I think it's funny peperoni pizza can't fight his own battles, he probally have your numbers on speed dial "help the big fella is picking on me again" in his horse shack voice

"McGurn likes you, so I make you. So you are now one of us, if you fuck up, we take it out on McGurn. He is your sponsor. Fuck up, it's his ass. You work in his crew, he is your capo."