MOB DAUGHTER!! Author, artist, & daughter of a Colombo Crime Capo, CHRISTINE PETRIZZO, Joins “The Happy Hour!”

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King Hap (1:39): So, of course, this week, I bring in someone from New York. But before I get into today's guest, I gotta go ahead and throw a big shout out to everybody who worked here at the Wicked Big Studios and Lounge today opening the pool, getting the Jeep ready for the summer. Thank you so much, Jackal USMC. Beantown Bad Boy, thank you so much everybody who, went ahead and assisted. Everybody, thank you so much.

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King Hap (2:10): Now today's guest, and I'll tell you, I've been looking forward to this one myself. I read this book. When I tell you, I read this book cover to cover. What a fantastic book, and you guys know me. I love true crime.

King Hap (2:23): I love organized crime. I love all this. I love hearing about it, but this doesn't just take you inside of, you know, organized crime, the true crime aspect. This takes you into the family look at organized crime, at the Colombo crime family, at everything that has to do with the mafia mob, etcetera. So let me go ahead without any further ado, and let me welcome today's guest.

King Hap (2:50): And we'll explain who she is and where she comes from. But, Christine, so good to have you. And, Christine, thank you so much for joining us here at the happy hour.

Christine (3:00): And thank you for having me. I'm so happy that I'm here at the happy hour, the social club.

King Hap (3:05): Yes. Yes. I see right now the chat room is filling up. I see Boston boss, Sunny DTJ, Batista, Beantown, Joe Foe thirteen, Reggie, what's up, girl? Everybody who's here?

King Hap (3:17): This is fantastic. We're gonna have a good time tonight. So before we get going, I wanted to just say so, this is how the story starts. Alright. You're born into a family.

King Hap (3:28): You don't see nothing wrong. You think that life is grand. What's going on? You don't see it. But your dad who turns out is a Capo in the Colombo crime family.

King Hap (3:41): You don't know this. You're just a young woman having a good time. Your mom and your dad's looking for a son. He gets four girls. Now you got a capo in the Columbo crime family.

King Hap (3:52): He he's full his house is full of five women. This man probably losing his mind, but I gotta say, he starts off as a as a garbage man because this we wasn't always he wasn't always a capo. He starts off as a garbage man. He moves on. He turns into a truck driver.

King Hap (4:09): So as this goes on and you're young, you just don't see anything, you know, out of the ordinary than your friend next door down the street, schoolmates, etcetera. Correct?

Christine (4:19): Right. And then they started saying, is your father in the mafia? And I said, no. I mean, it was a little different. He was hardly ever home.

Christine (4:28): Yep. And when he did come home, he had a big black Cadillac or Lincoln Continental, always in a suit. And I said, dad I asked him. I said, are you in the mafia? On the mafia?

Christine (4:40): What are what are you what are you talking about? There's no such thing as the mafia.

Unknown Speaker (4:43): Always the same answer.

Christine (4:45): Yeah. I said, well, my friends are all asking me because their fathers come home to eat every night. Well, I'm not a nine to five. You know, I work hard, but there's no such thing as the mafia. I said, alright.

Christine (4:58): But it was always different. We always knew our life was different, but you didn't ask any questions.

Unknown Speaker (5:03): No. So

Christine (5:04): You just knew you knew about it. Yep. Just the way it was.

King Hap (5:07): So your dad is Tom, the garbage man, the truck driver, etcetera. And, you know, he's you know, comes home, his wife, his kids doing his thing, goes back on the road, etcetera. Little do we know that he'll turn out to be Thomas Petrizzo, who is a capo in the in the Colombo crime family, and, you don't find out about this for a while. But when you're, you know, you you know, your mom and you were tight when you were younger, your grandparents, I mean, you say and you and, you know, you guys know I ain't giving the book away, but one of things you do mention is going to your grandparents' house. You know, you're Italian.

King Hap (5:42): I I you know, Italian. So I know going to grandma and papa's house was one of those things that I really enjoyed. Number one, the food was freaking amazing. Number two, you could you got away with a lot more than you did at home with mom and dad. And I gotta say, in your book, you sound very similar to that as well.

King Hap (6:01): I mean, am I correct?

Christine (6:03): Yes. Yes. And they just loved us so much. We had so much love from my grandparents. It was just beautiful, You know?

Christine (6:12): Yes. Because my father, like, he loved us, but he always wanted boys. He wanted his guys. You know? And four girls, he was like, ugh, alright.

Christine (6:21): Another girl. You know?

King Hap (6:22): He so think you know, your dad, he was I mean, guys, if you guys don't know this, you can Google and read all about Tom online. This man was a very tall, very strong, handsome son of a bitch. This guy was freaking you know, he was he was your prototypical, you know, a o. You know, he walks in and he demands attention. You know what I'm saying?

King Hap (6:42): So as he walks in, you know, he's this tall, strong, handsome guy. So he's all of these things, but he knows it. Correct?

Christine (6:50): Right. Oh, yeah. He knew it. Well, wherever he was, like, he had you you could like, if we went anywhere with him, people would all, respect him. Oh, look who's here.

Christine (7:00): Tommy and his daughters. We were like, royalty walked in, and everything. I mean, we'd always wonder like that, what's going on? Oh, you you just have to respect me like everybody else. Mean, but we didn't ask too many You just knew it was just how the lifestyle.

Unknown Speaker (7:19): You know?

Unknown Speaker (7:19): Yeah. And plus, at the age you were.

Christine (7:22): Yeah. We were kids, so we didn't really know anything.

King Hap (7:25): Yes. Yes. And that that makes that makes a big difference when you're that yeah. So your dad definitely did want a boy. I mean, I I mean, from just reading the book, I can tell that, you know, the four girls that was, did that turn out to be a burden on, like, you and your three, you know, and your I'm sorry.

King Hap (7:41): You and your you know, it was fake. This house is full of women. But are you and your sisters does this turn out to be a burden on you guys because he doesn't have that other man in the house?

Christine (7:54): Yeah. Well, he always would invite a lot of friends over that with the guys. He loved to hang out with the young guys as we got a little older, even like young teenagers. I'll invite all the guys over. They'd all be hanging out.

Christine (8:07): My mother would be cooking on Sunday, and all the guys would be hanging out with my father. He just loved them because he talked about his business, which he was always into, the trucking business and the steel, know, a big steel industry. And I don't know if he ever spoke about anything else with them because, you know, it's not like we were there. He would have said, go inside. We're talking.

Christine (8:31): You know, they'd be outside. He's always liked to be around men. He didn't like to be around the girls. You know?

