WEBVTT 00:00.211 --> 00:13.459 [SPEAKER_02]: Bronson Natural Swing to Brando Stage Maryland's Grace to JFK's age It's Johnny Rousseau Hollywood Zone 00:26.922 --> 00:27.863 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome, everybody. 00:28.203 --> 00:31.065 [SPEAKER_00]: It's time for another Hollywood Godfather podcast. 00:31.906 --> 00:35.068 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe we've been on for over three or four years now. 00:35.709 --> 00:37.610 [SPEAKER_00]: We have hours and hours and hours. 00:37.670 --> 00:48.598 [SPEAKER_00]: And thank you all for being loyal to myself and my gorgeous co-host, Jeannie Raymond, my darling, how are you today? 00:49.359 --> 00:51.000 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm great, Jeannie, how are you? 00:52.021 --> 00:52.902 [SPEAKER_00]: Just hang it out. 00:56.513 --> 00:58.454 [SPEAKER_00]: Melby, I love getting out. 00:58.654 --> 01:02.636 [SPEAKER_00]: People are saying about us and what they want us to say. 01:03.237 --> 01:06.739 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, Gianni, you're hanging out at the moment. 01:06.819 --> 01:11.021 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know of anyone that gets as much fun as you do. 01:11.101 --> 01:19.305 [SPEAKER_03]: You have always got something in the work and you work around the clock that I know because I get text messages of all at all hours. 01:19.405 --> 01:23.067 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm one that I had one kid that was a little wild, 01:24.847 --> 01:33.989 [SPEAKER_03]: And so I always had my phone next to my bed and turned on, you know, so if anyone needs to call it, I've got that emergency line right by my head. 01:34.489 --> 01:43.911 [SPEAKER_03]: And so I'll hear these messages come in two in the morning, four in the morning and I always cracks me up because you got, you know, you got something going. 01:43.931 --> 01:48.732 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know, at four o'clock in the morning, it's when I call Europe and do 01:55.178 --> 02:10.753 [SPEAKER_03]: So well, I love it because there's going to be no grass, what do they call that no grass growing beneath your feet because you are, you are making the most of every 24 hour time period that you can, I love it. 02:12.114 --> 02:16.679 [SPEAKER_00]: See, you got used to no grass growing under my feet, living in New York. 02:17.079 --> 02:20.082 [SPEAKER_00]: There's very little grass left to go to Central Park. 02:22.168 --> 02:31.376 [SPEAKER_03]: That's funny because right here, I live in a little community where I'm all a lot of lawns on my sweet little old ladies older than me. 02:32.737 --> 02:33.318 [SPEAKER_00]: What'd you say? 02:33.918 --> 02:37.321 [SPEAKER_00]: You're a royal good person to neighbors. 02:37.762 --> 02:44.928 [SPEAKER_00]: You're always doing something for people and that one lady, I know you go do a nails for grass. 02:45.548 --> 02:47.870 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's that's very commendable. 02:49.051 --> 02:49.692 [SPEAKER_03]: My mama was 02:50.406 --> 02:58.973 [SPEAKER_03]: My mom says, well, you're always busy, and I said, I stay busy, because, yeah, I'm not wanting to sit around much. 02:59.514 --> 03:02.877 [SPEAKER_00]: You're staying exactly who I am, but you're the same person. 03:04.478 --> 03:05.819 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to stay busy. 03:05.879 --> 03:06.740 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's more fun. 03:06.760 --> 03:07.260 [SPEAKER_00]: I agree. 03:09.117 --> 03:12.540 [SPEAKER_00]: Staying at the wall or watching television all day long, forget about it. 03:12.640 --> 03:13.241 [SPEAKER_03]: Right, right. 03:13.581 --> 03:15.323 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't watch a lot of TV. 03:15.483 --> 03:19.948 [SPEAKER_03]: I listen, I've always got to air pot in my ear. 03:20.748 --> 03:27.335 [SPEAKER_03]: So I've always got something going, which is how I found you is listening to a podcast. 03:28.476 --> 03:30.157 [SPEAKER_03]: Just I love hearing different things. 03:31.078 --> 03:32.720 [SPEAKER_00]: Our audience, and I thank you. 03:34.263 --> 03:34.703 [SPEAKER_03]: I love it. 03:34.763 --> 03:35.383 [SPEAKER_03]: I thank you. 03:35.403 --> 03:37.884 [SPEAKER_03]: I love it because I get to hear all the questions. 03:37.924 --> 03:45.628 [SPEAKER_03]: And when I have questions, I can get them answered right now as opposed to having to write into the show. 03:45.708 --> 03:48.250 [SPEAKER_03]: But thank you all for writing into the show. 03:48.310 --> 03:50.911 [SPEAKER_03]: We love your questions, your comments. 03:50.951 --> 03:52.071 [SPEAKER_03]: We try and answer them. 03:52.512 --> 03:54.613 [SPEAKER_03]: We see a lot of them. 03:55.597 --> 04:13.262 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't answer them on the comments we answer them on the show, so some people have asked, I don't see that you answer those here and know it is because we use those for our Melva, we try to answer them on here and keep the conversation going. 04:13.362 --> 04:16.023 [SPEAKER_03]: So, nice part about answering it on here. 04:16.803 --> 04:19.085 [SPEAKER_03]: is it sparks new ideas for Gianni? 04:19.425 --> 04:25.128 [SPEAKER_03]: It gets us on to another story or another topic and gives us another reason to do another show. 04:25.188 --> 04:27.329 [SPEAKER_03]: So we thank you for those please keep them coming. 04:27.369 --> 04:28.810 [SPEAKER_03]: We appreciate it so much. 04:29.891 --> 04:30.831 [SPEAKER_00]: We definitely do. 04:31.972 --> 04:33.573 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's take a close question. 04:34.403 --> 04:38.965 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, now, I, these come in and they, I'm just using their handles. 04:39.105 --> 04:43.027 [SPEAKER_03]: It's sent.mi.low or peninsula. 04:43.468 --> 04:48.070 [SPEAKER_03]: She says, do you know anything of sister Helen Travis of the Bronx? 04:49.491 --> 04:51.672 [SPEAKER_00]: Say it again, sister Helen Travis? 04:52.252 --> 04:53.613 [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, of the Bronx. 04:54.733 --> 04:57.595 [SPEAKER_00]: No, well, you know for. 04:59.136 --> 04:59.556 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know. 04:59.716 --> 05:02.617 [SPEAKER_03]: I think there was a video or something, so maybe we'll look into that. 05:05.128 --> 05:11.613 [SPEAKER_00]: and something about her doing a lot of charity work or something, but I don't know. 05:12.593 --> 05:16.116 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, what time, what period are we talking about? 05:16.576 --> 05:16.856 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. 05:17.156 --> 05:17.497 [SPEAKER_03]: All right. 05:17.617 --> 05:19.138 [SPEAKER_03]: I'll look up, but I'll look into that. 05:19.198 --> 05:22.600 [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks for the question and we'll see what we can find out about that. 05:23.281 --> 05:27.984 [SPEAKER_03]: So another question was, did you know James Files, 05:33.690 --> 05:35.171 [SPEAKER_03]: Nicoletti, or Nicolette? 05:36.091 --> 05:36.911 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I didn't know him. 05:37.051 --> 05:37.672 [SPEAKER_00]: How old is it? 05:38.812 --> 05:41.073 [SPEAKER_03]: It was back in the JFK days, I believe. 05:41.673 --> 05:42.073 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, really? 05:42.133 --> 05:42.994 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I didn't know him at all. 05:43.114 --> 05:44.094 [SPEAKER_03]: Heralds files. 