WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:15.829 [SPEAKER_01]: On Sinatra Swing to Brando Stage Maryland's Grace to JFK's A It's Johnny Russo Hollywood's own The teeny Rayman's secrets are shown 00:25.664 --> 00:26.645 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome everybody. 00:26.825 --> 00:35.535 [SPEAKER_00]: It's time for another Hollywood Godfather podcast and my beautiful co-host, Jeannie Raymond, how are you my love? 00:36.035 --> 00:37.156 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm fantastic. 00:37.176 --> 00:37.597 [SPEAKER_01]: How are you? 00:38.358 --> 00:38.938 [SPEAKER_00]: Really good. 00:39.078 --> 00:40.620 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is one of our favorite shows. 00:40.700 --> 00:55.536 [SPEAKER_00]: Both of us enjoy getting the mail listening to what you people want to know, what shows you want us to do and keep the cards and letters coming in so we can fulfill all your 00:56.174 --> 01:08.108 [SPEAKER_01]: That's right, I love hearing the questions and I love it when we have everyone engaging and, you know, keep sending those in, we're on Instagram. 01:08.763 --> 01:10.706 [SPEAKER_01]: We're on Facebook, you can go to Hollywood. 01:10.726 --> 01:13.892 [SPEAKER_01]: Godfatherpodcast.com, sending questions. 01:14.413 --> 01:16.797 [SPEAKER_01]: We answer them usually on here. 01:16.897 --> 01:17.959 [SPEAKER_01]: We don't answer them. 01:17.979 --> 01:21.164 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, sometimes we'll answer them a little bit on the page. 01:21.465 --> 01:29.399 [SPEAKER_01]: But for the most part, I read these questions, Titiani, and as we go, and we answer those here. 01:29.900 --> 01:31.362 [SPEAKER_01]: And so it's always fun. 01:31.848 --> 01:49.930 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, to me, I always wanted to do it that way to help just answer them and then you get to hear your name and your question on a radio or whatever you tune us in on, but we want you be a part of it, obviously. 01:49.950 --> 01:50.771 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 01:51.432 --> 01:55.998 [SPEAKER_01]: It is fun to have people engage and then they're always happy to hear their name. 01:56.198 --> 01:58.962 [SPEAKER_01]: They'll say, thanks for answering my question on the show. 01:59.002 --> 02:00.083 [SPEAKER_01]: So send those in. 02:00.265 --> 02:02.968 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm we will continue to do it, please. 02:03.048 --> 02:16.204 [SPEAKER_01]: Right, you know, it's always great because all it takes is a question and then it gets Gianni's juices flowing and then all of a sudden we've got a whole other episode about somebody else. 02:16.264 --> 02:29.901 [SPEAKER_01]: So if there's someone you guys want to know about, that's how Gianni and I met after Thanksgiving, like I said, I said it before. 02:30.758 --> 02:36.010 [SPEAKER_01]: and to be able to ask these questions as they come up. 02:36.125 --> 02:39.210 [SPEAKER_01]: because I used to listen right in the morning. 02:39.290 --> 03:03.668 [SPEAKER_01]: I turned the podcast on and jumping the shower and all these questions would come to my mind when I'm listening to the podcast and then if I would remember and by the time I got out and back on the road and working, then I would send in a question and ask Gianni and so it's just been fun to hear about all these different things and I'm going to ask you 03:03.648 --> 03:16.784 [SPEAKER_01]: The one of the questions, let me see who this was from, uh, was when it was a question who I asked you about and that was about Frank Sinatra, and that was, that was the first question I asked you on the show. 03:17.264 --> 03:33.604 [SPEAKER_01]: It was about Frank Sinatra's son being, yeah, that, uh, I had just asked, and what do you know about his son being kidnapped? 03:34.327 --> 03:41.297 [SPEAKER_00]: He got involved with some crazy people, and they convinced him to set up this phony kidnapping. 03:42.960 --> 03:49.590 [SPEAKER_00]: And we found out in two minutes, and Syracur wasn't gonna become a part of it, you know. 03:50.311 --> 03:58.303 [SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, it worked out okay, and we found out that, you know, there was no ransom, there was no thing. 03:58.583 --> 04:02.950 [SPEAKER_00]: We were gonna make this big elaborate thing with this kid, he was out of his mind. 04:03.470 --> 04:06.137 [SPEAKER_00]: and it happened in Vegas early on in his career. 04:06.759 --> 04:17.547 [SPEAKER_00]: He was performing, I think if my memory is certain right, he was performing at the Frontier Hotel and not drawing any crowds. 04:18.893 --> 04:21.898 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the point to zoom on the map. 04:22.559 --> 04:26.805 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, so I'm just going to go right into Roger asks. 04:27.186 --> 04:30.451 [SPEAKER_01]: And I know Roger has been a listener for a long time. 04:30.531 --> 04:35.659 [SPEAKER_01]: And we thank you again so much for always being part of our show and having nice comments. 04:36.580 --> 04:39.905 [SPEAKER_01]: Roger asks, how did Sinochra handle fame? 04:40.286 --> 04:41.988 [SPEAKER_01]: Did he enjoy being a movie star? 04:42.048 --> 04:42.990 [SPEAKER_01]: Was he arrogant? 04:43.030 --> 04:43.451 [SPEAKER_01]: Was he? 04:43.471 --> 04:44.773 [SPEAKER_00]: He loved it. 04:44.913 --> 04:46.335 [SPEAKER_00]: Now you can. 04:46.838 --> 04:49.582 [SPEAKER_00]: So not your love being a movie star. 04:49.602 --> 04:53.567 [SPEAKER_00]: And to tell you, he did a lot on most people don't know. 04:54.148 --> 04:57.653 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, he did a lot for the black entertainers. 04:57.673 --> 04:59.395 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I mean, he started out. 05:00.497 --> 05:02.019 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is a fact. 05:03.020 --> 05:05.905 [SPEAKER_00]: He was at the San So Tell, I used to be there all the time. 05:06.786 --> 05:10.551 [SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, I was in Vegas for 30 years, people don't realize that. 05:10.571 --> 05:14.196 [SPEAKER_00]: I was in an out of Vegas of 1959 to 89. 05:15.830 --> 05:18.453 [SPEAKER_00]: Spend the weekends there, doing what I was doing there. 05:19.193 --> 05:22.757 [SPEAKER_00]: But there was a time early on in his career. 05:23.458 --> 05:39.514 [SPEAKER_00]: People like Sinatra, I mean, like Sammy Davis, Jr. Earth to kid, all those earlier black performers, weren't even allowed to stay in the state and the hotels in Vegas. 05:40.235 --> 05:45.280 [SPEAKER_00]: They had to stay down in the Mulan Rouge area 05:45.648 --> 05:47.070 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh. 05:47.090 --> 05:50.857 [SPEAKER_00]: No, in Syracca, I ain't going on. 05:51.618 --> 05:52.860 [SPEAKER_00]: There's stay where I am. 05:53.702 --> 05:57.548 [SPEAKER_00]: And he was an advocate early on. 05:58.449 --> 06:01.254 [SPEAKER_00]: And no, it's not. 06:01.274 --> 06:11.892 [SPEAKER_00]: So, I mean, the other thing about him most people, no, he was very, very generous and did it secretly. 06:12.479 --> 06:20.648 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, if there was fires in the early day, the school needed six school buses, he'd donate him privately. 06:22.070 --> 06:30.339 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, he did it because he wanted to, he didn't want the fame for other, you know, he he, he, he, he, he, he was raised well. 06:30.899 --> 06:38.908 [SPEAKER_00]: I got to know he's mother dolly many years, even his father I met a couple of times, and so not, so not sure when I hit it off really well. 06:39.412 --> 06:45.901 [SPEAKER_00]: And which I appreciate because as I say to so many people, there's my only singing teacher. 06:46.482 --> 06:48.666 [SPEAKER_00]: How do you get some utterance of your singing teacher? 06:48.806 --> 06:49.186 [SPEAKER_00]: Forget it. 06:49.907 --> 06:50.208 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 06:50.348 --> 06:51.850 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, he baptized Luciano. 06:52.731 --> 06:56.978 [SPEAKER_00]: So we had a lot of great things, a lot of members, he and I also, so. 06:58.179 --> 07:01.745 [SPEAKER_01]: That's, now he's a godfather to Luciano, right? 