King Hap (8:37): And one of the things that he he just for the listeners, I mean, his his racket, like his thing was construction and hauling. Yeah. That's what he did even in his days in the in the Colombo crime family. That was, you know, people watch the sopranos and they think that's what it is. He was one of the guys that was involved in construction as opposed to, you know, more gambling or, you know, like running.

Christine (9:00): Like the the typical wise guy. He was more into his business, which was, you know, construction in Manhattan. He worked with the five families.

Unknown Speaker (9:10): Yep.

Christine (9:11): With the steel the steel industry in the city, with the cement and Sammy the Bull and all them. You know, they all worked together and all made a ton of money in the city, you know? Yep. With all their buildings and the steel and all that construction. That was what he did mostly.

Christine (9:28): He wasn't really one of those wise guys that just hung out all the time. He was always at work. He was a a workaholic.

King Hap (9:35): Also he also dabbled a little bit in, the service industry, we'll call it, as we had Redheads Lounge at one point when you were younger. You and your sisters always wondered about this. And I'll tell you what, in a way, this is genius. I mean, if you forgive me for putting the, letting the cat out of the bag, but kinda like I should make the happy hour social club here at the Wicked Big Studios and Lounge. There are no wives allowed at the Redhead Lounge, and, this is a crazy thing.

King Hap (10:05): And your mom, I'm sure, wasn't thrilled about it, but, I mean, you guys were very, very, you know, your thoughts were there. What goes on in this place, etcetera? No Wives Allowed, the Redhead Lounge. This was in your younger years, correct?

Christine (10:21): Right. We were teenagers. My sister one night said, she just got her new car for her sweet 16. And she goes, let's go. We're going to the Redheads.

Christine (10:30): I said, we're not allowed to go. They were gonna get in trouble. So we pull up, you know, and she says, I'm the the bouncer comes out.

Unknown Speaker (10:38): Didn't go away.

Christine (10:38): You girls get lost. And we said, yeah. We're here to see my father. Your father's not here. Turn around.

Christine (10:45): Get in the car. Oh, we got in so much trouble. I thought, don't you ever go there. You know, it was all the wise guys were hanging out. We saw all they're all standing outside with the soups on, smoking cigars, and, you know, so he had that.

Christine (10:58): He had all those red heads that worked there. They were all the beautiful bar mates, you know, that's that served the guys.

King Hap (11:04): So Smart man. I'd I'd have been a member there. Yeah. But your visit there didn't go well, when you went home, you didn't, you didn't even really get yelled at. But this sets the tone for pretty much the rest of your life as this man was, we'll call it firm.

King Hap (11:22): Correct?

Christine (11:23): Right. Yes. Very, very much so. Yep.

King Hap (11:26): His word was the law in the household, and that's what he continued to make sure of. So he went ahead and he said, you guys stay the f out of there, etcetera. And, you pretty much knew at that point, we're not going back. Correct?

Christine (11:40): Oh, no. We couldn't even think about going over there. But my sister was more like a rebel. She always had to find out what was going on. She was very much involved with She knew everybody.

Unknown Speaker (11:52): Yep.

Christine (11:53): She was one of those. She married, you know

King Hap (11:57): Michael Persico. Correct?

Christine (11:58): Yeah. Her her father-in-law was Carmine Persico, the head of the Colombo Croix family.

Unknown Speaker (12:04): And for all you

Christine (12:05): hear all of them, and, you know, she was always more involved than than I was. Was one of the middle the middle ones. So I was more a little quiet and stayed low key, but she knew. So

King Hap (12:17): One thing I was gonna say is, Carmine Persico, for all you people that don't know, is one of the most powerful crime bosses that there was back then. He was the head of the Colombo crime family when they made it, you know, when they had the, you know, all the sit downs and see he was one of the he was one of those gentlemen along with happy hour social club VIP, Rita Gigante's father, the chin. He was the chin. He was one of the, one of the bosses as well at one point. And, Rita's been on the show.

King Hap (12:46): She's she's fantastic. I mean, I'm I'm not sure if you've ever, you've ever crossed

Unknown Speaker (12:51): paths. Know who she is, and I did watch a few of her podcasts. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (12:56): Yep. So

Christine (12:56): she And she didn't know anything either, and then her father started to tell her at some point, but she knew things weren't like everybody else. You know? The different life.

King Hap (13:07): The depiction of her in the godfather of Harlem who bumpy John's is about bumpy Johnson. Not sure if you've seen this show. Bumpy Johnson's grandson was on. We spoke about that. But the depiction of Rita on that show is so farfetched that she's offended and actually, like, refuses to watch the show about her dad and her family, etcetera, which is kind of crazy in a way.

Unknown Speaker (13:33): Wow.

King Hap (13:34): So if you ever get a minute and you check that out or don't believe that that's how the, life was back then, that's a little, we'll say made up. But I'll tell you, with Redhead Lounge and, you know, the truck driver, Tom, he, was also kind of a known womanizer. He started walking you to school in kindergarten and, you kind of had a feeling you knew why after a while. Correct?

Christine (13:59): Right. Yeah. He started he said, oh, come on Cookie. Let me walk you to school. And my sister's.

Christine (14:04): But he always wanted to go to my class. I because my teacher was so beautiful. And I I still remember her name, miss Michaelman. And he'd go, oh, come on. Let's go see miss Michael, and then she'd be all shy.

Christine (14:17): You know, she's probably in her twenties. Yeah. Was five. So I look at my father, and what is what's going on? He'd be flirting with her, and, you know, it's all and I'm like, ugh, this is a little strange.

Christine (14:30): My father flirting with my teacher. Yeah. And then I started to realize, you know, he was always a womanizer, even from back then when I was a little kid at five years old. But he didn't do it a lot, but we already had that idea of, you know, after the we got all to the redheads lounge, you know, so

Unknown Speaker (14:49): Yep.

Christine (14:49): You know? And Wasn't allowed to go there, my mother, you know? So

Unknown Speaker (14:54): Of course.

Unknown Speaker (14:54): Us out of a lot of places.

King Hap (14:56): But In a way, he protected you, but at the same time, he also was doing his thing, which it sounds like. And and, you know, it is, you know, I'm sure that it's it's a very difficult, you know, high high wire rack to walk between protection of himself and his family. You know what I mean? Down the middle. So in a way, I commend him and in a way I understand frustration that came back then for you.

King Hap (15:18): You know, we'll talk about how you guys, you know, kinda got past that as you got older. But, back then though, as you got older and, you know, you started to kinda figure out some things, what age was it that you kind of realized that the rumors about the mafia, the rumors about, you know, your dad being involved? When was it that you actually started to realize that they were true?

