#001 - Prelude to Life | Joe LoBosco had his first of eight brain surgeries at 6 months old. His mother Shannon Livingston got creative about how to make money and keep them both alive.

Shannon Livingston and son, Joe Lobosco, talk about their new podcast, living with the Kansas City MOB, Cannabis - black market to legal market, running strip clubs and bachelor a party service, Joe's stripper babysitters, training tigers - and when it went wrong, Joe's brain surgeries, regularly visiting maximum-security prison's, math lessons at the racetrack with film director ex-husband, playboy model daughter, professional gambler mother and the games in her basement, libertarian lawyer father and his 58-year-old law practice, Shannon being born in the bathroom of her parent's office as a secret love child, Shannon's childhood home burning down 3 times (and smouldering once).