Ep. 19 "The Godfather" Star Reveals Why the Mafia Hated the Movie and Who Really Killed JFK

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  • @ereckit1972
    @ereckit1972 4 місяці тому +222

    I been doing various home renovations for Russo for over 25 years. One of my favorite clients. Always grateful and a joy to be around.

    • @tomdaly1010
      @tomdaly1010 4 місяці тому +4

      Lucky 😂

    • @balancedactguy
      @balancedactguy 4 місяці тому +10

      Sure you did! 😂🤣 Did you find Jimmy Hpffas Body buried within a Wall at Russos' house too?🙄🙄

    • @billymcclure9732
      @billymcclure9732 4 місяці тому

      Q​@@tomdaly1010

    • @Nunya100
      @Nunya100 4 місяці тому

      How was the dinner with Pacino? 😂😂

    • @bluenite12
      @bluenite12 4 місяці тому +2

      He is one of the most interesting fella still alive !

  • @foulkid87
    @foulkid87 4 місяці тому +175

    These guys need to learn their Mob history! How do you get to interview him and not know who Sam Giancana or Tommy biloti is smh

    • @briandavis7122
      @briandavis7122 4 місяці тому +14

      That's why they are believing everything this liar says 😂

    • @TheGuttapunk
      @TheGuttapunk 4 місяці тому +9

      They some squares. thats why

    • @Onlineghost2ohm
      @Onlineghost2ohm 4 місяці тому

      Too young to know ANYTHING serious 🧐… all these CLOWNS 🤡 under 35-years old know nothing past 1995 frfr…… The dumbest & laziest of ALL the Generations….,

    • @mr.timebombman2230
      @mr.timebombman2230 4 місяці тому +2

      I knew Tommy Biloti. Also Harry and Rob Biloti

    • @Caveman76.
      @Caveman76. 4 місяці тому +2

      ​@@TheGuttapunk 💯

  • @jeanjennings5712
    @jeanjennings5712 4 місяці тому +117

    I don't care if there's a lot of "untruths" in Gianni's stories. At his age, his memory of names, dates, places, events, circumstances, addresses, etc. is so sharp and flowing, that there is a solid ring of truth in this.

  • @selicleto
    @selicleto 4 місяці тому +130

    " Listen when they flew to the moon, I was already there waiting for them".

    • @balancedactguy
      @balancedactguy 4 місяці тому +21

      He greeted Christopher Columbus in the New World too!

    • @margaretmanrique2410
      @margaretmanrique2410 4 місяці тому

      @@balancedactguy😂

    • @monicawilliams8639
      @monicawilliams8639 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@balancedactguyhahahaha

    • @rnrpeg1
      @rnrpeg1 4 місяці тому

      Hahahahaha

    • @rnrpeg1
      @rnrpeg1 4 місяці тому +2

      ​@balancedactguy That was So. America. Another story built of holes. 😂

  • @jasongonsales9599
    @jasongonsales9599 4 місяці тому +111

    Gianni has more stories than Dr. Suess

    • @Edward-kk4dl
      @Edward-kk4dl 4 місяці тому +4

      All Mr Gianni Russo says is true and it was roselli Columbus Ohio Edward the great artist knows these things 777

    • @Slipmahoney21
      @Slipmahoney21 4 місяці тому +11

      Dr.Suess’s were more believable.

    • @rnrpeg1
      @rnrpeg1 4 місяці тому +1

      You guys, some people are just THERE.
      And that's all it takes.
      Well, that and Marilyn Monroe dropping her robe and ordering you into her bath. 😆

    • @Kirk-dg7fv
      @Kirk-dg7fv 4 місяці тому

      ​@@Edward-kk4dl❤😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅❤❤😅00❤❤😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

    • @ubergenie6041
      @ubergenie6041 3 місяці тому +4

      Love Russo …always interested in his latest version of stories he’s been telling for the last 30 years😅

  • @genuine1520
    @genuine1520 3 місяці тому +24

    “You know baskin and robins? I’m the guy that gave them their first flavor” gianni russo

  • @BUSTER.BRATAMUS
    @BUSTER.BRATAMUS 4 місяці тому +23

    Nor Cal guy here.. I've been in Cal Neva and the underground tunnels.... Mr Russo, please speak about this.. AWESOME interview by the way.!!

  • @bradleyclutton4564
    @bradleyclutton4564 4 місяці тому +32

    I’ve met a few famous people and I’m no one in my 50’s.
    He was in one of the greatest movies with extremely famous stars, that was his circle, people don’t believe my average life so I understand they can’t understand his, but his totally believable to me

    • @johnk3119
      @johnk3119 4 місяці тому +2

      LMAO, ya for all of ten minutes that doesn't make him a star of The Godfather. LMAO. Better liar than an a actor. 😮😮😮

    • @alivstyson1864
      @alivstyson1864 4 місяці тому +11

      I get what you're saying.
      People from the Midwest or deep south can't relate to even 5% of this. People find it hard to believe that as an average joe from New York I hung out on a few occasions with 7 to 8 pretty famous people.