Christine (15:42): I guess when I was a teenager, then I I knew. Yeah. We all knew, but we didn't ask any questions. We just figured it out, you know. Who came over to visit my father?

Christine (15:52): They're always going out for walks. You know? It was always their you know, you gotta stay away. They're talking. The men are talking.

Christine (15:59): You know, it was just different. It was just that lifestyle that it was just that life.

King Hap (16:05): When uncle Ralphie and your dad visited a man who, made a pass at you, was that right around then? Because I believe you were age 13. Is that right around when you knew that, you know, uncle Ralphie wasn't really his brother?

Christine (16:21): Oh, yeah. You know, Uncle Ralphie was tough, and, you know, so the story is, you know, the person that I was with, it was a friend of mine. Her mother said, Don't tell your father. I mean, I knew. If I tell my father, he's gonna go to jail or he's gonna kill somebody.

Christine (16:40): So I said, All right, I can't tell. But I did tell my mother, she told them, and then before you know it, they're calling me to talk to them and tell them what happened, so I had to. And that was it. The guy was in the hospital. He had broken legs, no teeth.

Christine (16:55): He was in the hospital for months. But listen, it was better because I was okay with it because it taught him a lesson. Don't bother any little girls. Yes. Didn't know who I was.

Christine (17:06): He didn't know my background. But if he could have got away with it, you know, he didn't you know, he came on to me as an older man. You know?

Unknown Speaker (17:14): And the way I look at that is how many people did before he ran into the capo's daughter. You know what I mean?

Christine (17:21): Yeah. So when I found out I don't know how I found out, but I wasn't supposed to that he was, you know, beat up pretty bad.

Unknown Speaker (17:29): You know? So I don't think

Christine (17:30): the guy could walk for a few years. I don't know. He had broken legs and everything.

King Hap (17:35): So and here's the other thing to your dad, the home wasn't just where you live. This was his fortress. Right? He wanted to make sure the place was pristine. This is my room here.

King Hap (17:46): This is where we do this. This is where we do that. The typical I can tell you what, when my when my grandparents, you know, when they, sold my grandparents house, one of the things that I I can remember pig, you know, moving out the couch, and the couch was still brand new because no one was allowed to sit on except for Christmas. So, I mean, the thing was still brand new, but it was about 200 years old. I I gotta say, that's how they did it back then, the Italians.

King Hap (18:11): And so, I mean, that's basically how your house was. They he set it up as a fortress. I find this to be pretty funny. I'm getting the laugh emojis in the in the chat room. But

Christine (18:21): Now you know why? Because when we moved to Dix Hills, our house was huge. We had so many different rooms, and we had parties all the time. We always had parties, and my mother had a den. He had a den.

Christine (18:33): We had living rooms. I mean, it was just big, and the party outside was gorgeous. So he did invite over a lot of people, all our friends, had a big, huge bar stocked. It was just unbelievable. We had a lot of good times when we were younger.

King Hap (18:49): Yep. The den. The den was one of the places we had. We had the den, and that was

Unknown Speaker (18:55): Den. Yeah.

King Hap (18:56): Awesome. Awesome. So some of your friends back then. Now we we already spoke about, Michael Persico who go you know, goes ahead and marries your sister. But, I mean, you were friends with the L and M boys, and that was a renowned group back then of basic organized crime, you know, basically the stepping stone to the mafia and the crime families.

King Hap (19:17): Correct?

Christine (19:18): Right. Yeah. I mean, I went to high school with them, and I would go home and tell my father, oh, do you know the Allen M. Boys? Maybe you know their fathers.

Christine (19:27): He goes, the Allen M. Boys. What's that? I said, the little mafia. And there again, you know, there's no such thing as the mafia.

Christine (19:35): What are you, crazy? But, you know, later on, I find out that a lot of their fathers were friends. They, you know, they all knew each other. So it was boys, the young boys, sons, and they became involved in in that life.

King Hap (19:50): Bean Tom Bean Tom Bad Boy wants to know if, did you have the rug vacuumed all in one direction with the plastic on the couch? Like, yeah. Like, because you'd again, that's the they always vacuumed in one direction back then. It was crazy. That's that's

Christine (20:06): I know. But, no, we didn't. No. We didn't. We used all the rooms.

Unknown Speaker (20:10): That's awesome.

Christine (20:10): Maybe the one room, my mother's living room, it was all blue. Yeah. That's right. That that was the one that you didn't really go in. That was the was that one was cooled off, that living room.

Christine (20:20): Yeah.

King Hap (20:20): They had the lines in the rug like Fenway Park for God's sakes. Like, they just mowed the lawn. It's hysterical to think back to those days and, you know, like

Christine (20:29): I mean, that didn't happen in my house, but you couldn't sit on the couches. They had to put the plastic covers on. And then when they got rid of the couch, like you said, they were brand new.

King Hap (20:38): So When we just like I said, we threw away one of them. It had sitting on it had probably been sat on 20 times the thing. When you were friends and hanging out and going to school with the L and M boys, was Carmine Persico already in jail at that time? I mean, I I this is I I don't know the answer to this. Was he already in jail?

Unknown Speaker (20:54): Was or was he still in power?

Christine (20:57): Well, no, because my sister didn't meet him until we were a little older. Maybe our late teens, right? And he was away and then he came home. No, he was in and out of jail. I met him a few times.

Christine (21:10): He would be back and he'd go back in. I think when he went in for the last time, it had to be in the '80s. He went in. That was when he gave himself up or they caught him somewhere because he wanted to see his granddaughter before he went away again. He never came home after that.

Christine (21:32): That's my niece, so he wanted to wait until he saw how she was just being born. And then he went away, and that was it. He died in prison.

King Hap (21:42): Hundred and thirty nine years, I think he got, to be honest, if I remember correct.

Christine (21:46): Yeah. Right.

King Hap (21:47): Insane. Insane. So just a question about so let me ask you this. Let me ask you just a question about your, your writing real quick before I even ask you any more about your your, younger years. But when you decided to write this book

Christine (22:02): Right.

King Hap (22:02): How long like, how much thought did you put into it, like, before you started? And then after you started, how long did it actually take to get this and by the way, guys, this book is not this isn't like your little, this ain't a little quick, you know, read at the you know, you pick up at the airport and you're done on the, one hour flight to New York. How long did it take you to actually get this detailed and to get into all this stuff in this publication?

Christine (22:29): It was hard. We were gonna write the book together, me and two of my sisters, so it would be the three of us. So we started. That was about four or five years ago. And you know, that didn't work out because who wants to put this in, that one doesn't want to put that in.

