges and prosecutors Joey Lombardo who was also in the family secrets case was the conciliary I'm died in in Florence super max because he was trying to put out a murder contract on a judge So I get I get that if you're trying to you know, put out execution contracts on public servants You you deserve to spend your time in the most maximum security prison possible But at least publicly it's not known what Jimmy Marcello did to Warrant having to do his time in the 23-hour underground lockdown you're out for like a half hour in like a cage It's the worst of the worst when it comes to incarceration by the federal government and it's and it's designed for The absolute worst of the worst and I just you know, did they score Jimmy Marcello? It was a bad guy and was a gangster and was probably a killer Or was a killer, you know, he was convicted of it not of doing it with his own hands But he probably has done it with his own hands But I don't I don't believe in this will actually kind of get into where we're going also about kind of our ethical and moral beliefs in in terms of Incarceration and capital punishment. I just don't see why Jimmy Marcello has to live out the rest of his life in a supermax for simply being involved in one mob related murder So do you think that this is like a trophy for like judges and prosecutors when they could get someone in supermax It's like a notch on the belt like I'm a no-nonsense tough on crime, you know So even if it's severe and maybe the worry Is that Marcello? even though he's been locked up since 2005 has had some type of Say on what's going on, you know in the streets Right who's also in supermax Larry Hoover the head of the gangster disciples So, uh, which also I find a dubious. I whatever we had an episode on that We talked about that. I Think that's a dubious claim that he that he has I don't think he has as much influence on the street as Uncle Sam thinks but that's another He's still I'll tell you with Larry Hoover and I get I'm digressing there, but with someone like Larry Hoover Particularly to to this applies to really only two people Larry Hoover and Big Meet Demetrius Flannery the two most Notorious iconic African-American crime bosses that exist right now They For better or for worse And you we can talk about you know who you know who we prop up as heroes But the and we can debate that but the fact is both of those men hold sway over not thousands not tens of thousands not hundreds of that they hold sway over millions of people and That I don't think so not Hoover. I really don't not I hold sway. I'm not saying anyone under 40 I don't think cares about what Larry and in Chicago I just Larry Hoover's name in the street is like you know, the kind it's like a combination of John Gotti Jesus Christ and And Tommy from Goodfellas. I mean Larry Hoover is the definition of notorious. I'm not saying Larry Hoover is sitting there puppeteering The entire gang sort of disciples organization from from lock up the way that the federal government tries to make it seem I think I'm saying the reason that him and Meach scare the government is because of how much influence No, yeah, I can see that but I I think some 20-year-old gangbanger in Chicago if you told them here's an order from Larry Hoover Oh, yeah, I think you'd have I think you'd have some yes some choice words for you about I'm not just I'm not I'm not I'm not what you can do with that what you can do with that order. Yeah, so the legend versus what what actual Influence they have, you know, we could get into that the semantic but Back to the yeah, so that is a Chicago topic. Let's let's talk about a Murder that was carried out by the state of Arizona last week It was capital punishment The man's name was Murray Hooper He was a former member of a Chicago African-American streaking known as the royal family royal family was connected to the Chicago mafia and Did muscle work and murder for hire for the outfit and Hooper was executed again via lethal injection and He is the only the second person to be convicted of a organized crime related offense to Receive the death penalty only the second person in 80 years first since 1999 and Before 1999 the last You know mafia related execution by the state. It was lepky lepky book halter You know in New York went to the electric chair This is what the 50s. I think it was the 40s 40s. Yeah, and then David leisure was a Syrian St. Louis mob enforcer that blew up Another Syrian mafia boss in St. Louis in 1980 I don't even know if that deserves the the death penalty, but you know, he was put to death in Missouri in 1999 and then last week I had no idea this was like scheduled Or that this was, you know, I'm the Horizon until until it happened and Murray Hooper There's a national story. Yeah, and he was 1944 by the way, Louis lepky book called a Hooper was with 76 years old. He'd been on death row for 40 years And this was a Chicago mob related Murder and and just like the ones we've been talking about Earlier the show with the splotcher brothers This was was gruesome. It was heinous It shocks the conscious conscience and You know, just I'll try to give a these are civilians quick synopsis. It wasn't like a gangster's not that that's okay But I'm just saying it's particularly gruesome when they're civilians I think so try to give a quick, you know, 90 second synopsis My 90 second synopsis always lasts like nine minutes, but I'll try to keep this short so as we said before the Chicago mafia had a Arizona branch that was operating in the 1970s The Cicero crew Was being run by Joe Ferriola Who would go on to become the boss of the Chicago mafia in the 80s, but in the 70s. He was running the Cicero crew He had two nephews one very very infamous Outfit hitman Harry the hook olemann who was half Mexican, but but his his mom was Joe Ferriola's sister and Rose pretty quickly in in the outfit even though he was only half Italian Was a fully inducted member became captain of what was known as the wild bunch and one of the most legendary You know hit squads in in Chicago Underworld history. They were an enforcement unit Underneath Ferriola and the Cicero crew they were Connected to you know well over two dozen gangland homicides When they were active between the early 70s and early to mid 80s so Part of Arizona before part of that Arizona Crews job was to help Tony Spilacro in Las Vegas Launder money that was would eventually make its way once it was clean would make its way back to Chicago But it needed to be laundered and the outfit had legitimate businesses set up in Arizona California and in Florida to Push dirty money through and Another one of Ferriola's nephews a guy by the name of Robert Cruz who went by the nickname fat Bobby Was dispatched to Arizona in the 70s. He wasn't in Phoenix. He was in Tempe, which is right next to Phoenix and and Was running drug rackets and helping Spilacro and those guys fence stolen goods that they were stealing in Vegas and pushing through The Phoenix area and at one point Bobby Cruz gets introduced via a associate of his to businessman in Phoenix by the name of Pat Redmond Patrick Redmond who owned a printing company called graphic dimensions, I believe and The Chicago outfit thought this was a perfect You know a shell a perfect vessel rather to launder money that that someone like Pat Redmond wouldn't You know alert or wouldn't arouse suspicion The cone like his partner was the one that Approach the or like the partner That was that was the person was kind of sketchy right that like was the con was the So there was so Bobby Cruz is stationed in Arizona a guy that Bobby Cruz is doing business with nose Pat Redmond's partner. Yeah, okay, right and Pat Redmond's partner I Can't pronounce the guy's last name Doesn't introduction. Yeah, Bobby Cruz gets it in his mind that he wants to use this printing Company and tells the guys back in Chicago. I got a great new way to launder our casino money and Tries to take the business over first they they they play nice and they kind of finesse it and they try to kind of whine and dine Redmond and his Partner and offer them all these contracts with Las Vegas casinos for printing printing gigs to be lucrative thinking that They were going to be enticed to let the Chicago mob into the business and Pat Redmond was you know pretty sharp guy and it wasn't having any of it and Told Bobby Cruz and his and his crew to get lost at that point Bobby Cruz and Joe Ferriola and the guys back in Chicago decided to kind of pivot to a hostile takeover approach and the hostile takeover included the murdering him and If you believe the government taking over the business through the partner and the partner's wife Eventually they wanted to if you believe the government killed the partner to and the wife the partner's wife was allegedly in Conversations with Bobby Cruz and and the bad guys if you will she would eventually be indicted and I think she was convicted at First and then she had her case tossed out but So December 1980 They put a hit out on Pat Redmond and they're not just going to kill Pat Redmond. They're going to kill his whole family and Bobby Cruz knew these African-American Gang members from his time in prison Murray Hooper who they called hoop or hoop the Hatter. I think there was a reference to Albert Anastasia that that Hooper was a bit of a wild card when he was When he was free and was known for for wet work or for heavy work You know in the streets the royal family was a That's a great name For a for a drug gang or whatever came out of kind of originated out of Statesville Prison in Illinois and then eventually from you know once they got outside They still kept the presence in prison but we're kind of set up on the west side of Chicago and started doing a lot of muscle work and Cruz recruits Murray Hooper and Willie Bracey who was another member of the royal family flies him out to Phoenix in early December and they they orchestrated drive-by on Redmond as he's leaving one of his favorite watering holes and they're unsuccessful Hooper and Bracey go back to Chicago and Then Cruz two weeks later three weeks later decides they're gonna do it on New Year's Eve And he flies Hooper and Bracey from Chicago into Phoenix and I believe the night before New Year's Eve and on New Year's Eve Pat Redmond his wife and his mother-in-law are preparing for a New Year's party.  