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 against your heart.

I hear your words, the tender trembling moments.

Welcome everybody.

It's time for another episode of Hollywood Godfather.

And tonight we have an extraordinary, interesting guest.

I'm just meeting him.

Pat knows a lot about him.

So I'm going to have Pat, my compadry, my co-author, and we have another book

coming out. We've got so much going on. God bless. Pat Piccarelli.

I'm tired just hearing all this stuff, man. We're working. We're working trying to do different

things in the industry. Anyway, that said, I want to start off by saying, before I introduce our guest, one thing

I discovered about Johnny and myself, we are organized crime snobs.

Did you know that, Johnny?

I didn't know that, no.

Okay, I'm going to tell you why, because we'll be concentrating for the last four years

of this podcast podcast almost four years

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