Christine (22:45): So I said, we just said, so I kept writing and then I took me about a year before I really, you know, started to get it all together. It took a full year. And then after it was then I finally found a publisher. And then it takes even longer because you got to go through every page with the writers and So it was a long process. It was very emotional.

Christine (23:10): A lot of times I said, I can't go through it with it. Just can't. Because it brings back so many memories that you don't want to think about. You like you just forgot it all, and now it's all coming to the surface again, and it's very, very painful. So it it took a long time.

Christine (23:26): A few years, I'd say, by the time it was all done.

Unknown Speaker (23:30): Well, were

Unknown Speaker (23:31): you Don't this you would be a great movie? I just think it would be a great movie.

King Hap (23:35): I think this would be a fantastic movie. Maybe mister Big gets on this or, you know, Joe Pino might I'll tell you what, man. They gotta cast me in here. Make me uncle Ralphie. Joe Pino, get on this.

King Hap (23:45): You gotta give Christine a call. Let's, make this. I'll tell you. They they had asked me about, being in a, you know, organized crime little thing or something like that, but my injuries, didn't didn't allow me to be in it. I think I was gonna get killed for somebody's, enjoyment.

Unknown Speaker (24:00): Oh, really?

King Hap (24:00): That'd be awesome. I I hope I get my head blown off in the next one. So when I'm feeling better. But I I so I gotta ask you this. Right?

King Hap (24:08): I I and this is one for me, and I see some questions coming into the chat room guys, I'll get to some of those. But here's one that I need to know. Your father is in the mafia. Your father is a capital in the Colombo crime family. He's big.

King Hap (24:22): He's, you know, methodical. He, you know, he's not one of those guys, not very loud, but, you know, he's one of those. He's intimidating. How was Dayton when you were younger? When you bring home a boyfriend or something when you were younger, how was Dayton as a, you know, as a teenager, etcetera, into your twenties before you were married and all this?

King Hap (24:42): How was it with your dad basically being the guy sitting there like, to these guys? How how did that go?

Christine (24:50): Well, I remember my first boyfriend. I was young teenager, and my father All he had to do was look at them. First of all, they all kind of knew anyway. If they knew me, they already knew what the background was, but they were a little nervous coming over. My father takes one of them outside for a walk.

Christine (25:08): He goes, Yeah, let's go outside and take a little walk. So I'm like, Ugh, I wonder what that's saying. But he said to me when he came, a few days later or the day later, whatever, he said, Your father took me outside. I was so scared. He opened up his suit jacket and there was a gun in there.

Unknown Speaker (25:26): And Oops. What happened?

King Hap (25:28): I I think that that was just your camera, but you could fix that while we continue to talk. One of the there you go. You're back. So when your dad's intimidating your boyfriends and stuff, they did, you know, and that you know, now that could go either way. They could be like, stay the hell away from me, or this is freaking awesome.

King Hap (25:46): I mean, because I'd probably be on the ladder pack on this is freaking amazing. But I gotta say, that must have been tough for you and your sisters, you know, knowing this. Yeah. I've been being overprotective. Right?

Christine (25:58): A lot of guys stayed away because they were, like, nervous. You know? I I it's okay. Yeah. I'll pass on her.

Christine (26:05): But, then when I met my ex husband, you know, all he had to do was look at the guys. That's it. Just give them a look, and they already knew. You know? A lot of a lot of people didn't wanna get involved.

King Hap (26:16): You don't want this guy staring you down, telling you what's inside the, the old pea coat. Yeah. Love it. And, a good question here is, I can't well, here he says, I can't imagine anybody wanting to date you due to being scared. Yeah.

King Hap (26:31): That would I mean, I could see some people being scared away. And, another question is whose traits or personality did you take on? Are you more like your dad, assertive and kind of strong, or are you more like your mom who, from the book and the description, we'll talk about her in a moment, but she seemed very, more laid back. She she came and, you know, your father and her came from very different upbringings, which if you'd like to touch on, that would be a good one because your dad kinda came from that, like I said, that Italian family, the grandparents were overbearing. You know?

King Hap (27:03): Eat these damn raviolis. You know? But Yeah. Your mom, not so much. Correct?

Christine (27:08): Yeah. My mother had a difficult family background with her family, and she had to leave school very young and work and give them the money. My grandfather was a gambler. So, you know, when they got married, my mother was happy to be in his family, you know, because they were so loving and caring.

Unknown Speaker (27:27): She started work real early, right, your mom?

Christine (27:30): Yeah. Anyway, she did have a hard life, but she was tough in her own way. I mean, she was tough, but quiet and took a lot of shit from him, I have to say. And she loved him. So she said, where was she gonna go anyway?

Christine (27:45): So she couldn't leave, you know? So she had a nice lifestyle as, you know, he built up and made money. But she was never around. He was never there. So, you know, she was lonely.

King Hap (27:56): It kinda goes with the territory too when you're dating a man like your dad. You kind of almost, what's the word? I'd see. You kinda almost submit to that there's gonna be a little bit of this and a little of that. Right?

Christine (28:07): Yes. But getting back to who I'm more like, oh, yeah. I am like my mother, but I also have my father's blood. So it's like, you know, I always tell people, I'm nice, I'm quiet, but but you know what? Don't eff around with me because, you know, I get that all of a sudden the blood starts boiling and then it comes out because that's how I am.

Unknown Speaker (28:29): But no one ever

Unknown Speaker (28:29): that, I

Christine (28:30): mean, I'm really sweet and nice and kind, but then get me to a certain point and that's how I am.

King Hap (28:37): Your dad was like that. His temper was, you know, it was it was his best friend and his worst enemy at sometimes. Your dad's he has a he had a temper, and basically he stayed very calm until he didn't. Correct?

Christine (28:48): That's it. That's how that's how he was. Right? He just had to give the look. You know, it was just a look.

Christine (28:53): And you knew better. Don't ask a question. Don't say anything. That's it. So we all knew.

Christine (28:59): We were always in line with the look, you know?

King Hap (29:01): Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So so as as your life goes on and your parents and your dad becomes more powerful and, you know, he he like I said before, the construction was his thing and and in a way, the construction was his how he grew, how he gained power. It was also his downfall as, he was sentenced at one point to thirty three months in prison for, extortion from a, 1996 conviction. Right?

King Hap (29:29): Right. He he went to jail for thirty three months and also paid extremely heavy fines. Correct?

Christine (29:35): Right. But he also went to jail in '92 when the war started. Yep. The the big war. Yeah.