So that was what Murray Hooper did to Receive the death penalty at his trial. He was convicted in 1982 was given a death penalty in 83 and The other guys also received the death penalty Bracey and McCall, but they died in prison before and Cruz was convicted to Cruz Cruz is an interesting cruise at five trials He was tried five times for this case four convictions four reversals and then finally he gets acquitted in 1995 after being on death row for 13 or 14 years Comes back to Chicago, but only last two years before he's murdered and You know It's neither here nor there, but there's some speculation that that Harry Olliman who was Going on trial in 1997 for a murder from the 70s His cousin fat Bobby Cruz Was very high on this attorney named Kevin McNally that had gotten Cruz off on this on the fifth in the fifth trial and But that was a state case in Arizona You know Harry Olliman was facing a case in in State court, but it was in Illinois and Kevin McNally was a young attorney from Arizona that probably was out of his depth going to Illinois and handling Something like that, but Olliman trusted Bobby Cruz From people I talked to that were in the courtroom McNally kind of fell on his face during the proceedings Olliman was very upset and You know Bobby Cruz ended up disappearing three days After being seen in court at Olliman sentencing where he was sentenced to life in prison That was the last time he was seen in public and then Olliman If you believe this theory Called on some of his buddies in the wild bunch to get rid of his own cousin at that point Fariola The uncle who was the Cicero capo and then Eventually the outfit boss was had died in 1989. He couldn't protect him. He died of a bad heart When you obviously this is just speculative, but from studying this stuff as long as I have usually When a guy like dad gets whacked The causes are over determined, which is a pretentious term. I'm borrowing from psychoanalysis Which means there's more than yeah that there might be a cattle There might be like the the tip of the or whatever like the you know the boiling point, but usually there's a series of Infractions or things that like You know enough is enough and this person's a wild card and wait, you know, well, I think there was Like the exploratory too. Yeah, I think there was also some belief that The reason that Bobby Cruz got sent out to Arizona in the first place Was because people in Chicago didn't like him. Yeah, and Fariola Was trying to help out his nephew by getting him out of town Yeah, and basically pushing him off on Paulie the Indian chiro who you mentioned in earlier in the episode We just got out of prison for the family secrets case who was running things down in Arizona um so I don't think Harry olemann Although was incredibly Feared people liked Harry olemann. Um, I don't think anybody really liked fat Bobby Cruz They were both feral as nephews. It's interesting to me that they were Mexican Yeah, I mean, that's something that I mean, we know that that the outfit just like Detroit is known for having your multi-ethnic associates but If they were allegedly fully inducted members That that's I don't understand how that how that can happen because the Marcellos I'd like how we're able to there's a lot of synergy in this episode um The Marcellos were or are they're both of them are alive the Marcellos are half irish Oh on their mom on their mom's side. Well, that's something that uh, we know, uh, at least in Other families they've loosened the restrictions on so like if your mom is Not italian, but your dad is a hundred percent. You can you can be made which back in the old days You know, you had to be a hundred percent And and if you really want to get technical about if you go way back There were guys like Bonanno who would say you you couldn't even be italian.  Yeah Uh, so, you know, it's not as Cut and dry when you're talking about, you know families like chicago and detroit specifically those two families who are very equal opportunity a lot of cross pollination a lot We don't really care what color your skin is or where you trace your roots to if you can make us money if you can Do something for us Could be killing people um Or you know in alman's case, uh, you know, he was known as a very very proficient Killer and that's how he climbed the ranks and You know, I was talking to jimmy off mic and he asked me well, you know Where do you think alman's trajectory? Would have been if he would have not got caught up with Uh, you know, we and he died in prison 10 years ago of lung cancer but you know, he don't he'd he In theory he could still be alive right now.  You've had uh What was that greasy thumb? Goose and then you had tokyo joe Kenny canido right but with all of those guys none of them were made so many lennie patrick Lenny patrick. Yeah, the jewish, uh, right. He was a big deal But yeah, so let it's a perfect example though in chicago. So Lenny patrick Ran the whole north side of chicago. He was a big deal He ran rogers park he wasn't Officially made because he was jewish, right, but he had an equal amount of authority Yeah of any guy any made guy that wasn't an underboss a conciliary Or you know, one of the bigger capos, but Lenny patrick at at at one point was probably you know If you were going to do an outfit a power index, I mean he was in the top 15 Yeah, and and out of a fair out of an organization that I had, you know, over 100 people and it's also the comparison with detroit We've talked about specifically with the jackaloni crew that the east side guys took on them that was pretty much also siblings, but um With the jackalones your your status was about proximity to power So it depended on how close you were to the jackalones more than if you were a made guy Or not and they like messing with the blacks.  Yeah, and they made them a lot of the greeks and those four different Ethnic factions made the jackalones a lot of money. Yeah and buried a lot of bodies for them Yeah, and if you if you were close to the brothers, then then you had a lot of street status Maybe and we had patty noton on before that by the way that that video is on I think youtube I think that is accessible to everyone now right the patty noton Episode yes, it is on youtube. So she was undercover de agent infiltrated the the jackaloni crew And she even said in that episode that that some of those jewish racketeers because they were so close to the brothers That the made guy telling guys would have to defer to them like soldiers Would have to defer to some of the jewish guys because again proximity to power and she got she got her hooks into al-haydi yeah, um it sounded like she was Almost became al-haydi's girlfriend or at least al-haydi. He thought yeah He thought that she was his girlfriend right and you know an al-haydi was one of billy jackaloni's drivers and You know one of his you know go-to emissaries or aid to comps, you know someone who relayed messages Yeah, and you know she talked about being in a you know in a booth at the golden mushroom or dimitries with al-haydi And you know everyone around there is treating him. Yeah, right like he's the godfather. Yeah, right when he's just Yeah, the godfather's guys guys guy. Yeah, yeah, right right So I think you sometimes you had a similar thing in chicago But with all those cases an al-haydi by the way was I believe syria. That's why I think he was middle eastern Oh, yeah, I don't know. Maybe it was irish. Oh, he's yeah, I don't know. It's a good question I think he was middle eastern Um, but but he wasn't italian. Well, he was the point of making right But with all these guys in chicago or detroit though None of them are none of them are made and so I still find it curious that alamon and cruise Could have gotten their buttons. I don't know. Let me be clear. Bobby cruise did not have a button I don't think bobby cruise had a button. I don't think he he was anywhere close to having okay. That would make sense He was a a true Lacky, I think yeah But harry alamon did have his button and I do believe harry alamon was was on the fast track Yeah, to you know a true shotcaller status If he you know if he's able to be free In the 80s and 90s in 2000 because if your dad if your dad is italian But the name doesn't sound italian That doesn't matter because as long as there are so some specific examples There's a guy in philadelphia back in the day martinez Yes, even though his name was spanish. He was italian, but they call that on the streets They called him spanish frank the name is because of the name but it had nothing to do with him actually being spanish, right? and in Castellamare a heavyweight back in the day was diego playa which diego playa That's the sort of both spanish names first and last name, but he was a hundred percent siciliano he was from castellamare and so um, it's it's not it's not terribly uncommon for um uh, you know guys to have well, I guess it's It's not common, but it's not necessarily uncommon for them to have spanish sounding last names even if they're from italy But alamon i mean that that's This guy that doesn't sound italian. I've never heard of that his you're saying his dad wasn't italian He's from mexico. I think his day was born in mexico. It's