Speak softly loud and hold me warm against your heart.

Good evening, everyone again.

This is our fifth episode.

I can't believe we already have five episodes out there,

and I hope you're enjoying them.

You are listening to Hollywood Godfather podcast.

My name is Gianni Russo, the alias Carlo Ritzis to most of you.

I'm seated here again with my partner, Pat Picherelli,

who helped me write this marvelous book called Hollywood Godfather,

and our young protege who promises us she's going to have a lot more to say

because she's asking me so many questions when we get off the air.

I said, why didn't you ask me while we were on?

My understanding is with my director, Mr. Pat Pitcharellilli that we're going back to 59th street

we are you know we're going to we're going to jump in chronologically now when last we left the

adventures of johnny russo you're like 13 years old frank costello takes you under his wing you're

his protege uh and you're going to work for him

you have no idea what you're going to be doing but you're going to be doing something not selling

pens that's obvious right so start there and what did you do for that I mean you're you're you know

I can picture myself at 13 years old what am I going to be doing if I was in your place?

Why would they trust the 13 year old and what did they have you doing?

Well, I, at first, all those questions were running through my head.

But here's a guy that just gave me $200 and took my ballpoint pens from me, and I was out of business.

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