Interview with Producer/Director Brett Ratner

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[SPEAKER_03]: Tell the moon, I'm in some art, I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a madadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadad
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's changed my life numerous times and having me on some of the best films he's ever made.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Brett Ratner, my man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Brett, welcome to you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hi, everybody.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hi, Megan.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hi, Patrick.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hi, Johnny.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hi, Matt.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, don't cry.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm so happy to be here because I want everyone to know that, uh, I think between six and seven years old, I thought that Johnny Russo was my father.
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[SPEAKER_05]: because we would go to the pool at Caesar's Palace of my mom as it's gorgeous young Jewish girl from Miami Beach and Johnny Russo would sit next to my mom every single day by the pool.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and was ordering drinks and shit.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Whatever, whatever was happening there, I said, who is this guy?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Is this my dad?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Why is he with us every day?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, and I was like literally my entire, I just remember my time at Cesar's Palace.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I remember the Alan King tennis class, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Is that correct?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Was there?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was a big tennis fan.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I was friends with, it was, I was confused, it was either,
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[SPEAKER_05]: He was my dad or as either he was my dad or this guy named Leonard Rosen, but Leonard Rosen was like 90 years old.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no, I knew Leonard Rosen well, so Johnny was the most charming, most handsome and I was very possessive and protective of my mom.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I didn't, you know, and I was like, but I liked him because he would play with me in the pool.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I would, he would, what I mean, cheeseburger, french fries, milk shakes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Johnny was the first man in my life that ever spoiled me.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So then when I became a movie director, I said, wait a second, I got a, I got a put Johnny Russel in one of my movies.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, it was mandatory.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was a blink of a story.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Um, not because of all the milkshakes and and uh, cheeseburgers bought me by the pool when I was six years old that uh, in Caesar's palace um, but because, you know, I actually thought he was my father for about a year of my life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I couldn't bear it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I should have asked, I should have asked him for allowance.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think he would give me like a chip, but he's like a, you know, it was like a five.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was a $500 chip, but I didn't know what to do with it because that was only six.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I couldn't even get it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch
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[SPEAKER_05]: the best lounge chairs, and Johnny, I've never seen Johnny's real skin color, okay?
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's been tan since 1976.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Were you tanning before that, Johnny, when you were young?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Always.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A boy chick.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I remember when we did Red Dragon, I came on the set.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And he called to make a people long right away.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So you got to make him light.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can't be tanning.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That was a lot of a link up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That was a big job.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm not going to get shot.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That was a huge job to get you to be white.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But I should off my be, I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, but for you to get, I mean, I didn't know we were filming this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I wouldn't kind of, you know, made up for something.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's all right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we're all very relaxed here, but the interesting thing, most people don't know,
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[SPEAKER_03]: I may be, maybe you don't remember, but you were also on the set of Scarface.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's what I meant.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That I think that I give you the book.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That was the first movie set I was ever on.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I always loved movies and I dreamed of being a director and I had heard that they were filming a movie in Miami Beach.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I was shocked because Miami Beach was just a bunch of, you know, Alta Cacca, this is a bunch of old people, you know, I, there was no filming.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This is pretty Miami Vise.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think this is 19.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And Miami Vice then came to Miami and everybody would like to, you know, watch some film and stuff, which is really cool.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But before that, I think the last movie they did was Jerry Lewis at the found a group playing the bellboy or something, you know, they're in like, in like the 60s.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Nobody was filming.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Because Miami Beach is very specific.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's a character, right, in the movie.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so my mom would let me skip school every day.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I would go to the set and watch them film Scarface.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and I'll remember Oliver Stone was the writer, Brian DePong was the director, Al Pacino Steven Bauer was the, you know, I'm surprised Johnny's not in that movie, but anyway, I was sitting by the pool at the found a blue, and the AD said, you know, Brett, come be in the scene, and they knew me by my first name, because I was on the set every day, they thought I was like a son of one of the grips or the electorates or something.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And they said, Fred, I'm standing in the same way when you need a kid and when the promise on me, he said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, okay, it's fine.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, can you see me?
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[SPEAKER_05]: No.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, no.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We're okay with it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, hold on.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, so I was in the scene, and I remember, I would say in this close, both sides that I could to the comedy and to watch him, you know, and talk in a patino.