just really unusual. Um For the for him to be made i think at least as far as i can it is unusual it is unusual, but We know that the chicago outfit and detroit were talking about these two midwest families They didn't go off that traditional new york blueprint. Yeah, and they they weren't beholden to them like some other Groups would be like the philly group always had to check with new york. Yeah, you know the the um You know that's what Detroit and chicago never had to check with anybody Yeah, they did things the way they wanted to do things and if and if doing things meant that A guy that maybe wouldn't have been made in a new york family getting made You know They don't even do the ceremony This is a bronos that pick me thing in the jersey either mean something or But you either mean somebody doesn't butchie They don't do the gun. They don't do the knife right um, well one just I'm packing a little bit. I don't I'm not someone I don't believe in capital punishment. Yeah, let's talk about that for a moment You know in principle, I don't agree with the notion of capital punishment um And I think they're when we're talking about this case in particular You know jimmy and I have have done our our own due diligence You know in terms of going through the court files and looking at how this thing went through the court system and Yeah, yeah, I'm not saying he's he's innocent but It seems like there were a lot of question marks with the convictions with Uh, throughout the you know what we found out throughout the appellate process and with the And from that learning about the police work that was done to achieve these arrests and convictions There was you know, there were things that were you know a lot lots of shades of gray Yeah, I think um, and it's not to say this guy was a virtuous guy because he clearly had a record he he actually It's kind of only scratched the surface and talking about him. He seemed like a bad guy Uh convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend his girlfriend of a manslaughter in the 60s That's how we met the outfit in state prison from serving that uh sentence and then The couple weeks before this new year's eve massacre. He's involved in another triple murder In chicago. Yeah, but there I think there are some enough red flags here, too And by the way, just as a rule, we you know, we don't talk about partisan politics or ideology on this show It plays a role in a good reason, but in this case, I think we are in other episodes We will talk about criminal justice policy So there's this sort of gray area where it's not sort of overly political But it is criminal justice policy and and I have uh Yes, some issues with this decision to execute him and I'm not with capital punishment I'm not not something like bleeding heart like um, then there's other people I really don't care if they get put to death, but um um but I think the the The system has to have integrity or else that I think there's some problems here and it seems like You know, there were no there's no forensic evidence linking him to this Um, in fact, the only thing they have on them is the eyewitness testimony of the the wife the wife pat remins Wife who survived While her husband and her her mother were both murdered. Yeah, and and um, uh One questionable tactic here was when they Had the lineup to her somebody Put their arm on a Hooper Which is um, I mean that tapped them on the shoulder like tapped them on the shoulder as this is the guy As Marilyn Redman is being is flown to Chicago for this Lineup.  He like taps one of them on the shoulder. Yeah, which is Murray Hooper who she then She then identifies right and that's really bad policing and and another thing was um, the weapon Is still in the custody of the Arizona police And um, I don't know if it would be state police or phoenix pd, but either way, um Or the the ag whoever whoever has it down there, but um, they didn't test it. They could test that for Forensic evidence to either yeah, they're exonerated or convicted afraid of what they're going to find Right, which might be that he that is his DNA is not on that knife And so it seems like there was some politics in this decision by the attorney general at the time to appear as a real tough on crime and push through this death penalty case Contextualize contextualize it. I mean where we are in 2022 you know, Arizona is is a as a hotbed Of political debate. Yeah, you're dating back to the 2020 election. Yeah battleground state and it's a state that is pretty traditionally uh Red, right? Oh, yeah, John McCain. Yeah Yeah, although they don't like him anymore down there that because he went against because he went against Trump But the uh, it's it's increasingly becoming a purple state I would say purplish leaning red But but the point is purplish means it's a battleground state and like there's a lot at stake, right? I'm saying the fact that this happened Now it's been 40. This guy's been on death row for 40 years Right Um, and they decide to execute him in november of 2022 Right in smack dab in the middle of the of the midterm Um election cycle that seems like it was to score points. It was to score points with the electorate and uh, as opposed to real justice, uh for the families and again, it's not to uh, Make i'm not making the argument. I again, i'm not an expert on the case But i'm not making the argument that this he was a great guy. Um, maybe he did have something to do with it He he certainly checks off a lot of boxes that suggest he did have something to do with it But the death penalty for with with no confession no forensic evidence and uh, and uh, uh, uh, a sketchy eyewitness testimonial That seems to me pretty weak to to justify even for even if you support capital punishment as a policy Um, Roberto's sending us a signal, right things up. Um, so, um, even if you support capital punishment morally Uh, it seems to me like that's some pretty thin Yeah Evidence to to go all the way because that is you know, that's the worst punishment. You can give someone but so we'll shut this down I'm just gonna uh read to you Murray Hooper's last words Um As he was you know going to get the jab. Uh, he said it's all been said Let it be done Don't be sad for me. Don't cry or say goodbye Say i'll see you later. Yeah, so let's go Uh, and and then one thing i'll mention that the state of their state of arizona needs to get This aspect of of it cleaned up. This is the second execution, uh carried out by the state of arizona Via lethal injection where the medical techs Have had a very difficult time completing the job And uh, it it's prolonging a very very difficult and and yeah, uh Mentally anguishing situation for i'm sure for the person that's being executed as well as the family members of both You know his family members and the victims family members. Yeah, uh, so, you know, everyone You know you got to be on point for that and I think in this case Uh, he actually looked uh looked at the crowd as it was going on and being and because the people are watching him Be executed and he basically said can you believe this like they can't even kill me, right? Yeah, and he and by the way for whatever it's worth He to the very end said he didn't do this right and you can say well, what do you expect them to say? But if you're going to be executed either way, um, You know, I and he did have he did have a will end with he had an eyewitness Uh a female that claimed that she was with him at a new year's eve party in chicago Yes, right, right. That's right. So he had a decent alibi. So but anyhow, it's fascinating Sometimes we will dabble in criminal justice policy even though we we usually stay out of politics But if it's cj policy and organized crime related we we will get into it. So anyhow, um, let's wrap up Uh, good episode people have been asking for more outfit episodes. So we're happy to provide that Uh, again, thanks for listening. Please follow us on social media and please subscribe I'm jimmy buchelano. I'm scott bernstein. We're out


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Good morning cyber traders happy Wednesday good to see you Lawrence Neil good to see you all grand everyone welcome back let me tell you yesterday was phenomenal we have a lot of good stocks we're going to talk about allies been taking off even though we're having this big catastrophe of. All the place being you know being grounded actually. Josh is actually flying in New York and he got grounded so he just he's going to be joining us he'll be back with us tomorrow but he's supposed to be flying last night and playing got canceled but. But they're doing great the airlines I mean Jesus let's let's look at one of them right now look at Delta my God Delta was a phenomenal run up yesterday. And since June the things at thirty six at the forty six I mean how do we not see that coming right but it's not only that all everything was doing pretty well we had a big pop also carnal cruise line a lot of things that made some big moves so we'll check them out a little bit. But with that said everyone just keep everyone want to remind everybody today is going to be phase three less than one I'm going to be teaching the classes we just posted the link up there. If you're in the cybergroup room if you're on social media if you ever want to join us just click on that little QR code. You could always do a trial and jump in and see what's going on but it's going to be I'm looking forward to it. It's the you know we have four to July it's come up this week weekend and you know yesterday morning and pre-mart kind of sucked it but we don't have that much good movement on on pre-market but let me tell you when the market opened up.  