    • @alivstyson1864
      @alivstyson1864 4 місяці тому +5

      @bradley totally get what u are saying. I was an average joe from New York who met 5 famous mafia guys several times. 2 world class rock stars. 1 of the most famous tennis players ever. And i grew up with a few guys who intimidated most mid level drug dealers and they also were known by cops whose jurisdictions were 20 and 30 miles away.

    • @rnrpeg1
      @rnrpeg1 4 місяці тому

      I'm down. It does happen.
      (Except maybe that Marilyn Monroe thing? 😂😅)
      But who knows? Scott Weiland once ran up behind me, dipped me and shoved his tongue down my throat before I knew who the hell it was and had the chance to reciprocate. 😭🥹🥺🫣😭😭😭😭😛
      All true. Just never asked me to help him find Mary's cigarette in the bathtub. Damnit.

    • @_jse123
      @_jse123 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@alivstyson1864 yea but did you sleep with them kill with them, and were they all offering you their services and into their inner circle for just being there?

  • @Petroglyph1
    @Petroglyph1 4 місяці тому +27

    I've known so many colorful characters, including acrobats and varying entertainment pros, and special ops/Secret Service/mob vets....I feel like this guy is telling the truth with only enough embellishments to satisfy his enthusiastic nature.
    People who live "unbelievable" lives...are gonna sound unbelievable.
    He doesn't talk much about the dues he paid,
    the details of his down moments, but he gets to celebrate surviving.

    • @TimothyBrown-d6t
      @TimothyBrown-d6t 3 місяці тому

      Godfather star?????

    • @busterbiloxi3833
      @busterbiloxi3833 2 місяці тому

      @@TimothyBrown-d6t Godfather glorified extra.

    • @memyselfandi764
      @memyselfandi764 Місяць тому

      @@busterbiloxi3833 i saw the interview with Robert Duvall where he talked about the mooning contests on set Pretty funny.

  • @guytruth4907
    @guytruth4907 4 місяці тому +82

    I have known Gianni for 30 years. He is telling the truth. While we were spending time on Mars; during secret government teleport-travel, he showed me all the receipts.

    • @KayDial-g4c
      @KayDial-g4c 4 місяці тому +3

      😊

    • @Onlineghost2ohm
      @Onlineghost2ohm 4 місяці тому +6

      You too 🤔 huh?! I was wondering who he was talking to over in the B
      V.I.P…..😂

    • @Super-Bike-Joe
      @Super-Bike-Joe 3 місяці тому +3

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @busterbiloxi3833
      @busterbiloxi3833 2 місяці тому

      I was with you guys too, hiding in a flower pot. I was an interior decorator.

  • @rgrim7409
    @rgrim7409 3 місяці тому +15

    During dinner my family often had the TV on to watch the evening news with Walter Cronkite. That night the lead story was that Marilyn Monroe had been found dead of an apparent suicide.
    After Cronkite made his announcement my Mother began to cry. No not a soft whimpering cry. No, it was a wailing, keening cry of abject sorrow. She stood up, slammed her napkin onto her plate and started to leave the room. All of us were dumbfounded. My Father said, “Audie, what is the matter?” She replied as she went into the bedroom, “those G-D Kennedy’s. She was my friend.”
    At 32:40 Gianni tells us Marilyn was in a foster home. That home belonged to my Grandparent’s where my Mother met and became friends with Marilyn Monroe, then Norma Jean. Gianni confirms what my Mother somehow knew. JFK and RFK had it coming. Karma’s a b**ch.

    • @JudyTrovato
      @JudyTrovato 26 днів тому

      @@rgrim7409 wow! I believe you and Gianni also.

  • @1badjesus
    @1badjesus 4 місяці тому +40

    "I'm tellin ya MOSES ONLY GOT 9 NOT 10! i was there!" -Gianni Russo

  • @cranebrain2
    @cranebrain2 4 місяці тому +34

    Gianni Russo was standing next to the shooter when Kennedy was shot. He was also with the astronauts when they landed on the moon. This man has experienced everything

    • @TararyzeMcg
      @TararyzeMcg 4 місяці тому +2

      Unlike you

    • @balancedactguy
      @balancedactguy 4 місяці тому +2

      @@TararyzeMcg Unlike ANYONE!

    • @cranebrain2
      @cranebrain2 4 місяці тому

      @@TararyzeMcg 😂😂😂

    • @cliftonelder6664
      @cliftonelder6664 4 місяці тому +1

      😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

    • @Onlineghost2ohm
      @Onlineghost2ohm 4 місяці тому

      Shhhh…. All on the D.L bro 😎…..

  • @alechamid235
    @alechamid235 4 місяці тому +32

    I could listen to Gianni all day long, I believe his stories are true. He has no reason to lie.