05:44.414 --> 05:51.357 [SPEAKER_00]: I was under a rock for a long time because that a people I worked for, nobody knew I even existed. 05:51.377 --> 05:51.457 [SPEAKER_00]: Sure. 05:52.157 --> 05:54.058 [SPEAKER_00]: Go to the godfather. 05:54.843 --> 05:57.525 [SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, there's a total different time in my life. 05:57.966 --> 06:01.248 [SPEAKER_00]: I've had so many people, especially the newcomers. 06:02.109 --> 06:03.090 [SPEAKER_00]: I call them newcomers. 06:03.110 --> 06:04.071 [SPEAKER_00]: They're all criminals. 06:04.491 --> 06:06.953 [SPEAKER_00]: That now I'm their own podcast. 06:07.513 --> 06:08.995 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe Killers in. 06:10.323 --> 06:14.825 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, such fugitives have their own podcasts and people following them. 06:15.205 --> 06:28.771 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it takes all kinds, but to me, you know, I've done a lot of things, but basically, the people I went after, or they went after me and suffered the consequences were bad people. 06:30.251 --> 06:31.692 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, everybody got podcasts. 06:31.792 --> 06:33.412 [SPEAKER_00]: It's crazy, including us. 06:33.573 --> 06:34.433 [SPEAKER_00]: I shouldn't say anything. 06:36.968 --> 06:39.910 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, you've had a remarkable life with many, many careers. 06:40.450 --> 06:48.234 [SPEAKER_03]: So it's incredible all the things you had your hands in and all the different talents that you've have. 06:48.374 --> 06:54.397 [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I'm just thinking off the top of my head, you're a singer, an actor, an amazing cook. 06:55.758 --> 07:02.801 [SPEAKER_03]: You paint, you know, you're not doing it for a living, but those are a lot of talents that you have come across. 07:04.797 --> 07:05.077 [SPEAKER_00]: order. 07:05.397 --> 07:09.720 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it's talent, but it's, it's staying active. 07:10.320 --> 07:11.021 [SPEAKER_03]: Right, right. 07:11.301 --> 07:13.222 [SPEAKER_03]: Now did you play musical instruments? 07:14.083 --> 07:27.711 [SPEAKER_00]: I played the Saxon clarinet to build up my lungs and I played the piano just to coordinate my body after being polio because a piano player 07:34.072 --> 07:37.553 [SPEAKER_00]: So I learned how to play the piano just to re-coordinate my body. 07:38.133 --> 07:42.133 [SPEAKER_00]: But I could play Bach, Trinity, Anne, and from memory, people get crazy. 07:42.413 --> 07:44.414 [SPEAKER_00]: They think it's a play of pianos sometimes. 07:44.794 --> 07:50.015 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm walking somebody's eyes out, sit down and play Beethoven's fifth, that's something like nuts. 07:50.995 --> 07:52.075 [SPEAKER_03]: That's incredible. 07:52.415 --> 07:53.115 [SPEAKER_03]: That's incredible. 07:53.215 --> 08:00.196 [SPEAKER_03]: I took piano lessons as a young kid, but I'm not very good at sitting still for very long. 08:06.007 --> 08:07.047 [SPEAKER_03]: You know me too well. 08:07.307 --> 08:08.388 [SPEAKER_03]: That's exactly right. 08:10.488 --> 08:11.248 [SPEAKER_03]: That's funny. 08:12.088 --> 08:13.229 [SPEAKER_03]: All right, let's see. 08:13.249 --> 08:14.709 [SPEAKER_00]: That's okay. 08:14.729 --> 08:16.209 [SPEAKER_00]: Two for two, we didn't answer. 08:17.509 --> 08:18.230 [SPEAKER_00]: What'd you say? 08:18.850 --> 08:22.450 [SPEAKER_00]: So far, we've two questions and two no answers. 08:22.550 --> 08:23.091 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know them. 08:24.211 --> 08:25.911 [SPEAKER_03]: All right, well, you should know this one. 08:25.971 --> 08:28.452 [SPEAKER_03]: This is Massario, Morgano. 08:29.112 --> 08:32.012 [SPEAKER_03]: What part of Sicily were you born in? 08:33.013 --> 08:34.613 [SPEAKER_03]: Or where is your family from? 08:35.608 --> 08:42.312 [SPEAKER_00]: My family is primarily from my grandfather's family, is primarily from Polarmosisly. 08:43.393 --> 08:55.039 [SPEAKER_00]: The Russo, if you look up the litigine, the legacy of Locos on Austria, fortunately and unfortunately, my family's been there forever. 08:56.020 --> 08:58.621 [SPEAKER_00]: On my grandmother's side, they're Neapolitan. 08:59.202 --> 09:01.283 [SPEAKER_00]: So they're the more the cooking, the culture, 09:02.020 --> 09:11.547 [SPEAKER_00]: And I listened to Unrico Carruso for the first seven years of my life, and now the last part of my life, it's been Sinatra, so. 09:12.387 --> 09:15.329 [SPEAKER_00]: But that's, that's who we are. 09:15.929 --> 09:18.311 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's a Jaleon met Sinobaladon. 09:20.492 --> 09:22.034 [SPEAKER_03]: Say that three times, right? 09:22.474 --> 09:25.496 [SPEAKER_03]: And so, um, is that who taught you to cook? 09:26.777 --> 09:28.478 [SPEAKER_00]: I just learned how to cook because I wanted to. 09:30.273 --> 09:42.641 [SPEAKER_00]: I was around chefs and people and I love cooking and I was always a person that started talking to people and how did you make this dish and they told me, my grandma was a good cook but my father was a good cook. 09:43.481 --> 09:49.885 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of the change meant a good cook but you know my father was going to cook me a cheap amount of cooking. 09:50.125 --> 09:52.467 [SPEAKER_00]: You need me to talk to me at a lot of talking to you. 09:54.591 --> 10:23.950 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, let me tell you one year, I, I have my friend who you autographed the book for and she made this beautiful dish for me to take because I never cook when we got a family Thanksgiving stuff like that, I'm not a big meat eater, so I'm never going to make a turkey right and so they're like, they tell me bring the rolls, they're bringing the drinks, you know, I'm like, okay, so I get that this year and I bring the most beautiful dish, it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it 10:24.310 --> 10:25.331 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't even know what it was called. 10:25.351 --> 10:46.721 [SPEAKER_03]: It's been so long ago, but was this layered dessert and it had berries and nuts and whipped cream I mean, it was absolutely gorgeous as my family was like, oh and I was like, yeah, I made this Of course, I knew it was full crap, but anyway, well, and I didn't know you're cooking people, okay, not me 10:52.623 --> 10:55.525 [SPEAKER_03]: Does it have this or does it have that on my whole shit? 10:55.625 --> 11:14.715 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't I don't know what's in there and and then they keep asking in my sister and I'm like and I'm going to shut off, you know, and they're on and on and on I'm like, I'm going to knock you off your chair just zip it just be glad I brought a dish in the drinks right and going to be quiet. 11:15.775 --> 11:16.115 [SPEAKER_03]: Right. 11:16.235 --> 11:23.777 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I didn't realize that part of making food means you need to describe every ingredient that you made. 11:23.877 --> 11:25.078 [SPEAKER_00]: It's so easy for you to do. 11:25.158 --> 11:26.718 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what they were testing you on. 11:27.198 --> 11:38.882 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, yeah, if I didn't know there was a test or anything I'd brought was going to take that kind of, uh, you know, interrogation. 