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[SPEAKER_05]: When I first saw patino, I had only seen him on set.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and I thought he was really Cuban because he was always talking in that Cuban accent and Stephen Bauer was a real Cuban.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then when I thought I was in the ear shut, I was in the ear shut of him talking to the Pama, and when the Pama was talking and he sounded like a New York Italian guy.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I was like, oh my God, that's amazing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He was playing this character.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's when I started piecing it together.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Remember I was only 11 or 12 years old at the Pama, 12 years old.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then I saw the Pama,
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[SPEAKER_05]: directing him, and then I watched a keynote do with the poem and asked him to do, and 25 years later when I meet Patino, I said, you know, you're the reason I became a director basically, and he asked me for the story and I said, well, at first I thought maybe I want to be an actor because I was so impressed with how you were portraying this Cuban when you were like an Italian guy from New York.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But then I heard Decomba give you direction and watched you do it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I said, I don't want to be that guy.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I want to be the guy telling you what to do.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And that's how we, the patino and I became friendly.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it was for me, it was just an amazing experience.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, it connected all the docs for me, you know, when I saw, remember, I grew up in Miami Beach.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think part of my, the fact that I grew up in Miami that I was around guys like Gianni Rousseau in Vegas, that was around guys like Cliff Perlman and Randy Casino, that I was around guys like Alvin Malnick and all these amazing colorful characters, Bobby Rothfart was a famous guy in Miami and all these, all these, Miami was kind of an amalgamation.
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[SPEAKER_05]: of all these interesting characters from kind of the north east of the United States, you know, New York guys, Cleveland guys, Chicago guys, and all these characters, I grew up around.
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[SPEAKER_05]: In fact, I'm the only, I don't know, Johnnie remembers this, I'm the only person in my generation who actually personally knew my relance, so I lived in a building in the Imperial House, which is next to my building, which is the carriage house.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And every day after school I would ride my bicycle, I had a husky and I would ride it up and down the island to have the new.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And my plan ski would walk his dog.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The famous dog.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It would walk his dog.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And every day, he would stop me and we would talk.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I just remember, you know, you say, oh, what's your name?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Right, right, oh, who's your grandfather, Lee Ratter?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, I love your grandfather, blah, blah, blah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But for hours, I'm not exaggerating.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He would sit and talk to me.
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[SPEAKER_05]: on the corner and we won't be people would call my mother and say, are you scared?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Your son is uncommon in the middle of the street for hours.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I went to the store and came back.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He was still there talking with my little landscape.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't know he was against her.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I just thought, I just thought, nice old man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Nice old man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And we became so close that every Sunday he would have dinner with his wife at the time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Teddy was her name at the Villa Capri restaurant, which is this restaurant owned by this guy named Nando and it was a very kind of authentic family style restaurant and Meyer and I would eat there every Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's fabulous.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Teddy would call me and say, Meyer wants you to come down and join him for dinner.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I didn't know until my mom said, you know, oh,
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[SPEAKER_05]: This guy is a gangster, but I don't care.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's your friend if he's your friend, but he was in his 80s.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'll never forget when they called me and said, well, you walk me when you come with me to Mount Sinai Hospital.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And that's when they diagnosed him with cancer.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We took a bus.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, wow.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, man, I were on a bus.
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[SPEAKER_05]: together, he wanted me to atlock him because maybe he was feeling a little lightheaded or something or nervous.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And we get to the Mount Sinai.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He went into the radiology department.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I remember my grandfather was a radiologist there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And they read his accent.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's when they diagnosed him.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think he was lung cancer that he died from.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But we were so close that when he died, Teddy gave me all his personal belongings.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Wow, but gave me his passport.
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[SPEAKER_05]: his US naturalization citizenship papers.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They gave me a letter that he wrote gold in my ear.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Gold in my ear because what happened was he fled to the Israel because he's like a Jews right.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's the Dota Israel, okay.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's to have a homeland, no matter who they are.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And the US government put so much pressure on Israel.
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[SPEAKER_05]: to not accept him as a citizen, which was unheard of back then.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I remember, of course, the U.S. was funding Israel and the Justice Department blocked gold in my ear and he wrote a personal letter to gold in my ear, which I had to this day, which said basically, how can you believe the U.S. government?
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[SPEAKER_05]: How can you believe, you know, I'm a Jew, whether they consider me a gangster or whatever,
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[SPEAKER_05]: Speaking of gangsters, the real gangsters are the brunffman's and the Kennedy's.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's a lot of gangster.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to say, man, I'm in the casino business.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm in loans.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, all these businesses.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The real gangsters are the candidates in the brunffman in the brunffman.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They don't got in the business from prohibition.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, exactly.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Prohibition, exactly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I gave you a lot of his personal items.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And that's the only end so long.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Basically what happened was the granddaughter of Teddy.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Now remember, I don't remember the story, it's brilliant.
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[SPEAKER_05]: My or married Teddy, okay, which is his last wife before he passed.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And she had a son named Dicky Schwartz.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Do you remember this?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So Dicky Schwartz was a Jewish kid, but he was a young, I heard he was in a noxious kid, a Jewish guy.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And he was going around Miami acting like a big shot.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm Meyer Lansky's son, but it was his stepson, basically.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was his stepson.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And he was going around and bit of a hard head.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And Meyer is the opposite.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Meyer was low-key.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was the most real down the earth person was ever flashy.