So right this thing just just added nowhere it was just like it did exactly what we were trained I wish it was basically in class but we had this big pop early in the morning at $1.10 and then it did a little bit of a shake right here at $1.50 and look at this beautiful beautiful higher highs. This is everything that we always wanted did a shake pop did a shake pop did a shake pop did a shake pop the little shake pop all the way up to $10.30 that thing ran to $2 it was a dollar stock $2 up 100%. I mean it was like if you were listen you could trade several thousand shares that stock and you did great on it but that was a very very fun stock but there were so many of them out there. Bumble Cruise Line 14 to 15 what we had here not this one here Mara big big run up Mara was a little bit. I mean you know you we were trading Josh loves Mara is doing well I love Mara to we heard everything that's going on with what happened Bitcoin. I might even do a little exchange on it something like that I heard but all those stocks Coinbase all of them ran pretty well that one did pretty well 12. Over to 13 Neo was also pretty awesome to that thing ready gate went from like 860 all the way to 920 did a little shake up until about one o'clock nice little push back up to nine you was also lonely expensive side but this wasn't that bad unity software another nice mover up right around here went from 39 up to about 42 Carvana did really well to yesterday 21 to 24 and obviously Delta was just a very slow steady moving stock. You know when if you came more in the middle of the day around you know 11 o'clock that was probably the stock to trade on 11 to 12 probably from 44 only to 4050 it was a nice little dollar move. So there was a lot to trade yesterday and you know it was Tuesday you know I call it trading Tuesdays some people think the Taco Tuesdays I call trading Tuesdays. But now we got Wednesdays and Thursday and then obviously Friday be really careful because it's going to go into a really long weekend for some of you weren't here before or yesterday like I told you is 4th of July one of the biggest holidays here in the United States and it's going to be on a Tuesday of next week. So what does that mean markets closed Tuesday what does that make it for Monday I think everyone's going to take a long weekend going through that so but we'll still be here markets open I like you might hear me say it I'm going to say it again I'll say it every single time. I hate holidays for the purpose of it screws up the trading of the market. Now I'm so right rebounding from the bankruptcy filing. Yeah I know that's that. Well Neil remember I was saying that yesterday regarding about right I said listen sometimes when they filed bankruptcy sometimes it's not a bad thing and sometimes it's a good thing because they clean up all their debt. What was nice about the right trade Neil is that it filled the gap. It was a big big gap fill and you know it came back yesterday we saw it. This is not like a pharmaceutical stock you know when a company doesn't pass their drugs that they were looking to pass and we see when we always know pharmaceutical stocks do not come back. But in this case you know on a bankruptcy on a ride we saw it and you know what it's going back on the back that's going back on the watch list. OK so you know listen it could be for a takeover wherever it is maybe it's cheap enough but we're putting this back on the watch list. The only thing that that really kind of gets me a little nervous about it. The volume is awfully light right now at 140,000 and we're already at you know we're about almost 25 minutes until the market opens up. It's not like some of the other stocks that we're going to talk about now that are moving which I want to start off what is moving right now the biggest percentage gainer is NERV. Now we traded the stock back in April you remember the stock it was at $2 it was a great great trade run it was a great short term swing. You could see how it went from like the three all the way to about the four. The nice little thousand flag here on the swing trade thing went all the way up to eight looks like it popped right now a little bit more. When we go check out on level four the only thing I'm not crazy about is that if you look right here you could see these big orders start showing up right around here. It was being very spotty this guy playing games right here and then I think finally popped it went from like 790 all the way it's about $9 came right back down. I'm not too crazy about the iceberg orders in pre-market right now but we'll see how it works out when it opens up but it is a very very nice moving stock. So this first biggest percentage gainers there are other stocks out there that we found OPK was also awesome for the ones that we hear a little bit earlier. It had a really nice move from $1 70 to 20 she finally kind of build this little big support level right around this buck 90. Now there was a big iceberg order that showed up around about $1 96 or about $56,000 and then there are a lot of orders right now since 8 30 this morning that are kind of like supporting it at around $1 90 to $1 88. I'll show you to you what we've got what we're talking about. Here's that big order right there and here's this other order here now when these orders started showing up started building up this order canceled right around a just right before 8 45 which is now driving the stock up. So I like stocks like this. I don't think it's going to be a fast mover. It traded 10 million shares already. It might be good for some of you beginners out there that are like I always call us which is not a bad thing. A deer in the headlights maybe a little because some of you are my trading room you'd be like you know thousands of some of these stocks we trade are pretty fast but listen we trade slow stocks. So there that's what that you know so here's might be one for you by the way you guys notice this right here. See this on the intraday chart. We got going on right there. Nice Fausto flag looking going Fausto flags building up right there. You guys know what that means. All right. So read between the lines. Remember here at Cybertrain Mercy we do not tell you what to buy. We teach you how to buy. You just got to read between the lines. All right. So here's another stock that's moving up. She's starting to trend down a little bit here. Level four looks kind of ugly. I'll put this on the B list B A O S because it is number third biggest percentage gain or 17% Rita kind of ugly nothing going on here. Very spotty on the intraday chart. Volume is too light. Was the other one I found was it this one now was this one. Yeah I see that now we're down to 5% the biggest percentage gainers so you'll notice that. At the most volatile times when the market is really moving we'll get we can work from the number first to number 20 on the biggest percentage gainers and we can still be in the 15 20% percentage gainers. Now we're only going three or four and we're already below 10 and you know we don't go past 10. This stock we know why it's down. Okay. So big reverse stock split stock is crashing very not a very good sign when they do reverse stock splits. Okay. Here's another stock very beat up. This is actually is coming down. It might be coming back space mobile might be making a dead cat bounce. You know we like we like trading those. Hey, did we not learn that from ride yesterday. Ride was the same thing. That's what happens. Not as bad as that one though. New York stock to change anything going on there. This one's up about 42%. But she's starting to trend down. KLR not bad. I mean she looks like she's trying to go up a little bit. She's kind of flat line right here. She's up about 39%. Looks like I got good spread. I got to check out to see what the orders are. But kind of like, you know, kind of like holding flat right here. If you see what I'm talking about. So, and you know what happens sometimes these stocks out of nowhere. They'll just move, you know, they'll sit there, their trade as long as they have the volume. You have the orders out there. Some, some of these people know what's going to happen when the market opens up. So, you know, that's why we'll put on our watch list. This one right here. Jobby J-O-B-Y. Not bad. Good volume. 600,000. Tier size is very small on it. That gets me a little nervous on that. We know how dangerous that could be by having small tier, tier sizes. And that does, that does it. That does it. All right. Anything else I'm missing? I did not call out. We got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven stocks. A hell of a lot more than we had yesterday. I said we had what three, but when the market opened up, it was awesome. So that's all that matters. All right. All right. So we posted a link up there again in the trading room. If you want to come and join the class with us and phase three for all my students, we're going to start at 935. Remember, you got to learn before you could earn. We need to go out there and, and, you know, we're going to trade, you're going to trade live with me. And we're going to remember the goal is not to learn how to make it. It's learning how to stop losing it. So that's one of the big, one of the biggest things you need to get. And we know every class is a new adventure is always something new. If you're watching in the, on, on any social media channels, you have that little QR code up there. Just scan it, get in our room, or you can click on that link. Be happy to come and join us. We're going to do a live event on Thursday. We'll teach you everything about level three and level four, how to trade today's markets, not how to read the past, but how to read the future. So let's get ready traders and let's get ready for the market opened up. So remember trade safe and I'll see the rest of you in class. Good luck everyone. Happy trading.