11:42.665 --> 11:47.626 [SPEAKER_03]: Before we got in a fist fight at the family party, I'm like, all right, I didn't make it. 11:47.746 --> 11:49.427 [SPEAKER_03]: My friend Jeannie made it and I brought it. 11:49.607 --> 11:52.727 [SPEAKER_03]: And it was magnificent, but yeah, I didn't make it. 11:53.167 --> 11:56.928 [SPEAKER_03]: And they knew it was all bullshit anyway, because they knew my best again. 11:56.948 --> 12:05.830 [SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha, be bringing this gorgeous male, but if I ever try and fake it again, I will certainly read how it's put together. 12:09.071 --> 12:11.032 [SPEAKER_03]: So funny, all right. 12:14.395 --> 12:17.036 [SPEAKER_03]: This is another one from St. 12:17.557 --> 12:18.937 [SPEAKER_03]: M. 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Laura Peninsula. 12:18.997 --> 12:22.619 [SPEAKER_03]: Gianni, do you know Antoinette's Ginkana? 12:22.739 --> 12:24.760 [SPEAKER_03]: She's a timeless beauty. 12:25.420 --> 12:26.361 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you know her? 12:26.521 --> 12:28.962 [SPEAKER_03]: And would you invite her to be a guest on your show? 12:30.803 --> 12:33.764 [SPEAKER_00]: I think the girl she's talking about is in Chicago. 12:33.784 --> 12:37.686 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know, I know her father. 12:39.547 --> 12:39.987 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay. 12:40.027 --> 12:41.688 [SPEAKER_03]: So, Sam, Ginkana, right? 12:44.377 --> 12:44.977 [SPEAKER_00]: if they're right. 12:45.478 --> 12:47.259 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the antenna they're talking about. 12:47.299 --> 12:47.519 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 12:47.599 --> 12:47.819 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. 12:48.900 --> 12:51.602 [SPEAKER_03]: So, and like me, who is Sam Giankhana? 12:51.682 --> 12:52.962 [SPEAKER_03]: I know, I know the name. 12:53.563 --> 12:55.484 [SPEAKER_00]: Sam Giankhana was the underborn. 12:55.824 --> 13:09.593 [SPEAKER_00]: He was the street boss in Chicago, and because the Carter never wanted that position, but half horror if it's our father, he was shot in their basement in their summer kitchen. 13:10.093 --> 13:11.254 [SPEAKER_00]: By somebody he knew, 13:12.245 --> 13:14.727 [SPEAKER_00]: because he couldn't control Tony Spalotrol. 13:15.467 --> 13:21.451 [SPEAKER_00]: And he was in charge of Spalotrol, going to Vegas and watching the skim command. 13:22.251 --> 13:27.955 [SPEAKER_00]: But he became, you know, they made a movie called Casino about him, a Joey Pesh played him. 13:29.175 --> 13:32.437 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay, and did they called him the aunt, right? 13:32.718 --> 13:33.138 [SPEAKER_03]: Is that right? 13:34.000 --> 13:42.302 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but not they called him the end that was collateral, but send you in Cardinal, send them to the streetports. 13:42.883 --> 13:43.163 [SPEAKER_03]: Right. 13:43.383 --> 13:44.683 [SPEAKER_03]: So why they called Tony? 13:45.203 --> 13:55.046 [SPEAKER_00]: He was shot on the Saturday morning by a friend, because he had to be a friend, because he was in the basement, having an egg omelette with him when he got shot. 13:56.466 --> 13:58.667 [SPEAKER_03]: That's, do you know who shot him? 13:59.634 --> 14:22.926 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no 14:26.419 --> 14:44.889 [SPEAKER_00]: When I when I left New York, he sent me there when they was trying to straighten out the reason I wasn't at the July 28, 1981 rally for Joe Columbo, because I got a phone call from Tommy Belotti saying, don't go. 14:44.910 --> 14:47.151 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what he don't mean don't go. 14:47.231 --> 14:48.111 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm on the days. 14:48.552 --> 14:50.573 [SPEAKER_00]: Joe Columbo got me to part in the godfather. 14:51.573 --> 14:52.494 [SPEAKER_00]: This is just can't go. 14:52.514 --> 14:53.875 [SPEAKER_00]: That's when they shot him five 14:55.029 --> 14:56.710 [SPEAKER_00]: and never came out of the coma. 14:57.450 --> 15:02.592 [SPEAKER_00]: So I went to the Troppuccano hotel by the orders of Frank or Stella. 15:02.672 --> 15:09.995 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, just stay there to be straightened us out and it's a eye on it and he owned it. 15:10.735 --> 15:14.237 [SPEAKER_00]: That's when I opened the Tiffany's. 15:15.317 --> 15:18.078 [SPEAKER_00]: The club, and Elvis came every night for me. 15:19.439 --> 15:20.339 [SPEAKER_03]: That's amazing. 15:21.340 --> 15:22.020 [SPEAKER_03]: That's amazing. 15:22.976 --> 15:23.457 [SPEAKER_03]: That's back. 15:23.517 --> 15:36.811 [SPEAKER_03]: I would have loved to have, those are the type of, um, I, I listen to all your stories about back then and then you see that the incredible, everybody was in a suit, all the women looked incredible. 15:38.252 --> 15:42.617 [SPEAKER_03]: Different time, different era, you know, absolutely, absolutely. 15:45.637 --> 15:48.701 [SPEAKER_03]: All right, what was the, oh, oh, what's Shelley? 15:49.181 --> 15:54.507 [SPEAKER_03]: What was the first job you ever did when you started working for Custello? 15:55.809 --> 15:57.350 [SPEAKER_00]: Met just messenger to the same one. 15:57.971 --> 16:00.334 [SPEAKER_00]: I was always a messenger if they have personal check. 16:00.814 --> 16:01.075 [SPEAKER_00]: All of it. 16:02.340 --> 16:05.001 [SPEAKER_00]: taking money envelopes. 16:05.681 --> 16:20.807 [SPEAKER_00]: I knew there was money in them, but I don't know what it was for, but obviously as I got to know who he was and what he was, a lot of it was bookmaking and Shylock money and numbers and they controlled it all. 16:20.907 --> 16:23.088 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's what I did. 16:23.108 --> 16:26.209 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't consider 16:30.339 --> 16:31.279 [SPEAKER_03]: just running errands. 16:31.319 --> 16:32.520 [SPEAKER_03]: You just get an envelope. 16:32.580 --> 16:33.621 [SPEAKER_03]: What would you do with them? 16:33.701 --> 16:36.562 [SPEAKER_03]: Sick it down your pants and your pocket and carry your bag. 16:36.622 --> 16:37.122 [SPEAKER_03]: How'd it work? 16:37.482 --> 16:45.146 [SPEAKER_00]: I just put them in my suit jacket, you know, and they're all different sizes and put them different places and just go to live with them. 16:45.866 --> 16:49.788 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I mean, I was in about a 10 block. 16:51.008 --> 16:58.292 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, radius of where he was because he was always, you know, either at the copa or at the 16:59.536 --> 17:00.697 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's what I did. 17:01.717 --> 17:09.441 [SPEAKER_00]: But the thing was every time he'd shake my hand when I met him in the morning, he was just a gentleman. 17:10.362 --> 17:12.263 [SPEAKER_00]: He had a hundred dollar bill rolled up in it. 17:13.684 --> 17:17.886 [SPEAKER_00]: That's how I started my day every day in the 50s. 17:20.407 --> 17:22.689 [SPEAKER_03]: I'd like to start every day like that right now. 17:22.709 --> 17:28.632 [SPEAKER_03]: So it would be very fun, very fun. 17:29.172 --> 17:31.814 [SPEAKER_03]: All right, this is from Jimmy. 17:32.294 --> 17:40.298 [SPEAKER_03]: He wants to know, do you know any stories of Jimmy Shabba? 17:40.318 --> 17:41.099 [SPEAKER_00]: Jimmy Shabba? 17:42.259 --> 17:42.920 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, of course. 