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[SPEAKER_05]: to, you know, a driver, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We, we, we, we were the only man we got on the bus, and we drove, we went to the hospital.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This guy Dicky Schwartz was in the forge, which is the most famous restaurant in Miami Beach, and he got me to an argue with the son of Gary Terriaca over the bill.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But it was like, oh, I'm deaf, I'm deaf.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, I'm not paying the bill, but this is basically what the argument was.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It wasn't a real, and idiot pulls out a gun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The steps on a minor, who's out of gun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and the gun goes off and kills this kid, Gary Teriyaka, who's the son of a maid, mafia's so guy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And his father, oh, we're just, they're all the hotels.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Something like that street.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, no, something like that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The three hotels, there were real things, a real guy just got married Teriyaka.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I don't know because I wasn't there and I was a kid, but this is what I heard.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So anyway, weeks later, so he gets out of jail on bail, he's waiting for the arrangement.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and instead of like laying low, not leaving the house, if I killed the son of a made man, I accident.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I would like, you know, I would go to Dominican Republic for the last few of my life.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This guy's, this guy's out and surf side, he's in, what is that called, 71st Street?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Remember?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, oh my God, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's on the 70th first street.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He was all over the place.
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[SPEAKER_05]: People were like, what is he crazy?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then all of a sudden he comes to either of the someplace that he was eating on the 70th first street.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think it was, I don't remember where it was.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was on the 70th first street causeway.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And he gets gunned down, he gets killed.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And when I heard from the mythology of what I heard is that the father went to my room and said, you're son killed my own son.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I heard that Meyer was like, whatever you got to do, I'm not going to have a war over over this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And they killed him.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I was friendly with his son, it was the greatest guy ever, Robbie Schwartz, and who I grew up with.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, he's older than me, but I grew up with him.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so basically, long story short, they were HBO.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think at the time of one of the networks for doing a movie about Meyer landscape.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And this is when Teddy was still alive.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This is like right when I became a director like at the late night.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And they called her up and they said, hey, we want to do some research.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I've got the name of the producer, but I was friendly with him.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I knew him.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I knew him after we became friends.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And the producer called him, Teddy, he said, who can we talk to, who's alive, who knew Meyer, who could talk about Meyer, and his persona and his mate.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They said, well, Brett, well, there's this kid, Brett Ratner.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And he's like, Brett Ratner, the director of Rush Hour knew Meyer Lance.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's him, he's loved Meyer.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Meyer loved him.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They were friends, and they were in shock that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that,
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[SPEAKER_05]: that I actually knew him and they called me and they, I guess I did some info and some details or stuff.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I forgot to complain him.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh wait, was it, who was the little, and the guy from once around?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, what the actor, yeah, the Jewish guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, the guy's behind attacking once around.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What's his name?
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, no, not him.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He didn't play Meyer.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The guy, the son-in-law in the movie.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I loved one, too, that's one of my favorites.
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[SPEAKER_05]: really a glossy house from directed it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But anyway, the here's the thing about the whole story.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was saying is growing up in that world, not because of mine, but just growing up around all these interesting characters.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And Johnny was a part of that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Johnny was there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Johnny used to work, used to work at which place at, at, at, at, at, at, you know, my grandfather owned the peppermint lounge in New York.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So they had a peppermint lounge right there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But
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[SPEAKER_03]: Pen House, for how?
