My name is Gianni Russo, aka Carlo, the infamous son-in-law from the godfather.

I'm now known as the Hollywood Godfather, and this is my story.

Before all of the wins in my portfolio, I was a little boy diagnosed with polio.

Experimenting with cures, I tried I tried everyone felt everything in my right

but my left was numb walking with a limp like will I ever run once again or is this it

am I forever done living in the hospital was never fun some people were cool but not everyone

you never know who you're lying in a room with. So I broke a broomstick in half and let it groove with the concrete in the bathroom floor. It had a new tip, stashed it behind it toilet in case I ever had to use it. Because one day Dolores had a chat with me.

Speak softly loud and hold me off against your heart.

I hear your words, the tender trembling.

Welcome everybody to another Hollywood Godfather.

And tonight we have a real interesting guy who's defended a lot of godfathers in his career.

Happens to come for our neighborhood, too.

He's one of the fortunate ones that got out and made a name for himself without having to go to jail for it.

And first I want to introduce my cohort, my partner and co-writer, and we have a new book coming out

that we're all excited about, Mr. Pat Piccarelli.

Hi, everybody. Hi, Mike. Matt, brother. Hi, Pat. Hi, Johnny. Thank you for coming on. Pat, would you do the

honors of letting our audience know who are esteemed guests? We have the distinct honor tonight

welcoming Matt Mari to the show, who is a renowned criminal lawyer with some infamous clients in his past.

And he has joined the ranks of the podcasting world.

His first podcast will be debuting shortly.

And since you're now a member of the podcasting club, Mike, Matt, rather,

we're going to have to teach you the secret handshake and tell you the password.

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