17:43.880 --> 17:45.001 [SPEAKER_00]: And who was he? 17:46.181 --> 17:48.623 [SPEAKER_00]: He was at that end of his career. 17:48.683 --> 17:49.143 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know. 17:49.423 --> 17:50.244 [SPEAKER_00]: I knew of him. 17:50.264 --> 17:51.444 [SPEAKER_00]: I knew not. 17:51.725 --> 17:55.807 [SPEAKER_00]: See, my most people think that I was on a street level, 17:57.293 --> 17:59.393 [SPEAKER_00]: of crime, I was never there. 18:00.494 --> 18:00.974 [SPEAKER_00]: I worked. 18:00.994 --> 18:02.714 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Stella, since I'm 12. 18:04.034 --> 18:07.915 [SPEAKER_00]: I never, you know, was talking to these guys. 18:07.935 --> 18:11.176 [SPEAKER_03]: These guys, okay, you were just in the background. 18:11.656 --> 18:14.417 [SPEAKER_03]: You never had to get involved. 18:14.437 --> 18:16.537 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't have to make my bones. 18:16.877 --> 18:18.437 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't have to prove myself. 18:18.497 --> 18:19.558 [SPEAKER_00]: I never did do anything. 18:19.938 --> 18:21.518 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's why most guys hated me. 18:22.753 --> 18:30.679 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, John Gotti, the reason he didn't like me, he didn't know who I wasn't how I got there because they wanted it that way. 18:31.339 --> 18:43.788 [SPEAKER_00]: And fortunately for me, I had no problems with it because I lived my life like anybody else, everybody tried to figure out what I did, but thank God you couldn't because I'd be doing a lot of time. 18:45.289 --> 18:45.630 [SPEAKER_03]: Right. 18:45.770 --> 18:50.413 [SPEAKER_03]: So you were just in the background of all of all of this. 18:52.014 --> 18:52.474 [SPEAKER_03]: I got you. 18:52.574 --> 18:52.874 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. 18:52.914 --> 18:56.176 [SPEAKER_03]: Why did they call him back just full of a lot, sir? 18:56.296 --> 18:57.637 [SPEAKER_03]: Why did they call him the end? 18:58.337 --> 19:01.839 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he was a little pain in his little shirt like an ant. 19:02.359 --> 19:04.140 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, he was a Joe Peshie. 19:04.580 --> 19:05.160 [SPEAKER_03]: I got you. 19:05.720 --> 19:07.861 [SPEAKER_03]: That's what I've heard, but never to his face, right? 19:09.142 --> 19:10.703 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I got call me anything I want. 19:10.763 --> 19:11.843 [SPEAKER_00]: I care about Joe Peshie. 19:12.204 --> 19:13.584 [SPEAKER_00]: Was he a tough guy's an act that? 19:14.124 --> 19:14.565 [SPEAKER_03]: No, no. 19:14.705 --> 19:16.045 [SPEAKER_03]: I mean the ant, the real guy. 19:16.586 --> 19:18.767 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that guy was a guy who's a machine gun in my house. 19:19.027 --> 19:19.247 [SPEAKER_00]: Hello? 19:21.186 --> 19:22.807 [SPEAKER_00]: He went up in the house and Vegas. 19:23.768 --> 19:30.233 [SPEAKER_00]: I went to Chicago and complained about him and that's when him and his mother Michael were called in. 19:30.693 --> 19:34.656 [SPEAKER_00]: And unfortunately, they would be to death with baseball bats and send the message. 19:35.297 --> 19:39.340 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh no, no, I got, he was, he always in my face. 19:39.440 --> 19:42.702 [SPEAKER_00]: This guy was always pushing my buttons, but I would never react to him. 19:42.722 --> 19:49.087 [SPEAKER_00]: Because I was not doing what he was doing and I didn't want to be even associated with the guy. 19:50.062 --> 19:57.106 [SPEAKER_00]: He had so much heat on him, then he created that whole hole in the wall gang with fine collider and all of them. 19:57.446 --> 19:58.067 [SPEAKER_00]: They were wrong. 19:58.107 --> 20:00.088 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they were nuts, what they did in Vegas. 20:00.388 --> 20:04.690 [SPEAKER_00]: They destroyed Vegas, like John Goddard destroyed New York for the mob. 20:05.631 --> 20:08.753 [SPEAKER_00]: He destroyed Vegas for the bomb. 20:09.853 --> 20:15.897 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this guy's a lot, you know, yeah, that's when all the corporations came in. 20:17.116 --> 20:17.716 [SPEAKER_03]: What came in? 20:17.977 --> 20:21.739 [SPEAKER_00]: That's when they took Howard Hughes to make him a front person for them. 20:22.260 --> 20:23.460 [SPEAKER_00]: They had to take it over. 20:24.121 --> 20:26.763 [SPEAKER_00]: They knew there was so much skim going on. 20:27.123 --> 20:28.063 [SPEAKER_00]: They had to find out. 20:28.484 --> 20:34.168 [SPEAKER_00]: Even the cocktail waitresses, they got federal agents to be cocktail waitresses. 20:34.668 --> 20:39.271 [SPEAKER_00]: Because these girls were saying I make $30 a day, $40, they were making a couple hundred 20:45.546 --> 20:48.328 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, let's go ahead and go to a commercial right now. 20:48.428 --> 20:49.249 [SPEAKER_03]: We'll come right back. 20:50.130 --> 20:55.774 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and again, what we're promoting right now is Chiller Theatre. 20:56.375 --> 20:57.836 [SPEAKER_00]: It's one of the biggest shows. 20:57.996 --> 20:59.697 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll be there October 24th, 25th and 26th, 21:02.441 --> 21:07.025 [SPEAKER_00]: And obviously look at look for me in all the results world. 21:07.665 --> 21:10.167 [SPEAKER_00]: We're planning a couple of things right now. 21:11.689 --> 21:16.473 [SPEAKER_00]: As you know, I'm doing Columbus Day weekend, which will be over by the time you hear this show. 21:17.053 --> 21:18.795 [SPEAKER_00]: But there's a lot of events coming up. 21:19.435 --> 21:25.320 [SPEAKER_00]: And again, I cannot thank bonds and noble and Amazon for promoting my new book. 21:26.301 --> 21:29.063 [SPEAKER_00]: And as I say again, buy it. 21:32.213 --> 21:33.934 [SPEAKER_00]: You could buy it, ship it to me. 21:33.994 --> 21:35.714 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll sign up for Christmas presence. 21:36.234 --> 21:38.515 [SPEAKER_00]: And right now, Amazon's offering 25% off. 21:38.535 --> 21:43.597 [SPEAKER_00]: So we're to all that said that's basically what we're selling. 21:43.677 --> 21:45.237 [SPEAKER_00]: That's all commercials. 21:46.437 --> 21:46.918 [SPEAKER_03]: All right. 21:49.438 --> 21:49.778 [SPEAKER_03]: All right. 21:49.838 --> 21:50.759 [SPEAKER_03]: Let's see where we are. 21:51.279 --> 21:53.239 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, this was from Jerry. 21:53.760 --> 22:01.122 [SPEAKER_03]: Did you know of Charles Harrison, Woody Harrelson's father that was 22:01.744 --> 22:04.645 [SPEAKER_03]: accused of murdering the judge. 22:04.665 --> 22:06.205 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's totally did. 22:06.245 --> 22:08.866 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I would never know that guy. 22:09.026 --> 22:09.506 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 22:09.826 --> 22:12.947 [SPEAKER_00]: When they lived in the West, Texas or somewhere. 22:13.848 --> 22:27.211 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I mean, it's, I, it's unfortunate that that guy carries, what he carries his father's, you know, burden of that, but you know, I'm so, we all have relatives that kill somebody, I guess. 22:27.372 --> 22:28.652 [SPEAKER_00]: But his father, 22:29.939 --> 22:32.201 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, at your claim to fame, I wouldn't want to have. 22:33.102 --> 22:34.162 [SPEAKER_03]: Right, right. 