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 00:25.715 --> 00:26.677 [SPEAKER_04]: Welcome, everybody. 00:26.918 --> 00:29.644 [SPEAKER_04]: It's time for another Hollywood Godfather podcast. 00:30.045 --> 00:33.754 [SPEAKER_04]: First, I wanted to introduce my beautiful host, Sheenie Raymond. 00:35.238 --> 00:36.180 [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, everyone. 00:37.527 --> 00:41.593 [SPEAKER_04]: And I'm so happy I have a friend, I mean, a true friend. 00:42.194 --> 00:45.720 [SPEAKER_04]: We were both at the business, I was never at the level he ever. 00:46.040 --> 00:48.364 [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I didn't hit half of what he's done in starting. 00:49.285 --> 00:50.487 [SPEAKER_04]: He's a legend. 00:50.828 --> 00:51.609 [SPEAKER_04]: He's a legend. 00:52.110 --> 00:52.651 [SPEAKER_03]: You too. 00:53.352 --> 00:54.554 [SPEAKER_04]: You're the legend. 00:55.275 --> 00:56.737 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, God, oh, God. 00:56.757 --> 00:59.742 [SPEAKER_04]: That is Tony Alando, my good friend. 01:00.002 --> 01:02.145 [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you for being with us. 01:02.366 --> 01:05.070 [SPEAKER_04]: I appreciate going to be a great night. 01:06.147 --> 01:08.818 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, you know, Johnny, we have known each other a long time. 01:09.380 --> 01:16.107 [SPEAKER_03]: And if you talk about legends, if anybody is in this town of Las Vegas, well, I am right now. 01:16.627 --> 01:38.918 [SPEAKER_03]: when you speak of your name and it's not just during your Hollywood Godfather time, it's before that when you had to speak easy here in Las Vegas, you had the place in my right, you had the place that everybody in this town, well you're going tonight, I'm going to Giannis, I'm going to your place was the place to go. 01:39.398 --> 01:44.305 [SPEAKER_03]: So you know how long ago that was, tell the people how long ago you and I know each other. 01:44.285 --> 01:47.865 [SPEAKER_04]: In the 1980s, that's what it's supposed to go. 01:48.200 --> 01:50.924 [SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of believable, whether it go, right? 01:51.424 --> 01:55.009 [SPEAKER_03]: And you're stronger, and your stories are more compelling than ever. 01:55.670 --> 01:59.175 [SPEAKER_03]: And I want to tell you listeners, and you're people who watch your show. 02:00.016 --> 02:17.380 [SPEAKER_03]: If you've ever had dinner, if you have a sat across the table with Johnny, you never finish your food, because each story, as you pick up your fork and bring it to your mouth, you drop it and go, who? 02:18.423 --> 02:19.345 [SPEAKER_03]: You know what? 02:20.947 --> 02:24.654 [SPEAKER_03]: Who left you that home in New York, 1600,000 square feet? 02:25.055 --> 02:26.337 [SPEAKER_03]: Who? 02:26.357 --> 02:31.967 [SPEAKER_03]: And it goes on and on and on and you sit there going, hey, Johnny, my food's cold. 02:32.247 --> 02:36.134 [SPEAKER_03]: I can't eat, send it back because he tells you stories forever. 02:36.455 --> 02:37.717 [SPEAKER_03]: It's good to see you, Johnny. 02:37.797 --> 02:38.619 [SPEAKER_03]: It's good to see you. 02:38.639 --> 02:39.761 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, thank you so much. 02:40.101 --> 02:43.367 [SPEAKER_04]: I can't even even took me this long to trace you down. 02:45.743 --> 02:46.876 [SPEAKER_04]: You know who I had a call? 02:47.463 --> 02:48.818 [SPEAKER_04]: John Casemba TDs. 02:50.941 --> 02:52.603 [SPEAKER_03]: That's my Greek godfather. 02:53.023 --> 02:55.866 [SPEAKER_03]: Now John Castanetides, you know, is Greek. 02:55.966 --> 02:56.666 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm half Greek. 02:57.287 --> 02:58.248 [SPEAKER_03]: My father was Greek. 02:58.568 --> 03:01.331 [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm Michael Anthony Orlando Castavitis. 03:02.712 --> 03:04.754 [SPEAKER_03]: My poor, my grandfather was Castavitis. 03:04.774 --> 03:07.116 [SPEAKER_03]: Duckus, and they changed the castavitis. 03:07.156 --> 03:09.338 [SPEAKER_03]: Pretty close to Castanetides, right? 03:10.059 --> 03:13.482 [SPEAKER_03]: But John and I have become friends, Margo is wife. 03:13.922 --> 03:16.184 [SPEAKER_03]: They're all credible people, just incredible. 03:17.325 --> 03:19.227 [SPEAKER_04]: They come to my house often for dinner. 03:20.590 --> 03:39.358 [SPEAKER_04]: I love John, we're like, what he's done in his life, my God, oh my God, he's changed my own kind of Brooklyn, he owns all his iris and it's like, I'll tell you a funny story about that, you know, I didn't know what high rises he owned right, Johnny, so I'm doing it, I'm doing a benefit for John. 03:40.283 --> 03:46.653 [SPEAKER_03]: the homeless and I'm on stage and I said, you know, I was raised just a few blocks from here. 03:47.134 --> 03:54.626 [SPEAKER_03]: Two 21 West 21st Street between 7th and 8th Avenue and John goes, I own that building. 03:55.888 --> 03:59.113 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, I'm talking about now right now, you know, it's crazy. 03:59.173 --> 04:02.018 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you own so many buildings, it's crazy. 04:02.498 --> 04:06.004 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and self made unbelievable man. 04:06.558 --> 04:07.700 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. 04:07.760 --> 04:08.781 [SPEAKER_04]: Really, and good people. 04:09.082 --> 04:10.664 [SPEAKER_04]: I like John Junior to John. 04:10.684 --> 04:13.488 [SPEAKER_04]: You used to come see all my shows, it's such a nice kid. 04:13.989 --> 04:15.391 [SPEAKER_04]: The door to two, and they've rolled. 04:15.491 --> 04:16.533 [SPEAKER_04]: It's a beautiful family. 04:17.454 --> 04:22.702 [SPEAKER_04]: You know, my dining room behind me, if you could see it, it's such a kid. 04:23.423 --> 04:24.685 [SPEAKER_04]: But I'm moving the chair. 04:26.470 --> 04:29.077 [SPEAKER_03]: Wow, what a beautiful place to see. 04:29.638 --> 04:31.603 [SPEAKER_03]: I'll show you people know this that watch your show. 04:31.944 --> 04:34.570 [SPEAKER_03]: Say it again for those of us like myself who didn't hear it. 04:35.092 --> 04:36.575 [SPEAKER_03]: Who gave you this? 04:36.595 --> 04:39.282 [SPEAKER_03]: A fried chicken. 04:40.561 --> 04:41.583 [SPEAKER_03]: Frank Castello. 04:42.023 --> 04:47.833 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so all of you kids out there, Frank Castello, they could have been Castello. 04:48.013 --> 04:48.814 [SPEAKER_03]: I can't. 04:48.834 --> 04:49.014 [SPEAKER_03]: I can't. 04:49.034 --> 04:58.249 [SPEAKER_03]: Like, yeah, what's the happened Castello was the, hey, that crystal and the truth of the matter is tell them how many square feet that is in New York City. 04:58.482 --> 05:06.170 [SPEAKER_04]: Or it's not that big, it's 2700 square feet, but it's, it's right, it's, I can't say where I don't want everybody show it up. 05:06.471 --> 05:10.956 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, let me tell you what, let me show you what 2700 square feet is in New York City. 05:11.216 --> 05:12.097 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. 05:12.117 --> 05:18.844 [SPEAKER_03]: It's you figure, figure, I'm guessing if I had to buy your place, let's be honest, okay. 05:18.864 --> 05:20.766 [SPEAKER_03]: Could I buy your place for 5 million? 05:21.827 --> 05:26.953 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, no, no, no, no. 05:28.587 --> 05:34.934 [SPEAKER_04]: There's not there on the block over 12, under 12, but you're right, Randy. 05:34.954 --> 05:38.418 [SPEAKER_04]: Man, it's Tony, and I could have read what I'm about to tell you now. 05:39.860 --> 05:43.164 [SPEAKER_04]: I walked in here, 71 years ago. 05:45.126 --> 05:45.367 [SPEAKER_04]: What? 05:46.188 --> 05:47.910 [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I was 12 years old. 05:48.070 --> 05:52.275 [SPEAKER_03]: Here we go with another Gianni story where you shake your head and you drop your fork. 05:52.295 --> 05:53.556 [SPEAKER_03]: Go ahead, tell me again. 05:53.776 --> 05:54.437 [SPEAKER_03]: I want to hear this. 05:54.517 --> 05:55.118 [SPEAKER_03]: Go ahead. 05:55.435 --> 05:58.219 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I, I was selling ballpoint pens on the street. 05:58.259 --> 05:59.541 [SPEAKER_04]: I just got out of Bellevue. 05:59.901 --> 06:00.782 [SPEAKER_04]: I had polio. 06:00.883 --> 06:02.445 [SPEAKER_04]: I was quarantined for five years. 