The Joe Rogan ExperienceDavid Cross on Joe Rogan: Why Boston Clubs Ran on Mob Money
Boston's mob-adjacent 1980s clubs ran on cash, cocaine, and local celebrity; those who cracked them rarely left what Cross calls a velvet prison.
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135 min read · 27,309 words- JRJoe Rogan
Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
- SPSpeaker
The Joe Rogan Experience.
- JRJoe Rogan
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day. [upbeat music] David.
- DCDavid Cross
Joseph.
- JRJoe Rogan
Good to see you.
- DCDavid Cross
Good to see you.
- JRJoe Rogan
Dude, I haven't seen you in a long fucking time. When was the last time we were actually in a room together?
- DCDavid Cross
I, well, I was trying to think of that. I don't know... I would imagine post Newsradio, we hung out at some point, at some show somewhere.
- JRJoe Rogan
Somewhere.
- DCDavid Cross
But I don't know. But I do remember, uh, 'cause I did Newsradio a couple times, and we, we hung out, and I remember, I think we both... No, just you had more hair then. [laughs]
- JRJoe Rogan
[laughs]
- DCDavid Cross
Uh, I was probably already at this point, um-
- JRJoe Rogan
I was fighting-
- DCDavid Cross
Yeah
- JRJoe Rogan
... to keep it. I was hanging on.
- DCDavid Cross
Do you, are you, do you shave or is that it? Is that bald-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, it's, I mean, I'm bald.
- DCDavid Cross
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
If I didn't shave, I'd be bald all the way up here.
- DCDavid Cross
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
But I got a hair transplant, and it was useless.
- DCDavid Cross
It's, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I jo- I did a joke about it. I go, "Having a hair transplant is like taking people that are healthy and moving them into a neighborhood where everyone's dying."
- DCDavid Cross
[laughs]
- JRJoe Rogan
This is just like, "Where did Bob go?" He just fucking flew off the face of the earth.
- DCDavid Cross
So, uh, yeah, you'd say you just, uh, accepted it-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yes
- DCDavid Cross
... and said, "Fuck it," yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I should've done it a long time ago.
- DCDavid Cross
Yeah.
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