22:34.202 --> 22:49.214 [SPEAKER_03]: That's a, yeah, that's that's crazy because I've heard that he said his father was an informant for the CIA and then, of course, that would not, not a good person. 22:50.515 --> 22:52.497 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's, that's what I've heard. 22:53.097 --> 22:55.999 [SPEAKER_03]: All right, let's see. 22:59.679 --> 23:00.139 [SPEAKER_03]: Let's see. 23:00.320 --> 23:00.700 [SPEAKER_03]: Here we go. 23:00.720 --> 23:03.822 [SPEAKER_03]: Let me find the name to who wrote this one, Sharon. 23:04.302 --> 23:10.287 [SPEAKER_03]: Sharon asks, what was your association with Thomas and Mac and Las Vegas? 23:12.448 --> 23:13.809 [SPEAKER_03]: How'd you know Thomas and Mac? 23:14.610 --> 23:16.231 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas and Mac is a stadium. 23:16.251 --> 23:20.935 [SPEAKER_03]: It was in that Thomas Perry or Perry, what? 23:22.332 --> 23:25.693 [SPEAKER_03]: I thought there were bankers or something there that did financing. 23:25.713 --> 23:28.674 [SPEAKER_00]: The Thomas and Mac is you and L.V. 23:28.734 --> 23:29.434 [SPEAKER_00]: The stadium. 23:30.094 --> 23:30.754 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay. 23:31.815 --> 23:33.375 [SPEAKER_00]: I had no association with them. 23:34.015 --> 23:34.655 [SPEAKER_00]: The Thomas. 23:35.155 --> 23:36.576 [SPEAKER_00]: I knew it was Perry Thomas. 23:37.096 --> 23:37.396 [SPEAKER_00]: Who? 23:37.816 --> 23:38.956 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, thank you. 23:38.976 --> 23:39.377 [SPEAKER_00]: Utah. 23:39.917 --> 23:41.537 [SPEAKER_00]: Who was the president of the Valley Bank? 23:41.737 --> 23:42.978 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the guy I wanted to know. 23:44.278 --> 23:44.598 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. 23:44.858 --> 23:45.578 [SPEAKER_03]: That's for sure. 23:46.038 --> 23:46.919 [SPEAKER_03]: That is for sure. 23:48.199 --> 23:48.959 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a Mac. 23:49.019 --> 23:49.559 [SPEAKER_00]: Wait a minute. 23:50.660 --> 23:51.880 [SPEAKER_00]: I need play basketball. 23:52.798 --> 23:59.403 [SPEAKER_00]: I knew Jerry Taucanyan who was the coach of the world, the basketball. 24:00.104 --> 24:00.864 [SPEAKER_00]: You and L.V. 24:00.904 --> 24:02.946 [SPEAKER_00]: had it some basketball team, always did. 24:03.686 --> 24:04.047 [SPEAKER_03]: Right. 24:04.567 --> 24:07.129 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's a big place, there's always something going on there. 24:07.649 --> 24:07.889 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 24:08.490 --> 24:08.830 [SPEAKER_03]: All right. 24:09.611 --> 24:17.737 [SPEAKER_03]: Were you in Las Vegas during the mysterious fires in 1977, or do you know anything about it? 24:22.772 --> 24:29.178 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what it is, it's from Jonathan he said, it was listed as mysterious fires in in 1977. 24:29.238 --> 24:32.741 [SPEAKER_03]: What do you know of the mysterious fires in Las Vegas in 1977? 24:33.222 --> 24:37.185 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I'm mysterious. 24:37.826 --> 24:38.366 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know. 24:38.527 --> 24:40.328 [SPEAKER_03]: I wonder if there was a rash of fires. 24:40.969 --> 24:42.410 [SPEAKER_00]: I had a mysterious fire. 24:43.932 --> 24:48.336 [SPEAKER_00]: I dropped sight burnt down and there was no signs of me building my hotel. 24:50.302 --> 24:52.783 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, did you say the MGM caught on fire? 24:53.463 --> 24:58.644 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but not the MGM, the one on the corner, what was the name of it? 24:59.144 --> 25:00.544 [SPEAKER_00]: A ballot, a ballot, a ballot. 25:01.224 --> 25:04.565 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, well, looking at it, it's a major fire. 25:04.585 --> 25:10.566 [SPEAKER_00]: The ballot is hotel on the corner of Flamengo and Las Vegas, Boulevard. 25:11.586 --> 25:13.847 [SPEAKER_00]: You go to the final, you probably find it two seconds. 25:14.447 --> 25:15.687 [SPEAKER_00]: That was a quiet fire. 25:15.707 --> 25:16.888 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, wow. 25:19.937 --> 25:24.761 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, but people were laying, the dealers were laying on the table, covering the money. 25:26.423 --> 25:29.105 [SPEAKER_00]: Because all the chips everything was, they were in action. 25:30.566 --> 25:31.927 [SPEAKER_03]: Holy cow. 25:32.067 --> 25:32.948 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you see what you're fine? 25:32.968 --> 25:34.209 [SPEAKER_03]: Alright. 25:34.770 --> 25:35.851 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Bally's hotel. 25:36.051 --> 25:36.531 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, 1980. 25:37.752 --> 25:38.533 [SPEAKER_03]: I, well, let's see. 25:40.290 --> 25:44.772 [SPEAKER_03]: The MGM-Gram fire of November 21, 1980. 25:44.932 --> 25:50.975 [SPEAKER_03]: The second largest hotel fire in the history of the United States and the deadliest event in Nevada history. 25:51.875 --> 25:52.115 [SPEAKER_01]: Yep. 25:53.336 --> 25:56.097 [SPEAKER_03]: Holy cow, were you there then or were you gone? 25:56.337 --> 25:57.718 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, I was there then, yeah. 25:57.858 --> 25:58.838 [SPEAKER_00]: I was still there, yep. 26:00.239 --> 26:00.939 [SPEAKER_03]: Holy cow. 26:00.959 --> 26:01.879 [SPEAKER_00]: I had the state street. 26:02.059 --> 26:03.700 [SPEAKER_00]: I closed the state street in 89. 26:05.041 --> 26:05.401 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, wow. 26:09.195 --> 26:14.558 [SPEAKER_03]: And it was in 1980, I guess I was wondering why I didn't hear about it, but I was probably in junior high. 26:14.958 --> 26:22.062 [SPEAKER_03]: It said, the MGM grandfire November 21st. 26:22.603 --> 26:32.708 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, same as what I said, because of raging fire and severe smoke from the place, 87 people died and 700 were injured in the 26th story building. 26:32.728 --> 26:34.049 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that amazing? 26:34.984 --> 26:36.004 [SPEAKER_03]: That's incredible. 26:36.044 --> 26:37.344 [SPEAKER_03]: How have I not heard that? 26:37.605 --> 26:38.865 [SPEAKER_03]: I guess I was young. 26:38.905 --> 26:39.605 [SPEAKER_03]: It didn't matter. 26:40.425 --> 26:41.145 [SPEAKER_00]: No alarms. 26:41.165 --> 26:41.605 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. 26:41.625 --> 26:42.286 [SPEAKER_00]: She would never know. 26:43.166 --> 26:43.466 [SPEAKER_03]: Wow. 26:44.106 --> 26:48.827 [SPEAKER_03]: That said, there were no alarms rang, no automatic fire systems. 26:48.967 --> 26:51.927 [SPEAKER_03]: The only system had was security. 26:52.268 --> 26:53.968 [SPEAKER_00]: So all the building codes down there. 26:54.948 --> 26:57.329 [SPEAKER_00]: How do you build a 22-storey building? 26:57.689 --> 26:59.789 [SPEAKER_00]: And you have no smoke alarms, no fire. 26:59.829 --> 27:00.449 [SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy. 27:00.549 --> 27:01.649 [SPEAKER_00]: Was that normal? 27:02.350 --> 27:02.670 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 27:02.770 --> 27:03.910 [SPEAKER_00]: That was normal then. 27:04.653 --> 27:04.953 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 27:05.153 --> 27:05.954 [SPEAKER_00]: Wait, what everything? 