06:03.226 --> 06:06.490 [SPEAKER_04]: And when I came out, ballpoint pens just came out. 06:07.592 --> 06:10.356 [SPEAKER_04]: So I was selling them downtown and I moved uptown. 06:10.376 --> 06:11.097 [SPEAKER_04]: I took the train. 06:11.558 --> 06:14.782 [SPEAKER_04]: And I got off in front of the Sherry Netherlands on the other side of the street. 06:14.982 --> 06:16.104 [SPEAKER_04]: I walked across the street. 06:16.845 --> 06:18.287 [SPEAKER_04]: And this guy would come. 06:19.060 --> 06:25.128 [SPEAKER_04]: Every morning, between 11, 11, 30, going to the Sherry Netherlands for 10 or 15 minutes and come back out. 06:25.969 --> 06:26.910 [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't know what he was doing. 06:26.951 --> 06:28.753 [SPEAKER_04]: I found out later, he was getting a shoe shine. 06:30.896 --> 06:32.338 [SPEAKER_04]: This story ain't not going to believe. 06:33.559 --> 06:42.351 [SPEAKER_04]: So now, every time it came, it gave me words of wisdom, give me $5, $10, like $100 a bill in the 50s. 06:43.175 --> 06:44.336 [SPEAKER_04]: never took a pen. 06:44.356 --> 06:50.944 [SPEAKER_04]: But before he left, he always, always grieve me with a hug and made sure he touched my left shoulder. 06:52.926 --> 06:59.815 [SPEAKER_04]: About three days after him doing that with me, he goes to his apartment one night. 07:00.816 --> 07:04.340 [SPEAKER_04]: It gets out of the car and change again to shoot some in the head. 07:06.382 --> 07:13.030 [SPEAKER_04]: And the bullet 07:14.258 --> 07:20.207 [SPEAKER_04]: So his wife rushes to the hospital, like Trump, the right exactly. 07:21.169 --> 07:28.160 [SPEAKER_04]: But with so funny, they attributed to me that I was given a good lucky touch to me as a for luck. 07:28.881 --> 07:34.630 [SPEAKER_04]: She would have one of you been doing different, this is that kid, that's how this all happened. 07:36.010 --> 07:40.217 [SPEAKER_03]: So the relationship continued on after that. 07:40.898 --> 07:43.282 [SPEAKER_04]: After that, and he said, he asked me my name. 07:43.383 --> 07:44.484 [SPEAKER_04]: I told him my real name. 07:45.246 --> 07:48.571 [SPEAKER_04]: And he said, OK, you know where the world off is. 07:48.672 --> 07:50.755 [SPEAKER_04]: I say, no, every public bathroom is. 07:50.775 --> 07:53.199 [SPEAKER_04]: You meet me tomorrow at the world of a story. 07:54.141 --> 07:54.962 [SPEAKER_04]: I met him there. 07:55.403 --> 07:56.204 [SPEAKER_04]: We sat down. 07:56.244 --> 08:00.111 [SPEAKER_04]: I found out that guy who was crossing town with his body on. 08:00.850 --> 08:04.033 [SPEAKER_04]: And when he knew, he knew my uncles at a poemal. 08:04.814 --> 08:09.979 [SPEAKER_04]: My uncles coincidentally sent his mother father to America. 08:12.422 --> 08:13.603 [SPEAKER_04]: And you can't make a shit. 08:13.683 --> 08:14.264 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm still with it. 08:14.284 --> 08:15.225 [SPEAKER_03]: It's just some stories tonight. 08:15.545 --> 08:20.750 [SPEAKER_03]: OK, you and I are going to share some of those ones that you don't know about me and some of the ones I just found out about you. 08:20.770 --> 08:22.032 [SPEAKER_04]: OK, please, I would love it. 08:22.252 --> 08:30.300 [SPEAKER_03]: For instance, the old J House unrocking him, right? 08:32.086 --> 08:35.179 [SPEAKER_04]: Well, you were really saying, no, I owned the house. 08:36.122 --> 08:37.187 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, oh, oh, sorry. 08:37.207 --> 08:42.147 [SPEAKER_03]: It was my house, so I sold my house to OJ Simpson. 08:43.375 --> 08:45.739 [SPEAKER_03]: the famous rocking him house. 08:45.759 --> 08:48.203 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm moving right here. 08:49.144 --> 08:52.330 [SPEAKER_03]: So it sounds like a Gianni story, but it's true, right? 08:52.690 --> 08:55.555 [SPEAKER_03]: So how did I sell that house and how did it come about? 08:56.316 --> 08:57.358 [SPEAKER_03]: May I tell you that story? 08:57.979 --> 08:58.359 [SPEAKER_03]: Please. 08:58.640 --> 09:04.790 [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm I'm walking down San Vicente, you knew where that isn't California, right? 09:04.970 --> 09:05.451 [SPEAKER_03]: And now that. 09:10.021 --> 09:13.686 [SPEAKER_03]: Kardashian, walking towards me, was now passed away. 09:14.387 --> 09:15.007 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you're Robert. 09:15.608 --> 09:16.209 [SPEAKER_03]: Robert, kiss it. 09:16.329 --> 09:19.473 [SPEAKER_03]: And he said, what are you doing here? 09:20.614 --> 09:21.295 [SPEAKER_03]: You look great. 09:21.335 --> 09:21.776 [SPEAKER_03]: What are you doing? 09:21.796 --> 09:23.658 [SPEAKER_03]: He says, I work for the juice now. 09:24.159 --> 09:24.960 [SPEAKER_03]: I work for O.J. 09:25.000 --> 09:26.582 [SPEAKER_03]: There's our office building right over there. 09:26.662 --> 09:27.583 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm Santa Santy. 09:28.224 --> 09:31.048 [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, by the way, Tony, he's looking for a house to buy in Brentwood. 09:31.068 --> 09:31.909 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you know of any? 09:32.530 --> 09:34.392 [SPEAKER_03]: I said, yeah, my house. 09:35.468 --> 09:42.699 [SPEAKER_03]: So I end up selling him the house, the famous house, the old Chase Simpson rocking him house. 09:43.520 --> 09:51.432 [SPEAKER_03]: And I move across the street, I buy the Dohini house, which is a Dohini, a big multi-million square feet. 09:52.053 --> 09:55.598 [SPEAKER_03]: This house was now old Chase house was 6,000 square feet to give an idea. 09:56.360 --> 09:58.102 [SPEAKER_03]: So these were in my hot, hot day. 09:58.122 --> 10:00.025 [SPEAKER_03]: So what did I buy? 10:00.005 --> 10:04.913 [SPEAKER_03]: House across the street for, I bought it for $475,000. 10:05.635 --> 10:07.778 [SPEAKER_03]: What did the person buy the house? 10:07.859 --> 10:09.602 [SPEAKER_03]: What did OJ pay for his house? 10:10.183 --> 10:18.537 [SPEAKER_03]: $600,000, which was less, actually six, you know, six thousand square feet less than the one I bought across the street, okay? 10:18.517 --> 10:28.933 [SPEAKER_03]: So, to think that that house that I bought across the street, well of course the old J House now is diminished, they knocked it down. 10:29.293 --> 10:41.672 [SPEAKER_03]: There's too many tourists were coming to see it after the whole year, so the house I bought across the street for 475,000 dollars in 1977. 10:41.652 --> 10:44.756 [SPEAKER_03]: Johnny, it's not like the Gianni story, okay? 10:45.657 --> 10:50.783 [SPEAKER_03]: Just sold this week for $24 million. 10:50.924 --> 10:57.332 [SPEAKER_03]: Now, my wife says, you know when to buy, you just don't know when to sell, okay? 10:57.852 --> 11:03.359 [SPEAKER_03]: You're on the other end, you know when to sell, all into buying, went to own and went to keep it when they give it to you. 11:03.780 --> 11:08.706 [SPEAKER_03]: But the truth is, that sounds like a Gianni story, but it's, oh yeah. 11:08.939 --> 11:12.726 [SPEAKER_03]: Also, I want to share, and I'm dying to share this with you for years. 11:13.848 --> 11:15.090 [SPEAKER_03]: You knew the copicabatta. 11:16.012 --> 11:16.372 [SPEAKER_03]: Hello. 11:17.013 --> 11:19.157 [SPEAKER_03]: How well did you know the copicabatta? 11:19.177 --> 11:20.319 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, could stall all of it. 11:21.441 --> 11:22.984 [SPEAKER_03]: I started out when I was 12. 11:24.186 --> 11:25.689 [SPEAKER_03]: Did you know Carmine Fava? 11:26.350 --> 11:26.991 [SPEAKER_03]: Of course. 11:27.532 --> 11:30.297 [SPEAKER_03]: Carmine Fava was the mage to D. I know that. 11:31.099 --> 11:31.920 [SPEAKER_03]: He's my uncle. 11:33.082 --> 11:33.563 [SPEAKER_03]: What? 11:34.724 --> 11:44.944 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, so proud of my father was my uncle, Jules Padel, Jules Padel was the owner. 11:44.964 --> 11:47.649 [SPEAKER_04]: Well, Delle became the entertainment director of Sands Hotel. 11:49.232 --> 11:51.958 [SPEAKER_03]: And he on the Copic Abana, he was the owner. 11:52.759 --> 11:54.623 [SPEAKER_04]: So he was on paper. 11:55.126 --> 12:04.601 [SPEAKER_03]: So, in my time, I feel like in a way I was huge, Johnny, because there I was in that circle that you always talk about. 