 Welcome back into the original gangsters podcast. I'm Scott Bernstein. I'm here for a really, really quick hitter episode. We're only going to be about five, 10 minutes at most. But I want to augment or give a companion piece to the Philadelphia new mob leadership episode of the OG pod that we got out right now, where we go over the shifting hierarchy in that family with the incarcerations of Hanson, Stevie Mazzone, and Dom Grande, who went away in the last couple of months, and the leadership of that group needing to reformat how that organization is going to be run for the next couple of years, because Grande and Mazzone are going to be away for the next five years. We talked about Mousy Massimino, Damien Canalicchio. I mentioned Joy Merlino's brother-in-law, Joy Bonfiglio. But I did not really get into the OG himself, Johnny Chang-Changalini, who is going to be, from what I'm hearing in South Philly, is going to play a big role in overseeing this shuffle in the hierarchy. And that doesn't necessarily mean that he's going to be a part of the administration. I think there's a good chance he will. But I think that still remains to be seen. But he is one of these kind of straws that serves the drink with the Philly group universally respected, not just in Philadelphia, but across the country with different crime families. If you've been watching us, and if you follow this stuff, you know that the Changalini name is mob royalty in Philadelphia, Tiki Changalini, RIP Tiki. He died earlier this year, 88 years old, and that was just a walking embodiment of what it meant to be an OG in this world out of Philly. Had three sons. We talked about it. They were on opposite sides of a war. The last man standing in the Changalini family is Johnny Chang, the oldest brother, the one who's probably over the years has been the most level headed. He's a true mob diplomat, very close to Joey Merlino, the reputed boss of the Philly family. And I think Joey, who's out in Florida, and then his reputed acting boss in Philly right now, Georgie Borgacy, they're going to be leaning heavy on Johnny Chang in this restructuring of the packing order. I think it's very possible that Johnny Chang slots in to a conciliatory role. I mentioned possibly Fafi, who I think had been an acting for Joe Legambi for spot duty on and off the last couple of years, but I'm talking to some more people. I think it's very likely that Johnny Chang slots in the conciliatory role. Possibly he'd come back to underboss. He was underbossed in the 2000s for a while, had to step away for some health concerns. He's been a couple since the 90s, but he is somebody that, again, is just very savvy when it comes to gangland politics. He can seamlessly interact with various factions, not just within the Philly underworld, but in the New York five families. From what I'm told, he represents Philadelphia in New York with the five families, travels a lot to the Big Apple and takes meetings with guys in the Genovese, guys in the Lucchese, more recently guys in the Gambino's. And he's just a very integral part of the way the Philadelphia mafia is going to operate going into the future. He's about 67 years old. And again, just a guy that a lot of people like, a lot of people trust. Other than Joe Legambi, I would say, I'm talking to authorities, talking to people on the street. There's nobody that Joey Merlino relies more on for counsel and advice than Johnny Chang. So I didn't wanna overlook Johnny when we were talking about what's going on in Philly right now, I think I referenced him a couple of times in terms of some of these new guys who they're, some of the younger guys who they're moving with. I said that Joey B has been seen quite a bit with Johnny Chang over the last couple of years with Uncle Joe over the last couple of years. And it's not a huge jump to understand why one of the groups that Johnny Chang's been seen meeting with over the last handful of years the Queens Gambino crew is where Joey B traces his roots to. But, and then we know from some other people including friend of the show, John Panisi, that when Panisi is on the street, he used to have a Lucchese bosses use him to deliver messages to Johnny Chang for Johnny Chang to deliver to Joey in the admin. So keep an eye out for Johnny Chang. He's the OG, everybody loves Johnny and I think he's gonna be a major factor in how this family looks going forward. Whether or not he's sitting in one of the top three spots or not, and if he doesn't sit in one of those spots it's by choice. It might be related to the health issues or just that he doesn't wanna be in the fray. But right now he's being relied on to help this musical chairs of a situation to get everybody in the right spot and get things moving in the right direction. So we'll see you next week for another full length edition of the OG pod. I'm Scott Bernstein for Jimmy who will be back next time and for Ben behind the glass, I'm out.