[SPEAKER_02]: Jiam is got the stories from the coast to countryside.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jeannie's got the questions sharp as the nitrous sway.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone's day and night we take you all the way.
[SPEAKER_02]: From the back streets to tin so town to the notorious globe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, Hollywood meets my futile
[SPEAKER_02]: And you're about to know It's the Hollywood Godfather Where the big band plays and the stories don't stop With Gianni and Gini everywhere They're taking you to the top Keep it smooth and keep it classy Feel that swing, non-stop On the Hollywood Godfather, the beat just won't stop
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome, everybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's time for another Hollywood Godfather podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're getting up there.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're like six and a half years and I can't believe it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're getting some big recognition, which we hope we'll be celebrating and share with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll be expanding our reach and we'll be telling you that as it's happening, fortunately.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got some excited things, and tonight is Gini and I's favorite, show the male bag and talking about Gini, let's introduce them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gini Raymond, my co-host, my darling, how are you?
[SPEAKER_04]: Hello, I'm good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can I'm always good on our podcast nights?
[SPEAKER_04]: I love to get to talk to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I love these because I love it where this is how, for people who might be new, this is how Gianni and I met is because I asked a question on the podcast, which I have a lot of questions, and which makes it great because it seems
[SPEAKER_04]: I love it because I've always got questions when Dianne starts telling a story, I used to just be in the shower in the morning listening and I kept thinking of all these questions I wanted to ask Dianne after I listened to these podcasts and I'm it brings so many things to mind and so that made it so I ended up here and I can ask him right now, so we have.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_04]: And we love it when you guys ask questions because it not only do you get the answers of something that might come up or you might have thought about it also sparks the memories in Gianni that just are incredible.
[SPEAKER_04]: But and even at times will give us a nice day for a different episode.
[SPEAKER_04]: So please keep in common.
[SPEAKER_04]: We sure appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, thank you for the pulse of what's out there.
[SPEAKER_00]: what people want to hear and talk about and we have a oil friends, how those kids don't they do?
[SPEAKER_04]: Jose, we see him on Instagram all the time.
[SPEAKER_04]: Jose, Gamma, we are so happy to see you and and good well.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep, and he posted a picture that I shared on an R page as well, and if you guys aren't friends with us and following us, please wear on Instagram.
[SPEAKER_04]: We have Hollywood dot-bother podcasts.
[SPEAKER_04]: We have Roads, Yoni Russo.
[SPEAKER_04]: Please go on there.
[SPEAKER_04]: You could put questions on there, make comments, check out all the stuff we're doing.
[SPEAKER_04]: We've got so many episodes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Go back and take a look at those.
[SPEAKER_04]: We've got some really great shows that we've had a lot of six years.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have years.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our 360 is show.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_00]: 360 hours of divide that by 52 that's so many years.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have that's why it's amazing to be amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank God.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, and you know what, another thing that started out this is your first book, the Hollywood Godfather, which is fantastic.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've read it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've given it to so many friends.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've listened to it on Audible, which I recommend to everybody.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love having the book because it's a beautiful cover and it's got some pictures in there that make it great.
[SPEAKER_04]: But listening to
[SPEAKER_00]: on audible is fantastic you cannot you can't be that right from the horse's mouth so two great things you're going to bring up the new book also which i'm out of here right now order mafia secrets and that all book because i'll be a chill out chill out is on April's second third and fourth
[SPEAKER_00]: In Hanover, Marriott, the Hanover Marriott, the Whitupian of Jersey, those three days, bring the book I'll sign to bring any Godfather memorabilia, look for me and join us at that show.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that's right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Those those shows are great and and I've been to them.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got to come to a couple with Gianni.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's so great to see the people that have kept memorabilia for years and years and get it signed and it's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I've taken picture after picture for people.
[SPEAKER_04]: Get your picture taken, get your autograph, it's such a fun way to get to come and meet Gianni in person.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I highly recommend it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny to me when some people come up to me with the original, the original invitation to the Godfather, which is now in, I was like 50, something years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they have it, it's a pretty interesting, pretty loud way to buy them, but they got them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, it's incredible, and the one guy, he had a poster, and he had gotten everybody on the poster's autograph, and you were the last one.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a cast on a tall cat.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's really great.
[SPEAKER_04]: So if you're in the area and tell me, can we get more than it is, chill?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be on April 2nd, 3rd and 4th, it's at the hand over Marriott.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I don't know how many stars are coming this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I saw Brooke Shield, she's coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, major, major people who have never been.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a great show.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I'll try to get those our fantastic not only we get C. John and me in the place is packed while the wall celebrities Yeah, and people are there.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a great time everybody's so nice to each other.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is it is a really fun Fun thing to do the twice-state area.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's easy for people to get to right here in New Jersey so be great.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, that's awesome
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's good into the mail bag.
[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_04]: We've had a bunch of people asking about a bunch of different things and we have some great, great fans that are watch every week.
[SPEAKER_04]: They send questions in.
[SPEAKER_04]: They post on every single episode and we sure appreciate your one is
[SPEAKER_04]: I've never been to Minnesota.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is where I am from.
[SPEAKER_04]: Go for state.
[SPEAKER_04]: I know you have a lot of fans here as well.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you ever go to Minnesota?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have friends there because I'm, they're all listen to the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, I'm very, really travel a lot in the United States.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I have the normal places in, West Coast and Florida, but Midwest Chicago, I was going to a lot too, but then all my friends passed on.
[SPEAKER_00]: The good news, I'm out living most of my friends, so that's, uh, I've been my 80s now and loving it.