12:05.242 --> 12:08.107 [SPEAKER_03]: You're a star, I was out of star, looking at you. 12:08.127 --> 12:16.340 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no, no, I was at the time when I'm talking about with my uncle Carmine, I was only 15 years old. 12:17.041 --> 12:18.163 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, wow. 12:18.700 --> 12:19.682 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that is it. 12:19.702 --> 12:21.424 [SPEAKER_04]: The joint cruiser started and wow. 12:21.885 --> 12:22.386 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. 12:22.406 --> 12:23.327 [SPEAKER_04]: I was a kid back. 12:23.527 --> 12:24.689 [SPEAKER_04]: Star in that room. 12:24.749 --> 12:25.851 [SPEAKER_04]: That's amazing. 12:26.031 --> 12:26.392 [SPEAKER_03]: Right. 12:26.532 --> 12:28.255 [SPEAKER_03]: I was the last act to work in that room. 12:29.657 --> 12:32.782 [SPEAKER_03]: And when I was 15, I was 16. 12:32.822 --> 12:34.284 [SPEAKER_03]: The first hit record came out. 12:34.845 --> 12:37.068 [SPEAKER_03]: It was written by Carol King was called Half of the Paradise. 12:37.569 --> 12:38.951 [SPEAKER_03]: This sounds like she's on a story. 12:39.032 --> 12:40.053 [SPEAKER_03]: Wait, wait, wait. 12:40.173 --> 12:41.075 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm never told you this. 12:41.595 --> 12:46.463 [SPEAKER_03]: So now, who do I meet in the copa before he closes? 12:47.388 --> 12:49.371 [SPEAKER_03]: Crazy Joe Gallo. 12:49.391 --> 12:50.312 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god. 12:50.633 --> 12:51.714 [SPEAKER_04]: He had his birthday. 12:52.055 --> 12:52.996 [SPEAKER_04]: It was his birthday. 12:53.016 --> 12:58.964 [SPEAKER_03]: No, tell everybody what happened to Crazy Joe Gallo. 12:59.826 --> 13:04.472 [SPEAKER_04]: Well then, so funny, he wanted to go for Chinese food on 17th. 13:04.853 --> 13:06.956 [SPEAKER_04]: They got there, they cleaned it. 13:08.518 --> 13:11.723 [SPEAKER_04]: So he, I guess, who was the actor he was with? 13:12.904 --> 13:13.746 [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know. 13:13.766 --> 13:15.488 [SPEAKER_04]: The famous actor in his wife. 13:15.923 --> 13:28.122 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't I don't I can't see guys that hill street blues, but I think I got the wrong series, but I don't anyway, so anyway, he was there were those friends. 13:29.604 --> 13:30.165 [SPEAKER_04]: Two couples. 13:30.565 --> 13:33.670 [SPEAKER_04]: So they leave my street and they say, well, why don't we go over. 13:34.171 --> 13:35.753 [SPEAKER_04]: We're going to just do well. 13:36.114 --> 13:36.915 [SPEAKER_03]: My tree's a little bit. 13:36.975 --> 13:37.376 [SPEAKER_03]: Everybody. 13:37.896 --> 13:38.337 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. 13:38.722 --> 13:46.855 [SPEAKER_04]: We're going to go to Emberto's now Joe Gallos never told what's his name and his friend the actor. 13:47.396 --> 13:48.237 [SPEAKER_04]: I can't go to it. 13:49.499 --> 13:53.044 [SPEAKER_04]: So now somebody walks past Emberto's and sees Joe Gallo. 13:53.846 --> 13:57.531 [SPEAKER_04]: He walks down to a Neil Delacroco and sees Joe Gallos in the neighborhood. 13:58.793 --> 14:00.276 [SPEAKER_04]: Can I, can I whack him? 14:00.897 --> 14:02.199 [SPEAKER_04]: He's good to whatever you want. 14:02.760 --> 14:05.283 [SPEAKER_04]: And he walked him. 14:05.304 --> 14:06.265 [SPEAKER_03]: So Johnny. 14:07.038 --> 14:23.376 [SPEAKER_03]: listed how crazy you and i in our lives have you started the all this up when you were 12 i'm doing it around 14 15 years old car mine fava is the maitra d opicabana i don't have a place right i meet joe 14:23.356 --> 14:29.202 [SPEAKER_03]: a crazy Joe Gallo, the guy you just described that got, as you say, whacked in on burtals, right? 14:29.803 --> 14:38.993 [SPEAKER_03]: So my uncle Carmine says to me, as crazy Joe walks up to me because I had a hit record when I was 16 that he liked. 14:39.333 --> 14:49.864 [SPEAKER_03]: It was called half for the paradise and he walks up to Tony and he says, Tony, come out to my house in Brooklyn with Carmine tonight. 14:50.365 --> 14:51.726 [SPEAKER_03]: I make the best pasta. 14:52.600 --> 14:55.383 [SPEAKER_03]: My uncle, Carmine, pulls me the sightness and the listen. 14:56.605 --> 14:57.726 [SPEAKER_03]: We're going to have to go out there. 14:58.567 --> 15:00.509 [SPEAKER_03]: We're going to go see a crazy Joe Gojaza. 15:00.829 --> 15:03.352 [SPEAKER_03]: But I don't want you walking next to him. 15:04.353 --> 15:05.795 [SPEAKER_03]: I swear to you, that's the truth. 15:06.155 --> 15:09.980 [SPEAKER_03]: Meaning, my uncle, Carmine, must have known that there was a hit on it. 15:10.540 --> 15:11.562 [SPEAKER_03]: Now he was going to be hit, right? 15:11.802 --> 15:13.644 [SPEAKER_03]: I was going to want you walking next to him. 15:13.664 --> 15:16.347 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you want to stand that Tony? 15:16.327 --> 15:19.491 [SPEAKER_03]: So now, this is not sound like a Gianni story. 15:19.531 --> 15:19.892 [SPEAKER_03]: Come on. 15:19.912 --> 15:20.713 [SPEAKER_03]: This is right. 15:20.733 --> 15:20.933 [SPEAKER_03]: Yes. 15:21.374 --> 15:21.754 [SPEAKER_03]: Right now. 15:21.774 --> 15:26.520 [SPEAKER_03]: So now listen, I go to crazy Joe Callos house. 15:26.540 --> 15:27.041 [SPEAKER_03]: Everybody. 15:27.181 --> 15:28.022 [SPEAKER_03]: This is the truth. 15:28.483 --> 15:28.843 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. 15:29.604 --> 15:34.571 [SPEAKER_03]: He says to me, Donnie, you want to meet Oscar. 15:36.013 --> 15:36.814 [SPEAKER_03]: I said Oscar. 15:37.314 --> 15:37.575 [SPEAKER_03]: Sure. 15:37.615 --> 15:38.296 [SPEAKER_03]: Who's Oscar? 15:39.277 --> 15:40.178 [SPEAKER_03]: He said, come on. 15:40.198 --> 15:41.520 [SPEAKER_03]: You didn't tell you his nephew. 15:42.000 --> 15:42.221 [SPEAKER_03]: Who? 15:42.501 --> 15:44.764 [SPEAKER_03]: Oscar is 15:45.335 --> 15:47.217 [SPEAKER_03]: Come on, say, please, Joe, please. 15:47.918 --> 15:49.019 [SPEAKER_03]: So he says, come over here. 15:49.039 --> 15:51.061 [SPEAKER_03]: He takes me over to a step. 15:51.242 --> 15:53.704 [SPEAKER_03]: Opposite does a staircase going down to a basement. 15:53.724 --> 15:53.925 [SPEAKER_03]: That was. 15:54.725 --> 15:57.529 [SPEAKER_03]: It was a lion, not a kid. 15:57.549 --> 15:58.490 [SPEAKER_03]: It was a lion. 15:58.770 --> 15:59.991 [SPEAKER_03]: And he goes, oh, lion. 16:00.312 --> 16:02.134 [SPEAKER_03]: He goes, somebody give me a stake. 16:02.354 --> 16:03.215 [SPEAKER_03]: And he gives me a stake. 16:03.235 --> 16:08.000 [SPEAKER_03]: And in front of this 16-year-old kid, he throws the stake down and out comes Oscar. 16:10.062 --> 16:11.124 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my God. 16:11.204 --> 16:13.266 [SPEAKER_03]: Joe Gallo says to me, don't he? 16:13.786 --> 16:17.985 [SPEAKER_03]: If you don't pay up your bills, you meet Oscar. 16:19.190 --> 16:19.712 [SPEAKER_03]: Whoa. 16:21.520 --> 16:23.087 [SPEAKER_03]: That's it, ruining money. 16:23.708 --> 16:30.935 [SPEAKER_03]: He was like, well, I'm on shark or I guess we can lose what I'm saying, but you need all many money. 16:30.955 --> 16:31.616 [SPEAKER_03]: No, not me. 16:31.736 --> 16:41.106 [SPEAKER_03]: He was saying that if a person doesn't, they see and meet Oscar and it scares a daylight out of them. 16:41.126 --> 16:50.155 [SPEAKER_03]: So every time I hear you tell a story, I think to myself, hey, everybody, don't think he's lying. 16:50.287 --> 16:56.064 [SPEAKER_03]: Because let me tell you something, I got a couple myself and that was one of them. 16:56.084 --> 16:57.489 [SPEAKER_03]: Is that not a Gianni story? 16:58.251 --> 17:01.360 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, we got to be related somehow. 17:02.926 --> 17:03.707 [SPEAKER_03]: True story though. 17:04.128 --> 17:04.749 [SPEAKER_03]: True story. 17:04.769 --> 17:05.831 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah, I'm going to be. 17:05.972 --> 17:06.633 [SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to not be. 17:06.773 --> 17:16.912 [SPEAKER_03]: And I learned everything at the Copa, Johnny, my uncle Carmine used to sneak me in and Doug Gaudy was Doug Gaudy was the guy who did the sound and lights. 17:17.513 --> 17:18.275 [SPEAKER_03]: Now remember everybody. 17:18.515 --> 17:22.001 [SPEAKER_03]: The Copa Cabana only set 300 people, 250 people. 17:22.082 --> 17:23.905 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, ops, right? 17:23.885 --> 17:29.094 [SPEAKER_03]: And there was like a soundboard and lightboard, it was controlled by this guy Doug Gowdy. 