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[SPEAKER_05]: The Pen House, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: On seven the night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All the clothes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Amazing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: On seven night she caused her.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's something.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Seven night she caused her.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So there's all these these these great characters.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I used to work two hours a night, midnight to two, and then we go to Funfair, Allen night.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Funfair, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: That was my favorite place, Funfair.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They would tell like, Orange Julius is there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Not at all.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so I'm just, I'm just old enough where I was a kid where I kind of understood how interesting these men were and how unique they were and how brilliant they were.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And, and each one of these guys, whether it's Bobby Rothbard, whether it was Al-Malnick, whether it was whoever it was.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They were, they were, you know, Don Sofer, who was maybe a generation a little bit earlier than that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, but all these great characters were in Miami and they were all from mostly from the North, from the Northeast, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it was a scene of cosmic proportion where people don't realize, and when I did my research, is that, you know, Vegas at the time, back then, saying the 50s was kind of a shit-kicked town.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Tana was it was miden and and and desert and And like fifty nine nineteen thirty nine when they sent me out and then they then they started doing what they did Right and Miami though if you weren't wearing a suit walking down the street You would be arrested
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh yeah, if you were to you would get fine.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You said if you were to they would be put not arrested, but they would pull you over, they would pull you over and and say let me see your ID if you weren't everybody if that you would go to the lobby of the found and go over the either way, what you have 100 years of good behavior, every night, everybody in the suit, everybody was dressed up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was people were glamorous in Miami Beach, everybody was glamorous and all the stars.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Sinatra and Sanyan, all the rap hack and all the great comedians and Shekki Green and and you know Mel Tormey and all the other Allen tape all performed it all these to be it was all these night clubs up and down Collins Avenue and so Miami Beach was just such a unique interesting place to grow up and and I
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[SPEAKER_05]: I got my education, my early education there, of just being around these guys who are wise guys, or, well, you had one name, and I got your numbers privileges, I remember it well.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But growing up around guys like Gianni, growing up around all these characters was the greatest education ever.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It gave me my street smarts, it gave me, it showed me how to be a winner.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: It showed me how to, how to, how to be successful, how to believe in yourself.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And when I imagine when I had all these the most successful, powerful guys in the town who treated me like a son, you know, who treated me like, and, and love me, and again, he's so much confidence.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Um, that when I went, when I went to Hollywood finally,
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was standing out because I grew up around, nobody could chalk me, you know, no character, nobody I came across could ever battle me because I had these guys that were kind of my mentors, you know, and that's why I loved having, you know, and Johnny, by the way, I mean, what a story and what a life this guy's had, and, you know, if I ever went up, you know, and what a, but Johnny's a born performer, he's a born entertainer,
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, he now we can act, but he could sing, but he could, you know, and, and, and, and, and it's his experience and everything like I'm, I said losing a little bit of hair back here Johnny said get this brush and hit it with the brush.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Again, get the butter.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, his, his, his subtle, the subtleties and the, the secrets or the knowledge that he has.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I've applied to my everyday life.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What does that mean?
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[SPEAKER_05]: OK, I'm starting to get to the inside of the room.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Or where to get the best pasta, or whatever it is, whatever it is, Johnny now has a brand, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: He has his own wine, he's doing shows that are selling out.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's one of the, Johnny's one of the great characters of all time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And that's why, and when I put him in a movie, you put me in a lot of movies.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nape all the movies.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Every movie you did, so I put you in a family man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He played a guy from Jersey, who was, you know, from Jersey, didn't know that a Cuban cigar was the ultimateity.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He would smoke, you know, an American cigar.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He was bragging that snook in an American cigar.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's just, he's adaptable to anything.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I put him in red dragon.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I put him in rush hour in the rush hour films.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I hope you're still getting checked.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I know that they've been dropping lately,
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[SPEAKER_05]: But now the streaming now that you're going to get a bigger check, I think they're going to be playing it for me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I'm committed to Johnny.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Every movie I ever made.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hey Johnny will always have a part.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think only one movie I did.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think X-Men.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Because I was shooting in Canada, you were busy, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I always offer Johnny.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I want him in every film I ever do, every film I ever do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want him to like working with Johnny as an actor.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's great.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He'll do as many takes as I want.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He loves it as much as I do.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We're there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm thinking we're never going to be in this moment here again.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Let's milk it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I remember when we were shooting and I got Steve Lumpen to give me the desert in Vegas.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I turned into the red dragon casino in Las Vegas.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's before they exploded.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And before they exploded and Johnny was a craps dealer there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, the pit boss.
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[SPEAKER_05]: or you were the pit boss, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And you were the pit boss.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And he was kind of running the floor of the casino.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And he was just, he was natural.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I didn't, there was no, I mean, it was just it couldn't be better.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And with Chris Tucker, you know, I have to surround him with people that are very real, that are, and then he, it grounds him, because he's a comedian is instinctive to perform.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And when he's with Johnny, he knew how to work off of, they worked off of each other in such a brilliant way.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Johnny's great at comedy too.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, he'll deliver to you very straight, but he's ready to feed him.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's doing it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He does the assist, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And that's another great story.
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[SPEAKER_05]: When I went to, I wanted a shoot.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, shower was sometimes a rush hour with Brett once the film.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so I told the studio, I want to film Rush Air 2 in Vegas.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I want to be in Vegas because I knew it was going to be a blast to shoot with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I was, I walked away from, I came up with the idea I pitched it to Jerry Wyntrad to do Oceans 11 or remake of Oceans 11, I'll back up for a second.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I hired this writer named Ted Griffin and I was, and then I was directing family
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[SPEAKER_05]: the main guy in that movie that I ended up getting the cage, the plan that had that scene for John, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And George kept talking about family man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I really wanted the cage.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was set on getting it was cage.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so I said to George Clooney, listen, George, I really want you to, you know, I'm developing another movie called Oceans.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I know, Oceans, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, he goes, you can't remake that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Brett, that's a masterpiece.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, what are you talking about?