[SPEAKER_04]: and looking great i'm just looking at your face i'm like that is so lucky i did to be healthy and i mean i've had to yes today would you tell me you're walking to two or three miles it's a little too much now every day no matter what and uh... i'll give i'm as a give blooming dals a big plug
[SPEAKER_00]: because now that the weather has changed, Bloomingdale is a block away from my house.
[SPEAKER_00]: I go in there and I walk two miles, the six stories up and six stories down inside, in temperature all and plus the streets are very wild now, you know, unfortunately.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're not gonna begin any better I don't think in the next year or two.
[SPEAKER_00]: But with that said, I feel a lot more secure.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can put on my jewelry and walk around.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, if anybody mugs you for that jewelry, I'd be good and pissed off.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'd come help you fight them off.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if anybody attacking me now isn't saying because I have, I mean, I have everything on me.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I got pepper sprays, rappers, I got, I think they said I can carry it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, I'm good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm waiting for people to attack me because I'll take them out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know a lot of people get attacked by them and then they're going to get the beaten.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's, it's incredible that you can't just walk around.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is, it is a sad, no, it's been a time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've been around like I'm saying over 80 years, I've never seen, the hatred.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's literally, you know, I don't even want to talk to make it a thing right, right.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's talk about the male bag and everything happy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's seeing what we're talking about on the news.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't show.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: He said the rumor was that many of the officers in the 1920s from Chicago would have vacation cabins in Minnesota.
[SPEAKER_00]: Was that some of your friends there in Minnesota that you've been talking about in the Asian cabins in Minnesota?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going and I don't care.
[SPEAKER_00]: So who cares?
[SPEAKER_00]: Moving on.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: We have another question says what is the ethical difference between old mobsters and the new new mobsters, I guess?
[SPEAKER_00]: My definition.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: My definition that you're still kids on every
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to share something with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's a good question because just recently, I get a phone call two or three weeks ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the guy says, the Johnny, I said, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, who's this?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's well, you know, I better tell you that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, and, and, you know, person.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's choked and he's talking like a mob guy, you know, I said, really, I said, why is that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is, well, you know, I'm the new guy around here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you should get to meet me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I should know what you should do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why don't you hang up and come over here right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I could put a bullet in your head and end this boat right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe these kids trying to shake me down.
[SPEAKER_00]: They should read my book and think, we're going to read it, we're going to read it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's, I'll throw you down the stairs.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the right shoe, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Take a step inside this door.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I need to answer that question in the right way.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no more respect.
[SPEAKER_00]: none.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's unfortunately in every work of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So with that said, these new kids are coming around and it's not just the times anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're our minions there.
[SPEAKER_00]: From every work of life, you name them that there's a gang.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's unfortunate.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's really
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, this guy, Ralph, Ralph is always, always call many really says he loves to show as always.
[SPEAKER_04]: He really liked the episode with Boom Boom and Seenie.
[SPEAKER_04]: He said, I have a lot of respect for Boom Boom and Gianni.
[SPEAKER_04]: They care about the less fortunate and they prove it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now, didn't, and did you recently do a benefit with Boom Boom?
[SPEAKER_00]: I did one and I did, in fact, I did two recently and a bum bum and it's family and I have a lot of respect for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I knew he used to come to my restaurant state street when he was a champion.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all I'm at.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a key came in at the world and everybody at that time when he came in.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like a war hero coming home in our restaurant.
[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, talking about stage three, it was 10,000 square feet.
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't like a wide, red and wide checkered table court place.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was very elegant.
[SPEAKER_04]: Very intimate place.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, no don't.
[SPEAKER_04]: I remember you telling me and I was thinking about this the other day.
[SPEAKER_04]: Didn't you say they could eat on one side and then if you go by the restrooms, you could go over on the other side in Gamble, was that right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, what I did, I did that deliberately, it's a 10,000 square feet.
[SPEAKER_00]: So in rather than build two more bathrooms.
[SPEAKER_00]: I built the casino on the other side.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, and I liked it because men would say I have to go to the bathroom and they go, when they go through the other side, lay a bat, they wife don't know, and they go back.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the women would do the same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would say they used to run.
[SPEAKER_04]: That they were pulling one off on each other and actually they were all doing the same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was a great place.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was all the 80s for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: from 80 to 89 state street, amazing.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's right, it's fun to see everyone's in a while.
[SPEAKER_04]: Someone will make a post saying, I used to go there.
[SPEAKER_04]: I used to go to state street.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was the place to go and another guy said, I always parked cars there and it was, it was the place.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of my valleys, these kids are all moved on.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're very successful too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Chagino Lepinto, who started with me early on and from Valet parking, then it was a DJ, then it was a bartender.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now he owns 11, he owns the nightclub in Miami called 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's only 24 hours a day.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's, I mean, he's got partners, but they own the apartment houses and everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: They really did well.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that nightclub was opened seven days a week, 24 hours a day, cold 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: in Miami and Miami Beach right now it's going on.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's why you've had a lot of people come through your place that ended up being famous.
[SPEAKER_04]: Who was it your dormant or your bodyguard?
[SPEAKER_00]: Steve Sharipa.
[SPEAKER_00]: Steve Sharipa was a, as a on the door in a Tuxedo when he was going to University of Nevada and we all know him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He went on to do the sopranos and then he went on
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had a great career and still does.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now he's writing children's books.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, isn't he really?
[SPEAKER_04]: And not as many as we can.