17:29.574 --> 17:34.583 [SPEAKER_03]: And Doug Gowdy, because I was underage, used to make me sit underneath the console. 17:35.264 --> 17:46.803 [SPEAKER_03]: And when the axe would come out, okay, Bobby Darren, you know, Sammy, and that can call, it tapped me and I come up over the, and I watched them perform. 17:47.624 --> 17:48.205 [SPEAKER_04]: Wow. 17:49.096 --> 17:52.991 [SPEAKER_03]: That was my, that was my high schooling was amazing. 17:54.015 --> 17:55.260 [SPEAKER_03]: Real amazing. 17:55.280 --> 17:58.954 [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, Jesus, I mean, how commuting right a book about all this? 18:00.352 --> 18:01.173 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, you know what? 18:01.273 --> 18:03.476 [SPEAKER_03]: I am, it's funny to say that. 18:03.496 --> 18:07.340 [SPEAKER_03]: People keep telling me like I tell you, you should go and do a story telling show. 18:07.961 --> 18:17.873 [SPEAKER_03]: So I started, I'm retired, but I figured once a month I'll go out to Cassino's and I'm getting a lot of bookings, Tonya Landah, the story teller. 18:17.893 --> 18:26.663 [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm going to tell these stories, everything from my experience with Cal King and my experience with the eight presidents and just like you, stories that people 18:26.643 --> 18:44.349 [SPEAKER_03]: You know say did that really happen to you because you know, Gianni, I'm sure you feel this way When you look back at your life retrospectively, don't you go I did that oh I mean that that really happened to me. 18:44.730 --> 18:47.093 [SPEAKER_03]: What why what what? 18:47.614 --> 18:48.215 [SPEAKER_03]: What is that? 18:48.495 --> 18:53.022 [SPEAKER_03]: Wait a minute I became friends with Frank Sinatra 18:54.402 --> 19:05.998 [SPEAKER_03]: And he used to yell at me all the time, I come off stage because we used to call him, call him so some big as he goes, hey, Tony, pronounce your essence and cross your tears. 19:07.040 --> 19:07.921 [SPEAKER_03]: What do you mean, Frank? 19:08.362 --> 19:10.424 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, you said tonight, it's not tonight. 19:10.585 --> 19:13.308 [SPEAKER_03]: If tonight, that's crushing you. 19:13.389 --> 19:14.030 [SPEAKER_04]: Too mad at me. 19:14.050 --> 19:15.391 [SPEAKER_04]: You want to really go radically. 19:15.532 --> 19:21.540 [SPEAKER_03]: You want me to actually pronounce my words in my, and when you listen to Sonatra, Gianni, 19:21.520 --> 19:35.800 [SPEAKER_03]: You see, you hear how effortlessly he does that, and it's really amazing, and so one day, they come to me says, I cut Ty a yellow ribbon, I said, wait a minute. 19:37.130 --> 19:42.520 [SPEAKER_03]: Frank Sinatra recorded Taya Yellow Ribbon around the Old Old Tree, my record. 19:42.921 --> 19:46.207 [SPEAKER_03]: I did, he said, come listen to it and we sit in there. 19:46.427 --> 19:51.216 [SPEAKER_03]: Now, remember, he's always, he's always not going to be about my pronunciation on songs right, Johnny. 19:51.757 --> 19:57.568 [SPEAKER_03]: And he goes, so I hear the record at the very end, I hear Taya Yellow Ribbon. 19:58.088 --> 19:58.509 [SPEAKER_03]: Yella. 19:59.410 --> 19:59.510 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. 20:00.031 --> 20:02.895 [SPEAKER_03]: And I thought, oh, I'm going to get him now. 20:02.975 --> 20:04.036 [SPEAKER_03]: Let me tell you. 20:04.197 --> 20:04.817 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to get him. 20:05.238 --> 20:10.886 [SPEAKER_03]: And I said, Mr. Sinatra, what do you mean by Taya Yella Ribbon? 20:11.126 --> 20:12.348 [SPEAKER_03]: Are you serious? 20:12.548 --> 20:14.231 [SPEAKER_03]: Taya Yella Ribbon? 20:14.571 --> 20:16.634 [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to get me for my two night. 20:16.794 --> 20:23.383 [SPEAKER_03]: And you say, Yella, he says, there's a reason I said Taya Yella Ribbon. 20:23.403 --> 20:25.206 [SPEAKER_03]: And when you hear it, you'll understand why. 20:25.226 --> 20:26.728 [SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't a grammar thing. 20:27.451 --> 20:28.974 [SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't a whole broken thing. 20:29.335 --> 20:30.577 [SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't a New York thing. 20:31.018 --> 20:32.641 [SPEAKER_03]: Us, well, well, what was it, Frank? 20:33.784 --> 20:43.122 [SPEAKER_03]: He said the Duke, Wayne, John Wayne himself, came to me and said, I made a movie called Yella Ribbon. 20:43.643 --> 20:47.130 [SPEAKER_03]: And I love that Tony song called Taya Yella Ribbon. 20:47.667 --> 20:50.171 [SPEAKER_03]: Would you please go in and cut it for me, Frank? 20:50.732 --> 21:02.232 [SPEAKER_03]: So, so not to go in, cut yellow ribbon, Johnny, and Gina, goes in and says, for John Wayne, tie a yellow ribbon. 21:02.753 --> 21:07.100 [SPEAKER_03]: I said, I forgive you, oh, great God, I forgive you. 21:07.120 --> 21:07.721 [SPEAKER_01]: What a great story. 21:07.741 --> 21:08.983 [SPEAKER_01]: I love that. 21:09.082 --> 21:13.647 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm the big John Wayne fan. 21:14.548 --> 21:16.410 [SPEAKER_04]: That's very much real. 21:16.430 --> 21:22.817 [SPEAKER_04]: So when I got it to the Pauli Award, I got to the Pauli Award in 1949, August 7th. 21:23.057 --> 21:24.299 [SPEAKER_04]: Now my birthday is coming up. 21:24.839 --> 21:25.881 [SPEAKER_04]: And I was getting depressed. 21:25.961 --> 21:29.104 [SPEAKER_04]: And the foreigners was from the neighborhood. 21:29.645 --> 21:31.647 [SPEAKER_04]: She was called O'Gay and Bino's niece. 21:33.027 --> 21:36.532 [SPEAKER_04]: And I unbeknownst to me, I didn't know who knew what were. 21:37.313 --> 21:41.898 [SPEAKER_04]: She brings me the night before my birthday, a transistor radio. 21:42.579 --> 21:43.460 [SPEAKER_04]: I still have it. 21:43.741 --> 21:44.722 [SPEAKER_04]: It's in my act. 21:46.364 --> 21:49.188 [SPEAKER_04]: I showed on this radio how it changed my life. 21:49.989 --> 21:54.114 [SPEAKER_04]: I was turning seven, the night before I turned the radio on. 21:55.596 --> 21:57.018 [SPEAKER_04]: All I'm hearing about Sinatra. 21:57.699 --> 22:01.043 [SPEAKER_04]: Sinatra and I were born to September 12th. 22:02.086 --> 22:04.309 [SPEAKER_04]: So now I had nothing to live with. 22:04.329 --> 22:07.934 [SPEAKER_04]: I'm watching 2200 kids die in the last couple of months. 22:09.096 --> 22:10.858 [SPEAKER_04]: And this guy inspired me. 22:11.599 --> 22:14.263 [SPEAKER_04]: Same story in the same place. 22:15.325 --> 22:17.568 [SPEAKER_04]: I see him at the Copa Cabana. 22:17.968 --> 22:18.669 [UNKNOWN]: Oh my God. 22:19.090 --> 22:21.153 [SPEAKER_04]: I'm 12 years old and I've waited. 22:21.193 --> 22:23.696 [SPEAKER_04]: He looked at me and Julie Baudel. 22:23.736 --> 22:24.838 [SPEAKER_04]: He looked at Julie Baudel. 22:25.198 --> 22:29.224 [SPEAKER_04]: And that's one of the first time I heard he should know that's Costello's boy. 22:30.301 --> 22:32.264 [SPEAKER_04]: with the letter and custom of that kids. 22:32.986 --> 22:35.710 [SPEAKER_04]: And after that time, he thought I was as good luck to him. 22:36.151 --> 22:37.433 [SPEAKER_04]: He took care of me and arrested my life. 22:38.475 --> 22:42.923 [SPEAKER_04]: But long story short, when I told him the story, I said, you saved my life, it's how they do that. 22:44.065 --> 22:48.232 [SPEAKER_04]: And I tell him the story, it's a similar story, we, you. 22:49.354 --> 22:50.556 [SPEAKER_04]: That's just crazy. 22:51.478 --> 22:52.379 [SPEAKER_04]: This is crazy. 22:52.560 --> 22:55.144 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, Frank did something for me, Johnny. 22:56.795 --> 23:00.118 [SPEAKER_03]: that would probably be every young performer's dream come true. 23:00.138 --> 23:01.099 [SPEAKER_03]: And I'll tell you what happened. 23:03.141 --> 23:05.444 [SPEAKER_03]: I was working for Clive Davis at CBS. 23:06.164 --> 23:10.248 [SPEAKER_03]: I know well before the hits were born. 23:10.269 --> 23:12.451 [SPEAKER_03]: He made me vice president of music division. 23:12.851 --> 23:13.872 [SPEAKER_03]: I was there four years. 23:14.693 --> 23:15.874 [SPEAKER_03]: I signed Barry Mountain low. 23:15.894 --> 23:24.743 [SPEAKER_03]: I represented great artists like James Taylor and let's 23:26.292 --> 23:34.262 [SPEAKER_03]: I cut not three times in Candida as done, but I'd never, people didn't know who that was because I did it as a favor for a friend of mine. 23:35.123 --> 23:39.948 [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't want to lose my job with Clive, so I kept my, I hit, right? 