27:06.214 --> 27:06.915 [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't care. 27:09.076 --> 27:09.517 [SPEAKER_02]: Wow. 27:11.358 --> 27:11.598 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 27:11.638 --> 27:15.021 [SPEAKER_00]: They're about valleys, I think, because they're name of it. 27:16.182 --> 27:17.743 [SPEAKER_00]: If it's still open, I didn't even know. 27:18.143 --> 27:19.824 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, this is, oh, now they said it's haunted. 27:20.045 --> 27:22.166 [SPEAKER_03]: Contings of the MGM Grand Fire of 1980. 27:22.306 --> 27:27.330 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I can't believe how many people died. 27:27.350 --> 27:29.612 [SPEAKER_00]: 86, below. 27:30.412 --> 27:31.593 [SPEAKER_03]: That's incredible. 27:31.753 --> 27:33.014 [SPEAKER_03]: Is it most of them died? 27:34.337 --> 27:37.719 [SPEAKER_03]: from smoke inhalation, and they were all over the. 27:38.520 --> 27:38.700 [SPEAKER_00]: Yep. 27:40.101 --> 27:40.561 [SPEAKER_00]: Who else? 27:40.801 --> 27:41.662 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's that question. 27:41.702 --> 27:41.842 [SPEAKER_00]: Good. 27:42.222 --> 27:43.963 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I think it was Jonathan. 27:44.283 --> 27:44.763 [SPEAKER_03]: Jonathan. 27:45.544 --> 27:46.925 [SPEAKER_00]: Jonathan, thank you for that one. 27:46.945 --> 27:47.825 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a good one, man. 27:48.166 --> 27:49.967 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's incredible. 27:50.287 --> 27:54.329 [SPEAKER_00]: That, you know, good way, but I mean, that was a part of history in Vegas. 27:55.430 --> 27:57.291 [SPEAKER_03]: All say, that's that's crazy. 27:57.311 --> 27:58.452 [SPEAKER_03]: I've never even heard of that. 28:00.323 --> 28:03.726 [SPEAKER_03]: It says that they have ghost chores in Las Vegas. 28:03.766 --> 28:06.248 [SPEAKER_03]: You know any stories about ghosts in Las Vegas? 28:07.069 --> 28:10.892 [SPEAKER_00]: No, only people I want to get rid of. 28:13.314 --> 28:19.138 [SPEAKER_03]: All right, speaking of Las Vegas, this is from Japan. 28:19.218 --> 28:22.981 [SPEAKER_03]: What was the first business you owned in Las Vegas? 28:23.061 --> 28:25.043 [SPEAKER_03]: I know you did a lot of different things, but... 28:25.572 --> 28:30.336 [SPEAKER_00]: The first business actually was Russo and Kostaldi Jules store. 28:31.597 --> 28:34.419 [SPEAKER_00]: Then I opened up Johnny Russo's wig world. 28:36.200 --> 28:38.282 [SPEAKER_00]: I had a lot of crazy businesses. 28:38.923 --> 28:40.624 [SPEAKER_00]: Just have fun with stuff, you know. 28:41.184 --> 28:41.645 [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah. 28:42.726 --> 28:48.230 [SPEAKER_00]: My first business was Russo Kostaldi Jules in Maryland Square Shopping Center. 28:50.234 --> 28:52.555 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, and that would be a hard business. 28:52.615 --> 28:56.657 [SPEAKER_03]: I wouldn't, first of all, I probably wouldn't want to get rid of any of my inventory. 28:57.478 --> 28:58.839 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, no, no, the bottom line. 28:59.139 --> 29:04.762 [SPEAKER_00]: What I did was of all my connections here on 47th Street, the jewelry industry appear. 29:05.242 --> 29:07.143 [SPEAKER_00]: I took everything out of consignment from them. 29:08.654 --> 29:18.298 [SPEAKER_00]: So, it looked like I was selling a lot of things, I'd have it on consignment for 30 days, anything I didn't sell, I'd bring back to New York and change it. 29:18.758 --> 29:29.743 [SPEAKER_00]: So, you always felt my inventory was changing, so all the showgirls, but I came up with a business within that business, because I used to tell the showgirls if you meet a guy, 29:30.912 --> 29:58.439 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know these guys just want to give you money, but if they want to buy you something, say I have something on lay-away at Russo and Kostali Jules, and then I gave McCode to say what was on lay-away is if 5,000 is a 10,000 or 15,000, and then bring the guy in, and I knew the girls, and that I make sure they call me, because that I'd be there, so I could handle it myself, 30:01.448 --> 30:08.292 [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, she'd give me the ratio, I'd give her what it was, and he'd pay for it. 30:09.853 --> 30:15.196 [SPEAKER_00]: Then when he left town, she'd bring her back to me, I'd give her half the money and my ring back. 30:15.957 --> 30:17.217 [SPEAKER_00]: And they were good with that. 30:17.237 --> 30:18.458 [SPEAKER_00]: I made that. 30:19.118 --> 30:20.979 [SPEAKER_00]: I made, you know, half the money on something. 30:20.999 --> 30:21.840 [SPEAKER_00]: I got the piece back. 30:22.160 --> 30:23.321 [SPEAKER_00]: And I ain't even on the piece. 30:23.341 --> 30:25.122 [SPEAKER_00]: The piece was on concern from New York. 30:31.130 --> 30:39.654 [SPEAKER_03]: How did you learn all these little flight of hands, so to say, what, did they pop up into your head or did you see that or? 30:40.054 --> 30:48.658 [SPEAKER_00]: We always, when things came to me, I was trying, always trying to figure out, how could I get into that business without buying into the business? 30:49.458 --> 30:52.460 [SPEAKER_00]: Then I heard about consignments, and I heard about this, and I heard about that. 30:52.980 --> 30:57.522 [SPEAKER_00]: But then Vegas, you know, because of, again, these, they call them John's, 31:00.732 --> 31:05.034 [SPEAKER_00]: So what can I, let me buy you something, we just want one somebody. 31:05.474 --> 31:07.135 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I don't really want to buy something. 31:07.155 --> 31:08.395 [SPEAKER_00]: I have someone lay away. 31:09.596 --> 31:16.039 [SPEAKER_00]: See, because they don't want to go to jewelry store and that you got another necklace or another thing should probably have a box of that stuff. 31:16.799 --> 31:27.544 [SPEAKER_00]: So I have this idea and they call me and I go me to where they are and I bring a piece to say, you know, you know, that ring I have on the lay away, well, a friend of mine would 31:33.893 --> 31:53.619 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, and I love the good thing about you is that your mind works so quick, you know, that is to your advantage and all of the different ways that you've made great opportunities of things that you have connections with. 31:54.560 --> 31:58.721 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, I mean, if that didn't happen, then I wouldn't be doing anything. 32:00.293 --> 32:01.473 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's wild. 32:01.553 --> 32:06.314 [SPEAKER_03]: I just thought that was so crazy when and I heard that story. 32:06.674 --> 32:14.676 [SPEAKER_03]: So I just thought always to be looking for a way to make some money. 32:14.996 --> 32:18.656 [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, and the thing is the guy was going to buy her something anyway. 32:19.216 --> 32:21.937 [SPEAKER_03]: And if she didn't want jewelry, I mean, that's a win-win. 32:22.437 --> 32:23.957 [SPEAKER_03]: The guy looked like a hot shot. 32:24.257 --> 32:27.778 [SPEAKER_03]: She, she wasn't going to just get a handful of cash. 32:28.333 --> 32:28.833 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. 32:29.014 --> 32:32.296 [SPEAKER_03]: Walk away, everybody's happy everyone's like, make a little bit of money. 32:33.016 --> 32:33.216 [UNKNOWN]: Yep. 32:34.337 --> 32:34.918 [SPEAKER_03]: I love that. 32:36.178 --> 32:37.459 [SPEAKER_00]: We're all about something to do. 32:38.480 --> 32:39.040 [SPEAKER_03]: What'd you say? 32:39.701 --> 32:40.922 [SPEAKER_00]: Worked for many years. 