[SPEAKER_00]: Last week in great great shade, a shout out to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's getting very known now because of Willie Boye.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: He goes with Doxon and he goes everywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: He opens a Yankee Stadium with him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's such a nice man.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he may be the forward on my last book.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_04]: At what a nice guy.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's your friend and boy him in that dog.
[SPEAKER_04]: Have a huge fallie.
[SPEAKER_04]: Really boy is a big hit, a great big hit.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's so fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: Another one says, hi, Gianni and Gini.
[SPEAKER_04]: I noticed the photo at the beginning of the shows.
[SPEAKER_04]: The opening has a picture of a young man selling pins.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is that just like a,
[SPEAKER_04]: an image or is that actually of you?
[SPEAKER_00]: That was me, I could, I mean, that photograph.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's, you know, I always say my life has been full of obstacles and opportunities, more opportunities.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just came up town.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was selling more point-pens downtown, and the business district.
[SPEAKER_00]: I exact, exact, or, I mean, exhausted that area.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I remember when I first got the window bed when I had the, in the polio ward I was there for five years.
[SPEAKER_00]: I finally got the window bed the last three years.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I used to see the Empire State Building all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: At the first time I was so building that tall because everything downtown where I come from was only six stories.
[SPEAKER_00]: So one day I was saying to myself, I'm gonna go walk down.
[SPEAKER_00]: I took the train and I got off for 59 street and fifth Avenue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right across from the Central Park was the Sherry Nuddle and so tell, and I walked across the street and I stood there and the daily news took a picture of me selling ballpoint pens because they just came out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you're kidding!
[SPEAKER_00]: And now all these people, that's that picture, how would I have it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't take a picture myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why you picture me and the why I love looking at even to the it's in my show actually if you see my nightclub shows Incorporated in them, but I'm holding the Saga box with my gimp and against my hip and I have the pencil is more mobile in my right hand to sell it and the daily news took that picture
[SPEAKER_00]: And when I was doing research at Mike Boston, my guy, you know, yeah, we found that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's such memories, such memories.
[SPEAKER_00]: But even that, then people were coming up looking for me and giving me $5 for a penny, because they knew the story, because they knew this bit.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_04]: And that was the sharing, sharing other than total.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sharing alone, so tell it's still there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I woke past it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of the old dormant now are retiring, but no, I mean, that's why this neighborhood where I live, to me is like really my neighborhood.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he is 71 years.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's my living of five block radius for 71 years.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you know, that's funny you say that because I was driving down.
[SPEAKER_04]: I work in Alton, Utah, which they did say, Al Capone came through our town at one point,
[SPEAKER_04]: 20th Street is historic and a lot of crazy stuff went on down there but as I was driving home today there's all these old buildings that have been there and I was trying to remember I think it said 1889
[SPEAKER_04]: These are stained glass windows and that's what they say on the windows and these aren't new windows.
[SPEAKER_04]: These are old windows old buildings and incredible.
[SPEAKER_04]: The other one said like AJ Evans photography 1930 and those old buildings are in front of all so fun to see all right.
[SPEAKER_00]: And next door, it is earnings that sell all the religious stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were open at 1818.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_00]: And still they're still open.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I love that.
[SPEAKER_00]: For our scoffish up, my memory says, he went with 1881, they opened.
[SPEAKER_00]: This still there.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's amazing.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is truly amazing.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, well, let's take a quick break.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then we'll come back and get to some more of these questions.
[SPEAKER_00]: Please, and the break is going to be about.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, she'll out, I can't say enough about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a major, major convention.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's April 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's at the Hanover Marriott, and when up in New Jersey, just call for the information.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
[SPEAKER_00]: The stars that are gonna be there this year are insane.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be there for the whole three days.
[SPEAKER_00]: and come by and like I said, by any book, by the new book, the old book, by both books, by anything and bring Godfather Merbobili and I'll sign the field.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what's happening there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's a huge right now for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for all of you to come, especially in the twice-day area,
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, if you're right there.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, and people of all ages are there.
[SPEAKER_04]: We've got a lot of things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anybody's got it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's got it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Most of the kids are with their parents, but because it's the parents that are coming, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then this show, there are a lot of young people coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: For a long story.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you'll see all kinds of things.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what's happening as far as entertainment and advertising.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, just so you know, if you do want to buy a book for Giani to sign, you can get those on Amazon right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So get those on sale on Amazon right now, right now, so get those on sale on Amazon right now, right now, if you go on Amazon by the book that's on sale now, both of them, and bring the books or a buy if you have to buy gifts they make gave great gifts.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll sign up to whoever you want happy birthday, whatever it is and do it, you know.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I have to tell you, I got a book, one of your first book, calling what Godfather, you autographed it for me, and I gave it to one of my dear friends, along with a bottle of vodka, she just had her 80th birthday.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's a great gift.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, my gosh, you know, it was so funny because the friends at the 80th birthday,
[SPEAKER_04]: They had come up to her house.
[SPEAKER_04]: I guess the next day, and she showed them that vodka bottle in the book But showed them the bottle that lights up, and she was thrilled so such a great book So yeah, you got plenty of time if you if you get on Amazon right now get those books and bring them Yeah, I don't have them two days.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I love Amazon great thing to bring with you because it's obviously going to be a good good read
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, so this is, I don't know what his name is, Philly, Prague, Kiana, I don't know, I'm sorry, whoever you are, but I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I
[SPEAKER_04]: or his handle.
[SPEAKER_04]: He said great show.