07:02.045 --> 07:03.187 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, you know, he's a christendom. 07:03.607 --> 07:04.969 [SPEAKER_01]: Is that your oldest child? 07:06.011 --> 07:06.812 [SPEAKER_00]: Was that? 07:06.832 --> 07:08.895 [SPEAKER_01]: Was Luciano your oldest? 07:09.280 --> 07:14.325 [SPEAKER_00]: No, which I know is only now, I think 32. 07:14.385 --> 07:14.986 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wow. 07:16.468 --> 07:17.949 [SPEAKER_00]: They all this is collodural. 07:19.110 --> 07:19.971 [SPEAKER_00]: He's 65. 07:20.432 --> 07:24.716 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you kids look like you? 07:26.558 --> 07:28.640 [SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately, for me, they all do. 07:30.022 --> 07:30.642 [SPEAKER_00]: That's fun. 07:31.003 --> 07:31.964 [SPEAKER_00]: But you know, it's so funny. 07:31.984 --> 07:34.947 [SPEAKER_00]: All my sons have different mothers. 07:35.828 --> 07:37.009 [SPEAKER_00]: But they look like me. 07:37.985 --> 07:38.666 [SPEAKER_00]: That's wild. 07:38.826 --> 07:40.167 [SPEAKER_00]: Mother's say it's a curse. 07:43.130 --> 07:44.211 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't believe that. 07:45.312 --> 07:50.417 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, it's funny because I, oh, what was that show I watched? 07:50.778 --> 07:56.443 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we've got to get back and get back and talk about some of your movies, which we were doing. 07:56.463 --> 08:04.591 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll have to do that on coming up soon because we haven't done one for a while, talking about different movies you've done and a different TV shows. 08:04.671 --> 08:06.253 [SPEAKER_01]: But the one I was watching was, 08:06.554 --> 08:08.056 [SPEAKER_01]: had the aliens in it. 08:08.277 --> 08:09.599 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I can't think what it was called. 08:10.220 --> 08:11.202 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, laser blast. 08:11.542 --> 08:12.964 [SPEAKER_01]: Laser blast. 08:12.984 --> 08:16.350 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, well, it doesn't surprise me a bit. 08:16.370 --> 08:19.435 [SPEAKER_01]: You had hundreds of women because my goodness. 08:19.796 --> 08:20.537 [SPEAKER_01]: Handsome devil. 08:21.198 --> 08:23.782 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, and dress like a million bucks. 08:23.802 --> 08:25.264 [SPEAKER_00]: I was young two of them. 08:25.285 --> 08:27.448 [SPEAKER_00]: I was in my 20s, late 20s. 08:27.648 --> 08:28.549 [SPEAKER_01]: That's wild. 08:28.609 --> 08:38.244 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's funny to say that because, okay, let me see there's that everything we've talked about so far, all these different questions are are so tied into what you're talking about today. 08:39.045 --> 08:42.971 [SPEAKER_01]: Jack said, how old were you when you did the Godfather? 08:44.133 --> 08:46.416 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's 25, go around 26. 08:47.527 --> 09:01.263 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, seriously, looking back at your life at 25 years old, who would have ever thought that doing this show would catapult you into the life that you've had? 09:02.144 --> 09:03.626 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it really didn't, you know. 09:04.487 --> 09:15.120 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's so funny, because people, people like even so many people think that, but 09:15.269 --> 09:17.752 [SPEAKER_00]: I was a being here before I made the movie. 09:20.115 --> 09:23.158 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, every time I saw Frank Estella, every time. 09:24.019 --> 09:25.901 [SPEAKER_00]: And I could see him 10 times in a day. 09:25.941 --> 09:29.866 [SPEAKER_00]: He always had $100 bill, folded up in his hand. 09:30.747 --> 09:32.068 [SPEAKER_00]: It shook me, shook my hand. 09:32.829 --> 09:33.430 [SPEAKER_01]: I love that. 09:34.130 --> 09:37.875 [SPEAKER_00]: And it got to be, I'd say, no, no, no, no. 09:37.895 --> 09:38.475 [SPEAKER_00]: Get out of here. 09:38.856 --> 09:39.897 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 09:39.917 --> 09:40.838 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I love that. 09:41.273 --> 09:44.458 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's funny because he never had any kids. 09:44.698 --> 09:45.219 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 09:45.640 --> 09:49.967 [SPEAKER_01]: And his funness for you obviously is still giving, you know, what he did for you. 09:50.227 --> 09:55.376 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't even know Rhetta, you know, what I liked about him, you know, I just, I know a lot of mom guys. 09:56.177 --> 09:58.721 [SPEAKER_00]: I know Tonya Carter, I know major major guys. 09:59.402 --> 10:01.585 [SPEAKER_00]: They never cheated on their wives. 10:02.387 --> 10:02.707 [SPEAKER_00]: Never. 10:03.529 --> 10:04.490 [SPEAKER_00]: Call O'Gambeano. 10:04.811 --> 10:05.151 [SPEAKER_00]: Never. 10:06.053 --> 10:06.353 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 10:06.485 --> 10:21.760 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you got the one I knew, you want to be guys that got the good mod, is they got this, they think it's part of the game, but the old time is, nope, and Custello, 10 30 11 o'clock, he's home, home every night. 10:23.202 --> 10:24.223 [SPEAKER_01]: I love that. 10:24.243 --> 10:26.085 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, that's fantastic. 10:26.225 --> 10:35.614 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, let's see, okay, and that, and that said, you seem to be a fearless person and 10:36.218 --> 10:39.121 [SPEAKER_01]: anxious about anything that you're doing. 10:39.421 --> 10:45.989 [SPEAKER_01]: Was there ever a time you were nervous before doing a performance or a movie? 10:46.790 --> 10:47.030 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 10:48.912 --> 10:50.273 [SPEAKER_00]: Why would I be nervous? 10:50.854 --> 10:58.242 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, because even Elvis Presley, he would say before going on stage, he always got really nervous, you know? 10:58.682 --> 11:01.045 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Bob and Striser, you should get 11:01.835 --> 11:04.177 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she quit working all together. 11:04.678 --> 11:05.559 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, she didn't want to do it. 11:05.939 --> 11:08.502 [SPEAKER_00]: No, but yeah, I don't understand that. 11:08.522 --> 11:10.183 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I can't say it's right at wrong. 11:11.164 --> 11:11.825 [SPEAKER_00]: I did. 11:11.845 --> 11:13.186 [SPEAKER_00]: If I want to do so, I do it. 11:13.667 --> 11:16.350 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm the ones pushing me to get to where I want to be. 11:16.750 --> 11:19.373 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to be the same person saying I don't want to go on. 11:19.533 --> 11:20.254 [SPEAKER_00]: That'd be right. 11:20.634 --> 11:21.735 [SPEAKER_01]: That makes sense. 11:21.755 --> 11:23.197 [SPEAKER_01]: You're like, I asked for this. 11:23.317 --> 11:24.318 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to do it. 11:24.338 --> 11:24.918 [SPEAKER_01]: I love that. 11:25.239 --> 11:28.602 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, there's so many times where you think, 11:29.290 --> 11:56.158 [SPEAKER_01]: you get well even me doing this podcast and I thought I'm like I can't do this what I'm not I'm not qualified or or whatever to be able to sit down and do a podcast and and luckily well between you and I we can talk forever but um well that's what it's about it's just being yourself yeah the people who get nervous are trying to be somebody that they're not 11:57.320 --> 11:58.102 [SPEAKER_00]: when they go on. 11:58.623 --> 11:59.085 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 11:59.105 --> 11:59.807 [SPEAKER_00]: Who you are? 12:00.168 --> 12:02.935 [SPEAKER_00]: You know who taught me the greatest of two people in show business. 