King Hap (29:42): The Colombo crime family war.

Christine (29:44): Yeah. The, the Colombo war. Yep. Was between the Persicos and Vicarina.

King Hap (29:51): And, in the end, that was your father ended up and now, I mean, I ain't giving away too much of the book, guys. But one of the things that was shocking about your dad is where he sided when the war started. Because number one, Michael Persico, the Persicos were his family. He ended I mean, I'll let you tell them. I mean, he ends up, kinda shocking everybody.

King Hap (30:13): Correct?

Christine (30:14): Yeah. I mean, I didn't understand. My mother was in the hospital dying at the time, and I just knew there was this war going on. And I really didn't know, but it was on the news all the time. I'm like, dad, what's going on?

Christine (30:26): You know? And I'm worried about you because, you know, my mother's dying in the hospital. And he said, Don't worry about me. I'll be fine. I'll take care of you.

Christine (30:37): He sided with them. He was very close to Vic. Him and Vic were like two peas of the they got very, very close. Carmine was already away for So his son was supposed to take over, Alley Boy. Yep.

Christine (30:52): And Vic wanted to be the boss, so that's when the law started. So I couldn't understand why my father how did you go over to the other side? Your daughter's married to Michael. But he always said, don't ask questions. You don't understand.

Christine (31:07): And that was it.

Unknown Speaker (31:08): Just business. Right? Just business.

Christine (31:10): Yeah. He wasn't gonna sit and explain anything to me. So then they all got arrested and that's how that started. He was away for two and a half years, but that wasn't bad. He got acquitted.

Christine (31:26): They all got acquitted.

King Hap (31:27): Yes. And he I mean, there was some substantial back in '92, there's some substantial charges that coulda had him spend a lot of time behind bars. Correct?

Christine (31:35): He would've he would've got life from prison. He had really good, great attorneys. John Gotti's attorney.

Unknown Speaker (31:42): Yep. John Jerry. Right? He had

Christine (31:44): Yeah. Jerry Charcot and Jimmy LaRosa. And, you know, he went through a lot of money.

Unknown Speaker (31:50): Yep.

Christine (31:51): But he got out.

King Hap (31:53): Which money isn't it's not nice having money if you can't be if you can't be on the streets to spend it. Right? So if you're Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (31:59): Right. Right.

King Hap (32:00): You know, the the the acquittal was for murder, you know, tied to the war, which thank goodness it was. And, you know, he ended up with the extortion charges. He admitted to it, from the Newark, the Newark International Airport, job that he went ahead and pulled some money out of that. So it is what it is. But when your father ends up introducing a hurdle to your family's life.

King Hap (32:26): Now, this is before your mother falls ill. And before I talk about that, I wanna ask a quick question that one of the Happy Hour Social Club VIPs wants to know. They wanna know if you have any idea how your mother's parents felt about her dating your dad or marrying your dad.

Christine (32:44): Well, I think they kinda looked up to him because they said, oh, he's you know, because he had money. He was making money. But I think they felt bad for her. Yeah. They felt bad because she was always lonely and she was always sad.

Christine (32:57): But I think they I think it was like a fifty fifty thing. You know? They were happy and sad to her. You know, they looked at him like, oh, he's like a celebrity. He's in the mob.

Christine (33:07): You know?

King Hap (33:07): Yep. And what your dad ends up doing is he actually ends up and this is crazy. And I mean, they always say you don't shit what you eat, but, he ends up bringing his mistress even to your house around. Show you know, basically, this is my home. Kinda like showing off, but trying to keep it a secret at the same time.

King Hap (33:27): I mean, this is what really kind of complicated your dynamic. Correct?

Christine (33:32): Well, that's why I named the book The Sins of the Man I Called Death. Yep. It's mostly because of that, because, you know, we used to go to this family restaurant with my grandparents, and it was her parents' restaurant. I'll just say that. I'm not going to say names, but

Unknown Speaker (33:49): Understood.

Christine (33:50): So she started coming on to my father all the time, and my grandfather I mean, sitting with the young girls, with teenagers, and my mother, and my grandfather told me, you know, because I was close to him, Oh, she's got her claws in your father. I said, No, he's not her type. He likes the redheads, girls, you know? And he goes, Mark my words. Just mark my words.

Christine (34:13): Okay. And then as time went on, we had to lie to my mother for years because we knew we knew.

King Hap (34:21): When was that you actually found out? You and yourself? When did when was it that it clicked in your head? I know that it didn't click in your mom's head for a long time afterwards.

Christine (34:30): Yeah. No. I mean, I was a teenager, and I started now, and I I knew. I just knew. I mean, I couldn't ask anything, but when he said to to my house.

Unknown Speaker (34:39): Yep.

Christine (34:39): Our house, we lived in Dix Hills, and all of a sudden, my mother hangs up the phone and says, Your father invited over so and so and her sister for lunch. I kinda knew something was going on already. I go, why would they be coming here? And there she is looking around the house. You know, oh, it's beautiful.

Christine (35:00): You know, and the big lunch came in and, you know, and it's showing her the pool and all the bedrooms and, and I'm like, why? I was so mad. I was just so mad because I knew. I knew. Are you kidding me?

Christine (35:11): Why are you bringing her here?

Unknown Speaker (35:13): How are

Christine (35:14): you say anything. We could never He say a was obsessed with this woman. She controlled him. Even though big mafia guy, she had a lot of control over him. And whole life.

King Hap (35:27): How was your mindset at this time where y'all, you know, you're lying to your you know, you're lying to your mom. You're in you know, you kinda probably feel involved in a way. How was your mindset at this point? And I mean, was this something that was taking a deep toll on you and your sisters?

Christine (35:41): Yeah. It was very, very upsetting that we had to lie to my mother and watch Don't Say That. We we didn't want her to find I I don't know. You know? It was the control.

Christine (35:53): My father had a lot of control over us, and we were very loyal to him. Loyal. Loyal, loyal daughters. Yeah. And that's why it breaks my heart so much about my mother that we lied to her all that time, and this was going on.

Christine (36:09): I you know, then he'd be sending his girlfriend to the store, you know, to buy us gifts when my sister always did that. Oh, yeah. She would she would have to So when we opened up a Christmas gift, we knew who bought it. It wasn't him. You know, he would give her money.

Christine (36:25): She would pick out the gift. She had such control. It was just amazing. Amazing.

King Hap (36:30): And that actually she ends-

Christine (36:31): found that. That's why the sentence of the man I called dad was mostly about that and the mob and living the life that we lived with him. Yep. It wasn't easy.