and Paul Brady and the Homes of Donegal. And as promised, I have got Patrick McBrarty in the studio with me tonight. And he is talking about Jimmy's winning matches and indeed the Homes of Donegal were roaring back in 2012. Patty, you're very welcome. No, thank you so much for having me. Yeah, that song is incredible, isn't it? Just sitting, listening away there. And as I was saying to you before we went on air, my father loved his old time dancing. And God rest him, but whatever Paul brought out that song, he said, he murdered that song. I couldn't convince him that it was brilliant, you know. But anyway, that's that. So it's September, I talked to you last. I can't believe it's September. Yeah, it's March. And you were just about to go on stage in the greening with the border game with the Lyric Theatre and up and down at Street Patty. No, we went everywhere. Seapers were all over the country with that. And so we did the big tour of it. It went incredibly well, very, very lucky. And really, really enjoyed the tours. We were everywhere from Limerick to Donegal to Belfast, Dublin, Galway, you know, Monaghan. We were all over the country, which was great, great fun. And the last time I was talking to you, we went through the background and all in the theatre. And with the Lyford Players, with the greening production of The Butcher Boy, and with the Lyric. But you've taken now a turn at directing. So how does that feel? Well, it feels great. Like actually, I'm really enjoying, this is my first time directing, and it's a really enjoyable process. It's a very creative process. You're constantly in creativity, and I really like that, you know, I really like that feeling. And I love the responsibility of the buck stops with me, you know, I make the decisions in that sense. And I really enjoy that responsibility and taking that to the place where it needs to be, the show, you know, because Cairn had written a draft, a very early draft of this. And I helped Cairn kind of all the way through the developments, myself and him. And we got ourselves into kind of the same plan that I feel with mentality-wise, and we understood exactly what each other wanted. And so when it came to actually directing the piece, they asked me then to do it, because it's such a history with the play as it developed, you know, so it was kind of a natural progression. And I was happy to take it on. So you're a self-enlightened Cairn, having great friends for ages and ages and ages. And I suppose whenever he wrote the play himself, he had his own interpretation of it.  Have you come to bloat? Are you on the same page? No, not unless everything that, just during the development of it, we kind of, because the play and the background of the play, Peppers, the journey of Donnie Gull from 92 to 2012. And so that's the background of the piece. And I guess the early drafts of the piece, because Cairn is such, this is a love letter to Donnie Gull, this play. It's a love letter to GA and to Lady Sports as well. And so I think that the GA aspect was a bit more to the foreground, whereas I wanted him to focus primarily on the father-daughter story and the real heart of the piece. And we developed that over and he's done an incredible job at telling this beautiful father-daughter story. And then so now the GA and the journey of GA and the Donnie Gull team and Lady's GA is peppered in the background, you know? Well, I remember the first time that they won the All Ireland back in 1992. I swore that if they ever won, if they're ever won an All Ireland final again, I'd be there and myself and my friend Maureen, we went it and we had just, it was just an incredible day. That's unbelievable. Like even 92, you know, I wouldn't have been very old at the time, but I remember I was in Senior Infants or Senior Infants in St. Bethan's National School in St. Johnson and I remember Aunt Emma Lloyd coming in with the cup and this giant of a man standing in front of you. This cup was probably the size of me. You know, I just have that vivid memory from then, you know? And 2012 actually, myself and Irle McGowan were on the Caledonian Road in London. That's where we had to watch the final and I got all the drama students from the drama school that I was in and I got the ball down and they had the clue what was going on and I got them in just to help support and it was a great day and it was a great feeling, the 2012. You were saying there that it's a lovely story about a father-daughter relationship, but it's the one woman show and Louise Conaghan has the challenge and task of performing. So Louise, she's a Donegal woman, isn't she? Yes, she's just outside Boba Faye, the lovely Louise. She's excellent actor and she's bringing this play to life in an incredible way. She's got bags of humour, you know? She's done a lot of stuff with Ingrin and John Ruddy. The history of Ireland or the Manny Man does Ireland, the history of Ireland or whatever, something. I'm sorry about that, I'm not pronouncing the title correctly, but her comedy skills are incredible, but then this as well, she gets to flex her drama muscles and some beautiful, poignant moments and she's excellent. Yeah. And the story, she plays a lot of cars. So it's a father-daughter relationship, she said, but is there sadness and fun in this? That's the thing, there's a lot of humour and then there's these beautiful moments of pathos and anger and heartbreak, you know? And as with some relationships, you know, it's trying to find her father's approval and trying to get her father to notice her, you know, over that sibling rivalry of her brother, you know, and trying to be noticed, trying to be seen and that there's the eventual pull-away and hopefully the coming together again without ruining the plot. And to do a one-person show, it's challenging for the actor. Oh, yeah. And it's challenging for the director as well because there's nowhere to hide on stage and, you know, you have to think of the pace, you have to think of the variety just to keep the audience engaged. Did you find, I'm sure Louise found it difficult, but do you find it difficult as a director? Well, as a director, what my role is and any director's role is, is we are the audience. So we are the audience and as we're putting this together, we have to try and see what's that interest in and is that clear first and foremost and is it interest and is it trying to achieve what the script is trying to achieve? And so for me, it's basically that audience's view and helping Louise in and out of those characters and making sure that the transitions are clear and that the story shines through and not to be... And that's basically the role of the director. Louise is the heavy lifting here, there's no doubt. And she has a fortune of characters to make clear and also tell the heart of the story. And so, and traveling that thin line of comedy and drama without it spilling into something else. And she's doing that beautifully. And there's a cliff of her on the Greenham Facebook page and I think Kieran has it up on his Facebook page as well. And you can see it's like a light switch. She just goes from one character to the next and she does it extremely well. And it's only 30 seconds of a cliff, but it gives you a taste of what her characters are. Well, that's the taster of it. Yeah, that's exactly what's happening. She's switching from things to things, you know, from comedy to drama in an instant. And that's the real challenge and delight for an actor. You know, one person's show is for an actor one of the hardest things you can do.  So you've only yourself to rely on if things are not going, say, technically in the right direction or whatever. So very, very challenging thing for an actor, but and all these characters and the transitions and the humour, like she's got, she gets to play all these different characters from a version of David Attenborough to a movie trailer voice, you know, and the David Attenborough section, even Kieran's written a gorgeous line, which I laugh at every time. It's the homo erectus donigolis.  And it's a professional production and on Greenon production. And you were telling me before we went on air that the set of the stage and everything is fantastic. Well, this is a professional production from Green Theatre and it's Kieran Kelly's first professional writing credit as a playwright and he's done a magnificent job.  I think he's going to be a real talent in the playwright. And I think he will hopefully take on that mantle, maybe, of Freeland in the future, you know. He's a very, very talented writer and this will not be his last, I'm sure. But the set looks fantastic. Everything's starting to shape up now. This is, for me, this is as a director. This is a very exciting time to be in. So we've just finished the run-throughs and now we're in doing the technical rehearsal, which is getting the lights together and making sure everything's the sound and the levels and all. This is a very exciting time now for me, the director. And then come Thursday, I do a thing called the handover and I, you know, my job's done and then it's over to Louise to take on, to take the play and go out and perform it, which she's no doubt going to do tremendously. So it's on Thursday, Friday and Saturday night and I've done Green on Theatre and it's not, well, it's not a full play because it's a one-woman show. 70 minutes, you said? I, Kieran originally wanted it because he's very detailed. He wanted it to be around 70 minutes, 70 minutes precisely, because that's the length of a Gaelic football match. And now I've got it down to around maybe 60, 63 minutes. But actually, I'll be glad to tell now, as he's listening, we have made it now 70 minutes, Kieran, for you. And so it's now the length of a GIA football match and so that's a big reveal for you. And 8 o'clock starts, Patrick? Yes, indeed. 8 o'clock, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and I hope I'll see you there. Fantastic. Well, I don't think you have to be a GIA fan to go there if you love Donegal and you love a good play. I think that's two of the most important things. 100%. This is a love letter to Donegal. It's that feeling that euphoria that we got, that that brilliant 2012 team gave us as a whole county. We got that special feeling and it's the thing, it doesn't matter in 10 years, 20 years, 50 years time, if you're still living in well, that we'll never forget that moment and they give that to us, the Donegal team. So that's very, very special, you know? And even actually, there's a player on the Donegal team called Patrick McBrurty and he was made Donegal captain this week, you know? And then so I was getting texts from friends and stuff saying, hey, it's a big week for you, you open in a play and then I'm getting the captain say Donegal. But actually on the poster, I was tempted to put, I really wanted to put, you know, written by Ciaran Kelly, Starnal Louise, Conahan and written by Patrick McBrurty. No, not that one.  Two new things for the one man. Well, thanks a million for taking time out this evening to come in. And the best of luck to you and to Louise and to Ciaran and myself and John will be there on Thursday night to clap his on and so looking forward to it. Thanks so much for having us and all the very best and hopefully I'll see you all there. Take care.


