My name is Gianni Russo, aka.

Callo, 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.

Welcome everybody, another Hollywood Godfather podcast with my compote writing upon and good friend Patrick Piccarelli.

Good evening, everybody. I hope everybody's doing well.

Well, then they're not doing us.

That's the upper report. Well, before the show started johnny and i were talking about

the late great barbara walters uh and we we both had uh we came across her doing the course of our professional lives.

You want to start off, Johnny, or should I start off with my story?

Well, I really didn't meet her as a professional.

Well, maybe you could say that.

You know, I knew her father Lou Waltz is because of Costello,

and he had one of the best nightclubs here

in competition with the Copa, the Latin quarter. And years later, when I turned 18, years later,

when I turned 18, that was one of the hat check rooms I controlled because of Costello in New York,

had three of them.

So it, no, but I knew the father and I met her early on, you know, at that time, that family

being in the nightclub and her being so social and she was in every place I happened to be in

and Copacabana was a lot of them Latin quarter

there was a lot of them you always treated me fairly she knew who I knew though that's why I think

because she yeah you know a presence about a I don't know what you know about it she was pretty

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