The Godfather's Carlo Rizzi: Gianni Russo | PBD Podcast | EP 129
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🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Patrick Bet-David is joined by Adam Sosnick and American actor and singer Gianni Russo. Best known for his role as Carlo Rizzi in the 1972 film The Godfather.
TOPICS
- Gianni Russo's Background
- Gianni Russo's Best Elvis Story
- Gianni lost his virginity to Marilyn Monroe
- The Time Pablo Escobar almost killed Gianni Russo
- How Gianni got his role in the Godfather
- Godfather 50th anniversary
- Gianni's beef with Marlon Brando
- Russia/Ukraine
Gianni Vito Russo is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Carlo Rizzi in the 1972 film The Godfather.
Follow Gianni Russo on Instagram here: https://bit.ly/3IA87NX
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Adam “Sos” Sosnick has lived a true rags to riches story. He hasn’t always been an authority on money. Connect with him on his weekly SOSCAST here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw4s_zB_R7I0VW88nOW4PJkyREjT7rJic
Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller Your Next Five Moves (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
To reach the Valuetainment team you can email: booking@valuetainment.com
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| 0:00.0 | gentlemen we're alive are alive are we live okay fantastic so folks we have a the |
| 0:10.5 | legendary jianny Russo from some who would call the greatest movie of all time |
| 0:16.1 | and a lot of experts would call it the greatest movie of all time God Father 2 |
| 0:20.0 | he played Carlo I'm sorry God Father 1 to. God Father 1. I'm sorry, God Father 1, God Father 2, but God Father 1, God Father 1, with the legendary scene, the |
| 0:29.5 | legendary scene, which maybe we'll get into that and what's crazy about today Johnny that |
| 0:35.0 | kind of makes us than crazy today is International Woman's Day as Adam was |
| 0:39.9 | saying yes and we couldn't have anybody but we had the International Women's Day with a, I said former player, you said, when did I stop? |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, I want to die. When did you ever stop? |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm about there. |
| 0:52.0 | But you're a lover, not a fighter, and and the Godfather you were kind of an abusive husband but in real life you're a lover. |
| 0:56.6 | That was in the script believe me. Barzini told me to do it. We had to get sunny to the toll boats. |
| 1:04.0 | So what we're going to do today, Adam and I are going to try to do a scene from a movie. |
| 1:10.0 | And we're going to see if you're going to remember this scene from this movie. |
| 1:12.0 | Maybe you won't recognize, but we're going to try to reenact. |
| 1:15.1 | So we'll see how far into we can go with our acting. |
| 1:20.9 | Folks, stick around, you know, this could be our opportunity to pick up a movie or something but uh... while we're doing this |
| 1:26.8 | a lot of stuff's going on in the world gas prices right now California as of what yesterday |
| 1:32.1 | five twenty28 a gallon highest ever in the state of California says |
| 1:37.5 | triple a folks around the country are struggling with gas prices |
| 1:42.0 | US just announced Biden this morning that we can't buy gas from Russia. |
| 1:46.1 | That was just, and I can you show that ban by the way so everybody can see it. |
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