    • @christopherm5958
      @christopherm5958 4 місяці тому +7

      I totally agree with you. I know this guy is 💯

    • @titoqwentezproductionz3406
      @titoqwentezproductionz3406 4 місяці тому

      you are a fool

    • @malparillo5617
      @malparillo5617 4 місяці тому +3

      the stories are True but HE wasn t there ! some ppl telling him this real stories and he took these for him like he was there that s it

    • @angus4463
      @angus4463 3 місяці тому +2

      sure he does-- MONEY, deperate need to be somebody--just like Carlo in the movie.. Hes so full of crap

    • @titoqwentezproductionz3406
      @titoqwentezproductionz3406 3 місяці тому

      my comment was deleted? wow

  • @vickitaylor680
    @vickitaylor680 4 місяці тому +7

    Ask him if he knew Danny Stradella. My mother and I were visiting New York City in 1971 and we went to Danny’s Hideaway for lunch. The waiter gave us Danny’s phone number and when we got back to our hotel, my mother called and a limousine picked us up, took us to Jillys, and we later had drinks with Danny and Robert Strauss, then he gave us his front row table at the Copacabana. He expected nothing in return. We went back to Minnesota and talked about our trip for years. Oh and we also met Rodney Dangerfield and his agent at Dangerfields.

  • @papaeazam
    @papaeazam 4 місяці тому +16

    Apart from the comedy of Mr Gianni Russo, he is a great storyteller 😂!! Hats off to him!!

  • @aegontargaryen9322
    @aegontargaryen9322 4 місяці тому +21

    This guy is a master story teller . I’ve heard his life story before on another channel but he’s so good at it I’ll listen again !
    Some of the things he says I’ve heard from other sources as well so I believe the guy . What a life !

    • @paulfrehley7352
      @paulfrehley7352 4 місяці тому +3

      You believe at 12 years old, with one hand he completely impaled a man with a wooden stick from below the ribs, all the way out his upper back & the guy was running around spraying blood? Ok, I have 2 bridges in New Jersey for sale.

  • @merkury06
    @merkury06 4 місяці тому +13

    This is the best F'n story I've seen in a long time.

    • @coreyhall1150
      @coreyhall1150 3 місяці тому +2

      Not a TRUE one but a story none the less. It is a story.

    • @busterbiloxi3833
      @busterbiloxi3833 2 місяці тому

      You're easily impressed.

  • @DG-qw6gy
    @DG-qw6gy 5 місяців тому +45

    His stories have been told with alot of people still alive, including a book he released in 2017. Nothing has been contested, and no lawsuits. And lawsuits are a dime a dozen these days. I think this provides strength to his story.

    • @mmaphilosophy
      @mmaphilosophy 5 місяців тому +1

      😂 I've got a blue bridge to sell you in Brooklyn sir ?

    • @sm1734
      @sm1734 5 місяців тому +11

      really not one living person has ever backed up any of his bull shit, name one who has.

    • @gdodson77
      @gdodson77 5 місяців тому +4

      Thanks i didn't know that. But i get sick of all the people hating just to hate.

    • @SJ-ty5rw
      @SJ-ty5rw 4 місяці тому +8

      People have still challenged some of his claims . He said the mob blew the front gates off of Paramount studio . Michael Franzese has said he never ever heard of that happening . Russo made a claim about the late Frank Cullotta . That Cullotta and Tony Spilotro were at a club with him . Cullotta had said that was impossible as he was in witness protection at the time Russo had this club .

    • @plasticweapon
      @plasticweapon 4 місяці тому

      think again.

  • @Therecenter
    @Therecenter 2 місяці тому

    Great job! I think this is the VERY BEST interview I have EVER seen. Just finished it and going back to watch it again right now with my wife.

  • @Debra-ly9yt
    @Debra-ly9yt 4 місяці тому +9

    These 2 guys are totally enthralled.

  • @maxmason6053
    @maxmason6053 4 місяці тому +10

    " Pablo Escobar started smashing a copy of The Godfather book over my head and later we became very good friends. Can you believe this shit !? True story " --Gianni Russo.

  • @ianroberts7829
    @ianroberts7829 4 місяці тому +17

    They asked giani to be president of the United States and Russia during the cold war.
    Source, Giani russo

    • @juanvaldez3515
      @juanvaldez3515 4 місяці тому +2

      😂

    • @rnrpeg1
      @rnrpeg1 4 місяці тому

      Only stupid people, and Obama for his own reasons, want to be President.

  • @kenstjames3357
    @kenstjames3357 3 місяці тому +3

    I normally can’t do more than 5-10 minutes of a video without getting bored and turning it off. I thoroughly enjoyed this interview and stayed for the whole thing. What an amazing life Mr Russo has had.

  • @Americal-v6r
    @Americal-v6r 4 місяці тому +11

    How did you get better from polio? " By getting a job at a bakery, i get up at 4am, lifting 50#bags of flour. Building my body." I shampooed Marilyn Monroes hair, before she married Joe DiMaggio, that was like june 12th 1960 at 2:37 pm it was a Tuesday.

    • @busterbiloxi3833
      @busterbiloxi3833 2 місяці тому +1

      You bet. He also won WW2 on his own.

    • @cindys1819
      @cindys1819 2 місяці тому

      No, That's reality. The way that physical threapy and exercise became a main method for recovery was that Sister Kenney led a rebellion against orthodox medicine which was totally ineffective against Polio, out side of a Iron lung.....