23:40.709 --> 23:45.735 [SPEAKER_03]: So the records are out there hits, both of them, selling between them, that was six million records, right? 23:46.296 --> 23:46.536 [SPEAKER_03]: Wow. 23:46.737 --> 23:55.287 [SPEAKER_03]: Again, a call from Jilly, you know who Jilly is. 23:56.026 --> 24:14.549 [SPEAKER_03]: My father, Leo Castavitis, my dad was a failure, and my dad made the fur coats for all of your friends, including those friends, okay, and wives and so forth. 24:14.569 --> 24:19.014 [SPEAKER_03]: Julie calls me because he knows me, I know him through my dad, right? 24:19.635 --> 24:20.616 [SPEAKER_03]: He says, hey, 24:20.984 --> 24:22.426 [SPEAKER_03]: You got these two hit records out. 24:22.566 --> 24:23.988 [SPEAKER_03]: I know you're not going out as the act. 24:24.809 --> 24:26.712 [SPEAKER_03]: Would you like to meet Frank tonight? 24:28.073 --> 24:30.336 [SPEAKER_03]: So long, I got you, kiddin'. 24:30.356 --> 24:31.077 [SPEAKER_03]: Nope, tonight. 24:33.381 --> 24:41.271 [SPEAKER_03]: So I go to meet at this event that Frank is posting, where Jillie's West? 24:41.470 --> 24:43.834 [SPEAKER_03]: No, no, no, he's hosting at the fire's club. 24:44.515 --> 24:48.843 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, the fire's, it was honoring Jean Kelly. 24:49.364 --> 24:56.055 [SPEAKER_03]: And the reason he asked me to come because my idol at that time, as a kid, was Jean Kelly. 24:56.396 --> 24:58.940 [SPEAKER_03]: I loved singing in the rain, you know? 24:59.220 --> 25:01.685 [SPEAKER_03]: It's what got me into, but wanting to be in show business. 25:02.125 --> 25:06.533 [SPEAKER_03]: So he says, you're going to meet Jean Kelly tonight in the Frank Sinatra. 25:06.513 --> 25:08.699 [SPEAKER_03]: But you gotta come with a tocks. 25:08.719 --> 25:09.883 [SPEAKER_03]: I run down the street. 25:10.023 --> 25:10.505 [SPEAKER_03]: I swear. 25:10.866 --> 25:13.072 [SPEAKER_03]: And I rent a tocksito you guys. 25:14.115 --> 25:18.548 [SPEAKER_03]: And he said to me, no white hanky, red hanky only. 25:19.540 --> 25:24.809 [SPEAKER_03]: If you notice, Dean, Frank, Sammy, always talks Red Hanky. 25:25.189 --> 25:29.997 [SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, I don't even know why to this day, but I put a Red Hanky in a minute. 25:30.017 --> 25:32.842 [SPEAKER_03]: I go to the fries club and folks, this is what I see. 25:33.563 --> 25:37.870 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm standing next to Gilly, and Frank is lining up 25:38.069 --> 25:45.687 [SPEAKER_03]: the stars that are going to be sitting at the day is so that they sit properly when they find it, walk to their proper seating. 25:46.749 --> 25:49.716 [SPEAKER_03]: So he starts and I'm watching Sonata do this. 25:50.928 --> 26:13.797 [SPEAKER_03]: Richard Elizabeth, that's Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, up front, Brando, behind him, Cagney, behind him, Sammy, we stopped talking to Rickles, we had get behind them, and Natalie Wood, we get on it, and Gregory Peck, every major Super Movie star you could name lining up one after the next Johnny. 26:14.941 --> 26:25.997 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm standing it all, and all of a sudden, Sinatra says, Tony Orlando, follow me, which put me in front of all those people. 26:26.939 --> 26:31.464 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm walking behind Sinatra, and I'm going as the Sinatra. 26:32.485 --> 26:33.626 [SPEAKER_03]: This is incredible. 26:34.287 --> 26:36.068 [SPEAKER_03]: I hear you're doing this, either. 26:36.369 --> 26:36.689 [SPEAKER_03]: Shut up. 26:36.749 --> 26:37.390 [SPEAKER_03]: I'll tell you later. 26:37.510 --> 26:38.691 [SPEAKER_03]: Get up there. 26:38.751 --> 26:39.592 [SPEAKER_03]: He gets to the taste. 26:40.093 --> 26:43.296 [SPEAKER_03]: He's telling Savala, go down and get Tony Orlando's card. 26:43.316 --> 26:45.919 [SPEAKER_03]: It's at the end over there and bring it right behind me. 26:46.700 --> 26:48.341 [SPEAKER_03]: You sit where Tony was going to sit. 26:50.423 --> 26:51.845 [SPEAKER_03]: I can't believe what's going on. 26:51.865 --> 26:55.849 [SPEAKER_03]: So now I'm sitting directly behind Frank Sinatra. 26:57.719 --> 27:00.605 [SPEAKER_03]: And he's emcing in the show. 27:02.008 --> 27:04.553 [SPEAKER_03]: So he sits down while Tony Bennett is doing the solo. 27:04.573 --> 27:06.357 [SPEAKER_03]: And he sits down looking at me on the floor. 27:06.377 --> 27:08.060 [SPEAKER_03]: He's looking up at me because it was a double dance. 27:08.601 --> 27:11.527 [SPEAKER_03]: And he goes, the man can sing, can he? 27:11.567 --> 27:15.155 [SPEAKER_03]: And I go, yeah, but I'd hate you to do this. 27:15.776 --> 27:18.782 [SPEAKER_03]: This is unbelievable, he goes, shh, he laid up. 27:21.766 --> 27:22.607 [SPEAKER_03]: The show is over. 27:22.988 --> 27:26.112 [SPEAKER_03]: I meet Gene Kelly and it all what's happened to me. 27:26.813 --> 27:29.577 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't dare walk up to him and say, why did you do this again? 27:29.757 --> 27:30.498 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to do it. 27:31.159 --> 27:33.462 [SPEAKER_03]: He fine turns to me, this is okay, Tony. 27:34.764 --> 27:35.585 [SPEAKER_03]: Now ask me. 27:35.625 --> 27:39.010 [SPEAKER_03]: I said, Mr. Sinatra, why did you do this? 27:40.192 --> 27:41.173 [SPEAKER_03]: This isn't credible. 27:42.114 --> 27:44.458 [SPEAKER_03]: It's well, let me ask you a couple of questions. 27:44.478 --> 27:45.499 [SPEAKER_03]: Who's hosting tonight? 27:47.182 --> 27:48.263 [SPEAKER_03]: I said, you are certain. 27:49.762 --> 27:51.684 [SPEAKER_03]: who is sitting directly behind me? 27:53.366 --> 27:54.487 [SPEAKER_03]: I said, I am sir. 27:55.788 --> 28:00.613 [SPEAKER_03]: Who is in full view of who is sitting behind me? 28:01.694 --> 28:02.114 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, what? 28:02.134 --> 28:05.677 [SPEAKER_03]: The whole audience is, I'm sitting behind. 28:05.697 --> 28:08.320 [SPEAKER_03]: He says, OK, let me ask you a question. 28:09.581 --> 28:11.183 [SPEAKER_03]: Who is the new kid on the block? 28:12.965 --> 28:14.046 [SPEAKER_03]: I said, I am sir. 28:14.726 --> 28:16.288 [SPEAKER_03]: He said, well, welcome to show business. 28:16.608 --> 28:18.570 [SPEAKER_03]: That's how we treat the new kid on the block. 28:19.529 --> 28:20.010 [SPEAKER_04]: Wow. 28:20.511 --> 28:20.932 [SPEAKER_04]: Wow. 28:21.494 --> 28:22.336 [SPEAKER_04]: That's amazing. 28:22.396 --> 28:25.263 [SPEAKER_03]: That was my interest, Johnny, and to show business. 28:26.887 --> 28:27.488 [SPEAKER_04]: Amazing. 28:27.588 --> 28:28.089 [SPEAKER_04]: Amazing. 28:28.170 --> 28:28.671 [SPEAKER_04]: Amazing. 28:29.473 --> 28:29.693 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. 28:30.114 --> 28:30.996 [SPEAKER_04]: That's incredible. 28:31.237 --> 28:32.560 [SPEAKER_04]: You have to write a book. 28:33.586 --> 28:35.548 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, you know, I'm going to write a book on stories. 28:35.588 --> 28:36.749 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to do a story telling book. 28:36.789 --> 28:37.951 [SPEAKER_03]: And I am going to go on the road. 28:38.691 --> 28:44.057 [SPEAKER_03]: I retired two years ago from doing concerts because I couldn't take the air travel. 28:45.639 --> 28:48.201 [SPEAKER_03]: I had to bring, you know, my band out is expensive. 28:48.261 --> 28:49.523 [SPEAKER_03]: The overheads crazy. 28:49.863 --> 28:51.004 [SPEAKER_03]: You come home with no money. 28:51.304 --> 28:54.688 [SPEAKER_03]: You go through, you know, cancellations at the airport. 28:54.708 --> 28:55.889 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, delays this. 28:55.949 --> 28:57.251 [SPEAKER_03]: That, I just said, that's it. 28:57.531 --> 29:02.496 [SPEAKER_03]: At the 64 years, and I'm not going to go through this. 29:02.813 --> 29:03.254 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. 29:03.274 --> 29:09.062 [SPEAKER_03]: And this is allowing me a chance to still go out and do a meet and greet and thank those people who made that dream come true. 29:09.783 --> 29:20.778 [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm going to go out and I'm going to without a question share my stories with people, hopefully in the Gianni style. 29:21.880 --> 29:29.631 [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I'm probably better than my style, but what I was just going to tell you, I got and I'm going to put you in touch 29:30.033 --> 29:32.116 [SPEAKER_04]: This guy emin is amazing. 