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was the red pack they were doing one tape two tapes the most.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They were drunk the whole night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, and they were doing two shows the night in the sand at the same time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I said that movie is not a masterpiece.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, it's a classic movie.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But you always think of remaking a movie that's a good story, so it's flawed.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it was flawed because they were just
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so basically long story short, so George said that is the worst idea I've ever heard and you cannot remake it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You cannot touch that movie.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That movie is a classic.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That movie is a masterpiece.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And up, Jerry comes to me and says, OK, Brett, we're ready to go make the movie.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We're going to get George Clooney and she says, oh, wow, really?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I was going to put my version of Oceans was all the scumball, the dirt bags and Hollywood, Sean Pan, Nicholas Cage, Charlie Sheen.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, all the guys that I was going to get Jerry Lewis.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and done rickles to be the two guys, the older guys, right, in the movie.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so I, but the rush hour two script comes in and I said, can you just hold oceans until I finish rush hour, they said, no, we just want to make it now.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And they went and they hired Steven Soderberg to do it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I was like, oh, can you believe George Clinton's doing them?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I'm sorry, Steven Soderberg.
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[SPEAKER_05]: George Clinton agreed with Soderberg,
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[SPEAKER_05]: when soda became on the movie that George Clooney agreed to do the movie.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But what happened was I go to Vegas and I cannot find a casino that they would let me shoot in because we weren't just like, oh, she's a legend with us like, just teens in there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We were blowing shit off.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We were shooting guns.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We were having five sequences.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, it was like a huge thing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So no casino would let us shut down part of the casino.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I wanted to be very glamorous and very nice.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And the only casino was the, was the, does it?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Does it?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And all of a sudden, my producer said, I got bad news.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I said, we called the, does it in Steve Win bought it, and he's gonna upload it to build a $2 billion casino that'll win.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I was like, oh my God.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I said, oh, no, and he said, the studio recommends you go to Atlanta, and I'm a Atlantic city.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's a shiddle, rush hour in Atlantic City.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What are you going to shoot at the frigging Trump?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I was like, no way are we shooting in Atlantic City.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I rather go to Macau or something.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But I wanted it to be in Vegas.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The story was written for Vegas.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so I called, called, Steve went, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And even though the producer said he said no, in one week, they're blowing up the desert game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I remember the whole time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In lane, in lane is wife then was on the set every day.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I co-cold Steve Win, and I said, Mr.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Win, this is Brett Ratnery, because I, for Russia, I told your people, I blown up the building, I can.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He was like, you're short with me.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I said, Mr.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Win, I'm desperate.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I can't find it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I can see, you know, he also had the machines in there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It would have cost millions of dollars to bring the tables and the machines into the, into the casino.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And he said, what's your name again?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I said Brett Ratner.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He said Brett Ratner.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He said, are you related to Lee Ratner?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I said, yes, I said, Lee Ratner's my grandfather.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And there's like silence on the phone.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I said, you know, Al Malmick raised me.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's like my father.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's the end of it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then more silence on the phone.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And he says, how long do you need the casino for?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I said, I need the casino literally actually for two months, Mr.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Win.
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[SPEAKER_05]: to lay the implosion of the casino, and he delayed the implosion of the desert in to let me film the movie, and would come down every day to the set to visit me, a lane was there too, and he used blind to conceive, but he had the greatest time, we became very close, and it shows you it's like when you have friends,
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[SPEAKER_05]: like grandfather, this is what was amazing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I call up Lee Renter and say, hey, Lee, I've mentioned to your name and Steve Wayne gave me.
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[SPEAKER_05]: My grandpa was alive at the time and Steve Wayne gave me the casino.
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[SPEAKER_05]: There's always a good kid.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What does he know?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I said, deserting because all I was there and he tells me a story.
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[SPEAKER_05]: that he was, so remember Howard Hughes was living in the penthouse of the desert it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He owned the casino and he sold it to the wise guys after.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But when he was in, he was part, I know he was a germFO.
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[SPEAKER_05]: My grandfather told me he was negotiating for on behalf of Howard Hughes, the sale of the casino.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But he was inside the hotel room.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then when I told down now, like that Steven gave me the casinos and I remember being of the deserting, I was on the other side of the door buying the casinos from Howard Jesus for my who I was representing, and so.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What a what a small world that both my grandfather and our mounting both, you know, we're in the middle of that deal with Howard Hughes when he sold the desert in and of course that's why something like Steve when it's like, oh, okay, well, you know, Yeah, what the name is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you're grandfather.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mentioned that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if you even know this, but your grandfather was partners with Maddie and Ellie, Maddie or horse with all the clubs in New York.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The department lounge and all that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know who Maddie the horse was, but I only knew Charlie the blade.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, so Mike, my grandfather told me the story that he had finance the Capri, is it the Capri in Cuba and Havana?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Why?