  • @SVSaltyAbandon
    @SVSaltyAbandon 4 місяці тому +26

    These interviewers don't know mob history, J Edgar history, or Godfather movie history. Its really quite qmazing how much they don't know.

    • @titoqwentezproductionz3406
      @titoqwentezproductionz3406 4 місяці тому

      so whats your shtick?

    • @joeschmo5181
      @joeschmo5181 4 місяці тому +2

      Are they claiming to know mob history etc?

    • @malparillo5617
      @malparillo5617 4 місяці тому

      so what ?

    • @rnrpeg1
      @rnrpeg1 4 місяці тому

      Hallelujah. It's difficult to fathom. Not even hidden history. Stuff i learned in hs😅

    • @rnrpeg1
      @rnrpeg1 4 місяці тому

      ​@@joeschmo5181the point is, they don't know any basics of common American history. Not just the mob stories

  • @biggatorcaesar
    @biggatorcaesar 4 місяці тому +5

    man, has this man served me with a huge piece of reality pie!

  • @jamesronca3469
    @jamesronca3469 4 місяці тому +47

    He's like a mob ambulance chaser

  • @GaryPlayer69-f9i
    @GaryPlayer69-f9i 4 місяці тому +5

    I know a lot of people doubt his stories, but whether they're all factual or not doesn't matter at all to me because they're so entertaining!!

  • @michaeldemaio5685
    @michaeldemaio5685 4 місяці тому +24

    I met him.. great guy I believe his story's he's always consistent 👍

    • @frankie57
      @frankie57 4 місяці тому

      @@michaeldemaio5685 knew him when he was Louie Russo

    • @StevensUncle
      @StevensUncle 4 місяці тому

      A liars story is always consistent, someone who's telling the truth always some sort of inconsistencies. I know sounds weird but watch Cia or fbi agents on psychology.

    • @tonysburgers7223
      @tonysburgers7223 4 місяці тому +2

      Forget about it

    • @balancedactguy
      @balancedactguy 4 місяці тому

      He's a TOTAL LIAR..Hos "Stories" are IUTRAGEOUS and NOTHING HE SAYS can be VERIFIED since EVERYONE he talks about IS DEAD!

  • @bullsfan9162
    @bullsfan9162 4 місяці тому +8

    26:36 tosh plumlee was a CIA pilot who flew secret missions. He went on record stating the day of the assassination he was told to fly 3 men to Dallas, Texas. One of those men was E Howard Hunt (later to participate in the watergate scandal) and another was Johnny Rosselli.

    • @rnrpeg1
      @rnrpeg1 4 місяці тому +1

      I don't think anyone doubts this anymore... other than maybe these two hosts. 😂

  • @poppycock6572
    @poppycock6572 2 місяці тому +2

    A living legend, we are happy to be interviewing Gianni Russo from his............'apartment'.

    • @geneewagner9903
      @geneewagner9903 Місяць тому

      I just stumbled across this video and I love it because I love history. I heard him mention how the five families got started but didn’t catch every word he said could someone please mention that again that is just so cool it is American history

  • @lucagiannettoni9817
    @lucagiannettoni9817 4 місяці тому +4

    “Then Gianni said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light” (Genesis 1:3, NLT).

  • @samking4179
    @samking4179 Місяць тому +1

    amazing. just found your channel because of GR. great stuff!

  • @randallanthony1794
    @randallanthony1794 4 місяці тому +71

    This guy can bullshit like no other

    • @titoqwentezproductionz3406
      @titoqwentezproductionz3406 4 місяці тому

      @@StephenVardaro are you a fool or what? lol

    • @bkeen7013
      @bkeen7013 4 місяці тому

      @@StephenVardaro time for your meds

    • @Biggestkidyouknow
      @Biggestkidyouknow 4 місяці тому

      @@StephenVardarothey are all lies

    • @F1ght1ngIrish-
      @F1ght1ngIrish- 4 місяці тому +1

      @@StephenVardarodude he literally said carlo Gambino told him when he was 12 “ just so you know whenever you wanna be made let me know you just proved yourself” carlo forsure didn’t tell him that carlo wouldn’t of been talking about that to anyone outside of that life especially to a damn 12 year old

  • @chazdehetre1906
    @chazdehetre1906 Місяць тому +1

    Don't know how long ago this interview was done, but I knew him when he was in vegas in the 80's. I was a auto mechanic at the time and did a brake job on his Bentley. At that time, he owned Burbon Street. In vegas lived in the condos off paradise. When I was done with the brake job, I went to his condo, and he's on the balcony, counting money from a duffle bag. He had a clipboard and was dividing up the 100.50.20.10.5. I've never seen that much cash at 1 time. He asked what the total was, and I said about 900. Without blinking, an eye hands me 1000. Extra 100 for delivery of the Bentley. BTW. he looked like he dos in this interview. Crazy how he hasn't aged.

  • @chrisekstrom4614
    @chrisekstrom4614 4 місяці тому +12

    Great storytelling. If 20% is accurate it’s a Miracle!