29:32.877 --> 29:35.320 [SPEAKER_04]: He does the show in Baku, Ayjabazin. 29:36.722 --> 29:38.104 [SPEAKER_04]: It's on the Sespansi. 29:39.946 --> 29:42.550 [SPEAKER_04]: The starasta of people, you will not believe. 29:43.110 --> 29:45.093 [SPEAKER_04]: What he pays you, you will not believe. 29:45.934 --> 29:46.935 [SPEAKER_04]: But you gotta go. 29:46.955 --> 29:50.820 [SPEAKER_04]: I don't want the road, I went to the years ago. 29:50.841 --> 29:55.467 [SPEAKER_04]: I do every year, every year, but without fail. 29:56.288 --> 29:58.791 [SPEAKER_04]: I do 50, 60, 70 shows. 29:59.463 --> 30:04.941 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I relate to you because every time I was to her, you tell us to, I've never shared my stories with you. 30:05.704 --> 30:05.945 [SPEAKER_03]: Right. 30:06.306 --> 30:08.935 [SPEAKER_03]: As many times as we've been together, I never have. 30:09.617 --> 30:09.878 [SPEAKER_03]: But... 30:11.444 --> 30:25.978 [SPEAKER_03]: Whenever I hear you, I got a call from a congressman, I won't mention his name, but he's a good friend of mine, and this is recently, it's on the phone, he says, Tony, I just got reading a book from Giannaruso. 30:26.118 --> 30:26.799 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you know him? 30:27.459 --> 30:28.160 [SPEAKER_03]: Giannaruso? 30:29.361 --> 30:37.789 [SPEAKER_03]: I said, yeah, he said, if you ever in your life hurt stories like this, I suddenly say about Giannie, the problem with Giannie is, 30:40.908 --> 30:55.944 [SPEAKER_03]: think it's made up, because the stories are so out there, so incredible, but I'm maybe the only guy in the world that knows it's true, not because I trust him, because I believe that kind of life. 30:56.965 --> 31:07.236 [SPEAKER_03]: And when I tell people stories that I tell them, they go, really, come on, you're new, Sanatra, stop, you work for eight present, you slept at the White House and you 31:07.503 --> 31:08.144 [SPEAKER_03]: come on. 31:08.765 --> 31:18.301 [SPEAKER_03]: I know that feeling you go through because I go through it, but I've decided that 64 years is not going to stand behind my lips anymore. 31:18.962 --> 31:20.825 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to share because I've been blessed. 31:21.967 --> 31:24.671 [SPEAKER_03]: Here's a kid who never saw high school, Gianni. 31:25.532 --> 31:27.275 [SPEAKER_03]: What a race in Hell's Kitchen. 31:28.016 --> 31:29.038 [SPEAKER_03]: Midtown Manhattan. 31:29.879 --> 31:40.011 [SPEAKER_03]: Here I have work for eight presidents, done movies, work Broadway, work, have, you know, read, have my own television show 36 million people watching every week. 31:40.031 --> 31:42.954 [SPEAKER_03]: How does that happen without God's blessings? 31:43.515 --> 31:44.596 [SPEAKER_03]: How does that happen? 31:44.916 --> 31:53.106 [SPEAKER_03]: It's, it's hard for people to believe, but I like to share that with them, even the non-believers. 31:54.067 --> 31:58.452 [SPEAKER_03]: I like to look at their faces when they look at me and they go, 31:58.702 --> 32:01.989 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure because I know it's true. 32:02.910 --> 32:19.183 [SPEAKER_03]: I know I lived it and then it comes to my mind if it could happen to me, never seeing high school, born in New York City, having a dream, and then living it out like I have for 64 years and show business Johnny. 32:19.824 --> 32:20.946 [SPEAKER_03]: That's quite a run. 32:21.685 --> 32:23.247 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you say right a book. 32:23.588 --> 32:24.369 [SPEAKER_03]: I went into one better. 32:24.389 --> 32:27.854 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to write, I want to share it face to face with people. 32:28.355 --> 32:29.276 [SPEAKER_03]: I want to hug them. 32:29.637 --> 32:37.949 [SPEAKER_03]: I want to thank them for the, for the, if it wasn't for those people, these things wouldn't have happened to me, it'd be no hit records. 32:38.289 --> 32:39.631 [SPEAKER_03]: There'd be no television shows. 32:40.593 --> 32:47.743 [SPEAKER_03]: I want to blow out there and thank them and then share with them this journey. 32:47.723 --> 32:50.247 [SPEAKER_03]: that I've been on, that they blessed me with. 32:51.128 --> 32:51.769 [SPEAKER_03]: It's a joy. 32:51.849 --> 32:52.851 [SPEAKER_03]: Tell me if it's not the truth. 32:52.871 --> 33:03.267 [SPEAKER_03]: When you tell a story, and you see somebody's jaw drop, and they smile, and they are thrilled by that story, doesn't that just make you feel good, like you've shared something? 33:03.968 --> 33:09.096 [SPEAKER_04]: You could bring me to tears, because you know, like you, I'm so appreciative. 33:10.278 --> 33:11.359 [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I don't need the money. 33:11.379 --> 33:13.523 [SPEAKER_04]: I want to be out there. 33:13.703 --> 33:16.347 [SPEAKER_04]: I want to share this, 33:18.014 --> 33:24.702 [SPEAKER_04]: And I started a foundation, meaning yes you can, because like you, I never went to school. 33:24.983 --> 33:27.125 [SPEAKER_03]: And you know, that was Sammy's book, yes you can. 33:27.145 --> 33:27.666 [SPEAKER_03]: Did you know that? 33:28.267 --> 33:28.467 [SPEAKER_04]: No. 33:29.348 --> 33:32.072 [SPEAKER_03]: Sammy's biggest book was called, yes you can. 33:32.933 --> 33:34.094 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yes I can. 33:35.035 --> 33:40.162 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, yes I do, yeah, my, my, my, my, my, I think it's just, it's just, it's interesting. 33:40.382 --> 33:42.064 [SPEAKER_03]: Because Sammy and you and me, 33:43.006 --> 33:48.214 [SPEAKER_03]: In you knew Sammy, Sammy was a dreamer and grateful to everything that happened to him. 33:48.294 --> 33:49.336 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god, yeah, no. 33:49.736 --> 33:51.819 [SPEAKER_04]: They wouldn't stay nobody more humble. 33:52.861 --> 33:56.767 [SPEAKER_04]: They would do a two shows at the San's Hotel and come to my place until six in a morning. 33:57.568 --> 34:00.272 [SPEAKER_04]: At Johnny Rousseau State Street in Vegas, forget about. 34:01.518 --> 34:07.828 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, by the way, the idea of spiky disease has taken hold in Vegas. 34:08.469 --> 34:09.951 [SPEAKER_03]: Right now, there's one called 1923. 34:11.474 --> 34:13.437 [SPEAKER_03]: That literally is a giant. 34:13.457 --> 34:14.499 [SPEAKER_03]: They can't make this a group. 34:14.519 --> 34:21.129 [SPEAKER_03]: They're called the doc site is that one, the award for the best shows in Vegas. 34:21.450 --> 34:24.635 [SPEAKER_03]: But it's just like you're treating. 34:24.895 --> 34:26.057 [SPEAKER_03]: It was a spiky disease. 34:26.037 --> 34:34.204 [SPEAKER_03]: And it's fun, it's wonderful, and every time I go in there to see them, I think of you and your place because you did your place, what, 80s? 34:34.826 --> 34:38.578 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, until I killed Lorenzo Morales. 34:38.778 --> 34:46.065 [SPEAKER_03]: And by the way, if anybody watching and you see my watching, looking up this way and said the camera is because I see Johnny on the screen up on the wall. 34:46.606 --> 34:49.108 [SPEAKER_03]: And it's when you want to talk to someone. 34:49.148 --> 34:58.798 [SPEAKER_03]: It's only, like, forgive me for not talking to your eyes, because this is what this is your show to see, but I'm talking to Johnny so that we can communicate. 34:58.858 --> 35:01.521 [SPEAKER_03]: But so my apologies to not looking at you guys. 35:02.702 --> 35:04.684 [SPEAKER_04]: We're not madly madly madly. 35:05.693 --> 35:11.959 [SPEAKER_04]: I want to remind you that March 26th at Good Thoughts Restaurant in Garfield, New Jersey. 35:13.041 --> 35:19.267 [SPEAKER_04]: The phone number 973-478-4000. 35:19.787 --> 35:24.472 [SPEAKER_04]: Make a reservation March 26th, Good Thoughts Restaurant. 35:24.733 --> 35:33.962 [SPEAKER_04]: We sold out the last time we're going to sell out this time and for my friends who want to bring their books, go on Amazon or to both books. 35:33.942 --> 35:34.563 [SPEAKER_04]: Bring them. 35:34.583 --> 35:35.665 [SPEAKER_04]: I will sign the view. 35:35.925 --> 35:37.688 [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I've got for the memorabilia. 35:38.269 --> 35:38.790 [SPEAKER_04]: Be there. 35:39.291 --> 35:40.012 [SPEAKER_04]: March 26th. 35:40.994 --> 35:42.837 [SPEAKER_04]: Also, I'll be at Chilla. 