12:03.456 --> 12:08.731 [SPEAKER_00]: Jack Benny was one and D. Martin. 12:09.252 --> 12:11.498 [SPEAKER_00]: Jack Benny taught me a lesson in business. 12:12.271 --> 12:21.308 [SPEAKER_00]: because Senator asked me to pick up Jack Benny when he was performing at the Tropical Hotel in Vegas because he was an older man. 12:21.328 --> 12:29.665 [SPEAKER_00]: So I said my car pick him up, have a late dinner with him and then I used to sit with him until the sun came up because I didn't go to bed that way anyway. 12:30.707 --> 12:34.093 [SPEAKER_00]: But I only, and we got to talk and he said, remember one thing. 12:36.470 --> 12:37.592 [SPEAKER_00]: You're in show business. 12:38.233 --> 12:38.894 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what you are. 12:39.415 --> 12:42.220 [SPEAKER_00]: You should remember, business is the bigger word. 12:43.141 --> 12:43.462 [SPEAKER_01]: Right. 12:43.802 --> 12:44.423 [SPEAKER_00]: Not show. 12:45.405 --> 12:47.248 [SPEAKER_00]: So I always did great business. 12:47.929 --> 12:48.230 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 12:48.470 --> 12:51.235 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why I invested in some of the films I was in. 12:52.497 --> 12:54.741 [SPEAKER_00]: I was doing that long before anybody else would. 12:55.221 --> 12:58.006 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, you need any money, you need 20, 30,000 there. 12:58.026 --> 12:58.647 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at me. 12:59.892 --> 13:26.018 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, and I think of that, and I think of the movie The Godfather, and what I forgot, I was going to find something I was at the store the other day, but that you, but you know, what is the Godfather name or the right, so whatever, I know I own all the intellectual rights. 13:26.572 --> 13:30.837 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the Godfather, for food and liquor throughout the world. 13:31.317 --> 13:32.319 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, for food and liquor. 13:32.619 --> 13:38.285 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's crazy because I listened to podcast all the time. 13:38.886 --> 13:45.434 [SPEAKER_01]: And I hear I'm talking about in a casino that there's a Godfather game. 13:45.614 --> 13:47.636 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, it's everywhere. 13:48.157 --> 13:49.779 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, even my young kids. 13:50.319 --> 13:52.742 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I got, I got a piece that I've been bold game. 13:53.443 --> 13:55.465 [SPEAKER_00]: I love it. 13:56.035 --> 14:03.305 [SPEAKER_01]: Well that's that's so funny because it's it is is something that's everywhere and being part of this movie. 14:04.087 --> 14:06.770 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this will go on forever. 14:06.830 --> 14:13.380 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just one of those movies that are 55 years now and we're getting the contracts now again. 14:13.400 --> 14:15.483 [SPEAKER_00]: Bruno for another 10 years. 14:15.563 --> 14:16.284 [SPEAKER_00]: We're new for this. 14:16.845 --> 14:20.490 [SPEAKER_00]: So every 90 days checks are coming in from all over the world. 14:21.348 --> 14:33.291 [SPEAKER_01]: And the fact that you knew, okay, so how did you know to even do that was that I didn't know when I figured let me take a shot What does that mean didn't mean nothing? 14:33.311 --> 14:34.152 [SPEAKER_00]: And it all fits. 14:34.172 --> 14:44.031 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean if you go on anybody listening go to go on right now To quarterly on find a giant foods go online to 83 countries 14:45.007 --> 14:45.708 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I know. 14:45.728 --> 14:48.952 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm telling you, and it's fantastic food. 14:49.613 --> 14:50.274 [SPEAKER_01]: I know that. 14:50.975 --> 14:55.201 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, because I have mentioned it once or twice. 14:55.221 --> 14:57.364 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't cook very often. 14:57.844 --> 15:07.437 [SPEAKER_01]: However, a couple of years ago, when all this stuff came out, I got online at Orders, the meat sauce, and that 15:07.889 --> 15:17.182 [SPEAKER_01]: the was fantastic and I even had my mom over and my kids are like I'm making dinner and I'm sure they thought I was going to tell my aunt cancer so they're like what the hell's going on? 15:17.502 --> 15:20.126 [SPEAKER_01]: Mom's making dinner, what's up? 15:20.146 --> 15:25.513 [SPEAKER_01]: But it wasn't because I had gotten a bunch of that ordered a bunch of that food and it was fantastic but. 15:25.793 --> 15:32.142 [SPEAKER_00]: But now we're coming back with it because during COVID and all these tariffs, everything stopped. 15:33.151 --> 15:40.160 [SPEAKER_00]: And so now we're bringing it back in a different way because everybody had to adjust to what's doing so. 15:40.821 --> 15:43.064 [SPEAKER_00]: But all of that now is a wall coming out again. 15:43.765 --> 15:46.369 [SPEAKER_00]: We're in the next 10 years is insane. 15:46.769 --> 15:47.951 [SPEAKER_00]: What all projections are? 15:48.752 --> 15:50.554 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's fantastic. 15:50.634 --> 15:55.000 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I can tell you, me and my family are big fans of this. 15:56.142 --> 15:57.143 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not good. 15:57.163 --> 15:58.024 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not good. 15:58.064 --> 16:00.247 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody thinks it's wine. 16:00.868 --> 16:01.489 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah. 16:01.629 --> 16:02.230 [SPEAKER_00]: It's vodka. 16:02.986 --> 16:04.307 [SPEAKER_01]: and it's fantastic. 16:04.507 --> 16:16.379 [SPEAKER_01]: I was just telling Gianni before we got started here, you know, you got to have this to see that this thing lights right up when you put, put the light underneath it. 16:16.399 --> 16:22.785 [SPEAKER_01]: So not only is it amazing tasting, then it's a fancy showpiece to stick on the counter. 16:23.245 --> 16:25.367 [SPEAKER_01]: So I did that for though. 16:25.427 --> 16:27.209 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't do that for personal news. 16:27.609 --> 16:30.512 [SPEAKER_00]: I did that because when you walk into a 16:31.184 --> 16:33.368 [SPEAKER_00]: all the vodka and gin is together. 16:34.349 --> 16:36.653 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're all in white glass bottles. 16:37.976 --> 16:45.729 [SPEAKER_00]: So I made mine black, but the glow pad that it comes with for the display and the bear and the bar. 16:46.390 --> 16:53.783 [SPEAKER_00]: When they press the bottom of it, it lights up Don Corleon's whole Tuxedo and you see it. 16:54.202 --> 17:22.656 [SPEAKER_01]: right and it's going to stand out but above all the other ones oh yeah it's it's that's the best thing about it is uh the showpiece I'm like oh yeah it's going to taste good but you've got to see how cool this bottle is I'm taking my friends in my laundry room you know and I'm like hey come here you gotta see this because it just wouldn't that thing uh it's too light in here but that lights up and it is such a cool showpiece so if you have a bar in your home 17:22.636 --> 17:29.863 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a must have because it's fantastic and it's a great, great thing when it's up and glowing. 17:30.043 --> 17:31.804 [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I love that. 17:31.864 --> 17:40.312 [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm glad to hear that it's coming back around that the food food part is going to be back up and running because that is fantastic. 17:41.173 --> 17:45.057 [SPEAKER_01]: So Roger Harer, he is one of our longtime listeners. 17:45.137 --> 17:46.738 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, what is Johnny? 17:46.758 --> 17:52.103 [SPEAKER_01]: What is your opinion of current 17:53.095 --> 17:56.539 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know, first of all, Vegas got stupid. 