Joe Loya

So, yeah, I mean, I have in Orange County where my brother lives, I've passed banks that I robbed and I've been able to tell him, well, here's how I got away and whatever.

But yeah, I have.

It's really, really close.

You know, when I got out of prison, when I got out of prison, I went up to him and said, check this out, dad.

I've done a lot of bad.

You've done a lot of bad.

Why don't you let my bad cancel out yours and you let your bad cancel out mine.

Let's just start fresh.

I have all this compassion towards you.

I want to be a new man.

Let's start over.

My brother and him were having problems and I wanted to

model for my brother, how I got over a lot of things to get to my dad in a really healthy way.

And so my brother got on board and we've been working with my dad since, you know, 1996 and he was not doing well.

And our love helped him grow.

get back on his feet and help him out and all these years we've been pretty tight there was a couple years after my book came out where he was kind of upset the way he was portrayed but you know we worked through that we you know I knew we were going to have a very long relationship he's now 80 my brother and I love him every time I'm in LA I see him I'm in the Bay Area now but my brother hangs out with him every Tuesday he takes her for running a bunch of errands and stuff

We call him a couple of times a week.

I talk to my brother almost every day.

So we're a tight family now.

We don't have my mom, but we have each other.