Hey guys, how you doing? This is rich from your city live. So interesting thing Elon Musk did today. Elon Musk tweeted Twittered on Twitter tweeted Tesla stock price is too high in my opinion. He goes and he tweets this and then the stock tanks 10% who does this other than Elon Musk?  Have I seen anyone ever say their stock price is too high? Except for Elon Musk. There it is eight hours ago Elon Musk right there Tesla stock price is too high in my opinion and then the stock follows by tanking Look at some of his other messages. Now give people back their freedom He's talking about giving Americans back their freedom. He wants people back to work or the land of the free and the home of the brave Oh Say does the star-spangled banner yet wave like he is literally Reciting the national anthem and the rocket's red glare the bombs bursting in the air like I Think Elon needs to get back to work here rage Rage against the dying of the light of consciousness Just one stipulation on sale. I own Gene Wilder's old house. I cannot be torn down or lose any its soul My girlfriend grimaces is mad at me. I Am selling almost all my physical possessions will own no house doesn't even want to own a house folks Free America now that is Elon Musk the man behind Tesla let's just say Elon Musk here Elon Musk Type of Elon Musk Wow look at this see this Elon Musk's tweet wipes 14 billion off of Tesla's value so a very simple tweet Saying that it is overpriced in his opinion has taken the stock down For a total value of 14 billion dollars and you can see here the one-day chart See that red right there like literally yesterday was at eight hundred and Sixty-nine dollars today went all the way down to seven hundred one dollars down ten percent after his tweet But it did climb after hours five dollars to seven hundred six dollars. So it is up after market You know, I talked about this to our community and a lot of people think that Elon's great I'm a huge fan boy of Elon Musk huge fan of his always have been always will be I think he's a genius This might just be another Strategy to get more attention on to Tesla So I feel like one way or another this is going to work out to his advantage So this is your boy Richard mr. V live bringing the big news Elon Musk's tweets That the stock price is too high in his opinion and the stock price Followed his tweet down 10% is your boy Richard mr. V live we bring you the information we bring the winners and we bring them to you first We're bringing the biggest breaking news of the day Elon Musk tweets Right here. Let's go back down to his tweet. This is his tweet. This is his Twitter 83 million followers guys 83 million followers Right here Tesla stock price is too high. I am oh meaning in my opinion. That's Elon Musk the CEO of Tesla Rocking the boat again back in the news bringing the stock down 10% of his own stock Saying that the stock price is too high in his opinion Pretty crazy only Elon pulls moves like that But somehow some way I just feel like he's gonna come out on top. Let me know comment down below This is Richard mr. V live and I'm oh peace


Italian rapper Fedez has sparked a political row after accusing the national broadcaster of trying to censor his condemnation of homophobia during a televised concert. Fedez said the broadcaster Rai had asked him to submit his planned remarks before the performance on Sunday. The rapper refused and went ahead with his criticism of homophobic statements by members of Italy's right wing league party. Rai denied trying to censor the rapper's button tweet. Fedez released a recording of a phone call with the deputy director of Rai3, a TV channel owned by the state broadcaster.


All right. Hi, everyone. Am I audible? Perfect. So before we begin this talk, I just have one task for you, folks. I'll tell you the explanation afterwards. But you just have to trust me on this one. So I want you folks to give me your goofiest smiles for exactly 17 seconds. And the time starts now. Smile. I want to see your teeth. Turn to your neighbor's smile as hard as can. And five, four, three, two, one. So the reason behind this was that I wanted some seconds to settle in. And 17 seconds was the most random number that I could think of between 1 to 20. We can have a debate about it afterwards. Before we begin, I've got some Robin's flags. I've got Robin's stickers. Feel free to take them after the talk. So yeah. And a few things about me. My name is Sanskar. In the morning, I work as a software engineer at Bloomberg, where I help create tools for bond trade evaluation. And during the night, I maintain an open source software called Robin. Speaking of Robin, what is Robin? Simply put, Robin is a fast, async, Python web framework with a rest time. Let's have a look at the current state of Robin. So Robin is currently hosted on GitHub. It has a BSD 2.0 clause. It has around 1,400 stars on GitHub, around 300,000 installs on PyPI. But most importantly, it's under active development. Now, by this time, I'm pretty sure many of you must have had this question, why another web framework? What helps Robin actually stand out? So here are some of the key features. Firstly, it's under active development. Second most important feature that it's not written in just another language. It's written in Rust, by the way. It has a multi-threaded runtime. It has a very simple API, and it's fairly extensible for you. It's fast, and it can serve around 10,000 requests in 0.692 seconds on a dual core MacBook, which is a very old machine. If you want the latest stats, you can check out the latest release on a very strong machine. It supports async. It has multi-threaded file and directory serving, dynamic URL routing. It supports middleware web sockets. It supports something called constant request. I'll be explaining you what that is. But most importantly, it's community first and truly open source. It follows this ideology to an extent that if you have followed me somewhere or if you have met me in the conference, you must know that I'm not a big fan of type support. But community loves it, apparently. So community shall get what they ask for. So it is a fully type supported system, and you can use the type safety like your love. Now comes the juicy part. What is the Robin story? Why did I invest so much time in making another framework? It was April of 2021, and it was the final year of my university. And my thesis deadline was approaching. And like any other hardworking student, I was spending all my time exploring Reddit. Sometime around then, a big company decided to introduce Rust into the kernels, and Reddit was filled with this meme, rewriting everything in Rust. And since I was such a dedicated student, I was working on a completely unrelated project called Encrypt text that had a Flask back end. And during that time, I used to write a lot of Node.js in React. And the thing that bothered me about Flask was the lack of async support. So I thought to myself, you know what would be cool, Sanskar, if you could create an async-supported Flask? And you know what would be cooler? If it would be written in Rust, by the way. Because during that time, I came to know that Ryan Dahl, who was the creator of Node.js, created another framework called Dino, which used Rust. So maybe this language is not a bad choice after all. But the most important questions of the slide, why the name Robin? Because if I take care of something called Robin, I help it grow. And I help it develop. That automatically makes me part man. So if I'm a little slow in reviewing the PRs, or if I'm not responding on the community, just have a bad signal beside you. And I have a moral obligation to respond to your question. OK, now coming to the technical part of the talk. Let's have a look at the tradition Python Web App lifecycle. So usually, we have a reverse proxy in the front most part. A web server, a reverse proxy is something like nginx, caddy. A web server is an ASCII or a WISCII. And finally, we have a web framework sitting at the end called Flask, Django, FastAPI, and so on. So let's have a look at a traditional Flask app. I like Flask a lot. And I'm really inspired by the API. And so this is how a Flask app looks. So how many of you folks know how to create a very basic Flask app? All right, perfect. So you import the Flask class from the app. You initialize the app. And you add some decorators to add the routes. So this is how Robin's API look. You import Robin from the Robin module. You initialize it. And you create routes for it. I have made some changes in the API that I felt would make it more useful and more friendlier according to my experience. For example, you don't have an app.trout method. You have an app.get, app.post, and so on methods to define the routes for your application. And also another reason for me to create an API that was so similar to Flask was to reduce the learning curve to explore a new framework. Because most of us are already familiar with these frameworks and writing a very different framework would be a very big commitment for everyone. So this is how it looks like. Now let's have a look at the server aspect of the code. Question to the audience, how many of us know what a visgi or an asgi is? OK, so this is a code snippet of a very basic visgi. A visgi stands for Web Server Gateway Interface. The reason why visgi were created, I think, 20 years back was because there were so many web frameworks at the time. But there was no standard to actually serve them. And it was getting very hard for the framework maintainers to serve the application. So it was released in web 3.3.3 if you folks want to check it out. This allowed the framework maintainers to focus on the routing side and the execution side, where the visgi would take care of all the dirty parts like handling HTTP requests, handling the response for you, so on. Visgi and asgi have a lot of benefits. But for Robin, you do not require an asgi server. Robin comes with a coupled asgi server. So it is one of the reasons that makes it much faster than everyone else. So this is how a lifecycle of an Robin app would look. It is as simple as writing Python 3 app.py. You do not have to decide between choosing the right visgi or an asgi server, so no g unicorn, no uvicon, no starlet. You just write Python 3 app.py. You put it behind a reverse proxy, and you have your working server. Now let us have a look at the architecture to have a sense of what actually is happening. First of all, we have a worker event cycle that basically does all the heavy lifting for you. This part manages the runtime. It passes all the instruction to the Rust code. And then spawns