King Hap (36:44): And so you so and your dad, he knew what was going on. He knew that, you know, he ends up out of the house at one point. Your mom gets sick. And and like I said, I don't wanna give away too much of the book, but it's a short lived sickness, and it's unfortunate. But he's out of the house at the time, and she's thinking he might be coming home, etcetera.

King Hap (37:06): And this just got really ugly really quick as Tom continued. You know, he was still working. You know, he was, you know, still active in the in the life, and this was all going on. Correct?

Christine (37:19): Yes. He had a lot of different lives. My father lived a lot of different it had to be very confusing for him, I'd say. Yeah. You know?

Christine (37:27): Because he had that life, which they say comes first, then it was the mistress, then it was us, you know? So we were always last on the totem pole, you know? And that's how it went, you know?

King Hap (37:42): And then, you know, your dad, he does the prison time. 1992 was a bad year. They had the Colombo war. Your dad ends up, he ended up in the middle, you know, in the middle of it all. He made that shocking decision.

King Hap (37:53): You know? Then the things then some of the shit starts to hit the fan. Like, during the war, how worried were you about your dad's safety being you know, this is fam you know, here's the thing, and this is what I thought about. Now this question just comes from me because I was thinking this in my own head. Clearly, the person goes nowhere to find your dad.

King Hap (38:14): He's freaking family. So, I mean, it's were you actually nervous at one point for his safety at all? I mean or did you think that he kinda was a little bigger than life? That's what I was wondering my self, just about the mindset that you must have been in at that point.

Christine (38:29): Yeah. We were all really nervous. We didn't I didn't think he was gonna make it. I really thought we were gonna find him dead. I really did.

Christine (38:36): But, you know, recently, I just found something out that they weren't gonna do anything to him, I heard, because he was such a big earner. Was a big earner.

Unknown Speaker (38:45): Makes a big deal.

Christine (38:47): But it was his family. Mean, my sister was married to him, the Persegos. But I don't know, it all worked out. They all became friendly again after the whole war and Vicarina went to jail. It was right even before my father went away.

Christine (39:06): He and he's still in jail. He's still living. He's like 90 years old, and he's got dementia. He's in prison still. Yeah, so that was it.

Christine (39:17): He went away, and my father got back with the Persegos at some point. Yeah.

King Hap (39:23): And then, like, you know, it came life continues to go on. That's one thing that people don't recognize when, they think about you know, even when you watch a mafia show, movie, etcetera, on TV, some people die, some people go to prison, and then the next morning, it's business as usual. That is one thing about that now. I I I still to this day find it completely and totally, entertaining, exciting, you know, etcetera. But I gotta say, that's one thing that I never really you know what I mean?

King Hap (39:54): It's like this guy that you work with every day, your friend, you're drinking, you're breaking bread every day. All a sudden, he's dead tomorrow. It's just, hey. I'll see you at, you know, Redheads Lounge or something. You know what I mean?

Christine (40:04): I know. It's terrible. Like I always said when I was younger, I said, how do you get out of this? Either you're dead, you either die, or you go to jail. It's either one or the other.

Unknown Speaker (40:14): Yep.

Christine (40:14): He was lucky that he got out and he was okay and he lived to 89. Yep. He was lucky. He was one of the lucky ones because so many of them that I know that died in the war, and just getting killed, and it was just like a horrible time to go through. We had this one guy, he was like our brother.

Christine (40:35): My father knew him from Brooklyn. He was like ten years older than us, and he got killed when he was 28 years old. Like, you just never knew when this was gonna happen. There was a lot of people that we knew.

Unknown Speaker (40:49): Crazy. Crazy.

Christine (40:50): Here today, gone tomorrow. You know?

King Hap (40:52): Yep. And, John Gleeson, when he was on the happy hour, I I I believe that was episode one zero one. But when he was on the happy hour back then, right before right, you know, right after he put he actually finally won and put John Gotti in prison. I mean, the next day went on business as usual. You know what I'm saying?

King Hap (41:10): It's Right. And it's like John Gotti was that quintessential mob figure. He was that head guy. He was the one on Time Magazine shaking hands, kissing babies. He goes to prison, business as usual the next day.

King Hap (41:25): I still to this day find it extremely crazy that, that's how it goes. So

Christine (41:30): I know. That life, it's it's it's crazy. It really is. I can't believe John Gotti is gone from what? 2002 he's he died?

Unknown Speaker (41:39): I I can't even believe that.

King Hap (41:40): Yeah. Me neither. I I still to this day I mean, I spoke to his attorney, who owns a he owns a liquor store in, New York still, in retirement. And he's, you know, he's just an excellent guy, etcetera. But maybe he'll be on the show down the line.

King Hap (41:57): But Yeah. Speaking to him, it's like they talk like this is, you know, he's still in prison or, you know, he's down the street. It's this 2002. I can't believe it was like That

Christine (42:06): still make him very much alive. I mean, because I see him all over because, because of my books, I see all different things. And I was on a podcast with his daughter, Angel Gotti. Yep. So, we're really good friends, me and Angel, because we have that same background of the fathers.

Christine (42:22): Yes. Not that my father was as big as her father. But he was big. My father was a big earner for the whole five families in Manhattan, you know, with the all the steel industry and the cement and all that stuff that they did together. So

King Hap (42:38): What he got caught with just I'm not sure how much you know. I mean, you must know what it what but what he got caught what he actually went to prison for, ladies and gentlemen, was extorting $1,300,000. I mean, this was the this is what he got caught. You know what I mean? So how many trust me.

King Hap (42:54): This wasn't his first, you know, it wasn't his first walk in the park. 1,300,000 from, the Newport, International Airport monorail system. He was pulling money big time for all the five families. So what like I said, back then in 1992 or 1993 to pull 1,300,000, that's about 12,000,000 right now. You know what I mean?

King Hap (43:18): That's big money.

Christine (43:20): Yeah.

King Hap (43:20): Yep. One of the oh, great. I'm definitely buying this book tomorrow. Sunny DTJ. Thank you.

King Hap (43:27): Thank you. So let me ask you this. This I got a couple more that I gotta ask you guys. We guys, make sure you show her some love on, Instagram, etcetera, because I'll tell you what, her time is precious, and her being here is awesome. So I have to touch on one thing, and I gotta feel I mean, you ain't carrying.

King Hap (43:44): I I don't wanna get, you know, I don't wanna get whacked here. But I gotta say, one thing that I wanted to touch on, and this this must have been bitter, very bitter, very bitter, was your dad actually was the one that broke the news to you that your ex husband was cheating on you and what the way that your dad was. I mean, that's kinda coming full circle, and I had to ask you about that on the show, and I almost didn't want to, but, you know, everybody expects me to ask the hard questions. But for your dad to tell you that your ex husband was treating on you, and that just must have been one of the most devastating things in the world because the way that you depicted is that your ex husband was trying to pose like he was your dad or some kind of figure like your dad. Is that correct?