17:57.480 --> 18:08.955 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think, you know, I have a way of life of why all most of these things are failing now, because when the mob ran it, it ran right. 18:10.657 --> 18:22.832 [SPEAKER_00]: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha 18:23.757 --> 18:25.541 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not what Vegas is about. 18:25.581 --> 18:26.563 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 18:26.583 --> 18:27.967 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a $200, $300. 18:29.290 --> 18:30.893 [SPEAKER_00]: They want to know why they're dying. 18:31.455 --> 18:33.379 [SPEAKER_00]: I know three hotels when bankruptcy. 18:34.061 --> 18:34.722 [SPEAKER_00]: Green. 18:35.283 --> 18:36.847 [SPEAKER_00]: Because she knows they'll go bankrupt. 18:38.270 --> 18:38.932 [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly. 18:39.032 --> 18:39.994 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, and you know, 18:40.278 --> 18:45.546 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I don't know how much you, uh, I'm here in Utah, cowboy country, right? 18:45.706 --> 18:47.048 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, a lot of it's still. 18:47.769 --> 18:54.680 [SPEAKER_01]: And, and I don't know if you've heard of this, but right now, people are getting ready for the National Finals rodeo. 18:54.880 --> 18:57.344 [SPEAKER_01]: That is the big, big deal in Las Vegas. 18:57.504 --> 18:58.345 [SPEAKER_00]: Always was, though. 18:58.926 --> 18:59.267 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 18:59.587 --> 19:03.233 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, AC, we end December, even me being a casino owner. 19:03.894 --> 19:08.040 [SPEAKER_00]: December was the worst weeks for us, but to New Year's. 19:08.543 --> 19:10.726 [SPEAKER_00]: because everybody's a family thing and all that. 19:11.187 --> 19:18.538 [SPEAKER_00]: So we brought the national rodeo in years ago and the boyd family, well, a big day on big ranches. 19:19.479 --> 19:19.660 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh. 19:19.880 --> 19:21.362 [SPEAKER_00]: And they owned a couple of casinos. 19:21.723 --> 19:24.126 [SPEAKER_00]: They were the ones that initiated and thank God. 19:24.527 --> 19:29.835 [SPEAKER_00]: Because all the hotels will be jammed for 10 days with the rodeos. 19:30.416 --> 19:31.417 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, absolutely. 19:31.618 --> 19:33.881 [SPEAKER_00]: And big players, big ambulances, guys. 19:34.422 --> 19:36.525 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that funny thing I, 19:37.315 --> 20:04.116 [SPEAKER_01]: saw one time was something on Facebook where it showed in an airplane someone from the back of the airplane and every seat had Cowboys with Cowboy hats on you know it was just funny but this year I don't know I mean if you watch any of this or if it's you know I know people with horses and we're all talking about NFR time well there is a virus going around 20:04.484 --> 20:26.998 [SPEAKER_01]: that the horses get and it can be deadly and so they're talking about postponing it and and I thought oh my gosh because now they have that's called cowboy Christmas where it's just convention all full of all cowboy everything clothing and and I mean they must make a fortune. 20:27.113 --> 20:28.716 [SPEAKER_00]: And it always was. 20:29.297 --> 20:29.617 [SPEAKER_01]: Right. 20:30.158 --> 20:35.047 [SPEAKER_00]: The last one, it's the first three weeks of December. 20:36.029 --> 20:36.169 [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm. 20:36.189 --> 20:36.911 [SPEAKER_00]: That's when it is. 20:36.931 --> 20:39.175 [SPEAKER_00]: And then it's over like around Christmas. 20:39.996 --> 20:40.317 [SPEAKER_01]: Right. 20:40.457 --> 20:47.630 [SPEAKER_01]: And the problem is right now, all of the people are scared to death, moving their animals around. 20:47.670 --> 20:49.092 [SPEAKER_00]: They won't do it. 20:49.112 --> 20:50.074 [SPEAKER_01]: People's horses. 20:50.475 --> 20:51.737 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, people pay. 20:52.358 --> 20:54.241 [SPEAKER_01]: $1,000 for resources. 20:54.502 --> 20:54.742 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 20:55.323 --> 20:56.144 [SPEAKER_00]: I have a friend. 20:57.226 --> 20:58.508 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I can't mention this name. 20:59.290 --> 21:01.433 [SPEAKER_00]: He has a hundred Arabian horses. 21:01.894 --> 21:04.198 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't buy water for less than a million dollars. 21:05.220 --> 21:05.580 [SPEAKER_00]: Hello. 21:06.863 --> 21:07.263 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah. 21:07.564 --> 21:09.727 [SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean, that's a big, big thing. 21:09.807 --> 21:14.856 [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, what when Rogers is asking about how it's going, I thought, 21:15.140 --> 21:22.554 [SPEAKER_01]: I cannot imagine the people in Las Vegas right now, the panic they're in thinking, Yeah. 21:22.574 --> 21:27.103 [SPEAKER_01]: Cowboys are not going to make it to Vegas this year because it is a big, big deal. 21:27.424 --> 21:28.386 [SPEAKER_01]: And all the vendors? 21:29.327 --> 21:30.389 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, everybody. 21:30.710 --> 21:31.792 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, they were in the pay. 21:32.033 --> 21:32.954 [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to lose that. 21:33.215 --> 21:33.796 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah. 21:33.836 --> 21:34.117 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah. 21:34.858 --> 21:36.962 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever they're doing, but it's not good. 21:37.195 --> 21:42.742 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, and I know they keep trying to bring things to Vegas, but man, it used to be so fun. 21:42.782 --> 21:49.631 [SPEAKER_01]: Now it's like you said a lot like Disneyland and so commercialized and just it's stupid actually. 21:49.651 --> 21:51.994 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just love what I mean. 21:52.034 --> 22:00.285 [SPEAKER_00]: Conversation yesterday with an old friend of mine down there is when you come everybody wants to see I said, well, don't take a picture of me. 22:00.365 --> 22:02.908 [SPEAKER_00]: I ain't coming. 22:02.928 --> 22:03.969 [SPEAKER_00]: What am I gonna do? 22:04.610 --> 22:05.211 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 22:05.377 --> 22:14.009 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, and it's just, it's not the same, but it's not as classy and it's just, it's so crazy. 22:14.029 --> 22:29.171 [SPEAKER_00]: 80s, I was going to two shows a night that a eight o'clock to on the clock show, with real celebrities, now they have these, um, trilogy shows about the person. 22:30.052 --> 22:32.395 [SPEAKER_00]: Get out of here. 22:32.415 --> 22:33.797 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, everybody's uh, 22:34.165 --> 22:43.281 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, trying to, to be just like them and stuff, but yeah, I wonder, I do you think they're going to, what do you think it would take for them to bounce back a little? 22:43.882 --> 22:46.407 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know because the competitions get so great. 22:46.908 --> 22:58.789 [SPEAKER_00]: The deal I made alone that I know personally, 22:59.478 --> 23:01.441 [SPEAKER_00]: They moved it up 90 days. 23:02.041 --> 23:02.542 [SPEAKER_00]: Wow. 23:02.862 --> 23:04.004 [SPEAKER_00]: That's New York City. 23:04.344 --> 23:09.711 [SPEAKER_00]: That's 8,000 square foot casino in New York City. 23:10.673 --> 23:12.956 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to go to Vegas to gamble anymore. 23:13.456 --> 23:13.897 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 23:14.337 --> 23:17.341 [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, the fly down there and get ripped off. 23:17.962 --> 23:18.323 [SPEAKER_00]: See you. 23:19.384 --> 23:20.085 [SPEAKER_00]: It's over. 23:20.656 --> 23:30.511 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, and that's the thing, people used to always go, you know, was led to Atlantic City was it and then Vegas, but now it's open and up everywhere. 