32:41.642 --> 32:42.483 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I bet it did. 32:42.923 --> 32:43.684 [SPEAKER_03]: I bet it did. 32:44.344 --> 32:47.006 [SPEAKER_03]: I would be hard for me because I like the jewelry. 32:47.046 --> 32:48.607 [SPEAKER_03]: That would be hard for me to pass that. 32:48.747 --> 32:49.968 [SPEAKER_03]: But all right. 32:50.528 --> 32:51.169 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, let's see. 32:51.209 --> 32:52.430 [SPEAKER_03]: I had one more question. 32:52.610 --> 32:55.832 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, this is from Michelle, and she they've been re-known about it. 32:56.477 --> 33:00.479 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you have any, what is the best advice you give to your grandkids? 33:01.979 --> 33:06.141 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, in this day and age, it's so hard. 33:06.841 --> 33:16.405 [SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately, the advice I give any child is stay in school, get educated because it's not like it used to be. 33:16.425 --> 33:21.987 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't have a piece of paper on the wall, you're going to disqualify yourself immediately. 33:22.667 --> 33:33.911 [SPEAKER_00]: because everybody wants those documents, you know, I think we had more opportunities when we were younger in my time, because you know, if you were smart, you could survive. 33:34.831 --> 33:43.814 [SPEAKER_00]: Now that you, if you don't have a credential, or you don't have a resabed, that they want pride even coming in, how do you get into the door, you know? 33:45.583 --> 33:52.066 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, that's exactly it's well, you know what I call resume when I started working for the government. 33:52.087 --> 33:58.690 [SPEAKER_03]: You had to get online and you had to fill out this application and I've read people's resumes. 33:59.591 --> 34:03.613 [SPEAKER_03]: There was one he called himself a sanitation engineer. 34:03.633 --> 34:05.314 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was a garbage band. 34:06.094 --> 34:07.835 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and the janitor I'm like. 34:08.745 --> 34:14.030 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, they make you, if you don't have a resume that makes you sound like, absolutely. 34:14.050 --> 34:14.250 [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely. 34:14.290 --> 34:14.951 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 34:15.492 --> 34:18.755 [SPEAKER_03]: I like, if you're a, if you're a sanitation engineer. 34:20.207 --> 34:24.372 [SPEAKER_03]: You've got to hire somebody or get somebody to write your resume. 34:24.752 --> 34:25.593 [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's crazy. 34:25.613 --> 34:30.299 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, garbage men, most garbage men probably don't talk the way they want that paper written out. 34:30.839 --> 34:32.802 [SPEAKER_03]: So I always call that creative writing. 34:33.082 --> 34:35.305 [SPEAKER_03]: If you've got a great resume. 34:35.325 --> 34:38.869 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, if you got them in the job, you know, that's... Oh, exactly. 34:40.042 --> 34:54.829 [SPEAKER_03]: I told my mother one day, I can't remember how it described this fancy, fancy thing I did at work one day, and I said to, I read it to my mom and I said to her, don't I sound fancy and she's like, yeah, what is that? 34:54.849 --> 35:00.952 [SPEAKER_03]: And I said, I write a name on a, I take a marker, a Sharpie, and I write a name on a 35:05.226 --> 35:09.487 [SPEAKER_03]: But it just sounded real impressive the way they had written it out there. 35:09.527 --> 35:13.168 [SPEAKER_03]: I just thought, oh, some of the silliest stuff out there. 35:13.728 --> 35:14.109 [SPEAKER_03]: All right. 35:14.149 --> 35:20.750 [SPEAKER_03]: Let's take another quick break and do commercial and then we'll finish up with the last couple of questions. 35:21.190 --> 35:21.590 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 35:22.011 --> 35:27.212 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, again, we want to thank you all for sending in the cards and let us keep them coming. 35:27.812 --> 35:30.773 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, the only thing I have coming up that you can come see. 35:31.743 --> 35:44.506 [SPEAKER_00]: is Chile, theater, October 24th, 25th, 26th at the Hilton Hotel, that's October 24th, 25th, 26th, the Hilton Hotel and precipitate New Jersey. 35:45.167 --> 35:58.070 [SPEAKER_00]: And for some of my people overseas, I want them to know I'm almost sold out January 2nd at the Lark, theater in Dublin. 36:00.192 --> 36:02.833 [SPEAKER_00]: January 2nd, they're going to put on another show. 36:03.213 --> 36:06.574 [SPEAKER_00]: January 3rd, that's the lock theater in Dublin. 36:06.974 --> 36:07.815 [SPEAKER_00]: Get your tickets. 36:08.255 --> 36:08.835 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll be there. 36:08.855 --> 36:11.356 [SPEAKER_00]: I love all of this stuff. 36:11.416 --> 36:12.176 [SPEAKER_00]: It's so crazy. 36:12.997 --> 36:15.377 [SPEAKER_03]: We can't even keep track of you here in the US. 36:15.437 --> 36:16.558 [SPEAKER_03]: Now you're leaving the country. 36:16.578 --> 36:17.778 [SPEAKER_03]: I love it. 36:18.959 --> 36:19.459 [SPEAKER_03]: All right. 36:19.499 --> 36:21.520 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, we have won Go for State 777. 36:26.063 --> 36:30.165 [SPEAKER_03]: On our comments, we thank you so much for always putting some out here for us. 36:30.765 --> 36:41.709 [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, it's a suggestion and I'll read it to you, it's not likely to happen, but he said, What do you think of the idea of everyone's in a while while having genie? 36:42.589 --> 36:51.617 [SPEAKER_03]: Seeing the opening and Gianni seeing the closing of the show just for your fans is in special surprise to your long-time listeners. 36:52.057 --> 36:59.343 [SPEAKER_03]: I think it would be a hoot to hear Gianni seeing, even though she is not a professional, she would be fine because she is personality. 37:00.111 --> 37:02.492 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I want you to sing. 37:03.033 --> 37:09.056 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, me sing the opening using the closing, which, um, great idea, but I can't sing. 37:09.596 --> 37:11.617 [SPEAKER_03]: I can barely talk with this voice. 37:12.057 --> 37:12.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Why sing? 37:12.778 --> 37:14.398 [SPEAKER_00]: Do I have a singing opening? 37:14.739 --> 37:18.020 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, you have, um, you, you sing. 37:18.300 --> 37:21.102 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, when I first started listening, you sing the, uh, 37:22.163 --> 37:22.463 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know. 37:22.503 --> 37:28.369 [SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of a party song, I've tried to describe a G before, which I love. 37:28.429 --> 37:34.814 [SPEAKER_03]: I love hearing you sing, and then you have sing, speak softly, the Godfather song. 37:35.295 --> 37:35.955 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I do that. 37:36.456 --> 37:36.756 [SPEAKER_03]: Right. 37:38.478 --> 37:40.860 [SPEAKER_00]: That's one of my major revisions is singing. 