[SPEAKER_04]: He really liked Mike's books and congratulated Mike on his wedding anniversary, but he wanted to know, or you guys going to be writing any other books after Mopia's secrets.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, we're scheduled to do another one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to do it so fast because, you know, we talked about Hollywood gone further.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's six years ago already.
[SPEAKER_00]: We sold over a hundred thousand copies.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to knock a book out a month, a year.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right, right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let it go, let's see what's going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm very happy now that George Gallo, who's one of the greatest producers in our business, started with midnight running so many other great movies, he's now going to do a screenplay based on Murphy's secrets because of what James Patterson wrote about the last days of Maryland, his book,
[SPEAKER_00]: came out a month after Mafia Secrets and certified everything I said about my only 63 years ago of who killed her and all of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So by the books and you'll find out and now it's going to be a feature film.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's so exciting.
[SPEAKER_04]: so fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, all right, let's get to this other one.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is Leslie Marie and she said, I love hearing about Frank Sinatra and Eva Gardner.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you have any more stories about the two of them that you could share with us?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, I mean, now you can imagine people, he used to call me all the time, which I, I think, thanks a lot to Colin, who's not getting on the phone.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's a baldy, take a ride with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's meeting me at the airport.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, at the airport, and we're going to Spain to find a Avigard because you're doing a thing about the Tori or the bullfighters.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he heard that she was falling in love with one of her, I mean, so crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you're smarter, just kidding.
[SPEAKER_00]: We went together.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll give you one of the funnest, this is a funny story.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we were in flarr at the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he goes to Bala's jewelers, on orthographic drive, and he buys her a beautiful band.
[SPEAKER_00]: These gold cuffs that was in style that a gold cuff had a solid gold.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: He buys it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We get, we fly down, find out where she is.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, everybody goes, filming down there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we get to the hotel and he says,
[SPEAKER_00]: And now he's coming to key, I'm just running up on the door.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's what a key's for, but it's the open to the door.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was standing behind him, he's just come on as I ain't coming in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's coming in.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as we got in there, there were droppings of men's clothes, not one man, two men leaning to her bedroom.
[SPEAKER_00]: He, I didn't go near the door.
[SPEAKER_00]: He opened the door, whatever he saw he didn't like.
[SPEAKER_00]: He threw the gift that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we left, that had a cost of $20,000.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was so in love with her.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's like, okay, here you go.
[SPEAKER_04]: See at home.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow, we're, we're, we're they back together after that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they were back and forth, back and forth, but you know, Eva Gronner was a bigger star than he was.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, she was a Narbidham.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, she was, I mean, I don't want to throw her on the bus, but she just did want what she wanted to do and did it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, I had a lot of conversations as a friend.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's older than me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like talking to my father.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, you know, why don't you move on?
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, can I love that lady?
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: So,
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, how could I get annoyed?
[SPEAKER_00]: He'd give me a call.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go and see Ava gone on his jet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course I'm going.
[SPEAKER_00]: I went to the monogar and went everywhere.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, hop in, bless your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: But once you travel with Sinatra, you can't travel no more because, I mean, the things he gets done and things they do for them, because you're just right about you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you go out net, then you go the next day to the same place you feel like you're on off and there will be a Maria.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ha ha ha ha, that's wild.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you know, I can't even, did he have his own plane or did you just fly like at an airport?
[SPEAKER_04]: But then you could just go buy a ticket, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, we had his own jet.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, we did.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, so not yet in God, I'm a public plane, no, he, he made tons of money early on.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I was, when I was 12 years old, and I got out of the hospitals when I met him at the Copa Cabana.
[SPEAKER_00]: back in the coop at that time.
[SPEAKER_00]: The only reason I'd such respect from him is because you know Frank Custello.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's who Ways Me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if I'm with Frank, I'm like golden.
[SPEAKER_00]: He loved Frank and he needed him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was always in trouble.
[SPEAKER_00]: Call Frank Frank strength it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, he said, he was by Paul a lot of people don't know that about Synautrum.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when he got drunk at night, he thought he was six foot four.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'd start fights with everybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he'd be not by anybody if they really hit of their crush on them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ajal was he?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he wasn't used like five, six, but then you weighed 130 pounds, you know, was it going?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, my gosh.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's so wild.
[SPEAKER_04]: But that's crazy.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is from Dennis and he said I just watched a movie on TV about AJ Pratt called the Taylor and you were in that show all over it.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I love this show.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm a big Elvis fan.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love I love the fashion.
[SPEAKER_04]: He was he had an amazing life story.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you that when I do AJ Pratt because he was my tailor.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when he came to Vegas, I introduced him to everybody and he became the teller to all the stars.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I introduced him to a guy that I could say now because of the statute of limitations and all the long gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: I introduced him because Pablo Escobo, I loved the way I dressed and he happened to, you know, in the Medini and Cartel, this guy had all the money in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I introduced AJ to him and he started making all his flaws.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the next thing I know when I hear that he's in business with him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you came, you know, if, in fact, it's a good, it's a good documentary or movie whatever they're calling it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you should get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's called the, the, uh, teller from Sin City.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, I'm from beginning to end.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to get indicted for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I swear.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was in the Midwest, and he was a teller, and then he stayed at state street a lot at that time with me and my other club, and he met everybody, man, Elvis, he got Elvis into the caves, he changed Elvis's look and made caves for him and all that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the guy is a genius when it comes to, you know, personalities and and and dressing people were the
[SPEAKER_00]: Pablo, I mean, I can't believe the deal, Pablo made from, he was, he was almost given the kilos for nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was buying a kilo for $2,000.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which is way 20,000 on the street, but he just wanted to be his friend.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah, the, oh, the scarves, not the handkerchiefs.
