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The Hollywood Godfather Podcast

S7E136: Season 7 - Episode 136 - Friends, Mentors, & Memories Part I - Larry Manetti

The Hollywood Godfather Podcast

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4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

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

0:13.0

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

0:19.0

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

0:23.4

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

0:29.6

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

0:36.7

you never know who you're lying in a room with.

0:40.1

So I broke a broomstick in half and let it groove with the concrete in the bathroom floor.

0:45.1

It had a new tip stash.

0:46.5

I know. Welcome everybody to Hollywood Godfather.

1:01.1

Well, we're coming back.

1:03.3

Another show with a friend of mine, last week's show,

1:06.4

was just so much information.

1:08.6

I knew we'd never get it into one.

1:10.3

We're going to try to get it into two.

1:13.0

But again, my friend, Larry Manetti, for 50 years, and how many people could say that.

1:21.4

And we got to touch on your career and the relationships with Sinatra and everything else.

1:26.5

We built the foundation of how you've got to be where you are and your career, fortunately,

1:33.2

which our audience knows you from.

1:36.6

And with that said, I want to start over with you.

1:41.8

And welcome Larry Menetti one more time

1:45.9

please my guest thank you so happy to be back

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