Christine (44:35): Yes. You know? But in the beginning, he was a great husband. We had three daughters, and we had a beautiful house.

Unknown Speaker (44:41): Of course.

Christine (44:41): Used to work hard. And then all of a sudden, it was when my father went away. He decided that he was gonna, like, kinda take over. You know, he'd be out with the attorneys all the time, and I guess his ego just went to his head and he started cheating. With a wise guy, a good friend of my father's, his sister-in-law.

Christine (45:04): Wow. I mean, she was younger. She was younger. She was younger than him and me. Yeah, and he started this relationship.

Christine (45:11): I guess my father got pissed. I don't know. Did my father, I always wondered, did he know about it for a long time, or did he just find out? I don't know. I didn't ask questions either.

Christine (45:22): He just said, listen, cookie, he's cheating on you. And I go, what? Because he wasn't coming home now. He's late. He had all the suits on, you know, the cars, this, that, and he wasn't paying attention to me and the kids.

Christine (45:35): So, you know, it was really shocking when my father sat me down and said, yeah, this is it. Is who he's coming out with.

Unknown Speaker (45:43): All the people. Of all the, I you

Christine (45:45): couldn't even believe I couldn't believe it. I said to my father, you're lying. Why are you lying to me? Because I'm not lying. I'm telling you.

Christine (45:52): This is what's going on. And then, of course, you know, he got me the attorney. Yeah. Of course, I tell my husband, ex husband, and he's like, of course, he tried to deny it, but it came out. So he couldn't deny it anymore.

Christine (46:07): And then I got Dominic Barber from my attorney. Everybody remembers him, right? He was with Butt Fuego.

Unknown Speaker (46:14): Oh, yeah.

Unknown Speaker (46:14): Right? Yeah. Yeah.

King Hap (46:16): That was I did not know that was your attorney till you just said it, but wow. Holy Toledo. And that's a good get, I guess you could say, right?

Christine (46:25): Yeah, that was good, yeah. Because he was friends with my father, you know? So my father takes me to see him. He goes, Let's go. We're going to see Dominic Borg.

Christine (46:33): And then that was it. But it was very painful. I went through a really, really painful time. Lost my mother. My father got home from jail, you know, I mean, he had his mistress, whatever he was doing in his life.

Christine (46:47): And I had to go through a really sad and horrible breakup, you know, with my three daughters. So it was really hard time.

King Hap (46:55): And I I that's terrible to hear. And if you go into more detail in this in the book and, you guys, I can't I can't urge you enough to read this. Sunny DTJ asks, I actually wanna repeat my question. Was, can you ask and do you want me to ask you, were you intimidated at all to write this book? Number one, I mean, you know, all the stuff about your dad, the, you know, the families, etcetera.

King Hap (47:18): Number two, I mean, potential slander or anything like that. I mean, how were y'all were you at all worried as you put pen to paper on this?

Christine (47:29): I'm not worried because it's my life story. It's all the truth.

Unknown Speaker (47:33): Yes. Didn't

Christine (47:34): like that anything. There's no slander in the book because everything I'm saying is the truth. So, yeah, I was a little worried. I didn't not worried. I don't wanna use that word.

Christine (47:44): I was a little sad.

Unknown Speaker (47:46): Yeah.

Christine (47:46): I mean, I would be, you know, happy. I wanted to get it out there. I think everybody should know. I thought it was always a great story. I always wanted to write a book about my life, but and then I just said, I was really sad at some point.

Christine (48:00): When the book was finally published, I cried. I said, now it's out there. I can't turn it around now. It's out there.

King Hap (48:07): Yep. And everybody knows now. And guys

Christine (48:09): Everybody knows. I mean, actually, if I pick up the book once in a while and read a few chapters, I cry. I do. It's emotional. Really is.

Christine (48:18): It brings us back a lot. And my sisters, they're a little upset too because it's something that they didn't, you just want to forget. You just want to move on with your lives. It was really, the whole book, once you read it, it's very detailed into our lives. Which my sisters all have their own life with him.

Christine (48:38): I didn't say much about them, because I didn't want to write about I can't write about my This was my life

Unknown Speaker (48:43): with Yes.

Christine (48:44): My sisters have their own stories. That's why they should do the next series of this. There should be series, you know? Daughters one, two, three, four, because we all had unbelievable stories with him, and they're all so different.

Unknown Speaker (49:00): And I could be in four movies.

Unknown Speaker (49:01): You know

King Hap (49:01): what I'm saying? We we can make that happen.

Christine (49:04): If this is the movie and we got all the sisters involved with I mean, you it's so unbelievable. The other stories with my sisters' lives with him were completely different from mine.

King Hap (49:15): Yes. Yes. And you actually get a little feel of that in the book and, you can kinda tell that everybody had their own, you know, basically their own chapters with him. But I I I'd be I'd be crazy not to ask you. I mean, you you mentioned it briefly about the mistress.

King Hap (49:31): The now the mistress is still alive. She's still, you know, doing her thing, etcetera. She's still out there living a life of luxury. Correct?

Christine (49:42): Yeah. Yeah. Because he he left everything to her, whatever they had together. He had an original will that he never signed, and then was getting dementia at the end, and whatever. She made him sign something, and everything was left to her.

Christine (49:59): She told my sister, You girls don't get anything. It's all mine. And that's it. Blocked everybody, and that was the end of it. Yep.

King Hap (50:08): Yep. I made sure I saved that for the end, and then we got, Oh, no. Oh my God, etcetera, in the chat room. Yep. Were your sisters mad at all that you wrote this book?

King Hap (50:19): Any assistants?

Christine (50:21): Yeah, I could say that they're happy and a little upset, because it brings back everything. Especially on the internet, they'll see the book and people, and they're like, Stories about my father have been coming up a lot. It's kind of something you just want to forget, because he didn't do the right thing by his family. Yeah. Okay?

Christine (50:43): He didn't. It was his, Listen, it was her fault too, but it was also his He should have already taken care of his family. He had four daughters, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and that's it. The end, it's over, and ain't good boy.

King Hap (51:01): Also had incredible wealth while while alive. To to think that he died and had nothing is you know?

Christine (51:08): He didn't he didn't have nothing. He had stuff property with her. Yeah. We were her name was on everything.

