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.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Hollywood Godfather podcast.

I don't know how many hours we have up in the hundreds, thank God.

And my co-author and my friend, Pat Piccarelli's here.

Are you doing guys and girls and gals, women, and ladies?

You got to include every gender now there is, you know, trans, and them and us and us, and who and gals, women, and ladies. Oh, you've got to include every gender now there is, you know.

Trains and them and us and who and we.

And we have a very special guest that Pat knows well,

and I'm going to give him the honors of introducing them.

Okay, everybody, We are in free.

You know, we get a lot of emails on this podcast.

People ask me about what did the NYPD used to be like.

So I can give some examples, but I'm by, I by no means have the experience and some of the situations, in fact, most

of the situations that our guest, Ralph Friedman, was in.

Now, before I introduce him officially, I want to give you a little background.

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