23:30.571 --> 23:38.924 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, remont street, you know, everyone used to go there for Bapfler at parties now they're going to Nashville. 23:40.106 --> 23:47.457 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, because, you know, and they're, and those cities are inviting them for the right prices and everything right, making it worth their while. 23:48.095 --> 23:51.441 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, so Dean is Dean Zee, I think. 23:52.643 --> 24:00.558 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, when you ran straight, excuse me, when you ran state street in Las Vegas, what kind of boss were you? 24:00.598 --> 24:02.241 [SPEAKER_01]: Were you a tough boss? 24:02.361 --> 24:04.565 [SPEAKER_01]: No nonsense boss, a perfectionist? 24:04.966 --> 24:08.633 [SPEAKER_01]: Were you the good cop that you had, your staff beat the bad cop? 24:08.653 --> 24:11.959 [SPEAKER_01]: So that everybody, or did you, were you more hands on? 24:12.530 --> 24:15.955 [SPEAKER_00]: I had nothing, you know, we had so much fun there. 24:16.816 --> 24:23.465 [SPEAKER_00]: I was there every day for nine years, 12 hours a day. 24:25.288 --> 24:26.770 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like a playground of me. 24:27.551 --> 24:29.013 [SPEAKER_00]: And everybody hung out there. 24:29.514 --> 24:35.282 [SPEAKER_00]: When the straw was in, they knew they'd call me and send the limousine, they'd bring them there, my guests. 24:36.123 --> 24:36.924 [SPEAKER_00]: Why wouldn't I? 24:37.545 --> 24:41.811 [SPEAKER_00]: I have not dreamt in my restaurant every night 24:42.584 --> 24:43.485 [SPEAKER_00]: people knew that. 24:43.786 --> 24:47.331 [SPEAKER_00]: There was lines outside my place two or three o'clock in the morning. 24:48.353 --> 24:49.294 [SPEAKER_00]: I had the stompers. 24:49.955 --> 24:50.176 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 24:50.196 --> 24:51.938 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, even Ingolbert talked about it. 24:52.319 --> 24:52.659 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, go. 24:52.679 --> 24:53.881 [SPEAKER_00]: He could burn with every night. 24:54.262 --> 24:54.522 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 24:55.083 --> 25:02.194 [SPEAKER_01]: It was just that he just said, it's just where we're all the movie stars that go to their shows, then they'd end up over your place. 25:03.115 --> 25:04.257 [SPEAKER_00]: And they never got to check. 25:05.479 --> 25:06.040 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, really? 25:06.400 --> 25:07.562 [SPEAKER_00]: That's amazing. 25:07.778 --> 25:08.459 [SPEAKER_00]: Why would I? 25:08.919 --> 25:10.301 [SPEAKER_00]: I had my casino gone. 25:10.321 --> 25:15.047 [SPEAKER_00]: I was, you know, I was stealing $5,000 a day from myself. 25:15.468 --> 25:17.490 [SPEAKER_00]: The stats and limitations are over now. 25:18.011 --> 25:19.092 [SPEAKER_00]: But figure that out. 25:19.112 --> 25:23.057 [SPEAKER_00]: $5,000 a day from my own casino. 25:23.398 --> 25:24.499 [SPEAKER_00]: Because that's when chips. 25:25.220 --> 25:27.162 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why people don't know this. 25:27.182 --> 25:32.129 [SPEAKER_00]: In Vegas, you could take chips from one hotel to another hotel. 25:32.629 --> 25:35.693 [SPEAKER_00]: It was like the money in the state of Nevada. 25:35.673 --> 25:47.586 [SPEAKER_00]: then they stopped out when Howard News came in because they realized they couldn't control it because a lot of drug dealers were coming in and cashing in $10,000 and get chips. 25:49.468 --> 25:50.889 [SPEAKER_00]: They just washed their money. 25:51.850 --> 25:53.812 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, nobody knew that. 25:54.513 --> 25:54.994 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow. 25:55.454 --> 26:05.545 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I hadn't really noticed that but until you had mentioned it once before and I thought, well, what difference does it make? 26:06.132 --> 26:10.095 [SPEAKER_01]: They want to know where that money is changing hands and they have their eye on everything. 26:10.516 --> 26:21.165 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, so back in the day, back when you were in Vegas, I mean, now they have pit bosses and did they have the cameras and they had that too. 26:22.666 --> 26:24.007 [SPEAKER_00]: But that was the rest. 26:24.247 --> 26:25.889 [SPEAKER_00]: We were sharing that with nobody. 26:26.389 --> 26:35.937 [SPEAKER_00]: The eye in the sky was hoping that none of our employees were robbing us themselves. 26:37.688 --> 26:47.683 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, it was a wild, it was a good trial, you were brought in, condemned, and convicted, and punished. 26:48.925 --> 26:53.993 [SPEAKER_01]: That's wild, just speaking of a state street. 26:54.513 --> 27:10.092 [SPEAKER_01]: So, this is from Lori Bell, and she said, these sites, Steve Sharipa, are there any other people that used to work for you that are movie stars or went on to be some celebrity of some sort. 27:10.662 --> 27:15.648 [SPEAKER_00]: No, our advocacy became a great tennis player. 27:16.209 --> 27:19.173 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody else, no, what thing about Steve? 27:19.193 --> 27:20.855 [SPEAKER_00]: I talked to Steve all the time even now. 27:21.736 --> 27:24.580 [SPEAKER_00]: Steve is a very aggressive guy and very small. 27:26.442 --> 27:29.306 [SPEAKER_00]: He worked for me as he was going to Newwater. 27:29.666 --> 27:32.770 [SPEAKER_00]: Then he became entertainment director, the river arrow, Joe. 27:34.072 --> 27:34.732 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's right. 27:34.752 --> 27:36.855 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he was called, 27:37.662 --> 27:41.348 [SPEAKER_00]: to go and do buckle out, whatever it is that name was in the sopranos. 27:42.089 --> 27:42.449 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah. 27:42.670 --> 27:44.052 [SPEAKER_00]: And it went on for happen. 27:44.372 --> 27:46.415 [SPEAKER_00]: No, Steve is a great guy. 27:46.936 --> 27:48.158 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I have a lot of guys. 27:48.839 --> 27:51.242 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll set the end up another act to that. 27:51.843 --> 27:53.526 [SPEAKER_00]: Just never stops working. 27:54.127 --> 27:54.427 [SPEAKER_01]: Right. 27:54.668 --> 27:57.191 [SPEAKER_00]: And they just, that that's what they want to do and they did it. 27:58.273 --> 28:01.157 [SPEAKER_01]: But you know, well, that's awesome. 28:01.177 --> 28:05.644 [SPEAKER_01]: So let's take a quick break and then we'll get back to some more of these questions. 28:06.383 --> 28:14.359 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the big break for us right now is we're promoting, obviously, my book that is out now, mafia secrets. 28:15.401 --> 28:17.204 [SPEAKER_00]: Please go online, get them, buy them. 28:17.525 --> 28:23.136 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to do anything for Christmas, buy them send them to me, get into a true genie, she'll tell you how to do it. 28:23.717 --> 28:27.885 [SPEAKER_00]: Plus, genie is managing now the cameos. 28:27.967 --> 28:37.679 [SPEAKER_00]: and those came out of any occasion, or no occasion, and we do a video for you that is lasting on your camera. 28:38.360 --> 28:50.616 [SPEAKER_00]: You tell us, like you get a group of people they chip in their buy for you, but we mentioned their names, we mentioned anything you want, and you could pull out your camera and see look with Johnny Ruslan this for me. 28:51.170 --> 29:02.017 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think those are the two things we'll be promoting for a while because I just love doing the number one and it's a gift that lasts forever. 29:03.019 --> 29:04.082 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 29:04.417 --> 29:04.938 [SPEAKER_01]: All right. 29:04.958 --> 29:06.240 [SPEAKER_01]: So everybody watch for that. 29:06.400 --> 29:07.342 [SPEAKER_01]: It's cameo. 