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[SPEAKER_05]: the Capri and Havana, he financed the Capri and Havana, because he was, my grandfather, basically, was a street kid from Chicago, and he made millions of dollars with rat poison.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He bought more person, but not the drug more if in which it was a blood thinner, they were testing on rats and it was killing rats instantly.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And he bought it as a rat poison.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was a medicine for people, but he bought the rights to sell it as a rat poison and did radio advertising back in the day in the 50s
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[SPEAKER_05]: feel this thing called decont, remember decont of rat poison and bug spray.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and end up selling it to like Sterling Pharmaceuticals for like hundreds of millions of dollars in the 50s, in the 50s, and his friends from Chicago were Bugsie Seagull, Lucky Luciao.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh God, he was a Jewish guy, and what did they admire most?
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[SPEAKER_05]: The mob they admired money, and he was the richest guy out of Chicago.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And they went to him and asked him to loan him the money to build the Castinos in Havana.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And he told me that he said, I'll put up the money for the three in Havana.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But on one condition, you make Charlie the Blade, the casino manager.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And Charlie the Blade, I don't know I don't know who he was.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then, because his best friend, and my grandfather's best friend, was a guy by the name of Johnny Biel's, Johnny Bielo.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Did you know him?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And Johnny Bielo, ironically, got killed walking out of my grandfather's office on Cedda B.
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[SPEAKER_05]: First Street.
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[SPEAKER_05]: because he had his office there, and Johnny Biele came out and I don't know why I think killed him, I don't know the story.
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[SPEAKER_05]: My grandfather was in there that day, and he walked out of the office and got killed, walking out of the office.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But I could establish his connection to Charlie DiBlaid and only, so all these colorful characters, they were only six guys controlling Cuba at that time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so that's why at Chicago, a big, over there with Maya and Frank himself.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So my grandfather was like loaming money to these guys to build their casinos because he had a lot of cash.
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[SPEAKER_03]: As a legitimate money, it's why.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And there was a legitimate, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so that there was such great places, you know, the penthouse on the car.
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[SPEAKER_05]: From the lounge, there was other, for the other places in Miami Beach.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, my God.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Everything's there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, wow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then being Molly's mouse trap was even bigger than the playboy club.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We had more fun on that strip, modern.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's funny because I write at the end of that strip and Colin Zeminier was the genito hotel which the old man Terry Ockley owned.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my God, wow.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's the lead.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You mean the lead-up?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, the Delito was amazing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but there was, again, all my education came from just listening, just being around these great characters over here in the conversations.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And, you know, these guys are business, man, but they play clear.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No judgments, I mean, but, but, you know, Johnny is the last, the last man standing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Johnny's, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm not going home.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Not going anywhere.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, Brett.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't thank you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And by the way, years and years and years to go Johnny introduced me to his daughter, Gia.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He always became my son-in-law.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was in love with her.
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[SPEAKER_05]: She was so beautiful, most beautiful, young Italian.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Princess, and so smart, so successful, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: What is she doing now?
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[SPEAKER_05]: She has a big business, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, she's partners with Sarah Michelle Gell in a food line.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She has about 300 items at a target.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And you guys used to meet every Sunday up here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What was that place on Sunday nights?
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[SPEAKER_03]: On the first day, every second day, every year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You were going to NYU at the time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and she was the loveliest girl, but I was a little scared.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't want to, I knew at the time every time I had a girlfriend, I ended up hating me and I thought if this girl hates me, Johnny's going to just ask me, I can't, I can't mess with Johnny's daughter.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to, you were like a son to like you mentioned.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Al, certain people early on with us.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We watch you, I mean, do watch you achieve what you did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And you said you were going to do it every step of the way and you did it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, that's the thing and I just positive, I tell everybody, but I said, if you, you have to visualize it every day, I thought about making movies.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think I was going to be making $200 million little beats.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't know what the level I was going to do.