[SPEAKER_04]: The scarves he made, I believe it was in that show saying he was making all these handmade scarves were Elvis Presley.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, he made all that because he was always given them away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he made every time he made a suit.
[SPEAKER_00]: He made about 23 dozen scoffs, so on stage in hand, the monster girls have become a big thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we've created a lot of, like I'm saying, he created these fads and it was a legend.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was really a shop guy to good look for guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it said he was in the 70s, he was a fashion icon, turned cocaine, kingpin, and he had his royalties with the mob, the Colombian cartel, the FBI and was married seven times.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm like, oh, holy crap, this guy, got in for punishment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, it was crazy, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, but, you know, he had,
[SPEAKER_00]: as many as as people in like the cartel he had sent it is he was making everybody's close right at that time was before cameras and all that he can make a phone call and did a radicate things for him but uh... and will cost him two suits may be a song like that well i do know i do remember them saying a bunch of the um... dead bodies they were finding in the desert the one thing they had in common is the colors all said
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, oh, no, no, no, the inside labels.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think.
[SPEAKER_00]: AJ, AJ, right.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're one, and that's very funny because they exhumed six people in the retina, nobody knows this.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's a place in Nevada going to Lake Mead.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there was a burial ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they exhumed six bodies and all six had AJ
[SPEAKER_00]: So they went to find him?
[SPEAKER_04]: Served what do you know about him?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he was selling cocaine.
[SPEAKER_00]: They thought he was just a tailor.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's a stuff that you should Who's ever listening?
[SPEAKER_00]: You got to go on and find it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's on dog cable.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, it is and I've I watched it a year or so though And then it's kind of recirculating right now.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's called the dick out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, it's definitely a great show Well, we're sensitive
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a great one.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: So now let's see.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is Wes.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is my son.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he, I don't know where he listens to a podcast and it talks a lot about different things, but it, it talked about at one point talked about, um, Brando, when a cat came on this set,
[SPEAKER_04]: And, and Brando just thought, well, this is going to be part of the movie now, so then the movie had a cat in it, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I was there that day, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny because when we got to this set, this cat was just wandering around.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was why I love watching Brando how he created, because he didn't go into an empty room.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, okay, put a fish tank here.
[SPEAKER_00]: and then you saw the cat he picked up the cat he started panting the cat stayed with him and then the cat stayed through the home movie every time he was in that room he was at the cat and I asked him I said what do you do when he said you know I love when I'm talking about killing people and I pet the cat I feed the fish it shows the human side yeah that's brilliant that's great make it think and it does it takes some of the monster out of the
[SPEAKER_04]: So anyway, it said there was a horse head in the movie, of course everyone knows about the horse head in the godfather, but first they were going to use a fake one, but then instead they chose to use the rough thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, what happened with that?
[SPEAKER_00]: That was Copa.
[SPEAKER_00]: because he was so, I mean, you guys so brilliant, as far as the director, if people don't know, Francis Ford Copeland, directed that movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when they had the gimmick horse had with Waltz, the film director, who didn't want to give brand, I mean, give Franks an out to the pot to hear the attorney that's really happened in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: They killed his raceros cartoon.
[SPEAKER_00]: They did.
[SPEAKER_00]: The mob killed it, the real race was, that's really great.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so what they did to appease Coppola, her amount made a contribution to the ASBCA, a donation, and bought a dead horse, is that?
[SPEAKER_00]: But they gave thousands of dollars to contribute to the ASBCA.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then they'd cut up the horse right in the bed, so all the blood and all that would be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's when he woke up from a sleep and felt wet and then he pulled a sheet back it was this, it wasn't said in it, which is pretty good, you see.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah, I can't even imagine.
[SPEAKER_04]: How do you sleep through that holy crap?
[SPEAKER_04]: That's insane.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's wild.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's funny, all the things that go on in movies that
[SPEAKER_00]: into life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, and then the back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, especially when you make a mom movie, it's uh, it was a Megan Weston's.
[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, what a, what a gory deal, but it's one of the things about the Godfather that everybody remembers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, hello, I can do not.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were, they were, they were the scenes that even with me, my beating scene would always be
[SPEAKER_00]: But those kinds of scenes, and not when you're rehearsing it, you don't even know, but you don't know what the continuity of film where it isn't when it's coming up, but all of those scenes are very memorable.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of mine are like insane because there's stuff on whipping a pregnant woman or a belt.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, these kind of things are not good things to have.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right, right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Especially when I'm dating.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you know, um, uh, Daniel Conti mentioned at last week that you signed a picture that said, now clean this mess up, you know, in the different, the different things that are not cleaned it up.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, no, I'll take it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: The line I had in the, everybody remembers that line.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, clean up your guinea brat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, I don't like your father.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on, come make him a great scene between the, or an eye.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: a little her brother to the toll boots, which I hear finally did, and then we got rid of him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, that, and then everybody remembers, hello, Carlos, you know, all the different.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, hello.
[SPEAKER_00]: I get that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I get that walking down the street.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can be walking down the street and truck driver rolled down the window.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's this, hello, Carlos.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they, they don't get that, you know, that
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's funny that those are, those are things 50 something years later that are just going to always be part of you and the movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know, the thing is that the films, you know, I've done 47 films, but that film that's like the most vulnerable film because it was the godfather, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, sure.
[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, and, and, and you look back, I was, I was looking at a thing from the Rockford files.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he was such a nice guy too.