29:07.562 --> 29:10.286 [SPEAKER_01]: I will be putting stuff in the show notes. 29:10.607 --> 29:17.077 [SPEAKER_01]: Follow us on Facebook, Instagram at Rilgiani Russo and Hollywood Godfather podcast. 29:17.097 --> 29:19.080 [SPEAKER_01]: Jeannie and Hollywood Godfather podcast. 29:19.100 --> 29:19.621 [SPEAKER_01]: You'll see it. 29:19.661 --> 29:20.702 [SPEAKER_01]: You'll find it somewhere. 29:21.103 --> 29:22.525 [SPEAKER_01]: Please share it with your friends. 29:22.886 --> 29:25.750 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I just thought of we had 29:26.253 --> 29:33.684 [SPEAKER_01]: we have a boss that's going to be retiring, you know, and it's always comes down to a like, what do we want to get a for retirement? 29:34.185 --> 29:43.038 [SPEAKER_01]: And people getting through a couple of bucks in for a gift and I'm thinking, oh my gosh, these are perfect occasions, you know, for anything. 29:43.058 --> 29:49.527 [SPEAKER_01]: And it doesn't even need to be just an occasion or a wedding or I haven't you done, um, did you do a 29:49.507 --> 29:53.813 [SPEAKER_01]: engagement or a child reveal or something like that. 29:54.254 --> 29:55.035 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 29:55.635 --> 29:57.438 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what I haven't done. 29:57.999 --> 29:58.760 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 29:58.780 --> 30:00.943 [SPEAKER_00]: People have asked me to do them and it's so great. 30:01.083 --> 30:01.964 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's fun. 30:02.926 --> 30:12.739 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, especially people who have been watching the godfather forever to have you come on and personally say something to somebody else. 30:13.100 --> 30:14.181 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I was saying. 30:14.600 --> 30:21.370 [SPEAKER_00]: The interesting thing the way I opened most of them, I introduced myself, I'm Johnny Russo, A.K.A. 30:21.430 --> 30:22.671 [SPEAKER_00]: Caller from the Godfather. 30:23.172 --> 30:25.295 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I got an offer you can't refuse. 30:25.616 --> 30:26.297 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I love that. 30:26.317 --> 30:28.359 [SPEAKER_00]: That starts and you can go anywhere with it. 30:28.980 --> 30:29.361 [SPEAKER_01]: Right. 30:30.002 --> 30:30.543 [SPEAKER_01]: That's right. 30:30.603 --> 30:31.424 [SPEAKER_01]: So watch for that. 30:31.544 --> 30:39.776 [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody, if you get the chance, get on there and buy a session, or I don't know what they call it, but you will not regret it. 30:40.236 --> 30:41.518 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't tell you that. 30:42.933 --> 30:43.614 [SPEAKER_01]: All right. 30:43.734 --> 30:51.586 [SPEAKER_01]: So now back to our questions and we love getting these questions. 30:51.666 --> 31:00.580 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, Jessica said, do you remember writing a song with Ron Muckins? 31:02.323 --> 31:03.685 [SPEAKER_01]: Did you write a song with anyone? 31:04.787 --> 31:05.347 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 31:05.367 --> 31:06.409 [SPEAKER_00]: What's the name of the song? 31:07.013 --> 31:18.347 [SPEAKER_01]: they just said do you remember writing a song with Ron Muckins and I don't I don't recall you talking about that but I thought well we're going to have to do some work and I'll all this research and figure out who Ron Muckins is. 31:19.728 --> 31:25.936 [SPEAKER_00]: You know I wrote a song that I I even wanted to come out with this year but I got so busy with it. 31:26.757 --> 31:31.582 [SPEAKER_00]: I wrote a song that I'm so proud of quote Christmas is a time for giving. 31:32.543 --> 31:33.004 [SPEAKER_00]: Really? 31:33.980 --> 31:40.088 [SPEAKER_00]: It's because Christmas is a time for giving, a time to let folks know you're real. 31:41.049 --> 31:45.635 [SPEAKER_00]: Christmas is a time for living, to laugh, to love and to feel. 31:47.096 --> 31:57.169 [SPEAKER_00]: May I give you my heart for Christmas, may I wrap it in wings from a dull, may I tie it with ribbons of kindness. 31:57.385 --> 32:00.150 [SPEAKER_00]: and seal it with the rose buds of love. 32:00.851 --> 32:04.177 [SPEAKER_00]: The song is like it's saying, I can kid singing with it. 32:04.197 --> 32:06.681 [SPEAKER_00]: I own this song for 20 years, I never released it. 32:07.002 --> 32:11.850 [SPEAKER_00]: Every year, I'm gonna release it, but you have a Christmas song, you gotta release it in August. 32:13.349 --> 32:14.871 [SPEAKER_01]: That's beautiful, Gianni. 32:14.911 --> 32:17.835 [SPEAKER_01]: I forget how beautiful your voice is. 32:17.915 --> 32:25.966 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, of course, you've got a good speaking voice, but then when I hear your music, it just like it's such a soothing beautiful voice. 32:26.466 --> 32:27.808 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for doing that. 32:27.828 --> 32:29.130 [SPEAKER_01]: And you haven't released it. 32:29.691 --> 32:31.133 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I've had it for 20 years. 32:31.593 --> 32:32.995 [SPEAKER_00]: Every year I'm going to do it. 32:34.342 --> 32:42.555 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you, I've got a crazy thing, so there are artists now that have never recorded records. 32:42.896 --> 32:45.099 [SPEAKER_01]: They've done everything on the internet. 32:45.680 --> 32:46.201 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah. 32:46.682 --> 32:48.084 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you got a big chocolate. 32:48.625 --> 32:49.466 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, exactly. 32:49.647 --> 32:50.568 [SPEAKER_00]: We want to do this. 32:51.089 --> 32:54.915 [SPEAKER_00]: It'll go to the moon because I'm doing it because everybody knows me. 32:55.520 --> 32:56.521 [SPEAKER_01]: I love that. 32:56.701 --> 33:02.127 [SPEAKER_01]: I know I might get five year recording studio record that for Christmas year so beautiful. 33:02.688 --> 33:06.052 [SPEAKER_00]: I've already recorded it with the full orchestra and everything is ready to go. 33:07.013 --> 33:08.134 [SPEAKER_00]: Get that big now. 33:08.434 --> 33:12.639 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what next year we got to give it to my charity as you can. 33:13.160 --> 33:15.702 [SPEAKER_00]: And let them collect all the money for it next year. 33:15.722 --> 33:16.704 [SPEAKER_01]: It's beautiful. 33:17.284 --> 33:17.705 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow. 33:18.325 --> 33:19.907 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a great song. 33:19.927 --> 33:20.948 [SPEAKER_00]: I really love it. 33:20.968 --> 33:24.312 [SPEAKER_00]: That I never released. 33:24.713 --> 33:26.896 [SPEAKER_01]: And there runs that you have written. 33:27.197 --> 33:27.838 [SPEAKER_01]: You wrote that. 33:27.878 --> 33:28.178 [SPEAKER_01]: That's me. 33:28.258 --> 33:29.780 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, I already. 33:30.001 --> 33:30.301 [SPEAKER_00]: Mine. 33:30.602 --> 33:30.862 [SPEAKER_00]: Mine. 33:31.943 --> 33:35.128 [SPEAKER_01]: Have you written a lot of music that you're holding on to? 33:35.148 --> 33:37.471 [SPEAKER_01]: You wrote a lot of songs that I liked and I wrote them. 33:38.573 --> 33:41.337 [SPEAKER_01]: But you've never, but you haven't shared them with us yet. 33:41.898 --> 33:42.078 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 33:43.841 --> 33:45.824 [SPEAKER_00]: Like Christmas, I'm going to tell you right now. 33:46.024 --> 33:53.775 [SPEAKER_00]: Christmas is a time for giving. 33:54.481 --> 33:56.544 [SPEAKER_00]: It's beautiful. 33:56.564 --> 33:59.968 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I agree with the kids and all of that at the end. 34:00.549 --> 34:03.293 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's each give our hearts for Christmas. 34:03.753 --> 34:06.237 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's wrap them with wings from the dawn. 34:06.838 --> 34:10.843 [SPEAKER_00]: When the good Lord looks down, he'll wipe off his crown. 