a thread pool in the middle. So when we type the command Python app.py, the Python code is converted to Rust objects, as you can see here. And then it is populated in a thread safe router. And when the incoming requests come to the router, the router gets the Rust object from the mapping, passes it in a thread pool, depending on if it's a sync function or an async function. And then the response is executed, and then returned back as a response. But to scale it to even more extent, we have a TCP socket that's listening to the request. And we can have multiple processes, as well as multiple workers now. So all the thing that I explained earlier can be scaled across multiple cores of your machine. So this is also another reason why Robin is faster compared to other frameworks in the market. Now, this feature called const request optimization for the lack of a better name was released a week back. So I realized that the encircled part is very gill dependent. How many of you know what a gill is? Okay, so gill is basically a global interpreter lock, which in Python accounts to the slow performance. For some reason for the slow performance, because it doesn't allow a true multi-threaded experience. So for simple things like serving, let's say, hello world or serving a JSON schema, acquiring and releasing gill would be a big overhead. So we realized, wouldn't it be cool if it would just be eliminated? And the Rust, we were able to serve Rust like the response directly from the Rust side without ever invoking the Python object. So these are different ways I could think of on writing hello world in Python and serving. So we have S strings, dynamic S strings, strings that are converted on the fly. So I went on and disassembled this code and this is how Python looks in assembly. On a closer inspection, you see that only a constant is loaded before a return value is returned. So all of this is replicated in all the patterns below. So how automatic const request optimization works is that it sees the assembly, it pre-computes the value, stores it in the thread safe router and without ever acquiring or releasing a lock, it serves the response back to you. So automatic constant request optimization is still under work, whereas the constant request optimization is already present in version 17.0. So this was just too cool for me to not just show off and make you folks feel excited for 17.1. Now coming to the usage, you can simply do a pip install Robin or install it via Konda. You do not need to have Rust installed on your machine. Now we have a little feature showcase to get you folks excited. So Robin supports synchronous functions because many libraries still have synchronous functions and as much as I wanted to make it fully async, we need synchronous support because some library maintainers either can't upgrade the libraries or don't want to. It's a very hot topic and we don't want to start a debate here. It obviously supports async function because it was one of the core reasons behind Robin's origin. And I was a React developer as well and it always bothered me that I was unable to serve React applications from a Flask app very easily. So I created a way to add sub routes and you can serve multiple React application on a single server using the add directory method. We have static file serving which is much faster than the native Python file serving. So if you ever want to serve like large files on a machine on your web server, it will be much faster than using the native Python way. We have dynamic URL routing. So if you want to have route parameters in your route, you can use it like that. So it also scales across multiple cores. So you can scale it as multiple workers as well as multiple processes if you have any restriction on the number of threads that you can use on your server. We have middlewares for logging, for authentication and we all love middlewares, basically us. We support WebSockets. So your real-time applications are also supported in Robin. Constant requests and much more at the GitHub repo. Now if you folks are still not excited, we have the performance comparison. But a PSA that this comparison is not to demean any framework or the people associated with the framework. These frameworks are the reason why I got involved in the Python ecosystem. But here you go. So this is a comparison between Flask, Fast API, Django, Robin on one worker and Robin on five workers. So as you can see, Flask took around five seconds to serve 10,000 requests. Fast API took four seconds, Django took 13. I mean Django with GUNICON took 13. Robin on a single worker took 1.8 seconds, whereas on a five with five workers, that was the maximum workers that could be allocated on my dual core machine, it took only 0.69 seconds to serve 10,000 requests. Now seeing what's in plan for Robin for the future, I want to make it more performant at OpenAPI integration because it is a better way to write documentation. By dantic support implement automatic const request optimization, ORM supports, improve the plugin ecosystem, better documentation, prove the web sockets. And I came to realize in this conference that people want to add template support like JINJA templates. So to support JINJA templates with Robin, make GraphQL integration with Strawberry. And I came to also realize that not many people are available on Jitter and the main reason to have a community communication platform was to make it more accessible. So we'll be migrating the community to Discord and most importantly, try to increase the community involvement. Speaking of the community, join our community if you are interested on making PRs, doing reviews, sponsoring, or if you are just curious, here is the link to the community. And special thanks to the people who are already there, the sponsors, the contributors, without your folks, it wouldn't have been possible. So here are some of the important links. We have the GitHub link, the PIPI link, the website, the docs link. And yeah, start Robin on GitHub and let me know if you have any questions. Yeah. And also we are hiring at Bloomberg, so. Okay, so we have a bunch of time for Q&A. Do we have any questions for the speaker? Yes, you can go up to the mic. Well, maybe, thanks for the talk. How does the Python Rust Glue works in your case? Do you use Pi O3? Yes. Great, that answers my question. My pleasure. I've used it recently and I really like it. I really hope that we've been using it a bit more. Yeah. When we want to get some performance from Python. Yeah, it's a very nice API. Okay. I'm curious about the performance stuff. Could you elaborate a bit like why you think it's faster or how it's faster? I think one of the reason is because we have segregated all the request handling, the request validation towards the Rust side. And also the thread pool is a multi-threaded thread pool and which is not very easily possible in Python because in Python you obviously have to acquire a GIL to perform like execute async functions, whereas in Rust, you bypass that restriction and execute those Rust objects in a multi-threaded runtime. The logo is pretty nice, first thing. Thank you. And second thing, do you, for the async part, do you support async.io or trial or something else? Async.io plus UV loop. Okay, and you don't like trail? You don't want to give it a try? No, I haven't tried it. I tried adding support for it, but I use a library called Pi O3 async.io, which only supports that. So if I find a way to support that, I'm happy to support it. Okay, thank you. Yeah, it looks like a great application and thanks for your talk. How does it compare to just Rust applications like Rocket and Axin? Okay, I think I just tried a comparison with Actix, which is one of the fastest Rust frameworks. So it's definitely slower than that because Python overhead is still present. So I think it will be slower than native Rust application, but I try to make it as fast as possible in Python. Thank you for your talk. Two very good questions. You showed that you run the server with both processes and workers. So I suppose processes are CPUs and then the question is, what are the workers? Like, are they the number of threats? Yes. And the follow-up question is, how do you run this on production? How do I do this?  How would you do it? Ideally, I don't know the exact way of how many numbers of CPU do you need, how many workers and how many processes do you need on depending on your configuration. So usually I try to do a trial and error where I start with the workers that are twice the number of CPU cores that you have and processes start with just one and I try to increase or decrease them based on the performance metrics. Yes. And one more thing that I forgot to tell you folks is that we are having a community challenge right now. So there are some open issues on GitHub that are marked with EuroPython. So if you can create a PR to solve them, you get a shirt from me. So this Robin shirt is up for grabs. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Feel free to reach to me. Okay. One more question. Yeah, just following up on the workers and processes. In this case, when you configure the processes, is it like forked straight from the rest or in the Python side that you create those processes? The processes are on the Python side. The workers are on the R side. Okay, so if you have kind of a single process and in the case multiple workers, you still have multi-CPU support. Yeah. Is it kind of each one of the threads running its own pythons of the processor? How is that working with the white queue between them? Every processor has its own worker. Every process has its own worker. So depending on the processes that you create, we'll have the scale of that many workers. So can you share data amongst those threads? Yes. Like in Python? Yes, that's how the runtime works because the router is a thread safe router that dispatches the function according. So I don't have to rephrase this. Yeah, you can share everything that's internal that's rust, that's fine because, yeah, you just need to be thread safe, right? Yeah. What about data structures from Python sites? Can you share those across your threads as well? As long as I think they're thread safe, but I never actually had to share the data structures. So that's all. I'm not really sure. No, no, I'm sorry. That's all. Thanks. Very nice talk. Yeah, sure. Okay, thank you folks. That's all for today. If you have any other further questions, then I think Sanskar will be available on the hallway. And can we have another round of applause? Thank you to Sanskar. Thank you everyone. Thank you for the 10 minutes, guys.