[SPEAKER_04]: I loved him.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's a hilarious show with him and Jacqueline that Garner did that called my fellow Americans.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I mean, it's probably 20 years old, but it's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's hilarious.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, not not not not who showed this was a different show.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it was a different film movie for the weeks They were doing a lot of TV movies at that time.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, what a great actor.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: So this is from Jim Is there any update on the resource world?
[SPEAKER_04]: Show at the new casino.
[SPEAKER_04]: Are you still going to be there?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where?
[SPEAKER_04]: Resorts were opened in the race track.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the results were all in all that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's definitely happened at the aqueduct.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's, I don't know, it's not that open and able now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I push back to July the original day.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I made a deal with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't, I'm just waiting for the phone call, the ways and the wins.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did the results well at the bonkers.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was shocked when we made the turn into the into the,
[SPEAKER_00]: to the mountains.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a 33-story building, gorgeous.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what's well in the pokeros, if you have the opportunity, go phenomenal place, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you can see it over the higher all the casino, very elegant, very elegant.
[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got so much going on now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just got, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just, I had to turn something down because they wanted me to go to some crazy country.
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw I'm not flying there now and I don't know how much money to give me and go.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember last year I was talking about Baku.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: They got bombed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: They bombed it last week.
[SPEAKER_00]: Baku, Azerbaijanis, part of this horror.
[SPEAKER_00]: I ran thing right now.
[SPEAKER_04]: My gosh.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why that's on the SESP and C. So that's in the whole area.
[SPEAKER_04]: Holy cow.
[SPEAKER_00]: The biggest thrill for me when I did that show there, Putin had 150 reservations.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love Putin.
[SPEAKER_04]: Holy smokes.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's insane.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I know any more
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, hot mic, hot mic, that everything is just an entire, you, you pack some days together and do the stuff with the hot mic events that so you don't have to go far away places.
[SPEAKER_04]: So keep the home where it's good and safe.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm doing a lot of, I'm doing a lot of shows I wanted you without getting an honor airplane right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: The airport's a crazy, the disease in airports are like, you know, the delayed 12, 14 hours in the Royal sleeping on the other sidewalks, and the bench is real, you know?
[SPEAKER_04]: I've seen that, and I thought I am, and I don't live a luxurious life by any means, but I thought,
[SPEAKER_04]: could I would not be good, sleep it on the floor in an airport, not just thing and happen, that's not going to happen.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm too, I'm too big of a wind, that's how that is.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, let's take time for another quick break.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then we will answer these last few questions.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I can't, you know, express more for you to go on Amazon.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll chill out is that the Hanover Marriott, it's the second, third and fourth, it's a Thursday Friday and Saturday.
[SPEAKER_00]: The stars that are going to be there now are, I mean stars and sport.
[SPEAKER_00]: personalities.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's going to be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, uh, just come there, bring your godfather memorabilia by the books, because I don't travel with him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was doing that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I had this as a books, forget it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I just buy your books, come and I'll sign them all and take photographs and selfies.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is, again, the hand over Mary
[SPEAKER_00]: April 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when a when a peed, me Jersey.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's awesome.
[SPEAKER_04]: And and that is such a great place.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like he said, go on Amazon, get your books, bring them with you.
[SPEAKER_04]: He can sign him, get your picture taken.
[SPEAKER_00]: With the kids like we said earlier, the great tips.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have a wedding or a birthday coming up to somebody.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fan by the book.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's 30 dollars.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, another thing is your cameo.
[SPEAKER_04]: Camios are, I mean, just go on camiote.com and look at the previews of once Gianni has done before they are absolutely awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have to get what should I get all five stars?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's great to remember that we should remind people that more often because even wedding gifts, I did a wedding gift and they said they wanted a longer camiote paid more money for it and they played it at the wedding.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they told me, you know, I'm Johnny Russo from Godfather and congratulations on your wedding.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a big thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said about those cameos.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like buying a gift because it's on your phone forever.
[SPEAKER_04]: Forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so everybody, you know.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it is such a such a great personalizing coming right from you and definitely cameo.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did, I mean, I did dog, I'm just going to battle, but thousands of dollars of chemicals I've done, but I mean, I think I have sent chemicals to people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, they're great.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're great to keep, you know.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, I just enjoyed watching the previews of some that you've done before their fantastic.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, and you can do it for anything you've announced engagements.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I mean, congratulations, whatever it is.
[SPEAKER_04]: What do they call it?
[SPEAKER_04]: They be reveals different things like that.
[SPEAKER_04]: So definitely, if you're in the market for a unique gift, definitely check that out because they are fantastic.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, all right, let's get a few more questions in and then we will be all done with this month's Millback.
[SPEAKER_00]: Millback.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: All done.
[SPEAKER_04]: Where are we going?
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, Rocky Marciano was the American boxer who competed from
[SPEAKER_04]: did you ever see him fight?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, and that's funny you should say to me, because Custello was an avid avid boxing fan.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he was in Madison, Quarney Garden, all the time that he's made to fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he didn't invite me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw all these guys later on.
[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't realize what they will work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even Joe Lewis, when Joe Lewis, you know, he's every way champion of the world, and then he
[SPEAKER_00]: and sees this palace in Vegas, because a lot of those guys they retire, they make them a host and greet people to have in the casino.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I went the first time I met him, I met him with Sinatra, and I said, you know, Mr. Lewis, I gotta tell you, I saw so many of your fights.
[SPEAKER_00]: You should did.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, yeah, I was at the garden every time of you with that, and I was sitting there.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, really, how do you get those seats?