34:10.903 --> 34:14.768 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I'll fall from the girls from the bone. 34:15.629 --> 34:17.872 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's each give it like a kid's again. 34:18.153 --> 34:19.054 [SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy. 34:19.962 --> 34:21.224 [SPEAKER_01]: Get that out. 34:21.304 --> 34:22.366 [SPEAKER_01]: That's beautiful. 34:22.386 --> 34:24.590 [SPEAKER_01]: The words are so beautiful. 34:24.871 --> 34:26.754 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's nice. 34:26.774 --> 34:27.596 [SPEAKER_01]: That's so. 34:27.816 --> 34:28.758 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I love that. 34:29.219 --> 34:30.100 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, Jessica. 34:30.301 --> 34:31.162 [SPEAKER_01]: I promise you. 34:31.282 --> 34:32.625 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm going to look into it. 34:32.645 --> 34:33.526 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see if we can. 34:33.807 --> 34:37.854 [SPEAKER_01]: If you know the name, Jessica, and if you're listening, tell us what the name of the song was. 34:37.894 --> 34:38.956 [SPEAKER_01]: I'd love to know what it is. 34:39.477 --> 34:40.860 [SPEAKER_00]: Please. 34:40.880 --> 34:41.320 [SPEAKER_01]: All right. 34:41.441 --> 34:42.763 [SPEAKER_01]: So, uh, oh. 34:43.047 --> 34:46.552 [SPEAKER_01]: It's funny, I'm telling you, this is rolled on. 34:46.932 --> 34:52.860 [SPEAKER_01]: Gianni does not know the questions I've been going to ask him before we do these shows. 34:53.261 --> 34:57.046 [SPEAKER_01]: But today, everything we talk about has led into something else. 34:57.507 --> 35:06.639 [SPEAKER_01]: So it says, you can go to GianniRusau.com and you have recorded 10 tracks. 35:06.759 --> 35:07.941 [SPEAKER_01]: Was that your 35:09.001 --> 35:23.601 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's, oh yeah, that's, no, no, no, that's, 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 35:24.121 --> 35:49.723 [SPEAKER_00]: Gianni Russo's beautiful voice by that now it's been on selfie is right so well that's what I'm saying with you just singing that I just that just come on here things reflections sonatra let me his whole orchestra they were at the they were he was at Caesar's palace at the time and during the day I had his orchestra in the in the south studio 35:50.193 --> 35:53.240 [SPEAKER_00]: and the unions were there, you know, they're always there checking the time. 35:54.001 --> 36:00.816 [SPEAKER_00]: And at the end of the session week, I had like 24, 48 musicians, I forgot. 36:01.678 --> 36:02.841 [SPEAKER_00]: And I said, what do I owe you? 36:02.861 --> 36:05.547 [SPEAKER_00]: They said, so not to picked up the whole check. 36:05.567 --> 36:07.932 [SPEAKER_00]: He picked up the whole check on the recording session. 36:09.008 --> 36:16.163 [SPEAKER_01]: That's so amazing and I'll tell you, even my mother was like, oh my goodness, you've got a beautiful voice. 36:16.544 --> 36:26.545 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I look at you and of course we talk about your shows and different things you do and you're just always going somewhere and you have got your 36:27.183 --> 36:29.306 [SPEAKER_01]: hands into so many things. 36:29.346 --> 36:35.834 [SPEAKER_01]: You're so talented in such a great business man, but then I forget sometimes that you see. 36:36.014 --> 36:51.874 [SPEAKER_01]: So that was such a nice surprise, but so that leads to there is that album reflections that you guys can purchase at GianiRusso.com and get that exclusive record. 36:53.153 --> 36:54.135 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's see. 36:54.195 --> 36:55.537 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me get to some other questions. 36:55.557 --> 36:57.260 [SPEAKER_01]: I think we got just a couple more left. 36:57.680 --> 37:11.263 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so I had listened to you on a podcast just recently that you did was a guy named Vinnie, I can't remember what his name was, but you talked about what was it? 37:12.305 --> 37:13.727 [SPEAKER_00]: I do so many of these. 37:13.747 --> 37:14.448 [SPEAKER_01]: Right, right. 37:14.729 --> 37:18.655 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll remember the name before we're done, but you had talked about 37:19.006 --> 37:22.291 [SPEAKER_01]: being in at the last expo. 37:22.651 --> 37:26.457 [SPEAKER_01]: And you talked about you did a show with Donna Mills. 37:27.738 --> 37:28.339 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah. 37:29.381 --> 37:30.643 [SPEAKER_01]: Did they get the right name? 37:31.063 --> 37:32.045 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Donna Mills. 37:32.105 --> 37:32.866 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 37:32.886 --> 37:33.787 [SPEAKER_00]: You and a couple. 37:34.368 --> 37:38.454 [SPEAKER_00]: We did a TV show called The Bait. 37:39.235 --> 37:41.158 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't even ask for how I remember that. 37:41.758 --> 37:47.106 [SPEAKER_00]: The Bait is B-A-I-T and it was for Aaron Spelling. 37:48.267 --> 37:59.060 [SPEAKER_00]: was which a big producer at the time, spelling Thomas, and I was a detective, Rodriguez, and I used her as my bait to trap the people. 38:00.022 --> 38:02.425 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a great show, and I wanted to show them. 38:02.945 --> 38:09.393 [SPEAKER_00]: They put me in a room with all these ladies, you know, Sheree, all of them. 38:09.413 --> 38:10.355 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Sheree Wilson. 38:10.495 --> 38:13.178 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and everybody was there, and then I'm looking at, 38:14.002 --> 38:17.588 [SPEAKER_00]: Donna Mills and I said, wow, I even forgot I made that. 38:18.089 --> 38:22.036 [SPEAKER_00]: I did it right after the Godfather was over 50 something years ago. 38:22.056 --> 38:24.320 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't imagine, I'm going to go look for it. 38:24.360 --> 38:25.702 [SPEAKER_01]: I hope I can find it somewhere. 38:25.883 --> 38:26.924 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't find it. 38:27.105 --> 38:27.946 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't find it. 38:28.467 --> 38:28.747 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 38:29.088 --> 38:29.689 [SPEAKER_01]: Hold on. 38:29.709 --> 38:30.130 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm here. 38:30.310 --> 38:31.813 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a good show. 38:31.993 --> 38:32.554 [SPEAKER_00]: It was on. 38:33.295 --> 38:35.419 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure somebody's streaming it somewhere. 38:35.618 --> 38:36.782 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I hope so. 38:36.822 --> 38:37.564 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to look for that. 38:37.645 --> 38:40.434 [SPEAKER_01]: I remember her watching her on Dallas when I was younger. 38:40.454 --> 38:42.300 [SPEAKER_00]: And she looks very good. 38:42.320 --> 38:43.965 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'm telling she did she aged well. 38:44.146 --> 38:44.688 [SPEAKER_00]: What should I say? 38:44.708 --> 38:45.450 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 38:45.470 --> 38:49.122 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'll tell you when we got to go to Knoxville. 38:49.878 --> 38:52.763 [SPEAKER_01]: She read absolutely stunning. 38:53.063 --> 38:54.165 [SPEAKER_01]: What a classy lady. 38:54.305 --> 39:02.859 [SPEAKER_01]: So darling, but even the cast of Dallas, Charlene Tillton, she's tiny and darling and all the fun people we got to meet. 39:03.240 --> 39:06.004 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's so fun to get to see you guys all get together. 39:06.024 --> 39:07.186 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like a reunion. 39:07.246 --> 39:14.738 [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm glad you were able to tell me the name of it because I am going to look for that because I'll bet it's fantastic. 39:15.562 --> 39:16.263 [SPEAKER_00]: All right. 39:16.443 --> 39:17.324 [SPEAKER_00]: Good rating, Stu. 39:17.705 --> 39:18.606 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 39:18.626 --> 39:18.966 [SPEAKER_01]: All right. 