King Hap (51:17): And that's that's unfortunate to say the least. And if if for any of that don't know, if somebody's name's on something, it's theirs if the other person passes. You said that the the affair changed your dad right away. Like you said, she had a lot of control over him, etcetera. You also said once you've seen it, you couldn't unsee it.

King Hap (51:36): In his final days, you guys, grew closer. You seen him in a different light. Could did you actually find a way to unsee the issues that you had in your head about the affair as, you know, the days came to, you know, a close for him?

Unknown Speaker (51:54): No. I don't.

Unknown Speaker (51:55): I don't think so.

Christine (51:56): I was still we were all still hurt and upset with him because she had so much control over him. You know? Has this big guy, big wise guy, and, you know, whatever she said went, you know. She was just in full control at the end. I feel bad for him that he was old and he had dementia.

Christine (52:16): We were there all the time. And at the end, and you'll see it in the book, you know, we had a little party for him. It was his 80 birthday. He died, like, right after, a few months after, but picture, that way. His whole family, and him looking around crying, like, what did I do?

Christine (52:33): Like, I didn't do the right thing for them. You know, we were always there for him. So, it was, yeah, it was sad. But now, I always had that animosity towards him. Like, how could you do this?

Christine (52:46): How could you have done this our whole life? I mean, listen, they all cheat. I'm not saying that. They all have girlfriends, and we know that. But, you know, it was the way this one was, you know?

Christine (52:56): She wasn't gonna be the She was just gonna be she wanted to just have everything the way she wanted it, and that was it.

King Hap (53:03): And and she ended up in the end, she ended up winning. She took full advantage of a man who grew old right in front of her. And write all the books and make all the movies. You guys deserve it. Yes.

King Hap (53:14): I they do. They I would love to see that happen. So when your dad does go ahead and pass, and I gotta I gotta ask this question because I actually wrote on a separate piece of paper so I would make sure because I heard it in the book, and I'm not gonna lie. My stomach turned. So when your father passed, you guys aren't left any of his assets, property, money, nothing.

King Hap (53:36): Right. And what she does is one of the most despicable things that that I've read in a while. And it was she basically blocked you guys all and said, like, don't come to my restaurant. Don't try to talk to me or else I'll call back. I mean, you guys must have been so devastated that you didn't even have contact.

King Hap (53:54): You couldn't even discuss it. I mean, you couldn't get any out of like, even even, like, symbols of his life because I'll tell you what. To this day, people still sell mementos of mobsters, etcetera. You can get, I mean, John Gotti's, wine from John Gotti's cellar, his wine cellar, some of them are for sale right now for still, like, $9,000 a bottle. I mean, at the end of the day, you know, mementos of his life, anything, you guys were entitled to zero really, except for some very, very worthless items is what you say.

King Hap (54:26): Yes. That must have just really and I don't what bothered you more though?

Christine (54:30): We still didn't even get. But you know what? He had Rolex watches that were worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. He has gold. He had so much diamond jewelry.

Christine (54:40): Gibley, she sold it all and kept it for herself. There was nothing. No. She just said, The hell with all of you, and this is a whole family.

Unknown Speaker (54:49): Yep.

Christine (54:49): They weren't even married, and they didn't have kids, and they were together for forty years. She was just after his money, and the power, and the control, and that was it. She got it all. Listen, she's going to have to face God one of these days. She's gonna have to sit in front of him, so we'll see what happens with that.

Christine (55:07): But she wasn't a good person. She's not a good person.

King Hap (55:10): Agreed. Agreed. And and they're asking if you speak about her in the book by yes. She's in the book. And, guys, if you guys wanna hear more about the mistress, the name of the book is the sins of the man I call dad.

King Hap (55:23): And I'll tell you what, Christine does an amazing job. And as she sits here with us today, guys, giving us her time, I gotta say it's it's been a pleasure. And on top of it all guys, you guys know what time it is. Ladies and gentlemen, it is that time of the night, and it is time for last call. Last call is always brought to you by by the Happy Hour Social Club.

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King Hap (56:29): It's last call. Last call, Christine. Do you have anything left for the happy hour social club members? And one thing that we haven't touched on that I want you to make sure you bring up is your art. One of the things your father was most proud of you was was how your art actually moved forward and how you continue to do great work.

King Hap (56:47): And and I'll tell you guys, I have to have Christine do a picture for me because she does pets, etcetera, but her art is amazing. And I gotta say, that's one thing I wanna make sure you let them know where they can see some of your beautiful art. What else do you got for the happy hour social club members? Where can they find you on social media? Well,

Christine (57:05): I'm on Instagram, Facebook, and you could see my paintings on there because I do beautiful paintings of animals and other things. But I love my dogs. They look like they're gonna bark at you. And so those are my paintings of the animals, cats, dogs. But you could find me on Instagram, Facebook, Facebook, and my website is christinepetruzzobook.com.

Unknown Speaker (57:29): There you go, Bean Tom.

Christine (57:31): Yeah. And I'm happy to be on your show. I'm really I'm I'm thrilled. And thank you everybody for listening to me. And, if you buy the book, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Christine (57:42): Absolutely. I'm rooting for a movie. I think it would be a great movie.

King Hap (57:46): Absolutely. And they're asking me, wow. What a fantastic interview. Thank you for sharing your amazing story. Amazing interview.

King Hap (57:53): I'm buying this book. Also, yay, North Canna. Love it, guys. Exciting show. Yes, guys.

King Hap (57:59): Thank you so much. Great show. Thank you, guys. And, I gotta say, guys, a very, very fantastic time here. Christine's amazing.

King Hap (58:05): If y'all looking for the book, her social media, any of that, it'll be in the show notes. And guys, make sure you do me a favor. Give her a follow on social media. Check out the act because I'll tell you, the art's almost as good as the book. I ain't gotta say it's better because this is a freaking awesome book, but the art is amazing.

King Hap (58:21): You do a fantastic job and you do me a favor. Anytime the happy hour social club can give you assistance, share anything for you, make sure you, hit me up. Alright, Christine.

Christine (58:32): I will. Thank you so much for having me. I really enjoyed it.

King Hap (58:36): No doubt. No doubt. Alright, guys. I'm gonna keep Christine here for one more minute. All you guys are getting to leave here the way that we always do.

King Hap (58:43): Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for a little bit of a bisque. Let's go back to version three, and we will see everybody tomorrow night live right here. Myself being town and tackle live on the fantasy sports network. I will see everybody tomorrow night. Guys, please enjoy that weather.

Unknown Speaker (59:00): Have a good time, and we will see you tomorrow. Here's a little bit of bis boom.