    • @balancedactguy
      @balancedactguy Місяць тому

      99.999 % Lies .001% truth..his name REALLY IS Gianni Russo!

  • @stephendiamond9893
    @stephendiamond9893 Місяць тому

    In my opinion, the best podcast the best video out there hands-down no doubt

  • @davegibbs6423
    @davegibbs6423 3 місяці тому +4

    Franzese was married to a woman with whom he had three children.[34] While married, John had gotten Cristina Capobianco, a 16-year-old cigarette girl at the Stork Club in Manhattan, pregnant with his son Michael Franzese. Capobianco then married Frank Grillo, to avoid having a scandal surrounding having a child out of wedlock.
    Wikipedia

    • @busterbiloxi3833
      @busterbiloxi3833 2 місяці тому

      @@KTtraintowin No test, no definite answer.

  • @crkdck76
    @crkdck76 4 місяці тому +5

    That Escobar Story is insane😮😮😮

    • @pjuggle
      @pjuggle 3 місяці тому

      He told the same story to me and my friends in Puerto Rico and then again years later in Washington D.C. What Gianni wasn’t aware of is that I lived in Medellin and Barranquilla Colombia and had traveled the country quite a bit so I was very familiar with the geography. When I asked him basic questions about Bogotá he couldn’t answer. He said he met Escobar in a church ⛪️ in Bogotá and Pablo invited him to his home. This would have been a huge risk because the dates of when he said he met him; Escobar was public enemy # 1 and he resided in Medellin where it was easy to control law enforcement. Pablo also bombed a federal building in Bogota and had killed a judge. But then he told the same story except this time he said he met Pablo in a restaurant in Medellin. He’s a fantastic story teller and entertainer. Much of what he says is left up to the audience to believe or not believe.

    • @dannyryan9246
      @dannyryan9246 3 місяці тому

      @@pjuggleTo say nothing of the fact that Escobar couldn’t speak English and his prison wasn’t built yet at the time of his Las Vegas shooting. He tells colorful stories unfortunately he’s short on details and NONE of these interviews ask the slightest follow up questions so he freewheels with the facts.

    • @busterbiloxi3833
      @busterbiloxi3833 2 місяці тому

      Just like the storyteller.

  • @kenkl5204
    @kenkl5204 4 місяці тому +10

    What an interview.

    • @malparillo5617
      @malparillo5617 4 місяці тому

      what a BS

    • @rnrpeg1
      @rnrpeg1 4 місяці тому

      Good thing he's not counting on the interviewers. 😳

  • @Americal-v6r
    @Americal-v6r 4 місяці тому +4

    Yeah I like this guy,not sure why but he tells a story on top of another story on top of another story and on and on. And yet it all seems believable. It's difficult to decipher and discern but it's enjoyable at the same.time.

  • @cadillaccasper
    @cadillaccasper 4 місяці тому +9

    Back in the days you had to go to the corner and tip these guys $2 for wine to hear great stories.. now they make their tips on youtube

  • @deadmanrunning6670
    @deadmanrunning6670 4 місяці тому +8

    This should have gone another hour or two longer!

  • @7777shayna
    @7777shayna 4 місяці тому +9

    Did you two ever think of doing your homework prior on the major names that he was mentioning??

    • @rnrpeg1
      @rnrpeg1 4 місяці тому +1

      Lmfao
      Apparently NOT

    • @sallabruno1035
      @sallabruno1035 2 місяці тому +1

      No disrespect to Russo, but the only person who thinks Russo is a major name is Russo himself.

  • @AmazingAmazing12345
    @AmazingAmazing12345 4 місяці тому +7

    The mob really made crazy money moves and connections 💯

  • @larrymervine998
    @larrymervine998 4 місяці тому +8

    Mesmerizing. I couldn’t stop listening to

  • @SLICK-GLN
    @SLICK-GLN 4 місяці тому +4

    This guy is a story teller for sure

  • @papaeazam
    @papaeazam 5 місяців тому +8

    Regardless of the comedy of Mr GIANNI RUSSO, his stories are so entertaining lol 😂

    • @ronniebilinsky1459
      @ronniebilinsky1459 5 місяців тому +3

      Pure comedy not reality

    • @leemontoya8028
      @leemontoya8028 4 місяці тому +1

      And true! unless you were there? now go up stairs and eat your mom is calling you!

    • @balancedactguy
      @balancedactguy 4 місяці тому

      @@leemontoya8028 "My Mom was the Virgin Mary!" - G Russo

    • @rnrpeg1
      @rnrpeg1 4 місяці тому

      ​@@leemontoya8028lmfao
      Get it. Harrumph

  • @helloworldRR
    @helloworldRR 5 місяців тому +11

    Gianni Russo head of the HANABARBARA Family in Vegas ... Don Russo

  • @billyshane3804
    @billyshane3804 4 місяці тому +12

    Gianni Russo videos usually always have a brilliant comment section.