35:43.238 --> 35:44.700 [SPEAKER_04]: Everybody in New Jersey. 35:45.241 --> 35:48.006 [SPEAKER_04]: Chilla is April 2nd, 3rd and 4th. 35:48.627 --> 35:50.049 [SPEAKER_04]: At the Marriott in Handover. 35:50.610 --> 35:51.552 [SPEAKER_04]: It's Chilla out. 35:52.273 --> 35:53.736 [SPEAKER_04]: April 2nd, 3rd and 4th. 35:54.016 --> 35:58.684 [SPEAKER_04]: Handover Marriott in Winnipe New Jersey. 35:58.850 --> 36:08.844 [SPEAKER_04]: That's the hand over Marriott, April, 2nd to the 4th, I'll be there at Chillout, bring all you stuff, I'll sign it, bring the books, thank you. 36:09.325 --> 36:19.359 [SPEAKER_04]: And I want to remind everybody out there, order Mafia Secrets, Honeywood Godfather, bring them to all the shows I go to, it'll be my pleasure to sign the video. 36:20.120 --> 36:26.449 [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you for supporting me, thank you for watching, honeywood Godfather, see you next week. 36:26.469 --> 36:26.950 [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you. 36:27.571 --> 36:33.039 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, let me just ask you, I mean, you are just saying coming from a fans point of view. 36:33.500 --> 36:36.064 [SPEAKER_02]: And like you said, I was I was born in 66. 36:36.144 --> 36:38.948 [SPEAKER_02]: So you had already started on your career. 36:39.048 --> 36:42.193 [SPEAKER_02]: How old were you when when your career took off? 36:43.214 --> 36:43.395 [SPEAKER_03]: 16. 36:43.415 --> 36:45.117 [SPEAKER_02]: 16. 36:45.618 --> 36:49.063 [SPEAKER_02]: How old were you when you saying, Taiya Yellow Ribbon? 36:50.625 --> 36:52.448 [SPEAKER_03]: I was 27. 36:53.373 --> 37:00.627 [SPEAKER_02]: Because I have to tell you, you know, and let me tell you the significance, I don't know, I didn't know about it before your song. 37:00.667 --> 37:05.356 [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, I was a young kid, but boy, we sure saying that song. 37:05.436 --> 37:14.554 [SPEAKER_02]: And when I heard you were coming on the show, I put all your tunes on and and I would laugh because I was like, I could sing everywhere to every song right along with you, which I thought was great. 37:14.534 --> 37:27.268 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I thought you, well, forgive me, but I, it was hard to believe you're born in the 60s, but yeah, you would know them because by the time, if you were born in, you see, 73 was yellow ribbon. 37:27.789 --> 37:40.423 [SPEAKER_03]: So your born in 66, you were not only able to hear those songs, but when we were on television, your age group, the Tony Lando and Doncio, was very much part of the fairly viewing. 37:40.927 --> 37:51.107 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I saw, I mean, I'm looking at looking back at some of the things you had guess I did see a clip with Phyllis Diller, which was hilarious when a rigged came off. 37:52.549 --> 37:56.978 [SPEAKER_02]: Did you know that was going to happen because it didn't look like you knew that was fantastic. 37:57.397 --> 37:58.779 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, gee, I was so embarrassed. 37:58.799 --> 37:59.680 [SPEAKER_03]: What happened, John? 38:00.360 --> 38:07.108 [SPEAKER_03]: Johnny, on the TV show, we had a moment in which we introduced the guest, and they would come out in an alcohol, right? 38:07.128 --> 38:08.470 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, they'd come out in an alcohol. 38:09.251 --> 38:20.604 [SPEAKER_03]: And so it was, I was a ladies and gentlemen, Philist Diller, and I had a really close friendship with Philist, I used to say, one of these days, I'm not gonna hit you the moon. 38:21.004 --> 38:24.108 [SPEAKER_03]: We're gonna date you and I, baby, and I'd kill like that. 38:24.268 --> 38:25.750 [SPEAKER_03]: So I run out, 38:25.730 --> 38:30.737 [SPEAKER_03]: And I go instead of just introducing, I go out and I put her, and I bend her over to give her a kiss. 38:30.838 --> 38:32.600 [SPEAKER_03]: I bend her over to audiences. 38:32.660 --> 38:36.246 [SPEAKER_03]: My back, her body is hidden by my back. 38:36.286 --> 38:42.675 [SPEAKER_03]: And when she comes up, guess what, caught on my cufflink was her wig. 38:42.655 --> 38:45.258 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my God. 38:45.498 --> 38:49.843 [SPEAKER_03]: And she was completely, she was bald, she was bald, clearly. 38:50.184 --> 38:56.991 [SPEAKER_03]: And I go, oh my God, and I say, Phyllis, you can hear me say, Phyllis, because I'm so sorry, I promise we'll cut this out. 38:57.492 --> 39:00.515 [SPEAKER_03]: She goes, God bless her and rest her soul. 39:00.535 --> 39:09.085 [SPEAKER_03]: 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 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 39:10.010 --> 39:13.797 [SPEAKER_03]: And that went viral, what you're saying went viral? 39:13.817 --> 39:14.939 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, it's hilarious. 39:15.780 --> 39:24.395 [SPEAKER_04]: I can imagine, you probably should double the listening audience, you're viewing audience, that's what that was. 39:24.415 --> 39:25.137 [SPEAKER_03]: Unbelievable. 39:25.778 --> 39:27.321 [SPEAKER_02]: I can't see what I want to do. 39:27.962 --> 39:29.384 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, go ahead, I'm sorry. 39:29.404 --> 39:30.747 [SPEAKER_03]: No, no, see, let it go. 39:30.767 --> 39:34.954 [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't know if she knew and was pranking you. 39:35.693 --> 39:47.350 [SPEAKER_02]: but you could tell I knew you didn't know but it was absolutely hilarious and I thought what a fun lady because she was like, I can't let the hell you know, she was awesome. 39:47.370 --> 39:48.732 [SPEAKER_03]: But that was Phyllis. 39:48.972 --> 39:50.014 [SPEAKER_03]: That was very much Phyllis. 39:50.054 --> 39:53.078 [SPEAKER_03]: Phyllis was 39:53.564 --> 39:54.866 [SPEAKER_03]: had no real. 39:54.906 --> 39:56.988 [SPEAKER_03]: No ego said no ego, right? 39:57.168 --> 39:58.049 [SPEAKER_03]: She had a new feeling. 39:58.069 --> 40:06.680 [SPEAKER_03]: She was, she was just an incredible everyday person and one of the funniest people that ever had a stage. 40:06.960 --> 40:10.665 [SPEAKER_03]: And you know, she lived in Brentwood in that area why I told you I bought the house earlier. 40:11.285 --> 40:13.208 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, she lived in that area. 40:13.228 --> 40:14.630 [SPEAKER_04]: And you got to get rid of great. 40:16.191 --> 40:17.513 [SPEAKER_04]: Not to add the house for the kids. 40:18.455 --> 40:33.395 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know that the rat pack people always ask me when you got the Vegas you were the rat pack was live and well, and I said yeah, I had the good fortune of becoming friends with those guys, right? 40:35.178 --> 40:40.665 [SPEAKER_03]: We can't conjure up another story about Frank. 40:42.367 --> 40:48.278 [SPEAKER_03]: I open this as 1970, I'm thinking five might be wrong, 75. 40:49.019 --> 40:53.587 [SPEAKER_03]: So we were hotter than hot, Tonya Lando and Don. 40:54.349 --> 40:56.012 [SPEAKER_03]: We had the number one record in the country. 40:56.753 --> 41:04.527 [SPEAKER_03]: We had the number one TV show in the 36 million people every Wednesday night watching that show on CBS. 41:04.507 --> 41:12.638 [SPEAKER_03]: So Frank calls me up the night, or I open, and says, well, I should come over and have dinner with me, kid, and seizures. 41:14.140 --> 41:17.125 [SPEAKER_03]: Of course, you don't say no to Frank, right? 41:17.145 --> 41:20.329 [SPEAKER_03]: And I go, and I'm sitting having dinner with Frank Sinatra. 41:21.591 --> 41:24.395 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you remember the comic, Corbit Manica? 41:24.415 --> 41:25.476 [SPEAKER_03]: Of course. 41:25.917 --> 41:30.463 [SPEAKER_03]: So he was at the table in 41:31.591 --> 41:47.145 [SPEAKER_03]: all of a sudden, corporate gets up and he whispers into Frank's ear something and I see Frank, Gianni, like, go like this, he's head just went, well, and I went, are you okay? 41:48.126 --> 41:48.426 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay? 41:49.447 --> 42:01.378 [SPEAKER_03]: It was all, or but just told me my mother may have crashed into a mountain in Palm Springs and the shed. 42:02.759 --> 42:05.105 [SPEAKER_03]: And I don't know where I got the nerve to say this. 42:05.967 --> 42:11.480 [SPEAKER_03]: I said, and he allowed me to call him Frank, by the way, I wasn't being disrespectful. 