 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter edition. We're going to go back to the Great White North. A lot of action up there. And I'm going to call this, this quick hitter, the riddle of John Richard race. And kind of where he stands the story within a story, there's a ton of these kind of offshoot sub plots and narratives within the Great Canadian mafia war that's rage for the last decade and a half friends that were enemies are now friends enemies are, are, you know, with other friends of enemies and friends foe and foe was friend it's a, it's a confusing landscape and race is, is kind of like, you know, he was in Marty robert's, you know, inner circle at one point on the come up. But where he stands right now I think people are are questioning or at least, you know, whispering in, in, you know, back in the alleys or, or the dark corners of coffee, coffee shops or whatnot he's been in hiding. Since Greg Woolies assassination, a couple months ago, and or just last month actually, and he popped his head back out a couple weeks ago and went to the funeral is right then, Sammy shoe, aka Sammy blue, tomorrow who was gunned down while in the middle of a workout in Cancun, Mexico, he had fled Montreal about a year ago, in the wake of his cousin, Freddie Silva mafia hit man, cutting a cooperation deal played a role that you know the Silva. The fact that Silva decided to become a cooperator definitely played a role in the downfall of this long time alliance between the mafia the Brazil crime family and the Hells Angels, Marty robert is in the middle of a power surge right now. Big time, you know, move to take over the Quebec underworld, Marty robert from what we hear it. The original gangster, OG pod and its companion web magazine games report is got his eyes on being the boss of bosses and in all Canada, kind of the, what Vito risotto once was and flipping that paradigm from risotto Montreal mafia on top and Hells Angels underneath that to being the Hells Angels on top and everyone else underneath that. And again, who's aligned with who, even within the The Hells Angels, you know, in that inner sanctum is still up for debate. So, no race, we're not exactly sure is he on Marty's good side. Is he someone that is on board with Marty. I've heard that he is but I've also heard from other people that he might be viewed as a little bit too close to Greg woolly and then the fact that they killed Sammy tomorrow has him going, you know, bunker style right now. So, I, you know, I call this the riddle of race, Glavier, you know, where, where is he going to be in 2024 only time to tell this guy was a big time player for the last two, two and a half decades before the war, going back to the Quebec But a guy that was real close to mom, the legendary Hells Angels godfather and guy that was a street banker knew how to move money around and launder money, known to help run drug deals and weapons deals even today that there are up until I guess the fractured relationship between the mafia and the Hells Angels but for a long time was was running point as a liaison between the two groups in in certain narcotics transactions guns trying to gun sales gambling and whatnot. So, something to keep an eye out for. I've heard that on one hand he's, he's taking precautions and laying low and then I've heard from other people that him laying low is actually some type of smokescreen and that he actually might be the ones taking out his own guys. So, we don't know only time will tell but I just wanted to give an update. He was, again, he was in Marty Robert's wedding back in 2018. So, we know he has quite a bit of ties to Marty but he's also his own man and quite a force of nature in his own right. So we'll keep you updated on what happens up there for OG pod I'm Scott Bernstein.