    • @bigcarm1474
      @bigcarm1474 4 місяці тому +2

      And for some reason this one is lacking

    • @loandbehold7750
      @loandbehold7750 4 місяці тому +1

      I was about to say; yeah, except for this one..

    • @bakedjohnwick4793
      @bakedjohnwick4793 4 місяці тому

      The only truth in a gianni russo video.

  • @reynosomr24
    @reynosomr24 4 місяці тому +4

    Apprieciate the Stories 💯👓

  • @francointhemorning
    @francointhemorning 4 місяці тому +8

    How did these guys get the interview? They know nothing about Wiseguys

    • @rnrpeg1
      @rnrpeg1 4 місяці тому

      Or.... Hoover, the Kennedys, Monroe, etc

    • @busterbiloxi3833
      @busterbiloxi3833 2 місяці тому +1

      Russo accepts any and all interview requests.

  • @BrookelLakeKC
    @BrookelLakeKC 4 місяці тому +4

    Love listening to this man!
    I was also hoping to see the tour of his apartment😍

  • @mitchmcgreal1986
    @mitchmcgreal1986 4 місяці тому +1

    Cool interview ❤

  • @007gunlogo
    @007gunlogo 4 місяці тому +33

    This guy is the Forrest Gump of the underworld. He met all of the world's influential people...and every bit of it is fiction.

    • @LuckyC555
      @LuckyC555 4 місяці тому +1

      Bubba gump wasn’t real?

    • @billyboyer
      @billyboyer 4 місяці тому +1

      Ya man. Pablo Escobar? Really? Pablo tortured him? I saw that part in another video and was like 'Nope, no way'. I didn't even make it through the video.

    • @Onlineghost2ohm
      @Onlineghost2ohm 4 місяці тому +3

      A living Legend (In his own lil mind)….. he’s really a joke to listen to… all salt 🧂 grains btw….

    • @rnrpeg1
      @rnrpeg1 4 місяці тому

      Y'all ever been around a celebrity?!
      OH WAIT! NOW THESE TWO DON'T KNOW THAT BOBBY KENNEDY KILLED MONROE?!?
      Have these guys lived inside the womb thus far?!?!
      Canada maybe?! Jeez

    • @007gunlogo
      @007gunlogo 4 місяці тому

      @@rnrpeg1 ...and you DO know, with 100% certainly, that Robert Kennedy killed Monroe? SMH

  • @stevenmcnicoll5060
    @stevenmcnicoll5060 2 місяці тому

    Very entertaining. Never let the facts get in the way of a good yarn. And Mr Russo is a master of the good yarn. Enjoyed that. Great storyteller. Interesting life.

  • @sherriandranigian8998
    @sherriandranigian8998 4 місяці тому +9

    I wish these boys would keep their mouths shut & let Gianni tell his story.
    They do not know how to just sit there and listen.
    The manner in which they continuously interrupt him shows not only are they not paying attention, but also disrespect.
    I would like to see someone else have Gianni on their channel and let him tell his story with no interruptions.
    Mark Laita, whoes channel is Soft White Underbelly, would be excellent.
    My personal opinion only.
    May Peace be upon us all.

  • @BarbaraJohnson-vb7pp
    @BarbaraJohnson-vb7pp 3 місяці тому +2

    This guy is amazing and has more than 9 lives!

  • @monte129
    @monte129 4 місяці тому +8

    I honestly believe him. This guy was around during the golden age of the mob and he was well liked. Don’t be doubting this cat.

    • @davidanspach1624
      @davidanspach1624 4 місяці тому +1

      Lol no he wasn't. this dude gets some of the most basic facts about mob history wrong, like shit thats almost common knowledge

    • @coolmon0613
      @coolmon0613 27 днів тому

      I've heard about 80% of these same stories from other interviews and documentaries. I can't doubt the rest

  • @SedonaMTB
    @SedonaMTB 2 місяці тому

    Great honesty! Bravissimo Meistro

  • @tonymargiottajr6576
    @tonymargiottajr6576 3 місяці тому +7

    He's the forest Gump of the mob and rat pack meetings

  • @doreenmurnane9075
    @doreenmurnane9075 5 місяців тому +23

    There was no RICO act when RFK was alive

    • @leemontoya8028
      @leemontoya8028 4 місяці тому +4

      When did he say there was?

    • @doreenmurnane9075
      @doreenmurnane9075 4 місяці тому

      @@leemontoya8028 listen to the interview

    • @chello000000023
      @chello000000023 4 місяці тому +5

      Rico act is old they just didnt know how to use it right...

    • @michaeltischuk7972
      @michaeltischuk7972 4 місяці тому +6

      This guy reminds me a lot of Sleepy Joe, the older they get the more interesting stories they think they need to tell to everyone around them.

    • @leemontoya8028
      @leemontoya8028 4 місяці тому +2

      @@michaeltischuk7972 Do you know them not to be true? Silly

  • @charlesanzalone5846
    @charlesanzalone5846 4 місяці тому +5

    Bobby was the last one to see Monroe

    • @busterbiloxi3833
      @busterbiloxi3833 2 місяці тому +1

      Gianni Russo was under the bed and in the closet. At the same time.