[SPEAKER_00]: I swear, do you have a Frank Estella?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's old.
[SPEAKER_00]: Never mind.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, I know him.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a Frank Estella raised me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was at a refight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I don't see.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's going to those fights.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what's then worth $500.
[SPEAKER_04]: Then, yeah, I can't imagine.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I just saw something about one of Mike Tyson's fights.
[SPEAKER_04]: and it showed every movie star you could imagine.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_04]: Arnold Michael Jordan, I mean to the crowd, that was the big thing everybody went.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was I was all there fights and in fact, it's funny that Elvis's doctor, Dr. Eli's garden, they just called Dr. Feelgood.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wilson, usual imagination.
[SPEAKER_00]: And but then he became part of the boxing commission.
[SPEAKER_00]: in Nevada so he was sitting ringside as the doctor.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I would go all the time with them to all those fights.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I stopped sitting ringside because people who don't go to fights, you sit ringside.
[SPEAKER_00]: You never know what's going to get on you clothes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Use your imagination.
[SPEAKER_00]: I always
[SPEAKER_04]: Holy cow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that does sound good.
[SPEAKER_04]: So another thing we had, a lot of great great feedback for Mike Austin, our producer on the show.
[SPEAKER_04]: They said excellent episode, priceless insight information that Mike Austin gave to everyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to have moments of month now.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_04]: They said, excellent.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was such a great show.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's a great member to your team.
[SPEAKER_04]: When will he be coming back?
[SPEAKER_00]: And they use our team as far as the technician applies for you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_04]: Mike is a magician, as well as a musician, magician, all around guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything, he doesn't all.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you know the interesting thing, though, in fact, you and I,
[SPEAKER_00]: that's, we should show them the gratitude that we're getting mail on them now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, we had so many compliments saying, uh,
[SPEAKER_04]: that how great it was and people going okay how how do we do this and how do we do that?
[SPEAKER_04]: What would he suggest and I told everybody I'm like you I told them I said I swear I kept saying oh my health because I was so freaked out because he was telling us so many things and I told we should make sure he's on the next show absolutely be careful for the next show.
[SPEAKER_04]: I told them, I said, you've got to get on there and you've got to listen to what he has to say.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, so so many people wouldn't listen to it just for that.
[SPEAKER_04]: And while we're at it, just to let people know because this came up today, you know, I don't know where you're watching or hearing us now, but we are available in several different spots that you can find us on YouTube,
[SPEAKER_04]: Seld, SoundCloud, Amazon Music, Cass-Pots, PocketCass, and Google Podcasts.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's no reason we shot today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the reason we're doing this research or Genie did today is because we are moving probably to national radio, which is a whole new deal for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a whole expansion of a radio.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the medium for us to hit more households and more people.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I didn't even know that there were that many different places that that many platforms you could even do it on.
[SPEAKER_04]: But so for the people.
[SPEAKER_04]: you can see Gianni's beautiful home behind him and you can watch us on video or if you are just listening to us, if you go on YouTube or even on Apple Podcasts, you can see the video of us and which is great when we have our guest Tony Orlando was just on food room and see me.
[SPEAKER_04]: You get to see them too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bobby Vitt was a great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my word, I know him over 60 years.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, and he adores you.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was no good friends.
[SPEAKER_00]: His whole family has come to my house.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a major, major star with the blue velvet and, you know, lonely and all these great hits, 70,000 units of songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Each record did 70,000 copies.
[SPEAKER_04]: What a sweet heart of a man.
[SPEAKER_04]: He was so darling, so nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was fun to get to to hear your stories and understand now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe that my idea is all.
[SPEAKER_04]: Gianni, there's nothing more fun to me, like with Tony Orlando.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've barely said anything, because I absolutely just... Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's always a good friend.
[SPEAKER_04]: To get getting to hear you and him reminiscing and laugh and remember things that you had gone through.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I was very fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: So we've got another question.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is from Chip.
[SPEAKER_04]: He said, I wonder about the life of Vegas show girls in the 60s, 70s and 80s.
[SPEAKER_04]: What were their backgrounds?
[SPEAKER_04]: Did they think Las Vegas was leading them to a bigger opportunity or were they just
[SPEAKER_04]: There to be dancers.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were just happy to be on to be a show girl in those major shows.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were like stars and see people don't know what they did.
[SPEAKER_00]: See, they between shows, they would walk into the casinos in the customs to meet the players.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's something on their heads.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're all the feathers and all that, but people want to take pictures with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: at their funeral.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to tell you, I know a couple of girls who married very successfully.
[SPEAKER_00]: One guy married, one girl married a major rancher who was a multimedia.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a girl that was going to make you know three hundred and eighty hours a week as a dance.
[SPEAKER_00]: He fell in love with him.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a Cinderella story.
[SPEAKER_00]: I went to the wedding even.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's great.
[SPEAKER_04]: What we have on was the typical career of a
[SPEAKER_04]: How long, like how many years would a typical show girl be over the dance?
[SPEAKER_00]: I know some of them were there 10, 15 years of staying shape.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they don't care.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me think about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can be a show girl in your 18s.
[SPEAKER_00]: So in your 30s, if you still look at shit, good, don't worry about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's all about how you look, obviously.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I can't wait, but that oven on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it's not, it's not like showgirl seems to me like they were classy and beautiful and and not like in a, there was no expectation for showgirls to frat nice with the players and stuff, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Like it's strippers, kind of the girls may pick up a side gig, but the showgirls, they were, well, showgirls did what they wanted to do, if they wanted to go to bed with the other one, so I can date.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hello, see you later.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to be a hooker.