37:41.420 --> 37:41.761 [SPEAKER_03]: Right. 37:42.181 --> 37:42.701 [SPEAKER_00]: Not mine. 37:42.721 --> 37:44.163 [SPEAKER_00]: There's my singing teacher, L. 37:45.173 --> 37:45.874 [SPEAKER_03]: Right, right. 37:45.934 --> 37:48.056 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I did not have Senator the teacher. 37:48.096 --> 37:55.001 [SPEAKER_03]: We have a seeing go for state, which I appreciate it, but, you know, some people can very Not the teacher. 37:55.542 --> 37:56.182 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you say? 37:56.202 --> 38:00.126 [SPEAKER_00]: They said me knowing Senator, he would have loved to teach you. 38:01.146 --> 38:04.189 [SPEAKER_00]: I can only imagine some of the things they wanted to teach you. 38:05.730 --> 38:12.476 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I'll tell you, this voice, you know, is not for everyone, because 38:13.290 --> 38:16.871 [SPEAKER_03]: When I was young, uh, there was someone he just called me squirt toy. 38:17.011 --> 38:19.532 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, I don't know it's just the voice that came with me. 38:19.612 --> 38:21.313 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't have any special training. 38:21.413 --> 38:25.574 [SPEAKER_03]: And, uh, but thank you, thank you for this suggestion. 38:26.875 --> 38:28.835 [SPEAKER_03]: You'll probably hear Gianni sing again. 38:28.855 --> 38:30.876 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to hear this one sing. 38:31.576 --> 38:32.677 [SPEAKER_02]: Uh-huh. 38:33.437 --> 38:34.477 [SPEAKER_03]: Was it funny question? 38:34.897 --> 38:35.317 [SPEAKER_03]: Let's see. 38:35.377 --> 38:36.338 [SPEAKER_03]: What was the last one? 38:36.578 --> 38:36.658 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh. 38:37.426 --> 38:38.126 [SPEAKER_03]: And there's one. 38:38.286 --> 38:40.687 [SPEAKER_03]: I wish I could figure out what this guy's handle is. 38:40.807 --> 38:41.987 [SPEAKER_03]: I was trying to read it again. 38:42.027 --> 38:44.368 [SPEAKER_03]: It might be pre-CBS vendor. 38:44.788 --> 38:45.388 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure. 38:45.748 --> 38:51.210 [SPEAKER_03]: He is the one that suggested that we once a month talk about your shows. 38:52.390 --> 38:59.672 [SPEAKER_03]: So he said, could you tell us some stories, more stories about being on the set of the Godfather, which 39:01.402 --> 39:13.086 [SPEAKER_03]: So if you've got a funny story you haven't told us about that, he's like here one of those, and we'd like to thank him real quick because we will be doing more shows talking about Gianni's movies. 39:13.626 --> 39:15.007 [SPEAKER_03]: So those are coming up. 39:15.187 --> 39:17.388 [SPEAKER_03]: But that's great. 39:17.848 --> 39:26.651 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so do you have is there any stories about the show that you like what was your funnest. 39:30.228 --> 39:32.109 [SPEAKER_03]: to film on the show of the Godfather. 39:32.450 --> 39:33.730 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you have a favorite scene? 39:34.591 --> 39:47.159 [SPEAKER_00]: Not really, because you know to me, I was so enamored that I got the part number one and to be working with such noted actors, Maul and Brando especially, Richard Dean, John Moore. 39:47.199 --> 39:49.561 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I was in awe. 39:49.761 --> 39:54.064 [SPEAKER_00]: I was 25, 26 years of age and the book was in its sixth print. 39:55.197 --> 39:56.738 [SPEAKER_00]: And I was just happy to be there. 39:56.938 --> 40:04.601 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I guess just because of me being around a tie-in so much, I was believable. 40:07.142 --> 40:12.624 [SPEAKER_00]: I actually got nominated in Con for most promising newcomer. 40:13.125 --> 40:14.405 [SPEAKER_00]: And I was so proud of that. 40:15.405 --> 40:20.288 [SPEAKER_00]: But in Con, they nominated anybody new that made a film. 40:22.368 --> 40:24.269 [SPEAKER_00]: I was up against Diana Ross. 40:24.369 --> 40:25.869 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't male or female. 40:26.309 --> 40:30.870 [SPEAKER_00]: Diana Ross did the movie Lady Sings the Blues and that's who won. 40:33.271 --> 40:34.171 [SPEAKER_03]: That's incredible. 40:35.111 --> 40:36.152 [SPEAKER_03]: That's wild. 40:36.512 --> 40:42.013 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I watched, because we're talking about all the different movies that you did. 40:42.553 --> 40:46.234 [SPEAKER_03]: And I watched one, I've just watched it over the last week. 40:46.354 --> 40:47.555 [SPEAKER_03]: Actually, I watched a field. 40:48.215 --> 40:48.755 [SPEAKER_03]: And, um, 40:50.137 --> 40:54.100 [SPEAKER_03]: Handsome guy, first of all, very handsome, what, looking at your shows. 40:54.540 --> 41:09.770 [SPEAKER_03]: But you, you, I was just thinking I was laughing, looking at my holy crap, you had a great head hair, still do luckily, and I saw the way you were dressed in the one that we're going to talk about. 41:09.810 --> 41:12.272 [SPEAKER_03]: We're going to talk about laser blast. 41:13.192 --> 41:15.514 [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm watching that and in this show, 41:16.301 --> 41:25.270 [SPEAKER_03]: You're driving a fancy car, you're wearing good looking suits, you're this good looking guy in this movie, and I was like, I loved it. 41:25.410 --> 41:33.558 [SPEAKER_00]: I love watching you, you know, when actually that what happened with me a lot of times when they brought me to wardrobe. 41:35.164 --> 41:37.285 [SPEAKER_00]: I would say, you know, I could all use my own suits. 41:37.905 --> 41:40.085 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we can't pay, I said, or worry about it. 41:40.666 --> 41:43.006 [SPEAKER_00]: They would give me suits like from Robert Hall. 41:43.486 --> 41:44.927 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to close from Layton's. 41:45.447 --> 41:50.208 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why my wardrobe always look better than everybody else's. 41:50.888 --> 41:56.690 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, even mob voices were looking at me saying, like, they were the mob voice, and I'm dressing better than that. 41:57.516 --> 42:12.500 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, well, that was isn't that funny that you say that I remembered you telling me that now, but I that was one of the first things I picked up on as I was watching this show first it, you know, you had the fanciest car in the place, but your suits were was the first thing I noticed. 42:12.880 --> 42:14.820 [SPEAKER_03]: I think that's funny that that's your own clothes. 42:25.857 --> 42:45.293 [SPEAKER_00]: We have some great shows coming up and like we know we we have a request on laser blast we're coming up with that and just keep the cards and let us coming we loved visiting you every Wednesday night tell your friends and Jeannie what other messages you want to give them. 42:46.019 --> 42:51.381 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, one last question was, where can we hear Hollywood Dot Mother? 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Russo? 44:13.389 --> 44:16.917 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see you next week, now you know where to go. 44:18.240 --> 44:19.984 [SPEAKER_01]: You're seat at the table. 44:20.505 --> 44:26.900 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll always be right here with the holly would God, Father. 44:27.461 --> 44:27.962 [SPEAKER_01]: That's me.