42:12.563 --> 42:13.224 [SPEAKER_03]: And I first met him. 42:13.244 --> 42:15.109 [SPEAKER_03]: It was Mr. Sonatra, but then he said, come on. 42:15.129 --> 42:16.252 [SPEAKER_04]: But then he asked you, he tells you. 42:16.372 --> 42:16.953 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, right. 42:17.034 --> 42:18.878 [SPEAKER_03]: So I said, Frank, I said, look. 42:19.938 --> 42:22.443 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, we're as hot as it can be. 42:23.184 --> 42:27.312 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think there's anybody on this trip other than you hotter than Tony O'Handou and Don right now. 42:27.693 --> 42:28.694 [SPEAKER_03]: My band is right there. 42:28.714 --> 42:29.596 [SPEAKER_03]: You want them to come over. 42:29.636 --> 42:30.297 [SPEAKER_03]: I'll do the show. 42:30.698 --> 42:31.880 [SPEAKER_03]: Go ahead. 42:31.900 --> 42:32.462 [SPEAKER_03]: You go slowly. 42:32.482 --> 42:34.525 [SPEAKER_03]: Look, they came to see Sinatra. 42:34.726 --> 42:35.848 [SPEAKER_03]: They're going to see Sinatra. 42:36.710 --> 42:38.012 [SPEAKER_03]: But this is what I want you to do. 42:39.875 --> 42:42.300 [SPEAKER_03]: I want you to have a glass of jack Daniels in your hand. 42:44.103 --> 42:49.871 [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm going to go on stage and once in a while I'm going to say I'm ready for a little taste. 42:51.093 --> 42:54.838 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to walk over and you're going to, I don't want the people to see you. 42:55.179 --> 43:04.452 [SPEAKER_03]: I just want you to put your arm out for a laugh and they'll be a hand and their hand will be holding a jacked Daniels to the glass of a drink. 43:05.974 --> 43:11.342 [SPEAKER_03]: When I take the drink, I'll look at you, wink at me if you hear anything bad. 43:13.870 --> 43:17.413 [SPEAKER_03]: So imagine this position that I'm in now, all right? 43:18.294 --> 43:21.777 [SPEAKER_03]: I go, oh my God, so I'm not gonna know it. 43:21.797 --> 43:24.540 [SPEAKER_03]: First time it comes over, I'm ready for a little taste. 43:24.600 --> 43:26.021 [SPEAKER_03]: It comes over, I put the thing out. 43:26.462 --> 43:28.083 [SPEAKER_03]: Of course, I didn't have any information. 43:28.123 --> 43:28.944 [SPEAKER_03]: So there was no wink. 43:30.065 --> 43:31.506 [SPEAKER_03]: Second time, no wink. 43:32.147 --> 43:37.031 [SPEAKER_03]: Third time, I knew that they found the plane. 43:37.992 --> 43:40.975 [SPEAKER_03]: And I knew that she didn't met her. 43:41.984 --> 43:44.033 [SPEAKER_03]: I said to myself, what do I do? 43:44.475 --> 43:45.198 [SPEAKER_03]: Do I win? 43:45.681 --> 43:47.830 [SPEAKER_03]: I've him, he's not finished his last song yet. 43:48.453 --> 43:49.598 [SPEAKER_03]: I decided to lie. 43:51.181 --> 43:51.922 [SPEAKER_03]: It comes over. 43:52.383 --> 43:55.067 [SPEAKER_03]: I put the glass out to him. 43:55.528 --> 43:56.409 [SPEAKER_03]: He takes the glass. 43:56.449 --> 43:57.151 [SPEAKER_03]: He looks at me. 43:57.732 --> 44:17.323 [SPEAKER_03]: I put no, I actually shake my head like this and put no wink, right? 44:18.755 --> 44:23.381 [SPEAKER_03]: And it gives me one of these in my cheek, and he walks off, and he goes to Palm Springs. 44:24.542 --> 44:26.445 [SPEAKER_03]: I look back on my life, you guys. 44:29.228 --> 44:42.104 [SPEAKER_03]: And I wanted to Johnny show badly today, because he's the only guy I know that has stories like this, that people go, come on, get me a break, come on. 44:42.505 --> 44:46.129 [SPEAKER_03]: And I can tell you, as she was I'm sitting here, 44:46.447 --> 44:51.596 [SPEAKER_03]: And my mother's soul in heaven, everything I set the day is true. 44:52.678 --> 44:57.587 [SPEAKER_03]: And I know there are people out there going, come on, Zenatra didn't do it, and they did. 44:59.370 --> 44:59.450 [SPEAKER_03]: Yep. 44:59.470 --> 45:01.654 [SPEAKER_03]: And it's time for me to speak up for Gianni. 45:02.731 --> 45:05.176 [SPEAKER_03]: because I've lived a life like his in a funny way. 45:06.118 --> 45:07.801 [SPEAKER_03]: I was 15, he was 12. 45:08.582 --> 45:15.736 [SPEAKER_03]: I was 12 on a rooftop in New York City, he'd do up and here we are together doing a podcast together. 45:16.257 --> 45:16.979 [SPEAKER_04]: I love it, man. 45:17.419 --> 45:18.742 [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you so much. 45:18.762 --> 45:19.944 [SPEAKER_04]: It's amazing to have you here. 45:20.686 --> 45:21.347 [SPEAKER_04]: Amazing. 45:22.525 --> 45:27.673 [SPEAKER_04]: So the things that we've gone through all my time. 45:27.693 --> 45:29.055 [SPEAKER_04]: And I didn't even directly. 45:29.796 --> 45:30.437 [SPEAKER_04]: But we did. 45:30.477 --> 45:33.161 [SPEAKER_04]: We were guests. 45:33.181 --> 45:34.663 [SPEAKER_04]: Who courses go to the same way? 45:35.104 --> 45:35.484 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. 45:36.766 --> 45:38.649 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, and I don't know. 45:39.830 --> 45:44.177 [SPEAKER_03]: I was looking forward to do this show because as I go out as the story Teller now. 45:45.679 --> 45:48.223 [SPEAKER_03]: And do this tour that will be coming up. 45:48.303 --> 45:49.304 [SPEAKER_03]: And they're coming at me left. 45:49.324 --> 45:50.406 [SPEAKER_03]: They really want this show. 45:51.432 --> 45:52.034 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah. 45:52.456 --> 45:59.781 [SPEAKER_03]: And I thought, do that, you called, it's so God is so great, Johnny. 46:01.427 --> 46:04.176 [SPEAKER_03]: We wouldn't have anything if it wasn't that the good Lord. 46:04.628 --> 46:09.515 [SPEAKER_03]: because I'm doing this whole thing and who calls at him. 46:09.535 --> 46:11.157 [SPEAKER_03]: I haven't seen you in a couple of years. 46:11.537 --> 46:18.006 [SPEAKER_03]: Who calls in the middle of people saying, we wanna do your storytelling show, who calls me out of the blue? 46:18.467 --> 46:19.709 [SPEAKER_03]: I get this phone call. 46:19.729 --> 46:22.653 [SPEAKER_03]: Downey, teeth are shining right through my phone. 46:22.933 --> 46:24.655 [SPEAKER_03]: I can see his teeth coming through the phone. 46:25.136 --> 46:28.380 [SPEAKER_03]: It's Gianni, you wanna do my podcast? 46:28.401 --> 46:33.167 [SPEAKER_03]: I hang up the phone, I said, my wife, Randy, friend, can you believe? 46:34.463 --> 46:38.931 [SPEAKER_03]: He's calling me now, where I can say, yeah, yeah. 46:38.951 --> 46:40.453 [SPEAKER_03]: I believe everything you've told me. 46:41.875 --> 46:47.465 [SPEAKER_03]: That's why I know, because I say things people go, yeah, I hear you didn't do that, come on. 46:48.066 --> 46:52.594 [SPEAKER_03]: But I did, and I did, and what is the reason we tell it? 46:53.295 --> 46:59.425 [SPEAKER_03]: We tell it, not just for the joy of being a good storyteller and having people hear it, great stories. 47:00.383 --> 47:15.780 [SPEAKER_03]: But we've been blessed, not only have careers like we have, but to live in the greatest country on a planet Earth, to live in America, to live in this incredible country, it's only 250 years old. 47:16.081 --> 47:21.367 [SPEAKER_03]: That's two grandmothers and a grandmother, only 50 years old. 47:21.387 --> 47:24.630 [SPEAKER_03]: 200 year old grandmothers, you know how young that is? 47:24.650 --> 47:26.172 [SPEAKER_03]: 250 years? 47:26.152 --> 47:30.258 [SPEAKER_03]: China is 5,000 years old, Europe is 100,000 years old. 47:30.939 --> 47:35.907 [SPEAKER_03]: We're 250 years old and look what we've accomplished in this country. 47:37.449 --> 47:37.909 [SPEAKER_03]: Amazing. 47:39.312 --> 47:43.498 [SPEAKER_04]: We are blood and I'll tell you right now, not knowing, I mean, I know you are. 47:43.518 --> 47:48.345 [SPEAKER_00]: To hear the full interview, you'll need to come inside the family, join the Godfather Guild. 47:48.848 --> 47:53.714 [SPEAKER_00]: Our extended VIP podcast gives you access to exclusive, uncut interviews. 47:54.415 --> 47:56.177 [SPEAKER_00]: The stories they don't tell anywhere else. 47:56.998 --> 47:59.301 [SPEAKER_00]: No third party ads, no interruptions. 48:00.002 --> 48:03.125 [SPEAKER_00]: Just the full conversation, the way it was meant to be heard. 48:04.027 --> 48:08.071 [SPEAKER_00]: Private access, extended episodes, members only content. 48:08.812 --> 48:11.636 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want the whole story, you know what to do. 48:12.497 --> 48:14.299 [SPEAKER_00]: Join the Godfather Guild today.