Gavno Samo-Otom of Benra State has commanded President Buhari for not signing the Electoral Art Amendment Bill 2021 into law. This is following the inclusion of direct primary in the bill. The Electoral Act sent to the president by the National Assembly was rejected by the executive. The president also said the amendment to allow for direct primaries will lead to a plethora of litigations based on diverse grounds and issues of law.


DJ Bird, like he tried it once, he tried it twice, man. He just, he ain't got the, DJ Bird took me out there, we was drinking, shout out to DJ Bird, Crazy Horse. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Had a beer called Crazy Horse. Yeah. Being Horse owner. Yeah, I remember that. Oh man, we got out there, he put them cables on me, I come back in there, man, like a boy, who in here? Who, who, who? What, what? I went in, I just let my energy go, man. Right until you came to you for re-elected solid gold snowflakes with that honey, gross and tight it in the sheets. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gonna talk. Right, right. So, this front, back, side, to side, man, you know, that's one right there for the record.  Right until you came to you for re-elected solid gold snowflakes with that honey, gross and tight it in the sheets. I got a gig. I gotta thank God for DJ Bird. That's something that we can do. Shout out to DJ Bird. Shout out to DJ Bird, man. Smitty, I'm sorry, y'all couldn't make it, bro. But we gonna keep moving. I didn't know what Pym was doing to me at the time. He was tricking me in the training. Like, I don't know how he did it. He never liked anything. I was like, oh, that's boobo. That's what the same thing Boosie said. Say everything you got wasn't good enough. Nah, that man ain't jamming. You know, he just had that way about it. But the kind of love he showed me though. You know what I mean? And as I watched that ain't grow because you ought to understand before any of the stuff materializing grew, I was there. It's like stuff I forgot. And so, we were in New Orleans. Ira Bures was his name, I believe. I don't know what to do. Gumbo Funk Studio, who was that? Some studio situation. I think I've heard that name before. Yeah, and they had all the executives, like I said on other interviews, they had the tags in there playing games, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, for one reason or another, they had me in a corner situation and they was like talking to me. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about? Like, they was trying to make a deal with Pimp. He snapped out. Y'all get away from blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.  Oh, Smoke, we gonna do it. Pimp wants you to come in and do it first. Oh, first.  So, DJ Bird, like he tried it once, he tried it twice, man. He just, he didn't got the DJ Bird to me out there. We was drinking. Shout out to DJ Bird, Crazy Horse. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had a beer called Crazy Horse. Me and Horse on it. Yeah, I remember that. Man, we got out there, he put them cables on me. I come up in there, man, like a boy, what a hit. Who, who, who, who? What a, what a, you know what? I went in, I just let my energy go, man. Tight white interior, candy after we're elected. Solid gold snowflakes with that honey gloss and tighter than the sheets. And then it turned into a hit for them for us. It was, it was great. Yeah, and I owe all of that to DJ Bird, remember, because he is really like the glue. He still is and was like the glue to everybody. Every situation, he just brought happiness and love to it. You know what I'm saying? My trip, yeah. That's crazy. I was working as an A&R for Atlantic Records, right? And Pimp had just came home. T.I. was working on the album. And my camera was like, man, what can we do for T.I. knowing UGK to get it like this? I said, let's get them to redo a UGK song. Right? Right? Check it out. Check it out. I was man, bro. I was talking about stroking some work, you know what I mean? I said, man. So the guy with Pimp, they got Manifrest to redo front, backside, and side. Got both of them on the song, you know what I mean? And that's crazy. Wow. Like in real time, like right now, I just gotta shake it in, because they got me a chin. I already know. I already know. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Once I realized what I could be utilized for, I was able to do that at Atlantic Records, but I know better. I know what everybody got paid, smoke. Okay. I know what the budget was, smoke. He didn't know a lot of people. I introduced him to Gucci. I was able to make moves for my people to get check stroke to him. That's all. That's what it's about, bro. That's what it's about now. And like I'm just listening in this interview, the key point and the key thing that I call because I'm more of an observer than the Taliban. Communication. For sure. Communication. If we can learn how to do that properly, then we can express ourselves in a more direct way. And you know what I mean? More than just text message out of fast super information. You know, put the phone down sometimes. That's it. That's it. Tritot, what you know about Pini, man? Let's go on. You started out with Big Boy, right? Big Boy, right? I started out actually with, I started out actually with a brother of mine named Musa. He didn't yet have a label for his, I mean a name for his label. But Big Boy was my first independent success. Yes, yes he was, right. Wow. Go ahead, man. Like from there, like you kind of, you transferred, like you went to, I think it was no limit after that, like it was, there's one there friend who was there, was it your 2000? No, no, no. It was not May 5th, 1998. 1998, yeah. Yeah, and when you came up with that, like it was a change. Like I seen like a really kind of, you and Miskul kind of like y'all kind of bleeded together like a little bit, like I don't solve together like the Snoop. Yeah, that's crazy. When I got the Big Boy records, Miskul pulled me in the back of the Chuck, the owner of Big Boy Records.  He enjoyed the baddest motherfucka last single. I remember, I'll never forget this. He had the nylon undershirts they give from Soul Train, you heard me? He had some cackies on, he was like, he rolled a little joint.  And I was like, just met him my first time meeting him, right? I was like, I'm bruh. So we ran it and that was that. The Big Boy Records, I couldn't get it off like I wanted to. Scythe gave me the production that he can give me at the time, but I know we could have went more in depth. Yeah, that's what I said, that's why I asked about the mystical thing, cause I knew he was over there too. And then I was like, how did that, you know, like from y'all transferring over and then y'all like rejoining back when y'all got there. I was helping, believe it or not, I was like bringing tracks and instrumentals in and I liked this and Scythe might like it. And every once in a while, let me be wrong, he did his own thing.  I did writing where whoever me needed writing for at the time, however to play my part, not a hundred percent of the bodies, but just, you know, increments of stuff. I know what you mean.


They get together and they say that you know what? We have to find a way to hurt Muhammad ﷺ. One of them was, they go to Abu Lahab Abdul Azza. They said, hey look, you have two of your sons, they're supposed to be married too. The two daughters of the Prophet ﷺ. Okay, go and tell your sons that they have to divorce the daughters of the Prophet and their wives and send them back. Because by doing so, she goes back to the Prophet ﷺ. Hadith the Messenger ﷺ in which he says, anything you leave for the sake of Allah, Allah will replace that with much better. And so, he ﷺ goes and he gets his daughter Ruqya, married to Uthman ibn Affan, radiallahu anhu. Can you imagine the difference between Uttaba and Uthman? Uthman radiallahu anhu was one of the ten people promised paradise while he's standing on this earth. Uthman was one of the first people to accept Islam. One of the wealthiest Sahaba. And he's the person who donated more money than you can imagine. We can't even imagine the number. Literally, the amount of money that he gave in the path of Allah swt. This is the person that she would go on to, marry. We look at divorce is such a terrible thing. How do you not know that Allah will not give you even better? If it's done for the sake of Allah swt. In the proper way, in the way that Nabi Anas A.S. has ordained for us. And so, she goes and marries Uthman.