Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show with your host, Eric Metaxus.

Hey there, folks, it's the Eric Metaxus show. Guess who my guest is today? Did you guess? It's

Johnny Russo. Johnny Russo. You just, I smile when I see you. I had you on here. It's got to be two and a half

years ago. Suddenly, COVID just flew by. You've got an insane story. You got a thousand insane stories.

But for people who don't know anything about you,

I guess the headline is you played Carlo in the Godfather. That's how a lot of people know you.

That was a big achievement, 49 years ago. Right? Is next year 50 years of this thing? Yeah. Well,

came out 72 or 71? 72. Well, no, we made it in 71. Yeah. Came out in 72 and then we won like five Oscars, which I think this is great. I was 25 years of age. Right. And I said, you know. It's all downhill from here. It was, too.

You know, I've done 46 other films.

Nine more Oscars.

The film is one, not me, but it's fun being in them.

I would think so.

But you didn't start out as an actor.

Again, people who don't know you, you have a, it's almost impossible for you or anyone to tell your story because it's so unbelievable that it needs endless, you know, explanation.

Like, you know, because it sounds like somebody would make something up.

I mean, you have, here's the headline.

Let me, let me say for people who are just tuning in.

When you were 16, you slept with the 28-year-old Marilyn Monroe.

Frank Sinatra was a friend. He taught you to sing. Where do you go from there? I mean,

these are things that sounds like somebody would say it as a joke. But you've lived an amazing,

crazy life. Here you are. And you know, it's so funny, where you're situated here, I was just telling my sister, Megan, that I used to sit before they built a shopping center on steps across the street from Lee Strasbourg studio.

Yes.

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