  • @inevolution1
    @inevolution1 2 місяці тому +1

    Remember everyone how old he is how long he’s been the trusted kid. That innocence many didn’t ever experience. I did in the same way.When your young and trusted totally by your actions everyday the entire world opens up around you just like his life. Truly an incredible story..! Thank you for the interview..!

  • @SVSaltyAbandon
    @SVSaltyAbandon 4 місяці тому +5

    Exactly. Do a little research before u interview someone.

  • @kimbattles2399
    @kimbattles2399 24 дні тому +1

    The white shirt Mr. Russo has on is Fabulous.

  • @AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye
    @AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye 3 місяці тому +3

    Lol Jack Ruby already been in Texas and had established businesses for decades before the JFK incident

  • @pdiddybox4484
    @pdiddybox4484 3 місяці тому +2

    He telling the truth, I was down the hallway when he used the broom stick and matter fact I just turned 33

  • @freeride6441
    @freeride6441 4 місяці тому +8

    The Departed is supposed to be about Whitey Bulger Irish not Frank Costello Italian...

    • @bakedjohnwick4793
      @bakedjohnwick4793 4 місяці тому +1

      He’s confused because jack nicholson played frank costello 🤣

    • @encoreunefois1X
      @encoreunefois1X 4 місяці тому +5

      Bulger is only the basis for the character who is named Frank Costello. Scorsese just gave the character a mobster's name from days gone by. Just to confuse things further, Costello is an Irish name, so when the Cosa Nostra boss Frank Costello changed his name from Francesco Castiglia to Frank Costello, he was adopting an Irish surname. Fuhgeddaboudit

    • @circlekings
      @circlekings 2 місяці тому

      Yeah! Frank; Lou's cousin

  • @painsecjunction
    @painsecjunction 4 місяці тому +2

    Where did these guys come from?

  • @TheStevieKlasson
    @TheStevieKlasson 5 місяців тому +4

    Gianni Russo is best storyteller hands down.

  • @stevophillips4121
    @stevophillips4121 24 дні тому

    My step dad drove tour buses for a time in 1968 for his moms boyfriends bus company. 1 tour was to the taping of the "Let's Make a Deal" game show. After RFK was shot, and Sihan Sirhan was all over the tv news, pop's told us " I saw that guy at the game show taping 2 days earlier, he was sitting 2 rows down in front of me/us, he had put on black leather gloves" !! Which is what stood out in dad's mind, besides his face/hair, why is this guy putting on gloves?

  • @elainehendrix8788
    @elainehendrix8788 4 місяці тому +3

    WHAT A COOL INTERVIEW WITH MARILYN MONROE! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @waynethomas1882
    @waynethomas1882 4 дні тому +1

    Wow…that puts a new spin on a bunch of crazy shit… I was captivated

  • @Bklyntruth
    @Bklyntruth 4 місяці тому +7

    Gianni Russo quotes
    “After I kissed Carlo Gambino with toungue I felt like it was because Monroe was jealous of my sex appeal,so I told Jack Ruby take care of that thing with that guy Mink” actual excerpt from his book “I’m totally insane and delusional” bye Gianni Russo the man who made Sonny Franzese

    • @leemontoya8028
      @leemontoya8028 4 місяці тому +2

      And how do you know it not to be true? Is his life to much for you?

    • @juanvaldez3515
      @juanvaldez3515 4 місяці тому +2

      😂

  • @marksamuelsen2750
    @marksamuelsen2750 3 місяці тому +1

    This guy has a BIG MOUTH & I'm surprised he's still with us.

  • @mickeymouse1697
    @mickeymouse1697 4 місяці тому +5

    Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn - Gianni Russo

  • @patrickhillegas
    @patrickhillegas 3 місяці тому +1

    Wow such great stories.. so awesome

  • @mmaphilosophy
    @mmaphilosophy 5 місяців тому +15

    How did you both keep a straight face 😂

    • @leemontoya8028
      @leemontoya8028 4 місяці тому

      I don't understand!

    • @Thechief1977
      @Thechief1977 4 місяці тому

      At times they didn’t 😆

    • @dannyryan9246
      @dannyryan9246 4 місяці тому +2

      Hopefully they’re not that guible. He continues to add to his repertoire of stories on each podcast. He’s a politically incorrect dinosaur with a vivid imagination. Spewing slang to defame gay, Asians and Jewish people…unbelievable. Shameful

    • @leemontoya8028
      @leemontoya8028 4 місяці тому +2

      @@dannyryan9246 He does not add on to his stories! Do I feel some jealousy?

    • @AnnoyedGuy2000
      @AnnoyedGuy2000 4 місяці тому

      ​@dannyryan9246 being politically incorrect is his only redeeming quality

  • @Steven-v8z9l
    @Steven-v8z9l 2 дні тому +1

    Gianni needs to get with the ODWB himself Derkie Castle-White from Wild and Wonderful Whites of WV and swap some stories know what i mean!

  • @lousekoya1803
    @lousekoya1803 4 місяці тому +4

    He is saying the truth about Hoover !