39:19.026 --> 39:20.848 [SPEAKER_01]: So this is from Daniel. 39:21.609 --> 39:27.816 [SPEAKER_01]: It says there's been a lot in the news about the MBA and the mob doing business. 39:28.277 --> 39:30.239 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you have any inside scoop? 39:31.421 --> 39:32.862 [SPEAKER_00]: They've always done business. 39:34.064 --> 39:35.405 [SPEAKER_00]: They've always done business. 39:35.886 --> 39:41.232 [SPEAKER_00]: See what happens is they get these guys and they create games for them. 39:42.325 --> 39:47.494 [SPEAKER_00]: They put them in the game, and the next thing, you know, they're in the hole for me and $2 million. 39:48.796 --> 39:50.318 [SPEAKER_00]: And they sit them down to listen. 39:50.939 --> 39:52.482 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't want you to throw a game. 39:52.562 --> 39:53.704 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't want you to do anything. 39:54.325 --> 39:57.350 [SPEAKER_00]: But see, what all this online betting right now? 39:58.312 --> 39:59.113 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah. 39:59.133 --> 40:00.856 [SPEAKER_00]: You could bet anything. 40:01.537 --> 40:08.289 [SPEAKER_00]: So in the second inning, the first, the first, three of us. 40:08.309 --> 40:08.569 [SPEAKER_00]: What? 40:08.954 --> 40:24.537 [SPEAKER_00]: the coin toss, I mean, or the tip off or anything, but no, they big thing is to, they get the player and they say his first pitch is going to be a striker. 40:24.557 --> 40:25.939 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not throwing the game. 40:26.720 --> 40:27.521 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 40:27.541 --> 40:28.723 [SPEAKER_00]: People are betting on that. 40:29.824 --> 40:35.232 [SPEAKER_00]: So when they see that, they tell the guy, listen, you always 40:36.562 --> 40:41.489 [SPEAKER_00]: don't win by this much, throw a pitch here, pitch there, and go away. 40:42.471 --> 40:47.618 [SPEAKER_00]: What they forgot they are doing today is the years of electronics. 40:48.239 --> 40:50.583 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything is being recorded. 40:50.603 --> 40:53.387 [SPEAKER_00]: So they catch one guy, he ratch out all 10. 40:53.988 --> 40:56.832 [SPEAKER_00]: Now it's, I don't know what they're going to do to salvage this. 40:57.588 --> 41:07.362 [SPEAKER_00]: because everybody's going to think something's fixed, but it always has been, but not with you, not with you, or technically losing the whole game. 41:08.363 --> 41:08.524 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 41:09.145 --> 41:13.671 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, because of all these fan dudes and all these, I mean, there's so many betting networks. 41:13.691 --> 41:13.991 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 41:14.773 --> 41:17.957 [SPEAKER_00]: You could bet on, or if the guy sneezes, I mean, it's crazy. 41:18.498 --> 41:20.040 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I had no idea. 41:20.100 --> 41:26.970 [SPEAKER_01]: There was something that came up, my ex husband 41:27.288 --> 41:29.010 [SPEAKER_01]: all sorts of stuff. 41:29.250 --> 41:37.378 [SPEAKER_01]: But I didn't know, I mean, I know now, but that you could bet on the coin toss or the tip off, it's every aspect of the game. 41:38.059 --> 41:38.720 [SPEAKER_00]: Yep. 41:38.740 --> 41:39.560 [SPEAKER_01]: That's amazing. 41:39.781 --> 41:40.702 [SPEAKER_00]: Every minute of the game. 41:41.382 --> 41:42.263 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever's going on. 41:43.164 --> 41:49.551 [SPEAKER_01]: I remember one term, I still tell you how inexperienced at betting I am, the over under. 41:50.051 --> 41:50.972 [SPEAKER_01]: I remember that one. 41:51.693 --> 41:52.013 [SPEAKER_00]: It's huge. 41:52.313 --> 41:55.056 [SPEAKER_00]: No, because he over could be three, the under could be four. 41:55.696 --> 41:58.399 [SPEAKER_00]: So you shave it, who can't you shoot in the game? 41:59.100 --> 42:00.041 [SPEAKER_00]: But we win the bet. 42:00.622 --> 42:04.666 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, or cover in the spread, or... Yeah, it's exactly it. 42:04.686 --> 42:06.207 [SPEAKER_00]: You got the language down, that's it. 42:06.227 --> 42:06.808 [SPEAKER_01]: That's right. 42:07.188 --> 42:08.570 [SPEAKER_01]: I've never met a dime on it. 42:08.670 --> 42:16.378 [SPEAKER_01]: I've never... Now, I do, uh, if I go to a casino, you're not going to see me playing poker or anything like that. 42:16.418 --> 42:18.540 [SPEAKER_01]: You will see me at the sports book. 42:19.111 --> 42:21.033 [SPEAKER_01]: watching the horse races. 42:21.353 --> 42:23.596 [SPEAKER_01]: That's where you'll find me in a casino. 42:24.497 --> 42:25.217 [SPEAKER_01]: But so funny. 42:26.319 --> 42:35.148 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's wild, because I know that is something that just came up in the news, and I wondered about that myself. 42:35.188 --> 42:41.374 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's just funny that today's all of these questions today have been so succinct to what we're talking about. 42:41.775 --> 42:48.662 [SPEAKER_01]: And the last last question, I think it was Ralph 42:48.963 --> 42:53.787 [SPEAKER_01]: Did Dutch Schultz go by a different name? 42:54.888 --> 42:56.650 [SPEAKER_00]: No, not that I know. 42:57.711 --> 43:05.497 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I don't remind me who... What Dutch Schultz, all those guys, that's what they got known for. 43:06.919 --> 43:09.201 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, like Louis Leipke, all these guys. 43:09.661 --> 43:17.788 [SPEAKER_00]: They were machine gun Kelly, all those guys, that's their name. 43:18.460 --> 43:20.063 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, oh, that's right. 43:20.925 --> 43:23.850 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I love that show, um, lepti. 43:24.211 --> 43:26.835 [SPEAKER_01]: I, uh, lem, is lemki or lepti? 43:27.076 --> 43:28.278 [SPEAKER_00]: Lepti, lepti. 43:28.538 --> 43:30.001 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I really love that show. 43:30.382 --> 43:35.050 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, I, um, I watched it, and then I kind of got distracted and just listened to the end of it. 43:35.070 --> 43:36.593 [SPEAKER_01]: And then I sat down and watched it again. 43:36.613 --> 43:38.577 [SPEAKER_01]: And I, I really did like that. 43:38.797 --> 43:42.544 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was, uh, a fun one. 43:43.199 --> 43:48.046 [SPEAKER_01]: So, all right, well, that is the end of our questions for this week. 43:48.126 --> 43:52.593 [SPEAKER_01]: So please, everyone, follow us on all the social media. 43:52.693 --> 43:56.979 [SPEAKER_01]: Please share us with a brand, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button. 43:57.480 --> 43:59.563 [SPEAKER_01]: Please give us some questions. 43:59.623 --> 44:04.910 [SPEAKER_01]: Show ideas something that you want, want to talk about if you have any questions. 44:04.951 --> 44:10.118 [SPEAKER_01]: That's certainly the way Gianni and Ivy came friends is just wanting to pick 44:10.537 --> 44:12.239 [SPEAKER_01]: the insights know. 44:12.279 --> 44:14.681 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank God. 44:14.701 --> 44:15.002 [SPEAKER_01]: I know. 44:15.082 --> 44:15.542 [SPEAKER_01]: I love it. 44:16.583 --> 44:17.364 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we love you. 44:17.404 --> 44:18.745 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. 44:18.805 --> 44:20.968 [SPEAKER_00]: See you next week. 44:21.028 --> 44:21.928 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody out this. 44:22.169 --> 44:24.111 [SPEAKER_00]: Be careful and be kind. 44:24.932 --> 44:25.913 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, absolutely. 44:25.953 --> 44:31.238 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the best advice, Gianni, and please, please bow our Instagram. 44:31.278 --> 44:40.307 [SPEAKER_01]: We will be putting out the information so you can get that 44:40.979 --> 44:42.358 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, good night, Tiani. 44:42.743 --> 44:43.513 [SPEAKER_00]: Good night, my love.