[SPEAKER_04]: They do what they want.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, on a level, I went on a lot of dates and made love.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there were an orchestra.
[SPEAKER_04]: So as far as the clubs back then, I mean, you didn't have showgirls, but I mean, as far as casinos and showgirls, what was the big acts there in Las Vegas when you were there?
[SPEAKER_04]: Did they have a casino that had the best showgirls back then?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, all of them in competition, well, they'll show girls.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, every casino that you bring in the 70s and 80s, they all had a line of girls in the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the comic would come out and warm up the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then they'd be a dancing routine with showgirls, guys want to see legs, hello.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then they'd go into the casino between shows.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're in the casino wander around.
[SPEAKER_00]: and those guys want to take pictures with why not go home with them show them great advertising those were was there was there anyone that i'm sure they were beautiful everywhere i mean now if you are beautiful don't show up you guys go to that i used to go to your audition i knew everybody so then say we have an audition i'd go to just to look at all these girls who are sure and then not get a job
[SPEAKER_00]: I hide a lot of them to be crying because they didn't get the job and they were getting back on a bus to go home.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't worry, but come on and be cocktail, which for me, they're making $100, $200 a day day with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: More than they'll be making a show, a lot of them that were in fact, they stayed with me.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's wild.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you said back in the day you had a weakness, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Was that taking wigs?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, without one of my business wig worlds, that a lot of business and jewelry stores, Russo-Costali Jewel is wig worlds.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I had, I just wasn't an aggressive guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if there was something needed, I go on to the business.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fun to the wig business, oh, I got it to the wig business.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got it to the wig business and then I realized all these showgirls are wearing these wigs in the shows.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: called the water health and called and said my daughter got a tremendous infection and I know she got to wear those dirty wigs and then I called I knew what was going to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I called and I read in the newspaper I said, listen, wigglers will pick up the wigs and bring them back to you and we get I gave
[SPEAKER_00]: And I had all these foam heads to get nobody.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why I did it because we go pick them up, put them on the foam head, sterilize them.
[SPEAKER_00]: We did sterilize them, but we didn't have to reset the native, they don't we wash them and reset them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I charged them for all of that, but they didn't get that.
[SPEAKER_00]: We just put pins and put the spray up again, but we didn't sterilize them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, and that was it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, okay, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And not the business.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was like, I was getting like $40 a head a month on a wig.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I had truckloads of it and we never touch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then again, I mean, I don't want to do you where I got all the little kids from the beauty school.
[SPEAKER_00]: I used to come and work for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Forget about, I was getting a minimum wage.
[SPEAKER_04]: Gianni, I do have to say sitting down and sitting still for a few years of your life and then being quiet and listening to Frank Castelo, you have a fast-quick brain and so great at taking advantage of opportunities and making money money money out of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He did it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean,
[SPEAKER_00]: because of him, like you said, he, he, he's genius.
[SPEAKER_00]: And my, here I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying this, I'm saying this.
[SPEAKER_00]: 71 years later, here I am.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, it is incredible, and it, it is, it's so great to hear your stories.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, but these are things, you know, other people could have done.
[SPEAKER_04]: You just had the probably from your being around with Frank
[SPEAKER_04]: quietly watching and observing what's going on and seeing the need.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, not only that, he would never lead me into doing a life of crime.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was the letter and he had no children.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I always say I was the son they never had.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he protected me and he showed me
[SPEAKER_00]: He is a way to make money, legitimately.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what I did.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's to how you're making this kind of money.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the mind where I would I tell you, well, I'm doing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: What a strike question that was.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I love hearing anybody thought I was doing something wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was all.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you were just doing one business.
[SPEAKER_04]: You just smart and paying attention to what's going on around you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, I, I, I became smart because I listened to smart people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mile landscape, how mild the people that raised me.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I talked to Al today.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's 93 today.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, I can't believe we're using it on and still going, this guy knew me when my teens.
[SPEAKER_00]: I met him when I was 17, what my alliance came by having.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm still talking to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that amazing?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, but it's so great.
[SPEAKER_04]: What a great way to end the show.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you for sharing all your great memories of this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Mel Beck, and we're definitely getting Mike Austin on next week.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I'll tell you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I told everybody I know about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm like, Oh, my God, she got a lot listen to this.
[SPEAKER_04]: I kept telling him I said that's the scariest episode of Hollywood Godfather there ever was because I was scared to death because I realized how dumb I am when it comes to
[SPEAKER_00]: protecting, I don't think I'm dumb.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just not unaware.
[SPEAKER_00]: Electrically, I know all this computer stuff and all that, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why don't you know, I mean, why don't I go to school for it?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_04]: And how lucky we are though.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, like I told you, when my when my son was getting married, I kept thinking, I kept seeing dresses on the internet and I would go to buy it
[SPEAKER_04]: and being so afraid to do anything, but Mike has a lot of great tips for us, so I can't wait to get him to invest.
[SPEAKER_04]: And thank you, Mike.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would be, I'd put the business right on Mike Wester.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, sometimes two or three times a day.
[SPEAKER_04]: And if it's not you, it's me asking him some some question.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not sure of.
[SPEAKER_04]: So thank you for your question.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's very congenial and nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, fantastic.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's any so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm the caller tonight.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks for your questions.
[SPEAKER_04]: Keep them coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank all of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Please keep the cards and let us come in.
[SPEAKER_00]: All all young fans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The world is crazy, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Please.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Good night.
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