Johnny Fontane
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Sep 28, 2026
speaker_0HOST
I mean, the book has these bizarre, incredibly long subplots.
speaker_0HOST
Uh, there's an entire section dedicated to Johnny Fontane's fading Hollywood career and his vocal cord issues.
speaker_1HOST
Pages and pages of it.
speaker_0HOST
And there's this bizarre subplot about Sonny Corleone's mistress, Lucy Mancini, moving to Vegas and getting pelvic surgery.
Kevin TrudeauGUEST
There was a great scene in the movie The Godfather.
Kevin TrudeauGUEST
The singer, Johnny Fontaine, comes to see The Godfather, and he comes onto The Godfather, and he's going, Godfather, I wanted this part in the picture, and they're not going to give it to me, and my voice is weak, and I don't know what to do.
Kevin TrudeauGUEST
What should I do? I don't know what to do.
Kevin TrudeauGUEST
And The Godfather jumps up and slaps him and goes, you can act like a man.
Adam NathanPANELIST
Yeah, look, there's so much scar tissue amongst Tottenham fans now that it is hard to-- You can't just brush all that off, uh, in one first week.
Adam NathanPANELIST
I mean, one of my favorite scenes in The Godfather is when the sort of Johnny Fontane doesn't get the part, and the Don shakes him and says, "You can act like a man.
Adam NathanPANELIST
What's the matter with you?"
Ricky SacksHOST
[laughs]
Mitch MelnickHOST
Terrific group from Dublin.
Mitch MelnickHOST
Named after Johnny Fontaine and the Godfather.
Mitch MelnickHOST
Character based on Frank Sinatra.
Mitch MelnickHOST
For those of you who never put two and two together.
Adam NathanHOST
Yeah, look, there's so much scar tissue amongst Tottenham fans now that it is hard to, you can't just brush all that off in one first week.
Adam NathanHOST
I mean, one of my favourite scenes in The Godfather is when Johnny Fontaine doesn't get the part and the Don shakes him and goes, you can act like a man.
Adam NathanHOST
What's the matter with you? And there's part of me that does feel a little bit like that with the Tottenham fan base that we just need a good old shake and like, come on, we've got to get after this now.
Adam NathanHOST
But it's not that easy, is it? And unfortunately, the only chance we get to shake these things off are when we play on a Saturday and hopefully win.
Johnny BlaineHOST
We're going to be with you all the way.
Johnny BlaineHOST
Please make sure you do go over and subscribe to Echo of Glory, where Adam Nathan is fronting it and has been, like I say, for a lot of the time.
Johnny BlaineHOST
Obviously, Johnny Blaine will also be joining us as are all the amazing guests over there.
Johnny BlaineHOST
Gary Dunn, we saw on the way out.
Kevin TrudeauGUEST
There was a great clip in the Godfather movie.
Kevin TrudeauGUEST
Remember the Godfather? The very first movie, in the very beginning of the movie, Beto Corleone is sitting in his office, and the singer, the Frank Sinatra-type character, the singer, Johnny Fontaine comes in,
speaker_2ADVERTISER
and he goes, Godfather, I don't know what I'm going to do.
Kevin TrudeauGUEST
They won't give me this part in the movie.
Dominic ChianeseHOST
Brando actually grabbed him in the scene and smacked him around.
Chazz PalminteriGUEST
Oh, that was, uh, yeah, Johnny Fontane.
Dominic ChianeseHOST
Yeah.
Chazz PalminteriGUEST
That's right.
BrettHOST
We sort of like, as the wedding's happening, we know we're going to have to get out of the office as it were to move the movie along a little bit.
BrettHOST
And that's when Johnny Fontaine shows up and he is a, singer who is looking to get into the acting world a little bit more.
BrettHOST
And he has a movie he's perfect for, but he just can't get it.
BrettHOST
And he asks the Don for help.
BrettHOST
And he's, I believe Johnny Fontaine's Godfather is part of it.
JessHOST
Yes.
BrettHOST
And so that's where he's there.
BrettHOST
oh he's so dumb Fredo is like I I kind of want to call him Alfredo forever because I do too he's just wet noodles he's so fucking stupid yeah Fredo the dumbass is out here but yeah Michael the civilian he has K at the wedding he's kind of just using that as a way to explain everybody but from an outsider perspective which I thought was really interesting but it moves the story along so without recapping the whole movie the inflection point after this is a scene involving some of the other families in New York.
Nick RiewoldtHOST
I'll give you a boy.
Nick RiewoldtHOST
What's his name? Fontaine in the movie.
Nick RiewoldtHOST
Johnny Fontaine.
Nick RiewoldtHOST
Johnny Fontaine.
Nick RiewoldtHOST
Oh,
Titus O'ReilyHOST
yeah.
JennHOST
Sinatra was trying to
DaveHOST
kill it kill it because he didn't like that they made a joke about it you know Johnny Fontaine right you know the whole thing right and so but I said to her I was like is this a series or a movie because Jesus Christ how long is this she hit the thing and I was like
JennHOST
We've only watched it in an hour.
JennHOST
It's only been an