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[SPEAKER_05]: My dream was not to have a big house, not to have, you know, big cars, you know, to mention your house, not our audience who used to own the house, you're sitting in right now.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So my house, my house,
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[SPEAKER_05]: was Ingrid Bergman's estate, and she sold it then to Kinova, see that that's the projection with right there, see that, and here's the house is amazing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'll give you guys a tour if you want.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think we have the time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have to do it again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have to do this again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is amazing interview.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, Ingrid Bergman sold it to Kinova back of Shinoa from Hitchcock, and then Alan Carr, bought the house.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you bought it from Alan Carr.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Before I had a car, but I bought a for now and car who had for these grease, but before I had a car bought it, Jimmy Khan, while they were filming Godfather, too, I think lived here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He was playing basketball in your living room.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The living room was a basketball court.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was not furniture.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And there was a basketball room.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So that's my connection.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I own all the Godfather Polaroids.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, back in the day, the continuity person would come over and take a Polaroid.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Now they have a digital, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: They would take a Polaroid of the wardrobe and put, scene number 12, black suit.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know,
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[SPEAKER_05]: And somebody swind they sold them at one of these little auctions on Sunset Boulevard, one of these auction houses, and I got like 200 continuity polaroids.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But Pacino, to fall, Copila, I mean, I have, I'm just going to really quick, just show you one of the great, one of the great, here's my picture,
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, here's me and Dino de la Rentez that was taken by how many new.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Here's Johnny's favorite boxer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Here's Sammy.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Here's Sammy.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't take that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: My friend Phil Stern took this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then I'm going to just show you one of my, my godfather Polaroid.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Look at this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The things that have memories to you on, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: That is classic.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was in the other room, 48 years ago.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I have all of this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Here's Palantzki and Bob Evans.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Man, I'm so proud of your buddy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you for seeing this show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We appreciate it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I love you, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Love you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks for having me.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That was fun.
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[SPEAKER_03]: See you soon.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was a pleasure.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, okay, pleasure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's time to go to the mail bag.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Face the squad of my show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I love this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have people sending us letters, where we love the idea that you take your hand and reviewing us and whatever else we need to do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The biggest thing we need to get more subscribers is because we want to keep doing this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So let's go to the mail bag and... All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So first we have a message from Karen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Karen says, I've listened to them
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[SPEAKER_01]: The synergy between Johnny, Patrick, and Megan, the millennial is amazing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My question is for Johnny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What part other than Carlo, would you have picked a play in the Godfather?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, too, how would the movies have been different if you had been cast as Michael?
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[SPEAKER_01]: As a Godfather's superfan, I really love hearing about anything to do with the movies.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Please keep the stories coming.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I can't say that I would want to play anybody else than Carl.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was just happy to be there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I would have played any part to get into the movie.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I don't think as an actor, as a critic of the movie, nobody could have portrayed Michael other than Nalpa Chino.
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[SPEAKER_03]: James Khan was perfect as the hothead of the sun.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, the casting and the outcome of the movie, it's flawless to me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I mean, I can't egotistically say I want to play anybody other than in Carl.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And Carl's career for me right now, I'm 48 years in the business and more people say it's money.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Then any movie they come up back and behind me and say, hello, Carlo, that's going on with four generations of people now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a classic one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I see people call me any longer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Instagram is over time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It never goes away.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like the witch, you know, yesterday was the 49th anniversary of the year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Of the, what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Joe Colombo when he got shot, 49 years ago yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Anthony, he's a lawyer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Good lawyer too.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In San Diego, yeah, that was the right thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But Tommy Baladi called me that morning.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Are you going to the rally, yeah?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a jam.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a million.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Rice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Move it on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, next one is from Phil.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Phil says love the show, a question for Gianni.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw a 50-year reunion of the Godfather film.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone was there except Gianni.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Was this due to your dislike of James Khan?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Also, could you give more stories that involved Tony Curtis?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I listened to your show in the Philippines to keep the podcast coming.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was definitely not there because of James Khan.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It got that right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we appreciate you listening to us in the Philippines.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was a good friend of Malcolm Marcus.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've been there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I actually ate up in the private dining room.
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[SPEAKER_03]: in the palace many years ago.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But, yeah, you guessed it right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was at the 50th anniversary.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't, no, it was 25th anniversary.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The 50th anniversary is coming up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be the end of you, me, Conwood.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How's that one?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, oh, here we go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so what about Tony Curtis?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Would you share any more stories by him in the future?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, in the future, but come up with some questions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Ask Megan, well, that's just to come up with them randomly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I could talk online about Tony Curtis.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's an episode.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Next one is from Michael.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Michael says your podcast is amazing, especially when Gianni drops bombshells like quote, I got Mickey Cohen's daughter pregnant on quote, and leaves the audience hanging.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you elaborate?
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[SPEAKER_01]: More info would be helpful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Love you and have a listen episode yet.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that we have to be in a whole episode.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I asked a question again of how we know how I did it, but the result is even funny.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You really just did drop the bomb on that one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I left everybody being like, wait, what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Love it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, next one is from Kevin.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Most importantly, thank you for an amazing podcast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I truly love hearing all the stories.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like I'm sitting in Johnny's living and chatting with old friends.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and was wondering if Gianni ever had any dealings with the mob in Toronto.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know the connection between Montreal and New York, wondering if you can share anything about Canada.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I got still friends.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just appeared in the Niagara Falls view in Niagara, on the Canadian side.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I have to say there was about a hundred years ago to behave you're about 50 guys
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because a lot of guys, people don't realize the largest population of Italians other than Italy or in Canada.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They never came over.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Really?
