Welcome everybody to Hollywood Godfather podcast.

And we want to thank you all our listeners.

Our ratings are going up.

You are sending in your reviews, which we really need.

We're told that by everybody. But again, I want to thank you. My co-writer, Pat Pichorelli,

is here who did the book, which is named after the podcast, Hollywood Godfather. Pat, how you

doing, buddy? Good me, everybody. How you doing? How are you doing, Johnny?

Great.

We're just going to do the show by ourselves through our audience because we forgot our

millennium has been working two and a half years with no time off.

See, Pat and I have nothing to do in our lives, but obviously she has a life.

So she'll be missing for a few weeks or as what's time as she needs.

And we're going to answer a strange request that I'm going to let Pat take the lead on it.

The man's name is Ralph Engelstead, and you're not going to believe what you're about to hear

tonight on this show.

Yeah, you know, when we got this request, we get emails all the time, and we check the

emails, and this name crops up.

Ralph Lewis Engelstead, and I said, said well who the hell is this guy you know i i never heard of him not that i i'm steeped in las vegas history

but usually i hear of these people but i didn't i'd never heard of the guy so i decided to look into

him and uh he was an American businessman.

He was in Vegas, and he owned the hotel.

Well, the Imperial Palace was a casino hotel like the rest of him in Vegas.

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