  • @jackieclark9679
    @jackieclark9679 3 місяці тому

    Excellent interview. I love Russo . Old school gangster ❤

  • @dw6410
    @dw6410 4 місяці тому +6

    Legend in his own mind

  • @BrianMcWilliams-ns5el
    @BrianMcWilliams-ns5el 4 місяці тому +1

    Amazing story teller. I believe him.

  • @patriciareilly8841
    @patriciareilly8841 4 місяці тому +5

    Sirhan Sirhan did not kill RFK.

  • @71fluffdaddy
    @71fluffdaddy 3 місяці тому +1

    Craziest story ever with Escobar. Opens the car door,”Hello Carlo”…

  • @maxlinder5262
    @maxlinder5262 4 місяці тому +3

    His stories on Marilyn Monroe are confusing....😮

  • @macpduff2119
    @macpduff2119 15 днів тому

    I was born in the Bronx, - Italian and Irish neighborhood. Summer 1949 I was 4 1/2 years old. I still remember not being able to go to Orchard beach because of the polio epidemic. Even though we lived in a 2 family house, Summers were long and hot then without air-conditioning . I knew that children were paralyzed, but never knew that they were dying from polio. I suppose my parents didn't want to frighten me. I do remember walking thru Belview hospital polio ward with my mother and seeing a corridor of heads sticking out of 6 foot metal cans. It scared me. They were polio victims in iron lung machines. Many of my neighbors were in the construction business, and came from Sicily . There were children of certain families that my parents would not allow me to play with. Looking back as an adult, with adult wisdom, I suspect they were children of mob families. As an adult a part of me admires the mob, because they have strong family values, and protect their own They have a code of ethics that makes sense. Gianni Russo talks a lot. The NYC mob elite that I remember was silent. The real mob elite were silent and never gave interviews

  • @Southern_Dad1
    @Southern_Dad1 4 місяці тому +3

    Come on. Now he's rehearsing lines with Pablo.

  • @sheepdog1102
    @sheepdog1102 4 місяці тому +2

    Excellent 😊

  • @RonPro-u1t
    @RonPro-u1t 3 місяці тому +4

    You have to answer for Santino Carlo.

  • @dhender499
    @dhender499 4 місяці тому

    This was a remarkable podcast. I wished you had asked him if the umbrella man opened his umbrella as a signal to shoot from the sewer drain.

  • @DarknessIsSpreading_01
    @DarknessIsSpreading_01 5 місяців тому +9

    Gianni was offered the Tony Soprano role !! - Gianni Russo

    • @leemontoya8028
      @leemontoya8028 4 місяці тому +2

      Not true! put the pipe down!

    • @DarknessIsSpreading_01
      @DarknessIsSpreading_01 4 місяці тому +1

      @@leemontoya8028 Gianni said it on his own podcast !

    • @leemontoya8028
      @leemontoya8028 4 місяці тому

      @@DarknessIsSpreading_01 send it to me!

    • @1badjesus
      @1badjesus 4 місяці тому

      ​@@DarknessIsSpreading_01 lolol

    • @boydcochran4692
      @boydcochran4692 4 місяці тому

      @@DarknessIsSpreading_01for real?? I know he said he slept with Monroe when he was like 15 or something ridiculous but to seriously play Toni Soprano??? Was he going to be 67+ when Aj was born lol wtf

  • @thesymbolsproject9670
    @thesymbolsproject9670 3 місяці тому +1

    I love Gianni Russo, the guy is hilarious. He invited these two stooges into his home and then bulshits them into oblivion. I knew guys like this growing up. We had a saying, "don't believe half of what they are saying and ignore the other half. For example, there are NO storm drains in Dealey plaza and never have been. Anyone can look this up. Russo's stories keep changing over the years, he can't keep up with his own B.S.. This guy reminds me of my childhood. If you didn't grow up around guys like this in the neighborhood, you wouldn't get it. Much respect and love Gianni Russo, you're da best!

  • @williammccandless6364
    @williammccandless6364 4 місяці тому +6

    They were not American soldiers in the Bay of Pigs. They were Cuban liberators from the United States trained by the CIA and our military.

  • @Numb217
    @Numb217 3 місяці тому +1

    Scattered interview. Two tips: Stay on subject unless the Interviewee changes it and never interrupt. We could have gotten some great stories here.

  • @jareddurfee3611
    @jareddurfee3611 4 місяці тому +3

    God bless this fucking guy. Don't know how this popped up on my timeline? But thanks! Guys, pure entertainment......true or not

  • @martinintrospective3491
    @martinintrospective3491 4 місяці тому +1

    I’ve met Walter Mitty characters like Giani Russo before. The one time you pull them on something they said being a lie? Is the day they’re telling the truth

  • @sm1734
    @sm1734 5 місяців тому +4

    He reads alot of books.there is nothing new to tell. He lies when it involves him. And all the people are dead. What a joke

    • @leemontoya8028
      @leemontoya8028 4 місяці тому

      A joke? Do I see a little jealousy here? Now go up stairs and eat your mom is calling you!