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[SPEAKER_03]: But they used to drive over and do work.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They were called Zips at the time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And there's a couple of generations of kids that are very loyal, also, saints, and they're up there, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank God.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Next one is from JoJo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He just says, Gianni often refers to the phrase, keep your cards and letters coming.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it seems like he often ponders where he heard that phrase.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was made famous by Dean Martin on its variety show.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I enjoy the podcast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Be curious to being sarcastic when you say that, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I know that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, he used to say that every night at the end, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I figured he didn't do that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I could steal a phrase from him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's my thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I stole all the shoes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, if you have all the shoes, then you can just steal these cats.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just do it, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's only fair.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, next one is from Aaron.
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[SPEAKER_01]: First, I just want to say that the Mark Shaw episodes were great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I ate them up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That subject fascinates me to no end.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But what I wanted to ask is of Gianni, because Gianni have his album on iTunes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that you're going to show every week with Luna Mezomari.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've tried to look, but can't seem to find Gianni anywhere on iTunes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It would love to add some songs to my playlist.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's funny that we're not screaming.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's coming out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're doing a whole thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to be screaming.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, virtual, our virtual store opens in two weeks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We've had delays because of the pandemic.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But they're releasing a couple early albums.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And what I'm called Reflections was Sinatra lent me his 28 piece orchestra.
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[SPEAKER_03]: orchestra from season's palace so you have something to look forward to and there's a lot of great music on it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be a great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it'll be on iTunes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, next is from Tony.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Tony says, Johnny, any pictures of you and Elvis would love to see that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, because you know, that was before cameras.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me tell the phones had cameras.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And these guys, when they went out at night, so when he put up phones, when we were, he ran out on how this was playing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody took pictures then.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, could you imagine if his, his, his, Memphis mafia had pictures, what they would be worth?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Your pictures came into, you know, they've both now because everybody has a camera on them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What have been cool to see?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's unfortunate.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, next one is from Lynn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lynn says love the podcast and waiting to see the live show in Vegas.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And since I'm from Vegas, we remember a lot of the history.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know what ever happened to Frank Rosanna that owned the Serene room in Marlon Square?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the Serene room in Marlon Square was a hangout for Tony Spalatra and all of them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I don't know what happened to them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's a totally different than Chicago.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I think he met his demise.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's just put it that way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Next is from George.
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[SPEAKER_01]: George says the five families all based in the five boroughs control the city.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The megabillionaire family, the Rockefellers, were also in New York City.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What were the overlaps?
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[SPEAKER_03]: There were none.
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[SPEAKER_03]: wasn't on legitimate, for you the rock of fellas, you're not going to be hang out more people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And the more people are smart enough to leave alone, you're going to need them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, that'd be all right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There you go, George.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, next one is from Bill.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bill says, Johnny, I just watched your interview with Sean Atwood.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have listened to his podcast for over a year, as well as Patrick Fett David saw your team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Small world, but I seem to find you everywhere lately.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I live in Las Vegas and I've made custom suits for 30 years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's get together for dinner at Michael's next time you're in Vegas, looking forward to the movie.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's not going to be still open.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What's that?
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[SPEAKER_02]: What was that, huh?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly what Johnny needs and other suits.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And another suit and dinner.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's the only thing you would see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's so funny that he says that because I feel the same way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like within the last year or two, it's like you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We see you everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I see you everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My family sees you everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Whether it's TMZ or, you know, daily mail and now you've got blood TV and so on outward, you've got your statement.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, it's, well, it's the success that we're all sharing together with this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're not done.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, Pat wrote a great book.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have a podcast for it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have so much happening with it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm just going to keep capitalizing on everything.
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[SPEAKER_03]: you're all going to be blown away with what we're doing with the Godfather and all surrounding materials from it now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's all good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's all I have for tonight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a good note, Siwa.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's perfect.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We all here want to thank all of you out there in radio, computer, TV land everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We love you all as Dean would say now that we let the cat out of the bag keep those cards and let us come in Did not go for sure
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's a service I could rent them I'm the one who loves you only I could be so unsatended Call me Don't be afraid you can come away Maybe it's late but just come back Tell me and I'll be wrong I want to receive your friends deserve you
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for tuning in to the Hollywood Godfather podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can contact Gianni Rousseau, Patrick Pichorelli, or myself with your questions and comments through the contact section of our website, HollywoodGodfatherpodcast.com.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Good night.
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